It's been almost a month since we released v2.0.0 and we've had some amazing feedback. Code contributions are up, add-on sales are up, our follower count on Twitter is way up, traffic has doubled and our sales are doing great. We've spent a little time fixing some bugs and now we'd like to announce v2.0.1, like v2.0.0 but better.
One of the most difficult part of an open source project is the documentation. It's critical for users to have great docs, but it's almost always an afterthought. So starting today, we're taking a few extra steps to make PyroCMS documentation more complete, accurate, and logically organized.
We are very pleased to announce the release of the stable version of PyroCMS v2.0! It's been a long road to get here from PyroCMS 1.3.2, and PyroCMS 2.0 represents the biggest leap forward in PyroCMS' development history.
After several months of development we are very happy to announce that we have tagged v2.0.0-RC1 for both Community and Professional editions. This brings us very close to the final release and for those of you that aren't afraid of finding a bug we'd encourage you to try it out. To go along with this pre-final release we've got some other amazing announcements.
Many of our users have been noticing some down-time, bugs and error messages on the website and for this we are incredibly sorry. We have been fighting tooth and nail to get our website stable for a few weeks now working through all sorts of challenges such as port flooding, spam attacks, hosting outages, migration problems and even DNS problems. The website is back to being stable now, but we just wanted to explain a little about the problems.
We are pleased to announce the release of PyroCMS 2.0-beta1. We've been hard at work for a couple months on this release and it is now available for you to download and test. It has a completely new admin theme and a new, more powerful Tag system along with a host of other things.
Leading up to the v2.0 release we have changed how our version control branches work. If you do not know anything about version control and do not use GitHub you can skip this article. If you are one of the developers who submits bug fixes and pull requests to our repository then please read on!
As PyroCMS has become more widely used and we have a more diverse community we would like to ask for your input. With v1.3.0 we launched PyroCMS Professional which allowed developers to rebrand the admin panel and manage multiple sites from one installation and we have a v2.0 coming out soon with a huge load of amazing new features and a great new Control Panel, but we would like your help in where we go next.