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Although it has been a long time coming, we are happy to announce the bugfix release of Zikula 1.0.3 and the feature release of Zikula 1.1.0. Amazingly, we've fixed 144 bugs since 1.0.2 and a combined total of 83 bugs and features in 1.1.0, in addition to the ongoing architecture work on 2.0. Zikula 1.1.0 is a release that cleans up many loose ends, we've started the process of merging some system modules and removing the obsolete ValueAddons. This will, in the longer term, make the Zikula codebase more maintainable and easier to manage.

New in 1.1.0 are system initialisation hooks, which remove the need for Smarty plugins to load modules like Scribite - all of this is now fully automated. Also new is the ability to install different profile and different private messaging modules depending on your needs. Where Profile was previously a system module, you can now use alternatives like myProfile without changing your Zikula core. We've also merged the functionality of Mail_Users into the system Users' module, the functionality of Members_List into Profile and added several useful features to the Pages and Feeds module (Credit to Chris Fairman for the Pages and Feeds enhancements)

There are many more changes that would take a long time to mention here, so please look at the roadmap and specifically milestones 1.0.3 and 1.1.0 for more information. Our future releases will contain fewer fixes - you can already see that 1.1.1 and 1.2.0 contain far fewer tickets.