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News and updates about Reason CMS
LiveCD Updated with Reason 4.0
August 12, 2011The Reason LiveCD has been updated to the latest release (4.0).
The updated LiveCD is based on OpenSUSE 11.4, and the Reason CMS source is a clone of reason_package @ GitHub.
Reason 4.0 Released
July 7, 2011The Carleton College Web Services group is pleased to announce the availability of Reason 4.0.
Reason Update - first conference, fixed release schedule, leaving beta
May 12, 2011A few updates from the world of Reason CMS - about our upcoming conference, the move to a fixed release schedule, and losing the "beta" label.
Goodbye to PHP 4 support, new features framework, and more
December 23, 2010Happy Holidays - I have been away on parental leave, but now I'm back, and I wanted to post an update on a few things going on in the world of Reason CMS!
While I think pretty much everyone is running Reason under PHP 5, the next point release of Reason will be no longer support PHP 4. Nightly builds will likely stop supporting PHP 4 early in early January.
In other news, there are three items that will be in the next version of Reason (two are already in nightly builds) that I want to briefly highlight.
How Luther College is Using Reason
July 12, 2010How Luther College is using Reason was published today on .eduGuru.
The article was written by Brian Jones, Web Programmer / Technology Coordinator at Luther College. Luther choose…
Reason 4 Beta 8 LiveCD Available Now
April 13, 2010The updated version of the LiveCD is now available. It contains a preconfigured, boot and go build of Reason 4 Beta 8. This is a great tool for evaluating Reason without installing it to a server.
Reason 4 Beta 8 Released
April 9, 2010The Carleton College Web Services group is pleased to announce the availability of Reason 4 Beta 8.
Notable changes for site administrators include:
- Inline editing of pages.
- Icons for all Reason content types…
Reason tops .eduGuru CMS satisfaction ratings for open source CMSs
March 31, 2010Michael Fienen at .eduGuru has published the results of a February, 2010 survey on Higher ED CMS Usage.
On the CMS satisfaction rating, Reason ranks #1 among open source CMSs…
Icons & Borrowing Tabs: Big changes in the Reason interface
December 5, 2009The latest nightly builds of Reason have some significant changes to the administrative interface, which we believe make it friendlier and easier to use. Here's a full post on the changes.
LiveCD version 1.1 now available
December 3, 2009The Reason LiveCD Version 1.1 is now available, and replaces the Reason 4 Beta 7 virtual machine that could previously be requested through this site. Download the LiveCD today!
GusDay 2009 and new LiveCD on Friday
December 2, 2009Reason developers from Carleton and Luther Colleges will be at the 10th Annual GusDay Conference on the Carleton College campus on Friday, December 4. We'll be showing off Reason at an exhibit booth during the vendor sessions and available for questions throughout the day. We also plan to debut version 1.1 of the Reason LiveCD, which provides a simple way to test out Reason.
HighEdWeb 2009 Underway - presentation materials, twitter, etc
October 5, 2009Most of the web team is at HighEdWeb 2009.
The Implementing Reason CMS with Small Teams and Small Budgets session today went well. Thanks for Steve, Charles, Matt, and Melissa for telling your Reason story.
Check out the presentation website to read details about each school. Later today we'll continue the discussion at a special interest group on open source content management, and a dinner with current and prospective Reason schools.