The new and exciting version of XOOPS, the Top 5 Finalist of 2010 Packt Open Source CMS competition, has been released and is available for download.
XOOPS 2.5.0 is f is a major redesign of the System Module which has been AJAX-ed with jQuery. Some of the new features are truly amazing, like the visual placement of blocks, and we’re sure that the users will love them

Other major improvements/additions include:
- Help System for Admin and modules
- MySQL Dump in Maintenance
- New Redirect messaging
- Column sorting in tables
- Smarty plugin for icon pack
- Smarty plugin for breadcrumb navigation
- jQuery plugins for display popup or manage drag & drop
- File Manager (Plugin)
- Maintenance with Cache Clean-up, and Tables Maintenance
- Visual module ordering with drag & drop
- Visual block placement with drag & drop
- Refactor all PHP code for use XOOPS API
- Use template in the same way that front user, admin side for module can call a main template define in xoops_version.php
- Allow override of template in admin theme like frontend if we set template in ADMIN_THEME
- Manage editor for blocks, comments and for all module if module developper want to use it activate or deactivate system section
- Choose number of line for admin section
- Display or hide tips
System requirements
Any PHP version >= 5.0 (PHP 5.2+ is strongly recommended)
MySQL server 5.0+ is strongly recommended
Web server: Any server supporting the required PHP version (Apache highly recommended)
For more info and download please go to: http://xoops.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=5692
About XOOPS
Founded in 2002 by group of international software developers, XOOPS quickly become one of world