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After a long wait and even CVS problems I was joined tonight in #tikiwiki by mose, chealer and MikeW for final testing of the 1.8.1 release.
Its now available on our SourceForge project page.
Whats next? Well onwards now as we look towards a 1.8.2 and the first release of Tiki 1.9!

Marking the end of the CVS line for 1.7 branch is release 1.7.6. This release contains the annoying Windows Login Bug where you needed to put your site into a sub folder. Read More the ))ChangeLog(( entry. Support for 1.7 hasnt stopped and we will still be around in #tikiwiki to help! Patches for bugfixes will be made available (and can be submitted) to http://mods.tikiwiki.org

Fantastico De Luxe is a PHP based Web application. It integrates with CPanel and gives the clients the ability to automagically install many Open Source Applications. Just today I was informed by my Web Host that Fantastico released a new version that includes our beloved Tikiwiki 1.8.

Tiki has been selected as part of the upcoming debate at the PHP Quebec Conference 2004. We will organize a TikiFest during this period. Please see: TikiFest

The TikiWiki community is expanding! We welcome aboard two brand new sites, http://hu.tikiwiki.org and http://mods.tikiwiki.org.
http://hu.tikiwiki.org is a localised Hungarian site hosted by ang.
http://mods.tikiwiki.org is the first TikiWiki mods site hosted by damian.

It has been six months since the last major release (1.7). During this period the Tiki team has grown from 68 contributors to 190!! Detailed stats here: TikiCommunity

For the last several months, Tiki has been eating it's own DogFood and using Tiki 1.8 on tikiwiki.org Three release candidates (over three months) later, the Tiki team is proud to release Polaris.

The main major new feature is a complete rewrite of all the queries to move to the ADOdb abstraction layer. This makes Tiki highly portable and useable with your favorite database. Tiki 1.8 boasts over 65 new features & enhancements. Congratulation to redflo for managing this release.

The TikiWiki documentation site http://doc.tikiwiki.org was successfully upgraded from 1.7.4 to 1.8 tonight at around 9pm GMT. Click the read more for details.

The Documentation Site http://doc.tikiwiki.org will be upgraded to TikiWiki -Polaris- on Sunday 1st February at around 9pm GMT. During this time the site could be unavailable. This also serves as a notice to say please do not work on any documentation, until we post the results of the upgrade. The upgrade will be handled in our IRC channel.

After a long wait, and then CVS problems at SourceForge, we have finally been able to release 1.7.5 tonight. The main purpose of this release is to address the CSRF issues which affect web applications. However we have also managed to sneak in some extra goodies as a bonus! Download your copy now from our SourceForge Project Area.

An interesting idea has be brought to the TikiWiki site by ang. He has started work on plotting locations of the TikiCommunity onto a XPlanet map. You can see the result here Community Worldmap. Please as a member of the TikiCommunity find your Latitude and Longitude and add yourself to the list. There are links available on the page to help you.