News and announcements

I'm increasingly confident in Drupal 4.1.0's release readiness. As such, chances are we'll release Drupal 4.1.0 within two weeks. I've seen quite a few production sites that use the Drupal 4.1.0 release candidate, yet it is desirable to have it tested in a diverse set of setups. If you have a Drupal 4.0.0 site and you want to help quality assurance testing, consider upgrading now.

Drupal supports RSD (Really Simple Discoverability) by means of the rsd.module, which can be found in the contributions repository.

Really Simple Discovery is a way to help client software find the services needed to read, edit, or "work with" server/weblogging software.

The new Recommendation Module for Drupal is a "collaborative filtering" engine. This means that the module predicts interesting nodes, according to your personal tastes.

The innovative principle is based on "automated user-based collaborative filtering". Check, for example, Amazon.com's "Customers who bought this book also..." or the MovieLens university research project.

Think of it as a "word-of-mouth" system, where friends would recommend you interesting nodes.

After six months of development Drupal 4.1.0 is now ready for some final testing. Drupal is currently in a feature freeze, and has been for quite some time, to make sure nothing breaks before the final 4.1.0 release.

If you have a Drupal site and you want to help testing, consider upgrading now. Anyone who doesn't have an old site and wants to help out can of course setup a Drupal site from scratch. All feedback is appreciated, good or bad.

The source code is available at:

Here's the call for presentations on OSCOM:

Open Source CMS Conference III
Harvard University
April 16-18, 2003 -- , Boston, MA

Call for Participation

Proposals Due: January 15, 2003