[MTOS-dev] Movable Type Open Source 4.1 Stable Released

[Byrne Reese]

It is a great, great day everyone: MTOS 4.1 stable has been released!

The folks on this list have helped the product greatly. In going through the
change log for MTOS, it was great to see how many contributions came from
the community, and rewarding to see open source pay off in that respect.

To keep everyone up to date, I have been working on the website all morning
to clean it up and orient it more around the MTOS project as opposed to the
commercial product.

Up until now there has always been a little tension regarding how to best
serve the MT user community on the .org site, because many users visiting
the site were simply wanting to download MT for free, and the best thing we
could direct them to was a stable, but closed source version. That in my
mind was unavoidable but it was something other OS advocates (not MT users
necessarily) noticed as well [7].

Now that we finally have a stable MTOS release, the mt.org site I think will
gain greater focus and conflict less with it's movabletype.com counterpart,
as was always the plan.

I would like to say that it is my wish to keep movabletype.org focused on
the open source and community driven efforts (plugins, styles, articles,
news, etc) as much as humanly possible. That is my commitment to the MTOS
community. It may be a challenge at times, but I think as a community we can
learn to strike the balance that feels right to us.

A number of changes to the website have been made and are listed below:

* We now link directly to MTOS 4.1 zip file - no license agreement to accept
* We created a new download page for MTOS [1]
* We archived the beta page now that it has concluded. [2]
* The What's New page has been updated [3]
* Updated the MTOS status page with the latest [4]
* Deployed some new URLS [5,6]

I will soon be emailing the list to begin a conversation around Movable Type
4.2, if you can believe it!

Happy MTOS Day everyone.

Sincerely,
Byrne Reese
Product Manager, MT

[7] http://foolswisdom.com/movable-type-200-open-source/
[1] http://www.movabletype.org/download.html
[2] http://www.movabletype.org/beta/
[3] http://www.movabletype.org/whatsnew/
[4] http://www.movabletype.org/opensource/status.html
[5] http://www.getmt.org/
[6] http://www.getmovabletype.org/