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Elxis 4.1 Poseidon was published and is available for download from elxis.org web site. The most important about Elxis 4.1 is that, for the first time, provides a friendly to mobile phones and tablets version of the web site. If a handheld device is detected Elxis generates a mobile version of the requested page instead of the standard one for desktop computers. An other cool addition on the 4.1 release is the CSS and Javascript minifier. Elxis unifies and compresses CSS and JS files generating pages that loads faster, consuming less bandwidth, and having a smaller HTML head section. Smaller scale improvements and additions have been made in other areas of Elxis and also some bug fixes. An update patch for 4.0 users will soon be released.

A series of developer guides were published lately at Elxis docs. These how-to tutorials are for people want to develop their own extensions for Elxis 4.x. The modules development guide should be considered as a starting point for any extension type as it provides some more generic information that suits to any Elxis extension type like for the installation XML file, for the install.php file and for the language files. The guide describes in details how to create your own modules for Elxis CMS and also provides for download the sample module the tutorial uses. Especially for content plugins the plugins development guide presents the whole process of developing a plugin. Features as the back-end helper and handler and the front-end processor are covered in this guide. Finally, those want to built their own templates, or learn more about them, should read the Templates development guide. In this guide a sample template (Simplicity) is being developed step-by-step with comments on every step and at the end of the article this sample template can be downloaded for further study. The article also contains an index of the most important CSS declarations Elxis 4.x core uses.

Elxis.net is the home of the Elxis Downloads Center (EDC) and it is now public and fully functional. From EDC you can download Elxis extensions, templates and updates. Till now you could only download extensions via EDC live in your Elxis administration panel. Now EDC is public to all at elxis.net. Since the release of the beta version of Elxis Nautilus, 2 months ago, 31 brand new extensions have been developed and published at EDC and their number is growing fast. We are pleased seeing the community build nice, modern extensions that easy due to the superb platform of Elxis 4.x and the documentation for developers we write. Happy downloads!

Elxis 4.x has now its own documentation site! At elxis.net/docs/ you will find documentation for both Elxis usage and for developers. Under Using Elxis you will find articles related to administering an Elxis 4.x web site while for newbies we have created a special section Getting started with Elxis. Elxis libraries, how-to tutorials, usage examples and tips are presented on the developers documentation to help you built your own extensions for Elxis CMS. The documentation site is a work in progress. We continiously enrich it with new guides and tutorials.

A stable version for Elxis 4.0 Nautilus is finally available! After a few months of alpha and beta versions the stable version is here. This version includes bug fixes, improvements, library updates, new interface languages and a few new features. Along with the stable version an update patch for all beta versions was also released and you can download it from EDC. Since version 4.0 rev1358 Elxis has multilingual XML parameters and a new configuration option named SITELANGS. This new option allows you to limit the displayed languages in Elxis frontend only to specific ones (the default option is to use all available languages). With the release of the stable version we strongly encourage you to download and use Elxis 4.0 instead of the old series 2009.3. Happy downloads!

We are happy to announce the release of the Elxis next generation, Elxis 4.0 Nautilus. Elxis 4.x is a brand new CMS built with object oriented programming, uses PDO as a database layer, supports multiple sites under one instalaltion (multi-sites), does extend use of AJAX, it is jQuery ready, mobile ready, XHTML5/HTML5 ready, it has small footprint, it is super fast, optimized for use on large scale sites, supports logging, automatic error notification alerts, has web statistics, has a new Elxis Defender for extra protection against web attacks, has APC caching support, new extension types, new search system and much much more. See the Elxis 4.0 and Elxis 2009.3 comparison table for a list of the most important changes. Currently Elxis 4.0 has been released as a Beta version for evaluation by the users. You can freely download Elxis 4.0 Nautilus from elxis.org and use it for your site. We are interested in your opinion. If you wish visit the Elxis forums and tell us what you think about it or report a problem or a a bug.

Elxis Team will soon have ready the first Elxis Nautilus release (an alpha test version). We need a limited number of people to test and evaluate the new version before the final version is released to public. If you want to receive this version and become a tester or a translator send as a request. We will accept a limited number of beta testers. This version should not be published and you should not use it for real online sites as it is a private test version, not-suppored, in-complete and possible not stable.

We present you the results of a benchmark comparison test between the latest Joomla 2.5.4 Emper (stable) and the upcoming Elxis 4.0 Nautilus (pre-alpha). The tests performed with the Apache's ab tool on a local development computer running Windows. Both CMSs were with their default copntent and settings, although Elxis had about 2900 articles more than joomla. Various caching options were tested. The result of all tests is that Elxis is, at least, 4 times faster than Joomla! Read the complete article.