History
The history of Cotonti started in 2001 when a professional programmer Olivier Chapuis from Grenoble, France released a new PHP/MySQL Content Management System called Land Down Under (LDU). It was a modern and rock-solid site management system, especially popular among gaming portals and online communities.
In 2006 Neocrome, the company behind LDU, replaced it by a new system called Seditio, a proprietary PHP/MySQL content management system by Olivier and a small team of developers. Seditio had better support for plugins and higher extensibility than LDU. It was very lightweight and secure compared to other PHP content management systems on the market of those days,. Seditio and Land Down Under projects were officially closed in 2011 but soon reopened again. Cotonti is the only actual derivative of the LDU/Seditio product line and both projects are currently developed in parallel.
Cotonti emerged as an attempt of skilled enthusiasts from Seditio community to improve the system while the official team was inactive or rejected patches to the proprietary codebase. It was started as a set of improvements to Seditio in 2008 and was first publicly released as a self-contained project on February 1, 2009, after the official permission from Neocrome to release Cotonti and its inherited Seditio code as open source code had been received.
The initial Cotonti branch was called Genesis, it consisted of releases 0.0.1-0.0.5 and included all the changes which were expected from Seditio for a long time. Then the second branch called Genoa was released, which continued the improvements requested by the community. By 2010 Cotonti 0.6.x Genoa gained extremely high stability and regular updates to this stable branch only include very minor bug fixes. There are a lot of free extensions available for 0.6.x and the system is considered very mature.
While having a rock-solid stable branch available, the Cotonti Team started working on a new branch named Siena in 2009. It has a more modern architecture with high modularity and a Content Management Framework (CMF) inside, includes several major changes which are not possible in the Genoa branch. The first official release in this branch was 0.9.0, made on April 4, 2011. Currently the Cotonti Team and Community make efforts to make 0.9.x branch as reliable as 0.6.x, provided with lots of useful extensions and widespread.
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