Release focus: security, usability, bugfixes and updates

Changes:

• added SSL support
• clean urls supported out of the box (SEO)
• added many popular drupal6 modules:
  • fckeditor: enables FCKeditor (a WYSIWYG editor) instead of plain text fields
  • captcha: adds image or text based CAPTCHAs to arbitrary forms
  • fivestar: simple five-star voting widget for nodes
  • pathauto: allow modules to automatically generate descriptive aliases for the content they manage (SEO)
  • xmlsitemap: Generates an XML site map which can be submitted automatically to search engines (SEO)
  • tagadelic: makes weighted tag clouds from your taxonomy terms
  • webform: enables the creation of forms and questionnaires
  • admin_menu: adds a dropdown administration menu to the top of the screen (administrators only)
  • google_analytics: adds Google Analytics javascript tracking code to all your site's pages
  • cck: Content Creation Kit - a powerful toolkit for creating custom content types
  • views: creates customized views of node lists
  • lightbox2: enables the use of lightbox2 which places images above your current page, not within. This frees you from layout constraints.
  • logintoboggan: improves Drupal's login system
  • token: provides a shared API for replacement of textual placeholders with actual data
• mysql-related improvements
  • include PhpMyAdmin (listening on port 12322 - uses SSL)
  • set empty mysql root password in live/demo mode (for convenience)
  • support configuring mysql root password during installation
• bind postfix MTA to localhost (security)
• added webmin postfix module (convenience)
• prevent drupal6 upgrades from recreating apache config symlink (bugfix)
• symlink /etc/drupal6 -> /etc/drupal/6 (workaround for silly packaging)

Major component versions

Note: please refer to turnkey-core's changelog for changes common to all appliances. Here we only describe changes specific to this appliance.

Links

• Download Beta (171MB)
• Release meta-files (signature, manifest)