In an update to a widely used module, McDonald (a module developer for ImpressCMS), has released a stable version of imLinks 1.05

. imLinks has a long history, having the old XOOPS module, WF-Links, as its ancestor. This latest update fixes a few bugs and replaces the Multimap option with Bing Maps. This version of imLinks requires ImpressCMS 1.2, or later. It will not work on XOOPS.

ImpressCMS (www.impresscms.org) has released an updated version of their content management system to provide a more secure environment for the sites built on their platform. The default settings allowed anonymous access to the image upload folders. This could happen even if you do not enable the WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editors for any group.

It is strongly recommended you take action to reduce the risk of your sites being compromised.

A new update for XOOPS (http://xoops.org) has  been released - XOOPS 2.5.1. According to the release article on XOOPS.org -

Several bugs have been fixed as well as security enhancement based on Aung Khant's report.

Please be aware that the bugfix is not complete and 2.5 series will be following small but frequent release rule so that users can take advantage of quick fixes.

There also have been some security reports about the XOOPS 2.5.x series, but the developers have assured the community they are properly addressed.

The latest update to the PHP (Hypertext Prepocessor) programming language has recently been released, without a corresponding update to the older version. The PHP team (www.php.net) has released PHP 5.3.6 without any corresponding updates to the 5.2 series of PHP, indicating it truly has ended support of 5.2. If you are managing your own web server, you are strongly urged to move to the 5.3 release of PHP. If you maintain a website that uses PHP, as most content management systems do, we recommend you make sure your web platform will run on PHP 5.3, as Internet service providers are likely to be upgrading PHP on their servers.

A new module has been released for ImpressCMS (www.impresscms.org) - Podcast. It is a module for publishing audio tracks and it also handles video quite well. What makes it interesting for churches and ministries is the possibility to use it for publishing sermons and videos on your website.

Posting sermon texts to your website has a multitude of options - a news module, a blog module, an article module, a download module, or even a wiki module are all valid alternatives for publishing text. But, when it comes to publishing and sharing audio or video, the choices are limited.