After long waiting Garden 1.4 is now available for download!

This theme was developed for french portal www.geeklog.fr where you can see it in action.

Note: This theme is best experienced in Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari and Internet Explorer 7.

The objective of the Microsoft SQL (MSSQL) port is to provide another database alternative to MYSQL to take advantage of SQL server in business environments where Mysql may be a barrier to entry. The goal was to provide the ability for GL1.4.0 to work in either Mysql or MS SQL server with zero code changes required to be done by the end user. The version(s) of SQL supported are SQL 2000 and above, including the MSDE.

An example plugin that was created to show an approach to isolate the database layer from the application logic can be found here in the downloads library.

A first Beta release of Geeklog 1.4.1 is now available for download. After the various security issues we had this year, we concentrated on code reviews and bugfixes for this release, but there are also some new features, namely

• Support for Microsoft SQL Server. Yes, for the first time in its history, Geeklog will now also run on a database other than MySQL. The MS SQL support was developed by Randy Kolenko who posted more about it here.
• Calendar plugin. Moving the events and the calendar to their own plugin concludes our work on making Geeklog more modular. Don't need a calendar on your site? Now you can simply uninstall the plugin.
• Multi-language support. It's now possible to build multilingual Geeklog sites where not only the navigation but also the content changes when you switch languages.
• Various other changes, e.g. better spam protection, an option to mass-delete users, redesigned account information, and more.

We're labelling this as a beta mainly for three reasons: The new MS SQL support, the mass-delete user option, and the various changes we made in the Professional theme, all of which will probably need some tweaking. So while you're invited to install 1.4.1b1 and try it out, you may not want to run your site off of it just yet.