We've been in Beta for some time now as we work to develop the Maneno platform towards a number of goals such as more powerful domain hosting, an open template architecture, and most importantly, an Open Source release for anyone to download, use and contribute to. The only problem with Beta is that it's been overused a great deal in the web community and it really doesn't tell you anything except that a piece of software isn't a finished product and that's not really very exciting.

With that in mind, a few days ago, we removed the Beta from all our pages. No, we're definitely not in a full release yet, but we wanted something better than having that tag there until Version 1.00 comes along. Instead, we're using a numeric version system that you'll now see at the bottom of the pages. That number is the current production version of Maneno that you're using, which is starting at 0.50. We're looking to give more insight to our development upgrades and include people in on the news as we'll post the Release Notes here in the Siteblog every time we have a release.

Shortly, we'll be releasing Version 0.51 "Alloco". This will be a very exciting release as it is a complete overhaul to our admin section to allow easy management of members' blogs as well as include a large slew of helpful widgets and functions. There will also be some new blog design functions that will allow anyone from a new internet user to a seasoned web developer take any of our basic templates and add a degree of their own spice and personality to them. This release is looking to be a lot of fun.