The Beta release of the next generation of Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware is now available. This 8.0 Beta includes many new features and functionality, including:

• Multiple improvements to trackers, allowing for more flexible designs.
• New feature filter, improving the usability of administration pages
• Many improvements to the search infrastructure.
• Updating the template engine from Smarty 2 to 3.
• Completed translation of German interface, largely due to the work of Tiki Community member Gregor Adamczyk.

Tiki Community members are encouraged to download and explore this new release. Issues and suggestions should be reported on the Tiki Developer site. Tiki Administrators are reminded that this release should not be used in production environments.

You can obtain the Beta (as well as all other Tiki releases) from http://tiki.org/download. For information on this and future Tiki plans, see http://dev.tiki.org/Roadmap.