The latest generation of Tiki is now available. This version, release 5.0, includes 3129 code contributions by more than 40 members of the Tiki community and features lots of new and improved functionality, including:

• Shopping cart, group subscriptions and payments
• Workspaces & perspectives: for efficient partitioning of large projects, with permission based dynamic content & preference filtering
• BigBlueButton web-conferencing integration (audio/video/chat/screensharing)
• WebDAV access to file galleries
• Performance improvements
• Advanced rating and scoring system,
• Improved translation/multilingual support - i18n
• Spreadsheets, using jQuery
• New themes (skins)
• and much more more

For complete information about this new release, see http://doc.tikiwiki.org/Tiki5.


Tiki Branding Initiative
The Tiki 5.0 release also introduces a new Tiki branding strategy. The official name of the project changes from TikiWiki CMS/Groupware to Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware. Additionally, a new logo is being introduced to help unify the project's vision, mission, and values. All Tiki community members are encouraged to help grow the Tiki brand. For complete information, see http://branding.tikiwiki.org.


Tiki Community Calendar
The Tiki Community calendar is now online at http://tikiwiki.org. This calendar lists upcoming events with presentations about Tiki, given by Tiki community members. The calendar also lists the upcoming TikiFests — community-driven events — in Montreal, Barcelona, New York City, Ottawa, and more. For complete information on TikiFests, see http://tikiwiki.org/tikifest.