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Magnolia 1.0 was released November 15, 2003 by Obinary Ltd Magnolia 2.0 was released November 15, 2004 with a focus on usability. Obinary was renamed to Magnolia International Ltd. in September 2006. By that time, Magnolia had been downloaded more than 150,000 times. Magnolia 3.0, released on November 15, 2006, marked the switch from a pure Open Source product to a layered product strategy with the introduction of Magnolia Enterprise Edition, a proprietary product that added user authentication through LDAP directory services, a package manager to manage deployments, a JSR-168 connector and a tool called Sitedesigner, which allowed the creation of complete site layouts directly in the browser. Since mid 2007 , Magnolia has been covered by the independent CMS Watch report. It is covered in the "Open Source Content Management in Java" report of Seth Gottlieb, Content Here Magnolia 3.6 was released in July 2008. Its focus was on easing maintenance, making the product more robust and boost the performance. In December 2008, Magnolia released "Magnolia-on-Air", a content management system designed for broadcasters and large organizations to manage their broadcast content . In March 2009, Magnolia released Magnolia 4.0. Magnolia 4.1 was released in June 2009. It introduces user-generated content templates that provide new functionality, including forums and public user registration. It also includes new features like a CMS-wide address book, multiple themes, RSS generation and agregation. In August 2009, Gartner included Magnolia into their "Magic Quadrant for Web Content Management" report. The inaugural Magnolia Conference was held in Basel, Switzerland in September 10 & 11 2009. The event attracted more than 80 attendees. The list of speakers included the Magnolia founders Pascal Mangold & Boris Kraft as well as David Nüscheler, JSR-170 specification lead (JSR-170 is Magnolia's underlying technology standard). Impressions of the event have been blogged about, photos have been published on Flickr and talks have been streamed live over the internet |
