Why will it only be a dev release? Anyone will be able to download it, of course, however, the plugin manager won’t work. You can still develop and install plugins, but it has to be done via phpMyAdmin (or whatever you use). Why? Because the SnowCMS site will provide plugin services, and as of yet, I don’t know how it will be setup until I make it.

As long as I have the time, there could be a dev release coming next week! However, here is what still needs doing:
- Installer
- Admin account approval (it can be done, however, the members don’t receive emails saying they can now log in)
- Maybe get most of the filed issues done or at least started.

Just incase you were wondering, it is more than likely updates will be available via the update system, as long as it works (as I said, I tested it, such as making new files, new folders, editing files and even executing a PHP file for anything else that needs doing, but you never know! There could be issues!).

Anyways, I myself am getting pretty excited, as SnowCMS finally becomes a reality

As of today, SnowCMS v1.0 is dead, but that doesn’t mean that the SnowCMS project is dead. We, the SnowCMS Dev team, have started to plan a newer version of SnowCMS, which will be SnowCMS v2.0, and this time the system will be bare bones, with only the basics, such as member management and a plug-in system, much like that of WordPress.

Now don’t think that the system with ship with only member management, that is merely the only feature which will be enabled by default, plug-ins made by the SnowCMS Dev team to extend the bare boned functionality of the system using the hooks and API’s provided with SnowCMS. We are looking forward to creating an extremely modular system, and as time passes, you should start to see code appear in the repository and more information posted here.

You are probably thinking why has this happened a second time? First there was SnowCMS v0.7 and now SnowCMS v1.0… Why did this occur? The problem was that we tried to provide a system with to many features and such at one time and after awhile, we just became overwhelmed with what we had to do, so we stopped, and we decided to once again start new, light, and well planned.