Product Timeline
This is a major timeline of our public product releases.
Jump to: 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010
| When? | Version | Main improvements |
2001 | ||
| November | 2.00 | First packaged version. Basic content management functionality, integration with 3rd party document management software Postipoiss |
| December | 2.01, 2.02 | |
2002 | ||
| January | 2.03, 2.04, 2.05 | Registered users, feedback forms, system messages added |
| February | 2.06, 2.07 | ACL system, major design improvements, scheduled publishing, mailinglist |
| April | 2.08 | Multiple language support improved |
| May | 3.0 | First release on PHP |
| September | 3.1.1, 3.1.2, 3.1.3, 3.1.4 | |
| October | 3.1.5, 3.1.6, 3.1.7, 3.1.8 | |
| November | 3.1.9 | HTTPS support. |
| December | 3.1.10, 3.1.11, 3.1.12, 3.1.13, 3.1.14, 3.1.15, 3.1.16, 3.1.17 | |
2003 | ||
| January | 3.1.18, 3.1.19, 3.1.20. 3.1.21, 3.1.22 | Version converter v2 to v3. |
| February | 3.1.23, 3.1.24, 3.1.25, 3.1.26 | |
| March | 3.1.27, 3.1.28, 3.1.29, 3.1.30, 3.1.31 | Major speed optimizations |
| April | 3.1.32, 3.1.33, 3.1.34, 3.125 | |
| May | 3.1.37, 3.1.38 | Saurus API released. GZip compression |
| June | 3.2.0 | Site cache, human-friendly URLs (aliases), single-sign-on, database replication functions |
| July | 3.2.2 | |
| August | 3.2.3, 3.2.4 | Recycle Bin |
| September | 3.2.5, 3.2.6, 3.2.7 | System info, Search&Replace |
| October | 3.2.8, 3.2.9 | eShop module commercially available |
| November | 3.2.10, 3.2.11 | |
| December | 3.3.1 | Custom Assets |
2004 | ||
| January | 3.3.2 | |
| February | 3.3.3 | |
| April | 3.3.4 | New module Statistics, Link Verifier |
| May | 3.3.5 | |
| August | 3.3.6 | LDAP support |
| October | 4.0.0 beta | First beta release of Saurus 4 |
| November | 3.3.7, 3.3.8 | Article profiles file manager synchronization with file system |
| December | 3.3.9, 3.3.10 | GD library support |
2005 | ||
| January | 3.3.11, 3.3.12, 4.0.1 beta | Major improvements in site cache |
| February | 4.0.2 beta, 4.0.3 beta | |
| March | 3.3.13 | Added proxy support to link verifier |
| April | 3.3.14 | Active Directory support |
| May | 4.0.4 beta | |
| June | 3.3.15, 4.0.5 beta | NTLM authorization support |
| July | 3.3.16, 4.0.6 beta | Notifications |
| Aug | 4.0.7 beta | |
| Sep | 3.3.17 | |
| Oct | 3.3.18, 4.0.8 beta | |
| Nov | 3.4.0, 4.0.9 beta | Search Engine friendly optimizations |
| Dec | 4.0.10 beta |
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2006 | ||
| January | 3.5.0, 4.0.11 beta, 4.0.12 beta | PHP5 support |
| February | 3.5.1, 4.0.13 beta, 4.0.14 beta | Bank authentication, Estonian ID card authentication |
| April | 4.1.0 | Official version 4, FCKeditor, Extensions |
| May | 4.1.1, 3.5.2, 4.2.0 | Free version |
| June | 4.2.1 | |
| July | 4.2.2 | |
| August | 3.5.3, 4.2.3 | Estonian ID card authentication (ver3), Captcha |
| Sept | 4.2.4, 4.3.0 | Site Explorer |
| Nov | 4.3.1, 4.3.2 | Site search re-design, Image resizing. Version converter v3 to v4. |
| Dec | 4.3.3 | |
2007 | ||
| January | 4.3.4 | User statistics |
| February | 4.3.5 | Security improvements (XSS) |
| March | 4.3.6 | Files statistics, enhanced HTTPS support |
| April | 4.4.0, 3.5.4 | MySQL 5 support, PHP 5.2.1 support |
| June | 4.4.1 | Password strength check. New tool: Site Explorer. |
| July | 4.4.2 | |
| September | 4.4.3, 4.4.4 | Credit card and bank payments. |
| October | 4.4.5 | E-mail notifications of error messages to site owner. |
| November | 4.4.6 | |
| December | 4.4.7 | Customisable e-mail reminders. |
2008 | ||
| January | 4.4.8 | Inline calendars opening from date fields. |
| April | 4.5.0 | Toolbar in editor's environment. Thumbnail view in File manager. One-click switch of site designs. Web-based upload and download of extensions. Time-zone support. Insert Google Analytics code in admin section. |
| May | 4.5.1 | Configurable format of aliases, simpler (switchable) toolbar in article editor. |
| June | 4.5.2 | Automatic alias generation in article and section editors, redesigned section editor. |
| July | 4.5.3 | New Blog and RSS templates. Enhancements of image gallery. |
| August | 4.5.4, 4.5.5 | Insert HTML snippets (eg Youtube videos) can be inserted in text editor. Better support for Flash. |
| October | 4.5.6 | Usability enhancements in the editing environment. |
2009 | ||
| January | 4.5.7 | Usability ehnhancements of editing environment. Introducing administrator's dashboard. |
| February | 4.5.8 | jQuery based Calendar. |
| April | 4.6.0 | New file manager featuring multiple file uploads. Human friendly URLs and e-mail obfuscation in all packages, including Saurus CMS Free. Text editing component FCKeditor updated to ver 2.6.4. UI design facelifts. |
| May | 4.6.1 | Works with all major browsers (beta). Reworked v-shaped context menu allows custom commands to be added. |
| July | 4.6.2 | Reworked album editor for direct image multiple uploading. |
| Septmeber | 4.6.3 | Sites are now independent websites within one CMS installation which can for example represent different language versions of one logical website. |
| November | 4.6.4 | Aliases greatly enchanced, support for PHP 4 discontinued. |
2010 | ||
| January | 4.6.5 | Free limit raised to 500. |
| April | 4.7.0 CE | First version of open sourced Community Edition product |
| October | File manager tweaks. Human friendly error message in case of no database connection in EE. |
