CuteNews

CuteNews is a news management or blog publishing system written by Georgi Avramov in PHP and backed by a flat file database. It is distributed under the as is license and is available free of charge (although a subscription fee is required to remove the advertising lines). The latest version is 1.4.5. The development team is led by Georgi Avramov.

Features
The main feature that differentiates it from most other blog publishing systems is that all data is stored in flat text files which means database software such as MySQL is not required.

The main features of CuteNews revolve around the ability for webmasters and site administrators to post news to their blog or website dynamically using the software. Visitors for the website can then comment on these posts, if the webmaster has enabled this. News posts can be specified into customizable categories which can be handled however the webmaster requires.

In the admin panel of CuteNews, administrators can add news posts, or edit existing news posts and comments using a WYSIWYG editor. They can customise the look of their news using pre-set or custom templates, archive old news and change user or general settings. Finally, users can be blocked if necessary, and backups of news in text files can be made.

Users that wish to remove the "Powered by CuteNews" line at the bottom of the system pages can now purchase an official CuteNews site license, which is around $40 (USD).

Past Versions
*Version 1.4.0 (was the version after 1.3.6) and with it the GPL license is in question. From that point on it has required purchase of a site license for around $40 (USD) to remove the Powered by CuteNews text at the bottom.
*Version 1.4.1 was the last version to precede 1.4.5 with a single error fix.
*Version 1.4.5 contains minor bug fixes.

Future
The latest version of CuteNews, 1.4.5, was released in May 2006 and there has been no news of a new version since then.

However, the development team recently said that CuteNews development had stopped and that they are now working on a completely new system to replace CuteNews. It will still have 'cute' in its title.

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