昨天 WordPress 2.0.7 正式发布了，有意思的是，Drupal 5.0 也在同一天发布。Drupal 是一款采用 GPL 授权的开放源码、软件功能强大的内容管理平台，除了 Blog 发布功能之外，还具备论坛等一类的功能，无论作为个人使用，还是要打造一个团队的网站都绰绰有余了。

新版的 Drupal 5.0 主要新特性包括：

Usability improvements

- Administration pages: completely retooled the administration page. It now has a default task view with an option to hide descriptions (think advanced view) and a 'by module' view with links to configuration options.
- Settings pages: settings are now split up into smaller pages, making it easier to find the options you need.
- Tables: the content, user and comment lists now include a smart 'check all' checkbox and allow range selecting by holding 'shift'.
- Capitalization and typography: attention has been paid to properly and consistently format labels and text across Drupal.

New features added

- Status page and requirement checking: added a status report page with detailed PHP/MySQL/Drupal information and requirement checking.
- Web-based installer: added web-based installer that checks run-time requirements and that supports pre-made install profiles or distributions with better support for database table prefixes. It is also localizable.
- Core theme: introduced a new default core theme, called Garland (and a fixed width version Minnelli). Garland uses the new color module to change the theme's entire color scheme on the fly.
- Custom content types: core now includes part of the Content Construction Kit and allows you to set up arbitrary types out of the box. For more fields, install the full CCK package from the contributions repository.
- URL filter: integrated the URL filter module into the filter module. This will cause web and e-mail addressed to be automatically hyperlinked.
- Blocks per role: extended the block visibility settings with a role specific setting and retained the option to control blocks by PHP snippets..
- Edit block titles: Drupal 5 makes it possible to customize or overwrite all block titles, even set block titles to empty.
- User management improvements: Added support for auto-complete forms to user profiles. The ability to filter users by role, permission and status to help better manage users. Made email verification of user accounts optional.
- Improved module administration: Modules are listed by category and origin, their versions are displayed, and their dependencies are listed in the module descriptions as required or optional.
- More logging reports: Drupal now provides detailed reports on search terms, 'page not found' and 'access denied' errors to help improve your site.
- CSS preprocessor: All (cacheable) stylesheets are now aggregated into one compressed file, which makes your site faster, especially for first time visitors.
- Performance tuning: Key parts such as Drupal's session and access mechanism have been optimized for faster page loading across the board.

可以发现，原本安装不便的问题等都在逐步解决，安装包官方下载，以及 5.0 版本的详细信息可以参看官方网页。