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Happy New Year!

Kete 1.3 has been marked as the stable branch (i.e. officially gone from "feature frozen" to "released"). Kete 1.3 represents a huge amount of work beyond Kete 1.2. Many people and organizations have contributed inspiration, code, feedback, and funding to this effort (see Credits below for details). Thank you to the contributors and to everyone that uses Kete.

As usual, to grab the code see the downloads page for info on how or browse the code online at http://github.com/kete/kete/.

Features

A feature overview is available here:

http://kete.net.nz/documentation/topics/show/353-kete-13-features

Perhaps the biggest set of features are around Multilanguage Support

After quite a long development period, Kete 1.3 is now feature complete! It has been a lot of work and I want to personally thank everyone that has contributed ideas, code, funding, feedback, and support to the project for the Kete 1.3 feature set (I'll give complete credits when we reach the final release). Well done everyone!

So what's next?

Although Kete 1.3 is feature complete, it still needs to go through a trial period to help find and fix any bugs as well as build up the corresponding documenation. This where early adopters can lend a hand and help

Those that have installed Kete themselves from scratch, vs installing on a system that already has another Kete site running, understand that it involves a lot of steps to complete. To my mind, the amount of actions necessary for installation, and chances for things to inadvertently missed, is the biggest hurdle to using Kete. I have a few ideas about how this can be improved.

Required Software

The majority of the steps involved are actually installing other software that Kete requires. Things like the Zebra search engine and Ruby Enterprise Edition. These steps are ripe for being automated as they