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Here at Omeka HQ, we’re in the final stretch of work on the 2.0 version of the software. We expect that the release, which will come toward the end of October, will bring a range of wonderful improvements for both end users and developers. The result will be a version of Omeka that far surpasses [...]

Following up on the previous post, here, we want to talk about the broad contours of changes coming in Omeka 2.0 that will be most important for theme and plugin developers. First and most important, the codebase of Omeka is being extensively cleaned up. This should not only make the code faster and leave a [...]

The Omeka dev team has been hard at work making many changes and improvements to Omeka in anticipation of our next major release, 2.0. We will make a release candidate available in mid- to late- October for testing. We want to alert the community of the changes coming, in hopes that it will help users [...]

The Omeka dev team is pleased to announce the release of Omeka 1.5.2 and updates to the My Omeka, CSV Import, and Simple Pages plugins. Omeka 1.5.2 fixes bugs relating to advanced search and the HTML editor. It also updates the language packs for several languages, and includes new translations for Arabic and Japanese. Simple [...]

The Omeka team is pleased to announce updates to three popular addons to bring them in line with Omeka 1.5.x. First, the My Omeka plugin, which allows visitors to your site to annotate items and build their own “posters” to organize and display their work, is now updated to work with Omeka 1.5. Second, for [...]