Contao

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Contao (formerly TYPOlight)
Original author(s) Leo Feyer
Developer(s) Contao Association
Initial release2006 [1]
Stable release
5.3.7 [2] / 2024-04-19 [±]
Repository
Written in PHP
Operating system Unix-like;
Microsoft Windows
Available in28 languages [3]
List of languages
Fully translated: Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Persian, Russian, Spanish
95% or more complete: Czech, Romansh, Serbian, Swedish, Finnish, Romanian, Slovak, Burmese, Danish, Hungarian, Polish, Albanian, Latvian, Slovenian, Ukrainian,
80% or more complete: Lithuanian, Croatian, Portuguese
Type CMS
Licence GNU LGPL (Free software)
Website contao.org

Contao (formerly TYPOlight) is a free content management system (CMS) for medium to large websites. The program specializes in back-office (i.e. for developers) and front-office (i.e., for users) accessibility, and observes XHTML, HTML5 and CSS standards, according to W3C/WAI guidelines, to generate pages. The program is an open-source project, published in its original form in 2006 by Leo Feyer.

Contents

Minimal/suggested installations

As of 4.4, Contao requires an Apache, Nginx or IIS web server, PHP (version 5.6.0 or greater), the MySQL or MariaDB relational database management system (version 5.1 or greater) and the PHP extension GDLib (to allow image resizing) and SOAP (access to the extension repository). [4] Contao runs successfully with current versions of major browsers like Firefox, Chrome and Internet Explorer (from version 8 on). [4]

Product name

As of the pre-release version 2.9. RC1 on June 6, 2010, the TYPOlight product was renamed Contao. Developer Leo Feyer justified the change on the grounds that TYPOlight had often been confused with TYPO3, a different CMS originally developed by Kasper Skårhøj, whilst the word “light” was sometimes misunderstood to imply that the CMS was suitable only for small projects. [5]

In his instructional book (not freely available) on the CMS, Websites erstellen mit Contao, Peter Müller writes that the software name “Contao” has “a good ring”, pointing out that C, O, N are the first letters of “content” and that tạo is a Vietnamese word that means “to model, generate or shape.” The name is appropriate, he suggests, because the program “allows content to be generated, shaped and managed.” [6]

Reviews, awards and critiques

In 2007 Packt Publishing named TYPOlight, as it was then known, as the second-place winner in its awards category of “Most Promising Open-Source CMS”. [7]

Versions

Legend:Old version, not maintainedOlder version, still maintainedCurrent stable versionLatest preview versionFuture release
SoftwareMajor releasesMinor releasesBugfix releasesGeneral corrections toSecurity relevant corrections to
TYPOlight1.xOld version, no longer maintained: 1.01.0.0 (2006-03-12)
2.xOld version, no longer maintained: 2.02.0.0 (2006-11-24)
Old version, no longer maintained: 2.12.1.0 (2006-11-28) to 2.1.22 (2007-01-29)
Old version, no longer maintained: 2.22.2.0 (2007-02-28) to 2.2.12 (2007-04-10)
Old version, no longer maintained: 2.32.3.0 (2007-04-25) to 2.3.4 (2007-05-11)
Old version, no longer maintained: 2.42.4.0 (2007-06-07) to 2.4.7 (2007–10-11)
Old version, no longer maintained: 2.52.5.0 (2007-12-12) to 2.5.9 (2008-06-06)
Old version, no longer maintained: 2.6 [8] 2.6.0 (2008-08-12) to 2.6.8 (2010-05-01)
Old version, no longer maintained: 2.7 [9] 2.7.0 (2009-05-01) to 2.7.7 (2010-05-01)
Old version, no longer maintained: 2.8 [10] 2.8.0 (2010-02-16) to 2.8.4 (2010-06-30)
ContaoOld version, no longer maintained: 2.9 [11] 2.9.0 (2010-07-02) to 2.9.5 (2011-05-18)
Old version, no longer maintained: 2.10 [12] 2.10.0 (2011-08-11) to 2.10.4 (2011-12-30)
Old version, no longer maintained: 2.11 (LTS) [13] 2.11.0 (2012-02-15) to 2.11.17 (2014-04-07)
3.xOld version, no longer maintained: 3.0 [14] 3.0.0 (2012-10-30) to 3.0.6 (2013-03-21)
Old version, no longer maintained: 3.1 [15] 3.1.0 (2013-05-21) to 3.1.5 (2013-11-08)
Old version, no longer maintained: 3.2 (LTS) [16] 3.2.0 (2013-11-21) to 3.2.21 (2015-06-05)
Old version, no longer maintained: 3.3 [17] 3.3.0 (2014-05-26) to 3.3.7 (2014-11-24)
Old version, no longer maintained: 3.4 [18] 3.4.0 (2014-11-25) to 3.4.5 (2015-03-27)
Old version, no longer maintained: 3.5 (LTS) [19] 3.5.0 (2015-06-05) to 3.5.40 (2019-04-11)June 2018May 2019
4.xOld version, no longer maintained: 4.0 [20] 4.0.0 (2015-06-09) to 4.0.4 (2015-10-16)December 2015
Old version, no longer maintained: 4.1 [21] 4.1.0 (2015-11-26) to 4.1.3 (2016-04-22)June 2016
Old version, no longer maintained: 4.2 [22] 4.2.0 (2016-06-18) to 4.2.5 (2016-10-27)December 2016
Old version, no longer maintained: 4.3 [23] 4.3.0 (2016-11-25) to 4.3.11 (2017-06-02)June 2017
Old version, no longer maintained: 4.4 (LTS) [24] 4.4.0 (2017-06-15) to 4.4.57 (2021-08-21)December 14, 2020December 14, 2021
Old version, no longer maintained: 4.5 [25] 4.5.0 (2017-12-28) to 4.5.14 (2018-08-28)August 2018
Old version, no longer maintained: 4.6 [26] 4.6.0 (2018-08-23) to 4.6.14 (2019-01-24)February 2019
Old version, no longer maintained: 4.7 [27] 4.7.0 (2019-02-15) to 4.7.7 (2019-07-16)August 2019
Old version, no longer maintained: 4.8 [28] 4.8.0 (2019-08-15) to 4.8.8 (2020-02-17)February 2020
Old version, no longer maintained: 4.9 (LTS) [29] 4.9.0 (2020-02-18) to 4.9.42 (2023-07-25)February 14, 2023February 14, 2024
Old version, no longer maintained: 4.10 [30] 4.10.0 (2020-08-18) to 4.10.7 (2021-02-16)February 14, 2021
Old version, no longer maintained: 4.11 [31] 4.11.0 (2021-02-17) to 4.11.9 (2021-08-24)August 14, 2021
Old version, no longer maintained: 4.12 [32] 4.12.0 (2021-08-19) to 4.12.7 (2022-02-18)January 14, 2022
Older version, yet still maintained: 4.13 (LTS) [33] 4.13.0 (2022-02-17) to 4.13.43 (2024-04-19)February 14, 2025February 14, 2026
5.xOld version, no longer maintained: 5.0 [34] 5.0.0 (2022-08-18) to 5.0.10 (2023-02-16)February 14, 2023
Old version, no longer maintained: 5.1 [35] 5.1.0 (2022-02-16) to 5.1.11 (2023-08-01)August, 14, 2023
Old version, no longer maintained: 5.2 [36] 5.2.0 (2023-08-15) to 5.2.10 (2024-02-16)February 16, 2024
Current stable version:5.3 (LTS) [37] 5.3.0 (2024-02-16) to 5.3.7 (2024-04-19)February 14, 2027February 14, 2028
Future release: 5.4February 14, 2025
Future release: 5.5August 14, 2025
Future release: 5.6February 14, 2026
Future release: 5.7 (LTS)February 14, 2029February 14, 2030
6.xFuture release: 6.0February 14, 2027
Future release: 6.1August 14, 2027

Learning Contao

Instructional books

The following books on Contao are available (in German only).

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References

  1. ↑ "There it is - Contao".
  2. ↑ "Releases - contao/contao". github.com. Retrieved 2024-04-19.
  3. ↑ Contao Open Source CMS, Transifex translation tool. Accessed 20 June 2016.
  4. 1 2 Contao system requirements. Accessed 20 June 2016.
  5. ↑ Aus TYPOlight wird Contao Archived 2012-01-01 at the Wayback Machine (German)
  6. ↑ Peter Müller, "Das ist Contao", in Websites erstellen mit Contao. Galileo Computing, 2010, p. 25. ISBN   978-3-8362-1651-7
  7. ↑ Open Source CMS Award, Previous Winners Archived 2009-07-07 at the Wayback Machine at packtpub.com
  8. ↑ TYPOlight Open Source CMS Changelog for the version 2.6
  9. ↑ TYPOlight Open Source CMS Changelog for the version 2.7
  10. ↑ TYPOlight Open Source CMS Changelog for the version 2.8
  11. ↑ Contao Open Source CMS Changelog for the version 2.9
  12. ↑ Contao Open Source CMS Changelog for the version 2.10
  13. ↑ Contao Open Source CMS Changelog for the version 2.11
  14. ↑ Contao Open Source CMS Changelog for the version 3.0
  15. ↑ Contao Open Source CMS Changelog for the version 3.1
  16. ↑ Contao Open Source CMS Changelog for the version 3.2
  17. ↑ Contao Open Source CMS Changelog for the version 3.3
  18. ↑ Contao Open Source CMS Changelog for the version 3.4
  19. ↑ Contao Open Source CMS Changelog for the version 3.5
  20. ↑ Contao Open Source CMS Changelog for the version 4.0
  21. ↑ Contao Open Source CMS Changelog for the version 4.1
  22. ↑ Contao Open Source CMS Changelog for the version 4.2
  23. ↑ Contao Open Source CMS Changelog for the version 4.3
  24. ↑ Contao Open Source CMS Changelog for the version 4.4
  25. ↑ Contao Open Source CMS Changelog for the version 4.5
  26. ↑ Contao Open Source CMS Changelog for the version 4.6
  27. ↑ Contao Open Source CMS Changelog for the version 4.7
  28. ↑ Contao Open Source CMS Changelog for the version 4.8
  29. ↑ Contao Open Source CMS Changelog for the version 4.9
  30. ↑ Contao Open Source CMS Changelog for the version 4.10
  31. ↑ Contao Open Source CMS Changelog for the version 4.11
  32. ↑ Contao Open Source CMS Changelog for the version 4.12
  33. ↑ Contao Open Source CMS Changelog for the version 4.13
  34. ↑ Contao Open Source CMS Changelog for the version 5.0
  35. ↑ Contao Open Source CMS Changelog for the version 5.1
  36. ↑ Contao Open Source CMS Changelog for the version 5.2
  37. ↑ Contao Open Source CMS Changelog for the version 5.3
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