MyDMS

The first beta release of MyDMS 1.6.0 is now available and has been uploaded onto SourceForge.
This package has been extensively tested on two production systems over the last 4 weeks and many bug fixes and enhancements have been made. All of the  languages files have been populated with the new phrases, but are incomplete — where there are gaps, the english language phrase has been used as a default. Can I ask that users of the other language packs review the content and submit patches to me via SF.net.

Once 1.6.0 has completed beta testing and is released, I will be re-organising the CVS repository to make way for MyDMS 2.0. This will be a major departure from MyDMS 1.x as I intend to re-work the entire database structure so that I can take better advantage of the newest stable release of MySQL 5. The user interface and user experience will be essentially unchanged (except where an improvement can be made, of course) but the system will be made more robust through proper use of transactions, simplification of the table structure, and so on. Performance and scalability will also increase beyond even the improvements in 1.6.0!
Lots of work. This means that the databases for MyDMS 1 and MyDMS 2 will be incompatible. As a result, there will be a huge focus on migration tools. Also, development on MyDMS 1 will not stop — features will continue to be back-ported into the MyDMS 1 branch and new releases made. I’m not about to isolate users!

Work on MyDMS 2 will commence in January 2007.