The Refinery CMS Core Team is proud to announce the release of version 2.0. You can get it over at the download page.

Refinery 2.0 makes a number of very important updates to the project. Chief amongst these, Refinery now supports Rails 3.2 and the asset pipeline, and is now mountable as a Rails engine. You can see a list of the most notable changes in the change log.

Refinery's Journey

It's been just under three years since David Jones changed Refinery CMS from being a closed source project...

Following in the vein of great blog posts to help you use the "edge" version of Refinery CMS, which will be released this month, is an awesome post from Josef.

You can see it over at his blog in a post titled "ZOMG! Refinery 2 Now as Mountable Engine!"

Thanks, Josef!

Brian Kierstead has created a membership engine for Refinery CMS. He describes it as "very simple but serves as a good start." It allows assigning roles to pages and users. The user must have the same role assigned as the page in order to see it.

Next, Brian wants to add a members' list and a proper 403 page.

Check it out: http://github.com/rbriank/refinerycms_membership

Refinery CMS 0.9.9 has just been released. This version marks the end of new features until the 1.0. So what's new in this version?

Key New Features

• Refinery can now attach itself to a Rails application simply by including the refinerycms gem in your Gemfile.
• We changed Refinery's authentication to use Devise.
• Refinery now allows you to translate your content into different languages using Globalize3.
• Refinery is now translated into 19 languages.

Noteworthy Features

• Applied HTML5 history...

The Rails 3 final gem has just come out yesterday and I would like to announce that Refinery CMS 0.9.8 officially supports it! This makes Refinery CMS the first popular Rails CMS to support Rails 3. Woohoo!

Rails 3 Support

Alex Coles (myabc) did a lot of the ground work to get Refinery up and running on Rails 3. His efforts were picked up on Refinery CMS Day where the community got together to see just how far we could get in 24 hours.

The transition to Rails 3 has been interesting. It...

Refinery now speaks 10 languages

The community asked for it and here it is. Refinery has been translated into 10 languages. Here's the list included in this release:

• Dansk
• Deutsch
• English
• Español
• Français
• Italiano
• Nederlands
• Norsk Bokmål
• Português
• Slovenian

I'm stunned at the diversity of the Refinery community and would like to thank everyone who contributed translations.

The dev team is looking to further the number of supported languages. Please let us know if you can help us out.

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