Real or imaginary, art or fiction, the J. R. Hartley of Textpattern has graced websites for a decade. Would the real Donald Swain please stand up.

Once upon a time, in a Twitter conversation far, far away, Robert Wetzlmayr (Textpattern’s lead developer) asked me what my exit plan was for when time came to depart as editor-in-chief of TXP Magazine. I think he picked up on some Twitter ranting, or something…

Textpattern CMS 4.6 is coming. It’s time for us to focus on language support and ensure translations are as accurate and comprehensive as possible.

The meta description HTML tag is still going strong, yet Textpattern CMS needs a plugin or custom field to use it. Not any more!

We will switch from Subversion to Git as our SCM, and move Textpattern’s official repository to GitHub at the same time.

Happy tenth birthday, Textpattern. Version 4.5.7 of our favourite CMS is released. #Happy10Txp

Textpattern CMS 4.5.5 establishes compatibility with PHP 5.5, and updates the bundled jQuery library to version 1.8.3.

Textpattern CMS 4.5.4 fixes a packaging issue in version 4.5.3. This release contains no security-related fixes.

Textpattern CMS 4.5.3 fixes a few non-critical bugs. This release contains no security-related fixes.

A number of people have contacted us to enquire as to the progress of Textpattern CMS 5. We would like to take this opportunity to clarify the future direction of the project.

With great pleasure we may announce the latest addition to our team: Jukka ‘Gocom’ Svahn joins the Textpattern core developer team.

Textpattern CMS 4.5.2 fixes some non-critical bugs. This release contains no security-related fixes.