Drupal 4.7 Released : Open Source Content Management

Drupal is software that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a great variety of content on a website.

Drupal is open source software licensed under the GPL, and is maintained and developed by a active community of users and developers. Drupal is free to download and use. Drupal includes features to enable content management systems, blogs, collaborative authoring environments, forums, newsletters, picture galleries etc.

And after more than a year of development, they have released Drupal 4.7.0

Drupal.org usage has almost tripled in terms of page views, downloads, and number of users, and with the release of Drupal 4.7.0 we are seeing this new found energy drive the platform development forward at an amazing pace. There have been over 338 contributors to this latest release with over 1500 patches which is almost triple our previous record with Drupal 4.6 of 523 commits by 50 developers. These new contributions are seen in the major usability improvements, new Drupal core functionality, and expansion of the Drupal development framework that will afford themers and contributing developers even greater flexibility and power.

That post has a whole list of usability improvements, new features and info for developers.