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whats new in drupal7

So finally Drupal 7 has been released, following 3 years' intensive development. Hundreds of developers have contributed to make Drupal easier and more powerful than ever. Drupal is an open source Content Management System written in PHP. Yes, another one. However, Drupal was one of the first good CMSs and it became a popular blogging and social community platform following its launch in 2001. Many popular sites use it today including The White House , The Economist , The New York Observer , HowToDoThings.com and Linux Journal . Changes for site builders new minimum requirements: PHP 5.2, MySQL 5.0, PostgreSQL 8.3 installation profiles (minimal / default) SQLite support new password strength indicator time zone handling in core story content type renamed article default taxonomy tags add-a-menu link permission screen easier to read, each has descriptions that can be translated, grouped by content type users can cancel own accounts improved translation interface foru