There has been a significant amount of development toward version 2.0.0 of Refinery CMS and it's shaping up to be a really great version but until then it may not seem straightforward to actually use this version.  Tony Semana has written a walkthrough titled "Installing RefineryCMS with Rails 3.1.3" which described the process of setting up a new website with the upcoming 2.0.0 version of Refinery CMS. Thanks, Tony!

We love it when people use Refinery CMS as it is being developed but...

Really like this graphic. Thanks everybody!

Uģis: "Thanks to all of you who donated for my trip to RubyShift and RubyC. RubyShift was a great experience for me - for the first time traveled all by myself, met some Refinery CMS users/fans, listened to great talks and to sum it up - those 4 days while I was in the Ukraine I had a really great time.

Unfortunately I'm not going to attend RubyC because of some work related issues so all of you who donated for RubyC I want to say sorry and thank you!

Remember to stay awesome!"

Recently...

We are planning on holding a "Refinery CMS Day" on the 30th of July. The purpose of this day is to fix as many issues related to Refinery CMS as possible so that we can support Rails 3.1 when it is released. Head over to GitHub issue list to see currently reported issues and let us know if you're able to help on any of them.

Translation revisions are also more than welcome. Currently Refinery CMS is translated into 22 languages so it would be really cool if all of those translations...

It was only the 27th of February of this year, 2011, where we posted about hitting 100 contributors and now we have 150!

As the lead developer of Refinery CMS, every new contributor makes my life easier and makes the product better so I just wanted to take the opportunity to express my gratitude. 

THANK YOU to all of you!

Today the Refinery CMS Core Team is announcing Refinery CMS version 1.0.  You can get it here.

Refinery's Journey

It is exactly 2 years since David Jones changed Refinery CMS from being a closed source project at Resolve Digital to an open source project for us all to enjoy.

Phil Arndt joined Resolve Digital shortly before the public release. He picked up what was there and took it to the next level (and then some). During this time it was hard not to see Phil's name mentioned as...

As you have probably heard in the past few months the country of New Zealand has experienced many earthquakes. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Canterbury_earthquake and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Christchurch_earthquake.

In order to protect RefineryCMS from being lost forever in one of the earthquakes, the decision was made to move the project from New Zealand to a safer place, like Redmond, Washington. Microsoft has graciously accepted to take over the project in exchange for...

Quite a milestone for Refinery CMS. We wanted to take a moment to say thanks to all of you. 

100 contributors to resolve/refinerycms 

parndt (Philip Arndt) - djones (David Jones) - stevenheidel (Steven Heidel) - myabc (Alex Coles) - ugisozols (Uģis Ozols) - moretea (Maarten Hoogendoorn) - joemsak (Joe Sak) - peterz (Peter Zlatnar) - semaperepelitsa (Semyon Perepelitsa) - awagener (Amanda Wagener) - hvirring (Jesper Hvirring Henriksen) - bofrede (Bo Frederiksen) - kivanio (Kivanio...

A new 'bugfix' version in the 0.9.9 series has been released.
This release fixes many of the issues that have been discovered since the release of 0.9.9 three weeks ago. 

Notable improvements

• The refinerycms installer gracefully exits when an error is encountered.
• Reduced the Gemfile's complexity (hooray!) by moving most of it to a new refinerycms-testing engine.
• The project has been split into 10 separately released gems that include their own dependencies. Don't worry, you only have to...

 CIO magazine has named Refinery CMS one of five open source CMS projects to watch. Others on the list include Django, SilverStripe, Bricolage, and mojoPortal.