The XOOPS Development Team is pleased to announce the release of XOOPS 2.5.3 Final.

In addition to bugs fixed in 2.5.2, this release is reverting fix for bug ID: 2672723 (Changed the code in Install to omits the SQL command: "ALTER DATABASE ... CHARACTER SET ..."), which was impacting new installations.

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System requirements
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PHP:
Any PHP version >= 5.2 (PHP 5.3+ is strongly recommended)

MySQL:
MySQL server 5.0+

Web server:
Any server supporting the required PHP version (Apache highly recommended)

Downloading XOOPS
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Your can get this release package from the Sourceforge repository.
There are .zip and .gz archives provided.