It's been a long time coming, but after all the talk over the past few months the latest version of MODx 1.0 or at least the latest version of MODx Evolution 1.0, open source web content management system, is here.

Don't confuse it with MODx Revolution, which according to the MODx blog, will be released later this year. This week’s release is the final version of Evolution 1.0, which was unveiled in mid-June as a Release Candidate (RC), and which finally updates the non-English language files that are the principal difference between this version and the RC.

But just to step back a bit and give some background. MODx started life as a mash-up John Guerra's DocVars for Etomite and Raymond Irvine's web user add-on in 2004. By July of 2008, they were at MODx0.9.6.2, the completion of the original version of MODx and named at the time Evolution. Evolution became MODx legacy framework with cleaned-up code base.

Meanwhile, work was ongoing on MODx9.7 — a complete rewrite from ground up of the MODx platform. As a new build, it got a new name and that new name was Revolution. The plan at the time was to keep both versions running, with the Revolution version more appropriate for "demanding environments and even more capable for developers."