DotClear

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DotClear

Latest release:	1.2.5 / 6 June 2006
OS:	Cross-platform
Use:	Blog software
License:	GPL
Website:	www.dotclear.net

DotClear is a French blog package distributed as free software under GNU General Public License.

It features W3C standards-compliant output (and a built-in X/HTML validation request system), RSS and Atom syndication, full Unicode support, the ability to write posts using either XHTML or wiki syntax, as well as being multi-user with multiple levels of access.

Version 2 is in beta process and adds several features, as well as being completely rewritten from scratch. It is multiblog and a lot of plugins (static pages, programming releases of post, antispam…) are now built-in. DotClear 2 was built to be the more powerfull et the lightness it could be.

DotClear has encountered large success in France, and has some following in Belgium as well.