Thanks to a giveaway contest by modmore, you can now win a free ticket to the MODXpo, or one of the other prized including early access to their big new product, to be announced at the MODXpo! Entering the contest is as easy as filling in your name and email, and then tuning in live on November 3 to see who wins!

The second alpha for MODX3 is now available. Alongside many bug fixes, this release includes additional improvements to the backwards compatibility of MODX3, allowing a lot more of your favorite extras to work. There are also new systems in place for developers looking to incorporate namespaces and dependency injection.

On Thursday October 29th there is a MODX Meetup in Utrecht for the Dutch MODXers. There will be a talk by Robbert van Markus about using MODX and Laravel together, which should be very interesting. For all details and to RSVP, head over to the group at meetup.com.

After last week's release of v2.8.0 was quickly diagnosed with some issues, v2.8.1 has just been released with more security fixes and improvements.

​Starting today, a temporary feature and breaking change freeze is in effect for the first official alpha of MODX 3.0.

On February 25th, Graeme Leighfield of GEL Studios hosted a MODX Meetup in London at the Google Campus. There were three talks this evening, including Gauke Pieter Sietzema about a remote MODX dashboard called MODX Control, Mark Hamstra about setting up a workflow with Gitify, and Mark Willis demoing the Preview and Workflow extras.