• All the features of a 3 year old commercial product
• Live tested by partners and customers, stable, productive
• Source code on CodePlex
  
• Mozilla Public License 1.1
• Starter site: bare bones, omnicorp demo
• A user and developer friendly CMS
  
• Most important packages
• Decent documentation online
• A site dedicated to user guides
  

• jQuery based AD Gallery, presenting images from the media archive
• Facebook Gallery, presenting images from Facebook albums
• Twitter feeds
  
• More navigation features
  
• A "Package Server" so anyone can publish and share C1 Packages
  

• Bug fixes, speed improvements
• New source code editor (SkyWriter/Bespin, was later replaced)
• Inline C# Functions (code c# via the browser and run on the fly)
• Ready for C1 Console localization (the UI in other languages)
• Page Cache control to XSLT devs
• More …

• Google Site Search integration (commercial Google service)
  
• Wizard based migration from XML data files to SQL Server

• Started by Pauli Østerø, a Faroes working as a web dev in Greenland
• ASP.NET providers and MasterPage support, short URLs

• Google Maps integration
• Silverlight Player
• Easy "print page" from the C1 Console
• Verbose Logging for the developers
  

• IE,Chrome, Firefox run the C1 Console with access to all features
• The SqlDataProvider is made free open source after community demand
• Package for fast migration from XML to SQL
• Commercial packages available as fully functional 30 day trials
• Support for hosting Composite C1 on Windows Azure
• New source code editor (CodeMirror), works in IE and Chrome also
• Page profiler –add “?c1mode=perf” to get a report on function execution times
• I/O Layer enabling easy On Premise to/from Windows Azure migration
• Data type CRUD to XSLT devs

• A stable and bug free 2.1 that lived for 8 months
  
• Better HTML 5 support
• Best rated CMS on CodePlex, 6th best rated app of all 25.000+
  

• Microsoft Translator integration, letting visitors translate your content on the fly
  
• Google Custom Search integration (free Google service)
  
• jQuery Slimbox Gallery, integrating with the media archive
• AddThis - easy access to social media share buttons
  
• Windows Azure tool for verifying correct I/O API use

• A starting point for developing Composite C1 websites
• Mobile friendly clean CSS and HTML
• Layouts, menus, sitemap and meta tags in place
• Available in three flavors: ASP.NET Master Pages, HTML and XSLT
  

• Languages auto installed at setup, available as packages also
  
• Users can select UI language independent of each other

• "Dog fooding" our Windows Azure Publisher
• Serving the "Composite Start" screen you see in the C1 Console
• Served from Europe, North America and South East Asia
• Using the Windows Azure Traffic Manager to direct traffic to the closest host
  

• Facebook Comments on pages
• Facebook Like buttons and feeds
• Google +1
• Contact Form
• Google Picasa integration (image gallery)
• Raty for user ratings on content
• Simple wiki turning page content into a wiki
• Windows Identity Foundation integration
  

• Easy and cheap mass hosting for your existing Composite C1 website
• Maintain your website locally, like on a company server, an ISP or WebMatrix
• Move your website updates to Windows Azure with a “Publish” click
• Publish to any number of Web Roles ("hosts")
  
• Publish to one or more regions (Europe, US, Asia)
• Use Windows Azure Traffic Manager to route traffic to nearest Web Role

• Flickr integration
• Nabble Forum integration
  
• jQuery NivoSlider gallery integrated with the media archive

• Making end-user life easier with "Favorite Functions"
  
• Drag-and-drop sorting for pages and data items
• Change history features for data types
• E-mail API for better queuing, logging and testing
  

• “Reference” showing a lot more featured websites with screenshots
• “Buzz and press” area showing all the positive feedback we got
• Refactoring with new colors, richer home pages, omnipresent social buttons
• Improved product presentation

• Superb markup control; a crisp syntax let you mix HTML and C# with ease  
• ASP.NET Razor combine what is great about XSLT and ASP.NET
• Razor Functions automatically turn a Razor web page into a C1 Function
• Public properties become C1 Parameters end-users can easily control 

"Wow, another Open Source CMS adds support for Razor
in a really cool way!"

Erik Porter, PM on ASP.NET Razor.

• Website presenting hundreds of cultural events with personalized content (login, personalized programs), developed by 2Mind.dk
• Moved from single server on-premise to Windows Azure very fast
• Handled a day with 75.000 visitors
  
• Peaking at 12 servers, total cost around $100

• Miljenko Cvjetko (HolisticWare) talks about Composite C1 at a user group presentation in Zagreb, Croatia
• HolisticWare have contributed a Silverlight Player packages to Composite C1 , spearheaded a German translation of the C1 Console and are working on a number of other projects

• A total of 4 release candidates are released
• End result is a very stable release in December

• New starter site option based on Razor Functions
• Templates an navigation widgets are cshtml files
• A fourth templating alternative to ASP.NET Master Page, XSLT and HTML
  

• Open Graph Protocol support via page meta data. Control how you look on Facebook.
• Disqus integration, social media intensive comment feature
• UserEcho integration, a "give us your feedback" widget with a back-end
• LESS CSS support, for writing way smarter CSS
  

• Key user experience improvements - a lot less clicking
• Instant image and file upload from all “select file” dialogs
• Seamless paste from Word
• Page URL’s are now “spot on” and customizable
• ASP.NET Razor support: starter site and C1 Functions
• Refactored “Build Manager” – eliminating instability and performance issues
• Visual Editor support HTML 5, iframe and script tags
• API for commercial packages
• Runs seamlessly on SQL Server and SQL Azure

• Yet a cool CompositeC1Contribution project
• User Control Functions automatically turn a ascx file into a C1 Function
• Public properties become C1 Parameters end-users can easily control

• Spell Check features for Mozilla Firefox users
• Support for LESS CSS on websites and .less file editing in the C1 Console
• Calibrating the “Build Manager”, improving performance and stability.
• Fixing issues reported on the 3.0 release

• Community initiated event in Copenhagen about Composite C1 for developers
• Biggest gathering of Composite C1 power developers ever – from Denmark, Ukraine and Germany

• Composite's last fiscal result was the best in four years
• Best rated open source CMS on CodePlex, ahead of other .Net based brands
• 50.000 downloads, 10-15 sites going online daily
• Runs on both Windows Server and Windows Azure
• Support ASP.NET Razor, Web Forms, MVC and XSLT
• A living CompositeC1Contrib project giving advance access to features
  
• Massive positive feedback, code contributions and a growing community
• Now used by high-end agencies and companies, including Fortune 500