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MiaCMS was forked from Mambo on April 29, 2008. Two weeks later the new project released MiaCMS 4.6.4, based on Mambo 4.6.3.

The MiaCMS fork was initiated by a majority of the Mambo core development team, including Al Warren (alwarren), Chad Auld (cauld), Ozgur Cem Sen (ocs), and Richard Ong (arpee).

But why a fork? The founding team felt “that the policies, processes, and priorities of the official Mambo Foundation were having a negative impact on the code and the community… we never gave up on the product or the community, but rather just the Foundation which controlled it.”

MiaCMS requires PHP 4.3.2+ and MySQL 4.0+, and is released under the GNU General Public License version 2.