OpenX Blog

A new OpenX beta update is available for download. We were very excited to see how stable the first beta was but, as you would expect, there were lots of bug fixes and enhancements to be made. In fact, in this update we’ve closed 90 bugs!

If you haven’t tried the new OpenX beta yet, now is the time. You can find out about the new features included in the beta programme.

Existing beta testers will be interested in the key bug fixes and enhancements we’ve made:

• The OpenX API can now be used to link banners with zones and retrieve ad tags
• Distributed Statistics is now able to run more efficiently
• Key features including companion positioning, geotargeting and flash banner conversions have been improved.

See the release notes for more details or download the latest OpenX beta today!

Even with all the excitement around the hosted version of OpenX, we haven’t lost focus on improving our flagship open source ad server. Today we are launching the public beta programme for a new version of OpenX with the release of the first public beta download.

This new version of OpenX introduces some exciting new featuresto help you:

• Write applications which interact with OpenX using the OpenX API
• Serve ads faster using the new Single Page Call tag
• Deliver more targeting ads easily using the new delivery limitations

Our thanks go out to our private beta testers who have helped shape these new features and hunt down bugs. We’d like to send out a special thanks to MindSpark for contributing the numeric comparison feature (make sure to say thanks if you see him on the IRC channel).

This will become the new stable version of OpenX once we’re confident it has had enough real world testing to ensure there are no critical bugs left undiscovered. We need your help to make this happen. Please take some time to test out the new software and report any bugs you find.

Find out more about the beta programme or download the beta and start testing today.

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Note: this new beta version doesn’t affect our commitment to our current stable product. We are currently working on a maintenance release for OpenX v2.4 which should be available in the next few weeks