Open Source CMS Developer News Feb 13 2024

A weekly report of the latest industry news related to open source CMS web development.

Open Source News

CrafterCMS Launches Generative AI Capability for Next-Generation Web Content Creation

CrafterCMS, the open source composable CMS, announced the launch of a new ChatGPT plugin that is now available for free in the CrafterCMS Marketplace.   The open source plugin provides a comprehensive generative AI capability for CrafterCMS content authors that will enhance productivity and speed content development and publishing. 

Kobiton Open-Sources Appium Script Generation Tool

Mobile testing solution Kobiton has made its Appium script generation tool available via open source. By open-sourcing the code for Appium, Kobiton hopes to enable developers, testers, and automation enthusiasts to use and improve the script generator for mobile apps. 

Apple Released an Open-Source AI Image Editing Model

Apple and researchers from the University of California, Santa Barbara, have released MLLM-Guided Image Editing (MGIE). The multimodal AI model can edit images like Photoshop, using simple text commands. 

Web Development News

Flox Readies Nix for the Enterprise

Flox, the creators of Nix, an alternative to Docker, are adding management, security, and collaboration features to improve the platform. Nix provides a hybrid of a Linux operating system and package manager, and the new features will enable the solution to be used commercially. 

Remix Takes on Next.js in Battle of the React Frameworks

The NewStack speaks with Remix CEO Michael Jackson to see how the JavaScript framework compares to Next.js.