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OpenX 2.6 has arrived with some exciting new features

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by Oliver George on July 21st, 2008

We’re excited to announce that the new version of the OpenX ad server has arrived.

OpenX 2.6 builds on our existing open source ad server to offer some great new features to help you take control of the advertising on your websites and make more money online, including:

  • OpenX API - Save time by automating common tasks and linking OpenX with other systems.
  • Faster ad tag - Deliver ads faster and reduce your server load using the single page call ad tag.
  • User management tools - Control users permissions and log all trafficking activity.

And that’s just the start! You’ll also find new ad targeting options, UI improvements and much, much more.

The new release has already been fully translated into 11 languages by OpenX community, including Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian and Spanish, with more translations on the way.

To help everyone take advantage of these new features, we’ve also created a new step-by-step guide to upgrading your ad server.

This has been a huge community effort and we’re thrilled to have your support to make this possible. Our thanks go out to the hundreds of community members who helped develop new features, resolve bugs and get this release ready for launch today.

Download OpenX 2.6 and get started today!

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29 Comments »

  1. Congratulations! I’m looking forward to putting this into production.

    Comment by triom — July 21, 2008 @ 4:38 pm

  2. OpenX version 2.6 released today…

    Today marks an important day in the history of OpenX, and perhaps looking back on it in a few years, even the internet advertising industry. The OpenX team today launched version 2.6 of their flagship product. It’s been a long development process…

    Trackback by OpenX tips by Erik Geurts — July 21, 2008 @ 5:24 pm

  3. I upgraded my install and everything looks great! This is a release I have truly been excited about.

    Primarily for the SPC and the API, those are two huge features which I wanted.

    Thanks guys!! (and gals)

    Comment by Jonathan Dingman — July 21, 2008 @ 5:35 pm

  4. How can I upgrade from 2.4 to 2.6?

    Comment by Glen Lumanau — July 22, 2008 @ 5:47 am

  5. Hi Glen

    Try our new upgrade guide: How to upgrade OpenX 2.4 to OpenX 2.6

    cheers, Oliver

    Comment by Oliver George — July 22, 2008 @ 6:27 am

  6. ¿2.6 or 2.4.8?

    Comment by Francisco Mesa — July 22, 2008 @ 10:36 am

  7. Hi Francisco

    OpenX 2.6 is the new stable release but we’ll be providing patch releases for 2.4 like the security patch (v2.4.8) released on Monday.

    We’re encouraging people to upgrade to the new version since it has better performance and new features. I think you’ll find it easy to upgrade if you decide to.

    cheers, Oliver

    Comment by Oliver George — July 22, 2008 @ 10:52 am

  8. [...] recent post in the official OpenX blog (http://blog.openx.org/07/openx-26-has-arrived-with-some-exciting-new-features/) announced yesterday that OpenX 2.6 is now available and includes some much needed features [...]

    Pingback by OpenX 2.6 is Launched, Including Really Cool New Features | Ad Operations Daily — July 22, 2008 @ 2:13 pm

  9. How, if at all, does this affect the OpenX hosted version?

    Comment by John — July 22, 2008 @ 4:20 pm

  10. Hi John

    OpenX 2.6 is our open source product. We use the same code base for hosted version of OpenX but we release things on different schedules.

    cheers, Oliver

    Comment by Oliver George — July 22, 2008 @ 6:02 pm

  11. Hey OpenX Developers?

    Is the “Block adclicks for x seconds after click” form version 2.0 availible again in version 2.6? This one is essential for Pay per Click deals.

    https://developer.openx.org/jira/browse/OX-3531

    greetings,
    andy

    Comment by andylenz — July 22, 2008 @ 6:43 pm

  12. Thanks Oliver!

    Comment by Francisco Mesa — July 22, 2008 @ 7:58 pm

  13. Hi Andy

    We’re planning to add that feature but it’s not there yet unfortunately.

    cheers, Oliver

    Comment by Oliver George — July 22, 2008 @ 8:07 pm

  14. I second that feature. We’ve been getting a ton of discrepancies on our OpenX click reporting.

    Comment by Dave — July 23, 2008 @ 6:17 pm

  15. looks great! Is this going to be put onto the hosted openx as well?

    Comment by Matt — July 23, 2008 @ 6:45 pm

  16. Hi Matt

    Yes! Hosted and the downloaded product are based on the same codebase. The new user permission system is an example of a feature we added to improve our beta hosted solution and so is available in OpenX 2.6 too.

    cheers, Oliver

    Comment by Oliver George — July 26, 2008 @ 5:06 pm

  17. Hi Dave

    The feature in question might help but I think it might be worth digging deeper to understand the cause of your problems.

    If you want to explore this further, create a thread on the forum and send me a link (oliver at openx.org).

    cheers, Oliver

    Comment by Oliver George — July 26, 2008 @ 5:33 pm

  18. [...] recent OpenX blog post announced yesterday that OpenX 2.6 is now available and includes some much needed features focusing [...]

    Pingback by OpenX 2.6 is Launched, Including Really Cool New Features | Ad Operations Online — July 28, 2008 @ 2:53 pm

  19. Not long ago, I transferred some domains and sites to others who converted them to advertiser link sites. Now I would like to do the same with my remaining inventory of comparable domains, but do not know where to begin.

    Here are three domains that I transferred. Would someone be kind enough to tell me if these sites were subsequently developed using OpenX ?

    http://www.cityofmiami.org
    http://www.stateofflorida.net
    http://www.cityofbocaraton.com

    Larry

    Comment by Larry@27N — August 9, 2008 @ 7:46 pm

  20. Ah great guys continue with that amazing work you are doing!…

    Just please in the next upgrade include de RICH MEDIA banners please!!!

    We need it hehehe

    Comment by Alain Bultrago — August 12, 2008 @ 9:47 pm

  21. [...] schon vor einigen Tagen hat OpenX eine neue Version des gleichnamigen Adservers veröffentlicht. Die Software, welche früher phpAdsNew bzw. OpenAds [...]

    Pingback by API für neue OpenX Version | l.Blog — August 13, 2008 @ 4:58 pm

  22. I’m still using OpenAds 2.0.11 so imagine how thrilled I am to read about all these new features ; )

    Good work to all OpenX developers!

    Comment by Claude Gelinas — August 21, 2008 @ 1:59 am

  23. [...] que chama mais a atenção na versão 2.6 é a abertura do OpenX API, que permite uma grande vantagem em relação as soluções comerciais, [...]

    Pingback by Digital Media, Internet and Tech stuff » Blog Archive » Lançada nova versão do OpenX (adserver). — August 23, 2008 @ 2:42 pm

  24. [...] der Gelegenheit fällt mir auch auf, dass ich den Adserver gleich mal auf die Version 2.6.0 updaten sollte. Irgendwie hört diese Updaterei wohl nie [...]

    Pingback by OpenX Plugins für Wordpress, Drupal und Joomla /// Geldverdienen-ebooks.de — August 31, 2008 @ 11:00 pm

  25. Hey there,

    just wondering..these new patch, does it can count adclick for flash ads? I noticed, previous can’t do so. Just an image ad only can be track.

    thanks in advance.

    Comment by Faris — September 2, 2008 @ 1:53 am

  26. Hi Faris.

    OpenX can track clicks on flash ads.
    Infact its been around for long time.

    Have you gone through the flash ads tracking bit from manual ?

    Comment by Ranjeet Walunj — September 2, 2008 @ 6:12 am

  27. A new version of PhpAdsNew / OpenAds / OpenX ?
    Well guys, I think it’s great that you are continually enhancing the product but personally I dread each new release - I do not doubt that you make genuine, useful enhancements every time - but what I see evey time so far is this: My sites are written in XHTML strict, and each new release requires me to choose between using the software and accepting that my sites will fail the W3C validator, or play search and replace to find odd bits of html that aren’t part of the xhtml standard buried in the code of OpenX. Please tell me that this time you’ve chosen to include some options for people who choose to use XHTML, such as a set up option where you can state HTML / XHTML.

    Comment by Michael Ball — September 4, 2008 @ 11:03 pm

  28. Hi Michael

    Thanks for the feedback. We went through a process to ensure that the tags generated by OpenX is XHTML compliant but it’s possible there are bugs. Could you email through some details of the compatibility issues reported, perhaps we can fix the problem and make your upgrades easier.

    The OpenX forum would be the best place to continue this conversation. Please post a new thread there if you’d like to investigate this further with us.

    http://forum.openx.org

    cheers, Oliver

    Comment by Oliver George — September 11, 2008 @ 10:29 am

  29. [...] OpenX Blog » OpenX 2.6 has arrived with some exciting new features We’re excited to announce that the new version of the OpenX ad server has arrived. [...]

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