For those of you wondering, yes 5.5 will work on Linux! In fact, I am developing CF Shopkart from this point on, on a Linux server.
But Windows people need not worry, because it will continue to run just fine on Windows.

I am working on showing my blog posts here instead of having a seperate news section. I will finally be finishing my site out this week...Oh, and the contact form is working again. Some of you still figured out how to email me, but for the rest I really appologize for the problems on the contact form.

Oh, more optimization will be done to mysql for some larger stores in this next release and there are really great security enhancements too. Read the blog for more info over the next day or two. I had to delay the release by a few more days to get some things done first...gotta pay the bills, you know ;-). And the forums are not dead (I got several emails asking about that)...I just don't know if people are having a hard time getting into them now. I've had emails from people saying they can't get to them or they can't login. If you are one of those please let me know. After the release I'm going to see about getting something else going too for people who are having problems to give them a chance to ask questions and get answers. The new error reporting system included should help a ton in getting solutions to any problems you might be having.

I will remove this message as soon as I have the blog integrated into the news section here. Thanks for stopping by!

Jon