Dotclear is an open source blog publishing application distributed under the GNU GPLv2. It is relatively popular in French speaking countries, where it is used by several major blogging platforms. Developed originally by Olivier Meunier from 2002, Dotclear has now attracted a solid team of developers. The latest release of Dotclear is version 2.4, released on November 13, 2011.
Dotclear's proposed aim is to develop a software that fully respects web standards based on open source solutions, with multilingual interface and publishing capabilities. It is written in PHP (working with version 5.0 or higher) and proposes a choice of databases (SQLite, PostgreSQL, ...).
Dotclear is offered as a free blogging system for all hostnames registered with Gandi.net, which guarantees a large number of users in Europe (24,421 as of 2010-02-07).
