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It’s not easy being popular. You live under the specter of something new breathing down your neck, waiting to take your spot in the limelight. Yes, we know all about it.

But seriously, in the content management world uncool means stale, broken, or worse, irrelevant. Fortunately for Drupal (news, site), the much discussed version 7 release is looking strong. It’ll keep its cool we reckon and in the process it’s shaping up to further enter the mainstream. Here are the key changes to note.

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The Lowdown: Drupal 7 Means Big Changes

In what appears to be a continued effort to differentiate themselves from the rest of the web content management marketplace, Bridgeline (news, site) offers a new solution to support the management of eCommerce enabled websites.

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Bridgeline iAPPS Differentiates Its CMS With eCommerce Module

London-based Solid State Group is a U.K. web design agency that has developed its own CMS product, Cookie Jar, which is now up to version 7.

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Cookie Jar CMS 7: Improved Content Model, Multilingual Support

It’s that time again — Packt (news, site) is announcing the winners of its Open Source CMS Awards. The lucky ones are narrowed down via community voting, and then judges make the final evaluations. Throughout this week we’ll find out who won in each of the 4 categories:

1. Best Other Open Source CMS — Congrats to the Plone (news, site) project for retaining last year’s title!
2. Best Open Source PHP CMS — Congrats to Drupal who’s win was announced this morning.
3. Most Promising Open Source CMS — Coming November 11, 2009.
4. Best Overall Open Source CMS — Coming November 13, 2009.

Runners up for 2009’s Best Other Open Source CMS are dotCMS (news, site) and mojoPortal (news, site). The winning projects receive prize money as well, $2000 to Plone and $500 each for dotCMS and mojoPortal. Previous winners for this category include Plone’s 2008 win and mojoPortal in 2007.

Those who made Packt’s 2009 Open Source CMS Most Valued People list were also announced. the list includes:

• Robert Campbell for CMS Made Simple (news, site)