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    This is the best place to keep up to date with developments around the Elgg project.


    Feb
    08th
    by
    Brett Profitt

    Elgg 1.7 beta has been released

    Posted in community edition | 12 comments

    ,

    It's with great pleasure that I announce Elgg 1.7 beta has been released! Grab a copy from the downloads page and start testing!

    I would like to remind everyone that while many bugs have been corrected, Elgg 1.7 is still beta quality software and should not be used in a production environment. When upgrading, be sure to back up your current installation and closely follow the documented procedures in UPGRADE.txt. In addition to these instructions, Cash has written an informative series of posts on the community site about preparing for the 1.7 upgrade.

    As previously mentioned, Elgg 1.7 enhances security by requiring security tokens on all actions. Plugins that have not been updated to use security tokens will produce a "Form is missing __token or __ts fields" error. For authors of plugins that do not have security tokens, please review the documentation on actions and security for information about how to add tokens to your plugins.

    Some of the biggest changes in Elgg 1.7 include:

    • Full UTF8 support in the database
    • Full text search (as a joint effort between Curverider and the MITRE corporation)
    • More manageable user data directories
    • A new entity-fetching API
    • Working and re-written REST API (thanks to Cash Costello).
    • Tons and tons of bugfixes!

    I ask everyone evaluating Elgg 1.7 beta to please make bug reports to the appropriate Trac. For Elgg core, bug reports should be made at http://trac.elgg.org/elgg while any problems with extensions should be submitted to http://trac.elgg.org/extensions.

    Again, I want to thank everyone who has helped to bring Elgg this far! In the last couple weeks there have been some great bug reports and information from users like Thomas, gv, and Mike Lietz. Please keep up the great bug reports and feedback!

    Carlos 30 days ago

    Hi Brett, thanks for the update. I have a doubt about the "More manageable user data directories". Does that means that the data directories structure has changed and that the updater code will rearrange it?
    A similar question about the "Full UTF8 support in the database".
    Thanks in advance.

    Brett 30 days ago

    @Yakiv -- Glad you're happy, but I've deleted the comment because it was very, very long :)

    @Carlos -- There are upgrade scripts that upgrade the data directories and database strings.

    Yakiv 30 days ago

    No problem, Brett! I expected it to be deleted for being too long! :-)

    Everyone can get the text here:

    http://www.ccel.org/ccel/handel/messiah.iii.xxiii.html

    :-) Hallelujah!

    I was the first to post a comment!

    durangod 30 days ago

    thanks ill start testing in the morning, although it will prob be sometime before i go live with it as im concerned that my plugins wont work and gosh i have 1.6.1 set up so perfect live right now lol. but all in good time, im so glad to finally have the beta and im sure even with some tweeks down the road this version will be a strong foundation for upcomming features and versions to come... thanks for all the hard work... appreciated...

    justme 29 days ago

    since this version is bugfixes oriented, theme from 1.6.1 will work with small fixes?

    Fx NION 29 days ago

    Thanks a lot for this beta so much expected, it's really a pleasure.
    I began some tests, and already created a few tickets concerning metadatas , search by tags, and accents (i am french, so ....).
    Thanks again for your work.

    Mirko 29 days ago

    very good! in local it works like a charm. i tried it a little.

    just a curiosity:
    ? where is the new WIRE ? do you return to the old one?
    ? a possibility to have both in riverdashboard: icon and avatar
    ? shared access?

    Jeff 28 days ago

    I know this is a question that cant be answered with certainty, but i currently need to set up a new community. If I can wait a month, should I work with this beta or use 1.6.1?

    Cash 23 days ago

    @Jeff - there are plugins that haven't been updated to 1.7 yet. If you need them and don't feel comfortable updating them yourself, stay with 1.6.1. The testing of the beta has turned up a few bugs but fewer than 1.6.1 had.

    Ian 22 days ago

    Is there a target date for the production version for Elgg 1.7??? How long do you all expect before the majority of the plugins are updated? Thank you for your thoughts.

    Brett 22 days ago

    @Ian The best target date I can give is "When the 1.7 bugs listed in trac are fixed." As for the 3rd party plugins, that is entirely dependent upon their authors. Some authors are quite active in the bug testing process for 1.7 beta, so their plugins will likely be available soon after 1.7 final is released.

    Brett 22 days ago

    @justme - With some small fixes old themes should work fine.

    @Mirko - We returned to the old wire as most people we talked to preferred the old version. You can grab the other version from the SVN history. I believe there is a patch on trac for the icon + avatar riverdashboard, but I haven't had a chance to look at it yet. Shared access will not be distributed with 1.7.

    Please note that development support requests will be deleted. If you are looking for Elgg community support, head over to http://community.elgg.org