Elgg 1.8.4 released

Elgg 1.8.4 has been released with over 70 closed tickets. This release contains important security enhancements, so be sure to upgrade as soon as possible to keep your network safe.

The first security enhancement addresses an issue with web services authorization that would allow unauthorized users access to an authorization token. Thanks to Christian Bode for the report. This is an important issue that all Elgg admins should upgrade immediately to correct.

The second security issue is a minor issue that could expose which plugins are loaded on a site.

In addition to security enhancements, there were a number of bugfixes and other improvements.

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Elgg Camp SF 2012 Follow up

I'm pleased to say that ElggCamp San Francisco was a great success! Thanks to everyone who helped make it happen:

• Susana and Lucila from Condiminds for all their time and help.
• Our wonderful sponsors: VerisonOne, MyFreePersonals, Arck Interactive, Arvixe, Athabasca University, Common Public, ColdTrick, and Balsamiq.
• Our media partners: Oobly, CMS Critic, Women 2.0, Vator, TNW, California Spain Chamber of Commerce, Girls in Tech.
• PariSoma for hosting the event.
• Sai Jai Thai for the amazing food.
• All the speakers who gave the event its awesome content: Cash Costello, Jeroen Dalsem, Jon Dron, Mike Jett, Paul Stewart, Ben Tomlin, Evan Winslow, and Ben Werdmuller.
• All the volunteers I tricked into helping with offers of free food and beer: Johnathan Leppert, Florian Mettetal, Anthony Shephard, and Vi Tran.

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ElggCamp San Francisco 2012

The Elgg Foundation and Condiminds are pleased to invite you to ElggCamp San Francisco! ElggCamp SF is a one day event on Saturday, March 24th, 2012 at 1:00pm at PariSoma Innovation Loft in San Francisco, USA. ElggCamp Sf is for Elgg developers, users, enthusiasts, and everyone in between! You can purchase a ticket at our EventBrite page: elggcampsf.eventbrite.com Tickets are limited so register early!

ElggCamp SF will have two tracks: a general track for those interested in social media practices and use cases, and a developer track for developers of all levels to learn basic and advanced development methods in Elgg.

As we get closer to the date we will provide more information on speakers, the schedule, and important tips about accommodations and sponsors, so be sure to watch this space.

If you are interested in presenting a discussion, becoming a sponsor, or have other questions, please get in touch at contact [at] elggcampsf.org.

Elgg 1.7.15 released

We're pleased to announce the availability of Elgg 1.7.15. This is the latest release of the 1.7 branch of Elgg and contains the following bug fixes:

• Fixed warnings thrown in search_get_highlighted_relevant_substrings() about mb_strpos().
• elgg_get_entities() properly supports multiple selects.
• Fixed incorrect handling of viewtypes in js, css, and simplecache.
• Correctly translating "Embed / upload media" in Embed plugin.
• elgg_list_registered_entities() no longer returns all entities if none are registered.
• Fixed possible DB exception in user validation by email plugin.
• Fixed OpenDD import.

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Elgg 1.8.3 released

Less than a month after the previous release, Elgg 1.8.3 is ready for download. We closed over 60 tickets in making this release. Enhancements and new features include

• A white list for ajax actions. Developers, it is important that you use elgg_register_ajax_view() to register a view as being available for ajax.
• Group-specific search on a group's profile page
• Support for Etag headers for icons, JavaScript, and CSS files.
• Deprecation notices are now limited to admin users
• A server information page that makes it easier to figure out what version of PHP you are running and where PHP logging is located.

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Elgg 1.8.2 released!

We are pleased to release the 1.8.2 version of Elgg. We closed over 60 bug tickets in making this release. Bugs that were fixed include

• Creation of default widgets when users register
• Insertion of a very small thumbnail by the embed plugin
• Missing links to site pages in the footer
• Incorrect activity filtering
• URL creation involving usernames with non-ASCII characters
• User picker display raw HTML rather than a list of users

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The November London Elgg Meetup

We are pleased to have a guest blog post from Laura Gill of Surevine. She coordinated the first London Elgg meetup. Here is her report of what happened for those of us who could not attend:

The first (of what we hope will be many!) London Elgg Meetup took place in November, at the Silicon Roundabout in East London. The event was set up to bring together developers, contributors and users of Elgg, along with anyone else who wanted to find out more.

The night was a great success – we had a video link from Cash Costello talking about the status of Elgg development and his upcoming book; an introduction to Elgg 1.8 from Kevin Jardine; looked at “Elgg-shaped circles” with John Atherton; had an insight into Elgg in Healthcare from Malcolm Newbury and a reminder from Alec Muffett that “a platform is for life, not just for Christmas”!

The locally-brewed pale ale flowed, mountains of pizza were eaten… and most importantly, some great conversations were shared.

The slides and video from the night can be found here http://www.slideshare.net/LdnElggMeet.

A big thanks goes to Surevine for sponsoring the event, Lucila Campos and Susana Cipriota from Condiminds for invaluable tips and advice on how to arrange the night, and of course Brett Profitt and Cash Costello for helping me to make this event such a success.

Elgg 1.8.1 released

Elgg 1.8.1 is now available for download at http://www.elgg.org/. 197 tickets were closed between 1.8.0 and this release so a lot of work has gone into this version. A summary change log is available here.

Several developers made contributions to this release:

We also had many people report bugs on our bug tracker. Thank you!

Finally, several community members volunteered to test this version before release:

• Starphysique
• R.Cerceau
• Randy Brito
• Purus
• Juho Jaakkola
• imoni
• gastre

Elgg 1.7.14 released

Elgg 1.7.14 has been released to address security vulnerabilities in all versions of Elgg 1.7, as well as a severe bug in Elgg 1.7.12 and 1.7.13. Special thanks to Jeroen Dalsem of Coldtrick IT Solutions for reporting the security issue.

The security vulnerability is a possible SQL injection vector, but has a limited scope.

The bug fix was for a change in the access system in 1.7.12 that could prevent new users from signing up.

It is important to upgrade to Elgg 1.7.14 to give your users the best and safest experience on your Elgg-based network.

Elgg 1.8.1 beta 1 released!

Elgg 1.8.1 beta 1 has been released to address a number of bugs discovered in Elgg 1.8.0. This beta is the first bug fix release for the 1.8 branch and contains many bug fixes and enhancements, including:

 Enhancements:

• New group activity widget for user dashboard.
• Added more sprites.
• version.php information cached instead of loaded 100s of times.
• Added class elgg-autofocus to add focus on inputs when the page loads.
• Admins can edit user avatars again.
• Added a filter for non-bundled plugins in plugin admin.
• Improvements to admin area theme.

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