Elgg 1.8.15 Released

Elgg 1.8.15 has been released with almost 50 bug fixes. We again had participation from a lot of developers so thank you to all of them. You can download the latest version here.

Changes in Twitter Support

Twitter is retiring their 1.0 API. To support their new API, we had to make some changes to our Twitter-related plugins. Here are the key details:

• Dropped support for the twitter widget (the plugin was called twitter).
• Upgraded the twitter_api plugin. We also added some settings and fixed some bugs.
• No longer distributing the oauth_api plugin with Elgg. The library we have been using to talk to Twitter now conflicts with it. You can still download that plugin at our github site.

Twitter is taking more control over how content from their site is displayed on other sites. This has made the twitter widget impossible to update. The twitter_api plugin should continue to work for logging in with your Twitter account and posting to Twitter.

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Elgg goes Dutch!

It's about time for another Elgg event, and I'm please to introduce Jeroen Dalsem of ColdTrick IT Solutions with an announcement about the next ElggCamp: ElggCamp Amsterdam!

After a great ElggCamp San Francisco it is now time for an ElggCamp in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Organized by ColdTrick IT Solutions, ElggCamp Amsterdam will take place on June 14th, 2013 and will bring a mix of people together in the Planetarium. Expect professional developers, designers, communication specialists but also end users and people who are new to Elgg. This event will bring all these people together to share their experiences with Elgg. The day will be filled with talks about Elgg divided into a general / end user track and a developer track, but there will also be a lot of time to meet new people. Register soon because tickets are limited.

Check out the site elggcampams.com/english for more information. We hope to see you there!

Elgg 1.8.14 and 1.7.19

Elgg 1.8.14 and Elgg 1.7.19 have been released to address a security issue in the profile tool. Thanks to Fabien Duchene for discovering and reporting this vulnerability to us.

Keep your Elgg site secure by upgrading today.

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Elgg 1.9: AMD for JS Modules

As of Elgg 1.9, we are encouraging all developers to adopt the AMD (Asynchronous Module Definition) standard for writing Javascript code in Elgg.

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Elgg 1.8.13 and 1.7.17

Elgg 1.8.13 and Elgg 1.7.17 have been released to address a security issue in the Twitter widget. The issue is present in all versions of Elgg that have included the Twitter widget plugin. Thanks to Moritz Naumann of Naumann IT Security Consulting for discovering and reporting this vulnerability to us.

Keep your Elgg site secure by disabling the Twitter plugin or upgrading today.

Five developers contributed to this release:

• Cash Costello
• Juho Jaakkola
• Kevin Jardine
• Krzysztof Różalski
• Steve Clay

If you would like to contribute to an Elgg release, fork our repository at Github.

Introducing the Elgg Showcase

Today we're announcing the release of the Elgg Showcase, a new section of the community dedicated to showing off the best sites powered by Elgg.

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Elgg Performance and Scalability Discussion Group

The Elgg team cares deeply about making sure Elgg is as fast as it can possibly be. That’s why we’ve been submitting lots of performance-enhancing patches for 1.8, and there’s even more to come in 1.9! However, we know we’re not the only ones with ideas for improvement. Lately it feels like the community has had a lot to share in regard to making Elgg run faster and serve more users, and that is exciting!

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Elgg 1.8.12 released

Elgg 1.8.12 has been released with numerous bugfixes and improvements. Keep your Elgg site running smoothly by upgrading today!

A total of 8 developers contributed to this release. Thanks to everyone who submitted pull requests and trac tickets:

• Brett Profitt
• Cash Costello
• Jerome Bakker
• Matt Beckett
• Paweł Sroka
• Sem
• Srokap
• Steve Clay

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Elgg 1.8.11 bugfix release

Elgg 1.8.11 has been released in order to fix a bug that prevented groups from being created. Please upgrade immediately if your site relies on group functionality.

Otherwise this release is identical to Elgg 1.8.10.

Elgg 1.8.10 released with security enhancements

Elgg 1.8.10 has been released with important security enhancements. Be sure to upgrade immediately to protect your sites.

The primary security enhancement in 1.8.10 addresses a problem introduced in 1.8.9 that exposes user profile fields and other information stored in certain types of metadata. Versions below 1.8.9 are not affected by the security vulnerability.

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