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 1.8.12 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 1.8.10 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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Status update

Greetings all!

We've received some emails about the future of the project and our current development plans, so I wanted to address these concerns.

Elgg is still under active development by the core team, all of whom volunteer their time for Elgg. Our development has slowed because each of us has personal and work lives outside of Elgg. For me, as much as I'd love to devote my full attention to Elgg, I still have other responsibilities. 

Our newest team member, Steve Clay, has stepped in during this lull and has been extremely active in developing exciting features for the recent and upcoming 1.8 releases. We've also been very happy to receive a number of pull requests from contributors like Paweł Sroka, Lostmon Lords, Juho Jaakkola, and Team Webgalli. Steve has been instrumental in releasing the last few version of Elgg, and in getting these pull requests in for the upcoming releases.

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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 1.7.14 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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