Elgg 1.7.4 has been released! Download a copy and upgrade today!
Elgg 1.7.4 is mostly a bugfix release, but has two notable new features:
- Twitter Services has been upgrade to use oAuth and extended for easier support of 3rd party plugins. For users, this means The Wire will post to Twitter again. For developers, this means you can easily integrate Twitter in your plugins. Because of changes to Twitter's API, this requires additional configuration for both the admins and users. This API was originally a 1.8 feature so documentation is still sparse, but watch the blog for a post on how to write plugins that can tweet!
- Added a new admin section to manage unvalidated users. A very common problem for new users on Elgg sites is validating their account through email. To help with this we've added an admin section so admin users can manually validate accounts, delete accounts, or resend the validation links.
The bugfixes include:
- WSOD fixed when viewing an invalid profile page.
- Checking for mismatched passwords earlier in registration to avoid creating a user who can never log in and wasting a username/email.
- Group file widget only shows when Files are enabled for the group.
- Fixed misformatting of some group forum posts in the River.
- Non-English languages work when using memcache.
- CSS is correctly cached for newly enabled plugins.
- Can no longer add bookmarks without a title. Previous bookmarks with out titles can now be deleted.
As always, the complete changes are in CHANGES.txt and ChangeLog. Finding bugs? Please report them to
Trac so we can fix them in the next version!
