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Elgg Rolls Out 1.9.0 Release Candidate

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Following two years worth of development, Elgg – a social networking CMS – has rolled out a release candidate for version 1.9.0.

Elgg is a free and open-source social network software. With it, you can build a variety of online social environments, from a campus-wide social network for your university, school, or college to an internal collaborative platform for your organization.

Although this release is only a release candidate meant for developers and bug hunters, this is still great news for all Elgg users, as the final release of Elgg 1.9.0 cannot now be far away.

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For those not yet fully up to speed with what's new with version 1.9.0 of Elgg, here's a quick overview:

  • New responsive theme – aalborg_theme
  • Adds image uploading from editor
  • Replaces fancybox lightbox with colorbox
  • Replaces Tinymce editor with CKEditor
  • Liking and friending use ajax
  • Removes topbar Elgg logo and made “powered by” themable
  • Allows keeping group content limited to the group
  • Site notifications moved into separate plugin from messages
  • Various accessibility fixes
  • Improved theme sandbox
  • Ajaxified the discussion reply edit form.
  • Alphabetize friends/friends-of, group notifications, group owned/member lists
  • Adds support for simplecache minification of CSS and JavaScript
  • Adds new notification system
  • Changes user directories use GUIDs rather than join date
  • Adds robots.txt configuration
  • Adds maintenance mode

For the full list of enhancements, check out the changelog.

If you intend on taking this release candidate for a test drive, be sure to report all bugs to Elgg's GitHub issue tracker.

Elgg has also advised developers on how to approach this release candidate:

“Developers who have been waiting to test out their 1.8 plugins in 1.9 should take this as a cue to begin upgrading those plugins.  Note that back-compatibility was a big consideration in this release so upgrading plugins should hopefully not be as painful as it was for the 1.7 -> 1.8 upgrade.”

Find out more about Elgg via our CMS Directory.

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