A new version of the popular open-source social networking CMS, Elgg has been released!  1.7.2 is primarily a bugfix release.
Here is a brief list of some of the more annoying bugs that were squashed:
<ul>
<li>Saving drafts and previewing blogs works as expected.</li>
<li>Page titles can now be edited in the Pages plugin.</li>
<li>Group names no longer show up in Friends Collections.</li>
<li>Added a group member listing page.</li>
<li>Group forum topics can be edited.</li>
<li>User data for usernames with UTF8 characters are correctly migrated to the new data scheme.</li>
</ul>
Plugin developers will be pleased to know that a number of bugs in the API were also fixed.  These include:
<ul>
<li>Numerous bug fixes to the elgg_get_*() functions.</li>
<li>Added a generic email sending function (elgg_send_email()).</li>
<li>Added ability to remove river items by ID (remove_from_river_by_id()).</li>
<li>Added a generic excerpt function (elgg_get_excerpt()).</li>
</ul>
Want to learn more? We did an <a href="/elgg-social-networking-cms-review-and-commentary/">Elgg review</a> not too long ago that you can peruse for more details or catch up on all of our <a href="https://www.cmscritic.com/tag/elgg/">Elgg news</a>. Last but not least, visit them at <a href="http://elgg.org">http://elgg.org</a>

Elgg, the open source social networking CMS announced version 1.7.2

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A new version of the popular open-source social networking CMS, Elgg has been released!  1.7.2 is primarily a bugfix release. 
 Here is a brief list of some of the more annoying bugs that were squashed: 
 
Saving drafts and previewing blogs works as expected.
Page titles can now be edited in the Pages plugin.
Group names no longer show up in Friend...