Elgg 1.9.7 has been released and is available for download: http://elgg.org/download.php
Thanks to all of our contributors.  As always, if you find any issues please report them to our github issue tracker at https://github.com/Elgg/Elgg/issues 1.9.7 (2014-12-14)

Contributors

• Jerôme Bakker (5)
• iionly (3)
• Jeroen Dalsem (2)
• Juho Jaakkola (2)
• Matt Beckett (1)

Documentation

• design: added the data model image from docs (680c3cf8)
• general: moved pronuncation file from docs (3718dac7)
• support: added documentation about the support policies of Elgg (bdd7855c)

Bug Fixes

• core: deprecation notices thrown at login/logout even if there's no valid reason (d22a6406)
• likes: Uses getDisplayName() instead of assuming the object has value in title property (7ece624f)
• notifications: Verifies that a notification method is registered before using it (4eddf313, closes #7647)
• pageowner: allow unsetting of page owner guid (a57e1fbe)
• uservalidationbyemail: usage of deprecated ['login', 'user'] event (23939b80)
• views: correctly close the comment form contents (0420bd00)