A new feature release for Elgg 3.3 is now available in the download section.
A lot has been added and changed in this feature release. Below you can find the highlights.
For users:
For site administrators:
For developers:
We specially thank Josh Santos (https://github.com/NerdsvilleCEO) for his Pull Request for adding SMTP support to Elgg.
Elgg 4
As of now work will also start on the master branch of Elgg where we will work on changes for Elgg 4. In the next week we will probably kickstart this by cleaning up Elgg. We also plan to move a lot code around to organize everything more logical. For Elgg 4 we also wan't to replace jQuery with a newer (better maintained / lightweight) JS framework. Upgrading plugins from Elgg 2.3 to 3.x is relatively easy and some plugins even worked without any changes, however this will not be the case for Elgg 4. We will no longer use the manifest.xml and start.php in plugins and will replace this with the plugin Bootstrap Class and elgg-plugin.php. It is not possible to do this in a way where there is a deprecation path, so this will require some effort on the side of the plugin developers. A lot of other changes are already put on the milestone (https://github.com/Elgg/Elgg/milestone/93) so everyone that is willing to help is welcome. We expect to release Elgg 4 somewhere around the summer holidays.
Full release notes for Elgg 3.3.0
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