Elgg Blog: Elgg 1.8 beta1 released
After many months of heavy development the core team is pleased to announce that Elgg 1.8 beta1 is available for download! Remember this is a beta and is meant for developers and bug hunters, so please do not use this on a production site! Addressing over 650 issues, Elgg 1.8b1 is a milestone release representing the most improvements to Elgg since Elgg 1.0. If you haven't been following Elgg 1.8's progress, here's an overview of the main features:
- A new, more intuitive default theme.
- A redesigned admin area to help you more easily manage your network and users.
- Simpler HTML and CSS frameworks. This mean Elgg themers' lives just got easier!
- Better caching and easier inclusion of external CSS and JS.
- A new elgg.js object that allows quick and easy ajax integration, i18n, automatic security token renewal, and other advanced features.
- A new, more robust menu system.
- A new forms system including sticky forms to prevent content loss.
- More advanced plugin management features for developers.
These features are just part of what makes Elgg 1.8 so exciting. There are a number of changes to Elgg 1.8, so plugins written for Elgg 1.7 shouldn't be expected to work immediately on Elgg 1.8. The core team is publishing guidelines for updating 1.7 plugins and themes, and Cash is working on a plugin that will provide compatibily for older plugins and themes. Also, if you missed it, Cash wrote a post on how developers can start preparing their plugins for Elgg 1.8.
Elgg 1.8 is shaping up to be a significant release. We're looking forward to hearing about your testing, receiving bug reports, and receving other feedback about the beta!
Brett
Elgg Core Developer
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Wow, that feels good.
Great news!
Great news guys! Well done! I'm loving developing on Elgg 1.8, the styling, javascript and general structure and commenting of the code is a massive improvement from 1.7.
I now have a fully-ajaxed version nearly ready (based on a modified version of jquery hijax). I have also integrated facebox-based popup ajax dialogs using Evan's ajax elgg.action. Great stuff. I'll be sharing it soon.
Last but not least, I have it all up and running with 420M profiles and over 20 billion relationships!
I'll send you guys a login for our alpha test site when it's ready, hopefully within a few days :-)
Great work Cash, Brett and Evan. Very encouraging!
Great news guys! Well done! I am also going to test it. Thanks
Excellent, i'll be testing with nginx!
Could you please post a working nginx sample configuration, with my old one i get:
We think your server is running the Nginx web server.
The rewrite rules test failed. You need to configure your web server with Elgg's rewrite rules and try again.
hmm ;-) nice nouveau installer - i likes mucho ! thx 2 y'all that have made this happen...
@Ruben
You'll need to add this for the rewrite test:
In addition, for normal page routing, you'll need something like this:
On the profile page, it is difficult for the first time community users to distinguish widget columns with the default theme.
Great installation process, CEO-friendly URLs! Looking forward to testing it more.
@Shouvik - set default widgets and then create a test user and see what you think.
Cash did you get the short URL's in? I thought you mentioned not in 1.8...if so, wooo double hoo!
@Cash
Tx that was what i needed (i should have looked in the htaccess_dist in the first place). Detailed instructions on how to run the Elgg on different webservers (as nginx) would be nice though ;-)
I have had a go with this, but when I try and create a group, there is no Group Name field, so it will not save... anyone else found this?
¿Qué? N nombre del grupo amigo ?? Funciona bien para mí lolz ;-)
MMM... it must have been a duff upload... redid it and it is fine now. It all looks really great, just need to get my plugins all working and a pretty theme and all will be cool!
many thanks to brett, cash and evan
for me it's a miracle, how these three guys are working so perfect on this very high level ;-)
elgg 1.8 is a important milestone and i think it will be a booster in the elgg evolution
"powered by elgg" is latest now a quality sign, so don't forget it in the footer, when elgg 1.8 is released ;-)
No, it is working fine. All I am saying that while in the edit mode, there could be some thin borders or something that separates the widget areas where they are to be dragged in the profile.
@Manfred...
"brett, cash and evan"
are not the only ones with "Elgg Brains"
Please ... Do NOT forget the Real Heroes of Elgg ->{ PuleaZ's
http://community.elgg.org/pg/pages/view/601607/elgg-people-
@dhrup-man ;-)) YES YES YES you are right
what is elgg without involved community members?
we know that there are excellent coder in the community, in that case your list will be never complete ;-))
@Ruben - we have. Check the wiki and please update as needed. (Example: http://docs.elgg.org/wiki/Elgg_and_nginx)
@TahoeBilly - you can thank Evan for that.
finally I tryed it a little and my first impression is: FANTASTIC!!!!
compliments for your great work and new changes
great job guys!
I downloaded the beta, installed it .. and played with it.
Still needs a lot of bugfixing ! .. but it really looks good.
I just miss some tool to arrange the pages. Or perhaps i am missing smth, but i do not see how/where i can decide where a certain widget should be placed.
@wannabe -- bug reports are appreciated and can go to trac.elgg.org!
As for arranging the widgets, each user decides which widgets go on their profile/dashboard. You should go to those pages to edit your personal settings.