We are pleased to have a guest blog post from Laura Gill of Surevine. She coordinated the first London Elgg meetup. Here is her report of what happened for those of us who could not attend:   The first (of what we hope will be many!) London...

  Elgg 1.8.1 is now available for download at http://www.elgg.org/. 197 tickets were closed between 1.8.0 and this release so a lot of work has gone into this version. A high level change log is available here. Several developers made...

Elgg 1.7.14 has been released to address security vulnerabilities in all versions of Elgg 1.7, as well as a severe bug in Elgg 1.7.12 and 1.7.13. Special thanks to Jeroen Dalsem of Coldtrick IT Solutions for reporting the security issue. The...

Elgg 1.8.1 beta 1 has been released to address a number of bugs discovered in Elgg 1.8.0. This beta is the first bug fix release for the 1.8 branch and contains many bug fixes and enhancements, including:  Enhancements: New group activity...

Elgg 1.7.13 has been released to address a serious bug some users encountered when trying to upgrade to 1.7.12 and a mild security vulnerability. The upgrade bug prevented some users from being able to run the upgrade.php script. The security...

This is the second post in a series on Elgg's new menu system. Last time I explained how to register a menu item during initialization and just before the menu is rendered. In this post, I explain how to take advantage of the just-in-time...

Elgg 1.7.12 has been released to address bugs in Elgg 1.7.11. Changes include: Blog plugin supports group archives. Better detection of file types in File plugin. Catching exceptions on profile icon lookup to prevent problems that can occur...

After over a year of development and more than 800 tickets closed, we're pleased to announce the availability of Elgg 1.8.0! In addition to fixing bugs, in Elgg 1.8.0 we focused on improving the end-user experience and making it easier for Elgg...

Elgg 1.8.0 beta 2 has been released to address issues found in the first beta. Thanks to everyone who submitted bugs, made pull requests, or gave other feedback during the first beta! 1.8.0 is the next version of Elgg and includes significant...

Elgg developers probably noticed that our trac and code sites were offline this Thursday and Friday. We took these services down to make one of the biggest transitions in Elgg’s development history: migrating our code repositories from SVN to...