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Elgg 1.7 Released

By Bryan - Posted on 05 March 2010

Elgg 1.7 was released this week. Elgg is an open source social platform and is made for individuals, groups and institutions to create their own fully-featured social environment. This new version of Elgg introduces some new features but much of the development time was spent improving the core API to make Elgg a stable platform for future development.

Some of the significant changes in Elgg 1.7 include:

  • Proper UTF8 support in the database -- This allows developers to use MySQL's native string functions in queries
  • A new data directories layout to work with standard filesystems
  • Full-text search
  • A new core API for retrieving entities
  • A functional REST API
  • Unit tests

Elgg 1.7 is available at Elgg.org on their downloads page.

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Bryan Ruby is the owner and editor for CMS Report. He founded CMSReport.com in 2006 on the belief that information technologists, website owners, and web developers desired visiting sites where they could learn about content management systems without the sales pitch. Outside of his late night blogging hours, he is the Information Technology Officer for a field office in the federal government.