Elgg 1.5: Revision 3000

February 28, 2009 in Elgg, open source, Social Networking, Technology | 6 comments

February is winding down in a few hours and many are awaiting Elgg 1.5. Whether or not they make the projected February isn’t important if you consider what the Curverider team has achieved in there progress to a much inproved social networking platform.

Elgg 1.2 was released in Decenber with Revision 2515. As of today, in the space of 2 months, they have committed 485 revisions to the code in their Subversion repository–an absolutely astounding feat!

Having tested Elgg 1.5 myself, I can tell you that its release is very close. The developers are determined to make this release as smooth and as free of bugs as possible. From what I can see remaining issues are largely minor.

I look forward to the release very soon. I am also a firm believer that it is better to delay a release than to push it out the door before it is the best it can be! Those who simply cannot wait can always check out the latest version in the Elgg repository. The usual caveat applies: don’t run trunk on a production site.

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  1. Jason’s avatar

    Jason on March 4, 2009 at 1:04 pm

    How difficult will it be to upgrade from 1.0 to 1.5?

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  2. Steve’s avatar

    Steve on March 4, 2009 at 5:03 pm

    I have not upgraded 1.0 to 1.5 myself, nor were the beta testers asked to do so–so I’m not sure. I and others have tested 1.2 to 1.5 and it went well, except one minor issue that appears to have been ironed out.

    It will certainly break some mods and all themes. Look for newer versions of any mods or themes that you may be using.

    This is what I’d do:

    • Backup your database and files.
    • Disable all but the core plugins.
    • Overwrite your present 1.0 with 1.2
    • Trigger the DB upgrade by browsing to yoursite/upgrade.php
    • Test the basic functionality of your site.
    • Backup database and files again
    • Overwrite 1.2 with 1.5
    • Trigger the DB upgrade by browsing to yoursite/upgrade.php
    • Test the basic functionality of your site.
    • Install new versions of plugins and theme
    • Enable the plugins one at a time

    It might appear onerous, but it shouldn’t take long at all. If any of the plugins you vitally need are not updated to 1.5, consider upgrading to 1.2 briefly, then finish your migration later.

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  3. David Moon’s avatar

    David Moon on March 4, 2009 at 7:33 pm

    Dumb question, but how do I download the latest archive as a whole?

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    1. Steve’s avatar

      Steve on March 5, 2009 at 6:08 am

      They haven’t released 1.5 yet. Are you talking about the trunk in the Subversion repository? If so, I have a blog post about using sSubversion:

      http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/10/17/elgg-and-subversion-svn/

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  4. Anas’s avatar

    Anas on March 5, 2009 at 12:07 pm

    Elgg 1.5 is just released.

    Check http://elgg.org/downloads.php

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    1. Steve’s avatar

      Steve on March 5, 2009 at 1:48 pm

      It is a release candidate–not a full release. I’ll write more about it later!

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