The team has released version 3.0.4 today. This release includes a critical fix for Profile, and 30+ bug fixes/improvements to existing functionality. We recommend that sites currently running v3.0.4 or earlier upgrade to this version as soon as possible.

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The team has released version 3.0.3 stable today. This release includes 60+ bug fixes. We recommend that you review the list of fixes and upgrade your site as needed. New installations should definitely use 3.0.3.

Kudos to folks in the community who have reported and helped diagnose / fix bugs during this release cycle! Top bug hunter / squashers for this release include: Dave Jenkins, Graham Gilchrist, Jack Aponte, Joe Murray, Nathan Kinkade, Raphael Vering, Tim Otten, Will Brownsberger, and Xavier Dutoit.

Introduction: The Need

Progressive Technology Project (PTP) supports grassroots community organizing groups nationwide that engage in social, economic and environmental justice efforts to empower low-income people and communities of color. These groups conduct phone banking and field canvassing as an integral part of their base-building and voter engagement strategies to engage existing and new constituents. PTP hired DharmaTech to help them build PowerBase: a customized CiviCRM for use by community organizing groups.

PowerBase helps groups manage the following data related to phonebanking and field canvassing work:

• voter info, history, and demographics
• reason why the phonebank or canvass is taking place
• responses to questions asked during the phonebank or canvass
• phonebank or canvass status
• primary language spoken

The team has released version 3.0.2 today. This release includes a critical fix for Group Functionality, and 30+ bug fixes/improvements to existing functionality. We recommend that sites currently running v3.0.1 or v3.0.0 upgrade to this version as soon as possible.

Remember the announcement of Bug Hunter/Huntress Challenge? CiviCRM 3.0 went out a while ago, everyone have been busy with kicking off next version and fixing those few tiny little bugs that showed up in 3.0 stable, but at the same time, the core team has been having IRC, Skype, lunch and other forms of discussions about our contest results. So after this long process, we finally made the decision about contest winners from out wonderful crowd of community members.

The team has released version 3.0.1 today. This release includes critical fixes for the CiviCRM dashboard and Organization / Household contact editing. We recommend that sites currently running v3.0.0 upgrade to this version as soon as possible, especially if you are experiencing issues on the dashboard. The release also includes several other minor fixes.

Not a well known fact until now - during 3.0 release cycle, we've been working hard with DharmaTech to start regularly using unit tests for CiviCRM development and quality assurance. It's time to go out of the closet, since we're nearing the end of the first stage of this project - which was setting up everyone in the team with proper tools and migrating all the tests that we wrote before to our new framework.

So here's what we have right now:

After more than 7 months of design, development and QA - the team is thrilled to announce the release of CiviCRM 3.0 Stable. We think that 3.0 marks a major milestone for CiviCRM - with major usability and workflow improvements and a new cleaner "look and feel". You can download the release AND / OR try it out on our public demo site.

Some of the exciting features in 3.0 include:

• Reporting - More than 20 reports are included in this release. You can customize these report instances AND create new instances with different filters and display columns from the Report Templates screens.
• Redesigned contact summary and contact edit screens - These screens have been completely redesigned to maximize readability. Tabs now display the number of records (e.g. contributions, events, etc.) - so you don't have to open a tab to see if the contact has any records of that type.
• Create contacts while recording contributions, memberships, event registrations and cases - Use the configurable "new contact" pop-up form to create a contact "inline" if a contact is not already in your database.
• Configurable drill-down menus - New navigation bar gives you one-click access to almost any screen or function. AND you can modify and rearrange the menus to suit your organizations needs. You can add links to commonly used profile forms, other related web applications...any web page.
• Improved Send Email screen - Includes support to CC and BCC, as well as improved layout.
• Context menu for contact actions - From any contact search results list, you can right-click a contact row with your mouse get a menu of actions such as "Record Contribution", "Register for Event" and more.
• Event Templates and streamlined event configuration screens - You can use event templates to simplify the process of creating similar events - store the common configuration settings in the template and then select it when you create a new event.
• A new unit testing framework and the first stages in building a comprehensive test suite which will significantly improve quality and stability of releases going forward.
• Powerful new hooks for integrators and developers who need to extend and customize existing features. Check out Lobo's blog for some detailed examples of customization via hooks.
• .... and 300+ additional improvements and bug fixes

You can find more detailed Release Highlights here.

CiviCRM 3.0.beta5 is out and available for download. You can also try it out on our sandbox site. Please remember it’s a beta release and it shouldn’t be used on production sites. The next release is 3.0 stable, so get set ready, and if you haven’t yet checked whether your favorite (old and new) CiviCRM features work the way you expect, it’s a very good time to do it.

We have branched SVN repository for v3.0 after CiviCRM v3.0 beta4 release.
So people who are running v3.0 via subversion checkout, will have to switch to v3.0 branch.

You can either do separate checkout for v3.0 branch

• svn checkout http://svn.civicrm.org/civicrm/branches/v3.0 v3.0

OR

Switch existing svn copy to branch

• svn switch http://svn.civicrm.org/civicrm/branches/v3.0

We will also be adding v3.0 for translation at http://translations.civicrm.org