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October 19, 2011
By yashodha Filed under CiviCRM

Important: This release includes critical fixes to resolve conflict between civicrm and jquery update drupal module.This point release has quite a few bug fixes as listed here. Some of recently added features have been included in the last release blog post

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September 23, 2011
By yashodha Filed under CiviCRM

The team is excited to announce the release of 3.4.6 and 4.0.6. This point release includes several exciting new "Make-it-Happen" features, along with 170+ bug fixes and minor improvements.. The new features include: Membership Price Sets - Does your organization have national, regional and local chapter memberships? Now you can offer self-service online membership signup and renewal for multiple memberships on the same online contribution page. Recurring Contributions and Auto-renewing Memberships with Google Checkout Previous / Next Navigation for Search Results - Now you can easily move through the contact summary pages within a set of search results! Just click the Next and Previous buttons.

Big round of applause to all the individual and organizations that helped MAKE-IT-HAPPEN for these features, including: International Mountain Biking Association, International Society for Bayesian Analysis, NSW Greens, Fuzion, Lighthouse Consulting and Web Design, New York State Senate, Powered by Action, Carmi Weinzweig, and Henry Bennett!

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August 3, 2011
By yashodha Filed under CiviCRM

The team is excited to annouce the release of 3.4.5 and 4.0.5. We strongly recommend reviewing the 3.4/4.0 highlights post, where you will find out what’s new and hot in 3.4/4.0 release in general. This release has 130+ bug fixes and a few improvements, hence we would recommend upgrading to this version. Check here for a detailed list of bug fixes and improvements.

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June 23, 2011
By yashodha Filed under CiviCRM, Security Releases
CiviCRM 3.4.4 and 4.0.4 has just been released and both are available for download. This release fixes security vulnerabilities in the 3.4.3 / 4.0.3 release, helping to harden your system. We recommend you upgrade immediately to realize these improvements. You can also try them out on the public demos: Drupal 6 / Drupal 7 and Joomla 1.5 / Joomla 1.6 sites. The newest CiviCRM versions are: 4.0.4 for Drupal 7 and Joomla 1.6 3.4.4 for Drupal 6 and Joomla 1.5
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June 14, 2011
By yashodha Filed under CiviCRM
CiviCRM 3.4.3 and 4.0.3 has just been released and both are available for download. You can also try them out on the public demos: Drupal 6 / Drupal 7 and Joomla 1.5 / Joomla 1.6 sites. The newest CiviCRM versions are: 4.0.3 for Drupal 7 and Joomla 1.6 3.4.3 for Drupal 6 and Joomla 1.5
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April 6, 2011
By yashodha Filed under CiviCRM

The team is excited to announce the release of third pair of betas for CiviCRM 3.4 and 4.0!

An remember - if you didn't already, make sure you read "Step up and help out" section of this blog post!

The newest versions are:

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January 19, 2011
By yashodha Filed under CiviCRM

The team is excited to announce the release of CiviCRM 3.3.3 - it is now available for download. You can also try it out on our demo site. It is mainly a bug fix release (around 40+ issues)- for full list of things that has been fixed/improved in 3.3.3, please take a look at our issue tracker.

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January 4, 2011
By yashodhaFiled under

We just released CiviCRM 3.3.2 - it is now available for download. You can also try it out on our demo site. It is mainly a bug fix release - for full list of things that has been fixed/improved in 3.3.2, please take a look at our issue tracker.

What's new in 3.3.2?

We introduced a couple of new features from Make It Happen Campaigns.

CiviMail workflow functionality (Rules Integration). Read more here. Back-office staff can now enter recurring contributions for constituents. Constituents can signup for automatically renewing memberships via online contribution pages. Back-office staff can also create auto-renew memberships. (Both features require use of Authorize.net, PayPal Pro or PayPal Standard payment processors) Read more here.
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December 9, 2010
By yashodha Filed under CiviCRM

We just released CiviCRM 3.3.1 - it is now available for download. You can also try it out on our demo site. It is mainly a bug fix release - for full list of things that has been fixed/improved in 3.3.1, please take a look at our issue tracker.

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December 3, 2010
By yashodha Filed under CiviCRM

The team is excited to announce the first stable for CiviCRM 3.3.0  – it is now available for download. You can also try it out on the public Drupal demo or Joomla demo sites. 

We strongly recommend going through 3.3 highlights post, where you will find out what’s new and hot in this release.

 

What's new?

Quick list of most prominent new features and improvements in this realease:

First version of new CiviCampaign component, it includes initial support for Canvassing, Surveys and Petitions. Advanced search extended to show objects other than contacts (and object related actions) - including activities, contributions, etc. Serious dedupe performance improvements. First take on extension mechanism for CiviCRM, allowing creation and distribution of plugins (payment processors, custom search, custom report templates for now). New case and grant reports. Better "session" management support for CiviEvent. First version of database logging, so you will be able to see who changed what and when. Address sharing between any two contacts.

...and plenty more. Make sure you go through 3.3 highlights post to find out more about what's coming.

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