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By colemanw Filed under Release announcements

The CiviCRM community has reached another milestone: announcing the third beta release of 4.3 for Drupal 6-7, Joomla 2.5.x and WordPress. This has been a true community effort with people from around the world participating in Ye Bugsmithing Day - 45 issues were fixed as a result of that group effort.

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By petednz Filed under Drupal 7

After several dead ends I think we have something that is useful to share - just add a Tag - not as useful as having it as an Action after Adv Search perhaps - but with other possibilities that I like.

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By yashodha Filed under Release announcements

The team is super excited to announce the second beta release for 4.3 with support for Drupal 7.x, Joomla 2.5.x and WordPress.

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By Gast Filed under Meetups

Date/time: Wednesday 27th March 2013, 5:30pm - 8:30pm

Venue: Manta Ray Media Ltd., Finsbury Business Centre, 40 Bowling Green Lane, London EC1R0NE

Information/Registration: http://civicrm.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=288

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By jamienovick Filed under Extensions

New Contact calendar extension available from Compucorp!

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By totten Filed under Architecture

As of March 1st, the official source-code repository of CiviCRM has switched from Subversion to Github. Git and Github provide a number of advantages:

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By kurund Filed under Release announcements

The team is super excited to announce the first beta release for 4.3 with support for Drupal 7.x, Joomla 2.5.x and WordPress.

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By colemanw Filed under Sprints

If you follow the CiviCRM blog, you've probably seen a few articles about how much fun the sprints are and what a great time everyone has. Maybe you've thought to yourself, "That's not for me. I'm not a PHP programmer or a database fanatic." Well, I'm here to say that you, yes you can come to the sprint - if you don't write code you can help write the user guide. The only prerequisites are enthusiasm about CiviCRM and a willingness to help out (and a laptop).

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By Dave Greenberg Filed under Marketing and Promotion

CiviCRM is currently used by thousands of organizations around the world, and an increasing percentage of the product and associated services come directly from the community. At the same time, as with any open source project, there are core 'keeping the lights on' activities that are critical to ensure the ongoing growth and health of the project.

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By parvez Filed under CiviReport

For those of us that have tried CiviReport with ACL's and custom data, we'll be aware of the issue that in order to use the custom data in reports the user must have Access All Custom Data privilege enabled. This is not the desired functionality and thanks to funding from Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research a patch is available which cures the problem, allowing you to use ACL's with Custom data without compromising the CiviReport functionality.

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