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Noviembre 18, 2010
By shot Filed under CiviCRM

CiviCRM 3.2.5 is a security release, fixing security vulnerabilities in CiviCRM Ajax and REST interfaces and export code. We strongly recommend that you upgrade your CiviCRM installation to 3.2.5.

We just released CiviCRM 3.2.5 – it is now available for download. You can also try it out on our demo site. This release introduces quite a few bug fixes; for full list of things that has been fixed/improved in 3.2.5, please take a look at our issue tracker.

For more details on major new features/highlights, please refer to 3.2 release blog post, here's the short list:

Usability improvements Support for PHP 5.3 CiviCase Phase 3 CiviEvent workflow improvements Free-tagging, and Tags for Cases and Activities No standalone version

 

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Noviembre 18, 2010
By shot Filed under CiviCRM

We just released CiviCRM 3.3.beta2 – it is now available for download. You can also try it out on our sandbox site. Please remember this is a BETA release and it should NOT be used on production sites.

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

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Noviembre 12, 2010
By jakecivi Filed under Architecture, CiviCRM, Drupal

This is a summary of ideas from this forum topic, http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php?topic=15983 , and discussion should continue here.

 

I'm working on a CiviCRM/Drupal installation for an organization that puts on workshops and houses and feeds people for the duration of the workshops.  CiviCRM's built-in way of handling price sets as flat lists of options and prices, doesn't quite do what we want.

 

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Noviembre 12, 2010
By Slovak Filed under Meetups

After another successful meetup in October, join us on the second Monday in December to learn more about Custom Profiles, Custom Fields, and setting up online membership sign-up forms.

Bring along your friends and associates, as well as questions and examples of the work you may be doing with CiviCRM.

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Noviembre 11, 2010
By David_WeGov Filed under CiviCRM

WeGov has recently launched a state and congressional "contact congress" tool that is integrated into CiviCRM.

 

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Noviembre 11, 2010
By michaelmcandrew Filed under CiviCRM, Documentation

At the recent CiviCRM code sprint in Bristol I worked on developing integration between MaPit (a web service that maps postcodes and points to administrative area information for the UK) and CiviCRM.

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Noviembre 9, 2010
By shot Filed under CiviCRM

We just released CiviCRM 3.3.beta1 – it is now available for download. You can also try it out on our sandbox site. Please remember this is a BETA release and it should NOT be used on production sites.

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

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Noviembre 4, 2010
By SarahGladstone Filed under CiviContribute, Finance and Accounting

There have been a number of blog posts discussing the needs for improved accounting features in CiviCRM. The results and current specification is at the wiki at: http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRM/Finance+and+Accounting

 

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Octubre 30, 2010
By deepak.srivastava Filed under Architecture, CiviCRM

I have been working on dedupe optimization, part of 3.3 release and a make it happen project, and we are quite happy with the results. A fuzzy rule (first+last+email) which would take 4.3 mins on a 65K contact database, now takes 1.02 sec (tested on a iCore5, 4Gig machine). On a 1.45 million database same rule which used to take forever (i had to quit after 1 hr), now takes 13 sec.

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Octubre 29, 2010
By shot Filed under CiviCRM

We just released CiviCRM 3.3.alpha2 – it is now available for download. You can also try it out on our sandbox site. Please remember this is an ALPHA release and it should NOT be used on production sites.

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

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