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CiviCRM 3.4.3 and 4.0.3 are released!!!

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2011-06-14 04:46
Written by
yashodha - member of the CiviCRM community - view blog guidelines

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

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. 

What’s new?

There have been ~70 bug fixes and improvements and some critical date related fixes since last release. A detailed list is here. We strongly recommend that you upgrade your CiviCRM installation to 3.4.3 or 4.0.3. Quick list of the most prominent new features and improvements in this release:

  • Ability to schedule reminders CRM-8149
  • Allow 'on behalf of' form to use a profile CRM-6134
  • Comprehensive change logging reports for Contact data and Contributions
  • Ability to REVERT changes to contact data
  • Improvements to extensions mechanism (ability to download extensions automatically)
  • A new improved api

…and other features, sponsored through successful Make it Happen campaigns:

  • Permissioning for Joomla! 1.6 (requires CiviCRM 4.0)
  • Workflow (rules integration) for CiviMail (Drupal installs)
  • Campaign Integration with other CiviCRM components
  • Multi-Site and hierarchical groups support for CiviMail
  • Add Prev/Next links to dedupe merge screen
  • Membership ‘upsell’ – allowing membership type to be changed on renewal while maintaining continuity
  • Credit offline and existing contributions to a personal campaign page

More details on the new features are in the What’s new in CiviCRM 3.4 / 4.0? post.

New and improved CiviCRM API

CiviCRM 3.4 and 4.0 bring you a new and improved API 3, designed from scratch by non-core CiviCRM developers (i.e., people who actually use the API calls on a daily basis). Your existing code utilising API 2 calls should still work, but you’re more than encouraged to test and upgrade it to the new API 3 calls – API 3 is the one that will be developed in the future, while API 2 will only receive critical fixes.

 

Important information for multilingual sites

As per this blog post from a month ago, some multilingual data was turned back into monolingual. You will be informed about this during the upgrade process, but do make sure you have a proper backup of your pre-upgrade database, as only the contents for the default language will be preserved.

 

Step up and help out!

The moment of releasing CiviCRM 3.4 and 4.0 is a great occasion to get involved in CiviCRM community. There are many ways you can help make CiviCRM better.

  • Log in to the one of the demos and try out your favourite features. If you find a problem, please report it on the appropriate forum board. Remember that demo data is periodically reset.
  • Download the tarball and upgrade a copy of your site to 3.4.3 or 4.0.3 – let us know if you encounter any problems. This is an especially valuable contribution since we need to have the upgrade process tested on different sets of data. After you’ve done this, play around with your favourite features, with your local data. Problems appearing? Use the appropriate forum board to discuss problems and find solutions (based on the type of question or issue you've got).
  • If you’re a developer and have PHP skills, we strongly encourage you to develop and attach a code patch AND a unit test along with any bug you report through our issue tracker. Ping us on IRC if you need help figuring out how to do this.

Downloads

You can download the release from SourceForge. The filenames include the 3.4.3 and 4.0.3 labels, e.g. civicrm-3.4.3-drupal.tar.gz or civicrm-4.0.3-joomla.zip. Make sure you’re downloading the correct version: for Drupal or Joomla. Again, remember that 4.0.x works with Joomla 1.6 and Drupal 7, while 3.4.x works with Joomla 1.5 and Drupal 6.

New Installations

If you are installing CiviCRM 3.4.3 or 4.0.3 from scratch, please use the corresponding automated installer instructions:

Upgrading to 3.4.3 or 4.0.3

The procedure for upgrading is described in following documents:

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