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januari 3, 2015
By totten Filed under Architecture
Summary

Beginning with CiviCRM v4.6, developing code for CiviCRM (civicrm-core.git) will require two additional tools: Composer and NodeJS. If you develop CiviCRM, then you should install them in order to continue development.

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november 3, 2014
By totten Filed under Architecture, Release announcements

In recent blog posts, we've expanded the long-term support effort to 4.4, discussed the release window (first and third Wednesday of each month), and experimented with release-candidates (

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september 17, 2014
By totten Filed under Release announcements, Security Releases

There has been a security advisory for CiviCRM. We recommend you immediately upgrade to one of the following versions:

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september 9, 2014
By totten Filed under Community, Release announcements, Security

We’ve been having some discussions among the folks who triage security issues, who publish new releases, and who maintain backports. We'll update the policy beginning with the upcoming 4.4.7 release (and related 4.2.19 and 4.3.9 releases).

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augustus 25, 2014
By totten Filed under Architecture, Documentation

Good testing is critical for providing quality software. Some testing is always manual but writing automated tests to do the heavy lifting is a key part of modern coding practices. For developers, the discipline of writing automated tests helps to proactively identify and control edge-cases, and regularly running tests helps to identify problems quickly (before they grow and cause greater harm).

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juli 1, 2014
By totten Filed under Release announcements, Security Releases

There has been a security advisory for CiviCRM. We recommend you immediately upgrade to one of the following versions:

CiviCRM 4.4.6 (latest version) CiviCRM 4.2.17 (LTS)

Read the security advisories for details:

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juni 24, 2014
By totten Filed under Release announcements

Good day, folks,

The CiviCRM Partners list recently discussed the topic of release-announcements and release-testing.  We'd like to treat 4.4.6 as a bit of an experiment to address two specific ideas about release-management:

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April 14, 2014
By totten Filed under CiviCase, Interface and design

CiviCase is a case-management system for tracking multistep interactions with constituents -- such as social support services, constituent services, and applications for employment. The CiviCase toolset enables organizations to provide a more consistent quality-of-service to their constituents by setting out a base timeline for the services to provide to each constituent.

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februari 10, 2014
By totten Filed under CiviCase, CiviHR, Architecture

(This post is a follow-up to previous discussions about developing recruitment functionality for CiviHR.

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januari 15, 2014
By totten Filed under Architecture

When developing with CiviCRM, one often prepares a development-build on your workstation which includes several git repositories, e.g.

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