Blog posts by colemanw

It's here! The much anticipated new CiviCRM 4.3 is ready for prime-time. Congratulations to everyone in the CiviCRM community who made this happen.

Here are just a few of the exciting improvements in CiviCRM 4.3.

Announcing the final beta release of 4.3 for Drupal 6-7, Joomla 2.5.x and WordPress. Time to really put it through it's paces - we recommend upgrading a copy of your database and trying out all the usual (and unusual) things you normally do with your CRM to see how much better 4.3 makes your life (and hopefully that everything works as expected).

Announcing the fourth beta release of 4.3 for Drupal 6-7, Joomla 2.5.x and WordPress. In the spirit of community participation this release kicks off the start of the final push: Ye BugSmithing Weekend goes from now until Monday, when we'll announce the grand prize winner!

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.

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).

CiviCRM 4.3 is packed with hundreds of improvements to make your CRM more productive, easier to use, and (dare I say) more fun. And it's going to be released soon. How soon? Well that depends on you. In the upcoming alpha version there may still be lurking bugs and we need your help to find them.

If you are using CiviCRM Webform Integration with Drupal 7, there has been a security release to fix potential permissions problems - you should upgrade the module as soon as possible.

We're just wrapping up the first of two post-CiviCon code sprints, where 24 people came together at Butcombe Farms near Bristol. People worked on an amazing variety of things to make 4.2 more stable, and to contribute some awesome features to 4.3. Some of the things we did were:

So maybe filling out forms isn't anybody's idea of a good time, but at least building them can be fun, thanks to the shiny new version 3 of Webform CiviCRM Integration!

If you've recently upgraded to CiviCRM 4.1, you'll need to upgrade your webform_civicrm as well. Versions 2.3 and below are not fully compatible with Civi 4.1. Version 2.4 is, and will be released in the next couple of days, especially if I get a few comments on this post from people who have sucessfully tested it! The latest -dev is stable and working, so please feel free to download it and try it out on your 4.1 site!