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Marzec 29, 2013
By colemanw Filed under Release announcements

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).

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Marzec 21, 2013
By colemanw Filed under Release announcements

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!

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Marzec 14, 2013
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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luty 26, 2013
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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luty 4, 2013
By colemanw Filed under Release announcements

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.

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Listopad 7, 2012
By colemanw Filed under Extensions

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.

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Wrzesień 24, 2012
By colemanw Filed under Sprints

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:

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Czerwiec 4, 2012
By colemanw Filed under Drupal, Extensions, Release announcements

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!

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luty 21, 2012
By colemanw Filed under Drupal, Extensions

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!

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Styczeń 16, 2012
By colemanwFiled under
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One of my favorite features in CiviCRM 4.1 is the improved support for custom tokens via hooks. It's really opened up the possibilities for building some great functionality and new workflows in CiviCRM. If you already know what tokens and hooks are, skip down to see some cool examples.

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