We are happy to announce that our 1.5 Beta release is now available for download. This release includes CiviMember - a new membership management component, significant memory and speed optimizations, and Search Builder - a new tool for building complex search queries.
Other release highlights include:
* Log and display who last updated a contact and when
* Include mapping links in Profile search results and details
* Optional CAPTCHA validation for Profile forms
* Generate mailing labels
* Attach photos, documents and other files to contacts
..You can read the roadmap release summary here:
http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRM/CiviCRM+v1.5
... and see a complete listing of ALL (140+) new features, improvements and bug fixes here:
http://issues.civicrm.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?mode=hide&requ...
Many of the additions and changes were heavily driven by your feedback and requests - and we hope they solve many more of your CRM
requirements....
Download
You can download the 1.5 beta here:
http://downloads.openngo.org/civicrm
Tarball filenames include the 1.5 Beta label: "...v1.5BETA-rev....tgz"
New Installations
If you are installing the beta from scratch, you can use the manual installation instructions linked below. There are several new configuration settings which are documented in the configuration file - so be sure to read through the inline documentation carefully.
Drupal / CivicSpace Installations:
http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence//x/lQ8
Joomla / Mambo Installations
http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence//x/ixI
Upgrading from 1.4
If you are upgrading an existing 1.4 site (working with a copy of the site-of course), we have provided a database upgrade script.
Instructions for upgrading are here:
Drupal / CivicSpace Upgrade:
http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence//x/Oh8
Joomla / Mambo Upgrade:
http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence//x/lxs
Reporting Issues and Bugs
We look forward to getting your feedback on the release in the coming days. Bugs should be reported via our bug tracking system (linked on
the bottom of every page). Please select v1.5 in the "Fix For" dropdown.
You will need to register as a user - this ensures that we can follow-up with you on your bug reports if necessary. We will be updating the beta tarballs regularly over the next week or so - and we'll announce any major changes or fixes on this list.
We are targeting final release for 1.5 in approximately 2 weeks.
Demo
The demo sites will be updated for v1.5 beta tomorrow so you can explore the new features:
http://demo.civicrm.org/
What's Next
Planning for v1.6 is happening NOW. We've posted a rough "Candidate Features" list on the wiki and look forward to your suggestions and
feedback on that page:
Comments
Incredible functionality!
Wow! I've been playing around at http://demo.civicrm.org/drupal/ and find the functionality simply incredible!!!
Although I won't be fully using CiviCRM for at least a few weeks due to other commitments as well as time constraints, I appreciate all the excellent work done by the wonderful developers to get us to the current beta stage.
Thank you so much and please keep up the excellent work!
Walt Esquivel, MBA; MA; President, Wellness Corps; Captain, USMC (Veteran)
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Walt Esquivel, MBA; MA; President, Wellness Corps; Captain, USMC (Veteran)
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Looks good...
THANKS, development looks really great, may i throw in a few points on the first glance:
seems like USERS and CONTACTS are still two different things - this is an ugly design error, please fix it - do generic PERSON records with FLAGS (1 = user / 0 = not user)
There still does not seem to be a role / group / security model for real life implementations, it´s ok for small groups, but impossible to implement more complex scenarios (like e.g. assign members of group X to Usergroup Y and let all the bosses of group X and Y see also the other records... and so on, stuff like you need in real life)
GOOD that you removed that really ill phplist thingy (if it is really removed - but looks like... doing exec php within an php script was really funny!) of course, it is still not a good idea to let anything else then MAILMAN handle the mailing stuff...
PLEASE do yourself a favour and take at least one or two glances at sugarcrm.com or / and vtiger.com to learn something about modern, usable interface building. Civic is still not really usable with thousands of contact records (import / export / sorting / filtering). Thanks!
All the other stuff is going on quite well!
How about Asterisk integration?
have a nice day,
Future