Elgg 1.7 was released this week. Elgg is an open source social platform and is made for individuals, groups and institutions to create their own fully-featured social environment. This new version of Elgg introduces some new features but much of the development time was spent improving the core API to make Elgg a stable platform for future development.
Some of the significant changes in Elgg 1.7 include:
- Proper UTF8 support in the database -- This allows developers to use MySQL's native string functions in queries
- A new data directories layout to work with standard filesystems
- Full-text search
- A new core API for retrieving entities
- A functional REST API
- Unit tests
Elgg 1.7 is available at Elgg.org on their download page.