It's a little over a year since we launched the 4.2 LTS with the intention being to ensure security patches until at least the end of last year. Those of us who have been involved in or used the 4.2 LTS consider it to have been a success, providing a secure and very reliable release of CiviCRM, therefore saving support time. But we've recently seen a lot of organizations upgrading to 4.4 and the LTS no longer has the critical mass of users and contributors to keep it healthy.
Blog posts by Eileen
I have a few payment processing related projects on the go but having just gotten the first one to alpha stage I thought it would be a good time to share some thoughts (& try to get them straight in my mind). The project I am referring to is developing a Cybersource Secure Acceptance POST payment processor. For this payment processor I had a big challenge and also a big opportunity.
There is a new release here http://sourceforge.net/projects/civicrm/files/civicrm-stable/4.2.18/ - it deals with a regression on contact images introduced in a security patch. If you are having trouble viewing contact images you should upgrade to it.
Once upon a time there was a charity who was a visitor to both the lands of Xero and CiviCRM. This charity liked Xero and wanted contributions created in CiviCRM to be sent to the land of Xero. In the land of Xero these contributions would be called invoices and they would be matched with payments. Upon their return to CiviCRM all would know about their paid status and events would be confirmed and emails would go out and all would be be well.
LTS release 4.2.16 is now on sourceforge. Unfortunately there is an error on some admin pages in 4.2.15 which happened because the porting of the security patch was rushed. Hopefully this won't occur in future. Note the job.create api has also been added to the LTS (this is extra code only - no existing code was altered to port this)
As many of you know Drupal South is on next week in Wellywood. We don't have a big community down under but we are certainly keen to make you feel welcome in NZ
We will be running BOFs over the weekend & catching up for dinner on the Thursday night.
https://civicrm.org/civicrm/event/register?reset=1&id=419
If you are still around on the Monday & Tuesday we might look at a mini sprint. Drop us a line & say hello!
The community of developers and implementers is proud to announce the 4.2.10 LTS release of CiviCRM. LTS stands for "long term support" and the purpose of this release is three fold:
1. To provide bug and security fixes to those who are not ready to upgrade to CiviCRM 4.3 just yet
In New Zealand workplaces it's common to see a sign in the smoko* room saying "Your mother doesn't live here - do your own dishes".
People tend to follow this instruction as longs as:
a) there is not already a pile of dirty dishes next to the sink
b) and they can see where to wash the dishes, and where to put them afterwards.
c) their colleagues aren't setting a bad example.