Upcoming Events
August CiviCRM Meetup - San Francisco
August 4th, 2009
This is the second Bay Area CiviCRM Meetup. Come meet others from the Bay Area (more...)
August CiviCRM Meetup - New York
August 6th, 2009
This is the second New York CiviCRM Meetup. Come meet others from the New York (more...)
2.1 Alpha 4 Available
- Not Just a Contact Database
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These optional components give you more power to connect and engage your supporters.

civiCONTRIBUTE
Online fundraising and donor management.

civiEVENT
Online event registration and participant tracking.

civiMEMBER
Online signup and membership management.

civiMAIL
Personalized email blasts and newsletters.
The fourth (and probably final) 2.1 Alpha distribution is now available for download. We've gotten a decent amount of feedback from our community testers and reviewers - and have addressed almost all reported bugs as well as quite a few improvement suggestions.
If you haven't spent any time with 2.1 yet - seriously consider downloading and trying out the upgrade - as well as any and all of the new features you're looking forward too. It's a wise investment. Time spent now will help prevent frustration and hair-pulling down the road. As we get closer to stable release, we are less likely to fix non-critical bugs or implement even minor improvement suggestions - so getting your hands dirty now means you're more likely to be really happy with the release. AND, the team is much more likely to provide extra help with upgrades to folks who have participated in the release review and testing process.
Download or test out the release on the 2.1 Sandbox NOW!
NOTE: If you're already running an earlier 2.1 Alpha, you will need to install (or upgrade a 2.0.x site) from scratch - there is no upgrade path from earlier alpha versions.
Reporting Issues and Bugs
If you have questions installing, upgrading and / or using 2.1 features - or you're seeing a problem and you're not sure if it's a bug - please post your issue to the 2.1 release testing section of the community forums. Include as many specifics as possible about the issue or question.
Bugs should be reported via our issue tracking system. Please select 2.1 in the ‘Affects Version’ dropdown. You will need to register as a user – this ensures that we can follow-up with you on your bug reports if necessary. Please ensure that the bug you’ve found is not reported already by checking the open issues listing.






Comments
Nice to See this Moving Along
Glad to see that there aren't a lot of open issues, so it sounds like you're on schedule for 9/3 Beta release. Just a question about the process, are there usually many DB changes once it reaches Beta, and if there is one is an upgrade path provided?
tc
In general no upgrade changes after beta release ...
In our past few releases, we've not made any significant db changes after beta. There were a couple of upgrade related db changes with 2.0 and we published a "fix" for some of them. I dont expect any major changes in the db now. We will provide patch files for beta db changes, but no automated upgrade path within beta releases
lobo
What for svn users ?
Is there something to update at the db level ?
X+
We do not track db changes during alpha releases ...
most of us just recreate the database on a regular basis and hence ensure we get the latest schema. yes this is not a great scenario, but unfortunately its reality for now :(
lobo