The first beta of version 1.2 of the Community Builder suite was released to the CB test team on January 1^st, 2008. Yes, it was a new year’s surprise for the test team members. Since then a lot of things have happened.

CB 1.2 beta 2 (Jan. 19, 2008), CB 1.2 beta 3 (Jan. 30, 2008), CB 1.2 beta 4 (Feb. 2, 2008) and currently at CB 1.2 beta 5 (since Feb. 9, 2008).

The CMS environments have also been rapidly changing. After the release of Mambo 4.6.3 (by the Mambo team) in December 2007 the Joomla team released version 1.5 of its CMS (Jan. 22, 2008), followed by 1.5.1 (Feb. 9, 2008), Joomla 1.0.14 (Feb. 11, 2008) and Joomla 1.0.15 (Feb. 22, 2008).

These multiple consecutive releases of practically 3 different CMS environments really challenged the CB teams (developers and testers). The strategy of the CB team has been to support all flavors of the Joomla and Mambo releases for as long as possible. This simple statement has been the CB Team’s commitment to its community.

For those of us that have been (patiently) following the progress of the CB Subscriptions plugin, the CB Team would like to inform you that the plugin is currently in alpha testing and we are gearing up for the first beta test phase.

We have created a special forum area about this plugin and have already announced a beta testing phase and are requesting experienced users to assist us in this effort. For more information please read the forum post here.

The CB subscriptions plugin is a paid membership management system built around CB and Joomla/Mambo. It currently supports Paypal, Authorize.Net and Yellowpay and has a ton of features!