It's time again for a short update and progress report regarding Community Builder 1.2 Stable process !

We have now fixed all of the reported and identified issues of CB 1.2 RC 2, as well as about as much small issues that we found during tests. We have been testing the results in a first circle of alpha testers, and have just submitted to CB Testteam an internal beta 1 version of last CB 1.2 Release Candidate (internally named 1.2 RC 3 beta 1).

Following that beta, and depending on test-results, we will be issuing a last CB 1.2 RC 3 to doc subscribers here for a last and short tests-round. Our current goal is to have RC 3 ready in stable-quality by begin of October (but once again no promises - to many factors), and CB 1.2 Stable released free 1-2 weeks after.

CB 1.2 RC3 will have a few new features and improvements which will greatly improve the flexibility for user profiles, users-lists, and custom fields input validation. Also a new integer field-type has been added, with corresponding sorting and range-searching facilities. There is another exciting new feature in RC 3 that we will present when RC 3 is available.

At the same time, we have been actively adapting and developing CB team plugins and new modules, to run universally native, and have a few more in development.

There are many new things in the pipeline and very exciting developments in the works. Once again, we would like to thank all those who are supporting these efforts (doc subscribers, third party plugin developers, forum helpers, language translators, etc.) and everyone else patiently waiting for the stable release.

We are updating GroupJive!

About the new version of the component:

Because it is difficult to make a component J1.0 and J1.5 compatible without legacy mode, we decided to port GroupJive onto the Community Builder framework, which Beat, the lead CB developer introduced in the latest Community Builder release version 1.2.

We talked a lot about that and had discussions regarding the pros and cons of dependency on Community Builder. Since GroupJive was already Community Builder dependent, this might not affect many of our users. For others who may desire to install GroupJive without the CB Component: you only need the framework files of CB. We will guide you through how to accomplish this and demonstrate how to install.

Using the CB framework also opens up the possibility for 3rd party developers to write GroupJive plugins just like the plugins for CB.

The current state of the project is:

• We have ported the last GroupJive version onto the CB-framework
  
  
• GroupJive works with J1.0 and J1.5 native and should also work with Mambo (as does the CB Framework)
  
  
• A private test group is testing the component with J1.0 and J1.5 to find bugs associated with porting to the new Framework
  
  
• When we are ready, we will release the new version
  

Sincerely,
Michael aka Stiggi and your Groupjive Team 

Just a quick note to let the community know that the Joomlapolis website is now powered by CB 1.2 RC2! The Joomlapolis website team has been helping out as much as possible to get CB 1.2 to reach stability. In fact, CB 1.2 RC1 was installed on Joomlapolis before it was released to test team and doc subscribers.

In addition to CB 1.2 RC2, Joomlapolis is now PMS powered by uddeIM version 1.2+. Special thank you to Stephan (slabbi) for helping out and doing such a nice job with uddeIM.

We are also in the process of enabling the Yanc newsletter component, to start better communication with our community ... so make sure your newsletter subscriptions (at this time - Joomlapolis Tablet by Aristotele) are enabled in your profiles!

One month after the release of CB 1.2 RC (aka RC1) (read here), the CB Team is proud to announce the release of CB 1.2 RC2 to its documentation subscribers and its supporters.

All identified issues (tracked here) have (hopefully) been fixed and this second release candidate will be closer to stability. As previously stated CB 1.2 RC (previous release candidate) has been installed and is in operation on Joomlapolis and has been performing nicely.

Once again, we would like to thank our supporter and contributors and to ask them to post their feedback, findings, potential bugs, and documentation suggestions to the new forum areas created on Joomlapolis (here). Your feedback is needed in order to reach a stable release as soon as possible.