The Next Generation Community Builder 2.0.0 was released 4 months ago. Since then we have been working on many fronts to reaffirm operational robustness and security, to increase our add-ons compatibility level and to help our worldwide users discover and take advantage of the tremendous flexibility offered in this new social networking platform. So we can with confidence state that:
It is time for everyone to fully embrace the Next Generation Community Builder 2.0.
During these past months we have made:
- 5 point releases of CB - we are now at Community Builder 2.0.5 (CB 2.0.6 is in progress)
- 11 previously commercial add-ons were rewritten and released as part of the Free Community Builder
- 21 add-ons have been completely rewritten/updated for CB 2.0 compatibility and over 30 maintenance releases for these have been issued
- our 4 Joomla templates have been upgraded for CB 2.0 compatibility and now use bootstrap
- CBSubs 4.0 RC1 is available for CB 2.0 (and CBSubs 4.0 stable is almost ready)
- A new awesome CB Gallery is in progress and is almost ready for release
In addition to the above we have:
- been releasing nightly builds with work in progress fixes for our major projects (CB, CBSubs, CB Auto Actions)
- established a new Language area on Joomlapolis and Transifex for CB and our add-ons and we are pushing new language plugins every week
- compiled over 50 video tutorials with hands-on simple explanations to help users quickly take advantage of CB 2.0 and key add-ons.
What's left is:
- the new CB 2.0 Primer documentation in the form of a PDF document (50% done)
- new CB Gallery 2.0 (in progress)
- new CB Activity 3.0 (to start right after CB Gallery release)
- new CB GroupJive 3.0 (complete rewrite in progress)
- CBSubs GPL 4.0 stable release (in progress)
You can get started with the existing versions that continue to function just fine on CB 2.0 and just easily upgrade to the latest releases when they are available.
There is no reason to wait for these last in progress releases. Community Builder 2.0.5 is very stable and fully compatible with the latest Joomla 3.3.6 (and upcoming Joomla 3.4) and very easy to upgrade from previous CB 1.9.1 installations. Therefore, all our maintenance efforts will be focused entirely on the CB 2.0 series.
