rdiaztushman wrote:

Great Job!! One quick question: I'm about to become a subscriber for documentation, but before I do, I want to confirm or squash one rumor i've heard -- is any of the code of CB now going to be encrypted?

Thanks in advance for answering!

Where did you hear such wrong rumors ?! Please react there and squash that false rumor ! : CB is a community project, and is open source. There is no reason to encrypt CB, which is an open-source software ! We just want to give a special big "Thank You" to our supporters, which made it possible to spend more than "just" our free time on CB , by giving them earlier access (with of course full CB sources).

To fully clarify, I'm not speaking here of commercial extensions, but of Community Builder itself, and of the free open-source add-ons from the CB Team.

Lots of extensions already exist around CB 1.1, both free and commercial, both source-form and encoded ones. Most will continue to be running just fine on CB 1.2, as great care has been taken for backwards API compatibility.

CB 1.2 is a big release, the new features are only the tip of the iceberg (new engine inside CB ). It is also one of the two big milestone that we have planed for CB 2.0, which will become something really nice for community websites, later this year.

I would like to add something here: CB is open-minded. We have always encouraged developers to not hack CB, but to develop plugins (we have been extending the API whenever asked by a developer), so that integrations can be made easily, and without hassle for the user. We encourage cooperation instead of hacks, wherever whenever possible

With CB 1.2, developers (all official 3pd CB developers are part of CB testteam and have access to CB 1.2 beta releases ) are getting a new API for custom-type fields, and many new "community" events, triggered by CB, so that almost anything can be made with CB with clean plugins, and without hacking the core.

Isn't that all what's nice about open-source, cooperation ?

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To reply on SMF integration question, it's not part of core CB 1.2., but there is CB plugin alpha available from SMF which works fine on CB in Mambo environments, together with the Mambo bridge from SMF and keeps CB and SMF profiles nicely synchronized. This plugin and bridge doesn't run on Joomla. Currently, this SMF CB plugin supports only registration with the CB registration, login and logout with the CB login module. If you want to discuss about SMF integration, please open a separate forum topic.

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I would like to give another special big Thank you to all who are subscribing these days, and posting really nice and encouraging messages, we are seeing them, reading them, and it's really really nice.

Releasing CB 1.2 final beta 8 to testteam (and upgrading this site with it part of that last test) and releasing shortly thereafter 1.2 RC to the doc subscribers here is our very next highest prirority, so there will be no demo sites or lots of marketing efforts, just basic hard work.

Now, that the above is clarified, back to work on CB 1.2 to fix the 36 remaining identified bugs It's one of the most exciting times in CB history