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CiviCRM events

Lots of great London based CiviCRM stuff coming up so thought we’d give you a heads up so you can get the dates in your diaries now.

CiviCRM is the market leading open source CRM application for the Third Sector. Robust and reliable, our hosting plans fully support both small and large CiviCRM deployments.

1. Meetups!

First off, the dates for the next two meetups are confirmed:

May Meetup: Wed 28th May – Register here

July Meetup: Wed 30th July – Register here

Both will be @ Compucorp in Shoreditch, London and start at 6pm.

Agenda

The meetups are designed for those looking to find out more about CiviCRM or considering it for their organisation. There is always a mix of experience levels represented and are a great forum for asking your questions or meeting current users, implementors or developers who can help with your project.

We’ll be following the usual format with an introduction to CiviCRM and one of the main CiviCRM modules followed by some other follow up sessions and whats new in the Civi world.

2. CiviCON!

Then the big one… the annual 2 day CiviCRM European conference held in London. Get your tickets now for earlybird discounts:

CiviCON London: Thurs 25th and Fri 26th Sept – Register here 

CiviCon London 2013
CiviCon London 2013

The full CiviCON website will be up shortly with details of sessions and speakers.

There will also be London based training before CiviCON:

London user and administrator training: Tuesday 23rd and Wed 24th Sept – Register here  

And the unmissable after conference sprint in the beautiful Derbyshire village of Edale:

Edale After CiviCON sprint: September 28th to October 4th – Register here

Look forward to seeing you there!

Technical

CMS Updates

Updates for Joomla and WordPress users.

Today, WordPress 3.9 was released.

New features include:

  • Drag and drop images right into the editor.
  • Images formatted as galleries now show up in the editor.
  • Audio and Video Playlists.
  • Improvements to Widget editor and Themes with previews

wp-newThe built in updater will NOT upgrade your WordPress site automatically, this only works within the same point release. Contact 2020Media if you’d like us to backup, upgrade and test your site, or for just £12 let us do this for you for an entire year. See www.2020media.com/managedwp for details.

Joomla 3.3 is just around the corner.

An important change is that the minimum supported version of PHP will be PHP 5.3.10. Users who are unable to update to 3.3 due to the new PHP requirements are able to use the one click-click update, once they can update to PHP 5.3.10. You can quickly check this from your Joomla System – System information menu – last PHP Information tab.

The main features/changes of Joomla 3.3 are:

  • PHP 5.3.10 and above is now required
  • stronger password hashing storage
  • microdata implementation for Joomla content opens the door to better search engine experience
  • Replaces MooTools based JavaScript with jQuery equivalents
  • new cloud storage API

Read more on the changes at the Joomla Community site.

Technical

Joomla News

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There’s a new Joomla version out – one reason to upgrade is the old version has a cross-site scripting vulnerability.

  • Version affected 2.5.14 and earlier 2.5.x versions. 3.1.5 and earlier 3.x versions.
  • Vulnerability: Inadequate filtering leads to XSS vulnerability in com_contact.

The other reason to upgrade is that Joomla 3.2 has a host of exciting new features. Here’s one of those trendy infographics to give you the details

Joomla 3.2 – 10 new features – An infographic by the team at JoomlArt.com

Technical

Tomcat 8 now available in Beta

tomcatThe Apache Tomcat Project is proud to announce the next release candidate for Apache Tomcat 8 – 8.0.0-RC3 (alpha). Tomcat 8 is aligned with Java EE 7. In addition to supporting updated versions of the Java EE specifications, Tomcat 8 includes a number of improvements compared to Tomcat 7. The notable changes include:

  • Support for Java Servlet 3.1, JavaServer Pages 2.3, Java Unified Expression Language 3.0 and Java WebSocket 1.0.
  • The default connector implementation is now the Java non-blocking implementation (NIO) for both HTTP and AJP.
  • A new resources implementation that replaces Aliases, VirtualLoader, VirtualDirContext, JAR resources and external repositories with a single, consistent approach for configuring additional web application resources. The new resources implementation can also be used to implement overlays (using a master WAR as the basis for multiple web applications that each have their own customizations).

Apache Tomcat 8.0.0-RC3 includes numerous fixes for issues identified in RC1 as well as a number of other enhancements and changes. The notable changes since RC1 include:

  • Switch to UFT-8 by default for connectors and example web applications.
  • Switch to the asynchronous logger and one line formatter by default.
  • Add Servlet 3.1 non-blocking IO support to the AJP connectors.

Full details of these changes, and all the other changes, are available in the Tomcat 8 changelog.

The purpose of this release candidate is to give users an opportunity to test Tomcat 8 and provide feedback to the Tomcat community. It has been given an alpha status which means that it is not judged as being ready for production usage. The implementations of the 4 Java EE 7 specifications are all complete but there is some internal refactoring to be completed before the alpha label is removed.

Download the Release Candidate | Get Tomcat Hosting

Technical

Attention Joomla and WordPress users

Two updates within 24 hours.

1. Joomla users should check what version they are using and download and install the latest patch.

Joomla! version 2.5.13 and earlier 2.5.x versions; and version 3.1.4 and earlier 3.x versions has been declared vulnerable to Inadequate filtering leads to the ability to bypass file type upload restrictions. This basically means if you have a upload box on your site, hackers can use it to upload malicious code to your hosting space.

The solution is to upgrade today to the newest Joomla version, Upgrade to version 2.5.14 or 3.1.5 depending on which release you are on.

2. WordPress has released a new version, which fixes 700 bugs and includes a brand new template. The new version is 3.6 and all users are advised to upgrade.

2020Media strongly recommends users make a backup before doing an upgrade. We are also happy to do upgrade for customers on request, free of charge.