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Change is afoot. The company which has been behind Elgg development (Curverider Ltd) for the past 4 years is in the process of being acquired by Thematic Networks - full press release - and the open source Elgg project is moving under the con…

Elgg is social networking–Our community buzzes with discussions from new users, experienced developers, and everyone in between.  To help Elgg as a project grow socially, we’re introducing a new blog feature: Ask Elgg!
Ask Elgg will be a monthly …

Elgg 1.7.5 and 1.6.4 have been released and address two cross site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities.  Network admins are encouraged to upgrade immediately to keep their networks and users safe.
The first vulnerability was reported by Akhilesh&…

For the second year in a row, Elgg Camp Buenos Aires was a great success!  Over 100 Elgg fans got together to learn about Elgg, hack on code, and trade Elgg secrets.  The pictures, slides, and Tweets sounded like everyone had a great time and…

One of the big refactors that we’ve been working on in Elgg 1.8 involves autoloading classes rather than explicitly including them every time the Elgg engine is loaded.  This has two primary intended benefits.
1. Increased code cleanline…

The newest feature that we have added to the Elgg Community site is plugin developer notifications. You can now receive an email whenever one of your favorite developers uploads a new plugin or releases a new version of a plugin.
To use this new feat…

Elgg 1.7.4 has been released!  Download a copy and upgrade today!
Elgg 1.7.4 is mostly a bugfix release, but has two notable new features:

Twitter Services has been upgrade to use oAuth and extended for easier support of 3rd party plugins.  …

We have created some new ways for those who use Elgg to help support core development. Recently launched include: a supporters scheme and services listings. All proceeds raised through these options go straight into two things: core developme…

Web services are offered by many top sites (including Twitter, Facebook, and Elgg-powered Sites) to allow third-party access to that site’s data. Developers can then use the data on their own sites through display widgets, aggregate&nbsp…

Happy birthday Elgg Community!  Two years ago today the first version of the Elgg Community site launched based on Elgg 1.0.  Now at 1.7, Elgg has certainly grown!
To celebrate the 2nd birthday, we’re releasing 1.7.4 beta, complete with excit…

As I mentioned in this blog post, Elgg’s web services API can be used to move data between sites. I recently completed a simple example of this for the Elgg community site and this blog. Both of these sites are running on Elgg, but they are on differen…

Last year I was lucky to be able to attend the first Elgg Camp in Buenos Aires.  It was a great experience and I’m pleased to see Condiminds and Keetup are organizing Elgg Camp BA 2010!
Last year, there was a great turn out of developers, implemen…

Thanks to some serious code refactoring by Cash, we have a new version of the plugins repo running on the community site. This release is mostly code cleanup, standardization, and reorganization, but there are some nice features added and bugs fixed:

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Georg-Christian Pranschke from Sense Post discovered a vulnerability in Elgg that could potentially allow SQL injection attacks using crafted URLs or POSTs. Versions 1.7.3 and 1.6.3 correct this and are highly recommended for all Elgg users.  Dow…

If you’ve been around the community or mailing lists lately, Evan Winslow will need no introduction.
Evan’s the developer of a number of plugins, the most popular of which is Plugin Manager, which streamlines the plugin administration page with a compa…

Elgg 1.7.2 has been released!  Grab it now from the usual place.  As always, be sure to backup your installation and follow the included upgrade instructions of the newer version of Elgg when upgrading.  This upgrade requires an upd…

Just a quick note to give you an update on some of the exciting things going on right now.
We’re busily putting the finishing touches to our hosted service at http://www.elgg.com and will start inviting beta users into the service during June…

Just a quick note to give you an update on some of the exciting things going on right now.
We’re busily putting the finishing touches to our hosted service at http://www.elgg.com and will start inviting beta users into the service during June…

With the recent release of Elgg 1.7.1, Elgg 1.8 building a head of steam and our hosted service at Elgg.com preparing to launch, these are exciting times to be working with Elgg. 
We’re well aware that there are thousands of Elgg-powered net…

With the recent release of Elgg 1.7.1, Elgg 1.8 building a head of steam and our hosted service at Elgg.com preparing to launch, these are exciting times to be working with Elgg. 
We’re well aware that there are thousands of Elgg-powered net…