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The Chamilo Association is pleased to announce the release of a new version: Chamilo 2.1 Aldrin
This new version comes with a special focus on stability & making the software production ready with more than 340 bugs fixed & 250 features requests implemented.

This 2.1 Aldrin release includes a set core packages & optional applications.

Core packages
* Administration 2.1.0
* Group 2.1.0
* Help 2.1.0
* Home 2.1.0
* Installation 2.1.0
* Menu 2.1.0
* Migration 2.1.0
* Reporting 2.1.0
* Repository 2.1.0
* Rights 2.1.0
* Tracking 2.1.0
* User 2.1.0
* Webservice 2.1.0
* Context Linker 2.1.0
* Metadata 2.1.0

Optional packages
* Courses 2.1.0
* Assessment 2.1.0
* Forum 2.1.0
* Personal Calender 2.1.0
* Personal Messenger 2.1.0
* Portfolio 2.1.0
* Wiki 2.1.0
* Profiler 2.1.0
* Reservations 2.1.0
* Search Portal 2.1.0
* CDA 2.1.0

Available languages
* English
* Dutch

Chamilo announces the immediate release of version 1.8.8.4 of its open source LMS. This new version comes with a special focus on stability and a few new features that might be the exact fit to your evolving needs.

Amongst the new features, you will find you can now host a certification center with Chamilo: you can generate certificates with QR codes (mobile phone bar-codes) which will allow anybody to verify the authenticity of a certificate by checking its existence on your online Chamilo campus,from their mobile phone.

Chamilo 1.8.8.2 is out. This is the first completely stable version published since 1.8.7.1 last July 2010, and it was worth the wait!

Alongside a fully-functional certificates printing tool, you will find full-text indexing, mathematical editors, online image editing, online voice generation and voice recording features, PPT importation from 2007 versions of office suites, quizzes scenarization, radiographic exercises, better quizzes preview, copy of quizzes from one course to another, an improved social network and a batch of around 200 other little improvements, that make Chamilo really great to use.

We have just released Chamilo 1.8.8 alpha after a few nights with very little sleep. You can download it here: http://code.google.com/p/chamilo/downloads/detail?name=chamilo-1.8.8-alp...

As its name says, it's an alpha version, meant for easier testing only and viewing pleasure only. Don't use in production! However, if you want to test it for upgrade purposes, please use it on a copy of a current installation and let us know what you think here: http://support.chamilo.org/projects/chamilo-18/issues/new

The history of Chamilo 2.0 can be traced back all the way to 2000 and the Claroline  project. Based on their own experiences and specific needs involving e-learning, the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL) started developing a new open-source learning management system, which soon attracted many other interested parties.

By early 2004 a split occurred in the Claroline community and the D0ke0s project was started which built upon Claroline’s foundations and focused on ease of use. After the initial launch, the new LMS is gradually adopted by institutions like Hogeschool Gent, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Universiteit Gent and Erasmushogeschool Brussel (EhB).

Over the years Hogeschool Gent, joined by Erasmus and VUB, started developing the concept of “2.0” as the next logical step in e-learning. Over the years numerous other institutions joined us as well. In early 2010 the entire 2.0 team, together with the majority of the people involved with the legacy 1.8 branch, decided to start a new project called Chamilo.

Goal was to make Chamilo 100% open source (GPLv3) and to start an association which controlled the trademark and was open to all stakeholders. Chamilo as a project was launched on January 18, 2010 with the Chamilo Association being formally launched as a non-profit organization in June 2010.

Saying that Chamilo 2.0 is different from Chamilo 1.x would be a serious understatement, as the 2.0 branch is following a radically different path from the legacy project.

A little after a month of the release of the second Chamilo 2.0 beta the entire development team and community proudly present the Chamilo 2.0 Release Candidate. As we get ever closer to our final release, in this past month, we have been focusing on tackling some final structural problems, translations, additional external repository managers and many small (and not so small) fixes in terms of bugs, usability, layout and mini-features.

Highlights of this release candidate:

• Introduction of namespaces and move to PHP 5.3
• Optimization of the Chamilo file structure
  
• Even more external repository managers: Soundcloud, Vimeo, Photobucket, etc.
• Serious performance improvements
• Various fixes for visual inconsistencies
• Countless bugfixes and other small improvements

Download the release candidate now from our download page.

It's been a few months since the release of the first Chamilo 2.0 beta and the feedback so far has been great. We're really pleased to see that the beta package was downloaded over 950 times. The release of the beta also provided us with a wealth of valuable feedback and bug reports. Tons of bugs were fixed and some new functionality was added. So after a few months more of intensive programming, a few more Chamilo "code sprints" and several meetings, the Chamilo 2.0 development team and the entire Chamilo Community are very pleased to announce the release of Chamilo 2.0 beta 2! Another small step towards the final release of Chamilo 2.0: the world's best e-learning and collaboration software.

Highlights of this second beta release:

• Completely reworked migration
• External repository managers: YouTube, MediaMosa, Flickr, GoogleDocs, etc.
• Improved rights management to facilitate, among others, sharing of content objects
• Lots of refactoring, improving stability and reusability of key components and applications
• Countless bugfixes

...and much more.

Download it now from our download page or try it on http://beta.chamilo.org

Just two months after the release of Chamilo 1.8.7, we're making version 1.8.7.1 available for download. It is a minor update, which includes fixes to potential security flaws as well as a few interesting new features, and is very easy to update or install. Please make sure you upgrade your server as soon as possible if you have a previous version of Chamilo. Download it from here.

Chamilo 1.8.7.1 has been named Palmas after the very recent and rapidly growing city of Palmas, Brazil, in which a few of the people in charge of the Brazilian Portuguese translation are located.

This version is a minor version, which means it doesn't implement important new features, but rather focuses on stabilizing the existing ones. However, we managed to slip a few new features inside, like:

• Added shuffling to multiple answers
• Added simple document search feature
• Enabled PDF export for HTML documents
• Added simple social network link featurei (LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, ...) and short URL feature for users profile
• Added e-mail notification on wiki updates
• Added ASCIIMathML for mathematical formulas edition
• Improved SCORM 1.2 tracking
• Re-enabled course tutor role: a student can be tutor and help the teacher
• Adding an assignment to the calendar is now done by hand out date instead of creation date
• General improvements in gradebook tool and file manager

If you are worried about loosing data during the upgrade, please ask on our forum or to an official provider near you.

After a few weeks of intensive programming, a Chamilo "code sprint" and several meetings, the Chamilo 2.0 development team and the entire Chamilo Community are very pleased to announce the release of 2.0 beta of Chamilo! It's one (relatively) small step for our development team, but a major step towards the final release of Chamilo 2.0: the world's best e-learning and collaboration software.

Highlights of this beta release:

• The tools architecture of the courses application was rewritten from scratch
• A new "streaming" tool
• Different views for course tools (list, table, calendar, gallery, slideshow, ...)
• Visual cleanup of several components and applications
• Lots of refactoring, improving stability and reusability of key components and applications
• Countless bugfixes

...and much more.

Download it now from our download page or try it on http://beta.chamilo.org

The Chamilo 2.0 development team and the entire Chamilo Community is very pleased to announce the release of 2.0 alpha of Chamilo! This is a major new step in the process of releasing world's best e-learning and collaboration software.

• completely rewritten from scratch with latest development techniques
• a central object repository for each user
• no more duplication of user data
• a rich set of optional applications available (personal messenger, e-portfolio, gradebook, ..)

...and much more.