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Chamilo 1.8.8.4 Released

ywarnier — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 17:20:45 +0000

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 2.1 Aldrin released!

Kariboe — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:10:47 +0000

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

If you want to start using Chamilo 2 in a production environment this is the release you need!
Upgrading from Chamilo 1.8 branch or 2.0 to Chamilo 2.1 Aldrin is not possible at the moment!

Download the new version from here: http://www.chamilo.org/en/download
Check the new features and fixes here: http://support.chamilo.org/projects/chamilo-20/

Demo installation is avaible here: http://c2.chamilo.org/

Let us know what you think about this release on the forum: http://www.chamilo.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=17
We would like to thank all members of the community that helped us creating this release with contributions in development, translations, documentation & testing

Chamilo 1.8.8.2 released!

ywarnier — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 21:33:03 +0000

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.

Chamilo 1.8.8 Alpha released

Noa — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 20:40:35 +0000

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

Chamilo 2.0 "Edison", now available for download!

HansDB — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 13:10:26 +0000

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.

Chamilo 2.0 release candidate, now available for download!

HansDB — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 16:22:07 +0000

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.

Chamilo 2.0 beta 2, now available for download!

HansDB — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 10:56:28 +0000

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

Chamilo 1.8.7.1, Palmas, now available

ywarnier — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 06:00:50 +0000

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.

Chamilo 2.0 beta release, now available for download!

HansDB — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 11:37:45 +0000

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

Chamilo 2.0 alpha release, now available for download!

Noa — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 09:01:32 +0000

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.