Hi all and happy 2013,

2012 saw the start of an ambitious rebuild of the Ushahidi Platform dubbed 3.0. Major strides were taken including the definition of user personas, design wireframes and mockups, defining a database schema and beginning building of the API .

Some of the key reasons for building 3.0 included taking the platform back to the users to allow for more varied use cases, workflows and most importantly: a more scalable and user friendly platform.

In order to deliver on the above, this means a few compromises have to be made on the current version (2.x) of the platform. Today, we are announcing a “Feature Freeze” meaning we shall not be building any new features on 2.x. Don't worry, we will continue to support 2.x with bug fixes, security updates and some pending feature requests. We would like to double our efforts on delivering a solid 3.0 platform so we are focusing our resources there.

Note: You can submit a pull request for a feature you have built and feel should be bundled into the platform.

In addition, this does not mean that the 163 feature requests posted on our github issues page are ignored! We are tagging some of them as “3.0 candidates” for referral during the 3.0 build out, as some of these are actually what 3.0 is all about.

We shall be putting up the complete list of features that will make it to 3.0 on the wiki and share the link within the next few weeks.

Here are the important dates to note as we prepare transition from 2.x to 3.0:

Sep 30th 2013 – End of bug fixes/support for Ushahidi 2.x

Dec 30th 2013 – End of security fixes/support for Ushahidi 2.x