It’s finally here.

After months of hard work from the Ushahidi ninjas, version 2.7 of the Ushahidi platform, dubbed Bamako has been released. It’s quite a huge upgrade, inclusive of some security patches.

Review the github issues tagged to the 2.7 milestone

2.7 Includes the following updates:

• Use OAuth to grab twitter feeds - This is to comply with the new twitter api changes 
• Theming changes - A few things here include handling all css and js through one library, split out the main css i.e themes/default/css/style.css and also added theme inheritance and css/js overriding
• Revamped reports upload and download  - this includes support for upload/download of reports via xml format
• More fixes on custom forms
• Better XSS protection through the use of HTMLPurifier library
• API fixes
• Optimization including the scheduler

IMPORTANT! : TWITTER UPDATES FOR ALL USERS, including Crowdmap users.

Twitter recently made changes to their API. This means that all users(inclusive of crowdmap) need to adjust their twitter settings on their deployments. You can find detailed instructions on how to do so on our wiki.

The security patch details are available on our wiki.

A list of compatible plugins should also be available on the wiki.

Upgrading Ushahidi

For crowdmap users, Brian and Evan already have all your deployments upgraded for you J.

Here are some upgrade scripts you can make use of:-

• 2.6.1 - 2.7
• 2.6 - 2.7
• 2.5 - 2.7
• 2.4.1 - 2.7
• Full 2.7 build

Go on, grab this baby and give the fixes and features of 2.7 a go .We will schedule an upgrade day soon to help you get on the latest code.

Thank you

Many hands made this release possible. We'd like to thank all of you who helped out with testing and following up on github tickets, as well as our amazing Translation community for their great efforts.

A special shout out goes to Neil Horning and Himalayantechies for all their work on the alerts issue, and Robb Driscoll for security feedback. Your work is greatly appreciated and will go a long way in helping our community.

Have a great week :)!

Angela Oduor.

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