Brett Profitt just announced the release of Elgg 1.7.4 via the Elgg blogs. While the majority of changes in this release are bugfixes, there are two notable changes in Elgg 1.7.4 related to Twitter and user validation.
Brett writes about the new features:
- Twitter Services has been upgrade to use oAuth and extended for easier support of 3rd party plugins. For users, this means The Wire will post to Twitter again. For developers, this means you can easily integrate Twitter in your plugins. Because of changes to Twitter's API, this requires additional configuration for both the admins and users. This API was originally a 1.8 feature so documentation is still sparse, but watch the blog for a post on how to write plugins that can tweet!
- Added a new admin section to manage unvalidated users. A very common problem for new users on Elgg sites is validating their account through email. To help with this we've added a admin section so admin users can manually validate accounts, delete accounts, or resend the validation links.
The latest version of Elgg is available from Elgg's download page.