to all drupal users on couchsurfing.com, i've set up a new group at http://www.couchsurfing.com/group.html?gid=2376 if your not a couchsurfer, and like to meet or host interesting people you should sign up to this social networking site. so far i've traveled to Geneva and Austin for free... it's so bad @55!
Yes, that's right, we are going to begin alpha testing a hosted CivicSpace service shortly. To say this has been a long time coming is quite the understatement. Three years, 30+ major software releases, thousands of sites, and the shared vision of thousands of supporters have gotten us to where we are today and have (hopefully) prepared us for this next giant leap forward.
After the enormously successful DC Drupal meet-up, myself (Ted Serbinski), Eric Gundersen (Development Seed), and Tim Jones have decided to create a DC Drupal Google group to further faciliate the growing DC Drupal community. If you're interested and are in the DC area, please signup!
www.seodon.com is giving away five free hosting accounts for Drupal users who wish to develop sites with Drupal. These accounts will be given on first come first serve basis. One account per individual.
The free hosting account will come with followings
As you might have experienced, drupal.org was down today for some time. All servers hosted at OSL where our Drupal servers are located, were offline due to a power outage. OSL staff reacted quickly and brought our servers back online. When more news is available it will be posted here. In the meantime, thanks to the staff of OSL for helping to overcome this problem. Mail and CVS services will be restored as soon as possible.
Drupal 4.6.6 is available for download. Drupal 4.6.6 is a maintenance release that fixes problems reported using the bug tracking system, as well as 4 security vulnerabilities (3 less critical and 1 moderately critical) that affect all previous versions of Drupal. Since the vulnerabilities are also present in the Drupal 4.5 series and the last Drupal 4.7.0-beta release, Drupal 4.5.8 and Drupal 4.7.0-beta6 are released as well.
Note: Drupal 4.7RC4 has been released since this announcement.
Upgrading your existing Drupal sites is strongly recommended.
There are no new features in these installments. For more information about the Drupal 4.6.x release series, please consult the Drupal 4.6.0 release announcement.