En/Release Notes/1.0.0alpha1

Released: 22 January 2008

*** THERE IS NO UPGRADE PATH TO THIS RELEASE ***

You MUST install this from scratch, upgrading from trunk or from 0.9 stable is NOT supported.

This is a preview release of Mahara 1.0 Alomohora. Things will be broken! Please do not file bug reports, but we are interested to hear your feedback on the new features, through #mahara on freenode, e-mail to dev@mahara.org or the forums on eduforge.

This release includes:

• Forums for groups
• Usability work, consisting of:
  • A new sideblock, containing information about the user
  • Reworked groups pages, making it easier to find your groups and search for new groups to join
• Institutional Administrators
  • Administrators that can handle the day-to-day activities of running an institution, such as user management, taking the load off of the site administrator.

As mentioned, there is no supported upgrade path. Attempting to upgrade an existing Mahara will result in a broken system, so do not try this yet.