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CiviCRM 2.2: A Free and Open Source eCRM Solution

We are pleased to announce the latest release of CiviCRM - version 2.2.

Special thanks to the dedicated folks who contributed to this release by testing the beta revisions - and to everyone in the community who provided new ideas, feedback (especially critical feedback), and patches.

CiviCRM is the first Open Source and freely downloadable constituent relationship management solution. CiviCRM is web-based, internationalized, and designed specifically to meet the needs of advocacy, non-profit and non-governmental groups.

New to CiviCRM? Watch a few introductory screencasts and browse our project website.

What's New in 2.2?

We're really excited about all the cool new features and improvements. Check out Dave's blog for some highlights... or the 2.2 Roadmap for a more complete listing.

Check Out these New Features

Joomla! 1.5 and Drupal 6 compatibility (CiviCRM 2.1 is NOT compatible with Drupal 5.x or Joomla! 1.0.x)
Production-ready "standalone" version of CiviCRM (with thanks to U.S. PIRG)
Contribution Pledges (back-office and self-service)
Personal Campaign Pages
CiviCase - Integrated case management component
Multi-language / single site support (with thanks to Google Summer of Code and the Joomla! team)
Contribution, participant and membership export improvements (with thanks to American Friends Service Committee)
FCKEdit and TinyMCE rich text editors
Early-bird (date-based) discounts for events
Dedupe design and scalability improvements

Demo

Test drive CiviCRM on our demo sites:

Download

You can download CiviCRM 2.2.x from our downloads page. Select from the civicrm-stable section. The filenames include the 2.2.x label: civicrm-2.2...... Be sure and download the correct version for your CMS (Drupal or Joomla). As announced previously, CiviCRM 2.2 requires PHP 5. PHP 4 is no longer supported.

New Installations

If you are installing CiviCRM 2.2 from scratch, you can use the installation instructions linked below:

Upgrading to 2.2

If you are upgrading an existing site (working with a copy of the site, of course), we have provided a database upgrade script. Instructions for upgrading are here:

Promoting CiviCRM

You can include a stylish Powered by CiviCRM Badge on your web-site... and of course spread the word to organizations, consultants, friends...

What's Next

We are hard at work on the 2.3 release. You can review and comment on candidate features on the 2.3 Roadmap.

Technical Requirements

CiviCRM is a web-based solution that runs locally on a web server or on a virtual server provided by a hosting service. Installs on local machines should consider using the XAMPP/WAMP stacks which almost painlessly installs Apache/PHP/MySQL.

Apache 2.x
PHP 5.2.1+ (sys_get_temp_dir() is used for CiviMailProcessor.php)
MySQL 5.x with INNODB enabled
Drupal 6.x
Joomla 1.5.x

Note that CiviMail has more sophisticated requirements which are detailed here.

About the Social Source Foundation

The Social Source Foundation is a 501-c-3 nonprofit creating internationalized, open source software of uncompromising quality for the nonprofit and nongovernmental sectors. Social Source Foundation is one of many partners in the creation of the CiviCRM platform, providing primary engineering support for the software.

How Do I Participate in the CiviCRM Project?

Interested parties are encouraged to participate in the development of CiviCRM. Please review the CiviCRM Project One Pager for an overview of the effort. Then take a look at How to Participate.

How Do I Navigate This Wiki?

You can view a full site map as a collapsible tree structure here.

You can view recently updated pages here.

You can also use a 3rd party search engine such as Yahoo or Google and search on CiviCRM + your search terms.