CiviCRM 2.0: A Free and Open Source eCRM Solution
We are pleased to announce the latest release of CiviCRM - version 2.0.
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 2.0?
Along with many new features, this release introduces deep schema changes which improve database-related efficiency of many CiviCRM installs. You can view Release Highlights here.
If you are interested in using CiviMail, but are concerned about the technical complexity of installing and maintaining the required packages, we encourage you to check out the new CiviSMTP service. This service allows you to use all the features of CiviMail from your own CiviCRM installation - but handles delivery, bounce and reply handling, as well as related technical and administrative tasks for you.
Check Out these New Features
- CiviContribute Widgets - Allow you and your supporters to easily promote a fund-raising campaign. Widget code can be added to any web page and provides a real-time display of current contribution results along with a direct link to the contribution form.
- Tell a Friend - Encourage contributors and event participants to spread the word.
- Custom Searches - Developers and accidental techies with a bit of PHP and SQL knowledge can create new search forms to handle specific search and reporting needs. Find Contributors by Aggregate Totals is a simple example of what you can do.
Demo
Test drive CiviCRM on our demo sites: Drupal and Joomla.
Download
You can download CiviCRM 2.0 from our downloads page. Select from the civicrm-stable section. The filenames include the 2.0 label: civicrm-2.0..... Be sure and download the correct version for your CMS (Drupal or Joomla). As announced previously, CiviCRM 2.0 requires PHP 5. PHP 4 is no longer supported.
New Installations
If you are installing CiviCRM 2.0 from scratch, you can use the installation instructions linked below:
Upgrading from 1.9
If you are upgrading an existing 1.9 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 2.1 release. You can review and comment on candidate features on the 2.1 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 1.3+ or 2+
- PHP 5
- MySQL 5
- Drupal 5
- Joomla 1.0
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.
