The Xerte project team are very pleased to announce the official release of Xerte 3.10 available from https://xerte.org.uk
A lot of work has gone into this latest release and there are many new features as well as fixes and improvements to existing features. This release also includes some changes to the menu structure in Xerte Online Toolkits.
The Xerte Project warmly invite you to our community event for 2021. This year we will be holding the event online on March 17th and 18th. The last year has seen exponential growth in the use of Xerte across many organisations so save the date now so that you can come and join us for what promises to be a fantastic two-day event for all Xerte users. The event will be free of charge. See further details via https://bit.ly/xerte21
Xerte is now also available in Greek! Thanks to Yannis Kaskamanidis. Check our website for two Greek examples about Christmas (Χριστούγεννα) and about Τα Κοκόζια. Do you want to know which other languages are available? Then check the download part of this website
A major focus of this 3.9 release has been the objective to include an accessibility statement and to automatically include a link to that from any resources created with Xerte, in addition to linking to the statement and included guidance from the the default authoring workspace.
An official accessibility statement is something that has been requested by our community and in terms of all the default functionality we provide in Xerte is not something that is easy to fully assess and accurately report on for individual organisations. In the preparation of the accessibility statement we also undertook to resolve and improve any accessibility issues found in more recent releases, or at least as many of those issues as possible prior to release of the statement and Xerte 3.9.
This release contains some important and essential security updates and we are urging all users to update their installations to the latest code-base as a matter of urgency. This update addresses some potential vulnerabilities that have come to light recently (thank you Rik Lutz and Tom Reijnders!), and we strongly recommend that you update your Xerte installation to the latest code as soon as possible. We recommend that this update is treated as an exception to normal change management schedules and that all Xerte installations, no matter how old, are upgraded to 3.8.5 ASAP.
We are pleased to announce that the next official Xerte conference will be in May 2020 and promises to be the biggest and best to-date! It’s still early days in our preparation and planning but the dates and location are now confirmed and we have further details and also a short survey for those interested in attending and/or presenting available via our Google form at https://forms.gle/wTDJpEqNsCmFjxpRA
Watch our for further news early in the new year via our mailing lists, community site/forums and twitter via #xerte.
Best wishes from everyone involved in the Xerte project.