My profound apologies for the even longer delay on this release — believe me, I felt it when putting together the changelog for it — but I’m elated to announce that Phergie 2.0.3 is now available. You can read about the many bug fixes and exciting new additions in this release on the Changelog page. With this release, we’ll be attempting to replace the dated Phergie 1.x installation running on the Freenode network with this new 2.x release. Once again, our thanks go out to all of our users and contributors for their help in making the Phergie project a continued success!

You’ll notice that this web site now has a Changelog page, where you can view all information pertaining to our first maintenance release, 2.0.1.

In a nutshell, we had a few small feature additions, several bug fixes, and a large design issue that resulted in a few BC-breaking changes to fix something that was already broken and hopefully won’t affect many plugins. Many thanks go out to people who have reported bugs and submitted patches; this project would not be what it is without your support.

On a related note, API documentation for the core is now available both online and in PEAR package form. A link to the online version and instructions to install a local copy via the Pirum server are both included on the Developers page.

Lastly, as you may have noticed from the logo in the right column of this web site, the Phergie project has been invited to participate in the new PHPWomen Partnership Program. We welcome any and all PHPWomen members who would like to participate in the Phergie project to join the #phergie channel on the Freenode IRC network, pick one of our many issue reports, and start working with us to improve Phergie!

Up until recently, the main web site for this project was constituted entirely by its Trac wiki on Assembla. Among other efforts going into the project’s next major version, it was decided that it should have a web site with a bit more substance.

This new site will be used to announce future releases and showcase new plugins and other related content contributed by the community. It will also house pages for user and developer documentation.

In addition to the web site, version control and issue tracking have been migrated from Subversion and Trac on Assembla to Git and Github Issues on Github. We’re hoping this will make contributing to the project even easier.

Note that not all plugins from the 1.x branch have been ported yet, only those essential for basic functionality. We hope that you’ll join us in the effort to complete this conversion by consulting the issue tracker to see what remains to be done, forking the new git repository, committing patches and additions, and submitting pull requests so we can import your work into the main repository.

We look forward to seeing what you do with Phergie 2.0!