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The two days of conferences and workshops with Claroline users and experts from more than 7 different countries are now over.

Developers, trainers, administrators as well as training managers and e-learning experts or decision makers could talk and exchange their experience with Claroline for this first event that was a great success.

People who couldn't assist the conference are invited to see the workshop papers and presentations on the Conference website :

The last version of Claroline 1.7 is publicly available.

This new version comprises :

• Fixes for all security holes found recently.
• A new translation, the Czech.
• Improvments of Dutch, Italian and Greek translations.
• A new set of nice layouts including one corporate layout designed by Laurent Colet in the context of an internship at Cerdecam Research Center (Brussels).
• And other minor bug fixes.

For complete details, see the Claroline 1.7.6 Changelog Page.

Download Claroline 1.7.6

We recommend to all administrators to apply the advices for the security of claroline platform.

The complete list of the awaited speakers for the ACCU2006 is now online on the conference website. We are expecting people from various countries to come and share their experiences with Claroline during these 2 promising days of workshops and sessions in Louvain-la-Neuve.

• The call to proposal is now closed, thank you very much to all the Claroline community for the nice suggestions and proposals we received. See the complete program here.
• Final date for the registration is 19th of May, if you did not register to the conference yet, register here.

Several security holes have just been detected in Claroline 1.7.* and 1.6.*

Platform Claroline 1.7.* running PHP in register_globals off or allow_url_fopen off are not vulnerable.

We seriously advise all people using Claroline 1.6 or PHP with register_globals configuration enabled to patch their platform as soon as possible.

More advices on the security of your claroline platform are here.

Download the patches at these addresses :

• Claroline 1.7 : http://www.claroline.net/dlarea/claroline.patch17501.zip
• Claroline 1.6 : http://www.claroline.net/dlarea/claroline.patch16401.zip

How to apply the patch

• Uncompress the zip archive file 'claroline.patch1**01.zip'.
• Copy the 'claroline' directory found inside that archive on the 'claroline' directory already available on your web server.

Folder and poster with the description of the ACCU2006 have been prepared by Laurent Colet from the Cerdecam, for people who would like to promote the event in their own establishment or institution.

While almost all the speakers are found for the ACCU, we are waiting people from Belgium, Canada, France, Greece, Morocco, Spain,... to speak about various experiences in using Claroline.

The final program describing every workshops' speakers will be soon available on the conference website.

• ACCU2006 poster : [FR] [EN]
• ACCU2006 folder : [FR]

The last version of Claroline 1.7 is publicly available. It provides the last exertions of our team to offer you a system more reliable and easy to use than ever.

This new version comprises :

• Fixes for all security holes found recently
• Slovenian translation of the user interface
• Significant Improvement of the "Add User" command inside courses (limiting the risk of duplicate accounts)
• A new set of nice layouts
• And other minor bug fixes
  See the complete change log

Download Claroline 1.7.5

Note. People working with Claroline versions previous to 1.7.* are also able to upgrade their systems : Download Claroline 1.6.4 and 1.5.5

This is not an April fool : a serious security hole has just been been detected in Claroline 1.7.*, 1.6.* and 1.5.* (previous Claroline versions are not affected by these flaws). We seriously advise all people using Claroline 1.7 to patch their platform as soon as possible.

Download the patches at these addresses :

• Claroline 1.7 : http://www.claroline.net/dlarea/claroline.patch17401.zip
• Claroline 1.6 : http://www.claroline.net/dlarea/claroline.patch16301.zip
• Claroline 1.5 : http://www.claroline.net/dlarea/claroline.patch15401.zip

How to apply the patch

• Uncompress the zip archive file 'claroline.patch1**01.zip'.
• Copy the 'claroline' directory found inside that archive on the 'claroline' directory already available on your web server.

Toutes les informations concernant la conférence annuelle des utilisateurs de Claroline (ACCU2006) sont à présent disponibles sur le site de la conférence:

• Inscription
• Hébergement
• Programme

Un appel à contribution est également présent, si vous désirez partager votre expérience avec d'autres, n'hésitez pas à la proposer.

Claroline will be presented at the 'Journée du libre' in Amiens (France) on Saturday 25th of March 2006.

This fourth edition of the event is part of the national annual manifestation "Libre en fête", aiming to promote the use of opensource softwares in any educational, non-lucrative or professionnal context.

This year's conference will focus on the following subjects:

• The use of opensource software in the french national education.
• Presentation of several opensource projects, including Claroline.

Arturo Casar Sarasola, from the Universidade de Vigo recently sent us some news about their amazing online campus.

Based in Spain, the university uses Claroline for now 3 years. Their campus is composed of 403 courses for more than 11.000 users with not less than 165.000 connections since October 2005.

• The Claroline campus at Universidade de Vigo
• Their online help tutorial