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# Elgg 1.5
- URL: https://werd.io/elgg-15/
- Published: 2009-03-13T17:12:54.000Z
- Updated: 2025-06-12T11:00:56.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: Elgg, #ben-684a32da145d7d001be71dae, elgg 1.5, microblogging, notifications, social networking, #Migrated-1749693130536, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-06-11 21:52

[![](http://elgg.org/images/grouped_screenshots.gif)](http://elgg.org/)

[Elgg 1.5 was released today](http://elgg.org/). There's [an official post over at news.elgg.org](http://news.elgg.org/pg/blog/Dave/read/67/elgg-v15-is-now-available), but I wanted to make a note of it here too. This is the longest we've taken over a release since 1.0, and there are almost eight hundred significant engine changes since the previous version. More than one person has remarked to me (while testing the release candidates) that it feels more like a version 2.0.

Marcus [points out](http://www.marcus-povey.co.uk/2009/03/13/elgg-15-released/):

> Elgg 1.5 has loads of new functionality - both visible and under the hood. There’s a brand new theme and dashboard, groups are more powerful, and the whole core has been made much much much faster.

The notifications engine is another feature worth highlighting: you can subscribe to the content produced by any of your friends, or any group you're a member of, and have it delivered using the method of your choice. Out of the box that might be email or internal messaging, but developers can add new notification methods, and Curverider offers a commercial SMS service.

This release makes Elgg particularly suitable for professional social networking, and pushes the software well ahead in its field. And there's more to come.

See [the official Elgg site](http://elgg.org/) to download the software or read more.