Elgg.org

A powerful open source social networking engine

Latest Release - January 12th, 2012

Elgg v1.8.3 is the latest and recommended version of Elgg.

Latest 1.7 release - January 20, 2012

Elgg is available under a dual license, GPL Version 2 and the MIT license. However, there are certain third party components that Elgg uses which can't be distributed under an MIT license as they are GPL only. Those components have been removed from the MIT release so make sure you read the readme.txt file!

Download: MIT version

Elgg v1.7.15 includes important bugfixes and security updates.
It is the recommended release if using Elgg 1.7.

Hosting

If you are looking for somewhere to host your Elgg powered network, we are putting together a list of providers who have added Elgg hosting to their services.

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Developer Access

If you're a developer and want the latest code you can grab the latest work in progress through GitHub:

https://github.com/Elgg/elgg


Nightly build

Alternatively, you can grab a nightly build (please do not use this on production sites!):

http://elgg.org/download/nightly/