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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Hi John<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>on behalf of the development team thanks for your comments. Indeed while we were developing and testing v3 we all concluded that we almost hated going back to 2.1 because the benefits and flexibility of v3 were so obvious and so powerful.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Although in his message to the Xerte lists Julian has described addressing a number of small issues and mentioned a couple of new contributors, actually we have also added a few key new features the most important of which in my mind is the ability to make all text in the main interactive template responsive. There are a couple of new page types since the v3 release too.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>If you're using Xerte encourage those who look after your installation to apply the update.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Season's greetings and best wishes.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Ron<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk] <b>On Behalf Of </b>John Bijnens<br><b>Sent:</b> 17 December 2015 17:38<br><b>To:</b> xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk<br><b>Subject:</b> [Xerte] Re: Xerte Online Toolkits v3.1<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Thank you very very very much for the new version 3.1 of Xerte Online Toolkits.<br>I must admit I was a little skeptic about what advantages 3.0 would bring over 2.x so my expectations weren't that high when I installed 3.0 on my server. Oh man was I proven wrong. 3.0 turned out to be a great and fantastic version with an unexpected increase in productivity. <br>I would like to thank everyone involved with the development of XOT. You all did a fantastic job.<br><br>I would also like to wish everyone a merry Christmas and a happy new year. May 2016 bring everything everyone needs and even more.<br><br>Best regards,<br><br> John Bijnens<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 17/12/2015 12:10, Julian Tenney wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal>Hi,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The Xerte Project’s community of developers is proud to announce that version 3.1 of Xerte Online Toolkits is now available for download from the community site at <a href="http://www.xerte.org.uk">http://www.xerte.org.uk</a>. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Version 3.1 is an incremental update that addresses a number of small issues that surfaced following the release of v3.0 back in the summer: in particular thanks to Len Johnson for his work on improving the installer, and to John Horne at Plymouth for sending through a number of fixes and patches. As always we’d recommend users upgrade their installations to the latest code.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>This has been an incredible year for The Xerte Project: we’ve joined the Apereo Foundation and the Open Source Initiative, and firmly established the software as a viable and sustainable open source project; we’ve released version 3.0 with significant enhancements to the editor and several new templates, and we’ve seen our community of users and developers continue to grow. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thank you to everyone who has contributed to the project this year, and to everyone out there I wish you a very merry Christmas,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Julian<o:p></o:p></p><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>and may contain confidential information. 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