ExpressionEngine 2.1 released.

Late this evening (US EDT), EllisLab unwrapped a brand new site design and ended the 7 month EE 2 public beta.

Yes, you read that correctly. EE 2 is now in its final release form and ready for you. A lot of you have been using EE 2 since the public beta, so what’s different now?

There is a long list of changes including a lot of bug fixes but also some notable changes like:

• PHP 4 support is deprecated
• Removed deprecated Display class
• Added two variables to the Simple Commerce Module ($debug_incoming_ipn, $debug_email_address) to allow debugging of the incoming IPN data.

and a lot more.

The new website sports an updated design and a new Community page, which is dedicated to making sure people new to EE get the information on what is available to them in our vibrant community.

In addition to the new site and the final release, there is also a brand new forum with a clean slate and geared towards supporting the new EE 2. Don’t worry, the old forums are still intact but they’re just archived and in a read-only mode.

Read Leslie Camacho’s entire release announcement for yourself: ExpressionEngine 2.1 Released!