On Friday we released the second beta of Open Atrium at OpenAtruim.com. This release includes a number of bug fixes, upgrades to contributed modules from Drupal.org, and a revamped multilingual installer.

The improvements to Open Atrium’s installer is the highlight of the new release. The initial release of Open Atrium included two translations – Spanish and Arabic. This time we’ve been able to include many more languages because of work done on Open Atrium’s install profile. The installer now downloads the latest available translation from Open Atrium’s translation server, translate.openatrium.com, as you install it. So now whenever you install Open Atrium, you’ll always get the most complete translation available.

Since we launched the translation server, there has been an incredible response from people volunteering to help translate Open Atrium. We’re now working with a community of translators to make Open Atrium available in more than 20 languages.

A more complete summary of the changes is available in the release notes, and the complete commit history can be seen on github.

Since our first release, more that 300 feature requests, bug reports, questions, and suggestions have been posted to Open Atrium’s issue tracker. For our next release, we’ll focus on addressing the bugs and usability improvements reported there. Specifically, we plan to make on the install process more robust and iron out the kinks identified by people who are using Open Atrium on a daily basis in their organizations.

More information and the beta release is available at OpenAtrium.com. Open Atrium’s code base and issue tracker are hosted on github, and you can chat with us on IRC in #open_atrium on freenode.net