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Vtiger CRM 5.1.0 is released - Major milestone!

July 22nd, 2009 by Asha

We are glad to announce the release of vtiger 5.1.0 today! This release addresses around 150+ features/enhancements, 700 bug fixes besides performance improvements. We are hopeful that you will like the new release.

Following are some of the important features added:

Thank you for all your patience and support in making this a big release.

Release Notes is available here.

Download links are given below:

* vtiger CRM 5.1.0 Exe Installer - Bundled with MySQL, Apache, PHP and vtiger CRM Source (Windows standalone installer)
* vtiger CRM 5.1.0 Bin Installer - Bundled with MySQL, Apache, PHP and vtiger CRM Source (*nix standalone installer)
* vtiger CRM 5.1.0 Source .tar.gz - vtiger CRM Source (Platform-independent)
* vtiger CRM 5.0.x to 5.1.0 Patch
* vtiger CRM 5.1.0 Firefox plugin
* vtiger CRM 5.1.0 Outlook plugin
* vtiger CRM 5.1.0 Thunderbird plugin
* vtiger CRM 5.1.0 Customer Portal

Note: vtiger CRM 5.0.4 Office Plugin will continue to work with vtiger CRM 5.1.0

Online Demo: http://en.vtiger.com

Documentation: http://wiki.vtiger.com

We welcome your feedback. Please report any issues on Trac or on vtiger Forums.

Update: We have analyzed the migration issue reported by the community and provided the quick fix (Please follow the track ticket #6205 for more details)

72 Responses to “Vtiger CRM 5.1.0 is released - Major milestone!”

on 22 Jul 2009 at 5:44 am vinzdrance

Thank you !!

That’s so great
on 22 Jul 2009 at 6:10 am tikadia

Thats good work and excellent
on 22 Jul 2009 at 6:20 am vinzdrance

At the end of installation, I get a line before the block “vtiger is all set to go”

Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at /var/www/itc-gestion/install/CreateTables.php:34) in /var/www/xxxxxx/install/CreateTables.inc.php on line 31

Is it coming from my install ?
The install seems normal excepted this line.
Is it ?
on 22 Jul 2009 at 6:25 am Asha

Hi vinzdrance,

The installation should still be fine. You can carry forward with the CRM.
on 22 Jul 2009 at 6:27 am vinzdrance

Thank you for your answer. And congratulations again for this promising version.
on 22 Jul 2009 at 6:44 am Espen

How can I update 5.1.0RC to this version?
on 22 Jul 2009 at 6:44 am Brett

Congratulations!!! This is a fantastic new release! Looking forward to many happy customers…
on 22 Jul 2009 at 7:11 am Nitin

Hi Espen,

You can easily migrate 5.1.0RC to 5.1.0. Please Follow the link http://wiki.vtiger.com/index.php/vtiger510:Migration
on 22 Jul 2009 at 8:48 am Ian Rossi

Our thanks to the vtiger team for their arduous efforts to make this release happen.

We’re glad to announce that we’ll be making vtiger 5.1 hosting available immediately.

Please check our website for all of the details:
www.aimtheoryCRM.com

Kind regards,

Ian D. Rossi
aimtheory
on 22 Jul 2009 at 9:34 am Pedro Pinto

Please if someone knows a new mirrous of this realease please tell us becasuse the actual mirrous are too busy.

Thanks
Pedro Pinto
on 22 Jul 2009 at 9:45 am Joseph Cook

To the people who are making a difference in this world!

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
on 22 Jul 2009 at 9:58 am Pedro Pinto

hello.

I Founded it
this is another option to download the program.
on 22 Jul 2009 at 2:29 pm Tom

Dear developers,

thank you so very much!!!!

Bye,
Tom
on 22 Jul 2009 at 2:53 pm Mario Crespo

Great!!
Congratulations
on 22 Jul 2009 at 4:25 pm dumarcelino

good job!

thank you very much!!
on 22 Jul 2009 at 6:37 pm sanjay

finally ! was looking for this news everyday. you guys at vtiger are awesome (tigers). you are doing such a huge favor to all the sme organizations. the site is a bit slow today 23/07/09 im sure its the number of hits! coz of 5.1 release. Cud you guys put up a ‘donate’ button on the site homepage. - cheers!
on 22 Jul 2009 at 7:14 pm Prasad

trac.vtiger.com and forge.vtiger.com had a small break and are back to work now.
on 22 Jul 2009 at 7:29 pm Prasad

the site is a bit slow today 23/07/09

We have done a health check and restarted the server, please intimate us if you find the server to be still slow.

Cud you guys put up a ‘donate’ button on the site homepage. - cheers!

Please refer to related discussion at
http://forums.vtiger.com/viewtopic.php?p=85830#85830

Regards,
Prasad
vtiger Team
on 22 Jul 2009 at 10:17 pm Jim

congradulations!!!
on 23 Jul 2009 at 2:01 am steve

Hi All

thanks for 5.1

majour issue migrating

getting this error

Notice: Undefined index: ajax in /home/sites/yourdomian/public_html/crm/install/VerifyDBHealth.php on line 15

Notice: Undefined index: web161-vtiger_localhost:3306_HealthApproved in /home/sites/yourdomian/public_html/crm/install/VerifyDBHealth.php on line 29

Notice: Undefined index: updateTableEngine in /home/sites/yourdomian/public_html/crm/install/VerifyDBHealth.php on line 31

Fatal error: Call to a member function NumRows() on a non-object in /home/sites/yourdomian/public_html/crm/include/utils/DBHealthCheck.php on line 58

this is driving me crazy, any help would be great

PS replased my real domain with”yourdomian” to spare my blushes

steve
on 23 Jul 2009 at 4:39 am AL

Thanks guys.
on 23 Jul 2009 at 8:48 pm medlife

That’s a good news! Your work is great!
on 23 Jul 2009 at 9:19 pm Shan

Great work fellows
on 23 Jul 2009 at 11:19 pm Asha

Hi,

Thanks Everyone

Regards,
Asha
on 24 Jul 2009 at 12:33 am steve

Hi All

problem sorted

i could install a new version of 5.1, i just could not migrate my existing 5.04.

i resolved this by installing a clean 5.04 version locally, importing into this my production database, and ran the migration script.

i then exported this database onto my web host were the new 5.1 install was running.

looks really good, all my data is present, will set about configuring the CP

hope that goes well

steve
on 24 Jul 2009 at 9:30 am wei

In order to upgrade from 5.0.4 to 5.1, does the database in 5.0.4 environment have to be InnoDB, rather than MyISAM?

Thanks in advance!
–Wei
on 24 Jul 2009 at 10:53 am Prasad

@Wei,

You should make sure certain core tables are in InnoDB engine to have the primary-foreign key relation to succeed.

During migration the system checks and reports the tables which are not in the right format and let you fix it.

Regards,
Prasad
vtiger Team
on 24 Jul 2009 at 10:56 am Prasad

We are happy to see surge of traffic and increased activity on our servers post 5.1.0 release, our servers are finding it hard to manage the load sometimes.

We will boost them up soon, please be patient if the response is slow

Regards,
Prasad
vtiger Team
on 24 Jul 2009 at 10:59 am Dhananjay

@ wei,

During migration from vtigercrm 5.0.4 to vtigercrm 5.1.0 table type gets checked and if it is not of InnoDB type than user gets option to convert them to InnoDB.

Let us know if you need more information on this.

Regards,
Dhananjay
vtiger Team
on 24 Jul 2009 at 11:37 am Stephan

Just did a very simple migration from 5.0.4 to 5.1.0 by simply copying over the source files into the root directory of my productive system. Worked flawlessly on a simple managed webspace with 1 and 1.
on 24 Jul 2009 at 2:05 pm Aniruddha

Thanks! Unfortunately I get the following error when trying to migrate:

“The Source specified doesn’t seem to be existing.”
on 24 Jul 2009 at 2:22 pm Aniruddha

I solved the above error by entering the complete path ( eg /home/user/public_html/vtiger.
on 24 Jul 2009 at 2:32 pm Robert

Hey guys!

Excellent work!
Just updated 2 websites from 5.1RC to 5.1
For some strange reason, when entering a phone number as +1 on the one server it eliminates the + after saving. The other server works on that end but returns a 500 error when using quick create lead. It must be a config issue. Both worked great with 5.04 for over a year.
Any hints?

All the best,

Robert
on 24 Jul 2009 at 2:58 pm Aniruddha

I just noticed I can’t click any settings after migration. Any ideas what might be wrong?
on 25 Jul 2009 at 1:59 am Wamosho

Hi, Great job but what about the project management module?
on 25 Jul 2009 at 7:37 am Deep

Hi Guys,

A heartiest congratulations on the release, its a tremendous effort from you all and you guys really deserve a break now!!

Its quite a big release so not many people will be asking for more for sometime now, so please get your house in order and think clearly how you wanna move forward. If I repeate my advice, have atleast one release in 3-4 months, it will be lot easier to manage and will have less shouting followers like me

Cheers!!
on 25 Jul 2009 at 10:14 am Wei

during the migration, if the PHP settings are not as recommended by the migration script, where do I change them (max_execution_time, error_reporting, log_errors, read/write access: smarty module directory, etc.)?

thanks in advance.

regards,
–wei
on 25 Jul 2009 at 10:46 am Zak

during migration from 5.0.4 to 5.1, I failed at fixing the database (convert to innodb).

anybody has any ideas on how to proceed?

regards,
–wei
on 25 Jul 2009 at 7:54 pm Abhinav Toshniwal

Hi,

Congrats on the new Release !! I just set up vtiger 504 a few days back ! I love the way it works ! I was waiting for 510 release ! I am using the simple pdf configurator (CRM-now) to generate custom Quotes. I am not sure how long would they take to launch the updated version..

Do you have any suggestions ? Since we have just started using vtiger I would like to migrate soon ! My only issue is the pdf configuration ! I would appreciate if you could help me out with some advice !

Regards
Abhinav Toshniwal
on 25 Jul 2009 at 8:44 pm Wei

the scripts that is supposed to convert database table to InnoDB don’t seem to be working.

anybody has any ideas?

thanks in advance,
–Wei
on 26 Jul 2009 at 2:44 am Prasad

@Deep,

We agree with the frequent idea of releases, but few times the release planning will be affected by development team decisions based on their feedback.

We shall do much better.

Thank you

Regards,
Prasad
vtiger Team
on 26 Jul 2009 at 10:08 am Prasad

Thanks for member updating us about download on the developer list.

If you fail to download from sourceforge.net please do try using other mirror options available.

Regards,
Prasad
vtiger Team
on 27 Jul 2009 at 5:10 pm Ryan

First, Thanks for the update. You have a great product which takes a lot of the busy work out of managing leads and keeping track of projects.

I’ll admit i’m having installation issues using simplescripts through bluehost to upgrade a 5.0.4 installation to 5.1.0, and i’m hoping someone’s having a similar issue that could offer assistance -

The upgrade seems to go through alright with a little lag (it pauses at 20% and 50% progress before completing). It says the upgrade is succesful, but when one tries to actually access the site, it redirects from index.php to install.php and throws a 404 error for install.php. Install.php is confirmed missing from the directory, ruling out capitalization errors.

Again, any assistance is appreciated
on 28 Jul 2009 at 7:07 am anthony

The demo is currently broken, php errors, no users, can’t add data, and the navigation is missing….. i know it is not my browsers, because its php and database errors appearing on the website
on 28 Jul 2009 at 7:27 am Asha

Hi anthony,

The demo is back to the stable state now. You can try it out now.

Regards,
Asha
Vtiger Team
on 28 Jul 2009 at 11:04 pm Vikas Jain

Hi,

I have installed 5.1.0.Installation went fine and I am able to login and see the example data.

Well, the problem is, it is too slow. If i click on any thing, such as accounts, calendar, leads etc…it takes more than 20 seconds to open up.

I am not sure what is the problem.

I tried hosting it on 3 local servers in our company. All these are new machines.

can anyone please tell me whether I am observing something obvious ?

-Vikas
on 29 Jul 2009 at 12:55 am Gregory Culpin (Knowledge Plaza)

Congratulations for the update, it’s a great step and have been looking forward to it for a long time:)

If we can be of any help to your dev team by exchanging tools, you’re welcome to contact me.

Cheers
Greg
www.knowledgeplaza.be
on 29 Jul 2009 at 3:15 am Asha

@steve, @Wei,

We have found the root cause for the migration failure at the InnoDB table type check script. Please check out the following trac ticket for more details:
http://trac.vtiger.com/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/ticket/6205
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on 30 Jul 2009 at 3:51 am elvin

Great job people!
on 31 Jul 2009 at 5:12 am Yogesh

Installing on godaddy hosting account.
Please help

Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent
I get a login page but Not able to login.
vtiger_users table is empty.
htaccess.txt renamed to .htaccess
on 01 Aug 2009 at 2:20 pm Tim

May I recommend that you use a hosting provider that either automates the install or has skilled sysadmins who can/will help you.

A crm system is a complex beast and if you are unable to figure out simple php errors then I think it would better if you hired a expert to help you. No offense meant, just that experts are fairly cheap to come by and can save you a lot of time and hassle.

For this error I would check that your php.ini file has output buffering set to on.

Have a great day.
on 01 Aug 2009 at 3:57 pm Tom

Dear Vtigers,

as different hosting providers do NOT support innoDB, I would like to ask wether it’s possible to install 5.1.0 without innoDB?
If yes what is the downside?

Thanks,
Tom
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on 05 Aug 2009 at 5:53 am Lucio Waßill

I also would like to know why we have to change to Inno-DB?
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman//5.1/en/innodb-restrictions.html
The latest RC worked fine for me with myisam.
on 05 Aug 2009 at 12:33 pm Tom

Dear Prasad,

is it really mandatory to have innodb for installation?
Migration says: “Your database table engine is not the recomended engine ‘Innodb’…”
So is it not recommended or mandatory to have????
Not all hoster support innodb, mine doesn’t, that may be a problem not only for me..

I would appreciate an answer

Thanks,
Tom
on 06 Aug 2009 at 10:35 pm wamosho

Hi,
I’m thrilled by the new 5.1.0. i have tested it all the way from the beta version to the current release. However i am not able to migrate my operational CRM to the new version. I get a failed query during migration…like (see below)

FAILURE insert into vtiger_attachmentsfolder values (1,’Existing Notes’,'Contains all Notes migrated from the earlier version’,1,1)

How can i sort this out? Help please because am eager to start my users on it.
on 07 Aug 2009 at 6:36 pm Horst

Dear Vtiger team

Congratulations for all the effort made.

Especially Multi Currency possibilities will please lots of users.
Anyhow, why Renminbis of China are not in the picklist?
Please provide an instruction for manual add up currencies when they are not in the pick list.

Many thanks in advance,

Horst
on 08 Aug 2009 at 12:22 am wamosho

@ Horst
Dont have a manual but i have added currency seeing as Kenya, Uganda & Tanzania Shilling are also not included.

You need to add the currencies in the database tables called vtiger_currency and vtiger_currency_info

Then proceed to include them in the picklist by adding them to the language.php file you are using….in my case it was the include\language_en.php
hope this helps
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on 19 Aug 2009 at 1:04 am Wei

wen I tried to upgrade, I received the following error message after I clicked the “Next” button in the System Confirguration screen. I am very sure that all the informaiton I enter for the source code location, previous version, admin login ID, password, and database name are all correct.

“ERR - Unable to connect to database Server. Invalid mySQL Connection Parameters specified
This may be due to the following reasons: - specified database user, password, hostname, database type, or port is invalid. More Information - specified database user does not have access to connect to the database server from the host”

Anybody has any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

regards,
–Wei
on 23 Aug 2009 at 10:20 am Liam

Hi,

Migrating from 5.0.4 using patch, after step 4 i click the next button after entering user password and the new database name etc and nothing happens, the “next” button is not functioning, any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Liam.
on 23 Aug 2009 at 10:13 pm Asha

Hi Liam,

Please try clearing your browser cache and do a hard refresh. This should resolve your issue. Let us know if it doesn’t.

Regards,
Asha
vtiger Team
on 23 Aug 2009 at 10:21 pm Tom

Dear Asha,

may I highlight my question again:

is it really mandatory to have innodb?
Migration says: “Your database table engine is not the recomended engine ‘Innodb’…”
So is it not recommended or mandatory to have????
Both of my hoster do not support innodb, thats my problem… I would appreciate an answer

Thanks,
Tom
on 23 Aug 2009 at 11:49 pm Asha

Hi Tom,

We expect Vtiger not to function properly without the table engine type set to InnoDB (mainly the constraints and foreign keys on the tables).
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on 17 Sep 2009 at 5:19 pm Deep

Dear Prasad,

I’m sorry to wear the old hat again

Its been almost two moths that we had release 5.1. By now you should have announced some kind of roadmap, its about time now.

Ideally, you should have worked on two branches [5.1.1 and 5.2.0] and in two months should have released one bug fix release, fixing all critical and major issues and leaving enhancements and patches for 5.2.0. In that case waiting for 5.2 for six months also is acceptable.

I hope you guys will give some consideration to my words.

Thanx & Regards,
Deep
on 17 Sep 2009 at 9:59 pm Prasad

Deep,

Thanks for getting back.

Our Support team is currently working round-the-clock to help users migrate or install 5.1.0. They recently shared the following opinion:

We are seeing good responses on 5.1.0 which has reduced the number of un-installation mails.

We will need sometime to roll out another version, just hurrying up might not be good.

Our Development team has started the work on 5.2.0 to which the fixes or new features are getting rolled in regularly.

Our Enhancement team is busy tied up with R&D in planning for new ideas of improving the features and also porting the earlier extensions.

You are welcome to try the development branch and contribute bug fixes for issues http://trac.vtiger.com and support our development.

Thank you,
Prasad
vtiger Team
on 02 Oct 2009 at 4:48 pm sriram

Hi Sourceforge site is down since 2 days. vTiger 5.1.0 I I saw there is no option other than sourceforge. Can we think of alternate option to park the downloads?

Sriram
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on 15 Jan 2010 at 6:36 am Michael

I have installed VTiger on my Fedora C12 machine and I have it running almost perfectly fine. I can log in, add users, add widgets, etc. but I CANNOT add anything else.

For instance, if I to to Marketing > Campaigns > Create a Campaign and I add in all required information and save, I get a PHP error (blank page) result. No errors thrown in the logs that I can find.

Any help? We are very much liking the entire application, but would obviously like it to work.

Thanks in advance.

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