---
title: 1.7.0-alpha2 Development Preview Released
description: "We are proud to announce the release of our second development preview for the
1.7 series of Xibo. The codename for this series is “Tuttle”.

This is primarily a bug fix release for the new features in 1.7.0-alpha, but you
can also test the following new items:

CMS

 * Reporting for Client up / down events.
 * Improved Sorting for all table data.
 * “Select All” functions in key places.
 * Tabs for the Settings page.
 * Options for ticker media to not strip attributes.
 * Options for ticker media to strip certain tags.
 * Better database Export (works with larger databases when Apache Sendfile mode
   is enabled).
 * Date formatting for Tickers.
 * General Date formatting.
 * Translated Calendar (JavaScript Translations).
 * Remove Inactive users from the permissions list.
 * Switched all HTML based media to HTML5 doctype.
 * Option to scale embedded media.
 * More in the release notes / Launchpad.

The release notes are available in themanual
[http://xibo.org.uk/manual-tuttle/en/release_notes_1.7.0-alpha2.html] and the
download is available onLaunchpad [https://launchpad.net/xibo/1.7/1.7.0-alpha2].

We hope that our next release in 1.7 will be 1.7.0-beta and will be feature
frozen pending the stable 1.7.0 release early next year!

Please Note: This is a development preview release and should not be used in
production."
---

[Blog | Xibo Digital Signage ](https://xibosignage.com/blog)

# [1.7.0-alpha2 Development Preview Released](https://xibosignage.com/blog/1-7-0-alpha2-development-preview-released)

 Written by [Dan](https://xibosignage.com/blog/author/dan) | Oct 21, 2014 11:00:00 PM

We are proud to announce the release of our second development preview for the 1.7 series of Xibo. The codename for this series is “Tuttle”.

This is primarily a bug fix release for the new features in 1.7.0-alpha, but you can also test the following new items:

**CMS**

- Reporting for Client up / down events.
- Improved Sorting for all table data.
- “Select All” functions in key places.
- Tabs for the Settings page.
- Options for ticker media to not strip attributes.
- Options for ticker media to strip certain tags.
- Better database Export (works with larger databases when Apache Sendfile mode is enabled).
- Date formatting for Tickers.
- General Date formatting.
- Translated Calendar (JavaScript Translations).
- Remove Inactive users from the permissions list.
- Switched all HTML based media to HTML5 doctype.
- Option to scale embedded media.
- More in the release notes / Launchpad.

The release notes are available in the [manual](http://xibo.org.uk/manual-tuttle/en/release_notes_1.7.0-alpha2.html) and the download is available on [Launchpad](https://launchpad.net/xibo/1.7/1.7.0-alpha2).

We hope that our next release in 1.7 will be 1.7.0-beta and will be feature frozen pending the stable 1.7.0 release early next year!

**Please Note: This is a development preview release and should not be used in production.**

[View full post](https://xibosignage.com/blog/1-7-0-alpha2-development-preview-released)

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