This July has seen the long awaited Production release of SocialEngine version 4 and the v4 versions of the official plugins. The SocialEngine team worked on SE4 for over a year to completely redesign the platform from scratch. SocialEngine4 is built on the popular (and open source) Zend Framework to make customizations and further development straightforward.

You can download your Free Trial copy from socialengine.net/free-trial

The trial contains SocialEngine v4 as well as all of Webligo’s v4 plugins.
To get all the same features when you buy, you’ll have to purchase the plugins you want to use. The trial expires after 30 days and once it’s expired, the site won’t work.
The trial’s PHP source code is encrypted. The full version is NOT.

Even after the Trial expires your database will stay intact, so you can use all your member data with the full version after you purchase it, no need to start over. That’s user friendly :)

The SE3 to SE4 upgrade package is not yet available but is expected within a week or so.

Version 4.0.1, with further tweaks and bug fixes is coming very soon.

Several Third Party Developers have already begun releasing their Plugins and Templates for SocialEngine v4, and others are hard at work upgrading their v3 plugins to v4.
Latest listings for v4 can be found on the SocialEngineMechanic v4 Plugin and Template Listings RSS

You can experience and discuss SocialEngine v4 at SE4.me as well as finding tips, tricks, mods and bug fixes posted by SE4me Community members.