upgrade modules (simplenews, fusion, panels, ctools, etc) and post new release

Yep, and a new version of Drupal core coming too.

Might you or anyone at echoditto like to take on preparing and posting the release? Steps would involve:

• Update all modules to latest stable releases in Debut features .make.inc files and commit the changes. Note that a given module may be included in multiple features. If there is no significant change to the Debut feature, I don't issue a new release just for changes in the .make.inc file, since when we generate the distro we use the dev branch .make.inc file.
• Build the distro, getting the updated modules and latest version of Drupal core.
• Test on a demo site.
• Commit updated code to Github and tag for a new release.

Documentation on what we've done so far is here: http://openoutreach.org/section/develop-open-outreach. (Ideally we would switch to packaging on d.org, see #1487926: Switch to fully packaging Open Outreach on drupal.org, but I might wait until after the next release, as we have a few kinks to work through related to .make files.)

rosemarymann and I have completed most of the updating and implemented a workaround fix to #1487926: Switch to fully packaging Open Outreach on drupal.org. Doing further testing and fixing prior to a new release.