I am taking part in a small sprint on CiviCRM standalone today. Alain Benbassat and Klaas Eikelboom are going to be part of the CiviCRM stand on FOSDEM 2023 and thought they could also do a 1 day mini-sprint on Standalone. And Rich Lott, Michael McAndrew, Nic Weistrich and me rallied to the same cause.
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February 2, 2023
By dev-team Filed under Release announcementsCiviCRM version 5.58.0 is now out and ready to download. This is a regular monthly release. Upgrade now for the most stable CiviCRM experience:
January 30, 2023
By bradleytFiled under When I first started writing CiviCRM extensions it quickly became clear that there were a lot of old parts to CiviCRM's core code which deserved some love. I know that CiviCRM only has a small development team, and so I started searching for quick-win code changes that I could contribute back to the CiviCRM codebase in order to improve the quality and developer experience for everyone. I want to share the PHPStan configuration that I have been using to identify poor-quality (and in some cases buggy) code within the CiviCRM core codebase.
January 27, 2023
By artfulrobotFiled under Newsletters and other mailings are an important way to keep in touch with your supporters and mailing statistics like click and open rates can help you learn what your supporters respond best to. CiviCRM provides these features, similarly to many/all other email marketing solutions. But what do those numbers actually mean?
January 5, 2023
By alainbFiled under We will be promoting CiviCRM at FOSDEM on 4 and 5 February 2023.
FOSDEM is a non-commercial event centered on free and open-source software development. With over 8000 attendees, it is one of the biggest open source conferences.
January 4, 2023
By dev-team Filed under Extended Security Release, Release announcements, Security ReleasesThere has been a security release for CiviCRM. Upgrades are available for:
January 4, 2023
By bgm Filed under ExtensionsNow that PHP 7.4 is "end of life", system administrators are strongly encouraged to adopt PHP 8.0. CiviCRM has supported PHP 8.0 for some time now, but adoption so far has been slow. Here are the stats as of today:
January 2, 2023
By AllenShaw Filed under Extensions, Finance and AccountingSeveral of Joinery's clients recently started seeing a dramatic increase in fraudulent card-testing behavior on CiviCRM sites using the Stripe payment processor. We've resolved this problem for them with some great new features in the CiviCRM extension ecosystem, thanks to the contributions from open-source developers and CiviCRM partners.
December 20, 2022
By wmortada Filed under SearchKit, CiviReport, MeetupsAt our meetup last week, Oliver Gibson spoke about the work Northbridge Digital has been doing to recreate the standard CiviCRM reports using SearchKit.
These reports are available as an extension which is still in development. The aim is to provide a bank of example reports that users can use and adapt. These will be a useful starting point for users to create their own reports.
