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November 1, 2024
By EileenFiled under

We recently experienced a massive slow down in one of our background jobs and tracked down the cause via redis tools to a cache clearing issue. I decided to write up how we tracked it down to share with other developers - but this blog post comes with a geekery warning : the target audience is definitely solidly in the developer space and assumes the reader has a lot of background knowledge.

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November 1, 2024
By AlanDixon Filed under CiviContribute, Security

Card-tumbling, like its evil relatives of automated spam, script kiddies and privacy breaches, is not a problem to be solved, but is a fact of life on the internet.

Recently, new strategies for bad actors means that even if you thought you'd fixed this, you might need to review your defenses.

If you've got a publicly accessible contribution page using an on-site payment processor, there's a good chance that you're a target.

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October 21, 2024
By bgm Filed under Interface and design

Around July last year, I wrote a blog post about a few user interface changes that might go unnoticed to most (covering versions around 5.55 to 5.65). Here are a few more changes that have been introduced in versions 5.75 to 5.80.

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October 17, 2024
By SYSTOPIA Filed under Extensions
At SYSTOPIA, we have developed a large set of CiviCRM extensions, Drupal modules and other tools. Currently, we are actively maintaining or co-maintaining over 60 repositories. This month, we present one of our most used extensions: Donation Receipts. It supports administrative processes around donation management.
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October 16, 2024
By dev-team Filed under Extended Security Release, Release announcements, Security Releases

There has been a security release for CiviCRM. Upgrades are available for:

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October 3, 2024
By kurundFiled under

At Third Sector Design, we’re excited to have contributed to adding Group support to FormBuilder, a key feature included in the 5.77 release. We extend our thanks to the Core Team and Coleman for their review and support in getting this important feature across the finish line.

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October 3, 2024
By dev-team Filed under Release announcements

CiviCRM version 5.78.0 is now ready to download. This is a regular monthly release. Upgrade now for the most stable CiviCRM experience:

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September 25, 2024
By AllenShawFiled under
Regular scanning for duplicates is an important part of good data hygiene, but it's certainly no fun; this extension does it for you in your sleep.

Duplicate contacts in your CRM are a source of trouble.

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September 23, 2024
By bgm Filed under Extensions

CiviCRM 5.79, which will be released around November 7 2024, will include a slightly different experience for administrators who wish to install extensions. On the surface, it is a rather small change which will make CiviCRM easier to use though it may have a bigger impact for CiviCRM hosting providers and for extension developers.

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September 18, 2024
By SYSTOPIA Filed under Extensions
At SYSTOPIA, we have developed a large set of CiviCRM extensions, Drupal modules and other tools. Currently, we are actively maintaining or co-maintaining over 60 repositories. In this blog series, we want to showcase some of the Civi tools we are most proud of: and the funding framework is a big one! Thanks for reading on.
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