CiviCRM 5.71 Release

Published
2024-03-07 07:00
Written by
dev-team - official CiviCRM announcement

CiviCRM version 5.71.0 is now ready to download. This is a regular monthly release. Upgrade now for the most stable CiviCRM experience:

Users of the CiviCRM Extended Security Releases (ESR) do not need to upgrade. The current version of ESR is CiviCRM 5.69.x.

We are committed to keeping CiviCRM free and open, forever. We depend on your support to help make that happen. We thank all our partners, members and ESR subscribers, who are regular financial contributors. If you can, please donate.

What's new in CiviCRM 5.71

UI Overhaul
More screens have the new user interface, making them faster and easier to customize: Find Memberships, Relationships tab.

Improved Custom Field Performance
Screens that show smart groups will load and save faster.

Big thanks to Andie Hunt, Alice Frumin and Jon Goldberg for putting up together release notes. If you are upgrading from a very old version of CiviCRM, see the version-specific upgrade tasks.

This release was developed by the following code authors:

AGH Strategies - Andie Hunt; Agileware - Justin Freeman; Artful Robot - Rich Lott; Christian Wach; Circle Interactive - Pradeep Nayak; CiviCRM - Coleman Watts, Tim Otten; CiviDesk - Yashodha Chaku; Coop SymbioTIC - Mathieu Lutfy; Dave D; Fuzion - Jitendra Purohit; Humanists UK - Andrew West;; JMA Consulting - Seamus Lee; John Kingsnorth; Megaphone Technology Consulting - Jon Goldberg; MJW Consulting - Matthew Wire; Progressive Technology Project - Jamie McClelland; Reflexive Communications - Sandor Semsey; Stephen Palmstrom; Third Sector Design - Kurund Jalmi, William Mortada; University of Waterloo - Patrick Lam; Wikimedia Foundation - Eileen McNaughton

Most authors also reviewed code for this release; in addition, the following reviewers contributed their comments:

AGH Strategies - Chris Garaffa; Andy Burns; ASMAC (American Society of Music Arrangers and Composers) - Jeff Kellem; BrightMinded Ltd - Bradley Taylor; civiservice.de - Detlev Sieber; Coop SymbioTIC - Samuel Vanhove; Francesc Bassas i Bullich; Greenleaf Advancement - Guy Iaccarino; JMA Consulting - Joe Murray; Nicol Wistreich; Squiffle Consulting - Aidan Saunders; Systopia - Dominic Tubach; Tadpole Collective - Kevin Cristiano

New Extensions

  • AWS SES - Processes AWS SES bounces and complaint notifications in CiviCRM. Uses native AWS bounce and complaint types instead of trying to match them to out of the box CiviCRM bounce types.
  • CiviShares - Manage shares in community enterprises.
  • Someone Else Pays - For situations where an individual becomes a member or registers for an event but wants his/her company to pay for this.
  • Search Kit Maps - Implements a SearchKit display using leaflet.js for showing lat/lon on a map.

View all latest extensions

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