Compatibility with PHP 5.3 will end in December 2017, and compatibility with PHP 5.4 will end in March 2018. These changes follow a number of discussions and a multi-year deprecation process. The current recommended version is PHP 5.6.
Discussion
According to php.net, PHP v5.5.x became "end of life" in July 2016. This means that the official publishers of PHP no longer support v5.5.x -- if there are security issues in the PHP runtime, the PHP project won't provide advisories or fixes. They recommend that all PHP users upgrade. (That's just the security side of the equation -- upgrading to a newer PHP also brings access to better libraries and design-patterns.)
But... for small organizations using CiviCRM, upgrading their servers to a newer version of PHP would be an expense. So CiviCRM has continued to support PHP 5.5 (declining to...
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The 4.7.24 release is scheduled for the first Wednesday of September. Ordinarily, there would be an announcement about the release-candidate (RC) in mid-August, but we're doing something a bit different this time around -- extending the RC to a full month, which mean the RC is available now at http://download.civicrm.org/latest. Testing out the RC is a great way to ensure that your systems will continue to work in the next release. Let me talk about how this change helps.
The Background
Quality-control for a new release is a team sport. It relies on reporters and developers performing thoughtful analysis when they identify a problem or improvement. It relies on developers writing code which anticipates errors, improves test-coverage, and follows recognizable conventions. It relies on infrastructure running automated tests. It relies on reviewers understanding the problem-domain and questioning assumptions. It...
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RELEASE NOTES:
- Changes to database schema
- API changes
- Configuration changes
- Fixes for installation/upgrade process to a previous version
- New features
- Bug fixes
SPECIAL THANKS:
This release has fixes for some issues reported in the previous 4.7.21 release. We recommend upgrading to this latest version.
Complete list of issues fixed in this release is available from here.
Bugs fixed:
Core CiviCRM
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CRM-20561 Load Net_SMTP, Auth_SASL, Net_Socket via Composer (10622)
This resolves an SMTP authentication issue by updating a patch for compatibility with the a newer release of
Net_SMTP. -
CRM-20829 Install requirements fail because of port string (10626)
This fixes a...
Please note that release 4.7.21 and 4.6.29 are security releases. Please see below links to the security advisories:
- CIVI-SA-2017-01 Pingback URL not encrypted
- CIVI-SA-2017-02 Privilage escalation via leaked key
- CIVI-SA-2017-03 Cross site scripting in the recently viewed block
- CIVI-SA-2017-04 Incorrect escaping for "On Behalf Of" block
- ...
RELEASE NOTES:
SPECIAL THANKS:
WHAT'S NEW IN CIVICRM 4.7.20
- Core CiviCRM updates:
RELEASE NOTES:
SPECIAL THANKS:
WHAT'S NEW IN CIVICRM 4.7.19
- Core CiviCRM updates:
A new option allows for generated PDFs and other document files to be automatically attached to their corresponding activities, saving you a few clicks.
- CiviCase...
CiviCRM Entity 2.0-beta7 has been released.
Pick it up now at the Drupal.org Project Page
Changes since beta6:
Add Rules action Assign Contact to Group
Add Rules action Remove Contact from Group
Add Integration for IM entity
Add Integration for Website entity
Add integration for Contribution Recur
Add Rules event for CiviCRM Price Set Field 'After Successful CC Transaction'
CiviCRM Price Set Field , improved support for price fields with multiple checkboxes
Fix issues with CiviCRM Core Contribution Recur Views integration
Enable CiviCRM Entity Reference field on parent entity 'add', Inline Entity Form Single widget, for...
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SPECIAL THANKS:
WHAT'S NEW IN CIVICRM 4.7.18
- Core CiviCRM updates:
Firefox is at version 52, Chrome is at 55, where does the number inflation game end?
Let the countdown begin! This April, the CiviCRM core team proudly announces we're going negative! It works for politicians, why not your favorite CRM for the Civic sector?
“When they go high, we'll go low.”
From now on, instead of counting up toward ever-inflated numbers, each CiviCRM release will be lower than the previous version. We'll be counting down just like people did in their calendars before the year 0 AD.
“Negative is the new positive.”
We're sure you'll have lots of questions about this exciting negative development, and the core team is here to answer them:
Q: What inspired this change?
A: We really wanted to lower the bar for people to get involved with CiviCRM, while minimizing the impact of each new version. Downgrading (formerly known as upgrading) is now easier than ever.
Q: How do I downgrade to the new version?
A:...
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