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August 30, 2020
By kartik1000 Filed under GSoC

Hello All! This Blog is in continuation to my previous blog. This is the final blog of my project and I will try to summarise all the work, I have done during the Probots and GitLab to GitHub Integration Project. I will also share my amazing experience with the CiviCRM team and especially my mentors Eileen McNaughton and Saurabh Batra.

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August 27, 2020
By DaveDFiled under

CiviCRM has patches that it needs to apply to 3rd party libraries. Composer has a plugin to apply those patches for you. Simple, right?

By now anyone who has tried to install CiviCRM on Drupal 8 has met Composer. You need to update its configuration to make patches work.

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August 26, 2020
By jamieFiled under

At the Progressive Technology Project, we have been struggling with getting our mass emails out more quickly for quite some time. However, since we went from 5.13 ESR to 5.21 things seemed to have gotten worse. And there is no change with the latest 5.27 ESR. After countless hours trying to sift through all the factors (of course there are way more factors then just the CiviCRM core version!), I'm turning to the community for ideas.

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August 19, 2020
By dev-team Filed under Extended Security Release, Release announcements, Security Releases

Important Notice: This is a security release. We recommend you immediately upgrade to one of the following versions:

CiviCRM 5.28.1 (download)CiviCRM 5.27.5 ESR (signup)

Below are the security advisories details:

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August 18, 2020
By agileware_justinfreeman Filed under Community, Meetups

This is an open invitation for everyone in the Asia/Pacific region to join other Australians, New Zealanders etc. on-line to catch-up and discuss all things CiviCRM. If you are a CiviCRM user, developer or casual user with questions, then you are most welcome to join us.The meeting is only 1 hour and has a set agenda (depending on number of people attending this may be shortened).

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August 6, 2020
By dev-team Filed under Release announcements

CiviCRM version 5.28.0 is now out and ready to download. This is a regular monthly release.

Upgrade now for the most stable CiviCRM experience: https://civicrm.org/download

Users of the CiviCRM Extended Security Releases (ESR) do not need to upgrade, as there are no ESR-specific bugfixes or security issues at the moment.

Important announcements and reminders:

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August 2, 2020
By KarinG Filed under Drupal 8

Drupal 8 Webform CiviCRM beta1 was released on Aug 02, 2020 - Webform CiviCRM is a powerful, flexible, user-friendly form builder for CiviCRM.

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August 2, 2020
By kartik1000 Filed under GSoC

Hello all, this blog is a continuation of my previous blog. This month we were able to achieve most of our targets with a very healthy community discussion as well. We added more features related to only GitHub code-base and we moved on to GitLab and GitHub Integration as well. Let me explain to you the main features we added during this period in a brief.

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July 29, 2020
By nicolFiled under

“What I'm seeing in the Mutual Aid networks that are arising is none of them are going with Free Software. What we're doing with Flatbush is unfortunately unique right now. And I think that's unfortunate. Having been in the CiviCRM Community for 15 years, I think we need to rise to the challenge that Lobo laid down before us.”

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