Blogs

In line with our practice over recent years (per 7.3, 7.2, 7.1), we are ending our support for php 7.4 two years after PHP dropped support for it. This means that the 5.81 release will be the last CiviCRM release supporting PHP 7.4.

Yeah, you read that right. We’ve been working CiviCRM version 5 for so long now that it’s almost, but not quite, a household brand. That all changes on 5 March 2025 when the official release of CiviCRM 6 lands.

Drupal 7 will go end-of-life on January 5, 2025

With the end-of-life, security updates for Drupal 7 will cease, leaving your CiviCRM website vulnerable to threats and potentially facing compatibility issues. It's crucial to understand your options and take action to ensure your site's security and functionality.

For 2025, the CiviCRM-D7 integration will continue to receive basic support, but usage is discouraged. Specifically:

CiviCRM version 5.80.0 is now ready to download. This is a regular monthly release. Upgrade now for the most stable CiviCRM experience:

This blog series aims to expand your knowledge of CiviCRM and its potential for extensions. Each month, we present one of the many extensions we at SYSTOPIA have developed over the years. This month’s feature: The Mailbox Mailing Extension – allowing you to create and schedule CiviCRM mailings without needing to use the CiviCRM user interface. A huge thank you to Thomas Fastermann of the Schweizerischer Gewerkschaftsbund for contributing to our blog series by writing this month’s release!

Starting with Drupal 8, composer is used to manage web site dependencies and to download packages to the server. A Drupal and CiviCRM website requires 100s of packages to provide the large set of functional components. Composer simplifies the process of determining which versions of packages will all work together appropriately, and fetching all of them and putting them in the right place in the code base.

The CiviCRM community is going back to where it all started to celebrate 20 years of serving nonprofits. 

Start planning now to attend the event in the San Francisco area. 

There will be three parallel tracks of sessions over two days, packed with case studies and the latest in SearchKit, FormBuilder and new extensions.  

Planning for this gala event is already underway:

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 release, we would like to present our Extended Deduplication System - a comprehensive solution for managing duplicate contacts within CiviCRM. Thank you for reading on!

The default visitor experience of a CiviCRM contribution page with recurring payment options (e.g. "monthly donor") leaves much to be desired. Fortunately, there's an extension for that.