Thanks to the hard work of CiviCRM’s incredible community of contributors, CiviCRM version 6.12.0 is now ready to download. This is a regular monthly release that includes new features and bug fixes. Details are available in the monthly release notes.
Your are encouraged to upgrade now for the most stable, secure CiviCRM experience:
Users of the CiviCRM Extended Security Releases (ESR) do not need to upgrade. The current version of ESR is CiviCRM 6.10.x (supported until 5 August 2026).
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Smarty5 is now the one and only
After 3 years working towards replacing the Smarty2 template engine, CiviCRM 6.12 has finished the process, leaving Smarty5 as the only supported version. This was a requirement for supporting recent PHP versions. It also provides many security and performance benefits.
If you previously customized your civicrm.settings.php file to force an older version of Smarty, you must make sure that all your extensions and message-templates work with Smarty5. Failing to do so will result in a fatal PHP error (or a "white screen of death"). See docs for: Switching Smarty.
Credits
AGH Strategies - Alice Frumin; Artful Robot - Rich Lott; Benjamin W; Christian Wach; CiviCRM - Coleman Watts, Tim Otten; Coop SymbioTIC - Shane Bill; CSES (Chelmsford Science and Engineering Society) - Adam Wood; Dave D; Francesc Bassas i Bullich; JMA Consulting - Monish Deb, Seamus Lee; Megaphone Technology Consulting - Jon Goldberg; MJW Consulting - Matthew Wire; NIAB - Stuart; Nicol Wistreich; PERORA SRL - Samuele Masetto; Richard Baugh; Squiffle Consulting - Aidan Saunders; Systopia - Dominic Tubach; Tadpole Collective - Kevin Cristiano; Wikimedia Foundation - Eileen McNaughton; Wildsight - Lars Sander-Green. Circle Interactive - Angela Jackson; Coop SymbioTIC - Mathieu Lutfy; Fuzion - Luke Stewart; JMA Consulting - Celine Nicolas; Progressive Technology Project - Jamie McClelland; Sjoerd Langkemper; Skvare - Mark Hanna; Third Sector Design - William Mortada.
New Extensions
- Auto Logout for Standalone - Automatically logs a use out after an inactive period (on CiviCRM Standalone).
- Document Preview - Provides the ability to preview PDF documents and images without actually downloading them. It can be useful to preview files without having to leave CiviCRM and/or potentially prevent people from download confidential documents.
- PayFast integration for the Omnipay Multi Processor Payment extension
- Large CSV Export from SearchKit - Provides a SearchKit Task (i.e. in the Actions drop-down) to export the results to a CSV file. The export is prepared in the background and a notification email is sent when it is ready. Useful for very large exports.
- Missed Recurring Payments - Recurring contributions occasionally go missing — a payment processor fails silently, a webhook is dropped, or a charge is refunded without a matching CiviCRM record. Over time these gaps accumulate and contact giving histories become inaccurate.
