Thanks to the hard work of CiviCRM’s incredible community of contributors, CiviCRM version 6.5.0 is now ready to download. This is a regular monthly release that includes several security fixes. Your are strongly encouraged to upgrade now for the most stable, secure CiviCRM experience:
Users of the CiviCRM Extended Security Releases (ESR) need to upgrade. The current version of ESR is also CiviCRM 6.4.x.
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CiviCRM 6.5 Highlights
UX Improvements
- Households and organizations can now, errr, "die". That's to say that they can otherwise cease to exist just like individuals.
- If you're using RiverLea and want to use some custom CSS, there is now clearer instruction on how to do so.
- The "DB Error Unknown Error" has gotten some love and should now present more details about the nature of the error.
- You can now use your email address as a login for CiviCRM Standalone.
SearchKit
- Users can now set the "net amount" field to calculate on contribution import, allowing users to import the contribution total and have SearchKit calculate the net amount.
Drupal Integration
- RiverLea will now display a warning for D7 users (ahem) using the Bartik theme.
Bugs Squashed
We have a pretty long list of bug fixes that we’re not going to cover here but we’re already behind on getting these release notes out. We’ll try to include these in the future.
Credits
This release was developed and coordinated by the following amazing contributors:
AGH Strategies - Alice Frumin; Agileware Pty Ltd - Justin Freeman; Artful Robot - Rich Lott; Benjamin W; BrightMinded Ltd - Bradley Taylor; Christian Wach; CiviCRM - Coleman Watts, Tim Otten; CiviDesk - Nicolas Ganivet; Coop SymbioTIC - Mathieu Lutfy, Samuel Vanhove, Shane Bill; Daniel Strum; Dave D;Ezodesign - Jeremy Proffitt; Francesc Bassas i Bullich; Fuzion - Luke Stewart; Guydn; Humanists UK - Andrew West; iXiam - Albert Vall-Llovera; Jens Schuppe; JMA Consulting - Monish Deb, Seamus Lee, Rafe Murray; Lemniscus - Noah Miller; Megaphone Technology Consulting - Jon Goldberg; MJW Consulting - Matthew Wire; Mosier Consulting - Justin Mosier; New York State Senate - Nate Harris; Nicol Wistreich; Richard Baugh; Savion Lee; Skvare - Mark Hanna, Sunil Pawar; Squiffle Consulting - Aidan Saunders; Systopia - Dominic Tubach; Tadpole Collective - Kevin Cristiano; Wikimedia Foundation - Eileen McNaughton, Wenjun Fan; Wildsight - Lars Sander-Green
New Extensions
- Event Checkin - An extension to provide check-in links and QR codes to CiviCRM event participants, so they can check in with the event's front desk, or even automatically.
- Event Invitation - This extension allows you to invite contacts in CiviCRM to an event and provides a simple feedback form where contacts can choose whether they can attend or not.
- Spouse Salutations - Updates a spouse's greetings (email, postal, addressee) if necessary when a contact is updated.
- Anonymous Tracking - Collect important mailing statistics, such as open and click-through rates, without compromising individual user privacy by decoupling tracking events from specific contacts.
- SearchKit Calendar - adds a calendar view as a display option for SearchKit searches.
