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We're just wrapping up the first of two post-CiviCon code sprints, where 24 people came together at Butcombe Farms near Bristol. People worked on an amazing variety of things to make 4.2 more stable, and to contribute some awesome features to 4.3. Some of the things we did were:

The following new functionality has been suggested. If you have any thoughts on this please take a look and add some comments to the Blog post.

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As part of the Bristol Civi Sprint a proposed new layout has been suggested for the existing Find and Merge Duplicates page. The page is used to add / edit Duplicate Matching Rules for the individual, organisation and household contact types. This wouldn't involve changes to the way the Merge Rules work but the changes will make the page easier to use and understand.

Better volunteer management tools have been on the want list of many a CiviCRM user, dating back as far as 2006. Many of the organizations we work with require tools for managing volunteers apropos to specific events. For example, they may host periodic festivals requiring heavy volunteer participation to cover needs from ticket-taking, to crowd control, to staffing info tables, to A/V.

If you are using Authorize.net as your payment processor (or your clients are) for either one-time payments or automated recurring payments, then my guess is that like me you probably dread the phone call from a bookkeeper such as

"I found some Authorize.net transactions that went through and the money is in the bank, BUT there is no record of the contribution in CiviCRM.  What happened?"

Vanco Payment processor

BackOffice Thinking is pleased to release the Vanco payment processor to the CiviCRM community.  Today we are releasing versions for 3.4x and 4.1x and hope to have a 4.2x version shortly.

This processor allows single payment and recurring for credit cards and ACH (electronic check)

The team is excited to announce the second release of 4.2 stable with support for Drupal 7, Joomla 2.5 and WordPress 3.3.

We are looking forward to a great turnout o Tuesday.  If anyone has any questions that they'd like addressed please send them to me by Monday.

Best Wishes,

Paul

The team is excited to announce the sixth stable release of version 4.1  - with support for Drupal 7, Drupal 6, Joomla 2.5, and Wordpress 3.3. You can download the release now from Sourceforge.

A few months Back John Derry from The Monthly Magazine wrote a blog about how they were planning to use CiviCRM for magazine subscriptions.