A few weeks prior to 24 February, I’d given up reading the news. It was a very happy time. Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, it’s been hard not to jump back into my Google news feed and periodically check in at NPR. Given the rise of misinformation over the past few years, it’s hard to know what is accurate and what isn’t, so much of what I read I take with a grain of salt.
In the fall of 2021, the CiviCRM Core Team revised and published a privacy policy on https://civicrm.org that meets the requirements set forth by both the European General Data Protection Regulation and the California Consumer Privacy Act. The revised policy is available at https://civicrm.org/privacy-policy
The 2021 annual report for the CiviCRM Core Team is now live at https://civicrm.org/annual-report just in time for the Community Round Tables tomorrow.
CiviCRM version 5.44.0 is now out and ready to download. This is a regular monthly release.
Upgrade now for the most stable CiviCRM experience:
Users of the CiviCRM Extended Security Releases (ESR) do not need to upgrade, as there are no ESR-specific bug-fixes or security issues at the moment. The current version of ESR is CiviCRM 5.39.x.
CiviCRM Core Team member Coleman Watts will host a webinar presenting the latest developments in SearchKit, work in progress and future plans on 18 August at 11:00am US ET. Please join in to learn about the latest work or just to get familiar with SearchKit. Info at:
CiviCRM includes a rich text editing component, CKEditor, which recently released a security update (v4.16.2). This update addresses 3 security issues.
We expect that these vulnerabilities cannot be meaningfully exploited by automated bots or crawlers - but they may be exploitable with modest social-engineering. Thus, we advise upgrading (or using one of the alternative solutions below).
Join the Community Council and the Core Team for the 2nd Quarterly Community Round Table tomorrow, July 27th (or 28th, depending on your time zone). There will be two sessions to accommodate various time zones (links below up a Time Zone converter):
Due to a scheduling conflict, the 2nd Community Round Table originally scheduled for July 13th will be postponed 2 weeks and will be held on July 27th. Additional information will be forthcoming. Sorry for any confusion!
