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During the Point Montara Lighthouse Sprint, Alain Benbassat, David Moreton, and Don Hirst worked on making the CiviCRM documentation better with a more robust but easy to follow process for producing and improving docs.
We started with the Diátaxis Framework, which has the core idea that:
This year, CiviCRM turns 20 years old. We’ll be marking this milestone by launching a new series of CiviCRM quarterly meetup events for those in Scotland and further afield.
Since the middle of last year there have been some tools in CiviCRM core to help with maintaining workflow templates that have not been well publicised … Notably Site Tokens (worked on at the South Carolina Sprint by Allen Shaw of Joinery) and some tweaks for easier editing in the Message Admin extension (which ships as part of CiviCRM but which you may need to enable).
CiviCRM version 6.2.0 is now ready to download. This is a regular monthly release. Upgrade now for the most stable CiviCRM experience:
In this blog series, we introduce useful extensions for CiviCRM. Each month, we showcase one of the many extensions we have developed at SYSTOPIA over the years. This time, we're looking at the Twingle API Extension – a practical solution to automatically transfer donations from Twingle to CiviCRM.
TLDR: Site-builders who manage CiviCRM extensions in the web UI should install the Hotfix: Extension Upgrades or upgrade to v6.1. Similarly, site-builders who manage extensions with cv CLI should update to v0.3.63+.
MotivationAfter 17 years of shipping with the Greenwich theme, the release of CiviCRM 6 last month brought to new installs a new default theme, Minetta, named after the river running under Greenwich, New York. But Civi 6 didn't mark the arrival of just one new theme; it shipped with four themes: Minetta, Walbrook, HackneyBrook and Thames.
