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By AllenShaw Filed under CiviCon

If you've never been to a CiviCRM Sprint before, you might like to know it's far from "all work and no play."

For example:

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By guyiacFiled under

CiviCon 2025 is now in the process of finalizing the program, and we still have openings for additional presenters! Submit your proposal today.

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By ErikHommelFiled under

As you might know CiviCRM celebrates it's 20th birthday this year. On top the CiviCon 2025 at San Fransisco (USA) in May there will be a CiviCamp and CiviSprint in The Netherlands (Europe). CiviCamp will be on Monday 20 October 2025 with a CiviSprint from Tuesday 21 October 2025 up to Friday 24 October 2025.

More news will follow, watch this space.

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By andyburns Filed under Community, Marketing and Promotion

There’s many ways the CiviCRM project continuously gets feedback: from clients working with CiviCRM partners, people posting GitLab issues, or conversations in the Mattermost chat. 

But right now, we’d like to step back and revisit with a more holistic angle of where end user organizations are at via a short 5-10 minute survey.

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By AllenShaw Filed under CiviCon, Community, Sprints, Training

Join us in May for CiviCon San Francisco 2025, a grand celebration of CiviCRM's 20 years of serving non-profits, back in the town where it all started!

CiviCon 2025 will bring together professionals from organizations that use CiviCRM, agencies that support these organizations, and developers who create CiviCRM-related software.

This is a fantastic opportunity for you to learn about exciting new developments in CiviCRM, and get connected with others in the community. Come learn, share, and connect!

Centered around the 2-day, 3-track conference itself, this series of events covers a 9-day period from May 19-27, including optional trainings plus a multi-day working retreat on ...

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By SYSTOPIA Filed under Extensions
At SYSTOPIA, we’ve built and maintain a wide range of tools, from CiviCRM extensions to Drupal modules and more. With over 60 repositories under active management, we’re dedicated to enhancing the CiviCRM ecosystem. In this release, we’re happy to present our SQL Tasks Extension – a SQL driven solution for the configurable execution of CiviCRM actions.
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By EileenFiled under

In line with our practice over recent years (per 7.3, 7.2, 7.1), we are ending our support for php 7.4 two years after PHP dropped support for it. This means that the 5.81 release will be the last CiviCRM release supporting PHP 7.4.

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By josh Filed under Community

Yeah, you read that right. We’ve been working CiviCRM version 5 for so long now that it’s almost, but not quite, a household brand. That all changes on 5 March 2025 when the official release of CiviCRM 6 lands.

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By pkeogan Filed under Drupal 7
Drupal 7 will go end-of-life on January 5, 2025

With the end-of-life, security updates for Drupal 7 will cease, leaving your CiviCRM website vulnerable to threats and potentially facing compatibility issues. It's crucial to understand your options and take action to ensure your site's security and functionality.

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By josh Filed under Drupal 7

For 2025, the CiviCRM-D7 integration will continue to receive basic support, but usage is discouraged. Specifically:

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