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

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.

CiviCRM version 5.82.0 is now ready to download. This is a regular monthly release. Upgrade now for the most stable CiviCRM experience:

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.

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 ...

CiviCRM version 5.81.0 is now ready to download. This is a regular monthly release. Upgrade now for the most stable CiviCRM experience:

Version 5.81 is a CiviCRM Extended Security Release (ESR).

We're bringing in the New Year by taking a break from the normal production of more CiviAcademy video tutorials in order to provide a light-hearted look at what may be equally important: what NOT to do in CiviCRM.

If you're new to CiviCRM or even considering using it, our Top 10 Most Common Mistakes Users Make in CiviCRM video showcase could prove to be an invaluable resource!

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.

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.

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.

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

CiviCRM version 5.80.0 is now ready to download. This is a regular monthly release. Upgrade now for the most stable CiviCRM experience:

Starting with Drupal 8, composer is used to manage web site dependencies and to download packages to the server. A Drupal and CiviCRM website requires 100s of packages to provide the large set of functional components. Composer simplifies the process of determining which versions of packages will all work together appropriately, and fetching all of them and putting them in the right place in the code base.

The CiviCRM community is going back to where it all started to celebrate 20 years of serving nonprofits. 

Start planning now to attend the event in the San Francisco area. 

There will be three parallel tracks of sessions over two days, packed with case studies and the latest in SearchKit, FormBuilder and new extensions.  

Planning for this gala event is already underway:

Mass email campaigns are a staple of digital marketing, providing a powerful way to reach a large audience quickly. However, ensuring that your email content resonates with your audience can be challenging. One of the most effective ways to optimise email performance is through A/B testing, a feature that has been core functionality for a long time and is now fully implemented using Mosaico.