SuiteCRM 7.12.14, 7.14.2 & 8.4.2 Released!

Our latest maintenance release; 7.12.14, 7.14.2 and 8.4.2, is now available to download :tada:

As this release contains a number of security and bug fixes, we would encourage you all to upgrade as soon as you can.

A massive THANK YOU to our community, which has contributed to 28 pull requests being merged into this release, including those that were merged on the back of Hacktoberfest 2023 :clap:

To find out more about the latest release, please check out the following SuiteCRM release notes:

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v8.4.2 is another step forward in crushing bugs. Lots of people would like to help create more PRs to help advance development. But most of us don’t have time to setup a dedicated test server, install a code editor, install a web server like Apache, install a database and install the correct PHP version and SuiteCRM’s developer tools including debugging software. It is not a trivial task to assist creating PRs and therefore the bulk of users cannot participate in helping. But, the maintainers now have a way to enlist a larger army of users to help with bugs and fixes and improvements. These are people like me who know where the bugs exist but don’t have time or expertise to set up a server to help submit PRs.

Use Codespace on github. It is there now but unused. Codespace includes a web-based code editor (VS Code) and a virtual machine to test the latest SuiteCRM code. It uses a pre-configured Codespace allowing users to modify and debug a vanilla SuiteCRM installation which is automatically installed. Only a browser is needed to help create more PRs.

This is how Codespace could be used:

  • User creates a GitHub Codespace with an automatically created fresh installation of latest SuiteCRM
  • User tests a code change in SuiteCRM to deal with a bug or feature request
  • XDebug automatically debugs the new code in real time.
  • User submits a PR once the code is tested and working. Github saves the environment which means you don’t have to restart if you take a break.

If the SuiteCRM maintainers setup a preconfigured Codespace on github then I believe many more people will jump in and help as requested. Also, preconfigured Codespaces could be created for V8.x and V7.x current releases.

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