SuiteCRM 8.8 Beta Released!

[suitecrm_team]

Dear SuiteCRM community,

We are excited to announce the new SuiteCRM 8.8 Beta is now available to download!

Please note that this is a pre-release and is NOT recommended for Production use.

The major changes include:

• Record View UI re-styling and refinements
• Upgrade to Angular 18 and to the front-end extension setup
• UI Performance improvements
• PHP 8.3 support
• TOTP Two-factor authentication
• Extensibility improvements: Record Mappers and Save Handlers

We encourage you to test this Beta release and provide us with your feedback on the new features and functionality, as well as any stability or security issues you may have encountered.

Read more about SuiteCRM 8.8 in our blog post.

We look forward to reading your responses below, and improving on this release in preparation for the official launch next year.

Thanks a lot for your contributions!

The Team at SuiteCRM

[rsp]

It looks good

I have notice few things in my use.

• At last step of UI installation. We got some error and we thought it is not installed, but when we refreshed the page. It showed the login page.
• I lost navbar when I set server root to …/SuiteCRM/public/legacy and RewriteBase to /
• prod/prod.log growing fastering with this error → cache.WARNING: Failed to save key
• If you try to create email template and you screen is smaller then the body editor part of email template will go below and overlap with drag-n-drop options

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[EugeneB]

Excited with the new released, and giving a try, to install, following the install guide Running the UI installer :: SuiteCRM Documentation

• During the precheck everything is okay
• however during the database configuration, filled in everything however when click on Proceed
• it throw an error without actual error message see the screenshot below, it showing LBL_ACTION_ERROR

[rsp]

Yes, I got same error. Check your DB.

I refreshed page and then it showed me login page.

[EugeneB]

thanks for sharing, I refreshed public/install.php and got some error, probably is my hosting server setting.

however I logged a bugs, as both of us facing the same error bug in the setup of 8.8 beta · Issue #581 · salesagility/SuiteCRM-Core · GitHub

[amit86]

Dear SuiteCRM Team,

When planning to add the relationship for lead conversion to Contact, Account, or Opportunity, we noticed that there are no existing relationships retained with the lead after it is converted.

Could you please confirm if there are any plans to include this functionality? If so, could you share the specific timeline or the SuiteCRM release version in which it is expected to be added?

Looking forward to your response.

[sadiq-soomro]

There is an issue.
After creating role, there is no way to link it to the user.
Ignore the blue navigation bar.
Deployed on Ubuntu
PHP 8.2
Apache 2.4

[adam_2]

@sadiq-soomro: Go to Admin → System Settings and ensure that “Prevent user customizable subpanel layout” is not checked.

[sadiq-soomro]

@adam_2 Its not checked.
This issue was there in 8.6 but got fixed in 8.7.1 but its back in 8.8.

[BastianHammer]

Hello @amit86 ,

are you referring to activities?
That would work via the system settings in the admin area?

[amit86]

Hello @BastianHammer ,

Thanks for your response !!

my Query is related to.
When I convert a lead into a contact, account, and opportunity, I find that there is no option to navigate back from the lead to the associated contact, account, or opportunity.

Which was available in an earlier version of SuiteCRM 7.x

Thanks