CiviCRM Security Release: Oct 16, 2024

Written By Allen Shaw

Get ready for an upgrade to CiviCRM. The announcement is below.

Here’s how you can prepare for this important security release:

  • Understand the importance of security updates. This is not the kind of thing you want to skip.

  • Test your backups. You’ll want to perform a full site backup before upgrading, and have confidence that you can revert to that backup in case of any surprises during the upgrade.

  • Get a preview of any extra steps that may be needed. CiviCRM upgrades can require some additional manual steps, and you typically won’t know what those are until you read the on-screen instructions during the upgrade, which is not the most convenient time to learn about them.
    You can prepare ahead of time by previewing those messages in my CiviCRM Upgrade Messages Previewer.

This update will be released on October 16. Don’t wait until then to start preparing!

All the best,
A.

P.S. Here’s the original announcement from the CiviCRM Core Team:

There will be a security release for CiviCRM on Wednesday, October 16 (US/Pacific Time). Updates will be provided for the following versions:

CiviCRM v5.78 (https://civicrm.org/download)

CiviCRM v5.75 (current ESR; see https://civicrm.org/esr)

We expect the release to become available near the end of the day (TZ conversions).

Allen Shaw
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