Early warnings

Today I met with a coaching client who was having a very hard time applying CiviCRM's latest security update.

She kept getting fatal errors, with very uninformative messages.

Turns out, it was caused by an issue that CiviCRM had been warning everyone about -- in it's System Status warnings -- for a very long time.

She's not alone there.

In the past few days, I've fixed several sites with the same problem.

On the call today we worked through it together, and she's now fully upgraded -- yay!

But it reminded me:

Those little status messages CiviCRM pops up for you when you log in?

They're worth noticing.

Eventually, keeping up with them might just save you a lot of trouble.

Believe me, I know it's easy to let things slide when they don't seem urgent.

But eventually they can become urgent.

And you usually don’t get to pick when that will be.

All the best,
A.