Today we make available the third minor release in the 3.x series which includes features and improvements for both developers and marketers, in addition to bug fixes.
Here are the details of the features, enhancements, and bug fixes. For more information and a full list of changes please refer to the Release Notes.
New features
End-user facing changes
Modern Email and Landing Page Builder
3.3 includes the first release of a modern Email and Landing Page builder. It’s much better than the legacy builder with responsive design, drag & drop blocks, MJML templates, and a fair bit more. You’ve asked for it and, thanks to the donated code from Webmecanik, it delivers on one major strategic initiative which was announced at MautiCon 2020. This modern builder is based on the GrapesJS Open Source framework.
Learn more about the new builder in our Documentation.
Starter templates
With 3.3, there’s a handful of new modern email templates created and donated by Joey Keller at Friendly Automate to get started with the new Email and Landing Page builder as soon as v3.3 is installed. Keep an eye out for more MJML and HTML templates to come.
Segment Categories
Organising and categorising Segments is no longer a chore for those that have a large number of Segments. With v3.3, the built-in Category feature has been extended to include Segments. You can choose Segment Categories as well. This helps you to organise your segments better.
Send report now
Knowing what is happening and creating amazing reports is the cornerstone of great marketing. Some reports take a while to run (especially with large databases) and this new feature allows you to have the report sent to you as an attachment without waiting to be generated and displayed.
More granular control over email 'from' settings
If a Contact is assigned an Owner, you can now force the Owner’s email/name to be used as the sender on a per-email basis instead of using the global system-wide email address.
Enhanced progressive profiling for forms
With Mautic 3.3 we have added some great features to improve progressive profiling available for use with forms. This includes the ability to queue unlimited fields, show only a specified number of fields, set a field to always show even if the value is known, and to add cross-form support for progressive profiling.
Background processing of Custom Fields
With larger instances, adding a new custom field can be a very resource-intensive process, sometimes leading to timeout errors and problems with the field not being fully added before it is available for use.
There is now the option to run this process in the background, triggered by a cron job.
Purge Maxmind data commands for CCPA compliance
Two new cron jobs have been added to download the Do Not Sell list from Maxmind and purge the data from your Mautic instance.
Developer-facing changes
Support for PHP 7.2 dropped
In line with the warnings we have been displaying in Mautic instances on PHP 7.2 since the 3.2.5 release, we have now dropped support for this outdated version. 7.3 and 7.4 are fully supported and work is in progress to support PHP 8.0.
DDEV first-run experience
DDEV support allows for quickly spinning up a Mautic Instance so you can dive into Mautic, its APIs, and test test test.
With Mautic 3.3, this developer's first-run experience is minutes away.
Once a developer has cloned the Mautic repository from Github, they can get started with one single command - `ddev start` - at the command line to install and configure a working Mautic instance.
The same has been implemented for the API Library, which will configure the API Library, API testing tool and a linked Mautic instance for you to test with.
Starting today, DDEV support improves the testing process for contributors.
Improvements to webhook processing & new events added
There are issues with webhook processing when there are too many events to send. It is now possible to add a configured time limit to stop processing webhooks after the limit is hit which prevents timeouts when there are large volumes of events being processed.
There have also been improvements in query optimisation and a new index that speeds up the query even more, and two new events added - email and SMS send.
Custom reschedule interval for campaigns
When a specific event fails it is now possible to reschedule with a different interval (faster) than the default interval (1h).
A subscriber can now set the interval as the 3rd argument: $pendingEvent->fail($log, $reason, new \DateInterval('PT5M')); // Reschedule the event in 5 minutes.
Updated Cache Bundle
The new cache bundle enables the developer to use the common Symfony caching mechanism with tag-aware adapters. It implements FS, Memcache and Redis adapters.
Bug fixes
There are 12 bug fixes in this release:
- Avoid using requestStack->getCurrentRequest() in constructor #9667
- Fix Uncaught ReferenceError: mauticEnv is not defined from dashaboard.js #9652
- Fix custom contact column from any group #9649
- Fix integration config validation - 2 #9642
- Fixed impossible statement #9637
- Fix PHP Notice on show_php_version_warning_if_under #9622
- fix timeline on sms #9578
- missing table prefix on campaign repository #9575
- Notification header size #9569
- Bug report graph line leads #9547
- remove unrelevant filters for dynamic content #9260
- Fix IP lookup bug #9670
Want to see more features and bug fixes?
There were many more features that we had wanted to include in this release and unfortunately we did not have enough people helping to test them to allow us to include them in this release.
If you would like to see more features and bug fixes making their way into Mautic, now is the time to step up and help us with this ongoing task.
You don’t need to be technical (although if you are, we have plenty to keep you busy!), or even to have your own test instance. Anybody who uses Mautic can help, and even one hour of your time could mean the difference between a feature or bug fix making it into the next release or not.
Please join #t-product on Slack and consider making some time to help give back to Mautic!
We now have a regular monthly Friday/Saturday sprint the weekend before we ship the Release Candidate where we work together on any remaining tasks to close the milestone - the next dates are provided below and can be found on the Mautic Community Calendar.
3.3.1
Sprint: 12-13 March 2021
Release Candidate: 15th March 2021
General Availability: 22nd March 2021
3.3.2
Sprint: 16-17 April 2021
Release Candidate: 19th April 2021
General Availability: 26th April 2021
4.0
Final Sprint: 14-15 May 2021
Release Candidate: 17th May 2021
General Availability: 24th May 2021