Originally published at: https://mautic.org/blog/mautic-7-columba-edition-beta-version-is-ready-for-testing
Hello community!
We are excited to announce that the Mautic 7 Columba edition beta version is now available for public testing!
With Mautic 7, we are focused on removing outdated code and functionality to ensure Mautic remains secure and performant aligned with modern coding standards, while also delivering more improvements and features to Mautic.
We’ve worked really hard to get to this point – a huge thanks to all the community members who have contributed to the release!
⚠️IMPORTANT NOTE:
This is a pre-release, which means it should never be used in a production environment. At this stage we do not test the upgrade path nor do we guarantee upgrading from Beta to later versions.
Please only use it in testing environments, and report back your findings.
The major release focuses on a major update to Symfony 7, but it also brings several user-facing changes and some changes that are relevant for developers. Read on for more information.
What’s new in Mautic 7 Beta Columba Edition?
User-facing changes
- Improvements to user experience for scheduled sending of emails (#14254)
- Improvements in bounce recognition for Outlook and Exchange (#15371)
- New slider form field type (#15332)
- Improvements in user experience for text message and web notification previews (#15410 and #15247)
- Add Projects support for stages, dynamic web content and points (#15409)
Developer-facing changes
- API Platform implemented (see /api/v2) (#14812)
- Ability to define multiple mailer DSNs (#14254)
- Ability to replace DB cache with Redis or similar service (#15554)
- Add events in the Projects bundle to allow bundles/plugins to extend entity type to model key mappings (#15485)
- Projects unified in API endpoints (#15507)
Download Mautic 7 Beta and help speed up the releases
All these exciting new features and code improvements now need to be extensively tested so they can get into the hands of our users as soon as possible.
As an open source project, the Mautic Community is the foundation of our progress, so join us today and help speed up the release of Mautic 7 into the General Availability version.
The General Availability release of Mautic 7.0 is scheduled to be released in Q4 2025, and with your help we’ll make that deadline.
Here is what you can do to help:
Each Friday we will be having our usual Open Source Friday community sprints, a great way to have mentored onboarding to get started with contributing to Mautic. Join us on Slack and head over to #new-contributors if you’d like to get started, or jump right into any of the teams, whose channels start with #t-<team name>.
Right now we have Hacktoberfest running, which means there’s even more onboarding support from our awesome team leads!
Check the features, enhancements, refactoring and bug fixes which are slated for release in the Release Candidate, and help us by testing them. Check our docs on testing – which can almost always be done locally or using a GitHub Codespace in the browser by any user of Mautic. Don’t forget to leave a formal review, that counts as a contribution to Mautic!
Help us with completing the updates needed for the end-user and developer documentation by joining #t-education on Slack. We have regular onboarding calls to help you get started. There’s everything from updating screenshots to reviewing our code examples, something for everyone!
Useful resources
https://github.com/mautic/mautic/blob/1cbf3b4198ca004950b06bd091c1f35e8e4b95c7/UPGRADE-7.0.md – developer-facing changes
7.0.0-alpha release – https://github.com/mautic/mautic/releases/tag/7.0.0-alpha
7.0.0-beta release – https://github.com/mautic/mautic/releases/tag/7.0.0-beta
7.0.0-Release Candidate milestone: https://github.com/mautic/mautic/milestone/127
7.0.0-General Availability milestone: https://github.com/mautic/mautic/milestone/128