Mautic 7: Columba Edition is released

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Today we’ve released Mautic 7.0: Columba Edition. It’s here.

This is a full term release with a four-year support cycle – one year active, one year security, two years Extended Long Term Support. Read more about our release strategy.

Check out the full release notes. Here’s what matters.

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Thank you

It takes a village to ship a release.

A huge thank you to everybody who contributed code, tested and reviewed contributions, created imagery, wrote content, managed social media, and updated documentation. Every contribution – code or no-code – helped get Mautic 7 over the line.

The Mautic Community is the foundation of our progress. This release exists because of you.

Marketer-facing changes

Projects: Keep your campaigns organised

As campaigns grow, organisation matters. Projects in Mautic 7 help teams manage all related resources under a single, logical structure.

Group emails, landing pages, forms, and assets that belong together. Keep multi-channel initiatives aligned. Reduce duplication across campaigns.

Projects give teams a shared structure without limiting flexibility.

This means:

  • Different product lines? Projects have you covered.
  • Multiple organizational units? Projects have you covered.
  • Significantly differing seasonal campaign themes? You guessed it: Projects have you covered.

Campaign import and export

Columbia, aka Mautic 7, introduces the ability to import and export campaigns together with their related assets.

Move complete campaign setups between environments without rebuilding them manually. Migrate from development to staging to production with confidence. Reuse proven campaign frameworks across teams or regions.

An ideal step up for organisations of any scale. This feature was funded by the NLNet Foundation.

Smarter segment-based sending

Segment emails can now adapt to audience growth in real time. Choose whether to continue sending to contacts as they enter a segment, or lock the audience to those present when sending begins.

More control. Better predictability. Clearer intent for time-sensitive campaigns.

Preview and scheduling improvements

  • Text message previews optimised for quick, on-the-go review
  • Web notification previews that make design validation simpler and more visual
  • Email scheduling now lives on the email detail page – easier to review, adjust, and launch without context switching

Less guesswork before you publish.

Developer-facing changes

A modern API at /api/v2

API Platform brings a cleaner, more consistent interface – built for what’s next.

  • Autogenerated, interactive documentation – test and discover responses right in the docs
  • More consistent, discoverable endpoints
  • Better alignment with modern API standards
  • Stronger support for headless use cases, integrations, and custom applications

A better foundation for building on Mautic.

Infrastructure flexibility

  • Database caching can now be replaced with Redis or similar services, improving performance for larger installations
  • Multiple mailer DSNs can be defined for more flexible email infrastructure
  • Project events allow plugins and bundles to map their own entities into the Projects bundle

Under the hood

Mautic 7 brings support for Symfony 7.3 and PHP 8.4. We’ve updated many outdated dependencies and removed a vast amount of legacy code.

The result: a cleaner, more modern core that’s easier to extend and maintain.

For details on changes that may affect custom code, review the UPGRADE-7.0.md file.

Before you upgrade

Mautic 7 includes changes that may affect your setup. Here’s what to check:

PHP version: Mautic 7 requires PHP 8.2 or higher. PHP 8.1 is no longer supported.

No more UI updates: We removed manual updates through the Mautic interface. Use Composer or download the release package directly.

What we removed:

  • AMQP queue support
  • The API rate limiter (unmaintained library)
  • The “Identify visitor by tracking URL” configuration option

Review the UPGRADE-7.0.md file for the full list of breaking changes before upgrading.

Get started

Ready to explore Mautic 7?

Questions? Join us on Slack in #mautic-7.

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First of all, congrats on the new release and thanks to all the amazing contributors - version 7 looks really good.

How does this work - i couldn’t find any documentation on how to use multiple dsn. Certainly under Configuration > Email Settings > there is only one Email DSN.

I assume this feature should allow a marketer to set multiple DSN whcih allow to use different providers / differents email domains to send emails ?

Am i missing something here ?

Thanks

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Hey there, thanks for the positive comments and appreciation of the many contributors who have put work into this release!

This is a code-level change to enable future plugin development which would enable this behaviour. If you review the PR related to it, you’ll find the info. There is no current implementation of it, so we haven’t got any demonstrable examples to use at this time and the developer was not able to help with documentation.

We have a project which we’re hoping will be picked up, to enable multi-DSN use in the application:

Currently there are third party commercial plugins that do part of this, but not the whole story (e.g. as far as I know they don’t fully take into account bounce notifications, replies, etc). We would like to bring such a capability into core (and so would many Mautic users!)

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Thanks for the detailed reply :slight_smile:

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