# 7.4.0 **Release Date**: June 18, 2026 --- # ๐ŸŒธ ChurchCRM 7.4.0 โ€” The "Refined Security & Shared Spaces" Release **Release Date**: June 18, 2026 **Theme**: Smoother Access, Hardened Protections, and Global Reach Welcome to **ChurchCRM 7.4.0**! This major milestone focuses on enhancing your day-to-day user experience, tightening security bounds across self-service features, and expanding our ever-growing international footprint with brand-new language support. --- ## ๐ŸŽจ A Sleeker Login & Dashboard Experience We have rolled out highly requested user interface refinements to make your daily operations feel cleaner and more logical: * **The New Single-Card Login:** We have replaced the old split-screen login design with a beautifully centered, single-card layout. Switching between standard login and security features is now elegantly handled via a segmented pill control. * **Decluttered Events Dashboard:** Past events are no longer mixed in with your active schedule. They are now automatically neatly tucked away into a clean, collapsible section, letting you focus entirely on what's ahead. * **Public Calendar Details:** If you share a public calendar link with your congregation, users can now click on an event to see an interactive detail pop-upโ€”bringing public calendar features to parity with the internal view. --- ## ๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ "Fortress-Grade" Privacy & Access Enhancements With our plugin ecosystem growing, we have taken extra measures to ensure self-service and data exports are completely locked down. * **Secure Password Resets:** The links sent for forgotten passwords now use cryptographically secure tokens, ensuring that resetting credentials cannot be intercepted or guessed by bad actors. * **Export Controls:** To better protect congregation privacy, full CSV data exports have been strictly limited to administrator accounts. * **Family-Scoped Guardrails:** For users with "EditSelf" permissions, the system now enforces a strict family-scope security check to guarantee members can only modify data belonging exclusively to their immediate household. * **Safe Plugin Installation:** To ensure community plugins remain safe, the installer now actively blocks and screens zip files containing any server-executable extensions. --- ## ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฐ Welcome Slovak Support! Our international community continues to flourish. * **Slovak Joins the Family:** We are thrilled to introduce official support for **Slovak (sk)**, expanding our native language capabilities. * **40 Locales Polished:** Alongside our new Slovak addition, we have pushed a massive translation update to **40 active languages** to keep all of 7.4.0's new dashboards completely localized for your staff. --- ## ๐ŸŒ Report Fixes & Data Reliability * **True International Reporting:** We have dismantled old, hardcoded assumptions across our reporting systems. Reports now dynamically honor your configured **Default Country**, ensuring perfect address and location formatting for churches outside the United States. * **Cart Handler Stabilization:** Fixed a minor glitch where clicking items into your cart right as a page loaded would fail. The handler is now safely tied to the browser readiness state. --- ## ๐Ÿ‹ Technical Foundation & Container Security For the tech-focused teams running ChurchCRM on modern infrastructure: * **Production-Ready Docker Images:** Our official Dockerfiles have been completely overhauled to include automated system health checks, built-in composer verification, and a transition to running as a secure **non-root user**. * **API Architecture Cleanup:** We've completely stripped out legacy cruft from the OpenAPI generator, leaving a highly optimized, clean API layer. --- ## โš ๏ธ Important Reminder * **Server Requirement:** This version continues to **require PHP 8.4**. * **Guided Upgrade:** Our automated migration wizard is fully updated and standing by to take you seamlessly from the 7.3 series up to 7.4.0. --- **Full Technical Changelog**: [[Compare 7.3.3...7.4.0](https://github.com/ChurchCRM/CRM/compare/7.3.3...7.4.0)](https://github.com/ChurchCRM/CRM/compare/7.3.3...7.4.0) *A special shoutout to our newest contributor, @toothpaster, and the global POEditor translation team for keeping ChurchCRM expanding across the globe!* ๐ŸŒฟ --- ### ๐ŸŽจ Visual Announcement Assets If you are planning to update your community graphics using **"Marking-Hero-blank.png"**, consider highlighting these main pillars for the 7.4.0 announcement text: 1. **The Single-Card Login:** Shows off the sleek layout visible across desktop and mobile. 2. **Slovak Language:** "Now supporting 41+ regional locales!" 3. **Collapsible Event Timelines:** Perfect for visual clean-up previews.