🎄 ChurchCRM 6.6.1: Sharing Our Gift with the World

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! As we celebrate this season of joy and giving, we are thrilled to share ChurchCRM 6.6.1 with the global community.

This release is a labor of love, building upon our recent work to make the software more intuitive and accessible for every corner of the globe. Version 6.6.1 focuses on "clearing the path"—polishing the user experience, fixing important bugs, and making the system even more welcoming for the new year.

🌟 What’s New in 6.6.1

📅 Simplified Event & Group Management

We’ve focused on making your church's daily activities easier to manage:

• Events Made Easy: We have overhauled the Event Management system and simplified how you edit event types. These UX improvements and bug fixes make scheduling your ministry activities much smoother.
• Group & Property Fixes: We addressed issues with group roles and properties, and modernized the Property Type List for easier navigation.

💰 Accurate Financial Reporting

To help with your year-end bookkeeping, we’ve polished our reporting tools:

• Deposit Reports: Fixed issues in the Advanced Deposit Report to ensure fund totals and summary data are accurate.
• Fiscal Clarity: Improved the way fiscal years are displayed throughout the system.

🌍 One World, Many Tongues (Localization)

In the spirit of the season, we want ChurchCRM to speak your language. This release continues our massive push for localization, with 45 supported locales and 35 languages at 75% completion or higher.

Languages at 99% to 100% completion include:

• Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese.

💡 Community Tip: Adding a new language is now faster than ever! You can use common AI Chat systems (like ChatGPT or Gemini) to help translate and format locale files, making it simple to share ChurchCRM with your local community.

🧹 Inner Beauty & Modern Refinement

Just like tidying up the home for holiday guests, we’ve done some deep cleaning "under the hood" to prepare for the future:

• PHP 8.3 Ready: We’ve modernized the code to take advantage of the latest features in PHP 8.3.
• System Stability: Added new automated checks to ensure our code stays healthy and reliable.
• UX Cleanup: Continued our work from 6.6.0 to clean up Family/Person lists, pagination, and 2FA layouts.

⚠️ A Reminder for those on Version 5

If you are still using the 5.x.x series, please note that the 6.x series is our modern standard and requires updated server software:

• PHP Version: 8.2 or Higher
• Database: MySQL 8.0.11+ or MariaDB 10.5+

🎁 Join the Community

ChurchCRM is a gift from the community, for the community. Whether you want to help us translate the remaining languages or contribute code, we’d love to have you.

Full Changelog: [Compare 6.6.0...6.6.1](https://github.com/ChurchCRM/CRM/compare/6.6.0...6.6.1)

Wishing you a peaceful and joyous holiday season, The ChurchCRM Team