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Hey, Sugar Developers! The Sugar Q4 2021 release is nearly here! Time to evaluate your integrations and add-ons with the upcoming Q4 2021 SugarCloud release. Sugar Release Preview for Q4 2021 The Release Preview for Sugar 11.2 (Q4 2021) rel...

Wow! I just had a blast reading through Sergei's interview with Debezium and how we applied their technology within SugarCloud and also some of the open source contributions that we've been giving back. For those who don't know him Sergei Morozov is ...

When working with fraud detection and many other machine learning projects, it’s crucial that you understand that your insights and predictions are only as good as the data you use. Bad data can negatively impact the results and performance. Da...

The Release Preview for the Q4 2021 SugarCloud release is now available! Sugar Release Previews are provided to select partners and customers to give you an opportunity to plan and prepare customizations and integrations for upcoming Sugar ...

As the title suggests, we will explore and build a fraud detection system inside Sugar Sell by utilizing AWS prediction and machine learning services. Fraud is a multi-billion dollar a year problem. Companies are adding multiple sales channels l...

Have you heard about ClubZone? It's a set of virtual conference on Sept 28, 29, and 30th that we are planning to specifically for our worldwide community of Sugar users - which includes end-users, administrators, and developers. That's r...

Hey Sugar Developers, My name is Rafael Fernandes, your new Principal Developer Advocate here at SugarCRM, I'm super excited to be part of this amazing, innovative company. This post is my intro to you and how I can help the Sugar ...

Up until today, we have not defined a strict format for how developers should version their Module Loadable Packages. This occasionally can cause problems when Sugar tries to parse or compare these version strings. Today, we're updating our guid...

SugarCloud customers using Sell, Serve, Enterprise, and Professional be getting upgraded to Sugar 11.1.0 in the coming weeks. We held a developer webinar a few weeks ago which has all the details. You can find the Recording and&nb...

Sugar utilizes a PHP library called Smarty for rendering PDFs in PDF Manager and also for rendering HTML pages used by Backwards Compatibility (BWC) modules. In Sugar 11.2 (Q4 2021), we will be upgrading that library fro...

In case you missed it.. We've just finished our two Sugar Developer Webinars for the upcoming Q3 2021 release. The Q3 2021 release will be available in a few short weeks so now is the time to start getting ready! We had over 70 attendees for th...

The Sugar Q3 2021 release is right around the corner and we wanted to make sure you knew about the two resources below to help you prepare. Now is the time to evaluate your integrations and add-ons with the upcoming Q3 2021 SugarCloud release. Sugar ...

On April 6th, SugarCRM released Sugar 11.0 which is our annual on-premise release as well as our Q2 2021 SugarCloud release. This includes upgrades to Sugar Sell, Sugar Serve, Sugar Enterprise & Professional. For Sugar Developers working on the n...

Hello DevClub, I'd like to start by thanking you for being here and creating such an awesome place to learn and share ideas with other Sugar developers. We truly appreciate your participation. Did you know that you are the most active group ...

As previously communicated, per SugarCRM policies, we are announcing the end of support and security maintenance for all Sugar Professional and Enterprise instances on version 9.x. Support of version 9.x instances will come to end on April 30, 2021.

Any users currently on Sugar version 9.x should upgrade to a supported version as soon as possible to continue to receive support and security maintenance of your Sugar deployment…

Hello Sugar Developers! We want to make sure your customizations and integrations are ready for the Sugar Q2 2021 (11.0) release. So we're hosting a webinar just for you! In addition to details about the latest release, we will also be looking at...

In a previous article, we began talking about upcoming changes to Sugar's enforcement of a Content Security Policy. Well... it's here! In Sugar 11.0, we have introduced the Content Security Policy Admin module. This module will allow administ...

Deleting older emails is a common approach to reduce a Sugar instance storage footprint.In this post, I want to cover the following options available to delete emails prior to a given date.1 - Mass Update 2 - REST Endpoints 3 - Direct ...

One of the things I can't believe we still don't have 'Out of the box' access to in Sugar is the job_queue table.  The job_queue table is where sugar stores the queue of scheduled and submitted jobs that the cron job will run.&nb...

Ever since prepared queries appeared in Sugar it has made debugging queries a lot more challenging.  When you set your log level to INFO and collect the suspect queries you are presented with queries that look like thisSELECT meetings.id, meetin...

Each year, I receive a survey about my JavaScript and CSS habits, preferences, and knowledge. That data is then compiled into 2 reports: The State of JavaScript and The State of CSS. I don't think enough people are aware of these reports. So, I w...

A change is comin... Not just yet but tentatively for 11.0 (around April 2021), we plan to add a new admin module to manage and enforce CSP. We want to ensure that you are ready for the change and understand what a CSP is. A Content Securit...

Hello Sugar Developers! We want to make sure your customizations and integrations are ready for the Sugar Q1 2021 (10.3) release. So we're hosting a webinar just for you! In addition to details about the latest release, we will also be looking at...

Hello Sugar Developers! We have another release for you with new features and fixes! We are calling this one Sugar Q1 2021 (or Sugar 10.3.0). This release is for cloud customers only. Here are some of the new features and fixes for this release.&nbsp...

Let’s talk about Upsert - not to be confused with our company of the same name. Upsert API endpoints are an incredible time saver. Have your integrations become cumbersome? Much like that 90’s band Seven Mary Three, we want to avoid this ...