In October, we announced our transition to a semi-annual release cadence, which has been well received across the board. After further consideration to further enhance consistency across the Sugar suite, we're adopting a new standardized versioning convention…

Every year, SugarCRM hosts a hackathon known as "Sprint Week," an entire week in which members of Product and Engineering teams set aside their daily tasks to dive into a world of creativity and exploration. This dedicated week encourages our teams to…

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…

In Sugar 8 / Spring '18, Sugar administrators can now configure API platforms using the Administration panel. The Platform extension is still available if you want to register a custom API platform as part of a Module Loadable Package. Sugar uses platforms…

Post originally written by avlasovsugar. Alex Vlasov is an experienced Sugar Developer and contractor that works on the SugarCRM Engineering platform team. In this post, Alex shares advice to Sugar Developers for preparing their Sugar customizations for…

Sugar's Single Page Architecture Sugar relies on a single page architecture (SPA) for the Sidecar framework. But when a user navigates across the Sugar application (for example, when switching to another Sugar module), while the page is not refreshed…

In our most recent set of security releases , we made some changes in Sugar that address input sanitization issues reported by a 3rd party security researcher. Conveniently, these issues can be addressed with the input validation and CSRF form authentication…

SugarCRM is on a mission to empower our users to delight their customers. To that end, we are pleased to introduce the first phase of visual restyling, and give some tips on how to work with the new UX. Our process in developing the new UX Sugar 7 introduced…

Post originally written by Jim Bartek. UPDATE October 3rd 2017 Removed references to compileSql() function which was deprecated and removed in Sugar 7.9. You have found yourself in a bind, and you need to query the database directly. There is no other…

Greg Khanlarov , Director of Mobile Development, is so excited about the launch of the new Sugar Mobile SDK that he is speechless! If you are coming to SugarCon , make sure you get your hot hands on the new Sugar Mobile SDK first! On Tuesday, you can…

Here are a couple more UnCon promo videos from SugarCRM's remarkable technical teams. First off, we have a video Nick Rose , an experienced solutions architect , and also the Director of Solutions Consulting in the Americas. Come to UnCon and check out…

Are you learning about Sugar for the first time? Or maybe, it has been a while, and you want to see how the Sugar platform has evolved since the Community Edition days? Watch the video below to learn why SugarCon and UnCon is the perfect way to get started…

Post originally written by dwheelz. Here is an important message from David Wheeler , a long time Software Engineer and Architect at SugarCRM, about using e-mail fields correctly. E-mail handling is core to CRM software. Almost everyone we know uses multiple…

Sugar v11 REST API In order to support some cool new dashboard features , we made some enhancements to our Dashboard APIs in the Fall '17 release. So we added a new REST API version, v11, in that release in order to ensure clients and integrations that…

RESTful APIs have always been a big part of the Sugar application, as well as the most appropriate touchpoint for integrating with other enterprise systems. Unfortunately, for a long time they weren't tested especially appropriately. Traditionally, REST…

You have may have seen a recent video where a menacing figure was growling about Quotes customizations and a "Professor M." Who is Professor M? Well me technically. But let me share with you the story. The School for Gifted Coders Coming to SugarCon?…

Hey there, Sugar Developers! I'm SugarCRM's newest Developer Advocate, and I wanted to take a moment to introduce myself. My name is Lauren Schaefer . Since getting my bachelor's and master's degrees in Computer Science at North Carolina State ( go pack…

Post originally written by sugarmajed. Welcome to the School of REST - our first installment in the Sugar 7 Cookbook Series! We've always believed that DATA belongs to you and it should always be accessible to you! With Sugar 7 we've added a completely…

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You may have seen that that Sugar 7.9 has now been released! We have moved the Quotes module and Reports list view to Sidecar framework. We've also made plenty of platform enhancements such as adding prepared statements support. Quotes Module Developer…

The SugarCRM team has embraced our theme for SugarCon this year (CRM Heroes) like never before! Check out these great videos from some of SugarCRM's best and brightest. You will meet all these heroes (and villains) at UnCon! Register for SugarCon today…

Sugar Fall '17 (7.10) is now available! You've heard all about this , but I'll recap. SugarCRM's fall 2017 release is a Sugar On-Demand only release. This is the first release that follows our new Sugar release process . Our on-premise customers will…

You may have seen that that Sugar 7.8 has now been released ! We have introduced some important platform updates in this release. Have you read the developer release notes yet? Here are three additional and essential resources for you to use before you…

In last week's post on the Font Awesome 4.x upgrade in Sugar 7.6 we mentioned that Sugar Engineering has been putting together a compatibility package. This package can be installed into Sugar 7.6 instances to add Font Awesome 3.2.1 back. That package…

Post originally written by sugarmajed. This is the final section of the School of Rest. We'll be covering filtering on relationships as well as Global Search, Favorites, and Deleting records. We've already created our Account "Burger Palace" in Part 1…