# ChurchCRM 7.2.2 — Polishing the Experience

**Release Date**: April 23, 2026  
**Theme**: Better Communication & Cleaner Profiles  
**Previous Release**: [7.2.1](./7.2.1.md)

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**Version 7.2.2** is a significant refinement release that focuses on making your church data more organized and your communications more reliable. We've touched almost every corner of the app—from how you import members to how your profile pages look—ensuring ChurchCRM remains the most intuitive tool for your ministry.

## 👤 Unified Member & Family Profiles

We've redesigned our profile cards so that information is consistent whether you are looking at a single person or an entire family.

- **Timeline Cleanup**: We've removed "duplicate" notes that used to clutter the activity timeline, giving you a much clearer history of member engagement.
- **Property Management**: Managing member properties (like "Volunteer" or "Staff") is now faster and more consistent across the system.
- **Automatic Cleanup**: When you delete a person or family, the system now automatically removes their old profile images from your server, keeping your storage lean and organized. (#8765)

## 📧 Reliable Email & Communication

We've performed a complete "top-to-bottom" cleanup of the internal email system.

- **Spam-Safe Templates**: Our email templates have been modernized to follow current security standards, helping ensure your church's messages land in inboxes rather than spam folders.
- **Smart Gating**: The system is now smarter about only showing email options when your email service is properly configured, preventing confusing "failed to send" errors.
- **Rich Text Editing**: Our note and email editor (Quill) has been updated to match our new modern design. It now also supports **Right-to-Left (RTL)** typing for our global users.

## 📅 Calendar & Event Refinements

Planning your church calendar just got a little easier:

- **Time Zone Awareness**: We've added time zone indicators to the calendar, which is a lifesaver for churches coordinating across different regions.
- **Unified Event Editor**: Whether you are creating an event from a small pop-up window or the full event page, the form is now exactly the same. No more hunting for missing fields!
- **Friendly Error Pages**: If someone clicks an old or private calendar link, they'll now see a friendly, helpful "Page Not Found" screen instead of a technical error message.

## 📤 Smarter Member Imports

Our **Member Import** tool continues to evolve. In this release:

- **Custom Field Support**: You can now import "Custom Fields" and "Properties" directly from your spreadsheets. This means you can bring in specialized data—like "T-Shirt Size" or "Background Check Date"—in one single upload.

## 🌍 Massive Global Update

Our translation community has been incredibly busy!

- **Over 3,500 Terms Updated**: We have performed a massive translation refresh across **41 active languages**. This ensures that even the newest features from the 7.2 series are accurately translated for your local team. (#8771, #8773, #8774, #8776, #8778, #8781, #8782)

## 🛡️ Security Hardening

- **Anti-Forgery Protection**: We've added extra layers of "CSRF" protection to our older delete pages, making it even harder for malicious websites to trick the system into performing unauthorized actions. (GHSA-3xq9-c86x-cwpp, #8755)
- **Modern Diagnostics**: For church tech teams, we have overhauled our "Debug" pages to make it easier to troubleshoot email or system issues with a clean, modern interface.

## ⚠️ Important Notes

- **Server Requirement**: This version continues to **require PHP 8.4**.
- **Guided Upgrade**: Our built-in update wizard is ready to guide you safely from 7.2.1 to 7.2.2.

## 📊 Release Statistics

- **56 commits** since 7.2.1
- **1 security fix** (CSRF hardening, CVE-level)
- **3+ profile & communication improvements**
- **41 languages refreshed, 3,500+ terms translated**

**Download**: [GitHub Release](https://github.com/ChurchCRM/CRM/releases/tag/7.2.2)
