A Mauticon Teaser

Certification has landed! This episode covers the upcoming Mautic Developer Certification, alongside key updates including Mautic 7.1 RC1 and current security releases. We look at new developments such as the Media Manager, discuss webhook-based bounce handling, and highlight maintenance tooling with the housekeeping bundle. Community contributions, feature highlights, and major Mautic events complete the episode. A compact overview of current progress and open initiatives in the Mautic ecosystem. COMMUNITY & EVENTS Mautic Fundraiser Status (13,000) https://mautic.org/2026-fundraiser MAUTIC RELEASES Mautic 7.1 RC1 (29/03/2026): Form Types, NHI Filter, Marketplace API (Reviews/Ratings), Plugin Version Display, S/MIME Signing, UX/UI, PHP 8.4 Modernization https://github.com/mautic/mautic/milestone/149?closed=1 Security Releases / ELTS https://bca FEATURES & IDEAS TORN Media Manager: Cropping, Resizing, Tagging, Dynamic/Static Folders, Menu Integration https://forum.mautic.org/t/new-mautic-media-manager-torn/37407 and https://forum.mautic.org/t/global-media-library-accessible-from-main-navigation/37418 KNOWHOW Bounce Handling via Webhooks: Sendgrid Setup https://forum.mautic.org/t/issue-with-sendgrid-webhook-callback-in-mautic-5-dsn-configuration-for-event-processing-transport-not-found-error-does-mautic-5-support-this-by-default-or-is-a-plugin-required/34939/4 Webhook Concepts: Scaleway, Unified Plugin Approach, Mapping Logic, MX-to-Webhook Conversion, Categorization Patterns 3RD-PARTY & PLUGINS Housekeeping Bundle: Table Optimization, Maintenance Tasks https://github.com/Leuchtfeuer/mautic-housekeeping-bundle and https://forum.mautic.org/t/optimised-storage-for-email-statistics-view-in-browser-tokens-open-details/37273 COMMUNITY & EVENTS Developer Call: Review Legacy API Documentation https://forum.mautic.org/t/old-mautic-api-documentation/37317 Interview & Opinion Developer Certification Program https://m.mautic.org/asset/138:mautic-developer-certification-curriculumpdf and https://mautic.org/blog/mautic-developer-certification-is-coming/ and https://mautic.org/mautic-certification/ COMMUNITY & EVENTS Feature Highlight Submission https://m.mautic.org/mautic-feature-highlight Year in Review 2025 https://mautic.org/blog/mautics-year-in-review-2025/ Mautic World Conference 2026 Early Bird https://mauticon.mautic.org/ Mautic World Conference 2025 Videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QEYNIPdDcs&list=PLH3AAYwuwC__Bc_1ojsaoOeN7TZxbtIkU Mautic Fundraiser Call https://mautic.org/2026-fundraiser

Mark Poljanšek: Emails via API: (M5) Allow email created via API to be MJML: https://github.com/drMarkySlo/mautic-mjml-api-plugin Mautic 6 Plugins: More and more plugins on M6 (FriendlyCaptcha, Housekeeping, Auth0, ABM, …): https://github.com/Leuchtfeuer/mautic-housekeeping-bundle Mautic 7 Plugins: First M7 plugins: https://www.dogbytemarketing.com/shop/ecommerce-connector-for-mautic/ Mautic Feature Proposals: https://community.mautic.org/processes/roadmap/f/4/proposals Max Soukhomlinov: n8n / Advanced Mautic Node: Enhanced Mautic node for n8n: https://github.com/msoukhomlinov/n8n-nodes-mautic-advanced Mautic 7: https://mautic.org/blog/mautic-7-columba-edition-is-released/ Mautic GA: General Assembly 12.2.: https://community.mautic.org/assemblies/general-assembly/ Mautic Conference Videos: Mautic World Conference 2025 Videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLH3AAYwuwC__Bc_1ojsaoOeN7TZxbtIkU D/A/CH Meetup: D/A/CH Mauticamp 17.-18.3.: https://2026.mauticamp.de

MAUTIC RELEASES Mautic 7.0 Release Candidate “Columba” https://mautic.org/blog/welcome-to-mautic-7-0-release-candidate-columba-edition/ Security releases with critical severity (CVSS score 9) https://github.com/mautic/mautic/security/advisories and https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-16465/year-2025/Mautic.html 3RD-PARTY & PLUGINS Frédéric Wouters: Mautic Email RSS Plus Bundle (Mautic 4/5) https://github.com/woutersf/MauticEmailRssPlusBundle Frédéric Wouters: Unique Login Links bundle https://github.com/woutersf/mauticUliBundle Frédéric Wouters: GDPR role-based masking of sensitive personal data (PII) https://forum.mautic.org/t/masking-of-pii-data-in-mautic/36864 7Cats / WooCommerce: WordPress plugin bridging Mautic webhooks to WhatsApp Business API https://github.com/rcarabelli/7C-Mautic-Wordpress-Waba-Bridge and https://mautic.slack.com/archives/C02GEN0SG/p1758154187081719 FEATURES & IDEAS Wiesław Golec: PostgreSQL proof of concept https://forum.mautic.org/t/proof-of-concept-restoring-postgresql-support-for-mautic/36313/13 and https://community.mautic.org/processes/roadmap/f/4/proposals/200 Frédéric Wouters: Email sending in waves https://forum.mautic.org/t/send-out-emails-in-waves/36434 Frédéric Wouters: Data aggregation functionality and alternatives via n8n https://forum.mautic.org/t/data-aggregation-functionality-in-mautic/36435 Mautic editor and builder improvements including GrapesJS and CKEditor https://forum.mautic.org/t/lets-make-the-builder-much-better-incl-grapesjs-and-ckeditor/37005 Mautic Campaign Library: https://mautic.org/blog/mautics-campaign-library-initiative-phase-2-funded-by-nlnet-and-the-european-commission/ Mautic AI initiative with Lukas Siegel as initiative lead https://mautic.slack.com/archives/C08RQBCGLCE COMMUNITY & EVENTS Mautic General Assembly on January 21, 2026, including budget deficit discussion and the need for increased corporate memberships https://community.mautic.org/assemblies/general-assembly/f/20/meetings/364 and https://mautic.org/blog/introducing-global-pricing-to-make-mautic-security-and-membership-accessible-worldwide/ Mautic Ambassador program for country, regional, and university-level contributors https://mautic.org/become-a-mautic-ambassador/ and https://mautic.org/blog/launching-mautic-ambassador-program-first-country-regional-level-ambassadors/ Mautic Conferences 2025–2026 and experimental “Mautic World Conference” format with London and online components https://www.youtube.com/@MauticOrg/playlists and https://mautic.slack.com/archives/C8B89CLSF/p1764719132683359

[Features & Ideas] Featuritis [Mautic Releases] Mautic 4–7 Releases — 7alpha, 6.0.4, 5.2.7, 4.4.15 ELTS — https://mautic.org/blog/ready-for-testing-mautic-7-columba-edition-alpha-is-here/ Release Strategy — https://forum.mautic.org/t/mautic-release-upgrade-strategy-is-misguided/35981 Quality Sprint Prague — ton of improvements + major impact on Mautic 7 (no more distinctions in emails & forms!) [Knowhow] AI Manifesto — https://mautic.org/blog/open-source-ai-and-the-future-of-marketing-automation/ AI generated MJML themes — https://crafting.email/ai-mjml-email-creator/ https://forum.mautic.org/t/mjml-emails-for-mautic-now-powered-by-ai-free/35006 Free email templates — https://forum.mautic.org/t/new-free-email-templates-inspired-by-you/35619 Email accessibility — https://crafting.email/european-accessibility-act-compliance/ https://crafting.email/mjml-accessibility-checker/ [3rd-Party & Plugins] Captcha (Multi-Captcha) — https://github.com/FireMultimedia/mautic-multi-captcha-bundle Shopify (Micato v2.0) — https://forum.mautic.org/t/announcing-micato-v2-0-a-completely-rebuilt-shopify-mautic-integration-more-powerful-and-reliable-than-ever/34760 2FA (Mailertizer / MCF-2FA; tutorial) — https://forum.mautic.org/t/2fa-plugin-for-mautic/35359 https://mailertizer.com/how-to-install-metabase-and-use-it-with-mailertizer/ Phone number (international input field) — https://xgeeksweb.com https://github.com/mtcextendee/mautic-international-phone-input-bundle mtcextendee.com Plugins — https://mtcextendee.com/plugins Custom objects (Mautic 5) — https://github.com/acquia/mc-cs-plugin-custom-objects/tree/5.x Fullcontact CRM plugin (maintainer needed) — https://forum.mautic.org/t/fullcontact-documentaion/34715/2 Azure Communication Services (“Microsoft SES”) — https://forum.mautic.org/t/microsoft-ses-available-called-azure-communication-services/36251 Email sending speed (ESP rate limits script) — https://github.com/twentyZen/mautic-cronjobs [Features & Ideas] “Round Robin” Campaigns Condition — https://forum.mautic.org/t/add-a-round-robin-condition-to-campaigns/35744 New DOI Plugin (Leuchtfeuer, WIP) — https://community.mautic.org/processes/roadmap/f/4/proposals/178 [Community & Events] Certification — https://forum.mautic.org/t/the-new-mautic-certification-program-needs-contributors/36171 https://mautic.org/blog/official-mautic-certification-provider-announced-join-us-to-shape-the-future/ Mauticon London / Online — 3/4 NOV London, 6/7 online — talks, helpers & sponsors wanted!

Ruth https://www.ruthcheesley.co.uk Latest Releases & Mautic 6 Beta 4.4.13 ELTS Security Release: https://mautic.org/extended-long-term-support-elts/mautic-4-elts/ 5.2.3 Security Release: https://github.com/mautic/mautic/releases/tag/5.2.3 6.0 Beta: https://mautic.org/blog/announcing-mautic-6-beta-now-available-for-testing/ and https://github.com/mautic/mautic/releases/tag/6.0.0-beta2 Getting ELTS Getting ELTS: https://mautic.org/extended-long-term-support-elts/ Release Cycle Roadmap & Release Cycle Overview: https://mautic.org/roadmap/ Details on upcoming releases: https://mautic.org/blog/the-next-mautic-releases-whats-coming-up/ Mauticon Call for Locations https://community.mautic.org/assemblies/mauticon-working-group/f/65/

Smart Segmenting (feat. Toby Höbel) --- Mautic 5.2 LTS, ELTS, Integration Framework Tutorial, AWS Fargate and CloudFormation, M5 plugins, NHIs, GDPR proposal, Year in Review, Certification Provider RFP, Mauticon Lisbon, mautic.org relaunch, MautiCon 9-10 July 2025 / Speakers --- Mautic & ELTS Mautic 5.2: https://github.com/mautic/mautic/releases/tag/5.2.0 ELTS: https://www.mautic.org/blog/community/announcing-launch-mautics-extended-long-term-support-elts-program 3rd-Party & Know-How Tutorials by Matic: https://mzagmajster.si/leverage-the-integration-framework-in-mautic-5/ and https://mzagmajster.si/how-to-add-a-custom-email-token-to-mautic/ DevOps-Tutorials by Avinash: Mautic in AWS Fargate (“Serverless”, i.e. Docker) https://x.com/AvinashDalvi_/status/1856977257404981428 plus CloudFormation (https://x.com/AvinashDalvi_/status/1861286049315725484) All Kuzmani plugins now Mautic 5 https://mtcextendee.com/ – ELTS support coming up! Initiatives Community (DACH): NHIs & countermeasures (some background: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/alisongootee_deliverability-emailgeeks-botornot-activity-7097719979738890240-FMJT/) Preparing GDPR proposal – please contribute ideas: https://forum.mautic.org/t/rfc-improving-mautics-gdpr-compliance-cookie-management/27801/15 Interview: Smart Segmenting (feat. Toby Höbel) https://audienture.com Community Year in Review: https://forum.mautic.org/t/2024-the-year-in-review/34577 Vote for new Council member (through 17.Jan – be a member to vote!): https://community.mautic.org/processes/council-election-24 Certification Provider wanted: https://www.mautic.org/blog/rfp-certification-provider Mauticon Europe Lisbon Aftermath: https://www.mautic.org/blog/whats-new-mautic-learnings-mautic-conference-europe and https://johnlinhart.com/blog/mauticon-lisbon-2024#mauticon-lisbon-2024 MautiCon / Save the date 9-10 July 2025 / Speakers!

Release leaders wanted / Sponsors? https://mautic.slack.com/archives/C02HV76BW/p1728580069636379 3rd-Party & Knowhow Tutorial SugarCRM / SuiteCRM with Mautic 5 (Paul Stevens) https://forum.mautic.org/t/suitecrm-mautic-actual-situation/13909/23 Whatsapp via Meta – now without Install (J.P.Giron) https://forum.mautic.org/t/tutorial-send-whatsapp-template-messages-using-mautic-webhook-without-third-party-services/26741/8 A/B Testing Dynamic Web Content, DWC (Joey) https://joeykeller.com/a-b-test-and-randomize-your-dynamic-web-content-in-mautic/ Best AmazonSES Plugin (Joey) https://joeykeller.com/mautic-5-this-is-how-email-setup-works/ with winner (by Paul Maas) https://github.com/pm-pmaas/etailors_amazon_ses Cron Jobs (Joey) https://joeykeller.com/mautic-5-cronjobs/ FriendlyCapture plugin (by tax-academy.de ) https://github.com/TAWK-GmbH/mautic-friendlycaptcha Mauticon Videos: Soon on https://www.youtube.com/@MauticOrg Campaign Library https://www.mautic.org/blog/community/mautic-campaign-library-strategic-initiative-receives-grant-nlnet-foundation Marketplace https://www.mautic.org/blog/community/gsoc-2024-project-report-mautic-marketplace Release Schedule / Long-Term Support, LTS / Extended LTS, ELTS: https://leuchtfeuer.com/mautic/update-strategie Community New council member: Simran Sethi https://www.mautic.org/blog/community/2024-council-member-changes Upcoming Mautic Council election: https://community.mautic.org/processes/council-election-24

Mautic Mautic 5.1: https://www.mautic.org/blog/community/release-announcement-mautic-5-1-andromeda-edition Security updates 5.1.1 / 4.4.13: https://github.com/mautic/mautic/releases and Advisories: https://github.com/mautic/mautic/security Security team (incl. Lenon, Patryk, Nick): https://community.mautic.org/assemblies/product-team/f/11/posts/24 and https://www.mautic.org/blog/community/welcoming-patryk-gruszka-and-nick-vanpraet-mautic-security-team and 3rd-Party & Knowhow Free templates (Ricardo): https://crafting.email and ttps://forum.mautic.org/t/discover-2-new-free-mjml-themes-for-mautic/32791 and https://forum.mautic.org/t/you-suggest-i-create-the-email-theme-free-of-charge/33448 and https://github.com/ricfreire/mautic-theme-emojisurvey Marketing knowhow (Tobi): https://audienture.com/6-essential-elements-of-an-excellent-welcome-email/ and https://audienture.com/how-to-reconnect-with-your-email-list/ Zender Whatsapp plugin (Renato Carabelli): https://github.com/rcarabelli/Mautic-Zender-Plugin Multiple-smtp-bundle (Zdeno Kuzmany): https://mtcextendee.com/mautic-multiple-smtp-bundle/ Unlimited-sql-bundle (Zdeno Kuzmany): https://mtcextendee.com/mautic-unlimited-sql-bundle/ Custom Objects for M5 (Aquia) progress: https://github.com/acquia/mc-cs-plugin-custom-objects/pull/338 Sales board (AlbertMN): https://forum.mautic.org/t/sales-opportunity-pipeline/27430/36 WordPress plugin: https://forum.mautic.org/t/is-the-wordpress-mautic-plugin-still-functional/32909 Automated setup of Mautic https://forum.mautic.org/t/struggling-to-automate-installation-of-mautic/32763/2 und https://github.com/itnavigate/MauticSetup Caching https://forum.mautic.org/t/configuring-memcache-or-redis-in-local-php/27267/21 Salesforce best practices (markwilliams21): https://forum.mautic.org/t/best-practices-to-integrate-with-salesforce/31254/4 Amazon SES (Joey): https://joeykeller.com/email-sending-in-mautic-5-cron-queue-and-daemons/ JavaScript from DWC (Joey): https://joeykeller.com/launch-javascript-in-dynamic-web-content-in-mautic/ Roles (Tobi): https://audienture.com/mautic-role-management-a-comprehensive-guide/ Groups (Ekke): https://forum.mautic.org/t/introduce-group-model-to-mautics-access-control/33575 Interview Looking in the mirror: Leuchtfeuer.com Community Release cycle & eLTS: https://community.mautic.org/assemblies/product-team/f/39/debates/10 and https://www.mautic.org/blog/community/announcing-potential-extended-long-term-support-elts-program-mautic-we-need-your UX/UI team: https://www.mautic.org/blog/community/enhancing-our-uxui-tiger-team-embracing-community-feedback-and-establishing-clear Mauticon videos: https://www.youtube.com/@MauticOrg/playlists Google Summer of Code: https://www.mautic.org/blog/community/gsoc-2024-project-report-end-end-test-suite-mautic mautic.org relaunch: https://mautic.slack.com/archives/C07A4CU91/p1724945673185609 Mauticon Europe Nov 2024: https://mauticon.mautic.org and Call for Speakers (Deadline 1st/Oct!) https://www.mautic.org/blog/share-your-expertise-call-speakers-mautic-conference-europe-2024 Mautic Awards at Mauticon: https://forum.mautic.org/t/announcing-the-inaugural-mautic-awards-will-you-be-taking-center-stage/32733 Proposal deadline 29th/Sep! https://community.mautic.org/processes/mautic-awards-2024/f/86/

Online, 10th-11th July, 2024 Schedule: https://mauticon.mautic.org/en/global/mcg-24/schedule/ Tickets: https://mauticon.mautic.org/en/global/mcg-24/tickets/ General Assembly (GA): https://community.mautic.org/assemblies/general-assembly/f/20/meetings/139 Joining the GA: https://community.mautic.org/assemblies/general-assembly/f/24/

MAUTIC Mautic 5.1 https://github.com/mautic/mautic/releases/tag/5.1.0 Marketing Strategy https://audienture.com/adding-friction-to-your-sign-up-forms/ Plugin Updates to Mautic 5 https://devdocs.mautic.org/en/5.x/plugins/from-4-to-5.html RSS-to-Email https://github.com/ChrisRAoW/mautic-rss-to-email-bundle/releases/tag/1.7.2 2FA / Google Authenticator – Matic: https://github.com/mzagmajster/mautic-googleauthenticator/tree/dev_mautic4 – Yohan: https://yoyo.dev/store/ UTM Auto-Tagger https://mtcextendee.com/mautic-auto-tagger-bundle/ Magento Plugin https://magefan.com/magento-2-mautic-extension WordPress/WooCommerce Plugin https://www.dogbytemarketing.com/a-plugin-to-sync-mautic-to-wordpress-woocommerce-and-even-optinmonster/ and OptinMonster Coupon Wheels OptinMonster.com Multi language forms https://forum.mautic.org/t/campaign-decision-question/31633 INTERVIEW: MAUTIC UX/UI * Anderson https://www.linkedin.com/in/anderson-eccel/ and https://mautic.slack.com/team/U061QDAN7C3 * UX/UI Tiger Team assembly https://community.mautic.org/assemblies/ux-ui-tiger-team * UX/UI Slack channel https://mautic.slack.com/archives/C024XBCQS3Z * Suggest improvements for the Mautic interface: https://mautic.slack.com/archives/C02GEN0SG/p1715867486144959 COMMUNITY Google Summer of Code https://www.mautic.org/blog/community/mautic-announces-summer-code-projects-2024 Mautic Conference July 10/11 mauticon.mautic.org and https://www.mautic.org/blog/community/announcing-mautic-conference-global-2024-premier- event-all-things-mautic-and NEWSLETTER Get even more news in the MAUTICAST Newsletter on Mautic: https://mauticast.com/newsletter/