Software developer Dennis Ameling, a contributor to the Product Team of Mautic, is one the people involved in building the Mautic Marketplace, a new feature in the Mautic 4.2 release. In this article, the Norwegian-based member of our community explains a little about the idea behind the Marketplace, and provides a sneak peak of other features to come.

Let’s kick off a roundup of all the awesome things that have happened this quarter!

The Mautic Community Sprint is here again, and you are welcome to join the event between Monday, May 2nd, and Wednesday, May 4th. Come meet us in Budapest, Hungary, kindly hosted by Cheppers, and get involved with our awesome community! During the event, we will work collaboratively on some tasks, and the Leadership Team will also hold a board meeting to work long term strategies.

Our in-person conferences are a great opportunity for Mautic users in a region to gather, learn and network. In the Mautic Community we have decided to rotate continents each year for our in-person conference, which gives an opportunity for local communities to host the event. We are inviting you to submit a proposal before the end of April 2022 for consideration – we will make the final decision during our community sprint in Budapest.

Senior software engineer Miroslav Fedeleš, aka Fedy, has been with the Mautic Community for two years. For the Czech professional, the exchange with other contributors and the learning opportunities are the highlights of his experience. In this article, Miroslav briefly describes how he started contributing to the community and some of the improvements he was a part of. He also tells a little about the benefits of joining the community.

We have 31 new features/enhancements, 34 bug fixes and one security fix in this release of Mautic 4.2.0. Thanks to the support of several Mautic agencies and community contributors in our “Open Source Friday” sprints, we have been able to get through a lot with this release.

In Mautic 4.2 the Mautic Marketplace now enables you to install and manage plugins within Mautic, both in the user interface and at the command line. Read on to learn more about how it works, some caveats you need to know before using it, and how to get your plugins listed in the Marketplace.

With the last release in the Mautic 3.x series, 3.5.5, we're saying goodbye to the 3.x series. In accordance with our release schedule, security fixes for the 3.x version of Mautic will be discontinued from 28th February 2022 and you are encouraged to migrate to Mautic 4.x.

Some important changes are coming to the install and upgrade process for Mautic - read more in this article.

We have often been asked about our roadmap and before today there has never really been anything that we can point at and say ‘this is where Mautic is going’ other than vague blog posts and forum threads. Today we are sharing the first iterations of our plans for the future which I first shared at Mautic Conference Europe 2021 in my keynote. It includes some great features that we have coming over the next year.