Episodes

Certification has landed!

This episode covers the upcoming Mautic Developer Certification, alongside key updates from the ecosystem including Mautic 7.1 RC1 and security releases. We highlight new feature developments such as the Media Manager and discuss technical topics like bounce handling and housekeeping. Community initiatives, events, and calls for contribution round out the episode. A broad overview of progress, opportunities, and what’s ahead for Mautic.

Mautic FundraiseR

Mautic Fundraiser https://mautic.org/2026-fundraiser

MAUTIC RELEASES

Mautic 7.1 RC1 Features & Changes https://github.com/mautic/mautic/milestone/149?closed=1

Security Releases / ELTS https://mautic.org/extended-long-term-support-elts/

FEATURES & IDEAS

New Mautic Media Manager (TORN) 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 / Webhook Receiver (Sendgrid, Scaleway, Self-hosted) 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

3RD-PARTY & PLUGINS

Housekeeping Plugin (Optimize Tables, Email Stats) 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

Call for Volunteers: Review Legacy Developer Documentation https://forum.mautic.org/t/old-mautic-api-documentation/37317

Ruth Cheesley: CertificatioN

Mautic Developer Certification 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 Participation https://m.mautic.org/mautic-feature-highlight

Mautic 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 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

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/

Ricardo 1: 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

Ricardo 2: Free email templates https://forum.mautic.org/t/new-free-email-templates-inspired-by-you/35619

Ricardo 3: Email accessibility https://crafting.email/european-accessibility-act-compliance/ https://crafting.email/mjml-accessibility-checker/

3rd-Party & Plugins

FireMultimedia: Captcha (Multi-Captcha plugin: Google reCAPTCHA, hCaptcha, Cloudflare Turnstile) https://github.com/FireMultimedia/mautic-multi-captcha-bundle

Wisegorilla: 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

Mike: 2FA (Mailertizer / MCF-2FA, plus tutorial) https://forum.mautic.org/t/2fa-plugin-for-mautic/35359 and https://mailertizer.com/how-to-install-metabase-and-use-it-with-mailertizer/

X-Geeks / Kuzmani: Phone number (international input field) https://xgeeksweb.com and https://github.com/mtcextendee/mautic-international-phone-input-bundle

Kuzmani: mtcextendee.com Plugins on M6 https://mtcextendee.com/plugins

Acquia: 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

Dirk: Email sending speed (script for ESP rate limits) 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 (Program & contributors) 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! https://2025.mauticon.org/

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/

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!

Mautic

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

Auto-install of Mautic https://forum.mautic.org/t/struggling-to-automate-installation-of-mautic/32763/2 and 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 & Rights (Tobi): https://audienture.com/mautic-role-management-a-comprehensive-guide/

Groups & Rights (Ekke): https://forum.mautic.org/t/introduce-group-model-to-mautics-access-control/33575

Interview

The look 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/