An update of Wild Apricot to version 8.0 is scheduled for Monday, December 12th, beginning at 4:00 am (ET). The process will take up to 3 hours, and no downtime is expected for Wild Apricot sites.

The update will be rolled out to groups of accounts over a span of several days. Some features may not be available until all accounts have been updated.

In this release, we've added more widgets to the new dashboard, which is now available for all administrators, including full and read-only administrators. Added to the dashboard is an account summary widget, a newsletters widget, an online store widget, and an upcoming events widget.

We also made two changes to improve security and reduce spam. First, Wild Apricot will be requiring traffic encryption for all our client sites. This means that all site pages and all page content must use URLs that begin with HTTPs rather than HTTP. Secondly, we are taking the next step implementing Content Security Policy (CSP), a security standard introduced by browsers as an added layer of protection to prevents certain types of attacks. To comply with CSP, we are assembling a whitelist of trusted domains, and providing you with the ability to add other domains that you trust to your own custom whitelist. Beginning February 1st, we will start blocking any JavaScript that is hosted on external domains not included in your whitelist. 

We've also changed several terms and menu names in response to client input about confusing terminology.

And as always, we've fixed some bugs. For details, see https://gethelp.wildapricot.com/en/articles/1926.