SuiteCRM 8.10.1 Maintenance Release

SuiteCRM 8.10.1 is now available. This maintenance release resolves three regressions introduced in 8.10. We recommend all SuiteCRM 8.10 users upgrade promptly.

This maintenance release doesn’t come with new features. Its sole purpose is to fix issues that shouldn’t have made it through in SuiteCRM 8.10. We want to give you everything you need to know about it, whether you’re affected, and what to do about it.

👉 For technical details, see the 8.10.1 Release Notes

What’s in SuiteCRM 8.10.1?

This release contains three targeted bug fixes for regressions introduced in 8.10. We’ve broken down each fix so you can quickly identify what’s relevant to you.

Fix 1: Core Fields Showing as Missing or Blank After Studio Edit

One of the things our community relies on is Studio — the point-and-click tool that lets you configure modules without writing a line of code. It needs to behave predictably, and in 8.10, it didn’t.

When you edited a standard core field through Studio, something as routine as marking the “Industry” field as required, or updating a label, SuiteCRM was incorrectly injecting a source definition into the generated override file.

That single line told SuiteCRM to treat a core field as a custom one. Because core fields and custom fields live in different database tables, the system started looking in the wrong place. This led to SQL errors on save, data appearing blank or missing, and failures in any logic hooks or integrations that depend on those fields. For anyone who had made Studio edits to core fields since updating to 8.10, this was happening in their environment.

SuiteCRM 8.10.1 corrects the logic that was generating this incorrect override. Studio will now produce clean override files that correctly preserve the status of core fields.

Are You Affected?

You are affected if you upgraded to SuiteCRM 8.10 and used Studio to edit any standard core field after upgrading, for example, changing a field label, marking a field as required, or adjusting its display properties. If you haven’t made any Studio edits to core fields since upgrading, you won’t have encountered this issue.

If You Can’t Update Right Away

We know that applying an update immediately isn’t always possible, sometimes there are change windows to schedule, stakeholders to notify, or environments to test first. If you’re experiencing these symptoms and need a fix in the meantime, you can resolve it manually, and it’s straightforward:

If you run into any difficulty, the SuiteCRM Community Forum is the best place to get help from fellow community members who’ve been through it.

In the meantime, we recommend avoiding further core field edits via Studio on production environments until you’ve applied the 8.10.1 update.

Fix 2: Currency Symbols Not Displaying in Contract PDFs

After upgrading to SuiteCRM 8.10.0, currency variables in PDF templates stopped resolving to their actual values. Instead of seeing the expected currency symbol, documents were showing the raw variable names.

This has been fixed and your PDFs will once again display currency symbols as expected.

Fix 3: Generated PDFs Downloading as [PDF-Template-Name].pdf

Before 8.10, generated PDFs were named after the source record (e.g. Invoice_InvoiceName.pdf). After the 8.10 upgrade, filenames changed to reflect the PDF template name instead (e.g. PDF_TemplateName.pdf). 8.10.1 restores the previous behaviour — generated PDFs are once again named after the source module record.

Community Contributions

We would like to thank the following community members for their valuable contributions and continued support. Issues like these get fixed faster because of you — thank you!

BastianHammer  restena-sw

What’s Next?

We remain committed to improving SuiteCRM based on what you tell us. Visit the SuiteCRM Roadmap to see what’s coming up next — and have your say.

View the SuiteCRM Roadmap

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