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v17.1

Removing the "Unknown" Marital Status

Note v17.1

In Rock v3, the "Unknown" Marital Status was removed. However, we’ve found that some Rock environments still have a new “Unknown” value—likely created manually or during a system migration. To prevent confusion, we recommend that Rock Administrators remove any remaining “Unknown” Marital Status values. While we considered removing it automatically in a future update, doing so without permissio...

Login History is Moving to the HistoryLogin Table

Note v17.1

As part of the v17.1 release, we’re introducing a new feature: the Login History block. This new block, powered by a dedicated HistoryLogin model and database table, offers a clearer and more accurate view of actual login events. During development, we initially planned to migrate all existing login-related entries (where [Verb] = 'LOGIN') from the longstanding [History] table to the new ...

Changes to External Authentication in Rock Mobile

Alert v17.1

Rock Core v17.1 includes updates to how Rock handles external authentication for Microsoft Entra and Auth0 in mobile applications. Rock now uses server-side token validation to streamline and standardize identity handling. This is a breaking change that will eventually require Rock Mobile shell v7 or later. To help with transitions from previous versions of the mobile shell, a new ...

Updated Group Schedule Confirmation Process

Note v17.1

To resolve Issue #6172 – Group Schedule Confirmation Records Response Prematurely, Rock v17.1 introduces a new Scheduling Confirmation Email (One Button) template designed to prevent premature responses caused by certain email security tools that automatically open links. All Group Type's Schedule Confirmation Communication settings will be updated to use this new template. The new t...

New Kiosk Device options for enabling Kiosk Registration Mode in Next-Gen Check-In

Alert v17.1

If you are using Next-Gen Check-in and have any of your kiosks configured for registration mode you will need to edit those kiosks and enable the two new settings: "Allow Adding Families" and "Allow Editing Families". These two settings control the ability to add new families on a kiosk and to edit existing families on a kiosk. This means you can configure some kiosks that are more public to o...

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