Contributing to the CHT as an open source project provides an opportunity for technical implementers to work on real-world projects which allows them to enhance their knowledge and skills. Additionally, working in a collaborative community setting enables contributors to access insights and guidance from community members; this helps to accelerate learning for new contributors and fosters deeper understanding of the recommended coding standards and best practices.
Over the years, community contributions have helped to improve CHT making it more robust and feature rich. In this forum post, we would like to appreciate community members and organizations that were involved in developing various features, technical improvements and bug fixes that are now available in CHT v4.19.0.
New features built by the community members.
@Anro and the Western cape team developed a new feature that prevents duplicate contact creation. @shashi_sah supported in building a functionality that adds a user agent header to all outgoing requests; this feature has helped to unblock one of the CHT projects which was experiencing technical challenges of outgoing CHT messages not reaching Textit.
@Anro and @shashi_sah, we are incredibly grateful for your contributions 
Technical improvements contributions.
The following community members supported in configuring technical improvements.
- Akshat supported in uplifting sinon to 19+.
- @apoorvapendse updated the moment patch in webapp.
- Shashank helped to remove horticulturalist references from the admin page.
- Wang Yuheng fixed the local ddoc versioning
- Karan Kumar updated the release date generation script to include the date of release.
- @shashi_sah worked on bulk delete reports, reports, more action menu and fab technical improvements.
The community is greatly thankful 
for committing technical enhancements for this release.
Improvements, Security and bug fixes
Huge congratulations to Satyam, @jonathan and @apoorvapendse for building improvements, security and bug fixes. These fixes will help to improve the reliability and quality of our projects.
We are excited to see all your ideas come to life and appreciate your commitment in advancing the CHT. 