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CiviCRM 5.24.0

Released April 1, 2020

Synopsis

Does this version...?
Fix security vulnerabilities? no
Change the database schema? yes
Alter the API? yes
Require attention to configuration options? no
Fix problems installing or upgrading to a previous version? yes
Introduce features? yes
Fix bugs? yes

Features

Core CiviCRM

  • Menubar - Add "find menu item" search feature (16597)

    Adds a new "Find menu item" search under the "Home" (Civi logo) menu which allows user to locate menu items by typing a few letters.

  • Allow advanced search for contributions without a soft credit related (dev/core#1386: 15834 and 16622)

    Improves the Advanced Search UI "Contributions" section "Contributions or Soft Credits?" field field by adding a fifth option "Contributions without a soft credit" and updating the labels for the other options.

  • Allow payment processors to indicate whether they require an email address (dev/core#1584: 16503)

    Adds a function to indicate whether a payment processor requires an email address which can be used to determine whether drupal webform should require an email address.

  • Show full description under select2 options (dev/core#1587: 16507 and 16510)

    Improves the usability of Select-2 drop downs by displaying the full description in a tool tip when hovering over an option.

  • Migrate installers to "setup" API (Work Towards dev/core#1615: 16618)

    Migrates civicrm-setup from its own git repo to civicrm-core.git:setup/.

  • APIv4-based smart groups (16876, 16666 and 16834)

    Allows smart groups to be created with APIv4 params in addition to via search form values. Adds a user interface to save smart groups from the APIv4 explorer.

  • Style & layout clean up (16680)

    Improves the Contribution Invoice template by cleaning it up, improving the layout and making the CiviCRM logo comply with the display "empowered by CiviCRM" setting.

  • Relationship report - add sort order for end date (16512)

    Improves the Relationship report by making end date available as a field to sort by.

  • add column for report (16523)

    Adds "is active?" as an option for the "Columns" tab for the Relationship report.

  • Make php 7.3 the recommended php version (16459)

    Makes the recommended php version 7.3.

  • Increase php min recommended version (16668)

    Makes the minimum recommended php version 7.2 (it was 7.1).

  • Add pseudoconstant for priceset (16665 and 16648)

    Adds a pseudo constant for price set so that the API accepts price_set_id by name or id.

  • [Feature] Add in new hook alterUFFields to allow extensions to modify which fields can be added to a profile (16655)

    Adds a new hook hook_civicrm_alterUFFields which allows extensions to modify fields in a profile.

  • Enable the "sequentialcreditnotes" extension on new installations (16598)

    Ensures the new core extension sequenttialcreditnotes is added on upgrade AND install.

  • Move settings definition on contribution settings form to metadata. (16513)

    Moves from hard coded settings on contribution settings forms to setting a spec for adding settings to a contribution form making it possible for extension developers to modify the settings using a hook (like the sequentialcreditnotes extension).

  • Making the poor performance associated with the creditnote_id field opt in rather than opt out (Work Towards dev/financial#84: 16531 and 16664)

    Refactors code in preparation of make the credit note field opt in. Additionally, makes it possible to hide extensions by tagging them "mgmt:hidden" and hides the sequentialcreditnotes extension.

  • Upgrade Net_SMTP Package and remove now unneeded patches and move to using composer patches rather than patching in a script file (16498)

    Updates the Net_SMTP package to the latest version of the library and standardizes patches.

  • info.xml - Allow extensions to define a list of tags (16551)

    Makes it so that extension developers can register tags in the info.xml file.

  • Speed boost for civicrm/ajax/checkemail (15824)

    Performance improvement for civicrm/ajax/checkemail which is used when adding a cc email address to an email message among other places.

  • Improve activity query performance in Constituent Detail Report (13078)

    Improves performance of the "Constituent Detail Report" template.

  • Added conditional check so that it can be altered by hook (16499)

    Added a conditional check for printing blocks so that they can be easily altered by hooks.

  • Enable jQuery validate on register/contribution forms (16494)

    Makes jQuery validate available by default on frontend contribution / registration forms.

CiviCase

  • Add ts() for a sentence 'Add to case as role' (16630)

    Improves translation by making the string 'Add to case as role' translatable.

  • Add CiviCase option for showing case activities in normal views (16360)

    Provides a setting controlling whether activities that belong to cases are visible outside of cases.

CiviContribute

  • Proposal: Add in payment_processor-{payment processor type} class attribute to Radio HTML (dev/financial#105: 15940)

    Adds a css class to each radio button for payment processor options so that they can be styled distinctly.

  • Payment edit link cannot be modified (dev/financial#117: 16504)

    Makes it so the edit payment link on view of a Contribution can be modified by hook_civicrm_links.

  • Proposal - move source & received date to near the top on ContributionView form (dev/financial#118: 16565)

    Improves the UI of Contributions in view mode by moving the source and date fields closer to the top.

CiviMail

  • Pass template_type through to alterMailing hook (16529)

    Improves hook_civicrm_alterMailing by passing the template_type (traditional or mosaico).

Drupal Integration

  • Use civicrm-setup to handle installation (dev/drupal#4: 16628)

    Improves the installation process for drupal 8 by making it so civicrm-setup reports the pending action.

Bugs resolved

Core CiviCRM

  • Export Problems from Advanced Search - Searchable Numeric Fields Throw SQL Error & Not all Rows Exported (CRM-607: 16627)

    Fixes a syntax error for smart groups that reference custom fields that have been removed.

  • Do not CC or BCC (Event) Contribution invoice (dev/core#1436: 16005)

    Ensures Contribution Invoices are not sent to the CC and BCC email address(s) configured for Event Confirmation purposes.

  • Group search form template does not add Datatables CSS classes (DT_RowClass) (dev/core#1547: 16359 and 16743)

    Ensures child groups are nested on the Manage Groups form.

  • Multisite domain group fails on 5.20.0 (Work Towards dev/core#1450: 16095)

    Improves performance of the multi site domain group to keep it from crashing on sites with large domain groups.

  • scheduled reminder: select participant role permissions require admin & don't match rest of scheduled reminder permissions (dev/core#1568: 16455)

    Ensures that non-administrator users setting scheduled reminders can limit by participant role.

  • Custom Group Types not filterable (dev/core#1577: 16475)

    Ensures that the "Custom Group Type" filter works on the "Manage Groups" form.

  • E_WARNING on New/Edit Tag screen (dev/core#1593 and dev/core#1536: 16554)

    Fixes count E_WARNING on the Tag screen.

  • Extension unit tests broken in master (dev/core#1594: 16544)

    Ensures extension unit tests run.

  • Undefined offset 0 in system check for custom fields after upgrade to 5.23 (dev/core#1636: 16707)

    Fixes an E_NOTICE "Undefined index 0 line 109 in CRM/Utils/Check/Component/Schema.php" when logging in to a site with smart groups that don't have form_values[0] (most likely made thru the API).

  • Fix SettingTrait YesNo translation (16685)

    Ensures "Yes/no" radio admin settings are correctly translated.

  • TokenProcessor - fix greetings tokens (16624)

    Ensure greetings tokens get populated as expected.

  • Contact Type Values with Cap in order to be well translated with ts() (16638)

    Ensures Contact Types get translated in the task menu.

  • CommunicationPreferences 'loclize' -> 'localize' (16633)

    Ensures the "Communication Preferences" field options get localized.

  • Convert civicrm_note.modified_date to timestamp (16338)

    Ensures the civicrm_note.modified_date field stores the date and time before this change this field only stored the date.

  • Fix two more php-finding regexes (16606)

    Ensures the APIv4 explorer loads regardless regardless of the enclosing path.

  • Settings Fix setting readonly attribute (16451)

    Ensures that when a setting is defined via "civicrm.settings.php" it is set to read only in the ui.

  • Fix issues with retrieving supportsTestMode/supportsLiveMode for payment processors (15330)

    Improves performance and ensures that one cannot select a live payment processor on the back end payment form in test mode.

  • State/province not copied on shared address (dev/core#1605: 16649)

  • Activity Summary civireport gives fatal error when grouping activity date by quarter (dev/core#1619: 16643)

  • Fix parameter format for upgrade call to install/enable sequentialcreditnotes (16686)

  • Activity Report: filtering by "is null" or "is not null" is ignored (dev/core#1627: 16672)

  • Fix backoffice participant partial payments to be stdised & not miscalculate net_amount (16442)

  • Throwing API_Exception if file fails to copy when creating attachment (16465)

  • Do not enable core payment processor types that we believe likely don't work on new installs (16362)

  • Resolve notices if first donation amount and date columns were disabled (16491)

  • Allow any casting done in Type::validate to bubble up to Request::retrieveValue (16525)

  • Fix a PHP notice for users with limited permissions when loading a contact's summary (16515)

  • Do not fatally fail on angular pages if an extension is missing (16533)

  • fix contribution summary report's statistics when grouping and having (16467)

  • Fix smart group custom field check to cope with api error (16750)

  • Inline editing not working on admin option value-like screens (dev/core#1651: 16779 and 16791)

  • Fix fatal error on loading extension page when an extension has been deleted (16752)

  • Can't install 5.23 in another language (dev/translation#40: 16842)

  • Don't cache the full path of extensions so they don't break with dynamic paths (dev/cloud-native#21: 15410)

  • Monetary Amount Display setting not respected for price set totals (dev/core#1019: 16487)

  • mailing label primary address selection ignored if global option searchPrimaryDetailsOnly disabled (dev/core#1158: 14928 and 16640)

  • APIv4 - Correctly return null values from DAO save actions (16645)

  • Api4 - Display sql errors in explorer (16641)

  • "DB Error: unknown error" when merging if duplicate contact has null created_date (dev/core#1589: 16543)

  • Exporting contacts via membership dashboard click through selects all contacts in database (dev/user-interface#14: 16763 and 16933)

    Fixes a bug where the links from the membership dashboard 'appear to work' but then don't work in export.

CiviCampaign

  • Secondarily order campaign dashboard by id (15316)

    Improves the "Campaign Dashboard" by organizing Campaigns by Start Date and then Id so that if campaigns are rapidly added they show up in the correct order.

CiviCase

  • Case Activities Report includes core activities always (dev/core#1366: 16669, 16660 and 15998)

    Improves printing/generating the Case Activity Audit by skipping a screen that does not work and cleaning up the code.

  • Incorrect boolean comparisons in ang/crmCaseType/list.html for is_active and is_reserved (dev/core#1451: 16035)

    Ensures the correct drop down actions are displayed on the case type listing screen.

  • My Case dashlet doesn't sort by name but contact_id instead (dev/core#1623: 16647)

    Ensures the case dashlet sorts by contact sort name.

  • Remove hardcoded settings from form and use SettingForm.tpl for Case settings (16600)

  • Adding a timeline to a case doesn't get the last activity in the timeline right (dev/core#1675: 16926)

CiviContribute

  • when importing contributions, can't match contact on phone number (dev/core#1438: 16009)

    Ensures when importing contributions, phone number is listed as a field to match on and that matching via phone number works as expected.

  • Invoice does not assign/display the contact's country (dev/financial#109: 15964)

  • CRM_Utils_Money::equals should round to monetary values then compare, not do a difference comparison. (dev/financial#104: 15856)

  • Count refunds when calculating amount due for an invoice (16506)

CiviMail

  • Unsubscribe broken on multilingual sites -- may cause mass unsubscribes to all groups (dev/core#1622: 16634)

CiviMember

Backdrop Integration

  • bin/, extern/ - Fix leak of "$config" in global namespace backdrop (16702)

    This removes the $config variable from some pre CMS boot locations to avoid issues with backdrop compatability.

Drupal Integration

  • Multi-select custom data shows values not labels in drupal user record (CRM-984: 549)

    Ensures that the "Add CiviCRM Tag to Contact" action lists Tags as options instead of Groups.

  • Check email when creating a user in drupal 8 (15390)

    Ensures when creating a new Drupal8 user via a CiviCRM profile, the email address entered is validated as a unique user email.

  • E2E_Cache_*Test raises dependency-hell in D8 (dev/core#1562: 16522)

Joomla Integration

  • CiviCRM upgrade to 5.23.0 breaks payment processor (dev/financial#120: 16761)

    Fixes loading of several javascript and css assets on front end pages (such as the contribution page) in Joomla.

  • CiviCRM menu disappears and upgrade to 5.23.x fails if Joomla is in a folder below the website. (dev/joomla#26: 16887)

WordPress Integration

  • 5.23 breaks WP admin menu links (dev/core#1637: 16721, 16735)

  • Fix display of administrator permissions in WordPress Multisite (dev/core#1628: 16675)

    Ensures that users with the role "Network Administrator" can limit the permissions for users with the role "Site Administrator" for WordPress with Multisite.

  • Fix synchronisation of Users to Contacts in WordPress Multisite (dev/core#1629: 16676)

    For WordPress Multisite's ensures that only users of a particular sub site are synced to CiviCRM for that sub site.

Miscellany

  • Update CKEditor 4.14 (16841)

  • Remove fatal from form (16500)

  • Add deprecation notices on PartialAmount params (16505)

  • fix headers (16492)

  • API Kernel - cleanup deprecated fn & unused param (16511)

  • Common.js - remove duplicate function (16508)

  • Fix calls to Request::retrieve (16526)

  • APIv4 - merge ActionUtil with Request::create (16516)

  • Fix year typo. (16486)

  • Remove reference to mysql 5.0 & 5.1 (16539)

  • Change "Added By" to "Added by" (16527)

  • Remove old defines for flexmailer that haven't been required since CiviCRM 5.x (16528)

  • Make savedSearch bao sane (16575)

  • Add deprecation notice (16585)

  • Move determination of year & month to formatCreditCardDetails (16562)

  • Add description to params for api3 Payment.get (16602)

  • Move sequentialcreditnotes under ext/ folder (16616)

  • Removed Invalid Parameter from function doc (16631)

  • civicrm.settings.php.template - Simplify examples of $civicrm_setting (16636)

  • Remove unused columns from civicrm_saved_search (16637)

  • News dashboard - Code cleanup to update js & css (16632)

  • Fix mistake in comment (16657)

  • Remove helper function now that contribution settings is not weirdly stored (16566)

  • added sudo constant for sms api type (16679)

  • Add setEntityId() to entityForm (16020)

  • Remove deprecated function CRM_Contact_BAO_GroupContactCache::remove (16682)

  • Ancient switch statement that provides hardcoded translation doesn't do anything anymore (dev/translation#37: 16619)

  • Cleanup copyValues DAO function (16589)

  • Remove unused code (16493)

  • remove unnecessary file (16502)

  • [REF] Fix static call to non-static function. (16552)

  • [REF] Change function signature to support moving this off the form layer (16677)

  • [REF] Remove FPDI library from packages as it is deployed by composer (287)

  • [REF] Use relative path for finding the advmultiseletct javascript (286)

  • [REF] Remove patch from dompdf cleanup script that is no longer needed (16490)

  • (REF) Move CIVICRM_MAIL_LOG logic from patch-files to wrapper-class (16497)

  • [REF] Remove never used property (16540)

  • ([REF] Fix handling of owner url parameter from Membership Dashboard 16937)

  • REF Refactor ActivityTokens to use a trait that can be shared with other entities (16468)

  • [REF] Extract function to getTransactionInfo (16545)

  • [REF] Update civicrm_generated following merge of #16362 (16605)

  • [REF] Extract self-service eligibility code into its own function (16615)

  • [REF] Only call getACLs when contact_id is present, remove handling (16667)

  • [REF] Deprecate _html2pdf_tcpdf function in favour of _html2pdf_dompdf (16662)

  • [REF] simple function extraction (16642)

  • [REF] Removed unused function (16663)

  • [REF] Refactor adding payment processor radio section onto register and contribution main forms (16595)

  • [REF] Add in pre and post hooks to UFField Entity (16653)

  • [NFC] Use insert ignore for inserts into civicrm_extension to stop warnings on duplicate entry for sequential credit notes extension (16644)

  • [NFC] dev/core#1466 Update Documentation URLS to be the correct links in the security component check (dev/core#1466: 16085)

  • [NFC] Convert Custom Field BAO file to use short array syntax (16613)

  • [NFC] dev/core#1621 Extend unit tests to ensure that entity financial account is correctly deleted when financial type is deleted (dev/core#1621: 16639)

  • [NFC] Minor code cleanup (16563)

  • [NFC] Preliminary cleanup (16557)

  • (NFC) Fix typo - no hyphen in 'override' (16571)

  • (NFC) Remove $Id$ from header (16582)

  • [NFC] Test cleanup. (16581)

  • [NFC] Add missing letter "h" in upgrade script for task description (16687)

  • [TEST] Unit test environment no longer working on windows after latest CodeGen updates (dev/core#1572: 16477)

  • [TEST] CRM_Event_BAO_AdditionalPaymentTest::testAddPartialPayment should have status transition checks fixed & enabled (dev/financial#102: 16564)

Credits

This release was developed by the following code authors:

a-n The Artists Information Company - William Mortada; AGH Strategies - Alice Frumin, Andie Hunt; Agileware - Agileware Team, Francis Whittle; Alexy Mikhailichenko; breheret; Calibrate - Wouter Hechtermans; CEPR - Josh Brown; Chris Burgess; Christian Wach; Circle Interactive - Pradeep Nayak; CiviCoop - Klaas Eikelboom; CiviCRM - Coleman Watts, Tim Otten; CiviDesk - Yashodha Chaku; Coop SymbioTIC - Mathieu Lutfy; Dave D; Electronic Frontier Foundation - Mark Burdett; Francesc Bassas i Bullich; Freeform Solutions - Herb van den Dool; Fuzion - Jitendra Purohit; Greenpeace Central and Eastern Europe - Patrick Figel; GMCVO Databases - Jade Gaunt; iXiam - Luciano Spiegel; Jens Schuppe; JMA Consulting - Monish Deb, Seamus Lee; Kartik Kathuria; Lighthouse Design and Consulting - Brian Shaughnessy; Makoa - Usha F. Matisson; Megaphone Technology Consulting - Jon Goldberg; MJW Consulting - Matthew Wire; Progressive Technology Project - Jamie McClelland; Richard van Oosterhout; Roomify, LLC - Adrian Rollett; Squiffle Consulting - Aidan Saunders; Tadpole Collective - Kevin Cristiano; Wikimedia Foundation - Eileen McNaughton, Elliott Eggleston, Maggie Epps

Most authors also reviewed code for this release; in addition, the following reviewers contributed their comments:

a-n The Artists Information Company - William Mortada; Agileware - Justin Freeman; Andrew Cormick-Dockery; Artful Robot - Rich Lott; Betty Dolfing; British Humanist Association - Andrew West; CiviCoop - Jaap Jansma, Matthijs Keijser; CiviDesk - Sunil Pawar; Joinery - Allen Shaw; MJCO - Mikey O'Toole; Simon John Parker; Third Sector Design - Michael McAndrew;

Feedback

These release notes are edited by Alice Frumin and Andie Hunt. If you'd like to provide feedback on them, please log in to https://chat.civicrm.org/civicrm and contact @agh1.