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CiviCRM 5.27.0

Released July 1, 2020

Synopsis

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

Features

Core CiviCRM

  • Warn users who lack PHP-Intl extension (Work Towards dev/translation#48: 17668, 17728)

    A system check warning will now appear on sites that lack the PHP Internationalization extension. This is in preparation for changes that will appear in CiviCRM 5.28 and require the extension.

  • Advanced Search - Allow searching by first/last name; pass values from quicksearch (dev/core#1722: 17118)

    This makes separate First Name and Last Name fields available on the Advanced Search form, and it ensures quick search filters are passed to the appropriate field.

  • Add more search options (17372)

    Improves the search form for individuals in contact reference fields by adding fields for Employer Name, First Name, Last Name, and Nick Name.

  • End of life planning for MySQL server 5.0 - 5.6 (dev/core#1681: 17518 and 17496)

    Sites running MySQL 5.5 and below will have a pre-upgrade message and a system check warning to say that CiviCRM 5.28 will require MySQL 5.6 or MariaDB 10.1.

  • APIv4 - Improve pseudoconstant suffix support (17368 and 17482)

    APIv4 allows pseudoconstant fields to be specified with the pseudoconstant name followed by a suffix, such as activity_type_id:label. This now works for retrieval and sort.

  • APIv4 - Support custom entity joins (17394)

    Improves APIv4 so that it supports implicit and explicit joins onto custom entities.

  • Make reCAPTCHA settings clearer (17426)

    The help text for reCAPTCHA settings now specifies the type of reCAPTCHA supported.

  • Configurable logfile size and hashing (17192)

    Allows a system administrator to give logs a predictable name, allowing them to be more easily ingested into other tools, and be handled by external log rotation tools.

  • Allow for installation on Symfony 4.4 (17380)

    Makes it so CiviCRM plays nicely with Symfony 4.4.

  • Add domain tokens to the Message Template admin interface (17388)

    This adds the domain tokens (the domain organization name, address, email, and phone) to the available listed tokens for editing message templates.

  • Hide icon elements from screen readers and add handling for screen-reader-only text (17318, 17293, 17294, and 17310)

    CiviCRM uses empty <i> elements to provide most icons. Screen readers, which won't render the visual icon anyway, will either skip over an empty element or announce it in a way that would be confusing. This makes it explicit that screen readers and other ARIA devices should skip them.

    Meanwhile, if the icon is the only way a piece of information is displayed, a screen reader user won't get that information. This adds a sr-only class that makes the element invisible on screen without being ignored by a screen reader.

    Screen reader text is added for the field option wrench icons, relationship permissions, and membership auto-renew status.

  • Add icon helper functions and remove most uses of check.gif (17279 and 17289)

    This adds helper functions in PHP and Smarty to render consistent icons with a minimum of code. It also replaces most instances of the green checkmark image with a checkmark icon.

  • Separate icon markup from labels and add JS icon helper (17319 and 17285)

    These changes improve CRM_Core_Action::formLink(), hook_civicrm_links, and certain listing pages so that HTML icon markup is added at the point of display rather than during the processing of values.

    It also adds a helper function in Javascript similar to those in PHP and Smarty to render icons.

  • crmButton: Support icon=0 for no icon (17303)

    Makes it possible to create a button without an icon using {crmButton}.

  • Replace stop-icon.png with fa-ban over a relevant icon for privacy (17283 and 17307)

    The communication preference icons are standardized and more specific than the old stop sign.

  • Replace image icons with Font Awesome icons ([17296](17280, 17281, 17282, 17295, civicrm#17296), 17297)

    Nearly all image icons have been replaced with the corresponding icons from the Font Awesome library.

  • Simplify admin console and remove superfluous icons (17284)

    The Administration console has been redesigned to have a simpler layout, display more information, dynamically include all enabled components, display responsively on small screens, and remove a slew of 15-year-old image icons.

  • Dedupe performance - hard-remove financial_item from list of dymnamic refs to contact table (17567)

    This improves performance when deduping by no longer querying the financial item table.

  • Trigger fatalErrorHandler for PEAR errors and for logs with severity ERROR or higher (17277)

    This allows extensions that implement $config->fatalErrorHandler to react to a wider variety of errors that CiviCRM may generate.

CiviContribute

  • Wrap separators in price field in spans with classes (dev/user-interface#18: 17078)

    Colons separating pre- and post-field help text from price fields are now wrapped in <span> elements.

  • Allow to search on contribution ID (dev/core#1580: 16484)

    This improves the "Find Contributions" search form by adding a field to search by Contribution ID.

  • APIv4 - Add "Price"-related entities (17363)

    Priceset, PriceField, and PriceOption entities are added to APIv4.

  • APIv4 - Add ContributionRecur entity (17299)

    Adds Contribution Recur to APIv4.

CiviMail

  • Allow click-through and open tracking to be enabled/disabled by default (17291)

    Adds a setting to CiviMail which allows for setting the click-through and open tracking defaults.

  • Extend content array of hook_civicrm_alterMailContent (dev/core#1620: 16629)

    Adds campaign_id to template for alterMailContent hook.

  • Migrate CiviMail "extern" scripts to conventional routes (17312)

    Updates CiviMail's default behavior to replace extern/open.php and extern/url.php with civicrm/mailing/open and civicrm/mailing/url.

  • Make is_archived work as a url-search parameter (17328)

    The Find Mailings URL can now have is_archived as a parameter to only find archived mailings.

CiviMember

  • Add MembershipType to Api4 (17448)

    Adds a Membership Type entity to APIv4.

Drupal Integration

  • CiviCRM menu toggle "adjust menu position" customisable (dev/core#1757: 17362)

    This hides the "adjust menu position" icon in the CiviCRM Menu for non admin users to avoid confusion for users who do not have access to the Drupal admin menu.

  • Provide "Calendar" module with an end-date when a duration is provided (601)

    Improves display of activities in calendar views.

Bugs resolved

Core CiviCRM

  • CRM_Utils_Time::setTime and getTime() and their use in unit tests (dev/core#1781: 17414)

    This allows the CRM_Utils_Time functions used in unit tests to use TIME_FUNC to better isolate timing bugs.

  • Confusing popups when importing activities (dev/user-interface#17: 17067)

    This fixes a bug where the confirmation popup would appear when hitting the back/cancel buttons, not just the import button, on most import forms.

  • Installing CiviCRM in another language, with civicrm-setup (dev/translation#39: 17244)

    Fixes a bug when installing CiviCRM in another language with civicrm-setup.

  • Replace all instances of CRM_Core_Fatal with throw new CRM_Core_Exception (dev/core#560: 17421, 17343, 17336 and 17341)

  • CiviCRM 5.13.4 - smart groups with contact subtypes: subtype is not in Contact Type field on edit criteria mode (dev/core#991: 16541)

    Fixes contact subtypes not being carried over when editing a smart group created in Advanced Search.

  • Unable to import relationship (dev/core#1731: 17163)

    Ensures that importing relationships works as expected when the same field is to be imported for the main imported contact and a related contact.

  • Apostrophes in richtext fields don't get exported properly in CiviReport (dev/core#1743: 17260)

  • Statically added members of a smart group are not found (dev/core#1745: 17419)

  • Deleting an activity with attachments doesn't delete the file or entries in civicrm_file/civicrm_entity_file (dev/core#1753: 17298)

  • Deselected checkbox settings are not saved (dev/core#1794: 17493)

    Ensures deselected values are saved on custom field settings forms.

  • Added activity types don't appear in the type dropdown on New Activity (dev/core#1822: 17625)

  • API doesn't allow passing option values by label (dev/core#1816: 17628)

    Updates APIv4 so that it matches based on label if name is not found.

  • APIv4 - Improve custom field spec gathering (17471)

  • APIv4 - Remove implicit multi joins & add explicit joins (17332)

  • APIv4 - Fix entity name on custom groups in schemaMapper (17425)

  • APIv4 - fix returning custom field values with API4 (17399)

  • Attempting to access Multi-Record Custom Field import results in crash (dev/core#1841: 17713)

  • Fix issue with building smart groups when $contactQueries is empty (17622)

    If a clause of a contact query used to build a smart group is empty, it would result in a database error.

  • Replace deprecated money_format() fn to support PHP 7.4 (Work Towards dev/core#1494: 17577, 17730)

    Adds a deprecation notice and a status check for a money value format configuration other than the default.

  • QueueTest - Be more forgiving about slow execution (17532)

  • CommunityMessages - Define more consistent behavior in the face of slow execution (17529)

    This helps avoid test failures on broadcast messages when the system is running slowly.

  • Scheduled Reminders - Set boolean fields to false if not set. (17494)

  • Allow bidirectional assignment of relationships from search results (17413)

    Previously relationships could only be created from search results where the contacts would be valid in the "A" side of the relationship type.

  • Navigation menu - Fix translation of new-subtype entries (17451)

    The "New" in menu items for creating a new contact of a subtype was not translated.

  • utf8mb4 - If strict mode enabled query will fail if KEY_BLOCK_SIZE is not 0 (17253)

  • Update DAO and l10n schema file (17395)

    Price option name and value are now required in the database.

  • Fix adding languages in multilingual (17228)

    This resolves a database error when adding or removing a language on a multilingual site.

  • Don't exclude deleted contacts from ACL cache when user has permission (17379)

  • SMTP page appears broken when language is French (JS issue) (dev/core#1760: 17317)

    Javascript strings that appear in Smarty are now escaped more thoroughly to avoid markup problems.

  • Add serialize column to civicrm_custom_field, remove "Multi-Select" html type (16992, 17722)

    Work towards making custom select and multi-select fields more similar to core select/multi-select fields.

  • Respect file fields that have been configured as view only in profiles (17079)

  • Tag create - Respect created_date and created_id params (17257)

  • Public status messages should show correct class/icon like error (17376)

  • Decorative chevrons should be icons not angle quotes (17245)

  • A/B Test - Icon should be Erlenmeyer flask, not bar chart (17316)

  • Proceeding to confirmation page should be a "next" button not a check (17246)

CiviCase

  • Case Activity: Follow-up activity assignee does not receive email (dev/core#1721: 17116)

    Ensures when a follow up case activity is created the assignee is sent an email.

CiviContribute

  • Custom fields disappear on page refresh (dev/core#1728: 17301)

    This ensures that financial type specific custom fields are displayed on the backend contribution form when it is refreshed.

  • Fix pricefield pseudoconstant. (17364)

    Fixes PriceField entity to build options for the price_set_id pseudoconstant field.

  • Nuance cancel options for processors (17430)

    This allows payment processors to specify the way they allow cancellation of recurring contributions.

  • [regression] Contribution amount choices don't appear for anonymous users (dev/core#1823: 17619)

  • Import Contribution of custom fields only accepts "Numeric Value" rather than "Label" (dev/core#1806: 17632)

  • "Financial Type" listed twice in contribution export (dev/core#1650: 17147)

  • Record Payment does not update check_number & trxn id on main contribution. (dev/core#1758: 17314)

  • civicrm_financial_trxn.fee_amount reversals mixed up (dev/core#1775: 17386)

  • jquery validation type error on the credit card field (dev/core#1797: 17497)

    Fixes a jQuery error when submitting a front end contribution form with a credit card field.

  • Fix payment instrument bug by using correct payment instrument (17607)

    When a backend payment form records a payment it now will use a processor-specific default payment instrument rather than the site-wide default if it is set.

  • Payment PropertyBag - Fix setAmount (17505)

    Ensures "Amount" is set correctly on PropertyBag.

  • Fixed hide show of start date (17446)

    Fix hide/show of receive date for recurring contributions.

  • Don't allow Contribution.repeattransaction to be used without a recurring contribution (17447)

  • Add actual field name for processor_id to getSubscriptionDetails (17466)

  • Make 'Pending' the default status for Contribution.repeattransaction (17432)

  • Fetch line items from correct contribution when repeating a contribution (17220)

  • Support order_reference param in API3 Payment.create (17278)

  • E_WARNINGS when viewing list of pledge payments (dev/core#1791: 17434)

  • Add propertyBag handling for getEmail when incoming uses email-5 (17267)

    Payment processors can now retrieve billing email using the propertyBag class methods.

CiviMail

  • Don't log subscription_history (dev/core#1762: 17323)

    The civicrm_subscription_history table is effectively a log of contacts being added to and removed from groups. Rows do not change value; each change in group subscription results in a new row. Consequently, there is no reason to attach detailed logging to this table.

  • Unsubscribe generates 500 server error responses, logs say "missing parameters" (dev/core#1773: 17402)

    Ensures the unsubscribe form can only be submitted once.

CiviMember

  • Recurring contribution fails with "ipn_payment_callback_exception", for membership auto-renewal via PayPalPro. (dev/core#1608: 17355)

  • Don't hide disabled memberships from the contact membership tab (dev/membership#24: 17143 and 17435)

    This resolves a problem where memberships of disabled membership types would not appear on the membership tab but would throw a duplicate membership warning when creating a new membership with the same membership organization. This also adds a unit test to lock in the correct behavior.

  • Update MembershipType.name to be a required field (17463)

  • Fix PHP notice when is_override is not set (17273)

Joomla Integration

WordPress Integration

  • Styling issues after upgrade to WordPress 5.3 (dev/wordpress#46: 16967)

  • WP - Change definitions of cms.root, civicrm.root (17360)

    The base logic for computing path/URL defaults is in Civi/Core/Paths.php.

    For CiviCRM on WordPress, certain variables (which are easier to compute via WordPress APIs) are overridden in CRM_Utils_System_WordPress.

    On WordPress, the path/URL logic for has been split: there is one code path for normal CiviCRM pages which is based on WordPress APIs, and there is another for older, standalone scripts in the extern folder which is based on the same logic as before.

  • Declare minimum WP and PHP versions required for installation (201)

  • wp-rest - Adjust extern URL. Be more defensive about 'query' part. (192)

    This resolves issues with tracking URLs via the wp-rest endpoint that are then modified with hook_civicrm_alterExternUrl.

Miscellany

  • Handle less common dynamic reference cases (17653)

  • Use apiv4, cache infra for basicTypes (17387)

  • Cleanup PriceFieldValue BAO (17306)

  • Clarify definition of amount field in civicrm_contribution_recur table. (17311)

  • Call completeOrder directly from contribute status update form (17347)

  • Switch docblock code to use markdown syntax. (17304)

  • Preliminary cleanup on form (17345)

  • Add getBAOClassName utiltiy function (17268)

  • CRM/Logging - Remove obsolete cache static clear in test (17269)

  • Remove incorrect retrievals of tax-term setting (17183)

  • CiviEvent Dashboard and Manage Events: clean up disused url template vars (17378)

  • Set default using spec for activity_date_time (17390)

  • Convert remaining Authorize.net test to use guzzle (17473)

  • Various BAO create/add cleanups to use writeRecord() (17308)

  • Remove instantiation of transaction from payment express ipn class (17348)

  • Remove null code (17381)

  • Remove validation bypass (17384)

  • Simplify recurring contribution template inheritance (17178)

  • Remove $_REQUEST passed into CRM_Utils_Request::retrieve NFC (17377)

  • Use now instead of date for activity API3 spec (17411)

  • Typo Fix (17409)

  • Fix logic for job log cleanup and make SQL safer (17203)

  • Remove always-true if block. (17415)

  • Remove No longer required HTTP_Request Package (293)

  • Remove code that still seems unnecessary. (17342)

  • Undo variable variable. (17371)

  • Use non-deprecated method (17370)

  • Remove last reference to Payment->_processorName in core & remove from processors (17474)

  • Remove unused singleton from core payment processors (17468)

  • Test fixes to support apiv4 add of MembershipType (17488)

  • Merge code - remove UPDATE IGNORE+Delete & just use reliable update (17072)

  • Remove unneeded parameters in {ts} on membership form (17326)

  • Remove unused 'reset' param, other NFC tidy up: (17392)

  • Fix setLanguage docblock, other nfc changes (17356)

  • [REF] Simplify contributionIDs code (17441)

  • [REF] Extract getAttachments (17405)

  • [REF] Preliminary cleanup for #17339 (17417)

  • [REF] Remove unreachable block. (17407)

  • [REF] Pass an array of correct params to the function to create a recurring contribution. (17398)

  • [REF] Code simplification & unit test on suppressed emails in task (17393)

  • [REF] duplicate function. (17400)

  • [REF] Pass params not-by-reference (17406)

  • [REF] Refactor to switch from pear HTTP Request class to using Guzzle (17420)

  • [REF] [Reports] Ensure that all contribution pages including disabled ones are return… (17357)

  • [REF] Cleanup and extract string functions specific to entity names. (17330)

  • [REF] Stop passing by reference. (17349)

  • [REF] Simplify subject code. (17436)

  • [REF] Implement required fields database changes that have occured du… (17465, 17725)

  • [REF] Bump Pear Log version to fix compatability with Drupal 8 / Drup… (17460)

  • [REF] Convert one of the http calls in Authorize.net class to use guzzle. (17449)

  • [REF] Minor simplification (17443)

  • [REF] Grant BAO cleanup (17264)

  • [REF] CRM_Core_DAO_AllCoreTables::getBriefName to accept BAO name (17331)

  • [REF] Missing semicolon on smtp settings page, code cleanup in file-on-case, add test (17335)

  • [REF] Extract createFollowUpActivities (17481)

  • [REF] Switch to an api call to get the contact details. (17442)

  • [REF] Minor code simplification (17373)

  • [REF] Call completeOrder directly from event status update form (17346)

  • [REF] Remove never-passed params from function signature (17464)

  • [REF] Fix serialized membership field handling in RelationshipTest (17469)

  • [REF] Minor tidy up (17302)

  • [REF] Remove always NULL param modified_id (17489)

  • [REF] Add contribution_id field to search using metadata instead of h… (17286)

  • [REF] Fix unit test failures on MySQL 5.6 due to Custom Field table being created without Dynamic Row Format (17586)

  • [REF] Start to convert Dummy processor to use PropertyBag (17452)

  • [Ref] remove calls to, and deprecate, pending function (17490)

  • [REF] Cleanup MailingAB BAO (17309)

  • [TEST] Update test to support for 8.0.19 change (17354)

  • [TEST] Fix test failure on Drupal 8 E2E PrevNextTest by only includin… (17358)

  • [TEST] dev/core#1766 - Remove flakiness from testGetFromTo tests (dev/core#1766: 17338)

  • [NFC/TEST] dev/core#1784 - Unit tests for contact delete/restore (dev/core#1784: 17437)

  • NFC - Change array() to short syntax [] (17470)

  • [NFC] Update Karma to be latest version (17439)

  • (NFC) CRM_Utils_Url - Fix declared type (17320)

  • [NFC] Remove some more of the old cvs blocks (17383)

  • NFC Add a bit more clarity to createEmailActivity function (17391)

  • [NFC] Add comment that deprecated code is actually still reachable (17340)

  • (NFC) Remove some cvs docblock help (17322)

  • [NFC] Add comment regarding lower case for Polish states (17327)

  • (NFC) RegionTest - Small cleanups (17270)

  • [NFC] Add sr-only class for content only for screen readers (17255)

  • NFC Change hardcoded ID to constant (17275)

  • [NFC] Fix use of single quotes, strict operator (17492)

Credits

This release was developed by the following code authors:

a-n The Artists Information Company - William Mortada; AGH Strategies - Alice Frumin, Andrew Hunt; Andrei Mondoc; British Humanist Association - Andrew West; Caltha - Tomasz Pietrzkowski; Christian Wach; Circle Interactive - Pradeep Nayak; CiviCRM - Coleman Watts, Tim Otten; CiviDesk - Yashodha Chaku; CompuCorp - René Olivo; Coop SymbioTIC - Mathieu Lutfy; Dave D; Dominic Hargreaves; Electronic Frontier Foundation - Mark Burdett; Freeform Solutions - Herb van den Dool; Fuzion - Jitendra Purohit; Greenpeace Central and Eastern Europe - Patrick Figel; JMA Consulting - Edsel Lopez, Seamus Lee; John Kingsnorth; Joinery - Allen Shaw; Kartik Kathuria; Lighthouse Design and Consulting - Brian Shaughnessy; Megaphone Technology Consulting - Jon Goldberg; MJCO - Mikey O'Toole; MJW Consulting - Matthew Wire; Palante Technology Cooperative - Morgan Robinson; Semper IT - Karin Gerritsen; Tadpole Collective - Kevin Cristiano; Wikimedia Foundation - Eileen McNaughton

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

Agileware - Justin Freeman; Artful Robot - Rich Lott; Betty Dolfing; CiviCoop - Jaap Jansma; iXiam - Luciano Spiegel; JMA Consulting - Monish Deb; Kartik Kathuria; Korlon - Stuart Gaston; Megaphone Technology Consulting - Dennis P. Osorio; Squiffle Consulting - Aidan Saunders

Feedback

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