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CiviCRM 5.53.0

Released September 7, 2022

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

  • Make Recent Items available providers an option group so extensions can
    extend it (dev/core#3783: 24164)

    Makes it so extension developers can extend the Recent Items content.

  • Allow custom fields to have custom fields (23995)

    Makes it so custom fields can have custom fields.

  • CiviCRM Standalone: base classes (22227)

    Work towards a standalone CiviCRM (no CMS needed).

  • SearchKit: HTML fields display (dev/core#3723: 24023)

    Allows HTML in SearchKit fields.

  • APIv4 Contact.get - include email, phone, address? (dev/core#3659: 23972)

    Makes it easier to search and display contact primary email, phone, and IM without using any joins in SearchKit.

  • Add (pixels) to available label & pdf layout units (24136)

    Makes px (pixels) an available layout unit for labels and pdfs.

  • Metadata - Add label field for SavedSearch (24162)

    Adds a label field to the metadata for the SavedSearch entity.

  • Make civi 2 nanoseconds faster (24169)

    Performance improvement.

  • Importer - Increase size of queue batches (24151)

    Performance improvement.

  • Afform - provide easy way to add navigation menu from the form (24013)

    Allows administrators to create a navigation menu entry while editing an Afform.

  • Afform - Allow groups and tags and age to be filters (23974)

    Ensures Contact filter fields (groups, tags, age) are available as Afform search filters.

  • Afform - Post-submit redirect tokens (24016)

    Supports tokens in the redirect url, so that e.g. after creating a new contact you can be redirected to that contacts' summary page.

  • define format at one place (24049)

    Moves pdf format array to one place so that it can be altered using hooks.

  • Set target="_blank" on external footer links (23875)

    Adds rel="external" and target="_blank" attributes to external links in the footer.

  • Status Check - Report the overall status (accurately) (24027)

    Improves the Status reported in the footer.

  • Upgrade task to handle %A date format specifier change (24077)

    Adds a post upgrade message about the change to teh date token %A output.

CiviCase

  • Case custom field with clickable contact reference (24072)

    Makes Case contact reference custom fields clickable.

  • Improvements to Case Detail report (dev/core#3768: 24120, 24155 and 24109)

    Improves the Case Detail report by adding an option to include city as a column and adding a filter for 'Activity type of the last activity'

CiviContribute

  • Add paid_amount , balance_amount, tax_exclusive_amount available to apiv4 (24118)

    Improves APIv4 by adding paid_amount , balance_amount and tax_exclusive_amount.

  • Get offline contribution-receipt fully working with preview screen (Work Towards dev/core#3694: 23870)

    Improves user experience of the offline contribution receipt preview.

Bugs resolved

Core CiviCRM

  • CiviCRM Reports, setting the Report option "Available for Dashboard?" will now add the Report to all users Dashboards, which is new and undesirable behaviour (dev/core#3799: 24238)

  • Export fails for contact reference of type multi-select (dev/core#3751: 24047)

  • Some file upload fields not uploading (dev/core#3736: 24004)

    Fixes uploading files on the message template form.

  • Errors with multiple-contact reference field handling (dev/core#3712: 23932)

  • Upgrader - Apply extension updates after core updates (dev/core#3490: 24030)

  • E-notice fix on Is delete record
    (24157)

  • APIv4 - Fix resolving pseudoconstants for less-permissioned users (24203)

  • Fix regression causing custom groups to reset to 'Contact' when updated (24220)

  • Fix ActionLog BAO to not overwrite existing data (24035)

  • Call static function statically (24114)

  • Remove extraneous closing tags (24108)

  • Fix regex on windows (24094)

  • Fix Angular datepicker to keep up with $digest cycle (24079)

  • Fix grep in guzzle mock patch (24096)

  • Update cweagans/composer-patches to 1.7.2 to fix delete-and-reinstall problem (24015)

  • SearchKit - Fix editable when displaying an icon (24255)

  • SearchKit - Fix adding deep joins (23993)

    Fixes a UI bug that was preventing joins past a depth of 2 to be added.

  • SearchKit - Fix viewing search display for anonymous user (24180)

  • Cannot uninstall Searchkit (dmaster) (dev/core#3179: 23895)

  • Update zetacomponents/mail to 1.9.3 so can remove patches (24198)

  • zetacomponents/mail - Ensure latest mail patches are included (24233)

  • CrmUi - Fix crmSelect2 to work with ngOptions (24224)

  • CrmUi - Fix tabSetOptions variable (24204)

  • composer.json - Declare requirement for composer-runtime-api (24202)

  • Api4 Explorer - Use metadata for field suffixes instead of guessing (24168)

  • API - Consistently save custom data for v3 & v4 (24036)

  • APIv4 - Allow values to start with a dollar sign in chaining (24052)

  • APIv4 - Fix mishandling of boolean custom values (23970)

  • APIv4 export action: find DAO by ID instead of just calling the constructor and setting the ID
    (24089)

  • Afform - Require Authx (23767)

    Makes Authx a dependency for Afform.

  • Form Builder: Load contact summary blocks on Print Summary page (dev/core#3743: 24024)

  • Afform - show icon on button only if icon is selected (24073)

  • Afform - Update correct existing email,phone,address & prevent deletion of others (24172)

  • Afform - Fix js error when checking to refresh menuBar (24163)

  • Afform - Switch to APIv4 for managed afform_type option group (23896)

    Updates managed entity code, with handling to prevent errors in weird upgrade scenarios.

  • Afform - Add "clear" button to non-required radios (23413)

  • afform: breadcrumbs present when flagged for frontend (dev/core#3741: 24022)

  • remove start/end date as mandatory in Demographics report (24048)

  • Poly-fill-me-up (23954)

    Adds polyfill for PHP 7.4, 8.0, 8.1, and 8.2.

CiviCase

  • Use fontawesome icon helper for activity/Page/AJAX (24021)

    Fixes a missing delete icon on case roles on some themes.

CiviContribute

  • Fix line item 'title' determination (24142)

  • Fix and followups for invoice receipt message template (24111 and 24101)

    Removes extraneous closing tags from the invoice receipt message template and adds an upgrade warning regarding the change.

  • 5.51 regression - Contribution import - external id/contact id matches to wrong records (dev/core#3784: 24166)

  • Scheduled Job, Process Pledges reports an error when executed - Scheduled Job Failure: Finished execution of Process Pledges with result: Failure, Error message: invalid criteria for IN (dev/core#3749: 24059)

  • remove pledge status as mandatory in Pledge report (24028)

  • Fix 'Pledge Made Date' display to show date and not time (24031)

  • E_NOTICEs from CRM_Contribute_Task::permissionedTaskTitles() - undefined / null array errors (dev/core#3737: 24010)

  • Error thrown when 'remove'ing from CiviContribute Batch (dev/core#3050: 24025)

  • Stop adding 'In Progress' and 'Overdue' statuses to civicrm_contribution.contribution_status_id option group (Work Towards dev/financial#201: 24050 and 24051)

    Fixes PaypalPro IPN to refer to correct option group and fixes pledge payment to not refer to Contribution status.

  • Avoid sending blank invoices (24065)

CiviEvent

  • CiviCRM 5.51, Import Participants when matching by External / Contact ID always matches to Contacts with ID < 10 (dev/core#3786: 24153)

CiviMember

  • Notice: Undefined offset: 18 in CRM_Member_Form_Task_Batch->buildQuickForm() (dev/core#3772: 24124)

Drupal Integration

  • Error: Trying to access array offset on value of type null in Drupal\civicrm\Plugin\Block\CivicrmBlock->build (dev/drupal#181: 75)

    Fixes an error when a user without proper permissions tries to view the Recent Items block.

  • Drupal 10 requires Guzzle 7 (dev/drupal#171: 22918)

    Allows guzzle 7 for drupal 10.

  • Lower minimum polyfill version since conflicts with drupal/core-recommended (24017)

WordPress Integration

  • Downgrade Symfony Service Contracts to 2.2.0 to fix php fatal error in wordpress (24171)

  • fix broken url for wordpress in example code (24084)

Miscellany

  • Log a bit more deprecation info (24064)

  • Skip warning about event-online message template during upgrade (24141)

  • APIv4 - Improve pseudoconstant support in getFields (24099)

  • Replace all calls to deprecated method CRM_Core_PseudoConstant::activityType() (dev/core#3692: 23981, 23982 and 23979)

  • [REF] Move reCAPTCHA to core extension (Work Towards dev/core#2571: 20588)

  • Regenerate sql (24119)

  • composer.json - Update scssphp and related libraries (for PHP 8.1) (24044)

  • net_smtp upgrade to 1.10.0 (23998)

  • Add whitespace to exception message (24057)

  • Update contributor-key.yml (24078)

  • Make unshared function private, remove unused return (24105)

  • Move hook_civicrm_translateFields from message_admin to core (24063)

  • Minor test cleanup (24071)

  • Whitespace cleanup in invoice template (24113)

  • Fix test to not use Contribution option group for ContributionRecur status (24135)

  • composer.lock hash out of date (24011)

  • add classes to the contribution view page (24012)

  • removed import contacts access argument for summary path (24206)

  • Remove loadAll parameter from loadRelatedObjects (24140)

  • Remove some fixmes from message tpls (24107)

  • Remove extra space, offline receipt (24106)

  • Remove call to loadRelatedObjects from completetransaction (24087)

  • Remove legacy apiquery call from isContactInGroup (24062)

  • Remove deprecated call to loadRelatedObjects (24088)

  • Remove unused variable (24128)

  • Remove reference to CiviAuction (24187)

  • [REF] Fix Test fails on import by ensuring that Month Abbreviations are formatted based on the first of each month (24100)

  • [REF] OAuth - Move some API code to the BAO for better reusability (23725)

  • [REF] Convert Elavon Payment Processor to use Guzzle and ensure that we are using POST requests not GET requests to Elavon end point (24131)

  • [REF] Upgrade DOMPDF to 2.x branch (23946)

  • [REF][PHP8.1] Batch 4 of fixing issues found in unit tests where passing NULL values triggers deprecations (24018)

  • [REF][PHP8.1] Upgrade oauth2-client,zetacomponents/base,htmlpurfier packages to versions that support php8.1 (23984)

  • [php 8.1 compat] Avoid passing null to explode() (24177)

  • [php 8.1 compat] Avoid passing null to strlen (24178)

  • [php 8.1 compat] Avoid CRM_Utils_System::url null for $query param (24176)

  • [REF][PHP8.1] Fix a couple of deprecations in php8.1 by specifying that return type may change in BaseParamQuery and by ensuring that we don't pass null into function_exists in I18n class (23851)

  • [REF] Additional PHP8.1 fix for passing in NULL value to strlen (349)

  • [REF][PHP8.1] A third batch of fixes where passing in NULL values causes deprecation notices in php8.1 (23999)

  • Fix test. Don't hide errors. (Followup to 23999) (24007)

  • [REF][PHP8.1] Replace usage of the date_format modifer with crmDate to resolve issues with strftime (24008)

  • [REF][PHP8.1][INTL] Remove dependency on strftime function by using ts to generate day full names and abbreviations and month abbreviations (24032)

  • [REF][PHP8.1] Apply patches from upstream to ensure league/csv can work on php8.1 (24046)

  • [php 8.1 compat] Avoid CRM_Utils_System::url null for $query param (24192)

  • [REF][PHP8.1] Update phpoffice/phpword and tecnickcom/tcpdf packages for php8.1 compatability (24045)

  • [REF][PHP8.1] Another batch of fixes for passing in NULL values into functions that expect string|array parameters (24082)

  • [NFC][PHP8.1] Ensure that Trait function is only accessed by classes that use the trait (24081)

  • [REF][PHP8.1] Permit single quotes within html attributes (24083)

  • [REF][PHP8.1] Do not set auto_detect_line_endings to true on php versions 8.1 and later as it is deprecated (24092)

  • [REF][PHP8.1] Apply patch in PHPWord to fix passing in null value into strlen in validating locale (24093)

  • [REF][PHP8.1] Apply PR patch to fix issue in php8.1 where mysqli error reporting changed (23996)

  • [REF][PHP8.1] Fix some further places where passing in NULL is deprecated in php8.1 (348)

  • [REF][PHP8.1] Fix issues where passing in NULL values causes deprecations in php8.1 (346)

  • [REF][PHP8.1] Fix return type hint deprecations in php8.1 in the IDS (347)

  • [REF][PHP8.1] Fix Return type hints and passing in NULL values causing deprecation notices in php8.1 in Property Bag (24000)

  • [REF][PHP8.1] Fix issues in core extensions where passing in NULL values is no longer supported (23997)

  • [NFC] Convert Payment Processor ID field to payment processor in event create in tests (24256)

  • (NFC) Add common @group for import-related tests (24150)

  • NFC - remove unused variables, minor tidy up (24139)

  • [NFC] Resolve phpunit warning about using assertContains on strings (24091)

  • (NFC) HookStyleListener - Comments (24055)

  • (NFC) CRM_Core_Permission - More docblocks (24043)

  • [NFC] Add in convertDeprecationsToExceptions='true' to core extension's phpunit.xml.dist files (23986)

  • [NFC] Convert Deprecations in tests to exceptions (23985)

  • [NFC] fix composer.lock hash (23978)

  • [NFC] dompdf patch whitespace fix (23977)

Credits

This release was developed by the following code authors:

AGH Strategies - Andie Hunt; Agileware - Justin Freeman; Alexy Mikhailichenko; Circle Interactive - Pradeep Nayak; CiviCRM - Coleman Watts, Tim Otten; CiviDesk - Yashodha Chaku; Coop SymbioTIC - Mathieu Lutfy; CSES (Chelmsford Science and Engineering Society) - Adam Wood; Dave D; Freeform Solutions - Herb van den Dool; Jens Schuppe; JMA Consulting - Seamus Lee; Joinery - Allen Shaw; KAM z.s. - Vít Maňásek; Lemniscus - Noah Miller; Megaphone Technology Consulting - Jon Goldberg; MJW Consulting - Matthew Wire; Robert J. Lang; Tadpole Collective - Kevin Cristiano; Third Sector Design - Kurund Jalmi, Michael McAndrew; Wikimedia Foundation - Eileen McNaughton

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

Agileware - Francis Whittle; Andy Burns; Artful Robot - Rich Lott; avall-llovera; Betty Dolfing; Circle Interactive - Pradeep Nayak; CiviCoop - Jaap Jansma; Francesc Bassas i Bullich; JMA Consulting - Monish Deb; Levi.k; Mikey O'Toole; Savion Lee; Squiffle Consulting - Aidan Saunders

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.