4.7.28.md

CiviCRM 4.7.28

Released December 6, 2017

• Synopsis
• Features
• Bugs resolved
• Miscellany
• Credits
• Feedback

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?	no
Introduce features?	yes
Fix bugs?	yes

Features

Core CiviCRM

• CRM-16243 Dependency management for extensions (11173 and 11101)

  Extensions can now specify other extensions they depend on. When enabling an extension, the requisite extensions will be automatically enabled first. However, for now at least, this does not automatically download those extensions.

• CRM-20769 Allow for Button Text on profiles to be overriden in settings (10557)

  You can now enter custom labels for the Save and Cancel buttons on profiles in Create or Edit modes.

• CRM-21322 create hook to modify entityRef fields (11192)

  A new hook allows extension developers to modify the parameters for entity reference fields that appear in a form.

• CRM-21195 Adding the ability to add icons to menu items (11054) (follow-up work)

  This offers a slight adjustment to the markup for menu item icons.

• CRM-21262 Add a check for incorrect Resource URL (11067)

  A message will now appear on the Status Report if a site's CiviCRM Resource URL is set incorrectly.

• CRM-20903 Improve ordering of dedupe rules (11109 and 11098)

  Duplicate matching rules are now displayed in a consistent order: first the supervised and unsupervised rules, and then the general use rules in alphabetical order by title.

• CRM-20304 Add option to alphabetize option values (11045)

  Custom field options can now be alphabetized in one click.

• CRM-21179 Dashlet - Charts (11005) (preliminary work)

  CiviCRM now ships with the dc.js, d3.js, and crossfilter.js libraries. These historically have been provided by the Civisualize extension, but they are now available for report developers who don't want the full set of Civisualize features.

• CRM-21122 Support selection of smart groups on Contact Dashboard (10925)

  Smart Groups with Public Pages visibility are now available for users to join them through the User Dashboard.

• CRM-21379 Fix Activity dashlet issues (11221)

  The Activities dashlet now has the option to display all activities regardless of status. The default is the legacy behavior of only displaying scheduled activities. Legacy users should note that the default order is reversed, with the newest activities displayed first.

• Hw 390 fixed iframe popup (11075)

  iframe popups on AngularJS pages now have a default height.

CiviCase

• CRM-20078 Activity card - General (11159)

  The "File on case" button is improved so that it does not appear when an activity is being viewed in the context of a case. In addition, when using "File on case", the case defaults to an open case for the activity target contact if one is available.

CiviContribute

• CRM-20868, CRM-21480, and CRM-21479 set invoice_number at contribution->create, not invoice creation (10681, 11341, and 11321)

  Every contribution now comes with an invoice number regardless of whether an invoice has been generated.

• CRM-21354 Allow "Advanced Search" to search for recurring contribution status (11080)

  Recurring contribution status is now searchable in Advanced Search.

• CRM-21346 Make pledge installment count & amount exportable (11194)

  The number of installments and original installment amount fields for pledges are now exportable from the pledge search.

• CRM-21287 Add Financial Type to "Contributions by Household" report (11106)

  The "Contributions by Household" report now has the option to display and/or filter by financial type.

CiviMail

• CRM-20919 Adjust Mailing.create api for creating Completed mailings (10707)

  Completed mailings can now be imported via the API.

• CRM-21231 On CiviMail screen make 'Review and Schedule' tab active if required fields are filled (11035)

  When composing a message in CiviMail, the second tab, "Review and Schedule", is disabled at first. Now, the tab link becomes active when the first tab is complete.

• CRM-21282 Improve ordering of CiviMail click reporting (11099)

  The click report summary now orders links by the descending number of clicks.

Drupal Integration

• CRM-21297 Automatically fill database details in installer for Drupal (11113)

  The database connection fields when installing CiviCRM on Drupal now default to the CMS database connection details. This matches the process on WordPress.

WordPress Integration

• CRM-18754 Process extension parameters in shortcodes (112)

  Extensions and WordPress plugins can now process custom parameters in the civicrm shortcode.

• CRM-21212 Get E2E Tests working on wordpress (11017) (preliminary work)

  A new function retrives the WordPress user ID from a user name.

Bugs resolved

CiviMail

• CRM-21335 CiviMail recipient field isn't marked as required (11185)

• CRM-21508 civicrm_mailing.created_date information passed to Doctor When is incorrect (11361)

  The mailing date would default to the current timestamp when null.

• CRM-21411 When Sending a CiviMail from an advanced search no unsubscribe group field shows (11258)

• CRM-21284 Outdated link to mail setup documentation (11104)

• CRM-20892 Same mailing open in two windows can overwrite data on scheduled mailings (10965)

• CRM-21362 Mailing summary report group by MySQL 5.7 error (11206)

• CRM-20397 CiviMail send immediately date/time check too sensitive (11093 and 11092)

  Users would get errors that they were attempting to schedule mailings in the past.

Core CiviCRM

• CRM-21275 Fatal error without message should recommend bug-reporting page, instead of deprecated forum (11084)

• CRM-21336 Custom file fields should display file name without hash (11166)

• CRM-21268 Missing French overseas departments. (11076)

  The French overseas departments Wallis-et-Futuna and Nouvelle-Calédonie are now available in the State/Province list.

• CRM-21481 4.7.28-rc: needs to call rebuildMultilingualSchema() (11322)

  The introduction of multilingual columns means that the multilingual schema must be rebuilt. Otherwise, multilingual sites will encounter an error when upgrading.

• CRM-21363 and CRM-21455 Ensure that tests run using ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY sql_mode for mysql 5.7 (11249, 10934, 11339, and 11346)

• CRM-21364 Fix Tests which fail on ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY (11229, 11219, and 11209)

  This resolves a variety of problems that may occur if the MySQL sql_mode is set to ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY.

• CRM-21388 Extension Page should only throw exception if key is set (11234)

  When checking that an extension's key follows the expected standard, the extension page should not throw an exception if the key is blank or missing.

• CRM-20934 Child groups not present in group list selector (10717)

  This resolves a problem where having a disabled parent group would prevent a group from appearing in a group selection field even if another parent group is active.

• CRM-21351 Contact deceased date does not respect the localisation date format (11200)

• CRM-21306 DoctorWhen extension looses the comments from columns when converting (11129)

  When replacing columns to resolve date fields, Doctor When now restores the field comments to the database.

• CRM-21337 ISO compliance for Romanian and Bulgarian counties (11168)

  This fixes the spelling of a Bulgarian province and a number of Romanian counties in the state/province list.

• CRM-21283 Incorporate Barbados and Antigua and Barbuda Parishes into States list (11100)

  This adds parishes of Barbados and Antigua and Barbuda to the state/province list.

• CRM-21267 Error 500 - Call to undefined method CRM_Contact_Import_Parser::formatCustomDate (11124)

  Some code reorganization resulted in a method being called from within the wrong class during import of custom date fields, resulting in a fatal error. This calls it correctly.

• Navigation - Fix serialization error (11107)

• CRM-19346 gender_id uniqueness not enforced on option groups edit form (11089)

  Now each value in an option group must be unique.

• CRM-21214 Chaining shared addresses doesn't work correctly (11019)

  This prevents complex address inheritance cases such as second-degree address sharing and recursive address sharing.

• CRM-20779 Incorrect files showing in Tab for custom field (11082)

  On file custom fields in multiple-entry custom data sets, the first entry's file would display for all entries.

• CRM-20468 Attachment.create API HTML escapes the uploaded content (10876)

• CRM-19620 importing record with external_identifier that matches with a deleted contact results in traceback (11133)

  Now the External ID value is stripped from the contact in the trash and a new contact is created.

• CRM-20545 contact report lists contacts that have been 'soft' deleted (placed in Trash) (11136)

• CRM-21303 Dedupe datatable incorrectly calculates rows (11121)

  This fixes a problem where no more than 25 rows would display on the conflicts screen.

• CRM-21294 js error when selecting & unselecting merge contacts (11117)

• CRM-21246 Problem 'double chaining', e.g. Contact.get - Relationship.get - Contact.get (11056)

  This fixes problems due to ambiguity of the value syntax when using API chaining inside another chained API call.

• CRM-21258 Display name fatal error if names are too long (11063)

  Display name and sort name will now be truncated rather than cause a fatal error if the length is too long.

CiviMember

• CRM-21321 Membership fields not loading in 'On behalf of' profile (11148)

  You can now add membership fields to the profile for contributions on behalf of an organization, and they will display in the on-behalf section of the contribution page.

• CRM-20227 Regression - Membership status override gets 'stuck' (11188)

  This resolves a bug that would keep the membership status set by a status override when the override was disabled.

• CRM-20955 Contact's second membership fails to inherit when created in back end using price set (11184) (follow-up)

  Test coverage was added.

• CRM-19998 Membership start / end date have no effect in Search Builder (11134)

• CRM-20432 Pending Contributions which have a Payment recorded and are Completed do not trigger the related Membership to become current, status remains pending (11125)

• CRM-19060 Membership Detailed Report Payment Amount (most recent) not reporting correct contribution (8837)

CiviCase

• CRM-21367 Get help section out of container (11096, 11156, and 11220)

  Help text on the case types screens is now outside of the CiviCRM content block.

• CRM-21373 Notice error on creating cases (11217)

  This resolves a PHP notice that would appear upon creating a case.

• CRM-21255 Error when downloading document from case activity (11186)

  This resolves a bug in CiviCase 5.0 (org.civicrm.civicase) when printing a case document.

• HW-380: Remove spacer div (11071)

  This makes a slight adjustment to the case type editing form.

CiviContribute

• CRM-21062 Remove Tax Rate trailing zeros for display in Confirm / Thankyou forms (10856)

  This resolves a bug where tax rates would always display 8 decimal places on contribution page confirmation and thank-you pages.

• CRM-21436 Fatal error on contribution page with only pay later enabled. (11286)

• Fix Recurring contribution sql so that it doesen't use group by as there doesn't appear to be a reason to do so given that we have a where id = x clause and we were grouping on the same field (11231)

  This resolves a test failure on retrieving the related contact for a recurring contribution.

• CRM-21340 make "view my invoices" permission cms agnostic (11172)

  This removes the use of a Drupal-specific global when checking permissions to download an invoice.

• CRM-21305 Sorting not working on Batch listing page (11127)

• CRM-21281 Post Hook for LineItem does not receive entity_id and entity_table (11108 and 11097)

  When editing a line item, hook_civicrm_post now specifies the ID and table of the line item that was modified.

• CRM-20772 Price set calculation precision when sales tax enabled (11016) (initial work)

  This adds additional decimal places for a price field value's amount field and a membership type's minimum fee field in order to accommodate future changes.

• CRM-20572 Remove jcalendar from Contrib Sybunt custom Search (10355)

  This removes a deprecated library.

• CRM-21319 Total Amount not translated on Contribution Page (11147)

CiviEvent

• CRM-21149 On Event Registration Form, cannot target the text "(including yourself)" using word replacement because the parenthesis is outside the ts markers (10942)

• CRM-21339 Fix fatal js error on cart checkout when pay later not enabled (11170)

• CRM-21009 Removing event selection from participant does not free up capacity (10805)

• CRM-21327 Not able to change Payment Processor in event fees (11153)

  The field to choose payment processors on events was different from the corresponding setting for contribution pages. This makes the two consistent, including handling permissions accurately.

Drupal Integration Modules

• CRM-21374 D8 footer resources get added to the header (11218)

  Items added to the page-footer region would appear in the header in Drupal 8 sites.

• CRM-21371 An api error when calling drush cvapi should be treated as a drush error (503)

• CRM-21132 Member Role Sync: civicrm_member_roles produces a Fatal "unknown error" when one hits Manually Synchronize (494)

• CRM-21272 CMSUser has Drupal 6/7 code that breaks when using with Drupal 8 (11145, 11139, and 11079)

  Code to determine if user registration is permitted is now handled in the CRM_Utils_System classes.

• CRM-19995 Notice : Undefined offset: 5 dans _civicrm_member_roles_sync() (500)

  This fixes a typo in the member role sync module that led to a PHP notice.

Joomla Integration

• CRM-21203 cli.php PHP error prevents cron jobs from running (11062)

  Changes in Joomla 3.8--along with difficulties in detecting the Joomla version--prevented cron from executing on many Joomla sites.

Miscellany

• CRM-20710 Add function to return all valid types (10486)

• CRM-21291 Confirm this code is not used & remove (11116)

• CRM-21249 Google Geocode limit breaks Jenkins test (11058)

• CRM-12167 Add support for admin-only fee / price field value options (11073) (related cleanup)

  This change regenerates the DAO checksum.

• [nfc] Fix missing comma for phpcs (11119)

• (NFC) Add in test of current practice in updating multiselect custom data (11081)

• Civilint views components files (482)

• Civilint 2nd half of civicrm_handler_field files (486)

• Run civilint against civicrm_handler_filter_state_multi.inc (488)

• Run Civilint against civicrm_engage module (493)

• Run Civilint against the rest of views_handler and views plugin files (487)

Credits

This release was developed by the following code authors:

AGH Strategies - Alice Frumin, Andrew Hunt; Agileware - Alok Patel, Justin Freeman; Australian Greens - Seamus Lee; Christian Wach; Circle Interactive - Dave Jenkins; CiviCoop - Klaas Eikelboom; CiviCRM - Coleman Watts, Tim Otten; CiviDesk - Nicolas Ganivet, Yashodha Chaku; CiviFirst - John Kirk; Community IT Academy - William Mortada; CompuCorp - Michael Devery, Mukesh Ram, Omar Abu Hussein; Coop SymbioTIC - Mathieu Lutfy; Daniël van Vuuren; Deepak Srivastava; Freeform Solutions - Herb van den Dool; Fuzion - Jitendra Purohit; JMA Consulting - Edsel Lopez, Monish Deb, Pradeep Nayak; John Kingsnorth; Joinery - Allen Shaw; Lemniscus - Noah Miller; Megaphone Technology Consulting - Jon Goldberg; MJW Consulting - Matthew Wire; Olivier Hertrich; Pawel Nowak; PowDevel - Beto Aveiga; Progressive Technology Project - Jamie McClelland; Tadpole Collective - Kevin Cristiano; Wikimedia Foundation - Eileen McNaughton, Maggie Epps

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

Adam Zilkie; AGH Strategies - Josh Corlew; Agileware - Agileware Team; Andrew Thompson; Blackfly Solutions - Alan Dixon; British Humanist Association - William Gordon; CiviDesk - Sunil Pawar; CompuCorp - Anna Kovalova, Guanhuan Chen, Mirela Stanila; DevMate - Adam Kwiatkowski; Effy Elden; Electronic Frontier Foundation - Mark Burdett; Ginkgo Street Labs - Frank Gómez; JMA Consulting - Joe Murray; Joanne Chester; Johan Vervloet; Jonathan Richardson; Korlon - Stuart Gaston; Left Join Labs - Sean Madsen; Levity - Kevin Levie; Lighthouse Design and Consulting - Brian Shaughnessy; Lorenzo Ardizzone; MC3 - Graham Mitchell; Marcello Gribaudo; Mohamed Ziada; myDropWizard - David Snopek; Neil Zampella; Nicol Wistreich; Responsive Development Technologies - Thomas Nilefalk; Richard Edgar; Semper IT - Karin Gerritsen; SEN Magazine - Jeremy Nicholls; Skvare - Mark Hanna; small biz; Spry Digital - Ellen Hendricks; Squiffle Consulting - Aidan Saunders; Stevel; Systopia - Björn Endres; Tech To The People - Xavier Dutoit; Victor Huang; Web Access - Kurund Jalmi

Feedback

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