# CiviCRM 5.66.0 Released October 4, 2023 - **[Synopsis](#synopsis)** - **[Security advisories](#security)** - **[Features](#features)** - **[Bugs resolved](#bugs)** - **[Miscellany](#misc)** - **[Credits](#credits)** - **[Feedback](#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?** | **yes** | | **Introduce features?** | **yes** | | **Fix bugs?** | **yes** | ## Features ### Core CiviCRM - **Add "phpstorm" extension ([27168](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27168), [27175](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27175), [27178](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27178), [27179](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27179), [27239](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27239), and [27262](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27262))** Adds a "phpstorm" extension which implements a process for integrating some dynamic data into PhpStorm. - **Improve FormBuilder handling of non logged in flows (Work Towards [dev/core#4232](https://lab.civicrm.org/dev/core/-/issues/4232): [27041](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27041))** Improves FormBuilder schema to better handle form flows for anonymous users. - **New core extension for scheduled reminders using criteria from search-kit ([dev/core#2644](https://lab.civicrm.org/dev/core/-/issues/2644): [27081](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27081))** Adds the Scheduled Communications extension which makes it so one can set up scheduled reminders using criteria from search-kit. - **User experience improvement, hide by default the Latitude and Longitude fields, users can enable display if needed ([dev/core#2640](https://lab.civicrm.org/dev/core/-/issues/2640): [27100](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27100))** Hides the Latitude and Longitude fields by default. - **Pass html text through a formatter when translating it to tokens ([27204](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27204) and [27203](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27203))** Converts new lines to page breaks when rendering text tokens to html. - **Add custom data when creating smart group ([23312](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/23312))** Adds group custom fields when creating a new smart group from search action Group -> Create Smart Group. - **Add sort for country/state fields in reports ([dev/core#4532](https://lab.civicrm.org/dev/core/-/issues/4532): [27135](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27135))** Adds sort for country/state fields in reports. - **Add system check for missing component extensions ([27453](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27453))** Expands the system check for required extensions to also cover component extensions. - **Bump search_autocomplete_count default from 10 to 15 ([27116](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27116))** Improves the overall responsiveness of Autocompletes by fetching more results at a time. - **Schema - Improve pseudoconstant metadata for `prefetch` and `controlField` ([27054](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27054))** Improves schema metadata with an eye toward optimizing APIv4 pseudoconstant lookups. - **Afform - Support multiple permissions in the GUI ([27272](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27272))** Allows multiple permissions to be set for an Afform. - **Afform - Allow submissions to be disabled and limited ([27211](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27211))** Adds FormBuilder settings to disable submissions or limit the number of submissions. - **SearchKit - Improve handling of money currency ([27202](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27202))** Improves SearchKit support for different types of monetary entities (e.g. the Expenses extension). - **SearchKit - Expose sql functions provided by extensions ([27197](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27197))** Allows extensions to contribute SqlFunctions to SearchKit. - **SearchKit - In-place edit without refreshing results ([27105](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27105))** Speeds up the process of in-place-editing on a SearchKit display. - **Afform - Add Note as an afformEntity ([27110](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27110))** Adds the Note entity to Form Builder. - **APIv4 Explorer - Keep list of suffixes in-sync ([27109](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27109))** Keeps the list of available pseudoconstant suffixes in APIv4 Explorer consistent with the master list. - **API - Switched to cached function for looking up pemissioned groups ([27140](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27140))** Performance improvement for looking up acl groups. - **Afform - Enhance returned values from AfformSubmission.afform_name options ([27108](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27108))** Improves the psueudoconstant options list returned from AfformSubmission.afform_name so that more attributes of the afform can be accessed. - **Allow for configuration of activity contacts, type and campaign for email-to-activity ([26905](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/26905))** Adds more options when setting up email-to-activity. - **APIv4 - Proper ACLs for relationship entity ([27183](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27183))** Improves v4 Relationship API to use fine-grained ACLs instead of coarse-grained permission check which was too restrictive. - **APIv4 - Add missing input type options ([27236](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27236))** Makes APIv4 aware of a couple more input types (both core and custom fields can have these types). - **Add API-based EntityLookupTrait ([27257](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27257))** Adds a helper class to make it easy to lookup entity values. - **Distmaker: add CiviCRM Standalone support ([27104](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27104))** Adds support for building CiviCRM Standalone tar.gz archives for nightly/rc/stable releases. - **Standalone: add error handler ([26965](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/26965))** Adds error handling for standalone implementations. - **Update a couple more tpl variables to tokens ([27372](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27372), [27004](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27004) and [27017](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27017))** Updates a couple smarty template variables to use tokens instead. - **SearchKit - Use Contact.sort_name instead of display_name for searches and Autocompletes ([27112](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27112))** Improves searchkit user experience by using contact sort name instead of display name for searches and autocompletes. ### CiviCase - **Be able to remove clients from a case from the manage case view ([27200](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27200))** Makes it so users can remove clients from a case from the manage case view. ### CiviContribute - **Add `Discount` to APIv4 ([27122](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27122))** Adds APIv4 Discount entity. ### CiviEvent - **Afform - Enable creating event from a template ([27058](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27058))** Enables selecting an event template when using Afform to create a new event. ### CiviMail - **Update SMS cannot send message to specify that a mobile phone number is required ([27194](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27194))** Improves the error message when SMS cannot be sent to phone number because it is not a mobile phone. ### CiviMember - **Membership Detail improvements (Work towards [dev/core#4522](https://lab.civicrm.org/dev/core/-/issues/4522): [27118](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27118) and [27249](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27249))** Improves the Membership detail report by adding: Membership Status, Auto-Renew, Auto-Renew Subscription Status, Start Date and End Date to the sorting tab. ## Bugs resolved ### Core CiviCRM - **Admin UI: Attempting to delete custom field group with custom fields opens the listing page in modal window ([dev/core#4094](https://lab.civicrm.org/dev/core/-/issues/4094): [27056](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27056))** Use statusBounce instead of redirect when a custom group cannot be deleted. - **Standalone: language change does not stick (Work towards [dev/core#4425](https://lab.civicrm.org/dev/core/-/issues/4425): [27040](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27040), [27639](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27639))** Ensures currentPath for Standalone implementations does not return empty so that language-switcher extension can work. - **Import caching issue (Work towards [dev/core#4467](https://lab.civicrm.org/dev/core/-/issues/4467): [27076](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27076))** Ensure saving and updating an import field mapping saves correctly. - **Redis performance issue on delete contact ([dev/core#4501](https://lab.civicrm.org/dev/core/-/issues/4501): [27115](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27115))** - **Search Kit - Links conditional doesn't work with domain_id or domain = current domain ([dev/core#4509](https://lab.civicrm.org/dev/core/-/issues/4509): [27093](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27093))** - **ACLs' priority sometimes does the opposite of what it says it does ([dev/core#4542](https://lab.civicrm.org/dev/core/-/issues/4542): [27381](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27381))** - **ACLs - Fix recent regression handling "edit all contacts" ([27409](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27409))** - **Autocomplete - Fix search-by-id for entities without a numeric id ([27629](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27629))** - **When using a Contribution Page with a Membership Price Set, the contribution amount information never shows on the thank you page ([dev/core#4555](https://lab.civicrm.org/dev/core/-/issues/4555): [27330](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27330))** - **SearchKit: Totals include test, template and deleted entities, while rows do not, leading to mismatch ([dev/core#4559](https://lab.civicrm.org/dev/core/-/issues/4559): [27383](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27383))** - **Auto-complete option values aren't available to anonymous users ([dev/core#3049](https://lab.civicrm.org/dev/core/-/issues/3049): [26841](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/26841))** - **Add weights on profile fields page to fix notices ([27452](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27452))** - **Upgrader - Skip snapshots on some MariaDB env's (roughly: 10.6.0-10.6.5) ([27404](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27404), [27464](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27464))** - **APIv4: Implicit joins for email_primary, etc cause error ([dev/core#4562](https://lab.civicrm.org/dev/core/-/issues/4562): [27399](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27399))** - **APIv4 - Fix setting nullable/required/default_value field metadata ([27302](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27302))** - **Let unset weights give an e-notice ([26243](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/26243))** - **Add weight to a few more links ([27216](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27216), [27323](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27323), [27229](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27229), [27283](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27283), [27284](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27284) and [27230](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27230))** - **Standalone: Fix ACL help/links, tweak Users and Permissions menu ([27119](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27119))** - **Improve error handling by using civicrm_api3 not civicrm_api ([27321](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27321))** - **Switch to using token for trxn_id, online contribution receipt ([27295](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27295))** - **Delete probably-unused TrackingFields.tpl and adds a pre-upgrade message to warn people ([27233](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27233) and [27276](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27276))** - **Re-enable any queues that were disabled for background processing, on end ([27023](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27023))** - **Update one of our complex confirm tests to use full form flow, fix discovered failure to send to additional participants ([27277](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27277))** - **Replace deprecated RegExp PHPUnit functions for v9 ([27139](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27139))** - **Switch menubar search to use APIv4 & delete deprecated v3 'getquick' action ([26676](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/26676) and [27263](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27263))** - **EntityLookupTrait - Skip queries when looking up id ([27261](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27261))** - **PHP8 date range not rendered correctly ([27228](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27228))** - **standaloneusers: logout function must be static ([27265](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27265))**s - **Afform - make summary tab names less weird ([27196](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27196))** - **Afform - Ensure prefill entities are populated correctly ([27615](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27615))** - **Improve initialization crash message ([27138](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27138))** - **Set weight on Note Form ([27106](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27106))** - **Make import parser external ID error message more helpful ([27103](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27103))** - **Show which extension has a parse error in info.xml ([27028](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27028))** - **E:: to make it look after the extension's translation ([27027](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27027))** - **Use phpunit when running on PHP 7.3+ ([27036](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27036))** - **ScheduledJob - Clean up form code & improve validation ([26879](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/26879))** - **Fix Domain Organization form for notices & PHP 8 compliance ([27190](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27190))** - **Flush Redis `prevnext` cache when clearing `civicrm_cache` ([27113](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27113))** - **Pass specific ids rather than ids array ([27274](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27274))** - **Fix fatal on Manage Extensions caused by financialacls links ([27264](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27264))** - **Fix weight notices on ActivityType (option values) pages ([27395](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27395))** - **PseudoConstant - Prevent fatal when entity not available ([27358](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27358))** - **SearchKit - Fix autocomplete filters on in-place-edit fields ([27253](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27253))** - **Fix sort groups on PHP 8 ([27210](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27210))** - **ContactSummary - Fix smarty notices in communication preferences section ([27209](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27209))** - **Afform - Fix broken prefill functionality ([27121](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27121))** - **E-notice fix - switch order of and params check around ([27188](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27188))** - **Fix deprecation notice on ExecuteJob screen ([27157](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27157))** - **Fix PHP8.1 repeated notice errors in Table.tpl ([27137](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27137))** - **Fix notices, PHP errors on event location tab ([27212](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27212))** - **Fix notices on domain.tpl by just adding what we need ([27189](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27189))** - **Notice fix - schedule reminders ([27154](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27154))** - **Undefined property fix ([27148](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27148))** - **Notice fix on contact types browse ([27153](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27153))** - **Fix e-notice by removing conditionality ([27152](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27152))** - **Windows fix for CRM_Utils_File::isChildPath ([27102](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27102))** - **Fix Standalone error handler: remove 5th argument ([27099](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27099))** - **Fatal error fixes in PHP 8.1 ([27077](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27077))** - **Path fixes ([27026](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27026))** - **Fix warning caused by passing null to strpos ([300](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-wordpress/pull/300))** - **kcfinder - Fix PHP 8.1 warnings from fastImage ([368](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-packages/pull/368))** - **kcfinder - Fix cookies when running on alt HTTP port ([367](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-packages/pull/367))** - **Smarty - Fix e-notice in modifier.escape.php ([366](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-packages/pull/366))** - **Enotice fix ([27002](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27002))** - **E-notice fix ([27001](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27001))** - **E-notice fix, don't skip loading NULL fields ([27048](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27048))** - **Fix missing weights on Custom data screen (notices) ([27428](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27428))** - **Add weights on profile links (remove notices) ([27432](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27432))** - **Fix mistake in just-merged email processor code ([27408](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27408))** - **Fix undeclared properties in crufty old report ([27220](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27220))** - **ajax.js - Fix undeclared variable ([27269](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27269))** - **Move smarty assign to be always assigned (notices) ([27207](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27207))** - **Fix undeclared property - use locally scoped variable ([27090](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27090))** - **Smarty-notice fix - use array_key_exists ([27117](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27117))** - **PHP 8.x fatal fix + bonus smarty consistency ([27091](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27091))** ### CiviCampaign - **avoid double clicks on petition page ([27251](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27251))** ### CiviCase - **Set link weight on manage case ([27327](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27327))** - **Cannot add case type in multilingual installation with MariaDB 10.2 strict mode ([dev/core#2581](https://lab.civicrm.org/dev/core/-/issues/2581): [27226](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27226))** ### CiviContribute - **Add contribution page tokens to contribution tokens ([27201](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27201))** Adds contribution page tokens to contribution tokens. - **Fix Financial Items incorrectly recorded when using Payment API ([26987](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/26987))** - **Contribution pages with extra URL parameters lead to incorrect AJAX URL constructed in buildPaymentBlock – users cannot proceed to pay ([dev/core#4487](https://lab.civicrm.org/dev/core/-/issues/4487): [27037](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27037))** - **Ensure tax_amount is not null ([26993](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/26993))** - **Fix permission check on Contribution form, clarify underlying functions ([27013](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27013))** - **Fix PHP 8.0 implode on ContributionBase ([27053](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27053))** - **Show Contribution Page receipt text in offline contribution receipt ([27173](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27173))** - **Fix Contribution_Tab links to have weight, improve test ([27227](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27227))** ### CiviEvent - **Registering a participant with Pending event payment gives misleading information. ([dev/core#3410](https://lab.civicrm.org/dev/core/-/issues/3410): [27288](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27288))** Show 0 rather than nothing when paid amount is zero - **Event Dashboard: show events that have not ended yet ([27329](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27329))** Ensure events that span more than 7 days don't disappear from the Event Dashboard before the event ends. - **Crash when saving repeating event ([dev/core#4550](https://lab.civicrm.org/dev/core/-/issues/4550): [27315](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27315))** - **Replace Event Total with Total Amount on confirm/thankyou pages ([dev/core#4485](https://lab.civicrm.org/dev/core/-/issues/4485): [27024](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27024))** - **View and Edit links for event participants are inconsistent and in some cases do not allow editing ([dev/core/#3361](https://lab.civicrm.org/dev/core/-/issues/3361): [24657](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24657))** - **Fix variable leakage in online event receipt ([27443](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27443))** - **Fix notice on unpaid event ([27367](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27367))** - **Fix incorrect event receipt regression ([27159](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27159))** - **Fix Manage Events breadcrumb regression ([27095](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27095))** - **Manage event - fix too many brackets ([27061](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27061))** - **Fix event templates to use end_date token ([27005](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27005))** - **Ensure event ID is an integer ([27363](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27363))** - **Also add event confirm text as default receipt_text for edit Participant ([27160](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27160))** - **Online Event Receipt - Remove deprecated backticks ([27671](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27671))** ### CiviMail - **Scheduled Job, fetch_bounces with is_create_activities=1 parameter creates a new Contact using the Return-path email address which is incorrect (Work towards [dev/core#2800](https://lab.civicrm.org/dev/core/-/issues/2800): [27356](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27356))** Fixes bounce processing to handle verp emails. - **Wording changes in the Unsubscribe form ([27022](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27022))** - **"New Mailing" - Unsubscribe field doesn't appear ([27626](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27626))** - **Finish CiviCRM 2.1 deprecation - old-style VERP ([27318](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27318))** ### CiviMember - **Report improvements (Work towards [dev/core#4536](https://lab.civicrm.org/dev/core/-/issues/4536): [27169](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27169))** Fixes the 'Primary Membership' filter options in the Membership Details report template. - **Membership renewal on Feb 29 of a leap year is calculated incorrectly ([dev/core#4541](https://lab.civicrm.org/dev/core/-/issues/4541): [27198](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27198))** - **Add weights to membership type links ([27231](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27231))** ### Backdrop Integration - **Global $language should be an object, not a string ([dev/backdrop#80](https://lab.civicrm.org/dev/backdrop/-/issues/80): [27038](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27038))** ### Drupal Integration - **phpunit.xml.dist - Fix compatibility with phpunit9 ([670](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-drupal/pull/670))** ### WordPress Integration - **E2E_Core_PathUrlTest::testGetUrl_WpAdmin() fails because CiviCRM routing is confusing (Work towards [dev/core#4433](https://lab.civicrm.org/dev/core/-/issues/4433): [26861](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/26861))** - **Plugin compatibility architecture and loss of locale on "Secondary URLs" when using Polylang ([dev/wordpress#143](https://lab.civicrm.org/dev/wordpress/-/issues/143): [27128](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27128) and [301](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-wordpress/pull/301))** ## Miscellany - **phpunit.xml.dist - Update extensions to use phpunit9 format ([27133](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27133))** - **APIv3 - Delete API examples ([27174](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27174))** - **EntityLookupTrait - Add isDefined and getDefinition methods ([27275](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27275))** - **API - Soft-deprecate civicrm_api() wrapper ([27180](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27180))** - **APIv3 Explorer - Delete unused code ([27181](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27181))** - **Pass in function values, rather than handling by form-name ([27092](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27092))** - **Use new lookup trait to eliminate use of undefined properties `userDisplayName` ([27259](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27259))** - **Joomla - Add placeholder to fix errors related to deleted file ([27591](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27591))** - **Upgrader - Add breadcrumb guard ([27518](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27518))** - **Upgrader - Add multilingual schema updates ([27446](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27446))** - **CiviCampaign - Refactor civicrm_survey.recontact_interval ([27268](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27268))** - **Move regex processing in EmailProcessor to handling class ([27337](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27337))** - **Bump recommended PHP version to 8.1, min recommendation to 8.0 ([26985](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/26985))** - **Add code comments re the cleanup I didn't do ([27451](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27451))** - **Fold deprecated function back into the caller ([27345](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27345))** - **Replace another badly named undeclared property ([27215](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27215))** - **Move no-longer-shared function back to it's form ([27213](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27213))** - **Fold private function back into calling function ([27145](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27145))** - **Further fix forms to full form flow ([27256](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27256))** - **Move form specific code to relevant form (rather than access mostly-undeclared property) ([27069](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27069))** - **Extract `getDiscountID()` ([27049](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27049) and [27050](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27050))** - **ScheduledReminders - Rewrite entire form using metadata ([27003](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27003))** - **Move form-specific check to form ([27068](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27068))** - **Simplify queries of NOT NULL fields ([27008](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27008))** - **Clarify doc-block for form variable ([27051](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27051))** - **Separate getStatusMessage function ([27015](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27015))** - **Added details for sebalis in contributor-key.xml ([27039](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27039))** - **Move function to only form that calls it ([27299](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27299))** - **Unconditionally assign smarty variable ([27300](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27300))** - **Unconditionally assign smarty-var, remove unused variables ([26051](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/26051))** - **Make function private, after universe search in EmailProcessor ([27309](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27309))** - **Make function private to reflect usage ([27308](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27308))** - **Declare CRM_Core_Exception in cleanDir, add type hints ([27306](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27306))** - **Make splitjob function static & private, Remove a couple of unused variables ([27304](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27304))** - **Do the todo (move the function to the trait as suggested ([27063](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27063))** - **Api4 - Remove unused key from getFields ([27060](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27060))** - **CRM_Core_Form - Remove unused protected properties ([27191](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27191))** - **Remove isset from Arb.xml ([27224](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27224))** - **Remove some copy & paste code ([27214](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27214))** - **Remove Html2text security check, package deleted ([27218](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27218))** - **Remove decade-only typo ([27219](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27219))** - **Remove some unnecessary variables & pass by ref ([27273](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27273))** - **Remove unused profiles from offline event receipts ([27150](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27150))** - **Remove unused CONST ([27301](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27301))** - **Remove always-true empty check ([27193](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27193))** - **Remove unusable assigns (copy & paste I believe) ([26952](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/26952))** - **Remove broken deprecated function ([27163](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27163))** - **Remove use of sometimes-php8-warning causing `_quickConfig` property… (use `isQuickConfig()` function) ([27070](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27070))** - **Remove line that gives error & does nothing ([27064](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27064))** - **Remove long-broken function ([27317](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27317))** - **Remove unused variable ([27350](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27350))** - **Remove unused parameter, pass by reference in private function with one caller ([27320](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27320))** - **Remove some unused undefined properties from participant export ([27298](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27298))** - **Remove unneeded descriptions and clean up on search forms ([26292](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/26292))** - **Remove do-nothing code. ([27047](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27047))** - **Remove excessive data handling & some unused variables ([27019](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27019))** - **Remove unused parse function for Incoming Mail ([27011](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27011))** - **Remove unreachable page ([27305](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27305))** - **Remove, extraneous: punctuation? ([27297](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27297))** - **Delete html2text, not in use ([370](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-packages/pull/370))** - **[REF] SearchKit - Cleanup upgrade code ([27042](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27042))** - **(REF) civicrm_data.tpl - Stop using Smarty's {php} ([27052](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27052))** - **[REF] APIv4 - Simplify entity name gathering ([27177](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27177))** - **[REF] Remove unreachable handling ([27192](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27192))** - **[REF] - Cleanup managed entities to all go through `hook_civicrm_managed` and deprecate unnamed entities ([27254](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27254))** - **[REF] Convert from session status to deprecation warning ([27255](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27255))** - **[REF] Fix Notice Errors on ACL listing page by assigning fields consistently ([27164](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27164))** - **[REF] Update Zetacomponents/mail to be 1.9.5 to fix email validation handling ([27344](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27344))** - **Revert "[REF] Update Zetacomponents/mail to be 1.9.5 to fix email validation handling" ([27394](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27394))** - **REF - Simplify inline conditionals with Elvis ([27141](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27141))** - **[REF] Ensure that any NULL values in the title field are fixed prior to changing the column ([27368](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27368))** - **[REF] Improve cron job handling when there is an invalid report instance id passed to mail_report job ([27185](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27185))** - **[REF] Fix infinite loop when trying to load a report instance with an id that does not exist ([27184](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27184))** - **[REF] PCP - Update BAO to use writeRecord/deleteRecord ([27127](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27127))** - **[REF] Add pseudoconstant suffixes to xml/dao ([27172](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27172))** - **[REF] 🏌️ CRM_Utils_Array cleanup ([27187](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27187))** - **[NFC] Be more confident and informative in the comment for CRM_Core_Session::set() ([27313](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27313))** - **[NFC] Test - Add return type hints to test functions ([27186](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27186))** - **(NFC) Test class - Fix inconsistent namespace ([27055](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27055))** - **[NFC] Add some email processor hooks tests ([27097](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27097))** - **(NFC) Fix random test failures ([27574](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27574))** - **(NFC) Fix test failure on PHP 7.3 ([27714](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27714))** - **Update ca-config for better PHP 8.2 support ([27550](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27550))** - **Add missing weights for `hook_civicrm_links` ([27528](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27528), [27544](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27544), [27566](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27566), [27710](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27710))** - **Remove old tests that only test test functions ([27208](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27208))** - **Concurrency Tests - Update ExternalBatch for symfony/proces v4.1+ (esp Drupal 10) ([27072](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27072))** - **Simplify test ([27205](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27205))** - **Test fix, towards full form flow ([27067](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27067))** - **Remove never called testCleanUp function ([27206](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27206))** - **Add test & fix for getOptions on options with a domain id ([27161](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27161))** - **Test Cleanup - Refactor out uses of deprecated `callAPIAndDocument()` ([27176](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27176))** - **Remove some unused parameters in test class ([27166](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27166))** - **ActionScheduleTest - Update for compatibility with PHPUnit 9 ([27101](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27101))** - **Unit tests - replace deprecated function with newer one ([27032](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27032))** - **Fix forms to call full form flow ([27250](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27250))** - **Add form helper for tests ([27267](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27267))** - **Fix participantTest to not use transactions ([27260](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27260))** - **Participant Form Test fixes ([27245](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27245))** - **Superficial clean up in test class ([27238](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27238))** - **Cleanup signature for test function `getFormObject` ([27225](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27225))** - **Switch tests to use createTestEntity for payment processor ([27217](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27217))** - **Add email helper to new form test helper ([27384](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27384))** - **Fix financial transfer test to use form flow, allow all pending to transfer ([27281](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27281))** - **Fix token consistency test with new lines and
s ([27314](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27314))** - **Trivial cleanup in EmailProcessorTest ([27307](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27307))** - **[test] [cleanup] Move _REQUEST cleanup to tearDown ([27285](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27285))** - **Update further tests to additional form flow, lock in bug fix ([27279](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27279))** - **Minor cleanup in test ([27282](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/27282))** ## Credits This release was developed by the following code authors: AGH Strategies - Alice Frumin, Andie Hunt; ALL IN APPLI admin; Artful Robot - Rich Lott; cdhassell; Christian Wach; Circle Interactive - Pradeep Nayak; CiviCRM - Coleman Watts, Tim Otten; CiviDesk - Yashodha Chaku; civiservice.de - Sebastian Lisken; Coop SymbioTIC - Mathieu Lutfy; Dave D; Humanists UK - Andrew West; JMA Consulting - Seamus Lee; Just Hope - Phil Morice Brubaker; Lemniscus - Noah Miller; Megaphone Technology Consulting - Jon Goldberg; MJW Consulting - Matthew Wire; Progressive Technology Project - Jamie McClelland; Robert J. Lang; SebastianLisken; Squiffle Consulting - Aidan Saunders; Third Sector Design - Kurund Jalmi; Wikimedia Foundation - Damilare Adedoyin, Eileen McNaughton, Wenjun Fan; Wildsight - Lars Sander-Green Most authors also reviewed code for this release; in addition, the following reviewers contributed their comments: Agileware - Justin Freeman; Andy Clark; ASMAC (American Society of Music Arrangers and Composers) - Jeff Kellem; Australian Greens - Andrew Cormick-Dockery, John Twyman; Francesc Bassas i Bullich; Freeform Solutions - Herb van den Dool; Guydn; JMA Consulting - Joe Murray, Monish Deb; Korlon - Stuart Gaston; Megaphone Technology Consulting - Brienne Kordis; Tadpole Collective - Kevin Cristiano; Third Sector Design - William Mortada; Tobias Voigt; yurg ## 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`.