# CiviCRM 5.55.0 Released November 2, 2022 - **[Synopsis](#synopsis)** - **[Features](#features)** - **[Bugs resolved](#bugs)** - **[Miscellany](#misc)** - **[Credits](#credits)** - **[Feedback](#feedback)** ## <a name="synopsis"></a>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** | ## <a name="features"></a>Features ### Core CiviCRM - **APIv4 - Add Contact::mergeDuplicates action ([24542](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24542))** Adds a mergeDuplicates APIv4 action, for parity with APIv3. - **SearchKit: Add ability to search and filter by active periods (Work Towards [dev/core#3878](https://lab.civicrm.org/dev/core/-/issues/3878): [24688](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24688))** Makes it possible to join on related contacts limited by current relationship in SearchKit. - **Add display only field support for formbuilder ([dev/core#3779](https://lab.civicrm.org/dev/core/-/issues/3779): [24158](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24158))** Adds the ability to set a field as display only in formbuilder. - **Afform - Store all values in submission record ([24264](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24264))** Stores all submitted values in the submission record, including saved ids. This allows values to be retrieved from the submission for debugging or display purposes. - **AdminUi Extension - Translate strings ([24553](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24553))** Ensures strings are translated in the AdminUI extension. - **Add icon for Country entity ([24686](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24686))** Adds an icon and description for Country. - **.htaccess support for OpenLiteSpeed webservers. ([24666](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24666))** Makes rewrite rules compatible with OpenLiteSpeed webservers. - **Autoload services based on interfaces/annotations. Convert APIv4 services. ([24276](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24276))** Allows developers to auto-register hook-listeners, event-subscribers, and container-services and converts APIv4 to do so. ### CiviContribute - **Simplify description text for Display amounts on price fields, add help text for Description on price options ([24630](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24630))** Improves user experience when creating price fields by adding more help text. ### CiviEvent - **Afform - basic support for creating event participant ([24420](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24420))** Basic support for adding an unpaid participant thru Afform. ### WordPress Integration - **Add system check for updated clean URL settings ([dev/core#3839](https://lab.civicrm.org/dev/core/-/issues/3839): [24477](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24477))** Creates a system check warning for Wordpress users if civicrm.settings.php does not include up-to-date clean URL settings. ## <a name="bugs"></a>Bugs resolved ### Core CiviCRM - **Importing to checkbox field updates incorrectly ([dev/core#3850](https://lab.civicrm.org/dev/core/-/issues/3850): [24848](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24848))** - **Improve scheduled reminder UI for selection of event specific date or time before event ([dev/core#2535 ](dev/core#2535): [24655](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24655))** Prevents users from saving a scheduled reminder that has both an absolute and relative date set, resulting in the relative date being ignored. - **Changing report rows per page doesn't change rows per page, but limits what is displayed. ([dev/core#3825](https://lab.civicrm.org/dev/core/-/issues/3825): [24616](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24616))** - **More useful error message on missing custom field ([dev/core#3847](https://lab.civicrm.org/dev/core/-/issues/3847): [24522](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24522))** - **Bootstrap classloading list incomplete (or something) when classscanner runs during extension install ([dev/core#3852](https://lab.civicrm.org/dev/core/-/issues/3852): [24549](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24549))** - **Fix custom data view for case of type Money ([dev/core#3876](https://lab.civicrm.org/dev/core/-/issues/3876): [24640](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24640))** - **APIv4 - GroupContact - Does not set actual time part in subscription history date ([dev/core#3877](https://lab.civicrm.org/dev/core/-/issues/3877): [24643](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24643))** - **Can no longer install civirules ([dev/core#3853](https://lab.civicrm.org/dev/core/-/issues/3853): [24550](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24550))** - **admin-ui extension: contact types doesn't work ([dev/core#3854](https://lab.civicrm.org/dev/core/-/issues/3854): [24557](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24557))** Fixes the "Administer Contact Types" screen for sites using the admin ui extension. - **Handle all from and to relative dates in API4 ([24663](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24663))** Ensures APIv4 works with relative date ranges with out set end dates. - **Migrate JobLog page to API4 ([24606](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24606))** Migrates JobLog page to API4 to prevent undefined array keys. - **Sync api & form layer permissions for jobLog ([24619](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24619))** - **Crash when trying to retrieve a completed queue ([24678](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24678))** - **Import summary field fix ([24711](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24711))** - **Fix accidental revert of import batch size ([24772](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24772))** - **Fix language negotiation exception to be standard ([24764](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24764))** - **Ensure that class-index is up-to-date after toggling extensions (A) ([24743](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24743))** - **Enotice & markup fixes to GeoCode, Postal blocks ([24334](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24334))** - **prevent the get property from non-object error ([24667](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24667))** - **Ensure smarty variable editSmartGroupURL is always defined on group edit ([24613](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24613))** - **Use array_key_exists to avoid warning on report GroupBy.tpl template ([24631](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24631))** - **Fix smarty e-notices on group settings form ([24594](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24594))** - **Remove stray character in income report ([24558](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24558))** - **demoqueue - fix job_type parameter ([24668](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24668))** - **Fix smarty notices on localization page ([24596](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24596))** - **Migrate single note view to API4, avoid PHP warnings ([24609](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24609))** - **APIv4 - Fix Get operation to load options that depend on other options ([24600](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24600))** - **Handle unexpected API result in JobManager (Avoid PHP warning) ([24605](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24605))** - **Ensure children key is always set in tag buildTree ([24607](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24607))** - **Add missing th element to note.tpl ([24608](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24608))** - **Avoid PHP notices in Add Contacts to Household task ([24565](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24565))** - **Add psr0 to afform extensions ([24713](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24713))** - **SearchKit display results does not seem to respect the contribution currency ([dev/core#3428](https://lab.civicrm.org/dev/core/-/issues/3428): [24524](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24524))** - **Search Kit Tokens only returns first value for multi-selects ([dev/core#3745](https://lab.civicrm.org/dev/core/-/issues/3745): [24393](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24393))** - **SearchKit - Don't show custom fields from disabled field groups ([24687](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24687))** - **Fix missing links in SearchKit results ([24882](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24882))** - **Return success from cleanup job ([24604](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24604))** - **No longer install the Contribution Cancel Actions, CiviCRM Core Extension by default on new CiviCRM sites ([22686](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/22686) and [24578](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24578))** Work towards deprecating the Contribution Cancel Actions extension by no longer setting it to default to installed on new sites. - **Code Cleanup - combines `CRM_Core_Exception`, `civicrm_api3_Exception` and `ApiException` into one class. ([24531](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24531), [24535](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24535), [24537](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24537), [24534](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24534) and [24536](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24536))** - **Wording typo in pledge reminder message template ([24527](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24527))** - **CiviCRM fatal error on enabling `civiimport` ([dev/core#3941](https://lab.civicrm.org/dev/core/-/issues/3941): [24807](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24807) and [24874](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24874))** ### CiviContribute - **Stop adding 'In Progress' and 'Overdue' statuses to civicrm_contribution.contribution_status_id option group ([dev/financial#201](https://lab.civicrm.org/dev/financial/-/issues/201): [23074](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/23074))** Do not add pledge statuses to Contribution statuses. - **Import contributions: Contact matching by email no longer available ([dev/core#3939](https://lab.civicrm.org/dev/core/-/issues/3939): [24838](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24838) and [24871](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24871))** - **Including Soft Credits causes Contribution Import to fail ([dev/core#3879](https://lab.civicrm.org/dev/core/-/issues/3879): [24858](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24858))** - **Price set pre and post help display is inconsistent ([dev/core#3870](https://lab.civicrm.org/dev/core/-/issues/3870): [24624](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24624))** - **Fix css for price fields of html type Select with long labels ([(dev/core#3865](https://lab.civicrm.org/dev/core/-/issues/3865): [24598](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24598))** - **Show billing address on Edit contribution screen as well ([dev/core#3732](https://lab.civicrm.org/dev/core/-/issues/3732): [24009](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24009))** - **Only public custom groups should be shown in offline contribution receipts ([dev/core#3857](https://lab.civicrm.org/dev/core/-/issues/3857): [24645](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24645))** - **Fix paypal subscription 'things don't seem to be working at the moment' if frequency_interval not specified ([24614](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24614))** - **Don't repeat email twice on the contribution confirm/thank-you pages ([24564](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24564))** - **Remove call to deprecated `CRM_Contribute_PseudoConstant::contributionStatus` ([24528](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24528))** - **Remove usage of result from deprecated contributionStatus ([24540](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24540))** - **[REF] Fix importing contributions with a campaign id rather than a title ([24815](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24815))** ### CiviEvent - **Event badges, json may be broken (was CiviEvent - Date tokens may be misformatted) ([dev/core#3952](https://lab.civicrm.org/dev/core/-/issues/3952): [24872](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24872))** This upgrade step resolves a problem where the `"` character in labels and badges was not being properly escaped for json purposes on a previous upgrade process. - **Event participant import fails, Cannot call constructor ([dev/core#3932](https://lab.civicrm.org/dev/core/-/issues/3932): [24790](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24790))** - **Barcodes in event badges missing data after updating to CiviCRM 5.45.7 ([dev/core#3829](https://lab.civicrm.org/dev/core/-/issues/3829): [24701](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24701) and [24695](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24695))** ### CiviMail - **Stop PHP notice on Find Mailings page ([24560](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24560))** ### Drupal Integration - **Change message so it doesn't say Drupal8 on Drupal9 site ([dev/drupal#174](https://lab.civicrm.org/dev/drupal/-/issues/174): [24561](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24561))** ## <a name="misc"></a>Miscellany - **Remove call to deprecated function `CRM_Contribute_PseudoConstant::contributionStatus` ([24544](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24544))** - **Remove call to deprecated `CRM_Contribute_PseudoConstant::contributionStatus` ([24575](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24575))** - **Remove unused variable ([24563](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24563))** - **Remove `CRM_Core_Pseudoconstant::pcpStatus()` function after two-year noisy deprecation ([24591](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24591))** - **Remove long-deprecated function ([24620](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24620))** - **contribution template clean up for reports ([24556](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24556))** - **case template clean up for reports ([24541](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24541))** - **pledge template clean for reports ([24519](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24519))** - **event report template clean up ([24644](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24644))** - **clean up more report templates ([24642](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24642))** - **Code cleanup - remove unused fn call, prefer strict comparision ([24530](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24530))** - **Stop using private static for tests ([24680](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24680))** - **Re run regen ([24533](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24533))** - **Regen update ([24677](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24677))** - **Avoid confusion between contributors and contributor-key ([24670](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24670))** - **add as a contributor ([24659](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24659))** - **add as a contributor ([24673](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24673))** - **Add contributor info for release notes ([24669](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24669))** - **Fix `testCreateWithPrimaryAndBilling` ([24691](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24691))** - **Deprecate handling for removed silly constant ([24521](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24521))** - **[REF] Minor extraction ([24595](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24595))** - **[REF] DAO - Add helper function to check if component is enabled ([24525](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24525))** - **[REF] Update Tplaner/when package to latest version ([24682](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24682))** - **[REF] Afform - Extract string function to CRM_Utils_String ([24559](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24559))** - **[REF] ExportUI - Convert Angular controller to component ([24581](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24581))** - **[REF] Cleanup unused references to CRM_Core_Exception aliases ([24526](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24526))** - **[REF] Update JQuery UI to 1.13.2 ([24703](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24703))** - **[REF][PHP8.1] Fix Notice errors on php8.1 when running IDS ([350](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-packages/pull/350))** - **[REF][PHP8.1] Fix test failure on civiimport unit test because sequence key and keys are using id not _id ([24736](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24736))** - **[REF][PHP8.1] Fix Extension Manager Module test failures on php8.1 due to passing in null to dirname ([24733](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24733))** - **[REF] Fix passing null into string functions in translation BAO ([24732](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24732))** - **[REF] Remove Reference to now moved CONTRIBUTORS.txt file blocking building ([24753](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24753))** - **[NFC] Add comment about uiLanguages vs languageLimit to avoid confusion ([24625](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24625))** - **[NFC] Assert something in unit test ([24626](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24626))** - **(NFC) Add various comments (ClassScanner, Config) ([24568](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24568))** - **[REF] Add in Unit test to demonstrate error when trying to import a campaign id int rather than name or label of the campaign ([24814](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/24814))** ## <a name="credits"></a>Credits This release was developed by the following code authors: AGH Strategies - Andie Hunt, Alice Frumin, Eli Lisseck; Agileware - Justin Freeman; BrightMinded Ltd - Bradley Taylor; Bund Deutscher PfadfinderInnen BaWue - David Geisel; CiviCRM - Coleman Watts, Tim Otten; CiviDesk - Yashodha Chaku; Dave D; JMA Consulting - Seamus Lee; Megaphone Technology Consulting - Jon Goldberg; MJW Consulting - Matthew Wire; NowaTech - Kasper Nowak; Oxfam Germany - Thomas Schüttler; Richard van Oosterhout; Squiffle Consulting - Aidan Saunders; Third Sector Design - Kurund Jalmi; Wikimedia Foundation - Eileen McNaughton, Wenjun Fan; Wildsight - Lars Sanders-Green Most authors also reviewed code for this release; in addition, the following reviewers contributed their comments: AGH Strategies - Rennie Harrison; Coop SymbioTIC - Mathieu Lutfy; Francesc Bassas i Bullich; Freewindrider; Greenpeace Central and Eastern Europe - Patrick Figel; Megaphone Technology Consulting - Brienne Kordis; SYSTOPIA Organisationsberatung - Björn Endres; Tadpole Collective - Kevin Cristiano; Third Sector Design - William Mortada; YesusHDS ## <a name="feedback"></a>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`.