CiviCRM 5.43 Release

CiviCRM version 5.43.0 is now out and ready to download. This is a regular monthly release.

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What's new in CiviCRM 5.43

This version changes the database schema, has changes to the API, as well as the usual bugfixes and minor feature improvements.

• Send Email and Print/Merge PDF Task: Support participant & membership tokens in send-email tasks (21745 and dev/core#2895: 21801, and 21695) - presumably from the Find Participant and Find Membership searches.
• Dedupe: It is now possible to distinguish between core and custom fields on the Find and Merge Duplicate Contacts page (dev/core#2766: 21728)
• Money Formatting: Use money formatting for currency in templates (21783) Receipt templates now use the more modern Brick/Money library to format currency amounts (which has been in use elsewhere in CiviCRM in the past few releases). This will provide better formats in most cases, but it will be a change. For developers, there is also a new Civi:: facade format helper (Work Towards: dev/core#2638: 21599)
• Contact Record: Change Do Not SMS privacy icon (dev/core#2754: 21354)
• Contributions: Re-order the links for recurring contributions (dev/core#2843: 21529), View Contribution page, move the Done button to the last button, currently shown in the middle (21547), Replace "Print Invoice" and "Print Invoice and Credit Note" buttons with label "Download Invoice" and "Download Invoice and Credit Note" (21546)
• Mailings: Install flexmailer by default on new installs (dev/core#2836: 21522 and 21830). Flexmailer was required by Mosaico for some time, but the classic mailing interface did not require it. In order to phase out the old core code, Flexmailer is now enabled by default.
• Mailing Unsubscribe form: Show if email is already unsubscribed (21174)
• Tokens: a lot of cleanup. See: Upcoming token changes and a request for help.
• SearchKit: Add UI for arithmetic equations (21600), Support multiple arguments to field transformations aka SQL functions (21528 and 21535), Add pseudo-fields for row number and current user (21435), Support custom fields in bridge join entities (21424), Use Bootstrap table styles on admin screens (21405 and 21397), Filter search listing by creator (21388), enable tags for Saved Searches (21376), Sortable column fixes/improvements (21720 and 21894), Allows the pager, edit-in-place, and bulk updates to work properly with random sorting (21586), and lots of other tweaks.
• Form Builder: Use search display name as field prefix for url-based field defaults (21645), Accept default field values from the url (21606), Fix chainSelect to work with anonymous users (21759), Fix chain-select of country and address to work on SearchKit forms (21749) - Checkout the Remote Forms Make it Happen campaign.
• Api4: Add REGEXP/NOT REGEXP operators to API4 (dev/core#2793: 21288), APIv4 - Add Contact.age_years extra field to make age calculations easy (21718), APIv4 - Add support for sql equations (21551), Adds APIv4 entity support for the PrintLabel and Survey entities (21500),
• As usual, a ton of tiny tweaks and fixes that make CiviCRM more fun to use, and the source code more entertaining to read and improve. This humble editor often struggles to decide what is relevant to include in the above short summary. Feel free to give us a shout on the CiviCRM chat.

Big thanks to Andie Hunt and Alice Frumin from AGH Strategies for putting up together release notes. Planning a big upgrade? Check out the version-specific upgrade tasks.

This release was developed by the following code authors:

AGH Strategies - Alice Frumin, Andie Hunt; Agileware - Justin Freeman; Andy Burns; Benjamin W; Christian Wach; CiviCoop - Jaap Jansma; CiviCRM - Coleman Watts, Tim Otten; CiviDesk - Yashodha Chaku; Coop SymbioTIC - Mathieu Lutfy; Dave D; Digitalcourage - Detlev Sieber; Francesc Bassas i Bullich; Fuzion - Jitendra Purohit; Greenpeace Central and Eastern Europe - Patrick Figel; iXiam - Rubén Pineda; JMA Consulting - Monish Deb, Seamus Lee; John Kingsnorth; Lighthouse Consulting and Design - Brian Shaughnessy; Megaphone Technology Consulting - Jon Goldberg; MJW Consulting - Matthew Wire; Progressive Technology Project - Jamie McClelland; Third Sector Design - Kurund Jalmi, Michael McAndrew, William Mortada; Valéry Gouleau; Wikimedia Foundation - Eileen McNaughton.

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

AGH Strategies - Eli Lisseck; Artful Robot - Rich Lott; Black Brick Software - David Hayes; CiviCRM - Josh Gowans; CiviDesk - Yashodha Chaku; CompuCorp - Omar Abu Hussein; Freeform Solutions - Herb van den Dool; Humanists UK - Andrew West; Lemniscus - Noah Miller; OPEN - dewy; Richard Baugh; Richard van Oosterhout; Semper IT - Karin Gerritsen; Skvare - Mark Hanna; Squiffle Consulting - Aidan Saunders; Tadpole Collective - Kevin Cristiano.

What's next?

• Do you organize virtual events with participants from multiple timezones? Timezone support for Events needs review (hat tip to Francis and Justin from Agileware).
• Mariav has put up a bunch of PRs that would go through our message templates and remove the `<centre>` elements around tables. The ‘master PR’ is here. Note the changes would apply straight away on new installs. We normally only provide an upgrade where there are larger changes involved such as this PR which standardises the participant transfer template in line with our other templates.
• Update default frequency for scheduled reminder cron from daily to hourly.
• System status check for failed scheduled jobs - note the discussion also highlights an extension to do the same  but a bit more.
• Change to default status for activity search.
• Use a more translatable word for ‘cancel’.
• Revisit core fields for organizations and also here - space for trading name? Sales tax number?

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