CiviCRM 5.24 Release

CiviCRM version 5.24.0 is now out and ready to download. This is a regular monthly release. Upgrade now for the most stable CiviCRM experience: [https://civicrm.org/download](https://civicrm.org/download) Users of the [CiviCRM Extended Security Releases (ESR)](https://civicrm.org/esr) do not need to upgrade, as there are no ESR-specific bugfixes or security issues at the moment. Important announcements: * There will be a security release for 5.24.x on 2020-04-15. Please see [security](https://civicrm.org/security) for more information. * As of CiviCRM 5.25, which will be released on 2020-05-06, the minimum supported version will be PHP 7.1. The recommended PHP version is PHP 7.3. ### What's new in CiviCRM 5.24 This version changes the database schema, has changes to the API, as well as the usual bugfixes and minor feature improvements. * CiviCRM menu: Adds a new "Find menu item" search under the CiviCRM logo which allows user to quickly locate menu items by typing a few letters. * Advanced Search: Adds an option to find contributions without a soft-credit. * Contribution forms: Enable jQuery validate on public event/contribution forms. * Contribution invoice: Major layout cleanup, added display of the contact's country. * Contribution invoice: Count refunds when calculating amount due. * Event contribution invoice: ensures Contribution Invoices are not sent to the CC and BCC email address(s) configured for Event Confirmation purposes. * CiviMail: Fixed unsubscribe bug on multilingual sites, which could cause mass unsubscribes to all groups. * Reports: The relationship report has a new option to sort by relationship end date, new column option for "is active?". * CiviCase: many small improvements. CiviCase is great, you should try it! * Core: Performance improvement for civicrm/ajax/checkemail which is used when adding a cc email address to an email message among other places. * Core: On the Manage Groups form, add group type support for custom group types (makes it possible for extensions to expose custom group types and expose them in the filter). * Core: Fixed installation issues when installing in another language. * Core: New hook_civicrm_alterUFFields, which allows extensions to modify fields in a profile. * Core: Updates the Net_SMTP package to the latest version of the library and standardizes patches. * APIv4: Allows smart groups to be created with APIv4 params in addition to via search form values. Adds a user interface to save smart groups from the APIv4 explorer. * Drupal8: Improves the installation process for Drupal 8 by making it so civicrm-setup reports the pending action. * PHP: PHP 7.3 is now the recommended PHP version (this is the last release supporting PHP 7.0, CiviCRM 5.25 will require PHP 7.1 or later). This is only a short overview. You can [read the full release notes here](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/blob/master/release-notes/5.24.0.md). Big thanks to Andrew Hunt and Alice Frumin from AGH Strategies for putting up together release notes. The complete list of 5.24.0 contributors (it's a huge team!) can be found [here](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/blob/master/CONTRIBUTORS.txt). Thanks to everyone for making this release happen! ### Support CiviCRM We are committed to keeping CiviCRM free and open, forever. We depend on your support to help make that happen. * [Make a donation](https://civicrm.org/contribute) or [contribute to a Make it happen campaign](https://civicrm.org/mih). * If your organization wants to support our work, [please become a member](https://civicrm.org/become-a-member) today. * If you are a CiviCRM service provider, [please become a partner](https://civicrm.org/become-a-partner).