release-notes/4.7.29.md

   1 # CiviCRM 4.7.29
   2
   3 Released December 20, 2017
   4
   5 - **[Synopsis](#synopsis)**
   6 - **[Features](#features)**
   7 - **[Bugs resolved](#bugs)**
   8 - **[Miscellany](#misc)**
   9 - **[Credits](#credits)**
  10 - **[Feedback](#feedback)**
  11
  12 ## <a name="synopsis"></a>Synopsis
  13
  14 | *Does this version...?*                                     |         |
  15 |:----------------------------------------------------------- |:-------:|
  16 | Fix security vulnerabilities?                               |   no    |
  17 | Change the database schema?                                 |   no    |
  18 | Alter the API?                                              |   no    |
  19 | Require attention to configuration options?                 |   no    |
  20 | Fix problems installing or upgrading to a previous version? |   no    |
  21 | **Introduce features?**                                     | **yes** |
  22 | **Fix bugs?**                                               | **yes** |
  23
  24 ## <a name="features"></a>Features
  25
  26 ### Core CiviCRM
  27
  28 - **[CRM-20941](https://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-20941) Increase minimum PHP required to install CiviCRM
  29   ([11416](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/11416))**
  30
  31   Increases the minimum PHP version required to install CiviCRM 4.7.29 to be 5.4 as per the [announcement blog post](https://civicrm.org/blog/totten/end-of-zombies-php-53-and-54)
  32
  33 ## <a name="bugs"></a>Bugs resolved
  34
  35 ### Core CiviCRM
  36
  37 - **[CRM-21445](https://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-20941) Ensure "Pay Later" processor is set so a fatal isn't thrown
  38   ([11427](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/11427))**
  39
  40   Ensures that the pay later payment processor is set to that a fatal error isn't thrown
  41
  42 - **[CRM-21431](https://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-21431) Fix removing of group types
  43   ([11436](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/11436))**
  44
  45   Fixes an issue where unchecking both the ACL and Mailing list box when editing a group didn't actually remove those types
  46
  47 - **[CRM-21568](https://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-21568) Move the determination of values of empty from settingsbag to InnodbIndxer
  48   ([11423](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/11423))**
  49
  50   Fixes an issue where string '0' wasn't being treated as false. So the checking of whether there is an empty value is now done in the on change listener for the full text search switcher
  51
  52 - **[CRM-21562](https://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-21562) Fix line item mis-saving when using a ',' as the thousand separator
  53   ([11412](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/11412))**
  54
  55   Fixes an issue for currencies which use a ',' as the thousand separator the line item was being incorrectly saved by a significant margin.
  56
  57 - **[CRM-21534](https://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-21534) Fix issue where checking if server was a MariaDB server wasn't working correctly
  58   ([11413](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/11413))**
  59
  60   Fixes an issue where the check to see if the MySQL server was a MariaDB instance wasn't working right. This lead to hard crashes as queries were being incorrectly re-written
  61
  62 ## <a name="credits"></a>Credits
  63
  64 This release was developed by the following code authors:
  65
  66 Australian Greens - Seamus Lee; CiviCRM - Coleman Watts, Tim Otten;
  67 Coop SymbioTIC - Mathieu Lutfy; Wikimedia Foundation - Eileen McNaughton
  68
  69 Most authors also reviewed code for this release; in addition, the following
  70 reviewers contributed their comments:
  71
  72 Ben Mango; JMA Consulting - Monish Deb; Megaphone Technology Consulting - Jon
  73 Goldberg; Richard van Oosterhout
  74
  75 ## <a name="feedback"></a>Feedback
  76
  77 These release notes are edited by Andie Hunt.  If you'd like to provide
  78 feedback on them, please login to https://chat.civicrm.org/civicrm and contact
  79 `@agh1`.