- The Form block can now display output from an existing Express entity object, as well as create a new custom form from scratch.
- Multilingual sites can output for related pages by setting the site.sites.default.multilingual.set_alternate_hreflang config variable to true (thanks mlocati!)
- You can now hide the footer My Account menu with a setting in the Profiles Dashboard page (thanks mlocati)
- Much improved time zone support; fixes a number of bugs, inconsistencies, tests for database and PHP time zone matching (thanks mlocati)
- Updated CKEditor to 4.6; much better CKEditor appearance and button wrapping behavior (thanks MrKarlDilkington!)
- More reliable URL slug generation JavaScript (thanks seebaermichi)
- Make welcome background image cover full width and height (thanks MrKarlDilkington)
- DateTime widget - change default displayed past years from 10 to 100 (thanks MrKarlDilkington)
- Fixed; File Manager Upload does not reflect most recently uploaded files if user doesn't select "View Uploaded"
- Improved thumbnail generation when using the BasicThumbnailer classes – better support for page caching while generating thumbnails, throttling and better performance when generating thumbnails.
- Added toolbar tooltips, defaulted to true but with options to disable in Accessibility settings (thanks seebaermichi)
- Share This Page block now includes full request URI, making it easier to share pages with custom URL parameters (thanks HamedDarragi)
- Image Slider block now includes option for both bullets and arrows (thanks Siton-Design)
- Fixed Resize images client side using 2x downsampling on upload results in jagged images (thanks MrKarldilkington)
- Page Attribute Display block delimiter option works with topics (thanks MrKarlDilkington)
- Add a semi colon to separate JS scripts in cache
- Page Type Form shows its icons at all times, appears nicer (thanks MrKarlDilkington)
- Miscellaneous style improvements (thanks ramonleenders, MrKarlDilkington)
- Escape translations to prevent JavaScript errors because of containing apostrophes (thanks Ruud-Zuiderlicht)
- Upgrade improvements and bug fixes
- When moving a file from one storage location to another the thumbnails will also be moved (thanks Mnkras)
- Increased max amount of size slider (thanks MrKarlDilkington)
- Fix success error when submitting Express Form with two forms on a page.
- Fixed bug where Express many to many associations weren’t named correctly, so working with them programmatically didn’t work.
- More reliable deletion of express objects when they have associations to other objects"
- Fixed Express Entities can't be used in a form unless the user is an administrator
- Fixed Script error when express attribute edited in dashboard form results
- Removed dummy autoloader added to bootstrap/app.php (shouldn’t affect any applications, but shouldn’t be there anyway.)
- Permissions fixed in the file manager.
- Fixed incorrect characters displaying when dragging a stack icon (thanks katzueno)
- Fixed Embedding CKEditor in single pages triggers fatal error when CSS and JavaScript Cache is enabled
- Fixed bug where some sites could start rendering -1/ in their paths when editing the home page.
- Fixed double submit bugs when forms or external forms were placed on the home page.
- Fixed errors that would occur when moving or copying aliases
- Fixed http://www.concrete5.org/developers/bugs/8-0-3/404-for-the-dashboard-page-cmsindex.phpdashboardhome/
- Fixed Dashboard file manager menu clipping on in folders without a lot of files (thanks MrKarlDilkington)
- Fix exception being thrown when the workflow requester was deleted (thanks jaromirdalecky)
- Better permissions protection on file manager with File Uploader access entity; better permissions protection on moving files in file manager.
- Fixed PageList::filterByPath returning no pages when working on multilingual sections (thanks OlegsHanins)
- Minor localization issues with Punic calendar library fixed (thanks ahukkanen)
- Fixed File manager file menu does not reflect accurate file after moving files
- Fixed bug where sitemap selector widget didn’t select pages (thanks Mesuva)
- Fixed: Page types with attributes throw errors when copied
- Fixed: Validate Password tokens don’t reset when email is changed (thanks Mnkras)
- Fixed Manual global cache time is displayed wrong on page cache settings (thanks mlocati)
- Fixed delete file storage location ERROR
- Fix filtering of topics in page list block when filtering by topic category
- Fixed FAQ - Delete Entry breaks the Save button (thanks MrKarlDilkington)
- Fixed Invalid block type handle exception during upgrade from 5.7.5.13 to 8.0.3 on sites where the RSS DIsplayer block was removed.
- Fixed: Setting a select attribute default value for page types results in foreign key constraint error in composer
- Fixed: Default Page Attributes do not persist
- Fixed bugs where discarding page drafts might cause page blocks to no longer be editable in composer.
- Fixed: Page Attribute default value not set in composer view
- Fixed exception when dealing with Oauth in bindUser method in some setups.
- Updated Zend Mail component to 2.7.2 to fix security issues.
- Fixed: https://www.concrete5.org/developers/bugs/8-0-3/author-attribute-is-very-tall-when-editing-attributes-from-the-d/
- Added CSRF protection to Forgot Password (thanks Mnkras)
- Fixed Page Attribute - Issue with deleting Rich Text Attribute
- Fix unsanitized file set name displayed in add to sets dialog.
- A new search indexing service provider is available, enabling the use of third party search platforms rather than built-in MySQL search for pages. Currently relatively low level and offering our single MySQL implementation, it nevertheless is a good start for adding support for other services like Elasticsearch, Solr and more.
- Developers can implement getPackageTranslatableStrings() in their package controller in order to specify custom strings to add to the translation repository.
- Bug fixes in custom package entity manager configurations (thanks Kaapiii)
- Miscellaneous code commenting (thanks Mnkras)
- Upgrade Monolog to v1.22.0 (thanks mlocati)
- Upgrade Punic to 1.6.4, fixes certain incompatibilities with Symfony Intl.
- Fixed rendering of fatal errors so that it uses the proper stylesheets.
- Fixed bug where activating a theme only changed the home page.
- Fixed error where all pages added to a multilingual site were showing as system pages.
- Fixed bug where attributes in the application/attributes directory couldn’t be installed.
- Bug fixes with attribute validation.
- Fixed error exception when creating a new page type failed validation
- Fixed bug where Express Forms could not be added on sites that were upgraded from 5.7.
- File Date modified in file manager now shows the proper date (instead of the date added)
- Fixed bug where attempting to delete Express entries or entities that had values attached to express attribute types would trigger an error.
- Attribute search fields in advanced search dialogs now select their options properly.
- Fix misnamed config value concrete.file_manager.images.use_exif_data_to_rotate_images (was named concrete.file_manager.images.use_exim_data_to_rotate_images)
- Fix bug with Legacy Form not being able to be saved under certain conditions.
- Fixed: Entering a new Express Data Object with the existing Handle will cause error
- Added the ability to use the express attribute to specify express entries in the Express Entry Detail block.
- Fixed site name not rendering in many themes (those that used Config::get(‘concrete.site’) to retrieve it.)
- Fixed inability to set a site to private or members only.
- Fixed error message complaining about methods in missing in the ExpressSetManager interface that made it impossible to work with Express objects in the Dashboard.
- Fixed error that kept sites with legacy attribute categories (like Vivid Store) from upgrading properly.
- Fixed Page Attribute Display block not having access to delimiter field after upgrade from 5.7.
- Fixed ability to save file search queries in site updated from 5.7.
- Fixed https://www.concrete5.org/developers/bugs/8-0-1/conversation-block-attachments-can-not-be-disabled/
- Fixed https://www.concrete5.org/developers/bugs/8-0-1/file-attributes-with-no-file-selected-cause-errors-after-upgradi/
- Fixed bug where files were not viewable by anyone other than admin after upgrade from 5.7.5.10.
- Fixed bug where select attribute wouldn’t sort by popularity (and would die with a SQL error.)
- Fixed bug where tracking code was not preserved after upgrade from 5.7.5.10.
- Fixed bug where users could not be deleted after upgrade from 5.7.5.10
- Debug is no longer the default setting for error reporting.
- Fixed inability to sort attribute sets, bugs with editing legacy attribute sets.
- Fixed problems with saving legacy attributes.
- Made file manager behave better in cases where a file record somehow had no versions.
- Fixed error where adding a form block would fail intermittently
- Fixed typos in the automatically generated Nginx configuration for pretty URL handling (thanks chemett)
- Express: Extensible, Custom Data Objects that can be created by Editors. Easily search, sort, manage permissions on and display these objects in the front-end and the Dashboard.
- User Desktops: a fully customizable landing page for users when they login to the system, available even if user profiles are not. Functions within the Dashboard or outside of it.
- Revamped Waiting for Me: can include a large number of notification types (like user signup, workflow, form submissions, private messages, concrete5 updates and more) and is extendable by third parties.
- Completely overhauled Form block: now powered by Express, form block fields are attribute-based. This means they can be added to with new attributes. Additionally, you can intersperse text with form controls. The Form block creates Express entities in the Dashboard, which you can grant permissions to, related to other entities, and more.
- More control over page defaults – ability to choose whether to delete all blocks based on defaults or just the unforked versions, and the ability to publish updates to page defaults over previously forked versions of defaults blocks.
- Added the ability to add a delimiter to multiple items displayed by the Page Attribute Display block (thanks cryophallion)
- Add topic, tag, and date filtering to the Page Title block (thanks MrKarlDilkington)
- Add an option to list pages at the current level in Page List (thanks juhotalus)
- Fix image slider composer view (thanks ob7)
- Page versions can now be scheduled for approval in the future.
- Revamped file manager, with support for folders, better support for saved searches, and more.
- Automatically generated thumbnails now work with storage locations (thanks Mnkras)
- New attractive file type icons that better match concrete5’s current UI (thanks Freepik – http://www.flaticon.com/authors/freepik)
- SVG files now will create thumbnails when uploaded if the system has ImageMagick installed (thanks mlocati)
- Stack Folders: Stacks now support folders, which should enable developers to use stacks more efficiently.
- Dashboard Favorites are now Chooseable via the Bookmark Icon in the Dashboard Header
- User approval is now handled through the use of concrete5 workflow. Enable workflows on user activation to control how users register for your concrete5 site. Control which administrators can edit which users. (thanks Mainio!)
- All user passwords can be globally reset from the Dashboard. Users will have to reauthenticate immediately, and change their password immediately.
- There are now separate tracking codes for header and footer locations (thanks MrKarlDillkington, mlocati)
- Multilingual stacks and global areas work nicely with folders.
- Drafts now use the target page location property to determine their locale and language, allowing you to create related drafts for different languages.
- Multilingual sites now appear as their own trees in a tabbed sitemap, rather than within the main site.
- Waiting for Me Workflow List now shows all workflow types instead of just Pages, is fully extendable, more attractive, and available outside of the Dashboard via Desktop Block.
- Added Telephone, URL and Email Address attributes
- Image/File attribute now has an “HTML Input” display mode.
- Text attributes now have a placeholder as an option (thanks avdevs)
- Custom attributes can now be globally applied to your site, and easily accessed By Calling \Site::getSite()->getAttribute(‘attribute_handle’);
- Updated installation process; more attractive, gives users something to do while installation is ocurring, added the ability to specify canonical URL and session handler during installation (thanks mlocati)
- If a site is running on an updated core, the database migrations will automatically be run (saves potential database until the update has to be run manually)
- The command line installer now features an interactive mode when used with -i
- Better checking of .htaccess status when updating pretty URLs (thanks mlocati)
- You can now add page redirects for the home page (thanks edtrist)
- Code cleanup and optimization (thanks a3020, mlocati, Korvinszanto)
- Invalidate browser cache when CSS files are edited (thanks joostrijneveld)
- Switch Site name and page title on default (thanks katzueno)
- We added ID back to the custom style panel for blocks (thanks MrKarlDilkington)
- Improvements to composer autosave behavior.
- We now use relative URLs when the canonical URL isn’t set.
- Nicer display of image slider in edit mode (thanks Siton-Design)
- Fixed linking to twitter tweets so they don’t redirect (thanks clarkwinkelmann)
- Big thanks to olsgreen for fixing a long standing bug with page edit mode checking and timestamps, leading to a fix of buggy edit mode behaviors like layouts not rendering post add, edit mode not being respected, etc...
- Bug fixes to Image Slider (thanks MrKarlDilkington)
- https://www.concrete5.org/developers/bugs/5-7-5-8/file-manager-edit-image-doesnt-work-when-jscss-cache-is-on-becau/ (thanks mlocati)
- Fixed bug where custom styles in stacks weren’t showing up if the stack was added to the front-end (thanks olsgreen)
- Added CSRF Tokens to Legacy Form Block (thanks ryantyler)
- Tiny issue: Add missing "/" in $title end tag (thanks Siton-Design)
- Fix issue to generate thumbnail of vertical long image (thanks hissy)
- Fix: loop Setting not working in youtube block (thanks jordif)
- Fix: Switching from a theme with grid support to one without grid support errors out (thanks olsgreen)
- Bug fixes with thumbnail creation logic when the width of the image exactly matches the width of the thumbnail (thanks Mesuva)
- Symfony components updated to version 3.
- Font Awesome icon set updated to version 4.5.
- Search block URLs support URL Resolver so they can be overridden (thanks ahukkanen)
- Completely new translation subsystem, with better support for language contexts, and an improved API (thanks ahukkanen and mlocati)
- Bootstrap components updated to 3.3.7.
- Updated Laravel Dependency Injection Component to version 5.
- Zend Framework libraries updated to their latest versions
- Added on_form_submission event for Legacy form (thanks Jozzeh)
- Additional commands added to command line tool (thanks mlocati)
- jQuery UI updated to 1.11.4
- When deleting database tables in v8, you may have some trouble. This is due to foreign key constraints. See: concretecms#3797
In addition to the credits above, the following users have been very helpful fixing bugs, testing beta releases, and helping whip the 8.0 interface into shape
Edtrist, mlocati, MrKarlDilkington
- Once again, Environment Information is now available in the Dashboard.
- Added jQuery Select to Dropdown menu support in the Dashboard; just add data-select=”bootstrap” to your select menus.
- Fixed bug with Environment Information not working on PHP below 5.4.
- Works again properly on PHP 5.3.
- Fixed bug that made upgrading impossible on PHP < 5.5.9.
- Fixed page not found error when clicking on a topic list to filter the page list in the blog.
- Controller bug fixes and security updates.
- Nice column view for thumbnail image browsing (Thanks MrKarlDilkington)
- Added Max Width as an option to the Image Slider block (thanks cryophallion)
- Added configuration option concrete.misc.require_version_comments (defaulted off) to enable the requiring of version comments (thanks mlocati)
- Improved performance and API for parallax scrolling
- Better support for rich text editor and file manager permissions when the user using the rich text editor and the file manager isn’t an administrator.
- Custom styles that are set on composer control output blocks will now be inherited when those blocks are published to a page. (thanks olsgreen)
- Added support for site names in a multilingual site (thanks mlocati)
- Site localization strings are now loaded after core and package localization strings (thanks mlocati)
- Added ability to set override meta keywords from a particular page (thanks katz)
- Facebook authentication uses curl verify peer setting (thanks jaromirdalecky)
- Allow filter select attribute using NOT LIKE through comparison (thanks Ruudt)
- Code cleanup (thanks mlocati, a3020)
- Image slider CSS fixes (thanks robkovacs)
- Use correct target in page list links (thanks ojalehto)
- Add “Required” label to required composer form controls (thanks MrKarlDilkington)
- Prevent empty span from displaying if no title is entered in Page Attribute Display block (thanks Mr
- If an AJAX error occurs during page composer editing, auto-save is now disabled (thanks hissy)
- Cosmetic improvements to marketplace item listings
- Composer custom templates now can be included in packages.
- Preserve original URL when login is needed (thanks mlocati)
- Developers can now add pages under the dashboard that aren’t single pages (thanks herent)
- “Disable Scroll Wheel” option on Google Maps block works on mobile now (thanks hissy)
- Translation tool improvements
- Added DOM Extension to official installation requirements (thanks ChrisHougard)
- Swiss Provinces included in Location List (thanks appliculture/mlocati)
- Location Lists are now translatable (thanks mlocati)
- AutoNav performance improvements (thanks littleibex)
- https://www.concrete5.org/community/forums/5-7-discussion/feature-request-add-filename-colum-option-to-file-manager/
- Fixed bug where full page caching would rebuild a page every time it was viewed, instead of viewing from cache.
- Fixed issue where Upgrade Doesn't Complete Fully When Upgrading from a Previous Upgrade (thanks mlocati)
- Fixed hanging that could occur on login when attaching specific users to advanced permissions
- Fixed bug where the table “BasicWorkflowProgressData” could not be inserted into when publishing page edits
- Fixed HTML block clears saved entities on edit (thank acliss19xx)
- Bug fix: multiple workflow on same page causes errors (thanks hissy)
- Avoid InvalidArgumentException with Page Attribute Display block when showing images with both width and height set to zero (thanks hissy)
- Fixed bug with displaying rating attribute values as stars.
- Fixes Zend Queue bug (Empty Trash, etc…) in PHP 7.
- Fixed https://www.concrete5.org/developers/bugs/5-7-5-6/bootstrap-styles-not-properly-scoped-within-.ccm-ui/#812586 (thanks allybee)
- Fix custom styling with additional file storage location types (thanks hissy)
- Fixed http://www.concrete5.org/developers/bugs/5-7-5-6/userlist-filter-by-group/
- Updated JShrink to fix an issue where minified/compiled JavaScripts used by the asset system would break if comments were included after JS code (thanks 1stthomas)
- Fixed bug where blocks in global areas couldn’t be reordered on the front-end (thanks ojalehto)
- Fixed https://www.concrete5.org/developers/bugs/5-7-5-6/magnific-popup-ipad-bug-fixed-in-latest-version/ (thanks MrKarlDilkington)
- Fixed https://www.concrete5.org/community/forums/usage/squashed-images-mobile-view/ (thanks MrKarlDilkington)
- Fixed: Stack content isn't indexed in the search index (thanks ottovirtanen)
- Fix file url in form results when using a non-public file storage location (thanks ottovirtanen)
- Fixed http://www.concrete5.org/developers/bugs/5-7-5-6/choose-user-not-working/ (thanks mlocati)
- Fixed image slider in theme listings in the marketplace Dashboard
- Fixed concretecms#3702 (thanks mlocati)
- Avoid sitemap.xml error on Search Console (thanks hissy)
- Fixed html entities not being preserved in content block (thanks acliss19xx)
- Fix some untranslated messages (thanks hissy)
- Fixed issue where Topic List block returns User Groups
- Fixed inability to create a page named “0” (thanks hissy)
- Fix translated placeholders on storage location paths (thanks ojalehto)
- Fixed issue with thumbnails in the file manager looking too large.
- fixed misnamed gc_maxlifetime session cookie option making it impossible to configure this value in custom configurations (thanks simoneast) Bugfix: RSS feeds get cached indefinitely (thanks simoneast)
- Fixed extra UL tags and invalid placement in topic list block.
- Fixed: page_list block produces invalid HTML5 for RSS link (thanks derykmarl)
- Fixing the wrong link in dashboard/blocks/types to marketetplace listing page (thanks katzueno)
- Fixed https://www.concrete5.org/developers/bugs/5-7-5-6/javascriptlocalizedasset-loads-asset-with-base_url-resulting-in-/ (thanks mlocati)
- Fixed https://www.concrete5.org/developers/bugs/5-7-5-6/setup-of-security.trustedproxies.ips-done-too-late-in-concretebo/ (thanks hissy)
- Fixed https://www.concrete5.org/developers/bugs/5-7-5-6/error-on-conversation-with-deleted-users/ (thanks mlocati)
- concretecms#3701 (thanks katzueno)
- Fixed: feature block wasn't pulling paragraph correctly in editmode (Thanks jaredfolkins)
- Fixed Error when accessing "Manage Presets" php7 (thanks mlocati)
- Fixed Display error messages on Concrete password change (thanks Ruud-Zuiderlicht)
- Fixed https://www.concrete5.org/developers/bugs/5-7-5-6/applying-border-radius-requires-non-zero-border-width/#814380 (thanks mlocati)
- Fix: unable to redirect to home on submit form block (thanks hissy)
- Fixed padding and display of toolbar (it was off by a pixel) (thanks zanedev)
- Fixed concretecms#3673 (thanks jaromirdalecky)
- Bug fixes to Download Report when users have been deleted (Thanks hissy)
- Updated Magnific Popup to 1.1.0
- Improvements to the command line tools (thanks mlocati)
- Added c5:exec CLI command (thanks mlocati)
- update Picturefill to current version 3.0.2 (stable) (thanks MrKarlDilkington)
- add config value to set file manager results per page (thanks MrKarlDilkington)
- Added File Zip Service (thanks mlocati)
- Allow the passing of Page Template handles for Page Type adding/updating (thanks cryophallion)
- Updating Magnific Popup 1.1.0 drops support for Magnific Popup in IE7.
- Minor improvements to command line utilities (thanks mlocati)
- Default behavior on certain javascript links prevented (thanks ojalehto)
- Fixed: User's avatar's url doesn't change when you change the image (thanks ojalehto)
- Fixed: concretecms#3420 (thanks ojalehto)
- Remove New Page link from stacks version history (thanks ojalehto)
- Adjust clear log button to indicate dangerousness of the action (thanks ojalehto)
- Fixed inability to publicly register new accounts (received invalid email address errors on valid email addresses.) (thanks JeRoNZ)
- Fixed http://www.concrete5.org/developers/bugs/5-7-5-5/file-manager-broken-after-deleting-a-file-set./ (thanks ojalehto)
- Parallax custom template causes layout design to not be accessible
- Fixed bug in next/previous block where exclude system pages was always set to true (thanks ojalehto)
- Prevent error while adding a new feed without a page type filter (thanks ojalehto)
- Fix incorrect action after renaming a stack (thanks ojalehto)
- PHP7 bug fixes (thanks JeRoNZ)
- Fixed multilingual flag layout(thanks ojalehto)
- Strict error bug fixes (thanks mlocati)
- You can no longer deactivate or delete your own user account in the Dashboard
- Social Links block opens links in new tabs (thanks MrKarlDilkington)
- Fixed inability to clear site contents when installing themes that swap the site’s contents with their own.
- Responsive flag images in multilingual sites (thanks seebaermichi)
- Fixed issue where pasted blocks weren’t using proper grid container settings.
- Fixed inability to bulk delete files.
- Fixed Form block's questions are ordered incorrectly after ordering some of them and creating a new question. (thanks ojalehto)
- Fixed: An error was thrown e.g. when trying to change user's password in dashboard while MYSQL is used in STRICT_TRANS_TABLES mode (thanks ojalehto)
- Fixed error when adding files to sets and not logged in as admin.
- Fixed inability to login with Oauth-based authentication types, including concrete5.org community and others (thanks Fabian Vogler)
- Fixed bug: Layout column widths are no longer editable after being saved the first time
- Fixed http://www.concrete5.org/developers/bugs/5-7-5-4/member-avatar/
- Minor fixes to certain command line commands (thanks mlocati)
- Fixed concretecms#3363 (thanks ojalehto)
- Fixed concretecms#2959 (thanks seebaermichi)
- Fixed concretecms#3368 (jaromirdalecky)
- Fixed concretecms#3365 (thanks Ruudt)
- Lots of improvements to the YouTube block, including responsive and widescreen improvements, support for playlist URLs, support for more YouTube options, and code cleanup (thanks Mesuva!)
- Added the ability to start composer page location sitemaps at a certain level in the tree.
- Share this Page block now includes a print option (thanks ojalehto)
- New uploading settings Dashboard page allows administrators to specify a maximum width, height and JPEG level for images uploaded to the file manager. Images will be constrained using client side JavaScript (if available) and server side as a fallback (thanks Mesuva)
- Background size and position added to options in Background Image section of area/block design (thanks MrKarlDilkington)
- Added the ability to set storage locations for files in bulk (thanks hissy)
- Updates to Image Slider block: draggable and collapsible slides, choose whether to animate automatically, slider speed, time between transitions, and whether to pause on hover (thanks MrKarlDilkington)
- Character count added to bulk SEO updater and SEO panel (thanks Mesuva)
- Added “Fit Image” button to Image Editor (thanks MrKarlDilkington)
- If a user has the ability to approve the workflow on a page that he or she is updating, the workflow will be skipped when submission occurs.
- Better validation of thumbnail types created through the dashboard (thanks mnakalay)
- Security improvement: immediate invalidation of password reset emails upon changed passwords (thanks joemeyer)
- We now use the number form element in the number attribute (thanks Remo)
- Added version comment to workflow email.
- Better caching of Page List blocks (thanks TimDix)
- CSS scope fixes and cleanup (thanks robkovacs)
- Drafts now include the date they were created (thanks MrKarlDilkington)
- Command line utilities will now work with a symlinked core (thanks mlocati)
- An area name is now visible when dragging a block over it
- Better compressed image slider sample images lead to smaller file sizes (thanks MrKarlDilkington)
- Improvement to the Page Defaults editing experience (thanks MrKarlDilkington)
- Added support for system pages to the AutoNav block (thanks joostrijneveld)
- Better support for
elements in content blocks (thanks EC-Joe) - Configuration option added to disable download statistics tracking (thanks EC-Joe)
- Custom theme layout presets now honor attributes on containers and columns other than just “class” (data attributes, etc…)
- Fixed error on user password validation on PHP 5.3.3.
- User avatar removal now protected against CSRF attacks.
- Allows the use of custom label text for file selectors (thanks mnakalay)
- Miscellaneous code cleanup and minor bug fixes (thanks joemeyer)
- Fixed infinite redirect issues with certain setups.
- Fixed concretecms#3063 (thanks joemeyer)
- Fixed errors when including job sets in packages (thanks joemeyer)
- Fixed bug where uploading files with uppercase extensions would fail in certain situations.
- Fixed bug where image slider block entries with links to internal page would lose those links on edit (thanks acliss19xx)
- Fixed concretecms#3300
- Fix newsflow url to Dashboard's update page (thanks concrete5 Japan)
- Fixed: It is not possible to set the color picker to complete transparency in the theme customization options (thanks mlocati)
- Fixed: if you add a picture to a feature paragraph area (or other abstracted string) and go to edit it it doesn't get translated back (thanks joemeyer)
- Fixed: concretecms#3214 (thanks frosso)
- Fixed inability to clear background images in page design.
- Fixed https://www.concrete5.org/developers/bugs/5-7-5-3/remove-alias-does-not-work/
- Bug fixes with Dashboard sitemap and page search.
- Fixed: Package description isn't translated before installing the package (thanks mlocati)
- Fixed: Can't vote in a survey if the block caching is turned on (thanks TimDix)
- Fixed https://www.concrete5.org/community/forums/chat/date-navigation-timezone-problem/ (thanks mlocati and WillemAnchor)
- Fixed concretecms#3098 (thanks ahukkanen)
- Fixed bug where the Add new page dialog was missing certain translations loaded from Composer (thanks ahukkanen)
- Fixed https://www.concrete5.org/developers/bugs/5-7-5-3/zip-file-download/ (thanks mlocati)
- Fixed bug where filtering by select attribute option values wasn’t working when the options had special characters in them (thanks dsgraham)
- Added X-Frame-Options header option for security purposes (thanks hissy)
- Fixed https://hackerone.com/reports/4934 (thanks joemeyer)
- Fixed mobile theme switcher issues: Elements are loaded from default theme instead of mobile theme, Responsive image settings of mobile theme does not respected (thanks hissy)
- Content import now properly imports area background images (thanks myconcretelab)
- concretecms#3106 (thanks mlocati)
- Fixed typo in Password Sent email template (thanks allybee)
- Code improvements to facilitate concrete5 running on PHP 7 (thanks mlocati)
- New command line installation functionality to support installs in a clustered environment (attaches to existing databases rather than requiring an empty database.)
- New command line utilities for installing and uninstalling packages are now available (thanks mlocati)
- New command line utilities for generating and updating package translation files (thanks mlocati)
- Feature: Add new Conversation Message event (thanks brucewyne)
- Page Theme classes can now provide custom value lists. For information on why you’d want to do this, see this issue: concretecms#3031
- New attach mode in command line installer: When the --attach flag is supplied with a concrete5 c5:install call, if the supplied database already has rows we will attach to it rather than failing
- Session API Improvements
- Groups tree Javascript now supports multiple selection (thanks Shotster)
- Package controllers can now define on_after_packages_start() methods which will run after on_start() from ALL installed packages have run. This can be helpful when a particular package requires something from another package, but the original package is executing on_start() before the dependency.
- Tourist tours now have access to showStep method (thanks danielgasser)
- Added an “Add Content” guide that goes through the process of adding content to the page, and explains the Add Content panel.
- Improved contrast in the Add Content and Dashboard panels.
- Fixed concretecms#2980
- Improvements to image editing experience when using the concrete5 image editor.
- Account private messages no longer assumes profiles are enabled (thanks ounziw)
- Escaped input in form submissions so prevent Excel macros from being embedded in fields (thanks TimDix)
- Links in image slider description will automatically substitute the proper URLs even when changing servers (thanks hissy)
- Added logout link to mobile menu (thanks ojalehto)
- Device visibility classes (hide on desktop, hide on laptop,, etc…) are now disabled when a page is in edit mode.
- Additional page URLs preserve query strings on redirecting to canonical URLs.
- Imported area layouts now support custom styles (thanks myconcretelab)
- Parallax custom template on area design now works with multiple parallax areas on a page (thanks myconcretelab)
- Fixed infinite redirect loop with Internationalized Domain Names (thanks EC-Joe)
- Fixed bug where multilingual global areas would sometimes duplicate themselves needlessly, leading to empty global areas
- Fixed hard-to-reproduce duplicate key error in ConversationFeatureDetailAssignments table when using the conversation block throughout your site
- Fixed out of memory errors when uploading large files from the incoming directory (thanks EC-Joe)
- Fixed “When using inline blocks, I can edit other inline blocks” (thanks TimDix)
- Fixed errors with blocks that have assets not having their assets included if those blocks were within a layout. Fixed error with google maps block specifically.
- Fixed error with scrollbar not appearing after file uploaded on the front-end (actually fixed this time.)
- Fixed Adding and Moving a Block in One Step Causes JS Error
- Resolved: Rich text editor adds in random "=" symbols sometimes
- Resolved: Rich text editor wraps selection in undefined when choosing a custom style
- Fixed but where Downloading a file that exceeds the available memory today causes an out of memory issue
- Fixed occasionally bug that resulted in error “"Argument 1 passed to Concrete\Core\Permission\Access\Access::create() must be an instance of PermissionKey, Concrete\Core\Permission\Key\AdminKey given."
- Fixed bug when moving blocks in certain situations (thanks Remo)
- Fixed: Topics attributes marked as required on pages weren’t being properly validated.
- Fixed some minor XSS potential issues with social links (thanks EC-Chris)
- Fixed bug: Internal Links in Feature Blocks Store Absolute URL in Database
- Fixed: config value “concrete.updates.auto_update_packages” now works again
- Fixed fatal error when enabling package auto updates (thanks EC-Joe)
- Fixed error autoloading packages when working with the command line (thanks EC-Joe)
- Approve changes now shows up when moving blocks in stacks (thanks WillemAnchor)
- Fixed bug where editing permissions in simple permissions mode wouldn’t apply multilingual settings administration to the appropriate groups (Thanks Remo)
- Fixed possible CSRF security issue in Conversations settings dashboard page.
- Fixed free-form layouts that on occasion would break into two rows as widths wouldn’t match properly (thanks wstoettinger)
- Color picker JavaScript now properly escaped so it can be used with PHP array syntax.
- Fixed: If you added a BlockTypeSet but didn't add anything to them it would cause the foreach to error on a null value (thanks joe-meyer)
- Fixed inability to filter lists by multiple select values (thanks markbennett)
- Fixed http://www.concrete5.org/developers/bugs/5-7-5-2/date-attributes-search-method-doesnt-work/ (thanks haeflimi)
- IP Blacklist no longer bans on failed registrations (thanks joemeyer)
- Fixed concretecms#3048 (thanks joemeyer)
- We now default to the “GD” image processing library for image manipulation. Imagick must be opted into by setting the config value “concrete.file_manager.images.manipulation_library” to “imagick”.
- Adds ability to specify wildcard page theme classes by creating an array key with “*” as its key (thanks TimDix)
- Database Entities dashboard page now refreshes package-specific entities as well as application-specific entities.
- Implemented new Validation framework and some useful constraints. Used within password validation.
- API improvements to the Processor class to allow it to be used without a queue.
- Select attribute option API improvements
- Edge case page list sorting fix when adding to the query with addSelect and attempting to sort by the new field, and use pagination as well.
- If you were relying on Imagick image manipulation, you will now be using GD image manipulation unless you manually set “concrete.file_manager.images.manipulation_library” to “imagick” within a custom config file.
- You can now filter the Page List block by date, including pages with a public date of today, X days in the past, X days in the future, and a custom date range (thanks TimDix)
- The File block is now available in the Composer view for a Page type (thanks TimDix)
- You can now export the Database Query Log to CSV (thanks TimDix)
- The Cache settings page now gives developers the ability to optionally create CSS source maps from compiled LESS files.
- Version list now shows who approved the version (thanks Katz)
- Added page template to advanced page search.
- New modes for page composer where you can choose target pages from an in-panel sitemap, rather than the popup selector.
- Select custom attribute now uses the Select2 JavaScript library for tagging modes, leading to an improved appearance and nicer code behind the scenes.
- Improved appearance and information display of controls on the composer form page type dashboard page (thanks TimDix)
- Blocks added to the scrapbook will now honor the original block’s cache settings (thanks TimDix)
- Area layouts will now be cached if all the blocks they contain are cached (thanks TimDix) Adds ability to cache Search Block if the block doesn't display results - useful for when placed in header/footer (thanks TimDix)
- Performance improvements in the Assets Subsystem (thanks joe-meyer)
- We now include the “position” property in the search index when using the testimonial block (thanks hissy)
- Better performance when working with bulk files and file sets with a large number of file sets (thanks TimDix and jefharris23)
- Stack blocks now check to see if the blocks within the stack can be cached – if so, they will be cached as well (thanks TimDix)
- Resolved concretecms#2911 (thanks Shotster)
- Added error messaging when adding or editing page types and not configuring the publishing settings properly.
- Better error reporting when http:// or https:// omitted from canonical URLs (thanks mnakalay)
- Removed “Meta Keywords” from SEO panel on new installs because it’s not actually something that most search engines like anymore (thanks Mesuva). The attribute is still available and installed.
- Fixed bug where layouts with custom widths didn’t honor those widths (thanks kaktuspalme)
- Fixed bug where area layouts disappear upon changing layout design changes (thanks TimDix)
- Fixed issue installing on PHP 5.3.9 and earlier (5.7.5.1 was supposed to fix this but did not.)
- When deleting files, some rows were left in child database tables. This has been fixed (thanks EC-Joe)
- Block actions in edit mode (introduced in 5.7.5) now work with blocks in Composer.
- Permission access entity types can now be provided in packages like they could in 5.6.
- Permission keys can now be provided in packages like they could in 5.6.
- Rich text editor toolbar was abnormally large when present in the attributes dialog window. This has been fixed.
- Fixed bug where Image block fails on Elemental when using certain third party file storage location types with no thumbnail types installed (thanks Mnkras)
- We now show a confirmation dialog when discarding page drafts (thanks hissy)
- Fixed bulk SEO Updater not updating the home page.
- Fixed editor tooltips and link edit callouts not displaying when using redactor in a dialog.
- When setting sitewide permissions in simple permissions mode, “Edit Page Type” hadn’t been set. It also wasn’t set by default when installing concrete5. This is fixed.
- Fixes Bug with Search Block when resultsURL specified instead of page (thanks TimDix)
- Fixed concretecms#2894 (thanks skybluesofa)
- Fixed concretecms#2362 (thanks TimDix)
- Fixed Fix Cancel button action on block aliasing dialog (thanks hissy)
- Fixed scrollbar not appearing after file upload (thanks EC-Chris)
- Fixed exception when passing an non-number to ccm_paging_p (thanks SkyBlueSofa)
- Added custom file import processes for forcing JPEGs, forcing JPEG compression and forcing width/height. Added system for creating custom file import processes and calling them programmatically
- Added the ability to try and use exif rotation data (experimental, toggle on by enabling with the config value concrete.file_manager.images.use_exif_rotation_data)
- Translation improvements (thanks mlocati)
- Added flash message support to page controller. Just call $this->flash(‘key’, ‘value’) and then a page redirect and the $key will be available from within the target page the same as if it had been set from that target page. (e.g. $this->flash(‘success’, ‘Thanks for your submission!’); $this->redirect(‘/to/new/page’); )
- PageSelector::quickSelect now works again.
- Page Type Validator framework improvements
- Slight fixes to form labels in form block (thanks haeflimi)
- Improvements to permissions content import XML functionality.
- Fix potential data loss when working with packages that had both db.xml files and Doctrine entities (thanks Mainio)
- Content block image placeholders now save all attributes placed on the images in the rich text editor (Thanks TimDix)
- Fixed permissions error rendering “subscribe to conversation” functionality inoperable.
- Improvements for working with PHP7 (thanks mlocati and Mnkras)
- Added additional MIME extensions for new Office file types (thanks RGeelen)
- on_page_get_icon event now works properly (thanks ahukkanen)
- Lots of code quality improvements (thanks joe-meyer and mlocati)
- Fixed concretecms#2952 (thanks ahukkanen)
- New console command available: Clear Cache (thanks mlocati)
- The signature of the \Concrete\Core\Page\Type\Validator\ValidatorInterface has changed. If you rely on this interface check your implementations. (Note: if you extend the \Concrete\Core\Page\Type\Validator\StandardValidator you should be fine.)
- Better checking for InnoDB database tables than querying INFORMATION_SCHEMA directly.
- Improved accuracy and performance of the parallax scroll area layout custom template.
- Fixed Fatal error when getPageThemeGridFrameworkRowStartHTML() and getPageThemeGridFrameworkRowEndHTML() return nothing
- IP Blacklist functionality now works correctly
- Fixed non-functioning image editor when editing image thumbnails.
- Fixed error “PHP Fatal error: Can't inherit abstract function” on PHP 5.3.9 and earlier
- Fixed errors installing and working with concrete5 on MySQL setups with strict tables enabled.
- Fixing tree topic error in flat filter custom template when you have removed the topic tree its linked to
- Fixed misnamed header grid classes in Elemental theme (thanks hdk0016)
- Fixed http://www.concrete5.org/developers/bugs/5-7-4-2/date-type-custom-attributes-was-not-add-default-block/
- Added legacy Image helper class (\Concrete\Core\Legacy\ImageHelper) back. This class had been moved to BasicThumbnailer and was working for all proper usage of the class, but for those instances where the class was hard-coded a the legacy image helper, the class is back for the time being. It will be removed in a subsequent update.
- Page Theme classes can specify layout presets, which can use classes contained in grid frameworks or use their own custom classes.
- Layouts now have design controls available to them, including custom templates and custom CSS classes.
- Added a new custom template “Parallax Image” available to layouts that employ a background image.
- Grid frameworks can now specify hiding classes for responsive breakpoints, which can be controlled through block and area design settings.
- Grid containers that wrap around blocks based on their type can now be disabled or enabled on a per-block basis through the block design palette.
- Added nested support to grid frameworks.
- Completely new Mobile Device Preview panel in the page panel. Preview the current page in a variety of mobile form factors, simulating user agent, and even rotating the device.
- Global areas and stacks are now multilingual: if you have multiple language areas in your site, stacks and global areas you add will have separate instances for each language, and the appropriate stack contents will be displayed on the appropriate pages with no hacks.
- You can scan a multilingual section for all links and references to multilingual pages, and if those pages exist outside the current tree, they will be remapped into the current tree. (i.e after you copy a multilingual tree, you can rescan its links so they don’t point to the original tree.)
- Elemental now provides two layout presets – Left Sidebar and Right Sidebar.
- You can now set an RSS feed to be filtered by a particular topic
- You can now add an image to an RSS feed
- If you register a site that requires approval before logging in, you will receive an email letting you know this is the case (thanks ounziw)
- You can now turn off help via a checkbox in the Dashboard on the Accessibility page.
- The file block now contains an option to force download (thanks Mesuva)
- Next/Previous Block now supports reverse ordering options (thanks UziTech)
- You can now run concrete5 jobs from the command line using concrete/bin/concrete5 c5:job (thanks ChrisHougard!)
- You can now choose the background image for full-image background pages with the 'concrete.white_label.background_url' config option (thanks myconcretelab)
- Redactor rich text editor has been updated to version 10.2.2,. fixing many bugs and adding some small features.
- Adds support to adjust trusted proxy ips and settings through Config values (thanks timdix)
- Login page now much easier to theme. Should look nice in stock Elemental theme. More generic language and hides the authentication type list of only one authentication type is enabled. No more background image when attempting to re-skin login page in another theme.
- File manager import incoming now has a checkbox to select all files (thanks MeyerJL)
- Table cells in rich text editor have a minimum width of 55 pixels (thanks KarlDilkington)
- Group set names can now contain multibyte characters (thanks hissy)
- More rich text editor plugin interfaces are translatable (thanks mlocati)
- Fixed Typography selector fails on save if it is used without font selection (thanks ojahleto)
- Permissions are properly checked when displaying the publish button and the delete button in composer (thanks hissy)
- Editing page defaults no longer prompts you to save or approve your changes, since changes to page defaults are immediately live (they are not versioned.)
- Improved performance of full page caching (thanks EC-Chris)
- Improvements to session handling when the session directory exists outside of an open_basedir restriction (thanks acohin and mlocati)
- Page attributes are now grouped in sets on the page type defaults attributes screen (thanks EC-Joe)
- Form block now highlights errors on specific fields when they aren’t filled in properly (thanks timdix)
- Fixed bug that caused areas to have problems if they were converted in code from GlobalArea to Area and vice versa (thanks joe-meyer)
- Fix: can't override install options by config file (thanks mlocati and hissy)
- Better dialog message when the user can not select files (thanks hissy)
- Display last used authentication type if authentication fails (thanks ChrisHougard)
- Authentication types that rely on mcrypt use a more reliable random number generator (thanks thomwiggers)
- You can now export logs to CSV files from the Dashboard page (thanks timdix)
- If the package contains a theme that's currently active on the site, the package uninstallation can't occur
- Gravatar user avatars now honor the passed aspect ratio parameter when using a custom aspect ratio (thanks joostrijneveld)
- Fixed concretecms#2522
- Fixed broken list element HTML on dashboard pages when no child pages existing in a certain section. (thanks jaromirdalecky)
- Lots of configuration cleanup, removal of unused configuration values (thanks mlocati)
- Fixed bug where a deleted block type could cause problems for scrapbook blocks that referenced blocks of that type (thanks MeyerJL)
- Fix Base table or view not found: MultilingualSections error when installing in a language other than English
- Fixed bug where there could be only one basic workflow assignment (thanks hissy)
- Miscellaneous UI improvements (thanks mitchray)
- Lots of miscellaneous bug fixes to community points and badges
- Removed old unused timezone constants and replaced with proper configuration values (thanks mlocati)
- Fixed bug where Blocks on global areas don't prevent full page caching with the setting "On - If blocks on the particular page allow it (thanks TimDix)
- The global configuration value for JPEG compression wasn’t being accessed properly, was ignored. This is fixed (thanks mlocati)
- Email service had been ignoring the default configured name (thanks mlocati)
- Use \Exception and translate line in BannedWord (thanks mlocati)
- Fixed error when saving a type with underline option unchecked in theme customization (thanks ojahleto)
- Fix If you change an Attributes name, those changes do not take effect on the Composer Edit form. You need to delete the attribute and add it again (thanks EC-Joe)
- Fixing bug in topics where topics of multiple words would all be capitalized
- Configuration options are more reliably displayed when using caches like PHP opcache, APC, etc.. (thanks mlocati)
- External links are properly outputted in page list blocks now (thanks GlennSchmidt)
- Fixed Fixing ipv4 to ipv6 address bugs (thanks MeyerJL)
- Fixed error editing testimonial blocks when the image of the testimonial had been removed from the file manager (thanks edbeeny)
- Fixed error where certain checkbox attributes were being imported as defaulting to checked, when they shouldn’t have been.
- Fixed bug where running \Page::getByID on startup with a page you're currently editing breaks edit mode (thanks EC-Joe)
- Fixed https://www.concrete5.org/community/forums/5-7-discussion/image-slider-links/#752359
- Responsive images served by the picture tag now work in IE9 (thanks mitchray)
- Surveys in global areas are now properly displayed on the survey results dashboard page (thanks EvgeniySpinov)
- Fixed inability to select topics to create under a new topic tree.
- Fixed validation incorrectly claiming a file attribute didn’t exist when checking a page in from edit mode (thanks mitchray)
- Fixed bug with broken URL in testimonial block (thanks KarlDilkington)
- Fixed concretecms#2623
- Fixed pagination in form results (thanks mitchray)
- Fixed overrride permissions for user groups not working
- Fixed concretecms#2451 (thanks mlocati)
- Style customizer for theme should be easier to use on options that have colors but no fonts available
- Fixed If you create a Checkbox page attribute and select The checkbox will be checked by default. When adding the attribute to pages the box is not checked
- Fixed https://www.concrete5.org/developers/bugs/5-7-4-2/cannot-reset-theme-customization-for-this-page/
- Fixed If you does not have access to group search, you'll get a JSON error message (thanks hissy)
- Fixed filtering by log status levels on Dashboard page
- Fixed http://www.concrete5.org/developers/bugs/5-7-4-2/bug-with-tags-attribute-type1/
- Fixed bug where duplicated pages couldn’t have their block content edited in composer (thanks katzueno)
- Username validation error string fixes (thanks ounziw)
- Fix class not included in legacy page list (thanks hissy)
- Fixed bug: Add layout to area. Without refreshing page, edit container layout of new area, then cancel. Layout looks weird
- Big thanks to mlocati for delivering a completely new way to specify database XML, built off of the Doctrine DBAL library, including its types and functionality instead of ADODB’s AXMLS. Database XML now has support for foreign keys, comments and more. Doctrine XML is a composer package and can be used by third party projects as well. More information can be found at https://github.com/concrete5/doctrine-xml.
- $view->action() now works for blocks in add and edit templates. This makes block AJAX routing much easier (simply reference $view->action(‘my_method’) in your block add/edit template, and implement action_my_method) in your block controller.
- Code cleanup and API improvements and better code documentation (thanks mlocati)
- Configuration and old PHP constants removed and replaced (thanks mlocati)
- Completely new approach to command line utilities built off of the Symfony command line class; existing utilities ported (thanks mlocati!)
- Adds ability to add Social Icons via config. (thanks TimDix)
- Packages can also add command line utilities through their on_start() method (thanks hissy)
- Flag images for multilingual sites can now be specified in application/images/countries/ as well as theme/current_theme/images/countries (as opposed to coming solely from concrete/images/) (thanks akodde)
- Custom file type inspectors now work again.
- Block types are checked to see if they exist prior to import (thanks Remo)
- Attribute keys are checked to see if they exist prior to import (thanks Remo)
- Permission keys are checked to see if they exist prior to import (thanks Remo)
- Upgraded to Zend Framework 2.2.10 to fix certain internationalization issues (thanks mlocati)
- Fixed duplicate success message on cloned form blocks on the same page (thanks bluefractals)
- Fixed bugs installing concrete5 with strict mysql tables enabled (thanks mlocati)
- Updated Magnific Popup to 1.0 (thanks mitchray)
- If you’re running an OpCache like PHP’s Opcache, APC, XCache or something else, when you clear the cache this cache will also be cleared (thanks mlocati)
- Can compute hash key based on full asset contents if so desired, using the concrete.full_contents_asset_hash config value (thanks mlocati)
- Page cache adapters can now be loaded from places other than the core namespace (thanks hissy)
- updateUserAvatar now fires on_user_update event (thanks timdix)
- Attribute sets no longer need to have unique handles across different categories (thanks ijessup)
- Delete page event now can be cancelled by hooking into the event and settings $this->proceed to false (thanks mlocati)
- You can now customize the session save path through configuration (thanks mlocati).
- Updated picturefill.js library to 2.3.1.
- You can now specify your environment for configuration through an environment variable (CONCRETE5_ENV) as well as through host name (thanks ahukkanen)
- File manager JavaScript API improvements
- Saving only a custom template on a block will no longer wrap that block in a custom design DIV. Better saving and resetting of custom designs on blocks and areas.
- Topics improvements: topics can now be created below other topics; the only different between topic categories and topics is that categories cannot be assigned to objects, only topics can.
- We now include the page ID in the attributes dialog and panel.
- Feature block now contains an instance of the rich text editor (thanks MrKarlDilkington)
- Improvements to new update functionality when site can't connect to concrete5.org
- Improvements to new update functionality to make it more resilient with failures, but error messaging.
- Adding attributes to a page will ask for it be checked back/approved when clicking the green icon.
- Theme name and description can now be translated (thanks mlocati)
- Added an error notice when deleting a page type that’s in use in your site.
- Some servers would redirect infinitely when activating a theme or attempting to logout. This has been fixed.
- Fix bug with multiple redactor instances on the same page and in the same composer window causing problems.
- Better rendering of empty areas in Firefox (thanks JeramyNS)
- Fixed problems with “concrete.seo.trailing_slash” set to true leading to an inability to login, other problems.
- Attributes that had already been filled out were being shown as still required in page check-in panel.
- Fixed bug where full URLs were incorrectly parsed if asset caching was enabled (thanks mlocati)
- Fix download file script leading to 404 errors after you go to the dashboard and hit the back button
- Fixed https://www.concrete5.org/developers/bugs/5-7-4-1/dont-allow-to-create-file-sets-with-names-containing-forbidden-c/
- Fix https://www.concrete5.org/developers/bugs/5-7-4-1/cant-replace-a-file-with-one-in-the-incoming-directory/
- Fix XSS in conversation author object; fix author name not showing if a user didn't put in a website (thanks jaromirdalecky)
- Searching files, pages and users by topics now works in the dashboard
- Picture tag now properly inserted by Redactor when working with themes that use responsive images.
- Fixed z-index of message author and status in conversations dashboard page.
- API improvements to the RedactorEditor class.
- Add config setting to enable / disable help system (thanks akodde)
- Redirects with trailing URL slashes to non-trailing (or vice versa) now use the 301 code instead of 302.
- Code cleanup and bug fixes to form helper class (thanks mlocati)
- Miscellaneous code cleanup and notice error reduction (thanks mlocati)
- Fixed inability to save blocks, work with dialogs, do many things while asset caching was enabled (thanks mlocati.)
- Fixed certain panels and dialog windows not opening on Windows servers (thanks mlocati)
- Fixed bug when using "S" option to format date (incorrectly displaying as seconds) (thanks mlocati)
- Bug fixes with dashboard get image data URL (thanks mlocati)
- Fixed malformed URL in "Load More" in dashboard sitemap (thanks mlocati)
- Fix unquoted SQL input in permission assignment method (thanks mnkras)
- Completely new help system, with guided walkthroughs, multiple videos and more.
- Using the Conversation block with non-logged-in users now behaves more like a Guestbook block. It provides a place for a name and email address, and uses the captcha for validation.
- You can now receive notifications when new messages are posted to your conversations. This option is also overridable at the block conversation level. Registered users can also subscribe to conversation updates through an end-user UI.
- Conversation Add Message permission now has the ability to set new permissions by a particular access entity to approved or unapproved by default. (e.g. let guests post but make their posts unapproved by default, while letting registered users post with no restrictions.)
- Conversations Dashboard interface now has filter by deleted, approved, unapproved or flagged message options available.
- Better display of message status in Conversations Dashboard interface.
- You can now sort by message posting date ascending or descending in the Conversations Dashboard interface.
- Conversations Dashboard message list now gives you a contextual menu when clicking on a message. Actions include flagging, unflagging, deleting, undeleting, approving and viewing the original page of the message.
- Non-logged-in posts will use gravatars if that option is checked in the Dashboard.
- Update to Redactor 10, which features an upgraded API for developers and numerous bug fixes.
- New Plugin: Undo & Redo
- New Plugin: Special characters palette (thanks Mesuva!)
- Lightbox can now have its width and height specified for web page links.
- Better handling of URLs loading in lightbox (now loads them in an iframe)
- Can now open links in a new tab.
- Editors can be more easily called programmatically, through the editor service.
- Rich text editor plugins can be added through marketplace add-ons and custom packages.
- You can now edit a page in composer view on mobile devices.
- Hide mobile menu on checking out a page in edit mode.
- Notification alerts are now responsive.
- Redactor rich text editor is now usable on mobile devices.
- Notification window is mobile friendly.
- Search results in dashboard pages are friendlier on mobile.
- Mobile menu button is active properly in edit mode.
- Better dashboard update process that checks for compatible add-ons, gives more information about upgrades.
- Uploading files to the file manager now gives you a success dialog in which you can edit the uploaded files’ attributes, assign them to sets, or choose them for an image block, etc...
- Improved site interface translation dashboard page. Can see context, comments, search and translate plurals (thanks mlocati)
- You may now choose multiple files from the file manager if a block or editing interface supports it (thanks olsgreen!)
- You can now add blocks to an area by clicking on the area and selecting “Add Block”. This will open the side panel and you may click a block, stack or clipboard entry there to add to the selected area.
- You can now filter a page list by a specific topic.
- Lots of updates to Multilingual system for better translation extraction, better experience with plurals, bug fixes, other improvements (thanks mlocati)
- Ability to choose a custom canonical URL for the page, instead of always having that canonical URL locked to the URL slugs and absolute site structure.
- You can once again set a custom template for a block at the area level with $area->setCustomTemplate(‘block_handle’, ‘custom_template’); This should be less buggy than it was in 5.6.x as well.
- You can now set a custom template in a page type output page for a composer output control block. “ ‘More options’, including the ability to import files from remote URLs and the incoming directory is now available from the file manager in front-end page mode.
- Nicer file set administration, including the ability to sort all files in a file set by different criteria for reordering (thanks goutnet at EC-Joe)
- Much faster installation process for Elemental Full. Much lower memory footprint.
- More useful Dashboard Package Details screen (thanks goutnet)
- Archive custom template for the Page Title block now shows the value of the current topic on pages where content is filtered by topic.
- Share this Page block now supports Google Plus and Pinterest
- You can now specify the name of the form submission button (thanks EC-Joe)
- Breadcrumb custom template now available for Auto-Nav (thanks hissy)
- You can now specify what kind of HTML tag you want to use in the Page Title block (thanks dclmedia)
- Maintenance mode now is permission controlled. Those who have the “View site in maintenance mode” permission can edit and access the site even while maintenance mode is turned on (thanks ExchangeCore)
- You can now specify the “canonical host”, “canonical port” and https:// settings of your site in the URLs dashboard page. You can also control whether your site is forced to render at this exact combination (for SEO purposes.) This setting will also be used by the Domain Mapper and other add-ons.
- Clicking on a page attribute now scrolls the page attribute detail panel down to the bottom to make it clear one was added (Thanks mesuva)
- Page title now updates when using the topic list on a blog entry page or elsewhere (thanks hissy)
- Newsflow is now friendlier on mobile, has as nicer appearance, obeys other dialog shortcuts (escape to close)
- Related pages in different languages are now denoted thusly in the sitemap.xml (thanks mlocati) Instead of defaulting to the current time/date, form block date/datetime have the option of starting empty or defaulting to the current date (thanks MeyerJL)
- You can now search by page type again in the page search interface.
- Minor installation error messaging improvements (thanks Mnkras)
- Some style improvements to panels (thanks hissy)
- File manager now keeps the same file types when creating thumbnails (keeping pngs transparent, etc..) (thanks mitchray!)
- Style improvements to Auto-Nav and Page List block forms.
- We no longer attempt to retrieve packages from the marketplace if you’re not connected, improves performance (thanks goutnet)
- Bug fixes to antispam settings page and system in general (thanks EC-Chris)
- Form block now redirects you to the proper spot on the page for success message (thanks ahukkanen)
- Better detection of changed cached assets (thanks mlocati)
- concrete5 should run better in IE9.
- Files saved through the image editor should much smaller now.
- Better compression of localized assets, better localized asset support (thanks mlocati)
- Non-logged-in users accessing protected pages will be forwarded to those pages upon successful login (thanks deanwhillier)
- Speed improvements to the installation procedure.
- Image thumbnailing should use much less RAM, should work more reliably with larger images.
- Better sorting of block types in the Add Block panel (thanks JohnTheFish)
- When duplicating multilingual page trees, pages that already exist will be skipped (thanks ezannelli)
- Improved reliability and functionality of HTML emails (thanks mlocati)
- Additional page paths now redirect with a 301 header (thanks Mainio)
- Importing page type default attributes now works.
- Better translation of topic trees and topic tree nodes (thanks mlocati)
- Content import with block type sets will now use existing sets if they are available.
- Conversations block now includes its content in the search index (thanks mkly)
- Significantly improved performance of the on-demand file thumbnailing utility when a cached version is found (thanks ijessup)
- Custom block design style fixes – don’t output a style tag when just changing a custom template, better style tag support (thanks mlocati)
- You can now unmap a page in the multilingual page report.
- You can now set the minimum and maximum ranges of style customizer sliders by defining concrete.limits.style_customizer.size_max and concrete.limits.style_customizer.size_min (thanks EC-Joe)
- respond.js and html5-shiv.js are now optionally included by themes, rather than being hard-coded for IE8 and below.
- You can now embed the block controller for this share this page block in a page template more easily.
- You can now specify permissions and attributes for external links (thanks mitchray)
- Better scrolling in add block panel on Firefox (thanks EC-Joe)
- Fixed concretecms#875
- Fixed sorting of FAQ Entries in the FAQ block.
- Fixed bug that led to selected topics in topic tree not appearing selected on editing.
- Placing view files in the application/views/ will now work (thanks RuspinaDev)
- Fixed bug with social links block not displaying properly on sites that didn’t already load Font Awesome. (thanks jaromirdalecky)
- Facebook authentication should work again (thanks EC-Joe)
- Fixed bug where If the HTML block is saved without any changes (thus not triggering the on change event), the textarea remains empty and the content is lost (thanks mitchray)
- Fixed inability to have multiple form blocks or survey blocks or blocks with interactive form submissions on the same page and not have submission affect both of them.
- Image slider should work properly in composer.
- Fixed bug in content importer where page types with package attributes weren’t having their packages set properly.
- Choose language on login now functions correctly (thanks mlocati)
- Interactive blocks like form and survey and now be included in stacks and displayed on pages (thanks nicemaker)
- Bug fixes to composer editing experiences where blocks couldn’t be loaded in composer.
- Fix error when searching by approved or unapproved version. Miscellaneous display improvements to search interfaces in the Dashboard.
- The “addAttachment” method in the Mail Service now works again (thanks SnefIT)
- Miscellaneous fixes to content exporter to make it more resilient.
- Fixed bug where “Public Date/Time” core property wasn’t being properly displayed or saved in composer.
- Fixed bug in page attribute display block where complex attribute types couldn’t always be printed out.
- Fixed bug where jobs couldn’t be scheduled to run through browser visit.
- Fixed HTML block tooltip getting cut off (thanks mitchray)
- Remove old page versions job now works again.
- Cookie settings bug fixes (thanks tao-s)
- Fixed MP4 video files not showing up as the right file type in the file manager.
- Bug fixes with multilingual browser detection (thanks ezannelli)
- Fixed bug with packaged page type controllers not being properly used as page controllers.
- Fixed infinite redirect on multilingual websites that set the Home Page as their default language page (thanks mlocati)
- Better behavior with advanced permissions and users who can only view their own files in the file manager.
- Bug fixes to custom external forms.
- Fix bug deleting file version object and then attempting to add new versions might give attribute errors.
- Bug fixes to configuration values in session cookies, database backed sessions (thanks tao-s)
- Better permissions checking in the file manager (thanks hissy)
- Drafts now show up in the sitemap again; tweaks to fix sitemap showing unapproved pages.
- Fixed bug with topic list block not displaying topics for a page properly.
- Topics can now contain ampersands and other special characters.
- Localization bug fixes (thanks mlocati)
- Fixed http://www.concrete5.org/community/forums/customizing\_c5/strange-workflow-error/
- Feature block link option now works with the hover description custom template”
- Fixed programmatic filter by checkbox attribute not displaying all appropriitems if passing “false” to the option.
- Fixed bug where single page controllers in application/ directory weren’t working.
- Better inheritance of area permissions to blocks in areas when inheriting permissions from page types in advanced permissions mode (thanks hissy)
- Fixed for file sets for better sanitizing, miscellaneous usage fixes (thanks Mnkras)
- Fixed broken area styles when using more than one custom class on an area (thanks jordif)
- Bug fixes to color picker widget when used in a block dialog (thanks olliephillips)
- Fixed fatal error that would display in area permissions dialog when attempting to use advanced permissions to inherit permissions from an area set in page defaults (Thanks hissy)
- Fixed potential cross site scripting error in composer detail form.
- Fixed “"Navigate this page in other languages" - Invalid argument supplied for foreach()” that could happen with unmapped multilingual websites.
- Fixed issue where dashboard panel would not stay closed if closing manually.
- Localization fixes to Page Type Composer Control Name (thanks hissy)
- Bug fixes and better sanitizing when saving Banned Words in the Dashboard (thanks Mnkras)
- Better page permissions set on drafts page for users of advanced permissions mode (thanks hissy)
- Bug fixed where Add Survey, Approve Page, Edit Survey, save – survey listed twice in the Dashboard. (thanks ECJoe)
- Fixed http://www.concrete5.org/developers/bugs/5-7-3-1/multiple-versions-of-a-page-cannot-be-deleted-at-once/
- Fixed Unable to edit a user when concrete.seo.trailing_slash is enabled (thanks ECJoe)
- Workflow progress categories are now uninstalled when uninstalling packages (thanks mkly)
- Fixed bug when removing group or user from “Add SubPage” permissions in advanced permissions mode.
- fixed bug with Reply to this email address (thanks MeyerJL)
- Better display on editing grid layouts when working with layouts that have multiple column classes (thanks ezannelli)
- Fixed malformed Page Cache Expires header when using full page caching.
- Conversations: fixed javascript errors when not using redactor editor.
- Conversations: fixed attachment disabling not removing the attach file button when editing a message.
- Minor page type composer validation bug fixes
- Packaged permission key fixes (thanks mkly)
- Packaged workflow fixes (thanks mkly)
- Fixed appearance of pagination on form results dashboard page.
- Fixed pretty URLs not being invoked for certain block actions, in other situations. Normalized pretty URLs and made them work better.
- We now properly used custom scrapbook view layers for blocks added from the clipboard on the stacks dashboard page.
- Fixed bug where applying timed permissions to a copied page change the permissions object of the original page.
- Fixed XSS sanitization issues in private messages (thanks Mnkras)
- Fixed minor XSS issues (thanks Netsparker)
- Data URL images in CSS files are correctly preserved in asset caching (thanks mlocati)
- Fixed http://www.concrete5.org/developers/bugs/5-7-3-1/moving-blocks-in-a-stack/
- Fixed Replacing file throwing erroneous "file is too large" error message
- Fixed Bulk Editing file properties does not add new File Versions
- Lots of bug fixes to page aliases, including bug where original page would be deleted if an alias was in the trash and the trash was emptied.
- Automated groups on login or register will automatically be entered if a custom automation controller doesn’t exist (thanks Mnkras)
- Fixed http://www.concrete5.org/developers/bugs/5-7-3-1/user-search-shows-same-user-multiple-times/#732257
- Fix display order issue of aliased pages (thanks hissy)
- Fixed Can't create link to file or page from within composer form
- Fixed Page List Filtering By Page Type and Show Aliases
- Fixed bug in exists() method in Cache library (thanks SnefIT)
- Fixed HTML validation error when using built-in Securimage Captcha
- Fixed preview icon in Feature block (thanks zneek)
- Fixed bug: After fresh C5 install with no demo content - inserting first image, when uploading to filemanager not visible
- Fixed invalid error messages when accessing search interfaces in the dashboard when users didn’t have permission to access them.
- Copied form blocks now work on their target page.
- Copied from blocks can now be edited on their target page.
- Fixed bug where new versions of files incorrectly had the same date added date as old versions.
- Fixed http://www.concrete5.org/developers/bugs/5-7-3-1/content-block-clipboard-custom-classes/
- Fixed https://www.concrete5.org/developers/bugs/5-7-3-1/page-type-permissions-broken-copy-functionality/#698852
- Multiple Google Maps block can now work on the same page (thanks JohnTheFish)
- Fixed typo in user registration notification email (thanks ounziw)
- Fixed http://www.concrete5.org/developers/bugs/5-7-3-1/authentication-type-renders-only-once/ (thanks companyou)
- Fixed https://www.concrete5.org/developers/bugs/5-7-3-1/dashboard-system-section/
- Fixed error when proxy servers send “unknown” instead of an IP address (thanks spainer)
- Fixed bug where an attribute key with the same handle can exist in two categories (thanks Remo)
- Set view theme using setViewTheme() in a package’s on_before_render method now correctly sets the theme (Thanks goutnet)
- Fixed potential directory traversal inclusion bug with tools URLs (thanks Egidio Romano of Minded Security)
- Fixed CSRF vulnerability in Dashboard Registrations page; better sanitization of email addresses as well (thanks Egidio Romano of Minded Security)
- Fixed miscellaneous XSS bugs (thanks Mnkras)
- Refactored Jobs to work in the new routing system rather than the legacy tools system (thanks Mnkras)
- Updated jQuery to 1.11.2 and jQuery UI to 1.11.4
- Lots of code cleanup (thanks Mnkras)
- jQuery Visualize JavaScript library updated and included in the new Asset System properly (thanks goutnet)
- Custom page type validator class, including a manager with the ability to register custom validators for page types.
- Better driver-based pagination customization API
- New page SEO helper provides a single reliable place to set a pages title, add segments, and more (thanks hissy)
- If developers provide themes with full sample content, they can now provide file manager thumbnails as well, which will improve installation speed and memory footprint.
- Cleaned up outdated and unused files (thanks ezannelli)
- Page templates can now be included in a package in a page_templates/ directory, as well as in the application/ folder (thanks Mesuva)
- ItemList sort API improvements (thanks EC-Joe)
- Lots of better code comments (thanks EC-Joe, EC-Chris)