Patch Tester 3.0.0 Beta

This is a beta build of the upcoming Patch Tester 3.0.0 release. This package is only recommended for testing purposes, otherwise it is recommended to use the latest stable release.

Changes since the previous alpha build include:

• Support for renamed files
• Adds an "experimental" warning when using the component on the Joomla! 4.0 branch

All changes since the previous release can be viewed here

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Patch Tester 3.0.0 Alpha 2

This is an alpha build of the upcoming Patch Tester 3.0.0 release. This package is only recommended for testing purposes, otherwise it is recommended to use the latest stable release.

Changes since the previous alpha build include:

• Support for the weblinks package and other repositories which place their code in a src/ directory
• Fix a bug where a file to be patched would be downloaded from the wrong repository

All changes since the previous release can be viewed here

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Patch Tester 3.0.0 Alpha

This is an alpha build of the upcoming Patch Tester 3.0.0 release.

Changes since 2.0.1 include:

• Minimum supported Joomla! version is now 3.6
• Predefined repo configurations for the CMS, Patch Tester, and Install from Web repositories
• Improved configuration UI for setting the repo and GitHub user credentials
• Removed the use of JTable subclasses and implemented pertinent database queries in the model classes
• Beta support for patching binary files
• Implemented a custom API connector for the GitHub API to better access/manipulate data
• Refactored the parsing routine to determine the files that should be patched and how they are downloaded (this enables full support for working from private GitHub repositories)

All changes since the previous release can be viewed here

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Patch Tester 2.0.1

This release only contains updated translations, no other changes have been made since 2.0.0.

To update to this release, you can use the Joomla Extension Manager to update the component.

All changes since the previous release can be viewed here

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Patch Tester 2.0.0

Fixes/improvements since last release:

• [#123] - Supports Joomla update system
• [Commit 45a255e] - Syntax error in SQL Server SQL file
• Added support for managing translations via Crowdin
• Included all translations from Crowdin - 25 languages!

All changes since the previous release can be viewed here

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Patch Tester 2.0.0 Release Candidate

Fixes/improvements since last release:

• [#124] - Provides a way to reset the component state
• [#133] - Adds additional files and folders to the list of things to exclude on production Joomla builds
• [#88] - Adds a "Ready to Commit" column and fills it based on whether a pull request has a "RTC" label
• [Commit e5d1e6f] - Display a warning when a patch includes binary files

All changes since the previous release can be viewed here

Patch Tester 2.0.0.beta5

Fixes/improvements since last release:

• [#127] - Requires Joomla! 3.5
• [#113] - Adds pt-PT language
• [#117] - Fixed searching by issue ID
• [#121] - Give notice if the patch being applied is from a different SHA than the cached GitHub data shows
• [#129] - Fix error applying patches with PDO MySQL database driver
• [#130] - Correctly link to https://issues.joomla.org for projects supported here
• [Commit cf71cdc] - Improve error detection during install/update
• [Commit 158ffc4] - Updated GitHub Octicons to 3.5.0
• Miscellaneous code structure improvements

All changes since the previous release can be viewed here

Patch Tester 2.0.0.beta4

Fixes/improvements since last release:

• [#80] - Error layout did not render
• [#97, #107] - Fix errors regarding search filter
• [#98] - Ensure long titles are truncated to fit database
• [#103] - Add the commit SHA to match issue tracker test module
• [Commit 19c6c29] - Test for Joomla Coding Standard compliance
• [Commit 3ba3551] - Move JavaScript to standalone file
• Updated and improved translations

Patch Tester 2.0.0.beta3

Fixes/improvements since last release:

• [#67] - Class 'PatchTester\Model\JText' not found
• [#69] - COM_PATCHTESTER_NO_FILES_TO_PATCH
• [Commit 055398c] - Check for and skip binary files due to non-support
• Miscellaneous SQL schema changes
• Updates to Hathor layout overrides
• Remove MooTools dependencies
• Ensure all external connections catch errors

Patch Tester 2.0.0.beta2

Fixes/improvements since last release:

• Requires Joomla! 3.3 minimum (note that the minimum is not tested, this is optimized to work with the current staging branch)
• Adds fr-FR and nl-NL translations
• Refactored data storage to store pull requests to database (requiring less active connections to GitHub)
• Ability to sort/filter on applied patches
• Removed JoomlaCode references and added references to new issue tracker