Changelog v1.6.1

This keeps track of important changes to the 1.x branch. Important changes that need extra attention when uprading to v1.6.1. Besides these changes there were lots of bug fixes and core and speed improvements.

When you decide to upgrade to a new version, pay attention to the changes documented in this changelog, and the upgrade procedures documented.

Important fixes, changes, notes. Read them carefully.

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Backward compability notes

This is a hotfix release, that contains bugfixes only.

Removed code (because it was deprecated in v1.5 or earlier)

This is a hotfix release, that contains bugfixes only.

Code deprecated in v1.6 (to be removed in the next release)

This is a hotfix release, that contains bugfixes only.

Security related

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System changes

• Fixed broken CSS code in the welcome controller views.
• Improvement to the query analysis information displayed in the profiler (MySQL only).
• The included Markdown library has been upgraded to v1.2.6.
• Lots of path processing improvement to have the framework work better on Windows.
• Finder now ignores the cache if there are permission issues on the cache file.

Specific classes

• Agent: Don't try to fetch browser information if no user agent is present in the server data.
• Arr: New previous_by_key() method to fetch the previous key or value from an array using the current key.
• Arr: New previous_by_value() method to fetch the previous key or value from an array using the current value.
• Arr: New next_by_key() method to fetch the next key or value from an array using the current key.
• Arr: New next_by_value() method to fetch the next key or value from an array using the current value.
• Controller_Rest: Fixed using a controller method to determine the authentication status.
• Controller_Rest: Fixed warning when the format passed in the URL is not a valid format.
• Crypt: Now uses the file permissions defined in the file.php configuration file when generating the crypt configuration file.
• Input: New headers method allows you to fetch HTTP headers.
• Inflector: Method friendly_title() now correctly deals with apostrophes by replacing them with a separator.
• Request_Curl: Added support for the 'HEAD' method to the cURL driver.
• Response: New redirect_back() method to redirect back to the previous page in your application.
• Session_Redis : Fixed recovering from expired sessions when using the Redis driver.

Packages

• Auth: Fixed typo in the Simpleauth migation file, causing a missing 'group' column
• Auth: Ormauth's create_user() method now supports updating profile fields (which are mapped to EAV attributes) for compatibility with Simpleauth.
• Auth: Now includes an OpAuth interface to integrate OAuth authentication with Simpleauth or Ormauth.
• Auth: When running migrations for Ormauth, groups and roles created now mimic the functionality of Simpleauth.
• Oil: Command processor updated to work from Windows' powershell.
• Oil: The refine() method of the Command processor now accepts arguments so you can call it from code with the same arguments as from the commandline.
• Orm: You can now create new EAV attributes by simply assigning a value to a new property (note: this disables Custom data for models with EAV support!).
• Orm: You can now use unset() to delete an EAV attribute.
• Orm: Several bugfixes in Model_Soft and Model_Temporal.
• Parser: You can now call Markdown::parse() from within a Twig template.