Elgg 3.0.0-rc.1

Contributors

• Ismayil Khayredinov (102)
• Jeroen Dalsem (84)
• Jerôme Bakker (74)
• Hao.Chen (1)
• Ismayil Khayredinov (1)

Features

• accounts: adds new account registration service (022e26fa)
• actions:
  • controllers/middleware can now share parameter validation state (deb8e3e6)
  • adds API to easily ajaxify form submission (8ca2698c)
  • register, user hook now includes all request data (f0161ae4)
  • deprecate action hook in favor of action:validate hook (428d6669)
• ajax: adds elgg/Ajax#forward method (7fd6e577)
• app: consistent handling of requests and responses (af785ffc)
• assets: composer asset plugin no longer required (884379e3)
• blog: added archive sidebar to friends listing (866e5ab4)
• caches: add Redis statistics to the admin UI (3e6f804a)
• cli:
  • add commands to list, activate and deactivate plugins (09a4b89a)
  • adds database:optimize command (9ff5ffa8)
  • add flush and upgrade commands (22bd0672, closes #11849, #11683, #11540, #11553)
• comments: the comments form is collapsed if there are comments (c168a45d)
• core:
  • added a private settings preloader (eefdcd0d)
  • persistent login table records get removed after expiration (9d13932e)
  • added easy way to add default notfound text to listings (64aabbb8)
• cron: log cron output to file (114890f1)
• css:
  • centralized z-index css rules (6575fd2b)
  • set body background color via CSS variables (6f4823f5)
• data: normalize data exports and serialization (4e70b843, closes #8708)
• db: query builder now supports EXISTS comparison clause (eebaaeb2)
• developers:
  • screen logging is now written to file (12644880, closes #10787)
  • add Services inspector (f2544321)
  • allow extending theme sandbox form preview (b3fd5bc1)
• entities: get_entity_dates support all ege options (57ab421b)
• forms:
  • option to not show 'Only friends' in userpicker (e06372ea)
  • default all POST forms to multipart/form-data encoding (6f95cc1d)
• friends: added add/remove friend action to title menu (b0069a6f)
• groups:
  • edit/delete links now show in group entity menu (f860a2a5)
  • improve usability of group tools (aa3f36f7)
  • replaced group owner transfer with userpicker (e8814f89)
• hooks: added elgg_trigger_deprecated_plugin_hook (8ee35234)
• icons:
  • allow use_cookie param to be passed through getIconURL (abc2f342)
  • upgrade FontAwesome library to 5.x series (d679f4ea)
  • replace ajax gif loader with css animations (c3d12615)
• imprint: allow passing additional imprint elements to summary view (6d8906ad)
• input: added input/objectpicker and input/grouppicker (3f32c53b)
• logger:
  • decouple exception handling from Application (b2a420fa)
  • Logger now uses Monolog (52c4785c, closes #6244, #11899)
• menus: wrap menu items as collections (5e96d864)
• messages: add helper functions to get sender/recipient (14fe0bdc)
• navbar: properly handle second and third level child menus (4a7d2088)
• navigation:
  • entity_navigation menu items now are aware of entity (b609be0f)
  • added icons to site menu items (1ddb25f5)
• output: adds HTML formatting service (5d1d94a4)
• plugins: plugins can now define a bootstrap class (20180468)
• request: add public API to retrieve all request parameters (6494dd92)
• router: allow HttpException to have context (3aeecd08)
• seeder: seeders can now use progress bar helper (3845cd55)
• session: delay session boot until all plugins are loaded (dd81b847)
• simplecache: allow specifying custom simplecache path (f0c47749)
• upgrade: upgrade service now uses promises (aa85cf99, closes #11888, #11825)
• user: remove persistent cookie data when removing user (be055496)
• util: adds API for managing collections of items (efbdf71b)
• views:
  • simplefied redering object summary in full view (6d15b06a)
  • added ability to control layout attributes via view vars (54278764)
• widgets: control widget availability by setting a required plugin (3335b30b)

Performance

• core: load plugin data cache before requesting plugin data (03383bca)
• entities: entity preloader now correctly fetches entities (c379dcd1)
• metadata: also store entities without metadata in metadata cache (b291c149)
• migrations: improved performance of migrations (4f00e31e)
• privatesettings: getting a single settings uses cached data ([21be3e8](https://github.com/El...

Elgg v2.3.8

Contributors

• Jerôme Bakker (4)

Documentation

• install: updated installation requirements (48de11e1)
• web_services: removed outdated webservices documentation (6372fa8b)

Bug Fixes

• core: revert original libxml_use_internal_errors value after use (#12008) (69c422c9)

Elgg 2.3.7

Contributors

• Jerôme Bakker (6)
• Ismayil Khayredinov (1)

Bug Fixes

• developers: set correct link to simpletest suite (b2b9c0b4)
• friends: check friendship relationship before change (ccd6fbbb)
• pages: order of parent page selector reflects tree (1e22a581)
• views: prevent unwanted information on user listing elements (2c74c2ac)

Elgg 2.3.6

Contributors

• Jerôme Bakker (5)
• Jeroen Dalsem (1)

Bug Fixes

• config: control bootdata plugin cache (60b15b76)
• db: correctly default subtypes to prevent PHP warning (c10a6a4f)
• memcache: use correct Memcache class (8b073aad)
• rss: correctly list comments (892672cf)
• views: listing of entities and river no longer count if not needed (ee6a043e)
• walled_garden: register plugin hook during init (f9880cbf)

Elgg 3.0.0-beta.3

Contributors

• Jeroen Dalsem (38)
• Ismayil Khayredinov (29)
• Jerôme Bakker (14)

Features

• actions:
  • it is possible to return a response in the action hook (562eb031)
  • individual actions are now routes, support controllers (32a07bc0)
• ajax: add support for FormData and multipart form data requests (46590359)
• cache: added api to remove single item from systemcache (7da2f561)
• di:
  • add config to public services (6d1bd17b)
  • add system messages to public services (65b8140f)
  • add hooks and events to public services (a9fbebca)
  • add translator to public services (b46e11f1)
  • make gatekeeper a public service (8d19fc42)
  • make session a public service (5ca2ff8b)
• forms: added not-allowed cursor to disable input elements (cc09c77d)
• input: longtext editor opts now store required status (fae01474)
• plugins: added a settings field that triggers cache flush (d18c0310)
• profile: the user profile page now uses a regular title menu (57efaa5f)
• route: add support for handling routes using files (c4fafb3b)
• router: add support for controllers (11f84355)
• routes:
  • elgg_generate_url returns false for unknown routes (6421c422)
  • add support for route middleware (0f199324)
• system_log: refactor system log API into a service (c5846aa8)
• widgets: ElggWidget now has getDisplayName instead of getTitle (12455356)

Bug Fixes

• actions:
  • fixes error message on missing action file (554c2e2e)
  • defining controller in static config works again (2622fd1e)
• admin: correctly set action path for settings forms (5a021d7d)
• core:
  • canComment now returns false for ElggSite entities (6f2a2edb)
  • directly call EventsService in shutdown function (48d74a65)
  • make sure minusername and passwordlength are always in config (ec3b4e94)
• css:
  • make sure jquery positioning has correct information (290aeee3)
  • correct behaviour of elgg-level in all browsers (258e9d36)
  • walled garden background correctly positioned in IE (a527ebdd)
  • set correct margin on admin content layout (5accfeaf)
  • only apply module header font color to first level elements (c180b203)
  • correct alignment of pageheader and module header elements (5fe78207)
• email:
  • add sender to Zend mail message envelope (58c1fdea)
  • always default to site email (23ffef3d)
• embed: make embed route pattern greedy (4346ea9b)
• forms:
  • switched styled checkbox without label now is clickable (2d2c79c5)
  • select alues are now correctly selected with array elements (d2dcb978)
  • userpicker works again when friends constraint is set (a4d80c58, closes #11697)
• groups:
  • show group dropdown at correct position (a781f1dc)
  • only show toggle indicator if there is a submenu (6aa05764)
• js:
  • ajaxed login form now correctly returns to REFERER (605089af)
  • close system messages when opening a lightbox (67ed9a1e)
• navigation: metadata and river menu sections are positioned inline (30b90d00)
• notifications: set correct subtype for user notifications (6e30ceac)
• profile: custom profile fields can be saved again (2d773027)
• river: core should register the river/delete action (0a4956a4)
• system_log: correctly extend login_history view to settings (1543c201)
• views: numentities statistics view correctly gets user entity (3de7dca2)

Elgg 3.0.0-beta.2

Contributors

• Jerôme Bakker (5)
• Ismayil Khayredinov (2)

Features

• db: use public service container for database operations (4015b8ce)
• di: plugins now have access to DI container (8cdff630)

Documentation

• release: updated release docs (d035c9d6)

Bug Fixes

• activity: use correct route name for owner_block menu item (989eb5b2)
• cli: correcly load Elgg in cli (aecd6df7)
• views: correctly register core views (82423b30)

Elgg v3.0.0-beta.1

Contributors

• Jeroen Dalsem (268)
• Ismayil Khayredinov (180)
• Jerôme Bakker (133)
• Steve Clay (123)
• jdalsem (56)
• Juho Jaakkola (7)
• Ismayil Khayredinov (3)
• iionly (2)
• Juho Jaakkola (1)
• Phanoix (1)
• Wouter van Os (1)
• Yaco (1)
• piet0024 (1)
• raghukul01 (1)
• sebz (1)

Features

• access:
  • the friends access is now an access collection (eccc9713, closes #3391, #5038)
  • readable access level can now be filtered (240d19df, closes #8491, #6402)
• account: allow admins to change usernames of users (2bcecfd0)
• acl: added subtype to access collections (450aaa4c)
• actions:
  • added $CONFIG->action_time_limit to set a custom execution timeout for all actions #7204 (3682a3c6)
  • user login action now is ajaxed (82d40345)
  • added the ability to configure actions in elgg-plugin.php (299df3cd)
• activity:
  • moved group related pages into the activity plugin (f8f2ebd3)
  • options for river filter can now be provided as view_var (04888ae4, closes #9918)
• admin:
  • add an option to delete all notices (d5f342d1)
  • admin area improvements (b5167124, closes #10325, #11028)
  • content stats are separated in searchable and other content (263bd28d, closes #7862)
• blog:
  • use best practices in rendering resources (55f8d95b)
  • archive sidebar is now using a menu to show archive links (06e7c499)
• bookmarks: update bookmarks plugin to comply with best practices (49e4c7ff)
• cache:
  • boot cache is now enabled by default (575c6fc5)
  • consolidate caching API (1aa04eca)
  • added json file types as cacheable (2f380b2e, closes #9041)
• ckeditor:
  • updated to full ckeditor v4.7.3 using composer (dbedc19b)
  • changed style of editor to be more minimalistic (5c19b59e)
• cli:
  • allow to set dbhost with CLI installer (b452f750)
  • adds elgg-cli seed and unseed commands (ded471f1)
  • adds elgg-cli command line tool (65007269, closes #6612)
• collections: rewrite friends collections, friendspicker (ec40d1a5, closes #9092, #9026)
• comments:
  • comments are configurable per entity (c407af05)
  • submitting comments is now ajaxed (c875b2ce)
  • offloaded comment creation notification (78a60a62)
• components: a menu can now be added to module header (cd7ea08a)
• core:
  • only show language selection if more than 1 option (4eb7ab36)
  • elgg_get_config supports a default value if config not set (6693b8ad)
  • added config to disable RSS feeds and Elgg branding (e6ae6056)
  • normalized system messages using elgg_view_message (1c64d898)
  • added API for temporary ElggFile (89071ffe)
  • orientation of uploaded images will be fixed if possible (a80306f4)
  • added the ability to use Imagick as the image processor (a6629ec3)
  • add phpinfo page (e8e45afa)
  • autoregister simplecache views for elgg_load_js/css (57c29b6e)
  • reworked the walledgarden layout (d73e59fa)
• cron: adds cron service (8941965d)
• css:
  • switch to using variables in css files (d189a199)
  • CSS is pre-processed by css-crush, all /cache output is filterable (e5ac8842, closes #10625)
• dashboard: only show blurb if there are no widgets (8a45cee7)
• database: plugins can now register their own database seeds (e167092d, closes #11129)
• db:
  • rewrite metadata and annotation getters with QueryBuilder (74174e7f)
  • rewrite elgg_get_entities* using QueryBuilder (1b80a963, closes #5071, #6798)
  • database migrations are now managed by phinx (55236d98, closes #7947, #5442)
  • new installations use utf8mb4 and longtext columns (5e75e7cf, closes #10863)
• developers:
  • add route inspector (38372e26)
  • theme sandbox now users core layout elements (b2af689a)
  • added settings to block or forward email notifications (#11265) (5063d9db)
• discussion: replies have been moved to comments (9549d7e8)
• discussions: update reply form to latest forms API (98a6aaec)
• email:
  • email address helper class for formatting (972a8906)
  • support e-mail attachments (f6f9a025)
  • more granular API for handling system emails (43709e79)
  • adds a plugin hook to alter the contents of an email (c5642515)
  • recipient and sender email address formatted (9c48ccc0)
• entities: denormalize entity subtypes (ed318565)
• events: Adds new handler API available for events and hooks ([5f33478](5f33478...

Elgg 2.3.5

Contributors

• Jerôme Bakker (7)

Bug Fixes

• tests:
  • correct validation of action path (232a87b8)
  • correct registration of view path (950da0dc)
  • incorrect filename for test registration (9af357be)
  • moved incorrect registered test to correct location (ba7c894d)

Elgg 2.3.4

Contributors

• Jerôme Bakker (17)
• Ismayil Khayredinov (5)
• Steve Clay (2)
• jdalsem (2)

Documentation

• composer: explain how dependencies are managed in Elgg (f6b30d45)
• icon: use correct functions for saving entity icon (2e1b6a47)
• install: bootstrapping Elgg in Laravel Homestead (84399394)

Bug Fixes

• composer: no longer use deprecated class (d5e8acbf)
• core: correctly manipulate ini setting to return readable bytes (bc61a3b9)
• developers: incorrect header title link in theme sandbox (583badbe)
• email: improved formatting of email headers (cc590e6a)
• entities: batch count now works when $options already count set to false (62ecabed, closes #10992)
• groups:
  • group delete button no longer misaligned (4bdf92d9)
  • check for existence of custom icon before generating url (e6270945)
• plugins:
  • only include plugin files once (49d4ce50)
  • issue error about saving array values at correct location (ef753ebf)
• profile: now able to remove the first custom profile field (3d7258ec)
• river: comments no longer show full text in river (e0669219)
• simplecache: expires and symlinking cache works on nginx (fe220126, closes #9054)

Elgg 1.12.17

Contributors

• Jerôme Bakker (3)
• Brett Profitt (1)
• Steve Clay (1)

Bug Fixes

• likes: listing limit no longer breaks likes counts (abbe2715, closes #11160)