CHANGELOG.md

Contao Open Source CMS Changelog

Version 3.1.5 (2013-11-08)

Fixed

Correctly handle shorthand byte values (see #6345).

Fixed

Also update the sitemap if a news/event feed is updated (see #5727).

Fixed

Correctly sort by date in the listing module (see #5609).

Fixed

Correctly handle the autologin key if a member is duplicated (see #5945).

Fixed

Correctly export pages as PDF (see #6317).

Version 3.1.4 (2013-10-14)

Fixed

Do not show the debug bar in the modal dialog (see #6302).

Fixed

Ignore the "maxlength" setting in certain form fields (see #6283).

Fixed

Correctly show the "toggle page status" icon (see #6282).

Removed

Removed the TinyMCE spell checker (see #6247).

Updated

Updated TCPDF to version 3.0.38 (see #6268).

Fixed

Correctly render the pages breadcrumb menu for non-admin users (see #6067).

Fixed

Correctly handle the accordion fields during the version 3.1 update (see #6229).

Fixed

Correctly handle special characters in page aliases (see #6232).

Version 3.1.3 (2013-09-24)

Fixed

Consider the additional arguments in Frontend::jumpToOrReload() (see #5734).

Fixed

Prevent article aliases from using reserved names (see #6066).

Fixed

Correctly update the RSS feeds if a news item or event changes (see #6102).

Fixed

Correctly link to news and calendar feeds via insert tag (see #6164).

Fixed

Make the CSS ID available in the custom navigation module (see #6129).

Fixed

Do not cache the "toggle_view" insert tag (see #6172).

Fixed

Unset the primary key if a model is deleted (see #6162).

Fixed

Support tel: and sms: upon IDNA conversion (see #6148).

Fixed

Apply the width and height to the audio player as well (see #6114).

Fixed

Do not exit after a template has been output (see #5570).

Changed

Drop the database query cache (see #6070). This renders executeUncached() and executeCached() deprecated. Use execute() instead.

Fixed

Handle all possible errors when uploading files (see #5934).

Version 3.1.2 (2013-08-27)

Fixed

Add the global date format in PageModel::loadDetails() (see #6104).

Fixed

Do not override the referer upon Ajax requests (see #5956).

Fixed

Fixed the content slider in IE < 9 (see #5878).

Fixed

Do not set a database driver by default (see #6088).

Fixed

Decode punycode domains in the listing module (see #5946).

Fixed

Show all themes a template is defined in (see #6071).

Fixed

Do not add the domain name twice in redirectToFrontendPage() (see #6076).

Fixed

Use the currentLogin field to sort users by their last login (see #5949).

Fixed

Fix the offset handling in the CSS grid (see #5943).

Fixed

Do not use the date, time and datetime input types (see #5918).

Fixed

Show tooltips for selected single images in the file picker (see #6031).

Fixed

Correctly synchronize if a sub folder is selected (see #5979).

Fixed

Correctly handle password which are longer than 64 characters (see #6015).

Fixed

Added missing Vietnamese characters to the UFT8 mapper (see #6010).

Fixed

Decode entities in the page and file pickers (see #5989).

Fixed

Ensure that the default user and group are integer values (see #6017).

New

Added the Czech typolinks translations (thanks to ShiraNai7) (see #6051).

Fixed

Added an option to purge the search cache (see #6041).

Fixed

Preserve the repository tables when importing a theme (see #6037).

Fixed

Pass the module to getAttributesFromDca() in the registration and personal data module classes (see #6002).

Fixed

Validate the e-mail address when creating an admin user (see #6003).

Fixed

Fix the newslist pagination count (see #5997).

Fixed

Make the GD image max width and height parameters mandatory (see #5940).

Fixed

Replace all insert tags when exporting a page as PDF (see #5990).

Fixed

Correctly validate the options in Widget::isValidOption() (see #5951).

Fixed

Decode IDNA domains in any system mail (see #5932).

Fixed

Store integers bigger than PHP_INT_MAX as string (see #5939).

Fixed

Fix the alignment of the versions menu in IE (see #5962).

Fixed

Do not cache the result of Model::count*() (see #5973).

Fixed

Added some missing office file extensions to the configuration (see #6021).

Fixed

Fixed the "indexPage" hook (see #5967).

Fixed

Do not copy the autologin hash when duplicating members (see #5945).

Fixed

Added .svgz support to the default .htaccess file (see #5938).

Version 3.1.1 (2013-06-25)

Fixed

Append the query string when forwarding (see #5867).

Fixed

Decouple the file/page picker breadcrumb from the file/page manager (see #5899).

Fixed

Also show the mandatory star in password confirmation fields (see #5926).

Fixed

Only return one IP address in Environment::get('ip') (see #5830).

Fixed

Explicitly check for .php files when scanning DCA files (see #5898).

Fixed

Replaced all dummy .htaccess files with .gitignore files.

Fixed

Quote wildcard characters in MySQL LIKE queries (see #5896).

Fixed

Correctly align the version drop-down menu in Safari (see #5854).

Fixed

Make sure window.$ is mapped to MooTools (see #5892).

Fixed

Do not add sort buttons to table row headers (see #5845).

Fixed

Show the newsletter channels upon registration (see #5874).

Updated

Updated ACE to version 1.1.01 (fixes #5852).

Fixed

Correctly handle hidden pages in the custom navigation module (see #5832).

Fixed

Support FAQs with images on the FAQ page (see #5810).

Fixed

Support using commas in folder names in the file selector (see #5823).

Fixed

Ignore the auto_item parameter when forwarding internally (see #5886).

Fixed

Added support for old IE versions to swipe.js (see #5862).

Fixed

Correctly bypass the cache if bypassCache is set (see #5872).

Fixed

Preserve the CSS3PIE behavior file path when combining style sheets (see #5848).

Fixed

Support all known template types in the autoload creator (see #5857).

Fixed

Correctly adjust the accordion elements to the new DB structure (see #5820).

Fixed

Added E_USER_DEPRECATED to the list of error constants (see #5839).

Version 3.1.0 (2013-05-21)

Fixed

Set the image dimensions if an image is added in TinyMCE (see #5790).

Fixed

Pass the host and language to subpages when generating the menu (see #3765).

Fixed

Improve the timeout calculation of the command scheduler to better support minutely jobs (see #5775).

Fixed

Do not used cached scan() results in the Files class (see #5795).

Fixed

Do not throw an exception during RSS feed generation if a news archive or calendar is linked to an invalid target page (see #5781).

Fixed

Fix the tabindexes if there are multiple wizards on the same apge (see #5779).

Fixed

Also support textareas when autofocusing input fields (see #5774).

Fixed

Add a page to the XML sitemap even if it is not indexed internally (see #5714).

Fixed

Correctly auto-create the page aliases (see #5765).

Fixed

Limit the width of the table names in the version overview (see #5769).

Fixed

Urldecode file names in the file manager in "edit multiple" mode (see #5764).

Fixed

Do not propagate the click events of the edit icons (see #5731).

Fixed

Fix the return value of ModuleLoader::getDisabled() (see #5726).

Fixed

Re-add the website title to the login screen (see #5749).

Fixed

Store the language when creating an administrator account (see #5718).

Fixed

Do not show the URL encoded file name on the confirmation screen (see #5543).

Fixed

Correctly add image enclosures to calendar feeds (see #5685).

Fixed

Pass the news count to ModuleNews::parseArticle() (see #5708).

Fixed

Detect the Silk user agent of the Kindle Fire (see #5679).

Fixed

Correctly auto-generate folder URL aliases (see #5697).

Fixed

Register the CSV import in the news and calendar modules (see #5701).

Fixed

Do not run the database updates in a fresh installation (see #5694).

Fixed

Correctly update the edit links in the module wizard (see #5687).

Fixed

Make sure the jQuery related database fields exist when the version 3.1 update is executed (see #5689).

Fixed

Convert the page language to a locale when looking for meta data (see #5678).

Fixed

Replace existing file parameters in the download elements (see #5683).

Fixed

Do not use count() in a for loop condition (see #5681).

Fixed

Hide the back link and "save and back" buttons in the modal dialog.

Fixed

Do not store an empty tl_versions.editUrl field upon Ajax requests.

Fixed

Correctly reload or redirect upon Ajax requests (see #5647).

Fixed

Preserve protocol relative URLs when minifying the HTML markup (see #5664).

Fixed

Correctly export the pubDate of calendar feeds (see #5641).

Fixed

Remove script tags when printing an article as PDF (see #5626).

Fixed

Purge the internal cache when disabling the Contao safe mode (see #5579).

Fixed

Correctly set the end date of duplicated events (see #5608).

Fixed

Apply the access restrictions of content elements and modules in the front end only (see #5603).

Version 3.1.RC1 (2013-04-18)

Fixed

Correctly detect open HTML tags in String::substrHtml() (see #5669).

New

Added the "initializeSystem" hook (see #5665).

Fixed

Do not trigger the "setNewPassword" hook twice (see #5247).

Improved

Inject the command scheduler script inline to reduce the number of JS files.

Fixed

Store IDN domains in Punycode format (see #5571).

Fixed

Re-added the row classes to the image gallery (see #5658).

New

Added the File::getModel() and Folder::getModel() methods (see #5656).

Improved

Made the error screens translatable.

Updated

Updated SwiftMailer to version 4.3.1.

Removed

Removed the MooTools mediaelement.js version.

New

Show a hint if a content element needs a MooTools or jQuery template.

Improved

Support assigning icons for global operations in the DCA (see #5541).

Fixed

Show the edit buttons of selected nodes in the file manager.

Fixed

Do not rebuild the URLs for the search index (see #5509).

Updated

Updated TCPDF to version 6.0.010 (see #5614).

Changed

The tablesort script can now be added as moo_ or j_ template in the page layout, so the library can be replaced if needed.

Updated

Updated Swipe.js to version 2.0 and reworked the slider implementation.

Updated

Updated Picker.Date to version 2.0.0.

Updated

Updated Colorbox to version 1.4.11.

Updated

Updated jQuery UI to version 1.10.2.

Updated

Updated jQuery to version 1.9.1 (see #5600).

Updated

Updated html5shiv to version 3.6.2.

New

You can now click elements to edit them:

• [Ctrl] + click: edit the element
• [Ctrl] + [Shift] + click: edit the element's header

On Mac OS the command key is used instead:

• [Cmd] + click: edit the element
• [Cmd] + [Shift] + click: edit the element's header

On touch devices, you can to touch an element twice to edit it.

Improved

Allow to set the slider delay and speed in the wrapper element.

Fixed

Always check the /templates folder for customized templates even if there is a theme-specific template folder (see #5547).

Fixed

Make $this->inColumn available in content elements and hybrids (see #5442).

Fixed

Support all white-space settings in the style sheet editor (see #4519).

Improved

Show a preview image when editing image meta data (see #4948).

Improved

Merge the custom layout sections upon theme import (see #5000).

New

Support creating indexes on multiple columns in the DCA. Usage example:

'sql' => array
(
  'keys' => array
  (
    'id' => 'primary',
    'pid,name' => 'unique',
  )
)

This will create a unique index over the pid and name columns.

New

Added a $GLOBALS['TL_BODY'] array to add custom code at the end of a page independent from MooTools or jQuery (see #5583).

Improved

Edit all related elements (e.g. alias elements) in a modal dialog.

Improved

Added an option to disable modules in the page layout (see #5558).

Fixed

Added a vendor library to parse the Contao changelog file (see #5569).

Version 3.1.beta1 (2013-03-28)

New

Added the "parseWidget" hook (see #5553).

Changed

Link insert tags and navigation modules are now domain-aware (see #3765).

Improved

Improved the database-assisted file system:

• The file picker now shows the file system instead of the database
• You can switch from the file picker to the file manager in the popup dialog
• The file picker automatically adds the selected resources to the database

This means that you do not have to manually synchronize the file system and the database anymore. Further improvements:

• Added a breadcrumb menu to limit the nodes of the page and file picker
• md5_file() is no longer applied to files bigger than 2 GB
• A folder hash is now calculated of the file names instead of their hashes
• All DBAFS-related routines have been centralized in the Dbafs class
• Permission to synchronize the file system can be given to regular users

Improved

Use the Contao page and file pickers in TinyMCE (see #1698).

Improved

Pre-fill the "alt" and "caption" fields with the file meta data (see #5225).

Improved

Override the page description if a certain article is requested (see #4742).

Changed

Moved System::reload(), System::redirect() and System::addToUrl() to the Controller class (see #4698).

Improved

Always show the image thumbnails in the "FileTree" widget (see #4358).

New

Added a location field to the calendar module (see #1870).

New

Added new methods to models and model collections:

• Model::getResult(): returns the database object
• Collection::fetchAll(): returns the data of all models as array
• Collection::getResult(): returns the database object

New

Insert tags now support flags (see #4717). Usage example:

• {{ua::browser|uncached}}
• {{page::title|decodeEntities|strtoupper}}

Currently supported flags are:

• uncached: preserve the tag when writing the cache file
• refresh: regenerate the output ignoring any cached version
• addslashes: quote the output with slashes
• stripslashes: un-quote the output
• standardize: standardize the output
• ampersand: convert ampersands to entities
• specialchars: convert special characters to entities
• nl2br: new line to <br>
• nl2br_pre: new line to <br> except in preformatted text
• strtolower: string to lower case
• utf8_strtolower: Unicode aware string to lowercase
• strtoupper: string to upper case
• utf8_strtoupper: Unicode aware string to uppercase
• ucfirst: make first character uppercase
• lcfirst: make first character lowercase
• ucwords: uppercase the first characeter of each word
• trim: strip whitespace from the beginning and end
• rtrim: strip whitespace from the beginning
• ltrim: strip whitespace from the end
• utf8_romanize: romanize the output
• strrev: reverse the output string
• encodeEmail: decode encoded e-mail addresses
• decodeEntities: decode entities
• number_format: format a number (System::getFormattedNumber())
• currency_format: format a currency (System::getFormattedNumber())
• readable_size: convert the output to a human readable size

Custom flags can be added via the "insertTagFlags" hook.

New

Added an option to purge the system log to the maintenance module (see #4701).

New

Added the File::resizeTo() method (see #3883).

Improved

Use the new HTML5 form fields in the front end (see #4138).

New

Added the "getPageLayout" hook (see #4736).

New

Added more options to the event list module (see #5481):

• show upcoming events of the next month/year
• show past events of the previous month/year

New

Added the "modifyFrontendPage" hook (see #4291).

New

Replaced CodeMirror with ACE (see #5332).

New

The newsletter subscription module now also stores the confirmation date of the double opt-in subscription (see #5200).

Improved

Comments with a reply now have a special icon (see #3202).

Changed

Renamed responsive.css to grid.css (see #5475).

Updated

Updated mediaelement.js to version 2.11.3 (see #5495).

New

Made the number of pagination links configurable (see #4601).

New

Added an option to disable CSS3PIE in the style sheet settings (see #4985).

Improved

Link the file/page picker and file/page manager (see #4856).

Changed

Made the years in monthly archive menus clickable (see #4450).

New

The form generator now supports the "novalidate" attribute (see #4263).

New

Added access protection for articles (see #1869).

New

Added the Widget::addAttribute() method (see #4744).

Changed

Back end forms are no longer saved if the form is auto-submitted (see #4077). This will prevent empty field warnings when switching element types.

Changed

The "show details" link now opens in a modal window (see #5188).

Changed

The search index is now rebuilt via Ajax requests.

Improved

Improved the back end referer management to support multiple tabs (see #5436).

New

Automatically synchronize the database when working on a file or folder in the upload directory with the File or Folder class (see #4991).

Improved

Moved the "protect folder" settings to the edit screen (see #5376). Also, Contao now shows a "possibly not working" note if not an Apache server is used.

Improved

Added a "file upload" button to each folder in the file manager (see #3432).

Changed

Added a "default" option to the login language select menu (see #5088).

Improved

Show the database ID of a file in the file popup (see #5211).

Changed

Made Config::get() static (see #3135).

Improved

Add the autoloader files to the internal cache.

New

Support multiple filter panels in the DCA (see #4542).

// Define the panel layout
$GLOBALS['TL_DCA']['…']['panelLayout'] = 'filter;filter;sort,limit';

// Assign the filters to the panels
$GLOBALS['TL_DCA']['…']['fields']['country']['filter'] = 1; // or true
$GLOBALS['TL_DCA']['…']['fields']['groups']['filter'] = 2;

New

Added the "panel_callback" to add custom panels to a DCA view (see #4542).

New

Added a content element slider based on swipe.js (see #4600).

Improved

Replaced the up and down arrows with a drag handle where applicable and made the items sortable via drag and drop (see #4434). This includes:

• the checkbox wizard
• the list wizard (content element)
• the table wizard (content element)
• the module wizard (page layout)
• the options wizard (form generator)
• the key/value wizard

The parent view now uses the drag handle to move items, too.

Changed

Handle the plus in words like "Google+" or "A+B" in the seach (see #4497). This will require to rebuild the search index after the update!

Fixed

Decouple the Automator class from Backend, so the database connection is not established by default (see #5362).

Changed

Moved Controller::getTimeZones() to System::getTimeZones().

Changed

Moved System::getModelClassFromTable() to Model::getClassFromTable().

Changed

Moved System::parseDate() to Date::parse().

Changed

Moved Controller::prepareForWidget() to Widget::setAttributesFromDca().

Make sure to always call the inherited method of the specific widget class and not the one of the parent class:

// Wrong
new TextField(Widget::setAttributesFromDca(…));

// Correct
new TextField(TextField::setAttributesFromDca(…));

See #4697 for more information.

New

Added the redirect status code 307 to System::redirect() (see #5375).

New

Added the File::sendToBrowser() method (see #4696).

Changed

Made all static methods of the Input class public (see #3382).

New

Optionally connect to the database via socket (see #5181).

Improved

Allow to scroll the page when moving elements via drag and drop (see #5081).

Improved

Use a local version of "Architects Daughter" in the back end (see #5312).

Changed

Do not build the internal cache automatically (see #5307).

Changed

Replaced the member select menu in the front end preview pane with a text field to enter a username (see #5320). The text field supports autocompletion based on an HTML5 data list which is dynamically filled via Ajax.

Fixed

Fixed the moo_mediaelement.xhtml template (see #5309).

Fixed

Allow users to edit comments of news archives and calendars even if they are not allowed to access the news or calendar module (see #5174).

Improved

Better file synchronization statistics (see #4908).

Changed

Always show the mandatory star in the field labels (see #4730).

Fixed

Trigger the error 404 page if a request parameter is set twice (see #4277).

Changed

Moved the Transifex .xlf files to the languages folders of the modules and tweaked the System::loadLanguageFile() method to handle them (see #5005).

Changed

Moved Controller::getPageDetails() to PageModel::findWithDetails() and PageModel->loadDetails() (see #4692).

Changed

Moved Controller::findContentElement() to ContentElement::findClass() and Controller::findFrontendModule() to Module::findClass() (see #4684).

Changed

Moved Controller::optionChecked() and Controller::optionSelected() to the Widget class (see #4665).

Changed

Moved System::getIndexFreeRequest() to Environment::get('indexFreeRequest') (see #4685).

Changed

Moved Controller::printArticleAsPdf() to ModuleArticle::generatePdf() (see #4683).

Changed

Moved Controller::generateImage() to Image::getHtml() (see #4664).

Changed

Moved System::splitFriendlyName() to String::splitFriendlyEmail() and made the Email class independent from the System class (see #4694).

Changed

Moved Controller::getBackendThemes() to Backend::getThemes() (see #4694).

Changed

Moved Controller::getTheme() to Backend::getTheme() (see #4662).

Improved

Added the classes "toggle_desktop" and "toggle_mobile" to the desktop/mobile switch link (see #4975).

Improved

Language dialects such as fr_FR are now supported (see #4836). Note that locales like fr_FR (used to store user languages) differ from language codes like fr-FR (used to define page languages).

Improved

The pageTree widget is now sortable just like the fileTree widget and the custom and quick navigation modules consider the custom order (see #4936).