0.1.0-beta.8 upgrade/changelog

[luceos]

This issue houses all changes for beta 8. We can split the list up into different sections:

• Webmaster (people installing and upgrading Flarum)
• Developer (people maintaining a Flarum extension)

Webmaster

• The minimum PHP version will now be 7.1. It used to be 5.6.
• The minimum MySQL version will now be 5.6. It used to be 5.5.
• The skeleton flarum/flarum was updated:
  • public folder added
  • api.php and admin.php are removed
  • the .htaccess now directs all requests to non-existing files to index.php
  • The akismet extension has been unbundled.
• New discussion.hidePosts permissions, enabled by default (and via upgrade) for moderators.
  • Custom groups might need to be adapted as well.
  • See Split permission for editing and deleting posts framework#1387 and Create new hidePosts permission framework#1466.

Developer

• Pretty much all namespaces changed.
• Events were moved from one global Event namespace to their respective namespaces, eg Flarum\Event\UserWillBeSaved > Flarum\User\Event\Saving
• FloodGate has been made extensible

[franzliedke]

Here's the (probably 95% complete and correct) list of namespace changes: https://discuss.flarum.org/d/6572-help-us-namespace-changes

[tobyzerner]

We should also provide an official version of the script that @cdk2020 made. It needs a few tweaks – I realise I should've done that as I was upgrading all of our extensions, but forgot 😓 Even so, it's far better than nothing.

[tobyzerner]

https://gist.github.com/tobscure/55e7c05c95404e5efab3a9e43799d375

Made one update to it so far

[luceos]

• Database changes (developers)

[franzliedke]

This documentation PR should probably be reverted for the release.

[franzliedke]

After this commit, we can probably remove the requirement on the fileinfo extension, if I am not mistaken. (Both in code, and in the documentation.)

[luceos]

icons;

• with the icon() helper now need full declaration from cog to far fa-cog
• in elements that have an icon property need the same new declaration (buttons with images fi)
• no longer support font awesome 4, all icons have to be from 5 (free version)
• this also means the -o "open" modifier on some icons has been removed for the preferred strong, regular, light alternatives