v1.5

Omeka 1.5 was released on February 7, 2012.

New Features

• Internationalization: Users can now choose a language and locale to display the interface in. This affects the displayed text and formatting of other data like system-generated dates.
• Media Extension Awareness: File extensions are now used as a fallback to determine how files should be displayed if the MIME type is incorrect or not detected.
• File Ordering: Users can now reorder files within an item without re-uploading.

Bug Fixes

• Files form doesn't automatically print extra element sets (#34)
• Item Type controller shows a “has encountered an error” page instead of a flash error (#70)
• “Uninstall” button is enabled for plugins that need to be upgraded (#82)
• “Add User” form lets you pick Active/Inactive (#89)
• Retry when HTTP errors occur for S3 (#94)
• Certain fields for collections should allow null (#95)
• Incorrect URL building in collections/index/page/n (#96)
• has_permission always returns false if you're not logged in (#99)
• New item types with duplicate names override the original description (#125)

Changes

• The plugins page no longer warns about plugins that haven't been tested up to the current Omeka version.
• Early errors that occur when starting Omeka are now logged to the PHP log.

For Developers

• The new Omeka_Plugin_Abstract class gives developers an optional framework to simplify class-based plugins.
• Plugin-added element sets can apply to specific record types.

Library Upgrades

• Zend Framework 1.11.11
• jQuery 1.7.1
• jQuery UI 1.8.16
• TinyMCE 3.4.7-jQuery

New Functions

• \__()(Translation function)
• add_translation_source()
• get_html_lang()
• format_date()
• queue_js_string()
• queue_css_string()

New Hooks

• admin_append_to_files_show

New Filters

• display_file