v4.2.1

Server Support

• PHP 8.5 is now supported

Bugs Fixed

• Block titles for the IIIF page blocks were not properly escaped
• The IIIF presentation page block did not respect the site's configured IIIF viewer setting for the Mirador theme
• Some fields were not aligned properly on the admin advanced search
• Themes could not use the Ckeditor form elements to allow HTML input for theme settings
• Unnecessary spacing when listing data types in resource template browse
• Modules using older code for database queries could encounter errors related to core events like those used for processing fulltext search
• The Asset add form only allowed a fixed list of file types regardless of what types were specified in config
• The confirm password check did not properly run when the confirm box was left blank
• Navigation allowed script-executing javascript: URLs for custom pages (reported by Frank Mancia)
• Cross-site search could include results for sites the current user did not have permission to view
• Mirador annotations displayed with incorrectly thick borders
• Vocabulary prefixes were not correctly checked against the set of allowed characters when creating the vocabulary
• Uploaded "audio/mpeg" files with no extension used the unlikely ".mpga" extension instead of the more-likely ".mp3"
• Fulltext search improperly saved some characters as HTML entities when HTML Purifier was disabled, preventing the search from properly returning them
• The has_media=1 query could improperly reveal the existence of private media
• The advanced search "Sort by" input was not properly set by the current query
• Purely-numeric items in filtered sidebar selectors caused a JS error
• The List of pages block rendered incorrect HTML for its nested lists
• Fixed PHP 8.5 deprecations

Improvements

• Accessibility improvements
  • Removed default placeholder text for the basic public search that did not have enough room to render on some themes
  • Admin form fieldsets now use headings in addition to legends for group labels
  • Applied aria-expanded attribute to expanding/collapsing elements
  • Increased target size for expand/collapse controls
  • The default "Welcome" page no longer includes a "subtitle" style that has low contrast
  • Assets now use their alt when showing a just-selected asset in a form
• Batch edit now allows setting resource custom thumbnails
• Improved performance for browse pages by avoiding unnecessary queries related to getting the primary media for resources
• Improved performance for queries that sort by the count of a related entity

For Developers

• New config helper for getting merged config in a view
• api helper now allows passing request options to API
• The IIIF page blocks now use partials when rendering
• The Laminas config, loader, log, mail, mime, and mvc packages now use forks maintained by the Omeka Team
• Core usage of the laminas-math and laminas-dom extensions is removed