v3.1.1

• Fixed the "advanced search" options box appearing when it shouldn't have on the public side
• Fixed the public.css styles to load only in public themes, not on the admin
• Fixed collections/show to match other views in how it decides when to show thumbnails
• Fixed bugs that triggered deprecation notices in some situations when running on PHP 8.1+
• Allowed file uploads to proceed when running on servers that disable PHP's shell execution functions on PHP 8+
• Added IDs to more easily target advanced search components for CSS
• Accessibility improvements for search options and labels, sorting indicators, featured/private icons, action links
• Updated translations for Catalan and Czech
• Updated Exhibit Builder to 3.6.1, Thanks, Roy to 2.7.1, Seasons to 2.7, and Berlin to 2.7.5

v3.1

Omeka Classic 3.1 is a feature update to the 3.x version series.

This release adds compatibility for PHP 8.1 and 8.2, and the minimum PHP requirement is now increased to 5.6.

Improvements

• Added descriptive text for "Show Empty Elements" and "Show Element Set Headings" apperance settings (contributed by @luku)
• Improved admin theme behavior at narrower screen widths
• Various accessibility improvements to admin and public views

Fixes

• Fixed admin styling for <select multiple> (#968)
• Fixed default markup for <input type="radio"> in forms (#970)
• Fixed admin styling for "save group" form elements (#981)
• Fixed ImageMagick creating inverted-color thumbnails for CMYK PDFs (must have ImageMagick 6.7.5-1 or newer, and set version strategy option accordingly for fix to be applied)
• Fixed issues with emails being sent improperly on PHP 8+
• Fixed Zend_Ldap not working on PHP 8+

Changes

• Passing an empty/blank id to form elements and helpers will omit the ID entirely, not output id="" (#701)

For Developers

REST API

• Allowed advanced query for items in the API (contributed by @mw0000)

PHP API

• Removed class VersionedDirectoryIterator
• Added functions record_image_url, queue_lightgallery_assets, lightgallery, lightgallery_other_files
• Added view helper lightGallery
• head_css now takes an argument to allow disabling "default" css: this works equivalently to the one that already existed for head_js

External Dependencies

• Removed Zend Framework components Zend_Amf, Zend_Cloud, Zend_CodeGenerator, Zend_Dojo, Zend_EventManager, Zend_Gdata, Zend_Markup, Zend_Serializer, Zend_Stdlib, Zend_Tag, Zend_TimeSync, Zend_Service_Audioscrobbler, Zend_Service_Console, Zend_Service_Delicious, Zend_Service_Ebay, Zend_Service_LiveDocx, Zend_Service_Rackspace, Zend_Service_SqlAzure, Zend_Service_StrikeIron, Zend_Service_WindowsAzure, Zend_Service_Yahoo
• Updated getID3 to 1.9.21
• Updated HTMLPurifier to 4.15.0
• lightGallery library now included in the core for use by themes

Bundled Add-ons

• Coins updated to 2.1.1
• Exhibit Builder updated to 3.6
• Default (Thanks, Roy) theme updated to 2.7.0
• Berlin theme updated to 2.7.3

v3.0.3

• New translation for Vietnamese
• Updated translations for German, Slovenian, Ukrainian
• Updated submodule GitHub URLs to use HTTPS instead of Git protocol
• Updated Exhibit Builder to 3.5.2

v3.0.2

• Fixed some plugins like Simple Pages displaying improperly on the admin interface (#971)
• Fixed some PHP 8.0 compatibility issues that led to notices and warnings being logged
• When running PHP 7.2 and greater, the API will no longer produce blank output when a resource includes invalid UTF-8 text
• Updated bundled Exhibit Builder and Simple Pages plugins
• Updated translations for French, Japanese, Slovenian, and Turkish

v3.0.1

• Updated the bundled themes to fix issues with icons displaying improperly
• Updated translations

v3.0

Features

• Refreshed admin UI (initial implementation by @mtedeschi)
• Accessibility improvements to the admin metadata forms (contributed by @jaguillette)

Bugs Fixed

• Importing some PDFs could cause an infinite loop

Changes

• The link_file option for the file shortcode now accepts values of 1 and 0 in addition to true and false

For Developers

• Added admin_files_panel_buttons and admin_files_panel_fields hooks to admin files form (contributed by @DBinaghi)

Internationalization

• Updated translations for Catalan, Czech, Esperanto, Spanish, French, Italian, Chinese (China)

v2.8

Features

• PHP 8 support
• Where appropriate, themes can now allow minimal styling (bold, italic, underline) to be preserved in titles
• Administrators can select the default query type for simple search (#797, contributed by @luku)
• It's now possible to add files through the API even when the default job dispatcher is non-synchronous
• HTML head now includes author and copyright meta-tags as set in the admin (#918, contributed by @DBinaghi)
• Theme header images can now accept a setting for the alt text for the image (#925)
• New option to move files to storage using copy instead of rename (sometimes useful when files are stored on a separate filesystem) (#934)

Bugs Fixed

• Shortcodes with no arguments given could behave incorrectly and throw errors on PHP 7.1+
• Fixed the admin file edit form to correctly apply HTML filtering (#935)
• Fixed a leftover PHP 7.2 deprecation warning in the YAML component (rarely used)

Changes

• Login forms now use simpler styling to improve appearance with longer text (as in when using some locales)
• The search reindex process will now continue through errors (#930, contributed by @timstallmann)
• Allowed size for theme uploads increased to 1 MB

For Developers

• Omeka_Record_AbstractRecord::delete() now returns true on success (#906)
• New rich_title property for records
• The default fallback image for files (the "page" icon) can now be overridden like the type-specific icons by passing * as the type to add_file_fallback_image (#916, contributed by @DBinaghi)
• tag_attributes now accepts int and float values instead of stripping them (#921)
• Shortcode arguments are now always an array
• File uploads can now specify the key order to set file order within an item directly at ingest
• getID3 updated to 1.9.20
• HTMLPurifier updated to 4.13.0

v2.7.1

The minimum required version of PHP is now 5.4.

Features

• PHP 7.4 support

Bugs Fixed

• Direct upgrades from significantly old versions could fail on the "unEntityTags" migration
• Tags could not be deleted through the API
• The link to the Omeka documentation on error pages referred to the older Omeka site structure
• Mismatched closing tag on login pages
• Files with large amounts of embedded metadata could fail when uploading

Internationalization

• Updates to Catalan, Esperanto, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, Albanian, Ukrainian

External Libraries

• getID3 updated to 1.9.18
• HTML Purifier updated to 4.12.0
• Removed Zend_Test_PHPUnit and Zend_Tool components

v2.7

Features

• PHP 7.3 compatibility
• Version notifications for new releases of plugins and themes
• Omeka now respects the X-Forwarded-Proto header for determining if it should generate http: or https: absolute URLs. This is primarily useful for users hosting Omeka behind a reverse proxy that's handling the HTTPS connections.
  • A new sslTrustProxy configuration key is available for users using the ssl force-redirect configuration to trust the X-Forwarded-Proto header and not issue unnecessary, looping redirects
• New forceSSL option for ZendS3 storage adapter to force use of https: addresses for file URLs (#877, contributed by @ebellempire)
• mail.force_from and mail.force_from_name options for forcing From: address for all outgoing email

Bugs Fixed

• Tag UI javascript error when editing items (#853, contributed by @luku)
• Inconsistent tag markup for new and existing tags when editing items (#854, contributed by @luku)
• Deprecation notice when running on PHP 7.2+ (#860, contributed by @Daniel-KM)
• "Remember me" checkbox on login non-functional on PHP 7.2+ (#872)
• Invalid SQL mode error when running on MySQL 8 (#858)
• Migration error when migrating from 1.x using MySQL 5.7+ (#831)
• item_next and item_prev filters had no way to indicate the end of the sequence (#851)
• Inconsistent form enctype between collection add and edit forms (#856)
• items_output_url page detection fails on "items" pages added by plugins, leading to incorrect feed URLs (#880)

Improvements

• "Simple" item search converted to use subqueries, leads to a significant observed speed increase on modern MySQL versions
• Public-side file show page now includes a link back to the parent item
• "Browse by tag" view for items now sorts tags alphabetically by default
• New "back to top" link in admin footer
• ZendS3 storage adapter now leaves slashes unencoded in URLs
• ZendS3 storage adapter will "chunk" expiration times, allowing for some end-user caching by preventing the URL from changing on every request
• reCAPTCHA text specifies that v2 keys must be used

For Developers

• New html_purifier_config_setup filter (#857, contributed by @luku)
• New image_tag_attributes filter (#871)
• New files_for_item filter
• New option filesForItem passed through to file_markup helper to indicate when files are being rendered as part of a call to files_for_item
• New file_markup_options filter for modifying the options passed to file_markup
• New file_markup_files filter for modifying the list of files to be rendered by file_markup

Bundled Add-ons

• Thanks, Roy 2.5.1 (fixed visual spacing issues with featured blocks on homepage)
• Exhibit Builder 3.4.2 (updated translations)
• Simple Pages 3.1.2 (updated translations)

Internationalization

• Updated translations for Bengali, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, French, Galician, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Portuguese (Brazil), Slovak, Serbian, Turkish, Ukrainian

v2.6.1

Omeka 2.6.1 is the first maintenance release in the 2.6 series. All users should update.

Security Fixes

• Added CSRF protection to users/api-keys (#842, reported by @JosiahPierce)
• Fixed XSS issues with adding and editing tags (reported by Zekvan Arslan of Netsparker)

Bug Fixes

• Fixed bottom direct pagination input on admin items browse
• "Encountered an error" pages now correctly report an HTTP error status code
• Minor appearance fix to new TinyMCE toolbar

Changes

• Switched Javascript used for in-place editing on tag browse, users may notice slightly different apperance/behavior

Bundled Plugins

• Exhibit Builder 3.4.1 (fixes a bug preventing source code editing for captions)
• Simple Pages 3.1.1 (restores several removed HTML editing options from versions prior to 3.1)

Bundled Themes

• Seasons 2.5.1 (fixes a bug in SASS usage, issues with margins and pagination)