CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

0.1.0-beta.13

Added

• Console extender (#2057)
• CSRF extender (#2095)
• Event extender (#2097)
• Mail extender (#2012)
• Model extender (#2100)
• Posts by users that started a discussion now have the CSS class .Post--by-start-user
• PHPUnit 8 compatibility
• Composer 2 compatibility
• Permission groups can now be hidden (#2129)
• Confirmation popup when hiding or deleting posts (#2135)

Changed

• Updated less.php dependency version to 3.0
• Updated JS dependencies
• All notifications and other emails now processed through the queue, if enabled (#978, #1928, #1931, #2096)
• Simplified uploads, removing need to store intermediate files (#2117)
• Improved date handling for dates older than 1 year (#2034)
• Linting and automatic formatting for JS (#2099)
• Translation files from Language Packs are only loaded for extensions that are enabled (#2020)
• PHP extenders' properties are now private instead of protected, intentionally making it harder to extend these classes (#1958)
• Preparation for upgrading Laravel components to 5.8 and then 6.0 (#2055, #2117)
• Allowed permission checks based on model classes in addition to instances (#1977)

Fixed

• Users can no longer restore discussions hidden by admins (#2037)
• Issues of the Modal not showing or auto hiding (#1504, #1813, #2080)
• Columnar layout on admin extensions page was broken in Firefox (#2029, #2111)
• Non-dismissible modals could still be dismissed using the ESC key (#1917)
• New discussions were added to the discussion list above unread sticky posts (#1751, #1868)
• New discussions not visible to users when using Pusher (#2076, #2077)
• Permission icons were aligned unevenly in admin permissions list (#2016, #2018)
• Notification bubble not inversed on mobile with colored header (#1983, #2109)
• Post stream scrubber clicks jumped back to first post (#1945)
• Loading state of Switch toggle component was hard to see (#2039, #1491)
• Flarum\Extend\Middleware: The methods insertBefore() and insertAfter() did not work as described (#2063, #2084)

Removed

• Support for PHP 7.1 (#2014)
• Zend compatibility bridge (#2010)
• SES mail support (#2011)
• Backward compatibility layer for Flarum\Mail\DriverInterface, new methods from beta.12 are now required
• Flarum\Util\Str helper class
• Flarum\Event\ConfigureMiddleware event

Deprecated

• Flarum\Event\AbstractConfigureRoutes event class
• Flarum\Event\ConfigureApiRoutes event class
• Flarum\Event\ConfigureForumRoutes event class
• Flarum\Event\ConfigureLocales event class

0.1.0-beta.12

Added

• Full support for PHP 7.4 (#1980)
• Mail settings: Configure region for the Mailgun driver (#1834, #1850)
• Mail settings: Alert admins about incomplete settings (#1763, #1921)
• New permission that allows users to post without throttling (#1255, #1938)
• Basic transliteration of discussion "slugs" / pretty URLs (#194, #1975)
• User profiles: Render basic content on server side (#1901)
• New extender for configuring middleware (#1919, #1952, #1957, #1971)
• New extender for configuring error handling (#1781, #1970)
• Automated tests for PHP extenders to guarantee their backwards compatibility

Changed

• Profile URLs for non-existing users properly return HTTP 404 (#1846, #1901)
• Confirmation email subject no longer contains the forum title (#1613)
• Improved error handling during Flarum's early boot phase (#1607)
• Updated deprecated "Zend" libraries to their new "Laminas" equivalents (#1963)

Fixed

• Update page did not work when installed in subdirectories (#1947)
• Avatar upload did not work in IE11 / Edge (#1125, #1570)
• Translation fallback was ignored for client-rendered pages (#1774, #1961)
• The success alert when posting replies was invisible (#1976)

0.1.0-beta.11.1

Fixed

• Saving custom css in admin failed (#1946)

0.1.0-beta.11

Added

• Comments have an additional class Post--by-actor when posted by the user (#1927)

Changed

• Improved support for URL identification during installation (#1861)
• KeyboardNavigatable now has a callback ability (#1922)
• Links are no longer opened with target _blank but in the same window (#859)
• Links now have nofollow ugc by default as their rel attribute (#859, #1884)
• Improved performance of the full text gambit when searching for users (#1877)
• The Queue implementation is now available under its Illuminate contract

Fixed

• No error handling was possible in the console/cli (#1789)
• Enable scrollbars in log in modals so it fits for GitHub (#1716)
• Reduce log in modal for SSO so it fits for Facebook (#1727)
• Deleting discussions permanently did not delete its posts (#1909)
• Fixed the queue:restart command (#1932)
• Deleted posts were visible to all visitors (#1827)
• Old avatars weren't being deleted when replaced (#1918)
• The search performance regression was reverted (#1764)
• No profile background could be set for remote images (#445)
• Back button sends to home even though it could actually go back (#1942)
• Debug button no longer visible (#1687)
• Modals on smaller screens use the whole width of the page

0.1.0-beta.10

Added

• Initial queue support: Infrastructure for offloading long-running tasks (e.g. email sending) to background workers (#1773)
• Notifications can now be marked as read without visiting a discussion (#151)
• SEO: The discussion list now has a rel="canonical" meta tag, preventing duplicate content (#1134, #1814)
• The "Edit User" permission can now be edited in the UI (#1845)
• New status message and redirect after user deletion (#1750, #1777)
• Errors in Flarum's boot process are now presented with more detailed information (#1607)

Changed

• Better, more detailed and extensible error handling (#1641, #1843)
• Error pages in debug mode now return the same HTTP status codes as in production (#1648)
• Tweak HTTP status codes for authentication / authorization errors (#1854)
• Already-used links from account activation emails now show a better error message (#1337)

Fixed

• Security vulnerabilities in dependencies
• Performance: High CPU usage when scrolling in a discussion (#1222)
• Special characters crashed the search (#1498)
• Missing declarations for language and text direction in HTML output (#1772)
• Private messages were counted in user post counts (#1695)
• Extensions could not change the forum's default page (#1819)
• API requests authenticated using access tokens needed to provide a CSRF token (#1828)
• Accessibility: Screenreaders did not read the "Back to discussion list" link (#1835)

0.1.0-beta.9

Added

• New hasPermission() helper method for Group objects (9684fbc)
• Expose supported mail drivers in IoC container (208bad3)
• More test for some API endpoints (1670590)
• The Formatter\Rendering event now receives the HTTP request instance as well (0ab9fac)
• More and better validation in installer UIs
• Check and enforce minimum MariaDB (7ff9a90)
• Revert publication of assets when installation fails (ed9591c)
• Benefit from Laravel's database reconnection logic in long-running tasks (e0becd0)
• The "vendor path" (where Composer dependencies can be found) can now be configured (5e1680c)

Changed

• Performance: Actually cache translations on disk (0d16fac)
• Allow per-site extenders to override extension extenders (ba594de)
• Do not resolve objects from the IoC container (in service providers and extenders) until they are actually used
• Replace event subscribers (that resolve objects from the IoC container) with listeners (that resolve lazily)
• Use custom service provider for Mail component (ac5e26a)
• Update to Laravel 5.7, revert custom logic for building database index names
• Refactored installer, extracted Installation class and pipeline for reuse in CLI and web installers (790d5be)
• Use whitelist for enabling pre-installed extensions during installation (4585f03)
• Update minimum MySQL version (7ff9a90)

Fixed

• Signing up via OAuth providers was broken (67f9375)
• Group badges were overlapping (16eb1fa)
• API: Endpoint for uninstalling extensions returned an error (c761802)
• Documentation links in installer were outdated (b58380e)
• Event posts where counted when aggregating user posts (671fdec)
• Admins could not reset user passwords (c67fb2d)
• Several down migrations were invalid
• Validation errors on reset password page resulted in HTTP 404 (4611abe)
• is:unread gambit generated an invalid query (e17bb0b)
• Entire forum was breaking when the custom_less setting was missing from the database (bf2c5a5)
• Dropdown icon was not showing in user card when on user page (12fdfc9)
• Requests were missing the original* attributes, which broke installations in subfolders (56fde28)
• Special characters such as % and _ could return incorrect results (ee3640e)
• FontAwesome component package changed paths in version 5.9.0 (5eb69e1)
• Some server environments had problems accessing the system-wide tmp path for storing JS file maps (54660eb)
• Content length of posts.content was not migrated to mediumText in 2017 (590b311)
• An error occurred when going to the previous route if there was no previous route found (985b87da)

Removed

• php flarum install --defaults - this was meant to be used in our old development VM (44c9109)
• Obsolete id attributes in JSON-API responses (ecc3b5e and 7a44086)

0.1.0-beta.8.1

Fixed

• Fix live output in migrate:reset command (f591585)
• Fix search with database prefix (7705a2b)
• Fix invalid join time of admin user created by installer (57f73c9)
• Ensure InnoDB engine is used for all tables (fb6b51b, 6370f7e)
• Fix dropping foreign keys in down migrations (57d5846)
• Fix discussion list scroll position not being maintained when hero is not visible (40dc6ac)
• Fix empty meta description tag (88e43cc)
• Remove empty attributes on <html> tag (796b577)