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Release Notes for 2.8
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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
Release Notes for 2.7.1
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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
Release Notes for 2.7
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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
Release Notes for 2.6.1
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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)
Mini Shell