CHANGELOG

6.1.0 (2024-11-20)

Contributors

• Jeroen Dalsem (50)
• Jerôme Bakker (21)
• Nikolai Shcherbin (1)

Features

• notifications: notification handler sets language per recipient 9f6ac20ac
• likes: likes notification use event notification handler ee5fe8acc closes #14734
• forms:
  • double submit prevention support multiple submit buttons 7d3b282b8
  • added a helper input view for switch field types 12c4760e4
• cache: merge default redis options (#14720) 1a84edbed
• relationships: trigger :before and :after events for relations a85bae8a6 closes #14318
• admin: admin validation notification setting moved 0b6b3fd14
• user: improved user settings form 7ad954726
• file: form fields through the fields service 0d9f70e00
• discussions: form fields through the fields service b04f761d0
• bookmarks: form fields through the fields service 997bdfce1
• blog: form fields through the fields service 0d053f0df
• groups:
  • allow user to revoke their group membership request 375b53e4f
  • added notice to group profile if you have been invited b7353cb85 closes #14630
  • popular groups listing is replaced with a sort menu option f3d6cae68
  • added badges with counts to invitations filter menu 0dc3aa9c5
  • you can now invite people without the need for the friends plugin 92b56944a
• db: added elgg_count_relationships helper function b08115702
• developers: added restore actions to the entity explorer menu cfcd8ceca closes #14632

Performance

• comments: river comments are no longer full views 7300cf9be

Bug fixes

• database: prevent unwanted duplicate metadata records 7e7c9b379 closes #14740
• plugins: elgg_get_plugin_setting returns default if plugin missing 20d305fc7
• groups: show direct join menu item if there is an invitation d5157dd8a
• core: prevent notices when passing non array to sort_by 684ce4508

Deprecations

• plugins: the function elgg_plugin_exists is now deprecated 3f0ab95ef
• cache: various cache related functions have been deprecated f8644a95e
• core: the use of non PSR loglevels has been deprecated f21b153ef closes #14606

Removed

• css: no longer have alternative elgg-form-alt styling e1b499af9
• forms: categories field support 50cd159c3

6.0.7 (2024-11-20)

Contributors

• Jerôme Bakker (2)

6.0.6 (2024-10-25)

Contributors

• Jerôme Bakker (2)
• Jeroen Dalsem (1)

Bug fixes

• db: correctly check for inverse relationship sorting 25a9cb140

6.0.5 (2024-10-09)

Contributors

• Jeroen Dalsem (2)

6.0.4 (2024-09-06)

Contributors

• Jerôme Bakker (2)
• Jeroen Dalsem (1)

Bug fixes

• cache: catch exceptions when loading data from cache f242fce22

6.0.3 (2024-08-15)

Contributors

• Jerôme Bakker (8)
• Jeroen Dalsem (4)

Performance

• river: preload response owners e9a1ee9de
• likes: preload likes for river responses cae17e102

Bug fixes

• ckeditor:
  • editor keeps focus if input already has the focus f2d14eb41 closes #14533
  • ctrl-enter submitting from editor works again 28db80430
• js: elgg module should postpone loading if global elgg is missing 34d67caf1
• garbagecollector: correctly log optimize table results ff399c2f6
• cron: correct database query for removed entity handling 5fc811366

6.0.2 (2024-08-02)

Contributors

• Jeroen Dalsem (1)
• Jerôme Bakker (1)
• Nikolai Shcherbin (1)

Bug fixes

• rss: fatal error that occurred when enabling short_open_tag 5a9d8d43f

6.0.1 (2024-07-11)

Contributors

• Jeroen Dalsem (2)
• Jerôme Bakker (1)

Bug fixes

• ckeditor: editor field validation errors will show on form submit ffd55edbc closes #14360

6.0.0 (2024-06-27)

Contributors

• Jerôme Bakker (9)

Bug fixes

• core: use correct relationship to mark recursive trashed entities b8887bbd5

6.0.0-rc.1 (2024-06-14)

Contributors

• Jerôme Bakker (8)
• Jeroen Dalsem (7)

Features

• admin: total amount of online users added to the admin header menu 0b8f970b2

Bug fixes

• css: correctly align user and group profile fields and labels 4595b6e04 closes #14608
• users: prevent double notification on admin user validation 0ff70c0ea
• garbagecollector: use correct table to clean delayed email queue 01615ca51
• cron: use correct event trigger 921eedc09
• widgets: set correct widget URLs e5ceaf6f0 closes #14609

6.0.0-beta.1 (2024-04-18)

Contributors

• Jeroen Dalsem (63)
• Jerôme Bakker (28)

Features

• ckeditor: updated to ckeditor v41.3 c30beef28
• db: updated to doctrine/dbal v4 c3776a7a7
• core: added temporary bin ea8939719 closes #5172
• views:
  • restructured various page elements and improved css c5c46637a
  • improve various sidebar search forms 172ada402
  • improved usage of headings in various parts of a page df7e1eaac closes #14435
• session: login event has been reintroduced for logging purposes 34819950d
• js: dropped RequireJS in favor of ECMAScript modules e2e998c2c
• icons: uniform storage of entity icon cropping coordinates cee682c2f
• php: require php intl module 5b5ddccb6 closes #13901
• tests: updated to PHPUnit 10.5 b01996b60
• responses: response forward urls are now secure by default afe18fb3b

Bug fixes

• core:
  • correctly determine if plugins need reindexing 84e72f296
  • correctly check for the need for a default order by 72d015033
• groups:
  • only show group owner transfer if there are other members 3f8a4f1bf
  • only show edit form sections if there is content 28673a1f7
• webservices:
  • set correct response header during exception 7a1322631 closes #14506
  • improved calculation of POST hash 64522a17f closes #14233
• upgrades: show correct count in the admin upgrade listing adc8b9028 closes #14520
• database: allow both metadata and annotations 67962755c closes #14405

Removed

• filesystem: removed flysystem wrapper 537b90a1d
• db: the enabled column for annotations has been removed bdd17b413
• core: the ->getTags() function has been removed d3bbe25d0
• icons: icontime metadata is no longer available 7e139b935

5.1.12 (2024-11-20)

Contributors

• Jerôme Bakker (1)

5.1.11 (2024-10-25)

Contributors

• Jerôme Bakker (3)

Bug fixes

• comments: allow multiple replies on the same comment 0ff81db02 closes #14690
• i18n: use correct user language 565605e62
• file: use correct original file name in upgrade 73aaef51e

5.1.10 (2024-10-08)

Contributors

• Jerôme Bakker (2)

Bug fixes

• thewire: correctly handle string length for multi-byte characters 77baddcf3
• i18n: handle invalid locale date format 9a93d5bdc closes #14712

5.1.9 (2024-08-02)

Contributors

• Jerôme Bakker (2)

Bug fixes

• menus: no longer render empty menu sections 72882fc37
• rss: fatal error that occurred when enabling short_open_tag d0883e534

5.1.8 (2024-07-11)

Contributors

• Jeroen Dalsem (1)
• Jerôme Bakker (1)

Bug fixes

• forms: prevent type hint crash by casting vars 6286063c8

5.1.7 (2024-06-27)

Contributors

• Jerôme Bakker (1)

Bug fixes

• email: use recipient language for email footer link b5add14a0

5.1.6 (2024-06-14)

Contributors

• Jerôme Bakker (3)

Bug fixes

• thewire: correctly call thewire_filter() 622cfb65f closes #14611

5.1.5 (2024-03-22)

Contributors

• Jerôme Bakker (7)
• Jeroen Dalsem (1)

Bug fixes

• core:
  • improved friendly title for multibyte characters 6d80fa23f closes #14577
  • no longer set dynamic property on exceptions 21b41a6a6
• ckeditor: do not limit html elements in ckeditor 01bacfc51
• plugins: improved handling of composer version constraints 8dd38c0b7 closes #14580
• pages: correctly disable parent page option 02a4f3bfa

5.1.4 (2024-01-12)

Contributors

• Jerôme Bakker (3)
• Jeroen Dalsem (2)

Bug fixes

• comments: only load comment form when needed 1eaa55b48
• session: allow samesite cookie configuration 1dcb96c26
• notifications: prevent unneeded content subscriptions 3ffedc0ad closes #14301

5.1.3 (2023-12-15)

Contributors

• Jeroen Dalsem (5)
• Jerôme Bakker (2)

Bug fixes

• cli: database seed command no longer queues notifications 7fb4139fe
• uservalidationbyemail: only allow confirm link for logged out users 89ba96f5d
• users: prevent ban/unban notifications for users during disable 623a2fe6a

5.1.2 (2023-11-30)

Contributors

• Jeroen Dalsem (4)
• Jerôme Bakker (4)

Bug fixes

• output: link must have discernible text 8ed45c12d
• web_services: only create new tokens on initial save a1904fc7c closes #14516
• developers: removed metadata enabled column in entity explorer 4256e4dd7

5.1.1 (2023-11-17)

Contributors

• Jerôme Bakker (9)
• Jeroen Dalsem (5)

Bug fixes

• webservices: no longer expose parts of the system during an error a0db26a40
• cli: provide readable feedback when using incorrect cron interval c658dd2b7
• pages: don't allow a page to be its own parent f029d1e69
• views: don't output a summary title if no display name 385475469
• css: improved elgg-level behaviour on limited viewports a1482000f
• routes: correctly deprecate the comment/edit route 04bed5687

5.1.0 (2023-10-24)

Contributors

• Jeroen Dalsem (37)
• Jerôme Bakker (36)

Features

• ckeditor:
  • updated to v40.0.0 441c0f442
  • ctrl+enter in the editor field will submit the form 5b0bd6a8d
• css: allow theme variables to be configured by the site admin 3eb7fe354
• cron: added custom cron logger class 6535d386b
• a11y:
  • added menu aria labels 19869cfc9
  • added aria search forms 091202e4a
  • added header, main, footer aria landmarks 61315fe7e
• views: support a title on an imprint element 2ebfccb09
• breadcrumbs:
  • improved usability of elgg_push_collection_breadcrumb 68c6d069e
  • last item pointing to current page will be removed 95b305458
  • added a home icon as a first item e78e7ee68
• blog: prevent double submit of the blog form 0a23cd09b
• cli:
  • interactively set number of seeded items per seeder 337b1bd71
  • added database seeders command 12baa7c68
  • activate plugins CLI command supports plugin priority 160fcaf69
  • installer now has the option to prevent plugin activation 1a20e79ef
• security: add support for security.txt 2709c2db4 closes #14315
• admin: reorganized admin and configure utilities menu items de1959ad5
• widgets: the widget edit form now shows in a lightbox 15e68df90
• input: the value output view for an userpicker can be set 585903bb9
• developers:
  • the theme sandbox is now a separated plugin 22cd62e89
  • added inspection page for the database CLI seeders e8255d3f6
• html: added a scroll to top button 58b1ae7d1
• js: client side validate max file size for file input 3b19a7071 closes #7059

Bug fixes

• css: fixed some margin issues on elgg-field form elements 1565a6d47 closes #14354
• a11y:
  • topbar sub menu items are now keyboard accessible 6326c3902 closes #6759
  • make sure widget edit/delete actions are keyboard accessible d7b61ed15 closes #14471
  • tab to first item in opened dropdown menu 487d7370a
  • edit comment form sets focus to comment textarea 477646730
  • keep focus on toggled menu item a18ad0057
• cache: report HTTP 410 Gone on stale cache urls cfd488361 closes #14086
• views:
  • prevent duplicate ids on widget layouts b17877975 closes #14428
  • do not use rel to track related hover menu placeholders 972f40873 closes #14430
• breadcrumbs: no longer add a breadcrumb if link to self is false 7a44a533c

Deprecations

• views: resource and route for comment edit are not in use 84deb0e54

5.0.7 (2023-10-10)

Contributors

• Jeroen Dalsem (5)
• Jerôme Bakker (2)

Bug Fixes

• forms: prevent double submit on comment forms (1b057186)
• icons: retry icon resize after failure (e04e396b)

5.0.6 (2023-09-07)

Contributors

• Jerôme Bakker (2)
• Nikolai Shcherbin (1)

Bug Fixes

• ckeditor: early abort object mentions on closing bracket (b397601c)
• docs: document correct function (e9ba84a1)

5.0.5 (2023-08-16)

Contributors

• Jeroen Dalsem (1)
• Jerôme Bakker (1)

Bug Fixes

• rss: invalid atom link href in rss channel (0467cf87)

5.0.4 (2023-07-26)

Contributors

• Jerôme Bakker (9)
• Jeroen Dalsem (1)

Bug Fixes

• ckeditor: added all block level image alignments to toolbar (6fff9429)
• icons: prevent racing condition when saving cropping coordinates (b4993528)
• notifications: processing delayed emails could cause OOM issues (5e0fcab1)
• views:
  • input/button and output/url must have discernible text (924b2cdc)
  • make sure the icon cropper img has an alt text (0cc105c8)
  • allow mobile devices to zoom (1cee1be1)
  • correctly set iframe width for PHPInfo (e72f476e)
  • only generate listing ID when using pagination (ffe94eab)

5.0.3 (2023-07-14)

Contributors

• Jerôme Bakker (7)
• Jeroen Dalsem (3)

Bug Fixes

• admin: admin layout now gets correct layout class (f0c348c0)
• composer: no longer try to symlink the mods on Windows (5319f0ea)
• database: execute delayed queries immediately during CLI (d2d23209)
• email: image styles will be converted to attributes if possible (f306388b)
• http: maintain set redirect code in response (c4ad5037)
• icons: make sure transparent images have a white background (25d039b2)
• settings: prevent setting changes from being added to the systemlog (708cb7ff)
• site_notifications: return correct actor (a2ee148f)
• user: prevent logging of changes to last_login and prev_last_login (ba28f760)

5.0.2 (2023-07-03)

Contributors

• Jerôme Bakker (5)

Performance

• site_notifications: simplify site_notification removal query (ad8bd918)

Bug Fixes

• thewire: improved hashtag matching (67277b2f)
• user: return correct type for getOwnerGuid (72856546)
• views: correctly handle errors in mention parsing (92dc5d6d)

5.0.1 (2023-06-19)

Contributors

• Jeroen Dalsem (6)
• Jerôme Bakker (4)

Bug Fixes

• cropper: only register tab change fixes when cropper is ready (33feb185)
• db:
  • allow passing only relationship_ids to fetch relationships (ad06ace9)
  • querying relationships with only relationship_guid now works (8bfe76e7)
• js: use native scrollIntoView to respect element scroll margin (9b1b1850)
• registration: send the new user notification to email (b845f475)
• river: always return a string for RiverItem->getView() function (10437cf5)
• seeder: validate commentable and likeable capability during seeding (fb151710)

5.0.0 (2023-06-01)

Contributors

• Jerôme Bakker (10)
• Jeroen Dalsem (4)

Features

• ckeditor: confirm page navigation on unsaved editor changes (789c27b0)

Bug Fixes

• ckeditor:
  • use pixels instead of percentages when resizing images (4bd4e629)
  • image upload progress and icon are beter visible (7c44af72)
• cropper: fixed issue when the cropper is on a hidden tab (7b7dcfae)
• plugins: correct layout when a plugin can't be (de)activated (35a36232)
• views: validate elgg_list_entities getter return type (b349f367)

Breaking Changes

• core: metadata value no longer magically turns into an array (b0f4695f)

5.0.0-rc.1 (2023-05-22)

Contributors

• Jerôme Bakker (11)
• Jeroen Dalsem (8)

Features

• ckeditor:
  • strip empty paragraphs when outputting longtext fields (dfd24629)
  • added the simpleButton plugin (9334b61e)

Bug Fixes

• icons: show cropper messages for header images (a09f7d36)
• output: correctly format 0 byte output (1a27a14c)

5.0.0-beta.1 (2023-04-05)

Contributors

• Jeroen Dalsem (108)
• Jerôme Bakker (62)

Features

• access_collection: trigger 'create', 'update' and 'delete' events (8a8e89a5)
• actions: action registration can support additional middleware (90c786e1)
• activity: commenting bumps related river activity last action (00868b68)
• admin:
  • added a widget for admins with a feed with latest Elgg news (697481f1)
  • moved page menu items to the topbar (535d0eb2)
  • admin account menu is now more in line with front end (405b114e)
  • moved plugin settings menu items to own section (6098f150)
• ckeditor: replaced ckeditor4 with ckeditor5 (52ea3488)
• core:
  • added download response (12204ccd)
  • upgrade batches now have access to upgrade entity (5cc3a108)
  • event and hook deprecation now have a default message (992e7ef3)
• db: private settings are merged into metadata (cb9951a5)
• entities: create event has been split into before and after event (432b4dad)
• events: event sequences have a unique ID (0febd638)
• files:
  • file plugin files are now stored with the entity (9df0cd0a)
  • no longer show file type icons in regular listings (fe263adf)
• forms: automatically support sticky forms (320a8110)
• garbagecollector: cleanup orphaned data in the database (230a8ee9)
• gatekeepers:
  • added PageOwner gatekeeper middleware (443c6f27)
  • pageownercaneditgatekeeper now requires a pageowner (6553b9a2)
• http: added helper function to get a Http Guzzle Client (d2f60974)
• icons: icon cropping is now default enabled in entity/edit/icon (a845ce04)
• plugins: it is now allowed to set arrays as private settings (de415231)
• reportedcontent: added detail view for reports with comments (90fc1195)
• routes: added the ability to influence priority for similar routes (d257f024)
• tests: allow easier testing with multiple installations (ac3035e0)
• users: if configured a river activity is for a new user (d5a1d944)
• views: page header now has support for header image (84929789)
• web_services:
  • API methods can be registered in the elgg-plugin.php (6357e73e)
  • allow different callbacks depending on HTTP request (d67507e0)
• widgets:
  • it is now possible to filter the widgets in the add panel (7d95d87c)
  • target column and position can now be configured (97d657c4)

Documentation

• events: added some additional information about migrating hooks (6d607025)

Bug Fixes

• core: prevent issues with unsaved data and system log (4048eeec)
• filestore: improved removal of a directory (a6c09c81)
• forms: draw fieldset legend on correct location (c1a012ac)
• likes: use variable in translation string (d39e33da)
• search: use correct container type title (ba742d1f)
• views: output/url now returns nothing if there is no url (db8b6e06)

Breaking Changes

• hooks: hooks and events system has been merged (720a38a5)
• menus: elgg_register_title_button has its first argument removed (ddb25972)

Removed

• blogs:
  • no longer show a delete button on blog edit form (8274c0e8)
  • auto save draft functionality has been removed (bb71b807)
• core:
  • InvalidParameterException as removed (aedb914c)
  • the REFERER constant is removed in favor of REFERRER (a3137340)
  • it's no longer possible to set site secret in elgg-config (80e91091)
• files: file plugin no longer uses custom file type icons (92c50dd1)
• plugins: the embed plugin has been removed (31a443c5)
• widgets: class function saveSettings has been removed (3c58daee)

4.3.10 (2023-11-17)

Contributors

• Jerôme Bakker (2)

Bug Fixes

• session: correctly invalidate session on privilege elevation (6357da49)

4.3.9 (2023-07-26)

Contributors

• Jerôme Bakker (2)
• Nikolai Shcherbin (1)

Bug Fixes

• admin: use correct params for memcache and redis server information (6ee26b94)

4.3.8 (2023-04-04)

Contributors

• Jerôme Bakker (3)

Bug Fixes

• core: prevent fatal exception when opening a file (07951e89)

4.3.7 (2023-02-10)

Contributors

• Jerôme Bakker (4)

Bug Fixes

• icons: improved handling of invalid cropping coordinates (db7cf911)
• upgrades: use correct function to report upgrade failure (a860911e)

4.3.6 (2023-01-20)

Contributors

• Jerôme Bakker (5)

Bug Fixes

• cache: correctly load simplecache from database (0f92673f)
• comments:
  • no longer add duplicate html ID in threaded comments (242d9a5d)
  • correctly remove threaded comments (65817a0e)
• discussions: correctly handle last comment (bfc1700c)

4.3.5 (2022-12-07)

Contributors

• Jerôme Bakker (7)

Bug Fixes

• account: improved valid username detection (0115b714)
• developers: correctly show metadata boolean values (189370c3)
• icon: improved handling of multiple icon uploads on the same page (d7da537a)
• register: set correct middleware on registration action (39648e30)
• webservices: pass authentication failure message to api result (5d852205)

4.3.4 (2022-10-27)

Contributors

• Jerôme Bakker (8)
• Jeroen Dalsem (2)

Bug Fixes

• groups: correctly detect default access based on input parameters (4a8a05c9)
• users: correctly redirect after user deletion (b5b35701)

4.3.3 (2022-10-07)

Contributors

• Jerôme Bakker (3)

Bug Fixes

• db: correctly handle sort_by clauses on more tables (1c7d6392)
• session: show correct login error message for unvalidated accounts (713fde5d)

4.3.2 (2022-09-23)

Contributors

• Jeroen Dalsem (1)

Bug Fixes

• output: allow mailto and tel scheme if used directly via output/url (bad4de81)

4.3.1 (2022-08-26)

Contributors

• Jerôme Bakker (5)

Bug Fixes

• icons: correctly remove all icons (85f4ba0f)
• plugins: sanitize plugins path (66a066ab)

4.3.0 (2022-08-05)

Contributors

• Jeroen Dalsem (7)
• Jerôme Bakker (7)
• Nikolai Shcherbin (1)

Features

• relationships: added ->getRelationship() (31a03961)

Bug Fixes

• cache: separated cache namespaces should not interfere (0a2e40ca)
• developers: gear settings popup works again (8ba956dc)
• navigation: correctly merge multiple link classes for menu items (3f94a30b)

4.3.0-rc.1 (2022-07-21)

Contributors

• Jeroen Dalsem (50)
• Jerôme Bakker (31)
• Ally Petitt (1)
• Nikolai Shcherbin (1)

Features

• admin: open recent cron log in lightbox instead of in widget (db25a973)
• ckeditor: updated to ckeditor v4.19.0 (d0e47c05)
• core:
  • add path sanitization function (c7abf151)
  • implement generic namespace of exceptions (0fd13f0e)
  • move the PAM handlers to a service (4cb55938)
• discussions: added group selection when starting a global topic (dfe38f67)
• forms: added class to fields that have been disabled (b95821f6)
• groups: moved group tool field into its own view (77ff14cc)
• html: added SRI validation to local scripts and stylesheets (516412e4)
• icons:
  • added config flag to enabled/disable webp icons (c2a78165)
  • added FontAwesome zip upload so admins can update icons (02a4030a)
• menus: added support for a custom tag name for section headers (a3c521c3)
• notifications:
  • allow to provide a notification actor (a314571f)
  • notification handlers can controll e-mail mute link (422019b9)
  • added triggers to track en/dequeue events (9569225e)
• registration: allow to register with a valid invitation code (04127336)
• system_log:
  • added event type to the event action logged (eb4273cf)
  • improved logbrowser features (4a7b350c)
• user: added internal cache for profile data (7be4ca64)
• users:
  • allow filtering of inactive users (6ca3d63a)
  • added confirmation form when deleting a user (2234de28)
• views:
  • added widget_more element to entity listings (6ca4c78a)
  • added html5 video support to the file plugin (d713749e)

Performance

• core: added config flag to disable file exist check in classloader (234e9891)

Documentation

• release: update core release documentation (600b7517)
• support: added 4.3 to the support page (9216020e)

Bug Fixes

• annotations: save/update annotations return false on null values (4947ede8)
• core: generate correct URLs in special request cases (8f602520)
• notifications: handle exceptions during notification processing (d94cb193)
• user: only show language completeness on user settings for admins (65205220)
• users: briefdescription icon should be false by default (f40750cc)

Deprecations

• annotations: annotate event is deprecated (072ca669)
• config:
  • changed the way config variables are protected (3a53a6cd)
  • deprecated some more config variables (c8190587)
  • do not use config->elgg_settings_file (14b8073c)
• core:
  • renamed various user related lib functions (0f1d15fb)
  • prefix relationship functions with elgg_ (4467cb8b)
  • renamed various session related lib functions (82b6ffe4)
  • prefix core functions with elgg_ (517e9d25)
  • various lib functions and hooks deprecated (22fe011a)
• db:
  • old style database configuration (5c5d2394)
  • using order_by_[metadata|annotation] is deprecated (ae12730d)
• forms: clear a single sticky form value (d950a3d3)
• friends: Friends trait functions (1221d6ce)
• hooks: old or obsolete hooks have been deprecated (d46f320a)
• icons: replaced the 'classes', 'icon' hook (0acb87fc)
• js: toggle and popup now init with a class instead of rel (97ba1790)
• metadata: delete metadata by id (d7b3c1fb)
• views: (un)register external views (2aa22ba7)

4.2.3 (2022-07-04)

Contributors

• Jeroen Dalsem (2)
• Jerôme Bakker (2)

Bug Fixes

• blogs: preview opens in blank window to prevent history issues (39a99376)
• forms: datepicker should show correct prev/next characters (48bff527)

4.2.2 (2022-06-17)

Contributors

• Jeroen Dalsem (8)
• Jerôme Bakker (5)

Bug Fixes

• cache: make sure the CLI and webserver use the same cache path (fda6463e)
• db: support passing relationship guid when sorting by relationship (21b9f1e6)
• groups: groupprofile rss feed should show recent searchable content (54353859)
• icons: check filesize when checking if entity has icon (50989148)
• menus:
  • allow detecting selected sorting parent from view var (822ac99c)
  • sorting parent detection should respect menu item priority (19fbbcb7)
• search: improved search result presentation (8959c933)

4.2.1 (2022-05-31)

Contributors

• Jeroen Dalsem (17)
• Jerôme Bakker (4)

Documentation

• entities: added info about singular sort_by options (0340ecea)

Bug Fixes

• bookmarks: always detect document title for bookmarks link (6b8e7cb3)
• ckeditor: replaced deprecated get_current_language js function (036c532d)
• db: ignore unsupported sort_by property types instead of crashing (9eb1e3ba)
• forms: do not draw container_guid subtext if empty (127352ee)
• groups:
  • enable cropper on group profile icon (a0a61cf8)
  • replaced deprecated sort options in owner transfer (5b787372)
• icons: only generate webp urls if server supports it (fbf76c11)
• js: unable to check for logged in user in javascript (72d89a96)
• menus: make sure title-menu-toggle is always available (f81a21e6)
• navigation: user hover menu was missing the admin toggle (06433212)
• pages:
  • allow saving with an empty description (3001a307)
  • check field config for all required fields on save (7f72d186)
• search: allow passing sort_by through query params (4104a828)
• site_notifications: prevent possible deadloops with seeded entities (8ea5e3ce)

4.2.0 (2022-05-13)

Contributors

• Jerôme Bakker (16)

Performance

• batch: retain query cache during ElggBatch (8dcebb26)

Bug Fixes

• composer: postinstall script correctly creates /mod folder (f2568298)
• likes: use correct values to check likeable capability (74b43e15)
• session: make sure to cache the logged in user in the entity cache (9145183a)
• stats: correctly show the number of unvalidated users (cae13aa1)

4.2.0-rc.1 (2022-04-22)

Contributors

• Jeroen Dalsem (62)
• Jerôme Bakker (27)
• Nikolai Shcherbin (1)

Features

• accounts: admins can set duplicate email addresses for other users (4e6f7803)
• actions: added logged_out access level to action registration (29679c37)
• activity: added link to activity widget title (54b2c580)
• admin:
  • improved user management (084a57cc)
  • added queue statistics (2a34737a)
  • added database row count statistics (a7cc7b23)
• bookmarks: added link to bookmarks widget title (d5ab59a2)
• cache:
  • added option to system cache to set TTL for an item (45e2f2c7)
  • replaced stash with phpfastcache (6637015f)
• config: added a setting to control the system message delay (289fb2ba)
• db: metadata and annotation boolean values keep their type (c6775bd3)
• discussions:
  • added a discussions widget for profile and dashboard (8d2ccea0)
  • added a group setting to control topic notifications (72c2674c)
• entities: add generic sort options (2216bb01)
• friends: added link to friends_of widget (09ad7dae)
• groups: added imprint to indicate group owner/membership (b84f4535)
• icons: serve webp icons if accepted by the browser (b0188aba)
• js: updated jquery-ui to v1.13.1 (f1874a90)
• menu: ability to set the output view of a menu item (5a210df5)
• messageboard: added link to messageboard widget title (ffad7512)
• plugins: login as features are now part of core (55a0c0f9)
• reportedcontent:
  • site admins get notification about new reports (0536f60e)
  • separate active/archive listing (451fce64)
• tests: added testing and support for MariaDB (29b3ec2a)
• user: if unvalidated allow a user to update email address (aa43b04b)
• users: automatically remove unvalidated users (3eeed1f9)
• view: url input will auto prepend http protocol if missing (771a1847)
• views:
  • added placeholder support for autocomplete fields (889882f2)
  • added more features to the system messages (000b92ba)
  • entity imprint now shows time updated if appropriate (049fb14c)
  • login form title indicates forward from protected page (0946daf9)

Bug Fixes

• composer: updated imagine for PHP 8.1 compatibility (33d1c594)
• db: prevent entity subtype queries without a type provided (3f63e4f9)
• developers: do not disable display errors if enabled from htaccess (929806c9)
• entity: prevent deadloops during recursive entity delete (139998f5)
• forms: corectly ignore empty form body (4cdb56fa)
• groups: correctly report failure when inviting users (85814c0b)
• js: user picker should respect if default event is prevented (ce6dab00)
• plugins: don't show plugin (user)settings form if no content (bee2f1e2)
• views: limit long entity titles in url and page titles (02ed01c3)

Deprecations

• js:
  • introduced elgg/i18n module for js translations (e5e67955)
  • ElggUser and ElggEntity classes have been deprecated (bcd6a515)
  • elgg.security related functions moved to AMD (c7c9a44b)
  • elgg.system_message related functions moved to AMD (f0781727)
  • unused and unwanted javascript lib functions (1982af30)

Removed

• js: no longer need the prototypes.js helper functions (09fca863)
• tests: TestSeeder class (e1ca7c84)

4.1.6 (2022-04-08)

Contributors

• Jeroen Dalsem (2)
• Jerôme Bakker (2)

Performance

• input: only filter input params once (66107ced)

Bug Fixes

• custom_index: added missing activity module content (ed4575bd)
• js: security tokens are refreshed automatically (26fc2206)

4.1.5 (2022-03-25)

Contributors

• Jerôme Bakker (3)
• Jeroen Dalsem (1)

Bug Fixes

• di: fetch timer from the correct DiContainer (abc25bd9)
• pages: prevent warning when trying to access guid on bool (8ff80f9e)

4.1.4 (2022-03-11)

Contributors

• Jeroen Dalsem (1)
• Jerôme Bakker (1)

4.1.3 (2022-02-25)

Contributors

• Jerôme Bakker (14)
• Jeroen Dalsem (1)

Performance

• site_notifications: cleanup speed-up on large databases (baf9f0b0)

Bug Fixes

• account: user settings form is no longer ajax based (22b41305)
• core: correctly suppress notices when asked (b5ef29c7)
• forms: styling of horizontal aligned fields not always correct (8ca0872f)
• i18n: double translation (36bbf27d)
• route: detect page owner with ignored access (d7f5d35b)
• session: correctly apply session garbage collection (d14350c8)

4.1.2 (2022-02-11)

Contributors

• Jerôme Bakker (8)
• Jeroen Dalsem (1)

Bug Fixes

• composer: install symfony/mime (bd2832c5)
• core: correctly compare urls with array query params (f94d3290)
• database: return documented return type (75d08731)

4.1.1 (2022-02-01)

Contributors

• Jerôme Bakker (4)

Bug Fixes

• cache: improved cache path parsing (fb18efb1)

4.1.0 (2022-01-14)

Contributors

• Jeroen Dalsem (7)
• Jerôme Bakker (5)
• Nikolai Shcherbin (1)

Features

• css: added helper class to wrap horizontal fieldset content (c0853ae7)

Bug Fixes

• groups: only select groups to check group invites (17bedb9b)

Removed

• tests: IntegratedUnitTestCase (65f007e6)

4.1.0-beta.1 (2021-12-24)

Contributors

• Jeroen Dalsem (93)
• Jerôme Bakker (36)

Features

• activity: index page will show registration form if possible (c5b84221)
• admin:
  • server requirements warning for session garbage collection (460134fd)
  • user validation by admin notify user about validation (ab5b3624)
  • added link to add new user form on newest users listing (98d55ca7)
  • admin control panel menu items always visible in title menu (204fd65d)
• blog: added logic to pass archive menu options to sidebar views (221172c7)
• cache: replaced mrclay/minify with matthiasmullie/minify (fd99fccc)
• capabilities: canComment now uses canWriteToContainer logic (f4c3890d)
• comments:
  • added threaded comments capabilities (0875b898)
  • commentable is now an entity capability (475cb0b6)
  • added a site config to control comments on group content (bde859da)
  • show a notice for logged out users to login to comment (60f79376)
  • show that a comment was created by the content owner (32af360d)
• config: added site setting to control who can change language (164965b6)
• core:
  • improved default index pages (f22c071a)
  • replaced internal service provider with PHP-DI (8d997600)
• css:
  • added helper class to stretch a field in a fieldset (be05225c)
  • added helper class for horizontal labels in elgg-field (df095c13)
  • added phone up media query css crush variable (18de6788)
• custom_index:
  • added settings to control homepage modules (54bbf7c0)
  • Front Page Demo plugin is now enabled on new sites (f95afdab)
• db: the required mysql version for new installations now is 5.7 (65c292e0)
• developers: control how elgg_echo strings are displayed (8eb2afb6)
• entities: added entity capabilities service (e93d1c5d)
• forms:
  • elgg_make_sticky_form() now supports ignored field names (5febfa9e)
  • the container has a dedicated input view with more context (6761e981)
• install: admin notice for new installs now mention front page demo (a30ebdfa)
• javascript: sortable features now also work on touch devices (fe2421d5)
• likes: likable now is part of the entity capabilities systems (a149422d)
• menus: added flag to menu items to hide if it has no children (24b05c70)
• notifications:
  • added option to disable subscription filtering (1e58e96e)
  • control over detailed notification configuration (2ae90bf2)
• page_owner: page owner middleware forces page owner detection (829bce49)
• profile: user display name edit is now a separate view (4b485be8)
• routes:
  • add function to get a route based on an url/path (17370a6a)
  • add function to get current route name (7c2a2991)
• site: added the ability to upload a site icon (149f1258)
• site_notifications: allow to configure the cleanup interval (77642349)
• system_log: improved archived log cleanup (024c7aae)
• tests:
  • static config test now check correct upgrades registration (5d146320)
  • logged in user is now always logged out by base test class (c1a97363)
  • entities created during tests are automatically removed (3ec2d614)
• upgrades: the finished upgrades list now has pagination (09a1ea54)
• views: added menu section in elgg_view_messages header output (d9023fcf)

Performance

• comments: added comments count preloader logic (2b6da920)
• site_notifications: cron cleanup uses direct database queries (36969685)

Documentation

• core: added a guide on how to use the entity capabilities service (b8f226ab)

Bug Fixes

• admin: server information now reports correct minimal php version (a2fb0a96)
• collection: correctly implement unset of collection item (3684df75)
• file: prevent path traversal in ElggFile (0a50b762)
• js: no longer close popups on scroll (9b4d2621)
• menus: removed link from topbar account menu item (e1104cf5)
• router: admin gatekeeper reports status code 403 instead of 401 (05340f54)
• tests: custom config values always persist over db values (49ef293b)

Deprecations

• core:
  • ElggEntity->getAccessID() is deprecated (3a9a9e5b)
  • elgg_get_version has been replaced by elgg_get_release (cc71881c)
• i18n: the public DI proxy for elgg()->echo is deprecated (2f65c1ab)
• page_owner: legacy page owner detection has been deprecated (6fec812f)
• views: elgg_does_viewtype_fallback has been deprecated (1e2a135a)

Removed

• admin: control panel widget has been removed (4e8d1cff)

4.0.6 (2021-12-23)

Contributors

• Jerôme Bakker (3)

4.0.5 (2021-12-03)

Contributors

• Jerôme Bakker (6)

Bug Fixes

• blog: show future access level for draft blogs (68d86899)
• install: correctly determine database installation completion (96a4a469)
• upgrade: correctly interpret database results before migration (b8dcc903)

4.0.4 (2021-11-19)

Contributors

• Jerôme Bakker (2)

4.0.3 (2021-11-05)

Contributors

• Jerôme Bakker (4)
• Jeroen Dalsem (2)

Bug Fixes

• core: access collection members should always be users (6de21dbe)
• discussion: comment actor on group discussion no longer notified (41ac24aa)
• views: correctly support passing tagify options to input/tags (7e121f96)

4.0.2 (2021-10-25)

Contributors

• Jerôme Bakker (21)
• Jeroen Dalsem (6)

Features

• site_notifications: notification byline shows container entity (9f43720d)

Bug Fixes

• blog: don't supply full $vars to the blog/save form (2e23f9dd)
• core: use route generation instead of fixed url (565ae3a7)
• i18n: catch too few arguments provided in elgg_echo() (28609f02)
• js: do not click on parent menu item of tabs with children (9b5d3073)
• messages: use list out of bounds helper (487c174a)
• notifications:
  • continue when no object is found in html output (86eb13cd)
  • set notification url for all ElggData objects (b2ebf498)
  • settings show correct entity icons (27dfac30)
• routes: correctly detect page owner in certain routes (e003a4e9)
• site_notifications:
  • only mark as read when the owner clicks url (16eb05e9)
  • cleanup oldest notifications first (897cc5f5)
  • use list out of bounds helper (b39c55bc)
• views:
  • unset value for tag url (1cf8d2b2)
  • replace unsupported attribute (f0473ca1)

4.0.1 (2021-10-08)

Contributors

• Jerôme Bakker (11)
• Jeroen Dalsem (7)

Bug Fixes

• blog: use route name as page title (ead3647b)
• comments: no longer disable save button after form submission (03651f26)
• core: do not respond with redirect on failure of ajax requests (4222ac92)
• notifications:
  • mute page of a comment shows relevant entities (e297bda2)
  • disable subscribe button if you can't subscribe (ea612bb4)
  • (un)subscribe buttons only for logged in users (824291fb)
• site_notifications: prevent input limit reached in bulk actions (e83df87c)
• systemlog: only log before and after events if there are handlers (5fb8189a)
• thewire: output of the new wire notification in HTML e-mail (c161429b)
• views: correct default behaviour for showing entity menu on PHP 8 (8f9f3827)

4.0.0 (2021-09-24)

Contributors

• Jerôme Bakker (11)
• Jeroen Dalsem (4)

Bug Fixes

• cli: allow batch upgrades to run indefinitely (5b6b4419)
• i18n: allowed languages returns filtered language keys (ff574222)
• upgrade: content owner subscription is now an async upgrade (d8abe11c)

4.0.0-rc.1 (2021-09-10)

Contributors

• Jerôme Bakker (59)
• Jeroen Dalsem (3)

Features

• cli: upgrade command supports force option (8fb44c7f)
• delayed_email: add intro text to notification (c3750286)
• developers: added link to entity on the entity explorer page (cd1f3753)
• groups: groups edit form tabs navigation help (bd2f94d9)
• notifications: added option to exclude subscribers (e43ae547)
• system_log: allow elgg_call to disable system logging (7f85fd18)

Performance

• db: disable system_log during cleanup of entity properties (4576dff6)

Bug Fixes

• activity: don't show responses on index page when logged out (eaa5c28b)
• bookmarks:
  • don't show filter menu when viewing a bookmark (1a5c9478)
  • unable to save bookmark on PHP 8 (81392414)
• db: use QueryBuilder in query execution (2f2050cb)
• delayed_email: prevent empty notification (ee6bc376)
• developers: theme sandbox is now only available for admins (19bcb892)
• mail: correctly encode ( and ) in e-mail headers (0560c379)
• notifications:
  • serialization exception during delayed enqueue (72b65143)
  • use correct actor for admin notification (6b8d37a0)
• pagination:
  • don't updated browser history on ajax appended lists (823283bd)
  • allow control over base url during Ajax requests (edad75a7)
  • use correct jquery selector during ajax replace (e750622b)
• river: show river responses again on all pages (9e90d95b)
• session: prevent PHP warning when regenerating session (dfe73773)
• site_notifications:
  • limit cleanup to 30 minutes (7229e7e1)
  • prevent deadloop when marking as read (c4467a2c)
• statistics: show readable entity type/subtype (99a68a47)

4.0.0-beta.3 (2021-08-06)

Contributors

• Jeroen Dalsem (20)
• Jerôme Bakker (17)

Features

• friends: added friends_of widget (05fea8a0)
• i18n: added a config flag to disable browser language detection (00b612dc)
• notifications:
  • notification events are configurable (55c7c909)
  • subscribers to owner will receive notifications (2b0f2bb2)
  • setting to delay notification queue processing (7942f7e0)
• pagination: js loaded listdata triggers a change event (aa478518)
• views: allow custom title to be passed to output/friendlytime (4c88d2d3)

Bug Fixes

• admin: drag/drop plugin ordering has been fixed (7b5fe7df)
• email: added mute link to html email footer (85268538)
• groups: make sure retrieving group tool option always uses hook (1e9ae2b6)
• install:
  • make sure user is logged in during installer (b6248ec7)
  • allow some vendor files to be included (3f857850)
• likes: correctly toggle count badge (fa2be687)
• metadata: elgg_get_tags uses correct default for tag_names (4e8d5326)
• phinx: correctly check for indexes by name during upgrades (22ccaea9)
• plugins: position and required state of plugins are now asserted (948927a3)
• site_notifications: moved buttonbank to top of the list (c158e810)
• tags: always have tags css available (3f9b5a63)
• upgrades: improved completion reporting (863e2627)
• views: prevent incidental incorrect id generation (c2d77bd1)
• webservices: register correct PAM handlers for API authentication (51ebcabb)
• widgets: only update title on non empty href string (7b147a61)

4.0.0-beta.2 (2021-07-09)

Contributors

• Jeroen Dalsem (13)
• Jerôme Bakker (13)

Features

• discussions: added quick status toggle entity menu item (1b78dc00)

Bug Fixes

• activity:
  • always show tabs on activity index page (3aa6605b)
  • added missing breadcrumbs (db7e2ce3)
• cache: invalidate caches on plugin (de)activate (8bca339c)
• core:
  • prevent exceptions on session save (90345bae)
  • do not draw exception content if there already is output (91d4f03a)
  • correctly handle exceptions in error log formatter (6d6328f1)
• icons: update site menu icons (7292b4c0)
• js: always process error messages in ajax calls (cf070072)
• navigation: prevent pluginsettings menu item name conflicts (cbe3ef6d)
• notifications:
  • dont pass recipient user to default message body (91d45a26)
  • show correct notification labels (9a285350)
• search: do not show social and entity menu in search results (33413407)
• settings: english and site language not correctly disabled (76a099e3)
• views: number formatter not always returning expected results (f5d25392)

4.0.0-beta.1 (2021-06-11)

Contributors

• Jeroen Dalsem (193)
• Jerôme Bakker (144)
• RiverVanRain (1)
• dnovikov (1)

Features

• actions: added generic actions for (un)subscribe and (un)mute (2f7e1702)
• comments: added ability to configure number of comments per page (100e6881)
• config:
  • added configuration option for sendmail in settings.php (91f476ba)
  • added proxy settings to the settings.php (37c1966d)
• core:
  • added first login event for when user logs in the first time (19a2d384)
  • users are automaticly subscribed to content they comment on (a5373f14)
  • added PHP 8 support (11e42800)
  • ElggBatch supports reporting failures (ba601973)
• database: add generic registration function for seeders (a11047b3)
• db: updated to doctrine/dbal 3.1 (32152f3f)
• discussions: the site menu item is now always present (2d19025a)
• email:
  • from address will show original sender name (6fa8fcf0)
  • added html formatted mail template (76b21538)
  • added config setting to limit subject length (4e82113f)
  • Elgg now supports multiple to, cc and bcc recipients (0f24a524)
• forms: entity field config can be requested from a service (c6b1771a)
• git: extra allowed types for commit messages (c9f1757c)
• groups:
  • allow group specific plugin settings (28f7e6e6)
  • group edit form now uses tabs for different sections (a9103dee)
• js:
  • updated to jQuery 3.5.1 (b9f8a8c5)
  • jquery ui updated to v1.12.1 and can now supports AMD (4914dc8f)
  • allow lightbox to load JS dependencies (fa00e132)
• menu: the title menu will be expanded with the entity menu (a91a7cc7)
• menus: more granular register and prepare hooks (bc6a5e2f)
• messages: allow users to send messages friends only (94208336)
• navigation: more control over the pagination rendering (a9b0680c)
• notifications:
  • plugins can control notification with eventhandler (87ebad4e)
  • added mute notification page (2d724e6e)
  • temporarily disable notifications (2770d4d9)
  • added delayed email to bundle notifications (d522a53e)
  • split salutation and sign-off from message body (5741a414)
  • more detailed notification subscriptions (b018d1a8)
• page_owner: add page owner detection to route definition (f52e4227)
• pagination:
  • added 'infinite lists' pagination options (d8aa00ff)
  • listings are now updated without page reloads (1f3322c2)
• plugins:
  • added ability to configure notification events in config (e3e77234)
  • added ability to register view options in elgg-plugin.php (522feeb6)
  • added ability to register group tools in elgg-plugin.php (9acc7d88)
• reportedcontent: added menu item to report entities (13f07c58)
• router: public API to get the route of the current request (8e3736e8)
• search: moved result formatting logic into views (fe63196f)
• seeder:
  • add option to spread creation time of seeded entities (30385b79)
  • force create new entities during seeding (a21eccf8)
  • limit (un)seeding to a given content type (0485722a)
• site_notifications:
  • site notifications are enabled for new users (51238b15)
  • configure cleanup of site notifications (55ce9da4)
  • split read/unread notifications (9df9bc19)
  • remove notification when content is removed (792705a8)
• subscriptions: added muting possibility to entity subscriptions (6ad73185)
• tags: tags input is now assisted by tagify (bc9d2566)
• thewire:
  • added getParent function to ElggWire entity class (46f406aa)
  • allow database seeding (70a29ddc)
• users:
  • newly created users always have a validation status (04cc3395)
  • uniform storage of notification settings (6fcccafe)
• views:
  • added helpers functions for outputting urls (a23a3ff1)
  • added 'show_owner_block' variable to prevent owner_block output (29cc3323)
• webservices: option to enable / disable API keys (4c5b33cb)
• widgets: dashboard widgets created on first login (9bf117d9)

Performance

• db:
  • add index to annotations table (7c728671)
  • add index to annotations table (af34641a)

Bug Fixes

• collections: corrected implementation of SeekableIterator (a7e70382)
• core: remove_entity_relationships triggers delete event (73626bee)
• css: wide select inputs do not run out of screen (6af60e27)
• db:
  • check for entity existence during metadata creation (0a07fe8d)
  • check for entity existence during relationship creation (d23e7351)
• groups: use guid instead of container_guid in add:group:group route (57146fbe)
• invite_friends: friendship delayed until invited friend validated (2c212dd1)
• js: userpicker stores match_on information in data attribute (1b30d349)
• relationship: saving unchanged relationships won't trigger events (549ee02c)
• river: show less duplicate comments (d172ce94)
• site_notifications: save more notification data (2603e4cd)
• tests: testAccessCaching now makes more sense (466ce221)

Deprecations

• core:
  • drop support for handler in elgg_register_title_button (0529986f)
  • forward() has been deprecated (9497be28)
• database: use QueryBuilder instead of raw sql queries (8aa74ef9)

Breaking Changes

• This update is a major update of the jQuery library. Update your code if needed. (b9f8a8c5)
• If you need jquery ui related functionality like sortables, make sure to add the correct dependencies to your own javascript (4914dc8f)
• You now can only use the elgg/Ajax async module.

fixes #13175 (5bca9af9)

• when validating the container write permissions the type and subtype of the content need to be provided.

fixes #12684 (13070985)

• composer: replace deprecated Zend with Laminas (bef90a8c)
• core:
  • admin and banned metadata of a user is now protected (ef54acd0)
  • protected some ElggEntity attributes (aaa6da50)
  • ElggData::save() returns bool (627c2e7a)
  • move exceptions to own namespace (88e12e89)
• i18n: removed some hardly used i18n lib functions (5e768e41)
• icons: old icon names are no longer supported / converted (a00b2599)
• menu: menu vars are required for preparing vertical and dropdown (10125160)
• menus: removed elgg_get_filter_tabs() (37340f99)
• notifications: moved notifications plugin to core (0f141b73)
• web_services: rewrite of the web services plugin (fceb9130)
• widgets: change default widgets event registration (2340f47b)

Removed

• core:
  • support for the composer project as a 'plugin' (f52f167c)
  • the Friendable interface has been replaced by a trait (7f5ea445)
  • legacy plugin hook / event callback parameters (ab19e9e9)
  • some hardly used functions have been removed/replaced (b37e34c0)
• developers: webservices inspection (588534c0)
• diagnostics: the plugin has been removed (4050e21a)
• discussions: no longer add an item to the groups filter menu (c9d36b82)
• navigation: helper view for menu item deps has been removed (a2ed60fa)
• notifications:
  • pre Elgg 1.9 notification support is dropped (949825a9)
  • NotifcationService::getMethodsAsDeprecatedGlobal (835a7218)
• plugins:
  • plugins no longer work with manifest files (a17c8cec)
  • various plugins no longer listen to ECML hooks (d5d922c5)
• system_log: various lib functions have been removed (12108c9d, closes #13089)
• tags: functions related to metadata tag names have been removed (4ca58372)
• upgrades: removed obsolete upgrades (1f0c968c)
• users: replaced validation methods with service functions (821ccd95)
• views: removed elgg_prepend_css_urls is no longer available (53cb8819)

3.3.25 (2022-10-07)

Contributors

• Jerôme Bakker (2)

3.3.24 (2021-12-23)

Contributors

• Jerôme Bakker (1)

Bug Fixes

• reported_content: sanitize report URLs (c30b17bf)

3.3.23 (2021-12-03)

Contributors

• Jerôme Bakker (1)

Bug Fixes

• ajax: forms in the admin namespace are protected (572d210e)

3.3.22 (2021-11-19)

Contributors

• Jerôme Bakker (3)

Bug Fixes

• groups: prevent misuse of group membership actions (d9fcad76)

3.3.21 (2021-08-03)

Contributors

• Jeroen Dalsem (1)

Bug Fixes

• http: always disable cache if cookie is being set (30c17f06)

3.3.20 (2021-07-09)

Contributors

• Jerôme Bakker (4)

Bug Fixes

• admin: allow admins to be added from the admin listing page (8d94877f)
• database: use correct port number in Phinx migrations (0ee77635)

3.3.19 (2021-06-10)

Contributors

• Jerôme Bakker (3)

Bug Fixes

• output: use correct number seperators (536e2b26)

3.3.18 (2021-05-18)

Contributors

• Jerôme Bakker (3)
• Robert Cochran (1)

Documentation

• install: mention necessary SELinux changes (912ca440)

Bug Fixes

• account: use consistent user throughout the account settings (9e59117f)
• search: make sure entity_subtype is a string during search options (94f110c6)
• webservices: correctly evaluate truthy values (86459670)

3.3.17 (2021-04-16)

Contributors

• Jeroen Dalsem (2)
• Jerôme Bakker (2)
• Nikolai Shcherbin (1)

Bug Fixes

• groups: don't show 'Invite friends' menu item on the group's members page when 'Friends' plugin is deactivated (5d2f8a32)
• river: river options annotation_ids now work as expected (e1d61594)
• thewire: do not put unlimited description in notification summary (657be642)

3.3.16 (2021-02-12)

Contributors

• Jerôme Bakker (4)
• Jeroen Dalsem (1)
• Nikolai Shcherbin (1)

Bug Fixes

• cache: disable filecache if path isn't writeable (dc807d44)
• likes: don't provide likes data in non default type ajax requests (07d63d43)
• menu: don't show 'invite friends' menu item on the group profile when 'Friends' plugin is deactivated (2783492a)

3.3.15 (2021-01-15)

Contributors

• Jerôme Bakker (4)

Bug Fixes

• db: pass previous database exception (20e07d23)
• icon: use different icon size to check in icon remove (8c42bf4f)
• icons: prevent auto generation of icons during entity updates (918a1193)

3.3.14 (2020-12-18)

Contributors

• Jeroen Dalsem (8)
• Jerôme Bakker (3)

Bug Fixes

• cache: keep server cache in a local file storage (0569862d)
• database: correctly order metadata (32fe6955)
• http: allow access to client IP behind proxy server (159e70ee)
• search: prevent duplicate extras matches in search results (1211ae4d)
• widgets: correctly update widget title after widget update (95535d24)

3.3.13 (2020-11-20)

Contributors

• Jeroen Dalsem (3)
• Jerôme Bakker (2)

Performance

• users: entities metadata preloader logic now works for users (74bfd360)

Bug Fixes

• tests:
  • compare objects that are both serialized and deserialized (1af78826)
  • entity preloader is clean before tests (35a96147)

3.3.12 (2020-10-30)

Contributors

• Jeroen Dalsem (4)
• Jerôme Bakker (1)
• Nikolai Shcherbin (1)
• RiverVanRain (1)

Bug Fixes

• admin: invalid admin section should report 404 not found (bd4eb40f)
• developers: do not log to screen in cli (b1a06491)
• github: make sure we use composer v1 during codecoverage tests (25022dfd)
• river: "created", "river" event trigger regression (718d79c8)
• widgets: content widget shows correct owner content (c3c663d3)

3.3.11 (2020-10-02)

Contributors

• Jeroen Dalsem (3)
• Jerôme Bakker (1)

Bug Fixes

• core: do not save session for serve-file and CLI requests (cf8ee303)
• database: use compatible DBAL version (c5ca05f1)
• likes: comment listings are now correctly preloaded with likes info (f348802a)
• session: correctly set httponly flag for remember_me cookie (91034947)

3.3.10 (2020-09-04)

Contributors

• Jerôme Bakker (12)
• Team Webgalli (1)

Features

• htaccess: added hardening rules to prevent file access (08ea7f7a)

Bug Fixes

• comments: validate canComment in comments save action (883be474)
• composer: define correct autoload namespace (6f874ae2)
• developers: inspect annotations menu no longer crashes (096118a7)
• uservalidationbyemail: show correct login error message (db3cddd6)

3.3.9 (2020-08-17)

Contributors

• Jerôme Bakker (14)
• Jeroen Dalsem (1)

Bug Fixes

• db: handle empty dbprefix in join normalization (fe3d1684)
• search: allow only unique field names to be searched (4e540518)
• tests:
  • set config value in correct location (05c0ff6e)
  • improved access array testing in walled garden mode (c58a1543)
  • validate correct widget id for active plugin (7ddc7743)
  • get correct plugin for deactivation testing (f058db5d)
  • use language keys to validate (e16b0166)

3.3.8 (2020-07-10)

Contributors

• Jerôme Bakker (4)
• iionly (1)

Bug Fixes

• cache: support javascript source map files (5ec82f20)
• uservalidationbyemail: corrected error in EN language file (5e5adca4)
• webservices: implement missing cache functions (deba4203)

3.3.7 (2020-06-30)

Contributors

• Jeroen Dalsem (2)
• Jerôme Bakker (2)
• RiverVanRain (1)
• Team Webgalli (1)

Documentation

• webservices: how to generate HMAC headers for authentication (1a74457f)

Bug Fixes

• comments:
  • allow group owners to edit comments in their group (835478f8)
  • use correct logic to apply default comments list length (c556969e)
• css: admin menu header (01e72dd1)
• navigation: allow configuration of max display items site menu (cbede32e)

3.3.6 (2020-05-29)

Contributors

• Jerôme Bakker (5)
• Jeroen Dalsem (3)

Performance

• likes: bulk delete likes annotations on entity delete (0b1d536c)

Bug Fixes

• db: default case_sensitive not applied for single pair in root (1ecd214c)
• notifications: only register group menu item if member of group (a3a707ef)
• redis: admin information page now works if authorized (7db8bbd8)

3.3.5 (2020-05-15)

Contributors

• Jerôme Bakker (6)
• RiverVanRain (2)
• Dennis Ploeger (1)
• Jeroen Dalsem (1)

Features

• cli: Adds a –refresh option to the list command (#13201) (eed99bfa)

Bug Fixes

• file:
  • validate uploaded file for new files (a3f4ed52)
  • correctly remove icons when updating a file (d215defa)
• friends_collection: display menu items correctly in full view (b170b1f4)
• input: no longer use double submit prevention on widget edit forms (ced827d5)
• mail: improved handling of email recipients name formatting (ff8a425a)
• plugins: disabled plugins should not get a priority (b856c449)
• views: prevent PHP notice during registering views (6b1bf6e4)

3.3.4 (2020-04-24)

Contributors

• Jerôme Bakker (4)
• Jeroen Dalsem (1)

Bug Fixes

• core:
  • use correct input for password reset (5ceaed52)
  • log exceptions by default (3d085449)
• developers: remove entity button in explorer now works (fed4809a)
• logger: correctly support legacy value 'OFF' (df80433c)

3.3.3 (2020-03-27)

Contributors

• Jerôme Bakker (4)
• Jeroen Dalsem (2)

Bug Fixes

• livesearch: use correct relationship options to find groups (dc82fd9e)
• mail: additional library for SMTP e-mail support (d69b90df)

3.3.2 (2020-03-13)

Contributors

• Jeroen Dalsem (6)
• Jerôme Bakker (4)

Bug Fixes

• notifications: listing of settings now contain a link to the item (4a2ae1de)
• webservices: use correct query string for hmac authorisation (1dc4cae9)

3.3.1 (2020-02-14)

Contributors

• Jeroen Dalsem (6)
• Jerôme Bakker (5)

Bug Fixes

• blog: double submit protection prevented correct saving (2460d178)
• file: correctly set forward url (10f48139)
• likes: likes popup will show recent likes first (9b0bf45d)
• plugins:
  • reindex plugins if there is a gap in the priority (ce2d4bfb)
  • default all plugins are listed (5888aa89)
  • correctly flush caches after plugin (de)activation (7a6465b5)
• route: correctly handle route generation for unicode usernames (58766e37)
• views: input/autocomplete correctly passes match_target (1fe233d2)

3.3.0 (2020-01-23)

Contributors

• Jeroen Dalsem (58)
• Jerôme Bakker (34)
• Josh Santos (1)

Features

• access: added generic container logic check for group tool option (eb129203)
• admin:
  • plugin list is default filtered by active state (e3adc687)
  • added site setting to control allowed languages (663fb447)
• annotations: added generic annotation delete action (1ebeafb4)
• cache: added more cache interactions (8dbc51ce)
• cli:
  • added upgrade:list command to list all upgrades in the system (364d0016)
  • added command to execute a single upgrade (ed14adf0)
  • added option to set language for cli command (d11d0581)
  • all core cli commands use translation keys (5355f270)
  • question defaults are automatically added to question (b2cdf54a)
• core:
  • you can now configure the default sort order of comments (573d416d)
  • added mimetype detection service (54e2574b)
  • container last_action is updated when entities are created (9f0a706b)
• css: walledgarden background image can be set as a css variable (939bf26e)
• developers: added entity explorer link to every entity (0c580432)
• discussions:
  • add page to view discussions in my groups (81c1cab0)
  • added setting to allow site wide discussions (5f4dc826)
• github: added codeclimate coverage action (e695efe5)
• i18n: added user agent language detection (e5778f5d)
• input:
  • forms now have the ability to prevent double submit (f4e21fd2)
  • added confirm option to input/submit (60a67b55)
• list: we provide a way back if you reach a page without content (b3ee54c5)
• mail: add smtp support (ada8bb7d, closes #12938)
• notifications: unregister specific notification action (19f3571b)
• plugins:
  • you can change/add theme variables in elgg-plugin.php (f698d00a)
  • added the ability to (un)extend views in elgg-plugin.php (d16fb845)
  • add ability to remove all plugin settings (28cb247d)
  • cli commands can now be registered in elgg-plugin.php (d0858cc8)
• tests: added MySQL 8 test job (63235d90)
• views:
  • added site setting to control if comment box collapses (043d6789)
  • info type added to elgg_view_message (006151fa)
  • seperate annotation view into subparts (b080fd25)
  • input/button now supports icon_alt (18425695)
  • added ability to elgg_view_page to pass layout vars (002ba980)

Performance

• js: refresh_token now uses a partial boot of the engine (23846134)

Documentation

• views: rewrite of the page structure guide (a5272a66)

Bug Fixes

• blog: no longer validate container permissions on existing blogs (e3b1c6c6)
• cli: improved error handling during command execution (c548e95b)
• core: no longer default to client file mime type (73f44c03)
• http: prevent content type sniffing by browsers (62743b8f)
• js: prevent clicks until related js is loaded (9e638c9e)
• views: moved user element to correct subviews (2a96a19a)

Deprecations

• core:
  • function generate_action_token is deprecated (11020308)
  • functions to get ordered event/hook handlers (3a47f381)
  • various functions have been deprecated (0f47534e)
• plugins:
  • using a start.php in you plugin is deprecated (b744960f)
  • function elgg_unset_all_plugin_settings() (36aa2e41)
• views:
  • the function elgg_view_entity_annotations (5f2b1bf3)
  • deprecated the usage of some old layout names (79a373dd)

3.2.4 (2020-01-23)

Contributors

• Jeroen Dalsem (5)
• Jerôme Bakker (2)

Bug Fixes

• cron: allow configuration for custom cron intervals (8e969a67)
• developers: set correct default value for menu hooks (d3bc28d6)
• installer: escape some special chars in db password (9923e173)
• search: do not try a search with invalid query (28cd2ead)
• user: user hover menu uses local data array of request params (6a0f28f2)

3.2.3 (2019-12-20)

Contributors

• Jerôme Bakker (7)
• Jeroen Dalsem (3)

Features

• groups: add limited group creation middleware (9ea474e1)

Documentation

• actions: updated action documentation (3e90769f)

Bug Fixes

• icons: always use default viewtype when using fallback icons (b2c666b7)
• search: search result extras are formatted correctly (3fd1355d)
• views: use correct summary classes in relationship elements (30ef1c87)

3.2.2 (2019-12-06)

Contributors

• Jeroen Dalsem (8)
• Jerôme Bakker (1)

Documentation

• database: document the need and usage of manual Phinx migrations (3d8d5ac4)

Bug Fixes

• core: plugin reports version of elgg_release (f86e898a)
• css: vertical align horizontal aligned fields in fieldset (78bb72f3)
• groups: added missing gatekeepers to content pages (ecb9fb8f)
• input: htmlawed will no longer check for duplicate ids (cbad1c25)
• tests: moved integration test to correct suite (8b4e0d40)
• theme_sandbox: changed aside modules to info modules (ba6bccf4)

3.2.1 (2019-11-25)

Contributors

• Jerôme Bakker (13)
• Jeroen Dalsem (6)
• Dennis Ploeger (1)

Features

• tests: allow testing of tool protected group pages (5b465453)

Documentation

• cli: added link to symfony (dbb3d32c)

Bug Fixes

• admin: use correct function for unvalidated users notifications (bbce4ca0)
• file:
  • use correct submit label on upload/update of file (07ef13d1)
  • use correct view in old group module (56a46f94)
  • added group tool gatekeeper to owner resource (4667d9fe)
• friends: supply correct link for friend request notification (21e231a0)
• groups:
  • set menu item classes the correct way (dc161621)
  • show a no result text on the group membership request page (db601b71)
• input: select now supports passing int values to options_values (4563eed4)
• installer: allow empty database table prefix during installation (622b47c0)
• seeder: use available users during seeding (716e02fb)
• system_log: check archive engine availability before changing (99e3c928)

3.2.0 (2019-10-24)

Contributors

• Jerôme Bakker (40)
• Jeroen Dalsem (18)

Features

• admin: added a site setting to require admin approval of accounts (2882da61)
• core:
  • added elgg_list_relationships (9b54398c)
  • added elgg_get_relationships function (21d3c697)
• database: clauses support invokable classes (75653f24)
• files: download urls can be configured to not expire (f61c5578)
• friends: add plugin setting to enable the need for friend approval (25b87858)
• groups:
  • added option to hide group owner tranfer (4a072e88)
  • allow groups to set default content access (9f701b77)
  • membership requests and invitations use relationship views (afff8d9f)
  • add invited users page for group owners (82310d78)
  • added membership requests tab to group members listing (019745f0)
  • add invite button on group members page (9e164221)
  • show user already a member/invited for the group (57d38cca)
  • member listing now uses elgg_list_relationship (783f22a6)
• install: allow user to change language during installation (5f23eff1)
• livesearch: added ability to set custom item_view (8c1df6e8)
• middleware: added page owner can edit middleware (b81fc729)
• redis: added the ability to set redis database and password (e0c9d953)
• request: allow access to the http request (7e86f576)
• security: allow password requirement to be configured (ccca6897)
• system_log: allow logbrowser to filter on object id (de0e6171)
• upgrades: track upgrade start time (f37d03bc)
• webservices:
  • added api token management (b146d097)
  • added webservices listing (5d2026de)

Documentation

• routing: added some extra middleware documentation (b1c123ca)

Bug Fixes

• access: allow plugin to register write access array subtypes (6db1d505)
• ckeditor: do no convert html entities in the editor (e977bf99)
• core:
  • ElggRelationship int attributes are casted to ints (d3604557)
  • make accesscollection save and rename work like documented (c3acbb1a)
• css: buttons in some menus keep correct styling (3eb49098)
• embed: no longer require a plugin with file_uploading provided (3925c647)
• js: deep merge the elgg.data (197bfb49)

Deprecations

• river: no longer use the enabled property of river items (59ebfb3d)

3.1.6 (2019-10-23)

Contributors

• Jeroen Dalsem (5)
• Jerôme Bakker (1)

Documentation

• database: document innodb recommended settings (7cfaf39a)

Bug Fixes

• access: do not add default access level if missing in input/access (58efbbc1)
• js:
  • only trigger open event when new content is loaded (83f67a81)
  • if no tabs are selected click the first tab (66c9e9ba)
• views: only add a link in summary title if entity can provide one (b9b70f7a)

3.1.5 (2019-10-11)

Contributors

• Jeroen Dalsem (7)
• Jerôme Bakker (2)

Documentation

• plugins: added some info about class structures in plugins (03536970)
• webservices: document the result structure of webservice calls (9a6221a7)

Bug Fixes

• core: allow passing only name or value into name/value pairs (e2e26677)
• js: stop refreshing tokens if session changed (bb4a7894)
• pages: correctly validate write permissions (a3fbc109)

3.1.4 (2019-09-27)

Contributors

• Jerôme Bakker (5)
• Jeroen Dalsem (2)

Bug Fixes

• messageboard: use the correct annotation_name for listings (95429878)
• tests: correctly validate response headers (2ccd1833)

3.1.3 (2019-09-13)

Contributors

• Jeroen Dalsem (4)
• Jerôme Bakker (4)

Features

• ajax: added option to suppress messages from ajax calls (2b728fe5)

Bug Fixes

• admin: do not show ajax success message when removing admin notice (75bf8cbd)
• database: updated Phinx to prevent Symfony conflicts (58d778a6)
• uservalidationbyemail: correct forwarding during email confirmation (e3ccb067)

3.1.2 (2019-08-28)

Contributors

• Jerôme Bakker (7)
• Esha Upadhyay (1)

Bug Fixes

• admin: prevent fatal error on non Apache servers (3da30342)
• cache: invalidating simplecache could break symlinked cache (c8a41062)
• comments: block comments on group content for non members (6482879a)
• developers: link to site settings section (330676bb)
• discussions: no more filter menu on discussion detail page (e8d60f6c)
• installer: link to site settings section (f0e3dbe5)

3.1.1 (2019-08-02)

Contributors

• Jeroen Dalsem (2)

3.1.0 (2019-07-25)

Contributors

• Jeroen Dalsem (81)
• Jerôme Bakker (23)
• Rohit Gupta (9)
• Ismayil Khayredinov (1)
• Joe Bordes (1)

Features

• admin:
  • added requirements information about database server (d9c92dab)
  • add email change option to unvalidated users (f09ba7ee)
  • add server requirements page (4e5cd057)
  • moved Elgg release to page header (f55d0f1d)
  • add security recommendations page (e129b307)
  • add performance overview page (f1321a2f)
  • admin user lists now have the ability to search by email (c34789f4)
  • add admins directly from the administrators page (78027dda)
  • basic and advanced settings are merged into one form (aedaa0e1)
• ckeditor:
  • updated to ckeditor v4.12.x (33b44604)
  • updated ckeditor version to 4.11.x (d6061b3f)
• core:
  • error resources now have access to the exception (fac3141e)
  • added function to convert large numbers into short form (de9d2ef8)
  • admin notices now have their own class (a627d4ef)
  • manifest.json is now a cacheable simplecache resource (ef98f420)
• db: allow configuration of the database port number (058db755)
• developers:
  • wrap input and output views (cafdb455)
  • display view location in view wrapping (e6ba1ecf)
  • added acl information to entity explorer (9c465a1a)
• entities: added helper function elgg_count_entities (7e00cbc7)
• gatekeeper: flag to validate user edit access (8becf0ea)
• groups: support content based on type/subtype in tool module (fa897bcb)
• icons: add icon cropper (deb5d212)
• input: add support for more input types (048704e2)
• menus: added menu param to set a selected menu item (74d50561)
• notifications: Elgg knows about sender and recipient (539437b0)
• page_owner: moved page owner logic to a service (bc35cf5a)
• pages:
  • page navigation now uses default page menu behaviour (89976121)
  • replaced treeview js and css with default menu behaviour (18be2699)
• phinx: updated phinx version to 0.10.x (52ebe588)
• plugins: hooks and events can be declared in elgg-plugin.php (c1cc12c4)
• profile: new input types for custom profile fields (59c1a4ba)
• router: add SignedRequestGatekeeper middleware (54e050a3)
• routes:
  • added required plugins param to route config (8f4c1957)
  • added route config to mark route as deprecated (53d8f433)
• security:
  • request confirmation on email change (53017104)
  • notify the user about a password change (8692ac32)
• site_notifications: topbar menu item now has a unread count badge (a1d1fddc)
• upgrades: completed upgrades are sorted by completion time (beebaecd)
• users:
  • unify set/get/delete profile data functions (906c25b7)
  • added a site setting to allow users to change the username (3e2a476e)
• views:
  • add additional page menu and owner block controls (5cf80c8c)
  • password inputs now set correct autocomplete behaviour (929f7bc5)
  • show_add_form view var is now supported in responses (7bd0f0da)

Performance

• db: added some extra indexes to the entities table (0395d99b)

Documentation

• core:
  • added a spam guide (2ac20105)
  • added documentation about the usage of elgg_call (8beef28f)
  • added upgrade notices page for 3.0 to 3.x (456e4fba)

Bug Fixes

• admin: different user counters in admin stats (73c86726)
• core:
  • updated PHP version checks to check correct version (dbb02710)
  • elgg_call will now also restore when an error is thrown (54964f59)
• css:
  • spacing between profile-field and widgets (a281ac45)
  • prevent jquery-ui bug related to sortables (fa840b53)
• discussions: no longer call unavailable sidebar views (afe83c96)
• forms: added missing entity info in widget access input (8f1770d1)
• pages:
  • no longer register page_nav menu if there is just one item (a7f7359d)
  • removed the pages navigation sidebar from some resources (08f3df26)
  • no longer show history sidebar on revision page (3c91022d)
• system_log: correctly fetch non default object classes (3f0a10d4)

Deprecations

• access:
  • elgg_set_ignore_access is deprecated (6d0d99ec)
  • access_show_hidden_entities is deprecated (33b3e5ac)
• actions: replaced several delete actions with entity/delete (192d01ac)
• core:
  • legacy hook/event callback arguments are deprecated (563f4492)
  • various unused lib functions have been deprecated (792bd362)
  • elgg_instanceof is now deprecated (2602c801)
  • replaced delete_directory with elgg_delete_directory (f61471dc)
• css: use elgg_require_css instead of elgg_register_css (b0c014f3)
• js: use elgg_require_js instead of elgg_register_js (e3d4a13c)
• page_owner: don't set page_owner via elgg_get_page_owner_guid (b1089824)
• plugins:
  • usage of the views.php file in plugins is deprecated (95592b04)
  • no longer use the (de)activate.php plugin files (d89c2474)
  • plugin screenshots are no longer supported (0f7fe379)
• tests: the simpletest cli command is deprecated (f17a8cd9)
• thewire: the route previous:object:thewire is now deprecated (677d9129)

3.0.7 (2019-08-02)

Contributors

• Jerôme Bakker (2)
• Jeroen Dalsem (1)

Bug Fixes

• js: improved elgg.normalize_url to handle more site cases (57af9e2b)
• routes: use absolute url as base for route url generation (244854af)

3.0.6 (2019-07-24)

Contributors

• Jeroen Dalsem (11)
• Jerôme Bakker (9)
• Ismayil Khayredinov (1)

Documentation

• code: added note about low-level functions that should throw (03417897)
• composer: document composer autoloader optimization (fee62f05)
• css: added some best practices about css files and classnaming (daa55646)

Bug Fixes

• cache:
  • improved handling of values (db7c8864)
  • prevent timeout during cache flush (ab8c759b)
• ckeditor: no need to remove plugins as they are not loaded (55b95e7a)
• comments: popup menu will close itself when inline editing comments (9a7ecc73)
• core:
  • literal order by clauses are no longer deprecated (e77e4898)
  • unset on ElggData will always use magic setter (a0b442ad)
  • always show success message when upgrade has finished (0afb29d8)
• http: request validation now correctly reads payload (c5e18f45)
• js: validate arguments in elgg.get_simplecache_url (91f7c143)
• pages: correctly check who can edit (write) access (a87ec78f)
• routes: route url generation will always return a normalized url (d0b2503a)

3.0.5 (2019-07-08)

Contributors

• Jerôme Bakker (8)
• Jeroen Dalsem (2)
• Ismayil Khayredinov (1)

Documentation

• compatibility: explain