e107 2.1.5
24 April 2017
e107 version 2.1.5 is now available (major release).
Upgrading to e107 2.1.5
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What's New in e107 2.1.5
Fixes/Improvements
- Significant amount of LAN work (thanks to @yesszus)
- Numerous speed and memory usage optimizations (work in progress)
- 'Country' extended user field (EUF) working again
- Several backwards-compatibility fixes for v1 plugins
- Cleanup and enhancements to the library manager (see _blank theme/plugin for usage)
- Added more id and class tags to allow for more styling (e.g. forum plugin)
- {NEWFORUMPOSTS} working again (but still deprecated, it is replaced by the newforumposts_menu in the forum plugin)
- Several fixes to the upgrade procedure from v1.x installations (e.g. users with a . in their username are now properly recognized again)
- Plugin manager is now using the Admin UI allowing for searching/filtering
- Changed enabled/disabled option to on/off (using a new switch) in the Admin Area
- Userpicker method working again when using SEF URLs
- News Grid Menu template upgraded for greater flexibility
- {XURL_ICONS} now has its own template
- And literally dozens of other bugfixes and optimizations
New features
- Page/Menu custom fields
- e107::getParser()->toFile() method added
- {CHAPTER_MENUS: id=chapter-sef-url} shortcode added
- New event added: user_chatbox_post_created
- the e_parse addon can now also hook into the e107::getParser()->toDb() method
- "Theme converter" allows to create a new theme based on an existing theme (/e107_admin/theme.php?mode=convert)
- Start of SVG icon support
- Theme shortcodes may be assigned as sitelink (navigation) dropdown content.