Omeka 2.2
26 November 2014
Omeka version 2.2 is now available (major release).
Upgrading to Omeka 2.2
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What's New in Omeka 2.2
Shortcodes
- Omeka now supports shortcodes for embedding content such as a list of recent or featured items, as well as plugin content, such as a map from the Geolocation plugin.
- The new Simple Pages plugin bundled with Omeka supports shortcodes in the page text.
Derivative Images
- Configurable and extensible derivative image (thumbnail) creation
- Blacklisting and whitelisting image creation by MIME type in config.ini
- Support for using ext/imagick instead of command-line ImageMagick
- The default ImageMagick derivative creator no longer separately tries to run identify; this can double thumbnail creation speed for some files
- Representative Files for Records
- Any record type can return a "representative" file Omeka can use for displaying thumbnails
- Collections and Exhibits select a representative image for themselves and so will show thumbnails on the front page, their browse pages, and in shortcodes
- Items, Files, Collections, Exhibits, and any other records with representative images will show thumbnails on sitewide search results
Appearance
- Admins can hide the header listing the element set ("Dublin Core") on item/collection/file pages through Appearance Settings
- Additional fallback thumbnail icons for audio, video, and image types
- Sorting links on the default public collections browse view
- Common "single.php" themeable display for Items, Collections, and Exhibits used in recent and featured sections and shortcodes
- Dev-editable button text for items-specific search
Admin Interface
- New interface for manually resending the user activation email message to a user.
- The user edit page is split among three subpages and more closely follows the admin style
- The Item-specific advanced search page more closely follows the admin style
- The File edit page has tabs for each element set and filter-added section, like the Item and Collection add/edit pages
- The dropdown for selecting a Collection for an item is sorted alphabetically by collection title
- HTML edit boxes for metadata will automatically grow with the text input
Security
- Admins can now specify more Allowed HTML Elements, such as iframe
- Ability to enable or disable element filtering for the API
Other
- Username restrictions greatly relaxed to allow email addresses as usernames
- Theme configuration can now be divided into named sections
- Accessibility improvements throughout the admin and public themes
- jQuery and jQuery UI now automatically fall back to local copies if the CDN copy can't be loaded
- All records can be sorted randomly
- Search term input on "Narrow by Specific Fields" disables for "is empty" and "is not empty" types
- Files can be internally filtered by original filename (#616, thanks to Daniel Berthereau)
- Simple "OR" searches on records by providing an array of values (#622, thanks to Daniel Berthereau)
Bugs Fixed
- MIME types could be incorrectly set for multiple files uploaded simultaneously
- HTML in titles shown incorrectly on batch-edit
- Invalid XML characters could break omeka-xml and omeka-json output (#617, thanks to Rachel Donahue)
- Emails sent by Omeka did not support non-Latin characters (#618, thanks to Marios Bekatoros)
- Element names were not localized on items/browse listing of filters (#620, thanks to Matti Lassila)
- On the item-specific advanced search, "does not contain" did not include items that completely omitted the element (#621, thanks to Daniel Berthereau)