b2evolution 6.11.2
21 June 2019
b2evolution version 6.11.2 is now available (major release).
Upgrading to b2evolution 6.11.2
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What's New in b2evolution 6.11.2
6.11.2
Highlights
- Added Auto Anchors Plugin
- Improved Less error reports on transient IMAP errors: Process the return path inbox, Create posts by email.
- Added "View history" in evobar menu
- Improved Filemanager is now able to delete directories, even if they are not empty.
- Fixed Various bugs
6.11.1
Front Office
- Improved: Proposing a change can now be done from the Front-Office
- Added: Link to propose a change (if user has permission) in Small Text of manual pages
- Added: multiple sort orders in Universal Item List Widget.
Back-Office
- Improved: Snippets Toolbar Plugin
- Improved: new Colorwheel color selector which supports alpha channel where appropriate (more of this in v7 skins)
- Added: Import regions/subregions/cities with provided CSV samples in /media/shared/...
- UI improvements
Scheduled Tasks
- Improved: "Clean up scheduled jobs older than a threshold" now has 2 different thresholds to keep errors longer than normal tasks
- Improved: better reporting of "# of actions" of scheduled tasks
- Improved: Scheduled tasks that may fail because of IMAP timeouts will no longer send immediate email notifications. They will notify only after a threshold of consecutive errors (default: 3)
Technical
- Changed: backoffice now uses evoadm.php instead of admin.php in order to avoid mod_rewrite false positives
- Improved: Quick upload folders will now be renamed to match the slug of the current post (unless a file is linked to several posts)
- Added: Config variable $email_send_allow_php_mail == false; to disallow using PHP's internal mailer
- Added: default file type for CSV .csv
- Bug fixes
6.11.0
Highlights
- Added Ability to upload attachments to comments by drag & drop
- Added Ability for users to propose changes to posts. We are using it on the user manual here.
- Added Webmentions support
- Added Ability to use clickable images in email campaigns; see Email Elements Renderer Plugin
- Added Snippet Toolbar Plugin: allows to quickly insert snippets into Posts or Comments (useful for frequent replies, etc.)
- Added Fresh installs will show examples of Recipes built with a custom Item Type, custom fields & custom display template
- Added $admin_url configuration variable for those who want to move/rename the admin.php file.
- Added Markdown file type .md
- Added Search Results config options (weighting)
- Added Settings for the task: Clean up scheduled jobs older than a threshold
- Improved Universal Item List widget can now sort on 3 different fields
- Improved Debug log for redirected pages
- Fixed Content Hierarchy Widget default open levels