b2evolution 6.9.7
7 May 2018
b2evolution version 6.9.7 is now available (major release).
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What's New in b2evolution 6.9.7
6.9.7
A bug fix release.
6.9.6
A bug fix release.
6.9.5
A bug fix release.
6.9.4
Highlights
- New default avatars
- Better support for different image sizes in post listing widgets
- Bug fixes (many!)
- Security fixes
6.9.3
Font-office
- Enhanced search results scoring.
- Removed "User:" field from comment forms for logged-in users.
- Users will no longer be able to report other users having a user level higher than their own.
Back-office
- Enhanced details in IP Range Editing.
- Enhanced User Interface details in various places.
- Faster display of the system status page.
- Improved navigation between Front-Office and Manual View.
- Enhanced performance in Goal Hits filtering.
Forum management features
- Ability to merge or append a forum topic with/to another.
- Allow refreshing the "Content last updated" timestamp for posts. Useful after deleting spam, so that old posts (that got spammed) don't appear as new.
Plugins
- Vastly enhanced Short Links Plugin / Quick Links Plugin.
- GeoIP Plugin can now be called from the Users List screen and also allows to assign a profile country to accounts that don't have one (based on registration country).
- New per-collection size settings in video player plugins: Flowplayer Plugin (Video), HTML 5 MediaElement.js Video and Audio Player, HTML 5 VideoJS Player
- New per-collection size settings in Video Plug plugin
- Support for facebook videos in Video Plug plugin
- Improved display of widgets handled by plugins (back-office)
- Extended Facebook Widget Plugin
Installer
- The installer will now create sample private messages by default in order for new users to more easily see how this feature works.
- New custom fields predefined for: Soundcloud, Yelp, Paypal, 500px, Amazon, Instagram, Vimeo.
Technical Stuff
- Added browser hints to better handle input field on touch devices.
- $reserved_logins configuration variable to prevent users from using reserved word such as admin, webmaster, etc.
- more *.main.php files supported in custom skins.
- The XHTML validator will now accept data-*="..." tags in post content.
- Updated the FineUploader script which now has client-side validation of supported file types and file size.
- Improved WordPress import
Bug Fixes
6.9.2-beta
Highlights
- UI fixes
- No more comment form by default on Standalone Pages
- HTML validation fixes
- New evobar structure
- Added sorting/display options for search results -- see Search Results Panel
- Allow to auto-subscribe members to notifications on a collection -- see Subscriptions Panel
Widgets:
- New Free Text Widget
- New Item Link Widget to display the "Link to url:" of a post in any desired position (and with any desired CSS class applied)
- New Spacer Widget
- Better support for Menu Link or Button Widget in various containers
- The Simple Page List Widget now allows to display only featured (or only non-featured) pages, for more effective menu creation
Plugins:
- The Short Links Plugin now allows to specify optional CSS classes
- The Short Links Plugin now allows to specify an optional target
- More defaults in the Custom Tags Plugin
- Deprecated plugin event CacheObjects
Post Editing:
- Support for new short tags: [coll:name], [coll:shortname]
- Support for link tags refering to a custom field: [link:url_field], [link:url_field]title[/link], [link:url_field:.class1.class2]title[/link], [link:url_field:.btn.btn-info]Click me![/link], [parent:link:url_field:.btn.btn-info]Click me![/link]
- Allow direct access to fields in other posts: [parent:field:field_name] (already existed) extended with: [item:123:field:field_name] and [item:item-slug:field:field_name]
- Support for Content Block with short tags like: [include:123] or [include:slug].
- Better error validation on custom fields in post edit form
Back-Office:
- Tool to resize images that are already uploaded in the media server
- Enhanced IP Range management tool allows to delete conflicting ranges when adding larger ranges that superseed smaller ones
- Enhanced country list management
- Enhanced setting of Font face + Size + Weight in skins
- Require user to make an explicit choice as whether to create demo contents or not when he creates a new collection
- Enhanced wordpress importer
- Attaching non image/video/audio files will automatically position them as "attachment"
API
- Cleanup of the REST API or RESTful API
- Ajax/API calls from front office (such a loading the comment form) will now be retried 2 times in case of timeout.
System level changes:
- More https support in various places
- Security fixes
- Translation updates
- I18n optimization by de-duplicating near duplicates in translatable strings
- Enhanced mysqli usage
- Code refactoring
Bug fixes, including:
- Fixed numbering of meta-comments in case of nested comments
- Fixed Register Form when Page Cache is active
6.9.1-beta
Highlights
- Forums will now display the list of recent posts according to content changes and ignore changes such as visibility status or workflow status changes. (New DB field contents_last_updated_ts).
- Enhanced ColorBox/LightBox : it is now more mobile friendly.
- Enhanced IP-Whois tool to track down spammers.
- Skins now allow easy upload or easy selection of an image already on the server.
- Skins settings for normal vs. tablet vs. mobile skin are now separated.
- Image widgets now also allow easy upload or easy selection of an image already on the server.
- Standalone Pages now display through the "Item Page" container.
- Standalone Pages now have disabled comments by default.
- Features to configure display of the contact form.
- Enhanced WordPress importer (supporting wordpress XML exports + an attachments folder containing the media files)
- Separate file permissions panel in the user group settings.
- Enhanced central antispam blacklist manager module.
- UI enhancements
- UI fixes
- Bug fixes
- Translation updates