Backdrop CMS 1.32.0
25 September 2025
Backdrop CMS version 1.32.0 is now available (major release).
Upgrading to Backdrop CMS 1.32.0
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What's New in Backdrop CMS 1.32.0
New Features
- Add responsive behavior with settings for the existing Views grid style. #5719
- Add the option to append original sort order to Views table column sort. #6708
- Update to latest version of CKEditor 5 (now v46.0.2) including a backwards-compatibility layer for existing Backdrop plugins. #6904
- Entity's label() method now uses the 'label callback' property to allow more flexibility. #6877
- Allow modules and themes to be enabled via config sync / import. #5163
- Increase performance with cache bin for Book navigation data #6787
User Experience Improvements
- Switch the password reset form to use the same FAPI element as creating new, or editing existing accounts. #4440
- Additionally, users upgrading from Backdrop 1.31.0 will also have the following bug fixes (which were also included in the recent Backdrop 1.31.1 release):
Bug Fixes
- PHP 8+ Example for hook_user_presave causes Deprecation notice if data field is NULL or FALSE #6943
- Display translated system.core configuration values #6941
- Trusted host settings handling - multiple issues #6935
- If theme sets font size of input.form-search then Admin Bar Menu Search is affected #6925
- Using multiple file browsers on a single node form breaks functionality #6924
- Filter module never cleans up filter section in config leading to PHP warnings #6920
- Reset field types when new modules are installed to ensure potential new field types are immediately available #6919
- Minimum PHP version isn't consistently updated to 7.1 #6914
- Pre-existing field with reserved entity machine name re-used on entity type causes fatal error when adding entity #6900
- Undefined array key when getting the missing callback error in layouts #6885
- Add missing Excel Template (xlsb) MIME types so files show correct icons. #6882
- Removed unnecessary duplication in _entityreference_autocomplete_validate() #6879
- Fixed: Form for "Manage file display" attempts to load all field formatter forms (elements) #6578
- node_access filters out accessible nodes when node is left joined #6421
- Date module datestamp field type affected by Y2K38 #6307
- Alias malfunction when two pages have the same title in multi-language installation #5947
- Prevent translation tests from running before semaphore table is available #5943
- Fixed: Language prefixes are being repeated in Link module fields #4984
- Update the part in the documentation comment about array_filter #6303
- Correct a comment in backdrop_settings_initialize() #6663
- Remove direct use of new Node() and other direct instantiations of entity classes from the codebase #6075