Concrete CMS 5.6.1
14 February 2013
Concrete CMS version 5.6.1 is now available (major release).
Upgrading to Concrete CMS 5.6.1
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What's New in Concrete CMS 5.6.1
Performance Improvements
- Removed much of the cache library and rewrote calls to dramatically improve performance.
- New cache library: Plugabble for working with proxy servers and caching libraries
- New cache library: Fires much earlier and requires far fewer resources to run (and no database connections)
- New cache library: Pages can be checked for inclusion in the cache and expired manually from within the speed settings dialog (which has been renamed Full Page Caching)
- New cache library: Proper page cache headers are written.
- Faster and more reliable customized theme generation (which points to the cached CSS file directly for better performance.)
- Environment/override cache is now stored in the files/cache/ directory (meaning that deleting this directory will clear the override cache, and that it can be accessed without hitting the database)
- Block caching is now stored in the database for faster lookups
- Improved general performance of the dashboard by limiting unneeded database lookups
- Form block only uses jQuery UI when necessary (thanks jordanlev)
Feature Updates and Behavioral Improvements
- Added the ability to control which words are excluded from URLs for SEO purposes (found in Dashboard > System and Settings > SEO > Excluded from URL Words)
- Improved display of Next/Previous block in edit mode. Re-introduced “Exclude System Pages” to the block, defaulted to on.
- Now we notify users if their cookies are disabled when they attempt to login (thanks olsgreen)
- Slideshow automatically clears, making it work better in Greek Yogurt theme.
- Slideshow height doesn’t jump around as much (thanks Remo)
- Google maps less intrusive on failure.
- Added button to delete all form responses for a particular form (thanks luisbarresco)
- Better fix for this: http://www.concrete5.org/developers/bugs/5-6-0-2/5.0.6.2-help-popup-window-sticks-on-the-screen/
- Including Italian Provinces (thanks mlocati)
Developer Updates
- Added the SITEMAP_APPROVE_IMMEDIATELY constant. Defaults to true. If set to false, pages added via the sitemap will not be approved immediately (or run through workflow.) Useful for sites where workflow is prevalent.
- added option in code for autonav templates to ignore exclude_nav attributes (thanks jordanlev)
- Fixing issue with countries/states helpers being extended improperly
- Added ENABLE_TRANSLATE_LOCALE_EN_US constant for international users who wish to force Zend_Locale to create an object even if using the en_US locale.
- Updated SimplePie RSS parsing library to 1.3.1
- Added APP_VERSION_DISPLAY_IN_HEADER constant (defaults to true) to control whether the version of concrete5 is shown in the meta header section (thanks Remo)
- Added new Security helper with sanitize functions (Thanks Chris Rosser)
- Added new AJAX Helper (thanks mlocati)
- New event: on_file_added_to_set
- New event: on_get_countries_list
- New event: on_get_states_provinces_list (thanks mlocati)
- New event: on_file_removed_from_set (thanks danklassen)
- New event: on_page_urlify (thanks remo)
- New event: on_page_body_index (thanks danklassen)