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Concrete CMS 5.6.2

15 August 2013

Concrete CMS version 5.6.2 is now available (major release).

Upgrading to Concrete CMS 5.6.2

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What's New in Concrete CMS 5.6.2

Features

Improved and Updated Jobs: Slick New Interface.
Improved and Updated Jobs: Job Sets allow you to group jobs so they can run at the same time.
Improved and Updated Jobs: Jobs can support queueing (for jobs that have to run for long periods of time.
Improved and Updated Jobs: Cleaned up and normalized some of the API.
Improved and Updated Jobs: Better job running explanation on the Dashboard page.
Improved and Updated Jobs: Scheduling of a Job Set can be done through cron (as before) or through concrete5. These jobs will then be run periodically as triggered by users visiting your site.
Delete and Duplicate now support incremental progress with progress bars. Much more reliable.
New advanced permission "View Page in Sitemap" controls whether a user can see a page in the intelligent search site search or the Sitemap. This has no bearing on whether they can view the page if they navigate to it directly.

Behavioral Improvements

Much improved CMS behavior in sites that support multiple editing languages, including:
Localization of attributes, permissions, block types other dynamic content as seen by editors.
Localization of intelligent search
Better URL slug localization
Stacks now support workflow for approve and delete.
Stacks now show “Submit to Workflow” if the stack will be added to a workflow.
Page approval workflows now show which version will be approved in their descriptive text, lessening confusion.
Stack approval button is hidden if the stack is in workflow.
Stacks now create new versions on any content edit (since stacks don’t have edit mode.)
Better CDATA support in import/exporter.
When rendering a full page exception/error, the HTTP error code 500 is now used.
Approve Stack/Page button now green (thanks shotster.)
Login page now shows region in the language dropdown (if multiple languages are available on your site and login allows you to choose language.) (thanks mlocati)
Guestbook date now localized (thanks mlocati)
Block Types appear localized in the interface (thanks mlocati)
UI Accessibility improvements for dashboard checkboxes and radio buttons(thanks aghoush)
Placeholder text for Next Previous Block add/edit form (thanks jordanlev)
Improved YouTube Block URL parsing (thanks ojalehto)
Inspect Block Dialog now shows active Block count as well as total
Logging added for Page move to trash and Page delete
Allow choice of new page type to assign pages to when deleting a page type (thanks mlocati)
No longer show deleted pages in dashbaord breadcrunmbs (thanks JohnTheFish)
Clean up page list ui (thanks arcanpain, aghouseh)
Backup dialog shows error if cannot delete backup file (thanks mlocati)
Enable browser spellchecker as partial fix for discontinued Google Spell API
Improved Permission denied messages on some dialogs (thanks hissy)
New Page Preview for Composer (thanks gregjoyce)

Developer Updates

Block View overrides will only be included if they have a view.php included. If they only have a view.css etc they will be ignored.
ADODB is updated to 5.18 (Thanks Remo!) MySQL transactional support library is the new default.
Added event: on_file_duplicate
Added event: on_file_set
New Queue library available for developers to use.
Better TextHelper::formatXML() function (more reliable, uses DOM)
Updated MIME defintions for OGG formats. (thanks JeffPaetkau)
Updated highlightSearch() to respect source string's case (thanks melat0nin)
Better validation on ItemList::setItemsPerPage (so developer’s can’t unwittingly open security holes by not sanitizing their data and passing it to setItemsPerPage)
Cleaner markup in view template for next/previous block (thanks jordanlev)
Add static keyword to some methods (thanks mlocati, aghouseh, mnkras)
No longer sorting contry/state lists if received from on_get_countries_list (thanks JohnTheFish)
Can now pass either Package object or Package Handle to Environment::overrideCoreByPackage() (zemm)
Add "numbers" and "disabled" classes to pagination number links (thanks melat0nin)
Add runtime hash constant. (thanks Korvin)
Consolidated wordSafeShortText into shortenTextWord (thanks patrickheck)
Additional helper methods for FileSet class (thanks aghouseh)
FileVersion properties from private to protected for overrides/extending
Can pass array or file type extensions when launching file manager programatically (thanks mlocati)
ValidateIpHelper now only returns private IP if no public IP’s are found in all $_SERVER vars checked (thanks mlocati)
Add default sortBy to DatabaseItemList (thanks aghouseh)
Refactor Remove Old Page Versions
Add on_locale_change event (thanks mlocati)
Loader::element() now throws Exception is args array key contains method parameter names.
Various code cleanups (thanks mlocati, aghouseh, Mnkras et al)
Added a couple public methods for Select Type Attribute properties (thanks aghouseh, jordanlev et al)
Add PageList::filterBySelectAttribute() (thanks aghouseh, jordanlev et al)
Added a FormHelper::number() for the
Added method BlockController::getUniqueIdentifier() for clipboard blocks and ids
Removed TextHelper::preventWidows()