Contao 3.3.5

8 September 2014

Contao version 3.3.5 is now available (major release).

Upgrading to Contao 3.3.5

What's New in Contao 3.3.5

• Fixed: Correctly show the comments in the "comments" element (see #7040).
• Fixed: Correctly store the file selection in "edit multiple" mode (see #7028).
• Update: Update Compass to version 0.12.6.
• Fixed: Improve the UUID validation to prevent false positives (see #7010).
• Fixed: Correctly sort by date in the listing module (see #5609).
• Fixed: Fix the back link in the "single article" view (see #6955).
• Fixed: Never cache insert tags if the output is not used on the website (see #7018).
• Fixed: Strip forbidden HTML tags in the markdown content element (see #7021).
• Fixed: Prevent parallel execution of the new command line scripts.
• Fixed: Also set the sql_mode in the MySQLi driver (see #6996).
• Fixed: Purge the script cache if a style sheet is edited (see #7005).
• Fixed: Disable the maintenance screen if a back end user is logged in (see #7009).
• Fixed: Correctly set the textarea value in the template (see #6995).
• Fixed: Make sure the security questions gets always generated (see #6990).
• Fixed: Do not use date_default_timezone_get() in the configuration file (see #6989).
• Fixed: Correctly generate absolute URIs in Controller::generateFrontendUrl().
• Fixed: Fix the link button padding (a.tl_submit).
• Update: Update TinyMCE to version 4.0.26.
• Fixed: Correctly set and explain the page title field (see #6953).
• Fixed: Correctly show the template sources (see #6875).
• Fixed: Support input tags without a "type" attribute in the CSS framwork (see #6902).
• Fixed: Import the tinymce.css style sheet in TinyMCE (see #6970).
• Fixed: Catch Swift exceptions when sending form data via e-mail (see #6941).
• Fixed: Try all locale variations when loading TinyMCE (see #6952).
• Fixed: Correctly overwrite the article template (see #6938).
• Fixed: Correctly wrap long labels in the tree view (see #6954).
• Fixed: Correctly add the WAI-ARIA attributes (see #6217).
• New: Allow to override the default form field template (see #4547).
• Changed: Only pass the current form data to the "processFormData" hook (see #6705).
• New: Add a DropZone-based file uploader (see #6064).
• New: Add permissions to import and export themes (see #5835).
• Improved: Make the fields of the meta wizard configurable in the DCA (see #4327).
• Improved: Also show the preview image when editing multiple files (see #6643).
• Improved: Show the file location below the "name" field in the file manager (see #6503).
• Improved: Add some basic WAI-ARIA attributes to the navigation menu (see #6217).
• Improved: Automatically convert file paths in TinyMCE into insert tags (see #5965).
• Changed: Move the custom layout section markup into template files (see #6531).
• Improved: Move the form field markup into the template files (see #6834).
• New: Add template inheritance and template insertion (see #6508 and #6934).
• New: Add a flexible back end theme.
• Update: Update colorbox to version 1.5.8.
• Update: Update mediaelement.js to version 2.14.2.
• Update: Update jQuery to version 1.11.0 and jQuery UI to version 1.10.4.
• Update: Update the color picker to version 1.4.
• Changed: Use the "bootstrap" theme for the date picker (see #6692).
• Update: Update the back end date picker to version 2.2.0.
• Update: Update ACE to version 1.1.3.
• Improved: Use the widget attributes instead of the DCA in the picker widgets (see #6881).
• Improved: Enable the interlace bit when creating image thumbnails (see #6529).
• Improved: Assign articles to layout sections with an article module only (see #6094).
• New: Add the "parseDate" hook (see #4260).
• New: Make the title tag configurable in the page layout (see #6783).
• New: Add helper methods to generate markup depending on the output type: Template::generateStyleTag(), Template::generateInlineStyle(), Template::generateScriptTag(), Template::generateInlineScript(), Template::generateFeedTag()
• New: Add the "customizeSearch" hook (see #5223).
• New: Add a button to generate article aliases via "edit multiple" (see #6628).
• New: Add a pagination menu at the listing bottom (see #6377).
• Fixed: Only override element and module templates in the front end (see #6878).
• Changed: Use the html5shiv-printshiv.js script in the front end (see #6293).
• New: Added the "getLanguages" hook (see #6545).
• Changed: Render the table summary as 'caption' tag in HTML5 (see #6295).
• Changed: Also convert paths without delimiter in Combiner::fixPaths() (see #6417).
• New: Add the "colorizeLogEntries" hook (see #5803).
• New: Added an "oncut_callback" and "oncopy_callback" to DC_Folder (see #6814).
• Improved: Support optional dependencies in the module loader (see #6835).
• New: Mark the beginning and end of each template in debug mode (see #6841).
• New: Added the insert tag flags "urlencode" and "rawurlencode" (see #6859).
• Improved: Add files and folders to the database in details view (see #6880).
• New: Add version control for editable files.
• New: Add a configurable "viewport" field to the page layout (see #6251).
• New: Split the layout builder CSS code into a static and a responsive style sheet, so the responsive behaviour can be disabled (see #6251).
• New: Added more static convenience methods to the Config class: set(): temporarily set a configuration value, presist(): permanently store a configuration value, remove(): permanently remove a configuration value, A static get() method has been available already.
• Update: Update TinyMCE to version 4.0.20 (see #1495).
• New: Handle .scss and .less files in the Combiner. This also allows to add SCSS or LESS files as external style sheets to the page layout.
• New: Allow to override the default module or content element template (see #4547).
• Improved: Create a new version if a member changes their data in the front end.
• Improved: Shorten the file paths in the FileTree widget (see #6488).
• Improved: Hide the details page link in the listing module if the details page condition is not met (see #6332).
• New: Make the file system synchronization available on the command line (see #6815).
• New: Make the Automator methods available on the command line (see #6815).
• Changed: Moved the asset version constants to $GLOBALS['TL_ASSETS'] (see #5759).
• New: Added a "preview front end as member" button (see #6546).
• Changed: Hide forward pages if they point to unpublished target pages (see #6376).
• Changed: Only enable the debug mode in the FE if there is a BE user (see #6450).
• Changed: Do not require MooTools or jQuery for the command scheduler (see #6755).
• Changed: Use the new Google Universal Analytics code snippet (see #6103).
• Improved: Add $parent as fourth parameter to the "compileDefinition" hook (see #6697).
• Update: Update TCPDF to version 6.0.062.
• Changed: Enable the maintanance mode by default (see #6758).
• New: Added a markdown content element (see #6052).
• Changed: Merged the "newsarchive" and "newsarchive_empty" templates (see #6647).
• Changed: Make the following functions public static (see #6351): Controller::getArticle, Controller::getContentElement, Controller::getForm, Controller::getFrontendModule
• New: Support editing the front end preview page via the "url" parameter (see #6471).
• Improved: Do not combine .js and .css files when running in debug mode (see #6450).
• New: Added a DcaLoader class to decouple the DCA loading process (see #5441). DCAs can now be loaded anywhere using Controller::loadDataContainer().
• Changed: Convert slashes to hyphens in the standardize() function (see #6396).
• Improved: Add a getModel() method to modules, elements and hybrids (see #6492).
• Improved: Support the "HAVING" command in the Model\QueryBuilder class (see #6446).
• Changed: Use class constants for BackendUser::isAllowed().

• Fixed: Convert insert tags before assigning the page title to the template (see #7097).
• Fixed: Correctly render images in TinyMCE in the newsletter module (see #7089).
• Fixed: Add the media query to the style sheets in debug mode (see #7070).
• Fixed: Disable the debug mode in the extension creator (see #7068).
• Fixed: Convert image source insert tags in the back end preview (see #7065).
• Fixed: Render all root nodes in the page and file picker (see #6844).
• Fixed: Add the "scssphp-compass" library to support Compass functions.
• Fixed: Support adding multiple TinyMCE instances to the same page (see #7061).
• Fixed: Grant access to static files inside the vendor folder.
• Fixed: Do not make the FormRadioButton options an array (see #7060).
• Fixed: Support adding ACE and TinyMCE in subpalettes (see #7056).
• Fixed: Only use the DropZone uploader where Ajax uploads can be processed (see #7046).
• Fixed: Make the viewport field 255 characters long (see #7050).
• Fixed: Restore the "submit_container" class in the FormSubmit widget (see #7055).
• Fixed: Correctly generate the CSS classes of the FormSelectMenu widget (see #7045).
• Fixed: Use a more precise UUID detection in the FilesModel class (see #7054).
• Fixed: Use pack() instead of hex2bin() to be compatible with PHP 5.3 (see #7010).
• Fixed: Restore permission to delete root pages for admin users (see #7135).
• Fixed: Pass the file IDs instead of their UUIDs to the file picker (see #7139).
• Fixed: Correctly handle double quotes in comments (see #7102).
• Fixed: Ignore hidden files when building the internal cache (see #7098).
• Fixed: Correctly pass the insert ID of the undo record (see #6234).
• Fixed: Update the vendor libraries (fixes various issues).
• Fixed: Do not output an empty label tag (see #7249).
• Fixed: Allow floating point numbers in "number" input fields (see #7257).
• Fixed: Do not adjust the start time of past events (see #7121).
• Fixed: Reset the image margins if it exceeds the maximum image size (see #7245).
• Fixed: Reset $blnPreventSaving when a model is cloned (see #7243).
• Fixed: Do not reload after storing CURRENT_ID in the session (see #7240).
• Fixed: Correctly validate the page number of the versions menu (see #7235).
• Fixed: Handle underscores in the Google+ vanity name (see #7241).
• Fixed: Correctly handle the rem unit when importing style sheets (see #7220).
• Fixed: Fix two issues with the extension repository theme.

• Contao 3.3.5 has passed all tests. Earlier 3.3.x versions were not released due to failures upgrading from earlier versions.