Contao 5.3.0

21 February 2024

Contao version 5.3.0 is now available (major release).

What's New in Contao 5.3.0

• Handle routing exceptions during news and event URL generation (fritzmg)
  
• Improve logging of request parameters (aschempp)
  
• Add type="button" to the accordion toggler (fritzmg)
  
• Fix the column name in the "remember me" migration (aschempp)
  
• Move adding the schema.org data to the _download.html.twig component (leofeyer)
  
• Correctly cache Contao translations that only exist as Symfony translations (fritzmg)
  
• Always allow the "read" action in the front end modules voter (bezin)
  
• Correctly handle dark icons in data-icon and data-icon-disabled (zoglo)
  

• Allow adding a source to multiple CSP directives at once (aschempp)
  
• Remove the @internal flag from the backup manager (Toflar)
  

• Make the commands lazy again (leofeyer)
  
• Fix the TemplateOptionsListener (fritzmg)
  
• Correctly initialize multiple accordions on the same page (leofeyer)
  
• Hide the trail in the SERP preview if no URL can be generated (leofeyer)
  
• Add the "toggle visibility" button for articles and content elements again (aschempp)
  
• Fix the "remember me" migration (leofeyer)
  
• Cast the template identifier to string (leofeyer)
  

• Focus the first input/textarea after duplicating a wizard row (leofeyer)
  
• Add a global Twig variable with Contao state (aschempp)
  
• Add a basic entity for zero-width whitespaces (aschempp)
  

• Rewrite Controller::getParentEntries() (ausi)
  
• Handle dynamic parent tables in the Controller::getParentEntries() method (leofeyer)
  
• Fix relative front end preview links (aschempp)
  
• Keep login module errors (aschempp)
  
• Fix the article content voter (aschempp)
  
• Remove obsolete hardcoded configuration in the page registry (aschempp)
  
• Do not require full authentication in the "change password" module (leofeyer)
  
• Fix the referrer URL if elements are moved inside a nested element (leofeyer)
  
• Fix routes with parameters in the SERP widget (aschempp)
  
• Correctly set the target path in the login module (leofeyer)
  
• Fix the order of the content elements (aschempp)
  
• Correctly handle denied access in the firewall (aschempp)
  
• Drop the custom "remember me" implementation (aschempp)
  
• Improve the debug message for FigureBuilder link attributes (aschempp)
  
• Mark $secret as sensitive parameter (aschempp)
  
• Fix ptable for copyAll and cutAll (ausi)
  

• Add a Twig function to generate content URLs (aschempp)
  
• Support CSP on WYSIWYG editors like TinyMCE (Toflar)
  

• Use the content URL generator in the redirect page controller (aschempp)
  
• Remove the @internal flag from the HTTP cache subscribers (leofeyer)
  
• Improve how headlines can be adjusted in Twig (m-vo)
  
• Increase the z-index of the jump targets (zoglo)
  
• Use the inputUnit widget for the section headline field (leofeyer)
  
• Use autoconfiguration where possible (leofeyer)
  
• Limit the CSP header size to avoid server errors (Toflar)
  
• Correctly set the link title and text in the downloads controller (fritzmg)
  
• Normalize the Twig CSP method names (fritzmg)
  
• Fix the "delete files" button in the file manager (aschempp)
  
• Add the TemplateTrait::inlineStyle() method (fritzmg)
  
• Properly assign parameters to contao.crawl.escargot.factory (zoglo)
  
• Unify the deprecation messages (leofeyer)
  

• Generate newsletter URLs using the content URL generator (aschempp)
  
• Generate FAQ URLs using the content URL generator (aschempp)
  
• Generate news URLs using the content URL generator (aschempp)
  
• Generate event URLs using the content URL generator (aschempp)
  
• Implement the content URL generator (aschempp)
  
• Add the ability to set Content Security Policies (fritzmg)
  
• Add a Stimulus controller to handle scrolling in the back end (zoglo)
  
• Implement the redirect page as page controller (fritzmg)
  
• Add a description list content element (aschempp)
  
• Add canonical links to news and events (aschempp)
  
• Add the page permission voters (aschempp)
  
• Implement front end module permissions (bezin)
  
• Add an image size voter (aschempp)
  
• Add enum support for DCAs and models (SeverinGloeckle)
  
• Add more database indexes (Toflar)
  
• Decouple the calendar, FAQ and news bundles from the comments bundle (zoglo)
  
• Allow adding a "lost password" page to the login module (zoglo)
  
• Add the DNS mapping migration (fritzmg)
  
• Add a VFS decorator that supports user permissions (m-vo)
  
• Optimize the MySQL indexes (leofeyer)
  
• Sort options by key if they use language references (leofeyer)
  
• Inline the CSS from a newsletter template before sending (leofeyer)
  
• Add a modern content slider element (leofeyer)
  
• Properly name the worker supervision cron (Toflar)
  
• Use the attributes_callback to make the logout redirect mandatory (aschempp)
  
• Add a z-index to the limit toggler (zoglo)
  
• Sync the logic to generate multiple aliases (aschempp)
  
• Implement worker supervision (Toflar)
  
• Do not load style sheets lazily by default (leofeyer)
  
• Add a modern accordion element (leofeyer)
  
• Automatic login for cross-domain preview links (aschempp)
  
• Add a voter for tl_newsletter_recipients (aschempp)
  
• Add a voter for tl_undo (aschempp)
  
• Add the onpalette_callback (aschempp)
  
• Automatically enable the Strict Transport Security (HSTS) header (Toflar)
  
• Rename "childs" to "children" (leofeyer)
  
• Nested content elements (ausi)
  
• Add more security voters (leofeyer)
  
• Sort the tables in the database backup (de-es)
  
• Unify the deprecation messages (leofeyer)
  
• Remove column from articles URL (aschempp)
  
• Add a tab menu to jump to palette sections (leofeyer)
  
• Make Symfony 6.4 the minimum version (leofeyer)
  
• Show the back end header on scroll-up (leofeyer)
  
• Make the back end header sticky on all devices (leofeyer)
  
• Use the picker to select article target in news and calendar (aschempp)
  
• Populate contao_ Symfony translations into $GLOBALS['TL_LANG'] (fritzmg)
  
• Rewrite tree mode toggling to Stimulus controller (aschempp)
  
• Implement a global "expand/collapse elements" button (aschempp)
  
• Register a web processor to add log extras (aschempp)
  
• Automatically generate the global operations (aschempp)
  
• Make the downloads controller more flexible for own sources (Toflar)
  
• Automatically translate the default maintenance template (Toflar)
  
• Add schema.org support to the virtual file system (Toflar)
  
• Automatically load routes in app controllers (aschempp)
  
• Allow to re-use the ProcessUtil data (Toflar)
  
• Add the event end date to the schema.org data (leofeyer)
  
• Add a maximum duration for the back end crawler (leofeyer)
  
• Make the back end crawler configurable (leofeyer)
  
• Wrap the news date and author in a template block (leofeyer)
  
• Replace insert tag flags based on the context (leofeyer)
  
• Clean up a TODO (Toflar)
  
• Deprecate the MergeHttpHeadersListener class (leofeyer)
  
• Rename the templates/_new folder to templates/twig (leofeyer)
  
• Remove the BC layers in the ContaoCache class (fritzmg)
  
• Deprecate the System::setCookie() method (Toflar)
  
• Allow array for page parameters (aschempp)
  
• Upgrade the Symfony contracts (leofeyer)
  
• Remove the "roave/better-reflection" dependency (leofeyer)
  
• Make doctrine/dbal 3.6 the minimum version (leofeyer)
  
• Upgrade doctrine/collections and doctrine/persistence (leofeyer)
  
• Make Symfony 6.3 the minimum version (leofeyer)
  
• Set auto password hasher for all user classes (fritzmg)
  
• Always set the JSON_THROW_ON_ERROR flag (leofeyer)
  
• Use createElementNS for namespaced XML elements (ausi)
  

• Introduce TemplateTrait to fix missing method in Widget (fritzmg)
  
• Fix edit-all operation if records can only be deleted (aschempp)
  
• Fix the missing icon for DCA operations again (aschempp)
  
• Remove the contao.downloadable_files parameter (leofeyer)
  
• Correctly set the ptable for copy and cut actions (ausi)
  
• Use the _attributes suffix in the accordion template (leofeyer)
  
• Fetch visible root trail record from database (aschempp)
  
• Only check the first record to be restored (aschempp)
  
• Move ptable logic from tl_content to DC_Table (ausi)
  
• Fix missing ptabe for saveNcreate and saveNduplicate (ausi)
  
• Vote on the current token in the voters (aschempp)
  
• Fix DCA voters not checking module and parent update access (aschempp)
  
• Fix favorites voter not voting on current record (aschempp)
  
• Deprecate the PageModel::getPreviewUrl() method (aschempp)
  
• Check for parameter existence (Toflar)
  
• Move the ModelMetadataTrait to the correct namespace (leofeyer)
  
• Do not smooth-scroll on devices with reduced motion (aschempp)
  
• Also remove global operations in bundles (aschempp)