Dotclear 2.28
16 November 2023
Dotclear version 2.28 is now available (major release).
Upgrading to Dotclear 2.28
Dotclear 2.28 can be updated to (or installed) using any of Installatron's products. Use Installatron's optional Automatic Update feature to automatically apply Dotclear updates as new versions are released, or use Installatron's Clone feature to duplicate an existing Dotclear install to test the 2.28 upgrade prior to moving it live with Installatron's Sync funtionality. Get started managing Dotclear with Installatron
What's New in Dotclear 2.28
WARNING
- This update may break your plugins. If you are using plugins that have no updates available, we advise you to temporarily deactivate them (in rescue mode) and then check their operation one by one (one re-activation at a time) in normal mode.
- If you have trouble logging in after the update, delete the associated cookies before refreshing the login page.
What's New
- PHP 8.1+ is required, PHP 8.2 compliance
- Core: All admin/install/helper/db/public code is now PHP namespaced
- Core: Add whitespace control capabilities to template engine, thanks manusauvage for the patch
- Core: Move some old deprecated autoload from dcProxyV2 to dcProxyv1 as some plugins may need them before loading of dcProxyV2
- Core: Add extra cursor management for FlatImport (useful with 3rd party plugins)
- Core: Show exception in debug/dev mode
- Core: Complete support of Avif image format
- Core: Add Media::setThumbSizes() method and set two behaviors (coreBlogConstruct and coreMediaConstruct) as deprecated
- Core: Add dl, dt, dd form element with unit tests
- Core: Add enctype form property (Helper/Html/Form/Form)
- Core: Add a second removal pass to housecleaning step of upgrade and add a renaming fallback procedure if file or folder cannot be deleted
- Core: Allow upgrade on sqlite install (except db schema)
- Fix: Take care of unnumbered post URL to compose a new unique one
- Fix: Show comment's IP column even if not spam
- Fix: Fix SQLite table schema info fields (int for notnull, ?string for dflt_value)
- Fix: Use localized rss news if available rather than English one
- Fix: Unknown path class on some config file
- Fix: Thumbnails creation
- Fix: Process XSS
- Fix: Allow pings management by blogs' admins too
- Fix: Fix empty widgets area management, will use defaults widgets in it only if not set as empty array in settings (ie null)
- Fix: Click (open/close) event management on details HTML element
- Fix: Custom CSS css management with cloning feature
- Fix: Don't forget to get current page number when searching in Static home mode
- Fix: Search URL in breadcrumb
- Fix: Some favorites (admin) callbacks
- Fix: Cope with min/max non integer values and add Html/Form/Decimal
- Fix: Thumbnails re-creation
- Fix: Typo in makefile
- i18n: Various translation have been added or updated (using DeepL engine), they should be reviewed
- a11y: Fix link color on small screens
- Fixed various bugs, a11y concerns and typos fixed
- Some locales and cosmetic adjustments