e107 2.1.7
19 April 2018
e107 version 2.1.7 is now available.
Upgrading to e107 2.1.7
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What's New in e107 2.1.7
2.1.7
Highlights
- New admin style added “K-admin inspired”
- Grid View for Admin interface added
- Option to convert image formats from png or gif to jpeg during import added
- Pre-release language packs are now also visible in the language manager
- News-List template now support special styling for the first item
- Support added for multiple news templates
- {NEWS_IMAGE} Auto Carousel option added to news
- Added {NEWS_RATE} shortcode
- Added NEWS_LAYOUT constant
- Social login Yahoo added
- Multisite navigation support (when using the ‘multisite’ plugin)
Bug Fixes
- HybridAuth upgraded to v2.9.6 and LinkedIn login fixed
- Fixes for the installation routine on specific server configurations
- Several fixes to the SEF URLs across all areas
- Several fixes to the caching functionality (especially in ‘news’)
- Fixed issue with plugin preferences not saving correctly when value is '0'
- ‘Voux’ is now set as the default theme during installation
- LAN fixes, improvements and clean up
- Several fixes and improvements for backwards compatibility
- Performance improvements (database, update checks, loading of Glyps)
- PHP 7 compatibility improvements
- Fixes to admin and user permissions
- PHP notices and warnings clean up
2.1.6
Highlights
- Language-Packs can now be downloaded and installed without leaving the admin area
- New MySQL method selectTree()
- New constant e_HTTP_STATIC
- New constant e_VERSION which returns the currently installed version of e107
- Custom TinyMCE snippets can now be placed in the theme folder as custom templates: templates/tinymce/snippets
- Ability to override site path (hash) by defining $E107_CONFIG['site_path'] in e107_config.php
- Table data from e107 v1.x "Content Management" plugin can now be imported into "Pages/Menus"
Bug Fixes
- TinyMce updated to 4.5.6
- PHP Mailer Upgrade to 5.2.23
- Improvements to sending email procedure (SMTP)
- Bug fixes to plugins: Chatbox, Downloads, FAQ, Featurebox, Forum
- News: meta-description character limit option added. ie. {NEWS_DESCRIPTION: limit=x}
- Downloads: now supports file in root directory (no longer 'parent > child" needed)
- Several fixes to SEFL URLs, including automatic generation
- Numerous LAN enhancements (thanks @yesszus)
- Caching improvements
- Improvements to meta-tags
- Further fixes for PHP 7.1 compatibility
- Fixes to the backup/export functionality
- Javascript files are now moved to the footer
- Improved logging to system logs (especially SQL queries)
- Improved sessions handling (should prevent sudden logout)
- And literally dozens of other bugfixes and optimizations