Elgg 3.1.0

29 July 2019

Elgg version 3.1.0 is now available (major release).

What's New in Elgg 3.1.0

• admin: added requirements information about database server (d9c92dab)
  
• admin: add email change option to unvalidated users (f09ba7ee)
  
• admin: add server requirements page (4e5cd057)
  
• admin: moved Elgg release to page header (f55d0f1d)
  
• admin: add security recommendations page (e129b307)
  
• admin: add performance overview page (f1321a2f)
  
• admin: admin user lists now have the ability to search by email (c34789f4)
  
• admin: add admins directly from the administrators page (78027dda)
  
• admin: basic and advanced settings are merged into one form (aedaa0e1)
  
• ckeditor: updated to ckeditor v4.12.x (33b44604)
  
• ckeditor: updated ckeditor version to 4.11.x (d6061b3f)
  
• core: error resources now have access to the exception (fac3141e)
  
• core: added function to convert large numbers into short form (de9d2ef8)
  
• core: admin notices now have their own class (a627d4ef)
  
• core: manifest.json is now a cacheable simplecache resource (ef98f420)
  
• db: allow configuration of the database port number (058db755)
  
• developers: wrap input and output views (cafdb455)
  
• developers: display view location in view wrapping (e6ba1ecf)
  
• developers: added acl information to entity explorer (9c465a1a)
  
• entities: added helper function elgg_count_entities (7e00cbc7)
  
• gatekeeper: flag to validate user edit access (8becf0ea)
  
• groups: support content based on type/subtype in tool module (fa897bcb)
  
• icons: add icon cropper (deb5d212)
  
• input: add support for more input types (048704e2)
  
• menus: added menu param to set a selected menu item (74d50561)
  
• notifications: Elgg\Email knows about sender and recipient (539437b0)
  
• page_owner: moved page owner logic to a service (bc35cf5a)
  
• pages: page navigation now uses default page menu behaviour (89976121)
  
• pages: replaced treeview js and css with default menu behaviour (18be2699)
  
• phinx: updated phinx version to 0.10.x (52ebe588)
  
• plugins: hooks and events can be declared in elgg-plugin.php (c1cc12c4)
  
• profile: new input types for custom profile fields (59c1a4ba)
  
• router: add SignedRequestGatekeeper middleware (54e050a3)
  
• routes: added required plugins param to route config (8f4c1957)
  
• routes: added route config to mark route as deprecated (53d8f433)
  
• security: request confirmation on email change (53017104)
  
• security: notify the user about a password change (8692ac32)
  
• security: site_notifications: topbar menu item now has a unread count badge (a1d1fddc)
  
• upgrades: completed upgrades are sorted by completion time (beebaecd)
  
• users: unify set/get/delete profile data functions (906c25b7)
  
• users: added a site setting to allow users to change the username (3e2a476e)
  
• views: add additional page menu and owner block controls (5cf80c8c)
  
• views: password inputs now set correct autocomplete behaviour (929f7bc5)
  
• views: show_add_form view var is now supported in responses (7bd0f0da)
  

• db: added some extra indexes to the entities table (0395d99b)
  

• core: added a spam guide (2ac20105)
  
• core: added documentation about the usage of elgg_call (8beef28f)
  
• core: added upgrade notices page for 3.0 to 3.x (456e4fba)
  

• admin: different user counters in admin stats (73c86726)
  
• core: updated PHP version checks to check correct version (dbb02710)
  
• elgg_call will now also restore when an error is thrown (54964f59)
  
• css: spacing between profile-field and widgets (a281ac45)
  
• css: prevent jquery-ui bug related to sortables (fa840b53)
  
• css: discussions: no longer call unavailable sidebar views (afe83c96)
  
• forms: added missing entity info in widget access input (8f1770d1)
  
• pages: no longer register page_nav menu if there is just one item (a7f7359d)
  
• pages: removed the pages navigation sidebar from some resources (08f3df26)
  
• pages: no longer show history sidebar on revision page (3c91022d)
  
• system_log: correctly fetch non default object classes (3f0a10d4)
  

• access: elgg_set_ignore_access is deprecated (6d0d99ec)
  
• access_show_hidden_entities is deprecated (33b3e5ac)
  
• actions: replaced several delete actions with entity/delete (192d01ac)
  
• core: legacy hook/event callback arguments are deprecated (563f4492)
  
• core: various unused lib functions have been deprecated (792bd362)
  
• core: elgg_instanceof is now deprecated (2602c801)
  
• core: replaced delete_directory with elgg_delete_directory (f61471dc)
  
• css: use elgg_require_css instead of elgg_register_css (b0c014f3)
  
• js: use elgg_require_js instead of elgg_register_js (e3d4a13c)
  
• page_owner: don't set page_owner via elgg_get_page_owner_guid (b1089824)
  
• plugins: usage of the views.php file in plugins is deprecated (95592b04)
  
• plugins: no longer use the (de)activate.php plugin files (d89c2474)
  
• plugins: plugin screenshots are no longer supported (0f7fe379)
  
• tests: the simpletest cli command is deprecated (f17a8cd9)
  
• thewire: the route previous:object:thewire is now deprecated (677d9129)