Elgg 4.1.0

14 January 2022

Elgg version 4.1.0 is now available (major release).

Upgrading to Elgg 4.1.0

What's New in Elgg 4.1.0

• css: added helper class to wrap horizontal fieldset content (c0853ae7)
  
• activity: index page will show registration form if possible (c5b84221)
  
• admin: server requirements warning for session garbage collection (460134fd)
  
• admin: user validation by admin notify user about validation (ab5b3624)
  
• admin: added link to add new user form on newest users listing (98d55ca7)
  
• admin: admin control panel menu items always visible in title menu (204fd65d)
  
• blog: added logic to pass archive menu options to sidebar views (221172c7)
  
• cache: replaced mrclay/minify with matthiasmullie/minify (fd99fccc)
  
• capabilities: canComment now uses canWriteToContainer logic (f4c3890d)
  
• comments: added threaded comments capabilities (0875b898)
  
• comments: commentable is now an entity capability (475cb0b6)
  
• comments: added a site config to control comments on group content (bde859da)
  
• comments: show a notice for logged out users to login to comment (60f79376)
  
• comments: show that a comment was created by the content owner (32af360d)
  
• config: added site setting to control who can change language (164965b6)
  
• core: improved default index pages (f22c071a)
  
• core: replaced internal service provider with PHP-DI (8d997600)
  
• css: added helper class to stretch a field in a fieldset (be05225c)
  
• css: added helper class for horizontal labels in elgg-field (df095c13)
  
• css: added phone up media query css crush variable (18de6788)
  
• custom_index: added settings to control homepage modules (54bbf7c0)
  
• custom_index: Front Page Demo plugin is now enabled on new sites (f95afdab)
  
• db: the required mysql version for new installations now is 5.7 (65c292e0)
  
• developers: control how elgg_echo strings are displayed (8eb2afb6)
  
• entities: added entity capabilities service (e93d1c5d)
  
• forms: elgg_make_sticky_form() now supports ignored field names (5febfa9e)
  
• forms: the container has a dedicated input view with more context (6761e981)
  
• install: admin notice for new installs now mention front page demo (a30ebdfa)
  
• javascript: sortable features now also work on touch devices (fe2421d5)
  
• likes: likable now is part of the entity capabilities systems (a149422d)
  
• menus: added flag to menu items to hide if it has no children (24b05c70)
  
• notifications: added option to disable subscription filtering (1e58e96e)
  
• notifications: control over detailed notification configuration (2ae90bf2)
  
• page_owner: page owner middleware forces page owner detection (829bce49)
  
• profile: user display name edit is now a separate view (4b485be8)
  
• routes: add function to get a route based on an url/path (17370a6a)
  
• routes: add function to get current route name (7c2a2991)
  
• site: added the ability to upload a site icon (149f1258)
  
• site_notifications: allow to configure the cleanup interval (77642349)
  
• system_log: improved archived log cleanup (024c7aae)
  
• tests: static config test now check correct upgrades registration (5d146320)
  
• tests: logged in user is now always logged out by base test class (c1a97363)
  
• tests: entities created during tests are automatically removed (3ec2d614)
  
• upgrades: the finished upgrades list now has pagination (09a1ea54)
  
• views: added menu section in elgg_view_messages header output (d9023fcf)
  

• comments: added comments count preloader logic (2b6da920)
  
• site_notifications: cron cleanup uses direct database queries (36969685)
  

• core: added a guide on how to use the entity capabilities service (b8f226ab)
  

• admin: server information now reports correct minimal php version (a2fb0a96)
  
• collection: correctly implement unset of collection item (3684df75)
  
• file: prevent path traversal in ElggFile (0a50b762)
  
• js: no longer close popups on scroll (9b4d2621)
  
• menus: removed link from topbar account menu item (e1104cf5)
  
• router: admin gatekeeper reports status code 403 instead of 401 (05340f54)
  
• tests: custom config values always persist over db values (49ef293b)
  

• ElggEntity->getAccessID() is deprecated (3a9a9e5b)
  
• elgg_get_version has been replaced by elgg_get_release (cc71881c)
  
• i18n: the public DI proxy for elgg()->echo is deprecated (2f65c1ab)
  
• page_owner: legacy page owner detection has been deprecated (6fec812f)
  
• views: elgg_does_viewtype_fallback has been deprecated (1e2a135a)
  

• admin: control panel widget has been removed (4e8d1cff)