Elgg 5.0.1

20 June 2023

Elgg version 5.0.1 is now available (major release).

Upgrading to Elgg 5.0.1

What's New in Elgg 5.0.1

• cropper: only register tab change fixes when cropper is ready (33feb185)
  
• db: allow passing only relationship_ids to fetch relationships (ad06ace9)
  
• db: querying relationships with only relationship_guid now works (8bfe76e7)
  
• js: use native scrollIntoView to respect element scroll margin (9b1b1850)
  
• registration: send the new user notification to email (b845f475)
  
• river: always return a string for RiverItem->getView() function (10437cf5)
  
• seeder: validate commentable and likeable capability during seeding (fb151710)
  

• ckeditor: confirm page navigation on unsaved editor changes (789c27b0)
  
• ckeditor: replaced ckeditor4 with ckeditor5 (52ea3488)
  
• access_collection: trigger 'create', 'update' and 'delete' events (8a8e89a5)
  
• actions: action registration can support additional middleware (90c786e1)
  
• activity: commenting bumps related river activity last action (00868b68)
  
• admin: added a widget for admins with a feed with latest Elgg news (697481f1)
  
• admin: moved page menu items to the topbar (535d0eb2)
  
• admin: admin account menu is now more in line with front end (405b114e)
  
• admin: moved plugin settings menu items to own section (6098f150)
  
• core: added download response (12204ccd)
  
• core: upgrade batches now have access to upgrade entity (5cc3a108)
  
• core: event and hook deprecation now have a default message (992e7ef3)
  
• db: private settings are merged into metadata (cb9951a5)
  
• entities: create event has been split into before and after event (432b4dad)
  
• events: event sequences have a unique ID (0febd638)
  
• files: file plugin files are now stored with the entity (9df0cd0a)
  
• files: no longer show file type icons in regular listings (fe263adf)
  
• forms: automatically support sticky forms (320a8110)
  
• garbagecollector: cleanup orphaned data in the database (230a8ee9)
  
• gatekeepers: added PageOwner gatekeeper middleware (443c6f27)
  
• gatekeepers: pageownercaneditgatekeeper now requires a pageowner (6553b9a2)
  
• http: added helper function to get a Http Guzzle Client (d2f60974)
  
• icons: icon cropping is now default enabled in entity/edit/icon (a845ce04)
  
• plugins: it is now allowed to set arrays as private settings (de415231)
  
• reportedcontent: added detail view for reports with comments (90fc1195)
  
• routes: added the ability to influence priority for similar routes (d257f024)
  
• tests: allow easier testing with multiple installations (ac3035e0)
  
• users: if configured a river activity is for a new user (d5a1d944)
  
• views: page header now has support for header image (84929789)
  
• web_services: API methods can be registered in the elgg-plugin.php (6357e73e)
  
• web_services: allow different callbacks depending on HTTP request (d67507e0)
  
• widgets: it is now possible to filter the widgets in the add panel (7d95d87c)
  
• widgets: target column and position can now be configured (97d657c4)
  

• events: added some additional information about migrating hooks (6d607025)
  

• ckeditor: use pixels instead of percentages when resizing images (4bd4e629)
  
• ckeditor: image upload progress and icon are beter visible (7c44af72)
  
• ckeditor: strip empty paragraphs when outputting longtext fields (dfd24629)
  
• ckeditor: added the simpleButton plugin (9334b61e)
  
• cropper: fixed issue when the cropper is on a hidden tab (7b7dcfae)
  
• plugins: correct layout when a plugin can't be (de)activated (35a36232)
  
• views: validate elgg_list_entities getter return type (b349f367)
  
• icons: show cropper messages for header images (a09f7d36)
  
• output: correctly format 0 byte output (1a27a14c)
  
• core: prevent issues with unsaved data and system log (4048eeec)
  
• filestore: improved removal of a directory (a6c09c81)
  
• forms: draw fieldset legend on correct location (c1a012ac)
  
• likes: use variable in translation string (d39e33da)
  
• search: use correct container type title (ba742d1f)
  
• views: output/url now returns nothing if there is no url (db8b6e06)
  

• core: metadata value no longer magically turns into an array (b0f4695f)
  
• hooks: hooks and events system has been merged (720a38a5)
  
• menus: elgg_register_title_button has its first argument removed (ddb25972)
  

• blogs: no longer show a delete button on blog edit form (8274c0e8)
  
• blogs: auto save draft functionality has been removed (bb71b807)
  
• core: InvalidParameterException as removed (aedb914c)
  
• core: the REFERER constant is removed in favor of REFERRER (a3137340)
  
• core: it's no longer possible to set site secret in elgg-config (80e91091)
  
• files: file plugin no longer uses custom file type icons (92c50dd1)
  
• plugins: the embed plugin has been removed (31a443c5)
  
• widgets: class function saveSettings has been removed (3c58daee)