MODx 2.7.2-pl
28 September 2019
MODx version 2.7.2-pl is now available.
Upgrading to MODx 2.7.2-pl
MODx 2.7.2-pl can be upgraded to (or installed) using any of Installatron's products. Use Installatron's optional Automatic Update feature to automatically apply MODx updates as new versions are released, or use Installatron's Clone feature to duplicate an existing MODx install to test the 2.7.2-pl upgrade prior to applying it live. Get started managing your MODx installations with Installatron
What's New in MODx 2.7.2-pl
Highlights
- Update PHPMailer to 5.2.27 to address small but potential vulnerability
- Upon setup completion the setup directory is locked
- Updated phpThumb to a version that fixes images getting a black background color when converting an image with transparency to a format without alpha support
- The default RSS feed URLs feed_modx_security and feed_modx_news now use HTTPS
- Fix for thumbnails not rendering for media sources with spaces in URL’s
- Restore PHP 5.3 compatibility
Bug Fixes
- Allow safe html in system setting description
- Fix incorrect password behavior and message
- Resolve 0 integer values marked as undefined when required
- Fix transparency in .png for Template Variables
- Prevent users without edit_locked permission from editing locked elements
- Lock setup after it is successfully executed
- Allow an empty caption when duplicating a Template Variable
- Escape instances of new MySQL reserved word rank
- Check if modx-content is defined before calling doLayout
- Add additional .sub class in menu for nested li
- Update PHPMailer to 5.2.27 to address potential vulnerability
- Check for default URL scheme value as string
- Fix notices regarding IMG_WEBP constants not being defined for PHP version where support for WEBP isn't advertised
- Fix an issue where an resource would not be published when the pub_date is equal to "now"
- Added default styles for scroll in webkit based browsers
- The menu entry "Manager Actions" has been renamed to "Manager log"
- Updated phpThumb to a version that fixes images getting a black background color when converting an image with transparency to a format without alpha support.
- Check extracted files for allowed extensions by option
- Improved security in contexts in the manager
- Fix using wrong option for upload_images
- Fix for thumbnails not rendering for media sources with spaces in URL's
- The default RSS feed URLs `feed_modx_security` and `feed_modx_news` now use HTTPS
- The value for the preview tooltip in the trash manager is now properly encoded
- Change icon to proper one for descending sort order
- Don't execute the upgrade script for the last installed version again
- Fix friendly_alias_realtime system setting not working as expected
- Fix deprecated create_function() calls in modProcessor and modConnectorResponse
- Fix deprecated each() in the lang.js.php connector
- Restore PHP 5.3 compatibility