Osclass 8.0.1

26 January 2022

Osclass version 8.0.1 is now available (major release).

Upgrading to Osclass 8.0.1

What's New in Osclass 8.0.1

• Mobile ready installation: Installation process has been redesigned in order to make it fully responsive.
  
• Contact forms now can be completely disabled: When form is disabled, it is not even possible to make POST request to it and send message. This solves the common problem when admin removes forms from front, but spam mails are still being generated.
  
• RTL support for languages: Admin can now set language as RTL one directly in back office.
  
• Ban rules processing and evaluation redesign: Osclass now will do 2 queries to database and tries to limit response from database as much as possible. This allows to have much larger dataset of ban rules (i.e. generated by anti-spam plugin) and evaluate them quicker.
  
• Alerts table redesign: Alerts table in backoffice got new feel & look and is now much easier to work with. New columns status, status color and unsubsribe date has been added.
  
• New option in Tools > Cleanup to remove old alerts
  
• Upgrade process improvements - it should be now easier to upgrade your Osclass
  
• "Osclass XY is available" message will not be shown anymore after update
  
• oc-content folder can now be included in upgrade process as well (Settings > General)
  
• Optimization files (css & js) are now cleaned after upgrade. They are also cleaned on numerous actions, like plugin/theme activation/deactivation etc.
  
• Numerous bug fixes (auto-upgrade, searching & counting items with pictures, optimization of SQL queries, notices on installation process, market sorting, ....)
  

• Locations v3.0 added: We have 3x more cities comparing to locations v2.0; 4 new countries added; and much better regions structure.
  
• Oc-admin/Backoffice folder can be easily renamed
  
• Improved child theme features
  
• Ban rules improvement: Ban rules page in oc-admin now contains pagination & search options. Keyword will be searched against name, email and IP of ban rule.
  
• Ban rules improvement: New examples (tips) has been added when creating new rule, design & width of inputs changed, show more button removed.
  
• Ban rules improvement: Multiple email addresses can be now inserted into one ban rule - separated by comma
  
• Ban rules improvement: Ban rules summary widget has been added into Backoffice home page not easy to use.
  
• New custom field types: Osclass now contains more custom field types: Phone, Email, Color, Number
  
• Updated translit from Cyrilic into Latin for URLs.
  
• New widget added: Latest product updates on OsclassPoint.com, where you can see last 5 updated products, date, current version, supported osclass version and what has changed.
  
• Configuration information in oc-admin does not calculate folder sizes and permissions by default to avoid resource wasting and speed-up page loading.
  
• Admin can run configuration information with details ("Run with details" button) in case these data are needed.
  
• New function created: osc_theme_get_info($theme):
  
• Returns information about front-office theme (from index.php of theme). Enter only theme name (name of theme folder). Example: bender, sigma, delta
  
• Default number of listings matching alert in User > Alerts changed from 3 to 12.
  
• Added category object into extendData and extendDataSingle functions, so it easy to identify if category has price enabled or not.
  
• Added "Changelog" menu item under "Tools", so you can now easily see what has changed in last versions.
  
• Admin can now easily show all plugins available for update in Plugins section.
  
• Admin hook admin_content_footer has been removed.
  
• Updated composer dependencies to latest available versions.
  
• Engine of all database tables has been consolidated.
  
• Category ID is now visible in oc-admin when editing categories as tooltip on category name and as header in category edit form/iframe.
  
• Updated notice text in all files, based on Apache version, if this file is present in original file, it must be present on all branches with copyright mention.
  
• Function osc_user_phone will now return primary mobile phone number, and if not exists, then return land phone number (if exists).
  
• Native location names are now available in premiums section as well. No modifications in themes are required.
  
• Optimized minified CSS & JavaScript files will now be cleaned and refreshed on following actions: activate theme, install plugin, uninstall plugin, activate plugin, deactivate plugin.