Textpattern 4.8.8
10 August 2022
Textpattern version 4.8.8 is now available (security release).
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What's New in Textpattern 4.8.8
- Maintenance release with support for PHP 8.1, security enhancements, general improvements and bug fixes.
- Security: Fix reported cross-site scripting issue relating to article preview CSRF token (many thanks, Paul Ritchie at Pentest Limited).
- Fixed: More robust numeric searches.
- Fixed: Improved query efficiency of category operations.
- Fixed: Required parameters after optional in tag builder (thanks, phiw13).
- Fixed: Admin-side pagination when sorting by non-unique values.
- Added: PHP 8.1 support.
- Added: Natural search mode.
- Added: Random form selection.
- Added: Support for AVIF image format, on PHP 8.1 or higher.
- Added: Global 'limit', 'offset' and 'sort' attributes.
- Added: 'url_title' attribute to <txp:article[_custom] />.
- Added: 'range' attribute to <txp:article_image />.
- Added: 'date' and 'time' attributes to <txp:if_expired />.
- Added: 'calendar' attribute to <txp:posted /> and similar tags.
- Added: Substring extraction via 'escape' attribute.
- Added: <txp:items_count /> tag.
- Added: Expanded conditional 'match' attribute with comparison operators.
- Added: 'UTC' is now a permitted time zone.
- Added: Custom date formats.
- Changed: <txp:category_list /> with 'children' >1 attribute behaviour.
- Changed: Global 'escape' attribute operates at the items level in lists.
- Changed: Multi-site plugins directory defaults to site/admin/plugins.
- Accessibility: Additional 'aria-label' attributes for some internal links.
- Internal: Removed FOUND_ROWS() which is deprecated in MySQL 8.0.17.
- Internal: Prefer is_readable() and is_file() to file_exists().
- Developer: Added plugin lifecycle events 'upgraded' and 'downgraded'.
- Developer: Export new article IDs on duplicate.
- PrismJS 1.26.0.