webtrees 2.1.12

6 December 2022

webtrees version 2.1.12 is now available.

Upgrading to webtrees 2.1.12

What's New in webtrees 2.1.12

• Removes validation of HTTP headers.
  
• Some web-hosts are adding GEO_IP headers containing placenames with invalid encoding.
  

• Fixes a compatibility issue with PHP 7.4.
  
• Blocks two new aggressive crawlers, serpstatbot and linabot.
  

• Robots that request disabled languages and then visit unauthorized pages cause errors in the logs
  
• Wrong statistic shown for lastEventPlace
  
• Wrong date order MDY for en-GB and en-AU.
  
• Fix validation errors that break various edit pages.
  
• Fact-level restrictions not matching upper/lower case.
  

• webtrees will now use the first NAME record for an individual, even it is a married name.
  
• Block more bad robots and verify others.
  

• Cannot delete unused locations
  
• Cannot create/save journal entries
  
• Cannot replace all data-fixes
  

• Not all images were shown on the slideshow
  
• Should not save empty names, containing only “//”
  
• Error when generating 405 responses for robots
  
• Add verification for more search robots
  
• GOV IDs can be 14 characters, not 12
  
• INDI:_MILI is a fact, not an event
  
• FAM:NCHI is not valid in GEDCOM 5.5.1, only GEDCOM 7.0
  
• Wrong sub-tags for ORDN
  
• Strict-type errors with PHP 8
  
• Folder names not sorted in auto-complete
  
• Notes containing links wrongly described as shared notes
  
• Remove config options for full-sources and level-2 sources - these are now part of the tag configuration
  
• SOUR:PUBL, SOUR:TITL and SOUR:AUTH should allow multi-line text
  
• Error when adding new individuals without any facts
  
• Various compatibility errors with SQL-Server
  
• Wrong element type for INDI:NAME:ROMN
  
• INDI:NAME:ROMN and INDI:NAME:FONE not populated from subtags, like INDI:NAME
  
• Fix inconsistent spacing around footers
  
• Fix error when failed upload of geographic data
  
• Wrong order of surnames in surname list
  
• Re-order children can fail if broken links exist
  
• Checkboxes initialised in wrong state
  
• Private shared notes shown on some public pages
  
• Wrong plural rules for Farsi
  
• Allow empty slugs in URLs
  
• Various HTML errors
  
• Fact delete confirmation dialog malformed
  
• Deleted research tasks shown on home page
  

• Add logging of searches
  
• Add fullscreen mode for maps
  
• Add fullscreen mode for the interactive tree
  
• Add edit links for location in place-hierarchy
  
• Allow notes to be added to research tasks
  
• 404 image placeholders now include an error message in the headers
  
• Improve support for _RUFNAME
  
• Add compatibility with PHP 8.2
  
• Support more custom tags from Aldfaer, RootsMagic, MyHeritage and ProGen
  
• Update google-analytics module to support latest version
  
• Allow note/source/media when creating new individuals
  
• The statistics charts were removed from the individual/family lists as they use Google charts, and hence Google tracking
  
• Validate more robots; NeevaBot, IonCrawl and Amazonbot
  
• Block more bad robots; Amazonbot, SEOkicks, SiteKiosk, netEstate
  
• Handle LS and PS characters, as created by geni.com