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textpattern
A flexible, elegant, fast and easy-to-use content management system written in PHP.
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v4.9.0-beta.1
First beta release of Textpattern 4.9.0 (beta.1)
- Feature release with support for PHP 8.4.0+, new functionality, security enhancements, general improvements and bug fixes.
- Changed: Minimum system requirements increased to PHP 5.6 (PHP 8.2+ recommended).
- Changed: Minimum system requirements increased to MySQL 5.5 (MySQL 8.0+ recommended).
- Changed: Removed 'noopener' from target="_blank" links (now default behaviour in all supported browsers) (thanks, phiw13).
- Changed: Removed 'aria-label' attributes where 'title' already exists.
- Changed: Deprecate
<txp:search_result_count />. Use <txp:items_count /> instead.
- Fixed: Improved support for images with EXIF orientation metadata (thanks, jools-r).
- Fixed: Avoid directory traversal when uploading plugins (thanks, bg1).
- Fixed: Compiled plugins upload on PHP 5.
- Fixed: Windows-generated zip plugins installable on Linux.
- Fixed: Restored empty 'height' and 'width' attributes behaviour of
<txp:image />.
- Fixed: Self-closing tag output for html5 doctype to silence validator (thanks, jools-r).
Fixed: Ignore search in individual article mode.Fixed: Take rfc2616 mail headers setting into account for separator.Fixed: Sandboxed article/body/excerpt preview (thanks, grozdniyandy).Added: Support for PHP 8.2, PHP 8.3.1+ and PHP 8.4.0+.Added: SVG image support (thanks, osadl and jools-r).Added: Option to define a Content Security Policy header for the Textpattern admin-side via config.php.Added: PHPMailer for third-party SMTP delivery. See Admin>Preferences>Mail.Added: Multi-edit for changing author language.Added: Plugins can be uploaded from a URL by dragging to upload textarea.Added: Compiled plugins can be uploaded via Browse... feature.Added: Compatible plugin upgrades directly from the Plugins panel.Added: Create and install new plugins directly from the Plugins panel.Added: Plugin multi-edit option: revert to last installed code content.Added: All plugin metadata exposed in the Plugin Edit panel.Added: Plugin (zip-only) export feature.Added: Support for aggregate window functions in compatible MySQL versions.Added: Trailing slash URL preference.Added: File download header preference.Added: In-use asset counters to the Users panel.Added: 'filter' attribute to <txp:section_list /> and <txp:if_section />.Added: 'level' attribute to <txp:if_category />.Added: Activity indicator for long upload processes.Added: metaWeblog.newMediaObject for image upload over the MovableType API (thanks, Melonking906).Added: Global 'offset' can be set by URL parameters.Added: 'lang' attribute to <txp:page_url />.Added: <txp:if_items_count /> tag.Added: Reload language packs from disk.Added: Shift+Space shortcut for 'Tab' indent in textareas.Added: Input length tooltip when appropriate.Added: <txp:date /> tag.Added: Global 'variable' attribute.Added: 'alias' attribute to <txp:evaluate />.Added: 'parent' attribute to <txp:category />.Changed: Plugins of all types trigger verify step (with improved security).Changed: File Edit panel has the ability to rename and delete files, and change the download counter value (thanks, adi).Changed: Image Edit panel has the ability to delete images.Changed: In-use languages can not be deleted.Changed: Image tags can take HTML attributes.Changed: Less collision-prone custom fields name processing.Changed: Do not generate empty syndication feeds for feedless sections.Changed: Allow PHP scripting options off by default, and Diagnostics warning.Changed: Introduce primary keys for all database tables, replacing some old indexes.Changed: Category & section description field sizes increased to 1023.Changed: <txp:header /> tag requires 'form' privilege.Changed: Section-aware default search.Changed: Extend character set that can be used in tag/attribute names.Developer: Introduce UI class library for building interface components.Developer: Tag registration is now mandatory.Developer: Some of the lesser-used tags are loaded on demand from their class to save memory. Plugins must call them via processTags() function.Developer: Add safe_exists() function to database layer.Developer: Move $thisversion and $txp_is_dev to constants.php.Developer: 'Visitor logs' panel is now bound to the new 'lore' event name (was: 'log') to prevent conflicts with privacy filters.Developer: File upload callbacks (file_uploaded and files_uploaded pre+post).Developer: Activation emails can be skipped via hidden notify="skip" field.Vendors: DOMPurify 3.0.6.Vendors: jQuery 3.7.1.Vendors: jQuery UI 1.13.3.Vendors: PHPMailer 6.9.1.Vendors: PrismJS 1.29.0.Vendors: Textile 4.1.1. (thanks, gocom).Vendors: UglifyJS 3.19.0.