Backdrop CMS v1.16.0 Release Notes
Release Date: 2020-05-15 // almost 4 years ago-
🚀 The Backdrop community is proud to release version 1.16 of Backdrop CMS, following our 4-month release cycle. This version contains a handful of new features and API additions, as well as the usual cleanup tasks, and usability improvements.
⚡️ Notes for updating:
- 🚀 It will be necessary to run the update script (located at /update.php) for this release.
- 📚 No crucial changes have been made to the
.htaccess,robots.txtor defaultsettings.phpfiles in this release. There is, however, new documentation in thesettings.phpfile containing examples of how to override configuration values. Updating custom versions of these files is not necessary, but may be helpful.
Major new features in Backdrop 1.16 include:
- 🔧 Any configuration value can be overridden in settings.php backdrop/backdrop-issues#2805
- Autocomplete is now available on all link/path fields backdrop/backdrop-issues#3764
- Disabled text formats can now be re-enabled backdrop/backdrop-issues#1575
- Author and Date display can now be customized for each content type backdrop/backdrop-issues#2379
- Specific content types can now be excluded from the search index
backdrop/backdrop-issues#4197
Usability improvements
- Double dashes in the menu parent select list have been replaced with a Middot backdrop/backdrop-issues#4218
- 🔧 Text filter configuration has been moved into modals backdrop/backdrop-issues#1032
- The password field is now hidden when the Notification checkbox is checked on the user account creation form backdrop/backdrop-issues#4266
API additions
- 🚚 A
removed_blocksproperty has been added to theLayoutclass backdrop/backdrop-issues#4209 - A new
theme_has_color_support()function has been added backdrop/backdrop-issues#4044 - 💻 Content can now have an active revision that is not the most recent revision (no UI included) backdrop/backdrop-issues#4354
- Cacheing is now enabled for the core entity types, and available for all others backdrop/backdrop-issues#74
Cleanup tasks
- 🚚 Node actions code moved into a separate
node.actions.incfile. backdrop/backdrop-issues#3807