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Elgg v2.1.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2016-03-13 // about 8 years ago

  • Contributors

    • Steve Clay (40)
    • Ismayil Khayredinov (25)
    • Juho Jaakkola (10)
    • Jeroen Dalsem (2)
    • Hereward Mills (1)
    • Wade Benson (1)
    • Wouter van Os (1)

    🔋 Features

    • actions: adds a generic delete action (4c35fe26)
    • ajax:
      • improves the elgg/Ajax API and adds docs (4211155e, closes #9404)
      • Adds a new elgg/Ajax AMD module with unified API (2a132ae8, closes #8323)
    • cron: allows for a more systematic way of calling cron using one url (3c947fc1)
    • discussions: makes "last reply" text into a link (9c1d543a)
    • engine:
      • use elgg_log prior to error_log in custom error handler (6b483b08)
      • also log to php error_log when log is shown on screen (9f630e58)
    • entities: give access to original values of modified attributes (56ddabbc, closes #9187)
    • files: adds a service for serving files from filestore (1d6b23c7)
    • forms:
      • moves datepicker init to AMD and improves dev usability (15c2686b)
      • elgg_view_input() can now be used to render hidden inputs (8d996cd1)
      • allow custom required indicators for field labels (f29fbb6f)
      • adds elgg_view_input() to the views api (70b35bd7, closes #6356)
    • groups: profile buttons can now be filtered with a hook (52e82943)
    • js:
      • elgg.ui.toggle now triggers jQuery event (941b49ad)
      • adds plugin boot modules and modules based on system events (924355a7, closes #7131, #7926)
      • Allow canceling a previous elgg_require_js() call (375be5ff, closes #9074)
    • menus: delete menu item now checks if delete action exists (84cbb151)
    • metastrings: add function to get map of strings to metastring IDs (8d28a8dd)
    • notifications: it's now easier to alter translations for notifications (4677d482)
    • profiler: allow capture/display of crude profiling data (6ce01fad, closes #9293)
    • routing: allow more reliable URL path rewriting (853fc0ef, closes #9388)
    • rss: adds functions for adding/removing the RSS link (ae765e19)
    • search: search hooks now preserve custom joins and wheres (65041619)
    • views: add attributes to input select options (63b04d6a)

    🐎 Performance

    • boot: we order plugins in PHP because MySQL order by CAST is slow (c4b10c1c, closes #8183)
    • files: ElggFile no longer queries metadata for filestore data (d9243002, closes #9138)
    • http: serve-file URLs can respond without booting core (4f587df0)

    📚 Documentation

    • js: modernizes the JS docs to emphasize AMD usage (d66cae64)

    🐛 Bug Fixes

    • actions: referrer path is now parsed correctly (6b1bfe26)
    • ajax: iframe-based submissions can again be recognized as XHR requests (c25962a0, closes #8735)
    • files: files with custom filestore can now be served via file service (1a2b0ca7)
    • forms:
      • remove extra spacing between longtext field label and menu (23edb5ad)
      • elgg_view_input() now passes input type to the field view (63013725)
    • i18n: admin-created accounts now get site language instead of admin's language (561bad37, closes #9454)
    • js:
      • don't show ajax error message when aborting request (5aea301f, closes #9372)
      • client-side hooks can now handle periods in hook names (9f70099f, closes #9160)
    • menus: delete menu item is only registered if canDelete is fullfilled (e13ba511)
    • permissions: All permissions functions handle user fetches consistently (b875fd33, closes #8941, #8038, #8945)
    • river: opening comment form auto-focuses input (5b68badc)
    • search:
      • search hooks no longer reset subtypes (5d6987ce)
      • hooks no longer reset order_by clauses (b15b9e94)

    🗄 Deprecations

    • 🍱 assets: Deprecates URLs like /js/ and /css/ in favor of simplecache (91daac90)
    • config: deprecates config value "siteemail" (cdd4bb5f)
    • entity: removes the tables_split and tables_loaded properties (4d469183)
    • filestore: deprecates giving files custom filestores (0050b1db, closes #9352)