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Elgg v4.1.0-beta.1 Release Notes

Release Date: 2021-12-24 // over 2 years ago

  • Contributors

    • Jeroen Dalsem (93)
    • Jerôme Bakker (36)

    🔋 Features

    • activity: index page will show registration form if possible (c5b84221)
    • admin:
      • server requirements warning for session garbage collection (460134fd)
      • user validation by admin notify user about validation (ab5b3624)
      • added link to add new user form on newest users listing (98d55ca7)
      • admin control panel menu items always visible in title menu (204fd65d)
    • blog: added logic to pass archive menu options to sidebar views (221172c7)
    • cache: replaced mrclay/minify with matthiasmullie/minify (fd99fccc)
    • capabilities: canComment now uses canWriteToContainer logic (f4c3890d)
    • comments:
      • added threaded comments capabilities (0875b898)
      • commentable is now an entity capability (475cb0b6)
      • added a site config to control comments on group content (bde859da)
      • show a notice for logged out users to login to comment (60f79376)
      • show that a comment was created by the content owner (32af360d)
    • config: added site setting to control who can change language (164965b6)
    • core:
      • improved default index pages (f22c071a)
      • replaced internal service provider with PHP-DI (8d997600)
    • css:
      • added helper class to stretch a field in a fieldset (be05225c)
      • added helper class for horizontal labels in elgg-field (df095c13)
      • added phone up media query css crush variable (18de6788)
    • custom_index:
      • added settings to control homepage modules (54bbf7c0)
      • Front Page Demo plugin is now enabled on new sites (f95afdab)
    • db: the required mysql version for new installations now is 5.7 (65c292e0)
    • developers: control how elgg_echo strings are displayed (8eb2afb6)
    • entities: added entity capabilities service (e93d1c5d)
    • forms:
      • elgg_make_sticky_form() now supports ignored field names (5febfa9e)
      • the container has a dedicated input view with more context (6761e981)
    • install: admin notice for new installs now mention front page demo (a30ebdfa)
    • javascript: sortable features now also work on touch devices (fe2421d5)
    • likes: likable now is part of the entity capabilities systems (a149422d)
    • menus: added flag to menu items to hide if it has no children (24b05c70)
    • notifications:
      • added option to disable subscription filtering (1e58e96e)
      • control over detailed notification configuration (2ae90bf2)
    • page_owner: page owner middleware forces page owner detection (829bce49)
    • profile: user display name edit is now a separate view (4b485be8)
    • routes:
      • add function to get a route based on an url/path (17370a6a)
      • add function to get current route name (7c2a2991)
    • site: added the ability to upload a site icon (149f1258)
    • site_notifications: allow to configure the cleanup interval (77642349)
    • system_log: improved archived log cleanup (024c7aae)
    • ✅ tests:
      • static config test now check correct upgrades registration (5d146320)
      • logged in user is now always logged out by base test class (c1a97363)
      • entities created during tests are automatically removed (3ec2d614)
    • ⬆️ upgrades: the finished upgrades list now has pagination (09a1ea54)
    • views: added menu section in elgg_view_messages header output (d9023fcf)

    🐎 Performance

    • comments: added comments count preloader logic (2b6da920)
    • site_notifications: cron cleanup uses direct database queries (36969685)

    📚 Documentation

    • core: added a guide on how to use the entity capabilities service (b8f226ab)

    🐛 Bug Fixes

    • admin: server information now reports correct minimal php version (a2fb0a96)
    • collection: correctly implement unset of collection item (3684df75)
    • file: prevent path traversal in ElggFile (0a50b762)
    • js: no longer close popups on scroll (9b4d2621)
    • menus: removed link from topbar account menu item (e1104cf5)
    • router: admin gatekeeper reports status code 403 instead of 401 (05340f54)
    • ✅ tests: custom config values always persist over db values (49ef293b)

    🗄 Deprecations

    • core:
      • ElggEntity->getAccessID() is deprecated (3a9a9e5b)
      • elgg_get_version has been replaced by elgg_get_release (cc71881c)
    • i18n: the public DI proxy for elgg()->echo is deprecated (2f65c1ab)
    • page_owner: legacy page owner detection has been deprecated (6fec812f)
    • views: elgg_does_viewtype_fallback has been deprecated (1e2a135a)

    ✂ Removed

    • admin: control panel widget has been removed (4e8d1cff)