Omeka v2.3 Release Notes
Release Date: 2017-01-31 // about 7 years ago-
π Omeka 2.3 was released on March 19, 2015.
β¨ Enhancements
- Accessibility improvements (added ARIA roles and landmarks, improved labels, navigation skip links)
- π New file derivative strategy using PHP's GD extension
- 0οΈβ£ Built-in support for setting default sort orders for browse pages
- π§ Element dropdowns on item advanced search respect the admin-configured element sorting order (#643)
- π§ The admin-configured page limits for browse pages are used for more controllers, including plugins
- The listing of items on collection pages now follows the admin page limits (#601)
- π Support for the new access control directives used by Apache 2.4 (#631)
- 0οΈβ£ URLs within the default citation output now include a span wrapper to allow specific styling
- π New interface for resetting customized navigation to default settings
- π Improved error output for exceptions
- β¬οΈ Detailed error messages are now always shown for exceptions during upgrade
- π Support for newer versions (4.2+) of PHPUnit
- The API now accepts
sort_field
andsort_dir
GET parameters for sorting results - Omeka will hide the "Path to ImageMagick" setting when an alternative derivative strategy is in use
- π The System Information panel now uses internal "folder" names for both themes and plugins
- π Improved translation coverage (#655, #659)
π Bugs Fixed
- π· Tags were incorrectly treated as case-sensitive in some places
- Assigning tags to records caused an SQL error for some newer MySQL servers
- The item advanced search "does not contain" worked incorrectly with elements having multiple texts
- API authentication did not work properly on installations with no database prefix
browse_sort_links
for "bare" links handled attributes incorrectly (#648)- Setting a custom homepage including a query string would silently set that query on all pages
- β¬οΈ Upgrades could fail on some "strict mode" MySQL configurations
- β¬οΈ Upgrades directly from old 1.x versions could fail when migrating collections
- π Theme overrides of plugin views did not apply when on a different plugin's page (#635)
- The display of item search filters did not always recognize when users filtered by tag
- Automatic
alt
attributes for file display were over-escaped - Admin-side page titles on hover were over-escaped
- Long titles for records indexed for the sitewide search could be silently truncated or cause an error
- The sitewide search form did not respect the documented
submit_value
option - π· Errors on individual items could cause the "Index Records" job to fail
- Item Types did not properly clean up after themselves after they were deleted
Localization
- π The Norwegian (no) translation has been moved to Norwegian BokmΓ₯l (nb).
- New translations for Bulgarian (bg_BG), Korean (ko_KR).
- β‘οΈ Updates to many existing translations
External Libraries
β‘οΈ Omeka 2.3 updates to the following versions of its external dependencies:
- Zend Framework 1.12.11
- jQuery 1.11.2
- π» jQuery UI 1.11.2
- TinyMCE 3.5.11
Bundled Add-ons
π Plugins
- π Exhibit Builder 3.2
- Simple Pages 3.0.5
Themes
- Thanks, Roy 2.3
- Seasons 2.3
- Berlin 2.3
For Developers
π For change information geared toward developers, see What's New in Omeka 2.3 on Omeka's Read the Docs site.
Acknowledgements
π The following members of the Omeka community contributed code, fixes, and improvements to Omeka 2.3: