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Dotclear 2.37 - 2026-02-13 =========================================================== * 🐘 PHP 8.2+ is required, PHP 8.3, 8.4 and 8.5 compliance * Breaking change: PHP 8.1 is no longer supported * Breaking change: Adjust return type of isSpam method of antispam filter (filter now must return null or true or false) * Breaking change: type property is now mandatory in _define.php of modules (plugins, themes) * Breaking change: Switch from DotAddict to Dotclear for plugins/themes repositories * Breaking change: Use only one category (Actualités) for Dotclear news feed * Breaking change: Upgrade jQuery from 3.7.1 to 4.0.0 and jQuery migrate from 3.5.0 to 4.0.1 * UX/UI: Media sub-folders are now sorted in lexical order (based on their names) * UX/UI: Add a user preference option to use dynamic letter spacing rather than normal * UX/UI: Add a visual indicator (header border color and collapser background color) when one of monitored forms is unsaved, checked every 5s * UX/UI: Review color input appearance * UX/UI: Review CSS breakpoints (now 600, 1024 and 1280px) * UX/UI: Sortable items: reduce sortable handler area to button only (was entire row before) and give more room for the handler * UX/UI: Add two user preferences to use a dense layout for favorites icons, and for dashboard modules boxes * UX/UI: Adjust badge horizontal position on icons with dense layout * UX/UI: Add an header label for Antispam filter's settings link in list * UX/UI: about:config and user:prefs plugins: give focus to 1st focusable element on menu selection * UX/UI: Switch order of two options of Antispam plugin in blog parameters page, add some explanation about the "only moderate spam" option * UX/UI: Cope with last opened folder in media manager * UX/UI: Cope with last media directory opened from user (stored in user prefs) * UX/UI: Use specific labels for user statuses (in order to avoid confusion with other usages of these labels) * UX/UI: Add some statistics on users list and blog list * UX/UI: Add date and modification date (and time) columns for users list * UX/UI: Widgets management, CSS review * A11y: Use aria-current rather than aria-selected for current tab * A11y: Enforce some contrasts in dark mode (AA minimum) * Core: Add an option for each category to disabled feedback (enabled by default) * Core: Simple Menu, a data (string) may be add to each item and it's value will be rendered as data-menuitem HTML attribute * Core: Add a max_level parameter (0 = all, n = number of levels) for categories retrieval in blog->getCategories() and categories->getChildren() * Core: Blog settings and User preferences, if unknown type, try to detect type from given value and use it if possible * Core: Add a dotclear helper (JS) to give focus to the 1st focusable child in an element (take care of tab order) * Theme: Berlin, cope with motion reduce setting (a11y) * Fix: Blank target of Simple Menu item was not correctly preserved when changing order of menu items * Fix: Checking $_POST[…] for a checkbox which may be not present is $_POST if not checked * Fix: Some cleanup was missing in last 2.36 update * Fix: Cope with GD not available for OTP QR Code in user pref * Fix: Media item deletion with a search filter * Fix: Ensure given value of Html/Form/Strong field is string * Fix: Antispam filters order management if drag'n'drop is disabled in user prefs * Fix: Menu was hidden in some cases * Fix: Use key attribute of keydown event rather than code in order to ignore keyboard layout (standard Editor) * Fix: Success message on user deactivation * Fix: cope with encapsulated tags (code in pre for example) for smilies replacements * Fix: Blogroll, use "Category status" rather than "Link status" for categories * Fix: Search module (plugins/themes) with 0 results * Fix: Cope with Codemirror editor for dirty forms monitoring * Fix: Return URL from secondary page of actions (entries, …), was limited to last 10 selected in 1st page * Fix: Usage of CKEditor and classic editor for non admin users * Fix: Avoid overflow of figcaption for centered figures * Fix: Theme editor, give priority to named template set rather than generic one when searching template files Dotclear 2.36 - 2025-11-13 =========================================================== * 🐘 PHP 8.1+ is required, PHP 8.2, 8.3 and 8.4 compliance * Breaking change: Media::getFSDir() has been removed * Breaking change: Add a MediaFile file descriptor (extends File class) * Breaking change: File class no longer allow dynamic properties * Breaking change: ThemeConfig::cleanCSS method has been removed * Breaking change: dcCore instance parameter is no longer provided by Rest server * Breaking change: dcCore::app()->spamfilters is no longer taken into account * Breaking change: The deprecated Error::toHTML() method has been removed * Core: Unlock theme modification even for old ones (overload attribute in _define.php of themes is no longer used) * Core: Add Webauthn (Passkeys), OTP and oAuth2 support (to be configured in inc/oauth2.php, an example is provided in inc/oauth2.php.in), a new table credential will be added to the DB * Core: Frontend session is now supported * Core: Add a dotclear_exit() proxy function (loaded by App) for exit()/die() * Core: Add PDO drivers for mysql and pgsql and rename sqlite * Core: Allow load and forget a service, useful for example to open a secondary connection of a DB * Core: Add DB method to get a connection on the fly * Core: Set session TTL to 20 hours rather than 2, it's better for accessibility * Core: Allow opening a Frontend context during Backend one, using the same session * Core: Sanitize sqlStatement given conditions (or, and, groups) * Core: Add a boolean 3rd parameter to Listing::userColumns() to transform if necessary, all columns' value to Component if already not (as Text) * Core: Let's be gentle with old installations, but not too old, so welcome back the deprecated bootstrap() method to App ;-) * Core: Add CLI mode for installation * Core: Add adminPageHTMLBody behavior (called just before closing body) * Core: Move hard coded store URLs to release file * Core: Bump minimum required PHP version to 8.2 for future releases (after 2.36) * Core: Add a maintenance task to empty feeds cache folder * UX/UI: For entries with closed comments or closed trackbacks, display comments/trackbacks counters with a specific color (aria-details added if necessary). * Core: Add download attribute to Html/Form/Link (a) * UX/UI: Add comments/trackbacks status information for post and page * UX/UI: Review entry link toolbar icon (standard Editor and CKEditor) * UX/UI: Plugin with setting link(s): remove hr and add a vertical separation (blank) * UX/UI: Enforce visibility of informative/warning message from media listing (no results from filter, empty folder) * UX/UI: Add unique id (if not given) of all toolbar's element * UX/UI: Add group management for standard Editor toolbar elements (spacers are no longer needed) * UX/UI: Entry edition page: Ask to reset the url base if title has changed and if entry is not published (only if title is used in entry URL format) * UX/UI: Add some padding to textarea (2px is not enough, the cursor was difficult to see at the beginning of a line) * UX/UI: Theme preview have been removed * UX/UI: User preferences: show a warning message if QR code image cannot be provided * UX/UI: Allow using theme editor as a favorite, use a better name * UX/UI: Differentiates list of options (used in HTML) and list of values for select filters, group months by year for posts filter * UX/UI: Groups months by year for menu simple archive item * UX/UI: Replace grid.png by grid.svg (was the last PNG image in admin) * Theme: Berlin, use CSS grid for widgets layout (with 2 or 3 columns) * Theme: Review management of widget title/subtitle formats * Fix: Link color in warning message on dark scheme * Fix: Fix link color in warning message on dark scheme * Fix: Page plugin, use the correct editor for HTML after conversion * Fix: Cope with search filter when deleting item in media insertion popup * Fix: CKEditor: allow insertion of link (direct/entry) on empty selection * Fix: All editors: Use entry title as link text if current selection is empty * Fix: Ensure storing integer value in post_limit, post_offset and post_count properties when importing from Wordpress * Fix: Fix progress bar progression in import/export plugin, and autosubmit JS script * Fix: Allow entry preview for non admin users * Fix: Flat export without check zip format * Fix: Do not insert custom CSS stylesheet if the current theme is not customCSS (frontend) * Fix: Thumbnails deletion on search media delete action * Fix: Isolate upgrade dependencies classes (Menu and Helper) * Fix: CSS variable name for #help-button color * Fix: Ensure that some transient user preferences (media_manager_dir, media_file_mode) are not already stored in DB before adding them * Fix: Media manager, back to first page when changing directory (fav, last or sub-directory) * Fix: Cope with media item deletion from search results * Fix: Take care of empty value for given REST function * Fix: Use process way for admin URLs set by JS (and ensure popup=1 is set when opening a popup) * Fix: Avoid removing media from post if no IDs given * Dev: Switch from Atoum to PHPUnit for unit tests * Dev: Add a development mode to theme editor (if set then the editor will behave as before overloading system, directly editing themes files). This mode may be set via a themeEditorDevMode behavior callback * Dev: Temporary removal of links to the documentation (until the new server is operational) in CONTRIBUTING.md * Locales: Norwegian (bokmål), Thai and Vietnamese languages added * Locales: Bengali, Catalan, Esperanto, Spanish (Argentina),Basque,Hindi,Croatian,Occitan,Serbian,Telugu removed Dotclear 2.35 - 2025-08-13 =========================================================== * 🐘 PHP 8.1+ is required, PHP 8.2, 8.3 and 8.4 compliance * Breaking change: App::auth()->blog_count is no longer public, use App::auth()->getBlogCount() instead * Breaking change: App::frontend()->smilies is an array (may not be initialized) and no longer accept false value * Breaking change: restCheckStoreUpdateV2 behavior use now an single associative ArrayObject rather than two arrays * Breaking change: Put the global __() function in a separate file, L10n::bootstrap() should be call in order to have this function defined * Breaking change: HtmlFilter now trim returning string * Breaking change: User favorites, remove unused case (using array) in getFavorite($id) method * Core: Propose to reset entry URL when publication date is changed (if not already published) * Core: Allow using patterns for house cleaning during upgrade * Core: Add an option to Antispam to publish immediately moderated comments/trackbacks if they are recognized as not being a spam * Core: Reset host cache list if force refresh is required (upgrade dashboard) * Core: Add a host cache in StoreReader (with log) * Core: Remove old IE code from standard Editor Wysiwyg mode * Core: Add a JS helper, dotclear.DOMready to use when DOM content is loaded (backend/frontend) * Core: Add also media_private to idx_media_media_path SQL index as this field is often used in queries with media_path and media_dir * Core: Make idx_media_media_path SQL index generic, not only for PostgreSQL * Core: Adds a meta tag that can be disabled to prevent indexing by AI engines in Blog parameters (advanced section) * Core: Add two behaviors in themeEditor themeEditorWriteFile, themeEditorDeleteFile to let 3rd party plugins play with it * Core: Cope with mjs (javascript module) in themeEditor * Core: Remove link to current selected theme stylesheet which is not useful on themes' list page * Core: Display a warning message if theme is too old to be overloaded with themeEditor * Core: Add a specific define value for theme supporting overloading (DC 2.35+) * Core: Allow modification of distributed themes as the new system will not modify original files * Core: Cope with index.php?tf=resource.ext and with custom theme template path (var) * Core: Add a behavior (adminDashboardMessage) to provide 3rd party modules message on dashboard * Core: Add a behavior (adminConvertBeforePostEdit) to allow 3rd party conversion before editing entry content (post/page) * Core: Set default antispam moderation TTL to 7 days rather than 0 (immediate) * Core: Rewriting the method for building category lists without using recursion * Core: Call coreContentFilter behavior for preview button (wiki mode) * Core: Add a status information for blogroll links and categories * Core: Cope with full URL for public media when looking for 1st image in entry * Core: Use XML format rather than serialized PHP Object to cache feeds * Core: Use IntersectionObserver rather than an EventListener for Goto Top button (show/hide) and Help button (position and aspect) * Core: Optimize getLangsCombo method * UX/UI: Review prefix of back button text (::before) * UX/UI: Review editors' name, use description rather than name in user pref if available * UX/UI: Use an animated SVG rather than GIF for autocomplete loading indicator * UX/UI: Review responsive table header management on small devices (WIP) * UX/UI: Use a dialog for inline quote insertion in legacyEditor rather than two consecutive prompts * UX/UI: Add aria-label to set to today button * UX/UI: Add aria-label to show/hide password button * UX/UI: Add an Ok button to notices in order to close them * UX/UI: Review maintenance tasks messages using Ajax * UX/UI: Slight review of toolbar buttons background on standard Editor * UX/UI: Review theme editor help * UX/UI: Add a global help sidebar only if has not already been loaded * UX/UI: Add a last donation date personal reminder in donation fieldset on dashboard * UX/UI: Add some note about video insertion sizes * UX/UI: Slight review CSS of responsive tables * UX/UI: Add a plugins settings page with all available links to different kinds of plugins settings * UX/UI: Review Theme Editor plugin icon (light/dark) * UX/UI: Review look and position of title on auth page * UX/UI: Force sub-categories to be displayed under the category * UX/UI: After update done, go directly to authentication (Upgrade) instead of requiring a another click from user * UX/UI: If secondary notes should be hidden (in user pref), also hide informative notes * UX/UI: Switch to light-dark() and cope with color scheme for backend CSS * Fix: No need for spl_autoload_register callback to return anything * Fix: Do not use french feed for Finnish language * Fix: Do not request multiple times the list of fonts during blowup config rendering * Fix: Fix form children selector in dotclear.enterKeyInForm() helper * Fix: Fix CSS for outgoing-link image * Fix: Set media link (not image nor video nor audio) content to current selected text (or url if none) in standard Editor * Fix: Set media link (not image nor video nor audio) content to current selected text (or url if none) in CKEditor * Fix: Avoid loading more than once util.js (Frontend) * Fix: Fix fields' color (to cope with light/dark mode) for Blue Silence theme * Fix: Fix fields' color (to cope with light/dark mode) for Blowup theme * Fix: Do not list minified versions of files in themeEditor * Fix: No need to change field backgrounds in order to cope with light/dark modes in Ductile * Fix: Prevent unsaved media properties if necessary * Fix: Berlin theme: style only aside without any classes * Fix: Try to cope with non UTF-8 encoded theme's files in themeEditor if necessary * Fix: Review composition of list of plugins in notice/success/warning/error * Fix: Display delete button as soon as file saved (even with JS) in themeEditor * Fix: Review dynamic activation/deactivation of delays in maintenance settings tab * Fix: Maintenance plugin: display expired task(s) message only if requested in plugin settings * Fix: Select the correct radio button for maintenance alert depending on current settings * Fix: Quick entry creation without category * Fix: No need to load more than once legacyEditor resources (JS, CSS, …) * Fix: Fix miniTidy by reverting HTML5 closing single tags to XHTML form as xml_parser will use XHTML format. * Fix: Cope with footnotes CKEditor plugin which force background color * Fix: Do not display generic help on plugin config if help is already set * Fix: Filter contextual help content to avoid malformed HTML * Fix: default smilies definition path * Fix: Put ul of sub-categories inside the li, not after * Fix: Fix: Its better to have a form to save stuff in maintenance! * Fix: Target = _blank is for opening in another tab/window * Fix: Fix comment preview content, the publicBeforeCommentPreview behavior effect was ignored * Fix: Fix helper message for comments and trackbacks TTL * Fix: Use new-stuff class rather than top-add as this one might be hidden by ads-blockers * Fix: Keep some space between username and logout icon * 🐛 → Various bugs, a11y concerns and typos fixed * 🌼 → Some locales and cosmetic adjustments Dotclear 2.34 - 2025-05-13 =========================================================== * 🐘 PHP 8.1+ is required, PHP 8.2, 8.3 and 8.4 compliance * Breaking change: No longer argument dcCore::app() given in SpamFilter::__construct() * Breaking change: Use standard pagination template on search result pages in dotty template set * Breaking change: use input type search for search widget, may have impact on theme's CSS * Core: Add a flag — SOCKET_VERIFY_PEER, to be defined to false in inc/config.php — to ignore peer verification (host and certificate) on socket connection (use with caution) * Core: Add an optional parameter for postType to specify the admin URL of list of it's entries * Core: Plugins adding buttons on legacyEditor/CKEditor should have at least 1010 priority, 1005 is reserved for additional syntaxes to legacyEditor (as legacyMarkdown) * Core: Move default location of upgrade backups from root to var folder, also move old backup files in this new location if they still are in root folder * Core: Add two helper methods to Tpl class, getCurrentTag() and getFiltersParams(), useful to when using Ctx::global_filters() * Core: Core version code review * Core: Complete actions behaviors (new behaviour adminAfterProcessAction) * Core: Add a new behavior 'coreContentFilter' to replace too restrictive old 'coreAfterPostContentFormat' (used in post content/excerpt, comment content, category description) * Core: Add a template value tpl:CommentIfUs similar to tpl:CommentIfMe but for all blog's active users (use with caution, especially on large number of users) * Core: Use DirectoryIterator rather than opendir/readdir/closedir * Core: Add a Dotclear constant to limit DB update with new media (default = 1000). May be set in inc/config.php (DC_MEDIA_UPDATE_DB_LIMIT) * Core: Check limit before doing something to allow setting DC_MEDIA_UPDATE_DB_LIMIT to 0 to never add missing media in DB * Core: Cope with unattended request on CSP report URL * Core: Add a force rebuild thumbnails in current directory. To be use with caution with large number of media in it as it is not asynchronous yet. * Core: Allow reusable core script (JS) for entry selection * Core: Add Span and Strong as child of Html/Form/Text class, add items/separator/format management to Text * UX/UI: Add template set information in theme details * UX/UI: Review left header positioning in tables on small devices * UX/UI: No longer use ▶ as main menu active item indicator (confusing with fold-able stuff), back to : character * UX/UI: Differenciate dotty/mustek template-set based themes in blog appearance page * UX/UI: Display entry types in list (search, tags) * UX/UI: Add generic translate attribute management and use it to avoid browser translation of some languages information (list, codes, …) * UX/UI: Remove light gray background on editor's toolbar. Add a visible separator between groups of tools on legacyEditor toolbar. * UX/UI: Adjust color/background for disabled textarea * UX/UI: Use type search for back-end search inputs * UX/UI: Precise which password is required (admin one) on user page validation * UX/UI: Add translate="no" to several fields (id, names, urls, emails, langs, …) * UX/UI: Stick main menu to the top * UX/UI: Add a scroll-behavior: smooth for body * UX/UI: Add a user option to sitck main menu on top othe page as far as possible * UX/UI: Cope with enter key to validate sidebar widgets settings form * Fix: Review management of favorites icon's legends * Fix: In Blog::getLangs() set a table alias P for post table in SQL statement as it may be used in some cases * Fix: Fix breadcrumb for comment * Fix: Rollback jQuery UI from 1.14.2 to 1.12.1 as 1.13.* and 1.14.* cause problems with nested drag'n'drop jQuery plugin (categories) * Fix: legacyEditor: Don't put a space at the beginning of the toolbar, don't repeat spaces * Fix: legacyEditor: Do not display spacers if they are in first or last position in toolbar * Fix: Missing tab id for system settings of maintenance plugin * Fix: Display of founded trackbacks links and proposed trackback excerpt (on auto discover action) * Fix: Default color palette for CKEditor * Fix: Switch back some password fields to input fields as browsers try to do more than required (especially on Windows), even if autocomplete="…" is not defined! * Fix: Optional disabled modules management * Fix: Labels for next/previous post buttons * Fix: Avoid ambiguity in statistics displayed above list of entries. The links to various entry status list are displayed only if only one post type in list. * Fix: Use fully qualified class for MailSocket() method in config.php.in template * Fix: URL regexp for lang scheme * Fix: Labels for items pagination (aka no of item per page in admin lists) * Fix: Don't sort twice files in media directory * Fix: Tags user option display * Fix: Cope with {{tpl:lang…}} or {tpl:lang…} or already compiled <?= __(…) ?> or <?php echo __(…); ?> in widget settings * Fix: Avoid sorting dirs/files if not necessary * Fix: Media settings URL (in blog parameters) in footer on media page * Fix: Don't escape twice link properties * Fix: Disabled module update * Fix: Module install * Fix: Do not use autocomplete for login in new user page * Fix: Use positioning in sprintf formats as some languages may use another order in sentences than English. * Fix: Return button (label and URL) on user permission page (user action) * Fix: Do not remove path part of themes_url when composing resource's URL, only if themes_url begins with http(s):// * Fix: Do plugins installation (Install.php / _install.php) if necessary (on upload, download, install and update) on upgrade dashboard * Fix: Empty/Delete uninstall Cleaner use a non prefixed table name as input. * Fix: CKEditor loading of media CSS alignment * Tests: Remove unnecessary sleep() in Files unit tests * 🐛 → Various bugs, a11y concerns and typos fixed * 🌼 → Some locales and cosmetic adjustments Dotclear 2.33.1 - 2025-03-02 =========================================================== Fix: Remove improper <br> before end of paragraph (</p>) in legacyEditor if any Fix: Link color in table item headers on small devices Fix: Non admin users cannot create a new post Dotclear 2.33 - 2025-02-13 =========================================================== * 🐘 PHP 8.1+ is required, PHP 8.2, 8.3 and 8.4 compliance * Core: Get title and description from SVG if exist * Core: Add optional release date to modules and display them if present * Core: Status management revamped (entries, comments, users, blogs, ...) * Core: New behavior coreBlogBeforeGetPostsAddingParameters (used for some db requests) * UX/UI: Add left/right arrow key navigation from post to post (or page to page) * UX/UI: Adjust (small) image size in some popup display * UX/UI: Add media title to metadata list * UX/UI: Add direct submit on quick menu selection (search field) * UX/UI: Add a required attribute to password of the chosen action is delete on blogs page management * UX/UI: Add count of available updates for plugins and themes in tab title * UX/UI: Review "Lock theme update" note, thanks Gérard Barré for this suggestion * UX/UI: Adjust size and positions of sub/sup texts * UX/UI: Add media title as ordering criteria * UX/UI: Apply a lexical sort for names and titles of media * UX/UI: During meta (tags) search, add a second loop looking after the beginning (those results will be displayed at the end of the list) * UX/UI: Remove stats (no of entries, usage frequency) on autocomplete list (tags) * UX/UI: Classic editor: Set some CSS attributes to avoid dynamic inline style insertion during copy'n'paste * UX/UI: Switch from : to ▶ character for current/active menu-item indicator (with a fallback to :) * UX/UI: Remove metadata frequency information (not useful in backend) * UX/UI: Cope with large SVG icon in sidebar of entry edition page * UX/UI: Media item page: on display list of entries using the media, display now two lists (inside entry/entry attachments). * UX/UI: Cope with alternate text and description of video and audio media during insertion * Fix: Lock/unlock button (on input/textarea) was not accessible * Fix: Don't display a warning about missing permission for super-admin newly created users * Fix: SQL error on changing existing user id, the prefs were created from the old id, not the new one * Fix: On some servers, OPCache API might be restricted. Try to detect this. * Fix: Don't display twice the media title in media metadata list * Fix: In en empty media folder, uploaded files using the enhanced uploader were not displayed * Fix: Ensure there is at least one available language to download before showing the according form * Fix: XMP metadata were badly read from image file * Fix: Cope with non existing settings in Ductile configuration * Fix: Boxes alignment on blog appearance page * Fix: Date format label in blog parameters * Fix: Sortable blocks system on dashboard * 🛡 Security: Fix potential XSS, thanks Ratnesh Kumar for reporting this issue * 🛡 Security: Escape HTML content in filters' input fields * 🛡 Security: Disallow double (or more) extensions on media upload file, fix a potential RCE reported by Ratnesh Kumar. * 🐛 → Various bugs, a11y concerns and typos fixed * 🌼 → Some locales and cosmetic adjustments Dotclear 2.32.1 - 2024-11-27 =========================================================== * Fix: A category could not be renamed * Fix: The categories page doesn't display any categories if there's only one for the blog * Fix: Cast number values to int in blog parameters form as they might be non-existent * Fix: Replace return button by a cancel button in intermediary steps during creation of a new SimpleMenu item * Fix: legacyEditor with pseudo empty excerpt (thanks Ben Griffith for documenting this issue)
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