5.0.0-beta.4

Pre-release notes: https://getkirby.com/releases/5

Changelog since 5.0.0-beta.3

🎉 Features

• New ::toEntries() field method #6993 for the new Entries field.

<ul>
    <?php foreach ($page->myEntries()->toEntries() as $entry): ?>
        <li><?= $entry->upper() ?></li>
    <?php endforeach ?>
</ul>

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✨ Enhancements

• New ExceptionField class #7002
• Multiple storage reads are avoided with a new VersionCache class. #6989
• New icons: #7055
  • accessibility
  • ai
  • cloud
  • info-card
  • kirby
  • rocket
  • rss
  • shield
  • shut-down
  • terminal
  • wallet
• New $model->versions() method returning a versions collection (currently changes and latest) #7059
• New Language::is() method to compare Language objects
• Pick up new model objects when a model is updated within a hook, even if the new model object is not returned by the hook

✨ Enhancements from previous betas

• New wildcard option for Version::delete('*')
• New PlainTextStorage::isSameStorageLocation() implementation, which compares text file locations for more accurate results.
• ModelWithContent::changeStorage() has a new second, boolean $copy argument, which is false by default. Storage is thus moved by default, but can be copied on demand.
• ModelWithContent::save() and ModelWithContent::convertTo() use that new $copy flag to create a fully in-memory copy for the old instance.

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🐛 Bug fixes

• Fix writer update issue #6959
• Fixed password reset dialog in dark mode #7003
• Fix tree branch color in move dialog #6952
• k-item: fix non-selectable state #7024
• Hide label and counter for fields in the entries field #7039
• User::delete() will now properly call file.delete hooks for deleted user files.

🐛 Fixed regressions and issues from previous betas

• Page blueprint: changeTemplate doesn’t produce multiple content files anymore #7008
• Fix generating redundant image data in content files #6992
• Virtual content is no longer ignored when actual content file exists #7010
• Cancel running requests when discarding or publishing content #6869
• Fixed nested ::update calls in hooks #6869
• Versions will be properly deleted for all storage handlers when Model delete actions are executed
• Enforce pages.preview permission again

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🚨 Breaking changes

• Removed Kirby\Form\Form::exceptionField() #7002
• When working with old model instances in hooks, the models can no longer overwrite their content. This will now throw an exception if you try. Use the new model instances instead.
• $page::translation() returns a single translation in single language mode. This is also included in the $page::toArray() method
• $page::translation() returns a new Kirby\Content\Translation object instead of the old Kirby\Content\ContentTranslation object.
• The Kirby\Content\ContentTranslation class has been removed and repalced with Kirby\Content\Translation
• $page::translations() returns a new Kirby\Content\Translations collection instead of a generic Kirby\Content\Collection It will always include at least one language - even in single language mode.
• Kirby\Content\Content::update() is actively deprecated and must no longer be used. It will throw an exception to find usage early on.
• The ModelWithContent::$content and ModelWithContent::$translations cache props have been removed.
• User::create() does no longer accept null as argument.
• Setting a name field in User::update does no longer have any effect. Use User::changeName() instead.
• HasMethods::hasMethod() and HasMethods::callMethod() are now protected methods #7058
• ModelWithContent::versions() is no longer available as direct field accessor. You need to use $model->content()->versions() instead if you are using a field with the name versions. #7059
• The internal $originalEvent parameters for App::apply() and App::trigger() have been removed as they are no longer used in the core.

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☠️ Deprecated

• ModelWithContent::readContent: Use $model->version()->read() instead #7013
• ModelWithContent::writeContent Use $model->version()->write() instead #7013

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♻️ Refactored

• Model improvements #7020 #7021 #7023 #7029
  • Make sure that the template in the Page::factory() method is always lowercase
  • Make sure that the model name in Page::model() is always lowercase
  • Make sure that the template name is always lowercase in the Page::setTemplate method
  • Call ::setBlueprint in Model constructors before setting content
  • Use Page::updateParentCollections in the ::commit method and remove redundant calls.
  • Add ::updateParentCollection methods to FileActions and UserActions and use them in their commit methods
  • Replace User:: with static:: in user actions.
  • Add a unit test for creating a user with a password
  • Move pagesMethods tests into Pages/PagesMethodsTest.php
  • Use PHPUnit attributes for Model Blueprint tests
  • Improve the cache id in the MemoryStorage class
  • Undeprecate useful methods in the Translation class
  • Replace Page:: with static:: in PageActions
  • Simplify Page::createNum
  • Improve indentation in the Site class
  • Remove ::hardcopy from ::commit in model actions
  • New HasModels trait
  • App::setSite() is now public and can be used to overwrite the current site instance
  • New Page::normalizeProps()
  • New File::noramlizeProps()
  • New User::normalizeProps()
  • New ModelWithContent::changeStorage() method.
  • New virtual page tests
  • Unit tests for Models have been reorganized and cleaned up
  • New Kirby\Cms\ModelCommit class
  • New Kirby\Cms\ModelState class
  • Uses the new ModelCommit class in all action classes
• New Kirby\Cms\Collection::update($object) method
• New Kirby\Cms\Events class that handles low-level hook execution

♻️ Refactored from previous betas

• The MemoryStorage class uses the object id for guaranteed uniqueness
• A couple methods in Kirby\Content\Translation have been undeprecated because they turn out to be useful
  • ::code()
  • ::content()
  • ::exists()
• Moved the folder clean up logic into the Kirby\Content\PlainTextStorage handler
• RefactorUser::delete(), Page::delete() and File::delete() to delete the Versions properly

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🧹 Housekeeping

• Clean up @see tag consistency in the core code

4.7.0-rc.1

✨ Enhancements

• New session::store core component: return your custom SessionStore handler #6961
• Show info text when variable is an array #6930
• The Vue template compiler can be switched off in the config. This will load the vue runtime version. Plugins and the lab views that rely on the template compiler will no longer work.

  // `/site/config/config.php`
  return [
    'panel' => [
      'vue' => [
        'compiler' => false
      ]
    ]
  ];

• Panel: user needs to confirm current password when changing their own password or the password of another user (e.g. as admins) #6971
• Panel system view: Some security checks will be skipped on local setups #6932
• The security check for an accessible kirby folder now uses the LICENSE.mdfile instead of composer.json to avoid false-positive blocks by web application firewalls #6932

🐛 Bug fixes

• Custom sections: fixed issue where Vue mixin would overwrite load method #6809
• Requests for a page's html representation get redirected to the normal page URL without extension #6509
• Panel menu: fixed backdrop on narrow viewports #6983
• Link dialog: fixed permalinks for default language #6982
• Fixed file template wrongfully being written to secondary language content file #6739
• Add missing title for toolbar buttons #6998

5.0.0-beta.3

Pre-release notes: https://getkirby.com/releases/5

Changelog since 5.0.0-beta.2

🎉 Features

New entries field

Read more ...

Batch delete mode

New option for pages and files sections, to delete multiple files or pages at once https://kirby.nolt.io/38

Read more ...

PDF file preview

In addition to audio and video files, we've now also added a PDF preview to the core:

Read more ...

✨ Enhancements

• Support for content representation specific site controllers, e.g. site.rss.php #6950
• New Kirby\Cms\Pages::delete(array $ids) and Kirby\Cms\Files::delete(array $ids) methods to handle batch delete for multiple files in a collection.
• New batch mixin for model sections (pages & files), which introduces the batch option and a computed property to check for supported layouts.
• New selectable property for the <k-item> and <k-items> components. When set to true, the items show checkboxes and emit an select event, when the checkbox is clicked.
• The files and pages sections introduce new delete API endpoints. Those endpoints can take a set of page or file ids and will delete each one. Errors will be caught and sent back in the details array of the final thrown exception.

✨ Enhancements for earlier beta features

• View buttons: support name: true notation #6928
• UI component class: support non-pre-defined props #6929

🐛 Bug fixes

• Select, radio and toggles field: values that include a comma will not be split into two tags in the structure field preview anymore #5800
• Blocks field: fix empty display #6951
• Fix Drag & Drop between block fields #5290
• Drawers + Fields block: collapse tabs in header correctly into dropdown for narrow columns #6914

🐛 Fixed regressions from earlier betas

• Languages dropdown: fix changing language #6945
• Sticky column offset from sticky header
• Always use date handler for changes timestamp #6937

🚨 Breaking changes

• File drag texts in the Panel always use the file UUID, if UUIDs are not disabled #6948
• api.methodOverwrite option has been renamed to api.methodOverride

☠️ Deprecated

• Color field: the text => value notation for options has been deprecated and will be removed in Kirby 6. Please rewrite your options as value => text. #6913

🧹 Housekeeping

• Updated dependencies
• Updated todo comments #6987

4.6.1

✨ Enhancements

• Add a single space after colon in headers in Response class for better server support (FrankenPHP) #6976 Thanks to @rasteiner

🐛 Bug fixes

• Fix disappearing writer content when a page is moved or the slug is changed #6507

4.6.0

✨ Enhancements

• PHP 8.4 support
• New bluesky icon

🐛 Bug fixes

• Fixed CSS rules messing up grid styling inside the gallery block drawer #6838
• Fix alt attribute for FileVersion instances #6852
• Using single quotes in sqlite table discovery query fixes #6769
• Fix console error when no buttons available #6863
• Structure field: fix label of remove dropdown item #6899
• Block options: fix tabbing from sort handle #6893
• Structure field: fix preview input when paginated #6894
• Set require: true on image block location field #6905
• Blueprint image option: fixed support for query string #6916
• System view: fixed too long server software names #6917
• Pages and files sections: fixed page option #6735
• Role blueprints get properly extended #6918
• Link field: fixed handling of invalid options #6919
• Fixed js()/css() helpers parameters

🧹 Housekeeping

• Update the list of export ignores to keep unneeded files out of the Kirby ZIP downloads #6931
• Update JS dependencies #6933
• Removed remaining meta account from the readme and added Bluesky instead.

5.0.0-beta.2

Pre-release notes: https://getkirby.com/releases/5

Changelog since 5.0.0-beta.1

✨ Enhancements

• Allow disable all page buttons via buttons: false
• New way to set the default storage instance for all models #6867
  • New App::storage(ModelWithContent $model) method
  • New storage component, which can be overwritten in plugins or the app instance setup.
  • The storage component is now used in all Models to create the default storage instance

  // How to create a new default storage instance component: 
  use Kirby\Cms\App;
  use Kirby\Cms\ModelWithContent;
  use Kirby\Content\PlainTextStorage;
  
  class MyCustomStorageClass extends PlainTextStorage
  {
  
  }
  
  // on app initialisation
  $kirby = new App([
    'components' => [
      'storage' => function (App $kirby, ModelWithContent $model) {
          return MyCustomStorageClass($model);
      ]
    ]  
  ]);
  
  // in a plugin
  App::plugin('my/storage', [
    'components' => [
      'storage' => function (App $kirby, ModelWithContent $model) {
          return MyCustomStorageClass($model);
      ]
    ]  
  ]);

• New $app->role() method that works like $app->user() to return a specific role or the role of the current user. #6874
• View buttons: i18n + query support, component name from key
  • Panel\Ui\Button: i18n support for text and title props
  • Panel\Ui\Buttons\ViewButtons and Panel\Ui\Buttons\ViewButton have new optional $model property
  • Kirby query support in Panel\Ui\Buttons\ViewButton for link, dialog, drawer, icon, text, theme props
  • Deriving the Vue component name from key:

    buttons:
      - preview
      retour:
        text: Retour

    This first looks up k-retour-view-button and falls back to k-view-button.
• Writer: nodes with inline: true in their button definition are displayed as inline buttons in toolbar (instead inside the dropdown) #6902
• New this.$helper.object.filter(object, predicate). #6902
• Page status button uses custom status labels for title #6911
• Plugin update status: passive theme for unknown plugin versions #6920
• System view: Plugin table features two distinct columns for the license type and status #6896
• LicenseStatus supports link, dialog and drawer props #6896

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🐛 Bug fixes

• Fixed Str::ucfirst() behavior, now behaves like PHP default #6834
• Writer field: inline toolbar is hidden when no nodes and marks are available #6804
• Page dropdown: fix disabling preview item #6891
• File preview: fix aspect ratio for medium viewports #6891
• Page section w/ table layout: fix flag column #6866
• Range/Number field: fix isEmpty() usage #6898
• Custom writer nodes: fixed active state detection for nodes that include paragraph child nodes #6902
• Permissions are now always correctly determined if the active user changes during the request #6880

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🐛 Fixed regressions from Beta.1

• Hide language selector for single language #6850
• Duplicate action is forcing to copy files #6921
• Link in info box is now visible again in dark mode #6906

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🚨 Breaking changes

• The Str::ucfirst() method no longer lowercases all but the first letter of the text, it only capitalizes the first letter. #6860
• Classes extending ModelPermissions need to set their category with the const CATEGORY or static function category() instead of protected string $category and use the static user() method instead of $user and $permissions properties #6880
• <k-item>: Removed data-only-option attributes
• <k-dialog>: Removed data-has-footer attribute
• <k-toggles-input>: Removed data-disabled attribute
• <k-writer-input>: Removed data-toolbar-inline attribute
• <k-bubble>: Removed data-has-text attribute
• <k-header>: Removed data-has-buttons attribute
• <k-tag>: Removed data-has-image and data-has-toggle attributes
• <k-tree>: Removed data-has-subtree attribute
• required: true on checkbox and toggle fields now enforces that these fields need to be checked/toggles (active state)

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☠️ Deprecated

• panel.favicon option throws deprecation warnings for url option (use href instead) and for rel key (use reloption instead)

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♻️ Refactored

• ModelPermissions now also supports Language objects as quasi models #6876
• New LanguagePermissions class that inherits the existing logic from LanguageRules for consistency with other models #6876
• Globally cache access and list permissions per permission category, model type and user role to reduce code duplication #6881

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♻️ Refactored after Beta.1

• Update preview token logic to reliably fix tokens for the homepage #6856

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🧹 Housekeeping

• Move $app->roles() method to the AppUsers trait to increase the overview
• Clean up permission-related code for consistency #6879

4.6.0-rc.1

🐛 Bug fixes

• Fixed CSS rules messing up grid styling inside the gallery block drawer #6838
• Fix alt attribute for FileVersion instances #6852
• Using single quotes in sqlite table discovery query fixes #6769
• Fix console error when no buttons available #6863
• Structure field: fix label of remove dropdown item #6899
• Block options: fix tabbing from sort handle #6893
• Structure field: fix preview input when paginated #6894
• Set require: true on image block location field #6905
• Blueprint image option: fixed support for query string #6916
• System view: fixed too long server software names #6917
• Pages and files sections: fixed page option #6735
• Role blueprints get properly extended #6918
• Link field: fixed handling of invalid options #6919

🧹 Housekeeping

• Update the list of export ignores to keep unneeded files out of the Kirby ZIP downloads #6931
• Update JS dependencies #6933

5.0.0-beta.1

Pre-release notes: https://getkirby.com/releases/5

4.5.0

✨ Enhancements

• avif images are now considered resizable by default #6670
• User view: show prev/next buttons also on account view #6610
• Video block: better autoplay handling
• panel.upload exposes upload dialog open event #6621
• New Toolkit\Obj::toKeys() method #6651
• Improved Roles filter methods #6655
• New angle-dropdown button #6663
  
• Improved highlighting of current items in a dropdown #6672
  
  
• Tags input: dropdown shows current selection via checkbox/radio button #6698
  
  
• api.methodOverwrite config option to activate pure PATCH requests #6650
• Moving pages: allow pages as parent that don’t restrict any templates in their blueprint, but feature at least one pages section listing the page’s children #6717
• Role always shown when creating a new user, even if only one role available #6654
• Support icon and info for query and api options #6780
• Changed the status update host to getkirby.com #6787
• Update composer dependencies

🐛 Bug fixes

• Fixed $field->isEmpty() for some empty arrays #6637
• slugs.maxlength option works now #6526
• Fix updating new language variables for secondary languages #6622
• Page create dialog: toggle field allowed #6669
• User::roles() doesn't return only the current role for non-admin users but all available roles #6663
• Fixed issue where the page create dialog would use an existing page new instead just creating a temporary object #6643
• Radio input: fix default columns count #6699
• Multilang: Writer field now inserts the correct permalink for the current content language #6668
• Multilang: $page->permalink() returns a language-based permalink for the current content language #6668
• Fixed uploading non-resizable files with template/blueprint that features create option #6718
• Fixed some cached page and file properties #6720
• The license key dialog now trims accidently copied spaces from the license key #6722
• Panel UI fixed for create and changeRole permissions and user options #5147 #5146
• Fix preview links for files when the parent page preview is disabled #6786

☠️ Deprecated

• UserRules::validRole()

♻️ Refactored

• Remove roles count check from UserPermissions #6658

5.0.0-alpha.4

Pre-release notes: https://getkirby.com/buzz/v5-alpha