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New features:

• New admin style added “K-admin inspired”
• Grid View for Admin interface added (#2794)
• Option to convert image formats from png or gif to jpeg during import added
• Pre-release language packs are now also visible in the language manager
• News-List template now support special styling for the first item
• Support added for multiple news templates (#2795)
• {NEWS_IMAGE} Auto Carousel option added to news (#2809)
• Added {NEWS_RATE} shortcode
• Added NEWS_LAYOUT constant
• Social login Yahoo added
• Multisite navigation support (when using the ‘multisite’ plugin)

Fixes & Improvements

• HybridAuth upgraded to v2.9.6 and LinkedIn login fixed
• Fixes for the installation routine on specific server configurations
• Several fixes to the SEF URLs across all areas
• Several fixes to the caching functionality (especially in ‘news’)
• Fixed issue with plugin preferences not saving correctly when value is '0'
• ‘Voux’ is now set as the default theme during installation
• LAN fixes, improvements and clean up
• Several fixes and improvements for backwards compatibility
• Performance improvements (database, update checks, loading of Glyps)
• PHP 7 compatibility improvements
• Fixes to admin and user permissions
• PHP notices and warnings clean up
• And many many more bugfixes

Fixes/Improvements:

• TinyMce updated to 4.5.6
• PHP Mailer Upgrade to 5.2.23
• Improvements to sending email procedure (SMTP)
• Bug fixes to plugins: Chatbox, Downloads, FAQ, Featurebox, Forum
• News: meta-description character limit option added. ie. {NEWS_DESCRIPTION: limit=x}
• Downloads: now supports file in root directory (no longer 'parent > child" needed)
• Several fixes to SEFL URLs, including automatic generation
• Numerous LAN enhancements (thanks @yesszus)
• Caching improvements
• Improvements to meta-tags
• Further fixes for PHP 7.1 compatibility
• Fixes to the backup/export functionality
• Javascript files are now moved to the footer
• Improved logging to system logs (especially SQL queries)
• Improved sessions handling (should prevent sudden logout)
• And literally dozens of other bugfixes and optimizations

New features:

• Language-Packs can now be downloaded and installed without leaving the admin area
• New MySQL method selectTree()
• New constant e_HTTP_STATIC
• New constant e_VERSION which returns the currently installed version of e107
• Custom TinyMCE snippets can now be placed in the theme folder as custom templates: templates/tinymce/snippets
• Ability to override site path (hash) by defining $E107_CONFIG['site_path'] in e107_config.php
• Table data from e107 v1.x "Content Management" plugin can now be imported into "Pages/Menus"

Fixes/Improvements:

• Significant amount of LAN work (thanks to @yesszus)
• Numerous speed and memory usage optimizations (work in progress)
• 'Country' extended user field (EUF) working again
• Several backwards-compatibility fixes for v1 plugins
• Cleanup and enhancements to the library manager (see _blank theme/plugin for usage)
• Added more id and class tags to allow for more styling (e.g. forum plugin)
• {NEWFORUMPOSTS} working again (but still deprecated, it is replaced by the newforumposts_menu in the forum plugin)
• Several fixes to the upgrade procedure from v1.x installations (e.g. users with a . in their username are now properly recognized again)
• Plugin manager is now using the Admin UI
• Changed enabled/disabled option to on/off (using a new switch) in the Admin Area
• Userpicker method working again when using SEF URLs
• And literally dozens of other bugfixes and optimizations
• News Grid Menu template upgraded for greater flexibility

New features:

• Page/Menu custom fields (documentation coming asap)
• e107::getParser()->toFile() method added
• {CHAPTER_MENUS: id=chapter-sef-url} shortcode added
• New event added: user_chatbox_post_created
• the e_parse addon can now also hook into the e107::getParser()->toDb() method
• "Theme converter" allows to create a new theme based on an existing theme (/e107_admin/theme.php?mode=convert)
• Start of SVG icon support (not completed yet)
• Theme shortcodes may be assigned as sitelink (navigation) dropdown content.

Fixes/Improvements:

• Menu Manager rewritten (menu selection is now seperated from theme layout, providing a more accurate preview)
• Fixes for PHP 7.1 - installation now works again
• Theme thumbnails added to installation wizard.
• Fix for uploading of forum attachments
• Fix for incorrect forum avatar showing in some cases
• Added check to prevent server IP from getting banned
• Various fixes for the user extended fields (both admin and frontend)
• Possible fix for session issues on some server configurations
• Cosmetic changes to the admin area
• Numerous LAN and templating improvements (allowing for translation and customisation)
• And many more minor fixes

New features:

• New theme "landingzero' with embedded video.
• Notification and automatic updating of new versions of plugins and themes
• Ability to export/import plugin preferences
• Support for custom font-icon sets in themes with user selection from those sets within the admin area (theme.xml).
• Bootstrap 4 'Cards' support. New setContent() method added for breakdown of $text into separate elements for use by tablestyle() when available
• New Constant: THEME_LEGACY added. Old themes will have a value of true, new themes (using theme.xml) as false
• New forum shortcodes: {TOPIC_TITLE} and {TOPIC_URL}
• Theme config can now use plugin $fields markup and save prefs to own table
• New event added: user_profile_edit (see event documentation)

Fixes/Improvements:

• Improved error handling when downloading plugins/themes from admin area
• Avatar and photograph uploading fixes
• More flexibility to forum templating added
• Caching functionality optimized for better performance
• Accessibility improvements to contact form
• Fixed installation errors on some PHP versions
• Better backwards compatibility for javascript loading in v1 plugins
• Several fixes to social login functionalities
• Timezone handling changes
• PHP 7.1 fixes (not completely stable yet)
• Numerous hardcoded LANs are now translatable and optimized
• And many more minor bugfixes and improvements

New features:

• More flexible templates for custom admin area dashboard layout
• Error pages: ability to change error page content and template (documentation coming)
• e_admin addon now allows for plugin to hook into batch admin UI actions (see _blank plugin for an example)
• Ability to set a "scope" for HybridAuth provider (social logins)
• New events added: user_xup_updated, user_news_item_viewed, user_page_item_viewed and user_comment_deleted (see event documentation)
• SEF URLs can be enabled/disabled on a per plugin basis
• Banner plugin now support external image URLs
• Bootstrap navigation now supports sub-links of sublinks

Other notes:

• Tagwords plugin removed from core, replaced by TagCloud plugin (introduced in v2.1.2)
• PHP 5.4 is now the minimal required version
• Disabled the loading of legacy core path e107_themes/templates/ (v1 legacy override still available)

Fixes/Improvements:

• Strongest PHP Password Encryption added as default
• Numerous fixes related to MySQL and PDO handling
• Removal of many hardcoded LAN phrases, allowing for translation
• Replaced e_tohtml.php addon with e_parse.php allowing for more functionality and customization
• Improved e_sitelink.php addon to support easy-to-make mega drop-down menu's
• Rewrite of $frm->userpicker() method to allow for maximum customization
• And literally hundreds of additional bug fixes and enhancements in all areas

New features:

• News Grid Menu added (see https://github.com/e107inc/e107/issues/1512)
• New Tagcloud Plugin
• New shortcode in News: {NEWS_VISIBILITY}
• New-user statistics added to Admin Area dashboard
• Developers can now hook into the meta-tags and alter them (see https://github.com/e107inc/e107/issues/1946)
• New e_event.php addon to register events (see the _blank plugin for an example)

Fixes/Improvements

• Fixed issues with gzip compression
• Updated forum icons template
• Numerous fixes to PDO functionality
• Several improvements to uploading files routine (for example forum attachments)
• Improvements to PHP7 compatibility
• Major improvements to the user extended fields functionality
• Fixes to the 'newforumposts' menu
• Fixed language selection during installation process
• Improved SSL detection
• Numerous enhancements to the 'Private Message' plugin
• Improved BbCode/Shortcode debugging.

New functionalities:

• Members only functionality: option to redirect to login page or membersonly splash page
• {USER_EUF: field=xxxx} shortcode added
• For developers: the e107::debug() allows to push messages to the browser console
• Added template for deleted topic in the forum plugin

The official release of e107 v2.x Bootstrap CMS. If you are upgrading, be sure to backup your database and your home directory.

405 Issues and fixes later, we have e107 v2.0 beta1. Currently in use on e107.org and other websites.

Be aware that while this release is quite stable, caution is advised when upgrading from an earlier (1.x) version. Always make proper file and database backups before upgrading!

Next alpha release containing hundreds of bug fixes since alpha 1.

Be aware that the alpha release is a development release. Caution is advised when upgrading from a live website. Always make proper backups before upgrading!