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Symphony 2.2

Strengthening the 2.* branch with core documentation; new email API; new delegates; language improvements; UI improvements; tons of bugfixes, performance enhancements, and stability updates; and more.

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Symphony 2.2 introduced a number of very significant changes for both users and developers. Most of these changes were chronicled on the Symphony blog.

New Features

All core code has been fully documented!
Symphony now has a core email API (details below and here).
There are dozens of new delegates for extension developers, including: delegates to add custom columns to the Publish index; delegates for the creation, editing and deleting of data sources, events, pages, sections, and utilities; delegates for Login and Password Reset; delegates for the enabling/disabling/uninstallation of Extensions; new delegates for appending content; and more! (Official list forthcoming)
not-regexp support is now included in all core fields
The section index now supports batch-changing of navigation groups
Any field that uses the Section Associations feature now has option to hide/show the linked section column
Field collapsing is now enabled in the section editor
New Symphony jQuery plugins: Pickable and Orderable
Accesskeys are now supported (details forthcoming)
New entry forms will now autofocus the first field
jQuery 1.4.4

Bug Fixes

#351: Allow right column of Devkits to scroll if they need to
#377: Refined implementation of batch navigation group changing
#386: Show param pool in page XML
#388: Allow General::writeFile to accept a mode parameter. Installer can now append to existing .htaccess files
#398: Update phrasing of 'Send Email' filter to better support localization
#401: Don't allow editing of Events when allowEditorToParse is set to FALSE
#407: Added General:arraymaprecursive. Configuration class now stripslashes all setting values
#417: Add field name in event error message
#420: Fix help text styling issue
#427: Added Source dropdown validation (required) on Event editor. Prevents PHP error being thrown.
#428: Fix duplicator markup problem
#431: Add time filtering and relative dates to the date field
#433: Escape variables for Static XML
#434: Added Page() accessor function to FrontendPage
#435: Add public lockExists method to the Mutex class
#439: SBL can now use Date & Upload fields
#442: Cleanup of Blueprints Sections
#446: Fix focus bug in Safari and make use of event delegation to avoid the usage of map which breaks jQuery chaining.
#451: Duplictor styling issues
#453: Slightly altered UI for extensions listing, add alert if updates required
#454: Fix sorting of dynamically added items
#462: Empty DS output params show empty <item> element in XML
#463: Select Box Link styling bug when adding to a section
#464: Duplicator no longer re-orderable
#465: Adding a Select Box to section results in blank screen
#467: Fixes error reporting bug
#468: Author field can now be sorted by username, fixed toggling inconsistency
#469: Documentation typo
#470: Missing documentation param
#474: Row selection - some colors changing on onMouseUp
#475: File Upload Field: Validation rule is inserted as Field Label
#477: Javascript fix for Remove File
#478: Remove pagination from Navigation & Author Datasource types, rewrite Author DS logic.
#479: Make the update notification more robust
#482: Remove unnecessary Frontend static property
#484: removing the Meiryo-font
#485: Compatibility commit, Add this->Database back to the Field class
#486: Symphony should refrain from altering default form elements wherever possible.
#488: Select Box fields can now be required—also addresses #489
#492: Fix for events without documentation—also addresses #495 and #497.
#494: Optimised Language array
#500: Make sure the FieldManager variable exists
#505: Redirect to index page if the symphony-page variable is empty
#507: Correct a typo—also addressing #520
#510: Use example.com in documentation
#512: Bump LICENCE year to 2011
#513: Ensure that the port is stripped from HTTP_HOST when setting a cookie.
#515: Some preventative filter checks
#519: Proper checks for displaying Symphony Alerts—also addresses #523 and #524
#521: Type checking $existing->dsParamFILTERS
#522: Code elements were not styled properly within the section settings
#526: Correctly handle each of the extension states on the Extensions page
#527: Don't ignore the .gitignore!
#529: Fix some translation calls in Adminstration.
#531: Ensure that the pagination variables are numeric
#539: Fix line height of system alerts
#540: Regardless of whether or not 'r' actually works, changed for consistency
#543: Fix AddDefaultAuthorAreas delegate
#547: Add UNIQUE KEY indexes to fields that definitely should not have multiple rows in the database.
#549: Add missing translation to Content/Pages
#555: Consistency update, no fields are required by default. Moved Select, Upload, Date and Author fields to Sidebar location by default in Section Editor.
#554: Use moz-focus-inner to make buttons styled consistently.
#557: Allow " in Section names
#558: Add in missing title element to Symphony Components + Preferences
#560: Fix variable typo
#561: Various style fixes—also addresses #551 and #553 and #562
#564: The Date field will no longer always return a valid date when nonsense data is entered into it.
#565: Added the AddElementstoAuthorForm delegate.
#566: Add missing Email Gateway localisation strings.
Fix for login pageAlert error
Fix custom author language settings
Fix ExceptionHandler bugs
If dsParamPAGINATERESULTS is not set (e. g. on updated installs), use the system default 'yes'
Fix language management: Load translations for extensions, Load custom author language
Rename duplicate Page class in installer
Keep fields accessible that are inside a orderable list. Before is wasn't possible to focus these elements.
More robust pagination management
Fix General::limitWords function
Query logged user only once.
Fix for URLs with unknown handles
Add missing translation strings
Fix a renamed variable bug for Navigation
Do not submit With Selected post if no rows have been selected
Copied flush function from Manager class (which SectionManager no longer extends it)
All errors (including warnings) will be raised as Exceptions so they can be dealt with in a more managable way
Remove extensions path from .gitignore, this was preventing submodules from being added
Fix for addElementToHead index collisions
Security improvement: Protect crucial files using htaccess rules.
In some environments, chmod may fail and throw Exceptions, suppressing these warnings to restore pre 2.2 behaviour.
fixed empty option logic for (un)required checkbox
Fix a long running bug with the Dynamic XML DS where 'STOP' would always caused a failed Dynamic XML result to be because of timeout errors
Fix no pagination on pre 2.2 datasources
Fix the order of the AdministrationPage's XMLElements being appended to the Body so that the AdminPrePageGenerate delegate works again.
Fix order of the Form being appended to the Contents in AdministrationPage
Fix the exclude parameter in the General::listdirStructure and General::listStructure functions
Add trailing slash to the translate AJAX call, prevents a 301
Prevent the whole Exception object from ever being completely dumped.

Minor Updates

CSS and markup has been cleaned up (details here)
Extensions can now have multiple authors
When Event priority is the same, sort the execution order alphabetically
Add General::sanitize to the Select field
Pass page XML by reference to allow extensions to manipulate it
Updated deprecated eregi calls to use preg_match in General:sendEmail
Lang: Remove unneeded functions Lang::add() and Lang::getBrowserLanguages()
Lang: Remove unneeded dependencies on the Extension Manager
Lang: Add localizeDate() and standardizeDate() functions
Installer: Add new date formats, show full name of available languages
Initialize Symphony language early enough to handle custom author settings correctly
Admin Markup: Added field handle (type) names to HTML for easier field-specific styling of displaySettingsPanel content
Admin Markup: Append ID and class to body element of backend pages. Specific page scan override ID with setBodyId() and can add classes with setBodyClass()
Removed sort parameter from listDirStructure, it did nothing
Localize and standardize month and day names across the system interface.
Add date and time separator to config.
Adjust Symphony object to load author and context information (the DOM needs to be ready for this!).
Remove ArchiveZip class, it's not used by Symphony at all, Remove ParseXML class, it's not used by Symphony at all
Updated XMLElement class to be more PHP5-like
Added CRLF deprecation
rewrite of the HTMLPage::__buildQueryString to use PHP5 functions
only accept translations from activated language extensions
Remove default transliteration in favour of the default English language file which contains the same data.
Clean up of extension management
Clean up of language management during and after install
Allow listDirStructure to accept a filter, which in turn allows the ExtensionManager listAll function to now accept a filter
Refactor of the XSLTProcess class
Enhance JavaScript Context management and start documenting admin.js
Port Symphony 3 tag plugin to Symphony 2
Correctly add and merge context groups
Filter rules have been renamed to reduce ambiguities
Replace .odd with the equivalent CSS3 property
new constant, SYMPHONY_URL added
Make the Author Manager use a pool, reduces queries in particular with the Author field
Added ExtensionManager accessor method to the Symphony class
make sure that appendFormattedElement() creates new XMLElement() with (empty) attributes array
Extra check for when an Author's default area is set to a section that has since been deleted and there are no other sections in the installation.
Don't select things that have no input. Check for an array, in the case where nothing has been selected but the action is applied anyway
New Configuration Option, strict_error_handling. Defaults to true which will raise E_WARNING to an exception, false will mimic the current Symphony behaviour of ignoring E_WARNING and just writing to the log. Extension developers should strive to prevent E_WARNING's using try/catch blocks. Added mainly for compatibility reasons.
Row selection behavior has changed to mimic OS functionality more closely (e.g. Shift+click and Ctrl+click to select ranges and multiple single rows).