v3.1.2

Fixes

• Fixed a bug where files could appear out of order within an item, particularly if many files were added at once
• Fixed an error on newer PHP versions that was thrown when passing non-numeric data as the page URL parameter
• Fixed a PHP 8.2 deprecation warning issued from some controllers
• Fixed a PHP 8.1 deprecation warning issued from the shortcode handler
• Fixed a PHP 8.1 deprecation warning issued from the Imagick derivative image strategy
• Fixed an issue where the download button on the lightGallery viewer in themes could be impossible to press
• Fixed an error that could occur when using the es_CO locale on some pages where formatted numbers were displayed (e.g. file sizes and limits)
• Fixed a notice issued from theme configuration when uploading a file
• Fixed a notice issued from the tag mixin
• Fixed an error that could occur when saving custom links in the navigation
• Fixed an error that could cause Omeka to hang when uploading some images with embedded XMP metadata
• Fixed an error that could occur in the removeZeroDates migration when upgrading from a very old Omeka version when using MySQL 8
• Fixed the display of error messages on the installer and login forms
• Fixed the admin search form to restore the "is not exactly" search type
• Fixed various small issues in the admin theme

Changes

• Theme versions are now displayed in the theme selection view
• Added admin styling for number, email, and search type inputs
• Field explanations in the admin theme are no longer larger than other text like field labels
• Removed admin theme references to some obsolete fonts, images, and stylesheets
• The font style and size in the admin theme is now set more loosely, fixing some issues where more specific font settings unexpectedly were not applied
• The Browser mimetype detection method is removed
• Mimetype detection now stops once a concrete type is detected, rather than trying all options

External Libraries

• Updated getID3 to version 1.9.22

v3.1.1

• Fixed the "advanced search" options box appearing when it shouldn't have on the public side
• Fixed the public.css styles to load only in public themes, not on the admin
• Fixed collections/show to match other views in how it decides when to show thumbnails
• Fixed bugs that triggered deprecation notices in some situations when running on PHP 8.1+
• Allowed file uploads to proceed when running on servers that disable PHP's shell execution functions on PHP 8+
• Added IDs to more easily target advanced search components for CSS
• Accessibility improvements for search options and labels, sorting indicators, featured/private icons, action links
• Updated translations for Catalan and Czech
• Updated Exhibit Builder to 3.6.1, Thanks, Roy to 2.7.1, Seasons to 2.7, and Berlin to 2.7.5

v3.1

Omeka Classic 3.1 is a feature update to the 3.x version series.

This release adds compatibility for PHP 8.1 and 8.2, and the minimum PHP requirement is now increased to 5.6.

Improvements

• Added descriptive text for "Show Empty Elements" and "Show Element Set Headings" apperance settings (contributed by @luku)
• Improved admin theme behavior at narrower screen widths
• Various accessibility improvements to admin and public views

Fixes

• Fixed admin styling for <select multiple> (#968)
• Fixed default markup for <input type="radio"> in forms (#970)
• Fixed admin styling for "save group" form elements (#981)
• Fixed ImageMagick creating inverted-color thumbnails for CMYK PDFs (must have ImageMagick 6.7.5-1 or newer, and set version strategy option accordingly for fix to be applied)
• Fixed issues with emails being sent improperly on PHP 8+
• Fixed Zend_Ldap not working on PHP 8+

Changes

• Passing an empty/blank id to form elements and helpers will omit the ID entirely, not output id="" (#701)

For Developers

REST API

• Allowed advanced query for items in the API (contributed by @mw0000)

PHP API

• Removed class VersionedDirectoryIterator
• Added functions record_image_url, queue_lightgallery_assets, lightgallery, lightgallery_other_files
• Added view helper lightGallery
• head_css now takes an argument to allow disabling "default" css: this works equivalently to the one that already existed for head_js

External Dependencies

• Removed Zend Framework components Zend_Amf, Zend_Cloud, Zend_CodeGenerator, Zend_Dojo, Zend_EventManager, Zend_Gdata, Zend_Markup, Zend_Serializer, Zend_Stdlib, Zend_Tag, Zend_TimeSync, Zend_Service_Audioscrobbler, Zend_Service_Console, Zend_Service_Delicious, Zend_Service_Ebay, Zend_Service_LiveDocx, Zend_Service_Rackspace, Zend_Service_SqlAzure, Zend_Service_StrikeIron, Zend_Service_WindowsAzure, Zend_Service_Yahoo
• Updated getID3 to 1.9.21
• Updated HTMLPurifier to 4.15.0
• lightGallery library now included in the core for use by themes

Bundled Add-ons

• Coins updated to 2.1.1
• Exhibit Builder updated to 3.6
• Default (Thanks, Roy) theme updated to 2.7.0
• Berlin theme updated to 2.7.3

v3.0.3

• New translation for Vietnamese
• Updated translations for German, Slovenian, Ukrainian
• Updated submodule GitHub URLs to use HTTPS instead of Git protocol
• Updated Exhibit Builder to 3.5.2

v3.0.2

• Fixed some plugins like Simple Pages displaying improperly on the admin interface (#971)
• Fixed some PHP 8.0 compatibility issues that led to notices and warnings being logged
• When running PHP 7.2 and greater, the API will no longer produce blank output when a resource includes invalid UTF-8 text
• Updated bundled Exhibit Builder and Simple Pages plugins
• Updated translations for French, Japanese, Slovenian, and Turkish

v3.0.1

• Updated the bundled themes to fix issues with icons displaying improperly
• Updated translations

v3.0

Features

• Refreshed admin UI (initial implementation by @mtedeschi)
• Accessibility improvements to the admin metadata forms (contributed by @jaguillette)

Bugs Fixed

• Importing some PDFs could cause an infinite loop

Changes

• The link_file option for the file shortcode now accepts values of 1 and 0 in addition to true and false

For Developers

• Added admin_files_panel_buttons and admin_files_panel_fields hooks to admin files form (contributed by @DBinaghi)

Internationalization

• Updated translations for Catalan, Czech, Esperanto, Spanish, French, Italian, Chinese (China)

v2.8

Features

• PHP 8 support
• Where appropriate, themes can now allow minimal styling (bold, italic, underline) to be preserved in titles
• Administrators can select the default query type for simple search (#797, contributed by @luku)
• It's now possible to add files through the API even when the default job dispatcher is non-synchronous
• HTML head now includes author and copyright meta-tags as set in the admin (#918, contributed by @DBinaghi)
• Theme header images can now accept a setting for the alt text for the image (#925)
• New option to move files to storage using copy instead of rename (sometimes useful when files are stored on a separate filesystem) (#934)

Bugs Fixed

• Shortcodes with no arguments given could behave incorrectly and throw errors on PHP 7.1+
• Fixed the admin file edit form to correctly apply HTML filtering (#935)
• Fixed a leftover PHP 7.2 deprecation warning in the YAML component (rarely used)

Changes

• Login forms now use simpler styling to improve appearance with longer text (as in when using some locales)
• The search reindex process will now continue through errors (#930, contributed by @timstallmann)
• Allowed size for theme uploads increased to 1 MB

For Developers

• Omeka_Record_AbstractRecord::delete() now returns true on success (#906)
• New rich_title property for records
• The default fallback image for files (the "page" icon) can now be overridden like the type-specific icons by passing * as the type to add_file_fallback_image (#916, contributed by @DBinaghi)
• tag_attributes now accepts int and float values instead of stripping them (#921)
• Shortcode arguments are now always an array
• File uploads can now specify the key order to set file order within an item directly at ingest
• getID3 updated to 1.9.20
• HTMLPurifier updated to 4.13.0

v2.7.1

The minimum required version of PHP is now 5.4.

Features

• PHP 7.4 support

Bugs Fixed

• Direct upgrades from significantly old versions could fail on the "unEntityTags" migration
• Tags could not be deleted through the API
• The link to the Omeka documentation on error pages referred to the older Omeka site structure
• Mismatched closing tag on login pages
• Files with large amounts of embedded metadata could fail when uploading

Internationalization

• Updates to Catalan, Esperanto, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, Albanian, Ukrainian

External Libraries

• getID3 updated to 1.9.18
• HTML Purifier updated to 4.12.0
• Removed Zend_Test_PHPUnit and Zend_Tool components

v2.7

Features

• PHP 7.3 compatibility
• Version notifications for new releases of plugins and themes
• Omeka now respects the X-Forwarded-Proto header for determining if it should generate http: or https: absolute URLs. This is primarily useful for users hosting Omeka behind a reverse proxy that's handling the HTTPS connections.
  • A new sslTrustProxy configuration key is available for users using the ssl force-redirect configuration to trust the X-Forwarded-Proto header and not issue unnecessary, looping redirects
• New forceSSL option for ZendS3 storage adapter to force use of https: addresses for file URLs (#877, contributed by @ebellempire)
• mail.force_from and mail.force_from_name options for forcing From: address for all outgoing email

Bugs Fixed

• Tag UI javascript error when editing items (#853, contributed by @luku)
• Inconsistent tag markup for new and existing tags when editing items (#854, contributed by @luku)
• Deprecation notice when running on PHP 7.2+ (#860, contributed by @Daniel-KM)
• "Remember me" checkbox on login non-functional on PHP 7.2+ (#872)
• Invalid SQL mode error when running on MySQL 8 (#858)
• Migration error when migrating from 1.x using MySQL 5.7+ (#831)
• item_next and item_prev filters had no way to indicate the end of the sequence (#851)
• Inconsistent form enctype between collection add and edit forms (#856)
• items_output_url page detection fails on "items" pages added by plugins, leading to incorrect feed URLs (#880)

Improvements

• "Simple" item search converted to use subqueries, leads to a significant observed speed increase on modern MySQL versions
• Public-side file show page now includes a link back to the parent item
• "Browse by tag" view for items now sorts tags alphabetically by default
• New "back to top" link in admin footer
• ZendS3 storage adapter now leaves slashes unencoded in URLs
• ZendS3 storage adapter will "chunk" expiration times, allowing for some end-user caching by preventing the URL from changing on every request
• reCAPTCHA text specifies that v2 keys must be used

For Developers

• New html_purifier_config_setup filter (#857, contributed by @luku)
• New image_tag_attributes filter (#871)
• New files_for_item filter
• New option filesForItem passed through to file_markup helper to indicate when files are being rendered as part of a call to files_for_item
• New file_markup_options filter for modifying the options passed to file_markup
• New file_markup_files filter for modifying the list of files to be rendered by file_markup

Bundled Add-ons

• Thanks, Roy 2.5.1 (fixed visual spacing issues with featured blocks on homepage)
• Exhibit Builder 3.4.2 (updated translations)
• Simple Pages 3.1.2 (updated translations)

Internationalization

• Updated translations for Bengali, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, French, Galician, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Portuguese (Brazil), Slovak, Serbian, Turkish, Ukrainian