CHANGELOG.md

Change Log

3.6.0 (unreleased)

Notable Changes

• The seeder does not generate default site and root page anymore. Alchemy handles this auto-magically now. No need to run Alchemy::Seeder.seed! any more |o/

3.5.0 (unreleased)

New Features

• New API endpoint for retrieving a nested page tree (#1155) api/pages/nested returns a nested JSON tree of all pages.
• Add page and user seeding support (#1160)
• Files of attachments are replaceable now (#1167)
• Add fixed page attributes (#1168) Page attributes can be defined as fixed_attributes to prevent changes by the user.
• Allow to declare which user role can edit page content on the page layout level.

Notable Changes

• Removed the standalone installer (#1206)
• The essence date input field is now 100% width (#1191)
• The essence view partials don't get cached anymore (#1099)
• The essence editor partials don't get cached anymore (#1171)
• Removes update_essence_select_elements (#1103)
• The admin resource form now uses the datetime-picker instead of the date-picker for datetime fields.
• The preview_mode_code helper is moved to a partial in alchemy/preview_mode_code. (#1110)
• The render_meta_data helper is moved to a partial in alchemy/pages/meta_data and can be rendered with the same options as before but now passed in as locals. (#1110)
• The view helpers preview_mode_code, render_meta_data, render_meta_tag, render_page_title, render_title_tag are now deprecated. (#1110)
• An easy way to include several edit mode related partials is now available (#1120): render 'alchemy/edit_mode' loads menubar and preview_mode_code at once
• Add support for Turbolinks 5.0 (#1095)
• Use Dragonfly middleware to render pictures and remove our custom solution (#1084)
• image_size option is now deprecated. Please use just size (#1084)
• show_alchemy_picture_path helper is now deprecated. Please use picture.url instead (#1084)
• Display download information on the Attachment Modal Dialog (#1137)
• Added foreign keys to important associations (#1149)
• Also destroy trashed elements when page gets destroyed (#1149)
• Upgrade tasks can now be run separately (#1152)
• Update to Tinymce 4.4.3
• New sitemap UI (#1172)
• Removed picture cache flushing (#1185)
• Removed Mountpoint class (#1186)

Fixed Bugs

• Fix setting of locale when current_alchemy_user.language doesn't return a Symbol (#1097)
• Presence validation of EssenceFile is not working (#1096)
• Allow to define unique nestable elements (#852)

3.4.2 (unreleased)

Notable Changes

• Allow users to manually publish changes on global pages

Fixed Bugs

• The language_links helper now only renders languages from the current site

3.4.1 (2016-08-31)

Fixed Bugs

• Remove trailing new lines in the AddImageFileFormatToAlchemyPictures migration. (#1107) If you migrated already, use the alchemy:upgrade:fix_picture_format rake task.
• Don't overwrite the fallback options when rendering a picture (#1113)
• Fixes the messages mailer views generator (#1118)

3.4.0 (2016-08-02)

New Features

• MessagesMailer (formerly known as Messages) now inherits from ApplicationMailer when it is defined.
• Adds time based published pages: The public status of a page is now made of two time stamps: public_on and public_until
• Send page expiration cache headers
• Adds an +EssencePictureView+ class responsible for rendering the essence_picture_view partial
• Adds a file type filter to file archive
• Allow setting the type of EssenceText input fields in the elements.yml via settings[:input_type]
• Adds support for defining custom searchable attributes in resources
• Automatically add tag management to admin module views, when the resource model has been set to acts_as_taggable.
• Automatically add scope filters to admin module views, when the resource model has the class method alchemy_resource_filters defined.

Notable Changes

• Messages mailer class has been renamed to MessagesMailer
• Removed the auto-magically merge of Ability classes (#1022)
• Replace jQueryUI datepicker with $.datetimepicker
• Thumbnails now render in original file format, but GIFs will always be flattened
• Pictures will be rendered in original file format by default
• Allow SVG files to be rendered as EssencePicture
• When using Alchemy content outside of Alchemy, current_ability is no longer included with Alchemy::ControllerActions to prevent method clashes. If you need access to current_ability you also need to include Alchemy::AbilityHelper
• Asset manifests are now installed into vendor/assets folder in order to provide easy customization Please don't use alchemy/custom files any more. Instead require your customizations in the manifests.
• Removes the default_scope from Language on_site current while ensuring to load languages by code from current site only.
• Removes the Language.get_default method alias for Language.default
• Move site select into pages and languages module to avoid confusion about curent site (#1067)
• List pages from all sites in currently locked pages tabs and Dashboard widget (#1067)
• The locked value on page is now a timestamp (locked_at), so we can order locked pages by (#1070)
• Persist user in dummy app
• When publishing a page with the publish button, Page#public_on does not get reset to the current time when it is already set and in the past, and Page#public_until does not get nilled when it is in the future.

Fixed Bugs

• Fix table width for attachments and resources on small window sizes.
• Generators don't delete directories any more (#850)
• Some elements crashed the backend's JS when being saved (#1091)

3.3.3 (2016-09-11)

• Fix bug that rendered duplicate nested elements within a cell after copying a parent element.

3.3.2 (2016-08-02)

• Use relative url for page preview frame in order to prevent cross origin errors (#1076)

3.3.1 (2016-06-20)

• Fix use of Alchemy::Resource with namespaced models (#729)
• Allow setting the type of EssenceText input fields in the elements.yml via settings[:input_type]
• Admin locale switching does not switch language tree any more (#1065)
• Fixes bug where old site session causes not found errors (#1047)
• Fix inability to add nested elements on pages with cells (#1039)
• Skip upgrader if no element definitions are found (#1060)
• Fix selecting the active cell for elements with nested elements (#1041)

3.3.0 (2016-05-18)

New Features

• Add support for Sprockets 3
• Add support for jquery-rails 4.1
• Show a welcome page, if no users or pages are present yet
• Namespace spec files
• Image library slideshow
• Global "current locked pages" tabs
• New option linkable: false for EssencePicture
• Allow custom routing for admin backend
• Resource forms can now have Tinymce enabled by adding .tinymce class
• Alchemy::EssenceFile now has a link_text attribute, so the editor is able to change the linked text of the download link.
• Enable to pass multiple page layout names to on_page_layout callbacks
• Client side rendering of the pages admin
• Deprecate redirect_index configuration
• Add Nestable elements feature
• Default site in seeder is now configurable
• Frontpage name and page layout are now editable when creating new language trees

Notable Changes

• Essence generator does not namespace the model into Alchemy namespace anymore
• New simplified uploader that allows to drag and drop images onto the archive everywhere in your app
  • Model names in uploader allowed_filetypes setting are now namespaced. Please be sure to run rake alchemy:upgrade to update your settings.
• Allow uppercase country codes
• Uses Time.current instead of Time.now for proper timezone support
• Adds year to created_at column of attachments table
• Removes "available contents" feature.
• Use Ransack for Admin Resources filtering, sorting and searching
• Renames Alchemy translation helpers from _t to Alchemy.t
• Do not append geometry string to preprocess option
• Skip the default locale in urls
• Add a proper index route and do not redirect to page anymore
• Updates Tinymce to 4.2.3
• Moves page status info into reusable partial
• Refactors factories into individual requirable files
• Do not raise error if element_ids params is missing while ordering elements
• Removes old middleware for rescueing legacy sessions
• Use rails tag helpers instead of plain HTML for meta tags
• Remove the duplication of #decription vs. #definition
• Resource CSV export now includes ID column and does not truncate large text columns anymore
• Alchemy::Attachment#urlname now returns always an escaped urlname w/o format suffix and does not convert the file_name once on create anymore
• Speed up the admin interface significantly when handling a large amount of pages

Fixed Bugs

• Add locale to Alchemy::Language to avoid errors for languages with missing locale files #831
• Fixes Alchemy::PageLayout.get_all_by_attributes
• Fix tag list display in picture library
• Animated GIFs display correctly
• EssenceSelect grouped options tags
• Add missing element partials for dummy app
• Eliminate an SQL lookup on frontend cached element partials
• Add missing german and spanish translation for element toolbar
• Use the site_id parameter and the session only in the Admin area
• Render 404 if accessing an unpublished index page that has "on page layout" callbacks

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3.2.1 (2016-03-31)

Fixed Bugs

• Fix constant lookup issues with registered abilites
• Fix: EssenceSelect grouped select_values
• Respect :reverse option when sorting elements
• Directly updates position in database while sorting contents
• Don't show trashed elements when using a fallback
• Fixes wrong week number in datepicker

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3.2.0 (2015-07-31)

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3.1.3 (2016-01-21)

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3.1.2 (yanked)

No changes

3.1.1 (2015-03-17)

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3.1.0 (2015-02-24)

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3.0.4 (2015-03-17)

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3.0.3 (2014-12-24)

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3.0.2 (2014-09-30)

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3.0.1 (2014-09-11)

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3.0.0 (2014-07-03)

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