8.1.0 Release Notes

Released on January 24, 2017
New Features

The Form block can now display output from an existing Express entity object, as well as create a new custom form from scratch.
Multilingual sites can output for related pages by setting the site.sites.default.multilingual.set_alternate_hreflang config variable to true (thanks mlocati!)
You can now hide the footer My Account menu with a setting in the Profiles Dashboard page (thanks mlocati)

Behavioral Improvements

Much improved time zone support; fixes a number of bugs, inconsistencies, tests for database and PHP time zone matching (thanks mlocati)
Updated CKEditor to 4.6; much better CKEditor appearance and button wrapping behavior (thanks MrKarlDilkington!)
More reliable URL slug generation JavaScript (thanks seebaermichi)
Make welcome background image cover full width and height (thanks MrKarlDilkington)
DateTime widget - change default displayed past years from 10 to 100 (thanks MrKarlDilkington)
Fixed; File Manager Upload does not reflect most recently uploaded files if user doesn't select "View Uploaded"
Improved thumbnail generation when using the BasicThumbnailer classes – better support for page caching while generating thumbnails, throttling and better performance when generating thumbnails.
Added toolbar tooltips, defaulted to true but with options to disable in Accessibility settings (thanks seebaermichi)
Share This Page block now includes full request URI, making it easier to share pages with custom URL parameters (thanks HamedDarragi)
Image Slider block now includes option for both bullets and arrows (thanks Siton-Design)
Fixed Resize images client side using 2x downsampling on upload results in jagged images (thanks MrKarldilkington)
Page Attribute Display block delimiter option works with topics (thanks MrKarlDilkington)
Add a semi colon to separate JS scripts in cache
Page Type Form shows its icons at all times, appears nicer (thanks MrKarlDilkington)
Miscellaneous style improvements (thanks ramonleenders, MrKarlDilkington)
Escape translations to prevent JavaScript errors because of containing apostrophes (thanks Ruud-Zuiderlicht)
Upgrade improvements and bug fixes
When moving a file from one storage location to another the thumbnails will also be moved (thanks Mnkras)
Increased max amount of size slider (thanks MrKarlDilkington)

Express Bug Fixes

Fix success error when submitting Express Form with two forms on a page.
Fixed bug where Express many to many associations weren’t named correctly, so working with them programmatically didn’t work.
More reliable deletion of express objects when they have associations to other objects"
Fixed Express Entities can't be used in a form unless the user is an administrator
Fixed Script error when express attribute edited in dashboard form results

Other Bug Fixes

Removed dummy autoloader added to bootstrap/app.php (shouldn’t affect any applications, but shouldn’t be there anyway.)
Permissions fixed in the file manager.
Fixed incorrect characters displaying when dragging a stack icon (thanks katzueno)
Fixed Embedding CKEditor in single pages triggers fatal error when CSS and JavaScript Cache is enabled
Fixed bug where some sites could start rendering -1/ in their paths when editing the home page.
Fixed double submit bugs when forms or external forms were placed on the home page.
Fixed errors that would occur when moving or copying aliases
Fixed http://www.concrete5.org/developers/bugs/8-0-3/404-for-the-dashboard-page-cmsindex.phpdashboardhome/
Fixed Dashboard file manager menu clipping on in folders without a lot of files (thanks MrKarlDilkington)
Fix exception being thrown when the workflow requester was deleted (thanks jaromirdalecky)
Better permissions protection on file manager with File Uploader access entity; better permissions protection on moving files in file manager.
Fixed PageList::filterByPath returning no pages when working on multilingual sections (thanks OlegsHanins)
Minor localization issues with Punic calendar library fixed (thanks ahukkanen)
Fixed File manager file menu does not reflect accurate file after moving files
Fixed bug where sitemap selector widget didn’t select pages (thanks Mesuva)
Fixed: Page types with attributes throw errors when copied
Fixed: Validate Password tokens don’t reset when email is changed (thanks Mnkras)
Fixed Manual global cache time is displayed wrong on page cache settings (thanks mlocati)
Fixed delete file storage location ERROR
Fix filtering of topics in page list block when filtering by topic category
Fixed FAQ - Delete Entry breaks the Save button (thanks MrKarlDilkington)
Fixed Invalid block type handle exception during upgrade from 5.7.5.13 to 8.0.3 on sites where the RSS DIsplayer block was removed.
Fixed: Setting a select attribute default value for page types results in foreign key constraint error in composer
Fixed: Default Page Attributes do not persist
Fixed bugs where discarding page drafts might cause page blocks to no longer be editable in composer.
Fixed: Page Attribute default value not set in composer view
Fixed exception when dealing with Oauth in bindUser method in some setups.
Updated Zend Mail component to 2.7.2 to fix security issues.
Fixed: https://www.concrete5.org/developers/bugs/8-0-3/author-attribute-is-very-tall-when-editing-attributes-from-the-d/
Added CSRF protection to Forgot Password (thanks Mnkras)
Fixed Page Attribute - Issue with deleting Rich Text Attribute
Fix unsanitized file set name displayed in add to sets dialog.

Developer Updates

A new search indexing service provider is available, enabling the use of third party search platforms rather than built-in MySQL search for pages. Currently relatively low level and offering our single MySQL implementation, it nevertheless is a good start for adding support for other services like Elasticsearch, Solr and more.
Developers can implement getPackageTranslatableStrings() in their package controller in order to specify custom strings to add to the translation repository.
Bug fixes in custom package entity manager configurations (thanks Kaapiii)
Miscellaneous code commenting (thanks Mnkras)
Upgrade Monolog to v1.22.0 (thanks mlocati)
Upgrade Punic to 1.6.4, fixes certain incompatibilities with Symfony Intl.

8.0.3 Release Notes

Released on December 16, 2016
Behavioral Improvements

Fixed rendering of fatal errors so that it uses the proper stylesheets.

Bug Fixes

Fixed bug where activating a theme only changed the home page.
Fixed error where all pages added to a multilingual site were showing as system pages.
Fixed bug where attributes in the application/attributes directory couldn’t be installed.
Bug fixes with attribute validation.
Fixed error exception when creating a new page type failed validation
Fixed bug where Express Forms could not be added on sites that were upgraded from 5.7.
File Date modified in file manager now shows the proper date (instead of the date added)
Fixed bug where attempting to delete Express entries or entities that had values attached to express attribute types would trigger an error.
Attribute search fields in advanced search dialogs now select their options properly.
Fix misnamed config value concrete.file_manager.images.use_exif_data_to_rotate_images (was named concrete.file_manager.images.use_exim_data_to_rotate_images)
Fix bug with Legacy Form not being able to be saved under certain conditions.
Fixed: Entering a new Express Data Object with the existing Handle will cause error