v3.6.1

3.6.1 (2017-08-16)

• Do not ask systempage? everytime we load the page definition #1239 by tvdeyen
  This speeds up rendering large sitemaps by about 6 times.

v4.0.0.beta

The only change to 3.6 is Rails 5 instead of Rails 4.2

v3.6.0

v3.6.0

The last release before Rails 5

This release and the upcoming v4.0 will have the same features except that v4.0 will be Rails 5 only.

The changes to Alchemy 3.5 are very small and contains mostly fixes in preparation to Rails 5.

Notable Changes

• The seeder does not generate default site and root page anymore (#1239) by tvdeyen
  Alchemy handles this auto-magically now. No need to run Alchemy::Seeder.seed! any more |o/
• Security: Sanitize ActiveRecord queries in Alchemy::Element, Alchemy::Page and
  Alchemy::PagesHelper (#1257) by jessedoyle
• Remove post install message reference to the alchemy standalone installer (#1256) by jessedoyle
• Fixes tag filtering for pictures and attachments in overlay (#1266) by robinboening
• Fix js error on page#update with single quote in page name (#1263) by robinboening
• Change meta charset from 'utf8' to 'utf-8' (#1253) by rbjoern84
• Render "text" as type for datepicker input fields (#1246) by robinboening
• Remove unused Page attr_accessors (#1240) by tvdeyen
• Permit search params while redirecting in library (#1236) by tvdeyen
• Only allow floats and ints as fixed ratio for crop (#1234) by tvdeyen
• Use at least dragonfly 1.0.7 (#1225) by tvdeyen
• Add handlebars-assets gem (#1203) by tvdeyen
• Add a new spinner animation (#1202) by tvdeyen
• Re-color the Turbolinks progressbar (#1199) by tvdeyen
• Use normal view for pages sort action (#1197) by tvdeyen
• Add srcset and sizes support for EssencePicture (#1193) by tvdeyen

v3.5.0

v3.5.0

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)

v3.4.2

v3.4.2

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
• Fixes alchemy module generator (#1159)

v3.4.1

v3.4.1

• 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)

v3.3.3

v3.3.3

• Fix bug that rendered duplicate nested elements within a cell (#1100)
• Merge html_options in EssenceFile view (#1115)

v3.4.0

Alchemy 3.4

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

Fixed Bugs

• Generators don't delete directories any more (#850)
• Some elements crashed the backend's JS when being saved (#1091)

A complete list of changes can be seen at v3.3.0...v3.4.0

Upgrading

As always, upgrading Alchemy is as easy as:

1. bundle update alchemy_cms
2. bin/rake alchemy:upgrade
3. Follow the instructions

v3.3.2

v3.3.2

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

v3.3.1

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)