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This version of Silverstripe CMS is still supported though will not receive any additional features. Go to documentation for the most recent stable version.

4.6.0-rc1

Overview

Release candidate

This version of Silverstripe CMS is a release candidate for an upcoming stable version, and should not be applied to production websites. We encourage developers to test this version in development / testing environments and report any issues they encounter via GitHub.

MySQL tables are auto-converted from MyISAM to InnoDB

Beginning with 4.4.0, our minimum requirement for MySQL is 5.6 (since MySQL 5.5 end of life reached in December 2018). Starting with MySQL 5.6, InnoDB is the new default storage engine, replacing the older MyISAM engine.

Silverstripe CMS already creates InnoDB tables by default, mainly in order to benefit from their better support for database transactions. Before MySQL 5.6, InnoDB didn't have a FULLTEXT search index, requiring us to enforce the MyISAM engine when devs opted into this index type in their particular setup. There are a few ways in which this opt-in can happen:

  • Adding the FulltextSearchable extension to a DataObject, as described in our search docs
  • Defining 'type' => 'fulltext' in DataObject::$db column definitions
  • Implementing DBIndexable on a custom DBField subclass.
  • Setting 'ENGINE=MyISAM' in DataObject::$create_table_options

This search index is not required to enable simple text search in the "Pages" section of the CMS, or any ModelAdmin implementations. We generally recommend to choose a more powerful search addon (e.g. based on Solr or ElasticSearch) for website frontend search use cases.

As of 4.6.0, a dev/build will automatically switch MyISAM tables to InnoDB, which automatically recreates any indexes required. If you have large indexes, this can extend the duration if this task. As usual, back up your database before upgrading, and test upgrades on non-production systems first. Our tests indicate that indexes with thousands of records and screen pages worth of content (15MB index size) are converted in a few seconds.

In order to opt out of this change, you can set the engine explicitly for your DataObject implementations:

namespace App\Model;

use SilverStripe\ORM\Connect\MySQLSchemaManager;
use SilverStripe\ORM\DataObject;

class MyDataObject extends DataObject
{
    private static $create_table_options = [
            MySQLSchemaManager::ID => 'ENGINE=MyISAM',
    ];
}

Editing files directly in the insert-media modal

Editors can now directly edit file details when selecting a file in an UploadField or when inserting media in a HTMLEditorField. The "image placement" and "file link" forms that show when inserting an image or a link in an HTMLEditorField have been simplified.

This does mean that the order and structure of fields have changed somewhat. If you have customised the forms in the asset administration area or in the "Insert Media Modal", you should do some regression testing when upgrading to make sure your customisations still work as expected.

If your project uses the popular jonom/focuspoint community module, you should upgrade it as well.

MIME type validation now a core module

silverstripe/mimevalidator is now a core module and will ship by default on new projects. Projects referencing silverstripe/recipe-core will automatically install silverstripe/mimevalidator when they upgrade to 4.6.0.

Read Allowed file types in the Silverstripe CMS doc for all the details.

Change log

Security

  • 2020-03-08 6779fd3 Add FolderMigrationHelper (Serge Latyntcev)

API changes

  • 2020-05-28 422a9a2 Bump to require 4.6.x-dev branches (Steve Boyd)
  • 2020-04-28 df8004b Bump @silverstripe/webpack-config to 1.5.0 (Maxime Rainville)
  • 2020-04-24 d513932 Bump @silverstripe/webpack-config to 1.5.0 (Maxime Rainville)
  • 2020-04-17 99eeb59 Add new updateResponse hook to allow extension to update the response (Maxime Rainville)
  • 2020-02-14 29943f904 TestSession request methods now use the correct HTTP method (#8987) (Garion Herman)
  • 2019-11-20 0c9be1b Add updateGridFieldConfig and updateGridField hooks to ModelAdmin (Maxime Rainville)
  • 2019-11-19 ba831dc Break up ModelAdmin::getEditForm into getGridField and getGridFieldConfig (Maxime Rainville)
  • 2019-10-16 67398ed Add Silverstripe specific button UI (Maxime Rainville)

Features and enhancements

  • 2020-06-12 ae97a20 Update gridfield sort to use text default on focus (#1055) (Sacha Judd)
  • 2020-06-12 05e0e5c Update draft state indicator on thumbnails to use correct background colour (#1104) (Sacha Judd)
  • 2020-05-25 5a1b634 Add new variations of block icons and update existing (Sacha Judd)
  • 2020-05-25 da241a2 Add file status icons to file manager (#1087) (Steve Boyd)
  • 2020-05-25 d93d63b Add FileStatusIcon component (#1033) (Steve Boyd)
  • 2020-05-21 5220dc1 Separate storybook icons into different sections for people to easily see where different icons belong (Scott Hutchinson)
  • 2020-05-21 239c559 Methods to support file status icons (Steve Boyd)
  • 2020-05-11 39f3032 Add Bootstrap Tooltip support outside of React contexts (Garion Herman)
  • 2020-05-08 0874950 Add MIME type validation out of the box (Maxime Rainville)
  • 2020-05-04 4ba8a7e Enable TreeDropdownField in pattern library, reorder addon tabs (Garion Herman)
  • 2020-05-01 77b896f Add mid-blue colour, update info elements to match designs (Garion Herman)
  • 2020-04-15 daa80d8 Add secure icons (Sacha Judd)
  • 2020-04-06 c6b698cb0 Allow InnoDB for FULLTEXT indexes (Ingo Schommer)
  • 2020-04-04 2bbc280c Remove unused $controller from lambda function (mattclegg)
  • 2020-04-02 b664b8d Boot typenames outside graphql request (#254) (Aaron Carlino)
  • 2020-03-24 1fb574a5b Variadic URL parameter matches for url_handlers (#9438) (Daniel Hensby)
  • 2020-03-13 159a42a Allow instance override of CORS config (Aaron Carlino)
  • 2020-02-14 30c3b127c Add ClassInfo method to get all classes with a given extension applied (Michal Kleiner)
  • 2020-01-24 82387cb4 Add extension hook updateRedirectionLink() (#2518) (Guy Marriott)
  • 2020-01-24 6ee17a83 Add extension hook updateRedirectionLink() (Will Rossiter)
  • 2019-12-17 5449014 Update language and conditions in BulkDeleteConfirmation (Garion Herman)
  • 2019-12-16 a54fff8 add option to prevent InterventionBackend cache flush + task (Christopher Darling)
  • 2019-12-09 0eed58a Export url lib in admin vendor bundle (Maxime Rainville)
  • 2019-11-18 688890146 Update docs to be compliant with Gatsby site (#9314) (Aaron Carlino)
  • 2019-07-05 9171342 Add silverstripe/login-forms (Ingo Schommer)
  • 2019-02-23 9d1d59d8d Accept / as designation for root URL controller (Garion Herman)
  • 2019-02-07 54a3649 Apply versioned filters to reading state (Ingo Schommer)

Bugfixes

  • 2020-06-05 d7ed6e3 ImageShortcodeProvider follow FileShortcodeProvider session access grant policy (#402) (Serge Latyntsev)
  • 2020-06-01 3df2222 Prevent react-selectable from interfering with pagination (Maxime Rainville)
  • 2020-05-28 43c119b Require frameworktest for behat test (#261) (Maxime Rainville)
  • 2020-05-26 3e52b1a Vertically align form description contents (including icons) (bergice)
  • 2020-05-26 09d2061 Asset revision timestamps are no longer underlined in asset admin history tabs (Robbie Averill)
  • 2020-05-25 32e7b46 Make sure the new mime validator config does not clash with the cwp config (#54) (Maxime Rainville)
  • 2020-05-19 b9de9e6 Remove direct descendant selector to apply correct margins (Sacha Judd)
  • 2020-05-13 b1b61f866 Set nonce style on unit tests (Steve Boyd)
  • 2020-05-11 9dcc030 Resize address-card-warning (Sacha Judd)
  • 2020-05-08 afc1759 Page search form layout overflow issue (Mojmir Fendek)
  • 2020-05-05 2cc037b Fix merge conflict in Travis configuration (Robbie Averill)
  • 2020-05-01 e344b66db Fixed broken link to the module creation docs (Dustin Quam)
  • 2020-05-01 b1f6e52 Remove grid view sorting hack to correct initial state (Garion Herman)
  • 2020-05-01 891f0682 Correct placement of 'Page location' field title (Garion Herman)
  • 2020-04-30 fff806ca Prevent Treeview from always reloading (Maxime Rainville)
  • 2020-04-29 ed4c436 built dist files (Niklas Forsdahl)
  • 2020-04-27 5bcc574 GET parameter handling in GridField reload (Niklas Forsdahl)
  • 2020-04-27 eac547a Grid field reload always triggers change event if request has GET parameters (Niklas Forsdahl)
  • 2020-04-21 bb0fc12 Stops an image's "Title text (tooltip)" being set to the filename by default (#1058) (James Cocker)
  • 2020-04-20 080ce157c Fix various typos in comments (Daniel Hensby)
  • 2020-04-18 216989165 Ensure realpath returns a string for stripos (mattclegg)
  • 2020-04-15 be80813 Campaign admin permission fix (Mojmir Fendek)
  • 2020-04-15 d7c76bdb Published pages filter correction (missing default filter) (Mojmir Fendek)
  • 2020-04-14 e2a6281 Legacy max upload size setting removal (Mojmir Fendek)
  • 2020-04-10 ab87bdc04 Fix SS_BASE_URL logic when undefined and docroot without public folder (Michal Kleiner)
  • 2020-04-09 a50e15e5e Avoid VACUUM on test dbs in Postgres (Ingo Schommer)
  • 2020-04-08 2c5deceeb Filter out all FULLTEXT BOOLEAN chars (Ingo Schommer)
  • 2020-04-08 e51bd421 InnoDB FULLTEXT compat in tests (Ingo Schommer)
  • 2020-04-08 dd839ca2 Remove searchEngine() test that's using API wrong (Ingo Schommer)
  • 2020-04-08 052c5cbc3 Infinite loops in TempDatabase (fixes #8902) (Ingo Schommer)
  • 2020-04-05 d6fc7fe80 Fix issue with the GridField documentation - many_many_extraFields code example (tdenev)
  • 2020-04-02 9e0ed0a50 Fix spaces around concatenation operator (Dan Hensby)
  • 2020-03-23 5002f514b Capitalisation fixes in welcome back message (#9439) (Robbie Averill)
  • 2020-03-23 e5aa94c "My profile" title in CMS is now vertical centered as other LeftAndMain screens are (Robbie Averill)
  • 2020-03-20 14fd29a Switch incorrect modified and draft state indicator colours (Sacha Judd)
  • 2020-03-18 fe5f965 Update FileIDHelpers to replace backslashes with forward slashes (Maxime Rainville)
  • 2020-03-17 7ad5f1bb1 Ensure diff arrays are one-dimensional (Aaron Carlino)
  • 2020-03-08 b269d8749 Register new sub tasks to fix files affected by CVE-2020-9280 and CVE-2019-12245 (Serge Latyntcev)
  • 2020-03-05 6c25480 Rename exposed url module to node-url to avoid API clash (Garion Herman)
  • 2020-03-04 12ea7cd Create NormaliseAccessMigrationHelper to fix files affected by CVE-2019-12245 (Maxime Rainville)
  • 2020-02-27 fe14d39 Increment targeted version of recipe-cms on travis build (Maxime Rainville)
  • 2020-02-24 bba0f2f72 Fixed issue where TimeField_Readonly would only show "(not set)" instead of the value (UndefinedOffset)
  • 2020-02-21 9733060d1 Fix Related section at bottom of document (Zubair)
  • 2020-02-20 ff417ca Fix last file upload showing as errored when uploading multiple files. (bergice)
  • 2020-02-19 7455d14 Handle case where provided $context is null (Garion Herman)
  • 2020-02-19 8402966 Correct deprecated implode syntax for PHP 7.4 compat (Garion Herman)
  • 2020-02-18 9900d07 Tweak UsedOnTableTest ti dynamically switch protocol (Maxime Rainville)
  • 2020-02-18 e0de15f Fix broken test when FulltextSearchable is enabled (Maxime Rainville)
  • 2020-02-14 939cb93 Fix wording in comment in assets htaccess (aNickzz)
  • 2020-02-12 202d061 Display bulk publish button on modified files as well as draft file (Maxime Rainville)
  • 2020-02-05 c92e3b9d Prioritise same-level pages in OldPageRedirector (Klemen Dolinšek)
  • 2020-01-14 64bf56a Improve grammar in BulkDeleteMessage strings (Garion Herman)
  • 2020-01-13 e294214 Behat test should now verify that folder in use CAN be deleted (Garion Herman)
  • 2019-12-23 c8c1c86d7 module link "recaptcha" not found (Valentino Pesce)
  • 2019-12-20 1d7a0b7 Use more resilient method to manipulate URL of preview (#137) (Maxime Rainville)
  • 2019-12-19 944cf5a Upgrade webpack config to 1.4 (Maxime Rainville)
  • 2019-12-19 910f5efbf fix markdown tables for url variables documentation (Andrew Aitken-Fincham)
  • 2019-12-18 8d69cf9f7 Remove bad default when scaffolding form field for DBHTMLVarchar (Maxime Rainville)
  • 2019-12-09 1633ddea9 Fix PHP versions in upgrade guide (Matt Peel)
  • 2019-12-04 de96188c If no parent in RelativeLink() return null (Amol Wankhede)
  • 2019-11-21 f3db5f72 Fix codestyle (Serge Latyntcev)
  • 2019-11-19 e520a2b99 Fix broken callout tags (Aaron Carlino)
  • 2019-11-18 6ff0f3f46 The "Link existing" should be disabled rather than readonly. (Maxime Rainville)
  • 2019-11-18 48f9ec3 Set min-width on loading button to avoid having the loading indicator break over 2 lines (Maxime Rainville)
  • 2019-11-18 5e611341 Fixed 404s in Contributing doc (Rob Mac Neil)
  • 2019-09-02 6d8a4bc Make AbsoluteLink work with manipulated images (fixes #322) (Loz Calver)
  • 2019-03-20 1d406c64b Fix: Allow editing of relation if item is created. (Kong Jin Jie)