Symphony CMS

The CMS uses XML and XSLT as its core technologies.

What is new in this release:

• Bug Fixes:
• XSL import fails when Windows path contains a space
• Reference when the $_SESSION was not initialized
• Update README to include references about /vendor folder

What is new in version 2.6.3:

• Bug Fixes:
• XSL import fails when Windows path contains a space
• Reference when the $_SESSION was not initialized
• Update README to include references about /vendor folder

What is new in version 2.6.2:

• Bug Fixes:
• XSL import fails when Windows path contains a space
• Reference when the $_SESSION was not initialized
• Update README to include references about /vendor folder

What is new in version 2.5.3 / 2.6.0-rc.1:

• New Features:
• Add new delegate, ModifyFieldPublishWidget.
• Add event handles to the page parameters
• Implement Redirect on Forbidden, Redirect on Required functionality.
• Add XMLElement::validateChild method
• Add CACHE constant to Provider interface
• Add wildcard to support Provider's DS/Events with custom URL parameters
• Add Field::prepareReadableValue, Field::prepareTextValue and Field::createAssociationsDrawerXMLElement
• Add symphonyAffix javascript plugin
• Reorganise the index logic, allows launcher to be overridden
• Bug Fixes:
• Fix "Allow filtering of section entries" setting being ignored on new sections
• Remove System Author grouping from Datasources. It has never worked.
• Fix grouping by Author field when there is no value
• Allow events to proceed if there is no 'fields' key in the post data as delegates can still process the data
• Don't store empty values in the Author or Textarea field for consistency
• Clear filter results after each Event delegate to prevent duplicate nodes in the Event XML

What is new in version 2.4:

• Support for PHP5.4 and PHP5.5.
• Support for PHP5.2 has been dropped.
• Addition of Publish Filtering to the core
• XSRF support
• Extensions can now provide Cache drivers through Providers
• All new Datasource Editor offering Forbidden parameters (do not execute when this parameter is set)
• New routing system for the Backend UI, as well as a Grunt build process has improved backend performance
• Database connectivity has been updated to use MySQLi (and PDO is on the way)
• Set your own admin path as /symphony is now optional
• Removal of XSL Editors and Dynamic XML Datasources (existing Dynamic XML DS will still function)

What is new in version 2.3.6:

• Bug Fixes:
• Revert adding the entry-id to the Entry's getData call, fixes issues with prepopulating Date and Checkbox fields
• Added default value for Widget::Time() function

What is new in version 2.3.5:

• New Features:
• Email attachments can now specify encoding with Email::setAttachments
• Tracking latest JIT Image Manipulation and Select Box Link field extensions
• Added Field->prepareAssociationsDrawerXMLElement function for use with the Associations drawer
• Added new General:: wrapInCDATA function
• Bug Fixes:
• Restore backend section sorting functionality from Symphony 2.2 via ?unsort
• Author field grouping
• Report errors when the installer or updater cannot write to log files
• Remove Pickable Interface from Event Editor
• Tweak nested columns in responsive mode to be full width
• Fix for permissions of config file after saving
• Fixed error when finfo is not available even though we are on PHP5.3
• Ensure that the Gateway returns an integer for the status code
• Correct the name of the jQuery 2.0.3 source map
• Minor Updates:
• Documentation updates to the DataSource class
• Added basic validation on email recipients
• Made the Email::send function abstract, since its an abstract class
• Added pipe (|) to transliteration
• Pass the entry_id consistently even if no data exists for the field

What is new in version 2.3.4:

• Symphony 2.3.4 contains security and minor fixes.

What is new in version 2.3.3:

• Added new delegate into contentPublish, AdjustPublishFiltering.
• Added jQuery 2.0.3, remove jQuery 1.9 and the jQuery Migrate plugin.
• Added a new Author type, Manager which just has access to create additional.

What is new in version 2.3.2:

• Patches security fixes and restores support for PHP 5.2.

What is new in version 2.3.1:

• New features:
• Pages types are now available in the page params
• Maintain entry filtering after a new entry is created
• Allow Checkbox, Date and Taglist fields to be required
• Support parameters on the root page of the site without requiring the index page's handle
• Added a View Page button to the Pages Editor
• Extended the DatasourcePostEdit and EventPostEdit delegates to also pass the previous filename in the case where the DS/Event has been renamed
• Added a new setting to the Author field which allows only Authors or Developers (or both) to be shown in the publish pages
• Improve handling of missing or renamed extensions, Symphony will now offer to rename the folder correctly for you using the extension.meta.xml file
• Bug fixes:
• Fixed typo in HTMLpage->removeFromHead()
• Fix the @total-entries number in the pagination element for select box fields with the allow multiple option set
• Various security fixes
• Fix Date field to prevent MySQL strict errors
• Fix typo with $silent in General::deleteFile
• Fallback colours for < IE9 breadcrumbs
• Ensure that the file exists before determining where the error occurred in the ErrorHandler
• More robust check for detecting HTTPS
• Fix error with complex fields when errors occur on pure Symphony 2.3 events
• Fix issue for Providers in localised systems where the Datasource Editor wouldn't function correctly (immediate workaround is to use English backends for developers)
• Fix Author field settings panel to enable multiple authors and default to current author options
• Fix filtering by the system:date, this would throw an error in Symphony 2.3
• The ExtensionManager::fetch() function is no longer case sensitive when sorting by Name
• Documentation fixes for the DataSourcePre/PostExecute delegates
• Update README markdown and old references

What is new in version 2.3:

• Made JSON a new best friend and provide some timely updates to the Datasource and Field classes.

What is new in version 2.2.5:

• This release fixes some issues with special characters in the backend.

What is new in version 2.2.4:

• Symphony 2.2.4 is a recommended update for all users, which contains primarily contains fixes and improvements to the core's Date field and closes some low risk security holes.
• This release rolls back functionality for PHP5.2 users that allowed Symphony to better support European date formats. Please note that PHP 5.3 is recommended for all European date formats.
• Some low risk security vulnerabilities reported by Mavituna Security have also been resolved in this release.

What is new in version 2.2.3:

• A bugfix and maintenance release.

What is new in version 2.2.2:

• Bugfixes, stability and performance updates.

What is new in version 2.2.1:

• Taglist styling issue
• Run General::sanitize on Taglist values in the backend to prevent errors
• Fix issue with General::array_to_xml and nested arrays
• Fix Upload field when used as a Dynamic Option with Select Box fields
• SMTP email: No reply-to if no name is given
• Fix broken encoding when URL parameters were sent separated by & instead of &
• Close potential security hole in the Upload field.
• Update General::sendEmail documentation
• Fix styling issue on XSLT error pages
• Allow " and ' in Static DS's
• Set a default timezone when installing Symphony
• Handle Dates before 1st Jan 1970 again (broken since Beta 1)
• Make DynamicXML DS's work again (broken since Beta 1)
• Fix potential security flaw in the Send Mail filter
• Remove the show_association column from Select Box entry tables, it should of only been added to the sym_fields_select table
• Initialise the Cookie/Sessions object ASAP so that Session information is available as early as possible
• Fix bug with filtering on the Date field, this may cause some of your datasources to function a little differently (although now correctly) than what is expected.
• Fix copy as Markdown on Exceptions
• Don't force ucwords Field Types or Authors
• Default navigation group no longer always defaults to Content
• Author::commit now returns the author_id when updating
• Event 'delete' button styling restored
• Fixed Configuration::remove()
• Fixed AuthorManager::fetchByUsername()
• Fixed EventPreEdit delegate
• General::deleteFile will now handle Exceptions
• General::countWords will now return the correct word count instead of 0
• Author->get() now returns $this->_fields for the Author instead of null when no $field is passed
• Static Datasources will now be appended to the Static Datasource's root element, not the root element of the XML

What is new in version 2.2:

• It delivers many new features, bugfixes, performance enhancements, and other improvements.

Requirements:

• PHP 5.2 or higher
• MySQL 5 or higher
• PHP's LibXML module with the XSLT extension enabled (--with-xsl)
• Apache or Litespeed web server
• Apache's mod_rewrite module or equivalent
• jQuery