Release notes for Elxis 4.2 Icarus.
Our main target during Elxis 4.2 development was to make browsing an Elxis powered site better to hand-held devices, like smart phones and tablets, to improve the user experience in the administration section making administrator's life simpler, and to update Elxis and third party libraries.
Changelog
Most important changes, fixes and additions in Elxis 4.2 in comparison to Elxis 4.1.
- Return to last opened tab after clicking Apply on a form.
- After editing a module return to the listing page with the last display options.
- Open plugin manager window from plugin extensions list.
- Custom date-time format (blog style) and usage of TIME tag.
- Added options to reset article date and hits counter.
- New configuration option: Native language redirection on first visit to frontpage.
- New responsive template for the frontend section named Flex.
- Options to hide introtext, subtitle and image in article page.
- Create private sites, available only to registered users.
- Added iframe integration method for YouTube plugin and videos become responsive.
- Auto-publish articles on a specific date.
- Automated tasks with pseudo cron jobs (initially only for scheduled articles publish).
- Updated module login/logout. Login/logout via AJAX without page refresh. Parameter for horizontal orientation plus extra configuration parameters.
- Updated IOS Slider module and became responsive.
- Improved language module.
- Send test e-mail in Elxis configuration to check email settings
- Link to edit extension directly after extension install.
- Check for updates for all installed extensions and install them with a single click.
- Frontpage designer and grid: Option to create a grid of modules (including preview) alternatively to module positions.
- Frontpage grid became responsive.
- Multilingual articles search in administration section and also search in subtitle (configurable).
- Module admin articles changed to standard table list view.
- Update Elxis database with a single click from the administration console.
- Improved CSS minifier
- Preview modules, even unpublished ones, from the administration section.
- Copy and/or move menu item/s to an other menu collection.
- Add/Edit all item translations in a single window.
- Added XML parameter of type database.
- Added XML parameters of type datetime, date and time.
- Custom tabs support for all extensions in edit page and custom onsave action.
- Option to load a module by its ID
- Update: Set pathway separator from Elxis Factory and Document library.
- Added more general filters in Elxis Defender against common web attacks.
- Updated Elxis framework and component User to support ajax login.
- Bug Fix: elxisURI fixed real URI string when SEF is OFF and on inner.php calls (affect on contact plugin when SEF is OFF).
- Updated mailer library and added STARTTLS support.
- Updated browser helper and mobile device detection.
- Updated Twitter helper for API v1.1 support and component User.
- Updated the jQuery library and added the migration plugin.
- Updated CKEditor.
Download
Update
Download the update package to update Elxis 4.1 to 4.2 from Elxis Downloads Centre.
