Release notes for Elxis 4.4 Orion.
For existing Elxis users version 4.4 Orion is a highly recommended update. For those haven't tried Elxis till now version 4.4 is a modern, secure, stable and flexible CMS that should defently try. Among others version 4.4 has a brand new Elxis Defender (Elxis security shield against web attacks), new configuration options, full PHP 7 compatibility, updated WYSIWYG editor, updated media manager and updated system libraries to help develop even better extensions. For more information regarding the changes in Elxis 4.4 please read the change log.
Changelog
Most important changes, fixes and additions in Elxis 4.4 Orion in comparison to Elxis 4.3.
- Elxis installer became mobile friendly.
- Updated media manager (component eMedia) with drag-n-drop and improved user interface.
- Added new module Admin messages in administration panel.
- Session management improvements and fixes for custom session handlers and PHP 7.
- Added custom select fields in plugin Contact
- Improvements in hreflang tags
- New configuration option: SEO Title match method (used in SEO title suggestion feature)
- New configuration option: Set cron jobs run probability
- New configuration option: Choose when to run Defender IP checks (before or after Elxis core load).
- New configuration option: Content Security Policy (CSP)
- New configuration option: X-Frame-Options allow policy
- New HTTP header X-XSS-Protection (always ON).
- New HTTP header X-Content-Type-Options (ON -nosniff- for security levels high and insane).
- New Elxis Defender developed from scratch by Elxis Team. New filter options: G (General), C (Custom), R (IP Ranges), I (IPs), F (Filesystem). Lists of blocked IPs (options I and R) are updated automatically.
- New log type: security (for Elxis Defender alerts)
- Security tighten in Session and URI libraries
- Block temporary email providers on user registration.
- SSL detection improvement.
- Added noindex and/or nofollow attributes on page head for some pages like user, login and registration pages.
- Search engine YouTube updated to YouTube API v3
- CKEditor updated to latest version
- zt language mapped to Taiwan (TW)
- AJAX grid tables in Elxis administration now cover the full page width.
- Shortcuts for third party components in administration dashboard.
- Module articles: Use of important and relkey in articles selection.
- Caption text is now used as images ALT text instead of article title.
- Fixed undefined variable row in component Content.
- Fixed article modification date in component Content.
- Article main image can now be used on other articles (shared images).
- Added XML parameters of type filelist and password.
- For XML parameter of type database added replacements for characters quote, less than and greater than.
- Added optional attribute required in XML parameters.
- HTML5 validation on save for XML parameters (based on required attribute and element types).
- Added method addCustom in Elxis Form library (elxisForm).
- Fixes on radio and checkbox attributes in Elxis Form library (elxisForm).
- Full width EDC browser interface.
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Update
To upgrade an Elxis 4.3 installation to 4.4 download the update patch from EDC.
