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2020 Mar 13

Dotclear 2.16

By Franck on Friday 13 March 2020, 10:03

Let have some fun by publishing a very new version of Dotclear this friday the 13th \o/

The menu:

🐘 PHP 5.6+ is required, PHP 7.4 compliance
🛡 Security: all requests from/to Dotclear and DotAddict servers use now HTTPS
jQuery upgraded to 3.4.1, older version will be removed, jQuery not anymore requested for "Remember me" feature
New "static" mode for home page. In this mode the list of last posts is available with the following URL: https://example.com/index.php?posts
Media description may now be updated
Add <i [lang="…"]>…</i> support to Dotclear wiki, syntax: ££text[|lang]££ (ex: ££français|fr££)

And also some visual or not visual bugs have been fixed, the support of MySQL 8+…

Let's play !

2 comments

2019 Nov 28

Dotclear 2.15.3

By Franck on Thursday 28 November 2019, 10:18

Une new minor release which fixes some issues:

Avoid weird side-effect of JS minifier
Insertion of default type media (non image/audio/video) in XHTML entries
Cope with old themes for 'remember me' string defined in JS

one comment

2019 Oct 1

Dotclear 2.15.2

By Franck on Tuesday 1 October 2019, 10:23

A new release which fixes:

saving of files in theme editor when using syntaxic coloration;
video insertion with the two editors
badge position for dashboard modules counters

2019 Aug 29

Dotclear 2.15.1

By Franck on Thursday 29 August 2019, 13:25

A small update that should fix the problem of modifying pages and posts in a language different from the interface language, when using CKEditor. It should also solve the problem encountered when updating 2.15 by users of PostgreSQL databases.

2019 Aug 12

Dotclear 2.15

By Franck on Monday 12 August 2019, 11:14

A very new version of Dotclear, focusing on code robustness, there is no more inline javasript and it's better for security; the backend is a little bit more comfortable with responsives lists and tables. It will be easier to cope with list of comments on your smartphone.

Note that the audio and video Flash players have been removed from this release — but they are not deleted during update.

Dashboard speaking you will be able to organize at will the position of differents "blocks" (icons, news, …); the WebP format is now supported — as far as your server is configured for ; some new codes have been added to the wiki syntax (subscript, superscript).

Check the « CHANGELOG » ;-)

Have fun and enjoy and happy birthday, tomorrow, to our favourite blog engine \o/

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2018 Sep 26

Dotclear 2.14.3

By Franck on Wednesday 26 September 2018, 11:26

A little update which fix a configuration problem, experienced at least on some 1&1 servers, with a memory_limit value (in PHP.ini) set to -1 (unlimited).

2018 Sep 4

Dotclear 2.14.2

By Franck on Tuesday 4 September 2018, 15:26

A little update which fixes some problems as:

Security (two minor vulnerabilities)
Syntax coloration with the theme editor
Template filters attributes

Note: Some web browser extensions, as ad blocker, may block some features of the backend of your installation, as the wysiwyg editors. You should use their white list of those extension is this case.

2018 Aug 17

Dotclear 2.14.1

By Franck on Friday 17 August 2018, 09:43

A little update which fixes some problems as:

The wizard installation script
The default font size in user preferences
The compression of js scripts

2018 Aug 14

Dotclear 2.14 and PHP version

By Franck on Tuesday 14 August 2018, 10:01

Some of you reported me some problems with this new release of Dotclear on servers running PHP 5.5 (which is obsolete).

So I recommend to switch to the 5.6 version of PHP or even better to the 7.1 or 7.2

2018 Aug 13

Dotclear 2.14

By Franck on Monday 13 August 2018, 10:07

Codename: Dark Crystal

Crystal because it's today the 15th anniversary of Dotclear which run on the best servers on this planet!

Dark because there is a new dark mode in the administration interface!

Dark Crystal because I do like this animation movie published 35 years ago :-)

Otherwise, it's business as usual…

Enjoy!

2018 Jan 27

Dotclear 2.13.1

By Franck on Saturday 27 January 2018, 07:48

A small update that fixes two annoying bugs in the theme editor (when syntax coloration is enabled) and with the traditional Dotclear editor, in XHTML mode.

2018 Jan 13

Dotclear 2.13

By Franck on Saturday 13 January 2018, 12:08

Some few words:

PHP 5.5+ mandatory as a more secure system has been implemented for passwords stored in the database, system which needs at least this version of PHP
Informations displayed on dashboard, as Dotclear updates or news, are now fetch from Dotclear server in asynchronous way, so no more dashboard blocked by a ghost server!
A new driver for MySQL databases encoded with UTF8-mb4
Some bugs fixed
Some refinements in administrative UX

Enjoy!

Note for users and administrator:

The new encryption system for password does not require any migration procedure. This will be done only once at the very next user authentication.

Notes for developers:

The new password system implies two backward incompatibilities:

The function checkPassword() (/inc/core/class.dc.auth.php) requires now a non encrypted password (usually form field contents) rather than an encrypted form.
So you now have to use $core->auth->checkPassword($_POST['your_pwd']) rather than $core->auth->checkPassword($core->auth->crypt($_POST['your_pwd'])).
The function crypt() (/inc/core/class.dc.auth.php) no more give the same results with the same parameter. If you need an "old fashion" encrypted password, you have to use cryptLegacy() function (same file).

If you need a unique UID/key, use http::browserUID(DC_MASTER_KEY.$core->auth->userID().$core->auth->cryptLegacy($core->auth->userID())) (may be refined in future).

2017 Aug 13

Dotclear 2.12.1

By Franck on Sunday 13 August 2017, 04:49

A little update to fix a bug with the mustek default template set, used by a lot of themes. This release fixes also a small bug with media title during upload.

Do not forget to empty the cache of the templates (Maintenance plugin) as well as the cache of your browser after having made an update. In case you have opted for a manual update, do not forget to disconnect and reconnect, some updates (concerning the database) are made at this time.

2017 Jul 27

Dotclear 2.12

By Franck on Thursday 27 July 2017, 10:38

Tiny but eventually not so tiny update as the CHANGELOG shows. Anyway there is no new functionality, only improvements and bug fixes.

As the team is reduced since a lot of months/years, I decided to reduced the scope in terms of development as I'm the only dev still in activity and I have not more much courage to start (relatively) big projects^[1] — yes, we have a bus factor of 1 in Dotclear.

So exit the REST API I wish to develop — but a third party plugin is in development to provide this feature —, exit also the integration of the Twig template engine, exit also a lot of tickets which stayed opened without anybody to take care of them.

I will continue to maintain Dotclear, indeed, in order to add some tiny missing features as UTF8-MB4 support for MySQL, a more robust password management and this will be included in the next 2.13 release which will need, at least, PHP 5.5 version — it's time to forget the older PHP 5.3 not more maintained now.

Note

[1] First it's not funny at all to develop alone, second the lack of code review is as far as I know dangerous

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2016 Dec 29

Dotclear 2.11.2

By Franck on Thursday 29 December 2016, 15:30

A new small update today that fixes some annoying bugs with PHP 5.3 and PHP 5.4; It also solves the problem of previewing the posts and pages being edited.