Dotclear News

2021 Aug 13

Dotclear 2.19

A new version to celebrate the 18 years of Dotclear.

On the program, a more robust code (PHP and Javascript), some improvements for themes developers, a minimal version of PHP 7.3 required, the compatibility with PHP 8 being ensured, the few used libraries have been updated (jQuery, CKEditor, codemirror, ...).

Note that the MySQL driver support has been removed and is now replaced by the MySQLi driver. You don't have to change anything if you were using the old one, the replacement is automatic.

Furthermore, the "remember me" function present on the blog comment forms, previously managed via the creation of a cookie, is now replaced by a local storage in the browser via the localStorage API.

Note also that Google's FLoC tracking system is automatically disabled (which can be overridden via the blog settings).

The curious can study the CHANGELOG file for details.

We will also try to publish new versions more often with probably less stuff each time as the application has already reached its maturity/majority :-)

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2021 Feb 13

Dotclear 2.18.1

By Franck - News

A maintenance version that corrects a few bugs, especially when putting programmed entries online.

2020 Nov 13

Dotclear 2.18

By Franck - News

A new version that brings some changes and updates.

The most notable are :

The IP addresses - especially from comments - are now displayed in the administration only if you are administrator or super-administrator.
The HTML syntax and the CKEditor editor are now proposed by default for new users and new blogs.
The CKEditor editor now integrates footnotes management.

Note that the next major release, 2.19, will require PHP 7.0 or greater!

2020 Aug 17

Dotclear 2.17.2

By Franck - News

A maintenance version that fixes two minor problems with Safari.

2020 Aug 15

Dotclear 2.17.1

By Franck - News

A maintenance version to fix a problem caused by Chrome with the optional password fields of posts and pages.

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2020 Aug 13

Dotclear 2.17

By Franck - News

Here's the “Jurassic blog edition”, aka Dotclear 2.17 to celebrate 17 years of Dotclear today \o/

The CHANGELOG:

* 🐘 PHP 5.6+ is required, PHP 7.4 compliance
* 🛡 Security: Password is now needed to export blog settings and contents (full/simple)
* Themes can now be cloned
* New helper button (show/hide) for password fields
* Enhancement of filter/sort usage for lists (posts, comments, …)
* 3rd automatic theme for backend theme (which follow OS setting)
* Authentication (backend) and password form (public for password protected entry) have been redesigned
* Add a Cancel button wherever relevant in backend
* PHP files can now be edited in Theme editor
* Plugins may now use SVG icon rather than JPG/PNG
* Black/White list names become Block/Allow list (antispam)
* Wiki: subscript syntax changed from _subscript_ to ,,subscript,,
* Wiki: add ;;span-content;; syntax
* Wiki: add §§attributes[|list attributes]§§ for blocks (at end of the 1st line of block)
* Wiki: add §attributes§ for inline elements (just before closing marker, warning: cannot be nested)
* Tpl: Add {{tpl:BlogNbEntriesFirstPage}} and {{tpl:BlogNbEntriesPerPage}}
* Tpl: Add optional even attribute to <tpl:EntryIfOdd>, <tpl:CommentIfOdd> and <tpl:PingIfOdd>
* Tpl: Add author="…" as attribute of <tpl:EntryIf>
* Sys: Add several behaviors, coreBeforeImageMetaCreate, themeBeforeClone and themeAfterClone
* a11y: Reduce motion if required in provided themes and backend
* Lib: Update jQuery to 3.5.1 (backend and public)
* Lib: Update Codemirror to 5.55.0
* Lib: CKEditor new color palette (configurable)
* Fix: Notification system refactored (now based on db rather than PHP Session)
* Fix: Missing confirmation before closing modified forms / unecessary confirmation asked before closing not modified forms
* i18n: Switch from Transifex to Crowdin for localisation purpose (https://dotclear.crowdin.com/)
* 🐛 → Various bugs, a11y concerns and typos fixed
* 🌼 → Some locales and cosmetic adjustments

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2020 Jun 2