craftcms/cms 5.2.0-beta.1

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Content Management

• Live Preview now supports tabs, UI elements, and tab/field conditions. (#15112)
• Live Preview now has a dedicated “Save” button. (#15112)
• It’s now possible to edit assets’ alternative text from the Assets index page. (#14893)
• Double-clicking anywhere within a table row on an element index page will now open the element’s editor slideout. (#14379)
• Element index checkboxes no longer have a lag when deselected, except within element selection modals. (#14896)
• Relational field condition rules no longer factor in the target elements’ statuses or sites. (#14989)
• Element cards now display provisional changes, with an “Edited” label. (#14975)
• Improved mobile styling. (#14910)
• Improved the look of slideouts.
• Table views within element index pages are no longer scrolled directly. (#14927)
• Improved the look of user gradicons when selected.
• “Save and continue editing” actions now restore the page’s scroll position on reload.
• “Remove” element actions within relational fields will now remove all selected elements, if the target element is selected. (#15078)
• Action menus are now displayed within the page toolbar, rather than in the breadcrumbs. (#14913, #15070)
• Site menus within element selector modals now filter out sites that don’t have any sources. (#15091)
• The meta sidebar toggle has been moved into the gutter between the content pane and meta sidebar. (#15117)

Accessibility

• Added the “Status” column option to category, entry, and user indexes. (#14968)
• Element cards now display a textual status label rather than just the indicator. (#14968)
• Darkened the color of page sidebar toggle icons to meet the minimum contrast for UI components.
• Darkened the color of context labels to meet the minimum contrast for text.
• Darkened the color of footer links to meet the minimum contrast for text.
• Set the language of the Craft edition in the footer, to improve screen reader pronunciation for non-English languages.
• The accessible name of “Select site” buttons is now translated to the current language.

Administration

• Added the --format option to the db/backup and db/restore commands for PostgreSQL installs. (#14931)
• The db/restore command now autodetects the backup format for PostgreSQL installs, if --format isn’t passed. (#14931)
• The install command and web-based installer now validate the existing project config files at the outset, and abort installation if there are any issues.
• The resave/entries command now has an --all-sections flag.
• The web-based installer now displays the error message when installation fails.
• Edit Entry Type pages now have a “Delete” action. (#14983)
• After creating a new field, field layout designers now set their search value to the new field’s name. (#15080)
• GraphQL schema edit pages now have a “Save and continue editing” alternate action.
• Volumes’ “Subpath” and “Transform Subpath” settings can now be set to environment variables. (#15087)
• The system edition can now be defined by a CRAFT_EDITION environment variable. (#15094)
• The rebrand assets path can now be defined by a CRAFT_REBRAND_PATH environment variable. (#15110)

Development

• Added the {% expires %} tag, which simplifies setting cache headers on the response. (#14969)
• Added the withCustomFields element query param. (#15003)
• Entry queries now support passing * to the section param, to filter the results to all section entries. (#14978)
• Element queries now support passing an element instance, or an array of element instances/IDs, to the draftOf param.
• Added craft\elements\ElementCollection::find(), which can return an element or elements in the collection based on a given element or ID. (#15023)
• Added craft\elements\ElementCollection::fresh(), which reloads each of the collection elements from the database. (#15023)
• craft\elements\ElementCollection::contains() now returns true if an element is passed in and the collection contains an element with the same ID and site ID; or if an integer is passed in and the collection contains an element with the same ID. (#15023)
• craft\elements\ElementCollection::countBy(), collapse(), flatten(), keys(), pad(), pluck(), and zip() now return an Illuminate\Support\Collection object. (#15023)
• craft\elements\ElementCollection::diff() and intersect() now compare the passed-in elements to the collection elements by their IDs and site IDs. (#15023)
• craft\elements\ElementCollection::flip() now throws an exception, as element objects can’t be used as array keys. (#15023)
• craft\elements\ElementCollection::map() and mapWithKeys() now return an Illuminate\Support\Collection object, if any of the mapped values aren’t elements. (#15023)
• craft\elements\ElementCollection::merge() now replaces any elements in the collection with passed-in elements, if their ID and site ID matches. (#15023)
• craft\elements\ElementCollection::only() and except() now compare the passed-in values to the collection elements by their IDs, if an integer or array of integers is passed in. (#15023)
• craft\elements\ElementCollection::unique() now returns all elements with unique IDs, if no key is passed in. (#15023)

Extensibility

• Improved type definitions for craft\db\Query, element queries, and craft\elements\ElementCollection.
• Added craft\base\NestedElementTrait::$updateSearchIndexForOwner.
• Added craft\db\getBackupFormat().
• Added craft\db\getRestoreFormat().
• Added craft\db\setBackupFormat().
• Added craft\db\setRestoreFormat().
• Added craft\enums\Color::tryFromStatus().
• Added craft\events\InvalidateElementcachesEvent::$element.
• Added craft\fields\BaseRelationField::existsQueryCondition().
• Added craft\helpers\Cp::componentStatusIndicatorHtml().
• Added craft\helpers\Cp::componentStatusLabelHtml().
• Added craft\helpers\Cp::statusLabelHtml().
• Added craft\helpers\DateTimeHelper::relativeTimeStatement().
• Added craft\helpers\DateTimeHelper::relativeTimeToSeconds().
• Added craft\helpers\ElementHelper::swapInProvisionalDrafts().
• Added craft\helpers\StringHelper::indent().
• Added craft\models\Volume::getTransformSubpath().
• Added craft\models\Volume::setTransformSubpath().
• Added craft\queue\Queue::getJobId().
• craft\base\Element::defineTableAttributes() now returns common attribute definitions used by most element types.
• craft\elements\ElementCollection::with() now supports collections made up of multiple element types.
• craft\models\Volume::getSubpath() now has a $parse argument.
• craft\services\Drafts::applyDraft() now has a $newAttributes argument.
• Added the reloadOnBroadcastSave setting to Craft.ElementEditor. (#14814)
• Added the waitForDoubleClicks setting to Garnish.Select, Craft.BaseElementIndex, and Craft.BaseElementIndexView.

System

• Improved overall system performance. (#15003)
• Improved the performance of exists() element queries.
• Improved the performance of craft\base\Element::toArray().
• The Debug Toolbar now pre-serializes objects stored as request parameters, fixing a bug where closures could prevent the entire Request panel from showing up. (#14982)
• Batched queue jobs now verify that they are still reserved before each step, and before spawning additional batch jobs. (#14986)
• The search keyword index is now updated for owner elements, when a nested element is saved directly which belongs to a searchable custom field.
• Updated Yii to 2.0.50. (#15124)
• Updated inputmask to 5.0.9.