omeka/Omeka 1.4

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Omeka 1.4 was released on June 22, 2011.

General

• Batch editing for items
• Improved update and installation scripts
• Improved error handling and logging
• Improved upload file handling
• Allows configuration of tag delimiter
• Improvements to database date and time formatting
• Improvements to advanced search
  • New “is exactly” advanced search type
  • Fixed “is null” and “does not contain” search types
• Atom feed output
  • Next, previous, last, and first links
• Improved user and access control handling
• Miscellaneous tweaks and bedazzlings

Library Updates

• Updated Zend Framework to 1.11.6
• Updated jQuery to 1.6.1
• Updated jQuery UI to 1.8.13
• Updated TinyMCE to 3.4.2-jQuery

Security

• Cross Site Scripting and AJAX vulnerabilities addressed
• CSRF protection for delete actions

UI/UX

• Improvements to admin theme
• Many improvements and fixes to media helpers, esp. for display of AVI, WMV, WMA
• Improvements to theme configuration
  • TinyMCE integration
  • Image preview
• Improved item citation style
• Modal AJAX for delete/confirm

For Developers

• Omeka_Job component for background jobs (e.g., importing)
• Omeka_Storage Layer
  • Amazon S3 storage
• New functions
  • plugin_is_active
  • link_to_items_atom
  • clear_filters
  • body_tag
  • auto_discovery_link_tags
  • _log
  • random_featured_items
  • plugin_body
  • plugin_page_header
  • plugin_page_content
  • url_to_link
• New filters
  • item_citation filter
• New global functions
• Deprecated functions
  • auto_discovery_link_tag

Tests

• Tests now require PHPUnit 3.5 or newer
• Fakemail no longer required for testing
• Added test suites:
  • All