This first beta release of our new version 2.3 has a number of changes above and beyond the last 2.2.1-alpha1 release. These are:
- PHP 7.2 and 7.3 support (with some fixes for the clean-blog and timeline themes)
- Minimal PHP version is now PHP 7.0
- Update Smarty to 3.1.33
- Use voku/simple-cache for internal cache as bundled lib, which will allow to cache with memcached and redis instead of just on the filesystem (with updates to 4.0.1, fixing opcache warning on hosted environments, thanks @voku and Hanno Boeck)
- Security fixes for XSS in Editor Preview and Media Library by interpreted EXIF tags (thanks to Hanno Boeck!)
- Improve the nl2br plugin (thanks to Stephan Brunker!)
- Allow to receive multiple trackbacks and pingbacks (thanks to @Mitch!)
- Update media manager and fix some bugs (e.g. re-add ACLS and plugin API event hook backend_media_rename, fix mispositioned button in media manager directory list)
- Use figure/figcaption markup for media manager images with captions
- Add rewrite to absolute url for srcsets to the feed generation
- Fallback for $lang variable when configuration failed to load which evades some unuseful error messages (thanks @HQJaTu!)
- Drop deprecated serendipity_purgeEntry function
- Set responsiveimages as default plugin
- Change (installation) defaults: disable entryproperties cache and enable internal cache, enable stable-archive option
We would really love to get feedback from our users. If you want to test it on production blogs, make sure to have a backup available - that's always a good idea.
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