craftcms/cms 5.3.0-beta.1

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Content Management

• Added the “Link” field type, which replaces “URL”, and can store URLs, mailto and tel URIs, and entry/asset/category relations. (#15251, #15400)
• Added the ability to move entries between sections that allow the same entry type, via a new “Move to…” bulk action. (#8153, #14541)
• Entry and category conditions now have a “Has Descendants” rule. (#15276)
• “Replace file” actions now display success notices on complete. (#15217)
• Double-clicking on folders within asset indexes and folder selection modals now navigates the index/modal into the folder. (#15238)
• Matrix fields now show validation errors when nested entries don’t validate. (#15161, #15165)
• Matrix fields set to inline-editable blocks view now support selecting all blocks by pressing Command/Ctrl + A when a checkbox is focused. (#15326)
• Users’ Permissions, Preferences, and Password & Verification screens now have “Save and continue editing” actions, as well as support for Command/Ctrl + S keyboard shortcuts.
• User profile screens now have a “Create and set permissions” button for new users, if the current user has access to edit user permissions. (#15356)
• User permission screens now have a “Save and send activation email” button for inactive users, if the current user has the “Administrate users” permission. (#15356)
• Single section entries without a title are now labelled by their section’s name in the control panel.

Accessibility

• Improved the accessibility of two-step verification setup. (#15229)
• The notification heading is no longer read to screen readers when no notifications are active. (#15294)
• The login modal that appears once a user’s session has ended now has a lang attribute, in case it differs from the user’s preferred language.
• Improved the focus ring styling for dark buttons. (#15364)
• Single-select element selection modals now assign role="radio" to listed elements’ checkboxes.
• Sortable editable table rows now have “Move up” and “Move down” disclosure menu actions. (#15385)
• Improved the Customize Sources modal for screen readers. (#15395)

Administration

• Relation fields are now multi-instance. (#15400)
• Relation fields now have Translation Method settings with all the usual options, replacing “Manage relations on a per-site basis” settings. (#15400)
• Entry types are no longer required to have unique names. (#14774, #15438)
• Entry type selects within section and Matrix/CKEditor field settings now display entry types’ handles in addition to their names, to avoid ambiguity. (#15438)
• The Entry Types index page now displays entry type chips in place of plain text labels, so their custom colors are shown. (#15432)
• Icon fields now have an “Include Pro icons” setting, which determines whether Font Awesome Pro icon should be selectable. (#15242)
• New sites’ Base URL settings now default to an environment variable name based on the site name. (#15347)
• Craft now warns against using the @web alias for URL settings, regardless of whether it was explicitly defined. (#15347)
• Entry types created from Matrix block types no longer show the Slug field by default, after upgrading to Craft 5. (#15379)
• Global sets listed within fields’ “Used by” lists now link to their settings page, rather than their edit page. (#15423)
• Added the entry-types/merge command. (#15444)
• Added the fields/merge command. (#15454)

Development

• Added support for application-type based general and db configs (e.g. config/general.web.php). (#15346)
• general and db config files can now return a callable that modifies an existing config object. (#15346)
• Added the lazyGqlTypes config setting. (#15429)
• Added the env, env/set, and env/remove commands. (#15431)
• Color, Country, Email, Icon, Link, Plain Text, and Table fields’ element query params now support passing in an array with value and caseInsensitive keys. (#15404)
• GraphQL mutations for saving drafts of nested entries are now named with Field after the Matrix/CKEditor field handle. (#15269)
• The allowedGraphqlOrigins config setting is now deprecated. craft\filters\Cors should be used instead. (#15397)
• The permissionsPolicyHeader config settings is now deprecated. craft\filters\Headers should be used instead. (#15397)
• {% cache %} tags now cache any asset bundles registered within them.
• Auto-populated section and category group Template settings are now suffixed with .twig.

Extensibility

• Added craft\base\ApplicationTrait::getDb2(). (#15384)
• Added craft\base\ElementInterface::addInvalidNestedElementIds().
• Added craft\base\ElementInterface::getInvalidNestedElementIds().
• Added craft\base\Field::EVENT_AFTER_MERGE_FROM.
• Added craft\base\Field::EVENT_AFTER_MERGE_INTO.
• Added craft\base\Field::afterMergeFrom(). (#15454)
• Added craft\base\Field::afterMergeInto(). (#15454)
• Added craft\base\Field::canMergeFrom(). (#15454)
• Added craft\base\Field::canMergeInto(). (#15454)
• Added craft\base\FieldLayoutComponent::EVENT_DEFINE_SHOW_IN_FORM. (#15260)
• Added craft\base\FieldLayoutElement::$dateAdded.
• Added craft\base\FieldTrait::$dateDeleted.
• Added craft\base\Grippable.
• Added craft\base\MergeableFieldInterface. (#15454)
• Added craft\base\RelationFieldInterface. (#15400)
• Added craft\base\RelationFieldTrait. (#15400)
• Added craft\config\GeneralConfig::addAlias(). (#15346)
• Added craft\elements\Asset::$sanitizeOnUpload. (#15430)
• Added craft\elements\Entry::isEntryTypeCompatible().
• Added craft\elements\actions\MoveToSection.
• Added craft\events\DefineShowFieldLayoutComponentInFormEvent. (#15260)
• Added craft\events\MoveEntryEvent.
• Added craft\fields\Link.
• Added craft\fields\data\LinkData.
• Added craft\fields\linktypes\Asset.
• Added craft\fields\linktypes\BaseElementLinkType.
• Added craft\fields\linktypes\BaseLinkType.
• Added craft\fields\linktypes\BaseTextLinkType.
• Added craft\fields\linktypes\Category.
• Added craft\fields\linktypes\Email.
• Added craft\fields\linktypes\Phone.
• Added craft\fields\linktypes\Url.
• Added craft\filters\Cors. (#15397)
• Added craft\filters\Headers. (#15397)
• Added craft\helpers\App::configure().
• Added craft\models\FieldLayout::getAllElements().
• Added craft\services\Elements::ensureBulkOp().
• Added craft\services\Entries::EVENT_AFTER_MOVE_TO_SECTION.
• Added craft\services\Entries::EVENT_BEFORE_MOVE_TO_SECTION.
• Added craft\services\Entries::moveEntryToSection().
• Added craft\services\Fields::areFieldTypesCompatible().
• Added craft\web\View::clearAssetBundleBuffer().
• Added craft\web\View::startAssetBundleBuffer().
• craft\helpers\DateTimeHelper::toIso8601() now has a $setToUtc argument.
• craft\helpers\UrlHelper::cpUrl() now returns URLs based on the primary site’s base URL (if it has one), for console requests if the baseCpUrl config setting isn’t set, and the @web alias wasn’t explicitly defined. (#15374)
• craft\services\Config::setDotEnvVar() now accepts false for its value argument, which removes the environment variable from the .env file.
• Deprecated craft\fields\BaseRelationField::$localizeRelations.
• Deprecated craft\fields\Url, which is now an alias for craft\fields\Link.
• Deprecated craft\services\Relations.
• Deprecated craft\web\assets\elementresizedetector\ElementResizeDetectorAsset.
• Added Craft.EnvVarGenerator.
• Added Craft.endsWith().
• Added Craft.removeLeft().
• Added Craft.removeRight().
• Added Craft.ui.addAttributes().
• Craft.ElementEditor now triggers a checkActivity event each time author activity is fetched. (#15237)
• Craft.ensureEndsWith() now has a caseInsensitive argument.
• Craft.ensureStartsWith() now has a caseInsensitive argument.
• Craft.startsWith() is no longer deprecated, and now has a caseInsensitive argument.
• Added Garnish.once(), for handling a class-level event only once.
• Checkbox selects now support passing a targetPrefix setting.
• Component chips now support passing a showHandle setting.
• Component selects now support passing a showHandles setting.

System

• The control panel now displays Ajax response-defined error messages when provided, rather than a generic “server error” message. (#15292)
• Craft no longer sets the Permissions-Policy header on control panel responses. (#15348)
• Control panel resize events now use ResizeObserver.
• Craft no longer ensures that the cpresources folder is writable.
• Front-end queue runner scripts are now injected before the </body> tag, rather than at the end of the response HTML.
• Nested entries created for Matrix fields set to inline-editable block mode now begin life as unpublished drafts. (#15418)
• Custom fields are now soft-deleted initially.
• Updated Yii to 2.0.51.
• Updated yii2-debug to 2.1.25.
• Updated svg-sanitizer to 0.19.
• Fixed a bug where error messages returned by the users/send-password-reset-email action weren’t accounting for the useEmailAsUsername config setting. (#15425)
• Fixed a bug where element operations could cause deadlocks when multiple authors were working simultaneously. (#15329)
• Fixed a bug where newly-created Matrix blocks could lose their disabled status if the owner element had validation errors and autosaveDrafts was disabled. (#15418)
• Fixed a bug where customized settings for assets’ Temporary Uploads source were only being retained for the current user. (#15424)
• Fixed a bug where it wasn’t possible to render element partial templates for assets, categories, or tags. (#15426)