New features and Security improvements

What's new in v2.9.9:

• The minimum PHP requirement increased to 7.2
• Composer updates
• Multi-factor authentication (MFA) feature by @KuJoe
• Autosave feature by @KuJoe
• Cloudflare Turnstile by @KuJoe
• Focus mode feature by @KuJoe
• Hide HTMLy version by @KuJoe
• Language update by @vdbhb59 @XD9527 @eagleman
• New Ukrainian language by @mrRomanko

Note for MFA: The QR Code during MFA setup automatically enabled if the PHP version is at least 8.1

What's Changed

• Update zh_TW.ini by @XD9527 in #751
• Added TOTP MFA support per user. by @KuJoe in #756
• Add autosave to drafts feature by @KuJoe in #757
• Translation & language corrections by @vdbhb59 in #759
• Update it_IT.ini by @eagleman in #762
• Added Cloudflare Turnstile as alternative to Google reCAPTCHA by @KuJoe in #763
• Added config option to disable MFA globally by @KuJoe in #764
• Created Bug Report and Feature Request templates for GitHub Issues by @KuJoe in #765
• Added option to hide HTMLy version publicly and added version to admin layout by @KuJoe in #767
• Update it_IT.ini by @eagleman in #771
• Added a focus mode to the Add/Edit for Posts/Pages by @KuJoe in #773
• Update it_IT.ini by @eagleman in #775

New Contributors

• @KuJoe made their first contribution in #756

Full Changelog: v2.9.8...v2.9.9

Bug fixes and Maintenance release

What's new:

• Bug fixes can't delete post/page/category in v2.9.7
• Can't reorder page/subpage in v2.9.7
• Fix styling in Doks theme
• French language update by @Eliastik
• New Hindi language (hi_HI) by @vdbhb59

What's Changed

• Create hi_HI.ini transaltion file by @vdbhb59 in #733
• Update french translation by @Eliastik in #734

New Contributors

• @vdbhb59 made their first contribution in #733

Full Changelog: v2.9.7...v2.9.8

Security and Maintenance Release

What's new:

• Directory traversal vulnerabilities fix by @jinhaochan.
• Avatar for users.
• Allow to upload WebP image.
• Text editor improvement. More info: #725
• Language updates.
• Fix inverted question mark in BBEdit (Mac). More info: #715

Note for Directory traversal vulnerabilities

• These vulnerabilities can only be triggered if a user has a valid account, and is logged in.

Note for WebP image

• HTMLy use getimagesize to check whether the image is valid or not. The getimagesize added WebP support in PHP 7.1

What's Changed

• Update German language files by @sb0001 in #712
• Update it_IT.ini by @eagleman in #713
• Update zh_TW.ini to v2.9.6 by @XD9527 in #719
• Security Fix by @jinhaochan in #728

New Contributors

• @jinhaochan made their first contribution in #728

Full Changelog: v2.9.6...v2.9.7

User Management Improvements

What's new:

• Admin can add, edit, and delete users using the dashboard
• Improve the role management, available role: admin, editor, author
• And a few improvements, read below

Note for roles:

• admin: has access to all the administration features
• editor: can publish and manage static pages/posts including the posts of other users
• author: can publish and manage their own posts

What's Changed

• Update it_IT.ini by @eagleman in #701
• Update zh_TW.ini to v2.9.5 by @XD9527 in #708

Full Changelog: v2.9.5...v2.9.6

v2.9.5: Metatags Improvements

What's new:

• Open Graph and simplified Twitter card
• Allow to change the meta title formats using shortcode. Visit admin/config/metatags
• Favicon and default image options
• New language added: Croatian (hr_HR)

Note:

• For metatags. There is new variable $metatags and this must be added to HTML head tag to generate the Open Graph and Twitter card metatag. If you are using a theme that has not been updated or a custom theme, add below code in layout.html.php

<?php echo $metatags; ?>

What's Changed

• Translation options for the summary options introduced in the last update by @sb0001 in #697
• Update it_IT.ini by @eagleman in #698
• Update it_IT.ini by @eagleman in #700
• Croatian language (hr_HR) by @m4rcus8 in #699

Full Changelog: v2.9.4...v2.9.5

v2.9.4: Improvements

What's new:

• Pager in image gallery. Very useful when we have hundreds of images
• Minor performance tweak
• Update some of the themes style
• German translation update, read below

What's Changed

• Updated German translation by @thopanX in #691
• German language files (Standard/gendergerecht Duden-konform/gendergerecht mit Doppelpunkt) by @sb0001 in #692
• Minor translation improvements (de_DE*) by @sb0001 in #695

New Contributors

• @thopanX made their first contribution in #691

Full Changelog: v2.9.3...v2.9.4

TOC and Social Media Links

What's new

• Table of Contents. Add TOC using shortcode <!--toc-->, can be added manually using the editor or automatically. Change it behavior in admin/config/widget
• New social media logo and links. All theme has been updated to use the social() function. Added Instagram, Linkedin, Github, Mastodon, TikTok, and Youtube.
• And a few improvements, read below

What's Changed

• Update zh_TW.ini by @XD9527 in #674
• Update french translation by @Eliastik in #676
• Add enclosure image on RSS field by @Eliastik in #677
• Adding Danish translation by @MortenJuhl-Johansen in #678
• Update zh_TW.ini by @XD9527 in #680
• Update tag style , Let tag list look like tag/label by @XD9527 in #689

New Contributors

• @XD9527 made their first contribution in #674
• @MortenJuhl-Johansen made their first contribution in #678

Full Changelog: v2.9.2...v2.9.3

Page management improvement and new theme

What's new:

• Now we can rearrange the page and subpage order easily. Simply drag and drop it
• New theme added to the package. Based on Doks theme by Hyas
• Automatically include the functions.php if this file exist in theme folder
• And many more small improvements

Note:

• For Doks theme. The top menu, generated from menu editor. And the sidebar menu automatically generated using get_menu function
• When naming the function in theme functions.php, use themeName_functionName(), to make sure not conflicted with existing function

Full Changelog: v2.9.0...v2.9.1

New feature and improvements

What's new:

• Draft for pages and subpages
• Added /feed suffix in the post collection url (category, tag, type, search, archive, author) will generate RSS feed
• Rename function: get_static_post to find_page and get_static_sub_post to find_subpage
• Page navigation for page/subpage
• Allow multi site URLs. See #549
• Allow underscore in username
• Added new variable post used in post.html.php and static used in static.html.php
• Easier to manage your content locally. See README.md

New feature and bug fixes

So what's new in this version? not much but quite crucial.

• Simple Image Gallery. Now we can reuse previously uploaded images.
• Bug fix: Number tags can only be applied to one post (eg. 2023, 2024)
• Bug fix: Too long cache filename because $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] always url-encoded (eg. URL with Chinese char)
• A few improvements

Happy holiday!