Apostrophe 3.27.0: Release of advanced permission, faster image processing

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Greetings Apostrophe Lovers!

With this cycle's release comes the long-awaited Apostrophe’s Advanced Permission module. Also included in this release is a change in Apostrophe's default package for processing images, a new extension for using SVG sprites, and WebSocket support in the enterprise multisite module.

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See the full changelogs below for details and let your JavaScript juices flow this week!

Highlights:

• The new enterprise module advanced-permission allows for finer-grained control over permissions for content on your site. Admins can now designate custom groups of people and give them specific roles for specific content types.
• The default image processor in the uploadfs module has been changed to sharp, reducing npm install time, speeding up image uploads, and eliminating the need for additional install steps. Support for imagemagick is still included as a fallback. To take advantage of this in existing projects, you must “npm update” your project. For new projects, you don’t need to install this module separately. It is already a dependency of apostrophe.
• The new svg-sprite module ports over the A2 extension of the same name. You can now easily manage SVG sprites on your A3 site through a new piece type.

Apostrophe 3.27.0

Adds

• Add /grid POST route in permission module, in addition to the existing GET one. This was necessary for the advanced-permission module to work.
• New utility script to help us find excessively heavy npm dependencies of apostrophe core.

Changes

• Extract permission grid into AposPermissionGrid vue component.
• Moved stylelint from dependencies to devDependencies. The benefit may be small because many projects will depend on stylelint at project level, but every little bit helps install speed, and it may make a bigger difference if different major versions are in use.

Enterprise modules

@apostrophecms-pro/advanced-permission 1.0.0

Note: this module allows admins much greater power in creating and assigning permissions to custom groups and is available with a license upgrade. Contact us to learn more. Note that you also need at least Apostrophe 3.27.0.

Adds

• A new module that brings the Advanced Permission feature, which allows admins to attach users to one or several groups with various permissions set on specific content types.
• Upgrades from existing user roles are automatic when the module is first added.
• A command line task to roll back user roles when uninstalling this module is also included.
• The permissions grid helps visualize the resulting user permissions.

@apostrophecms-pro/multisite 3.8.0

Note: This module lets you have many ApostropheCMS websites running on a single codebase in a single Node.js process and is available with a license upgrade. Contact us to learn more.

Adds

• Optional support for websocket connections. See the documentation for more information about how to accept individual websocket connections in individual sites or in the dashboard.

Public modules

uploadfs 1.2.0

Adds

• Default image processing library changed to sharp.js for excellent performance
• tests for sharp have been added and the package scripts updated to add "test-sharp"

Changes

• Support for jimp and imagecrunch removed (added fallback to sharp for backwards compatibility)
• imagemagick is now the fallback if sharp installation fails on a particular platform

@apostrophecms/svg-sprite 1.0.0

Adds

• Initial release. This supports importing sprite map files into Apostrophe to create individual SVG sprite pieces.