Future Release Notes for 4.1.12

[Chuck]

IPS Community Suite 4.1.12

In Development

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Key Changes

This is a maintenance release to fix reported issues and add refinement to existing features. In addition to bug fixes and performance improvements, it includes following new/changed features:

• When you mouseover the badge showing who liked a post, you will now see a larger list of who liked that post. You can still click to get the full list.
• Ratings now show half-stars for the average (for example, if one user votes 3 stars and another 4, it will show 3 and a half stars) and there is now an indication if you have rated something.
• You can now filter searches by specific forums/categories.
• System logs have been rewritten to use the database for logging where possible with a more user-friendly interface in the AdminCP.
• Advertisements no longer have padding which makes them easier to position in other areas such as headers.
• The way dates are formatted can now be customised by language strings. For example, if you want to change the date format to "DD-MM-YYYY" that is now possible. With this change, the new default is US-style ("March 4, 1992") rather than the previous European-style ("4 March 1992").
• When comparing revisions of articles in Pages databases, a new browser-based diff tool is used which is more user-friendly and moves the computation from the server to the user's browser for greater performance.
• If you are using the utf8 rather than utf8mb4 character set (which will mean you can't post Emoji) there is a new tool in the AdminCP to upgrade to utf8mb4.
• If it is available on the server, ImageMagick will now be used rather than GD by default. ImageMagick also has a new setting to control JPG quality.
• APC User Cache is now supported in addition to APC.

 

Important Note

This release does not support PHP 5.4 as it is end of life and no longer supported by PHP. If you are running PHP 5.4 do not upgrade and ask your web host to update to a supported version of PHP.

Additional Information

Important Fixes

In addition to many smaller bug fixes and performance improvements, the following important fixes are included:

• Support departments in Commerce could not be deleted.
• Member groups could not be deleted.
• The summary when submitting a calendar event may show the wrong time.
• Double posts may occur on Windows servers.
• Using very high limits for the number of questions per poll may cause errors.
• Setting up the REST API may fail.