v3.4.1

v3.4.1

• Remove trailing new lines in the AddImageFileFormatToAlchemyPictures migration. (#1107)
  If you migrated already, use the alchemy:upgrade:fix_picture_format rake task.
• Don't overwrite the fallback options when rendering a picture (#1113)
• Fixes the messages mailer views generator (#1118)

v3.3.3

v3.3.3

• Fix bug that rendered duplicate nested elements within a cell (#1100)
• Merge html_options in EssenceFile view (#1115)

v3.4.0

Alchemy 3.4

New Features

• MessagesMailer (formerly known as Messages) now inherits from ApplicationMailer
  when it is defined.
• Adds time based published pages: The public status of a page is now made of two time stamps:
  public_on and public_until
• Send page expiration cache headers
• Adds an +EssencePictureView+ class responsible for rendering the essence_picture_view partial
• Adds a file type filter to file archive
• Allow setting the type of EssenceText input fields in the elements.yml via settings[:input_type]
• Adds support for defining custom searchable attributes in resources
• Automatically add tag management to admin module views, when the resource model
  has been set to acts_as_taggable.
• Automatically add scope filters to admin module views, when the resource model
  has the class method alchemy_resource_filters defined.

Notable Changes

• Messages mailer class has been renamed to MessagesMailer
• Removed the auto-magically merge of Ability classes (#1022)
• Replace jQueryUI datepicker with $.datetimepicker
• Thumbnails now render in original file format, but GIFs will always be flattened
• Pictures will be rendered in original file format by default
• Allow SVG files to be rendered as EssencePicture
• When using Alchemy content outside of Alchemy, current_ability is no longer
  included with Alchemy::ControllerActions to prevent method clashes. If you
  need access to current_ability you also need to include Alchemy::AbilityHelper
• Asset manifests are now installed into vendor/assets folder in order to provide easy customization
  Please don't use alchemy/custom files any more. Instead require your customizations in the manifests.
• Removes the default_scope from Language on_site current while ensuring to load languages by code
  from current site only.
• Removes the Language.get_default method alias for Language.default
• Move site select into pages and languages module to avoid confusion about curent site (#1067)
• List pages from all sites in currently locked pages tabs and Dashboard widget (#1067)
• The locked value on page is now a timestamp (locked_at), so we can order locked pages by (#1070)
• Persist user in dummy app

Fixed Bugs

• Generators don't delete directories any more (#850)
• Some elements crashed the backend's JS when being saved (#1091)

A complete list of changes can be seen at v3.3.0...v3.4.0

Upgrading

As always, upgrading Alchemy is as easy as:

1. bundle update alchemy_cms
2. bin/rake alchemy:upgrade
3. Follow the instructions

v3.3.2

v3.3.2

• Use relative url for page preview frame in order to prevent cross origin errors (#1076)

v3.3.1

3.3.1 (2016-06-20)

• Fix use of Alchemy::Resource with namespaced models (#729)
• Allow setting the type of EssenceText input fields in the elements.yml via settings[:input_type]
• Admin locale switching does not switch language tree any more (#1065)
• Fixes bug where old site session causes not found errors (#1047)
• Fix inability to add nested elements on pages with cells (#1039)
• Skip upgrader if no element definitions are found (#1060)
• Fix selecting the active cell for elements with nested elements (#1041)

v3.3

Alchemy v3.3.0

New Features

• Add support for Sprockets 3
• Add support for jquery-rails 4.1
• Show a welcome page, if no users or pages are present yet
• Namespace spec files
• Image library slideshow
• Global "current locked pages" tabs
• New option linkable: false for EssencePicture
• Allow custom routing for admin backend
• Resource forms can now have Tinymce enabled by adding .tinymce class
• Alchemy::EssenceFile now has a link_text attribute, so the editor is able to change the linked text of the download link.
• Enable to pass multiple page layout names to on_page_layout callbacks
• Client side rendering of the pages admin
• Deprecate redirect_index configuration
• Add Nestable elements feature
• Default site in seeder is now configurable
• Frontpage name and page layout are now editable when creating new language trees

Notable Changes

• Essence generator does not namespace the model into Alchemy namespace anymore
• New simplified uploader that allows to drag and drop images onto the archive everywhere in your app
  • Model names in uploader allowed_filetypes setting are now namespaced.
    Please be sure to run rake alchemy:upgrade to update your settings.
• Allow uppercase country codes
• Uses Time.current instead of Time.now for proper timezone support
• Adds year to created_at column of attachments table
• Removes "available contents" feature.
• Use Ransack for Admin Resources filtering, sorting and searching
• Renames Alchemy translation helpers from _t to Alchemy.t
• Do not append geometry string to preprocess option
• Skip the default locale in urls
• Add a proper index route and do not redirect to page anymore
• Updates Tinymce to 4.2.3
• Moves page status info into reusable partial
• Refactors factories into individual requirable files
• Do not raise error if element_ids params is missing while ordering elements
• Removes old middleware for rescueing legacy sessions
• Use rails tag helpers instead of plain HTML for meta tags
• Remove the duplication of #decription vs. #definition
• Resource CSV export now includes ID column and does not truncate large text columns anymore
• Alchemy::Attachment#urlname now returns always an escaped urlname w/o format suffix and does not convert the file_name once on create anymore
• Speed up the admin interface significantly when handling a large amount of pages

Fixed Bugs

• Add locale to Alchemy::Language to avoid errors for languages with missing locale files #831
• Fixes Alchemy::PageLayout.get_all_by_attributes
• Fix tag list display in picture library
• Animated GIFs display correctly
• EssenceSelect grouped options tags
• Add missing element partials for dummy app
• Eliminate an SQL lookup on frontend cached element partials
• Add missing german and spanish translation for element toolbar
• Use the site_id parameter and the session only in the Admin area
• Render 404 if accessing an unpublished index page that has "on page layout" callbacks

Full Change Log

v3.2

Alchemy 3.2

Notable changes:

• Rails 4.2 compatibility
• Only support Ruby 2. Drop support for Ruby 1.9
• Install generator replaces scaffold generator
• Removes Capistrano 2 deploy receipt

New features

• Introduces on_page_layout mix in
• Allows to use ERB in yml config files
• Adds a views generator
• Adds a site select for switching Alchemy sites
• Allows essence classes outside the Alchemy module namespace
• Allow custom table name prefixes

And a lot more bug fixes, code refactoring and enhancements.

The list of all changes

3.1-stable...3.2-stable

v3.1

Alchemy 3.1

Major changes

JSON API moved into /api namespace

The JSON API now lives under /api and not as additional format to default controllers.
Also the serialization changed into more useful payload.

Please upgrade your API calls to use the new /api namespace.

TinyMCE default paste behavior changed

Text is now always pasted in as plain text. To change this, the user has to
disable it with the toolbar button, as they had to before to enable it.

If you have a custom TinyMCE configuration you have to enable this by adding

paste_as_text: true

into you custom TinyMCE configuration.

TinyMCE toolbar config has changed

The 'toolbar' configuration now takes an array of toolbar rows, instead of
using 'toolbarN' syntax. Please update your TinyMCE configuration.

Visit http://www.tinymce.com/wiki.php/Configuration:toolbar for more information.

Minor changes

• Rspec 3
• More flexible image resizing
• Replace CanCan with CanCanCan
• New translations (dutch and french)
• Alchemy module generator
• Database dump import task
• Push local data to remote server

3.0-stable...3.1-stable

v3.0.3

This is a minor bug fix release.

Changelog:
v3.0.2...v3.0.3

v3.0

Alchemy CMS 3.0

This is a huge release with lots of refactorings, code quality enhancements and bug fixes. The refactorings could add deprecations and break stuff. So please test your app against this and see the full list of commits.

Upgrade instructions

Please have a look at out updated upgrade guide for information on how to upgrade you Alchemy 2.7 based app.

Mayor changes

Rails 4 compatibility

This release of Alchemy runs on Rails 4 and 4.1 only. Because Rails 4 is a mayor release please expect that things will break. Have a look into the official Rails upgrade guides for more information.

Removes action caching

With this release we removed the action_caching based caching mechanism and switched to "Russian doll" caching. Please be aware that after upgrading your pages won't be cached until you mark the parts of your page that should be cached. Please have a look in the official Rails caching guide to learn how to achieve this.

Extracts the User class

This release extracts the Alchemy::User class into its own gem alchemy-devise.
If you don't have your own user class in your app and want to have the default Alchemy user back in your app, you just have to add the alchemy-devise gem into your app's Gemfile.

Changes authorization library

We changed the authorization library from declarative_authorization to CanCan.
If you have customized Alchemy rules you need to upgrade them. You can see the differneces between both DSLs in this Gist.

Extracts ferret based full text search

The ferret based full text search was extracted into its own gem alchemy-ferret.
If you use the full text search in your current app, then you have to add the alchemy-ferret gem into your app's Gemfile.

Upgrades to TinyMCE 4.0

With this release the bundled TinyMCE editor was upgraded to 4.0.
If you have customized the Tinymce editor, you have to upgrade the configuration to the new 4.0 syntax.

New public JSON API

We added a much better public JSON API. For example you can now render a JSON version of your entire page with adding the .json suffix to your page url. This works also for elements and contents.

Other small changes

• Compatible with Ruby 1.9, 2.0 and 2.1
• Updates bundled TinyMCE editor to 4.0 (4fb3ab7)
• Adds a dutch translation (Thanks Rens Riksma) (f3c6699)
• Adds a keyboard shortcut help window (accessible via ? key) (69bdfda)
• Removes jQuery UI Dialog dependency (3d8566e)
• New page editing layout with responsive behaviour.
• Adds a simple_form based alchemy_form_for helper for resources forms.
• Switches to select2 as select tag replacement.
• The rake alchemy:install task now adds a basic article element with useful hint texts to first page created. (66818fa)
• Adds a postgresql database importer task (b5d44f8)
• Removes all deprecated helpers from 2.x (see 2.8 for deprecations)
• Refactors essence validations, changes its API (44866db)
• The alchemy_menubar is now a partial (3616fd9)
• Remove flash based uploader and replaces it with jquery.fileupload plugin (0f08582)
• Adds Alchemy::I18n.available_locales= setter to define available backend translations (5c50e02)

And lots of other things.

Please have a look at all commits for a complete list of changes:

2.7-stable...3.0-stable

Thanks again for all the contributors that made this release happen.

❤️