Announcing CMS Made Simple 1.7.1 - Escade
May 1, 2010 by Robert Campbell
Woot! CMSMS keeps getting better and better.
Even though it's only a point release, this version of CMSMS fixes numerous minor bugs and adds some important features. We didn't feel that the list of changes were extensive enough to call it 1.8 even though we attempted to attack as many issues that would have the biggest bang for the least bucks as possible. That meant we tackled changes that were probably easy to implement, had smaller impacts on existing sites but would make things alot easier for our user base. We think that the changes will be important enough for you want to upgrade quickly.
One of the biggest things this version adds is better support for SSL. There is now an (optional) ssl_url parameter in the config.php and a check box in each edit content page to turn on HTTPS support on an individual page basis. This was a long time coming.
We tweaked the module API so that any form element created by a module (form tag, text input, checkbox etc) has classes associated with the tag. This will make it much easier for designers to style forms.
We have also added preferences to control the default image manager thumbnail size instead of having to edit a config file. There are new user preferences to aide in pagination for GCB, stylesheet, and template lists. As well, the core modules have had minor tweaks and bug fixes to generally solve a few problems and make life just a little bit simpler. TinyMCE has been upgraded to the latest version again (hopefully we'll avoid the normal pain with upgrading and TinyMCE this time).
There has been a schema change this version to accommodate the SSL changes so no diff releases will be generated. You will need to go through the upgrade process on each site.
Again, we would like to thank the people that contributed to this release with countless hours of testing, bug reporting, translation and support. In particular:
Ronny Krijt (ronnyk)
Nuno Costa (nuno)
Rene Helminsen (reneh)
Jeremy Bass (JeremyBass)
Tyler Boespflug (tyman00)
Mark Reed (DrCss)
Enjoy, and happy CMSMS'ing!
- Version 1.7.1 - Escada
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28 Responses to "Announcing CMS Made Simple 1.7.1 - Escade"
On: May 1, 2010, John Beatrice said:
Thanks for all the hard work and really exciting new changes!
On: May 1, 2010, Jeremy Becker said:
Thanks you guys for all your HARD work! i LOVE CMSMS... it's the absolute best... that you guys take the time to always fix bugs is SO amazing!!! Keep it up!
Jeremy Becker
On: May 2, 2010, Gregor said:
Great to see the commitment of all who are involved. I'm still glad I decided to start using cmsms a couple of years ago. Thank you!
http://www.jmrwebsolutions.co.uk
On: May 2, 2010, Rob said:
Just wondering if there is going to be a diff file from 1.7 to 1.7.1?
On: May 2, 2010, tricky m said:
Where is the "cmsmadesimple-full-diff-1.7.0-1.7.1tar.gz" download linking?
On: May 2, 2010, tricky m said:
If no diff releases will be generated,how can we update the old installed site ?
Any good idea?
http://www.ds32.com
On: May 2, 2010, David Silvester said:
There was no diff with this package - "There has been a schema change this version to accommodate the SSL changes so no diff releases will be generated..."
If you are upgrading an existing site, you still need to do pretty much the same steps - overwrite all your existing files with the new files - this can be done either by FTP or by extracting the tarball at the shell, Then run install/upgrade.php.
There are instructions here:
http://wiki.cmsmadesimple.org/index.php/User_Handbook/Installation/Upgrading
There are also instructions within the tarball under docs/upgrade.txt
As always, make sure you do a full backup of everything before you atempt the upgrade, and also make backups of any modified files you have in your installation - notably in this release, the News Module seems to be re-written - or at least it differs from what I had installed.
The only other problem I had was that Captcha did not work after the upgrade - so I just uninstalled and re-installed it from admin/Modules
Once again great work! Love CMSMS!!!
http://www.timgriffin.com
On: May 2, 2010, Timmy G said:
Thanks for the update guys! CMSMS came in really handy for a recent multi-domain CMS I needed to roll out!
http://www.vizavi.com/2010/05/cms-made-simple/
On: May 4, 2010, Vizavi » Archives du blog » Cms Made Simple said:
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On: May 4, 2010, Ad said:
Argh - looks like the latest version no longer supports our version of PHP! There's only a couple of points difference, and we can't update our server yet (for fear of breaking the dist). Surely with a minor point upgrade this shouldn't be so?
http://cmsmadesimple.org
On: May 4, 2010, Ted Kulp said:
@Adam: The requirements for 1.7.1 are the same as they were for 1.7 -- 5.2.4 minimum and 5.2.12+ recommended. If you can't hit those version #'s, then you'll have to stick with 1.6.7.
On: May 4, 2010, Greg said:
Some great advancements in 1.7+ - fantastic work. Potential bug with editing Global Content Blocks.
Can create them no problem, however, when editing, whether hitting 'Apply' or 'Submit' just get a blank page. url example: yourdomain.com/admin/edithtmlblob.php
going to go check the forums on this to see if a fix has been posted already.
http://www.shareworld.co.uk
On: May 5, 2010, david silvester said:
Ad what hosting provider are you with and what package? If you are on shared hosting, you can add the following line to your htaccess file:
AddType x-mapp-php5 .php
-You will probably find if you are on shared hosting, your provider will have php5 capabilities and this line will envoke them for just that particular site that the htaccess file is in.
Whatever the case you really need to get php 5 running otherwise you can no longer upgrade your cms - and from experience, this is a bad idea!!
On: May 5, 2010, Adam said:
HELP - ever since upgrading to 1.7.1 i'm unable to upgrade modules. this does not happen with 1.7 sites i have running on the same server configuration. when i try to upgrade a module, it says "needs upgrade" on the modules page, but when i hit "upgrade" it just goes back to the same page and the module isn't updated.
http://roylindauer.com
On: May 6, 2010, Roy Lindauer said:
Nice one guys. Just upgraded a site in development and so far so good. Very much dig the SSL options now.
On: May 6, 2010, Simon said:
Thanks for all the hard work and effort, CMSMS is still the best and getting better.
Now will someone put me out of my misery.
I did a googlemaps flyover of New Caledonia and I couldn't find an 'Escade'. Is there a new naming convention?
On: May 6, 2010, Alex said:
"– Adds site preferences for thumbnail width and height, primarily used by image manager
but may be used by other modules."
I love you.
Alex
On: May 9, 2010, Rémy said:
"– Added a plugin-hook allowing module writes to add pieces of functionality"
Seems interesting, but there's a tiny lack of details here ;-)
More details about this, please ?
Anyway, good job and "Hail to the Team" ;-) I upgraded a few websites to 1.7.1, just working fine.
On: May 14, 2010, Rene H said:
I think the name maybe should have been Escada
On: May 14, 2010, Rene H said:
Because of found problems with json actions on cmsms, the long time standing performance info, you usualy saw most down if you view source - is removed from version 1.7.1.
If you still want to show prformance info on >= version 1.7.1 - you must ADD an option to config.php:
$config['show_performance_info'] = 1;
http://cms.interiete.net/
On: May 20, 2010, Jan said:
“Adds site preferences for thumbnail width and height, primarily used by image manager
but may be used by other modules.”
Nice feature, thanks to the team.
@Greg: Checked editing Global Content Blocks and it works fine at my site.
http://www.letit.se/
On: May 22, 2010, Raboo said:
So I guess it's time for an upgrade.
Keep up the good work!
On: May 23, 2010, nielsen said:
yeah cms made simple is the best!!!!!
http://www.gobes.nl
On: May 28, 2010, waterman said:
2 suggestions:
when applying the 1.7.1 full install on top of an existing set-up, running the default install procedure should provide a warning that the setup will be overwritten. the install procedures say's install/upgrade in de header page which is confusing.
there is a small bug in the upgrade. on most sites I upgraded from 1.7 I received the error Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() ... The error is already posted in the forum.
with regards
marc
On: Jun 2, 2010, Esteban said:
Que tuaniz!!!
On: Jun 3, 2010, adffff said:
I understand that you guys are busy, but where is version 2.0 ???
It has been 3 YEARS!
On: Jun 14, 2010, ScOO_NEW said:
Thanks for all the hard work. Top work.
On: Jun 27, 2010, iNSiPiD said:
We have Web 2.0 - who need v2? ;)
Hey, just kidding. 1.7.1 looks great and the SSL stuff is a big step up.
I have always preferred the sure and steady way you guys upgrade than the bull in a china shop which some others take. If this was Joomla you'd be announcing v9 at least by now. :)
