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CMS Made Simple 2.2.20 - Saguenay
Posted May 1, 2024 by digi3
Category: Releases
Hello fans of CMS Made Simple!
Today we are announcing the release of CMS Made Simple 2.2.20 - Saguenay, an incremental bug fix and stability release.
This version addresses the much awaited support to the most recent versions of PHP, making it stable with PHP 8.3.0+. We have also tested thoroughly its compatibility with mySQL 8.0+ and found no notable issues while running under these recent versions.
We have thus upgraded our template engine, Smarty, to version 4.5.2, the latest on the version 4 branch. While there is already a version 5 branch there are some important changes that will impact its use with CMSMS, most notably “dropping support for the use of unregistered callables (such as PHP functions) in templates” (see this discussion) which would break pretty much every CMSMS site on upgrade and would need a considerable effort from our users base to convert these templates back to usable ones. That doesn’t mean that there are no solutions, but instead that we are considering our options moving forward so that we can keep compatibility as much as possible, and breakage to a minimum, if any, when moving to Smarty 5.
In the meantime Smarty code will spam server PHP logs if not properly filtered. We recommend that you filter ~E_DEPRECATED on productions sites, to prevent these messages from crowding the logs as this won’t impact the site functionality in any way.
A side effect from using Smarty with PHP versions above 8.1 is that the regular PHAR installer will no longer work on Windows environments. We are addressing that issue but, in the meanwhile, the Expanded PHAR installer still works properly on all platforms and can be used to circumvent that issue.
As an added bonus, the PHAR installer and redirection loop issue, an ongoing obstacle that occurred on LiteSpeed web servers, seems to have been fixed with PHP versions 8.2.16 and above, so using the regular PHAR installer on these servers should no longer present any problem.
The UserGuide2 module, currently available as an add on, has become UserGuide and joined the core modules. It is released with a CMS Made Simple Foundation video course pre-installed, streaming a handful of lessons essential to an editor. These will show an editor how to use the file manager, the content manager and the news module as well as showing them how and where to get further help. For those not wishing to include this module, it can be deselected when doing an advanced mode install/upgrade.
Additionally, this version fixes many minor bugs that have been lingering over the past few years, as well as some usability and performance improvements. Please see the changelog for a full list of fixes and improvements.
As per the Dev Team's official support policy, the only versions of CMSMS currently supported are now v2.2.19 and v2.2.20. Please upgrade at your earliest convenience.
Thank you for your time, and have fun using CMSMS!
CMS Made Simple 2.2.19 - Selkirk
Posted November 28, 2023 by digi3
Category: Releases
Today we are delighted to announce the release of CMS Made Simple v2.2.19 - Selkirk. v2.2.19 - Selkirk is an incremental bug fix and stability release.
For further detailed information, please see the changelog where there is a full list of fixes and improvements.
As per the Dev Team's official support policy, the only versions of CMSMS currently supported are now v2.2.18 and v2.2.19. Please upgrade at your earliest convenience.
Thank you for your continued support and use of CMS Made Simple!
v2.2.17 - Iqaluit Release Announcement
Posted June 19, 2023 by digi3
Category: General, Releases, Announcements
http://www.cmsmadesimple.org/downloads/cmsms
We are pleased to announce the release of CMS Made Simple v2.2.17 - Iqaluit, an incremental bug fix, security, and stability release.
Read Morev2.2.16 - Truro Release Announcement
Posted January 24, 2022 by scotch33
Category: General, Releases, Announcements
http://www.cmsmadesimple.org/downloads/cmsms
Today we are delighted to announce the release of CMS Made Simple v2.2.16 - Truro. Truro is an incremental bug fix and security release.
Read MoreAnnouncing CMS Made Simple v2.2.15 - Bonaventure
Posted October 13, 2020 by digi3
Category: Releases
Today we are announcing the release of CMS Made Simple v2.2.15 - Bonaventure, an incremental bug fix and security release.
Read MoreAnnouncing CMS Made Simple v2.2.14 - T'Sou-ke
Posted March 30, 2020 by digi3
Category: Releases
Today we are announcing the release of CMSMS v2.2.14 - T'Sou-ke. This is a maintenance release mainly addressing a few minor issues that have arisen since last release.
Read MoreAnnouncing CMS Made Simple v2.2.13 - Moosomin
Posted December 4, 2019 by Tristan
Category: Releases
Hello everybody!
Today we are announcing the release of CMS Made Simple v2.2.13 - Moosomin, an incremental bug fix and security release.
Read MoreAnnouncing CMS Made Simple v2.2.11 - Vulcan
Posted September 2, 2019 by Tristan
Category: General, Releases
Today we are announcing the release of CMS Made Simple v2.2.11 - Vulcan. This is a maintenance release addressing a few minor issues that have arisen while we've been hard at work on the upcoming 2.3 major release.
Read MoreAnnouncing CMS Made Simple v2.3-beta1
Posted June 25, 2019 by calguy1000
Category: Releases, Announcements
After countless hours of programming and testing, the Dev Team is excited to begin the Beta testing program for CMS Made Simple version 2.3. We are proud of the effort our team has put in, and are now at the point where the community can help us polish it until it shines.
Read MoreAnnouncing CMS Made Simple v2.2.10 - Spuzzum
Posted March 6, 2019 by calguy1000
Category: General, Releases, Announcements
Today we are announcing the release of CMS Made Simple v2.2.10 - Spuzzum. This is a security and stability release. We have fixed some relatively important security vulnerabilities, and fixed some long standing issues.
Read MoreMaintenance Release: CMS Made Simple v2.2.9.1
Posted February 4, 2019 by digi3
Category: General, Releases
In order to fix a few significant, though easy to remedy issues in CMSMS we have decided to release an interim version.
This version fixes these issues:
- The phar installer has been upgraded to handle the edge case where the PHP memory limit was set to -1 (no preset limit).
- A minor fix was added to MicroTiny when displaying error messages.
- An edge case in the \CMSMS\Database\Connection::DBTimeStamp() method was fixed which affected the creation of timestamps with malformed input. This mostly affected CGCalendar.
- A fix to the CmsLayoutStylesheetQuery class that affected when the name argument was subject to the {cms_stylesheet} tag.
We encourage you to upgrade your sites at your earliest convenience.
Announcing CMS Made Simple v2.2.9 - Blow Me Down
Posted January 19, 2019 by calguy1000
Category: General, Releases
We thought that it was time we kicked an update to CMSMS out the door. Version 2.2.9 - "Blow Me Down" is a maintenance release, with numerous incremental fixes and updates throughout the system.
Read MoreAnnouncing CMSMS 2.2.8 - Flin Flon
Posted July 28, 2018 by calguy1000
Category: General, Releases
Today, we are happy to announce that we have released an incremental improvement to your favorite content management system: Version 2.2.8 - Flin Flon. The primary change in this version is to support PHP 7.2 by cleaning up the code to remove most of the warnings and notices due to the changes in PHP.
Read MoreAnnouncing CMSMS 2.2.7 - Skookumchuck
Posted March 10, 2018 by calguy1000
Category: General, Releases
Today we announce the release of CMS Made Simple v2.2.7 - Skookumchuck. This is a security release and we recommend that everybody upgrade their websites at their earliest convenience.
Read MoreAnnouncing CMSMS 2.2.6 - Come By Chance
Posted February 17, 2018 by calguy1000
Category: General, Releases
Today we are announcing the release of CMS Made Simple 2.2.6, "Come By Chance". Primarily a security release.
Read MoreAnnouncing CMSMS v2.2.5 - Wawa
Posted December 17, 2017 by calguy1000
Category: General, Releases
Today we are announcing the release of CMS Made Simple 2.2.5 - Wawa.
Read MoreAnnouncing CMSMS 2.2.4 - Little Paradise
Posted November 25, 2017 by calguy1000
Category: General, Releases
Today, the CMSMS Dev Team is happy to announce the release of CMSMS 2.2.4 "Little Paradise". This is a stability and bug-fix release.
Read MoreAnnouncing CMSMS 2.2.3 - Happy Adventure
Posted August 26, 2017 by calguy1000
Category: General, Releases
Continuing with our commitment to quality code, we are announcing the release of 2.2.3 "Happy Adventure."
Read MoreAnnouncing CMSMS 2.2.2 "Hearts Content"
Posted July 8, 2017 by calguy1000
Category: General, Releases
Continuing with our commitment to quality code, we are announcing the release of 2.2.2 "Hearts Content", a security and stability release.
Read MoreAnnouncing CMSMS 2.2.1 "Hearts Desire"
Posted June 16, 2017 by mr101010
Category: General, Releases
Today we announce the release of CMS Made Simple version 2.2.1 "Hearts Desire". Not only does this release fix a few important issues detected with the 2.2 release, but it addresses a CRITICAL security issue that was detected for all 2.x releases. We request that you upgrade your CMSMS installations as soon as possible.
Read MoreAnnouncing CMSMS 2.2-beta3
Posted April 22, 2017 by mr101010
Category: General, Releases
Today we announce the release of cmsms-2.2-beta3. The third, and hopefully last beta before the final release of the much-anticipated 2.2 version.
Read MoreAnnouncing CMSMS 2.2-beta2
Posted March 16, 2017 by mr101010
Category: General, Releases
It's been about a week, and a large handful of significant bugs have been found—and squashed—in the first beta of CMSMS 2.2. Due to the nature of these bugs we felt it was a good time to push ahead with a second beta.
Read MoreCMSMS 2.2 Enters beta
Posted March 9, 2017 by mr101010
Category: General, Releases
Announcing the start of beta testing for CMS Made Simple version 2.2
After more than a year of development and many hundreds of volunteer hours, the CMSMS Dev Team is proud to announce the beginning of a public beta process to assist with getting CMSMS 2.2 production-ready.
Announcing CMSMS v2.1.6 - Spanish Wells
Posted December 10, 2016 by mr101010
Category: General, Releases
Today we are happy to announce the latest release in the continuing life of your favorite content management system. Version 2.1.6 is an important release combining numerous stability fixes, and an important security fix as well. Therefore, we encourage everybody to upgrade their websites at their earliest convenience.
Read MoreAnnouncing CMSMS 2.1.5 - High Rock
Posted August 14, 2016 by mr101010
Category: General, Releases
Today we would like to announce the release of CMS Made Simple version 2.1.5 - High Rock. This is a stability release fixing a number of issues that have surfaced over the past two months. Though none of the issues are show stoppers, there are issues that generally affect the usability of CMSMS. Therefore, we recommend that everybody upgrade their websites as soon as possible.
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