e107 v2.1.3 Bootstrap CMS Released

Merry Xmas and a New Release!

We're happy to announce the release of e107 v2.1.3 in time for Xmas!

This release contains mostly bug fixes and security enhancements and we recommend everyone upgrade immediately. 

Fixes/Improvements:

• Improved error handling when downloading plugins/themes from admin area
• Avatar and photograph uploading fixes
• More flexibility to forum templating added
• Caching functionality optimized for better performance
• Accessibility improvements to contact form
• Fixed installation errors on some PHP versions
• Better backwards compatibility for javascript loading in v1 plugins
• Several fixes to social login functionalities
• Timezone handling changes
• PHP 7.1 fixes (not completely stable yet)
• Numerous hardcoded LANs are now translatable and optimized
• And many more minor bugfixes and improvements

New features:

• More flexible templates for custom admin area dashboard layout
• Error pages: ability to change error page content and template (documentation coming)
• e_admin addon now allows for plugin to hook into batch admin UI actions (see _blank plugin for an example)
• Ability to set a "scope" for HybridAuth provider (social logins)
• New events added: user_xup_updated, user_news_item_viewed, user_page_item_viewed, user_comment_posted and user_comment_deleted (see Event documentation)
• SEF URLs can be enabled/disabled on a per plugin basis
• Banner plugin now support external image URLs
• Bootstrap navigation now supports sub-links of sublinks

Other notes:

• Tagwords plugin removed from core, replaced by TagCloud plugin (introduced in v2.1.2)
• PHP 5.4 is now the minimal required version
• Disabled the loading of legacy core path e107_themes/templates/ (v1 legacy override still available)

For a full list of changes, please go here.

Please see our downloads section to download a copy.

Thank you for continuing to use e107. We wish everyone a safe and joyful Xmas season!.