Version 1.5.0 - Darkmode, Unicode Support for labels and more (PHP8.1 now required)

[jbtronics]

Part-DB 1.5.0

PHP 8.1 requirement

Like announced before this release now required PHP 8.1, which allows to improve Part-DB's code and use newer versions of dependencies.
If your server is already running PHP8.1 or higher (or if you use the docker image) no action is required.
When you have used PHP7.4 or PHP8.0 before, then you have to upgrade to PHP 8.1 beforehand. Depending on your distro you maybe have a suitable version in the package repository or you have to use a backport repository.

New features

• Highly improved darkmode using Bootstrap 5.3 new color mode feature (also possible for all bootswatch themes)
• Allow to use internal part number (IPN) in labels (issue Add IPN to labelgenerator #306)
• Added password strength estimator to password set fields, to give users a feeling about how good their desired password is
• Added GNU Unifont as fallback font for label generation. This allows to use almost all glyphs (like chinese) from the unicode Basic Multilingual Plane in labels, which was not possible before (only western europe languages) (issue Unable to display Chinese text in the label PDF #300)
• Added easy possibility to add own fonts to use in labels (see here

Improvements

• Use server domain in google authenticator QR code
• Label generator now shows a warning, if no text was given (issue Label PDF Empty #297)
• You can now click on the root node on the sidebar trees, to view all parts of the database

Bugfixes

• Fixed wrong indentation of children element in hierarchical element selector
• Dont disable the download and view buttons for private attachments (issue View and download buttons for private attachments are greyed out #307)
• Show correct page length and page number after reloading a part table (issue Display all parts #309)
• Correctly validate project BOM entries when adding new parts, to prevent duplicate entries (issue Editing Project BOM with duplicate item is impossible #302)

Internal Changes

• Part-DB now requires PHP 8.1
• Big reworks of code to utilize new PHP 8.1 features
• Updated Symfony to 6.3 and updated many dependency libraries to newest version
• Improved code typing

Full Changelog: v1.4.2...v1.5.0

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This discussion was created from the release Version 1.5.0.