v2.0.1

Omeka 2.0.1 is the first maintenance release for the 2.0 series. It was released on February 21, 2013.

Bugs Fixed

• Error messages from upgrading plugins were impossible to see
• Adding new checkbox inputs to an admin element form would improperly affect the HTML editor status (#480, reported by Iwe Muiser)
• Spurious notice that triggered when loading views for some plugins (#481, #484, reported and fix contributed by Dave Widmer)
• Installer error on some systems when guessing ImageMagick path (#482)
• The new version indicator was missing (#485)
• New invalid Item Types were partially added (#487, reported by Jeremy Boggs)

Localization

• Internationalized the new search results page (reported and code contributed by Matti Lassila, #474)
• Internationalized the item citation output (reported and code contributed by Matti Lassila, #476)
• New translations for Tamil and Indonesian
• Many updates to the existing translations

Addon Updates

Plugins

• Exhibit Builder is updated to version 2.0.1, fixing issues with upgrading and duplicate page slugs.
• Coins is updated to version 2.0.1, resolving high memory and database usage problems with the previous version.

Themes

• Thanks, Roy and Seasons are both updated to 2.0.1.

v2.0

Omeka 2.0 is the second major release. It represents many fundamental changes and improvements to the core and development API

Core Changes

• Fixed numerous issues
• Shifted naming conventions for better comformity to upcoming Zend 2.0 standards
• Removed Data Types from ElementTexts
• Removed Entities to represent Users. All user information is now directly on User objects
• Added Dublin Core information to Collections
• Removed Orderable mixin
• Added Searchable mixin
• Ownable mixin now named Mixin_Owner
• Taggable mixin now named Mixin_Tag
• ActsAsElementText mixin now named Mixin_ElementText
• PublicFeatures mixin now named Mixin_PublicFeatured
• Omeka_Acl removed. User Zend_Acl instead
• Derivative images now produced for many more file types
• archive directory changed to files
• archive/files directory changed to files/original
• Phased loading is now removed in favor of loading resources when needed

API Changes

• Removed many functions with overlapping or similar functionality details
• Functions no long echo directly and instead return values
• Form functions have been removed in favor of using Zend Form Helpers
• Many new and renamed hooks and filters details
• Arguments passed to all hooks consolidated into one $args array
• beforeSaveForm() and afterSaveForm() callbacks removed from records
• Omeka_Form_Admin class added to help build simple admin forms
• Omeka_Plugin class renamed Omeka_Plugin_AbstractPlugin
• Controllers should now extend Omeka_Controller_AbstractActionController
• Models should now extend Omeka_Record_AbstractRecord
• Db wrappers removed :getDb, getTable, and findById are replaced by equivalent calls to _helper->db->{methodName}.
• Omeka_Context removed in favor of using Zend_Registry
• Plugins can now add their content to search with Mixin_Search

Additional details can be found in the codex and in the new documentation

v1.5.3

Omeka 1.5.3 is the third maintenance release for the 1.5 series. It was released on August 1, 2012.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug in version 1.5.2 that prevented the advanced search page from displaying.
• #158: Some links are displayed as 'View' instead of '0'.
• #194: Configuring storage options loses the default adapter setting.

Plugins

• The bundled Simple Pages plugin is updated to version 1.3.1. This fixes a bug that made some built-in admin pages inaccessible if a user created a simple page using the same slug.

v1.5.2

Omeka 1.5.2 is the second maintenance release for the 1.5 series. It was released on July 17, 2012.

Bug Fixes

• #206: Adding elements to the item form sometimes breaks the WYSIWYG editor (reported by mesmer)
• #202: 'Public' and 'Featured' don't get pre-filled correctly on the advanced search page (fix contributed by clioweb)

Translations

• Updated translations for Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Malay, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, and Serbian.
• New translations for Arabic and Japanese.

Plugins

• The bundled Simple Pages plugin is updated to version 1.3.

v1.5.1

Omeka 1.5.1 is the first maintenance release for the 1.5 series. It was released on April 11, 2012.

Bug Fixes

• #161: omeka-xml output only renders the last element of an element set (reported by annewootton)
• #164: Media helper uses nonexistent $path when a dimension is given (reported by symac)
• #165: Element dropdown doesn't get translated (reported by mjlassila)

v1.5

Omeka 1.5 was released on February 7, 2012.

New Features

• Internationalization: Users can now choose a language and locale to display the interface in. This affects the displayed text and formatting of other data like system-generated dates.
• Media Extension Awareness: File extensions are now used as a fallback to determine how files should be displayed if the MIME type is incorrect or not detected.
• File Ordering: Users can now reorder files within an item without re-uploading.

Bug Fixes

• Files form doesn't automatically print extra element sets (#34)
• Item Type controller shows a “has encountered an error” page instead of a flash error (#70)
• “Uninstall” button is enabled for plugins that need to be upgraded (#82)
• “Add User” form lets you pick Active/Inactive (#89)
• Retry when HTTP errors occur for S3 (#94)
• Certain fields for collections should allow null (#95)
• Incorrect URL building in collections/index/page/n (#96)
• has_permission always returns false if you're not logged in (#99)
• New item types with duplicate names override the original description (#125)

Changes

• The plugins page no longer warns about plugins that haven't been tested up to the current Omeka version.
• Early errors that occur when starting Omeka are now logged to the PHP log.

For Developers

• The new Omeka_Plugin_Abstract class gives developers an optional framework to simplify class-based plugins.
• Plugin-added element sets can apply to specific record types.

Library Upgrades

• Zend Framework 1.11.11
• jQuery 1.7.1
• jQuery UI 1.8.16
• TinyMCE 3.4.7-jQuery

New Functions

• \__()(Translation function)
• add_translation_source()
• get_html_lang()
• format_date()
• queue_js_string()
• queue_css_string()

New Hooks

• admin_append_to_files_show

New Filters

• display_file

v1.4.2

Omeka 1.4.2 is the second maintenance release for the 1.4 series.

It was released on October 26, 2011.

Fixes

Files

• Deleting an item with missing or corrupt files causes an error (#83).
• Some failed uploads leave behind empty File records (#88).
• Thumbnails can't be created for images with multiple pages or frames (#98).
• Bad formatting on invalid file messages from plugins (#106).
• Files added by some plugins can ignore the validators (#111).
• Files uploaded by URL fail the extension check if they have a query string (#120).
• Some Amazon S3 files can't be uploaded (#121).

Helpers

• The link_to helpers keep the current page's parameters. (#96).

Installer

• The installer doesn't work when using a non-standard port (#78).

1.4.1

Omeka 1.4.1 is the first bugfix release for the 1.4 series. This release is mainly focused on polish and improvements to the batch editing feature introduced in Omeka 1.4. It was released on July 14, 2011.

Fixes

Tickets

• #1106 - Batch editing cannot change public/featured back to false.

Other Issues

• An issue with HTTP headers that caused fatal errors on some FastCGI servers. (Thanks to Erin Bell for the bug report.)

Changes

Batch Editing

• The batch edit page no longer loads as a dialog box, but on its own page.
• There are now separate checkboxes to allow Item Type and Collection to be removed.
• Form controls are now disabled when the Delete or Remove checkboxes are selected.

1.4

Omeka 1.4 was released on June 22, 2011.

General

• Batch editing for items
• Improved update and installation scripts
• Improved error handling and logging
• Improved upload file handling
• Allows configuration of tag delimiter
• Improvements to database date and time formatting
• Improvements to advanced search
  • New “is exactly” advanced search type
  • Fixed “is null” and “does not contain” search types
• Atom feed output
  • Next, previous, last, and first links
• Improved user and access control handling
• Miscellaneous tweaks and bedazzlings

Library Updates

• Updated Zend Framework to 1.11.6
• Updated jQuery to 1.6.1
• Updated jQuery UI to 1.8.13
• Updated TinyMCE to 3.4.2-jQuery

Security

• Cross Site Scripting and AJAX vulnerabilities addressed
• CSRF protection for delete actions

UI/UX

• Improvements to admin theme
• Many improvements and fixes to media helpers, esp. for display of AVI, WMV, WMA
• Improvements to theme configuration
  • TinyMCE integration
  • Image preview
• Improved item citation style
• Modal AJAX for delete/confirm

For Developers

• Omeka_Job component for background jobs (e.g., importing)
• Omeka_Storage Layer
  • Amazon S3 storage
• New functions
  • plugin_is_active
  • link_to_items_atom
  • clear_filters
  • body_tag
  • auto_discovery_link_tags
  • _log
  • random_featured_items
  • plugin_body
  • plugin_page_header
  • plugin_page_content
  • url_to_link
• New filters
  • item_citation filter
• New global functions
• Deprecated functions
  • auto_discovery_link_tag

Tests

• Tests now require PHPUnit 3.5 or newer
• Fakemail no longer required for testing
• Added test suites:
  • All

1.3.2

Omeka 1.3.2 is a bug-fix release. It was released on February 23, 2011. This release addresses the following:

• Adds plugin_footer() to core views.
• Gets rid of a spurious error thrown before installer redirect.
• Fixes some instances where links in the Plugins and Themes admin panels were not working.
• Fixes custom_show_item_metadata to check for multiple values for a given element.
• Removes redundant display of item titles from items/show.
• Strips formatting from page titles to prevent HTML rendering issues.
• Fixes issue with is_admin_theme() not correctly detecting whether users were in the admin panel.
• Fixes spacing issue with simple search form on admin panel.