v1.2.8

UX/UI Improvements

• Added a beautiful error log viewer in the backend that displays contextual information about exceptions, links directly to the source files, and unrolling of all previous exceptions in the stack.
• Added new button field type to make it easier to add custom buttons to backend forms.
• Added support for the url field type to the backend forms.
• Added email icon to email fields.
• Updated the default backend branding colours to match the Winter CMS Brand Guidelines.
• Added support for shift clicking to select multiple records at once in the Lists widget.
• Removed the sort icon from columns that aren't sortable and display a right arrow when a column is sortable but isn't currently being used to sort the results.
• Added button-group and dropdown filter scope types.
• Made the entire mediafinder field clickable when mode: file.
• Improve click behaviour of recordfinder fields when disabled.
• Allow users to zoom the backend on mobile.
• Added support for abort(403) to return the access denied view in the backend
• Improved handling of abort(404) in the backend
• Improved styling of disabled fields in the fancy form layout
• Hide the select all checkbox on the Lists widget when there are no records to select.
• Fixed anchor tag outline styling in Firefox.
• Style read-only columns on Table widget with slightly darker grey background to indicate read-only state.
• Allow tab and arrow navigation for read-only columns on the Table widget.
• Allowed searching option to show search box on the Table widget even if adding and deleting buttons are disabled.
• Fixed styling of toolbar on the Table widget if only the search box is shown (no background previously).
• Fixed styling of pagination on Table widget.
• Default to ignoreTimezone = true for date columns.

DX Improvements

• Added default views for the following backend controller behaviors (FormController, ImportExportController, ListController, ReorderController)
• Backend controllers will now automatically set their navigation context in the form of Author.Plugin as the author, $pluginName as the main menu code, and $controllerName as the side menu code. This means that you can remove calls to BackendMenu::setContext() and constructor overrides in your controllers if they follow that convention.
• Improved styling of file generated / updated status message in scaffolding commands
• Added support for ReactJS in Vite & Mix compiled asset packages.
• Added support for customizing the Vite build directory.
• Improved support for Model Factories.
• Added test alias for the winter:test command.
• Added schedule_timezone property to config/app.php.
• Updated theme scaffold's README.md to reflect the use of Vite in the generated themes.
• Added Mail::sendTo() method to the Mail facade's docblock.
• Added support for modules to the asset:create commands (mix:create, vite:create).
• Make readOnly option case-insensitive on the Table widget.
• Improvements to the default scaffolding stub files to bring more inline with the future PSR-12 coding style update.

API Changes

• Added typehints to all the method signatures on the base Winter\Storm\Database\Attach\File model. (eg. getPath(), getCacheKey(), getFilename(), getContents(), getDiskPath(), isPublic(), etc).
• Added metadata jsonable column to the base File model, migrations have been added for system_files, but if you use a custom files table you will need to add a migration that adds $table->mediumText('metadata')->nullable(); to your files table.
• Made getDiskName() on the base Winter\Storm\Database\Attach\File model public.
• Added support for an array of names to use for the postbackHandlerName in the Table widget.
• Removed the config:cache command as it wasn't improving our performance and didn't fully work with Winter's flexible configuration system.
• Added support for SystemException and ApplicationException instances to define their own response codes.
• Added appendViewPath() and prependViewPath() to the System\Traits\ViewMaker. addViewPath is renamed to prependViewPath() and is for paths that have higher priority than the existing paths while appendViewPath() is for paths that should have lower priority than the existing paths (i.e. fallbacks).
• Behaviors extending Backend\Classes\ControllerBehavior will now automatically append their views folder to the controller's view paths allowing them to provide fallbacks for any views required by the behavior.
• The create:controller command will now no longer generate the views by default unless --stubs is also passed and the --sidebar flag is replaced with a --layout=(standard|sidebar|fancy) option to choose the form layout to use.
• Support for passing new: true as a parameter in the request body to onSave() calls that will return a redirect to the create action
• formMakePartial(string $partial, array $params = []) to the FormController behavior that will render a partial through the controller's makePartial using the following priority list of contextual names (form_$context_$partial, form_$partial, $partial).
• Added PromptsForMissingInput to the base Winter\Storm\Console\Command class.
• Removed the unused (and broken) Winter\Storm\Database\DataFeed class.
• PluginTestCase now resets the application router in the setUp() method between test runs to ensure that plugin routes load in the correct order during tests.

Bug Fixes

• Removed redundant backend route.
• Fixed issues where TagList & Repeater FormWidgets were not able to save an empty value.
• Fixed issue where TagList could return an object in array mode.
• Fixed using Vite packages when they are explicitly ignored / excluded from the project's package.json.
• Improved support for winter:mirror on Windows
• Using the {% flash %} tag in Twig will now properly purge the FlashBag after it has been read.
• Improved support for plugins attempting to access the database before it's fully ready to go.
• Fixed suport for hex colors with alpha values.
• Fixed infinite loop that occurrs when the configured database exists but the tables don't exist yet.
• Fixed support for array callables as dynamic methods.
• Event listeners bound to events with bindEventOnce() now properly unbind after execution, even if the event is a halting event.
• Fixed Syntax Error in CAST Statement for Postgres attachment.
• Fixed CMS Maintenance Mode not working when the allowed_ips setting has a value but a null list of IPs.
• Fixed CMS Maintenance Mode settings page not showing the correct value for when the Maintenance Mode is enabled.
• Improved support for using hasManyThrough / hasOneThrough relationships with soft deletes.
• Fixed support for the --force flag in winter:env.
• Improved support for defining multiple Vite entrypoints.
• Prevent crashes when rendering invalid values in datepicker fields.
• Prevent editors from being created for all column types in the Table widget if read-only (previously, only string columns would be rendered read-only by setting the readonly attribute, this is not ideal because it can be easily changed).
• Fixed broken search if client datasource is used on the Table widget.
• Fixed addVite() method not being able to bind assets to the parent controller.
• Fixed displaying the status of maintenance mode triggered through the backend.
• Fixed backend-triggered maintenance mode support for defined but empty IP lists.
• Fixed support for hex colors with alpha values in the colorpicker FormWidget.
• Improved handling of registering / booting plugins when migrations haven't been run yet.

Security Improvements

• Added AllowList functionality to the Twig security policy.

Translation Improvements

• Improved Russian translations.
• Improved Dutch translations.

Performance Improvements

• Switched to a number input instead of a select dropdown for direct navigation to list pages in the Lists widget. Drastically improves performance when a list has 100+ pages in the results as it no longer causes an N+1 performance issue of rendering a single option element for every single page in your results.
• Fixed an infinite loop that could occur when a database was present but plugin migrations hadn't been run yet.

Community Improvements

• Added Laravel to the list of organizational sponsors.
• Removed Route4Me from the list of organizational sponsors.

Dependencies

• Added support for PHP 8.4
• Dropped support for PHP 8.0, PHP 8.1 is now the minimum requirement.
• wikimedia/less has been bumped to v5 from v3.
• Minimum Laravel version has been bumped to v9.49.

New Contributors

• @goldmont made their first contribution in #1268
• @thienvu18 made their first contribution in #1294
• @truechernyshov made their first contribution in #1272
• @IsaiahPaget made their first contribution in #1361
• @Satoshi-Sh made their first contribution in #1369

Full Changelog: v1.2.7...v1.2.8