Laravel Update:
- To Laravel v12.30.1 (Requires PHP >= 8.2).
Fixes:
- Resolved date picker issue on frontend public forms.
- Fixed topic link problem in frontend table list view.
- Corrected delivery issues on commenting and ordering forms.
- Fixed popup details field bug for new languages.
- Resolved issue with removing users linked to calendar events.
- Fixed newsletter box disabling issue in footer.
- Corrected SMTP connection issues caused by spaces in passwords.
New Features:
- Landing Pages Module: Introduced a new module type dedicated to landing pages.
- Custom Home Page: Ability to set a custom landing page as the homepage.
- Custom Code Injection: Add custom CSS, JS, or code snippets to modules, categories, or topics.
- Instant Indexing: New SEO feature for faster indexing.
- Amazon S3 Integration: Option to use Amazon S3 for file storage.
- Custom Image Sizes: Generate images with parameters like ?w=100&h=100&r=fit.
- Multi-Checkbox Field: Added as a new custom field type.
- Rich Text Field: Long text field with editor added to custom fields.
- Category-Specific Fields: Assign custom fields per category.
- SEO Language Option: Choose whether slugs follow the preferred language or default to English.
- Featured Topics: Mark topics as featured to pin them at the top.
- Customize Social Links: Add, or remove social links with more control.
- Category Description: Added description field for every category.
- Preview Inactive Topics: Admins can preview unpublished topics.
- Customizable Photo Titles: Add custom titles to additional photos tab.
- Tags Page: A new public /tags page listing all tags.
Improvements
- Enhanced storage system with the ability to move the uploads folder outside public_html.
- Improved public forms with spam prevention.
- Updated visitor analytics providers.
- Added ability to clone modules.
- Refined SEO Fix options in SEO settings.
- Improved test mail connection to support all providers.
- Enhanced related topics tab with better topic selection.
- Added embedded audio support in audio module.
- Updated icon picker with Font Awesome 5 support.
- Enhanced WhatsApp bubble settings.
- Display FAQs block on the contact page.
- Optimized caching and performance across the system.
- Update: To The latest Laravel v10.48.16 (Requires PHP >= 8.1).
- Fix: Resolve file manager security issue.
- Fix: Correct timezone changing issue.
- Fix: Google analytics code not working issue.
- Fix: Using more than H1 tag on the page issue.
- Fix: Removing module or custom field issue if it contain data.
- Fix: Contact page changing language issue.
- Fix: Hiding sub menu contents issue.
- Fix: Hiding custom field from frontend when not permitted.
- Fix: Google reCAPTCHA bypass issue.
- Fix: View all data table records on dashboard listing page.
- Fix: Reset password issue and disable it if mail not configured.
- Fix: Disallow JavaScript and CSS tags in system input fields.
- Fix: Changing admin path issue.
- Feature: Adding dark mode for frontend.
- Feature: Adding tags module.
- Feature: adding popups module.
- Feature: Adding a new divider or static text field in form building.
- Feature: Adding a phone with country code field in form building.
- Feature: Adding custom link for every language on banners.
- Feature: Adding a new module type for documentation listing.
- Feature: integrate Mailchimp for newsletter mailing.
- Feature: Ability to customize data tables columns view on dashboard.
- Feature: Ability to set a link for nested menu base title.
- Feature: Ability to filter by category on dashboard topics list page.
- Feature: Ability to filter using created_by field.
- Feature: Ability to search in categories.
- Feature: Improve the sitemap functionality.
- Feature: Ability to print topic view page on dashboard.
- Feature: Ability to insert custom code on head or body for the frontend.
- Feature: Enable toggling of debug mode from dashboard.
- Feature: Enable toggling of SEO tab for any module.
- Feature: Enable toggling of the ID column view for any module.
- Feature: System and structure improvements.
- Update: To The latest Laravel v10.44.0 (Requires PHP >= 8.1).
- Fix: Category defining on importing data to the site section.
- Fix: Add the translation of all languages to the date picker.
- Fix: Hide the language flag for one language websites
- Fix: Speedup loading for dashboard data tables on big data.
- Feature: Improve loading speed by indexing, caching config and route caching.
- Feature: Improve SEO and add nested slugs by section/category/topic.
- Feature: Rebuild frontend theme with bootstrap 5 support.
- Feature: Add more control of frontend theme colors with predefined sets.
- Feature: Ability to make the menu bar transparent over the homepage slider.
- Feature: Add custom video player for hosted video files.
- Feature: Add custom sound player for audio files.
- Feature: Add the FAQ section (Accordion View) type
- Feature: Add clone topics feature.
- Feature: Ability to add up to 3 levels on the main website menu.
- Feature: Ability to add up to 3 levels on categories.
- Feature: Ability to add an icon to any link on the website menu.
- Feature: Ability to set links to open in a new tab automatically.
- Feature: Ability to add a custom link for every language on the website menu.
- Feature: Support any language on page slugs.
- Feature: Add cover photo for site section, category or topic.
- Feature: Add Support to ".webp" extension on photos.
- Feature: Add optimize & resize feature for images on SEO settings.
- Feature: Show sitemap links on SEO settings.
- Feature: Ability to add html on close message on maintenance mode.
- Feature: Add custom route file and custom controller for any customization.
- Feature: Ability to overwrite any page by custom coded page.
- Feature: Add Table of content feature for CKEditor.
- Feature: Add Thread link on social media links.
- Feature: Ability to show a general search box on frontend header.
- Feature: Ability to show cookies policy notification.
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How to update to Smartend version 9.1.1?
- Fix: Sending mail connection fail issue on some servers.
- Fix: Social login access token field limit issue.
- Fix: date time picker issue with latest jQuery update.
- Fix: disable double click on login button.
- Update: fullcalendar to the latest version.
- Update: To The latest Laravel v9.52.4 (Requires PHP >= 8.0).
- Update: Frontend and backend jQuery to v3.6.3
- Feature: Adding new drag and drop editor for page contents.
- Feature: Support bootstrap css on page editor view.
- Feature: Ability to disable automatic publish on page creation.
- Feature: Adding new Radio and checkbox field types.
- Feature: Convert any link to anchor automatically on custom fields.
- Feature: Use the link field for partners images on home page.
- Feature: Improve front page load speed and SEO.
- Feature: Add default header and footer in 404 page.
- Fix: User weak password not accepted issue alert issue.
- Fix: Fix unknown IP and country details in Analytics.
- Fix: Webmaster setting save failed issue if some apps disabled.
- Fix: Site title variable that was not shown with page title.
- Fix: Check file exist before deleting a language.
- Fix: Custom field ordering on list printing page.
Version 9.0.0 (September 03, 2022)- Update: To The latest Laravel v9.27.0 (Requires PHP >= 8.0).
- Feature: Add the ability to print datatable in dashboard
- Feature: Add the ability to export datatable to excel in dashboard
- Feature: add canonical feature to all site links
- Fix: Sending emails from draft issue.
- Fix: File manager links issue.
- Upgrade Guide: https://smartend.app/docs/update9.0.html
Version 8.6.2 (May 27, 2022)- Update: To Laravel v8.83.14 (Requires PHP >= 7.4).
- Feature: Change translation manager to a new great one.
- Feature: add 404 page for frontend in case of not found urls.
- Feature: Require strong passwords for new admin users.
- Fix: Showing validation error messages.
- Fix: A broken URL in frontend.
- Fix: Hide listing for /core sub folders.
- Fix: Local installation error for long mysql identifier.
- Fix: Local installation in case of no password for mysql root.
Version 8.6.1 (April 10, 2022)- Update: To Laravel v8.83.7 (Requires PHP >= 7.4).
- Important: Fix Permissions for settings and webmaster if user not have right permission.
- Feature: Add preview and delete buttons on topic edit page.
- Feature: Ability to use a custom slug for contact page.
- Fix: Make backend path required on saving settings to avoid broken URLs.
- Fix: support "ul" and "ol" on frontend view.
Version 8.6.0 (January 21, 2022)- Update: To the latest Laravel v8.79.0 (Requires PHP >= 7.4).
- Feature: Add the ability to create custom public forms.
- Feature: Add the ability to include a custom form to any page.
- Feature: Receive all public forms data in dashboard with email notification.
- Feature: Integrate CKEditor for editing the page details.
- Feature: Integrate TinyMCE for editing the page details.
- Feature: Add a new file manager and integrate it with CKEditor & TinyMCE.
- Feature: Improve loading and minimise quires.
- Feature: Change topics list ordering to be by date.
- Feature: If attach file is MP3 show Audio player instead of download link.
- Feature: Improvements for style & CSS.
- Feature: Add Big whatsapp bubble chat icon if enabled.
- Fix: Disable SEO tab on private data sections.
- Fix: Redirect admin user after insert if not have edit role.
- Fix: Hide Analytics widgets and pages if it is disabled.
- Upgrade Guide: https://smartend.app/docs/update8.6.html