What’s New in LiveWhale 2.16.1

This patch release includes a few image-related bug fixes, some core behavior changes behind-the-scenes, and a new option for developing calendar theme CSS.

Behavior adjustments

  • Auto-generated titles when inserting a WYSIWYG video no longer get prefixed with “VIDEO:” (titles are still fully editable when inserting and editing).
  • Removed the requirement that groups called “Homepage” or “Home Page” set their URL to /. Homepage groups can use any URL or no URL.
  • Lowered the length of custom URLs to 50 characters to prevent database errors when saving drafts. All existing URLs over 50 characters will continue to work and be shortened automatically on next save. This will include a redirect from the old to new URL for backwards-compatibility.

Bugs

  • Fixed an issue where the year would not show on the frontend calendar if the “repeats until” date extended into another year.
  • Fixed an issue introduced in LiveWhale 2.15 that could sometimes cause explicit width/height attributes to be removed from image tags when calculating image size.
  • Fixed an issue causing certain images to be shrunk (rather than returning original size) when larger versions are requested. This could result in og:image sharing tags missing from content with small images attached.
  • Fixed a PHP8 bug affecting widgets sorted by most-tags-matched when only one tag was applied.
  • LiveWhale CMS: Fixed an issue where certain /live details requests could erroneously get flagged in the Page Error log as 404s.

Developer options

  • Core calendar.less styles have been organized into LESS partials, such that livewhale/theme/core/styles/calendar.less will output the same styles for backwards compatibility, but developers now have the option to selectively include just portions of the core theming when designing calendars. More about this new approach is in the theming documentation.

Behind-the-scenes

  • You can now opt in to receive email notifications of frequent 404 URLs with the $_LW->CONFIG[‘EMAIL_404_REPORTS’] setting. [docs]

Release date: August 04, 2024

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