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Movable Type 8.0.5 Release Notes

This version includes several bug fixes and security updates of TinyMCE.

New and Improved Features

  • Now use the system environment variables to configure Movable Type (MTC-29619)
  • Smarty has been updated from 4.3.4 to 4.5.3 (MTC-29663)
  • The MTBlockEditor plugin has been updated from 1.2.2 to 1.2.4
    • MTBlockEditor: Table blocks now display borders when editing (MTC-29749)
    • MTBlockEditor: When LWP::Protocol::https is not installed, an appropriate error message is displayed when using the oEmbed block (MTC-29698)
    • MTBlockEditor: When specifying resources with relative paths in custom scripts, the resources on the public site are now loaded (MTC-29772)
  • Added an option to prevent public file information (FileInfo) from being imported when importing a site. If the “Omit import” checkbox for public file information is enabled, it will not be imported (MTC-29773)
  • Added the ability to output the value of any website by specifying the id attribute for the WebsiteURL and WebsitePath tags (MTC-29257)
  • Added the Configuration Directive SuperuserRespectsDataAPIDisableSite to force system administrators to set DataAPIDisableSite (MTC-29694)
  • Added the height attribute to the IMG element in the HTML output from the image block in the content type block editor (MTC-29728)
  • When a site import is finished, whether it was successful or not, the fact that it has finished is now logged (MTC-29770
  • Improved the method for detecting supported image types in the system check (MTC-29738)

Resolved issues

  • Fixed the Content Data Selection for Content Fields of Content Type would not display correctly (SUPPORT-489)
  • Fixed an error would sometimes occur when trying to change the license key to a different one on the license confirmation screen if a license had already been registered (SUPPORT-438)
  • Fixed the year character of local languages contained in the output of MTArchiveTitle tag would be output as a numeric character reference for some archive types (SUPPORT-369)
  • Fixed the sort order to reflect if you sorted the list immediately after adding a new field on the Content Type editing page(MTC-29787)
  • Fixed the selected Blog ID not to remain after resetting the site after selecting it in the Site Export page (MTC-29703)
  • Fixed to be possible to give priority to existing Archive Mappings in the vacant of a preferred Archive Mapping. (MTC-29752)
  • Fixed the asset association not to disappear and the URL to convert at importing a site that contains Custom Fields (MTC-29709)
  • Fixed the selected blog ID would remain after resetting the site after selecting it in the site export (MTC-29703)
  • Fixed to be possible to make existing archive mappings take precedence when there were no priority archive mappings (MTC-29752)
  • Fixed the asset mapping would sometimes disappear and URL conversion would not occur when importing a site that contained custom fields (MTC-29709)
  • Fixed errors could occur when performing complex DOM operations when using MT::Builder::Fast (MTC-29775)
  • Fixed an issue where some objects could not inherit old parameters due to a callback flaw when performing replacements (MTC-29697)
  • Fixed an error occurred in the general settings when creating a dynamic template on a site that had not been configured for server-side includes (MTC-29746)
  • Fixed the thumbnail display of article assets was in the way and prevented you from being able to move to the asset editing screen (MTC-29701)
  • Fixed an issue where some objects are not inherit the old parameters due to a callback error when replacing them (MTC-29697)
  • Fixed specifying an ID in DataAPIDisableSite would still allow you to display blog_id and IncludeBlogs in data-api.cgi/v4/search (MTC-27069)
  • Fixed, in environments other than PSGI, an unnecessary phrase was displayed on the theme list screen after changing the theme (MTC-29732)
  • Changed the lower limit of the Perl system requirements from 5.16.0 to 5.16.3 (MTC-29695)
  • Fixed the mt-wizard.cgi cannot be advanced when the Perl version is outside the supported range (MTC-29693)
  • Fixed the current Perl version displayed correctly when checking the version (MTC-29699)
  • When a core module is missing in the system check, the message “This module is not available” is now displayed instead of “This module may cause unexpected behavior” (MTC-29692)
  • Fixed errors could occur in the category content field (MTC-29661) -Fixed to delete ICC profiles that to be “as damaged” in libpng 1.6 (MTC-29714)
  • Improved the performance of the new role creation screen and editing screen when there are many content types (MTC-29713, MTC-29680)
  • Fixed the warning about the plugin being disabled due to an error occurring during loading does not continue to appear (MTC-29706)
  • Fixed to return “400 Bad Request” error if the request data is invalid or corrupted (MTC-29494)
  • Fixed to ignore, no as error, when stored irregular values in the display options (MTC-29687)

Dynamic Publishing

  • Improved the compilation process of MT tags to Smarty in dynamic publishing (MTC-29308)
  • Reduced the number of temporary variables in PHP for the inside_archive_list stash (MTC-29662)
  • Improved loading mechanism from database in PHP (MTC-28145, MTC-28145, MTC-29660)
  • Fixed specifying sort_by="score" and min_comment="1" at the same time in PHP would cause a SQL error (MTC-29655)
  • Added comments such as “unreachable” to unused methods and unreachable implementations in PHP (MTC-29659)
  • Fixed an issue where the MTArchiveList of Weekly Archives placed inside a nested dynamic template would not work correctly (MTC-29654)
  • PHP’s ifarchivetypeenabled now avoids double escaping (MTC-29683)
  • Fixed an issue where ORA-00904 would occur when searching for users using get_latest_touch with oracle+php (MTC-29696)
  • The incorrect field was declared in PHP’s class.mt_content_field.php, so it was deleted (MTC-29658)
  • Fixed an issue where the cache expiration time for MTInclude was sometimes too short when using PHP+memcache (MTC-29722)
  • Fixed to disappear PHP 8.2 warnings when using the MTCustomFields tag (MTC-29252)

JavaScript Libraries

  • Updated the JavaScript SDK for the Movable Type Chart API (MTC-29754)
  • Updated the mt-data-api-sdk-js (MTC-29792)
  • Resolved the issue by examining the dependencies in package.json (MTC-27286)
  • The changes that were applied only to the movabletype repository were also applied to mt-chart-api-sdk-js (MTC-29740)
  • Resolved the differences between mt-static and package.json (MTC-29784)
  • Removed unnecessary modules and code from package.json (MTC-29785)

AMI Edition

  • Add an alias for /mt-static/plugins to the AMI Edition (MTC-29612)
  • Fixed an issue where the query string was not passed in dynamic publishing when the web server was nginx (MTC-9414)

Sync.pack (Movable Type Advanced)

  • Added a mode that forcibly uses the connecting host in FTP passive mode (CLOUD-408)
  • Changed the item name of the “Serve all files” checkbox in server delivery to “Serve files that have not been updated” (MTC-29751)
  • Server distribution to S3 / R2 has been disabled by default. Unlike FTP distribution, server distribution to S3 / R2 reflects the file structure of the distribution source to the distribution destination, so when there are no files in the distribution source and only files exist in the distribution destination, files may be deleted. Setting the environment variable S3SyncVersion to v1 will enable server distribution to S3 / R2 with the current specification (MTC-29657)

Security fixes and improvements

  • Updated TinyMCE in the TinyMCE6 plugin to 6.8.4 (MTC-29710)
  • Disabled insertion of noscript elements in the TinyMCE5 plugin (MTC-29711)
  • Prevented XSS by embedding TinyMCE5 plugin and TinyMCE6 plugin objects (MTC-29712)

Deprecated features

  • The step for separating content from mt-wizard.cgi has been removed (MTC-29750)
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