Movable Type 8.2.0 Release Notes

This version of Movable Type was released May 29, 2024.

This version is an internal release, and included in 8.4.0.

New and improved features

• Moved addon version information displayed in the admin screen footer to the system information section under "Settings" > "System Information" (MTC-29485)
• Updated Smarty to version 4.3.4 (MTC-29480)
• Updated ADOdb to version 5.22.7 (MTC-29479)
• Updated extlib. The following modules were updated, and the modules related to I18N::LangTags, Apache::XMLRPC::Lite, Math::BigInt::CalcEmu, UDDI::Lite, XML::Parser::Lite, Apache::SOAP, and IO::SessionData were removed (MTC-29515)
• CGI (4.54 → 4.61)
• CGI::Fast (2.16 → 2.17)
• Class::Method::Modifiers (2.13 → 2.15)
• Crypt::URandom (0.36 → 0.39)
• Digest::SHA::PurePerl (6.03 → 6.04)
• File::Listing (6.15 → 6.16)
• HTTP::Cookies (6.10 → 6.11)
• HTTP::Daemon (6.14 → 6.16)
• HTTP::Date (6.05 → 6.06)
• IPC::Run3 (0.048 → 0.049)
• Image::ExifTool (12.50 → 12.76)
• JSON::PP (4.12 → 4.16)
• LWP::Protocol::https (6.10 → 6.12)
• Locale::Maketext (1.32 → 1.33)
• MIME::Types (2.22 → 2.24)
• Math::BigInt (1.999837 → 2.003002)
• Net::HTTP (6.22 → 6.23)
• Time::Local (1.30 → 1.35)
• URI (5.10 → 5.25)
• YAML::Tiny (1.73 → 1.74)
• libwww-perl (6.67 → 6.76)
• parent (0.238 → 0.241)
• version (0.9929 → 0.9930)
• Amazon::S3 (0.64 → 0.65) (only for Sync.pack)
• Crypt::Perl (0.37 → 0.38) (only for the cloud edition)
• Crypt::Format (0.10 → 0.12) (only for the cloud edition)
• Crypt::X509 (0.53 → 0.55) (only for the cloud edition)
• Convert::ASN1 (0.33 → 0.34) (only for the cloud edition)
• Added logging when a restart is executed (MTC-29527)

Resolved issues

• Improved transaction management for MT::MergeSyncStatus (MTC-29543)
• Fixed an issue where the upload link was displayed for users without asset file upload permissions (MTC-29032)
• Fixed an issue in TinyMCE6 where the "Paragraph" button was not displayed (MTC-29529)
• Removed unnecessary Exif information from PNG files (MTC-28132)
• Enabled the removal of ICC profiles flagged as corrupted by libpng 1.6 when detected (MTC-29531)
• Fixed an issue where the Close button in the dialog for GoogleAnalytics profile selection did not work when an API error occurred (MTC-27155)
• Fixed an issue in dynamic publishing where the functionality of the SmartyPants plugin was applied even when the plugin was disabled (MTC-26942)
• Ensured explicit use of fully qualified names when using functions in the @{[...]} format for string interpolation (MTC-29521)
• Improved the appearance of the tab-switching section when using the MT Block Editor (MTC-29259)
• Fixed an issue in Data API where a list of ContentData containing multiline text with "convert_breaks"specified caused errors (MTC-29522)
• Removed unnecessary parts from "MT::Template::Tags::Misc::_hdlr_widget_manager" (MTC-29498)
• Corrected the match type for the tag field in search results of mt-cdsearch.cgi from "partial match" to "exact match" (MTC-29275)
• Fixed an issue in dynamic publishing where widgets from the site were called from global widget sets (MTC-28909)
• Ensured unknown values in display options do not cause errors and are logged appropriately (SUPPORT-316)
• [L10N] Revised the descriptions for optional modules in system information to make them clearer (MTC-29516)
• Fixed an issue where required fields in some ContentFields were not properly validated (MTC-29486)
• Removed the no longer needed "reorder_widget" custom field (MTC-29501)
• Fixed an issue where a uuv occurred during restart if the PIDFilePath configuration directive was set but the pid value could not be retrieved (MTC-29504)
• Improved compatibility between MT::Builder::Fast and MT::Builder by reviewing the processing of MT::Builder::Fast (MTC-29411)
• Fixed issues identified by Perl::Critic (MTC-29509)
• Fixed an issue where some tests failed when running tests for the MT core with MTBlockEditor installed (MTC-29506)
• Improved the rsync process for local directories (MTC-27392)
• Added support for components that did not support AdminThemeId, such as Templated Text and Custom Fields (MTC-29437)
• Embedded the actual file location in comments when MT::Template::DEBUG is enabled (MTC-29500)
• [L10N] Fixed an issue where the description of the FormattedTextForTinyMCE6.0.1 plugin was not multilingual (MTC-29425)
• Adjusted the margins of the warning section for uninstalled modules in system information (MTC-29490)
• [L10N] Revised the log description when a site is deleted (SUPPORT-317)

Server Sync MTBlockEditor plugin

• Updated the bundled MTBlockEditor from 1.2.0 to 1.2.1
• Added missing translations for languages other than Japanese (MTC-29237)
• Updated the version of mt-block-editor to 1.1.50 (MTC-29538)
• Fixed an issue where copy and paste operations using the keyboard were not possible in the property fields of the custom block creation screen (MTC-29488)
• Fixed an issue where setting captions in tables using TinyMCE was sometimes unavailable when using custom blocks (MTC-29539)
• Allowed empty strings to be passed to MTBlockEditorSetCompiledHtml (MTC-29541)
• Fixed an issue where "Undo" did not work in the link insertion window for text blocks (MTC-29540)
• Made MTBlockEditorBlocks and MTBlockEditorBlockAsset available for dynamic publishing (MTC-29537)

This release is cloud edition only.

Movable Type Advanced

• Fixed an issue where Oracle’s "bind_columns" caused errors due to mismatched argument counts (MTC-28575)
• Fixed an issue where mtauthorcommentcount caused errors with Oracle + PHP (MTC-29523)
• Fixed an issue where widgetset caused errors with Oracle + PHP (MTC-29524)
• Updated Perl to use "service_name" when connecting to Oracle DB (MTC-29331)

Security fixes and improvements

• Updated jQuery UI to version 1.13.2 (MTC-29535)

Deprecated features

• Moved Creative Commons-related functions to MT::Util::Deprecated as deprecated (MTC-29520)
• Removed the Creative Commons license settings from "Site" > "General" (MTC-29266)
• Removed the implementation of the "Password reset phrase" feature in user editing as it was unused (MTC-29402)
• Removed the deprecated CustomFields::XMLRPCServer (MTC-29510)