[Sticky] Osclass 5.1 Released from Mindstellar

Osclass 5.1 Released from Mindstellar

Updated changelog for Osclass 5.1.0

• New: Backend is based on Bootstrap 5
• New: Many changes are made to make it more user-friendly on small screens while keeping the same functionality
• New: System info page in the tools menu.
• New: form input class is introduced, which will be the new default for all form elements, soon a new API will be introduced to use it.
• New: Translations, from mindstellar/i10n-osclass
• New: Versions of translation can be downloaded from our repositories in the Osclass backend
• New: Language has info for text direction, which can be utilized by developers
• New: Translations for new languages
• New: Translated custom fields. They can be translated into the custom-field editor.
• New: open-in-new-tab option for URL type custom fields.
• New: Login as a user feature. Can be used to log in as another user. You'll find this option on the user edit page. Thanks, @dftd
• New: You can enable the allow-prerelease setting in the user dashboard to get new features and bug fixes and continue to test this version.
• Improvement: In osclass upgrade experience
• Improvement: Less dependency on JQuery-UI and other libraries, the goal is to remove them completely with native javascript or use bootstrap components
• Improvement: Major rewrite of old Jquery based code to Pure JS (Still lots to do)
• Improvement: Escape, Sanitize classes, and they are used now in many places
• Security: Many security flaws are fixed, thanks to new classes
• Improvement: Locations stats generation, on average a 10 x improvement in performance
• Improvement: Compatibility with older plugins but not for ones that use ancient DB access methods.
• Improvement: Huge reductions in PHP Notices and warnings with newer PHP versions
• Improvement: Now styles can be registered like you have registered scripts.
• Improvement: JS scripts can be enqueued in the middle of view and will be executed at the end of the page.
• Speed: Overall performance improvements and code refactoring to make it more stable and easier to maintain
• Speed: Database improvements, from 10x to 5x faster in some cases, reduced the query footprint in many cases
• Changed: Default DB engine from MyISAM to InnoDB for t_item_description table.
• Fixed: JS enqueued in the footer was not working in some cases.
• Fixed: Multilingual issue with the backend.
• Fixed: #400: Issues storing ipv6 addresses in a few places.
• Fixed: Fresh installation of Osclass does not work.
• Removed: the google-map plugin. as functionality is now provided by the core.
  over 300 + commits since the last release
  There is a lot more under the hood changes, which are not listed here, but you can see them in the commit log.

Backend rewrite was a lot of work, but now it is finally done, and it is much more user-friendly. Many new components/APIs will be introduced in the future. So, if you are a developer, that'll make you happy. It was a marathon job for the last two to three months, and I am very happy with the result. I hope you will enjoy it.

https://github.com/mindstellar/Osclass/releases/download/5.1.0/osclass_v5.1.0.zip