Osclass 5.1 Released from Mindstellar
Osclass 5.1 Released from Mindstellar (Navjot Tomer)
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
https://github.com/mindstellar/Osclass/releases/download/5.1.0/osclass_v5.1.0.zip
If you want to help or donate to support the project?
Just buy the developer some coffee at https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/navjottomer, it will be great :)
After Osclass 3.9 fiasco (the shutdown of their company), i switched to WordPress and Classipress.
Best move i ever did. I paid (i think) 70$ and got a unlimited sites license and works great.
Never looked back. Period.
You mean after Osclass 3.8 fiasco.
Osclass 3.9 was a release that fixed the crap left-overs by Osclass.org
You seem to have a fixation with these releases from Mindstellar.
But those releases are more code related and they do not add anything to Osclass features for visitors or users. Not to mention that compatibility with everything gets lower and lower and without having ANY new themes or plugins (or even updated legacy ones).
Do you really think that those releases have ANY future? How? No production site will use those releases.
Also the support is next to nothing (and i do not mean your site, since you have stated many times that you are just webmasters trying to help).
Sorry if i sound hars but that is the current state of things.
We are not promoting anything, we are not selling anything here and we are not affiliated with anyone related to Osclass.
It is just a specificscript release we use and know. It is all explained in the forums many times.