Backlight 2 Changelog

v2.0.15 (2023-11-16)

Adds automatic checking and messaging for available Backlight updates and upgrades

v2.0.14 (2020-03-16)

Improves performance for pages with embedded albums
Adds support for sites residing behind SSL Proxy servers

v2.0.13 (2020-01-08)

Adds fixes to support PHP 7.4
Adds localisation for notice when forms submitted with unchecked GDPR acceptance (applies to Client Response and Cart submissions)
Changes GDPR Privacy Notice link to open in new window or tab (applies to contact form, Client Response and Cart submissions)
Fixes localisation issue for users attempting to upgrade from Backlight 1 version 1.1.0 or earlier to Backlight 2
Resets localisation for current browser when logging out of Backlight
Fixes issues with photo downloads on some mobile browsers
Adds check for GD module before attempting to allow photo uploads from Backlight
Fixes issue with minimizeEmbeddedMetadata (requires update of LR Publisher to 4.0.10)

v2.0.12 (2019-11-23)

Fixes issue with downloading photos-for-download from Fancybox albums

v2.0.11 (2019-11-10)

Allows custom values for IMG alt attribute, else use image file name, in Pangolin-album
Adds page=all option to view all photos in a paginated album
Fixes path issue for sites under subdirectories that do not have URL rewriting enabled
Cleans up obsolete resource files

v2.0.10 (2019-07-17)

Adds protection of rendition directories during creation and within Update Album Files function
Removes dependency on URL rewriting
Updates Uppy image uploader
Improves CSS transition-in of lazy-loaded images in Classic and Masonry album layouts
Fixes handling of port number for sites behind proxy servers
Fixes issue with breadcrumb URLs when current page includes parameters with slashes in them
Updates version numbering on Dashboard to show currect version

v2.0.9 (2019-06-10)

Adds lazy-loading of thumbnails, that load as needed during page scroll
Improves reporting of errors when trying to view Backlight Modules and upgrade modules
Updates naming and descriptions for page copy fields when creating and editing albums
Updates search to exclude protected photos and private albums
Rewrites thumbnail scaling in Descriptive album sets
Automatically prefixes flexbox for Desciptive album sets
Improves referrer check on single-image pages; this should only trigger for embedded galleries
Fixes cart for embedded Albums
Fixes cart for search using Pangolin Album templates

Note: this release includes an update to the Lightroom Publisher module, available from Backlight > Backlight Modules

v2.0.8 (2019-04-10)

Changes Master Username/Password to Master Access Key, and reinstates Master credential checking
Adds identifier to exported and imported templates
Adds check for cart enabled before showing Add Package buttons
Adds support for template id and template name, adds link to templates when viewing or listing albums
Adds links between Album viewing and listing page, and related template designer
Allows logged in admin user to skip Access Code
Fixes issue of new menu links losing open in new window setting on first save
Fixes download and single page view for photos ending with .jpeg extension, such as from iOS
Fixes issue with results array length in phpLiteAdmin that affected PHP 7.*
Adds (Z)oom and e(X)it key commands for Fancybox galleries in pangolin-album and pangolin-wordpress
Updates from Fancybox 3.5.6 to 3.5.7; cleans up old files
Keeps track of referrer, so that we can return from single-image pages to embedded galleries
Compares location and referrer to determine appropriate destination of the Back link in HTML-type galleries (pangolin-album)
Fixes position of Vegas captions in full-screen

v2.0.7 (2019-02-15)

Adds function to reorder photos within the Backlight admin
Adds Logout link for Backlight admin on mobile

Note: this release includes an update to the Lightroom Publisher module, available from Backlight > Backlight Modules

v2.0.6 (2019-02-05)

Adds support for publishing images with duplicate filenames
Fixes issue with missing mixed pricing scheme on images published from Backlight
Fixes issue with characters in image titles when published from Backlight
Fixes issue in calculating image dimensions for uploads from iOS devices within Backlight
Adds capability to display color labels in the slideshow
Adds new options for whether and how to display the slideshow's Thumbnail Pallet
Adds options to enable/disable Fancybox Progress Indicator, and customize color; indicator disabled by default to preserve legacy behavior
Updates Pangolin's PHPlugins samples to include example for contacting the Wordpress JSON API
Improves layout of "Descriptive" type album sets
Fixes Slideshow UI colors; adds separate arrow color options
Fixes custom stylesheets in Okapi
Changes reCAPTCHA settings titles and descriptions to specify "reCAPTCHA v2"
Improves styling in the designer, targeting sliders specifically
Fixes margin-bottom of color-pickers in the designer
Fixes image rotation bugs that affected iOS uploads
Removes slow method for reading XMP Metadata that can cause upload timeouts
Changes handling of THUMBNAIL_THRESHOLD to limit the size exactly to the setting
Adds uhcloud to list of excluded session.save_path hosts
Removes concurrent uploads in Uppy
Adds polyfill the .forEach() method, used in admin navigation, for IE11 and Edge
Removes obsolete files

Note: this release includes an update to the Lightroom Publisher module, available from Backlight > Backlight Modules

v2.0.5 (2019-01-12)

Adds Toggle Photo Selection button to View Photos page
Adds support for a Maximum Number of Uploads setting, so that users can upload more than 100 images at a time
Adds admin setting to automatically redirect from http to https
Changes Album title validation to allow titles starting with digits
Fixes handling of empty language Display Title
Fixes database cleanup of Publisher after migrating albums from CE4
Removes Client Response Template setting from Client Response admin, moves search and client templates from Publisher to Personalisation
Changes failed login before locking count from 2 to 10
Fixes numerical sorting on number of Photos on List Albums page
Reinstates Fancybox modules
Updates Fancybox files to version 3.5.6.
Customizes Fancybox default styling
Repairs basic slideshow and caption
Adds caption module
Adds sample PHPlugins function for interacting with WP
Adds 45 second connection time-out for Curl requests
Adds check for minimum of upload_max_filesize ad post_max_size for image uploads
Encodes opening and closing braces in Publisher parameters
Refactors .htaccess file, including fix to allow non-Backlight resource files to be loadable from the top of the site
Adds checks in Metadata fetching to handle missing nodes and attributes
Adds check for ['REQUEST_URI'] in URLHelper
Makes error checking consistent with ViewHelper::json so that it won't abort output for errors that ErrorHandler will ignore
Adds exclusion for wp- errors (such as Wordfence)
Adds SUPPRESS_NOTICES environment variable
Fixes coding syntax that can cause issues on newer versions of PHP
Changes order of email logging so that account-oriented emails are output before attempting to send emails
Fixes issue with missing template_home.php file

v2.0.4 (2018-10-14)

Reinstates album title breadcrumb, and image title within breadcrumbs for single image pages
Adds process to have backlight/index.php and backlight/.htaccess automatically created upon install
Adds Update Backlight Index Files function to re-copy the latest backlight/index.php and backlight/.htaccess files
Adds description to pangolin-page's table-stripe color pickers.
Adds missing Description field when adding Album Sets
Adds case-insensitive sort when setting photos to be sorted by filename
Fixes issue with being unable to login with two-factor authentication
Fixes issue that caused multiple images to be downloaded after viewing multiple images
Fixes broken thumbnails when embedded Album Sets with Descriptive layout
Fixes issue of editing Album Sets that used fields for editing Albums
Fixes critical issue when trying to delete Top-level Gallery Directory that has an empty path
Fixes issue with saving Template settings that affected some users
Fixes syntax issue that caused uploads to fail for some users
Fixes display of "Display Breadcrumbs" and "Hide from Search" values on View Album page
Adds workarounds to upgrading older versions of Backlight 1 to Backlight 2

v2.0.3 (2018-09-22)

Fixes encoding issue when editing albums in LR Publisher
Fixes issue with sharing functions having invalid URLs
Fixes error with auto-refresh on pages that are neither content or album pages, such as when viewing cart

v2.0.2 (2018-09-19)

Skips Access Code check when user logged in as admin in same browser
Fixes pagination on Search results
Fixes issue with PHPlugins in WP Theme having broken dependency on URLHelper
Fixes broken background images and favicons
Fixes issue with error on checking for ClientResponseUtility during upgrade from Backlight 1
Adds redirect from backlight/ to backlight/installer if site is not yet installed
Adds slideShow.speed slider to pangolin-album
Adds transitionDuration slider to pangolin-album
Changes links to view page in View Page to honour the URL scheme, e.g. /about/ instead of ?page=about
Fixes redirect paths on image deletion for sites that are run under subdirectories
Fixes path issues with Cart
Adds support for escaping quotes in page titles and descriptions
Removes (untranslated) German language from default install
Improves menu handling in Backlight admin for hybrid devices with mouse and touch-screen inputs

v2.0.1 (2018-09-11)

Reinstates upgrade function for Albums from CE4
Fixes issue preventing the saving of additional Contact fields
Fixes issue with dependency on Client Response when viewing Contacts
Fixes issues with handling missing metadata on Backlight Publisher
Fixes issue with upgrading Designer from version that is not the most-recent for Backlight 1
Fixes URL handling in mastheads
Ignores PHPlugins files that do not include new format rather than throwing error
Improves error reporting for missing class files
Fixes array indexing issue that caused errors in PHP 5.2 before providing notice on required version

v2.0.0 (2018-09-09)

Initial release

v1.0.0 ( 2016-05-04 )

Initial Release