Backlight 3 Changelog

v3.2.2 (2023-11-14)

Adds automatic checking and messaging for available Backlight updates and upgrades

v3.2.1 (2021-02-07)

Fixes error message with Hero Images when creating new Albums and Album Sets in LR Publisher
Fixes issue of Uploaded Images not appearing in dropdowns for watermarks or identity images
Fixes error with Hero Images when creating new Top-level Gallery
Fixes issue with missing thumbnails for client album listing when site resides under a subdirectory
Removes Custom option from the line-height options introduced in 3.2 that should not have been there

v3.2.0 (2021-01-31)

Adds inline adding of Cover and Hero images to View Album and View Top-level Galleries pages
Removes guest password and creates random API key for Quick Settings
Adds View Album in Browser button on Add Photos page
Reorganizes custom folder and updates some of the included files within custom
Creates new custom-resources folder under modules, and relocates some files to this new location
Updates the JS and jQuery API libraries to support get_all_publisher_roots on the getRoot method
Add a starter robots.txt file
Updates Pym.js to version 1.3.2
Adds further compatibility fixes for PHP 8
Reorganizes Pangolin Page
Fixes ordering of Hero Images when editing Albums/Sets and Publisher Root
Fixes issue of Hero Images list not updating in LR Publisher
Fixes issue with Album ID after failed Client login
Sets cursor: pointer for all A elements having either href or data-src attributes
Rewrites Open Graph Protocol fragment for pangolin-page
Moves auto-refresh and cookies notice scripting into separate fragments
Refactors pangolin-page logic for including Cart and Client Response config, and album scripts in the page footer
Refactors handling of template classes to be within scope
Refactors document head into fragments in pangolin-page
Includes setup fragment in parent, if exists, for autoindex type engines
Improves error checking when trying to make directories
Removes admin menu loading when viewing main site
Adds support to handle GPS seconds that are separated into own field

v3.1.4 (2020-12-08)

Adds compatibility for PHP 8

v3.1.3 (2020-10-06)

Fixes error on contact forms that were not using reCAPTCHA
Fixes error message referencing top_level_gallery_directory when creating new Top-Level Gallery
Fixes issue with changes to protected album language fields not being reflected before clearing template cache
Fixes issue of displaying error when core PHP files not found
Fixes issue with auto-refresh not working on content pages
Improves visibility of Set Album Order, Set Photo Order, Copy and Move Selected buttons when enabled
Improves messaging for maximum file size accepted by server when uploading from Backlight Publisher
Simplifies and restyles the auto-refresh button/indicator in page footer

v3.1.2 (2020-09-27)

Fixes issues in creating renditions when adding photos from Backlight
Fixes issue with upgrading Backlight on servers with Zend OPcache enabled
Improves error reporting when uploading photos from Backlight

v3.1.1 (2020-09-20)

Adds migration of cover image to hero image for users yet to upgrade to Backlight 3.1.0
Adds special function to synchronize cover image with hero image setting, for users who had already upgraded to Backlight 3.1.0
Fixes issue of assigning profiles when other private albums did not have Client Response enabled
Adds placeholder image in Backlight's Publisher album view when cover image file is not found
Improves messaging on availability of new updates and visibility of 'Update All Modules' button on Backlight Modules page
Fixes issues with display of Breadcrumbs in Backlight Publisher
Fixes missing menus in some sections of Backlight Publisher

v3.1.0 (2020-09-17)

Adds major improvements to Backlight Publisher:
Redesigns UI for Backlight publisher
Adds support for watermarks in Backlight's Publisher
Adds support for custom album ordering in Backlight's Publisher
Adds support for bulk album deletion from Backlight
Adds support for specifying Hero image independently of Cover image
Adds support for specifying Cover and Hero images from Photo view within album slideshow
Adds thumbnails for Cover and Hero images in Backlight's View Album page
Adds full breadcrumbs and Back links in Backlight Publisher for easier navigation
Adds field in album settings to change album management from Lightroom to Backlight
Adds permalinks to Album Sets
Adds functions to resize thumbnails when viewing albums in Backlight's Publisher
Adds support for a single master rendition to be published from Lightroom, significantly speeding up the time taken to publish
Adds bulk deletion of Spam and Archived contacts
Adds Notes column to List Contacts
Changes behaviour of reCAPTCHA debugging to append message to existing error/success message instead of interrupting contact form submission
Adds support for smart quotes in search
Expands log file removal to remove log files from all applications, and not just Publisher
Adds structured data to single-image pages in pangolin-album
Removes loading spinner when API request fails getting Backlight album
Changes behaviour of JSON API to use rendition_path as key
Adds more description for the footer_top hook in phplugins-pangolin-sample.php
Fixes issue of LR Publisher not picking up changes to API Key before restarting Lightroom
Fixes issue with template changes not being carried through to embedded pages without manually clearing template cache
Fixes issue of contents template cache directory size becoming large
Fixes issue with cover image dropdown not including files with jpeg extension

v3.0.4 (2020-07-22)

Improves box-sizing styles for page footer
Fixes issue with Cookie expiry in Safari browser causing Cookie notice to be displayed after reopening the browser
Fixes issue with Album RSS feed links in some installations
Fixes handling of RSS feeds in Firefox
Updates links to Template Presets and adds Support link to Admin menu
Adds check for PHP Exif when uploading photos via Backlight's Publisher
Removes dependency on PHP Exif module when uploading from Lightroom Publisher
Fixes issue with default Page template of incompatible product suite being assigned upon template creation

v3.0.3 (2020-06-25)

Updates copy/move album selector to show hierarchy of album sets/albums
Fixes misleading message on copy/move photos and changes photo count to use words instead of numerals for lower numbers (e.g. "five photos")
Changes minimum value of the Layout's max-width slider from 920 to 512
Adds meta tag to breadcrumbs
Fixes issue with single quotes in Cookie notice
Fixes issue with single quotes in Fancybox slideshow
Improves single-image HTML pages in Pangolin Album
Updates URL of Store link in Backlight admin menu
Updates support links to discourse.theturninggage.net

v3.0.2 (2020-05-12)

Restores Video ID setting when editing albums in Backlight's Publisher
Hides Hero Image section if no cover image exists, which is useful for Search
Changes selections for Search Template setting to only include those based on Pangolin or Okapi Albums
Updates breadcrumbs to include 'position' structured data attribute, per Google's warnings
Adds version number of latest LR Publisher as part of download link on Backlight Modules page
Adds messaging for requests from LR Publisher when server redirects from http to https
Changes id name of "accept-cookies" so as to avoid being caught in 1Blocker rules on iOS
Fixes Javascript error & DOM manipulation when downloading images in Pangolin Album
Adds BYPASS_2FA env.php setting to help users who are locked out of two-factor authentication
Fixes issue appending framework version to page.php's all.min.css when LOAD_FONT_AWESOME_LOCALLY is enabled
Adds further upgrade scripts for Publisher when upgrading from Backlight 2 to Backlight 3

v3.0.1 (2020-05-04)

Changes RSS feed titles to use Site Name for site feed and combination of 'Site Name - Album Title' for album feeds
Changes RSS Album feed photo titles to 'Untitled' when no specific title has been set (was using the filename)
Adds support for album RSS feeds without trailing slash
Improves handling of Album Title for Hero Image
Sanitizes image filenames for Backlight Publisher to avoid breaking page scripting
Adds setting to enable local loading of Font Awesome resources (requires manual setup in /backlight/custom directory)
Adds check for defined('ENABLE_ENTITY_LOADER') to XMLHelper
Fixes issue trying to get parents of top-level Album Set
Removes reference to Backlight 2 in Set Order Details page

v3.0.0 (2020-04-30)

Initial release

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