Changelog

This page contains all updates in the official releases. For information about what's been updated in the pre-releases, please refer to Pre-release Changelog.

Version 8.0

2019-12-05

This version includes updating to .NET Core 3.1 which of course means a couple of breaking changes. Before updating, make sure to read through the notes below.

Big thanks to @bignfat and @Urreman for their contributions and all of the people who has helped with translating the manager.

Breaking Changes

As Microsoft has changed the underlying component for handling SQLite and changed how Guid columns are represented for SQLite, migrating an existing database won't be possible. Instead setup a new database and migrate the data.

Core

Support routing for Archives positioned below a page. #699
Upgrade to .NET Core 3.1. #878
Simplify Startup for integrated applications. #935

Manager

User save should use IdentityResults. #916
Add delete confirm in user list. #917

Bugfixes

SelectField is not populated if used in a collection region. #930
Manager resources doesn't work in HTTPS behind a reverse proxy. #934

Version 7.1

2019-11-15

Please note that TinyMCE has been moved into it's own package which needs to be included into your application to enable WYSIWYG editing. We now also provide an alternative package for Summernote.

To install TinyMCE into your application you need to add the package:

Piranha.Manager.TinyMCE

Then add the following lines to your Startup.cs

public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
{
    ...

    services.AddPiranhaTinyMCE();

    ...
}

public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app, IHostingEnvironment env, IApi api)
{
    ...

    app.UsePiranhaTinyMCE();

    ...
}

Big thanks to @121GWJolt for his contributions and all of the people who has helped our translating the manager.

Manager

Manager UI should remove buttons the admin does not have access to. #772
BlockDisplayMode.Vertical component. #791
Move TinyMCE into a separate module. #815
Media System Performance enhancement #845. #845
Delete confirmations in manager. #847
Cannot choose route for page. #856
Add paging in manager archive view. #860
Add post should not be a dropdown if Archive only has one post type. #871
Add client side validation for manager forms. #872
Full support for Toolbar actions. #873
Can we make piranha play nice with swashbuckle?. #876
Support for SVG images. #879
Password validation. #883
Improve styling on global fields for Horizontal Block Groups. #896
Move folders in the media library. #904

Bugfixes

Flush cache after changing site host url. #516
Sitemap is not purged correctly from cache. #855
DateField saves time of day (sort of) when using Datepicker. #877
Updating an image moves the image to the root of the media library. #892

Version 7.0 - Service Release 5

2019-10-04

Piranha 7.0.3, Piranha.AspNetCore 7.0.1, Piranha.AttributeBuilder 7.0.1. Piranha.Data.EF 7.0.2, Piranha.Manager 7.0.5

Please note that in order to support field meta-data in block groups the following attributes has been moved from the namespace Piranha.AttributeBuilder to Piranha.Extend.

FieldAttribute, FieldDescriptionAttribute, RegionAttribute and RegionDescriptionAttribute.

Make sure to update your PageTypes, PostTypes and Regions by using the new namespace.

Core

Add support for FieldAttribute to BlockGroup Fields. #831
Add helper method for rendering Css Name from block type. #835
Automatically register custom fields used in blocks. #839

Bugfixes

Custom partials are not rendered in the manager. #832
SelectFields are not initialized for Block Groups. #834
BlockGroup fields are not initialized on load. #836
TinyMCE doesn't clear bogus tags on save. #838

Version 7.0 - Service Release 4

2019-09-26

Piranha 7.0.2, Piranha.Manager 7.0.4, Piranha.Manager.Localization 7.0.4

Big thanks to @AlexJPawlak, @AlexeyMAGician and @121GWJolt for their contributions.

Manager

Default title implementations for standard Blocks. #800
Add full Russian & Polish translations. #812
Add SRI support for custom manager scripts. #819
Collapse block on load in the manager. #828
Show block title when collapsed. #829

Bugfixes

Getting archive by tag crashes. #801
IsUnlisted = false is not handled when adding Block Group Items. #821
ArchivePage doesn't filter on allowed Post Types. #827
BlockGroup fields not initialized correctly on Create. #805

Version 7.0 - Service Release 3

2019-09-10

Piranha 7.0.1, Piranha.Data.EF 7.0.1, Piranha.Manager 7.0.3, Piranha.Manager.Localization 7.0.3

Manager

Confirm deleting site. #783
Draft post does not display in post list. #793
GetTitle on HtmlField should strip HtmlTags. #795
HtmlField does not propagate title change to parent. #796

Bugfixes

Post setting regions doesn't have the "region" class. #785
Site setting regions doesn't have the "region" class. #792
SelectFields does not work for Site Content. #794

Version 7.0 - Service Release 2

2019-08-30

Piranha.Manager 7.0.2, Piranha.Manager.Localization 7.0.2

Manager

Added German & Dutch translations. #768
Move manager block styles outside of .block. #774
Add css support for custom block actions. #775
PageField only shows links from the default site. #777
UI Issues in media Gallery view. #779

Bugfixes

Redirect is missing from the manager UI. #766
EditorConfig initializes Block styles as inline. #767
Mediapicker does not clear filter when changing folder. #771

Version 7.0 - Service Release 1

2019-08-23

Piranha.Manager 7.0.1, Piranha.Manager.Localization 7.0.1

This updates contains a simplified way of configuring the Tiny MCE editor. Your can read more about it in the documentation.

Manager

Added full Spanish translations #760
Simplify customizing of Tiny MCE editor. #761

Bugfixes

Menu includes links when user is not authorized. #756
TinyMCE Dropdowns breaks in column blocks. #757
Empty HTML-block in columns doesn't allocate 100% height. #762
Positioning of Tiny MCE toolbar doesn't work properly. #763

Version 7.0

2019-08-19

Starting with this version the Manager interface has changed technology stack and is now built with Razor Pages and VueJs. Projects developed with earlier versions of Piranha CMS will need to update their view components for custom blocks and custom fields in order for them to work in the new Manager. For guidance on how to implement custom components, please refer to the official documentation.

Known issues

Manager menu doesn't remove items not valid for the current user. #756

Core

Add WebApi module for accessing the IApi. #229
Reference fields should use cached data. #588
Archive service doesn't populate category/tag. #620
Updated posts are not purged from cache. #603
Save drafts of already published content. #622
Saving a copied page throws exception. #626
Null checks of fields. #692

Manager

Move texts to resources for translation. #39
Media card/gallery view. #62
Update font awesome. #406
New manager interface. #460
Add possibility to add custom buttons to the manager. #508
Horizontal block groups. #599
Possibility to collapse all blocks. #613
Two imagefields on one page aren't updating right. #614
Description on fields. #621
Documents displayed as videos in media. #629
Page ordering past depth of 5. #636

Bugfixes

PageField & PostField can cause circular reference. #260
Sitemap caching issues when updating pages. #725

Version 6.1.0

2019-05-01

Starting with this version all project templates have been merged into a single package Piranha.Templates. This is to simplify setup on your local development machine and make sure you get all future templates as well when updating this package.

Big thanks to @i-love-code and @stefanolsen for their contributions.

Core

DisplayTemplate missing in example for VideoBlock. #548
Null-checking a PageField causes a NullReferenceException. #572
Full caching still causes repeated SQL queries. #574
Add interfaces for all services exposed in the Api. #576
Archive page returns 404 when request URL has trailing slash. #580
SimpleCache should use ConcurrentDictionary. #583
Aliases are cached only if found. #587

Manager

Manager ajax urls when deployed to virtual directory. #372
Media folders do not take in account other folders as items. #565
Using Manager Login - ReturnUrl in LoginModel is always null. #579
Blocks without Custom Editor Templates / Checkbox Field Serialization. #585
Hide menu group when no item is visible. #593

Bugfixes

Publish/unpublish content does not reflect when CacheLevel=Full. #568
GetSitemap in for EF does not take scheduled pages into account. #569
Items on a BlockGroup does not gets serialized on posts. #577

Version 6.0 - Service Release 2

2019-04-03

Piranha.Manager 6.0.2

By mistake outdated .css and .js files where bundled with the manager causing the ImageBlock and VideoBlock to behave incorrectly.

Version 6.0 - Service Release 1

2019-04-02

Piranha 6.0.1, Piranha.Data.EF 6.0.1, Piranha.Manager 6.0.1

Bugfixes

Sitemap cache is not clear when publishing a drafted page. #555
Items on BlockGroup still not gets serialized. #558
IsUnlisted is ignored on the first add-block on a post. #559

Version 6.0.0

2019-03-31

Entity Framework Core

As of 6.0 all data mappings for Entity Framework Core as been moved into the new package Piranha.Data.EF. To ensure backwards compatibility, make sure you include this package into your project.

Fully Async Pipeline

As of 6.0 the entire application pipeline and all all Api metods are now async. To ensure backwards compatibility for sync code, make sure you include the package Piranha.Extensions.Sync, however it is of course our recommendation that all code should be migrated to use the async methods.

Archive Service

Methods in the ArchiveService has been revised to allow loading just the posts without the containing page. Existing code must be updated from making one call to making two separate calls, one for the page itself, and a second one for the post archive.

// Old code
var model = _api.Archives.GetById<MyArchivePage>(...);

// New code
var model = await _api.Pages.GetByIdAsync<MyArchivePage>(...);
model.Archive = await _api.Archives.GetByIdAsync(...);

Taxonomies

The TagService and CategoryService has been removed to simplify repository implementation for NoSql databases. Methods for getting these taxonomies can now be found in the PostService

api.Posts.GetAllCategoriesAsync
api.Posts.GetCategoryBySlugAsync
api.Posts.GetAllTagsAsync
api.Posts.GetTagBySlugAsync

Core

Make API async. #102
Optimize queries for large sets of non cached data. #198
Add VideoBlock. #458
Async Pipeline. #478
Add hooks for content models. #513
Add block type to serialized JSON. #518
Multiple Blocks with Archive listing slow down page. #519
MemoryCaches should clone object on Get. #522
Items on BlockGroup does not get serialized to JSON. #543

Manager

Add allowed PostTypes to Archive page. #276
Add item count on media folders. #484
Restrict so that not empty media folders can't be deleted. #485

Bugfixes

Recalculating block indexes is missing some attributes. #450
Placeholder does not get printed for Posts & Sites. #552

Version 5.4.0

2019-03-01

Note that Piranha.Cache.MemCache has been renamed to Piranha.Cache.SimpleCache. Update your code to reflect the changes, or change it to use one of the new cache services available.

Core

Added support for IDistributedCache. #249
Added support for IMemoryCache. #482
Upgraded ImageSharp to beta6. #492

Manager

Updated Piranha.Manager to Razor Class Library. #527
Updated Piranha.AspNetCore.Identity to Razor Class Library. #527

Bugfixes

When uploading media, file extensions is case sensitive. #483
Delete role is missing from AspNetCore.Identity. #525
Last role assignment on each row is not saved. #526

Version 5.3 - Service Release 2

2019-02-16

Piranha.Azure.BlobStorage 5.3.1

Replaced WindowsAzure.Storage with Microsoft.Azure.Storage.Blob. #487
Create BlobStorage with connection string. #491

Version 5.3 - Service Release 1

2018-12-08

Piranha 5.3.1, Piranha.AspNetCore 5.3.1, Piranha.Manager 5.3.1

Service release containing some minor bug fixes and updates on routing in multiple site scenarios.

Core

Redesign how sites are fetched from hostname. #449

Bugfixes

Routing with Two Different Sites. #437
Adding a region to page is not backward-compatible. #446
Api is always null in ApplicationService. #447
The DateField EditorTemplate renders with different format than expected. #451

Version 5.3.0

2018-11-19

Big thanks to @filipjansson, @Talagozis, @MCNorthwood, @DraagrenKirneh and @be4i for their contributions.

Core

Mobile Friendly Hamburger menu. #302
Culture / Language Support on Site level. #308
Add config to FileStorage extension method. #422

Manager

Document media preview. #69
Default block template. #411
Improve add user email field. #412
Add loading animation to AJAX actions on Manager. #413
Tooltip support. #414
Allow HTML in region descriptions. #415
Don't show inner HTML in link dialog. #419

Bugfixes

Published post from unpublished archive page is accessible. #323
Updating image-link in the HTML-editor. #420
Pdfs show last image viewed in modal. #421
Fix hardcoded item title for single field list regions #435

Version 5.2.1

2018-10-17

This is primarily a security update to address the Denial of Service vulnerability in AspNetCore 2.1. For more information regarding this, please read Microsofts official announcement at https://github.com/dotnet/announcements/issues/67. This release is updated to the latest packages and .NET Core 2.1.5.

Core

Add Site Global Last Modified. #407
Upgrade AspNetCore to the latest version. #408

Version 5.2.0

2018-10-15

Big thanks to @Talagozis for his contribution.

Core

Page redirects in sitemap for better SEO. #340
Remove IApi from ContentTypeBuilder. #363
Keep all Content Types in memory. #369
Add placeholder option for fields. #370
Add support for async Init() on Fields. #374
Adding information text for a region. #388
Rename BlogPage to ArchivePage. #391
Extension method for adding Mem Cache. #398
Extension method for adding Blob Storage. #399

Manager

BrowserLink for live updated preview. #287
Better support for multiple sites. #351
Change Login Logo via Manager / Config. #359
Ability to filter the manager media list. #360
Add possibility to inject partials into the manager. #373
Make buttons fixed for Page & Post edit. #393
Fix button layout for Post & Page field. #395
Post link dialog doesn't support multiple sites. #405
Display group icon instead of placeholder icon. #402

Bugfixes

Cannot add hyperlink to image in HTML editor. #343 #343
Raw SQL in migration breaks in MySQL. #375
Markdown Fields not saved on first click. #392
24 hour time format in manager date picker? #394
Can't remove last block from Page. #396

Version 5.1.2

2018-08-10

Please note that the HTML-editor initialization has been updated due to the new Ajax save. If you have a custom TinyMCE setup in your project, make sure you add the following lines to your TinyMCE init:

setup: function (editor) {
    editor.on('change', function () {
        editor.save();
    });
}

Bugfixes

Missing Content Type for Sitemap.xml. #350
EF Migration error on Npgsql. #352
Bug when saving static HTML fields in the manager. #358

Version 5.1.1

2018-07-24

Bugfixes

Bug in Sitemap Caching. #337
After changing sort order wrong site is loaded. #346
Problem adding pages with multiple sites. #347
Meta description limitations not updated. #349

Version 5.1.0

2018-07-10

Please note that this version switches from AspNetCore and EF Core 2.0 to 2.1.1

Big thanks to @filipjansson and @aatmmr for their contributions.

Upgrading

A new service component have been added to hold information for the request context, such as current Site, Sitemap and other info. After upgrading you must add this service in your Startup.cs.

public IServiceProvider ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
{
    ...

    services.AddPiranhaApplication();

    ...
}

To access the new features in your views, add the following in your _ViewImports.cshtml.

@inject Piranha.AspNetCore.Services.IApplicationService WebApp

Core

Add support for Block Groups. #291
Support for site-global content. #295
Support multiple file formats in image scaling. #296
Upgrade to .NET Core 2.1.1 & EF Core 2.1.1 #297
Added MySQL support for Identity. #298

Manager

Change Page & Post edit to save via Ajax. #292
Improve error message on failed login. #294
Improve UX on media fields. #299
Show Block icon and name on hover. #303
Visual placeholders for empty HTML blocks. #307
Set new Block dialog position depending on screen position. #318
Add support for "unlisted" block types. #324
Add ApplicationService to simplify application development. #333

Bugfixes

Adding blog post to not saved draft of a new archive causes exception. #321

Version 5.0.1

2018-05-25

Manager

Fixed so the login page doesn't say 5.0.0-beta1

Version 5.0.0

2018-05-25

This release contains some minor breaking changes. Application startup needs to be updated to incorporate new services & features. For more information, please refer to Project Setup in the Wiki.

Big thanks to @filipjansson and @lukethenuke for their contributions.

Core

Added block-based content. #202
Add checkbox field. #230
Add support for custom search queries. #232
Add Hook for slug generation. #243
Add tag filtering for archives. #246
Support DI in field Init(). #250
Rename Piranha.Extend.FieldAttribute. #251
Support for Page Copies. #252
Add security module for AspNetCore Identity. #271
Add number Field. #277
Updated slug generation. 278
Support for loading content without regions & blocks. #285
Auto register fields used by content types. #288

Manager

Add media link to TinyMCE. #242
Add module info to the Manager. #248
Add custom css/js to the Manager. #273
Add font awesome to the Manager. #275
Added column swap for column blocks. #281
Make scheduled entries more visible. #283

Bugfixes

Sitemap middleware includes unpublished posts. #195
Archive router bug for Razor pages. #248
Requesting a non-existing post should throw 404. #261
Image resize not working in TinyMCE. #282

Version 4.3.1

2018-04-02

Intermediate release with some bug fixes for the manager UI.

Manager

SimpleMDE not initialized correctly in new List Region. #224
Moving list region items sometimes crash. #225

Version 4.3.0

2018-03-23

General improvements and new content features.

Core

Add Select field. #56
Add support for Generic fields. #56
Split caching into different levels. #96
Allow aliases to point to http:// urls. #204
CDN support for media storage. #205
Allow prefix in hostnames. #209
Store requested SiteId in HttpContext. #210

Manager

Drag n Drop for moving media assets. #67
Drag and drop media upload. #67
Toolbar for Markdown fields. #85
Suggest alias when changing slugs. #184
Show Page type name in site tree. #212

Bugfixes

IApi should be injected in middleware Invoke(). #213
Old media isn't removed when updated with new filename. #218
Collection regions not working for posts. #219

Version 4.2.1

2018-03-01

Service release with some bug fixes and minor updates.

Core

Blog post URL's are wrong in sitemap.xml. #196
Permalinks are inconsistent. #197

Manager

Markdown preview doesn't limit image width. #192
Published date format error for pages & posts. #200

Version 4.2.0

2018-02-22

This release expands the functionality with more features like alias management, image cropping and more.

Core

Added alias model. #97
Added hooks for aliases. #105
Added hooks for categories. #105
Added hooks for media. #105
Added hooks for media folders. #105
Added hooks for params. #105
Added hooks for sites. #105
Added hooks for tags. #105
Made IStorage & IStorageSession async. #109
Added image scaling & image versions. #119
Added sitemap.xml generator. #150
Added basic project template. #167
Fixed bug in PostRouter for multiple sites. #181
Fixed so start page router can handle blog pages. #187

Azure

Added support for Azure Blob Storage. #23

Manager

Added alias management views. #97
Fixed format error on post published date. #183
Updated save behavior for posts. #185
Added post search in the blog archive. #188
Added manual publish date for pages. #189

Version 4.1.1

2018-01-22

Intermediate release that adds some features for blogging to support larger amounts of posts.

Core

Added methods for deleting unused categories & posts. #172

Manager

Added support for setting a future publish date for posts. #170
Added post type filter to the blog list. #168
Added category filter to the blog list. #165

Version 4.1.0

2018-01-14

This version adds blogging support with Posts, Categories, Tags and Archive Pages. It also includes some bug fixes & general improvements.

Thanks to @gyretech for testing and feedback.

Core

Added category model. #76
Added tag model. #77
Added post model. #78
Added document field. #157
Added video field. #158
Added media field. #159
Added post field. #160* Fixed bug with empty collection regions. #162
Added page field. #163
Added archive category filter. #164

Manager

Added custom TinyMCE plugin for Page & Post links. #153
Added sitemap reload after move. 6ede7ac
Prohibited recursive page delete. 83b3176

Version 4.0.2

2017-12-12

Intermediate release that addresses the following problems.

Manager

Added policy permissions support for menu. #151
Fixed initialization for dynamically inserted HTML-editors. #152

Version 4.0.1

2017-12-02

Intermediate release that addresses the following problems.

Manager

Fixed bug in media modal c5b65aa

Version 4.0.0

2017-12-01

First official release with support for building page based sites.

With contributions by: @gyretech & @filipjansson

Core

Completely rewritten for NetStandard 2.0 & EF Core
Smart pluggable caching
Pluggable file storage
SEO-friendly URL’s & meta-data
Claims-based admin permissions

Content

Templated page types
Multiple sites with hostname-based routing
HTML and Markdown content
Hierarchical media library

Manager

Simple and intuitive interface
Responsive down to portrait tablets
Extensible