- New Control Panel Design 🎨
- Added Jump Menu. Navigate ExpressionEngine fast
- Many new changes and improvements that make the control panel cleaner, and more delightful to use
- Brand new dark theme.
- New sidebar navigation
- New Account Menu
- Create and Edit navigation items have been merged
- Better navigation. Navigation buttons are now in a more consistent location. The member account menu shows the member’s primary role. “Manager” has been removed from most of the page names, e.g “Entry Manager” is now - “Entries”. Navigation works better on mobile.
- Add-ons and categories have been moved out of the dev menu and into the sidebar
- The files page has a new thumbnail view
- Collapsible sidebar navigation
- Editing and preview files is now easier in the files manager
- “Sticky entries” is now optional feature that can be turned on in preferences for each channel
- You can now drag to change the width of the live preview panes
- The add-ons page uses a new card view, shows add-on icons, and has a separate tab for updates
- The SQL query form has new buttons to insert common used SQL snippets
- The tabs and save buttons on the edit entry page are now sticky
- The date picker has a new today button, and days are easier to click.
- The grid field now collapses on mobile
- The dashboard has been upgraded to be more useful.
- “Remove” wording has been changed to the more appropriate “delete” for destructive actions.
- Deletion confirm dialogs are more scary
- Pagination improvements. Pagination shows 8 pages, instead of 3.
- You can now tab to toggle buttons
- Added support for third-party add-on icons to Add-on Manager
- Changed sidebar copyright company name
- Default avatars have been removed
- UX Updates to encourage CMS integrators to take the appropriate next steps while using the CMS
- And many more changes!
- Template editor improvements
- You can now comment EE code with command + / in the template editor
- You can now select a single line of text when clicking on a gutter number in the template editor
- Improved EE syntax highlighting
- New Member Template examples have been added
- New entry manager (Entries listing page) with filters bar, better layout, simpler search, and individual filter clearing!
- Live preview has been modified to make add-on support easier
- New Variable modifiers to crop, resize, and rotate images
- Member Groups have been replaced with member roles.
- Members have one primary roles, and can also can have multiple other roles
- Role permissions are additive
- New Field Types
- New RTE
- New Color Picker Field
- New Relationship field
- Began working toward ADA compliance
- Users can now upload WebP images via the File Manager #304
- The Blacklist/Whitelist Module for ExpressionEngine has been renamed to Block and Allow Module.
- Upload Directory and Upload Path are now populated with
{base_url} and {base_path} by default when creating new Upload Directories.
- The success notification for a saved entry now links back to the saved entry.
- Improved error message for removed models and tables.
- Updated default system error messages to use new v6 design.
- Updated styles for 1-Click Updater and Installer Screens
- Bug Fixes 💃🐛
- Resolved bugs in the updaters where MySQL errors could be triggered.
- Fixed Live Preview functionality with Grid and Fluid Fields
- Fixed a bug where the debugger code highlighter would also highlight and overwrite other code blocks on a site’s page
- Resolved issue where new template groups were not recognized on a blank install until the user also creates a new template group in the Template Manager.
- Resolved #431 where the EE Block/Allow list was not able to be downloaded from within the Block/Allow Module.
- Developers 💻
- Moved tests to use Cypress
- Add-ons that use Members must use Roles in place of MemberGroups
- Removed EllisLab from Namespace and EllisLab folders
- Updated CodeMirror to version 5.48
- Deprecated the Channel Status controller
getForegroundColor()
- The member property
display_avatars has been removed
- The config options
enable_avatars and allow_avatar_uploads have been removed
- Removed the deprecated jQuery add-on
- Removed the deprecated Emoticon add-on
- Forgot Password emails will now respect your “Mail Format” preference (essentially enabling the ability to use - HTML in Forgot Password emails).
- Fixed a bug where table bulk selections can be saved by the browser on page reload, but don’t show in the UI.
- New base classes can be extended as part of add-ons (setting the stage for future functionality (migrations etc.- ) Not a required change to add-ons but encouraged.
allow_php config override now needs to be set in config.php to be able to enable PHP in templates.upload_file_name_blacklist config override renamed to upload_blocked_file_namesexp_sites.site_pages data type has been changed to MEDIUMTEXT.- Moved language files from
system/ee/legacy folder to system/ee/language.
- Added
$config['legacy_member_templates'] = 'y'; to allow legacy member functionality which is now not allowed by default see System Config Overrides.
- New member groups no longer have access to HTTP-protected templates by default #279.
