Zikula Core 3.0.0 is available as of today, 25 June, 2020.

Most important changes

• Foundation
  • Requires at least PHP 7.2.5; uses scalar type hints.
  • Technology updates: Symfony 5.1, Twig 3, Bootstrap 4 including Bootswatch styles, Font Awesome 5.
  • Utilise autowiring and autoconfiguring functionality from Symfony.
  • Using utf8mb4 charset on MySQL platforms for real utf8 support.
• Extension handling
  • In general, 'module' and 'theme' are now generically referred to as 'extensions'.
  • Extensions module automatically contributes admin menu item to display Markdown docs for other extensions. Help UI can be configured to use either a modal window or a fixed sidebar.
  • Added "Connections" menu to ExtensionsMenu so extensions can add menu children to other connected extension's admin UI.
• Administration
  • Added ability to choose a Font Awesome icon for admin categories, categories and extensions.
  • Added support for creating and changing translations on-site using "Edit in Place" and/or a WebUI.
  • Added new fields for optional comments and colours to permission rules.
  • Start page can now be defined much easier (a dropdown allows to choose a route/controller combination).
  • Start page can now be configured for each available language.
  • Added CLI Commands to manage extension installation, upgrade and uninstall and sync.
  • Added CLI Command to import users.
  • Added CLI Command to delete any number of users.
  • Added CLI Command to edit password, email, username properties of ZAuth user mappings (a replacement for the old Zikula Recovery Console).
• Allow users to delete themselves (with admin setting).
• Password handling
  • Passwords in the ZAuth module are now always hashed with the the most up-to-date algorithm available (via Symfony security component) and automatically updated on login.
  • Passwords can optionally be validated with Symfony's NonCompromisedPassword validator.
  • A new password strength meter is implemented.
  • Added a simple password generator in all places where a new password might be needed.
  • Added ability to force a group of users to change their password on next login.
• Developers
  • Added twig-inspector for easy debugging of Twig templates.
  • Introduced a 'site definition' concept.
    • Adds means for site-wide branding.
    • Adds the ability to create dynamic site properties (e.g. titles, meta descriptions etc.).
  • Blocks can now specify default property defaults used for custom form fields.
  • Added @PermissionCheck annotation for use in Controllers.
  • Added UserCreationApi to assist with the manual creation of ZAuth-method users.
  • Moved calling adminHeader() and adminFooter() into theme layer.
  • Added CLI Command to create any number of users for testing purposes.
  • Added CLI command to generate an Extension skeleton with instruction on using Symfony MakerBundle to complete development.
  • Added new Doctrine Paginator wrapper and paginator template.
  • Added new AlphaFilter class and template.

Zikula Core 2.0.15 is available as of today, 18 November, 2019.

• Fixes:
  • Prevent exception caused by invalid return URL during login.
  • Updated listener priorities in Settings module to fix non-working variable localisation (#3934).
  • Fixed regression in settings page (#3983).
  • Updated obsolete HTML Purifier constant names.