This release contains improvements in the search results where the metadata such as the page title and description are still searched, but no longer displayed as context. Also a bug that caused an exception when using an insert tag that pointed to a page that no longer exists was fixed. Improvements have also been made to the revised undo function and other PHP 8 related bugs have been fixed. As always, this release also includes all the bug fixes from the latest 4.9 release.
Changelog of the fixed issues in Contao 4.13.4:
- #4329 Deprecated Cache lib (Toflar)
- #4506 Disable the TinyMCE context menu by default (de-es)
- #4504 Improve the XDebug experience (m-vo)
- #4514 Do not use head and attribute data in search context (aschempp)
- #4603 Correctly generate the edit URL of a version (leofeyer)
- #4396 Deprecate the StringUtil::toHtml5() method (m-vo)
- #4604 Use host name without port in some controllers (bezin)
- #4601 Correctly toggle the CSS class when (un)publishing a format definition (leofeyer)
- #4600 Fix the DCA picker in the CSS editor (leofeyer)
- #4599 Do not throw an exception if a page insert tag cannot be generated (leofeyer)
- #3995 Replace old back end paths (aschempp)
- #4501 Fix undefined sorting mode for group header (rabauss)
- #4489 Fix the SendNewsletterEvent when sending as text only (fritzmg)
- #4573 Add loop as an option to YouTube videos (Wusch)
- #4567 Deprecate Controller::getSpellcheckerString() (ausi)
- #4523 Handle predefined image sizes when validating the ImageSize widget (qzminski)
- #4549 Fix a type error in the listing module (Toflar)
- #4534 Fix the FAQ page module throwing a warning in PHP 8 if author could not be fetched (qzminski)
- #4535 Fix the registration module throwing a warning in PHP 8 if captcha is disabled (qzminski)
- #4533 Fix an error when unpacking an associative array of model search criteria values (qzminski)
- #4527 Deprecate Contao\Request (Toflar)
- #4521 Fix the translation domain in the root page dependent select (leofeyer)
- #4456 Fix the record preview (bezin)
- #4437 Correctly resolve parameters when prepending bundle config (aschempp)
- #4451 Quote all schema names, same as we do for inserts (ausi)
- #4448 Skip row size calculation for MyISAM (ausi)
- #4447 Fix simple token parser default value for unknown variables (m-vo)
About Contao 4.13 LTS
The first stable version of Contao 4.13 has been released on February 17, 2022, replacing Contao 4.9 as the long term support version. As an LTS version, 4.13 will be provided with bug fixes until February 14, 2025 and security-related updates until February 14, 2026. Contao 5.3 will be the next LTS version of Contao and has been released in February 2024, ensuring a stress-free transition.
