This release fixes some more bugs related to PHP 8 and the latest Composer versions (Contao Manager users are not affected). Furthermore, the {{post::*}} insert tags on redirect pages after submitting a form work again and the search indexer now displays unreachable pages as a warning instead of an error.
Changelog of the fixed issues in Contao 4.9.25:
- #3997 Fix several array to string conversions (leofeyer)
- #4056 Fix merging cssID from ContentModule to FrontendModuleController (ameotoko)
- #3857 Fix fragments in RSS feeds (fritzmg)
- #3800 Fix routing with local domain and port (bezin)
- #4009 Fix long content being cut off in the back end popup (qzminski)
- #4031 Backport 'Replace phpunit/token-stream with nikic/php-parser' (m-vo)
- #4020 Fix compatibility with Composer 2.2.5 (ausi)
- #4013 Reload translations if the language changes (ausi)
- #3984 Add the config.allow-plugins settings to the composer.json files (leofeyer)
- #3971 Fix `Input::post()` for form data (fritzmg)
- #3981 Reduce the scope of the authentication listener (fritzmg)
- #3790 Add a debounce wrapper to the username autosuggester (ameotoko)
- #3488 Add a configuration for allowed URL protocols (MarkejN)
- #3910 Fix the ScriptHandlers for Composer 2.3 (fritzmg)
- #3915 Do not generate URLs for insert tags that don’t need it (aschempp)
- #3842 Simplify expression in Crawl\Escargot\Factory (m-vo)
- #3966 Add compatibility with symfony/filesystem 5.4 (ausi)
- #3939 Fix duplicating child records with dynamic ptable (dmolineus)
- #3876 Correctly handle array values in DCs (aschempp)
- #3882 Do not initialize the framework to get the Automator commands (aschempp)
- #3877 Enforce final newline in HTML5 templates (aschempp)
- #3836 Report HTTP exceptions as warnings for the crawler instead of errors (Toflar)
- #3867 Serialize array value before saving (bytehead)
- #3841 Remove an unused setup method (aschempp)
About Contao 4.9 LTS
The first stable version of Contao 4.9 has been released on February 18, 2020, replacing Contao 4.4 as the long term support version. As an LTS version, 4.9 has been be provided with bug fixes until February 14, 2023 and security-related updates until February 14, 2024. Contao 4.13 was the next LTS version of Contao and has been released in February 2022, ensuring a stress-free transition.
