The latest bugfix release of the 4.9 series contains a bugfix in the recognition of database fields, which did affect extensions in particular. Otherwise, the search improvements that were already released with 4.13.1 have been backported to 4.9. In addition, this release also contains some performance improvements and overlong page titles no longer cause errors when indexing.
Changelog of the fixed issues in Contao 4.9.28:
- #4427 Handle long page titles and URLs in the search table (leofeyer)
- #4424 Also hover over the parent records in "paste" mode (leofeyer)
- #4423 Decode the folder name when checking for circular references (leofeyer)
- #4219 Make the contao:install:lock command idempotent (richardhj)
- #4408 Improve insert tags speed (ausi)
- #4252 Fix the trigger_error() calls (leofeyer)
- #4402 Fixed nested http client options not supported (Toflar)
- #4357 Fix srcToInsertTag() for URL encoded paths (fritzmg)
- #4294 Rename the Controller::reset() method (aschempp)
- #4331 Fix typos in the Environment class (fritzmg)
- #4293 Revert 'Do not use the `.tl_confirm` CSS class in the front end' (leofeyer)
- #4299 Fix invalid news content element ID (ausi)
- #4263 Make the search accent insensitive (ausi)
- #4256 Allow fragment reference with fake model instance (aschempp)
- #4236 Also create a new version if a checkbox is auto-submitted (leofeyer)
- #4373 Also clean textarea of caption for last metawizard (aschempp)
- #4322 Use FQCN instead of aliased class name (bytehead)
- #4266 Forward IO to Composer filesystem in ScriptHandler (aschempp)
- #4285 Fix DCA extractor wrongly assuming every DCA is database driven (fritzmg)
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.
