Contao 5.4.0 released

Standardized icon set for the back end

The icons in Contao consisted of various sources up to version 5.3 and have now been replaced by the new Lucide icons. Contao therefore presents itself in a new guise. This also reduces the workload for extension developers when searching for suitable icons.

Additional spam protection for forms

There is additional protection in the fight against spam bots. The open source solution from ALTCHA is used for this. As ALTCHA only works with an SSL connection, a fallback to the security question is issued for http.

Set ARIA label for navigation

You can now define an ARIA label for screen readers in the navigation modules.

The picker is no longer linked to the session

You may be familiar with the situation where you are working on a large website and have a specific page or article filtered by a subpage in order to finish faster. This filtering no longer has any influence on the picker, but all pages or articles are still displayed and not just the filtered ones.

Turbo ignited in the back end

Turbo bundles several techniques to create fast, modern, incrementally improved web applications without using much JavaScript. That's why Turbo is now also used in the Contao back end for faster output.

Template attributes can be easily overwritten by developers

html5 templates such as the fe_page can now be customised more easily using the attr() function.

$this->extend('fe_page');

$this->rootAttributes = $this->attr()
    ->set('data-turbo', false)
    ->mergeWith($this->rootAttributes)
;

$this->bodyAttributes = $this->attr()
    ->set('data-controller', 'foobar')
    ->mergeWith($this->bodyAttributes)
;

PageFinder::getCurrentPage() is the new $GLOBALS['objPage'] for developers

In future, please use PageFinder::getCurrentPage() instead of globals $objPage or $GLOBALS['objPage'].

$page = $this->pageFinder->getCurrentPage($request);

$pageId = $page->id;

$pageAlias = $page->alias;

Further improvements in the changelog

You can find a complete list of all changes in the changelog at the end of this blog post. The official release article on contao.org is also worth reading and the Contao Academy YouTube video is well worth watching.