Contao Open Source CMS Changelog for the version 5.4

About Contao 5.4

The first stable version of Contao 5.4 has been released on 15 August 2024 and was the successor of Contao 5.3. 5.4 has been updated until 17 February 2025, after which it was replaced by Contao 5.5.

Changelog Contao 5.4

Contao 5.4.14 (2025-02-17)

Changelog of the fixed issues in Contao 5.4.14:

#8083 Use the correct icon in the favorites menu ( leofeyer )
#8082 Add data-turbo-prefetch="false" to the favorites menu ( leofeyer )

Contao 5.4.13 (2025-02-11)

Changelog of the fixed issues in Contao 5.4.13:

#8035 Change the ACE editor theme on the color change event ( zoglo )
#8017 Enable enableKeyboardAccessibility for the ACE editor ( zoglo )

Contao 5.4.12 (2025-01-22)

Changelog of the fixed issues in Contao 5.4.12:

#7922 Do not prefetch the "switch user" URLs ( fritzmg )

Contao 5.4.11 (2025-01-20)

Contao 5.4.10 (2025-01-17)

Changelog of the fixed issues in Contao 5.4.10:

#7873 Fix the tooltips-controller ( fritzmg )

Contao 5.4.9 (2025-01-03)

Changelog of the fixed issues in Contao 5.4.9:

#7841 Register folders, pages and nodes as tooltip targets ( zoglo )

Contao 5.4.8 (2024-12-10)

Changelog of the fixed issues in Contao 5.4.8:

#7741 Make the SERP preview script compatible with Turbo ( fritzmg )

Contao 5.4.7 (2025-11-28)

Changelog of the fixed issues in Contao 5.4.7:

#7739 Fix a JS performance issue related to the registration of tooltips ( m-vo )

Contao 5.4.6 (2025-11-22)

Changelog of the fixed issues in Contao 5.4.6:

#7736 Disable Turbo in MODE_PARENT content section ( fritzmg )
#7737 Revert 'Add the turbo-root meta tag to the back end' ( fritzmg )

Contao 5.4.5 (2025-11-21)

Changelog of the fixed issues in Contao 5.4.5:

#7687 Adjust the tooltip performance ( zoglo )
#7723 Add an ALTCHA noscript warning message ( CMSworker )
#7724 Canonicalize purge paths ( fritzmg )
#7734 Make the slots concept compatible with Twig 3.15 ( m-vo )

Contao 5.4.4 (2024-10-23)

Changelog of the fixed issues in Contao 5.4.4:

#7663 Correctly set the ACE editor height ( leofeyer )
#7596 Fix the tooltips on mobile devices ( fritzmg )
#7597 Add the turbo-root meta tag to the back end ( aschempp )
#7603 Add display: grid for subpalettes on Ajax requests ( zoglo )
#7546 Add the missing widget-group classes ( fritzmg )

Contao 5.4.3 (2024-09-17)

Security vulnerabilities closed:

Remote command execution through file upload (CVE-2024-45398)
Insert tag injection via canonical URL (CVE-2024-45612)

Contao 5.4.2 (2024-09-12)

Changelog of the fixed issues in Contao 5.4.2:

#7503 Always break out of Turbo frames when missing ( fritzmg )
#7500 Switch to a stable ALTCHA version ( leofeyer )
#7499 Disable Turbo for the 2FA backup codes form ( leofeyer )
#7493 Fix the loading time of the code editor ( leofeyer )

Contao 5.4.1 (2024-08-23)

Changelog of the fixed issues in Contao 5.4.1:

#7471 Fix the line height of the ellipsis containers ( leofeyer )
#7458 Add a Stimulus controller to handle back end tooltips ( zoglo )
#7456 Use Turbo.cache.exemptPageFromCache() in the SERP preview script ( leofeyer )
#7451 Do not initialize Chosen twice in the module wizard ( leofeyer )
#7446 Ensure that $this->style is never null ( leofeyer )
#7449 Disable Turbo on theme import forms ( zoglo )

Contao 5.4.0 (2024-08-15)

Changelog of the fixed issues in Contao 5.4.0:

#7441 Deprecate the service annotations ( leofeyer )

Changelog of the fixed issues in Contao 5.4.0-RC4:

#7419 Use <turbo-frame> for DataContainer::edit() and fix other Turbo issues ( fritzmg )
#7437 Fix the Twig deprecations ( ausi )

Changelog of the fixed issues in Contao 5.4.0-RC3:

#7408 Fix several Turbo issues ( m-vo )
#7410 Allow ALTCHA version 0.7 ( leofeyer )
#7395 Simplify the automatic ACE editor height ( m-vo )
#7406 Revert 'Move the assets folder to public/assets' ( leofeyer )
#7394 Add a Stimulus controller to configure TinyMCE instances ( m-vo )
#7393 Add a note about $GLOBALS['objPage'] to the DEPRECATED.md file ( leofeyer )

Changelog of the fixed issues in Contao 5.4.0-RC2:

#7387 Load the TinyMCE and ACE scripts within be_main ( zoglo )
#7384 Show a warning if ALTCHA is used with an insecure connection ( leofeyer )
#7373 Fix the contao-setup command ( leofeyer )
#7378 Disable Turbo on editAll and overrideAll forms ( fritzmg )

Changelog of the new features in Contao 5.4.0-RC1:

#7209 Add an "ARIA label" field to the navigation module ( leofeyer )
#7011 Add basic support for hotwired/turbo in the back end ( m-vo )
#7273 Store the back end popup session bag under a different storage key ( fritzmg )
#6999 Add Twig slots ( m-vo )
#7094 Move the assets folder to public/assets ( leofeyer )
#7054 Add an ALTCHA form field to the form generator ( markocupic )
#7299 Add more spacing in the back end views ( leofeyer )
#7301 Update the file icons in the file manager ( leofeyer )
#7279 Allow Symfony 7 ( Toflar )
#7142 Update Monolog to version 3 ( Wusch )
#7278 Use Lucide icons in the back end ( leofeyer )
#6731 Add sitemap information to the tl_page.robots help text ( stefansl )
#7249 Allow TinyMCE 7 ( leofeyer )
#7238 Use HtmlAttributes for fe_page ( fritzmg )
#7218 Use the attr() method in templates ( leofeyer )
#7087 Render widget groups in the back end with CSS grid ( zoglo )
#7034 Add a rich text Twig component ( m-vo )
#7000 Replace $GLOBALS['objPage'] in the model argument resolver ( leofeyer )
#7004 Replace $GLOBALS['objPage'] in the filesystem loader ( leofeyer )
#7001 Replace $GLOBALS['objPage'] in the fragment handler ( leofeyer )
#6997 Add the PageFinder::getCurrentPage() method ( leofeyer )
#6998 Fallback to the current request in the scope matcher ( leofeyer )
#6994 Remove the InterestCohortListener ( bytehead )
#6846 Allow to configure the components-dir ( richardhj )

Changelog of the fixed issues in Contao 5.4.0-RC1:

#7326 Use the minified version of the ALTCHA scripts ( leofeyer )
#7318 Remove the redundant m12 CSS class ( leofeyer )
#7302 Add the missing dark icons ( leofeyer )
#7298 Fix the icon sizes ( leofeyer )
#7231 Use CSS grid to align checkboxes and their labels and drag handles ( leofeyer )
#7229 Fix the .nogrid backwards compatibility layer ( leofeyer )