Pico CMS v2.0.0-beta.1 Release Notes
Release Date: 2017-11-05 // over 6 years ago-
🚀 First beta release of Pico's second major release. This is a pre-release!
* [New] Pico is on its way to its second major release! * [New] Improve Pico's release & build process * [New] Add "Developer Certificate of Origin" to `CONTRIBUTING.md` * [New] Add license & copyright header to all relevant files * [New] Add Pico version constants (`Pico::VERSION` and `Pico::VERSION_ID`), and add a `version` Twig variable and `%version%` Markdown placeholder * [New] Add Pico API versioning for plugins (see `Pico::API_VERSION` constant); Pico now triggers events on plugins using the latest API version only ("native" plugins), `PicoDeprecated` takes care of all other plugins; as a result, old plugin's always depend on `PicoDeprecated` now * [New] Add a theme and plugin installer for composer; Pico now additionally uses the new `vendor/pico-plugin.php` file to discover plugins installed by composer and loads them using composer's autoloader; see the `picocms/composer-installer` repo for more details; Pico loads plugins installed by composer first and ignores conflicting plugins in Pico's `plugins/` dir * [New] Add `$enableLocalPlugins` parameter to `Pico::__construct()` to allow website developers to disable local plugin discovery by scanning the `plugins/` dir (i.e. load plugins from `vendor/pico-plugin.php` only) * [New] Add public `AbstractPicoPlugin::getPluginConfig()` method * [New] Add public `Pico::loadPlugin()` method and the corresponding `onPluginManuallyLoaded` event * [New] Add public `Pico::resolveFilePath()` method (replaces the protected `Pico::discoverRequestFile()` method) * [New] Add public `Pico::is404Content()` method * [New] Add public `Pico::getYamlParser()` method and the corresponding `onYamlParserRegistered` event * [New] Add public `Pico::substituteFileContent()` method * [New] Add public `Pico::getPageId()` method * [New] Add public `Pico::getFilesGlob()` method * [New] Add public `Pico::getVendorDir()` method, returning Pico's installation directory (i.e. `/var/www/pico/vendor/picocms/pico`); don't confuse this with composer's `vendor/` dir! * [New] Add `$default` parameter to `Pico::getConfig()` method * [New] Add empty `assets/` and `content/` dirs * [New] #305: Add `url_param` and `form_param` Twig functions, and the public `Pico::getUrlParameter()` and `Pico::getFormParameter()` methods, allowing theme developers to access URL GET and HTTP POST parameters * [New] Add `$meta` parameter to `markdown` Twig filter * [New] Add `remove` fallback to `sort_by` Twig filter * [New] Add `theme_url` config parameter * [New] Add public `Pico::getBaseThemeUrl()` method * [New] Add `REQUEST_URI` routing method, allowing one to simply rewrite all requests to `index.php` (e.g. use `FallbackResource` or `mod_rewrite` in your `.htaccess` for Apache, or use `try_files` for nginx) * [New] #299: Add built-in 404 page as fallback when no `404.md` is found * [New] Allow sorting pages by arbitrary meta values * [New] Add `onSinglePageLoading` event, allowing one to skip a page * [New] Add `onSinglePageContent` event * [New] Add some config parameters to change Parsedown's behavior * [Changed] ! Disallow running the same Pico instance multiple times by throwing a `RuntimeException` when calling `Pico::run()` * [Changed] ! #203: Load plugins from `plugins/<plugin name>/<plugin name>.php` and `plugins/<plugin name>.php` only (directory and file name must match case-sensitive), and throw a `RuntimeException` when Pico is unable to load a plugin; also throw a `RuntimeException` when superfluous files or directories in `plugins/` are found; use a scope-isolated `require()` to include plugin files * [Changed] ! Use a plugin dependency topology to sort `Pico::$plugins`, changing the execution order of plugins so that plugins, on which other plugins depend, are always executed before their dependants * [Changed] ! Don't pass `$plugins` parameter to `onPluginsLoaded` event by reference anymore; use `Pico::loadPlugin()` instead * [Changed] ! Leave `Pico::$pages` unsorted when a unknown sort method was configured; this usually means that a plugin wants to sort it * [Changed] Overhaul page discovery events: add `onPagesDiscovered` event which is triggered right before `Pico::$pages` is sorted and move the `$currentPage`, `$previousPage` and `$nextPage` parameters of the `onPagesLoaded` event to the new `onCurrentPageDiscovered` event * [Changed] Move the `$twig` parameter of the `onPageRendering` event to the `onTwigRegistered` event, replacing the `onTwigRegistration` event * [Changed] Unify the `onParsedownRegistration` event by renaming it to `onParsedownRegistered` and add the `$parsedown` parameter * [Changed] #330: Replace `config/config.php` by a modular YAML-based approach; you can now use a arbitrary number of `config/*.yml` files to configure Pico * [Changed] ! When trying to auto-detect Pico's `content` dir, Pico no longer searches just for a (possibly empty) directory, but rather checks whether a `index.md` exists in this directory * [Changed] ! Use the relative path between `index.php` and `Pico::$themesDir` for Pico's theme URL (also refer to the new `theme_url` config and the public `Pico::getBaseThemeUrl()` method for more details) * [Changed] #347: Drop the superfluous trailing "/index" from Pico's URLs * [Changed] Flip registered meta headers array, so that the array key is used to search for a meta value and the array value is used to store the found meta value (previously it was the other way round) * [Changed] ! Add lazy loading for `Pico::$yamlParser`, `Pico::$parsedown` and `Pico::$twig`; the corresponding events are no longer part of Pico's event flow and are triggered on demand * [Changed] ! Trigger the `onMetaHeaders` event just once; the event is no longer part of Pico's event flow and is triggered on demand * [Changed] Don't lower meta headers on the first level of a page's meta data (i.e. `SomeKey: value` is accessible using `$meta['SomeKey']`) * [Changed] Don't compare registered meta headers case-insensitive, require matching case * [Changed] Allow users to explicitly set values for the `date_formatted` and `time` meta headers in a page's YAML front matter * [Changed] Add page siblings for all pages * [Changed] ! Treat pages or directories that are prefixed by `_` as hidden; when requesting a hidden page, Pico responds with a 404 page; hidden pages are still in `Pico::$pages`, but are moved to the end of the pages array when sorted alphabetically or by date * [Changed] ! Don't treat explicit requests to a 404 page as successful request * [Changed] Change method visibility of `Pico::getFiles()` to public * [Changed] Change method visibility of `Pico::triggerEvent()` to public; at first glance this method triggers events on native plugins only, however, `PicoDeprecated` takes care of triggering events for other plugins, thus you can use this method to trigger (custom) events on all plugins; never use it to trigger Pico core events! * [Changed] Move Pico's default theme to the new `picocms/pico-theme` repo; the theme was completely rewritten from scratch and is a much better starting point for creating your own theme; refer to the theme's `CHANGELOG.md` for more details * [Changed] Move `PicoDeprecated` plugin to the new `picocms/pico-deprecated` repo; refer to the plugin's `CHANGELOG.md` for more details * [Changed] Update dependencies: Twig 1.34, Symfony YAML 2.8, Parsedown 1.6 * [Changed] Improve Pico docs and PHP class docs * [Changed] A vast number of small improvements and changes... * [Removed] ! Remove `PicoParsePagesContent` plugin * [Removed] ! Remove `PicoExcerpt` plugin * [Removed] Remove `rewrite_url` and `is_front_page` Twig variables * [Removed] Remove superfluous parameters of various events to reduce Pico's error-proneness (plugins hopefully interfere with each other less)