eZ Platform v3.1¶
Version number: v3.1
Release date: July 15, 2020
Release type: Fast Track
Notable changes¶
eZ Commerce now uses Symfony 5 and is fully integrated into the eZ Platform Back Office.
Refer to eZ Commerce documentation for more information.
New features¶
This release of eZ Platform introduces the following new features:
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Site Factory¶
Site skeleton¶
You can now create multiple content structures that can be used as Site skeletons for the new sites.
For more information about Site skeleton, see Configure Site skeleton.
Defining parent Location¶
You can now define the parent Location for every new site in the template configuration.
For more information about defining parent Location, see Configure parent Location.
Elasticsearch¶
You can now use Elasticsearch in your eZ Platform installation
through the PlatformElasticSearchEngineBundle.
See Elasticsearch documentation to learn how to set up, configure and user Elasticsearch with eZ Platform.
Page Builder¶
You can now filter elements in the sidebar during site creation process to get to the desired blocks faster.
Field Group permissions¶
The new Field Group Limitation enables you to control who can edit content Fields per Field group.
Version comparison¶
You can now compare additional Fields in version comparison of content item:
- Content Relation and Content Relations
- Image Asset and Image
- Matrix
- Media
For overview of additional Fields, see User documentation on Comparing versions.
URL management UI¶
You can now manage URL addresses and URL wildcards with a comfortable user interface that is available in the Back Office. You can create, modify and delete URL wildcards, as well as decide if the user should be redirected to the new address on clicking the link.
Note
As of this release, the Link manager is no longer part of the Content panel, and now it belongs to the Admin panel of the Back Office.
For more information on how to manage URLs, see URL management.
Tree view in the Universal Discovery Widget¶
The Universal Discovery Widget, referred to as the Content Browser in User Documentation, has been updated by adding the Tree view. You can now switch between the Grid, Panels and Tree views to browse and manage user accounts, media files, content items and forms. Selections that you make in one view survive when you switch to the other view.
For more information about configuring the Universal Discovery Widget, see Extending Universal Discovery Widget.
Field group display¶
Display of Field groups has been improved in content preview and editing.
When editing, Field groups are now presented in tabs:
In Content preview, the group sections are collapsible:
Saving incomplete draft¶
When users create or edit a content item or a Page, they can now save it without completing all the required fields. They can then return to editing, or pass the content to another contributor. Validation that used to happen at each save operation now, by default, happens when you click the Publish button.
The ContentService::validate() method has been added that you can use to trigger validation of individual fields
or whole content items for completeness at other stages of the editing process.
Search¶
ezplatform-search¶
ezplatform-search is a new repository
that contains search functionalities that are not dependent on the search engine.
Search controller¶
A customizable search controller has been extracted and placed in ezplatform-search.
Searching in trash¶
You can now search through the contents of Trash and sort the search results based on a number of Search Criteria and Sort Clauses that can be used by the \eZ\Publish\API\Repository\TrashService::findTrashItems method only.
For more information, see Searching in trash.
Repository filtering¶
Repository filtering enables you to filter content and Locations using a defined Filter,
without the SearchService.
PermissionResolver¶
You can now have a Service that provides both PermissionResolver and PermissionCriterionResolver by injecting eZ\Publish\API\Repository\PermissionService.
Behavior changes¶
Landing Page drafts¶
When you start creating a Landing Page, a new draft is now automatically created.
Deprecations¶
Search engine tags¶
The ezpublish.searchEngine and ezpublish.searchEngineIndexer tags have been deprecated
in favor of ezplatform.search_engine and ezplatform.search_engine.indexer.