This sprint was very productive. Finally, we finished replacing Travis CI with a new and improved GitHub Actions based CI which involved approximately 250 PRs. These PRs include fixing many minor issues that weren’t being identified with our old CI setup. MySQL 8.0 testing was also added as part of the CI. Also, a critical issue has been resolved that prevented users from fully working with ElementalArea. Some improvements have also been made to the work of GridField, which will allow users to freely work with filtered and sorted lists and not be afraid to lose the current state of the list. The work of ModelAdmin SearchForm has also been improved. Now, Gridfield search terms search across multiple fields. And of course, significant administrative work has been done and standardisation of current approaches in the development of the CMS.
Bug fixes and other immediate changes
Changes to look forward to
- Improved navigation in GridField, which will allow users to work with elements of a filtered and sorted list.
- GridFiled search terms now search across multiple fields.
- Added an easy way to set extra fields values on a many many relationships using the ORM after items have already been added.
- Regressions caused by new error handling in LeftAndMain was fixed
Community pull requests merged
Kudos to community devs for taking the time to do PRs on Silverstripe CMS:
- Will Rossiter: Public health/check should not include full details.
- Loz Calver: Add support for autoloading PHP 8.1 enums.
- Mo Alsharaf: Allow for optional can permission method for content review.
- Thomas Portelange: Implement global lazy loadable support for tabs.
Focus for next sprint
The next sprint will mostly be focused on preparing for the development of CMS 5. Work will also continue to improve the current functionality and solve existing bugs.