News, Announcements, Updates

This is a pre-stable release. We expect the stable release next week.

• changed - record menu now works on click rather than on mouse over
• changed - assets will not be saved anymore for individual records to avoid an unnecessary big table
• fixed - moderator list pagination
• fixed - records in backend display now much faster
• fixed - replaced deprecated JFactory::getXMLparser('Simple') with fa faster replacement
• fixed - fatal error on getName
• fixed - delete bug, which still

This release fixed small issues with Google e-commerce tracking.

This week we are going to publish Cobalt on JED. It will take at least one week to get approved. During that week we will make final fixes and after this we intend to release the stable version of Cobalt.

There is a need for additional people in our small Cobalt community to provide new ideas, concepts and experiences.

Cobalt is and will ever be a product heavily influenced by your input. We listen to your requests and try to implement them as much as possible to shape a product which

Emerald extension

• fixed previous version bugs
• fixed discount period
• added - google analytics tracking (ecommerce)

Cobalt extension

• improved - speed of selecting records with many categories
• added - field Image to Core fields
• added - parameter for form template to edit public user alert text
• fixed - Community builder integration file error
• fixed - memory overload on reindex
• fixed - asset data saved

Present to you the new advanced templates

Template

• Added - advanced table template to record list
• Added - template to select the category for the forms and categories of the index

Cobalt extension

• improved - filter search SQL queries
• added - cron-function for deleting unsaved files
• fixed - ItemId is taken from the category`s params but not from the section
• fixed - markup of the uploader with turned off editing of the title
• fixed - link to the pop-up method
• fixed - for Datetime field displaying saved data in the picker
• fixed - records mode.
• improved - speed of selecting records with many categories.

Toolset

• fixed - DB tool
• fixed -

• added - views of the opening the field (Download link open)
• added - variants of opening the file (Open file in)
• added - language translations
• fixed - bug with one limit file

Cobalt extension

• added - sending alerts to e-mail with list of events
• added - gravatar.com avatars support. Enable in global Cobalt parameters.
• added - sql-patch for alerts, added table 'subscription_params' field 'last_send'
• added - Language files for fields
• added - breadcrumb for all categories and subscategories
• improved - category index records count. With 50

• fixed – behavior on the non-cobalt pages
• fixed - bug of previous versions

• fixed - Categories list style MooTree
• fixed - bugs of previous versions

• fixed - previous bugs
• added - new template notimoo

Cobalt Extension

• Added - icon for the titles of fields in the back-end
• Added - sort the fields with uploader by name, size, hits, ASC / DESC
• Fixed - sorting field by type on the back-end
• Added - sending to e-mail notification with a list of events. You can specify different periods: Send notification a once a month, a weekly, 1 time a day.
• Added - sql patch alerts. Add a field last_send to the table subscription_params
• Fixed - Fields that use the uploader, has been fixed

• fixed - filter`s behavior
• fixed - zero sign in the end (like 0.50)

You all know that Cobalt 7 has different structure and queries to achieve great speed. That was one of the purpose of totally rewriting it.

One of our client started to use Cobalt in his serious projects. He encoded it with data about 16,000 records and 30,000 files uploaded. He used relate fields as well. And this fields's "Show intro" parameter is Yes. It means it shows list of children for every record in the list of parents and vice versa.

Suddenly Cobalt become slow. About 6

• fixed - search by cities

Cobalt Extension

• fixed - pop-ups in the type settings
• fixed – safe deleting first comment
• fixed – parameter Searchable for new records
• added – Tool Reindex

Field Records

• fixed - option Any section article
• fixed – lists of the fields Search from and Search in

Field URL

• added – redirect link
• added – numbers of hits
• added – nofollow tag to the redirect link

Field Multiselect

• added – putting values with classes for filtering

Datetime field

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We created branch for developing Cobalt 8. As usual I will not say the day of the release even approximately. But I can tell you what you can to expect to see in new Cobalt 8.

Roadmap

Those are new outstanding features that we plan to implement in new Cobalt version.

• Versioning. This audit trail feature will allow you to keep track of changes of records. Who made those changes, when. You will be able even to compare records in special compare view. Just two versions of the same

• added - styles for map. Added new option "Map Style".

• fixed translations on submission
• added types of resizing: Crop Fit Fill Proportional Base on width Base on height