news around LEPTON

First step is done. Pre-Release LEPTON_2 beta is published. We hope that you will test this prelease intensively so we can prepare next release as RC.

There are lots of changes in LEPTON_2.

We worked to enable more custom templates to give designers more influence on the frontend-look of core files as frontend-login, search and custom module css files. Furthermore there are some new helpful functuins for module developers.

Here is a (non-complete) list of changes:

• add lib_lepton, including class.upload (see http://www.verot.net/php_class_upload.htm) and html5shiv
• introduce new template engine twig (lib_twig), see http://twig.sensiolabs.org/
• add new module droplets (using twig template files) and some new functions
• add new search (lib_search, using twig template files)
• use search template files in frontend-templates
• remove old and unneeded functions, see http://doc.lepton-cms.org/docu/english/home/core/removed-functions.php
• update most modules (lib_phpmailer, wysiwyg_admin, etc)
• introduce new system frontend-login, see http://doc.lepton-cms.org/docu/english/home/templates/template-guidelines/frontend-login.php
• introduce new system of handling custom backend/frontend.css
• add register modfiles to class secure, see http://doc.lepton-cms.org/docu/english/home/addons/register-files.php
• add Danish language file
• update jquery core and added migrate file, please see notices on jquery homepage http://jquery.com/download/
• introduce new standard error_level
• reworked wysywig_admin and introduce new class.editorinfo to work with editors
• introduce tin_mce 4-series (smaller, faster, nicer) http://www.tinymce.com/
• introduce twig template files in LEPTON2 frontend template (frontend-login)
• reworked news module and introduce template files
• enable custom module template files in frontend and backend
• remove under_construction function (not needed for LEPTON is delivered with an initial page)
• add some new functions in framework
• introduce '$module_delete = false;' to prevent core modules from being deleted
• introduce easymulitlanguage, see http://doc.lepton-cms.org/docu/english/home/core/new-functions/easymultilanguage.php
• introduce new language file conventions see http://doc.lepton-cms.org/docu/english/home/addons/language-files.php
• introduce new module file register_parser to load twig template engine
• reworked code2
• rename page and media directory via backend
• reworked captcha and moved to new location: modules/captcha_control
• massive core code-cleanings and reworkeded code (still lot of work to do...)

Please test this release now to make it RC and then STABLE soon.

Discuss this release and report bugs on the new forum board.

Detailed list of all changes can be seen here or on github