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Lektor v3.3.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2021-12-14 // over 2 years ago

  • 🚀 This release drops support for versions of Python before 3.6. 👍 In particular, Python 2.7 is no longer supported.

    🚀 Quite a few bugs have been fixed since the previous release.

    🐎 The Admin UI has seen a major refactor and various performance optimisations. ⚡️ It has been rewritten in Typescript, and updated to use v5 of the Bootstrap CSS framework.

    🐛 Bugs Fixed

    Database

    • 🛠 Fix queries with offset but without a limit. #827
    • 🛠 Fix the handling of deferred (descriptor-type) model fields when used in slug_format and when used as a sort key. #789
    • ⚠ Refrain from issuing warning about future change in implicit image upscaling behavior in cases that do not involve upscaling. #885
    • 🛠 Fix bug with translation fallback of record label. #897

    Data Modelling

    • 🛠 Fixed pagination issue which caused child-less paginated pages to not be built. #952

    Publisher

    • 👍 Allow rsync deployment to a local path. #830
    • 🛠 Clean up subprocess handling in lektor.publisher. This fixes "ResourceWarning: unclosed file" warnings which were being emitted when using the rsync publisher, as well as possible other buglets. #896

    💻 Command Line

    • 🛠 Fix circular imports in lektor.cli to allow its use as an executable module (python -m lektor.cli). #682, #856
    • 0️⃣ Fall back to watchdog PollingObserver if default Observer type fails to start. This fixes "OSError: inotify watch limit reached" and perhaps other similar failures. #861, #886

    🔌 Plugins

    • 🛠 Fix the Plugin.emit method so that it works. #859
    • 👻 Reword the (previously incomprehensible) exception message emitted when attempting to load a plugin from an improperly named distribution. #875, #879

    👷 Build System

    • 🛠 Fix bug in lektor.sourcesearch.find_files which was causing intermittent exceptions. #895, #897

    Miscellaneous

    • 🛠 Fix reference cycle in Environment. #882
    • 🛠 Fix "unclosed file" ResourceWarnings. #898

    💻 Admin UI

    • 🛠 Fix the checkboxes widget. They were broken so as to be uncheckable. #812, #817
    • 🔄 Fix page data being incorrectly marked as changed when flow block is expanded/collapsed in the edit UI. #828, #842
    • 🛠 Fix encoding of URLs when opening the admin UI from the pencil button. #815, #837
    • 💻 Rename a CSS class in the admin UI to prevent breakage by ad blockers. The class add-block was being blocked by the EasyList FR ad blocker. #785, #841
    • 😌 Relax URL checking to allow all valid URLs in URL fields. #793, #840, #864
    • ⚡️ Preview iframe was not always updating when it should. #844, #846
    • 👉 Make the "Save" button always visible (without need to scroll on long pages). #43, #870
    • Disable the "Save" button unless there are changes. #872
    • ➕ Add "<ctl>-e" hotkey shortcut to edit page. #876
    • ⚡️ Update UI to Bootstrap v4. (This fixes a layout issue with the date picker.) #648, #884
    • 🛠 Fix edit page failure for select and checkbox widgets with no choices. #890, #900
    • ⚡️ Update UI to Bootstrap v5. #917, #926
    • ➕ Add missing translation strings, show error dialogs on top of other dialogs #934.

    Internal changes

    Python code

    JS code

    • We now require node >= 14. #940
    • ⚡️ Update NPM/JS dependencies. Update to webpack v5. #816, #834, #848, #852, #860, #905, #917, #926, #945, #957
    • 💅 Use prettier and [eslint][] for JS (and YAML) beautification and style enforcement. #825, #936
    • ✅ Disuse unmaintained jsdomify to prevent hanging tests. #839
    • Disuse jQuery. #851
    • 🔨 Convert JS code to Typescript. Various other refactoring and cleanups. #857, #869, #872
    • 🔨 Refactor code to handle hotkeys. #876

    Dependencies

    ✅ Testing/CI

    • ✅ Use tox for local testing. #824
    • 👕 Pin version of pylint used for tests. #891
    • ✅ Complete rewrite of the tests for lektor.pluginsystem to increase coverage and reduce running time. #881.
    • ✅ Test under Python 3.9. #845
    • ✅ Test under Node v14 and v16. #852, #927
    • ⚡️ Do not run brew update in MacOS CI workflow. #853
    • CI workflow simplification. #927

    👕 [pylint]: https://pylint.org/

    ✅ [flake8]: https://flake8.pycqa.org/en/latest/

    👕 [eslint]: https://eslint.org/