Plan for Panels v7.x-3.6 release (PHP 7 fixes)

7.x-3.5 was released two days ago but is missing a whole bunch of commits. It seems like all the commits made between May 16 and October 22 are missing. Probably somebody worked from an older local branch without merging in the upstream changes from git.drupal.org.

Raising priority of this, having diverged branches is bad. The new 7.x-3.6 release should be rolled as soon as possible to minimize the impact.

Here is a list of fixes that are missing from the 7.x-3.5 release:

• #2557061: deprecated constructor in PHP 7
• #2434991: Changing layout shows the display settings form without saving it
• #1391450: Panels does not hide an empty mini panel
• #2505641: Panels base JS needs to be added for Panels IPE
• #2514842: Code Spell errors
• #1441218: Use keyword replacements for CSS settings
• #2220271: Add pre-render hooks before rendering all panes and regions.
• #2259957: Let other modules filter the available layouts in panels_ipe
• #2441097: panels_mini_uninstall() fails when block module is not installed
• #1588212: Add "optional" checkbox to require contexts within mini panels
• #2011814: Add a JS quick filter to the add content modal dialog
• #2390803: Keyboard focus should be on the first element in the selected category tab in the "Add content" model (accessibility problem)
• #2448825: Wrong indentation in Panels exports

@heddn, thanks for the correction, it is indeed 2016 already :D I regularly goof up in issue comments, but this is pretty hilarious!

I am getting the following message with the latest version of php and latest code.

Deprecated function: Methods with the same name as their class will not be constructors in a future version of PHP; panels_cache_object has a deprecated constructor in require_once() (line 127 of /Users/USERNAME/Development/Sites/CLIENT/docroot/sites/all/modules/ctools/ctools.module).

@IrishAdo, this is not a bug in Panels, as you can see from the path this is in CTools. You can fix it by updating to the latest dev version of CTools. It has been fixed in #2528736: Deprecating PHP4 style constructors.

For once I don't have any burning uncommitted issues to petition for, but perhaps RTBC's would be suitable candidates?

These are the current ones:

• #1699432: Add IPE permissions for changing pane settings or deleting panes
• #1570120: Add a button for adding CSS id or CSS class for a region in IPE
• #2253919: The UUIDs of cloned variant and relative panes are the same of original ones
• #2391073: panels_mini_load & friends need caching
• #2242835: Enable Inline Preview in IPE
• #2329419: Style permissions not granular enough
• #2547485: Filter available panel panes by panel page
• #2229767: Add way to hide elements when IPE is on
• #2331921: Panels display 'did' not actually exported - breaks flexible layout css

Actually, perhaps we should use the existing issue instead.

Duplicate of #2423733: Plan for Panels 7.x-3.6 release.