zen 6.x-2.0-beta1

If you have a sub-theme based off of the Zen 6.x-1.x release, your sub-theme will need considerable porting to work with Zen 6.x-2.x. The 6.x-1.x series will continue to be maintained, so its not necessary to upgrade your sub-theme to work with Zen 6.x-2.x.

• #478134 by mithrill: Improve docs about sites/all/themes and sites/default/themes folders
• #628070 by Aren Cambre: Change "jquery" to "JavaScript" in STARTERKIT.info.txt
• #626868 by alefteris: Replace Bitstream Vera with DejaVu fonts
• #624818 by Aren Cambre and Garrett Albright: Tahoma shouldn't be first font pick
• #600344 by mgifford: Use of absolute font size in block editing links breaks WCAG 2.0
• #546904 by Jennifer_M: List $node as available variable in page.tpl.php
• #583716 by droidenator: Empty title can cause breadcrumbs to display incorrectly
• #600920 by kto.3decb: Fix incorrect comment block class name
• #624046: Replace zen_id_safe() with drupal_html_class() and drupal_html_id()
• Renamed $closure_region region to $page_closure
• #622324: Update page.tpl to use ideas from D7
  • Renamed #page and #page-inner to #page-wrapper and #page
  • Added <span> around site name
  • Moved #skip-to-nav styling to pages.css
  • Removed #navigation link anchor
  • Renamed div#header-inner to div.section which can be themed with #header .section
  • Renamed #main and #main-inner to #main-wrapper and #main
  • Renamed div#content-inner to div.section which can be themed with #content .section
  • Removed #content-header div
  • Added $highlight region
  • Renamed #navbar div to #navigation
  • Renamed $navbar region to $navigation
  • Renamed .with-navbar class to .with-navigation
  • Added #navigation .section div
  • Removed #sidebar-first, #sidebar-first-inner, #sidebar-second, #sidebar-second-inner and moved styles to .region-sidebar-first, .region-sidebar-first .section, .region-sidebar-second, .region-sidebar-second .section
  • Added #footer .section div
• Added region-sidebar.tpl.php template suggestion
• #308254: Make "skip to nav" styling more useful and less intrusive
• #621798: Change sidebar variables to be RTL friendly and $shows_blocks compatible
• #547696: Update node.tpl to use ideas from D7
  • Renamed $picture to $user_picture in node.tpl.php
  • Renamed .sticky class to .node-sticky in node.tpl.php
  • Removed #node-inner div
  • Added $display_submitted variable and deprecated $submitted variable
  • Renamed the .node-mine class to .node-by-viewer
• #620794: Update block.tpl to use ideas from D7
  • Removed .block-inner div
  • Renamed $block->subject variable to $title
  • Renamed $block->content variable to $content
• #548994: Update comment.tpl and comment-wrapper.tpl to use ideas from D7
  • Renamed comment-wrapper's h2#comments-title to #comments h2.title
  • Added $created to comment.tpl and deprecated $submitted
  • Removed #comment-inner div
  • comment div classes changed:
    • .comment-by-anon changed to .comment-by-anonymous
    • .comment-by-author changed to .comment-by-node-author
    • .comment-mine changed to .comment-by-viewer
    • .comment-published was removed
• #311458: Search box gets disabled after arbitrary amount of time
• Added $classes and $classes_array to all templates, not just Zen's templates
• Renamed page.tpl's $body_classes and $body_classes_array to $classes and $classes_array
• #564068: Views classes are missing from $classes variable
• Simplified header, content_top, content_bottom, navbar, and footer region markup
• Add region.tpl.php template
• Render $edit_links_array in zen_process_block
• #546858: Add THEME_process_HOOK functions to Zen
• #317417 by JohnAlbin and quicksketch: Fix off-line maintenance page since drupal_get_path('theme', 'zen') won't work
• #549798 by caroltron: page-backgrounds.css missing from .info file
• Remove ie5.css from STARTERKIT and deprecate support for IE5
• #547696: Update node.tpl to use ideas from D7
• Renamed $picture to $user_picture in node.tpl.php
• Renamed sticky class to node-sticky in node.tpl.php
• Added $build_mode variable to node.tpl.php
• #445814: Change primary/secondary link rendering and move secondary menu to footer
• #445822: Simplify wrapper divs around logo, site name, slogan
• #546862: Add D7's element-hidden and element-invisible for accessibility features
• #547382: Rename Zen's reset stylesheet to html-reset.css from html-elements.css
• #527494: Follow Drupal's proposed CSS coding standards
• #480610 by kdebaas: css class .field-type-image does not exist anymore in 6.x version of the module
• #545320 by Deslack: Use of split() generate E_DEPRECATED warnings on PHP 5.3.0
• #542818: Using alternate layout method causes .clearfix class to disappear
• #546828: Move tpl.php files to a templates folder in the root zen directory
• #546792: Remove box.tpl.php
• #513926: Sub-themes cannot reorder the stylesheets of the base theme
• #456136: Move zen stylesheets into STARTERKIT/css
• #544750 by kdebaas: Wrong sidebar class naming in maintenance-page.tpl.php
• #529796: Make block edit links easier to edit/turn off individually
• Added $classes_array variable to node, block and comment templates
• Add layout.css in Zen's .info file to properly position sub-theme's layout.css
• #379902: Make all stylesheets RTL compatible
• #472694: Drupal 6.11 broke Zen's OpenID overrides
• #375976 by JohnAlbin and Amitaibu: Flip sidebar positioning on RTL
• #375953 by Amitaibu and JohnAlbin: Change sidebar names to be RTL friendly
• Updated screenshot.png to use Zen logo since an actual screenshot is boring
• Changed "or" back to "||" in node.tpl.php since themers do need to learn a little PHP
• #254821: Sub-theme's .info file triggers incorrect "out of date" flag in update module
• Added blockquote indent stlying
• Removed navigation-top named anchor from page templates
• #382598: .node div.links ruleset doesn't match html in node template
• #452118: Removed redundant wrapper div around comment links
• #382480 by Ognyan Kulev: #block-menu-2 should be #block-menu-primary-links
• #374349: breadcrumb often broken when zen_breadcrumb_title is on
• #426750: Removed Zen Classic sub theme
• #445830: Rename clear-block CSS class to clearfix
• #445790: Move search box to header
• #445562: q0rban and JohnAlbin: Allow modules to declare their own block edit links
• Added optional node-type-specific preprocess functions
• Added notes about mobile stylesheets to STARTERKIT.info
• #200495 by JohnAlbin, caroltron, and Toe: Split up monolithic zen.css into smaller, logical stylesheets
• #328221 by kmonty and JohnAlbin: Split up ie.css to remove CSS hacks

Whew.