Releases for Panels

Please see my blog post at http://www.angrydonuts.com for some discussion of the new features across the Panels 3 Suite.

Please be absolutely certain that you upgrade CTools and Panels at the same time!!!!!

• Experimentally introduced the In-Place Editor (IPE).
• Updated Panels Stylizer to use CTools' new Export UI.
• Deprecated panels_get_panels() function. This will be eventually disappear. Use panels_get_regions() instead.
• #834084: Reusable flexible layout introduced. Admin UI at admin/build/panels/layouts.
• Clean up flexible. Attempt to reduce the use of unnecessary divs.
• Add more ability to control flexible classes.
• Add ability to fix flexible canvas to a set width.
• Allow disabling of scaling for IE6 in flexible.
• #822234 by Amitaibu: Missing url() caused IPE to not work on sites not using top level URLs.
• #844062: Turned the normal drag and drop editor into a renderer plugin, made the IPE part of it. Also some fairly serious code reorganization.
• Improve the renderer selection framework. This framework has no UI, but it utilizes exportables and new choices can be hand crafted.

Changes since DRUPAL-6--3-3:

-dev branch for the D7 version. Always chasing HEAD! Its recommended you use this snapshot inline with the latest version of ctools

This is primarily a bug fix release for Panels.

Important!!!!!!!
You must upgrade Chaos Tool Suite (CTools) to 1.1 when upgrading to Panels 3.1! This is NOT optional! If you do not do this, your panels will deactivate themselves.

• #552846 by eMPee584: Fix notice with tablesorts on mini panels page if no mini panels exist.
• #568218: Links to clone, export, delete/revert, enable/disable variants from the main summary page were incorrect and led to an operation trail not found message.
• #533724: Prevent Panels from upgrading while uninstalled, as that upgrades into broken pages.
• #529816: Allow flexible layout to add custom classes to each region.
• Rearrange the pane dropdown menus to be better organized and look a little nicer.
• Add a new field to allow setting a panel title from one of its panes.
• #562560 by Damien McKenna: Integration with export.module
• #583172 by jacine: Turn panel pane into a template, as it always should have been.

• #515316: Add permission to view Panels admin dashboard.
• #298174: Recursion defense for mini panels.
• #502670: Extra HTML designed only for flexible layout admin accidentally rendered.
• #507516: "Default" panel style on regions not being properly utilized.
• #476440: Seriously, cloning variants really realy fixed.
• #518360 by joshk: Panels node form doesn't have format properly associated.
• #525340 by markus_petrux: Dashboard improperly initializing a variable.
• #460902 by dmmckenna: Fix problem installing panels from an install profile.
• #488278: Preview on panel nodes prior to creation caused errors.
• #475920: Create "use panels dashboard" permission to more easily control who can and cannot use it.

This release requires CTools API v1.0.1 which can be found in ctools 6.x-1.0-beta3

This release is a single bug fox for the alpha3 release.

If you upgraded from alpha2 to alpha3 and are having problems, please go to update.php and choose update 6291 for panels.module and run it. This should properly convert the data allowing Panels to function again.

Alpha3 release notes copied to here since no one else will go back and read them if I don't:

This release requires CTools alpha3! If you do not update CTools at the same time that you update Panels, Panels will break uncontrollaby! Fun stuff!

Development snapshot for Panels 3.x for Drupal 6.

This is an initial, ALPHA version of Panels 3!

Panels 3 is a redesign primarily of Panels page. Much of Panels has been removed to the CTools module that Panels now depends upon. This is a very early release, designed mostly to get the new UI out into the hands of people who want to use it and get some feedback and possibly coding assistance.

You will notice Panel pages module is *gone*. Instead, enable delegator module and visit admin/build.pages.

KNOWN ISSUES

• No upgrade path yet. I'll do that last, because tinkering with an upgrade path every time something changes SUCKS.
• Much of Panels has not yet been converted to use the CTools tools, so there's now a lot of redundant code in the system that will slowly be removed.
• Because of the above point, there is still a dependency on Views module. This will go away once all of the form and ajax stuff is migrated to use CTools instead.
• Imports and exports work but are a little bit difficult.

A quick idea of what to do with this

Panels2 Beta5 is primarily a bugfix patch to deal with several issues that cropped up in beta4.

We packed as much other stuff in as we could. Next stop, RC.

Changes since DRUPAL-5--2-0-BETA4B:

Changes since DRUPAL-5--2-0-BETA4:

• Small fix to get rid of array_intersect_keys(), which was implemented in PHP5.1.0 and therefore screws PHP4 compatibility.

• Two changes: Allow $display to be sent to the layout theme, if it exists and fix $nide typo; should have been $node
• Error handling cleanup.
• Better Error handling cleanup for optional contexts
• Protect panels legacy views from contexts that aren't arrays, even though they should always be an array.
• Add a safety check for trying to render displays that are not correctly configured
• Several bugs fixed but not yet checked in
• #219730: Sort order of comments was being ignored
• duplicate code
• Fix for broken imports of secondary displays on a panel page
• #207158 - resolves insufficient field size issue by increasing the size of the cache field in mysql dbs.
• #233588: (by sdboyer) Allows external modules to tell inform panels of additional locations to search for panels plugin *.inc files.
• fixed bug with panels_save_display() that caused new pids not to appear in saved objects without calling an additional panels_load_display()
• #234649. removed line-height property with invalid value xx-small.
• #208184 by pvasener. fix locations of 'Save' and 'Cancel' buttons on themes/layouts with right sidebars.

This is the long awaited Panels 2.0 beta 1.

At this point the API is frozen and the feature set is basically frozen. Notes:

1) When installing this beta, *remove* any prior install you have from the file system, as 2 files have been removed. Their presence will cause conflicts that will cause your system to crash. if you get into this position, remove your panels directory and re-install from the tarball.

2) If you're taking advantage of exported panels and default panel pages and minis, you will need to re-export them.

3) There are a bunch of new modules included. You don't necessarily need to enable them all; in particular, unless you find you need it, don't bother enabling the legacy nodes module.

4) Any 'panel style' modules such as tabbed panels or the panels carousel will need to be updated for some theming changes that were recently made. Therefore, please check these modules before you update, or be prepared for those things to not work until they are updated.

Important safety tip: Panels 2 beta ships with two new modules dealing with Views: panels_views and panels_views_legacy.

This is a quick release to fix some critical bugs I introduced in alpha 12.

Changes since DRUPAL-5--2-0-ALPHA12:

• #187948: Correcting stupid typo
• #187948: Correcting stupid typo #2)
• Fix for panels_node context bugs
• Fix for mini panels
• Fix #2 for mini panels
• Fix #3 for mini panels
• Some more fixes for mini panels

The key thing here is you can now override the node add and node edit forms!!!!!

Changes since DRUPAL-5--2-0-ALPHA10:

Changes since DRUPAL-5--2-0-ALPHA8:

• Use % as arg placeholder in panel
• Fix wrong quotes in autocomplete query
• Fix broken "enable" and "disable" functions causing install to utterly barf
• Reorganize tabs on panel pages so that its easier to add even more stuff.

Changes since DRUPAL-5--2-0-ALPHA6:

• #157702: Wasn't setting default_value for title and teaser, and was improperly setting default value for css_id.
• Reported by gordonh: CSS ID on custom content type not working due to typo
• Add some js so that clicking on a layout icon in a radio selects that radio.

o Layouts can have settings
o New 'flexible' layout that lets you choose how many rows/columns it has
o Embed CSS code directly into a panel page
o Role-based Access control on every pane in a display
o Numerous bug fixes and minor API adjustments

New add content (thanks yoroy!) Fixed another bug with layouts, fixed a bug where changing layout could lose content.

This is an early alpha version of Panels 2. My belief is that the javascript now works under Internet Explorer and Firefox. The API is more or less set and the CSS is in decent shape now. It's missing a couple of very important features still, and should NOT be used on a production system without THOROUGHLY testing the system and feeling comfortable with what you're getting.

Fix block visibility bug.

o #120919 (by grugnog) empty content caused array error
o #102572 (by yched, harriska2, cbutera, et al) -- missing views_load_cache when using views and panels together
o #84204 (by drewish, et al) make tables install UTF-8.
o #110771 (by Robrecht Jacques) Save panel did on creation allowing modules to interact with it
o #111646 (by Robrecht Jacques) uninstall hook
o #114772 (by Tobias Maier) allow custom content to specify CSS Info
o #120913 (by Grugnog2) provide panels_is_panel_page() function for context
o #118954 (by slantview) respect block visibility settings
o #110461 (by Robrecht Jacques) fixed improper use of drupal_goto on delete submit
o #81949 (by RobRoy) fixed another problem with arrays and empty panels
o #117581 (by pearcec) Allow node types to suppress their title.
o #89174 (by amatan) fix PHP 5 referencing error.
o #93355 (by redsky) PGSQL table support
o #119841: Force page title in case menu title has been changed
o #108616 (by joel_guesclin) Change 2col stacked CSS to be more resilient in IE.
o Can now set role-based access control on panels (also patch by stephanmaximilianhuber)
o #86630: Add option to retain title on Views.
o #110449: Respect Views access settings. Requires Views 1.6 to work.
o #100793: Respect Node access settings.

Drupal 5 development branch; use with caution.

Initial release of Panels for Drupal 5