views_bulk_operations 8.x-2.0-beta1

The main new feature is the persistent selection of results that is maintained across all view pages and also when exposed filters and sorting is changed. The selection is dropped only when view arguments are changed.

Apart from that, new method for getting entities has been introduced: now they are loaded directly from view results by using the view base field values as a main filter condition.

API changes are minimal and most modules developed for 1.x branch (including views_bulk_edit and vbo_export) will not be affected.

API changes:

• Action $context['list'] item contains the following data:
  {view base field value}, {entity language}, {entity type id}, {entity id}, [{entity label}]
  with the last key set only for confirm and config forms and in certain cases not available. In action execute method use $entity->label() instead if required.
• pass_context and pass_view annotations are no longer required, the current view and batch context is always passed to an action that has setContext and setView methods (included in ViewsBulkOperationsActionBase class), since the entities are loaded by executing the view anyway and it doesn't cause any performance drop (see #2933329: Always pass view and batch context to an action if supported).