Releases for Views TimelineJS integration

This new major version of views_timelinejs was created to fix issues that were caused by changes to the TimelineJS library that broke backward compatibility. Specifically, these were the two breaking changes:

The following issues were fixed:

• Issue #3183400 by Anybody: PHP 7.4: Notice: Trying to access array offset on value of type bool in views_timelinejs_plugin_style_timelinejs->render()

This release contains several bug fixes that have been applied since 7.x-1.0-beta1 was created. Beacause the beta release has been used by hundreds of sites since its release with a minimal number of issues, I think it's safe to release this version.

That said, the 7.x-1.x branch is essentially unsupported. It can only use the TimelineJS v2 library, which is also unsupported by its maintainer. No further development will occur on this branch. Simple bug fixes may be applied.

Today is the anniversary of the release of the the 3.x branches! One year ago today, 8.x-3.0 and 7.x-3.0 were officially released. To celebrate, the 3.1 releases have been created!

Here are the changes you need to know about.

There have been no new changes, bug reports, or feature requests since RC1 was released.

This first release candidate includes three bug fixes.

Known issues

None!

This beta release fixes a few bugs, adds a couple of new fields, and adds several new timeline display options.

This second beta release is ahead of schedule. A critical bug was discovered in 8.x-3.0-beta1 last weekend. A dependency on the jQuery library was not added to the module, causing timelines to not be displayed on pages where jQuery was not loaded. TimelineJS is not dependent on jQuery, but the integration JavaScript is. This issue may have been mitigated on certain sites by the fact that if some other element on the page required jQuery, then the timeline would be rendered normally.

The 3.x branches of the Views TimelineJS module were created to work with version 3 of the TimelineJS library, known as TimelineJS3. TimelineJS3 has several enhancements over the previous version and the module has been updated to take advantage of a number of them. Additional fields and settings may be added in future versions. If you would like to see one of these features added, then please post a comment in this issue.

New dev branch to work on switching to TimelineJS3: https://github.com/NUKnightLab/TimelineJS3.

First alpha release