Releases for Views Bulk Operations (VBO)

NOTE: Due to introduction of pager manager in Drupal core 8.8 (The pager has now a backend changeable service) that caused malfunction of pagers when VBO was enabled on views (lack of core API backwards compatibility), this version of VBO will require Drupal core >= 8.8. If for some reason 8.7 or lower is used on your project - don't update.

Fixes possible access bypass when displaying actions selectable to users on the VBO Views forms.

See Views Bulk Operations (VBO) - Less critical - Acce - SA-CONTRIB-2020-003.

Changelog:

• No issue: Updated clear_on_exposed description.
• Issue #3056675: Incorrect count of additional items on confirmation page.
• Issue #3055739: Fixed unintended selection clearing.

This is the first stable release for the 3.x branch. Now 3.x is the officially recommended release branch that'll be mostly supported so all sites still using 2.x are advised to upgrade to 3.x (99.9% of actions working with 2.x should work with 3.x without any issues).

Changelog:

Changelog:

• Implemented additional logic for the "Clear selection when exposed filters change" setting to make it work better, added suitable description on the checkbox.
• Added extra batch processing safeguards so batch will always end.
• Resolved issue #3038648: Memory Error for large views with exposed filters.

The first alpha release for the 3.x branch.

Changes in the 3.x branch:

• Includes exclude mode selection (when all view results are selected, user can switch pages and deselect some of the rows)
• Different method for generating selected entity list (loading entities and getting their labels limited to 50)

All actions working with the 2.x branch should work with 3.x branch as well, for API change details please see the 3.x dev release notes.

The 3.x release branch's purpose is to enable the "exclude" mode of selection to solve the #2986820: Select all results in this view and manually exclude some issue by extending the "Select all results on all pages" and allowing exclusion of certain results. This will make UI completely intuitive and will add an additional API functionality.

Changes since 7.x-3.4:

Changes:

1. Fixed issue #2957823: Error after updating to Drupal 8.5.1
2. Fixed issue #2954568: Impossible to drop selection when going back from config / confirm form

This is the first stable release for the 8.x-2.x branch.

With this release the 1.x branch is no longer supported and site administrators should update to the latest 2.x release. All known core & contrib actions working with 1.x will also work with 2.x (please see the 2.x-dev release notes for more information).

Changes since 8.x-2.0-rc4:

Changelog:

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.

Starting the 2.x release branch. The purpose: multi-page selection.

API changes are minimal and most modules developed for 1.x branch will be unaffected:

Fixed a bug that caused incorrect passing of view results to the selected action, affecting modules defining actions that make use of results like vbo_export.

This is a hotfix release that followed beta3, so including beta3 changes as well for user convenience:

Bugs fixed:

Fixed the Select all rows selector not showing issue (#2921231).

This release contains important API improvements required for Search API (after this issue patch is committed) and Views Bulk Edit 2.x modules to work with Views Bulk Operations.

Initial D8 port from https://www.drupal.org/sandbox/graber/2862860

Fixes #2516976: Fix security issue and make release to bring back D6 releases.

This version raises the PHP requirements to 5.2.9.

Changes since 7.x-3.1:

Note that "merge single action" mode has been removed due to bugginess. You will need to stay with VBO 7.x-3.0-RC1 or implement an alternative solution for now. Alternatives will be investigated for the next release (3.1)

Changes since 7.x-3.0-rc1:

Another round of polish. Can't be called RC1 because #1057158: Provide an action for modifying entity values is not done yet.
Features a brand new & very flexible "Create archive of selected files" (works with imagefields and filefields as well, if you add a Files relationship), an improved "Pass selected ids to URL" action, many fixes to the rules code for loading entities from a VBO view.

After the previous beta was released, Rules changed the way it handles component access, making its components accessible to administrators only.
Temporarily disabled access checking, so the components should be available to all roles that are using the VBO view.
The relevant issue in the Rules queue is #1217128: limiting Rules components to specific permissions.

• #1306108: Add the destination URL to configuration ('pass ids' action).
• Remove the old, buggy and half-baked selection preservation.
• #1307018: The rules action for loading a list of entities from a VBO view should not remove the pager.
• #1293174: Loading entity lists in Rules gives warnings when using data selection for arguments.
• #1293454 by anon: Send $form_state as a reference like core does.

It's been almost a month since the 7.x-3.0-alpha3 release, and a lot of work has happened since then.

1) Fixed several alpha3 regressions. Alpha3 accidentally removed support for advanced actions (actions added through the Actions UI). Now back (in actions_permissions as well). Also, global actions ('type' => 'system') weren't showing up, that's also fixed.
2) Refactored operation types, now implemented as ctools plugins. Operations are now objects, and contain all relevant logic. This allowed the main VBO code to be simplified a lot, leading to more maintainable code.
3) Reworked the Batch API code, resulting in much improved performance.
4) Reworked the admin UI (VBO field settings):
- Now possible to override the label of each operation (ported from 6.x-1.x)
- Automatically chooses the correct execution type based on the number of selected items (see README for more information)
- The drupal queue setting is now per operation, allowing only specific operations to be enqueued, which is more flexible and reflects better the intended use case.
5) Improved the rules integration:
- The config form now has access to all tokens for the current entity type (so you can use [node:author], or whatever you need)
- Now supports rules components that accept a list entity type (such as list<entity>, list<node>, etc) as the first parameter. Note that this turns on aggregation.
- Provided an action to allow Rules to load all entities in a VBO view (as a replacement for the "Execute VBO' action), as well as a condition that checks the number of results in a VBO view.
6) Many smaller improvements, including better default views, more documentation in the README, and bugs & notices fixed.

Alpha2 is a quick-fix release, fixing problems found in alpha1.

1) Fixed errors on install.
2) Fixed broken counts in the table and confirmation screens, where instead of numbers bigger than 1, !count was shown instead.
3) Fixed a notice in the default content view. Updated the README to inform the users about the default views.

D7 development branch.