Releases for Chaos tool suite (ctools)

This update of CTools focuses on stabilizing the tools, and still contains a number of known bugs.

• People have reported issues with export UI classes not being found. This appears to be due to incomplete registry cache builds, possibly during cron. Typically a complete cache clear via drush fixes this, and update.php should also clear cache and fix this but does not seem to be able to. Sometimes disabling modules such as mini panels appears to fix it. This seems to be happening regardless of the CTools version.
• Taxonomy term selection in the taxonomy access selection rule and taxonomy context not working right.
• Multiple terms (i.e, 1+2+3 or 1,2,3) at taxonomy/term/%term not supported.
• There may still be little bits that have not been fully upgraded to 7. I keep thinking I have them all and then find a new one.

Numerous bug fixes, and some new stuff to help facilitate Views integration. Proper entity integration. Panels node form now supports entity fields, making node forms much nicer than they were in D6.

If you update CTools and are running Panels, please be sure to update Panels at the same time.

Known issues:

• Some modules' javascript interferes with the AJAX operations of CTools at times. In particular, colorbox is known to, and apparently toolbar can, though this is not confirmed. There is an issue for colorbox -- the fix is to make sure you actually have the colorbox library properly installed.
• Image field formatter settings sometimes don't stick. We can't currently figure out why, but we can't seem to reproduce it in a clean environment.

• #856636: Fix warnings on update.
• #866524: "Custom" content type could cause crash if trying to reuse it without activating the custom content type module.
• #870820 by EclipseGc: ctools_export_crud_import() passed wrong arguments to import callback, if defined.
• Improve the task system to make it possible for Panels Everywhere to get more contexts.
• #718368: Ignore query string when testing js and css files for inclusion during AJAX requests.
• #690648 by awolfey: User signature content type.
• #874960 by yhahn: Export UI goes to wrong path on revert.
• #868410: Make transparency work on modal backdrop in IE.
• #872340: AJAX framework used wrong URLs with i18n and CSS files.
• #609246: Create variant to handle 403, 404 and 301 redirects for non-page page responses.
• #870466: Invisible steps broken by too aggressive of a test for valid wizard steps. This broke Mini Panel layout change in 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!!!!!

• Deprecated the callback-based 'defaults' in favor of the identical 'process' (plugin system). Consequently, moved the content_type plugin over to use 'process' instead of the 'defaults' callback.
• Added a ctools.api.php file and began documenting some of our api/hooks there.
• Changed all hook_ctools_plugin_directory() implementations to use the more informative variable naming scheme.
• #817612 by elstudio: Fix validation error that was making it impossible to add 'Existing node' content_types.
• #787644 by Amitaibu and merlinofchaos: Introduce export-ui and auto-submit. See API.txt for more.
• Update the plugin system documentation, and clean up plugin system logic.
• #827498: Allow the 'custom' content type to be re-usable and exportable.
• #827370 by dereine: Allow the new auto-submit.js to allow a single class that causes every element in the form to auto-submit.

This release is primarily a follow-up quickfix to problems in the 6.x-1.4 release.

Changes since DRUPAL-6--1-4:

• Update CHANGELOG for release.
• Add operation alter tooks to let modules add items to Page Manager pages.
• #804198: CTools AJAX framework did not work properly with javascript aggregation.
• Docblock formatting touchup.
• Issue #737434 by nealeyoung: Make the node_updated content_type plugin
  actually do what it advertises and output last change time.
• Deincrement API version; should only change it once changes have been
  committed that definitively require a new version.
• Partial rollback of #711664 - central-hook-based plugin definition no
  longer defaults to FALSE, as this caused widespread unexpected behavior
  in modules using ctools plugins.
• Issue #708926: Remove dependency-busting call to panels_get_path().
• Handle forms passing through required contexts properly.
• Increment API version.
• Do not allow Views Content Pane displays to be selected by the legacy
  Views content connector; based on #791960.

NOTE: If you are running Panels + CTools together, you MUST update them together or they will stop working!

Added support for context keyword substitutions on override paths in content panes provided by views_content.
• #612850: Fix crash bug with panes referencing deleted/missing views.
• #595442: Fix AJAX problems with mod_security enabled.
• Introduce a "jump menu" tool which can be used to provide jump menus with a select.
• Change plugins to no longer need magic function. Can now use $plugin = array(...) instead.
• #652236 by alevine: Preserve pre-existing class when adding ajax functionality to form widgets.
• #657474: Allows clean exporting for task handlers set to be the homepage.
• #588246 by brynbellomy: Add "context exists" access plugin.
• #618194 by brynbellomy: Add "string length" access plugin.
• #618204 by brynbellomy: Add "string comparison" access plugin.

• #605990 by johnskulski: Prevent Views PHP error if display was removed.
• #605968 by johnskulski: Show more information in the collapsible for Views Panes.
• #609024: Fix improper validation of views introduced in #547686.

Changes since CTools 1.0-rc1

Please note that the Page Manager module is currently useless without Panels 3.0.

We need documentation help! Please see the issue queue (search the Documentation category) for issues. Please see the Advanced Help! Come help fill in the gaps!

• #534570: Fix _ and - not recognized in for context keywords.
• #535744 by Senpai: Rename"post" to"node" in various nid selectors.
• Make sure that tasks that will not override existing overrides refuse to enable and provide an error message saying why.
• #540750 by manuee: User picture was not available despite having a .inc file.
• #537184 by stephthegeek: CSS tweaks to fix heights on operations.
• #471024: Stop preventing exposed-view-in-block blocks from showing up as content panes.
• #483170: Link paths in page list if they have sensible destinations.
• #406284: Allow items with the user uid argument to be used as a normal menu item.

This beta release of the Chaos Tools suite implements many bug fixes and a brand new user interface for page management system.

The delegator module has been removed and replaced with the page manager module. You will need to turn this module on when you update. All of your data should be moved properly to the new module, unless you have exports in module code. If you do, those will need to be updated to the new function names.

Special note: The system pages (node/%, user/% etc) are now disabled by default. If you are using them you will need to enable them after turning on the page manager module.