views 6.x-2.8

The most important aspect of this release is that Views should now be PHP 5.3 compatible, and the grouping features should finally really be fixed.

As of now, Views 2 will be accepting fewer and fewer patches that qualify as new features, as work on Views 3 is proceeding at a good pace. New features should, unless they are really important for some reason or other, be moved to Views 3 which should be expected to go beta sometime in the spring.

Bug fixes

• #622602: Missing ORDER BY in some views with tables due to incorrect test for default table sorting.
• #623498 by marcp: total_rows should be filled in if fetching all records.
• #535206: Attachment displays repeat exposed filters because exposed filters were left hanging around during cloning.
• #450346 by lefnire: Inherit Exposed Filters sometimes hides part of the parent exposed filters
• #550560 by donquixote: Fix unterminated string in views.help.ini that breaks under php 5.3
• #592476 by Garrett Albright: Remove redundant CSS from views-list.css
• #366250 by Markus Petrux: Fix glitches with tabledrag and jQuery 1.3.
• #581616 by cangeceiro: Defend text color from themes in Views UI.
• #589484 by Markus Petrux: External styles could not properly provide advanced help files.
• #494490 by Niels Hackius: User picture incorrectly set as an inline element when it should be block.
• #616956 by neochief: Exposed form labels should have "for" keyword.
• #620046 by cedric: Date validate handler does not fallback properly causing sporadic improper validation.
• #628330 by dereine: Do not print n/a for empty formatted fields.
• #515564: Views UI would fail to rearrange with > 25 fields.
• #452384: Fix PHP 5.3 compatibility.
• #619884: Fix incorrect grouping for styles other than table.
• #539498: "Comments: Node link" did not work at all. Replaced with "Node: Add comment link" which is what that was supposed to do.
• #638916 by dereine: views.help.ini strings need quoting to continue to work in PHP 5.3
• #636988 by Steve McKenzie: Wrong ajax data could be sent in rare circumstances when using AJAX paging.
• #576386 by jmorahan: Fix book sort help text to be more accurate by not telling you to do something that will not work.
• #348130 by dereine: "" should not be translatable since it looks like HTML.
• #630430 by cafuego: Fix typo in argument text.
• #370651: Make Views AJAX work with mod_security enabled.
• #648438: In rare circumstances, unnecessary term_node tables could be joined in when adding term_data relationships.
• #639430 by dagmar: theme.inc warning when comments are displayed without links.

Other changes

• #580320 by chaps2: Allow "always use more link" setting.
• #363516 by dagmar: Validate the uniqueness of exposed filter identifiers.
• #584880 by drewish: Wrong base field declarations fixed.
• #480162 by dereine: Count whitespace fields as empty for hiding labels.
• #623580 by dagmar: Move can_expose() method to base handler to deal with validation change made in previous commit.
• #626422 by vgarvardt: Static caching of validated taxonomy terms to improve taxonomy_term performance.
• #622608: Allow attachments to inherit pager data.
• #495606 by Roi Danton and dereine: Introduce views_get_view_result() as a fast way to get just the results of a view.
• #614040 by dereine: Introduce hook_views_plugins_alter()