Releases for Panels

This is primarily a bug fix release for Panels.

Important!!!!!!!
You must upgrade Chaos Tool Suite (CTools) to 1.1 when upgrading to Panels 3.1! This is NOT optional! If you do not do this, your panels will deactivate themselves.

• #552846 by eMPee584: Fix notice with tablesorts on mini panels page if no mini panels exist.
• #568218: Links to clone, export, delete/revert, enable/disable variants from the main summary page were incorrect and led to an operation trail not found message.
• #533724: Prevent Panels from upgrading while uninstalled, as that upgrades into broken pages.
• #529816: Allow flexible layout to add custom classes to each region.
• Rearrange the pane dropdown menus to be better organized and look a little nicer.
• Add a new field to allow setting a panel title from one of its panes.
• #562560 by Damien McKenna: Integration with export.module
• #583172 by jacine: Turn panel pane into a template, as it always should have been.

• #515316: Add permission to view Panels admin dashboard.
• #298174: Recursion defense for mini panels.
• #502670: Extra HTML designed only for flexible layout admin accidentally rendered.
• #507516: "Default" panel style on regions not being properly utilized.
• #476440: Seriously, cloning variants really realy fixed.
• #518360 by joshk: Panels node form doesn't have format properly associated.
• #525340 by markus_petrux: Dashboard improperly initializing a variable.
• #460902 by dmmckenna: Fix problem installing panels from an install profile.
• #488278: Preview on panel nodes prior to creation caused errors.
• #475920: Create "use panels dashboard" permission to more easily control who can and cannot use it.

This release requires CTools API v1.0.1 which can be found in ctools 6.x-1.0-beta3

• Update to require CTools based upon its advertised API version number.
• Update code to ensure that the dead 'panels simple cache' module is really dead.
• Attempt to go back further in history for a Panels 1 upgrade path.
• Fix for making sure Panels completely disables itself if using incompatible version of CTools.
• Update CSS caching on panel page and panel context to use ctools_css_store instead of remembering the filename.
• Infinite loop protection in panel nodes.
• #459078: Provide the "read more" flag for teasers of panel nodes.
• Fix broken styling when dragging a panel pane.
• Integrate with CTools tab system so we can add edit tabs to all our panel pages.
• #454208: pgsql does not support concat(), so use || instead for postgres.
• #445828: Remove "Settings" link if a content type has no settings form.
• #460200: Allow regions and columns that have only 'fixed' width items. Disallow changing a 'fixed' item to 'fluid.'

This release is a single bug fox for the alpha3 release.

If you upgraded from alpha2 to alpha3 and are having problems, please go to update.php and choose update 6291 for panels.module and run it. This should properly convert the data allowing Panels to function again.

Alpha3 release notes copied to here since no one else will go back and read them if I don't:

This release requires CTools alpha3! If you do not update CTools at the same time that you update Panels, Panels will break uncontrollaby! Fun stuff!

This version of Panels 3 introduces many bug fixes, lots of code re-organization, and the new flexible layout designer which lets you more visually build more powerful layouts than the previous flexible did. Give it a try!

This is expected to be the final alpha release. There are 5 or 6 major TODO items and then we will move to beta.

THIS RELEASE DOES NOT CONTAIN AN UPGRADE PATH YET. beta1 *will*. If you want to use Panels 3 alpha, please start from scratch.

Changes since DRUPAL-6--3-0-ALPHA2:

Development snapshot for Panels 3.x for Drupal 6.

This is an initial, ALPHA version of Panels 3!

Panels 3 is a redesign primarily of Panels page. Much of Panels has been removed to the CTools module that Panels now depends upon. This is a very early release, designed mostly to get the new UI out into the hands of people who want to use it and get some feedback and possibly coding assistance.

You will notice Panel pages module is *gone*. Instead, enable delegator module and visit admin/build.pages.

KNOWN ISSUES

• No upgrade path yet. I'll do that last, because tinkering with an upgrade path every time something changes SUCKS.
• Much of Panels has not yet been converted to use the CTools tools, so there's now a lot of redundant code in the system that will slowly be removed.
• Because of the above point, there is still a dependency on Views module. This will go away once all of the form and ajax stuff is migrated to use CTools instead.
• Imports and exports work but are a little bit difficult.

A quick idea of what to do with this

Panels2 Beta5 is primarily a bugfix patch to deal with several issues that cropped up in beta4.

We packed as much other stuff in as we could. Next stop, RC.

Changes since DRUPAL-5--2-0-BETA4B:

Changes since DRUPAL-5--2-0-BETA4:

• Small fix to get rid of array_intersect_keys(), which was implemented in PHP5.1.0 and therefore screws PHP4 compatibility.

• Two changes: Allow $display to be sent to the layout theme, if it exists and fix $nide typo; should have been $node
• Error handling cleanup.
• Better Error handling cleanup for optional contexts
• Protect panels legacy views from contexts that aren't arrays, even though they should always be an array.
• Add a safety check for trying to render displays that are not correctly configured
• Several bugs fixed but not yet checked in
• #219730: Sort order of comments was being ignored
• duplicate code
• Fix for broken imports of secondary displays on a panel page
• #207158 - resolves insufficient field size issue by increasing the size of the cache field in mysql dbs.
• #233588: (by sdboyer) Allows external modules to tell inform panels of additional locations to search for panels plugin *.inc files.
• fixed bug with panels_save_display() that caused new pids not to appear in saved objects without calling an additional panels_load_display()
• #234649. removed line-height property with invalid value xx-small.
• #208184 by pvasener. fix locations of 'Save' and 'Cancel' buttons on themes/layouts with right sidebars.