Releases for Panels

Numerous bug fixes. As far as we can tell, this is now mostly usable. The main thing remaining that prevents this from being a beta is that we need to work out an upgrade path. This is particularly difficult for CCK.

If you update, please be sure to update CTools at the same time. These two modules must remain in sync.

#920266 by dereine: Typo in cache.inc caused wsods in rare circumstances.
#879482 by mvc: Ensure Panels and CTools module files are loaded during update. Apparently could cause WSOD if not.
#917614 by jskulski: IPE broken in IE.
#906520: Improve CSS for rounded shadow boxes on IE7.
#932632 by mikeytown2: Fix notice in .install file.
#927840: Add clear-block to dashboard HTML to ensure themes do not do weird things to it.
#869766: Fix occasional problem with flexible layout pushing the entire layout to the left in certain fixed-width only configurations.
#949310: E_STRICT violation on declaration of render_pane() method of display renderers.
#940002: Custom style modal was broken.
#953484: Panes were not properly using classes array.
#941532: panel nodes had some serious problems do to hook_node_*.
#954324: Mini panels failed during uninstall.
#827628: "Add content" dialog could lose content with the same title as other content.
Fix the naked style to support content that needs to be rendered.
#958072: Fix panels_node_node_access to not throw warnings on menu access tests.
#965286: Panel node update was trying to use db_insert() instead of db_update().
#964334: Panels breaks views' row styles with the panels fields style.
#941802: Fix radio layout butotn.
#980696 by das-peter: Update calls to drupal_set_html_head() to D7.

Please see the release notes for CTools 7.x-1.0-alpha1 at http://drupal.org/node/938720 for information about this alpha release.

Please understand this alpha release is expected to be very buggy.

This release is primarily a follow-up quickfix to problems in the 6.x-3.4 release.

Changes since DRUPAL-6--3-4:

• Restored (and deprecated) panels_print_layout(), as other modules were
  relying on it.
• Increment required CTools API version.
• Updated docblock to indicate when the deprecated panels_load_include()
  will be removed.
• Deincrement required CTools API version; should only increment once
  changes have been introduced that necessitate it.
• Updated CHANGELOG for release.
• Replace panels_load_include() with ctools_include().
• Restore panels_load_include() as there are other modules that use this function and broke without it.

Note: You must update CTools to version 1.3 at the same time as updating Panels.

• #612850: Fix crash bug with panes referencing deleted/missing views.
• #614178: Transition to panels-pane.tpl.php caused empty panes to display again.
• #634746 by joshk: Allow pane caching to modify the content during cache storage.
• #612116 by johnskulski: panels-pane preprocess was incorrectly rendering $links
• #612704 by c960657: panels_get_pane_content() inappropriately created a blank context when no contexts were available.
• #618624 by johnskulski: Better classes for panel panes.
• #651306 by joachim: Add "edit any panel node" permission. Not sure why this was never there.
• #497042: Add update.php to remove unused panels_page_router_store table, if it exists.
• #683162: Convert all plugins to use new $plugin = array() format. This is less brittle than the specially named hook.

• #606980 by Deciphered and sethfreach: Typo caused panel-pane class to disappear if another class was assigned.
• #607242: Using the wrong variable in hook_block can cause title to not be overridable.
• #608062: Visibility rules did not appear in the list when added to a pane (though they still applied).

Panels 3 has seen radical changes since Panels 2, and is a great deal more powerful, easier to use and we think you will like it a lot.

Please understand that the upgrade from Panels 1 or 2 to Panels 3 is a little bumpy. Not everything upgrades perfectly. Some people have had to uninstall and reinstall to make it work. Some of the back and forth during the betas and rcs caused irreparably messed up data that does not carry forward properly. I apologize for this. BACK UP BEFORE YOU UPGRADE.. If you do not read these release notes, and do not back up, please do not post issues. =)

The best way to use Panels is to pair it with the Page Manager from the Chaos Tools Suite, and use its interface for creating panel pages. This completely replaces the Panels Pages module from Panels 2. If you used an earlier beta version, the Page Manager used to be known as delegator. If you are upgrading from Panels 2, and the CTools module is already in the tree but not enabled, it will be automatically enabled for you. This is the best way to upgrade from Panels 2. Please ensure that you are using CTools 1.0 alongside this, and not a beta version! Earlier versions of CTools will not work with Panels 3.0!

This update of Panels includes support for the new Page Manager module in Chaos Tool Suite. It requires CTools 1.0 beta4 and will not work with earlier versions. Please update CTools at the same time you update Panels.

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.

Finally more or less feature complete, Panels 3 is now here for beta.

First please note: This release is definitely going to be buggy. There could definitely be bugs that will cause you to lose data. Please, when playing with Panels 3, take a backup of your database. This is particularly true prior to running an upgrade from an earlier version of Panels, and when doing anything major. It's a good safety precaution.

Please play with Panels on a dev site before you even start using it on production. There is a lot to understand and feel comfortable with.

What Panels 3 offers

• A flexible layout builder. Remember that old UI where you had to say '3 columns', then hit update and get a refresh for form gadgets so you could say how wide those columns should be? No more. Now you can do a few clicks, add a column and resize it visually.