Editor 1.5.3 release notes

This is a relatively minor update to Editor that addresses a number of issues that have been identified since the last release. As such Editor 1.5.3 is a recommended upgrade for all developers using Editor.

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Release notes

Javascript

• New - JS: fields.entityDecode option which can be used to control Editor's decoding of HTML entities for field values.
• Fix - JS: field().set() was returning undefined rather than the field instance for chaining.
• Fix - JS: select and dependent() used together could result in a field's current value not being selectable due to an async callback
• Fix - JS: Trigger a change event on the input field when a date is selected using the UI widget for datetime
• Fix - JS: Time display could be offset by the timezone difference to GMT
• Fix - JS: datetime was not shown immediately when used with bubble or inline editing
• Fix - JS: datetime would give an error in inline mode
• Fix - JS: datetime when used with MomentJS and a timezone that observes daylight saving could offset the day selected in the calendar by 1.
• Fix - JS: select would not correctly select boolean data
• Fix - JS: Bootstrap modal would not focus on the first input element automatically
• Fix - JS: Bootstrap modal would not close on background click, even with the form options set to enable that action.

CSS

• Fix - CSS: Improved the look of the close button for the default Editor modal in Windows

PHP

• New - PHP: Add noTags validation method which will ensure that the submitted string does not contain HTML.
• New - PHP: xss validation method which will trigger a warning if a submitted string could contain an XSS attack.
• Update - PHP: XSS prevention will no longer remove potential security threads, just neutralise them. This ensures that no data can be lost.
• Update - PHP: Allow default XSS filter to be easily disabled using Field->xss( false ).
• Update - PHP: Pass host information to validators so they have the row id to be validated on edit
• Fix - PHP: Compatibility error with PHP 5.3 due to 5.4 array syntax being used.
• Fix - PHP: Custom XSS method would result in a PHP error

.NET

• New - .NET: Add NoTags validation method which will ensure that the submitted string does not contain HTML.
• New - .NET: 'Xss' validation method which can be used to show an error message if an input string could contain an XSS attack.
• Update - .NET: Allow default XSS filter to be easily disabled using Field.Xss( false ).
• Fix - .NET: Allow nullable fields to be saved
• Fix - .NET: Error when server-side processing due to incorrect type casting

Examples

• Update - examples: Use datetime in the bubble examples
• Fix - example: Split the column used for child row display and row selection into two distinct columns for the Responsive with inline editing example
• Fix - example: jQuery UI date formatted US date format was wrong (two digit year rather than four)
• Fix - example: Inline editing with KeyTable did not allow click to edit on a cell that had been submitted immediately before
• Fix - examples: HTML entities were being double encoded in the server-side script example tab
• Fix - examples: Delete for the staff PHP example was returning a 204 No Content due to debugging accidentally committed