Today, right on schedule, it is time for a new feature release for Elgg. You can get the Elgg 3.2 release in the download section.

During the development of this feature we focused a lot on cleaning up the older tickets on Github. Also improving code quality was a major point of interest in the last three months. This release contains the following noteworthy changes.

For users:

• Group membership management has been improved

For site administrators:

• You can set up manual approval of newly created accounts
• The friends plugin can be configured so friend relationships are reciprocal and need to be approved by the other user
• Password requirements can be configured
• Application tokens can be managed in the webservices plugin

For developers:

• API functions have been added for listings of relationships
• Introduced pageowner can edit gatekeeper middleware to be used in routes

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Contributors

• Jerôme Bakker (40)
• Jeroen Dalsem (18)

Features

• admin: added a site setting to require admin approval of accounts (2882da61)
• core:
  • added elgg_list_relationships (9b54398c)
  • added elgg_get_relationships function (21d3c697)
• database: clauses support invokable classes (75653f24)
• files: download urls can be configured to not expire (f61c5578)
• friends: add plugin setting to enable the need for friend approval (25b87858)
• groups:
  • added option to hide group owner tranfer (4a072e88)
  • allow groups to set default content access (9f701b77)
  • membership requests and invitations use relationship views (afff8d9f)
  • add invited users page for group owners (82310d78)
  • added membership requests tab to group members listing (019745f0)
  • add invite button on group members page (9e164221)
  • show user already a member/invited for the group (57d38cca)
  • member listing now uses elgg_list_relationship (783f22a6)
• install: allow user to change language during installation (5f23eff1)
• livesearch: added ability to set custom item_view (8c1df6e8)
• middleware: added page owner can edit middleware (b81fc729)
• redis: added the ability to set redis database and password (e0c9d953)
• request: allow access to the http request (7e86f576)
• security: allow password requirement to be configured (ccca6897)
• system_log: allow logbrowser to filter on object id (de0e6171)
• upgrades: track upgrade start time (f37d03bc)
• webservices:
  • added api token management (b146d097)
  • added webservices listing (5d2026de)

Documentation

• routing: added some extra middleware documentation (b1c123ca)

Bug Fixes

• access: allow plugin to register write access array subtypes (6db1d505)
• ckeditor: do no convert html entities in the editor (e977bf99)
• core:
  • ElggRelationship int attributes are casted to ints (d3604557)
  • make accesscollection save and rename work like documented (c3acbb1a)
• css: buttons in some menus keep correct styling (3eb49098)
• embed: no longer require a plugin with file_uploading provided (3925c647)
• js: deep merge the elgg.data (197bfb49)

Deprecations

• river: no longer use the enabled property of river items (59ebfb3d)