A new version of MODx has just been released – 0.9.6.2, with a whole bunch of fixes and updates. There have been loads of fixes and updates checked-in by the MODx team & the community since 0.9.6.1 and lots of code clean-up and multi-language fixes done.

See here for MODx forum announcement and here for the complete (long & technical) changelog.

I’ll be upgrading the Codeistry site over the next few days and and then rolling the update out to all client sites as soon as possible after that.

My highlights amongst the many changes are:

Allow weblinks to have summary (introtext) fields

Weblink documents can now have an introtext summary, like normal documents, which is quite handy.

Set the published status of duplicated documents to unpublished

When you duplicate a document, it will now be set to un-published. Previously it would copy the published status of the document that you were duplicating – which was almost never what you really wanted.

Updated @INHERIT TV command to see through un-published pages.

Template variables which inherit their values from their parent documents, will now do so even if their parent document isn’t published; this propagates down through the site structure.

Added a manager role for emptying the trash/permanently purging docs

There’s now a manager role for permanently deleting documents which is handy in setups with lots of users.

Added plugin to show image previews in the manager for Image TVs

Really nice feature which shows you a thumbnail preview of the image being used by a template variable while you’re editing the page.

TinyMCE 3.1.0.1a and MCPUCK file browser improvements

This is great – the document content editor component has been updated to the latest version – which saves me from doing it on every install. This newer version of the editor is a big improvement on the previous one shipped with MODx 0.9.6.1

Updated ‘built-in’ snippets:

• Updated Jot snippet to version 1.1.3
• Updated Breadcrumbs snippet to 1.0.1
• Update AjaxSearch to 1.7.1 and Search Highlighting plugin to 1.2.0.2
• Update Ditto/Reflect to version 2.1
• Migrated Mootools to 1.11

Patches to Ditto 2.1 to fix sorting and change default docs displayed number from 3 to “all”

Ditto will now display all documents it finds by default, instead on only the first 3, and sort order fixes for MySQL 5.0.31a

Added the ability to easily add custom help pages to the manager.

This really is simple – just create the HTML files in the /manager/help folder and they appear at tabs on the Help page. Neat – I’ll be taking advantage of this in due course.

Fix to alphabetical sorting in MCPUCK browser

Fix for sorting images alphabetically in the image browser. This now seems to work properly, the image browser sorts images alphabetically, making it much easier to use, especially if you’ve got lots of images in a folder.

Added XML doctype and header to MCPUK for file uploads

This should fix a very annoying error when uploading files via the resource browser, especially in Internet Explorer.

Added RSS Feeds of the Security Announcements and Important News to the Manager Login Welcome Page.

This is quite useful – it helps keep site administrators up to date with the latest MODx releases and security updates.

Fix ‘Allowed Days’ checkboxes for Manager users

These were previously the wrong way round – unchecked when they should have been checked, as I discovered the other day during a live demo.