Version 7.x

Changelog

https://github.com/fnagel/t3extblog/compare/7.1.0...7.2.0

• Make use of page title API, see https://docs.typo3.org/m/typo3/reference-coreapi/11.5/en-us/ApiOverview/Seo/PageTitleApi.html
• Implement rate limiter for throttling requests (for new comment or blog subscriptions and subscriber authentication)
• SPAM check: count links in comment text
• Minor improvements and bug fixes
• Minor code clean-up and quality improvements

How to upgrade

1. Enable and adjust request rate limiter configuration if needed
2. Adjust templates with titleTag VH if needed
3. Clear caches

Changelog

https://github.com/fnagel/t3extblog/compare/7.0.0...7.1.0

• Add support for PHP 8.1
• Change post content rendering to a TypoScript RECORDS approach (and removed RenderContent VH)
• Minor improvements and bug fixes
• Minor code clean-up

How to upgrade

1. Adjust post content rendering related templates if needed (see "Content rendering templates" section below)
2. Adjust post content rendering related TypoScript (see Configuration/TypoScript/Includes/Libraries.typoscript) if needed
3. Clear caches

Content rendering templates

You need to replace the removed <t3b:frontend.renderContent /> view helper. Please check the following templates and partials:

• Resources/Private/Partials/Post/Content.html
• Resources/Private/Partials/Post/RssItem.xml
• Resources/Private/Partials/Post/Teaser.html
• Resources/Private/TwitterBootstrap4/Partials/Post/Teaser.html

Changelog

https://github.com/fnagel/t3extblog/compare/6.2.0...7.0.0

• Support for TYPO3 11.5 LTS
• Support for PHP 8.0 and 8.1
• Implement custom pagination (as core VH widget is no longer available)
• Migrated EM update class to upgrade wizards
• Lots of bugfixes and other improvements
• Massive code clean-up and quality improvements

Breaking changes

• Removed support for TYPO3 10.x
• Routing and TCA has changed
• Page URL structure has changed (my-blog/page-123 instead of my-blog/page/123)
• Template changes
• Some classes and methods have been renamed (be careful when extending EXT:t3extblog)

How to upgrade

1. "Change fields" in DB using "Analyze Database" in Install tool / Maintenance module
2. Adjust your routing configuration (pagination has changed)
3. Add a htaccess rule for redirecting old page URLs (see "URL redirect" below)
4. Adjust your templates (pagination and a few other changes)
5. Run upgrade wizards in admin tools
6. Clear all caches

URL redirect

This will work for the pagination URL change when using the default routing:

RewriteRule ^blog/page/(\d+)/$ /blog/page-$1 [R=301,NC,L]
RewriteRule ^blog/(.*)/page/(\d+)/$ /blog/$1/page-$2 [R=301,NC,L]