Version 7.x

Upgrade from 7.2.0

"Anti SPAM"

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

Upgrade from 7.1.0

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

Upgrade to 7.0.0

"TYPO3 11 LTS support"

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]