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Have you ever been missing a way to extend the provided content controller? Had needs to do custom cache logic and been missing the good old cache_ttl = 0 hack?
5.2 brings with it a powerful way to use the existing override system to, instead of overriding just a template, override the whole controller. This allows you to extend the built-in controller and for instance get full access to tune the cache headers for a specific content type that has different use than normal content, or just enrich the final template.
API Signals listenable, also via Symfony event system
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This release resolves a limitation with persistence caching introduced in 5.1, a new caching service "ezpublish.cache_pool" takes a siteaccess group setting "cache_pool" into consideration for selecting cache service, and hence can be configured with multi repository setups in mind. In addition you can now safely reuse this cache pool as the persistence cache is prefixed within "spi" cache key and will not clear your data if you reuse it.
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Support for more than 30 languages
With 64-bits servers now being common, this release takes advantage of that if present and provides support for up to 62 languages on 64-bits environments and 30 languages on 32-bits platforms. This feature is supported across both Symfony stack and legacy stack, and is accomplished by increasing the size of the integer field used for language bit masks. Improved storage engines still has the possibility to provide even more languages on pure Symfony stack in the future.
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Extended support for comments with CommentsBundle
Brand new CommendsBundle provides an abstracted way to display comments. It is provider based, which means that it is open to any kind of commenting system.
It has native support for Disqus and Facebook comments.
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Pagerfanta support for pagination
Pagination can easily become cumbersome when done by hand. Pagerfanta is a powerful library for object oriented pagination, standard in the Symfony world. eZ Publish Platform 5.2 comes with native support of PagerFanta, with dedicated adapters.
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Custom tags for XMLText field type
3rd party custom tags support have been greatly improved and implementation is now much easier. It is now possible add a custom XSL stylesheet to the main one and to assign a priority. This also makes it possible to easily override existing eZXML tags rendering.
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Miscellaneous helpers
Various Twig helpers were added to ease daily tasks, such as:
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