ContentBox v1.5.3 Released

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Luis Majano May 23, 2013

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Luis Majano

May 23, 2013

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We are announcing the availability of v1.5.3 of ContentBox as a critical update that fixes a lot of issues our customers have experienced. You can either download the updates or use our auto-update panel to upgrade. The updates are now cumulative for the 1.5.X series only.

ContentBox Source: To deploy in any CFML engine (Adobe or Railo)
ContentBox WAR: To deploy in any J2EE engine
ContentBox Express: To deploy in any machine

Release Notes - ContentBox Modular CMS - Version 1.5.3

Bug

[CONTENTBOX-174] - Widget documentation showing outside of modal container
[CONTENTBOX-177] - Markup support for previews
[CONTENTBOX-180] - Media Type Rewrite Rule fix for apache
[CONTENTBOX-181] - Error cloning with no categories
[CONTENTBOX-182] - widgetRoot is empty on admin
[CONTENTBOX-184] - Rewrite filters exceptions on modules directory
[CONTENTBOX-185] - Rewrite filter updates for media providers
[CONTENTBOX-186] - Exception when doing quick save and then publishing as creators where being mistaken
[CONTENTBOX-188] - installer issues with autocomplete removing some selections
[CONTENTBOX-193] - Non-admin cannot insert widgets
[CONTENTBOX-194] - chrome date field UI issues on page/blog entry editors
[CONTENTBOX-195] - Default value is not used in the widget argument inserter

Improvement

[CONTENTBOX-187] - Load dashboard modules via Ajax
[CONTENTBOX-192] - Mark top level menu items as active when children are being viewed.

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