Backdrop CMS Files

The Backdrop community is proud to release version 1.32.0 of Backdrop CMS, following our 4-month release cycle.

Notes for updating

• No changes have been made to the .htaccess, robots.txt or default settings.php files in this release. Updating customized versions of those files is not necessary.
• It will be necessary to run the update script (located at /core/update.php) for this release.

Changes since version 1.31.0 are listed below.

New features

• Add responsive behavior with settings for the existing Views grid style. #5719
• Add the option to append original sort order to Views table column sort. #6708
• Update to latest version of CKEditor 5 (now v46.0.2) including a backwards-compatibility layer for existing Backdrop plugins. #6904
• Entity's label() method now uses the 'label callback' property to allow more flexibility. #6877
• Allow modules and themes to be enabled via config sync / import. #5163
• Increase performance with cache bin for Book navigation data #6787

User Experience Improvements

• Switch the password reset form to use the same FAPI element as creating new, or editing existing accounts. #4440

Additionally, users upgrading from Backdrop 1.31.0 will also have the following bug fixes (which were also included in the recent Backdrop 1.31.1 release):

Bug Fixes

• PHP 8+ Example for hook_user_presave causes Deprecation notice if data field is NULL or FALSE #6943
• Display translated system.core configuration values #6941
• Trusted host settings handling - multiple issues #6935
• If theme sets font size of input.form-search then Admin Bar Menu Search is affected #6925
• Using multiple file browsers on a single node form breaks functionality #6924
• Filter module never cleans up filter section in config leading to PHP warnings #6920
• Reset field types when new modules are installed to ensure potential new field types are immediately available #6919
• Minimum PHP version isn't consistently updated to 7.1 #6914
• Pre-existing field with reserved entity machine name re-used on entity type causes fatal error when adding entity #6900
• Undefined array key when getting the missing callback error in layouts #6885
• Add missing Excel Template (xlsb) MIME types so files show correct icons. #6882
• Removed unnecessary duplication in _entityreference_autocomplete_validate() #6879
• Fixed: Form for "Manage file display" attempts to load all field formatter forms (elements) #6578
• node_access filters out accessible nodes when node is left joined #6421
• Date module datestamp field type affected by Y2K38 #6307
• Alias malfunction when two pages have the same title in multi-language installation #5947
• Prevent translation tests from running before semaphore table is available #5943
• Fixed: Language prefixes are being repeated in Link module fields #4984
• Update the part in the documentation comment about array_filter #6303
• Correct a comment in backdrop_settings_initialize() #6663
• Remove direct use of new Node() and other direct instantiations of entity classes from the codebase #6075