v4.4.0 Feature release

Release notes for Headless version 4.4.0

🔧 SEO Improvements

• Official Support for TYPO3 SEO APIs

  • Page Title API (Documentation)
  • MetaTag API (Documentation)
  • Canonical API (Documentation)

• Introduced page.seo Structure

  • Adapted for Nuxt.js v3's useHead
  • For Nuxt v3 applications, it's recommended to migrate to page.seo and have the backend developer remove page.meta.

🛡️ Backward Compatibility

• To prevent breaking existing applications, ext:headless will continue to output page.meta.

💡 Why Migrate to page.seo?

• Automated Meta Tag Generation: TYPO3 now generates all meta tags, including automatic canonicals and hreflangs (unless disabled by the backend developer).
• Simplified Frontend Logic: The frontend app doesn't need additional logic for handling meta tags. Simply provide page.seo, and Nuxt.js does the rest.
• Enhanced Backend Flexibility:
  • Backend developers have access to PHP APIs to set tags and titles directly from plugins—no more fiddling with TypoScript.
  • Tags can also be set via TypoScript, allowing quick additions without redeploying or modifying the frontend app.

What's Changed

🚀 Features

• sortByBackendLayout Option for CONTENT_JSON by @twoldanski in #746
• Allow Setting Validator Only for Backend in EXT:forms by @twoldanski in #747
• Allow Returning Only One Element in CONTENT_JSON by @twoldanski in #748
• Add nullableFieldsIfEmpty Option to JsonContentObject by @twoldanski in #749
• Introduce Support for SEO APIs from TYPO3 Core by @twoldanski in #752
• Add Event to Optimize File Response by @twoldanski in #755
• Allow Usage of SEO APIs with USER_INT Plugins by @twoldanski in #774
• Render Form Validation Errors with Arguments by @pjeweb in #764

📝 Tasks

• Align LoginController with Latest Core Version by @twoldanski in #753
• Describe Different Approaches for Handling Content Elements by @oskardydo in #750
• Fix SiteProvider Fetch Methods by @oskardydo in #757
• Expose submitButtonLabel from Editor in JSON Form Response by @twoldanski in #773
• Align parseFunc with TYPO3 Core by @twoldanski in #771
• Improve Handling of Storage Proxy by @twoldanski in #775
• Improve Handling of Frontend URLs by @twoldanski in #772
• Set Version to 4.4.0 by @twoldanski in #769

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Resolve Issues with Cropping Handling by @twoldanski in #754
• Better Normalize Processing Instructions by @twoldanski in #756
• Fix Processing of Non-Image Media Files by @twoldanski in #759
• Handle Possible Warning in typolink Handling by @twoldanski in #758
• Fix Exception in List Module for Content Elements with Language -1 by @kitzberger in #760
• Avoid Possible Error in Mixed Mode Condition by @twoldanski in #770
• Ensure canonicalUrl is Always an Absolute URL by @twoldanski in #777

👥 New Contributors

• @pjeweb made their first contribution in #764

Full Changelog: v4.3.2...v4.4.0

v4.3.2 Bugfix release

What's Changed

• [BUGFIX] Properly decode cross domain links by @twoldanski in #743
• [BUGFIX] Restore options to scale/crop images by @twoldanski in #742

Full Changelog: v4.3.1...v4.3.2

v4.3.1 Bugfix release

What's Changed

• [BUGFIX] Fix docs by @lukaszuznanski in #728, #730
• [BUGFIX] Fix linkResult configuration in simplified file output by @dvdmlln in #731
• [TASK] Align default typoscript constants by @twoldanski in #733
• [BUGFIX] Align empty values to null instead of empty string as legacy… by @twoldanski in #732
• [BUGFIX] Make processing PDF/SVG files optional by @twoldanski in #736
• [DOCS] Mention XML sitemap configuration by @kitzberger in #735

Full Changelog: v4.3.0...v4.3.1

v3.4.2 Bugfix release

What's Changed

• [TASK] Backport fixes for redirects by @twoldanski in #644
• [TASK] Typoscript improvements by @twoldanski in #642
• [BUGFIX] Correct linkText value in headerLink property by @schloram in #673
• [BUGFIX] Fix forms issues with recursion by @twoldanski in #726
• [BUGFIX] Fix warning if as is not set by @twoldanski in #729

Full Changelog: v3.4.1...v3.4.2

v4.3.0 Feature release

What's Changed

With v4.3.0 release you can use new type of file processing if you change legacyReturn to 0 in processingConfiguration of FilesProcessor, more details in documentation. It allows you to have new response of images and also process more types of images.

Features

• [FEATURE] Add helper for handling redirects in plugins by @twoldanski in #708
• [FEATURE] New DataProcessor: ExtractPropertyProcessor by @kitzberger in #544
• [FEATURE] Improve file processing by @twoldanski in #724

Bugfix

• [BUGFIX] Fix PHP warning if as is not set by @twoldanski in #720
• [BUGFIX] DatabaseQueryProcessor improvements by @twoldanski in #719
• [BUGFIX] Address issues with recursion by @twoldanski in #721
• [BUGFIX] Check for possible empty element by @twoldanski in #725
• [BUGFIX] Prevent undefined array key warning in FlexFormProcessor by @christophlehmann in #717

Tasks

• [DOCS] Mention properties of JSON by @kitzberger in #713
• [TASK] Fix php-cs-fixer by @lukaszuznanski in #723
• [TASK] Fix documentation rendering by @lukaszuznanski in #727

Full Changelog: v4.2.7...v4.3.0

v4.2.7

What's Changed

• [BUGFIX] Fix crash in BE context by @twoldanski in #705

Full Changelog: v4.2.6...v4.2.7

v4.2.6 Bugfix release

What's Changed

• 🐛 [BUGFIX] Improve check for empty elements by @twoldanski in #702
• 🚀 [TASK] Code cleanup by @twoldanski in #703
• 🚀 [TASK] Set version to v4.2.6 by @twoldanski in #704

Full Changelog: v4.2.5...v4.2.6

v4.2.5 Bugfix release

❗ What's Changed ❗

• 🐛 [BUGFIX] Fix warning & mixed-mode handling by @twoldanski in #697

• 🐛 [BUGFIX] Improve handling of "fragment" links by @twoldanski in #699

• 🐛 [BUGFIX] Fix issue with preview of workspaces in headless mode by @twoldanski in #698

• 🐛[BUGFIX] Fix rendering of content elements on mixed mode by @lukaszuznanski in #694

• 🐛 [BUGFIX] Fix generating links to sitemap by @twoldanski in #696

• 🚀 [TASK] Skip empty content element by @twoldanski in #700

• 🚀 [TASK] Set version 4.2.5 by @twoldanski in #701

Full Changelog: v4.2.4...v4.2.5

v4.2.4 Bugfix release

❗ Changelog ❗

Bugfixes

• 🐛 Fix crash with redirects by @twoldanski in #686
• 🐛 Proper checks for headless mode by @twoldanski in #687
• 🐛 Fix rendering of CEs by @twoldanski in #688
• 🐛 Bump actions/cache from 3 to 4 by @dependabot in #691
• 🐛 Fix docs rendering by @lukaszuznanski in #693

Full Changelog: v4.2.3...v4.2.4

v4.2.3 Bugfix release

Latest release v4.2.0 introduced new way of using headless mode, also with this patch we changed configuration, to require headless mode to be set. This release brings some fixes to headless mode.

❗ Changelog ❗

Bug Fixes

• 🐛 [BUGFIX] Add missing typoscript declaration - @twoldanski (Nov 15, 2023)
• 🐛 [BUGFIX] Fix import path for logged user definition - [@twoldanski](Nov 14, 2023)
• 🐛 [BUGFIX] Resolve issue with language preview and cross domain links - @twoldanski (Nov 14, 2023)
• 🐛 [BUGFIX] Correct linkText value in headerLink property - [@schloram](Nov 7, 2023)
• 🐛 [BUGFIX] Fix generating preview URL in BE - @twoldanski (Nov 6, 2023)

Tasks

• 🚀 Set meta title feature behind a flag - @twoldanski (Nov 20, 2023)
• 🚀 Readme cleanup - [@twoldanski](Nov 13, 2023)
• 🚀 Explain delayProcessing flag - [@kitzberger](Nov 7, 2023)
• 🚀 General fixes to File handling, additional documentation for file handling - [@kitzberger](Nov 7, 2023)
• 🚀 Add option for GalleryProcessor: fileExtension - [@kitzberger](Nov 7, 2023)
• 🚀 Adjust functional tests - [@schloram](Nov 7, 2023)
• 🚀 Mention EXT:container extensions - [@christophlehmann](Nov 6, 2023)
• 🚀 Check for Site, NullSite may occur and throw error - [@lukaszuznanski](Nov 6, 2023)