Movable Type 5.2 Beta 2 Release Notes

Movable Type 5.2 Beta 2 is now available.  A lot of bugs and issues are fixed in this version. For more detail information, please refer to the notes below.

Known Issues

To be fixed in next beta version

  • 108211 IE8: Unable to select area by clicking content path
  • 108183  In Firefox, when an empty list item within a list is selected and deleted, the list mark will remain.
  • 108138  In Firefox, when editing text within a list, if the delete or back space buttons are used, the list element will be deleted, returning all listed text to a non-formatted appearance.

There is a patch file already available for the issues listed above, and pull requests have beent sent to the TinyMCE repository. These issues will be fixed once the original TinyMCE issues are fixed.

  • 108273 Wrong order of the field on Edit Entry Screen
  • 108213 Location of alert message appears in mismatched position
  • 108242 Occasionally sending test mail fails under IIS+ActivePerl environement

Implemented cases

Following features were introduced in MT5.1

  • 108218 Unable to save Title on Batch Edit Entries if the Title was blank
  • 108284 Default value of timezone filed on Create Website/Blog screen should respect DefaultTimezone
  • 80929 MTArchiveCount within MTCategories gives rebuild error on index template
  • 107613 Unable to view Manage Blogs screen if blogs do not have parent website
  • 108280 [AutoSave] Entry body can not be restored
  • 108131 Refactoring form styles.
  • 108298 [Rich Text Editor] Edit area will be shortened
  • 108263  Custom Field: Edit custom field and get unreasonable error
  • 108252 RitchTextEditor: Remove Formatting doesn't remove Underline anymore
  • 108223 SSL warning appears when Edit Entry screen is opened with IE8
  • 108192 IE9: Unable to display preview (https)
  • 108178 IE9: Heading decoration indication when you open Create Entry/Page
  • 108104 [backup/restore] The order of the category is not retained
  • 108053 FastCGI: Disable/enable plugins: 500 error
  • 106116 Unable to preview an entry if you have not defined archive mapping
  • 108244 IE: Should focus #title element for the new entry
  • 108200 Enable to use "{{theme_static}}" keyword in "theme.yaml"

Community Contributors

This release included a lot of feedback, patches and contributions from our community. Thank you very much for all of your help to make Movable Type better !

This page was last updated on 2012-07-16, 18:30.

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