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In this post we look at a new core version on the master branch, and a new version of ProCache that includes a browser-cache busting feature called Buster: https://processwire.com/blog/posts/pw-3.0.98-procache-buster/

A short update this week looking at ProcessWire 3.0.97 and a preview of coming attractions: https://processwire.com/blog/posts/processwire-3.0.97-core-updates/

With everything running smoothly on the new master version, we wanted to recommend a few additional steps that will help you take advantage of some of the new features. Plus a look at developing for and with ProcessWire. https://processwire.com/blog/posts/what-to-do-after-upgrading-to-the-latest-master/

Like the last few weeks, most efforts this week focused on resolving issue reports at GitHub and preparing the master version. We are at a point where I think our dev branch is far better than our previous master (3.0.62), in every way, stability included. So there's no reason to delay further—3.0.96 is our new master version. This post covers all the details: https://processwire.com/blog/posts/pw-3.0.96-master/

This week we take a look at something really cool we added a few months ago but haven’t told you about yet: owner selectors. We also take a brief look at what’s new in ProcessWire 3.0.95 and and the status of our next master version, which is just about ready! https://processwire.com/blog/posts/processwire-3.0.95-core-updates/

Thanks to all that have been helping us to wrap up issue reports on GitHub in preparation for the next master version of the ProcessWire core. Unless any major issues surface, most likely 3.0.95 (next week) will be the next master version. Like last week's version 3.0.93, this week's version 3.0.94 continues along the same path in clearing up new and existing issue reports, and fine tuning little details for the master branch. If you come across any new significant issues please submit them in the issues repository. Or if you opened an issue awhile ago and we haven't fixed it yet, please check that the issue is still applicable and reply to let us know. No blog post this week because I don't have anything else new or interesting to write about other than this. But I am definitely getting excited about having a new master version ready. There's no doubt, this is a really nice upgrade relative to the current master 3.0.62. Have a great weekend!

Just a short update this week and we work on the finishing touches for the next master release version of the ProcessWire core: https://processwire.com/blog/posts/processwire-3.0.93-core-updates/

This version expands upon our recently introduced Focus Point selection feature for image fields by adding zoom support to the mix. This version also continues resolving GitHub issue reports as other recent dev versions have, while we work towards a release candidate for ProcessWire 3.1. https://processwire.com/blog/posts/pw-3.0.91/

This latest version on the dev branch continues resolving GitHub issue reports as the last few versions have done. A new page finding capability has been added as well, and that's what we'll focus on in this post: https://processwire.com/blog/posts/processwire-3.0.91-core-updates/

ProcessWire 3.0.90 This week updates focused mostly on GitHub issue reports, emphasizing a few that I'd put off for a little while because they would take more time than usual to resolve, and didn't affect many people. But they are nevertheless important, especially nearing the next master version. We also have a new addition in 3.0.90 thanks to @horst. This version adds the latest iteration of his ImageSizerEngineAnimatedGif module to the core. This means that PW can now generate variations (alternate sizes/crops) of animated GIFs. Previously any variations of an animated GIF just ended up being one frame of it. Now all the frames are retained. To enable this, go to Modules > Core > Image > Animated GIF Image Sizer, and click Install. Though we'll probably set this one to install automatically in one of the next versions. But once installed, upload an animated GIF, and ProcessWire takes care of the rest. No longer blog post this week because the above is all I have to report and it doesn't seem long enough for a blog post. I hope that everyone has a great weekend!

This week we’re back with a new dev branch version that adds a new feature we think you’ll like: focus point image cropping. That’s also the “focus” of this blog post. This version also includes resolutions to numerous issue reports and more. https://processwire.com/blog/posts/pw-3.0.89/

This week I got kicked out of my office, by weather, a furnace, and kids. So I don't have a blog post or a version update, though I do have a lot of work in progress that you'll see next week (including an item from last week's roadmap that I think you'll really like). It's been below freezing all week, and our furnace stopped working, so now there's no heat. Something called the heat exchanger cracked, and it looked like we were going to have to get a whole new furnace. But then we learned that the one we had was still under warranty, so the manufacturer is sending a new one, but it'll take a week to get here. Luckily we've got coats and a fireplace, but houses here in Atlanta really aren't built for the cold, so it's pretty frigid at a little over 50f (10c) indoors. I hadn't really planned on typing this much, but it's keeping my hands warm, so I'll keep going. It started snowing, which is something that doesn't happen often here. It was enough cold, snow and ice that the kids school was canceled for much of the week. So I've been having fun keeping an eye on them, but it's a challenge to keep a 7-year old and 4-year old occupied and away from TV. I grew up in Minnesota, so admittedly a part of me enjoys the cold and the snow. But unlike in Minnesota, snow in Atlanta pretty much shuts everything down. In this case, it's also been so darn cold that everyone is frozen after 10 minutes outside, so nobody wants to go out there. Today is the first day where things are starting to warm up, hopefully a trend. When I say the weather kicked me out of my office, I also mean literally. The day it snowed, water started dripping out of the office ceiling, right onto my head, which is... not what you want to see. There was no entry or access to the space in the ceiling for me to get up there and see what was going on. So I had to cut open the ceiling drywall to get up there and have a look. After making a big mess, I got up there and shined a flashlight around, the scene was surreal. It was a 2 foot high attic crawlspace full of snow, with some snowdrifts nearly a foot high. That answers the question of where the water came from… overhead lights produced heat, melted the snow, and it poured into the office. But how the heck did snow get into my ceiling? And how do I get it out of there before it all melts and destroys my office? As it turns out, the day it snowed was very windy. Structures around here have something called ridge vents at the peak of the roof. They run the length of the roof and vent hot air out during the summer. But if you get the right combination of wind and snow (like sideways and upwards blasting snow) it can get into the ridge vents, and into the attic… so I've learned. The conditions must have been perfect for it, because a whole lot of the snow got in. I've never seen anything like it, and hope I don't ever have to again. I ended up spending a day carefully crawling around on joists every 16-inches in those tight and completely dark quarters, trying to get the snow out of the ceiling and insulation. With a flashlight taped to my head, toting around buckets of snow on my hands and knees, I looked pretty ridiculous. Over a day I filled several big buckets full of snow and got it out of there. It was a pain to clear it out, but certainly much better than having it melt through my office ceiling. It's not been warm enough yet to know how much snow I missed (and will melt through), but with any luck, what's left will just evaporate. That was this week's adventures, which admittedly had nothing to do with ProcessWire, but that's why this isn't a blog post. Coming next week: a new PW version (with some exciting updates), a new blog post, and hopefully a new furnace.

In this post, we take a look at all that was covered in 2017, and our roadmap for 2018, which includes plans for the year ahead. https://processwire.com/blog/posts/processwire-2018-roadmap/

I'm not seeing it here, but since you are, I'm guessing it's probably language translation related. I just updated it to use entities1() rather than entities(), which accommodates cases where we don't know for sure if it's already entity encoded or not. This action is what you choose if you want to convert to Black & White, aka greyscale.

I'm not seeing that here. Anyone else? If you view the source of the page, it should be encoded i.e. B&W. But it sounds like in your case it's getting double encoded for some reason. Can you confirm that if you view source, it looks something like B&W ?

I mentioned last week that we'd look at the roadmap this week. I'm actually still working on that, so will post the 2018 roadmap next week instead. But I do have a version update this week which adds some useful tools to our images field in the admin (InputfieldImage), and I think this is one that both you and your clients will find really handy. https://processwire.com/blog/posts/pw-3.0.88/

This one I can't duplicate yet. I'm also running the latest Chrome, except in OS X rather than Windows. I also tested in Firefox and was not able to duplicate it there either. Maybe there is a platform difference I need to look closer at. But you mentioned that after saving the page, everything worked. I'm guessing a JS error is happening somewhere in the process. Try enabling debug mode $config->debug=true; in /site/config.php, and watch your Chrome JS console for any JS errors that might appear in the process, whether from the CKEditor field, or possibly another field in the page editor at the same time. Edit—see further down for my response to the JS error you found. Paste doesn't work in Firefox for me either. As far as I can tell, this CKE plugin doesn't support the paste action in Firefox. It looks like Firefox uses a different type of raw data when it comes to paste that might require Firefox specific code. I haven't looked very far yet though. Okay I think this may possibly be what the issue is with the first issue. Try registering under some name other than "mystyles", which is just what we used for example purposes, but better to choose your own name. It looks like it might be colliding with some built-in example and creating the JS error. The croppable image field is a 3rd party plugin, so I'm not sure to what extent it might support this feature. But if it extends FieldtypeImage, then chances are that it will work for uploads as well. I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "fetches all images"? This feature only uploads images. It sounds like maybe you are talking about the image insert dialog, where you can select from images that are already uploaded? If that's the case, go to Modules > Configure > ProcessPageEditImageSelect. In the settings, you can specify the images fields that it should ignore. You'll want to add your croppable image field there (if you don't want it available for CKE). This new CKE upload feature also honors the setting you specify there. I can't duplicate this one either, but since we know where it's occurring I can add some code to avoid it. What we're seeing there is a $page that has no template assigned, somehow. I'm guessing another module is triggering with a NullPage, which is why template is empty. I'll add a detection for that and commit it in a few mins. I'm pretty sure that'll fix it.

@desbest It looks like you are running PW 3.0.61. I don't know if that particular version had an issue related to that, but I would suggest upgrading to either the current master version, or better yet the current dev version. The current dev version now lets you drag/drop in images into CKEditor, which might be preferable to the process you are currently using to insert images. If you are able to reproduce the issue you are seeing on a fresh install of the current dev version, please post an issue report on GitHub too. Thanks.

For our final dev branch version of 2017, we've added a couple new features that I think you'll find useful. For starters, we've added drag-and-drop (and paste) image upload support to our richtext editor (CKEditor), which is really handy. We've got all the details and a short screencast here as well. https://processwire.com/blog/posts/pw-3.0.87/

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone! This week and next week are shortened here due to reduced school and work schedules for the holidays (as I imagine they are in most places), so there won't be a new blog post and PW version for today. With the kids home from school all day, work shifts to building stuff with legos rather than code. But there are still several interesting PW updates in progress and I look forward to writing about them in next week's blog post. The new version (3.0.87) and related blog post will likely be a day early next week (on Thursday) rather than on Friday. Thanks for reading and I hope that you and your families have a great and relaxing holiday!

We are getting very close to our next master version of ProcessWire 3.x. This week work continued on covering issue reports, but we also added a few items from our feature requests repository as well. This post contains a brief summary of what went into the core this week. https://processwire.com/blog/posts/pw-3.0.86/

Yes, it should be automatically available in FormBuilder if you are using PW 3.0.85

This week I've been back in the office and enjoying working on the core. Big thanks to Bernhard Baumrock for his great post last week about Process modules. I was offline for about 10 days, so version 3.0.85 of ProcessWire on the dev branch has been largely focused on getting caught up with and resolving issue reports (at GitHub). Though there are a couple new things too, which are covered in this week's post: https://processwire.com/blog/posts/pw-3.0.85/

This week we have a guest post from Bernhard Baumrock that is a nice introduction to creating Process modules in ProcessWire. Bernhard covers a lot of useful material here and we hope you enjoy it. Big thanks to him for his contribution this week. I've been traveling (Ryan) for the last two weeks, but arrived back in town last night, so next week we'll be back to our regular PW core updates and schedule. https://processwire.com/blog/posts/building-custom-admin-pages-with-process-modules/

This week we've got a newly updated ProcessWire installer, some nice upgrades to our user profile editor, along with more updates to the new Uikit admin theme that was recently added to the core. https://processwire.com/blog/posts/processwire-3.0.84-core-updates/