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AppShell Changelog

4.4.0

2024-11-23

• Added CRUD for Countries and Provinces
• Added the globe and flag icons
• Added support for setting empty.html on the table widget
• Added PHP 8.4 support

4.3.0

2024-10-29

• Added the possibility to extend/override "for" definitions in requests with the HasFor trait

4.2.0

2024-10-29

• Added missing support to pass a callback as the badge widget's text option

4.1.0

2024-09-16

• Upgraded the Tabler Icon Theme to use the v3.x assets from the CDN (from 1.x)

4.0.1

2024-07-29

• Fixed the invalid Eloquent Sluggable package version requirement

4.0.0

2024-07-04

• BC: Added the supportedIcons() static method to the IconTheme interface
• BC: Upgrade to Bootstrap 5.3
• BC: Renamed the group widget/component to card
• BC: Upgrade to Konekt Acl v2
• Added Laravel 11 support
• Added Components based on the Laravel Blade Components Feature
• Added page-actions blade stack that themes need to define
• Added colored enum icon feature via the color_enum_icon() helper
• Added feature to specify the color of text widgets
• Added hover option to table widget (adds table-hover if enabled)
• Added the hideIf directive to table columns (widget)
• Added the rowAttributes option to the table widget
• Added the searchable() method to the Filter interface
• Added the HasControllerHooks trait to the base controller class
• Added the Trident Theme - it has been written from scratch with new visual style
• Added the Lucide Icon Theme (see https://lucide.dev)
• Added the following blade components:
  • Alert
  • Badge
  • Floating Label
  • CancelButton, SaveButton, CreateAction, StandardActions
• Added custom tag support for card component
• Added the following icons: upload, download, comment
• Added the feature to substitute array values and/or object properties of any depth in widgets
• Added the feature to use closures in widget color definitions
• Added support for using closures as widget text prefix and suffix
• Added the text_if_null widget modifier
• Added the image widget
• Added the enum_color feature to the widget color options
• Added the following icons: folder, file
• Added the Currencies helper class and the CurrencyExists validation rule
• Added the konekt/xtend package dependency
• Fixed settings/preferences TreeBuilder related issues with premature loading, and possible stale/corrupt data in Octane environment
• Dropped Laravel 9 support
• Dropped Enum v3 support
• Dropped PHP 8.1 support & added PHP 8.3 support
• Replaced all bcrypt calls with Hash::make()
• Replaced the multiselect dropdown with a nice-select2 implementation
• Replaced the abandoned laravelcollective/html package with the konekt/html fork for Laravel 11 compatibility
• Changed minimum version requirements:
  • Enum v4.1
  • Address v3.0
  • Gears v1.12
  • Concord v1.15
• Changed Breadcrumbs dependency from v7 to v8
• Changed bcrypt() to Hash::make() in the make:superuser command
• Changed the filename of resources/database/currencies.json (removed the leading space from the filename)

3.10.0

2023-12-17

• Added PHP 8.3 support
• Added the supportedIcons() method to all icon themes (the method is a v4 IconTheme interface method candidate)

3.9.0

2023-03-10

• Added enum color support via EnumColors registry class and enum_color() helper function

3.8.0

2023-03-05

• Added Laravel 10 Support
• Added the onlyIf option to links that can conditionally render links based on closures or model properties

3.7.0

2023-01-26

• Added the PartialMatchInMultipleFields filter
• Changed customer list name filter to search in firstname, lastname fields as well besides the company_name

3.6.0

2023-01-26

• Added pagination to customer and user lists (fixed 100 record page size)
• Added changing the Laravel Paginator style to Bootstrap 4
• Added disable.paginator_style configuration

3.5.1

2022-12-05

• Fixed missing Tabler Icon assets by changing their CDN URL from unpkg to jsdelivr 🎅

3.5.0

2022-09-21

• Fixed Unparenthesized ternary PHP Deprecation Error; thanks Peterson Umoke!
• Added explicit route parameters support for table actions widget
• Added PHP 8.2 support

3.4.0

2022-09-02

• Added spinner and plug icons
• Added Font Awesome 6 Pro icon theme support
• Upgraded FontAwesome 6 Free icon theme to v6.2

3.3.0

2022-08-31

• Added the addAlias() method to the resource permission mapper

3.2.0

2022-08-31

• Added option to define ACL resource name aliases (eg 'master product' => 'product')

3.1.2

2022-08-27

• Changed Laravel requirements to min v9.2 and to exclude v9.15.0 that puts the entire application down
• Reverted TreeBuilder container service to singleton (changed in 2.8.2) - as it never actually worked well The real fix for Octane based setup was added in Gears 1.10.0

3.1.1

2022-06-02

• Changed the preferences tree container service from singleton to scoped (to fix corrupt data in Octane setup)

3.1.0

2022-05-31

• Fixed Google Font import link at the top of appshell.sass that caused issues with newer Laravel Mix/SASS lib versions. See laravel-mix#2430.
• Added custom asset links feature to the AppShell theme

3.0.1

2022-05-01

• Fixed the extra font loading by removing the surplus Montserrat font import from the layouts

Added Frontend CI tests

3.0.0

2022-04-29

• Dropped Laravel 8 Support (Laravel 9+ only)
• BC: Removed Vue.js and replaced it with Alpinejs (existing functionality has been ported to alpine)
• Changed the default AppShell theme (dark sidebar, narrower font, slightly different colors, and other visual aspects)
• Changed the scripts blade section from yield() to stack()
• Changed the footer position to the bottom of the sidebar
• Changed the default footer content to be empty (populate the footer blade section to add content)
• Fixed the footer underflow issue
• Deprecated the id="app" at the top of the layout in the default theme:
  • Applications should no longer rely on its existence
  • It will be removed in AppShell v4

2.8.1

2022-04-27

• Fixed impossibility of editing own avatar without edit users permission

2.8.0

2022-03-15

• Added opportunity to assign users to customers
• Added timezone, currency and ltv (Customer Lifetime Value) fields to customers (via Customers v2.3)
• Added model substitution to text widget's suffix and prefix options
• Added the default currency setting
• Improved the Customer create/edit forms
• Dropped Laravel 6 and 7 support
• Changed customer list so that inactive ones are hidden by default
• Changed minimal Laravel requirement to 8.22.1, see CVE-2021-21263
• Changed minimal package requirements to:
  • ACL module: 1.5
  • Address module: 2.1
  • Customer module: 2.3
  • Concord: 1.10.1
  • Eloquent Sluggable: 8.0.2
  • Enum Eloquent: 1.7
  • Gears module: 1.7
  • Laracasts Flash: 3.2
  • Laravel Collective HTML (Forms): 6.2.1
  • Menu module: 1.8

2.7.0

2022-03-09

• Added empty option to "badges" widget that displays a default badge if the list is empty

2.6.0

2022-02-22

• Added Laravel 9 support
• Added animation support to icons
• Added Font Awesome 6 icon theme

2.5.2

2021-12-02

• Fixed misplaced form tags on quicklinks form
• Proven to work with PHP 8.1

2.5.1

2021-10-23

• Fixed bug when search route wasn't defined

2.5.0

2021-10-18

• Dropped PHP 7.4 Support
• Added actionbar and footer slots to the group widget
• Added possibility to omit the title from group widget
• Added "empty" option to table widget to render a text instead of table on empty dataset
• Added "header:false" option to hide table headers
• Added "value" option for getting a contextual color directly from the model
• Added Footer support to the table widget
• Added Raw HTML widget
• Added support for conditional widget rendering
• Added support for extra elements in multi text widget's primary row
• Added size and tooltip rendering to Avatar widget
• Added feature to fetch widget text from multiple model "depths" eg.: $model.country.name
• Changed customer and user show/edit/create pages to use group widget instead of hard coded Bootstrap
• Changed widget text modifiers so that they can modify non-string field values as well
• Converted address list partial to use the group widget instead of hardcoded bootstrap HTML
• Converted Invitations to render widgets instead of hardcoded Bootstrap HTML
• Converted Roles to render widgets instead of hardcoded Bootstrap HTML
• Fixed Table actions widget when delete confirmation was without translations parameters

2.4.2

2021-10-04

• Fixed variable typo in public/print layouts that made them unusable

2.4.1

2021-10-04

• Fixed greedy SHIFT keydown detection issue for search shortcut

2.4.0

2021-10-04

• Added configuration (ui.use_mix) that allows applications to use mix() for AppShell Theme layout assets
• Added Search Feature

2.3.2

2021-09-29

• Fixed rendering of custom classes on icon themes

2.3.1

2021-09-22

• Fixed "stuck" old assets by replacing asset() with mix() in AppShell layouts

2.3.0

2021-09-22

• Added Widgets feature
• Added Filters feature
• Replaced User and Customer list tables to be rendered via a table widget
• Added (enabled the Tabler Icon theme with

2.2.0

2021-03-14

• Added print layout

2.1.0

2020-12-21

• Added PHP 8 support
• Added User Invitation Feature
• Changed placement of role on user form: moved to a new sidebar box on the right
• Changed CI from Travis to Github Actions

2.0.0

2020-10-31

• Dropped Core UI
• AppShell Theme rework on top of plain Bootstrap 4
• AppShell Theme facelift
• Dropped Laravel 5 Support
• Dropped PHP 7.2 & 7.3 Support
• Renamed appshell:super artisan command to make:superuser
• BC: semantic_color_to_hex helper has been renamed to theme_color
• BC: ACL permission naming of resources with multipart names has been changed (eg. mapping of userTypes: was user_types/usertypes in 1.x, has become user types in 2.x)
• BC: Removed the configuration based asset injection support
• Added a blade based asset injection (into the default theme/layout)
• Added proper Theme support
• Added Icon Theme support
• Added Lineicons 2 and Fontawesome 5 icon themes besides Material Icons (ZMDI)
• Deprecated the ResourcePermissions static class in favour of the ResourcePermissionMapper singleton
• Improved Menu item activation (js workaround has been removed)
• AppShell logo uri can be set in config/settings
• Added config option acl.allow_action_as_verb to allow non-standard actions to be guarded by ACL
• Added possibility to configure the login/logout URLs
• Added Datetime format preferences and corresponding view helper functions (show_date(), show_datetime(), show_time())

1.8.1

2020-09-24

• Fixed lazy loading issue with AppShell's default settings UI Tree. Thanks majka brisova!

1.8.0

2020-09-13

• Added Laravel 8 Support

1.7.0

2020-05-24

• Added option to override default plurals for Resource permission generator

1.6.1

2020-03-21

• Fixed buggy route definition for user activate/deactive

1.6.0

2020-03-15

• Added Laravel 7 Support
• Added PHP 7.4 Support
• Dropped PHP 7.1 Support
• Concord 1.5+ is required

1.5.1

2019-11-29

• Fixed displaying disallowed top level items on side menu

1.5.0

2019-11-24

• Added Laravel 6 support
• Dropped Laravel 5.4 Support
• Concord 1.4+ is required

1.4.1

2019-06-06

• Improved print CSS

1.4.0

2019-06-06

• Minimalist Theme support has been added
• User preferences have been added (extensible, no defaults)

1.3.3

2019-03-19

• Bugfix: Made migrations great again for cases when the admin role is not present in the system.

1.3.2

2019-03-17

• Laravel 5.8 Compatibility fix

1.3.1

2019-01-20

• Fixed can't build SASS issue (due to 'Top-level selectors may not contain the parent selector "&".')
• Documentation fixes

1.3.0

2019-01-10

• Added possibility to define header/footer location of assets
• Removed PHP 7.0 support

1.2.0

2018-11-11

• Custom URL function can be specified for individual assets (instead of default asset())
• Fixed "Default Country too pushy" bug on address form
• Fixed bug of not-displaying "Address type" on address form
• Fixed validations on all forms to be Bootstrap 4 compliant
• Sidebar menu groups are opened when there's an active item (cheap solution)
• Works with PHP 7.3 (RC)

1.1.0

2018-11-04

• Fixed missing bootstrap grid offset CSS classes
• Auth layout and AppShell look&feel login, register, pw reset views have been added
• Login counter feature can be disabled
• Documentation updates

1.0.0

2018-11-02

• Profile, password change works
• Updated, standardized UI
• Delete confirmation globally works on DELETE forms
• Customer Address CRUD works
• Default Country can be set
• Improved Gravatar handling
• Added missing breadcrumbs
• Default layout assets are configurable
• Gears v1.1+
• Customer Module bumped to min. v0.9.6: customer has last_purchase_at field
• Documentation separated from readme. Available here.

0.9

0.9.10

2018-09-21

• Laravel 5.7 Support

0.9.9

2018-07-23

• Menu items are authorized (based on ACL)
• Menu version bumped to 1.2

0.9.8

2018-06-09

• A print stylesheet has been added
• Gears version bumped to 1.0+

0.9.7

2018-05-27

• Settings support available (using gears 0.9.1)
• Minimum Concord version is 1.1

0.9.6

2018-02-19

• Using konekt/acl v1.0 (for Laravel 5.6 support)
• Restored broken Laravel 5.4 compatibility

0.9.5

2018-02-18

• Laravel 5.6 compatible
• UI improvements

0.9.4

2018-01-10

• NEW FEATURE: Customer address editing
• Sidebar: security menu has been renamed to settings

0.9.3

2017-12-11

• Composer deps bumped

0.9.2

2017-12-08

• Concord min version is 0.9.9
• Documentation fixes

0.9.1

2017-11-29

• Konekt Client library has been replaced with konekt/customer
• Default route prefix is /appshell => /admin

0.9.0

2017-11-24

• Version tracking and Changelog has started

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