5.5.0

Content Management

• When saving a nested element within a Matrix/Addresses field in card view, the changes are now saved to a draft of the owner element, rather than published immediately. (#16002)
• Nested element cards now show status indicators if they are new or contain unpublished changes. (#16002)
• Improved the styling of element cards with thumbnails. (#15692, #15673)
• Elements within element selection inputs now have “Replace” actions.
• Entry types listed within entry indexes now show their icon and color. (#15922)
• Address index tables can now include “Country” columns.
• Action button cells within editable tables are now center-aligned vertically.
• Dropdown cells within editable tables are no longer center-aligned. (#15742)
• Link fields marked as translatable now swap the selected element with the localized version when their value is getting propagated to a new site for a freshly-created element. (#15821)
• Pressing Return when an inline-editable field is focused now submits the inline form. (Previously Ctrl/Command had to be pressed as well.) (#15841)
• Improved the styling of element edit page headers, for elements with long titles. (#16001)
• It’s now possible to preview audio and video assets from Edit Asset screens. (#16021)
• Sidebar visibility states are now stored in a browser cookie, so they are retained between page/slideout loads. (#16025, #15982)
• “Related To” condition rules now show the site menu in element selector modals. (#16036)

Accessibility

• Improved the control panel for screen readers. (#15665)
• Improved keyboard control. (#15665)
• Improved the color contrast of required field indicators. (#15665)
• Improved the accessibility of text inputs for screen readers.
• It’s now possible to move an image’s focal point without dragging it. (#15904)
• Improved field status indicators for screen readers. (#16081)

Administration

• Added the “Range” field type. (#15972)
• Added the “Allow custom options” setting to Checkboxes and Radio Buttons fields.
• Added the “Show the ‘Label’ field” and “Show the ‘Open in a new tab’ field” settings to Link fields. (#15983)
• Link fields’ Allowed Link Types settings are now sortable. (#15963)
• All relation fields can now be selected as field layouts’ thumbnail providers. (#15651)
• It’s now possible to include element attributes in card views, alongside custom fields, via new “Card Attributes” configurators. (#15283)
• Added the “Markdown” field layout UI element type. (#15674, #15664)
• Added the “Language” element condition rule. (#15952)
• The Sections index table can now be sorted by Name, Handle, and Type. (#15936)
• Sections are no longer required to have unique names. (#9829)
• Customize Sources modals now display native sources’ handles, when known.
• Removed the “Show the Title field” entry type setting. The “Title” element can now be removed from the field layout instead. (#15942)
• Entry types can now specify a Default Title Format, which will be used even if the Title field is included in the field layout, to generate a default Title value if the field is blank. (#15942)
• It’s now possible to control whether entry types’ Title fields are required. (#15942)
• Added the “Step Size” Number field setting.
• icon is now a reserved field handle. (#16077)
• Added the “Default View Mode” element source setting. (#15824)
• User impersonation now requires an elevated session. (#16052)
• Elevated session prompts now authenticate against the original user, when impersonating a user. (#16052)
• Added several new icons.
• Added pc/* commands as an alias of project-config/*.
• Added the resave/all command.
• Added the users/remove-2fa command. (#16053)
• Added the --except, --minor-only, and --patch-only options to the update command. (#15829)
• Added the --with-fields option to all native resave/* commands.
• The fields/merge and fields/auto-merge commands now prompt to resave elements that include relational fields before merging them, and provide a CLI command that should be run on other environments before the changes are deployed to them. (#15869)

Development

• Added the encodeUrl() Twig function. (#15838)
• {% cache %} tags now support setting the duration number to an expression. (#15970)
• Added support for passing aliased field handles into element queries’ select()/addSelect() methods. (#15827)
• Added support for appending subpaths to environment variable names in environmental settings (e.g. $PRIMARY_SITE_URL/uploads).

Extensibility

• Added craft\base\Element::EVENT_REGISTER_CARD_ATTRIBUTES.
• Added craft\base\Element::EVENT_REGISTER_DEFAULT_CARD_ATTRIBUTES.
• Added craft\base\Element::defineCardAttributes().
• Added craft\base\Element::defineDefaultCardAttributes().
• Added craft\base\ElementInterface::attributePreviewHtml().
• Added craft\base\ElementInterface::cardAttributes().
• Added craft\base\ElementInterface::defaultCardAttributes().
• Added craft\base\ElementInterface::indexViewModes().
• Added craft\base\NestedElementTrait::saveOwnership(). (#15894)
• Added craft\base\PreviewableFieldInterface::previewPlaceholderHtml().
• Added craft\base\RequestTrait::getIsWebRequest(). (#15690)
• Added craft\base\conditions\BaseElementSelectConditionRule::elementSelectConfig().
• Added craft\console\Controller::output().
• Added craft\console\controllers\ResaveController::hasTheFields().
• Added craft\elements\db\NestedElementQueryTrait. (#15894)
• Added craft\events\ApplyFieldSaveEvent. (#15872)
• Added craft\events\DefineAddressCountriesEvent. (#15711)
• Added craft\events\RegisterElementCardAttributesEvent.
• Added craft\events\RegisterElementDefaultCardAttributesEvent.
• Added craft\fieldlayoutelements\Template::$templateMode. (#15932)
• Added craft\fields\data\LinkData::$target.
• Added craft\fields\data\LinkData::setLabel().
• Added craft\filters\BasicHttpAuthLogin. (#15720)
• Added craft\filters\BasicHttpAuthStatic. (#15720)
• Added craft\filters\ConditionalFilterTrait. (#15948)
• Added craft\filters\UtilityAccess.
• Added craft\helpers\Console::$outputCount.
• Added craft\helpers\Console::$prependNewline.
• Added craft\helpers\Console::indent().
• Added craft\helpers\Console::indentStr().
• Added craft\helpers\Console::outdent().
• Added craft\helpers\Cp::cardPreviewHtml().
• Added craft\helpers\Cp::cardViewDesignerHtml().
• Added craft\helpers\Cp::rangeFieldHtml(). (#15972)
• Added craft\helpers\Cp::rangeHtml(). (#15972)
• Added craft\helpers\ElementHelper::linkAttributeHtml().
• Added craft\helpers\ElementHelper::uriAttributeHtml().
• Added craft\helpers\Session::addFlash().
• Added craft\helpers\Session::getAllFlashes().
• Added craft\helpers\Session::getFlash().
• Added craft\helpers\Session::hasFlash().
• Added craft\helpers\Session::removeAllFlashes().
• Added craft\helpers\Session::removeFlash().
• Added craft\helpers\StringHelper::firstLine().
• Added craft\helpers\UrlHelper::encodeUrl(). (#15838)
• Added craft\log\MonologTarget::getAllowLineBreaks().
• Added craft\log\MonologTarget::getFormatter().
• Added craft\log\MonologTarget::getLevel().
• Added craft\log\MonologTarget::getMaxFiles().
• Added craft\log\MonologTarget::getName().
• Added craft\log\MonologTarget::getProcessor().
• Added craft\log\MonologTarget::getUseMicrosecondTimestamps().
• Added craft\models\FieldLayout::getCardBodyAttributes().
• Added craft\models\FieldLayout::getCardBodyElements().
• Added craft\models\FieldLayout::getCardView().
• Added craft\models\FieldLayout::prependElements().
• Added craft\models\FieldLayout::setCardView().
• Added craft\services\Addresses::EVENT_DEFINE_ADDRESS_COUNTRIES. (#15711)
• Added craft\services\Addresses::getCountryList(). (#15711)
• Added craft\services\Fields::EVENT_BEFORE_APPLY_FIELD_SAVE. (#15872)
• Added craft\services\Gc::deleteOrphanedFieldLayouts().
• Added craft\services\Users::getMaxUsers().
• Added craft\web\View::registerCpTwigExtension().
• Added craft\web\View::registerSiteTwigExtension().
• craft\fields\data\LinkData::getLabel() now has a $custom argument.
• craft\helpers\Console::output() now prepends an indent to each line of the passed-in string, if indent() had been called prior.
• Added the elements/save-nested-element-for-derivative action. (#16002)
• Improved support for creating log targets for third party logging services. (#14974)
• Deprecated the enableBasicHttpAuth config setting. craft\filters\BasicHttpAuthLogin should be used instead. (#15720)
• Added the serializeForm event to Craft.ElementEditor. (#15794)
• Added the range() and rangeField() macros to _includes/forms.twig. (#15972)
• Added the fieldLayoutDesigner() and cardViewDesigner() global Twig functions for control panel templates.
• Field layout designers can now be instantiated with a withCardViewDesigner param. (#15283
• Checkbox selects can now be passed a sortable option. (#15963)
• Deprecated the craft.cp.fieldLayoutDesigner() function. The global fieldLayoutDesigner() function should be used instead.

System

• Location headers added via craft\web\Response::redirect() are now set to encoded URLs. (#15838)
• Fixed a bug where the utils/fix-field-layout-uids command was misidentifying missing/duplicate UUID issues.
• Fixed an error that could occur when upgrading to Craft 5, if unused field layouts contained duplicate UUIDs. (#16032)
• Fixed a bug where Live Preview wasn’t reloading after performing bulk actions in embedded element indexes. (#16057)
• Fixed a bug where restoring a soft-deleted element would restore any nested elements that had been explicitly soft-deleted. (#16059)
• Fixed a bug where orphaned field layouts weren’t getting garbage collected. (#16032)
• Fixed a bug where the Recovery Codes slideout content overflowed its container on small screens. (#15665)
• Fixed a bug where entries that were soft-deleted along with their section weren’t getting restored if the section was restored.
• Fixed a bug where field types weren’t getting a chance to normalize their values when propagated to a new site for a freshly-created element, if they were marked as translatable.
• Fixed a bug where Link fields didn’t support URLs with non-ASCII characters. (#15989)
• Fixed styling bugs. (#16061)