# Changelog

In this page, you can find a record of all the changes made to LaraClassified such as bug fixes, new features, etc.

### Version 7.1.0 July 15, 2020

#### INFORMATION

- This is a breaking update for the languages files and for the plugins.
- Many of languages files keys are changed.
- The plugins folder has been moved from `/app/Plugins/` to `/extras/plugins/`.

- New great design for the Admin Panel.
- Languages files edition from the Admin Panel.
- Allow front views customization in the `/extras/customizations/` dir. So it's now possible to extend the views without being overwritten in the next updates. NOTE: You must follow the same trees and names of views as the script's views.
- Option to show/hide "Security Tips" on phone number.
- Allow users to contact advertisers on WhatsApp (With pre-filled message or not).
- Languages files keys updated to allow them to be editable from the Admin Panel.
- Green and Yellow styles CSS updated.
- Plugins folder has moved to make easier websites upgrades.
- Composer update.
- Minor Improvements.

### Version 7.0.4 June 13, 2020

- URL, Number, Date, Date Time, Date Range and Video types fields added in the Custom Fields.
- TinyMCE, Summernote and CKEditor5 WYSIWYG editor added.
- More fields filters added in the search page sidebar.
- Feature to allow/disallow custom field filters in the search page sidebar added.
- Geonames database updated (Available only for fresh installations).
- Many DB queries improved (using Laravel `->cursor()` feature).
- Prevent admin users to be banned.
- Blacklist - Cyrillic words also can be banned now.
- Check if MySQL driver is enabled for PDO on the server.
- Use the search area background image as og:image on the homepage.
- Updating ads: New pictures position fixed (Multi Steps Form).
- Multibytes strings manipulation in Custom Fields.
- Count ads by category feature fixed for non main languages.
- User account: Saved searches pagination fixed.
- User account: Avatar update/deletion security issue fixed.
- Duplicate strings on Tags array fixed.
- Reply title on Conversation page fixed.
- Composer update.
- Minor Improvements.

### Version 7.0.3 May 13, 2020

- Prevent wrong locale used in the setlocale() function.
  NOTE: This fixes an historic issue with the Turkish language.
- Minor bugs fixed.

### Version 7.0.2 May 2, 2020

- Show/hide password feature added.
- Feed improvements.
- Bugs fixed.

### Version 7.0.1 Apr 28, 2020

- Maxmind database updated.
- npm packages updated.
- Minor bugfix.

### Version 7.0.0 Apr 22, 2020

#### INFORMATION

- From the v7.0.0 the script requires PHP 7.2.5 or higher.

- Laravel 7.x support added.
- Postmark mail service added in the installer.
- Installer improved.
- Ads Clear Cmd improved. Greatly reduce your memory usage.
- CKEditor plugin removed (Security issue).
- Minor Improvements.
- Bugfix: Feeds. + Languages Sync.

### Version 6.9.4 Dec 26, 2019

- Google+ share removed. WhatsApp share added.
- Bugfix: Impersonate feature.
- Bugfix: Twitter sharing encoding issue.
- Bugfix: Admin panel reorder feature.
- Bugfix: Minor CSS.
- Bugfix: Failed to load resource: net::ERR_SPDY_PROTOCOL_ERROR.
- Distance Calculation Improved.
- Composer update.
- Minor Improvements.

### Version 6.9.3 Aug 16, 2019

- Improvement of the Distance Calculation Unit Conversion.

### Version 6.9.2 Aug 14, 2019

- Bugfix: Distance Calculation Unit Conversion. Distances are now accurate.

### Version 6.9.1 Aug 8, 2019

- Upgrade system updated: Support for semver added.
- Hide ads price related to their category (or parent category) type.
- Search Engine code improved. And MySQL strict mode is now supported.
- Geonames database files updated (Available only for fresh installations).
- Minor improvements.
- Bugs fixed.

### Version 6.9 Jul 15, 2019

- Admin panel: Options to protect & to hide phone numbers added.
- Admin panel: Allow admin user to select the Distance Calculation Formula.
- Allow admin users to ban links/URLs, email addresses and phone numbers from the ads description.
- More Backup Options added.
- Files Storage Improved.
- Prevent only numeric characters for ads description field.
- LinkedIn login issue fixed.
- Minor improvements.
- Minor bugs fixed.

### Version 6.8 May 27, 2019

- Admin panel: Configurable Files & Images Upload settings added.
- Admin panel: Option to clear images thumbnails.
- Admin panel: Allow admin users to customize the robots.txt file.
- Admin panel: Option to select the "Similar Ads" type (or disable it) on the Ads details page.
- Allow admin users to ban ads authors on one click by visiting their ads details page.
- Carousel auto-play loop (if enabled) added for mobile display.
- "Offline" button in users area fixed.
- Ads details page Tabs display fixed.
- Multi-countries routes file generation (during the first SEO settings save) fixed.
- Observers (Post, Picture, Payment & Payment Method) cache clear fixed.
- Minor improvements.

### Version 6.7 Apr 30, 2019

- Minor improvements.
- Bugs fixed.

### Version 6.6 Apr 28, 2019

- Support for Laravel 5.8.* added.
- Lazy Loading option added in Optimization settings.
- Chinese & Japanese languages files added
- Removing pictures on ad edit (Single Step Form)
- Admin panel: Add link on IP addresses
- Front: Redirect admin users to the Admin panel.
- Minimum file upload size added in the settings.
- (If the Reviews System plugin installed) Sorting by ratings added in the search page.
- Minor bugs fixed.

### Version 6.5 Apr 4, 2019

- Admin panel: Optimization Settings added.
- "Ads Cleaner" command renamed to "Ads Clear".
- Usage of the Laravel Task Scheduling in the Cron Job tab.
- Bugs fixed.

### Version 6.4 Mar 30, 2019

- Admin panel: Yandex site verification added
- Google Chrome: bxSliders click fixed
- Many minor improvements.
- Minor bugs fixed.

### Version 6.3 Mar 22, 2019

- Known bugs fixed.

### Version 6.2 Mar 18, 2019

- (Browser or Website Country) Language Auto Detection and Selection.
- Admin panel: New settings added.
- Admin panel: By selecting the "Single Step Form", picture field can be make mandatory or not.
- Homepage: New options to count ads belong to cities and/or categories.
- Support for Google reCAPTCHA v2 and v3.
- Google reCAPTCHA integration improved.
- Many minor improvements.
- Composer packages updated.
- Simditor WYSIWYG CSS overwritten fixed.
- Minor bugs fixes.

### Version 6.1 Feb 21, 2019

- Allow admin user to select a form type for ads creation and edition ("Multi Steps Form" or "Single Step Form")
- Admin panel: New settings added.
- Add font color function in Simditor WYSIWYG.
- Social Network Login improved (LinkedIn & Twitter login added. Google+ login can be removed).
- Laravel 5.8 deprecated functions (String and Array Helpers) cleared.
- Simditor WYSIWYG translation added.
- Many minor improvements.
- Composer packages updated.
- Bugfix: Resource interpreted as Stylesheet but transferred with MIME type application/javascript (in the latest version of Chrome)
- Minor bugs fixes.

### Version 6.0 Jan 26, 2019

- Improvement of the Custom Validators Rules.
- IETF language tag(s) added for JS locale(s)
- Instagram URL added in Social Network list displayed in the footer.
- Bugfix: Ajax upload error container.
- Composer packages updated.

### Version 5.9.1 Jan 17, 2019

- Bugfix: Prevent Ad Blockers to block ads images.

### Version 5.9 Jan 14, 2019

- Users auto-registration from ads creation form added.
- Feature to put manually ads offline added.
- Admin panel settings: New settings added.
- Composer packages updated.

### Version 5.8 Jan 3, 2019

- Bugfix: .cat-list > ul.collapse on mobile (HTML Sitemap Page)
- Bugfix: Prevent the default language deactivation
- Bugfix: Price Filter (related to the Currency Exchange Plugin)
- Composer packages updated.

### Version 5.7 Dec 6, 2018

- Frontend: Bootstrap 4.x support added.
- User profile photo option added.
- (If you have purchased the Reviews System Plugin) - User profile ratings calculation added.
- Confirmation Emails sending feature added.
- Usage of the Laravel default Email Notification feature.
- AdsCleaner command improved.
- Plugins settings improved (Watermark & Reviews System plugins).
- Composer packages updated.
- Minor improvements.
- Minor bugs fixes.

### Version 5.6 Oct 8, 2018

- Support for Laravel 5.7.*
- Admin panel, Lists/Details improved.
- Words blacklist option improved.
- Invalidate banned users access from social (Facebook/Google) login.
- Remove the User and all the Posts related to a banned email address.
- Composer packages updated.
- Minor bugs fixes.

### Version 5.5 Aug 18, 2018

- Improvement of the Admin panel Dashboard.
- Minor code improvements.
- Admin panel, Details Lists: CSS bugs fixes (for Windows users).

### Version 5.4 Aug 9, 2018

- Security vulnerability fixed (mentioned in the Laravel v5.6.30 Security Release).

### Version 5.3 Jul 31, 2018

- Bugs fixes.

### Version 5.2 Jul 30, 2018

- Admin panel: User Roles and Permissions (ACL) system added.
- Minor improvements.
- Bugs fixes.

### Version 5.1 Jun 9, 2018

#### INFORMATION

- By upgrading your website to the v5.1 you have to activate all the purchased plugins (add-ons) from the Admin panel → Plugins.

- More backup features added (to prevent data losing).
- Ability to disable the ads report pages indexation on the search engines added.
- Ability to hide all the footer links added.
- Cities columns option added in the homepage location area management.
- Admin panel: Languages creation/edition forms improved.
- Allow admin to force UTF-8 encoding for Dates (to prevent the Dashboard Charts display issue).
- Create a new token if the post or user (email/phone number) is marked as unverified.
- Minor improvements.
- Bugs fixes.

### Version 5.0 May 12, 2018

- Admin panel: Bulk Items Deletion added.
- HTTPS support fixed.
- Minor improvements.

### Version 4.9 May 4, 2018

#### INFORMATION

- From the v4.9 the script requires PHP 7.1.3 or higher.
- If your current version is v4.3 or lower, you have to read the v4.4 caution before starting the upgrade.
- You have to clear your browser cache after the upgrade.

- Support for Laravel 5.6.* (with several Laravel Security Fixes).
- Russian, Thai, Portuguese, Turkish and Georgian languages files added.
- Synchronization of missing lines of languages files during the website upgrade, or through the Admin.
- More options for the homepage categories area management.
- New Messages Auto-Checking (with configurable timer) feature added.
- Enable/Disable the "Cities extended searches" from the Admin panel.
- The Admin panel list pages is now responsive.
- Cookie Consent Alert (to comply for EU law). Can be enabled from the Admin panel.
- Display the County (or State) when selecting cities (in cities suggestion).
- Click on the drag and drop zone to select pictures from your computer.
- Optimization of Laravel Eloquent Queries with Eager Loading (to accept large databases).
- The system no longer removes the 'included languages' files on languages deletion.
- Replace the 'Packages' step by 'Payment' in ads posting process.
- All categories (including 'job-*' categories types) now accept images uploading for ads.
- Number Of Views/Items Counter: Shorten long numbers to K/M/B.
- HTML Sitemap page improved.
- The `/public/uploads/` directory contents has been moved in the `/storage/app/public/` directory.
- XML Sitemaps fixed (Bug appeared by activating the multi-countries feature).
- Links in the ads pictures slider (appeared on Firefox 59.*)
- Bug fixes.
- Minor improvements.

### Version 4.8 February 21, 2018

- Various bug fixes.
- Minor improvements.

### Version 4.6 February 14, 2018

- Upgrade process improved.
- robots.txt file generation improved.
- Ads Single Page slug regex fixed (for the ads permalink: {slug}/{id}).
- Fix the Language Observer: The Category IDs are now replaced in the CategoryField on setting the default language.
- Allow the admin to put the website in Maintenance Mode.
- Minor improvements.

### Version 4.5 February 6, 2018

- Bug Fixes (Fix the "Warning: count()" errors on PHP 7.2+)

### Version 4.4 February 2, 2018

#### CAUTION

This is a special and big update. And by upgrading your website to the v4.4 it's important to know that:

- You will lose all your `Admin panel -> Settings` entries, and you will need to setup your website again.
- You will lose all the current internal messages (that were also sent by email address to their receivers)
- If you want to re-activate the ads review (ads approbation) option, all the existing ads will be approved automatically.
- You will need to (uninstall and) re-install all the script's plugins after the upgrade.
- You will lose all the plugins data and settings (except the payment plugins transactions entries).

- Full Messaging System (between Sellers & Buyers) added
- Allow admins to re-approve the ads on (title or description) modification (If the ads approbation option is enable)
- Admin panel: Impersonation feature (Authenticate as your users)
- Admin panel: New way to manage Settings
- Options to setup the Default Date & Datetime format
- Options to customize the theme's style
- Options to setup the number of columns for Grid View Listing
- Options to setup the Default Distances on the search page
- Options to setup the Posts (single page) permalink
- Options to Allow/Disallow users to pay the Packages in their country currency
- Options to setup the footer (Hide the payment plugins logos, Enter the 'Powered by' info, etc.)
- Admin panel: More Options to setup the Homepage Sections
- Admin panel: Advanced filters added (Ads, Users & Payments list)
- Simplemaps.com's SVG Maps updated
- Geonames database files updated (Available only for fresh installations)
- Installation process improved
- No longer use `async:false` in jQuery.ajax() on the ads creation/edition forms (deprecated)
- Admin panel: The sorting orderable columns feature improved
- Many Minor Improvements
- Bug Fixes

### Version 4.3 November 28, 2017

- Bug Fixes:
- - Reorder Payment Methods
- - HTTPS for Google fonts URL
- - Homepage Carousel filter
- Minor Improvements

### Version 4.2 November 20, 2017

- Support for RTL added (Front)
- RSS feeds generator added (domain.tld/feed)
- Auto-rotate images based on their orientation using Exif data
  (NOTE: To enable this feature, you have just to enable the PHP Exif extension on your server)
- On adding the ads pictures, auto-upload them without clicking an upload button
- Set the primary picture of ads by sorting all their pictures using the drag and drop option
  (NOTE: You have to clear your browser cache after the upgrade)
- Fresh Installation: Arabic language added
- Match the packages currency to the countries currency
  (NOTE: You have to create a package per currency)
- Home Header improved: Enable to set a background image per country
- New Language Addition: When auto-copying categories, make the 'slug' column unique using the new language code
- Non latin characters are now accepted for tags
- Right translation of dates on the ads details page
- Minor Bug Fixes

### Version 4.1 November 3, 2017

- Home Header section improved (More Options added)
- Home Latest & Sponsored Ads sections ("Order By" option added)
- Tags format validation added (to prevent 404 error)
- Admin panel, MetaTags validation (Edit Mode)
- Admin panel, City validation (Edit Mode)
- Display archived ads in user's area
- Display the right date for deleting in the "Archived post expiration" email
- Carousel header/title margin for mobile display

### Version 4.0 October 24, 2017

- The upgrade section in the documentation is updated
- Admin users can now add and/or remove Meta-Tags for specific pages
- Home Sections management improved (More Options for the sections)
- Small improvements
- Quick countries selection added
- External link option added for pages
- The value of search radius distance can be edited from the /.env file (More info)
- Bugfix: Don't update the current password if the password field is empty (Admin panel -> My Account)
- Bugfix: WYSIWYG editor links with target attribute support (Ad Submission Form)

### Version 3.9 October 13, 2017

- Homepage header improved
- Footer improved
- Registration via Social Login improved
- Minor Bug Fixes

### Version 3.8 October 9, 2017

- Allow only logged users to contact sellers
- Quick Login added
- Tags (and meta-tags keywords for ads page) feature added
- Laravel 5.5.14 supported (with a Laravel Security Fix)
- Improvement of the similar ads selection on the ads page (displaying ads from the same parent category instead of the near location)
- HTML Minify feature improved
- Search filters improved
- Minor improvements
- Fixed: Google Adsense responsive ads supported
- Fixed: Google Analytics new tracking code supported
- Fixed: UK mobile phone verification

### Version 3.7 September 4, 2017

- Support for Laravel 5.5
- Upgrading's process improved (check and launch automatically after files updated)
- Bugfix: Cron Job Command

### Version 3.6 September 1, 2017

- Bugfix: [emails.reply-sent] not found

### Version 3.5 August 31, 2017

- Custom Fields for all categories (Including the sub-categories)
- Installation process improved (Made easy for Shared servers)
- Upgrading's process improved
  (By making an upgrade, you could upgrade automatically all the missed versions (even from v1.0 to the latest version))
- Pages layout size increased & Header improved
- Minor improvements (select2 cities selection, etc.)
- Bugfix

### Version 3.4 August 16, 2017

- Pictures versioning feature added (To clear browsers cache if need)
- Homepage latest ads display fixed (This was only visible when it was your first visit)
- Phone number format fixed for Twilio (Add "+" to the phone numbers if missing)

### Version 3.3 August 14, 2017

- Bugfix (Cache - Remove use of rememberForever())

### Version 3.2 August 11, 2017

- Minor improvements (mix() URL for CSS & JS)
- Bugfix (schema.sql)

### Version 3.1 August 7, 2017

- Custom Fields added
- Homepage customization (from the Admin panel)
- SVG Maps colors and sizes edition (from the Admin panel)
- Twilio and Nexmo APIs integration (Account verification by SMS)
- Users can now log in with mobile phone number or email address or username
- Read and reply to the users messages (Authors messaging system)
- User's transactions list (Users area)
- Drag & drop upload system (for ads pictures)
- Possibility of limiting a payment method to one or more countries
- Sparkpost Mail API supported
- "Resend Mail or SMS verification" feature (Get more users with valid email or phone number)
- Multi-language meta-tags manager (Admin panel)
- Laravel 5.4 supported
- Installation process improved
- The ads creation process is improved (with submission by steps)
- The locations fields are removed (from the posting form)
- Locations and cities management improved (Admin panel)
- Optimizing Database Performance
- Improving Loading Performance (Less SQL queries, Combine & Minify some CSS/JS files)
- And many more small improvements
- Minor bugs fixed

### Version 3.0 April 6, 2017

- Installation process improved
- Page option to exclude some pages from the footer links added
- Files upload and storage improved
- User area's lists (my ads, favorites ads, etc.) pagination added
- Show the default image on ads details page when ads have not images
- Increase the number of characters for the Custom CSS and Tracking Code options
- Un-featured premium ads after package expiration
- Redirect new users to the user area if Users activation is not required
- Sidebar filter added in the searches results page
- Setting to change the default favicon
- Setting for unactivated, activated and archived ads expiration
- Setting to change the default ads display mode in the searches results page
- Setting to change default supported images extensions
- Setting to change default supported files extensions
- Sending transactional emails with a dedicated email address
- Email notification to the admin users on new registration (with the social login)
- Plugin system added
- The tips (broken) link is fixed on the ads details page
- And many more small improvements

### Version 2.9 February 20, 2017

- Improvement : New Admin Panel login page
- Improvement : New Admin Panel Dashboard
- Improvement : Manage ads per page in search results (from the Panel)
- Improvement : Decimals numbers (price & salary) support
- Improvement : Russian pluralization support
- And many more small improvements
- AJAX checkbox to activate/deactivate settings (from the Panel)
- WYSIWYG Editors
- Dynamics pages editor (for statics pages)
- Decimals Superscript support
- Manage Admin Panel theme colors
- Admin Panel translations
- Remove translated entries on language deletion

### Version 2.8 February 3, 2017

- Improvement : Copy all language files and data by creating new language
- Improvement : User's saved searches display
- Improvement : Registered users can disable comments on their ads
- Improvement : AdsCleaner command
- Improvement : Logged user's area
- User's favourite ads removal
- Banned users can no longer log in
- Search results (search by city after by region)
- Sitemaps 404 error when language code and country code are identical

### Version 2.7 January 24, 2017

- Admin users can now add unlimited Packs and can delete them
- Automatic creation of translated entries (when creating the main entry)
- Automatic update for all non translatable fields (from main entry)
- Paid ads order (by Packs order)
- Minor bug fixes

### Version 2.6 January 19, 2017

- Improvement : Admin panel
- Improvement : Payment system
- Removal the "Title/Gender" field from the registration form
- Setting for the max upload file size from the admin panel
- Send notification emails to admin users (on new user or ad)
- Split the categories list (in the admin panel)
- Translation data are kept when default language is changed
- Activate/Deactivate categories with their children if exist
- Activate/Deactivate translated entries with their translations if exist
- New upload tool (in admin panel)
- add/edit/delete pictures to/from ads from the admin panel
- Send (both to user and admin users) notification email on new payement
- Setting to activate/deactivate all admin users notifications
- Users can now upgrade their existing ads (by making a payment)
- Ad's badge added for paid ads (when you visit the ad)
- A blank CSS file (custom.css) for more CSS customization
- Menu mobile view issue
- Language files for the use of the plural in the Russian language
- HTTP Cache activation (white page)
- Saving searches results

### Version 2.5 December 14, 2016

- Social login on SignUp page
- Allow users to send their resume when the ad's (parent) category is of type "job-offer"
- New category types: "no-condition" and "non-salable" (to don't display the condition and price filed on ads creation form)
- Transactional email (for Amazon SES)
- Ads visits counter
- Search by city (ignore the svg map parameter if the city ID is provided)
- AdsCleaner command
- Search page links (with query string)
- multi-language POST login and logout redirect
- Add new cities from the Admin panel (manually)

### Version 2.4 November 29, 2016

- Country locations databases installation feature (from the admin panel)
- Simplified activation of ads and users by an ajax call (from the admin panel)
- Mini stats on the admin panel dashboard
- Show the ads images when sharing them on Facebook
  (Please use this tool Sharing Debugger to "Scrape Again" your old links having this issue)
- Timezone, Loc.admin1 & Loc.admin2 edit form (from the admin panel)
- Find the most populated city in region (state) or in country
- Distance between cities on search page
- Carousel ads list for review activation
- Guests can post Ads
- XML sitemaps generation
- Improved: HTTPS protocol usage
- And many more small improvements

### Version 2.3 November 23, 2016

- Laravel 5.3 support
- HTTPS support added (Please check the .htaccess)
- Admin panel: Meta tag description field added in settings area
- UK flag fixed
- Reset password (from admin panel) fixed
- Installation process improved

### Version 2.2 November 14, 2016

- Known issue are fixed

### Version 2.1 November 14, 2016

- Multi-countries website links bugfix
- Reorder module in the Admin panel

### Version 2.0 November 12, 2016

- New installation module (very easy to use) added
- Duplicate content links fixed for multi-countries website
- Improvement of the default language setting
- And many more small improvements

### Version 1.7 October 30, 2016

- Facilitation and improvement of URLs
- Improvement documentation about the installation

### Version 1.6 October 26, 2016

- Admin panel : AJAX table view with big data sets added - was still selecting all rows from the DB
- Allow to add, update, or delete locations from the admin panel
  (cities, administrative divisions such as regions or provinces)
- Allow renaming the URL address of the admin panel against access attempts
  (example: http://domain.tld/admin123 instead of http://domain.tld/admin)
- And many more small improvements

### Version 1.5 October 22, 2016

- Display the featured ads on the home page
- Display similar ads on the item page
- Bugs fixed
- And many more small improvements

### Version 1.4.6 October 10, 2016

- "Condition" field (Used or New?) on the add page of ads
- Known issue are fixed

### Version 1.4.5 September 28, 2016

- Switching between languages on search page
- Notification message of ads expiration

### Version 1.4.4 September 10, 2016

- Known issue are fixed
- Displaying Payment gateways (fixed)

### Version 1.4.3 July 19, 2016

- Forgot password (from the admin panel) issue fixed

### Version 1.4.2 July 18, 2016

- Issue of adding User from the admin panel fixed
- Minor improvements

### Version 1.4.1 July 04, 2016

- Case sensitivity issue (when changing the logo) fixed
- 404 error page (for guest users when ReviewedScope is enable) fixed

### Version 1.4.0 June 30, 2016

- UK databases updated : UK/GB errors fixed
- ReviewedScope bug fixed

### Version 1.3 June 28, 2016

- Sub-folder installation support
- Minor bugs fixed

### Version 1.2 June 26, 2016

- Option for admin to review all ads before publication
- Field for the number of Facebook fans from the admin panel
- Option to set settings of Paypal, SMTP, Facebook and Google both in the admin panel and in the .env file
  (The .env file settings override those of the admin panel)
- Known issue are fixed
- Search engine improved

### Version 1.1 June 19, 2016

- Most of settings of the /.env file have been moved in the admin panel
- Setting to turn ON/OFF the SVG map of the countries on the homepage added
- Admin panel setting for increased number of photos per ad added (min: 1, max: 20)
- Admin panel setting for CSS customization added
- Known issue are fixed

### Version 1.0 June 13, 2016

Initial release.