Compatibility PHP 7.4 to 8.3
SPIP 4.3 requires PHP 7.4 or higher, and runs up to PHP 8.3.
It requires the following PHP extensions: sodium, Zlib, Zip and Phar.
Changes introduced by SPIP 4.3
The most important changes concern
- the more condensed private area banner,
- the revised form for changing the status of editorial objects,
- faster image filters,
- a more inclusive style for certain formulations,
- an email notification when a SPIP update is available, as well as a larger visual indication in the private area,
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The banner in the private area takes up less height
Rapid content creation via a drop-down menu
The change of status form has been revised
Initial submission of the change of status form
Unfolded change of status form
A message alerting you to the availability of a new version
This version also brings other improvements and bug fixes.
Added
- Display an insert for new versions on all pages in the private area for webmasters, and a button pointing to
spip_loaderif it is present. - Notify site webmasters by email when SPIP has been updated.
- Improve the ergonomics of the “instituer” form (change of status of an editorial object, see above)
- The site’s identity form can be used to configure the timezone used
- New
|balise_img_svgfilter for inserting an image or SVG inline without knowing the format in advance - Add an option to
find_all_in_path()to return all files matching a pattern -
|proprefilter which appliespropre()&safehtml()(this allows de-escaping trusted code to be from the models templates) - Debugger: Display the number of occurrences and total time of template inclusions
- The
_DEBUG_MINIPRESconstant, set to true, activates the display of a visible debug when a Minipage error occurs. - Pipeline
get_spip_docto manipulate the native result of theget_spip_doc()function.
Changes
- The navigation banner for the private area has been reduced in height (2 lines instead of 3, see above).
- The quick creation menu is now a drop-down menu with explicit labels (see above)
- More inclusive writing of certain formulations
- Optimisation of loops with pagination, by forcing an automatic limit clause on them
- In a plug-in, if the logo attribute of a
paquet.xmlis missing, and there is a{prefix}.svgfile in the plug-in, it is used as the logo. - The
extraire_balise()andextraire_balises()functions can handle nested tags.
Corrections
- Improve HTML5 compliance
- Background tasks icon that doesn’t mention databases
- Refactoring of
ecrire_fichier(). - Combining
{pagination}and{limit}criteria - Not keeping a duplicate of unchanged calculation files (
#PRODUIRE_FOND) - Update
mediaelementlibrary to version 7.0.3 - Correction of
inserer_attribut()in a special case:<img>tags (even if not self-closing)
Depreciation
- Depreciate the obsolete
ecrire/inc/presentationfunctions. - The global
auteur_session(deprecated since SPIP 2.0!) will be removed in SPIP 5.0. Usevisiteur_session. - Depreciate the
.labelclass in favour of.edit-labelin forms.
Remove
- Remove icon display options in preferences
Plugins-dist
Images
The performance of the Image Filters plug-in has been significantly optimised, with some image filters now up to 10 times faster thanks to the use of PHP GD’s native functions.
- A new filter,
|image_oriente_selon_exif, to automatically re-orientate an image according to its exif. - Image filters such as
|image_recadrere-orient the image according to the orientation exif - Optimisation of filters
|image_aplatir,|image_renforcement,|image_flou,|image_sepia,|image_flip_vertical,|image_flip_horizontal,|image_nb,|image_gamma,|image_rotation. - Correction of crop parameter for
|image_rotation.
Compatible plug-ins}
As soon as it is released, SPIP 4.3 will have around 700 compatible plug-ins, which will make it easier to update.

