3.6.15 Release Candidate is available for testing

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Hi everyone,

A Release Candidate for the upcoming phpList 3.6.15 is now available for testing.

This release includes security enhancements.

You can get a copy of the RC version from GitHub or SourceForge.

Changes to look for

  1. Added support for indicating and getting feedback for test campaigns. With this PR, a “Test” subject indicator will be appended to test campaigns. See Pull Request #1031.
  2. Allow subscribers to be filtered by confirmed and/or blacklisted. See #Pull Request 1030.
  3. Added “Bounces” subscriber status indicator and allow admin to confirm a subscriber right from the Bounces tab. See Pull Request #1029.
  4. Added “bouncemgt” to allow processing only existing bounces and a related new rule action. See Pull Request #1028.
  5. Use the utf8mb4 charset for client-server exchanges. Using utf8mb4 will allow a wider range of characters, including emoji characters, to be sent. If once-off database table changes are made, subject lines can include emoji characters. This change is backward compatible; it has no effect when supplementary characters are not used. See Pull Request #1001.
  6. Allow Ajax page links to have a title, defaulting to the link description. The title is shown when hovering over the link. See Pull Request #1002.
  7. Add a notification by email when an admin logs in from a new IP address. See Pull Request #1027.
  8. Escape the single quote in the error message returned by allowMessageToBeQueued(). See Pull Request #1003.
  9. Update the CI to remove old PHP versions and add 8.3. See Pull Request #1004.
  10. Restore the ability to create other superusers. See Pull Request #1014.
  11. Define timestamp columns explicitly. See Pull Request #1019.
  12. Remove redundant upgrade steps. See Pull Request #1020.
  13. avoid the admin being kicked out after the upgrade. See Pull Request #1033.
  14. Update the Common and Segment plugins. See Pull Request #1024.
  15. Updated translations in French. See Pull Request #1032.
  16. Use the list order, even when grouping by category. See Pull Request #1025.
  17. Updated the UUID class to the latest upstream. See Pull Request #990.
  18. Additional PHP 8 fixes. See Pull Request #1026.
  19. Removed obsolete references for Mantis, the old bug tracker. See Pull Request #994.

Activating the REST API

If you haven’t checked the REST API yet, you can see the dedicated chapter in the manual to help you get started with it: API and Integrations 4 3.

Reporting issues

Report any issues you find with phpList3 RC to the phpList3 GitHub repository , selecting “release candidate” in the Labels’ dropdown menu.

Use the usual bug fixing process if you know how to fix it.

Report any issues you find with phpList 4 core or REST API to the corresponding repo on GitHub.

Please read the contribution guide on how to contribute and how to run the unit tests and style checks locally.

Happy testing!

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Just to expand on item 5) above.

The definitions of the message and message_data tables have been changed to allow the campaign subject and content to include 4-byte UTF8 characters such as emojis. The “one-off” database changes do not need to be made now.

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Anyone who is using the Updater plugin to update phplist can use that to install the release candidate version, see the plugin documentation page plugin:updater [phpList Resources] to force installation of release 3.6.15-RC3

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