Editor 1.9.6 release notes

Tuesday 1st December, 2020

Patch release of Editor which addresses issues which have come to light since the previous release. While there are no new major features here, it is still a recommended upgrade for everyone using Editor.

For details on the changes in 1.9, please refer to the 1.9.0 release notes.

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Release notes

Core

JS: A Promise returned to preSubmit event couldn't be used to cancel a submit. It can now
JS: Closing the evelope controller would remove all events assigned inside it.
JS: Datetime month and year lists were not selectable on mobile
JS: Date time picker was difficult to use on iPad
JS: Remove jQuery deprecated bind and unbind methods from display controllers
JS: Performance improvement when adding multiple fields
CSS: Improvements to Editor lightbox on mobile
Docs: ajax.deleteBody was inconsistent in its description. Many thanks to danmauger for pointing this out.
Examples: Server-side code wasn't loading in the downloaded examples.

.NET

Fix: SearchPanes now takes readTable into account
Fix: Example for .NET Framework - the user controller was broken

NodeJS

New: editor.doValidate() method which can be used to disable validation if you have already used the validate() method, rather than having process do it again.
Fix: SearchPanes now takes readTable into account
Fix: REST controller for NodeJS demo package was missing

PHP

Fix: Docs - error in where method docs
Fix: Don't use JSON_NUMERIC_CHECK by default when calling json_encode() since it can cause valid leading zeros to be stripped. Instead there is now an optional second parameter to Editor->json() which can be used to pass in json_encode options.
Fix: SearchPanes now takes readTable into account