New Features

• Inline Tag order is now completely retained (except when Track Changes is active)
• When local images are inserted but not uploaded with Inline Editing and the editor is closed (i.e. content displayed in a div) modern browsers won’t display the image, as a security feature. EditLive! now displays a placeholder image instead.
• New method: ImageDialog.setAltFieldText, for setting the alt text in a custom ImageDialogComponent
• Chrome for Windows is now supported. Requires Java 6 update 10 or later.

Bug Fixes

• Inserting a custom tag, then typing, then inserting an image caused the content to be corrupted
• <font size=”"> rendering was incorrect when using specific numbers instead of relative sizes like “small”
• JavaDoc was not available for the LoggingUtils class used to alter the log level of the editor
• Span tags are now able to nest more than 2 levels
• Inserting a custom empty tag next to an existing custom empty tag incorrectly copied the existing attributes

Please Note

• Some changes have been made to configuration files. You will need to make changes during upgrading. Summary below – please see documentation for more details.
  • User/group names containing spaces are listed with spaces in the for role based config file (ephox.config.properties). e.g. config.user.Bob Jones=bob.xml. Previously, spaces needed to be changed to underscores.
  • The ephox.config.properties file and all config xml files now reside in: /res/configs under the EphoxEditLiveJEE ear folder on the server. Previously, they were in /res/editlivejava

New Features

• EditLive! for LWCM now deploys as a .ear file
• ECM linking is now supported (LWCM 6.1.5+)
• Support for authoring template settings:
  • Disable source mode
  • Use stylesheet, hide fonts/size/color
• Selected text now used as link text when inserting links to LWCM content (LWCM 6.1.5+)

Please Note

• EditLive! 7.0.2 will perform a one-time migration of editlivejava.ini from previous versions.
  After that any changes (such as adding words to the local custom dictionary) in previous versions will not be updated in 7.0.2 and above.

New Features

• New renameResizedImages attribute for the <images> configuration element stops the editor from renaming local images that are large enough to be automatically resized upon insertion
• Added support for css vertical-align:text-top on images
• New cleanup() method available on the ELJBean object for Swing SDK users to clean up instances of the editor
• Restored top, middle, and bottom vertical alignment options to Image Properties dialog

Bug Fixes

• Editor flickering when using the color picker with some pluggable look and feels
• Floating images in table cells not floating correctly when below a table cell with a floated image
• Applet memory leaks running in Java 6 on all platforms, most noteable in Safari on Windows (which doesn’t use the next generation plugin)
• Additional memory leaks specific to FireFox on OS X
• Using the Swing SDK without setting a base URL caused MalformedURLExceptions in the System.err output
• EditLive! incorrectly retained the current selection rendering when losing focus on Windows
• Floating images were positioned on the wrong side in RTL paragraphs
• Sections with no border showing incorrectly allowed horizontal resizing
• NullPointerException when inserting a whole HTML document with insert HTML
• Pasted table rows were incorrectly merging with tables when column count did not match
• NumberFormatException when pasting from Word documents with lists that were removed while Word’s track changes was on
• Old style of specifying the font and style comboboxes was not supported
• Pressing ENTER inside a pre tag inserted two new line characters
• Autosave was not triggered by setBody or setDocument from JavaScript
• Double quotes inside JSP attribute tags were changed to single quotes
• Local images with % in the filename were not resampled
• editlivejava.ini is now stored next to the EditLive! cache folder
• PasteFilter instances are now given clipboard data before the EditLive! HTML filter
• Caret position was reset when switching to design view even if source was unchanged
• Design view did not retain focus after switching from code view
• Selection was not cleared after entire document had been searched
• Floating images in different cells were incorrectly affecting paragraph insets
• Image tag attributes were not being parsed correctly when importing from Word
• Local images with % in the filename were encoded twice if cropped and name preserved
• Form tags were causing Internet Explorer to crash when contained in content used with Inline Editing
• Empty lines were not highlighted when selected in HTML View
• Charset was not being detected correctly when setting config as text
• Table property dialogs did not support width and height values which were not pixels or percentages
• Selecting hyperlinks at the end of the document would select too much text
• Equation Editor help did not work
• Inserting HTML before a non-editable section did not insert anything

Bug Fixes

• group configuration files were not detected correctly when the group name contained a space

New Features

• New linebreakCreatesBR attribute for the <textImport> configuration element ensures every newline character from pasted plain text is preserved as a <br /> tag
• linebreakCreatesBR attribute for the <textImport> configuration element stops two newline characters being inserted after each paragraph copied from EditLive!

Bug Fixes

• EditLive! was not creating a doctype element when operating in XHTML mode
• Nested object tags in comments cause HTML that follows to be stripped from the document
• Right click on Mac using Ctrl-mouse button click deselected text
• Spelling suggestions were in the popup context menu when background spell check was disabled
• Content pasted from Excel occassionally contained x:num attributes
• EditLive! did not resolve dictionary file URLs with encoded spaces
• Attributes were being stripped out of EM and STRONG tags
• Content pasted from Excel contained invalid style attributes and HTML attributes
• Certain items of content pasted from Microsoft Word caused the editor to crash
• GetSelectedText and CustomPropertiesDialog custom actions were incorrectly changing the current caret selection
• Parameters and attributes generated for the EditLive! applet tag were not encoding double quotes as HTML entities
• InsTableWizard menu item in configuration file was not inserting a table if a name was defined on the menu item
• Content containing <marquee> tags caused EditLive! to fail to load
• <TBODY> tags were wrongly left as uppercase, which caused content to be invalid XHTML
• Ctrl-Backspace (Windows) and Ctrl-W (Mac) sometimes deleted parts of <head> when used at the beginning of a document
• preferredHeight and preferredWidth attributes for constraining local image size were not working on Professional Edition
• PHP Post Acceptor Script sample now works with register_globals turned off
• Tables with HTML alignments were not being rendered properly
• Floating images in table cells rendered outside of the table cell
• Paragraphs did not wrap correctly around floating images when the document direction was RTL
• Code contained in HTML comments was being incorrectly treated as uncommented code
• EditLive! appeared to hang when loading a document containing partial word content with more than 20 hyperlinks
• Symbols were not being inserted before HTML comments correctly
• Further fixes for ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException when clicking around the edge of inline elements on OS X
• InvocationTargetException when uploading images under certain conditions
• CSS background-color attribute was incorrectly resolving to black when no value specified
• Unordered list was incorrectly created from text with multiple dashes
• Cursor navigation skipped characters around the end of a line with a <br> tag

New Features

• Configuration file is now loaded using setConfigurationText, which will improve loading time of the editor

Bug Fixes

• Empty P tag which contains a non-breaking space was inserted when saving an empty document
• Documents containing empty paragraphs were loading in the editor as empty documents