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What's new in 10.11.0

@dom_watson

99 JIRA Issues

Preside 10.11.0

200+ Commits

16 Contributors

@dom_watson

Malcolm Rajeli

Brayden Tan

Sacha Moufarrege

Jan Jannek

Michael Hnat

Kok Ann Ng

Jasmin Tsai

Contributors 10.10.0 - 10.11.0

Hieu Huynh

@dom_watson

Preside 10.11.0

At a glance

21 Bug fixes

35 Presents for developers

16 Performance improvement tickets

21 UX Improvements

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Preside 10.11.0

Performance and Stability

@dom_watson

Preside 10.11.0

...some little things

Performance and Stability

Database indexes on:
- Email log tables
- datecreated / datemodified
Micro optimizations
- StructKeyExists() vs .keyExists()
- Never doing thread.stop() to kill tasks
- Some cachebox caches removed - using
  local structs instead

@dom_watson

Preside 10.11.0

Caching + Cachebox

Performance and Stability

Cache reaping: background thread
getSystemSettings(): cached
Default CacheBox settings tweaked:
- Full page caching cache: now disk by default
- Query cache per object: improves query cache invalidation performance
Only clear query caches on update when data actually changes

@dom_watson

Preside 10.11.0

Core system

Performance and Stability

Request memory footprint thoroughly optimized
ColdBox Request context object is now a SINGLETON
Coldbox handler CFC metadata lookups cached (rather than looked up on each call to a handler)

@dom_watson

Preside 10.11.0

CfConcurrent

Performance and Stability

CfConcurrent Project forked and tweaked to work with Lucee 5 in a stable way

Preside System Output (demo) [16:42:13]: Application starting up (fwreinit ...
Preside System Output (demo) [16:42:25]: Started Preside Email Queue Proces...
Preside System Output (demo) [16:42:25]: Started Preside Service Healthchec...
Preside System Output (demo) [16:42:25]: Started Preside Heartbeat: Adhoc T...
Preside System Output (demo) [16:42:25]: Started Preside Heartbeat: Schedul...
Preside System Output (demo) [16:42:25]: Started Preside Asset Queue Proces...
Preside System Output (demo) [16:42:25]: Started Preside Asset Queue Proces...
Preside System Output (demo) [16:42:25]: Started Preside Asset Queue Proces...
Preside System Output (demo) [16:42:25]: Started Preside Asset Queue Proces...
Preside System Output (demo) [16:42:25]: Started Preside Asset Queue Proces...
Preside System Output (demo) [16:42:25]: Started Preside Asset Queue Proces...
Preside System Output (demo) [16:42:25]: Started Preside Asset Queue Proces...
Preside System Output (demo) [16:42:25]: Started Preside Asset Queue Proces...
Preside System Output (demo) [16:42:25]: Started Preside Asset Queue Proces...
Preside System Output (demo) [16:42:25]: Started Preside Asset Queue Proces...
Preside System Output (demo) [16:42:25]: Started Preside Cache Reap Heartbe...
Preside System Output (demo) [16:42:26]: Application start up complete

@dom_watson

Preside 10.11.0

UX Improvements and fixes

Some quick wins

Frontend-admin bar, logout keeps you on same page
Notifications count - limited to 100 + loads in background
SVG derivative support (SVGs scaled to PNGs)
Asset manager grid: new column, 'uploaded date' + ordered by default
"Gritter" notifications moved bottom right by default + configurable

@dom_watson

Preside 10.11.0

UX Improvements and fixes

Some quick wins

Site tree: full URL preview besides slug
Indicate inactive pages in page picker
Include/exclude fields from Form Builder
export
Rules engine: more relative date options
Rules engine: expressions for admin users
Rules engine: auto 'is the logged in user' for
fields related to users

@dom_watson

Preside 10.11.0

UX Improvements and fixes

Richeditor

Richeditor: code snippets
Richeditor: HTML Widget
Richeditor: additional allowed HTML tags

settings.ckeditor.defaults.append( {
  extraAllowedContent = "img dl dt dd"
};

@dom_watson

Preside 10.11.0

UX Improvements and fixes

Task manager

Time taken in task list view
"Sticky" tabs

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Preside 10.11.0

UX Improvements and fixes

Email Center

Email "send domain" override
Email variables in richeditor link
picker

settings.features.emailOverwriteDomain.enabled = true; // default false

@dom_watson

Preside 10.11.0

UX Improvements and fixes

Asset manager file names

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Preside 10.11.0

Presents for developers

@dom_watson

Preside 10.11.0

...some little things (too many to mention all)

Presents for developers

Font Awesome 5 ("little") - thanks Brayden!
Default filters on objects @defaultFilters activePages
REST API Auth UIs
Suppress fields in validateForm() - Thanks
Johnson Cheng :)
Data table Footer customizations
Saved query filters, now implement as handlers
Auto trim form submissions - thanks to Seb
Duggan

@dom_watson

Preside 10.11.0

...some little things (too many to mention all)

Presents for developers

Full page caching: X-Cache: HIT or MISS header
Can now do $helpers.helper() from services

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Preside 10.11.0

/site-root/.env file

Presents for developers

SYNCDB=true
AUTOSYNCDB=false
assetmanager.storage.publicUrl=https://assets.my-production-domain.com/
mysetting=test
...

Config.cfc

settings.mySetting = settings.env.mySetting ?: "default";
...

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Preside 10.11.0

Compiled code

Presents for developers

@dom_watson

Preside 10.11.0

SelectData Views

Presents for developers

/**
 * @datamanagerEnabled    true
 * @datamanagerGridFields label,post_count,datemodified
 *
 */
component {
	property name="label" uniqueindexes="label";

	property name="posts" relationship    = "one-to-many" 
                              relatedto       = "blog_post" 
                              relationshipKey = "category";
                          
	property name="post_count" formula="count( ${prefix}posts.id )";
 }

/**
 * @datamanagerEnabled    true
 * @datamanagerGridFields label,active_post_count,datemodified
 *
 */
component {
	property name="label" uniqueindexes="label";

	property name="active_posts" relationship    = "select-data-view"
                                     relatedto       = "activeBlogPosts"
                                     relationshipKey = "category";

	property name="active_post_count" formula="count( ${prefix}active_posts.id )";
}

// /handlers/SelectDataViews.cfc
component {

    private struct function activeBlogPosts( event, rc, prc ) {
        return {
              objectName = "blog_post"
            , filter     = { active=true }
            , selectFields = [ "id", "title", "category" ]
        };
    }

    private struct function inactiveBlogPosts( event, rc, prc ) {
        return {
              objectName = "blog_post"
            , filter     = { active=false }
        };
    }

}

// simple example
var activePosts = posts.selectView( "activeBlogPosts" );

// example using joins
var activePosts = category.selectData(
      filter       = { id=selectedCategory }
    , selectFields = [ "active_posts.id", "active_posts.title" ]
);

select  active_posts.id
      , active_posts.title

from   `pobj_blog_category` `blog_category`
inner join (

    select `blog_post`.`id`,
           `blog_post`.`title`,
           `blog_post`.`category`
    from   `pobj_blog_post` `blog_post`
    where  `blog_post`.`active` = true

) `active_posts` on ( `active_posts`.`category` = `blog_category`.`id` )

where  `blog_category`.`id` = ':post_id';

@dom_watson

Preside 10.11.0

Custom Asset Transformations

Presents for developers

derivatives.pageThumbnail = {
      permissions = "inherit"
    , autoQueue = [ "image" ]
    , transformations = [ 
        { method="shrinkToFit", args={ width=100, height=100 } } 
      ]
};

derivatives.pageThumbnail = {
      permissions = "inherit"
    , autoQueue = [ "image" ]
    , transformations = [ 
          { method="watermark"  , args={} } 
        , { method="shrinkToFit", args={ width=100, height=100 } } 
      ]
};

// /handlers/AssetTransformers.cfc
component {
	property name="imageManipulationService" inject="imageManipulationService";

	private binary function resize( event, rc, prc, args={} ) {
		return imageManipulationService.resize( argumentCollection=args );
	}

	private binary function shrinkToFit( event, rc, prc, args={} ) {
		return imageManipulationService.shrinkToFit( argumentCollection=args );
	}

	private binary function pdfPreview( event, rc, prc, args={} ) {
		return imageManipulationService.pdfPreview( argumentCollection=args );
	}

}

{
    asset           = fileBinary
  , fileProperties  = { fileExt="jpg" }
  , otherCustomArg1 = "..."
  // ..
}

@dom_watson

Preside 10.11.0

Asset processing queue

Presents for developers

settings.features.assetQueue.enabled          = true; // default false
settings.features.assetQueueHeartBeat.enabled = true; // default false

settings.assetManager.queue = {
    concurrency         = 10 // default 1
  , batchSize           = 10 // default 100
  , downloadWaitSeconds = 10 // default 5
}

derivatives.icon = {
      permissions = "inherit"
    , autoQueue = [ "image" ]
    , transformations = [ { method="shrinkToFit", args={ width=32, height=32 } } ]
};

@dom_watson

Preside 10.11.0

Other configurable background tasks

Presents for developers

settings.features.emailQueueHeartBeat.enabled  = false;
settings.features.adhocTaskHeartBeat.enabled   = false;
settings.features.taskmanagerHeartBeat.enabled = false;
settings.features.assetQueueHeartBeat.enabled  = false;

settings.features.emailQueueHeartBeat.enabled  = settings.env.emailqueue  ?: true;
settings.features.adhocTaskHeartBeat.enabled   = settings.env.adhoctasks  ?: true;
settings.features.taskmanagerHeartBeat.enabled = settings.env.taskmanager ?: true;
settings.features.assetQueueHeartBeat.enabled  = settings.env.assetqueue  ?: true;

# Server 1 (frontend web)
emailqueue=false
adhoctasks=false
taskmanager=false
assetqueue=false

# Server 2 (backend task server)
emailqueue=true
adhoctasks=true
taskmanager=true
assetqueue=true

/approot/.env

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@dom_watson

CTO @ Pixl8 Group
Preside lead developer