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Form pages extended ContentModule instead of EditableContentModule, and so inline editing was not available for the page content area of form pages. This has now been resolved so that inline…

Reason 4 Beta 8 was released on April 9, 2010. This post names some of the major changes, provides some links to more details and svn revision numbers.

There is a new admin module in town, called "Review Changes." It allows you to see what was added, changed, or deleted in a given timeframe. For Reason administrators, you…

The new "SitePages" admin module gives you an list of all the pages on a site with a link to the front-end, along with the author field, created by username,…

Inline editing in Reason has been more fully implemented, and template cruft removed. There is no longer any direct connection between a template and support for inline editing - it is entirely module based.

We've overhauled the API for dealing with breadcrumbs. These changes will, hopefully, make dealing with breadcrumbs significantly easier – particularly when developing modules that are more complex than a single…

The default value for MEDIA_ALLOW_IMPORT_FROM_FILESYSTEM – the setting that determines whether Reason offers a menu of media files stored in the user's personal directly on the filesystem, and which may…

Tonight's nightly build updates jquery_latest.js to jQuery 1.4.1.

I've put the previous version 1.3.2 parallel to jquery_latest.js. If you have compatibility problems with any custom javascript, you might just reference the…

Reason has a logout timer which helps people avoid the problem where they submit a form and lose all the submitted information because of a session timeout.

From user reports, we discovered that the timer was not handling the case where a computer would go to sleep.

The logout timer has now been completely rewritten and should work better while consuming less resources.

The feed that supplies images to the Loki HTML editor, has been altered slightly. It now returns most recently modified images first, and least recently modified images last. This should help users find the image they are looking for, as it is likely to be one they have recently added or edited.

There is a new administrative module that provides reports on which users have been active Reason site maintainers since a given date.

There is no link in the interface to this…

Users can now split a repeating event into separate event entities (one for each repeat). This can be nice if they want to provide separate titles, times, etc. for individual…