Jinya CMS Version 23.0.0 released 🥳
After about five months, we finally released the next version of Jinya CMS. The main changes are in the backend and for developers. But there are also news for artists.
TG-68 Multilingual themes
The first new feature, is the option to allow themes to be multilingual. The default theme for Jinya CMS already contains a German and English translation.
TG-92 Light/Dark mode switch
One of the bigger new features is the light/dark mode switch. This switch allows you to toggle the theme of the designer. The default setting is, that the designer picks what you set in your browser. It is also possible to switch to dark or light mode. This change persists in your Jinya CMS account and is therfore applied to all browsers you use to login.
TG-112 Allow theme upload
The probably biggest and most important new feature is the ability to upload themes through the designer. Prior to version 23.0.0 it was only possible to upload the files directly to the server. It is now possible to create a ZIP archive of your files and upload them through the designer. It is also possible to update themes in this way.
TG-115 Switch to PDOx
The switch to PDOx is rather unimportant for you as artist. The short version is, that we replaced the code that Jinya CMS uses to access the database. This change should speed up Jinya CMS a bit and also reduce the risk for database issues.
TG-120 Function for asset include in SCSS
A rather important feature for Jinya CMS 23.0.0 is, that you can now reference theme assets in your styling code. This way it is finally possible to use fonts and images in your theme, served by your current instance of Jinya CMS. Prior to version 23.0.0 you had to link fonts from fonts.google.com, typekit.net or fonts.jinya.de. The first to options have an impact due to the fact they send European data to the US and can be an issue with the EU privacy laws. Cause of this issue we allowed to include assets into your styling.
TG-121 Use Jinya Fonts for font links in default theme
This user story has a similar reasoning like TG-120. By default the Jinya CMS default theme now uses Jinya Fonts as base for the font links. Of course you can switch them back to Adobe Fonts or Google Fonts, or maybe even another service.
TG-122 Use native file picker
This is a rather small change, since version 0.12.0 Cosmo CSS features a styling for the native browser file pickers. We changed the file pickers for files in the media section to use the native file picker.
Fixed issues
As with every release, version 23.0.0 features new fixes and general improvements.
Final thought
With version 23.0.0 we made a small leap forward. This release finished all designer features we wanted to implement as of now. Of course we will keep all dependencies up to date and will fix bugs in the future. It is also planned to clean the code and reduce its complexity, so it gets more maintainable. If you have questions, want to contribute or just like to chat, drop a mail to developers@jinya.de.