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Forget about browser hacks in Contao 2.10

by Leo Feyer – From practice

The upcoming Contao version 2.10 includes a very powerful new feature which allows you to forget about CSS hacks, conditional comments and other browser detection measures: It will add different CSS classes to the body tag depending on the operating system and browser.

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Contao 2.9.4 is available

by Leo Feyer – Announcements

Contao version 2.9.4 is available. The maintenance release improves the CSS 3 support of the style sheet importer, adds two new hooks and fixes several smaller bugs.

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Happy fifth birthday, Contao

by Leo Feyer – Announcements

Exactly five years ago today, the Contao project has been registered at sourceforge.net - it was still called TYPOlight back then. Two weeks later, on March 12th, 2006, version 1 was published.

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Resuming interrupted mailings

by Leo Feyer – From practice

Unfortunately, the description of how to resume an interrupted newsletter mailing is wrong in both the Contao back end and the official Contao book. You have to enter the number of the next recipient instead of the number of the next sending cycle in the "start cycle" field.

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Contao core database table relations

– From practice

Andreas Schempp made the effort and created an overview which presents all the fields and key identifiers of the Contao-database tables.

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Expansion of the partner program

by Leo Feyer – Announcements

The Contao partner program, which has been available since 2008, is a worldwide network of professional agencies that use Contao and want to present their services on the project website. It has been completely reworked this year.

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Contao 2.9.3 is available

by Leo Feyer – Announcements

Contao version 2.9.3 is available. The maintenance release fixes an XSS vulnerability in the comments system, so an update is highly recommended.

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Contao 2.9.2 is available

by Leo Feyer – Announcements

Contao version 2.9.2 is available. The maintenance release includes the latest versions of the TCPDF, MooTools and TinyMCE plugins as well as various small bug fixes.

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Peter Koch retires from the Contao team

by Leo Feyer – Current issues

Peter Koch, the Extension Repository developer, retires from the Contao team for personal reasons.

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Contao 2.9.1 is available

by Leo Feyer – Announcements

Contao version 2.9.1 is available. The maintenance release includes an important front end cache fix, a front end preview link fix and various accessibility fixes. It also fixes an XSS vulnerability in one of the framework functions, so an update is highly recommended.

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