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Version 10.8.0 release notes

Discover the key features and enhancements in Front Matter CMS version 10.8.0, including new settings and improved filename sanitization.

Published: Dec 31, 2024

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New setting to open the panel view on supported files

With the new setting frontMatter.panel.openOnSupportedFile, you can now configure if the Front Matter CMS panel view should open automatically when you open a supported file. The default value is false.

{
  "frontMatter.panel.openOnSupportedFile": true
}

New placeholders for the slug template setting

Two new placeholders have been added to the slug template setting:

{{fileName}}: This will be replaced with the filename of the file.
{{sluggedFileName}}: This will be replaced with the slugged version of the filename.

Info

You can find more information about in the slug placeholders documentation section.

Improved filename sanitization

The filename sanitization has been improved to handle more edge cases.

🎨 Enhancements

#915: Added a new setting frontMatter.panel.openOnSupportedFile which allows you to open the panel view on supported files
#921: Improve the filename sanitization
#922: Added {{fileName}} and {{sluggedFileName}} placeholders for the slug template setting

🐞 Fixes

Fix for media folder parsing on Windows
Refresh button was not available on the media dashboard when having custom scripts defined
#909: Schema fix for the view modes
#913: Fix for relative media paths in page bundles
#914: Fix sanitizing of default filenames with an _ in it