CKEditor 4

CKEditor 4.8.0

Important Notes:

New Features:

  • #933: Introduced Balloon Toolbar plugin.
  • #662: Introduced image inlining for the Paste from Word plugin.
  • #468: [Edge] Introduced support for the Clipboard API.
  • #607: Manually inserted Hex color is prefixed with a hash character (#) if needed. It ensures a valid Hex color value is used when setting the table cell border or background color with the Color Dialog window.
  • #584: Font size and Family and Format drop-downs are not toggleable anymore. Default option to reset styles added.
  • #856: Introduced the CKEDITOR.tools.keystrokeToArray method. It converts a keystroke into its string representation, returning every key name as a separate array element.
  • #1053: Introduced the CKEDITOR.tools.object.merge method. It allows to merge two objects, returning the new object with all properties from both objects deeply cloned.
  • #1073: Introduced the CKEDITOR.tools.array.every method. It invokes a given test function on every array element and returns true if all elements pass the test.

Fixed Issues:

  • #796: Fixed: A list is pasted from OneNote in the reversed order.
  • #834: [IE9-11] Fixed: The editor does not save the selected state of radio buttons inserted by the Form Elementsplugin.
  • #704: [Edge] Fixed: Using Ctrl/Cmd + Z breaks widget structure.
  • #591: Fixed: A column is inserted in a wrong order inside the table if any cell has a vertical split.
  • #787: Fixed: Using Cut inside a nested table does not cut the selected content.
  • #842: Fixed: List style not restored when toggling list indent level in the Indent List plugin.
  • #711: Fixed: Dragging widgets should only work with the left mouse button.
  • #862: Fixed: The "Object Styles" group in the Styles Combo plugin is visible only if the whole element is selected.
  • #994: Fixed: Typo in the CKEDITOR.focusManager.focus API documentation. Thanks to benjy!
  • #1014: Fixed: The Table Tools Cell Properties dialog is now Advanced Content Filter aware — it is not possible to change the cell width or height if corresponding styles are disabled.
  • #877: Fixed: A list with custom bullets with exotic characters crashes the editor when pasted from Word.
  • #605: Fixed: Inline widgets do not preserve trailing spaces.
  • #1008: Fixed: Shorthand Hex colors from the config.colorButton_colors option are not correctly highlighted in the Color Button Text Color or Background Color panel.
  • #1094: Fixed: Widget definition upcast methods are called for every element.
  • #1057: Fixed: The Notification plugin overwrites Web Notifications API due to leakage to the global scope.
  • #1068: Fixed: Upload widget paste listener ignores changes to the uploadWidgetDefinition.
  • #921: Fixed: [Edge] CKEditor erroneously perceives internal copy and paste as type "external".
  • #1213: Fixed: Multiple images uploaded using Upload Image plugin are randomly duplicated or mangled.
  • #532: Fixed: Removed an outdated user guide link from the About dialog.
  • #1221: Fixed: Invalid CSS loaded by Balloon Panel plugin when config.skin is loaded using a custom path.
  • #522: Fixed: Widget selection is not removed when widget is inside table cell with Table Selection plugin enabled.
  • #1027: Fixed: Cannot add multiple images to the table with Table Selection plugin in certain situations.
  • #1069: Fixed: Wrong shape processing by Paste from Word plugin.
  • #995: Fixed: Hyperlinked image gets inserted twice by Paste from Word plugin.
  • #1287: Fixed: Widget plugin throws exception if included in editor build but not loaded into editor's instance.

API Changes:

Other Changes:

  • #815: Removed Node.js dependency from the CKEditor build script.
  • #1041, #1131: Updated URLs pointing to CKSource and CKEditor resources after the launch of new websites.

CKEditor 4.7.3

New Features:

Fixed Issues:

  • #554: Fixed: change event not fired when typing the first character after pasting into the editor. Thanks to Daniel Miller!
  • #566: Fixed: The CSS border shorthand property with zero width (border: 0px solid #000;) causes the table to have the border attribute set to 1.
  • #779: Fixed: The Remove Format plugin removes elements with language definition inserted by the Languageplugin.
  • #423: Fixed: The Paste from Word plugin pastes paragraphs into the editor even if CKEDITOR.config.enterModeis set to CKEDITOR.ENTER_BR.
  • #719: Fixed: Image inserted using the Enhanced Image plugin can be resized when the editor is in read-only mode.
  • #577: Fixed: The "Delete Columns" command provided by the Table Tools plugin throws an error when trying to delete columns.
  • #867: Fixed: Typing into a selected table throws an error.
  • #817: Fixed: The Save plugin does not work in Source Mode.

Other Changes:

CKEditor 4.7.2

New Features:

Fixed Issues:

  • #663: [Chrome] Fixed: Clicking the scrollbar throws an Uncaught TypeError: element.is is not a functionerror.
  • #520: Fixed: Widgets cannot be properly pasted into a table cell.
  • #579: Fixed: Internal cke_table-faked-selection-table class is visible in the Stylesheet Classes field of the Table Properties dialog.
  • #545: [Edge] Fixed: Error thrown when pressing the Select All button in Source Mode.
  • #582: Fixed: Double slash in the path to stylesheet needed by the Table Selection plugin. Thanks to Marius Dumitru Florea!
  • #491: Fixed: Unnecessary dependency on the Editor Toolbar plugin inside the Notification plugin.
  • #646: Fixed: Error thrown into the browser console after opening the Styles Combo plugin menu in the editor without any selection.
  • #501: Fixed: Double click does not open the dialog for modifying anchors inserted via the Link plugin.
  • #9780: [IE8-9] Fixed: Clicking inside an empty read-only editor throws an error.
  • #16820: [IE10] Fixed: Clicking below a single horizontal rule throws an error.
  • #426: Fixed: The range.cloneContents method selects the whole element when the selection starts at the beginning of that element.
  • #644: Fixed: The range.extractContents method returns an incorrect result when multiple nodes are selected.
  • #684: Fixed: The elementPath.contains method incorrectly excludes the last element instead of root when the fromTop parameter is set to true.

Other Changes:

CKEditor 4.7.1

New Features:

Fixed Issues:

  • #515: [Chrome] Fixed: Mouse actions on CKEditor scrollbar throw an exception when the Table Selection plugin is loaded.
  • #493: Fixed: Selection started from a nested table causes an error in the browser while scrolling down.
  • #415: [Firefox] Fixed: Enter key breaks the table structure when pressed in a table selection.
  • #457: Fixed: Error thrown when deleting content from the editor with no selection.
  • #478: [Chrome] Fixed: Error thrown by the Enter Key plugin when pressing Enter with no selection.
  • #424: Fixed: Error thrown by Tab Key Handling and Indent List plugins when pressing Tab with no selection in inline editor.
  • #476: Fixed: Anchors inserted with the Link plugin on collapsed selection cannot be edited.
  • #417: Fixed: The Table Resize plugin throws an error when used with a table with only header or footer rows.
  • #523: Fixed: The editor.getCommandKeystroke method does not obtain the correct keystroke.
  • #534: [IE] Fixed: Paste from Word does not work in Quirks Mode.
  • #450: Fixed: CKEDITOR.filter incorrectly transforms the margin CSS property.

CKEditor 4.7.0

Important Notes:

  • #13793: The embed_provider configuration option for the Media Embed and Semantic Media Embed plugins is no longer preset by default.
  • The UI Color plugin now uses a custom color picker instead of the YUI 2.7.0 library which has some known vulnerabilities (it's a security precaution, there was no security issue in CKEditor due to the way it was used).

New Features:

Fixed Issues:

  • #16935: [Chrome] Fixed: Blurring the editor in Source Mode throws an error.
  • #16825: [Chrome] Fixed: Error thrown when destroying a focused inline editor.
  • #16857: Fixed: Ctrl+Shift+V blocked by Copy Formatting.
  • #16845: [IE] Fixed: Cursor jumps to the top of the scrolled editor after focusing it when the Copy Formatting plugin is enabled.
  • #16786: Fixed: Added missing translations for the Copy Formatting plugin.
  • #14714: [WebKit/Blink] Fixed: Exception thrown on refocusing a blurred inline editor.
  • #16913: [Firefox, IE] Fixed: Paste as Plain Text keystroke does not work.
  • #16968: Fixed: [Safari] Paste as Plain Text is not handled by the editor.
  • #16912: Fixed: Exception thrown when a single image is pasted using Paste from Word.
  • #16821: Fixed: Extraneous <span> elements with height style stacked when pasting from Word.
  • #16866: [IE, Edge] Fixed: Whitespaces not preserved when pasting from Word.
  • #16860: Fixed: Paragraphs which only look like lists incorrectly transformed into them when pasting from Word.
  • #16817: Fixed: When pasting from Word, paragraphs are transformed into lists with some corrupted data.
  • #16833: [IE11] Fixed: Malformed list with headers pasted from Word.
  • #16826: [IE] Fixed: Superfluous paragraphs within lists pasted from Word.
  • #12465: Fixed: Cannot change the state of checkboxes or radio buttons if the properties dialog was invoked with a double-click.
  • #13062: Fixed: Impossible to unlink when the caret is at the edge of the link.
  • #13585: Fixed: Error when wrapping two adjacent <div> elements with a <div>.
  • #16811: Fixed: Table alignment is not preserved by the Paste from Word plugin.
  • #16810: Fixed: Vertical align in tables is not supported by the Paste from Word plugin.
  • #11956: [Blink, IE] Fixed: Link dialog does not open on a double click on the second word of the link with a background color or other styles.
  • #10472: Fixed: Unable to use Table Resize on table header and footer.
  • #14762: Fixed: Hovering over an empty table (without rows or cells) throws an error when the Table Resize plugin is active.
  • #16777: [Edge] Fixed: The Clipboard plugin does not allow to drop widgets into the editor.
  • #14894: [Chrome] Fixed: The editor scrolls to the top after focusing or when a dialog is opened.
  • #14769: Fixed: URLs with '-' in host are not detected by the Auto Link plugin.
  • #16804: Fixed: Focus is not on the first menu item when the user opens a context menu or a drop-down list from the editor toolbar.
  • #14407: [IE] Fixed: Non-editable widgets can be edited.
  • #16927: Fixed: An error thrown if a bundle containing the Color Button plugin is run in ES5 strict mode. Thanks to Igor Rubinovich!
  • #16920: Fixed: Several plugins not using the Dialog plugin as a direct dependency.
  • PR#336: Fixed: Typo in CKEDITOR.getCss API documentation. Thanks to knusperpixel!
  • #17027: Fixed: Command event data should be initialized as an empty object.
  • Fixed the behavior of HTML parser when parsing src/srcdoc attributes of the <iframe> element in a CKEditor setup with ACF turned off and without the Iframe Dialog plugin. The issue was originally reported as a security issue by Sriramk21 from Pegasystems and was later downgraded by the security team into a normal issue due to the requirement of having ACF turned off. Disabling Advanced Content Filter is against security best practices, so the problem described above has not been considered a security issue as such.

Other Changes:

  • Updated SCAYT (Spell Check As You Type) and WebSpellChecker plugins:
    • Fixed: DOM Exception after clicking "Remove Language" on a selected word with enabled Language plugin in SCAYT.
  • #16958: Switched the default MathJax CDN provider for the Mathematical Formulas plugin from cdn.mathjax.org to cdnjs, due to closing of cdn.mathjax.org scheduled for April 30, 2017.
  • #16954: Removed the paste dialog.
  • #16982: Latest Safari now supports enhanced Clipboard API introduced in CKEditor 4.5.0.
  • #17025: Updated Bender.js to 0.4.2.
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