New Features:
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#16733: Added a new pastel color palette for the Color Button plugin and a new
config.colorButton_colorsPerRowconfiguration option for setting the number of rows in the color selector. - #16752: Added a new Azerbaijani localization. Thanks to the Azerbaijani language team!
- #13818: It is now possible to group Widget style definitions, so applying one style disables the other.
Fixed Issues:
- #13446: [Chrome] Fixed: It is possible to type in an unfocused inline editor.
- #14856: Fixed: Font size and font family reset each other when modified at certain positions.
- #16745: [Edge] Fixed: List items are lost when pasted from Word.
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#16682: [Edge] Fixed: A list gets pasted from Word as a set of paragraphs. Added the
config.pasteFromWord_heuristicsEdgeListconfiguration option. - #10373: Fixed: Context menu items can be dragged into the editor.
- #16728: [IE] Fixed: Copy Formatting breaks the editor in Quirks Mode.
- #16795: [IE] Fixed: Copy Formatting breaks the editor in Compatibility Mode.
- #16675: Fixed: Styles applied with Copy Formatting to a single table cell are applied to the whole table.
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#16753: Fixed:
element.setSizesets incorrect editor dimensions if the border width is represented as a fraction of pixels. - #16705: [Firefox] Fixed: Unable to paste images as Base64 strings when using Clipboard.
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#14869: Fixed: JavaScript error is thrown when trying to use Find in a
<div>-based editor.
New Features:
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#16639: The
callbackparameter in the CKEDITOR.ajax.post method became optional.
Fixed Issues:
- #11064: [Blink, WebKit] Fixed: Cannot select all editor content when a widget or a non-editable element is the first or last element of the content. Also fixes this issue in the Select All plugin.
- #14755: [Blink, WebKit, IE8] Fixed: Browser hangs when a table is inserted in the place of a selected list with an empty last item.
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#16624: Fixed: Improved the Color Button plugin which will now normalize the CSS
backgroundproperty if it only contains a color value. This fixes missing background colors when using Paste from Word. - #16600: [Blink, WebKit] Fixed: Error thrown occasionally by an uninitialized editable for multiple CKEditor instances on the same page.
New Features:
- #14569: Added a new, flat, default CKEditor skin called Moono-Lisa. Refreshed default colors available in the Color Button plugin (Text Color and Background Color feature).
- #14707: Added a new Copy Formatting feature to enable easy copying of styles between your document parts.
- Introduced the completely rewritten Paste from Word plugin:
- Backward incompatibility: The
config.pasteFromWordRemoveFontStylesoption now defaults tofalse. This option will be deprecated in the future. Use Advanced Content Filter to replicate the effect of setting it totrue. - Backward incompatibility: The
config.pasteFromWordNumberedHeadingToListandconfig.pasteFromWordRemoveStylesoptions were dropped and no longer have any effect on pasted content. - Major improvements in preservation of list numbering, styling and indentation (nested lists with multiple levels).
- Major improvements in document structure parsing that fix plenty of issues with distorted or missing content after paste.
- Backward incompatibility: The
- Added new translation: Occitan. Thanks to Cédric Valmary!
- #10015: Keyboard shortcuts (relevant to the operating system in use) will now be displayed in tooltips and context menus.
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#13794: The Upload Image feature now uses
uploaded.width/heightif set. - #12541: Added the Upload File plugin that lets you upload a file by drag&dropping it into the editor content.
- #14449: Introduced the Balloon Panel plugin that lets you create stylish floating UI elements for the editor.
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#12077: Added support for the HTML5
downloadattribute in link (<a>) elements. Selecting the "Force Download" checkbox in the Link dialog will cause the linked file to be downloaded automatically. Thanks to sbusse! -
#13518: Introduced the
additionalRequestParametersproperty for file uploads to make it possible to send additional information about the uploaded file to the server. -
#14889: Added the
config.image2_altRequiredoption for the Enhanced Image plugin to allow making alternative text a mandatory field. Thanks to Andrey Fedoseev!
Fixed Issues:
- #9991: Fixed: Paste from Word should only normalize input data.
- #7209: Fixed: Lists with 3 levels not pasted from Word correctly.
- #14335: Fixed: Pasting a numbered list starting with a value different from "1" from Microsoft Word does not work correctly.
- #14542: Fixed: Copying a numbered list from Microsoft Word does not preserve list formatting.
- #14544: Fixed: Copying a nested list from Microsoft Word results in an empty list.
- #14660: Fixed: Pasting text from Word breaks the styling in some cases.
- #14867: [Firefox] Fixed: Text gets stripped when pasting content from Word.
- #2507: Fixed: Paste from Word does not detect pasting a part of a paragraph.
- #3336: Fixed: Extra blank row added on top of the content pasted from Word.
- #6115: Fixed: When Right-to-Left text direction is applied to a table pasted from Word, borders are missing on one side.
- #6342: Fixed: Paste from Word filters out a basic text style when it is configured to use attributes.
- #6457: [IE] Fixed: Pasting from Word is extremely slow.
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#6789: Fixed: The
mso-list: ignorestyle is not handled properly when pasting from Word. - #7262: Fixed: Lists in preformatted body disappear when pasting from Word.
- #7662: [Opera] Fixed: Extra empty number/bullet shown in the editor body when editing a multi-level list pasted from Word.
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#7807: Fixed: Last item in a list not converted to a
<li>element after pasting from Word. - #7950: [IE] Fixed: Content from Word pasted differently than in other browsers.
- #7982: Fixed: Multi-level lists get split into smaller ones when pasting from Word.
- #8231: [WebKit, Opera] Fixed: Paste from Word inserts empty paragraphs.
- #8266: Fixed: Paste from Word inserts a blank line at the top.
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#8341, #7646: Fixed: Faulty removal of empty
<span>elements in Paste from Word content cleanup breaking content formatting. - #8754: [Firefox] Fixed: Incorrect pasting of multiple nested lists in Paste from Word.
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#8983: Fixed: Alignment lost when pasting from Word with
config.enterModeset toCKEDITOR.ENTER_BR. - #9331: [IE] Fixed: Pasting text from Word creates a simple Caesar cipher.
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#9422: Fixed: Paste from Word leaves an unwanted
color:windowtextstyle. -
#10011: [IE9-10] Fixed:
config.pasteFromWordRemoveFontStylesis ignored under certain conditions. - #10643: Fixed: Differences between using Ctrl+V and pasting from the Paste from Word dialog.
- #10784: Fixed: Lines missing when pasting from Word.
- #11294: [IE10] Fixed: Font size is not preserved when pasting from Word.
- #11627: Fixed: Missing words when pasting from Word.
- #12784: Fixed: Bulleted list with custom bullets gets changed to a numbered list when pasting from Word.
- #13174: Fixed: Data loss after pasting from Word.
- #13828: Fixed: Widget classes should be added to the wrapper rather than the widget element.
- #13829: Fixed: No class in Widget wrapper to identify the widget type.
- #13519: Server response received when uploading files should be more flexible.
Other Changes:
- Updated SCAYT (Spell Check As You Type) and WebSpellChecker plugins:
- Support for the new default Moono-Lisa skin.
- #121: Fixed: Basic Styles do not work when SCAYT is enabled.
- #125: Fixed: Inline styles are not continued when writing multiple lines of styled text with SCAYT enabled.
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#127: Fixed: Uncaught TypeError after enabling SCAYT in the CKEditor
<div>element. - #128: Fixed: Error thrown after enabling SCAYT caused by conflicts with RequireJS.
Security Updates:
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[Severity: minor] Fixed the target="_blank" vulnerability reported by James Gaskell.
Issue summary: If a victim had access to a spoofed version of ckeditor.com via HTTP (e.g. due to DNS spoofing, using a hacked public network or mailicious hotspot), then when using a link to the ckeditor.com website it was possible for the attacker to change the current URL of the opening page, even if the opening page was protected with SSL.
An upgrade is recommended.
New Features:
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#14747: The Enhanced Image caption now supports the link
targetattribute. - #7154: Added support for the "Display Text" field to the Link dialog. Thanks to Ryan Guill!
Fixed Issues:
- #13362: [Blink, WebKit] Fixed: Active widget element is not cached when it is losing focus and it is inside an editable element.
- #13755: [Edge] Fixed: Pasting images does not work.
- #13548: [IE] Fixed: Clicking the elements path disables Cut and Copy icons.
- #13812: Fixed: When aborting file upload the placeholder for image is left.
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#14659: [Blink] Fixed: Content scrolled to the top after closing the dialog in a
<div>-based editor. -
#14825: [Edge] Fixed: Focusing the editor causes unwanted scrolling due to dropped support for the
setActivemethod.
Fixed Issues:
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#10750: Fixed: The editor does not escape the
font-stylefamily property correctly, removing quotes and whitespace from font names. -
#14413: Fixed: The Auto Grow plugin with the
config.autoGrow_onStartupoption set totruedoes not work properly for an editor that is not visible. - #14451: Fixed: Numeric element ID not escaped properly. Thanks to Jakub Chalupa!
- #14590: Fixed: Additional line break appearing after inline elements when switching modes. Thanks to dpidcock!
- #14539: Fixed: JAWS reads "selected Blank" instead of "selected " when selecting a widget.
- #14701: Fixed: More precise labels for Enhanced Image and Placeholder widgets.
- #14667: [IE] Fixed: Removing background color from selected text removes background color from the whole paragraph.
- #14252: [IE] Fixed: Styles drop-down list does not always reflect the current style of the text line.
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#14275: [IE9+] Fixed:
onerrorandonloadevents are not used in browsers it could have been used when loading scripts dynamically.