This page doesn't document all changes in 2.4, but specifically documents breaking changes that may effect developers migrating to v2.4

Full list of changes since 2.3.2 https://github.com/ushahidi/Ushahidi_Web/compare/2.3.2...master

What's changed

• New parameter added to category::tree();
  • parameters are now: tree($categories, $hide_children = TRUE, array $selected_categories, $form_field, $columns = 1, $enable_parents = FALSE)
  • This may break themes with a custom reports_submit.php view
  • To work around this change the line

category::tree($categories, $selected_categories, 'incident_category', $columns);

to

category::tree($categories, TRUE, $selected_categories, 'incident_category', $columns);

* Session driver changed to 'database' by default

• • This was tried previously and reversed in 2.3.2
  • Bugs with this were due to access control in the base controller always called $auth->auto_login() instead of $auth->logged_in()
• XSS security fixes
  • Lots more fields are now properly escaped with strip_tags() or html::specialchars()
  • This shouldn't break anything, but if you had previously used html in some fields you might not be able to any more
    • Mostly this is user fields or report fields
• Access level's for admin, member and superadmin roles have changed
  • This shouldn't break anything as previously the permissions checks that relied on these (in custom forms) didn't work
  • New access levels: superadmin = 100, admin = 90, member = 10
  • If you have custom roles and use custom forms, make sure you check your access levels are in the right order
• Openlayers updated
  • Again, this shouldn't break anything.
  • Just includes a fix to stop the google maps attribution popup.
• New format for the Settings table
  • Configuration settings are stored as key-values pairs, instead of using a single record with multiple fields
  • This should not be a problem, but be careful if you have scripted installs or updates using this table