On the 6th birthday of Backdrop CMS the version 1.18.0 is released

Backdrop CMS turned 6 years on January 15, 2021 and on the same day the Backdrop community has proudly released version 1.18.0. Congratulations to all users and developers of Backdrop CMS - the open source CMS that helps you build websites for businesses and non-profits in the best traditions of Drupal 7!

Notes for updating

• The .htaccess file has been modified to include missing settings for PHP 7. (See #4752)
• No changes have been made to the robots.txt or default settings.php files in this release. Updating customized versions of those files is not necessary.
• It will be necessary to run the update script (located at /update.php) for this release.

Changes since 1.17.5

New features

• Add setting to menu block for changing breakpoint #4663
• Add a :link sub-token for user tokens #4584
• Add webp support #4509
• Provide option to skip deleting config staging files after a config sync #4447
• [UX] Add Phone field to Contact forms #3047
• Add the option to disable translation links #2910

Miscellaneous changes

• Change the expires header (remove Dries birthday from Backdrop) #4827
• [SR] Update the password strength indicator for longer/stronger passwords #4602
• [UX] Change the name of the "Full HTML" text format to "Raw HTML" #4499
• [DX] Consolidate "js-show" and "js-only" classes #4252
• [UX] Indicate vocabulary when editing a term #3811
• Disable user pictures by default. #2090

Assets

• Download backdrop 1.18.0 (zip) 9.18 MB
• Source code (zip)
• Source code (tar.gz)