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Known Regressions:
- [288739] Due to changes required to fix a bug with pagers in some cases, the Views Slideshow generated ID has changed on some slideshow. In most cases this will not be a problem, however, if you are targeting this ID with your custom CSS or JS, this will cause problems.
Some small bug fixes, 1 new feature: different # of rows on first slide.
Also some changes only of interest to developers: improved api documentation/groups/comments - which you can see on the Views Slideshow API docs.
One important bug fix and then a bunch of changes that only matter to developers: improvements to the developer/api documentation (see the compiled developer api documentation for what the changes actually do when used with the API Module).
Mostly fixing new bugs in 7.x-3.6 (sorry everyone), also fixes a long standing bug that was never triggered somehow. Most importantly in some ways: adds a simple numeric pager!
Most important is the PHP 7.1 fix (thanks Mfernea & VIc Luijkx). Beyond that, just some small fixes and reworked 'hide if only 1 slide' functionality for controls. Now works for all widgets (including counter) and improved performance.
Mostly a bug fix release although also adds Drush support to automatically download the required libraries as mentioned in the project page (been in dev for a year+).
6.x-3.x is deprecated and updating to 7.x or 8.x is strongly recommended.
However if the meantime it was felt better to have a bug fix release for these issues.
The most significant change is support for PHP 5.4+. Do note that minimal testing has been done recently and minimal support is offered.
Simple bugfix release mostly to include compatibility with PHP 5.4. Support for 6.x-2.x is deprecated and updating to 7.x or 8.x is strongly recommended.
Views Slideshow has been in Alpha 4 for 3 months now without any major issue. It's time to release a first stable release before including new features.
This is the newest version which will only work on views 3.
Changes Since Version 2
Singleframe and Thumbnailhover have been combined into the Views Slideshow Cycle module. Singleframe and ThumbnailHover are still available, but are marked as legacy modules. They will be removed in the next major release. There is no migration path from singleframe/thumbnailhover to cycle.
Support for plugin-able pagers. So other modules may add their own pager types. You can see an example on how to do this here http://drupal.org/node/903250
Support for skins. You may now create a module that allows you to add your own skins so one can easily change the layout of the slideshow through the settings. You can see an example on how to do this here http://drupal.org/node/909020
More templates. If you look in the views_slideshow/contrib/views_slideshow_cycle/theme directory you can see there are numerous tpl.php files you can use to override the default style of the slideshow.
Redesigned settings page. The settings page has been redesigned to offer the most used features by default so one can quickly get going. You can find additional options under the advanced settings checkboxes.
Make sure your cache gets cleared after this update. If you run into any issues resaving your slideshow settings may correct it.
There are changes to the css classes in a few places. If you have styled your slideshow make sure to check your css to see if it still works. Specifically the activeSlide class is no longer on the a tag of the thumbnail. It is now on the div tag. So if your css has a.activeSlide change it to .activeSlide a
We reserve the right to change this at any time. We may make a change that breaks your slideshow. If you do use this be prepared to recreate your slideshow settings whenever you update.
This version will support views 3 and only views 3. It will not work with views 2. It currently works fine so far in views 3 in my limited testing.
If you have a custom tpl.php for thumbnailhover the $teasers_bottom and $teasers_top have been changed to $breakout_bottom and $breakout_top for better consistency
As long as there are no new issues this should become 2.0 final
There is a serious issue with this release if you already have a thumbnailhover slideshow. There should be a new release shortly to take care of this.
Although not required it is recommended that you edit your slideshow settings and then save it. This will resave some values and may alleviate issues you may encounter.
dev version for the DRUPAL-6--2 branch: we're adding support for jquery cycle, and revamping the API to make it useful as a basis for other slideshow & rotator modules.
Creating a new release to clear up dev for new planned functionality.
* Add Update 6000 function to rebuild theme (aaron).
* Separate theme functions into new tpl.php files (aaron).
* Create API to allow modules to plug into Views Slideshow (aaron).
* Load Cycle when using Single Frame mode (aaron).
* Add jQuery Cycle plugin js file (aaron).
* 324640/KarenS PHP Notices (robertDouglass/Karens).