Update - Cobalt v.8.623 Stable

Here is the new version of Cobalt 8.623.

This version contain performance improvements. Although that was targeted as Cobalt 9 feature, it is 50% implemented in this new version. There will be still some improvements in Cobalt 9.

We had a case study with 300k articles and 1.5m fields values. The site we were working on took 17000ms just for SQL queries. Now all SQL queries are only 300ms. To achieve such a performance, of course you have to follow some principles, and I'll post case study with all advises, how to create high performance section in Cobalt where I am going to explain all the details.

But it is not only advises how to configure Cobalt, this release has some DB indexes adjustments and fields filters was refactored. Now filters works differently. Now, we almost fully take advantage of our field values index table, and make that "The more filters you apply, the quicker it works" unlike before after 12 filters applied, with some configurations, you could have experience slowness.

And good news is that there is still room for improvements, which we will be able to do only in Cobalt 9.

Changelog

• fix - cobalt - url sorting links
• fix - cobalt - email field captcha
• fix - cobalt - module notification 500 error
• fix - cobalt - field textarea placeholder
• fix - cobalt - rating real ip
• remove - cobalt - field text show input mask
• fix - cobalt - multirating
• fix - cobalt - module filters html users class conflict
• fix - cobalt - notifications eventer guest
• fix - cobalt - multi level select constructor height
• add - cobalt - field register name field
• fix - cobalt - emerald field view skip for author
• fix - cobalt - continue if field return 0 (field digits for example)
• fix - cobalt - where post duplicate
• fix - cobalt - save with non displayed required field (field edit restrict by plan)
• add - text field - show mask as placeholder
• update - JComment integration
• fix - cobalt - tags decoration/tooltip
• fix - cobalt - notice in alpha index
• fix - cobalt - video public method for pictures.
• fix - cobalt - moderator list pagination and filter
• fix - cobalt - notifications subscribe
• fix - cobalt - autocomplete with comma
• fix - cobalt - filter on homepage
• add - image field - allowed formats parameter
• fix - geo field - traffic Google map api update
• fix - filters module - does not affected by category ID when in article full view.
• fix - cobalt - require uploads fields
• fix - cobalt - record unpublished notice on fail save
• fix - cobalt - mark notification as read fatal error with section ID.
• fix - filters fatal error.

Affected files

• Cobalt [com_cobalt.j3.v.8.623.zip]
• Comment [cmt_cobalt.j3.jcomment.v.8.11.zip]
• Media [pkg_cobalt.j3.media.v.8.80.zip]
• Relate [field_cobalt.j3.relations.v.8.55.zip]
• Templates [pkg_cobalt.j3.templates.v.8.893.zip]

Fields

• Field [field_cobalt.j3.boolean.v.8.49.zip]
• Field [field_cobalt.j3.datetime.v.8.97.zip]
• Field [field_cobalt.j3.digits.v.8.46.zip]
• Field [field_cobalt.j3.email.v.8.66.zip]
• Field [field_cobalt.j3.email.v.8.67.zip]
• Field [field_cobalt.j3.gallery.v.8.82.zip]
• Field [field_cobalt.j3.geo.v.8.203.zip]
• Field [field_cobalt.j3.image.v.8.63.zip]
• Field [field_cobalt.j3.multilevelselect.v.8.76.zip]
• Field [field_cobalt.j3.register.v.8.35.zip]
• Field [field_cobalt.j3.status.v.8.41.zip]
• Field [field_cobalt.j3.telephone.v.8.29.zip]
• Field [field_cobalt.j3.text.v.8.46.zip]
• Field [field_cobalt.j3.textarea.v.8.49.zip]
• Field [field_cobalt.j3.url.v.8.61.zip]
• Field [field_cobalt.j3.video.v.8.77.zip]

Modules

• Module [mod_cobalt_filters.j3.v.8.45.zip]
• Module [mod_cobalt_notifications.j3.v.8.26.zip]
• Module [mod_cobalt_records.j3.v.8.50.zip]