Backdrop 1.15 has just been released

Following the 4-month release cycle, the Backdrop community has released the version 1.15 of Backdrop CMS.

Major new features in Backdrop 1.15.0 version include:

• Image Library modal in Image fields
• Recent news block in the Dashboard
• Content can be placed in the menu by default
• Menus are click/touch activated (rather than hover activated)
• Translatable HTML5 date form elements: html_datetime, html_date, html_time
• More display options for boolean fields

The following features have been changed since version 1.14.2:

• News Block Followup: Switch URL to a config setting and cache the news updates
• The entity_create_stub_entity() in favor of entity_create()
• UI for defining the watchdog severity levels is provided
• Comments on NEW content types are disabled by default
• All default words (stop words) are removed from path alias "Strings to Remove" settings

Notes for updating

• It will be necessary to run the update script (located at /update.php) for this release.
• No changes have been made to the .htaccess, robots.txt or default settings.php files in this release. Updating custom versions of those files is not necessary.

Read https://backdropcms.org/news/backdrop-cms-115-released for the detailed information on this release.

You can download Backdrop 1.15.0 from here.