The Navigate CMS team has just released a software update which includes the following highlighted features/bugfixes/improvements:

• database converted to MySQL utf8mb4 charset
• fixed some bugs and made internal optimizations
• added new form field types
• shop functions still in development
• updated TinyMCE and Select2

Full changelog:

* comments: "reply to" field value was not correctly saved on some cases
* core: force saving session data when forcing a core_terminate
+ nvweb: added option to append CSS after body via nvweb_after_body('css', '.rule{}')
+ webuser.class: added method "authenticate_by_email"
* feed_parser.class: always try to create the cache folder
* nvweb forms: optimize region loading in "country_region_field" mode
+ global configuration: added APP_FAILSAFE mode to disable some optimizations
+ naviforms: buttonset now allows multiselect mode (checkbox instead of radio inputs)
+ naviforms: new field type "pathfield" (helps getting nv paths like nv://items/17)
* dashboard: recent actions displayed duplicated rows in some cases
+ websites: added field "purchase conditions path" to be used in shops
* webuser.class: improved setting session cookie
+ webusers: added option to remove old unconfirmed accounts
+ nvweb webuser: added mode "sign_up" to create webuser accounts from website forms
+ nvweb webuser: email confirmations now valid only for 24 hours
+ nv dictionary: added strings and improved translations
+ nvweb: display expired confirmation link notifications
* updated Select2 4.0.6-rc.1
+ naviforms.class: added countryfield and countryregionfield
+ order.class: added static function get_addresses
* orders: use the new naviform fields for country and region selection
* brand.class: added field brand URL and removed "notes" field (now using navigate grid_notes)
* modify MySQL tables and PDO connection to use utf8mb4 character encoding
* comments: remove website pages cache on approving/rejecting a comment when using the one time hash link
* comments: improved notification emails for subscribers
* updated TinyMCE v4.7.9)

You can view the source code changes in our Bitbucket repository or in our shadow repository in Github.

To auto update your Navigate CMS instance, sign in as an Administrator and access the Configuration > Update function. You may also download the update package from SourceForge and apply it manually.