Breaking Changes
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Learn moreAs a major release, MODX 3.0 comes with a number of breaking changes. There is always a balance to be kept between breaking changes that cleanup technical debt, and not breaking things unnecessarily.
Most important breaking changes¶
The biggest breaking changes can be summarised as follows:
- Minimum supported PHP version has been increased to 7.2
- It's no longer possible to use a custom core folder/path
- sqlsrv support has been removed
- A large number of (previously unnamespaced) classes have been renamed and moved, including processors and model classes.
- All processors have been renamed, including base processors
- modAction and related functionality has been removed
- modRestClient has been removed #15781 and has been replaced with a new PSR-7/17/18 HTTP service
Legacy functionality cleanup¶
-
modResource->contentType
field has been removed; that was replaced in Revolution 2.0 with acontent_type
field that maps to amodContentType
instance. #14057 -
modParser095
,modTranslate095
, andmodTranslator
have been removed. Those were utilities for migrating templates from Evolution syntax. #14133 -
/manager/min/
directory has been removed; was unused since 2.5. #12778, #13194, #14416 - Unused ExtJS grids have been removed: assets/modext/widgets/resource/modx.grid.resource.security.js, assets/modext/widgets/security/modx.grid.role.user.js, assets/modext/workspace/lexicon/language.grid.js, assets/modext/workspace/lexicon/lexicon.topic.grid.js #14895
-
@EVAL
binding has been removed from TVs #13865
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