TinyMCE 5.1.6

Overview

TinyMCE 5.1.6 was released for TinyMCE Enterprise and Tiny Cloud on Wednesday, February 5th, 2020. It includes TinyMCE 5.1.6 and additional changes to premium plugins. These release notes provide an overview of the changes for TinyMCE 5.1.6, including:

This is the Tiny Cloud and TinyMCE Enterprise release notes. For information on the latest community version of TinyMCE, see: TinyMCE Changelog.

General bug fixes

TinyMCE 5.1.6 provides the following bug fixes:

  • When the editor is in readonly mode, it will now ensure links are properly blocked when clicked.

  • The FontSize query value command now calculates legacy font sizes consistently with CSS font sizes.

  • Changing a tables row type from Header to Body no-longer incorrectly moves the row to the bottom of the table.

  • Context menus now open correctly on hybrid devices that support both touch and mouse input.

  • Context menus no longer open in the wrong location when the target was the editor body.

  • The image plugin now respects the automatic_uploads setting when uploading local images.

Security fixes

TinyMCE 5.1.6 provides fixes for the following security issues:

  • CDATA parsing and sanitization has been improved to address a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability.

Premium Plugin changes

Advanced Code Editor

The TinyMCE 5.1.6 release includes Advanced Code Editor 2.0.3.

Advanced Code Editor 2.0.3 provides the following bug fixes:

  • The code editor gutter will no longer render on top of the content in TinyMCE 4.

  • The code editor dialog will now resize responsively based on the window size in TinyMCE 5.

Enhanced Media Embed

The TinyMCE 5.1.6 release includes Enhanced Media Embed 2.2.5.

Enhanced Media Embed 2.2.5 provides the following bug fixes:

  • The mediaembed_max_width setting will now constrain the max width correctly on Internet Explorer 11.

Upgrading to the latest version of TinyMCE 5

The procedure for upgrading to the latest version of TinyMCE 5 depends on the deployment type.

Upgrading Tiny Cloud

Tiny Cloud provides the latest enterprise version of TinyMCE. For information on configuring Tiny Cloud, see: the Cloud deployment guide.

Upgrading TinyMCE Self-hosted manually

To upgrade to TinyMCE 5.10 using a manually downloaded package:

  1. Backup the tinymce/ directory so any customizations can be restored after the upgrade.

    Customizations for TinyMCE are typically stored in the following directories:

    tinymce/
├── icons/
├── langs/
├── plugins/
├── skins/
│   ├── content/
│   └── ui/
└── themes/

  2. Download the latest version of TinyMCE.

    • For the TinyMCE Community Version, download tinymce_<VERSION>.zip from Get TinyMCE - Self-hosted releases, where <VERSION> is the latest version of TinyMCE.

    • For the TinyMCE Enterprise Version, download the TinyMCE Enterprise Bundle from Tiny Account > Downloads. The downloaded file will be named enterprise_latest.zip.

  3. Extract the downloaded .zip file to a temporary location.

  4. (If required) Install the latest language packs from Get TinyMCE - Language Packages.

  5. Copy customizations to the new tinymce/ directory. Ensure that only custom changes are added the new tinymce/ directory, such as:

    • Custom icons packs

    • Custom plugins

    • Custom skins

    • Custom themes

  6. Delete the existing tinymce/ directory and replace with the new tinymce/.

To simplify the upgrade process to future versions of TinyMCE:

  1. Host the TinyMCE customizations outside of the tinymce/ directory.

  2. Update your TinyMCE configuration as required:

    • Set the location of content CSS customizations using content_css.

    • Set the location of custom plugins using external_plugins.

    • Set the location of custom icon packages using icons_url instead of icons.

    • Set the location of custom localization packages using language_url instead of language.

    • Set the location of custom skin packages using skin_url instead of skin.

    • Set the location of custom themes using theme_url instead of theme.