TinyMCE 5.2.2

Overview

TinyMCE 5.2.2 was released for TinyMCE Enterprise and Tiny Cloud on Thursday, April 30th, 2020. It includes TinyMCE 5.2.2 and additional changes to premium plugins. These release notes provide an overview of the changes for TinyMCE 5.2.2, 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 5.2.2 provides fixes for the following bugs:

  • Fixed an issue where anchors could not be inserted on empty lines.

  • Fixed text decorations (underline, strikethrough) not consistently inheriting the text color.

  • Fixed format menu alignment buttons inconsistently applying to images.

  • Fixed the floating toolbar drawer height collapsing when the editor is rendered in modal dialogs or floating containers.

Security fixes

TinyMCE 5.2.2 provides fixes for the following security issues:

  • Fixed media embed content not processing safely in some cases.

Accompanying Premium Plugin changes

The following premium plugins updates were released alongside TinyMCE 5.2.2.

PowerPaste 5.2.3

The TinyMCE 5.2.2 release includes an accompanying release of the PowerPaste premium plugin.

PowerPaste 5.2.3 provides a security fix to prevent arbitrary JavaScript from being executed on paste when using specifically crafted content. Replication case provided by Michał Bentkowski.

SpellChecker Pro 2.0.1

The TinyMCE 5.2.2 release includes an accompanying release of the SpellChecker Pro premium plugin.

SpellChecker Pro 2.0.1 provides a fixes for:

  • The context menu being incorrectly positioned on a scrolled page in TinyMCE 4.

  • An unhandled exception thrown when enabling spellchecking in inline mode for TinyMCE 4.

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.