• Maintenance release with support for PHP 8.1, security enhancements, general improvements and bug fixes.
• Security: Fix reported cross-site scripting issue relating to article preview CSRF token (many thanks, Paul Ritchie at Pentest Limited).
• Fixed: More robust numeric searches.
• Fixed: Improved query efficiency of category operations.
• Fixed: Required parameters after optional in tag builder (thanks,@phiw13).
• Fixed: Admin-side pagination when sorting by non-unique values.
• Added: PHP 8.1 support.
• Added: Natural search mode.
• Added: Random form selection.
• Added: Support for AVIF image format, on PHP 8.1 or higher.
• Added: Globallimit,offset andsort attributes.
• Added:url_title attribute to<txp:article[_custom] />.
• Added:range attribute to<txp:article_image />.
• Added:date andtime attributes to<txp:if_expired />.
• Added:calendar attribute to<txp:posted /> and similar tags.
• Added: Substring extraction viaescape attribute.
• Added:<txp:items_count /> tag.
• Added: Expanded conditionalmatch attribute with comparison operators.
• Added:UTC is now a permitted time zone.
• Added: Custom date formats.
• Changed:<txp:category_list /> withchildren >1 attribute behaviour.
• Changed: Globalescape attribute operates at the items level in lists.
• Changed: Multi-site plugins directory defaults tosite/admin/plugins.
• Accessibility: Additionalaria-label attributes for some internal links.
• Internal: RemovedFOUND_ROWS() which is deprecated in MySQL 8.0.17.
• Internal: Preferis_readable() andis_file() tofile_exists().
• Developer: Added plugin lifecycle eventsupgraded anddowngraded.
• Developer: Export new article IDs on duplicate.
• PrismJS 1.26.0.

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