Update History

Update History Pre-Version 5.x

Slider Revolution Responsive WordPress Plugin

Version 4.6.93 SkyWood (8th May 2015)

• Fixed a bug in backend at the process of adding YouTube videos

Version 4.6.92 SkyWood (28th April 2015)

• Added a fix for PHP version < 5.3 which appeared in version 4.6.91

Version 4.6.91 SkyWood (28th April 2015)

• Minor update to stay on par with security standards: More info on the envato blog

Version 4.6.9 SkyWood (16th April 2015)

• Fixed wrong ajax action: update_slider occuring in 4.6.8

Version 4.6.8 SkyWood (15th April 2015)

• This update is a preparation for version 5.0

• Fixed Vimeo Event Video Playing which was not triggered
• Fixed Parallax issues where Mouse was already hovering on Slider at load, parallax was not working
• Fixed Parallax "Not clickable" Layers
• Fixed Firefox Half cut images during the Animation sequences

Version 4.6.5 SkyWood (2nd December 2014)

• Fixed Compatibility of Sandboxed GreenSock engine
• Fixed Compatibility issues with W3C Total Cache Minifying engine
• Fixed Static Layer Disappearing Issue
• Fixed Lazy Loading and Preloading issues (Distorted images in FireFox)

Version 4.6.4 SkyWood (27th November 2014)

• Added option to show only the Preview Image of a video on mobile, disabling the video

• Min. Height now gone if Fullscreen is selected

• Fixed an issue where the Parallax Effect if Mouse already hovered on the Slider in Firefox was not working well
• Fixed an issue where exports can have wrong styles in it
• Fixed Firefox HTML5 Video Playback
• Fixed Thumbnail Vertical Offset Positions in Resized Screens

Version 4.6.3 SkyWood (21th October 2014)

• Fixed an issue where the Slide Link was not working correctly

Version 4.6.2 SkyWood (18th October 2014)

• Added "revkill" as method to remove the Slider from the page silently if needed
• Added "slideatend" event that triggers if the slide is at the end
• Changed import function for compatibility with some Windows Server machines (thanks to ThemeFuzz)
• Improved Slider import function for theme authors to make it more easy to insert demo slider through scripts
• Added scripts so that a Slider can be loaded in Essential Grid at Ajax loading (Essential Grid version 1.5 or later needed)
• Added new Custom Controls for HTML5 Video Player to avoid Chrome "unclickable" buttons issue
• Added Rotating Loop Animation on Layers
• Spinner can now be disabled in the Slider Settings
• New fallback options for iOS4 and IE8 added in the Slider Settings (Alternative Image and/or simplyfied output)
• Added option to redraw Slider on browser tab focus

• More changes on exporting Sliders for further compatibility
• Activating the plugin a second time will now no longer add default fonts again
• Saving CSS / a new CSS class through the style editor will now sanitize the classname
• Setting the single slide setting in the Slide Editor to off will now set the values Arrows Type and Bullets Type to none
• Improved minifying support
• Easy auto settings for single loop option
• Videos on mobile devices available again
• Minimized the styling output
• Improved output validation (style attribute scoped)
• Changed backend icon of static layers to avoid confusion
• Removed console=1 from the YouTube default settings (only works for new added YouTube video layers)
• Google Fonts will no longer be inserted after multiple plugin activation/deactivation
• Improved compatibility with databases
• Enabled unlimited speed parameter

• WPML Slides will now be exported properly and can be imported again
• Improved the size and style handling of Layers in Slide Editor (resizing, rotating and lost values of parameters)
• IE8 - line height "auto" broke the fullscreen slider. In case "auto" is set, the font size +4px will be calculated for line height
• z-index bug for first layer in case dotted overlay exists fixed
• SSL compatibility with Vimeo videos in the backend added
• Chrome's max-width fallback from % to px. Slides accepting now only px values!
• Transition speed had no influence on real transitions
• Max transition can now have the same value as the max delay of the Slide
• Fixed missing Box Slide, Paper Cut and Box Fade transitions
• Further export compatibility for multisites
• Fix of Lists in Captions - Formatting and Display issues
• Link to Another Slide in Random Mode Bug linked to the wrong Slide Bug is fixed
• Undefined poster image on HTML5 videos fixed
• Fixed Vimeo/YouTube timings (delaying issues)
• Fixed KenBurn dotted overlay
• Fixed problem with loop animations
• Fixed navigation style issues
• Fixed Pan Zoom for mobile issues
• Fixed a bug where videos restarted on resize
• Fixed HTML5 video markup output
• Fixed a bug where hide slider on mobile did not work on certain devices
• Fixed a bug with speed parameters
• Fixed a bug where caption naming in layers list was not updating anymore
• Further IE8 compatibility by changing CSS styles
• Fixed boxfade and boxslide animations
• Fixed a bug where the first layer z-index was always placed behind the dotted overlay
• SSL compatibility with Vimeo API in the backend added

Version 4.6 SkyWood (25th August 2014)

• Option to disable each video on mobile
• Option to disable Pan Zoom on Mobile
• Option to disable Parallax on Mobile
• Randomized Animation from the Selected Animations available now
• New Offset option for the Scroll Below Function
• New Option to set Slider Min Height - Content will be vertical centered in case content container is smaller then min height of Slider
• New Loop Options for HTML5 Videos: none, loop and stop Slider Timer or Loop till Progress Bar reaches the End

• Alternative First Slide wins now, even if Random Slides is enabled
• Vimeo, YouTube and HTML5 Video can be added now via options on demand instead of preadding iFrames. This will avoid Preloads delays, and slow site loadings
• Using now tp-videolayer class for Videos to identificate Video Layers better
• Class "current-sr-slide-visible" added to the Slide "li" tag which is currently Visible
• Swipe Engine Change
• Swipe Treshold Option Default 75 - The number of pixels that the user must move their finger by before it is considered a swipe.
• Swipe Min Finger Default 1 - Min Finger (touch) used for swipe
• Drag Block Vertical Default false - Scroll Auto below Slider on Vertical Swipe on Slider

• YouTube Force Rewind fix
• YouTube Mute in Second Loop fix
• Added backwards compatibility for inline CSS with WordPress versions under 3.7
• Ken Burns Dotted Overlay was not visible
• IE8 Console Group Issue - Slider was not visible in IE8
• Looping Issues if Slides has been manually hanged after Loop Stopped
• Browser Tab Change -> Broken ELements fixed. Option for Slide Change on Blur Tab / Browser also available.
• Navigation Style Preview1- Preview4 Styling issues
• Power2 Error at some Animation
• Mouse Over on Loaded PArallax Slider issue - Slider will always play parallax effect, even if Mouse was already hovering the slider at laod
• IE8 and other Old MObile Devices Fall Back on simple Transitions. CAn be forced now
• HTML5, YouTube and Vimeo Video Playback fixes

Note !

In case you using also our Essential Grid and/or Shwobiz Pro Plugins, please do update also them to avoid incompatibility issues between the ThemePunch Tools !

Version 4.5.95 SkyWood (16th July 2014)

• Changed Animation Engine, improved Animation technology. Reduced file size, and added Timeline based transitions

• Fixed Flickering effects on mobile devices
• Fixed stuttering on animation with many layers
• Fixed Ken Burn animation failures after few Transition types
• Added Safari 3d Back to Transitions
• Fixed some broken Slide Transitions
• Fixed IE8 transition failres, fall back always on Fade
• Fixed Google 36 Updates issues

Version 4.5.9 SkyWood (7th July 2014)

• Drag and Rotate the Layer Content to set a 2D Rotation per element
• Drag and Resize Elements, images, Contents for better text breaks, and more flexibility
• Now also Split Animated Text content can be Rotated
• Added feature to allow Looped Animation and Rotated Content

• Reenabled Link ID, Class, Title and Rel in Slide Editor

• Fixed Vimeo First Auto Play issue
• Fixed unseletable elements in Locked Mode
• Fixed Output Failure if Rotated and Looped Animation has been selected
• Various Bug fix in Drag And Drop Editor
• Fix of Background Image if Screen size less Then Grid Width, postion of Elements and BG backend and frontend looked different
• Various Fixes for Mobile Styling. Broken Transitions, bad performance on Mobile devices
• Bug with Rotated Layers on Backend fixed
• Bug with MAx Width and Max Height of elements was not visible in Backend
• White Space Bugs - Backend was not displaying settings of White Spaces
• Ken Burn Images on backend was distorted if Window has been resized

Version 4.5.8 SkyWood (4th July 2014)

• Reenabled Link ID, Class, Title and Rel in Slide Editor

Version 4.5.7 SkyWood (2nd July 2014)

• New Options in Global Settings, like Disable/Enable Hammer.js Plugin
• New Developer Option to Disable via the theme the Hammer.js Plugin (Avada Requests)

• Minimized Style Output in the Document, only used Layer Styles are really loaded
• Changed the Aq_Resize name to prevend conflicts with other themes that also use it and modified code in it
• Updated GreenSock Engine to 12.1
• Protected Mode for GreenSock for ThemePunch Plugins added. No more conflict between any other plugins / themes and ThemePunch Tools
• Lag Smoothing Enabled

Version 4.5.6 SkyWood (25th June 2014)

• New developer option to disable all notifications and the activation area. More information at https://www.themepunch.com/home/plugins/set-revolution-slider-as-theme/

• Added missing fonts from Punch Fonts into the CSS Editor Font Family dropdown

• Fullscreen Layout Without Offset Heights got the Wrong Height

Version 4.5.5 SkyWood (24th June 2014)

• Option to disable parallax on mobile added
• Option to add an offset in px or % to FullScreen Slider
• Two new Slide transitions: Parallax Vertical and Parallax Horizontal
• Export Slider into HTML. Option availble first when Feature enabled under Global Settings

• Static Layers now have to be enable in each Slider for usage (can be found in General Settings tab)
• onChange Event delivers the Slide Index and the Slide jQuery Object now
• Global option JavaScript into footer now also adds the revslider calls into the footer

• Lazy Loading bug in combination with Static Layers fixed
• "Hide Slider Under" option did not redraw the Layers after Resize. Bug is fixed
• YouTube Video Bug with Overlay Image on Mobile Devices.
• IE8 and IE9 Slide Link Bug Fixed
• Output Filters Protection fix for "By Compressing Output"

Version 4.5.4 SkyWood (16th June 2014)

• Static Layers added. Can be found under Slide List (new button called "Edit Static Layers")
• Possibility added to insert id, class, attr and i.e. own data attributes to each specific Slide

• Inline CSS compressed/minimized now in output

• Layers sometimes not fading out fixed

Version 4.5.3 SkyWood (13th June 2014)

• IE jQuery bugfix
• Responsive Through All Levels fixed where checkbox would be always checked on each element after reload of Slide Editor

Version 4.5.2 SkyWood (10th June 2014)

• data-parallaxoffset attribute is now available and updated on Scroll. This value can be interesting for Developers to read current Parallax Offsets of the elements with the jQuery selector .tp-parallax-container (Possible usage for Blur, Fade, Rotation effects based on the values)

• Thumbnail is not Showing has been fixed
• Choosen Global Settings now correctly set again
• Shortcode dropdown selector will now insert the right shortcode
• Auto Play only First Time on Videos (YouTube and Vimeo) did not work well.
• Imported layers will be stripped of slashes now

Version 4.5.01 SkyWood (06th June 2014)

• Fixed a bug where new Slider & Template Slider button is missing

Version 4.5.0 SkyWood (05th June 2014)

• Improved Backend Functionality
• Added a timeline based editor for better & easier handling of layer times
• Loop Effect now available. Choose between four loop types for each layer in the Slide Editor under "Layer Animations"
• Parallax Effect now available. Enable it in Slider Settings in the Parallax Tab and set your desired level of each layer in Slide Settings
• Parallax on Mouse Movement Added
• Parallax on Scroll Added with Background fixed or Scrolled Options
• PArallax on Mobile Device Tilt
• qTranslate is now supported in layers
• Added filter hook called 'revslider_get_posts' that can be used to manipulate the WP_Query array
• New Grid/Snap functionality in Slide Editor for better positioning of elements
• Punch Fonts are now included. This should now be used if google fonts need to be loaded through the Slider Revolution plugin
• Option added to not load the Slider on Mobile devices
• 2D rotation options added to layers in Slide Editor
• New navigation types called preview1, preview2, preview3, preview4 and custom
• Custom CSS and JavaScript can now be added directly in each Slider
• Placeholder of Slider at Page load will be auto generated. No more Jump Vertically during Slider is loading
• Added Performance Boost optional, where Outgoing Layers first animated before next slide is played. Helps if many layers added to one Slide
• Reburn of Pan Zoom Effect on FullScreen, FullWidth and Boxed layout with a complete new Engine

• Check if more then one instance of Slider Revolution exists.
• Added support for spaces in putRevSlider("newslider2014","2,10") like putRevSlider("newslider2014","2, homepage")
• Added check if hammer.js is already included
• Added allowfullscreen="true" into YouTube video iFrame output
• Using now Aqua Resizer for thumbnail generation
• Pagination added to the Slide Overview page
• Added Sorting of Slides based on names or Shortcode in Slider Overview page
• Video ID of YouTube and Vimeo can now be changed on editing a layer
• Added notification on post based slider if the template slider does not have any slides created
• Removed the JavaScript inside of the href attribute of buttons from the Slide Editor

• Fixed a bug where Template Sliders would change to normal Sliders
• Fixed a bug where layer positions in slide editor where not correctly calculated if the layer had a padding or margin.
• white-space and max-width/max-height are now correctly shown in Slide Editor
• Fix for importing where \n was translated to n
• Visible Last slide at Loading fixed
• Visible Navigation Elements on Load fixed

Version 4.3.8 SkyWood (27th April 2014)

• BugFix for Shortcode Selector in WordPress 3.9 that happens on toggle between text & visual button
• added px to height css in fullwidth Sliders

Version 4.3.7 SkyWood (17th April 2014)

• Select ShortCodes are now back in Posts on WordPress 3.9
• Ken Burns Double Start after changing the slide

Version 4.3.6 SkyWood (14th April 2014)

• Ken Burns and Pan Zoom Effect Engine Change. Animation based on Img rotations and Zooms, Transitions instead of Background animation. Due this change the Aniamtions become really Smooth and Clean.

• Fixed some compability issues with custom captions

Version 4.3.5 SkyWood (09th April 2014)

CHANGES

• Decreased Loading Time of Styles due loading styles Inline in Header (based on WordPress Best Practices)

BUGFIXES

• Fixed Click and Taps bugs on Elements in Slider viewing Slider in Mobile Devices
• Fixed Positions of Videos after leaving Fullscreen Video Playback
• Fixed Element Transitions by clicking Next/previous Slider before Elements has been shown. Currently Not Visible Elements will not show up suddenly any more.

Version 4.3.4 SkyWood (07th April 2014)

CHANGES

• Changed Backend Style of Style Editor
• Added Swipe Up & Down to scroll below or above the slider on Mobile Devices

BUGFIXES

• Fixed Color Picker in Backend Editor

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Version 4.3.3 SkyWood (27th March 2014)

CHANGES

• Changed the validation process to meet the envato requirements

BUGFIXES

• KenBurn effect "End Position" fix if percentage is choosen

Version 4.3.2 SkyWood (25th March 2014)

NEW FEATURES

• Added Option keyboardNavigation to allow Navigation with left/right arrows

CHANGES

• Removed video-js plugin and added Browser Native HTML5 Video Player

BUGFIXES

• Added stripslashes to the import process to the layers
• Added multisite custom css fix
• Fixed HTML5 Video Loading issues
• Fixed Android Device Swipe Feature

Version 4.3.1 SkyWood (21th March 2014)

CHANGES

• Changed the activation text

BUGFIXES

• Fix for Thumbnail generating on some installations

Version 4.3 SkyWood (18th March 2014)

• Fix if Slider does not load after Touch Option is Disabled
• MultiSite export fix on some installations.

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Version 4.2.7 SkyWood (18th March 2014)

• Added Options like Swipe Velocity, Swipe Min/Max Touches
• Added Drag Block Vertical option to prevent verticall scroll if needed. Default (false)

• BugFix for FireFox Timer Line - Visibilty of Timer was ignored in Firefox and IE
• BugFix for checking for new updates
• BugFix for event manager, dates will now be correctly translated if they are not english

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Version 4.2.6 SkyWood (17th March 2014)

• New Slider Setting option: Hide Mobile Nav After in Mobile Visibility Tab

• Calculation of forceFullScreenAlign Positions. Resized Positions are More exact
• Replacement of rel=0 in youtube video layer disabled
• Added Hide Slider under "window width" for all type of Slider Layouts. Slider is stopped / started depends on the Window size also

• Hide Timer Bug has been fixed
• Small multisite export/import adjustments
• Small general export/import adjustments
• Missing static-captions.css text in console on slider preview removed
• YouTube: Hide Controls do now work
• YouTube/Vimeo allow now to insert direct URL or ID
• YouTube rel=0 fix
• YouTube iOS Fix for Replaying videos on 2nd Call
• StopOnHover set to 1 Bug has been fixed
• Backend Speed improvements on some hosters

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Version 4.2.5 SkyWood (12th March 2014)

• Slide Link zIndex issues and Slide Link Resizing issues fixed
• Individual Slide Timer has been fixed. Broken since version 4.2.4

Version 4.2.4 SkyWood (10th March 2014)

• Updated Russian Translation / Language Pack
• Improved Plugin Processes, Removed Script Intervals and Timers for Better CPU Management (30-50% less CPU Usage)

Version 4.2.3 SkyWood (3th March 2014)

• BugFix in Russian Language causing the error "setting layer_caption not found"

Version 4.2.2 SkyWood (28th February 2014)

• In case HTML5 Video Js Loads later then Meta of Video will not fire the Auto Play Option
• Changed update check. In some situations user will not see that a new update is available.

Version 4.2.1 SkyWood (27th February 2014)

• Fixed YouTube Api, changed youtube api load to permanent Https
• Fixed HTML5 Video Preload. A Waiting process added for Video JS and Stream preloads
• Fixed Vimeo API Preloads
• Fixed "Unclickable" Notice for Auto Updates and Premium Support

Version 4.2 SkyWood (25th February 2014) including Security Fix

• New Activation process added
• New Automatic Updates process added
• Added Char, Word and Line Based Text animation to improve the Visual Experience on the Layer Animations
• Added 5 Different Loader Spinner with Live Preview Selector
• Added a new Shortcode type. Now [rev_slider slider_alias] and also [rev_slider alias="slider_alias"] works.
• Added polish language thanks to Dawid Dudek (www.supportitc.pl)
• Meta Box for RevSlider now available in all Custom Post Types
• Added remove Thumbnail in Slide Editor
• Added white-space, maxwidth and maxheight options

• Improved Loading Speed. Slider loads over 1-2 sec quicker than before.
• Improved Lazy Loading, to load Images and Layer images on demand. Intelligent Preloading of next slide Elements.
• Removed function mysql_insert_id() that will be deprecated in php version 5.5.x
• Auto Thumbnail Function, small copy of Slider Image, or Colorer BG used as Default.

• Fixed Security Issue
• Fixed YouTube Api
• CSS editor bugfix where custom styles were set into other choosen layers
• Added missing argument for WPML, this enables WPML functionality in using the specific post feature
• Small adjustment for css editor that caused problems on some installations
• Check if ssl on external jquery library & css include
• Fixed Overlapping layers if Mixed Align Mode used in Slide
• Fixed Pause/Resume function if Navigation elements has been hovered.
• MultiSite Style Settings - Minor Workaround added till next Major Release

Version 4.1.4 Sky Wood Release Date 20.12.2013

• Feature: ID, Class, Title & Rel attribute for Links on images added
• Feature: Added files so that google does not index internal files
• Change: German language files recreated
• Change: instead of a fatal error, the none existence of ZipArchive will now give a more gently message

Version 4.1.3 Sky Wood Release Date 15.12.2013

• Change: Imported images through slider import create now also the thumbnails
• Bug fix: stripslashes problem in global styles at slider imports fixed
• Bug fix: multisite import of slider now correctly imports images
• Bug fix: selecting thumbnails/video overlays now work on multisites

Version 4.1.2 Sky Wood Release Date 12.12.2013

• Change: Deleting Posts inside a Post Slider will now trash instead of deleting them
• Bug fix: Fixed a z-index issue where the-events-calendar set the jquery-ui-dialog overlay over the Slider Revolution Dialogs
• Bug Fix: Http / Https loading of API’S in the right format depending on the current URL
• Bug Fix: Issue solved with the HTML5 Video Sizing
• Bug Fix: YouTube Api does not work without the origin=https://yourdomain any more !!
  • The slider adds this now automatically on every YouTube video.
  • NOTE: Please note that this only works on live servers and not local installations.
  • For example: autoplay will not work on local machines but on your live servers

Version 4.1.1 Sky Wood Release Date 06.12.2013

• Feature: New API Method: rev redraw for Redrawing the current Slide in case, slider is included some animated container.
• Feature: New tab in Slider Settings: Reset Options.
  • Reset all Transitions of this Slider to a choosen one
  • Reset all Transition Durations of this Slider to a choosen one
  • Feature: New Dropdown on Post/Pages for revslider Shortcodes (found in Visual mode of Editor)
  • Change: New button in Slide Edit mode to go back to Slide List of Slider
  • Bug fix: Remove of Aspect Ratio and Dotted Overlay if Cover was not choosen in HTML5 Videos
  • Bug fix: Fixed a bug on import of Slider where custom arrows might break
  • Bug fix: Fixed a bug for Missing static-captions.css
  • Bug fix: Fixed FF and IE10 Animation issues
  • Bug fix: Fixed Wrong calculated Center positions if Caption has CSS3 Animations associated

  Version 4.1 Sky Wood Release Date 29.11.2013

  • Feature: Ken Burns Effect (align start/end) bg Fit (start/end), Speed and easing
  • Feature: Min Height for Fullscreen Sliders
  • Feature: HTML5 Videos with new functions
  • Feature: Cover the Slide with whole HTML5 Video screen (no black borders)
  • Feature: Dotted Overlay on HTML5 Videos with cover & slide backgrounds
  • Feature: Dotted Overlay on Background Images (global setting)
  • Feature: Mute option on Videos
  • Feature: Force Rewind of Videos on slide change
  • Change: Fallback to old export if zip extension is not installed on server
  • Bug fix: Post meta tag fix for plugin: Types - Complete Solution for Custom Fields and Types
  • Bug fix: IE8 Image Dimension Issues. Fall Back on Simple Image aligned instead of Background Images

  Version 4.0.6 Sky Wood Release Date 14.11.2013

  • Bug fix: Force Fullwidth Offsets
  • Bug fix: Added FF Protection for 3d Animated Elements
  • Bug fix: Update GreenSock Engine with Protection for FF25 Aniamtions
  • Bug fix: IE8 HALO Effect Solved