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Refreshes the news page's layout. It's the same on phpBB 3.3 and 4.0, using the extension's own template and stylesheet and nothing 4.0-only.

News items

• Each news item is a card: the title, a byline (author, date and the forum it's in, linked), the text, and one footer line.
• The footer replaces the old "Read full news", "Link to topic" and "Comments" lines and the separate arrow:
  • "Read more", only when the text was actually shortened;
  • the comment count in words ("No comments yet", "1 comment", "4 comments");
  • "View topic";
  • the back-to-top arrow.
• With "Show user information" on, the avatar sits in the byline, and the rank, post count and profile fields go in a line under it, instead of the side column. The join date and the contact menu are no longer shown there.
• With "Show post-related buttons" on, the buttons sit next to the title.

Filters

• The forum and month filters are plain dropdown buttons ("All forums", "All months") that show the chosen value. The lists show a count per entry and, per forum, a "New" link for posting.
• When a filter is active, a "Showing" line under the bar lists it as a chip that removes it, plus "Clear filters" when both are set.

Lead image (new setting, off by default)

• A new migration adds news_lead_image, with an ACP checkbox: "Show the first image above the news".
• When it's on, the news list shows each post's first image above the text, and takes it out of the text, along with line breaks that followed it. The image can be a BBCode image or an image attachment, inline or in the attachment box.
• The search is in the new lead_image.php, with its own tests (smilies, linked images, attachment blocks, entities). A single news item still shows the whole post.

Single news item

• The page heading is the news title; the card no longer repeats it, and the filters are hidden.
• An "All news" link above the heading goes back to the list. The footer adds "Reply" for readers allowed to reply in that topic.

Removed

• The template-event file that drew the old notice block, and the stylesheet that hid the profile column.
• Unused CSS, and the old news icon image.

New and changed language strings are in English and German. README's feature list and the screenshot gallery are updated; the screenshots come from phpbbmodders/phpbb-release-tools#34.

Testing

Claude ran:

• The unit tests on phpBB 3.3.x and master: 165 pass on both, 7 of them new for the lead image.
• phpBB 3.3's and 4.0's code sniffers, EPV for both through the strict filter, and template_a11y.py: no findings.
• On seed-forum boards with phpBB 3.3.19 and 4.0.0-a3-dev:
  • the news page with every setting on and off;
  • shortened news, with "Read more" only on the cut item;
  • each filter alone and both together, with the chip and "Clear filters" links;
  • the lead image from a BBCode image, an attachment-box image (3.3) and an inline attachment (4.0);
  • the single news page as a guest (no "Reply") and as the admin;
  • the ACP checkbox saving on and off;
  • disable, delete data and enable with the new migration (3.3).
• Full-page and phone-width screenshots of each case on both boards.

Not covered: the new layout with styles other than prosilver.

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Investigated and written by Claude on behalf of William Jacoby (bonelifer).

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