Terminalfour: 8.4.1

General

We’re delighted to announce the latest release of Terminalfour, which introduces powerful new content management features and usability improvements designed to enhance the experience for both admins and content editors.

Improved Content Editing Experience

Repeaters

RDSM-34797

A long-requested feature is here. With Repeaters, administrators can now embed one content type inside another, enabling repeatable content structures. This enables intuitive "Add another" functionality for content editors, making it ideal for:

• Carousels and sliders

• Accordions and tabbed content

• Card rows and feature blocks

• FAQs and any other repeatable elements

Administrators (and Power Users with the appropriate permissions) have the ability to configure not just which content type can be repeated, but also the minimum and maximum number of repeats allowed.

You can learn more about how to work with Repeaters in our dedicated documentation.

Conditional Elements Improvements

The feedback on Conditional Elements (Introduced in 8.4.0) has been fantastic. We really appreciate you reaching out to let us know how you're using it and where we can make improvements. Based on your feedback we've made the following enhancements in this release.

RDSM-38610 - Element labels are now displayed in bold in all browsers and operating systems. This makes it clearer for users to find the element they're looking for at a glance.

RDSM-38629 - When elements are hidden or displayed via conditional statements, they'll now do so with a subtle slide in/out transition. This makes it clear to content editors what has just been shown or hidden.

RDSM-38679, RDSM-38567 - We've significantly improved the performance of creating conditional statements. If you were noticing any slowdowns while creating conditional statements that should no longer be happening in this release.

Handlebars

Handlebars is continuing to improve each release thanks to your feedback. This release introduces the ability to use Direct Edit Inline with Handlebars Layouts, the ability to use CDN/PXL filters with Media output in Handlebars layouts, and many more improvements.

See the Handlebars documentation for full details.

RDSM-37412 - You can now add the inline-edit="true" to your publish Helper in order to make them editable in Direct Edit inline.

RDSM-33706 - It's now possible to add PXL filters to your media Helpers. We've also introduced some new Block level helpers to make working with CDN/PXL even easier.

RDSM-38661 - The fulltextURL Helper allows you to output a the URL to a fulltext page easily (without the full link)

RDSM-38465 - When you create a Navigation Object you'll now get the option to copy the Handlebars Expression to your clipboard

RDSM-38466 - When you create a Form you'll now get the option to copy the Handlebars Expression to your clipboard

RDSM-39004 - Fixed a bug that meant the canonicalURL Helper wouldn't work as expected in Microsites

RDSM-38156, RDSM-38264, RDSM-38265 - Fixed some bugs with Content Links in Handlebars layouts

General User Experience Improvements

RDSM-34331 

Administrator Users now have the ability to Bulk Approve Pending Content directly from the section view. You no longer need to improve content one by one or jump to the "dedicated "Approve content" screen.

RDSM-38760

When assigning Users and Groups to a section we now make each Group a link, so you can quickly open the Group in a new window and check what users are in that group.

We also took the time to fix up some confusing inconsistencies without User Types were displayed in this screen (RDSM-38538).

RDSM-34729

If you've ever paused a schedule task and then re-enabled it again you've probably found it a little frustrating that there was no way to set a scheduled date. Now you can.

RDSM-34675

Previously you could set define a character that should be used to replace spaces and special characters when publishing pages. This was a global setting, which means the same character had to be used for every Channel. In this release we've made it possible to set it for a channel.

Other Improvements

This release also includes lots of small bug fixes, accessibility improvements, security improvements, and more. Take a look at the table below for the full list of improvements.

Updates to supported systems

8.4.1 introduces a few changes to supported systems.

MySQL 8.4 is now officially supported.

Support for MS SQL and Oracle Databases will end in late 2026. You can read more about what's involved on our deprecation page.