'Lucky Lemon' serves as a Sweet Refreshment!

Don't let the name fool you...the latest version of Exponent, v2.1.1 is out and is pretty sweet!  'Lucky Lemon' provides a wealth of new features...probably the largest set of visible changes since Exponent 2.x went stable.  And there's plenty of fixes and updates 'under the hood' or 'inside the peel' as it were.  Also, this is probably the last version of Exponent to support deprecated 0.9x/1.0 calls/formats (for those that haven't updated their themes or custom modules yet).  In fact, we're already preparing a fully 2.x major update (no old school), v2.2.0 which leaves 1.0-land in the past.  You can find additional details about the changes found in v2.1.1 here and here.  And there are details about v2.2.0 here and here.  Though 'Lucky Lemon' focuses on the new forms module and user interface improvements, here's a list of the biggest changes in v2.1.1:

- adds many new event calendar features
    - adds event copying feature (create new event from existing event)
    - adds optional attached images to events and event registrations
    - adds optional event popup in a lightbox dialog (like google calendar)
    - adds 'canceled event' feature to display events as canceled
  - updates old school form module to a 2.0 controller
    - now allows greater flexibility in which users may enter or view data
    - forms are now site-wide objects, can view/enter form data from different modules/pages
    - adds view flexibility offered by a 2.0 module for future features
    - updates form control (input) display features and format to be more consistent and modern
  - adds ajax-based navigation in calendar, news items & blog posts to prevent reloading entire page
  - adds 'grouping by date' for uncategorized portfolio & file download items (in addition to 'grouping by alpha' for rolodex feature)
  - adds new views to several modules
    - new 'headline' view to filedownloads module
    - new 'toggle' and 'accordion' views to the text module
    - new 'toggle' view to the portfolio module
    - new 'flyout sidebar' view to navigation module for hard-coding in themes
    - new 'vertical' login view
  - now allows multiple files within a file download item; defaults to 1st attachment, but displays all attachments in show item view
  - adds new 'multi-add' feature to create multiple photo album items in one easy step
  - adds new 'inline' view to edit text module items directly on page via CKEditor v4
  - adds custom module phrase translation libraries feature
  - merges module 'Configure Actions & Views' and 'Configure Settings' into a single view for easy module configuration
  - adds new 'private module' setting to optionally restrict viewing of a specific module by permission
  - adds a mass mailer for super admins to email all users or selected site users
  - adds new site configuration setting to reverse the default logic of when module titles are displayed
  - updates file manager with 'virtual folder' grouping and date features to assist locating files
    - also adds file manager bulk selection (add multiple files to an item all at once) and bulk delete
    - adds new QuickUpload feature to bypass file manager/file uploader for file selection
  - updates file uploader to allow html5 drag/drop support and some other user-friendly features
    - images may be optionally resized to a max width, and files assigned to a virtual folder during upload
  - calendarmodule and simplepollmodule (old school) are now fully deprecated (removed)