Hi to confirm this issue.
I have an old 2014 [_postidx.dips.php] in my skin folder and it is being read as I can limit it to pages of two items, but the order_by and order_dir are ignored. It seems to be set to most recent created, whereas my widget is set to recently modified.

Code :

skin_widget( array(
		// CODE for the widget:
		'widget' => 'coll_post_list',
		// Optional display params
		'block_start' => '',
		'block_end' => '',
		'block_display_title' => false,
		'order_by' => 'title',
		'order_dir' => 'ASC',
		'limit' => 2,
		'page' => param( 'coll_post_list_paged', 'integer', 1 ),
	) );

The default sort order of that disp https://b2evolution.net/man/disp-postidx should be by title.

We'll check why it doesn't follow the widget config any more.

@saunders @amoun Hello, sorry for the bug, we fixed this in commit https://github.com/b2evolution/b2evolution/commit/26f9496d1547301ccc09a698888651f584f83107.
Thank you for the report.