This file contains the RELEASE-NOTES of the Semantic Extra Special Properties (a.k.a. SESP) extension.

2.1.0

Released on Feburary 9, 2020.

Minimum requirement for
- PHP changed to version 7.0 and later
- MediaWiki changed to version 1.31 and later
- Semantic MediaWiki changes to version 3.1 and later
#114 Added guard against invalid time strins within annotated data (by James Hong Kong)
#116 Added support for the property group schemas ("sesp.group.json") (by James Hong Kong)
#132 Replaced deprecated DB_SLAVE constant by DB_REPLICA (by Ammar Abdulhamid)
#138 Added missing system messages providing special property descriptions (by Karsten Hoffmeyer)
Several internal code changes and bug fixes (by James Hong Kong)
Improved documenation of the extension's functionality (by Bernhard Krabina and Karsten Hoffmeyer)
Localization updates from https://translatewiki.net

2.0.0

Released on October 12, 2018.

This release now requires MediaWiki 1.27+ and Semantic MediaWiki 3.0+ (#100).

Note that the configuration parameter names were renamed (#105). See the /docs/migration-to-200.md "migration guide" for a concise overview of the changes. Moreover special page "SemanticMediaWiki (Special:SemanticMediaWiki) will inform about required configuration changes.

Complete refactoring of the extension to allow for better extensibility and testability (by James Hong Kong)
#16 Extended the Exif attributes (by James Hong Kong)
#48 Fixed the registration of property tables (by James Hong Kong)
#81 Made special property labels use user language (by James Hong Kong)
#82 Added check null on edit count, refs #77 (by James Hong Kong)
#83 Added more integration tests (by James Hong Kong)
#84 Added DispatchingPropertyAnnotator (by James Hong Kong)
#85 Added LabelFetcher with cache layer for improved performance (by James Hong Kong)
#86 Converted to PHP 5.4+ short array syntax (by Karsten Hoffmeyer)
#89 Changed ambiguous exif labels (by James Hong Kong)
#91 Removed backwards compatible I18n shim (by Karsten Hoffmeyer)
#95 Added _APPROVED for approvement state collection on pages, requires the Approved Revs extension (by Mark. A. Hershberger)
#98 Added _APPROVEDBY for approving user collection on pages, _APPROVEDDATE for approved date collection on pages and _APPROVEDSTATUS for approvement status collection on pages, requires the Approved Revs extension (by Mark. A. Hershberger)
#100 Added _USERBLOCK for user block status collection on user pages, _USERRIGHT for user rights collection on user pages and _USERGROUP for user groups collection on user pages (by James Hong Kong)
#105 Renamed und harmonized configruation prarameter names (by James Hong Kong)
Localization updates from https://translatewiki.net

1.5.0

Released on June 7, 2017.

#74 Added _PAGELGTH for page length (size in bytes) collection on pages (by James Hong Kong)
Localization updates from https://translatewiki.net

1.4.0

Released on January 22, 2017.

This release now requires MediaWiki 1.25+ and Semantic MediaWiki 2.3+ (#61).

#47 Fixed support for the _VIEWS special property for MediaWiki 1.25+ which now requires the HitCounters extension (by Cindy Cicalese)
#54 Fixed Invalid or virtual namespace -1 exception (by James Hong Kong)
#55 Fixed NS_MEDIA being detected instead of NS_FILE (by James Hong Kong)
#57 Fixed issue with Composer when run locally (by Cindy Cicalese)
#58 Adjusted lang.dep aliases
#59 Fixed 0 annotation values (by James Hong Kong)
#60 Fixed isse when stat failed for filemtime(): (by James Hong Kong)
#67 Fixed unserialize error in ExifDataAnnotator (by James Hong Kong)
Several internal code changes (by James Hong Kong and Jeroen De Dauw)
Localization updates from https://translatewiki.net

1.3.1

Released on July 18, 2015.

#50 Fixed error with _USEREDITCNT on subpages in namespace "user"

1.3.0

Released on May 9, 2015.

#43 Added _USEREDITCNT for user edit count collection on user pages

1.2.2

Released on December 31, 2014.

#42 Fixed fatal during importDump for when a file doesn't exist

1.2.1

Released on July 21, 2014.

Added compatibility with Semantic MediaWiki 2.x

1.2.0

Released on April 23, 2014.

#25 Added MessageCache to improve registration and lookup performance
#33 Added DefinitionReader to separate responsibilities

1.1.0

Released on April 9, 2014.

#31 Fixed error when a User page is created with a subpage
#32 Migrate to JSON i18n

1.0.0

Released on February 23, 2014.

Version 1.0 is a complete rewrite of the existing implementation to allow sufficient test integration which made it necessary to split the original file into different classes (force encapsulation), eliminate GLOBALS (where necessary inject configuration via the constructor), and enable service injection (increase inversion of control).

Exif and ShorUrl handling has been moved into separate classes, property registration has been uncoupled from the functional implementation. Property definitions no longer reside within PHP and have been moved into json file for easier access and configurability.

Due to those internal changes and the introduced test integration, 1.0 requires Semantic MediaWiki 1.9. It is strongly recommended to run update.php together with a SMW_refreshData.php.

For details about the rewrite, its discussion, and changes see #10.

Added support for installation via Composer
Added Travis-CI integration
Fixed PHP strict notices
#10 Fixed incorrect _REVID assignment
#10 Added _PAGEID for page ID collection
#10 Fixed incorrect _NTREV assignment
#10 Added '_EXIFDATA' collection (see definitions) which are stored as subobject
#10 Fixed "wfMsgGetKey" usage
#10 Fixed initialization value "is not a number" issue
#10 Added sespUseAsFixedTables setting
#10 Added unit and integrations tests
#13 Added I18n updates
#20 Added possibility to alter property visibility via the definitions file
#21 Extended Exif property definitions

0.2.7

Released on October 22, 2012.

Requires MediaWiki 1.20
Use WikiPage instead of Article

0.2.6

Released on October 5, 2012.

Fixed bug sometimes causing a crash on pagesave on MW 1.20+
Added _USERREG special property

0.2.5

Released on August 1, 2012.

Bugfixes
Error message fixes by Nischayn22

0.2.4

Released on July 28, 2012.

Requires MediaWiki 1.19
Added some image meta data (exif) properties
Bug fix by Van de Bugger

0.2.3

Released on May 10, 2012.

Added _SHORTURL special property
Translation updates, German
Fix for bug with first author for certain special pages, by Van de Bugger

0.2.2

Released on February 9, 2012.

$smwgPageSpecialProperties replaced by $sespSpecialProperties
Added _MIMETYPE (mime type, mediatype) special property

0.2.1

Released on January 8, 2012.

German translation by Kghbln
Better method to fetch list of _EUSER (getContributors and getUser, instead of getLastNAuthors. Anonymous users will never be listed)

0.2.0

Released on January 4, 2012.

Only tested with SMW 1.7 and MW 1.18.
Changed name for _EUSER and _CUSER props in both English and Swedish, article ###> page for clarity.
Using $smwgPageSpecialProperties2 to chose which properties to set, the same way as $smwgPageSpecialProperties is used for built in special properties
Ignoring _VIEWS if statistics are disables in "LocalSettings.php"
Added _SUBP, _NREV and _NTREV special properties

0.1 (2011-11-25)

Released on November 25, 2011.

Initial release