Released on March 5, 2012.
- Added basic support for OpenLink Virtuoso RDF database. In addition to $smwgDefaultStore = 'SMWSparqlStore', users should set $smwgSparqlDatabase = 'SMWSparqlDatabaseVirtuoso' and use Virtuoso's SPARQL endpoint at ./sparql/ for query and update alike. for further remarks and known limitations, see the file ./includes/sparql/SMW_SparqlDatabaseVirtuoso.php .
- Added ability to sort dates as dates in tables generated by SMW (bug 25768).
- Added "Last editor is" and "Is a new page" special properties (bug 34359).
- When there are only invalid query conditions, query answering is stopped (bug 33177).
- Fixed display of nearby values on Special:SearchByProperty (bug 34178).
- Fixed display of URL values (bug 34312, 34044).
- Fixed warning when browsing certain property pages (bug 34306).
- Fixed failure of SMW_setup –delete when using postgresql (bug 31153).
- Fixed division by 0 error when setting the "Corresponds to" property to 0 (bug 32594).
- Fixed accept header send with SPARQL query requests (bug 32280).
- Fixed unresolved prefixed name in SPARQL queries (bug 33687).
- Fixed issues with modification date property occurring when using SMWSparqlStore (bug 30989).
- Fixed erroneous SPARQL for property value comparison queries (bug 30993).
- Fixed broken +index=x for records (bug 30284).
- Fixed querying of subobjects using 4store as a datastore.
- Fixed issue with namespace internationalization (bug 34383).
Also see the RELEASE-NOTES-1.7.md "SMW 1.7 release notes"
