Released January 3rd, 2014.
Platform compatibility changes
- Changed minimum PHP version from 5.2. to 5.3.2.
- Changed minimum MediaWiki version from 1.17 to 1.19.
- Full compatibility with MediaWiki 1.19, 1.20, 1.21, 1.22 and forward-compatibility with 1.23.
- Changed minimum Validator version from 0.5 to 1.0.
- Added beta support for PostgreSQL.
New features
- SMW (and its dependencies) can now be installed via Composer
- Added maintenance script rebuildPropertyStatistics.php to rebuild the property statistics
- (271864f) The property type String is now an alias for Text and has no more length restrictions
- (38499a8) Special:Statistics now shows a "semantic statistics" version (only when using a recent version of MediaWiki)
- (ed52df7) (Bug 50844) Special:Properties now provides a form to search user-defined properties
- (a949f04) (Bug 33181) Add page Special:Concepts that lists available concepts
- (0c971f8) (Bug 46458) Extend smwinfo API module to provide additional information
- (b8aea6c) (Bug 48840) Add a smw-admin right to enable restricted access to Special:SMWAdmin
- (9714d04) (a33411f) Add new "browsebysubject" API module to fetch semantic data for a given subject
Enhancements
- (Bug 36309) and (Bug 39019) Add +sep= as multiple value separator for #set and #subobject parser function
- (6dd845e) (Bug 34477) Add cache information to concept pages
- (Bug 34172) Add individual CSS class injection for further result links
- (I2e509e) Improved efficiency of property statistics rebuilding script
- (8bcee83) (Bug 44696) Fix XML output for AskApi
- (bb35e8a) (Bug 47123) Aggregate numbers based on the label/group
- (5cda766) (Bug 46930) SMWSQLStore3Writers::changeTitle only create redirects when appropriate conditions are met
- (e4a5fb8) (Bug 31880) Formatting numbers in tables based based on a customizable typeId
- (e4a2035) Modify SMW to use a subobject as datamodel to represent individual events within a page
- (7d1e2ad) (Bug 34782) Add note parameter to #info parser function
New configuration parameters
Bug fixes
- The property statistics rebuilding is no longer done whenever you run update.php.
- (Bug 42321) Fixed issue frequently causing notices in SQLStore3
- (5fdbb83) Fix offset display in Special:Ask
- (9113ad1) (Bug 47010) SMWInfoLink
- (af0cbe0) Fix escaping issue on Special:Ask
- (ba74804) Fix construction of SMWExpLiteral
- (d16a103) (Bug 45053) Fix quantity display support in SMW
- (9b2b5c7) (Bug 44518) Do not display <li> elements for |format=list
- (Bug 43932) Fix html tag support for non-list results in SMW
- (Bug 44275) Fix .data( 'sortkey' ) support in SMW
- (fcb7da9) (Bug 42324) fix SQlite support in sqlstore3
- (3507f84) (Bug 21893) Fixed queries that use the like comparator for properties with a restricted set of values
Compatibility changes
- Deleted pre SMW 1.5.1 entry point (includes/SMW_Settings.php), the main entry point is SemanticMediaWiki.php
- (I17a3e0) Support for quantity export via API and JSON format
- (50c5109) Removed old storage implementation SMWSQLStore2, superseded by SMWSQLStore3 in SMW 1.8
- (I5db911) #set_recurring_event using subobjects (changes query behavior for recurring events; for more see the help page on recurring events
Deprecated classes
If not noted otherwise, deprecated methods or classes will be removed in SMW 1.11.
- (b4664be) smwfIsSemanticsProcessed was replaced by SMW
- (3ba701f) smwfEncodeMessages was replaced by SMW, SMW
- SMWParseData was replaced by a non-static SMW class
- SMWListResultPrinter, SMWResultPrinter, SMWSubobject, SMWSet
- SMWFeedResultPrinter, SMWDISerializer
- SMWDIString, SMWStringLengthException, SMWSetRecurringEvent
Added or changed classes
- (eb764db) Add SMW for handling individual "standard" properties
- (f33fd12) Add SMW and
- (40e7572) Renamed SMWDISerializer to
- (a0b08fe) Add SMW in order for SemanticData to be serializable
- (02635a1) Replace SkinTemplateToolboxEnd hook with SMW
- (ec5dd46) Add SMW and SMW as simple framework that allows for individual object factoring and dependency injection
- (92b67bd) Add SMW for the table query printer
- (5a33d2d) Add SMW to separate MediaWiki specific cache injection
- (395b584) Add ResourceLoaderGetConfigVars to populate SMW related configuration details for JavaScript
- (7c60e50) Add SMW to support query printers to use Ajax/WebApi interface for query result updates
- (cb6c6ad) SMW class turn RequestContext aware
The following classes and interfaces were re-factored and/or added in order to promote testability:
- (e0f3f4d) Rename and re-factor
- (I3b41d4) Rename and re-factor
- (6d5a3c5) Add SMW to enable dependency injection
- (058c2fc) Add SMW to separate extension registration and initialization
- (87b214f) Add SMW class to remove GLOBAL state and enable injection of individual configuration details during runtime
- (5a82da8) Re-factor SMW and add SMW to minimize content parsing
- (24cca37) Add SMW to easily manage MW and SMW mock objects
- (71dbba1) Add SMW to enable Observes to act as an observable subject itself
- (dc28899) (18d17a5) Add SMW, SMW, and SMW to separate responsibilities during the update
- (6c06567) Add SMW to separate build definition
- (2164a25) Add interface to support cacheable results when executing Special:Statistics or Special:Properties
- (c8a2f97) (Bug 51091) Rename and re-factor SMW and SMW
Removed features
- (6f7625f) Remove Special:QueryCreator
- (5a3f6ed) (Bug 50755) Remove MigrationJob/SMWMigrate
- (f9cff2b) Remove smwfLoadExtensionMessages
- (a957596) SMW remove obsolete serialization
Platform stability
- Over 130 PHPUnit tests have been added
- Over 10 QUnit tests have been added
- The tests now run on TravisCI
- Compatibility is now ensured against all supported MediaWiki and PHP versions
- Compatibility is now ensured for all supported databases
Documentation
The documentation bundled with the SMW source code has been updated. It can be found in the docs folder.
Extended translations
As usual, translations have been extended thanks to the Translatewiki.net project. In addition, the core strings (SMW properties and datatypes) for Slovak have been updated.
