Impressive feature list. Congratulations to all SMW devs and contributors on this achievement!
Cheers, Markus On 15.03.2017 17:08, [[kgh]] wrote: > Hello everyone, > > we are happy to announce the immediate availability of the Semantic > MediaWiki 2.5.0 release: [0,1]. This is a big release bringing a lot of > new features and improvements as well as bug fixes. > > > ## Version highlights > > * Full-text search in property values introduced > > Support for full-text search was added using the native capabilities of > the SQL backends "MySQL"/"MariaDB" (#1481) and "SQLite" (#1801) for the > "Text", "URL" and "Page" datatypes. > > * Provenance data recording introduced > > Qualifying facts using a simple provenance model is now supported > (#1808) using existing mechanisms in defining a property specification > together with a new "Reference" datatype. > > * Property chain and language filter support in result printouts introduced > > Property chains for conditions (e.g [[Located in.Capital of::Foo]]) was > provided for some time, and now got extended (#1824) to supporting the > syntax on print requests to retrieve values of a chain member that > represent a page node. Values of datatype "Monolingual Text" can now use > a language filter (#2037) to restrict the display of a value in a print > request. > > * Edit protection for better semantic gardening introduced > > Edit protection to help avoid changes to properties or other data > sensitive pages from alterations that may cause data invalidations (e.g. > change of a property type, inconsistent specifications etc.) or process > disruptions. This feature integrates with MediaWiki's page protection > functionality. > > * Preferred property label support introduced > > Semantic MediaWiki now supports the declaration of preferred property > labels (#1865) with the objective to show labels in a user context on > special pages, query results, and factboxes instead of the canonical > property label. > > * Query result cache for better performance introduced > > Caching of query results (#1251) was added as experimental feature to > minimize a possible impact of query processing during and after a page > view. This change also includes a reevaluation (#2099, #2176) of the > query hash (used as identifier) to ensure that cache fragmentation is > reduced and duplicate queries can share the same cache across different > pages. > > * Links in values feature now working reliably > > Support for links in values for datatype "Text" was extended by > use-cases and improved in performance as well as avoiding the former > error-prone "PCRE-approach". > > * Fixed properties now a stable feature > > Support for fixed properties was overhauled, fixed (#2135) and is no > longer experimental. > > * Special page "SemanticMediaWiki" formerly "SMWAdmin" overhauled and > extended > > Special page "SemanticMediaWiki" formerly known as special page > "SMWAdmin" was modernized and extended (#2044, etc.) including a new > configuration setting allowing for a more fine-granded control over > feature accessibilty (#2142). > > > See the release notes [0] for these highlights and for much more > information on the features, enhancements, changes as well as fixes this > release additionally brings to you. > > > ## Compatibility changes > > Semantic MediaWiki 2.5.0 dropped support for PHP 5.4 and lower as well > as MediaWiki 1.22 and lower. See also the compatibility notes [2] for > detailed information on supported environments. > > > ## Installing and upgrading > > If you are using Semantic MediaWiki via Composer, update the version in > your "composer.json" or "composer.local.json" file to "~2.5" and run > "composer update". If you are using the tarballs, you can download them > here: [1]. Remember to also update your database afterwards by running > "update.php" due to schema changes and new database tables. If you would > like to install Semantic MediaWiki you can follow the installation > instructions: [3]. > > > ## Contributors > > At this point we would like to thank all people involved making this > release possible: > > James Hong Kong, Karsten Hoffmeyer, Jeroen De Dauw, Niklas Laxström, > translatewiki.net translators, Maciej Brencz, Felipe de Jong, Siebrand > Mazeland, Alex Winkler, Stephan Gambke, Toni Hermoso Pulido, Amir E. > Aharoni, Felipe Schenone, Jaider Andrade Ferreira, James Forrester, > Justin Du, Sébastien Beyou, Virginia Cepeda. > > We also encourage your continued contributions: [4]. > > > Thank you to all of you for using Semantic MediaWiki. We wish you a > pleasant time and a lot of success doing so. > > - The SMW development team > > > [0] https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki_2.5.0 > [1] > https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/releases/tag/2.5.0 > [2] > https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/blob/master/docs/COMPATIBILITY.md > [3] > https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/blob/master/docs/INSTALL.md > [4] > https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > Semediawiki-user mailing list > semediawiki-u...@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semediawiki-user > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Semediawiki-devel mailing list Semediawiki-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semediawiki-devel
