Hello everyone, we are happy to announce the availability of the second release candidate for the upcoming Semantic MediaWiki 3.0.0 release: [0]. Note that this is a development version not to be used in production.
At this point we would like to send a big thank all testers for their great work testing and reporting issues. Semantic MediaWiki 3.0.0 will be an epic release bringing a lot of new features and improvements as well as bug fixes, most notably: * ElasticStore as an alternative backend * Rework of the list formats as well as the template format which is now called plainlist * Several user interface changes to make them more intutive and mobile-friendly: ** Special:Ask including input assistance on input fields and comprehensive input help (cheat sheet) ** Special:Browse including grouping of properties ** Property and Concept pages including a tabbed view ** Special:Types including brief datatype descriptions ** Special:SemanticMediaWiki including tabbed view and many additional feature pages * Special:Search integration extended including a new search profile * Extension of the query syntax by: ** query markers (@deferred, @control, @annotation) ** query conditions (+depth, in:, phrase:) ** query printouts (+width=) * Possibility to restrict query execution * Extension of the table format by datatable classes * New create protection feature * New namespace "smw/schema" allowing to define schemas for several purposes * New API modules "smwbrowse" and "smwtask" and further API module improvents * General performance improvements See the preliminary release notes [1] for this and for much more information on the features, enhancements, changes and fixes this release will bring. Note that Semantic MediaWiki 3.0.0 will drop support for PHP 5.5 and lower as well as MediaWiki 1.26 and lower. See also the compatibility notes [2] for detailed information. This release candidate is meant to gather feedback and to allow you to do testing against the new version. You can try out the new features on the Semantic MediaWiki sandbox wiki [3], or upgrade your own test wiki. If you find any issues, please report them on our issue tracker: [4]. Currently the translation status of the system messages provided by Semantic MediaWiki is rather challanging [5]. If you are proficient in a language you may help translating Semantic MediaWiki at translatewiki.net [6] To update Semantic MediaWiki, change the version specified in your "composer.local.json" file to "~3.0@rc" and run "composer update --no-dev". Remember to also update your database afterwards by running "update.php" due to schema changes and new database tables. Also rebuild your data by running "rebuildData.php" after this. Thank you for testing this release candidate. - The SMW development team [0] https://bit.ly/smw300rc2tag [1] https://bit.ly/smw300rc2 [2] https://bit.ly/smw300rc2compat [3] https://bit.ly/sbsmworg [4] https://bit.ly/issuessmworg [5] https://bit.ly/smwts300rc2 [6] https://bit.ly/translatesmw _______________________________________________ Semediawiki-devel mailing list Semediawiki-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semediawiki-devel
