Releases

Releases

This page contains details about DokuWiki core changes that affect developers (plugins, templates and others) in order to separate them from the more commercial user release notes that should encourage usage of DokuWiki and upgrading to the latest release.

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Release goals

2012 April

New default template?
No coding style warnings?
No FIXMEs and TODOs in Source code?
No failing tests?
Frontend & JavaScript tests?

2011 October

Completely switch to jQuery: No DEPRECATED calls in core and core plugins

Developers’ Changelog

Develonly (release 2012 April)

Date	Change	Submit	Affects

Release 2011-11-10 “Angua”

Date	Change	Submit	Affects
2011-05-26	Media revisions	GitHub, see also GSOC sponsored work	All media files are now versionned and data/media_attic contains old revisions. This feature can be disabled in the config
2011-06-09	New ajaxified media manager	GitHub and lots of commits following that one	Media manager has changed to handle media files revisions
2011-05-29	jQuery branch merged into the main repository. The core code has been rewritten since, most plugins should still be compatible (please test), the old JavaScript API will be removed in the October 2012 release.	GitHub and many more commits	Plugins that use JavaScript
2011-08-19	Meta files from plugins aren't deleted automatically anymore when the page is deleted, plugins can use the IO_WIKIPAGE_WRITE-event if they want to delete their meta files	GitHub	Plugins that use custom meta files
2011-09-10	Config_cascade support for enabling/disabling plugins	GitHub	Farm setup
2011-09-25	Namespaces ending in underscores are no longer possible.	GitHub	Users with namespaces ending in underscores
2011-10-10	Page summary limited to 255 chars	GitHub	Changelog of any page edition is now limited to 255 chars
2011-10-15	Flash uploader removed	GitHub	The flash multi-file uploader has been superseeded by the multi-uploader of the new media manager
2011-10-15	Several XML-RPC fixes	GitHub and several other commits	XML-RPC access, encoding…

Release 2011-05-25 “Rincewind”

Date	Change	Submit	Affects
2010-11-22	Metadata has got a caching mechanism, it can be influenced using the PARSER_CACHE_USE-event. `p_get_metadata` does now trigger rendering metadata	GitHub	Plugins
2011-02-04	Replace COMMON_PAGE_FROMTEMPLATE with COMMON_PAGETPL_LOAD event	GitHub	Plugins
2011-02-06	MEDIA_UPLOAD_FINISH got a sixth parameter	GitHub	Plugins
2011-02-06	`p_set_metadata` can now be used in `render`-functions (e.g. of plugins)	GitHub	Plugins (just new feature)
2011-02-20	`$lang['register']` has been renamed to `$lang['btn_register']`	GitHub	Plugins and Templates which use `$lang['register']`
2011-02-26	renamed 'default' userstyle to 'screen' in config_cascade (so 'default' is still supported, but deprecated)	GitHub	Farmers
2011-02-26	renamed userstyles for 'all', 'print', 'rtl' and 'feed' modes (back to what it was before Anteater)	GitHub	Userstyles other than 'userstyle.css'
2011-03-06	The INDEXER_PAGE_ADD-event has been changed (different and additional parameters)	GitHub	all plugins using the event
2011-03-08	The indexer changes have been merged (there have been more changes after this). There is a new indexer class and a metadata index that can be used as key-/value-store. See metadata index for the new events and usage instructions.	GitHub	Plugins
2011-03-19	The password is no longer stored (encrypted) in the session, it's just the hash now. You can get it out of the login cookie, but the encryption has been changed there.	GitHub session, GitHub cookie	authentication backends (if they need the password after the login)
2011-05-08	More caching logic for metadata, new `$render` parameter values for `p_get_first_heading` and `p_get_metadata`	GitHub, GitHub	Plugins (and templates) that use `p_get_first_heading` or `p_get_metadata`
2011-01-31	Different diff styles	GitHub	Needs styling

Release 2010-11-07a “Anteater”

Date	Change	Submit	Affects
	http://www.freelists.org/post/dokuwiki/Changes-in-Anteater-for-plugin-authors		Plugins
	Subscription management added, needs styling		Templates
	Mediamanager options added, need styling		Templates
2010-09-09	DokuWiki version added to admin view, needs styling	GitHub	Templates

Release 2009-12-25c “Lemming”

Date	Change	Submit	Affects
2009-08-12	Linkwizard added, needs styling	GitHub	Templates

Deprecation

Removing legacy interfaces, behaviours and features is done over a period of three releases: In the first release, the object is deprecated, in the third, removed. This means that a plugin or template which only uses non-deprecated aspects should at least work in two future versions as well. Put the other way: A template or plugin older than a year is possibly broken.

Where does the plugin_* functions in inc/plugin.php fit in, they are marked deprecated. Only plugin_locale_xhtml() and plugin_render() are actually used by plugins I know of. — HåkanSHåkanS

Stockholm, Sweden 2011/02/21 16:04

2012 April

Deprecated	Reason	Significant Impacts	References to Bugtracker/Commits
`tpl_getFavicon()`	wrong name	templates using it should use new `tpl_getMediaFile()` instead	GitHub
`DOKU_TPL` and `DOKU_TPLINC` constants	make problems with dynamic template switching	templates and plugins should use tpl_incdir() and tpl_basedir() instead	Github

Removed (deprecated in 2011 April):

2011 October

Deprecated	Reason	Significant Impacts	References to Bugtracker/Commits
Double-decoding in XMLRPC putAttachment	Bug		80d6fbc3
Vast amounts of the old JavaScript library	Replaced by new jQuery-based library	Plugin and template JavaScript may stop working	Everything in compatibility.js