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Changelog
This page contains a summary of changes between the official DokuWiki releases. Only the biggest changes are listed here. A complete and detailed log of all changes is available through the GitHub Repository Browser. (This log on Github is only authoritative for major releases. Hotfixes often contain only one or few security fixes.)
Changelogs for releases older than the ones listed here are available at Old Changes.
Plugin and template developers should read and subscribe to the detailed change log.
There is some information regarding the upgrade-process.
Changes marked with 
need some attention on upgrading!
Release 2023-04-04a “Jack Jackrum”
- A lot of fixes for warnings in PHP8+
- A new feature flag hidewarnings will suppress the output of warnings, if PHP is configured to show warnings to the end user
- The options to embed HTML and PHP have been completely removed for security reasons
- Fixes
- quicksearch with UTF-8 chars
- basic auth header parsing
- old revisions for pages with dots
- feed titles
- handling of unknown config options
- relaxed media CSP headers for PDF and SVG handling
- relaxed browseruid check for better browser compatibility
- compatibility updates for mail sending
- Unit Tests use php-dom-wrapper instead of phpquery now
- Improved error logging
- Dependency Updates
Hotfix
- Hotfix 2023-04-04a
- fix an XSS security vulnerability in RSS handling 3967
Release 2022-07-31b “Igor”
- Fix various errors in PHP8 support
- Drop support for PHP versions earlier than 7.2
- SVG-based smileys replace GIF versions
- Allow “revert” action for logged in users only
- Various translation updates
- Use Slika library for image resizing and cropping, with:
- auto rotation based on EXIF tags
- support for WEBP
- Refactored media manager 3372 and lazy loading of images
- Support for SVG images
- New form events used. Plugins should implement them, because the old form events are not triggered anymore
- Some smaller security fixes
- On farm setups a log dir needs to be created manually in animals
Hotfix
Release 2020-07-29a “Hogfather”
- Lots of internal refactoring to make the code base more modern and robust. You can read a bit more on the background here.
- Defer the loading of JavaScript to improve initial page loads (Some plugins needs to temporary disable the defer_js feature flag)
- PHP 7.4 compatibility and some preparations for the upcoming PHP8
- New trustedproxy setting for installations behind a reverse proxy
- New command line script for managing extensions
- RSS Feed can now show new items only
- A whole ton of smaller bug fixes and improvements
- Lots of translation upgrades
Note: because of various internal changes, not all plugins or templates may be compatible with this release. It is recommended to check the documentation of the plugins you use before upgrading. As always a backup is recommended before upgrading.
Please also read:
And please also ;
- Search the Forum when you encounter problems, chances are high that there are already solutions available
- If you have no clue where the issue originates, check the log files of your webserver.
Hotfix
- Hotfix 2020-07-29a
- fix an XSS security vulnerability 3761
Release 2018-04-22c “Greebo”
- This release requires PHP 5.6 at least! (Red Hat Enterprise Linux does not support beyond PHP 5.5)
- PHP 7.2 Support and improvements for PHP 7.3 support
- New form on search page with more search tools Plugins which modified that page may need adjustments, e.g. tagging Plugin
- ability to filter and sort results by time! 🎉
- Sending now a
manifest.jsonto let the user add DokuWiki to the homescreen - Re-factored section edit. Plugins which insert own section edit buttons need adjustments, e.g. wrap Plugin
- updated LESS compiler Template authors may experience some incompatibilities
- new Action Dispatcher Plugin authors handling ACTION_ACT_PREPROCESS may encounter slight differences
- improved features in bin/wantedpage.php CLI
- better cursor handling when inserting multiple images from media popup
- additional options for GeShi syntax highlighting
Hotfix
- Hotfix 2018-04-22a
- Hotfix 2018-04-22b
- Hotfix 2018-04-22c
- fix an XSS Vulnerability 3044
Release 2017-02-19g “Frusterick Manners”
- new Admin screen with plugins being able to add their own icons 3rd party templates need adjustments
- jQuery 3 (IE Support for versions <9 dropped)
- some plugins may need an update.
- Gallery: Make sure to update the gallery plugin before you upgrade DokuWiki. Versions before 2016-12-22 render all pages in Frusterick Manners virtually unusable. This includes the login and the admin forms. (Rescue manoeuvre if you happened to fall into the trap: Use regular file tools to move the folder '$DOKUWIKIROOT/lib/plugins/gallery' out of the way.)
- ODT: Versions before 2016-09-10 do not supply the file 'inc/ZipLib.class.php' which is required in Frusterick Manners.
- better cache management and CDN support for jQuery
- PHP 7.1 support and PHP 7.0 bugfixes
- improvements to the internal Form mechanism
- File usage list in media manager
- Various improvements, language updates and bug fixes
- XMLRPC is only available for PHP 5.4 and higher due to usage of certain PHP syntax
Hotfix
Release 2016-06-26e “Elenor of Tsort”
- Access check is performed before pages are shown in sidebars of recent templates. (e.g. dokuwiki, starter, writr)
- PHP 7 compatibility fixes
- Internet Explorers 8 (and older) are no longer supported, workarounds have been removed
- Improvements to the new form class, auto loading of plugin classes and other improvements for plugin developers
- Show size changes in recent changes
- Better RTL (Arabic, Hebrew) support in Mediamanager
- Support for PHP's builtin web server
- Various improvements, language updates and bug fixes
- Old authentication configurations are not loaded anymore. Requires for some a manual update of configuration settings. (You need to change e.g.
$conf['auth']['ldap']→$conf['plugin']['authldap']and$conf['authtype'] = 'ldap' →$conf['authtype'] = 'authldap'.) 1535
Hotfix
Release 2015-08-10a “Detritus”
- This release now requires PHP 5.3.3 at least
- New Style Manager to adjust template variables like colors
- Experimental new Form class usable for plugin developers
- Use Composer to add third party libraries
- Various deprecated code has been removed
- The Extension Manager can now remove old files when updating extensions
- Allow unsetting default acronyms, schemes, entities, etc. in local config
- PHP 7 compatibility fixes
- Page titles now reflect the current action better
- Changed all submit buttons from
inputtobuttonto improve their stylability. - Various improvements and bug fixes
Hotfix
Previous releases are on Old Changes.
changes.txt · Last modified: 2023-05-17 06:27 by schplurtz