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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.
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 2018-04-22a Release “Greebo”
- This release requires PHP 5.6 at least!
- 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.json
to 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
- new Menu system template authors may want to integrate them (see Menu)
- improved features in bin/wantedpage.php CLI
- better cursor handling when inserting multiple images from media popup
- additional options for GeShi syntax highlighting
Hotfix
Release 2017-02-19e “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
input
tobutton
to improve their stylability. - Various improvements and bug fixes
Hotfix
Previous releases are on Old Changes.
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