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BlueSpice 2.23.3 Copyright 2016 by Hallo Welt! GmbH
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BlueSpice 2.27.0[edit | edit source]
BlueSpice 2.27.0 is a minor and maintenance version. Consult the Release Notes for the full list of changes. The 2.23.3 beta release was published on Tuesday, 10th May 2016. Download the release from Sourceforge. This is a stable release.
Notable new features[edit | edit source]
BlueSpice API: There is now a standardized API for many BlueSpice actions.
Compatibility: BlueSpice can now be used with MediaWiki 1.27.
ContextMenu: The extension is now enabled by default.
Dashboards: There is a wiki page portlet, which allows you to use any wiki page as a dashboard item.
ExtendedSearch: Introduces facet operators, which indicated whether multiple selections in a facet should be combined using AND or OR logic.
ExtendedSearch: It is possible to open articles in the autocomplete list in new windows or tabs.
Flexiskin: It is now possible to disable the background image.
GroupManager: Raised group name character limit to 255 (was 16).
InsertMagic: Tag descriptions are now much more descriptive.
PermissionManager: Add hint flyout for every right.
Upload: XML and SVG files can now be uploaded by default.
UserMerge: Added extension to Distribution. Merge two users into one.
UserSidebar: There is now a "global actions" navigation tab for every user.
VisualEditor: Set default style for table to contenttable. This makes much nicer tables.
See also[edit | edit source]
- Release Notes
- Installation Manual with Installer
- Installation Manual without Installer
- Update Manual
New features[edit | edit source]
- Page Assignments: Assign people and groups of people to pages, e.g. as responsible editors. Supersedes ResponsibleEditors.
- Farm: Add metadata (like descriptions and tags), disable old wikis, organize your wikis in groups
- Farm: Add central search across all farmed wikis
- Testsystem mode: visually indicate when a wiki is a testing system
- Disable users: Instead of user deletion, you can now disable the users while keeping their full record.
- User-group self-service: Certain user groups can now assign users to groups without having to be sysops.
- Managers: separate rights per manager. Certain user groups can now access a selection of administrative tools without having to be sysops.
- UX improvements: Confirmation dialogues are more unobtrusive now.
- Bookmaker: add pages directly to a book from the more menu
- FlexiSkin: manage uploaded images
- Removed/deprecated WantedArticles, FeedbackHelper, WikiCategoryTagCloud, GuidedEditing and WidgetBar
- Track usage statistics: know how often a certain feature is used in your wiki
- Namespace-specific notifications: get notified about actions in the wiki on a namespace basis
- Semantic properties: Use data from BlueSpice as semantic properties
- Reminder: several reminders per user and article, also assign to others
- ProDistribution: Added Extension:Manual:Extension/DrawioEditorEditor and Extension:NativeSVGHandler
- Distribution: Added BlueSpiceTagCloud
- CategoryManager: A new manager to organize categories via user interface
- Showtime: A HTML video player
Newly packaged extensions[edit | edit source]
- HitCounter: Restores the hit count functionality missing in MW core since MW 1.25
- EditNotify: Basis for page action notifications
- Added connectors for Echo, LdapAuthentication, EditNotify, UserMerge
Compatibility[edit | edit source]
- Fully MW 1.27 compatible