Release Notes

BlueSpice 2.23.3

BlueSpice 2.23.3 is a minor and maintenance release. This is a stable release.

Notable new features

• BlueSpice API: There is now a standardized API for many BlueSpice actions.
• 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.
• UserSidebar: There is now a "global actions" navigation tab for every user.
• VisualEditor: Set default style for table to contenttable. This makes nicer tables.

BlueSpice Foundation

• General: ArticleHelper: Fixed fatal getRedirectTarget call on null
• General: Updated all URLs to bluespice.com and removed "Medienwerkstatt" from company name.

BlueSpice Extensions

• ArticleInfo: Stop using deprecated Skin::link
• Checklist: Fixed error when inserting checklists several times
• Checklist: Improved tag documentation
• ContextMenu: Added dependencies to fix runtime errors
• CountThings: Improved tag documentation
• Dashboards: Fixed Notice
• Dashboards: Fixed wikipage portlet error messages
• Flexiskin: Add some hook points
• General: Updated all URLs to bluespice.com and removed "Medienwerkstatt" from company name.
• InsertCategory: Removed wrong user information
• InsertLink: use user config var instead of browser settings to trigger java applet for file links
• InsertMagic: Added examples to description and reference implementation
• InsertMagic: Improve example code line wrapping
• PageAccess: Improved tag documentation
• PageTemplates: Remove loadmask workaround
• PagesVisited: Improved tag documentation
• ResponsibleEditors: Remove loadmask workaround
• Review: Added dependencies to fix runtime errors
• SmartList: Added exception for getToplist for mw > 1.24
• Smartlist: Improved tag documentation
• UniversalExport: Improved tag documentation
• WantedArticle: Improved tag documentation
• Watchlist: Improved tag documentation
• WhoIsOnline: Improved tag documentation

BlueSpice Skin

• Fix for different line height since mw 1.27
• Development: Upgrade jsonlint to report file/line
• General: Updated all URLs to bluespice.com and removed "Medienwerkstatt" from company name.

BlueSpice Distribution

• General: Improved tag documentation
• General: Updated all URLs to bluespice.com and removed "Medienwerkstatt" from company name.
• RSS: Updated RSS to 1.26 - works for 1.23 - 1.27

BlueSpice Pro

• Bookmaker: ExtJS/RL runtime issues
• Bookmaker: New global navigation implementation
• Bookmaker: Color book icon when inside a book
• Bookmaker: Switch to book navigation when inside a book
• Bookmaker: Added special page to global actions widget
• Bookmaker: used mw.config.get( 'wgScriptPath') instead of global wgScriptPath
• Bookmaker: Fixed link for module pdf in UI manager
• Bookmaker: Improved tag descriptions
• ExportTables: Added to BlueSpice pro. This allows to export tables as xls file
• General: Updated all URLs to bluespice.com and removed "Medienwerkstatt" from company name.
• GuidedEditing: ExtJS/RL fixed runtime issues
• GuidedEditing: Modified insertCategory button id
• PasteImage: Intermediate save, base64 image in var, base64 img replaced with replacebin, next fix dialog and replace replacebin with uploaded version
• PasteImage: Re-implementation of ie11/edge, ff und chrome version, pure javascript, no java used anymore
• PasteImage: Change response header type for ie11 compatibility
• PasteImage: Add ie11 workaround, load xml instead of json
• PasteImage: Test on ignore filetype parsing
• PasteImage: Remove bsae64 preview, while most browsers will hang on base64 image show
• PasteImage: Prevent default action only on images
• PasteImage: Remove java files, replaced by native tinymce paste functions
• PasteImage: Fix: Image Description not set
• ProDistribution: Added extension Drawio
• ProDistribution: Added extension Duplicator
• ProDistribution: Added extension HeaderTabs
• ProDistribution: Added extension Math
• ProDistribution: Added extension MultimediaViewer
• ProDistribution: Added extension ReplaceText
• ProDistribution: Added extension Scribunto
• ProDistribution: Added extension Widgets
• RatedComments: BS2.23.3 Create / Update / Delete Works
• RatedComments: Changed use of deprecated jQuery.live to jQuery.on to be compatible with current MW Versions
• RatedComments: Fixed Fatal
• RatedComments: Fixed redirect context
• RatedComments: Got rid of some old globals (mw 1.27 copatibility)
• RatedComments: MW1.27 compatibility
• RatedComments: RL: Added dependencies
• RatedComments: Replaced deprecated wfMsg with wfMessage
• RatedComments: Restored compatiblilty with rating api
• RatedComments: Use mw.config.get( 'wgScriptPath') instead of global wgScriptPath
• Rating: Add more context related stuff - context is not supported by default
• Rating: Add special page to global actions widget
• Rating: Add use of token
• Rating: Added dependencies
• Rating: Enabled rating in context
• Rating: Fix rating icon path
• Rating: Fix typo
• Rating: Fixed Fatal
• Rating: Fixed context
• Rating: Fixed redirect context
• Rating: Fixes for api
• Rating: MW1.27 compatibility
• Rating: Use mw.config.get( 'wgScriptPath') instead of global wgScriptPath
• Rating: Use of Rating tasks api instead of deprecated ajaxExport
• Reminder: Added API classes for Expiry
• Reminder: Added API description and fixed typo
• Reminder: Added comment for updating from BSP 2.23.2
• Reminder: Added gitignore for local settings file
• Reminder: Added special page to global actions widget
• Reminder: Added table prefixes
• Reminder: All Reminder ajax function now use API calls
• Reminder: Breaking change: new database schema for Reminder and Expiry
• Reminder: Changed default sorting
• Reminder: Changed menu entry in personal tools to match the other entries
• Reminder: Correctly adding rem_comment
• Reminder: Expiry is now a standalone extension
• Reminder: Expiry now uses API for deletion
• Reminder: Expiry: adjusted callback function
• Reminder: Expiry: reworked i18n messages
• Reminder: ExtJS/RL runtime issues
• Reminder: Fixed paths after package name change
• Reminder: Moved Reminder and Expiry out of BSTeamwork and now in BSReminder
• Reminder: Reminder: Added filter for title and date
• Reminder: Reminder: Adopted afterDelete to new hook signature
• Reminder: Reminder: Created ApiReminderStore to serve grid data
• Reminder: Reminder: Enabled multiple deletion
• Reminder: Reminder: delete user reminder on user deletion
• Reminder: Removed Expiry from Reminder API
• Reminder: Removed dependencies on Expiry
• Semantic: Added filtering to NamespaceManager integration
• Semantic: Added use of format table instead of datatable when pdf export
• Semantic: Deactivated help boxes in edit mode
• Semantic: ExtJS/RL runtime issues
• Semantic: Fixed removal of qtips
• Semantic: Removed all qtip divs (semantic bootstrap popups for tooltips)
• Semantic: Removed bswiki editor button
• Semantic: Require smw to be in /extension base dir, copied from _base
• Semantic: Update semanticforms and semanticformsinputs to master branch for mw1.27 compatibility
• Semantic: Use bssemantic delivered semantic extensions
• ServiceCenter: Added TagSearch/vendor
• ServiceCenter: Added filtering to NamespaceManager integration
• ServiceCenter: Added search string escaping
• ServiceCenter: Fixed hardcoded core
• ServiceCenter: Removed debug statement
• ServiceCenter: TagSearch: Improved tag documentation
• ServiceCenter: Used method POST and action fullUrl cause jquery could not handle the form action for some reason
• ServiceCenter: Used mw.config.get( 'wgScriptPath') instead of global wgScriptPath
• Teamwork: Added filtering to NamespaceManager integration
• Teamwork: Added stylings for pdf export
• Teamwork: Expiry and Reminder are now in the BlueSpiceReminder Repo
• TagCloud: Added to BlueSpice pro. This creates a tag cloud.
• VisualDiff: BugFix: PDF export only working correctly by using the more menu
• VisualDiff: ExtJS/RL runtime issues
• VisualDiff: Fixed fatal in mw > 1.23 | Config is needed
• VisualDiff: Forgot to use getCss() on parser
• VisualDiff: Modified css for pdf export
• VisualDiff: More mw 1.27 compatibility changes ResourceLoader -.-
• WikiExplorer: Added special page to global actions widget
• WikiExplorer: ExtJS/RL runtime issues

BlueSpice 2.23.3-beta

BlueSpice 2.23.3-beta is a minor and maintenance release. This is a beta release and not recommende for use in production

BlueSpice Foundation

• API: Added a generic group store API backend
• API: Added a generic WikiPage store
• API: Added BS.store.BSApi
• API: Added BSApiAdminUserStore
• API: Added Interwiki ExtJS store API module
• API: Added title filter to store api
• API: API I18N
• API: ApiExtJSStoreBase/BS.GRUDGridPanel: Filter
• API: ApiExtJSStoreBase/StringHelper: String filter
• API: ApiExtJSStoreBase: Implemted 'date' filter
• API: ApiGroupStore: Fixed return value
• API: ApiTasksBase: Added support for logging
• API: ApiTasksBase: Fixed token return value
• API: ApiTasksBase: needToken by default + hooks
• API: ApiTasksBase: read-only check
• API: ApiTasksBase: token mechanism for MW 1.24+
• API: BSApiFileBackendStore: userAdjust of timestamp
• API: BSApiTasksBase: stub implementation of task data param processing
• API: BsCommonAjaxInterface --> API
• API: BSTasksAPI: Added permission check
• API: Metadata node and data in ExtJSStoreBase
• API: New 'bs.api.tasks.exec'
• API: New BSApiWikiPageTasks
• API: Removed legacy override
• API: TasksAPI: Added context
• API: TitleQueryStore: return objects, not arrays
• Appearance: added padding to dashboard panel content
• Appearance: bluespice.extjs.fixes: Fixed tool icon alignment
• Appearance: BS.CRUDPanel: dynamic calculation of action column
• Appearance: BsBaseTemplate: Introduced printFooter method.
• Appearance: BsBaseTemplate: Removed double echo
• Appearance: BSUserMiniProfile: Replaced spaces in HTML output
• Appearance: Compress PNGs with zopflipng
• Appearance: extjs themes: Reverting images
• Appearance: getHTMLContentFor: fixed issue with PDF export
• Appearance: getNavigationSidebar: allows html-string injection from extensions
• Appearance: Icomoon font icons in BS.CRUDGridPanel
• Appearance: Show BlueSpice Version in the appropriate column
• Architecture: Added config file registry
• Compatibility: Compat. REL1_27: Custom JSON format
• Compatibility: Remove usage of Title::newFromRedirect()
• Compatibility: Remove usage of Title::newFromRedirectArray()
• Compatibility: Remove usage of Title::newFromRedirectRecurse()
• Compatibility: Stop using $wgTitle, no need to be the global
• Compatibility: Use __METHOD__ for DB begin/commit calls
• Compatiblity: Fix case of Html class
• DefaultSettings: Added xml and svg as default allowed file types
• DefaultSettings: disabled thumb.php
• Documentation: Pretty urls on IIS
• ExtensionManager: Invoke autoloader if possible
• General: Added some info to composer.json
• General: build: Updating development dependencies
• General: build: Updating development dependencies
• General: Composer.json: Added more information
• General: Fix jenkins tests
• General: Fix jslint errors, Add npm and composer tests
• General: Restored startsWith / endsWith functionality
• GenericTagExtensionHandler: Basic impl.
• GroupHelper: MW1.27 compatibility - Fixed TMP user groups
• Hooks: DROP TABLE in LoadExtensionSchemaUpdates
• I18N: Added language specific support and contact URLs
• I18N: Added messages for BooleanFilter
• I18n: Removed i18n keys
• Installcheck: removed old requirements
• Mailer: Call UserMailer::send() correctly
• Mailer: Changed Variables
• Mailer: Remove Bug where Version is not being checked
• Maintenance: importImagesRecursive: delete obsolete files
• Ping: Suppress all messages and warings
• Ping: Used API instead of AjaxExportList
• ResourceLoader: 'ext.bluespice' Bad reference to ExtJS
• ResourceLoader: ExtJS Runtime errors due to missing/late css

BlueSpice Extensions

• ArticleInfo: makeStateBarTopLastEdited: fixed issue with PDF Export
• Avatars: Remove use of "successful" in strings
• BlueSpiceProjectFeedbackHelper: Fixed issue with quotation marks
• BSPFeedbackHelper: Refactoring
• Checklist: changed filter for list options to give more flexibility
• Checklist: Fallback list options when list template is corrupt
• Checklist: Fixed file path issue
• Checklist: Use API instead of AJAX
• ContextMenu: Now enabled by default
• CountThings: Uses GenericTagExtensionHandler
• Dashboard: Add page article widget
• Dashboard: Use API instead of ajax
• Dashboards: ExtJS/ResourceLoader: Fixes in manager components
• Extended Search: Enable "open in new tab" in autocomplete
• ExtendedEditBar: Enable only in certain contexts
• ExtendedSearch: Keep facet operator when changing facets
• ExtendedSearch: Use categories from file page
• ExtendenSearch: Facet settings: choose AND or OR as logical operator
• Flexiskin: Add checkbox "Use background image"
• Flexiskin: New RL implementation
• Flexiskin: now works with WikiFarming
• Flexiskin: Use BSApiTasksBase
• FomattingHelp: Removed need of token for read only API module
• FormattingHelp: Use API instead of AjaxExportList
• General: *Manager: Now using config file registry from BSF
• General: Add npm entry point
• General: Add phplint to composer
• General: Adding composer.json
• General: Composer.json: Added more information
• General: Compress PNGs with zopflipng
• General: Don't use User::getSkin()
• General: Fix BlueSpiceExtensions jenkins tests
• General: Fix composer.json since hallowelt/bluespice-foundation is not released in version 2
• General: Replace wfMsg* calls
• GroupManager: Raised group name character limit
• GroupManager: Use task API instead of AjaxExportList
• GroupManager: Used edit tokens for all task API calls
• InserMagic: Used API instead of AjaxExportList
• InsertCategory: Added button classes for VisualEditor
• InsertCategory: Fixed runtime errors when visual editor is not activated
• InsertCategory: Use API instead of AjaxExportList
• InsertCategory: Use post instead of get
• InsertFile: Use API instead of AjaxExportList
• InsertLink: Removed AjaxExportList
• InsertLink: Replace applet with jnlp loader, no chrome support so far
• InsertMagic: Improve tag description mechanism
• InsertMagic: Simplify insertmagic-desc message
• InsertMagic: Switched description and text field
• InterWikiLinks: Use API instead of AjaxExportList
• NamespaceManager: API and further development
• NamespaceManager: Fixed action confirmation
• NamespaceManager: System namespaces can no longer be deleted
• NamespaceManager: Token must be posted
• NamespaceManager: Used API instead of AjaxExportList
• PageTemplates: use API instead of ajax
• PageTemplates: Use strict array search for linker options
• PermissionManager: add config and handler for max num of backups
• PermissionManager: Add hint flyout for every right
• PermissionManager: Fallback when canonical ns name is different from constant name
• PermissionManager: Now easier extendable and has a getHTMLTable method
• PermissionManager: Use API instead of AjaxExportList
• Preferences: Fixed autoloader entry
• ResponsibleEditors: Resolve code invoking Title::newFromURL
• ResponsibleEditors: Use API instead of AjaxExportList
• RSSStandards: resolved ExtJS dependency
• SaferEdit: Fixed interval and param handling
• SaferEdit: Fixed textbox id and return of undefined value
• ShoutBox: Add autogenerated id to return payload
• ShoutBox: Use correct message key for mail
• ShoutBox: Used API instead of AjaxExportList
• SmartList: getCustomList: modified exclude namespace argument
• TopMenuBarCustomizer: Fix case of Html class
• UEModulePDF: Added lost compatibility for php <= 5.5
• UEModulePDF: Added stylings for pdf export
• UEModulePDF: Correction of missing quotation marks
• UEModulePDF: findFiles: fixed issue with pdf export
• UEModulePDF: Improved styling rues for xhtmlrenderer PDF
• UserManager: Add hook BSUserManagerAfterSetGroups
• UserManager: Added hook after user deletion and edit
• UserManager: Fixed error display for group change
• UserManager: Use API instead of AjaxExportList
• UserSidebar: "special" navigation tab + wiki wide widget
• VisualEditor: Compatibility REL1_27: Use of 'addModules'
• VisualEditor: Do not auto focus when in preview node
• VisualEditor: EditToolbar button is disabled until VE can be loaded
• VisualEditor: Replace Article::replaceSection usage with Article::replaceSectionAtRev
• VisualEditor: Set default style for table to contenttable
• VisualEditor: Use API instead of AJAX
• VisualEditor: Wait for dependencies to be loaded before enabling
• WantedArticle: Dixed issue with html class
• WantedArticle: Fix JS and removed unused resources
• WantedArticle: Use API instead of AjaxExportList

BlueSpice Skin

• Improved edit section icon in vector skin
• Make support URLs language specific
• Moved basic LESS vars to BlueSpiceFoundation
• Removed footer code and introduced printFooter method
• Replace Title::userIsWatching

BlueSpice Distribution

• DynamicPageList: Update to DPL version 3
• Echo: Fixed paths that got broken by our 'Distribution' folder
• EchoConnector: Add processing of unknown params in processParams on BSNotifications::notify call
• EchoConnector: BsNotificationsFormatter is easier extensible. See https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/279089/
• EchoConnector: Fixed access to event extra params
• EchoConnector: Fixed error with diff param
• EchoConnector: Implemented default behavior for 'affected-users' and 'affected-groups' extra data of an Echo event
• ImageMapEdit: Added to template file
• LdapAuthentication: Updated version (Bug fixes)
• LdapAuthenticationConnector: Removed unimplemented methods
• LdapAuthenticationConnector: completely hide domain selection when there is only one domain
• LdapAuthenticationConnector: fixed RenameMergeUser
• Lockdown: updated from Gerrit master
• UserMerge: Added extension
• UserMergeConnector: Fixes

Compatibility

• MediaWiki 1.23 - 1.27
• PHP 5.4 or later.
• MySQL 5.0 or later

Webservices

• Java 6, 7 or 8
• Tomcat 6, 7 or 8

The Team

Programmers

• Markus Glaser
• Radovan Kubani
• Sebastian Ulbricht
• Marc Reymann
• Mathias Scheer
• Thomas Lorenz
• Tobias Weichart
• Robert Vogel
• Erwin Forster
• Karl Waldmannstetter
• Daniel Lynge
• Tobias Davids
• Patric Wirth
• Stephan Muggli
• Stefan Widmann
• Manfred Dennerlein
• Daniel Vogel
• Leonid Verhovskij
• Benedikt Hofmann

Design & Testing

• Anja Ebersbach
• Richard Heigl
• Nathalie Köpff
• Michael Rödl
• Michael Scherm
• Dardan Diugan
• Christina Glaser
• Christian Graf
• Angelika Müller
• Jan Göttlich
• Karl Skodnik
• Astrid Scheffler
• Sabine Gürtler
• Thomas Schnakenberg
• Sabrina Dürr

Contributors

• Aaron Schulz
• Albert221
• Antoine Musso
• Aude
• Brad Jorsch
• Chad Horohoe
• Demon
• Florian
• Florianschmidtwelzow
• Frederic Mohr
• Gergő Tisza
• Justin Du
• Legoktm
• MaxSem
• Ori Livneh
• Paladox
• Raimond Spekking
• Reedy
• Siebrand Mazeland
• TGC
• Umherirrender
• Yuki Shira

Translation

BlueSpice is translated at translatewiki.net. Many, many thanks for your contributions! Special thanks go out to Raimond Spekking and Siebrand Mazeland for all the i18n reviews.

Standing on the shoulders of giants

We would like to thank all the people around MediaWiki. You've created a wonderful piece of software. Thanks a lot!

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