Tiki19 | |
Tiki 19.0 was released in November 2018. It was a Standard Term Support (STS) version and was supported until Tiki 20.1 was released, as per the Tiki lifecycle policy |
Requirements | |
See Requirements Alphabetically sorted |
1. New Features and Improvements | |
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1.1. Admin panel | |
Add warning message in admin control panel when Tiki detects vendor folder issues: http://sourceforge.net/p/tikiwiki/code/66408
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1.2. Bootstrap | |
This is the most far reaching upgrade in Tiki19: Moved from Bootstrap 3 to 4.
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1.3. Browser compatibility | |
As Tiki transitions from Bootstrap 3 to 4, support for Internet Explorer 8 and 9 is being dropped. Internet Explorer 10 also stops being fully supported officially, but it should mostly work. |
1.4. Calendar | |
Moved from old no-longer supported fork fullcalendar-resourceviews to latest and greatest official FullCalendar, and Scheduler (GPL) available via Packages -> https://sourceforge.net/p/tikiwiki/code/66298
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1.5. Elasticsearch | |
Added support for Elasticsearch 6.x while maintaining support for 2.x and 5.x see Elasticsearch requirements. |
1.6. Email threading | |
Add email threading capabilities for tiki email notifications in Forums and Blog Post comments: http://sourceforge.net/p/tikiwiki/code/65982 |
1.7. Federation | |
Sync Dev-Prod Servers Tiki instances - admin tool to show differences between configuration, trackers, fields and wiki pages
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1.8. Forums | |
Better URLs: http://sourceforge.net/p/tikiwiki/code/66574 |
1.9. File previews | |
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1.10. Gantt charts | |
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1.11. H5P improvements | |
Some improvements were added to H5P. For instance, the ability to directly fetch presentations from the remote H5Phub site:
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1.12. Links, from absolute to relative | |
Add preference to convert tiki instance absolute URLs with relative URLs in content: URL conversion from absolute to relative |
1.13. LDAP / Active Directory support | |
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1.14. MediaWiki importer | |
Add support to import information in the MediaWiki format 0.6 to 0.10
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1.15. Menu revamp | |
Remove the CSS menu (suckerfish/superfish) menu type, and enhance Bootstrap menus with the SmartMenus system, which offers most suckerfish features and also permits "Mega Menus" (enhancement as an admin option) - http://sourceforge.net/p/tikiwiki/code/66963 . |
1.16. Minification | |
Make the filenames of minified CSS files be based on the contents of all the files, not just the filenames, so that when anything changes within a file, i.e. after an upgrade or bug fix, browsers will automatically get the new version of the code. Since this uses a server-side cache which is not validated, client-side cache will only be forced after the Tiki server's cache is cleared. This had already been done for JavaScript in Tiki 18.x
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1.17. Modules | |
1.17.1. Site logo module | |
Admins can now easily change the site logo by hovering over it, clicking the icon that appears and uploading a new logo directly to file gallery. |
1.17.2. Websearch module | |
To perform a search by choosing from multiple search engines. |
1.17.3. Permissions module | |
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1.17.4. Module to switch admin language | |
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1.17.5. Module to enable quick admin bar | |
Top Admin Bar works on the top position and gives a mini control panel to Tiki Admins.
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1.18. Multilingual | |
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1.19. Newsletter | |
Improvements in wikiplugin_subscribenewsletter on layout and mandatory fields: http://sourceforge.net/p/tikiwiki/code/66573 |
1.20. Performance | |
1.20.1. Add new console command to generate/warmup caches, and in TRIM as well | |
http://sourceforge.net/p/tikiwiki/code/66590
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1.20.2. Allow image lazy loading | |
Using https://github.com/ApoorvSaxena/lozad.js
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1.21. PDF.js | |
For PDF viewing, we will start using code directly from Mozilla's PDF.js, and installable via Packages -> PDF.js viewer
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1.22. Permissions | |
1.22.1. Module to help site admin to know who has which permission on each object | |
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1.22.2. Mini-revamp | |
This section needs cleanup.
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1.22.3. List ordering | |
At tiki-objectpermissions.php it is now possible to order the Permissions by modifying the way you want the tiki-objectpermissions_order.yml file. You can edit db/config/tiki-objectpermissions_order.yml and move the permission in the order you prefer.
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1.23. Profiles | |
http://sourceforge.net/p/tikiwiki/code/66243 (backported to 18.x) |
1.25. Share | |
1.26. Slideshow revamped | |
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1.27. Spam protection improvements | |
http://sourceforge.net/p/tikiwiki/code/66919
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1.28. Stats | |
Google Analytics and Use case: when a Tiki instance has a combined use case of a public website and a restricted Intranet, it's nice to have |
1.29. Themes | |
Converted from Bootstrap 3 to 4 |
1.29.1. Theme Customizer | |
"Style Guide Tool" renamed to "Theme Customizer" and converted to Bootstrap 4 |
1.29.2. Theme installer | |
Experimental: https://sourceforge.net/p/tikiwiki/code/67603 |
1.29.3. Tikipedia theme - new | |
The Tikipedia theme was added to the package following user requests. It was evaluated that there is no license incompatibility issue.
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1.29.4. FiveAlive theme - revamp | |
The code of the FiveAliveHS ("Happy Scroll") that was added earlier replaced the FiveAlive theme code, so in effect the FiveAlive theme was revamped. The two-color site header background style is now implemented as child theme options. Alternative child themes for each color have solid-color (gradient) backgrounds for easier handling of color contrast between the site logo/title color and background. |
1.29.5. Removal of outdated themes | |
Several themes were removed from the package because of dated or quirky appearance or close similarity to other themes. These themes may be provided as aftermarket installs on request. |
1.30. Trackers | |
1.30.1. Multi-currency | |
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1.30.2. Fix tracker change email notification to translate the status content to watcher language | |
http://sourceforge.net/p/tikiwiki/code/66325 (also backported to 18.x) |
1.30.3. Create a tracker and tabular format from csv file import | |
1.30.4. Save and comment | |
This feature can be enabled per tracker and permits to add a comment when saving an edit for a tracker item. See Save and Comment |
1.30.5. PluginTrackerlist can be converted to PluginList | |
http://sourceforge.net/p/tikiwiki/code/65790
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1.31. URL Shortener | |
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1.32. URL conversion from absolute to relative | |
1.33. utf8mb4 | |
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1.34. Wiki Syntax | |
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1.34.1. Page Alias | |
Display "Error" (warning) alert on wiki pages with duplicate alias wiki links (e.g. Related commit(s):
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1.35. Wiki Plugins | |
New or enhanced. |
1.35.1. Plugin Button | |
Enhanced. See Button. You can now display an icon without label (text). |
1.35.2. Plugin Diagram | |
New. See PluginDiagram. PluginDiagram integrates mxGraph (An open source JavaScript diagramming component, started in 2005, that works on all major browsers, including touch devices), to provide a service like draw.io but that you can install on your own server. |
1.35.3. Plugin Gantt Chart | |
New. It allows to produce and easily edit Gantt chart diagrams based on data in a tracker. See PluginGanttChart |
1.35.4. Plugin Layout | |
New. Enables page layout configuration such as removing the page footer, having full-width page section backgrounds, etc. Useful for making a splash page that looks radically different from the other site pages. See PluginLayout |
1.35.5. Plugin Multilike | |
The plugin Multilike as two new parameter to change the icon used (selected and non-selected) for the plugin. See Multilike and PluginMultilike |
1.35.6. Plugin PivotTable | |
Enhanced. Added PluginActivityStream as a data source. See PluginPivotTable |
1.35.7. Plugin Slideshow | |
Enhanced. Part of 1.9 above. See PluginSlideshow |
1.35.8. Plugin SlideshowSlide | |
New. Advanced plugin to add a slide in a slideshow with different background colors, background video, transition and other settings. |
1.35.9. Plugin Swiper | |
New. A carousel/rotator/slideshow that supports images and other content. Basically a replacement for other similar plugins that are no longer supported or are less advanced. See PluginSwiper |
1.35.10. Plugin Together | |
Enhanced. Some usability improvements have been made to facilitate new users to join the edition of a page currently being editted by another user which started the collaborative session. https://sourceforge.net/p/tikiwiki/code/67120
See PluginTogether |
1.35.11. Plugin Tracker Calendar | |
Refactored to use an updated library. |
1.35.12. Plugin XMPP | |
New. Enables embedding an XMPP chatroom in a wiki page. See PluginXMPP. |
1.36. XMPP | |
Upgraded to Converse 4.x which now uses Bootstrap 4 like Tiki, and thus, it will be easier to provide a consistent user experience. See also PluginXMPP |
2. Upgrade | |
Specific upgrade notes regarding using this Tiki version compared to using the previous one Tiki18. Note Tiki 19.x uses utf8mb4 storage and there is an upgrade script built in which will do this automatically for you when the database it updated. However if, for some reason, your database (as opposed ot the tables within it) is set to use utf8mb4 already, many of the old upgrade patches will fail. To avoid this make sure the database is set to use utf8 only. See also the generic information about Upgrades |
3. Dependencies | |
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4. Cleanups | |
4.1. Convert tracker attachments to files script | |
http://sourceforge.net/p/tikiwiki/code/65966 (also backported to 18.x) |
5. Regressions | |
5.1. Removals | |
Exact search with Elasticsearch (added in Tiki 18.3) was removed. |
5.1.1. Jison | |
This experiment never got to viability
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5.1.2. jQuery.s5 | |
jQuery.s5 is no longer updated, so it was replaced by the Reveal.js library (which is pretty awesome!) |
5.1.3. Mods | |
As of Tiki 19, Mods are completely obsolete. All mods-related code has been removed from Tiki. Details: https://tiki.org/forumthread67983-About-Tiki-Packages-in-Tiki-18-0-LTS-and-why-I-support-this-project-And-mods-tiki-org-can-now-be-scheduled-for-retirement |
5.1.4. Report system (experimental) | |
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5.1.5. WebODF and ViewerJS | |
As of Tiki19, ViewerJS, which includes WebODF, will no longer be supported because no significant work has been done since 2015
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5.1.6. Removed WikiPlugins | |
5.1.6.1. Plugin Jabber
5.1.6.2. Plugin PastLink
5.1.6.3. Plugin ReportWas part of the Report System described above. |
5.1.7. Removed layout templates | |
In the Look and Feel admin options, two layout templates ("Wider side columns" and "Fixed top navbar 1") were removed because they were very similar to other layout templates.
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