Tiki27 | |
Tiki 27.0 LTS was released on July 1st 2024. Release announcement: https://tiki.org/article512-Tiki-27-0-LTS-A-Leap-Forward-for-Collaborative-Software It is a Long Term Support (LTS) version and will be supported until July 2029 as per the Tiki lifecycle policy. Usually, LTS versions like this are more about refining features than major changes. However, this release is an exception as the Tiki developers wanted major changes to be part of this LTS, notably Smarty 5, and the new npm based build system. After this release, there will be yet more major changes in Tiki28. Supported PHP versions: PHP 8.1, 8.2 and 8.3, MariaDB 10.5+, MySQL 8+ You can see the development page at : https://dev.tiki.org/Tiki27 and all the code commits here: https://gitlab.com/tikiwiki/tiki/-/commits/27.x/ once it will be created (in 2024-03). |
1. Infrastructure | |
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1.1. Error reporting | |
Errors and warnings are more strictly reported. This can be caused by:
This increased strictness will facilitate upcoming enhancements (increase performance, etc.) |
1.2. PHPUnit | |
Tiki was upgraded to use version 10 of PHPUnit (the de-facto standard for testing PHP-based software)
PHPUnit 10 is the most significant release in the history of the PHPUnit project (which began 23 years ago).
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1.3. Smarty 5 | |
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1.4. Tiki 27+ Build System - for VCS (git) installations | |
Major change when installing for VCS (git) With the new Tiki 27+ Build System node.js is now required to run setup.sh and install a new Tiki or update.
See https://dev.tiki.org/The-Tiki-27-plus-Build-System
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2. Enhancements | |
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2.1. API enhancements | |
Several enhancements and improvements made to the Tiki API functionality, particularly to support Tiki deployments to provide data and system management for Internet of Things (IoT) networks. More detail on IoT usage can be seen at the development page https://dev.tiki.org/Internet-of-Things |
2.2. Calendars | |
Major change for calendar event handling in Tiki - CRUD operations of events now go through the built-in caldav server with the help of internal method invocation (not through the webdav protocol to skip authentication phase). This has the desired consequences of event scheduling, iTIP message generation and other active plugin taking care of corresponding functionality when events are created, updated, deleted. Several major updates to calendar functionality:
Private calendars: new permission (-+tiki_p_admin_private_calendar+-) and ability to create personal private calendars that will be visible only to the user creating them and calendar admins; make sure all operations and CalDAV support + permissions continue to work in the same way as before with public calendars and new private calendars
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2.3. Console | |
New Console commands:
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2.4. Contacts | |
Added support for personal and work emails
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2.5. Markdown + TOAST UI | |
Many bug fixes and enhancements have happened in Tiki27 which resulted in a more user-friendly Markdown editing experience without sacrificing functionality or compatibility with traditional Tiki syntax
https://gitlab.com/tikiwiki/tiki/-/commits/master?search=markdown |
2.6. PDF | |
New permission |
2.7. PluginList Sublist | |
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2.8. Search | |
Added facet output to the |
2.9. Search index: multi-sort | |
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2.10. Semantic Search | |
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2.11. URL Fragment format | |
A preference that provides you with the ability to change anchor format.
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2.12. User mentions | |
User mentions feature has been improved
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2.13. Webmail | |
Cypht was upgraded from version 1.4.x to 2.0.x which comes with numerous enhancements. See Webmail and https://github.com/cypht-org/cypht/releases/tag/v2.0.0 |
2.14. WikiPlugin Survey | |
Several enhancements have been added to Plugin Survey:
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2.15. WikiPlugin Tour | |
The Tour plugin has been updated to use driver.js instead of Bootstrap tour, which has restored its functionality following its disruption in Tiki 25.
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3. Removed | |
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