Tiki24from21This page lists the changes introduced in Tiki24 LTS since Tiki21 LTS. Tiki 24.0 LTS will be released in February 2022. It is a Long Term Support (LTS) version and will be supported until February 2027 as per the Tiki lifecycle policy It will be a shorter development cycle and smaller release than Tiki22 and Tiki23, and focused more on refinement of the many recently contributed features. Tiki 24 requires PHP 7.4 like Tiki23 and Tiki22. Unfortunately, PHP 8.x is not supported. Work to update Tiki code to PHP 8.0 was started many months before the release of PHP 8.0 (2020-11-26). With Tiki's Model, Tiki users are shielded from https://PluginProblems.com as all features are released at once. This being said, the Tiki development community has to deal with dependency hell as Tiki leverages over 125 direct dependencies + the indirect dependencies. While the vast majority of them are OK in PHP 8, some of them required more time. Specifically, Smarty version 4.0 with PHP 8 support was released on 2021-11-25, only a few weeks before our feature freeze for Tiki 24.x and thus, it's too risky to try to integrate it In any case, Tiki25 will for sure support PHP 8.0 and 8.1.
1. New Features and Improvements
1.1. APIA self-documented REST API has been added exposing the (arguably) most commonly used elements of the system. A REST API (also known as RESTful API) is an application programming interface (API or web API) that conforms to the constraints of REST architectural style and allows for interaction with RESTful web services. See: API 1.2. Calendar ImprovementsWeekly recurring events in Calendar now support multiple days (also in 23.1) 1.3. Check1.4. Cookie Consent ImprovementsNew option to make the checkbox agree to third party cookies so users can agree to essential (Tiki) cookies without opting in to analytics or other "tracking" cookies from other providers (also in 23.1) See Cookie Consent 1.5. Category browsing with tabbed layoutFinally 😁
1.6. Composer v21.7. ConsoleNew Console commands:
1.8. Date handlingMajor change in how we deal with dates, which will make Tiki more reliable when working over multiple timezones. Ref: https://gitlab.com/tikiwiki/tiki/-/merge_requests/1073 1.9. Diagrams from templatesNew options were added to wikiplugin Diagram:
The use case is when one or more variations need to be made based on an original diagram. The diagram can be edited and saved as the variation without affecting the original, such as when the page of the original diagram is fetched with PluginInclude and then the diagram is edited on the including page. See also https://gitlab.com/tikiwiki/tiki/-/merge_requests/763. 1.10. Email folders Tracker field1.11. GlitchTip Error tracking1.12. H5P Advanced Customisation2 new preferences to allow the addition of extra javascript and css to customise H5P content further, which was not possible before due to browser security (also in 23.1) 1.13. HybridAuth integrationhttps://hybridauth.github.io/ is coming via https://gitlab.com/arilect/tiki/-/commits/socnets Click to expand
1.14. Interledger Protocol payments (ILP)Interledger is an open and inclusive payments network. The Interledger Protocol (ILP) is an open protocol suite for sending payments across different ledgers. See Interledger Protocol payments 1.15. Machine LearningMachine Learning has been added to Tiki23 as a built-in (but optional) feature, using the Rubix ML library, which provides 40+ supervised and unsupervised learning algorithms. Therefore, you will be able to create Machine leaning (ML) models from within Tiki itself, train against data stored in trackers and query models. See Machine Learning 1.16. Mail-in1.16.1. Mail-in to filesMail-In to Files - save email as message/rfc822 file in a file gallery - include raw content and all headers http://sourceforge.net/p/tikiwiki/code/75496 1.16.2. Mail-in to trackers1.17. Mail NotificationsAdd catch-all/redirect mail delivery option for SMTP messages - useful when debugging or testing upgrades to have all Tiki mail delivered to a single mailbox
1.18. MentionsUser mentions extended from wiki pages only (as in Tiki 22.x) to all wiki text areas (comments, forum and blog posts, tracker fields etc) with an autocomplete menu to select users after typing a 1.19. Menu systemMajor upgrade to Menu system with https://www.smartmenus.org/. Smartmenus extend standard Bootstrap menus by improving menu behavior in smaller displays, and enabling deeper menu hierarchies and mega menus. (Images and other non-link content in mega menus will be added soon.) See also https://gitlab.com/tikiwiki/tiki/-/merge_requests/752. Configuration note: For a vertical Bootstrap menu with Smartmenus activated, input "navbar navbar-expand-lg" in the "CSS class(es) for the menu nav element" field under the "Module" tab when assigning/editing the menu on the Admin Modules page. 1.20. Modules1.20.1. Current Activity ModuleNew module. It displays the current activity of the users (in the list, it displays the type of activity, the name of the activity and the names of all the users who modify a page or a tracker) 1.20.2. Module ListA simple wrapper for PluginList as a module - arrived in 7a57deaa 1.20.3. Module zone AdminA new module zone called "Admin" has been introduced in the "Control Panels > Modules > Admin (tab)". That displays the modules that are shown in the new Unified Admin Backend UI > Dashboard. See Module zones 1.21. Numeric field data modification via mouse scroll can be disabled or enabledBrowsers have different behaviors which causes support issues. Harmonizing behavior by default while permitting previous behavior: https://sourceforge.net/p/tikiwiki/code/75930 1.22. ODBCAdded Open Database Connectivity support to Tracker Import Export. This allows to add ODBC remote sources with read/write support — instead of importing from or exporting to CSV, which gives the system the ability to import from and export to a remote ODBC-accessible schema table. See ODBC. 1.23. OpenID ConnectOpenID Connect is an authentication layer on top of OAuth 2.0, an authorization framework. The standard is controlled by the OpenID Foundation. See OpenID Connect. 1.24. PreviewsPreviews of content to be saved have been added (optionally) to comments, and preview functionality has been improved for forum posts, and hopefully more coming by the time of the 23.0 release. 1.25. PSR-12Tiki adopted the PSR-12 and converted all the code base to it:
N.B. Part of this involved changing from indenting with tabs to spaces, which was done for all file types (i.e. PHP, Smarty and JavaScript) 1.26. Real User MeasurementThis new feature reuses a JavaScript library called boomerang that measures the page load time experienced by real users, commonly called RUM (Real User Measurement). With this feature, you find out exactly how fast your users think your site is. Apart from page load time, boomerang measures performance timings, metrics and characteristics of your user's web browsing experience 1.27. Record screen/audio/videoA new feature "RecordRTC" was added to record the screen activity. See: Record screen audio video 1.28. SAMLUpgrade to version 4.x of PHP-SAML
1.29. Shamir's Shared Secrets and Team Password Management via Trackers1.30. SchedulerA new preference was added to allow delaying all scheduled tasks to run some minutes after it was supposed to.
See Scheduler Related commit: https://sourceforge.net/p/tikiwiki/code/77631 1.31. Select2https://github.com/harvesthq/chosen is deprecated so we moved the whole code base to https://select2.org/
All done in one version. This is doable because we have a centralized code-based. Systems with thousands of plugins are unable to do such migrations: https://pluginproblems.com/Modules-Extensions 1.32. SitemapSitemap: replaced deprecated sitemap-php by melbahja/seo 1.33. SnapshotThis is a (still experimental) List Execute action that enables scraping a webpage and saving the content as a wiki page. Details at http://sourceforge.net/p/tikiwiki/code/78296. 1.34. Transactional Email Providers1.35. Trackers1.35.1. Duration field type1.35.2. Exclude indexing non-searchable tracker fieldshttps://sourceforge.net/p/tikiwiki/code/76304/ was also bakported to 21.x 1.35.3. Group can see their own itemsadd options for 'Group can see their own items' and group ownership to GroupSelector fields - enhance permission system to support ability for users in specific group to view items associated with that group
1.35.4. Search orphaned field namestiki-admin_orphaned.php
1.35.5. Shorten tracker field names in mysql search index to allow greater number of fields in the indexhttps://sourceforge.net/p/tikiwiki/code/76303/ was also bakported to 21.x 1.36. System TrackersThere is a new section in Control Panels > Trackers > 'System Trackers' (bottom of the page).
You can enable it, select which one it is, select the corresponding fields (Currency, Rate, Date) and also the conversion logic (if the rates are entered straight or reverse pairs). An important update here is removal of the Currency Tracker selection in the Currency field options. We no longer need or want to use that from the field properties as we have a system tracker now. The important part for those of you managing Currency fields is to go to Trackers settings page and configure the system tracker fields. See System Trackers 1.37. Wiki PluginsNew, improved or Fixes 1.37.1. PluginAutoTOC1.37.2. Plugin FigletNew plugin. It allows you to create text banners in different fonts. The text banners are composed of a cloud of smaller letters in the manner of ASCII art. You may display "TIKIWIKI" as below : Click to expand
1.37.3. PluginGanttChartImproved. Added gantt items duplication within same tracker See PluginGanttChart 1.37.4. Plugin KanbanNew plugin. It allows to move tracker items with drag & drop capabilities in Trello-like boards. See PluginKanban 1.37.5. Plugin ListImproved plugin. Added an option to plugin list to make caching work even for admin users to make testing easier. See PluginList 1.37.6. PluginListExecutePluginListExecute
Fix. Allow checkbox value to be reset with tracker_item_modify ListExecute action.
Fix. cloning tracker items via ListExecute keeps auto-assigned UserSelector values instead of resetting that to none or current user
1.37.7. PluginList editable filtersImproved. See: PluginList with editable filters 1.37.8. PluginPivotTableColumn/Row sort order are now savable
1.37.9. PluginQRNew plugin. Generate QR codes in your wiki pages easily with PluginQR 1.37.10. PluginSignatureNew plugin. It allows to draw a signature and save it as an image, stored within the plugin content as image/png base64.
1.37.11. PluginTOTP1.38. Risky PreferencesSome risky preferences are disabled and hidden by default, since Tiki 22
1.39. Suggestions1.40. ThemesThree new themes have been added — Morph, Quartz, and Vapor. These MIT-licensed themes by Bootswatch have been slightly modified and extended for Tiki. 1.41. Unified Admin Backend UINew "Unified Admin Backend" preference along with a new Admin UI theme was designed, integrated and introduced in Tiki 23 to make the Admin Control Panels easier to use and navigate. We hope it brings more intuitive way to Tiki newcomers to administer and set up their Tiki. As usual it is completely optional. It can be enabled/disabled on the Look & Feel Control Panel and will be enabled by default for fresh new Tiki 23 installations.
1.42. Unified IndexNow supports emails which are stored as files
email_subject
1.43. Vue.js1.44. Webmail contacts
https://sourceforge.net/p/tikiwiki/code/76499
1.45. Web MonetizationWeb Monetization
2. Removals
2.1. Image galleryAfter years being deprecated (https://dev.tiki.org/Endangered-features) the image gallery was definitely removed from Tiki23. (https://gitlab.com/tikiwiki/tiki/-/commit/c6454958) 2.2. BiDi's (right to left) leftovers were removed.
2.3. ZendSearchhttps://github.com/zendframework/ZendSearch/pull/23#issuecomment-312265313
3. General upgrade notesAlso, see the standard information about Upgrades in Tiki. 3.1. If you are upgrading from SVN or GitBefore switching to branch 23+
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