Tiki25

Tiki 25.0 was released in December 2022, shortly after Tiki turned 20 years old!

Here is announcement: https://tiki.org/article497-Biggest-Tiki-Release-Ever-Tiki-25

You can see the development page at : https://dev.tiki.org/Tiki25 and all the code commits here: https://gitlab.com/tikiwiki/tiki/-/commits/25.x/

Because of all the enhancements and changes, you should do more than usual testing before upgrading.

It is a Standard Term Support (STS) version and will be supported until Tiki 26.1 is released, as per the Tiki lifecycle policy.

Since this is a post-LTS, it has major changes, such as an upgrade to

• Bootstrap 5, which was released in May 2021.
• Smarty 4, which was released in November 2021
• Font Awesome 6, which was released in February 2022
• However, the PHP Requirements remain at version 7.4, the same as Tiki24.
  • Support for PHP 8 will be added in Tiki26, and it is likely that the minimum PHP version will increase for Tiki27 LTS (perhaps to PHP 8.1). So if you expect to not be able to upgrade beyond PHP 7.4, you should stay with Tiki24 LTS. Please see Versions.

Browser support

Given the fact our themes and Smarty templates rely on Bootstrap 5 heavily, the browser support for Tiki 25 follows the same path:

• Dropped Internet Explorer 10 and 11
• Dropped Microsoft Edge < 16 (Legacy Edge)
• Dropped Firefox < 60
• Dropped Safari < 12
• Dropped iOS Safari < 12
• Dropped Chrome < 60

For more details see https://getbootstrap.com/docs/5.1/migration/

New features

(alphabetically sorted)

1.1.1. Anime.js

The spectacular Anime.js library was added to Tiki and used in the new PluginCountup (and will be progressively deployed elsewhere in Tiki in future versions)

1.1.2. Database connection encryption

https://gitlab.com/tikiwiki/tiki/-/merge_requests/1452

1.1.3. Email bounce handling

• Email bounce handling

1.1.4. Email: Detect disposable

• Disposable email detection

1.1.5. Email filters

• Email filters

1.1.6. Faker

switch from fzaninotto/Faker library to fakerPHP
https://gitlab.com/tikiwiki/tiki/-/merge_requests/1353 to assist package management

1.1.7. Federated timesheets

• Federated timesheets

1.1.8. File Gallery - Direct Mapping

• File Gallery - Direct Mapping mode

1.1.9. Gitpod

• Gitpod support

1.1.10. GlitchTip error logging

Add a new preference to sample the errors, reducing the amount of information needed.
https://gitlab.com/tikiwiki/tiki/-/merge_requests/1617

• GlitchTip

1.1.11. HTTP Headers security

For HTTP Headers, stronger security settings are activated by default in new installs of Tiki25+

1.1.12. Icon Picker

• Icon Picker

1.1.13. Kanban

New Kanban feature.

1.1.14. Machine Learning

• Machine Learning: Upgrade from version 0.4.2 to 2.1.1
  • https://gitlab.com/tikiwiki/tiki/-/merge_requests/1771

1.1.15. Manticore Search

Manticore Search added as Unified Index option. Experimental in Tiki25, and will be production-ready in Tiki26.

1.1.16. Markdown as default syntax

Now possible to set Markdown as the new default syntax. This is opt-in, and current Tiki syntax will continue to work for many years. See:

• Tiki-Flavored Markdown
• WYSIWYG and Markdown

1.1.17. Mautic Marketing Automation

• Mautic

1.1.18. Media Queries

• Media Queries via GUI

1.1.19. Modules

1.1.19.1. PageTop hero

https://gitlab.com/tikiwiki/tiki/-/merge_requests/1635

1.1.19.2. Git Details

https://gitlab.com/tikiwiki/tiki/-/merge_requests/1592

1.1.20. Natural Language Generation

• Natural Language Generation

1.1.21. ODBC

• ODBC sync improvements

https://gitlab.com/tikiwiki/tiki/-/commit/a295031aa315226fb995a4b2a889eb788b4d3868
https://gitlab.com/tikiwiki/tiki/-/commit/e36b0940ec86a0be36b62a82494165792eac90ff
https://gitlab.com/tikiwiki/tiki/-/commit/6e3be45f25fbc9693ee8e2f6155da78e57f4a976
https://gitlab.com/tikiwiki/tiki/-/commit/9edb7ae363a4f3aed0d6b6814150d2d84371b014
https://gitlab.com/tikiwiki/tiki/-/commit/121dd0053130aac47bf122b0f091f0f041cf95d5
https://gitlab.com/tikiwiki/tiki/-/commit/09a146ecb7b73c87fa2af7a4781301c83793b58c
https://gitlab.com/tikiwiki/tiki/-/commit/79bebb7f4d90ff53fa49f9a4b5e8b35df6a860cb

1.1.22. Orphaned preferences

• Orphan preferences

1.1.23. Print

Add option to include wiki comments when printing or exporting to PDF
https://gitlab.com/tikiwiki/tiki/-/merge_requests/1795

Add the option to export articles to PDF
https://gitlab.com/tikiwiki/tiki/-/merge_requests/1276

1.1.24. Realtime

• Realtime

1.1.25. Suffix Cleaner

• URL Suffix Cleaner

1.1.26. Tablesorter

• Add export to Tablesorter

https://gitlab.com/tikiwiki/tiki/-/merge_requests/1705

1.1.27. Themes and CSS variables

New themes and styling methods:

• Boosted, an implementation for Tiki of Orange Boosted, and an original Neubrutalism theme, Neubrutiki - https://gitlab.com/tikiwiki/tiki/-/merge_requests/1899
• Zephyr, by Bootswatch - https://gitlab.com/tikiwiki/tiki/-/merge_requests/1724
• Tiki-specific CSS variables (CSS custom properties) to facilitate site customization (See Pagetop styles and CSS variables.)

1.1.28. Tiki Manager as a Package

• Tiki Manager Package along with 3 wiki plugins
  • PluginTikiManager
  • PluginTikiManagerClone
  • PluginTikiManagerUpdate

1.1.29. Tiki Manager and Virtualmin

https://wikisuite.org/Tiki-Manager-Package-connecting-to-Virtualmin

1.1.30. Trackers

• New tracker field property: exclude data and changes from email notifications.

https://gitlab.com/tikiwiki/tiki/-/merge_requests/1898

• Import/export Cal/ics import/export: https://gitlab.com/tikiwiki/tiki/-/commit/a5b0954b5a4938a7fe52a37e22ca88c6299ccd53

1.1.31. User account locking

https://gitlab.com/tikiwiki/tiki/-/merge_requests/1634

1.1.32. Vue.js

• Vue JS version 3.x is used for PluginKanban, which led to multiple architectural improvements, which will spread all over Tiki in future versions.

1.1.33. Webhooks

• Webhooks

1.1.34. WikiPlugin Accordion

• PluginAccordion

1.1.35. WikiPlugin ListExecute

added tracker_item_insert in the listexecute plugin actions
https://gitlab.com/tikiwiki/tiki/-/merge_requests/1595

1.1.36. WYSIWYG Editor

New WYSIWYG editor, to manage Markdown also as default syntax in text areas.

See: WYSIWYG and Markdown

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

(alphabetically sorted)

1.1.1. Webmail

• Dozens of bug fixes and enhancements in Cypht Webmail and its integration in Tiki, and Email folders Tracker Field
  • Look at the commits since 2022-03: https://github.com/jasonmunro/cypht/commits/master

1.1.2. Wiki Syntax

• Fixed the wiki syntax parser to allow autolinks in parenthesis and exclude closing parenthesis from the external URLs autolinks (backported to Tiki24)

1.1.3. Plugin CustomSearch, List and List Execute download button positioning

Added in Tiki25 a new parameter to control the position of the download button: downloadable-position="top|bottom|both". Values are top,-+bottom+- or both. Default is "bottom". See: https://doc.tiki.org/PluginList-output-control-block#Download_CSV_of_Table_Results

Removed

• Old Tiki MindMap in Flash (We are looking for HTML5 replacement.)
• PluginSF
• PluginFlash
• PluginMySpace
• Superfish/Suckerfish was removed earlier before the release of Tiki25, as it is superseded by Smartmenus - see Smartmenus Megamenu
  • Documentation for the transition is available a the Menu documentation page
• PluginCarousel
• PluginGalleriffic
• PluginSlider
• OpenID
  • When you upgrade to Tiki25+, the now unusable user data related to OpenID will be deleted (the openid_url column in the users_users table).
• Strasa theme child themes
• Jqui theme child themes (except for Trontastic)