Tiki 27.0 LTS will be released in May or June 2024.
It is a Long Term Support (LTS) version and will be supported until May or June 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 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).
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Tiki was upgraded to use version 10 of PHPUnit (the de-facto standard for testing PHP-based software)
This required multiple code commits as many updates were required by various dependencies. Here is the last commit: https://gitlab.com/tikiwiki/tiki/-/merge_requests/4643
See https://dev.tiki.org/The-Tiki-27-plus-Build-System
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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
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:
MR: https://gitlab.com/tikiwiki/tiki/-/merge_requests/3534
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
https://gitlab.com/tikiwiki/tiki/-/commit/7261fa544d7f433b9fbda5ce4c74f472c1be0ada
New Console commands:
reportcache:clear
to clear the user reports cache
tracker:convert-attachments
to convert tracker attachments (the ones that are global for the tracker) to attachments as a tracker file field type
dev:buildwsconfs
to check and generate index.php and htaccess files
Added support for personal and work email
https://gitlab.com/tikiwiki/tiki/-/merge_requests/4399
Many bug fixes and enhancement 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
Added facet output to the table
template in https://gitlab.com/tikiwiki/tiki/-/merge_requests/4552 for use in PluginList and PluginCustomSearch
A preference that provides you with the ability to change anchor format.
https://gitlab.com/tikiwiki/tiki/-/merge_requests/2907
User mentions feature has been improved
Cypht is upgraded from version 1.4.x to 2.0.x which comes with numerous enhancements. See Webmail.
https://github.com/cypht-org/cypht/commits/master/
Several enhancements have been added to Plugin Survey:
https://gitlab.com/tikiwiki/tiki/-/merge_requests/3592
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.
https://gitlab.com/tikiwiki/tiki/-/merge_requests/4232