Semantic MediaWiki 1.7.1 beta

news date::February 15 2012. The first beta release of Semantic MediaWiki 1.7.1, the next minor version after 1.7.0, is now available. This is a beta release and should not be used on production wikis! So far 1.7.1 brings a ton of bugfixes and some minor additions.

Download

 * Tarballs: https://sourceforge.net/projects/semediawiki/files/semediawiki/Semantic%20MediaWiki%201.7.1%20beta%201/
 * SVN tag: http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/tags/extensions/SemanticMediaWiki/REL_1_7_1beta1/

Install / upgrade
You can just replace the old files with the new. No further steps are needed. Furthermore, no compatibility breaking changes have been made.

Changes

 * Added "Last editor is" and "Is a new page" special properties (bug 34359).
 * Added basic support for OpenLink Virtuoso RDF database. In addition to, users should set   and use Virtuoso's SPARQL endpoint at   for query and update alike. for further remarks and known limitations, see the file.
 * Added ability to sort dates as dates in tables generated by SMW (bug 25768).
 * When there are only invalid query conditions, query answering is stopped (bug 33177).
 * Fixed display of nearby values on Special:SearchByProperty (bug 34178).
 * Fixed display of URL values (bug 34312, 34044).
 * Fixed warning when browsing certain property pages (bug 34306).
 * Fixed failure of SMW_setup --delete when using PostgreSQL (bug 31153).
 * Fixed division by 0 error when setting the "Corresponds to" property to 0 (bug 32594).
 * Fixed accept header send with SPARQL query requests (bug 32280).
 * Fixed unresolved prefixed name in SPARQL queries (bug 33687).
 * Fixed issues with modification date property occurring when using SMWSparqlStore (bug 30989).
 * Fixed erroneous SPARQL for property value comparison queries (bug 30993).
 * Fixed broken +index=x for records (bug 30284).
 * Fixed querying of subobjects using 4store as a datastore.
 * Fixed issue with namespace internationalization (bug 34383).

Testing and reporting issues
If you find any issues with this beta release, please report them on bugzilla under, or on the semediawiki-user mailing list, so they can be addressed before the actual release.