Semantic MediaWiki 2.2.0

Semantic MediaWiki 2.2.0
Release date:	May 9, 2015
Previous version:	Semantic MediaWiki 2.1.0
Next version:	Semantic MediaWiki 2.3.0
Compatible with:	MW 1.19.0 - 1.24.x
Current version:
SMW 6.0.1

Version 2.2 of Semantic MediaWiki is the next release after Semantic MediaWiki 2.1.0.

This new version provides new features most notably improving the "category" result format, including the possibility to use a "named args" parameter to change formatting. It also adds support for the "sep" parameter to the "table" result format allowing to define a separator for cell values as well as introduces a "template" option allowing for customized links or queries to the "#set" parser function. See the RELEASE NOTES below for more details.

Please refer to the help page on installing Semantic MediaWiki to get detailed instructions on how to do this.

 docs/releasenotes/RELEASE-NOTES-2.2.0.md

Semantic MediaWiki 2.2

Released on May 9th, 2015.

New features

• #770 Added the --no-cache option to rebuildData.php and the --debug option to rebuildData.php and rebuildConceptCache.php (refs #749, #766)
• #756 Added template support to the #set parser function
• #783 Added support for wgCategoryCollation setting in CategoryResultPrinter (#699, T40853)
• #829 Added the --report-runtime option to rebuildConceptCache.php
• #886 Extended rules on how an ImportValue need to contain a valid type definition
• #891 Enforced strict type declaration for properties with import references (type of the imported reference takes precedence over any user-defined type declaration)
• #892 Added support for <swivt:file> in order for a RDF export to point to a "real" file resource
• #893 Added information about "improper value for" to the statistics overview and as API parameter (&errorcount)
• #913 Fixed exception for usage of Has subobject as free annotation
• #914 Added restriction for "manual" annotation use to some pre-defined properties (e.g. Has subobject, Has query)
• #974 Added named args as parameter to CategoryResultPrinter
• #988 Added sep as parameter to the TableResultPrinter to define a separator for cell values

Enhancements

• #958 Replaced defunct SMWRegsitry wiki registration on Special:SMWAdmin with a link to WikiApiary
• #976 Reduced the number of pages on which SMW JavaScript and CSS is loaded
• #994, #995 Made small performance improvements

Bug fixes

• #556 Fixed Missing parentheses in SQL for disjunctions when temporary tables are not used by the SQLStore
• #764 Fixed DB error when a #ask query contains order=random for a sqlite or postgres DB platform (disabled smwgQRandSortingSupport for postgres)
• #860 Fixed escape character usage in SPARQLStore, SQLStore
• #860 Fixed handling of an empty result send by the SPARQLStore Sesame connector
• #861 Fixed owl property export declaration
• #863 Fixed missing interwiki encoding for the RDF export
• #864 Fixed empty searchlabel raw wikitext display for a QueryResultPrinter with limit=0
• #869 Fixed data update when moving a page to a non-enabled semantic namespace
• #870 Fixed #set where an error from a previous parse call could have affected succeeding #set error messages
• #882 Fixed exception in SMWExportController caused by an empty property reference
• #884 Fixed fetching of import vocabularies to be language independent
• #887 Fixed pre element rendering for the template "furtherresult" output link
• #896 Fixed empty caption for false when using the#x format option
• #928 Fixed exception in SMWExportController for use of &stats option
• #945 Fixed nesting of self-referenced concepts in a concept query
• #974 Fixed inconsistency when using headers=plain in CategoryResultPrinter also fixed the __NOTOC__ hack

Internal changes

• #373 Update jquery.jstorage.js (0.3.2 => 0.4.12)
• #494 Changes to the SQLStore\QueryEngine interface
• #711 Fetching annotations made by an #ask transcluded template
• #725 Moved psr-4 complaint classes into the top level 'src' folder
• #740 Added serialization/serialization:~3.2 component dependency
• #771 Added doctrine/dbal:~2.5 component dependency
• #772 Added onoi/message-reporter:~1.0 component dependency
• #777 Moved all concept related code into a separate ConceptCache class
• #831 Added onoi/cache:~1.0 component dependency
• #884, #983 Added ControlledVocabularyImportContentFetcher, ImportValueParser to isolate import vocabulary parsing from the ImportValue object
• #883 Added CircularReferenceGuard to monitor possible self/circular references in ask templates
• #914 Added DIProperty::isUnrestrictedForUse
• #924 Added onoi/event-dispatcher:~1.0 component dependency
• #929 Added serialization to ExpElement objects
• #950 Renamed PropertyTypeDiffFinder to PropertySpecDiffFinder
• #951 Extended UpdateDispatcherJob to create UpdateJob chunks to avoid memory exhaustion
• #959 Added ExpDataSerializer and ExpDataDeserializer
• #984 Moved remaining part of SMWSQLStore3QueryEngine to SMW\SQLStore\QueryEngine\QueryEngine

 docs/releasenotes/RELEASE-NOTES-2.1.1.md

Semantic MediaWiki 2.1.1

Released on March 2nd, 2015.

Bug fixes

• #861 Fixed owl property export declaration
• #863 Fixed missing interwiki encoding for the RDF export
• #864 Fixed empty searchlabel raw wikitext display for a QueryResultPrinter with limit=0

 docs/releasenotes/RELEASE-NOTES-2.1.2.md

Semantic MediaWiki 2.1.2

Released on March 28th, 2015.

Bug fixes

• #882 Fixed exception in SMWExportController caused by an empty reference
• #885 Fixed pre tag rendering in template output
• #896 Fixed empty string for boolean x-format output

 docs/releasenotes/RELEASE-NOTES-2.1.3.md

Semantic MediaWiki 2.1.3

Released on March 30th, 2015.

Bug fix

• #946 Fixed variable name regression for the "list" format introduced with version 2.1.2

See also

• The milestone on GitHub used for tracking issues and tasks related to this version of Semantic MediaWiki