Setup:Release Notes

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BlueSpice 2.27.2

BlueSpice 2.27.2 is a minor release.

This is a stable release.

Notable changes

New features

• FilterSpecialPages: Quickly filter the list of special pages with a search term
• InsertTemplate (Pro): Insert and edit templates from BlueSpiceVisualEditor
• LaTexRenderer (Pro): Reliably render math formulas
• SignHere (Pro): Easily add signature in view mode
• Newly bundled extensions: Arrays, Userfunctions, Variables, Maps (Pro)

Other significant changes

• Support for digest notifications once per day or week
• Major improvements in BlueSpiceVisualEditor
• PermissionManager explains why a right is set or blocked
• Various small UX improvements
• Dropped support for IE10 due to VisualEditor update. Talk to us if you still need it.

Removed extensions

• WidgetBar
• Review: This is now part of BlueSpice pro
• WantedArticles

Compatibility

• Fully MW 1.27 compatible
• MediaWiki 1.27 LTS
• Operating System: Microsoft Windows Server 2008+ or Linux (common distributions)
• Web server: Apache 2+, IIS 7+
• PHP 5.6 to 7.0
• MySQL 5.4+ or MariaDB 10+
• Apache Tomcat 8 (for ExtendedSearch, UEModulePDF, VisualDiff and LaTexRenderer)
• Java 8+
• Chrome, Firefox, Internet Eplorer Explorer 11, Edge

BlueSpice Foundation

• API: Add 'options' param to allowed params inBSApiWikiSubPageTreeStore
• API: Added 'query' param to API calls
• API: Added APIDeletePage
• API: ApiTasksTestBase - removing permission change
• API: ApiTitleQueryStore - Fix for not returning Titles from NS_MAIN
• API: Bs-filebackend-store: Changed default sort
• API: BSApiExtJSStoreBase: order a grid with stdClass value
• API: BSApiFileBackendStore - Improved performance
• API: User store api supports the query param
• API: WikiPageStore - added filtering of namespace and title parts
• Build: Add jakub-onderka/php-console-highlighter
• Compatibility: Add CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
• Compatibility: API - Split description messages into summary + additional text
• Compatibility: CC - Remove newline at end from english messages
• Compatibility: NS_IMAGE -> NS_FILE
• Compatibility: Removed $wgCapitalLinkOverrides from global list onRegistry, as it is not in use anymore
• Compatibility: Removed deprecated BSMailer
• Compatibility: Removed deprecated ContextActive for SecureFilestore
• Compatibility: Replaced deprecated BsCore::getUserDisplayName with BsUserHelper::getUserDisplayName
• Compatibility: WigetBar deprecation - removed call to widgetbar hook
• Compatiblity: Replaced &$this with $this
• Components: Add support for links with colons in Widgets
• Components: Added 'data-bs-title' attribute to images
• Components: Added i18n messages for Date/DateTime grid filter
• Components: CRUDGridPanel - Fixed "filters not showing on initially hidden columns"
• Components: Entity - Used own title invalidation method
• Components: FileSystemHelper - Add checking for warnings before uploading
• Components: GroupHelper - adding reload option
• Components: Made bluespice upload available in mobile view
• Components: New basic tree structure classes
• Components: PageContentProvider - Fix for not overriding wgRequest
• Components: Set remote as default for UserCombo query type
• Components: UploadPanel - Fix for missing duplicate warnings
• ExtensionManager: Various code improvements
• General: Add NS_MEDIA to "allowed" namespaces in TitleCombo
• General: Added jJS configuration variable bsgVersion containing bluespice version
• General: Adding "BlueSpice" namespace to PSR-4 autoloader
• General: Rename "BlueSpice for MediaWiki" to "BlueSpice MediaWiki"
• Permissions: Added permissions "userrights" and "siteadmin" for group sysop.
• Tests: Added simplified fixtures for users
• Tests: Adding info about tables used
• Tests: API - Add function for retrieving custom params
• Tests: API - Add method that defines root node name in results
• Tests: BSApiAdminUserStore and BSApiUserStore
• Tests: BSApiCategoryStore
• Tests: BSApiCategoryTreeStore
• Tests: BSApiExtJSStoreTestBase - fixed schema test
• Tests: BSApiGroupStore
• Tests: BSApiInterwikiStore
• Tests: BSApiPingTasks
• Tests: BSApiUploadLicenseStore
• Tests: BSApiWikiPageStore
• Tests: BSApiWikiSubPageTreeStore
• Tests: Change conditions for single filter
• Tests: Clarified usage of addDBDataOnce
• Tests: Maintenance script to adopt unittest log to jenkins
• Tests: Move fixture creation to setUp function
• Tests: Unittests - optional total and key item check
• UI: Added the bluespice logo as own font
• UI: Fixed possible fatal when sidebar params are missing
• UI: User images: do not use a passepartout
• UX: Fixes/Improvements for UserMiniProfile
• UX: Flag icons - adjusted css to match resource loader unit tests
• UX: Removed limit for CategoryBoxSelect combo box

BlueSpice Extensions

• AboutBlueSpice: Changed icon to bluespice-logo font #6773
• AboutBlueSpice: Changed the icon in the left navigation #6773
• ArticleInfo: Removed the arrows from the subpages in the statebar
• Authors: Improved "more users" image
• Avatars: Add PHPUnit Tests, uploadfile is ignored in this version update as suggested
• Avatars: Added invalidation, so the user images can be changed properly
• Avatars: Fix for image width
• Avatars: Fixed fatal error when new Avatar gets created
• Avatars: Fixed missing initial avatars for new users
• Avatars: Fixes notices undefined width and/or height in ViewUserMiniProfile
• Blog: Fix for missing blog segment on Special:RSS_Feeder
• Blog: Fix RSS feed
• Blog: Fixed behavior of 'ns' and 'mode' argument
• Blog: Replaced deprecated BsExtensionManager::registerNamespace
• Build: Add jakub-onderka/php-console-highlighter
• Checklist: Filter actual checklists from template namespace
• Checklist: Fixed recursive parser bug
• Checklist: I18n - improved logentry text
• Compatibility - API: Split description messages into summary + additional text
• Compatibility: Add CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
• Compatibility: Remove deprecated hook calls for BSWidgetBarGetDefaultWidgets
• Compatibility: Replaced &$this with $this
• Compatibility: Replaced NS_IMAGE with NS_FILE
• ContextMenu: API unit tests #1
• ContextMenu: Moved code to BSF
• CSyntaxHighlight: Fixed notice "non static method called statically"
• Dashboards: Nothing shown in dashboards
• ExtendedEditBar: Fix for duplicate strike button
• ExtendedSearch: ApiFeed - Fixed query and made sure there is valid rss when solr is not available
• ExtendedSearch: ApiFeedExtendedSearch phpunit test
• ExtendedSearch: Fix for sending multiple namespace params to Solr
• ExtendedSearch: Fixed ApiFeedExtendedSearch
• ExtendedSearch: Fixed autocomplete query
• ExtendedSearch: Fixed issue with content repacement after API call
• ExtendedSearch: Removed ExtendedSearchAdmin
• ExtendedStatistics: Added a user right to view the statistics.
• ExtensionInfo: Fixed possible notice when an old deprecated extensions is displayed
• Extensions: Removed deprecated ContextActive for SecureFilestore
• Extensions: Removed deprecated usage of context handling methods
• Extensions: Replaced deprecated BsCore::getUserDisplayName with BsUserHelper::getUserDisplayName
• Extensions: Replaced url blue-spice.org with bluespice.com
• Flexiskin: API Unittest + API documentation fix
• Flexiskin: Enabled unittests
• FlexiSkin: Filterable grid columns
• Flexiskin: Fixed operator issue
• FlexiSkin: Permissions and other fixes
• General: I18n - Remove newline at end from english messages
• General: Insert dialogs - Fixed selection in IE
• General: Replaced "BlueSpice for MediaWiki" and similar occurences
• General: Unittests - added correct grouping of BlueSpice tests
• General: Unittests - added missing API descriptions
• General: Unittests - Fixed caching issue
• General: Unittests - Fixed shared fixture
• General: Unittests - Made tests cache proof
• General: Unittests - Provided a shared fixture for the tests
• GroupManager: Activated filter for ExtJS grid
• InsertFile: Add option to select File or Media link
• InsertFile: Fix for double File/Media radio buttons
• InsertFile: Switched from infinite scroll to paging
• InsertFile: Switching to BSF Upload dialog
• InsertLink: CC - Fix bad newlines
• InsertMagic: Raised number of totals to 86
• InterWikiLinks: Added full string filter feature #6656
• NamespaceManager: Add new hook
• NamespaceManager: Disable deleting and renaming Talk namespaces
• NamespaceManager: Include namespace number in write hook
• NamespaceManager: normalized available namespaces
• NamespaceManager: Show page count by default
• NamespaceManager: Unittest if there is no user namespace
• NamespaceManager: Unittest no longer messes with namespaces
• PageAccess: API unittest BSApiPageAccessStore
• PageAccess: Used store api and extJS grid instead of simple table for specialpage
• PageAssignments: Added primary keys
• PageAssignments: Adding Asignee "everyone"
• PageAssignments: API Unit test + Filter fix
• PageAssignments: Enable unit tests
• PageAssignments: Fix for hook handler
• PageAssignments: Fixed display of statebar icon
• PageAssignments: Fixed Strict Standard Static function BSAssignableBase::getQueryConds() should not be abstract
• PageAssignments: Reset assignments table after test
• PageTemplates: Added filters
• PageTemplates: shared fixture should only be set up once
• PermissionManager: Add flyout to show where is permission comming from
• PermissionManager: Added sorting
• PermissionManager: removed unneccessary rights settings from tests
• PermissionManager: restore global state after API call
• PermissionManager: Updated PHPUnit Test to suite save requirements: assigned edit and siteadmin permission to sysop group
• Readers: Added basic API tests
• Readers: Fix for TZ difference
• Readers: Fix for TZ offset
• Readers: Fixed link text-decorations were also applied to the images
• Review: This is now part of BlueSpice pro
• RSSFeeder: Added API unit tests
• RSSFeeder: Changed RSSPortlet url to http://blog.bluespice.com/feed/
• RSSStandards: Added API unit tests
• RSSStandards: Fix for page feed select combobox
• RSSStandards: Fixed undefined variable error
• ShoutBox: api test
• ShoutBox: Fixed / impoved error handling
• SmartList: Add phpunit base tests
• StateBar: Added BSApiStateBarTasksTest phpunit test
• Statebar: Better mobile integration
• StateBar: Fixed return values
• Statistics: API Unittets
• Statistics: Fix for example in API documentation
• Statistics: Fixed PNG export
• UEModulePDF: Bugs on new class
• UEModulePDF: Change tag filename is retrieved from
• UEModulePDF: Refactor findFiles logic
• UsageTracker: API unittest
• UsageTracker: Used ExtJS grid indstead of simple table on special page
• UserManager: Added filters
• UserPreferences: Fixed "Current logged in users settings will be saved to other users"
• VisualEditor: Add header row and standard formats to table
• VisualEditor: Added summary, save, preview, changes and cancel btn
• VisualEditor: Additional toggles for table function and style
• VisualEditor: FirstHeading will not disappear when scrolling
• VisualEditor: Fix for adding external links with umlauts
• VisualEditor: Fix for wrong regex match
• VisualEditor: Fixed context menu
• VisualEditor: Fixed issue with image links
• VisualEditor: Fixed issue with image preview
• VisualEditor: Fixed link editing
• VisualEditor: Fixed undefined menu item
• VisualEditor: Fixed vertical cell alignment from formats menu
• VisualEditor: Improved context specific availability of actions
• VisualEditor: Improving Excel import
• VisualEditor: Made styling more realistic
• VisualEditor: Modified button and summary tf in bs-ve-editoptions
• VisualEditor: Updating to TinyMCE version 4.6
• VisualEditor: Version info and branding
• WantedArticle: Remove deprecated Extension
• WhoIsOnline: Moved inserTrace from BeforeInitialize to ParserFirstCallInit
• WidgetBar: Remove deprecated Extension

BlueSpice Skin

• Add CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
• Adopted editing font to display font
• Echo notifications overlays are now in front of the extJS panels
• Fixed float of personal menu in not logged-in state
• Fixed user images loosing aspect ratio when down scaling
• Inline-block for navigation before items
• Notifications in bs-user-container: fixed overlay z-index: 100
• Replaced "BlueSpice for MediaWiki" and similar occurences
• Set the font-weight of the icons in personal info to 100

BlueSpice Distribution

• Newly bundled extension: Arrays
• Newly bundled extension: Userfunctions
• Newly bundled extension: Variables
• DistributionConnector: Fixed double encoding of duplicator url
• EchoConnector: Fixed issue with deleted users
• EchoConnector: Replaced deprecated BsCore::getUserDisplayName with BsUserHelper::getUserDisplayName
• EchoConnector: Fix for Echo not loading message- and alert widgets
• EchoConnector: Update extension.json
• EditNotifyConnector: Add empty default value for wgEditNotifyAlerts

BlueSpice Pro

• New Feature: InsertTemplate
• New Feature: LatexRenderer
• New Feature: DrawioConnector
• New Feature: SignHere
• Bookmaker: Add unlimited height for "all books" overview when not inside a book
• Bookmaker: Fix for BookMeta['title']: Using title from meta data if set.
• Bookmaker: Remove deprecated hook call after the extension have been removed
• Bookmaker: Replaced deprecated BsExtensionManager::registerNamespace
• Bookmaker: Tests - Added more API descriptions
• Bookmaker: Tests - Adding missing api descriptions
• Bookmaker: UEModulePDFSubpages - Refactored out widget creation
• CategoryManager: Added icons and action column
• CategoryManager: Fixed leaf items
• CategoryManager: Fixed logical errors, improvements
• CategoryManager: Fixed no response message on new category fails
• CategoryManager: Removed link from treepanel and added it to action column.
• ExportTables: add export to standard table in VE
• ExportTables: Replaced deprecated BsCore::getUserDisplayName with BsUserHelper::getUserDisplayName
• ExportTables: updating to new visual editor table_functions
• ExtendedFilelist: Adding url to extension.json
• NSFileRepoConnector: Add hook handler to fix filenames in PDF exports
• NSFileRepoConnector: Adding missing API description
• NSFileRepoConnector: Fix for colons in prefixed filenames
• NSFileRepoConnector: Fixed BlueSpiceWebDAVIntegration
• NSFileRepoConnector: Fixed main namespace name
• NSFileRepoConnector: Fixed warning on client side
• NSFileRepoConnector: Fixes for NSFileRepo REL1_27
• NSFileRepoConnector: Integration with "BlueSpiceMultiUpload"
• NSFileRepoConnector: Moved access to NSFileRepo\NamespaceList to NSFileRepoConnectorNamespaceHelper
• NSFileRepoConnector: Remove unnecessary code
• NSFileRepoConnector: Removed functionality that is now part of NSFileRepo itself
• NSFileRepoConnector: Usage of unified namespace list
• PasteImage: Add duplicate (and other) warning when drag'n'dropping an image
• PasteImage: Bumped version number to 2.27.1
• PasteImage: Catch if non image pasted
• PasteImage: Fix moved uploaddialog, fix paste from excel https://support.hallowelt.com/issues/6652
• PasteImage: Fixed dependency error for mobile view.
• PasteImage: Fixed description message and added package BlueSpice Pro in extension.json
• PasteImage: Handle empty pasteimage events
• PasteImage: Implement reading file from browser blob cache
• PasteImage: Improved API documentation and added missings
• PasteImage: Re-implementing hook BSPasteImageBeforeSettingsDialogSetData
• PasteImage: Removing unused RL module
• PasteImage: Tests - Added missing API descriptions
• PasteImage: Update i18n messages
• RatedComments: Removed deprecated usage of context handling methods
• RatedComments: Tests - Added missing API description
• Rating: Added hooks to make changing/tracking votes for other extensions possible
• Rating: Rating: Improved filtering of page name
• Rating: Removed deprecated usage of context handling methods
• Rating: Tests - Added missing API documentation
• ReadConfirmation: Add possibility to disable/enable ReadConfirmation based on NS
• ReadConfirmation: Added README.md
• ReadConfirmation: Adding english translation and missing API description
• ReadConfirmation: API unittest
• ReadConfirmation: Hide action buttons related to this extension on PageAssignments
• ReadConfirmation: Remove a hook handler
• ReadConfirmation: Update de.json
• ReadConfirmation: Update ReadConfirmationHooks.php
• Reminder: Activated filter for comment fields #6656
• Reminder: Add missing message for notification category
• Reminder: Fixed notice, that non static method is called statically
• Review: Add custom notes
• Review: Added paging toolbar to overview panel
• Review: Fix for compatibility with new EchoConnector
• Review: Fix for error on non-content pages
• Review: Fixed availability of review overview
• Review: Fixed Review:doDelete not returning a valid status object in some cases
• Review: Fixes checks for "isSpecial"
• Review: Remove deprecated extension
• Review: Replaced deprecated BsCore::getUserDisplayName with BsUserHelper::getUserDisplayName
• Review: Step dialogs user combobox now supports more than 25 users
• Review: Update extpath for proper extjs loading
• ServiceCenter: Adding missing API parameter documentation
• ServiceCenter: CategoryCheck - Replaced deprecated hook call
• ServiceCenter: Messages - adding qqq for API description
• ServiceCenter: Tests - Add missing api description
• ServiceCenter: Updated onWriteNamespaceConfiguration to new signature
• SMWConnector: Add CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
• SMWConnector: Add php-parallel-lint
• SMWConnector: BlueSpiceSMWConnector: visual editor and mandatory are now working
• SMWConnector: Build - ignore extensions folder
• SMWConnector: Refactoring of BlueSpiceVisualEditor from SMWForms to PageForms
• SMWConnector: Replaced "BlueSpice for MediaWiki" and similar occurences
• SMWConnector: Updated onWriteNamespaceConfiguration to new signature
• SMWConnector: Updated use of deprecated hook
• Teamwork: Add ExtensionField revh_step_id
• Teamwork: Add note about comment being deleted when delegating review
• Teamwork: Adding missing API descriptions
• Teamwork: Avoid notices by checking for dependency
• Teamwork: Fix for notifications not working
• Teamwork: Fixed notice "Missing argument 1 for Title::isSpecial()"
• Teamwork: FlaggedRevsConnector: missed a translation
• Teamwork: Remove contition Title->isContentPage()
• Teamwork: Removed nonexistant class from autoloader
• Teamwork: Rename review to bsreview
• Teamwork: Update extension.json
• Teamwork: Update README.md
• Teamwork: Update ReviewExtended.setup.php
• Teamwork: Updated onWriteNamespaceConfiguration signature
• Teamwork: Updated use of deprecated hook
• WikiExplorer: Adding missing API description
• WikiExplorer: Fixed renderPrototypes is not defined on table export
• WikiExplorer: Removed deprecated usage of context handling methods