Release Notes

BlueSpice

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BlueSpice 3.1

BlueSpice 3.1 is a minor release. This is a stable release.

Notable Changes

• Completely redesigned title section
  • Focus on convenience: See and modify relevant page information at a glance
  • Category handling: Categories are now shown in the title section and can be edited
  • Quality management: State of a page is displayed and can be changed
  • Page neighborhood: Subpages and related pages are shown in a breadcrumb navigation and can be easily be explored
• UX improvements
  • UX audit: Many improvements in iconography, labeling and navigation
  • Page load masks: Indicator for system activity to create a smoother experience
  • Fullscreen mode: Switch the wiki to full screen for more space
  • Accessibility audit: Many improvements regarding accessibility for screenreaders
• Search
  • Better scoring: Several tunings to provide a more natural search result order. E.g. base names have preference over subpages
  • Flexible autocomplete: It is now possible to use multiple infixes. E.g. search for "blue 3" results in BlueSpice 3.0
  • Similar pages: Pages with similar terms can be found in the page information flyout
• VisualEditor
  • Table formatting: Change the width and height of cells and apply various stylings
  • Text colors: Add colors to words and table backgrounds
  • File handling: It is now easier to link to files and upload files directly to namespaces
  • Convenience: Less clicks in file and save dialogs
• Performance boost
  • Complete performance audit: This leads to a significantly faster page load
  • Support for nginx: This results in a major performance boost
• Timeline
  • Integrated discussion page: Both classical wiki text and threaded discussions are stored on one page.
  • One step creation: Attachment and discussion sections can now be created in one click

BlueSpice Foundation

• Foundation: Add "BSExtractFiles"
• Foundation: Add APIAfterExecute hook handler class
• Foundation: Add Bosnian alias and cleanup *.alias.php files
• Foundation: Add GroupList config multi select
• Foundation: Add `autocreateaccount` to role `reader`
• Foundation: Add additional icons
• Foundation: Add bs-background-neutral and bs-background-transparent LessVars
• Foundation: Add custom menu skin data
• Foundation: Add detection for when articlepreviewcapture is not handled by default handler
• Foundation: Add generic permissions check for "Task API"
• Foundation: Add isHidden as a possible state of of ConfigDefinition
• Foundation: Add missing action- messages
• Foundation: Add multistring filter support
• Foundation: Add new category icon to BlueSpice font and fix bs icon logo class
• Foundation: Add new generalized cache-subsystem
• Foundation: Add new hooks for settings migration process
• Foundation: Add new input type `BS.form.field.NamespaceTag`
• Foundation: Add new semantically named color variable
• Foundation: Add permission requirements to roles
• Foundation: Add progressive button styling for ExtJS
• Foundation: Add script to create wikitext xml
• Foundation: Add simple cache for entity timestamps to reduce queries
• Foundation: Add sort key constants
• Foundation: Add support for multiple filters per field for primary database providers
• Foundation: Add textColor icon
• Foundation: ArticlePreview will return default image if page is removed. Also, title of removed page will be red
• Foundation: Atomic File Put contents
• Foundation: CategoryTag: Fix issue with not scrollable and not resizable tree dialog
• Foundation: Change protection rights assignments to correspond with MW defaults
• Foundation: Disable paging on treestore
• Foundation: Do not grant every permission to sysop, only if not previously assigned
• Foundation: Extend MWTimestamp instead of static functions to get "age string"
• Foundation: Fix "mw.Api is not a constructor" error
• Foundation: Fix "unknown parameter" error on API calls to ExtJS stores
• Foundation: Fix badly stretched user images again
• Foundation: Fix broken history links provided by recent changes store
• Foundation: Fix default limit on existing table entries check when using writer in stores
• Foundation: Fix duplicate warning dialog opened twice
• Foundation: Fix mustache template support for skins in TemplateHelper
• Foundation: Fix translator list and warning in credits specialpage
• Foundation: Fix user store groups filter
• Foundation: Fix validation of group multi select form field
• Foundation: Global loading indicator
• Foundation: Improve error message from batch upload
• Foundation: Improve WikiTextLinksHelper
• Foundation: Improve menu item labels for recent changes
• Foundation: Limit results of watchlist store to content namespaces
• Foundation: List allowed groups on locked down namespace
• Foundation: Loading indicators for managers
• Foundation: Make LessVars overwriteable
• Foundation: Make RunJobsTriggerHander intervals configurable
• Foundation: Make sure category titles are valid before using them
• Foundation: Modular lockdown
• Foundation: Move favicon setting to section `Skinning`
• Foundation: Namespace lockdown blocking false negatives
• Foundation: New .less variables for link colors
• Foundation: New task api and task interfaces
• Foundation: New version of installcheck
• Foundation: No write mode on read modules
• Foundation: Remove reader role from anon users
• Foundation: Remove support for other db types
• Foundation: UserCombo: Do the sorting remotely

BlueSpice Free

• ArticleInfo: Add reload link
• Authors: Disregard non-existing users
• Authors: Remove config AuthorLimit, as it was never in use in BlueSpice 3
• Avatars: Add possibility to edit user image in preferences + various fixes
• Avatars: Fix Avatars path
• Avatars: Implement missing tag handler for profileimage tag
• Avatars: Quickfix image errors when SSO
• Checklist: Add missing action- messages
• Checklist: UI fixes
• ConfigManager: Check for hidden ConfigDefinitions and remove them from the records
• ConfigManager: Fix save button color when button is active in manager
• ContextMenu: Expansion of Contextmenu
• ContextMenu: Move modus preference to rendering section in preferences
• CustomMenu: Add link target to external links
• Dashboards: Fix dashboard on logo link user option
• EchoConnector: Send daily/weekly digest using RunJobsTriggerHandler
• EchoConnector: Add notification whenever someone creates her-/himself an account
• EchoConnector: Fix exception when deleted users would get echo notifications
• ExtendedSearch: Add "more like this" functionality + file usage
• ExtendedSearch: Add ability to receive returnto param and display returnto link
• ExtendedSearch: Add config option to specify port of the ElasticSearch host
• ExtendedSearch: Add debug log when query run fail
• ExtendedSearch: Add excludes for external file index
• ExtendedSearch: Add screenreader compatibility for searchbox
• ExtendedSearch: Add sort by modification time for media dialog
• ExtendedSearch: Allow two-line results in autocomplete
• ExtendedSearch: Boost results based on how recent they are
• ExtendedSearch: Fix autocomplete ranking + fix secondary results
• ExtendedSearch: Fix error when no sorting is set in search store
• ExtendedSearch: Fix export dialog
• ExtendedSearch: Fix filter option filtering
• ExtendedSearch: Improve search scoring
• ExtendedSearch: Integrate TagSearch
• ExtendedSearch: Push to possible external indexes
• ExtendedSearch: Use display title in result only if it's set
• ExtendedSearch: WikiFarm integration
• ExtendedStatistics: Use LoadPlaceholders
• GroupManager: Add load indicator for all actions in group manager grid
• HideTitle: Add option to hide the page title to VisualEditor
• InsertCategory: Add screenreader compatibility for PageHeader
• InsertCategory: Enable inline editing of categories in new title section
• InsertFile: Add cancel button to VisualEditor advanced search
• InsertLink: Add file-link
• InsertLink: Move user preferences to config variable
• InsertLink: VisualEditor - insert links to local filesystem
• InsertMagic: Add Icon to Insertmagic in VisualEditor
• InterWikiLinks: Fix interwiki links can not be edited
• NamespaceManager: Add link to namespace articles in NamespaceManager
• NamespaceManager: Fix namespace manager jumps back to initial settings when opcache is enabled
• PageAccess: Use new modular lockdown
• PageAssignments: Add "reader" role to default roles for "pageassignable"
• PageAssignments: Fix assignee remove action shown when user has no permission to do so
• PageAssignments: Fix assignments when a user is assigned that was deleted
• PageAssignments: Fix permission checking when editing assignments
• PageAssignments: Make assigned users notified on changes to talk page
• PageAssignments: Make target configurable
• PageAssignments: New mechanism for SemanticExtraSpecialProperties
• PageAssignments: Re-implement grant permissions when assigned
• PageAssignments: Set permission ConfigDefinition to hidden
• PageTemplates: Allow a page template to be used on multiple namespaces
• PageTemplates: Use LoadPlaceholders
• PagesVisited: Show link title without "" for shortened link text
• PagesVisited: Use limit to reduce query time
• PermissionManager: Adapt to changes in role system
• PermissionManager: Do not add NS_TEMPLATE in $wgNonincludableNamespaces
• PermissionManager: Implement dependent roles
• PermissionManager: Make treepanel for groups adjustable in width
• PermissionManager: Script to compare permissions
• Privacy: Add cookie consent settings link in the footer as well
• QrCode: Collapse QRCode panel in sitetools-main navigation by default
• RSSFeeder: Fix broken RSS feed when no specific protocol configured
• Readers: Use JobQueue to insert readers
• SaferEdit: Remove user preferences
• SaferEdit: Remove saferEdit ping on namespaces lower than 0
• SmartList: Remove Legacy Functionality
• SmartList: Remove unnecessary cache invalidation
• UEModuleDOCX: Testing and fixing all errors and warnings
• UEModulePDF: Hide PDF export on SpecialPages
• UEModulePDF: Introduce new permission `uemodulepdf-export`
• UEModulePDF: Remove background-color from toc to make it not blend over watermarks
• UEModulePDF: Remove default 'table-layout:fixed' from tables.css
• UniversalExport: Add pdfpagebreak tag to InsertMagic and VisualEditor
• UniversalExport: Send X-Robots-Tag header on export
• UserManager: Add registration date column to UserManager
• UserManager: Enabled filter for activated users
• WatchList: Add watchlist window
• WatchList: Remove permission check for watchlist items in UserSidebar
• WhoIsOnline: Move deletion of old WhoIsOnline data to RunJobsTriggerHander
• WhoIsOnline: Remove user preferences
• WhoIsOnline: Set deletion rate to once a day and keep data for 24 hours

BlueSpice Distribution

• DistributionConnector: Add check for existence of the duplicator specialpage
• DistributionConnector: Give more space to radio-buttons in Quiz
• DistributionConnector: HitCounters SemanticExtraProperty implementation
• DistributionConnector: Show 'duplicate' link only to user who is allowed to duplicate a page

BlueSpice Skin

• Calumma: Activate profile switch in associated links by default
• Calumma: Add "associated links" panel
• Calumma: Add "root page sibling" to associated links
• Calumma: Add VersionPager
• Calumma: Add associated links
• Calumma: Add a styleclass for full width tables
• Calumma: Add edit button for mobile view
• Calumma: Add edit link to component CustomMenu
• Calumma: Add favicon
• Calumma: Add new colors for alert boxes
• Calumma: Add screenreader compatibility for logo
• Calumma: Add screenreader compatibility to search
• Calumma: Add text clipping when it does not fit in the block
• Calumma: Add tooltip for navigation toggler
• Calumma: Add triggers for category edit tool
• Calumma: Add warning if user is viewing an old page version
• Calumma: Adjust lines and margins
• Calumma: BlueSpiceCustomMenu Component
• Calumma: Change color of "Log in" link
• Calumma: Change right navigation icon
• Calumma: Change sitenotice alert colors
• Calumma: Create new functionality for fullscreen mode
• Calumma: Create notification for successful login
• Calumma: Disable edit button if edit actions is not possible
• Calumma: Discussion/Page links removed if it is an active page
• Calumma: Enable FeaturedActions if user can edit
• Calumma: Fix IE style issues
• Calumma: Fix Scroll to jumpmark
• Calumma: Fix button text for diff and history link
• Calumma: Fix for PluggableAuth AutoLogin
• Calumma: Fix for VisualEditor line spacing
• Calumma: Fix issue with broken styles on browser zoom
• Calumma: Fix position and style of mobile featured action buttons
• Calumma: Fix position of close icon for left navigation in mobile view
• Calumma: Fouc fix
• Calumma: Hide featured actions if logged out user can not read
• Calumma: Hide header menu if logged out user can not read
• Calumma: Hide mobile login button for not logged in user with read permission
• Calumma: Hide page header elements in VisualEditor edit mode
• Calumma: Hide search form if logged out user can not read
• Calumma: Hide sidebars if user is not allowed to read
• Calumma: History & Diff links should open page in the same tab
• Calumma: Improve mobile accessibility for navigation-main and sitetools-main on scroll
• Calumma: Improve print stylings
• Calumma: Integrate loadIndicators in flyouts
• Calumma: Make default MediaWiki search work
• Calumma: Make flyout loading-indicator less obtrusive
• Calumma: Mobile menu: add close button
• Calumma: Mobile: show scroll bar to thumb images if image size is larger then display width
• Calumma: New layout for page header with more information and actions
• Calumma: Pagination toolbar on “Recent changes” has no bottom padding
• Calumma: Positioning of the notifications badge
• Calumma: Prevent hidden list bullets after floatleft items (images)
• Calumma: Real fullscreen mode
• Calumma: Rearrange footer icons and footer places
• Calumma: Rearrange language links in header
• Calumma: Reduce CSS output
• Calumma: Rename sitetools panels 'Edit' and 'Views' and collapse panel 'Views'
• Calumma: SEO for Export: No Follow

BlueSpice Pro

• ArticlePreviewCapture: Patch for linux and windows
• Bookshelf: Do not show action if no permission
• BookshelfUI: Clear page values after insertion
• BookshelfUI: Expand Api limit for inserted pages
• BookshelfUI: Use LoadPlaceholder
• CategoryManager: AddCategory fix
• DrawioConnector: Fix inspector, rename "name" attribute and fix preview
• DrawioConnector: Use tag for drawio instead of magic word
• Expiry: Add expired alert
• Expiry: Use LoadPlaceholders
• FlaggedRevsConnector: Add QMOverview page to Admintools
• FlaggedRevsConnector: Add Semantic Extra Special Properties descriptions
• FlaggedRevsConnector: Block read only in view mode
• FlaggedRevsConnector: Improve stable/draft switch
• FlaggedRevsConnector: Increased value of pristine-key in FlaggedRevsTags from 0 to 2
• FlaggedRevsConnector: List filter on revision state
• FlaggedRevsConnector: New mechanism for SemanticExtraSpecialProperties
• FlaggedRevsConnector: New page header
• FlaggedRevsConnector: Remove autoreview rights from reviewer role
• FlaggedRevsConnector: Show approval comment in page history
• NSFileRepoConnector: Add namespace selector to VisualEditor upload dialog
• NSFileRepoConnector: Preselect namespace in `Advanced Settings` tab
• Reminder: Move user preferences to better location
• Reminder: Use LoadPlaceholders
• Review: Add more caching and better logic to significant reduce queries
• Review: Better logic to disable editing when user has no permissions
• Review: New mechanism for SemanticExtraSpecialProperties
• Review: Set default value for type if nothing is set
• Review: Use LoadPlaceholders
• Review: Use new modular lockdown
• ReviewExtended: Add review type to history
• ReviewExtended: Fix time offset
• SMWConnector: New mechanism for SemanticExtraSpecialProperties
• SMWConnector: Restore Visual Editor in page forms and enable VisualEditor in free text field
• SMWConnector: Save memory and clear-up afterwards
• Social: Activate mediaViewer attachments on special pages and outside of the content
• Social: Add default icon for unknown file in attachments
• Social: Add warn on leave for all modified entities to prevent data loss
• Social: Allow entity actions be rendered when entry does not exist
• Social: Hide entity action button when there is no action available
• SocialProfile: Force profile not change to edit mode when it does not exist
• UEModulePDFRecursive: Export link added to the sidebar
• UEModulePDFSubpages: Show PDF export only on content pages
• VisualEditorConnector: Add table inspectors
• VisualEditorConnector: Add color palette
• VisualEditorConnector: Add config definitions
• VisualEditorConnector: Backport change label functionality
• VisualEditorConnector: Do not use VisualEditor on PageTemplates when VisualEditor is not enabled
• VisualEditorConnector: Enable Pasting of Text with embedded Links
• VisualEditorConnector: Enabled getting categories from page even in source mode
• VisualEditorConnector: Handle MediaLinks
• VisualEditorConnector: Implement color picker
• VisualEditorConnector: Improve text style popup
• VisualEditorConnector: Links to files
• VisualEditorConnector: Make saving process more user-friendly
• VisualEditorConnector: Prevent cell editing in TableSelection mode in IE11
• VisualEditorConnector: Table handling
• WikiExplorer: Fix not working filter category and namespace filter

BlueSpice Pro Distribution

• SemanticMediaWiki: Upgrade to SMW3.0.1

Archive: Release Notes of Older BlueSpice Versions

• BlueSpice 3.1 - Release Notes.pdf
• BlueSpice 3.0.1 - Release Notes.pdf
• BlueSpice 2.27.3 - Release Notes.pdf
• BlueSpice 2.27.2 - Release Notes.pdf
• BlueSpice 2.27.1 - Release Notes.pdf
• BlueSpice 2.27.0 - Release Notes.pdf
• BlueSpice 2.27.0 beta - Release Notes.pdf
• BlueSpice 2.23.3 - Release Notes.pdf
• BlueSpice 2.23.3 beta - Release Notes.pdf
• BlueSpice 2.23.2 - Release Notes.pdf
• BlueSpice 2.23.2 beta - Release Notes.pdf
• BlueSpice 2.23.1 - Release Notes.pdf
• BlueSpice 2.23.0 - Release Notes.pdf
• BlueSpice 2.23.0 beta - Release Notes.pdf
• BlueSpice 2.22.2 - Release Notes.pdf
• BlueSpice 2.22.1a - Release Notes.pdf
• BlueSpice 2.22.1 - Release Notes.pdf
• BlueSpice 2.22.0 - Release Notes.pdf
• BlueSpice 1.21.0 - Release Notes.pdf
• BlueSpice 1.20.1 - Release Notes.pdf
• BlueSpice 1.20.0 - Release Notes.pdf
• BlueSpice 1.1.1 - Release Notes.pdf
• BlueSpice 1.1 - Release Notes.pdf
• BlueSpice 1.0.1 - Release Notes.pdf