gplx/mediawiki/extensions/SemanticMediaWiki/docs/releasenotes/RELEASE-NOTES-4.1.0.md

Semantic MediaWiki 4.1.0

Released on January 21st, 2023.

Summary

This is a minor release. Thus it contains no breaking changes, only bug fixes and new features.

This release improves compatibility with MediaWiki 1.38 and 1.39.

Changes

• Improved compatibility with MediaWiki 1.38 and 1.39
• Improved compatibility with PHP 8.1 (not complete yet)
• Fixed type error occurring during specific number formatting on PHP 8.0+ (https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/pull/5389)
• Fixed bug causing the job queue to be flooded with jobs (https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/issues/4950)
• Fixed issue with the pipe character in the Ask API (https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/pull/5348)
• Fixed rebuildData.php issue for the smw_ftp_sesp_usereditcntns table (https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/pull/5313)
• Fixed issue in the category result format (https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/issues/5270)
• Fixed upsert warning log spam (https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/pull/5307)
• Added user preference that allows enabling or disabling the entity issue panel (https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/pull/5345)
• Added support for partial ISO dates (https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/pull/5312)
• SMW now ships with updated vocabularies including Schema.org, Dublin Core, FOAF and SKOS
• Various grammar and spelling fixes
• Translation updates

Contributors

Top contributors

1. Morne Alberts from Professional Wiki
2. Jeroen De Dauw from Professional Wiki
3. Abijeet from TranslateWiki
4. Bernhard Krabina from KM-A
5. Karsten Hoffmeyer from Professional Wiki

Code contributions

• translatewiki.net
• Morne Alberts
• Jeroen De Dauw
• Abijeet
• Bernhard Krabina
• Sébastien Beyou
• Hannes
• Hamish Slater
• Karsten Hoffmeyer
• Youri vd Bogert
• Alexander
• Alexander Mashin
• Amir E. Aharoni
• C. Scott Ananian
• D-Groenewegen
• Greg Rundlett
• Mark A. Hershberger
• Markus
• Máté Szabó
• UnknownSkyrimPasserby
• iusgit

Upgrading

No need to run "update.php" or any other migration scripts.

Get the new version via Composer:

• Step 1: if you are upgrading from SMW older than 4.0.0, ensure the SMW version in composer.json is ^4.1.0
• Step 2: run composer in your MediaWiki directory: composer update --no-dev --optimize-autoloader

Get the new version via Git:

This is only for those that have installed SMW via Git.

• Step 1: do a git pull in the SemanticMediaWiki directory
• Step 2: run composer update --no-dev --optimize-autoloader in the MediaWiki directory