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diff --git a/www/wiki/extensions/SemanticMediaWiki/docs/releasenotes/RELEASE-NOTES-1.6.md b/www/wiki/extensions/SemanticMediaWiki/docs/releasenotes/RELEASE-NOTES-1.6.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..2655c60d --- /dev/null +++ b/www/wiki/extensions/SemanticMediaWiki/docs/releasenotes/RELEASE-NOTES-1.6.md @@ -0,0 +1,50 @@ +Released on July 30, 2011. + +* Full support for synchronizing RDF stores with SMW, and for answering #ask + queries based on this data. The communication happens via SPARQL (1.1), and + all SPARQL-capable stores should be supported. The following settings are + needed in LocalSettings.php: + $smwgDefaultStore = 'SMWSparqlStore'; + $smwgSparqlDatabase = 'SMWSparqlDatabase'; + // The following should be set to the URLs to reach the store: + $smwgSparqlQueryEndpoint = 'http://localhost:8080/sparql/'; + $smwgSparqlUpdateEndpoint = 'http://localhost:8080/update/'; + $smwgSparqlDataEndpoint = 'http://localhost:8080/data/'; // can be empty + The specific support that SMW used to have for the RAP RDF store has been + discontinued. +* The Type namespace has been abolished. Builtin types now are displayed by the + special page Special:Types, and there are no "custom types" any longer. + By default, the Type namespace is gone and existing pages in this namespace + can no longer be accessed. This can be changed by setting + $smwgHistoricTypeNamespace = true in LocalSettings.php before including SMW. +* Changed the way in which units of measurement work. Type:Number now does not + accept any units, and a new type "Quantity" is used for numbers with units. + Units must be declared on the property page (not on the Type page as before), + and only units that have a declared conversion factor are accepted. +* The declaration of Type:Record properties has changed. Instead of a list of + datatypes, the declaration now requires a list of properties that are to be + used for the fields of the record. The declaration is still done with the + property "has fields" as before. Properties must not be used more than once + in has_fields, or the order of values will be random. +* Introduced pre-defined builtin properties for every datatype. For example, + the property String is always of type String and available on all (English) + wikis. This helps to keep some of the old Tpe:Record declarations valid. +* Changed the way parameters in query printers are specified and handled + using the Validator extension. This includes improvements to the parameter + options in the Special:Ask GUI and better error reporting for ask queries. +* Added UNIX-style DSV (Delimiter-separated values) result format. +* Reworked internal data model, cleaning up and re-implementing SMWDataValue and + all of its subclasses, and introducing new data item classes to handle data. + The class SMWCompatibilityHelpers provides temporary help for extensions that + still depend on the old format and APIs. +* Fixed PostgreSQL issues with the installation and upgrade code. +* Added API module (smwinfo) via which statistics about the semantic data can + be obtained. +* Added second parameter to #info that allows chosing either the info or warning + icon. +* Added #smwdoc parser hook that displays a table with parameter documentation for + a single specified result format. +* Fixed escaping issues in the JSON result format. A compatibility breaking change + is that per property an array of values will be returned, even if there is only + one. +* Added SMWStore::updateDataBefore and SMWStore::updateDataAfter hooks.
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