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+# Semantic MediaWiki 1.9
+
+Released January 3rd, 2014.
+
+### Platform compatibility changes
+
+* Changed minimum PHP version from 5.2. to 5.3.2.
+* Changed minimum MediaWiki version from 1.17 to 1.19.
+* Full compatibility with MediaWiki 1.19, 1.20, 1.21, 1.22 and forward-compatibility with 1.23.
+* Changed minimum Validator version from 0.5 to 1.0.
+* Added beta support for PostgreSQL.
+
+### New features
+
+* SMW (and its dependencies) can now be installed via [Composer](https://getcomposer.org/)
+* Added maintenance script [rebuildPropertyStatistics.php](https://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:RebuildPropertyStatistics.php) to rebuild the property statistics
+* (271864f) The property type String is now an alias for Text and has no more length restrictions
+* (38499a8) Special:Statistics now shows a "semantic statistics" version (only when using a recent version of MediaWiki)
+* (ed52df7) (Bug 50844) Special:Properties now provides a form to search user-defined properties
+* (a949f04) (Bug 33181) Add page [Special:Concepts](https://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Special:Concepts) that lists available concepts
+* (0c971f8) (Bug 46458) Extend smwinfo API module to provide additional information
+* (b8aea6c) (Bug 48840) Add a smw-admin right to enable restricted access to Special:SMWAdmin
+* (9714d04) (a33411f) Add new "browsebysubject" API module to fetch semantic data for a given subject
+
+### Enhancements
+
+* (Bug 36309) and (Bug 39019) Add +sep= as multiple value separator for #set and #subobject parser function
+* (6dd845e) (Bug 34477) Add cache information to concept pages
+* (Bug 34172) Add [individual CSS class](https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Further_results) injection for further result links
+* (I2e509e) Improved efficiency of property statistics rebuilding script
+* (8bcee83) (Bug 44696) Fix XML output for AskApi
+* (bb35e8a) (Bug 47123) Aggregate numbers based on the label/group
+* (5cda766) (Bug 46930) SMWSQLStore3Writers::changeTitle only create redirects when appropriate
+conditions are met
+* (e4a5fb8) (Bug 31880) Formatting numbers in tables based based on a customizable typeId
+* (e4a2035) Modify SMW\RecurringEvents to use a subobject as datamodel to represent
+individual events within a page
+* (7d1e2ad) (Bug 34782) Add note parameter to #info parser function
+
+#### New configuration parameters
+
+* [$smwgEnabledSpecialPage](https://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:$smwgEnabledSpecialPage)
+* [$smwgQueryProfiler](https://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:$smwgQueryProfiler)
+* [$smwgShowHiddenCategories](https://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:$smwgShowHiddenCategories)
+* [$smwgFactboxUseCache](https://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:$smwgFactboxUseCache), [$smwgFactboxCacheRefreshOnPurge](https://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:$smwgFactboxCacheRefreshOnPurge)
+* [$smwgPropertyZeroCountDisplay](https://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:$smwgPropertyZeroCountDisplay), [$smwgPropertyLowUsageThreshold](https://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:$smwgPropertyLowUsageThreshold)
+* [$smwgFixedProperties](https://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:$smwgFixedProperties)
+* [$smwgAutoRefreshOnPageMove](https://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:$smwgAutoRefreshOnPageMove), [$smwgAutoRefreshOnPurge](https://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:$smwgAutoRefreshOnPurge)
+* [$smwgCacheType](https://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:$smwgCacheType), [$smwgCacheUsage](https://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:$smwgCacheUsage)
+
+### Bug fixes
+
+* The property statistics rebuilding is no longer done whenever you run update.php.
+* (Bug 42321) Fixed issue frequently causing notices in SQLStore3
+* (5fdbb83) Fix offset display in Special:Ask
+* (9113ad1) (Bug 47010) SMWInfoLink
+* (af0cbe0) Fix escaping issue on Special:Ask
+* (ba74804) Fix construction of SMWExpLiteral
+* (d16a103) (Bug 45053) Fix quantity display support in SMW\ListResultPrinter
+* (9b2b5c7) (Bug 44518) Do not display <li> elements for |format=list
+* (Bug 43932) Fix html tag support for non-list results in SMW\ListResultPrinter
+* (Bug 44275) Fix .data( 'sortkey' ) support in SMW\ListResultPrinter
+* (fcb7da9) (Bug 42324) fix SQlite support in sqlstore3
+* (3507f84) (Bug 21893) Fixed queries that use the like comparator for properties with a restricted
+set of values
+
+### Compatibility changes
+
+* Deleted pre SMW 1.5.1 entry point (includes/SMW_Settings.php), the main entry point is SemanticMediaWiki.php
+* (I17a3e0) Support for quantity export via API and JSON format
+* (50c5109) Removed old storage implementation SMWSQLStore2, superseded by SMWSQLStore3 in SMW 1.8
+* (I5db911) #set_recurring_event using subobjects (changes query behavior
+for recurring events; for more see the help page on [recurring events](https://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Recurring_events "Recurring events")
+
+### Deprecated classes
+
+If not noted otherwise, deprecated methods or classes will be removed in SMW 1.11.
+
+* (b4664be) smwfIsSemanticsProcessed was replaced by SMW\NamespaceExaminer
+* (3ba701f) smwfEncodeMessages was replaced by SMW\Highlighter, SMW\MessageFormatter
+* SMWParseData was replaced by a non-static SMW\ParserData class
+* SMWListResultPrinter, SMWResultPrinter, SMWSubobject, SMWSet
+* SMWFeedResultPrinter, SMWDISerializer
+* SMWDIString, SMWStringLengthException, SMWSetRecurringEvent
+
+### Added or changed classes 
+
+* (eb764db) Add SMW\PropertyAnnotatorDecorator for handling individual "standard" properties
+* (f33fd12) Add SMW\ExtensionContext and \SMW\ContextAware
+* (40e7572) Renamed SMWDISerializer to \SMW\Serializers\QueryResultSerializer
+* (a0b08fe) Add SMW\Serializes\SemanticDataSerializer in order for SemanticData to be serializable
+* (02635a1) Replace SkinTemplateToolboxEnd hook with SMW\BaseTemplate
+* (ec5dd46) Add SMW\SimpleDependencyBuilder and SMW\SharedDependencyContainer as simple framework that
+allows for individual object factoring and dependency injection
+* (92b67bd) Add SMW\TableFormatter for the table query printer
+* (5a33d2d) Add SMW\CacheHandler to separate MediaWiki specific cache injection
+* (395b584) Add ResourceLoaderGetConfigVars to populate SMW related configuration details for JavaScript
+* (7c60e50) Add SMW\ApiResultPrinter to support query printers to use Ajax/WebApi interface for
+query result updates
+* (cb6c6ad) SMW\ResultPrinter class turn RequestContext aware
+
+The following classes and interfaces were re-factored and/or added in order to promote testability:
+
+* (e0f3f4d) Rename and re-factor \SMW\RefreshJob
+* (I3b41d4) Rename and re-factor \SMW\UpdateJob
+* (6d5a3c5) Add SMW\JobBase to enable dependency injection
+* (058c2fc) Add SMW\Setup to separate extension registration and initialization
+* (87b214f) Add SMW\Settings class to remove GLOBAL state and enable injection of individual configuration
+details during runtime
+* (5a82da8) Re-factor SMW\Factbox and add SMW\FactboxCache to minimize content parsing
+* (24cca37) Add SMW\Test\MockObjectBuilder to easily manage MW and SMW mock objects
+* (71dbba1) Add SMW\ObservableDispatcher to enable Observes to act as an observable subject itself
+* (dc28899) (18d17a5) Add SMW\StoreUpdater, SMW\UpdateDispatcherJob, and SMW\PropertyTypeComparator
+to separate responsibilities during the update
+* (6c06567) Add SMW\SQLStore\PropertyTableDefinitionBuilder to separate build definition
+* (2164a25) Add \SMW\ResultCollector interface to support cacheable results when executing Special:Statistics or Special:Properties
+* (c8a2f97) (Bug 51091) Rename and re-factor SMW\Api\Ask and SMW\Api\AskArgs
+
+### Removed features
+
+* (6f7625f) Remove Special:QueryCreator
+* (5a3f6ed) (Bug 50755) Remove MigrationJob/SMWMigrate
+* (f9cff2b) Remove smwfLoadExtensionMessages
+* (a957596) SMW\JsonResultPrinter remove obsolete serialization
+
+
+### Platform stability
+
+* Over 130 PHPUnit tests have been added
+* Over 10 QUnit tests have been added
+* The tests now [run on TravisCI](https://travis-ci.org/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki)
+    * Compatibility is now ensured against all supported MediaWiki and PHP versions
+    * Compatibility is now ensured for all supported databases
+
+### Documentation
+
+The documentation bundled with the SMW source code has been updated. It can be found in the docs folder.
+
+### Extended translations
+
+As usual, translations have been extended thanks to the [Translatewiki.net project](https://translatewiki.net).
+In addition, the core strings (SMW properties and datatypes) for Slovak have been updated.