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diff --git a/www/wiki/extensions/SemanticMediaWiki/docs/releasenotes/RELEASE-NOTES-2.0.md b/www/wiki/extensions/SemanticMediaWiki/docs/releasenotes/RELEASE-NOTES-2.0.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..9a435394 --- /dev/null +++ b/www/wiki/extensions/SemanticMediaWiki/docs/releasenotes/RELEASE-NOTES-2.0.md @@ -0,0 +1,127 @@ +# Semantic MediaWiki 2.0 + +Released August 4th, 2014. + +## Compatibility changes + +Semantic MediaWiki 2.0 is compatible with MediaWiki 1.19 up to MediaWiki 1.23, and possibly later +versions. Support for both MediaWiki 1.23 and MediaWiki 1.24 was improved compared to SMW 1.9. + +PHP compatibility remains the same as in SMW 1.9: all versions from PHP 5.3.2 to PHP 5.6.x. + + +For a full overview, see our [compatibility matrix](https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/blob/master/docs/COMPATIBILITY.md). + +## Quality and stability improvements + +A great deal of effort has been put into ensuring both existing and new features work well. +Not just at present, but also in future releases. And not just with MySQL and one version of +MediaWiki, but on all platforms we support. This dedication to quality has resulted in many +bugs being discovered and fixed, and makes future regressions much less likely. + +Continuous integration is now an integral part of the development process behind SMW. As of +the 2.0 release, SMW has over 2300 automated tests, which cover two thirds of the codebase. +These tests are run automatically for every change made to the code, on machines with different +databases, different versions of PHP, different SPARQL stores and different versions of MediaWiki. + +## Semantic Versioning + +As of the 2.0 release, Semantic MediaWiki adheres to the [Semantic Versioning standard](http://semver.org/). +This makes our version numbers more meaningful and makes it easier for administrators to determine +if a new release is relevant to them. + +## Improved SPARQLStore support + +[Semantic MediaWiki 1.6](http://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMW_1.6#Synchronizing_SMW_with_RDF_stores) +introduced support for data synchronization with RDF back-ends. SMW 2.0 makes this functionality a +first class citizen through many enhancements and stability improvements. + +* New and full support for [Jena Fuseki](http://jena.apache.org/) 1.0 +* Enhanced and full support for [Virtuoso](https://github.com/openlink/virtuoso-opensource) 6.1 +* Enhanced support for [4store](https://github.com/garlik/4store) 1.1 + +The [`smwgSparqlDatabase`](https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:$smwgSparqlDatabase) setting +introduced in 1.6 has been deprecated in favour of +[`$smwgSparqlDatabaseConnector`](https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:$smwgSparqlDatabaseConnector) +(#342) to avoid arbitrary class assignments in `$smwgSparqlDatabase` (now only used to assign custom +connectors). + +Unit and integration tests were given extra focus together with a continuous integration of +[Jena Fuseki](http://jena.apache.org/) (1.0.2) (#337) and [Virtuoso opensource 6.1](https://github.com/openlink/virtuoso-opensource) (#394) to ensure that compatibility and functional +parity are going hand in hand with the rest of SMW. (Unfortunately `4Store` currently does not run +on the continuous integration platform, for details see [garlik#110](https://github.com/garlik/4store/issues/110) +but tests have been run successfully with a local `4store` instance). + +At this moment, the only RDF store to be tested and to support [SPARQL 1.1](http://www.w3.org/TR/sparql11-query/) +is `Jena Fuseki` therefore other stores may not support all `query features`. For details to +the testing environment and its configuration, see the [README](https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/blob/master/src/SPARQLStore/README.md) +file. + +## Improved subobject support + +Support for subobjects has been added to the RDF export. This new capability is used by the RDF +store functionality to also synchronize subobjects. (#344) + +Subobjects now support sorting via the `@sortkey` annotation that stores an individual sortkey +per subobject. (#225) + +## Notable bug fixes + +* #279 Fixed undefined index in `DataTypeRegistry::getDefaultDataItemTypeId` +* #282 Output a message instead of an exception in `Special:WantedProperties` for unknown predefined properties +* #308 Fixed caching issue in `DataRebuilder` for duplicate title objects +* #312 Fixed fatal error in `CategoryResultPrinter` for when a mainlabel is hidden +* #322 Fixed file names containing spaces or non-ASCII characters for for downloadable result formats (csv, excel) +* #379 Modernized `dumpRDF.php` while deprecating the use of `SMW_dumpRDF.php` (bug 35679) +* #425 Deprecated `SMW_setup.php` in favour of `setupStore.php` +* #444 Fixed language namespace alias issue +* #420 Extended `ContentParser` to mitigate issues caused by the 62856 bug in MW 1.24+ +* #405 Added a compatibility fix to mitigate issues caused by the `RefreshLinksJob` in MW 1.23+ + +### SPARQLStore + +- #291 Fixed call to undefined method in `SPARQLStore` +- #338 Fixed exception in `ResultParser` for an invalid datatype (bug 62218) +- #385 Fixed '#' encoding for subobjects in `SMWExporter::findDataItemForExpElement` to enable `SPARQLStore` result display +- #387 Fixed `SPARQLStore` namespace query support (e.g `[[:+]]` ) +- #415 Fixed `SPARQLStore` usage for `rebuildConceptCache.php` and `rebuildPropertyStatistics.php` +- #460 Fixed `SPARQLStore` subobject sub query and pre-defined property query support + +## Behind the scenes + +SMW 2.0 continues to convert its classes to use PHP namespaces in order to separate responsibilities +(#398, #404, #407, #409, #410, #411, #412, #416, #417, #418, #419, #421) and to be able to support +[PSR-4](http://www.php-fig.org/psr/psr-4/) in future. + +* All `job` related classes of been moved to `SMW\MediaWiki\Jobs` +* All `hook` related classes of been moved to `SMW\MediaWiki\Hooks` +* All `api` related classes of been moved to `SMW\MediaWiki\Api` +* All `SPARQLStore` related classes now reside in `SMW\SPARQLStore` +* `SMWSparqlStore` and `SMWSparqlDatabase` where moved into the `SMW\SPARQLStore` namespace + +Other internal enhancements or changes include: + +* #278 Changed the `PropertyStatisticsTable` interface +* #289 Added [`CONTRIBUTING.md`](https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md) for better contributor guidance +* #307 Added `removeDuplicates` option to `UpdateJob` +* #310 Fixed autoloading for `QueryPrinterRegistryTestCase` +* #311 Removed `MediaWikiTestCase` dependency +* #315 Updated jquery.qTip2 from v2.0.0 to v2.2.0 (Mar 17 2014) +* #332 Added the number of pages and percentage done to report messages when rebuilding selected pages +* #366 Extended `Sql3StubSemanticData` to load suobjects on request and introduced a `__sob` datatype for subobjects +* #382 Extended interface to support `format=count` information in `QueryResult` +* #453 Added [`COMPATIBILITY.md`](https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/blob/master/docs/COMPATIBILITY.md) for better user guidance + +Deprecated classes or scripts: + +* `SMW_conceptCache.php` +* `SMW_dumpRDF.php` +* `SMW_refreshData.php` +* `SMW_setup.php` +* `SMWSparqlStore` +* `SMWSparqlDatabase` +* `SMWIResultPrinter` + +Removed classes or scripts: + +* `SMWParseData` |