5.0

(01.12.2019) Revision:3430 -> M5 (Release Notes)

1. Database

• Database changes
  • normalized database

2. Installer

• added option to chose InnoDB as MySQL database engine

3. Configuration

• renamed and moved wakka.config.php to config/config.php
• new available settings
  1. edit_summary
  2. minor_edit
  3. debug_admin_only
  4. debug_sql_threshold
  5. log_min_level
  6. log_purge_time
  7. pwd_min_chars
  8. pwd_char_classes
  9. pwd_unlike_login
  10. news_cluster
  11. news_levels
  12. date_format
  13. time_format
  14. time_format_seconds
  15. name_date_macro
  16. date_macro_format
  17. date_precise_format
  18. store_deleted_pages
  19. disable_bracketslinks
  20. disable_wikilinks
  21. disable_npjlinks
  22. disable_formatters
  23. comments_count
  24. cache_sql
  25. cache_sql_ttl
  26. keep_deleted_time
  27. abuse_email
  28. allow_swfobject
  29. allow_themes
  30. allow_themes_per_page
  31. allow_x11colors
  32. antidupe
  33. cache_sql
  34. cache_sql_ttl
  35. category_page
  36. comments_count
  37. comment_delay
  38. session_expiration
  39. date_format
  40. date_macro_format
  41. date_precise_format
  42. debug_admin_only
  43. debug_sql_threshold
  44. default_create_acl
  45. default_upload_acl
  46. disable_bracketslinks
  47. disable_formatters
  48. disable_npjlinks
  49. disable_wikilinks
  50. disable_wikiname
  51. edit_summary
  52. email_priority
  53. email_from
  54. enable_comments
  55. enable_email
  56. enable_email_notification
  57. enable_feeds
  58. footer_rating
  59. forum_cluster
  60. forum_topics
  61. groups_page
  62. hide_index
  63. hide_revisions
  64. hide_toc
  65. intercom_delay
  66. ip_login_limit_max
  67. keep_deleted_time
  68. language
  69. license
  70. log_default_show
  71. log_level
  72. log_purge_time
  73. max_login_attempts
  74. minor_edit
  75. name_date_macro
  76. news_cluster
  77. news_levels
  78. noindex
  79. numerate_links
  80. owners_can_change_categories
  81. permalink_page
  82. phpmailer
  83. phpmailer_method
  84. policy_page
  85. publish_anonymously
  86. pwd_char_classes
  87. pwd_min_chars
  88. pwd_unlike_login
  89. review
  90. session_match_ip
  91. session_match_useragent
  92. session_time_to_update
  93. session_use_db
  94. site_desc
  95. site_name
  96. smtp_connection_mode
  97. smtp_host
  98. smtp_password
  99. smtp_port
  100. smtp_username
  101. store_deleted_pages
  102. session_encrypt_cookie
  103. time_format
  104. time_format_seconds
  105. timezone
  106. tls
  107. tls_implicit
  108. tls_proxy
  109. tree_level
  110. upload_quota_per_user
  111. username_chars_min
  112. username_chars_max
  113. users_page
  114. maint_last_cache
  115. maint_last_log
  116. maint_last_refs
  117. maint_last_delpages
  118. maint_last_oldpages
  119. reverse_proxy
  120. reverse_proxy_header
  121. reverse_proxy_addresses

• removed settings
  1. upload_max_per_user

4. Features

• added LaTeX export
• added Admin panel (beta)
• implemented PHPMailer (SMTP support)
• added page / comment title
• added change summary
• added timezone support
• support X-Content-Security-Policy (CSP)
• support Strict-Transport-Security header

5. Core

• Lots of bugfixes & enhancements, including:
  • description showed next to uploaded file on the "upload successful" page.
  • added line for new signature button in WikiEdit
  • email notification if the ownership of a page is transfered
  • implemented cache in NpjTranslit
  • implemented cache for expensive SQL-queries (by default off)
  • _cache folder has now the following subfolders
    • /config
    • /pages
    • /queries
    • /feeds (optional)
  • merged acl and massacl handler
  • merged rename and massrename handler

6. Actions

• added
  • adminupdate
  • authors
  • categories
  • category
  • deleted
  • feed
  • forums
  • groups
  • menu
  • mostcommented
  • mostrated
  • news / newsinput
  • pagebreak
  • permalink / permalinkproxy
  • polls / pollsadd / pollsarchive / pollspreview
  • randompage
  • tagcloud
  • topics
  • userpages
  • users
  • whatsnew
• renamed
  • comments -> comment
  • recentlycommented -> commented
  • recentcomments -> comments
• removed aliases
  • a -> anchor
  • orphanedpages -> orphaned
  • recentchanges -> changes
  • showparagraphs/p -> paragraphs
  • tableofcontents -> toc
  • wantedpages -> wanted
  • mywatchespages -> mywatches
  • searchfor
  • textsearch
  • topicsearch
• removed
  • lastusers
  • linkstree

7. Formatters

• Typografica:
  • 'laquo' => 0, // angle quotes
  • 'quotes' => 0,
• renamed
  • comments -> comment
• extended Wacko Syntax
  • footnotes
    • [[fn text of footnote here]]
  • table header
    • #|
*|heading 1|heading 2|heading 3|*
||cell 1-1|cell 1-2|cell 1-3||
||cell 2-1|cell 2-2||
|#

8. Handlers

• added
  • categories
  • clone
  • purge
  • source
  • moderate
  • new
  • rate
  • review
  • latex
• merged
  • massacls -> acls
  • massrename -> rename
• renamed
  • acls -> permissions
  • files -> file
  • settings -> properties

9. Installer

• fixed usage of wrong encoding during upgrade
• sets SQL mode to permissive

10. Makros

• changed :::: creates now ((user:UserName UserName))
  • you can set the path for user: in the interwiki.conf (e.g. /User?profil= or User/)

11. Translations

• Localization
  • localized more remaining and new strings (Russian & English)
  • renamed language files from wakka.xy.php to wacko.xy.php
  • updated German, French, Russian, Greek and Spanish all other languages still have English placeholders
  • removed Moldavian

12. Themes

• added new default theme
• header.php

13. Packages

added

• SimplePie 1.3 (Changelog)
• PHPMailer 5.2.1 (Changelog)

updated

• HTML_Safe to Release 0.10.1
• HTMLSAX3 to Release 3.0.0
• Text_Highlighter to Release 0.7.x (Changelog)
  • added ABAP, HTML, JAVA, SH, VBSCRIPT
• WikiEdit to Release 3.08
  • added separators
• SWFObject 2.2
• freeCap v1.4.1

Note that the changelog is usually incomplete, for a complete list of changes that went into R5.0, you can browse the Mercurial log, the Bug Tracker Log and ToDo list.