6.0 Change Log

6.0

(10.03.2023) a31bc75 -> M37 (Release Notes)



1. Configuration

1.1. primary config

  1. changed
    1. 'db_charset' => 'utf8mb4',
    2. 'db_collation' => 'utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci',
  2. renamed
    1. database_* -> db_*

1.2. secondary config

  1. new
    • upload_translit
    • source_handler
    • export_handler
    • canonical
    • base_path
    • opensearch
    • enable_counters
    • permissions_policy
    • news_structure
    • xml_sitemap_gz
  2. renamed
    • owners_can_change_categories -> categories_handler
  3. removed
    • antidupe
    • disable_tikilinks
    • outlook_workaround

1.3. constants

  1. new
    • DB_MIN_VERSION
  2. removed
    • TRANSLIT_DONTCHANGE
    • TRANSLIT_LOWERCASE
    • TRANSLIT_LOAD
    • TRANSLIT_DONTLOAD

1.4. conf files

  1. new
    1. permissions_policy.conf
  2. changed
    1. autoload.conf
    2. router.conf
    3. csp_custom.conf
    4. csp.conf

2. Core

  • converted all PHP files to UTF-8
  • set utf-8 as default encoding
  • removed unnecessary usage of HTML Unicode entities
  • removed all supertag usage
    • with Unicode the supertag is not unique and therefor no longer suited
  • removed obsolete translit functions and all related code
  • removed depreciated SQL legacy functions
  • set the /u flag for all preg_* regex handling Unicode
  • replaced all non Unicode safe functions with their mb_ equivalent where necessary
  • added utf8_ complementary multibyte string functions at lib/mb_extends/mb_extends.php
  • normalizes file_name, tag and user_name to Form C (NFC)
  • new Unicode regex patterns 
    • public const PATTERN = [
	'USER_NAME'	=> '[\p{L}\p{Nd}\.\-]+',
	'USER_NAME_P'	=> '\p{L}\p{Nd}\.\-',

	'TAG'		=> '[\p{L}\p{M}\p{Nd}\.\-\/]',
	'TAG_P'		=> '\p{L}\p{M}\p{Nd}\.\-\/',

	'UPPER'		=> '[\p{Lu}]',
	'UPPERNUM'	=> '[\p{Lu}\p{Nd}]',
	'LOWER'		=> '[\p{Ll}\/]',
	'ALPHA'		=> '[\p{L}\_\-\/]',
	'ALPHANUM'	=> '[\p{L}\p{M}\p{Nd}\_\-\/]',
	'ALPHANUM_P'	=> '\p{L}\p{M}\p{Nd}\_\-\/',
];
    • allows now full stop and hyphen-minus as part of the page tag, but only between alphanumeric characters as single character to not mess with the wiki syntax as well as the wiki link path, e.g. page/sub-page/6.1/details
  • fixed falsely setting the description text in page table to 1
  • added session heartbeat to edit and comment handler for logged in users
  • implemented full support for relative path, e.g. <a href="/wiki/WikiPage">
  • the link() function tracks now also external links
  • added support for optional language tag sub-code, e.g. en-NZ or en-GB
  • uses <button> element for submit, cancel and reset buttons
  • added option to disable hit counter
  • added option for Permissions-Policy HTTP response header 
    • Permissions-Policy: camera=(), microphone=(), midi=(), geolocation=(), interest-cohort=()
  • added option to compress sitemap.xml
  • writes sitemap.xml now by default into the xml/ folder
  • disables JavaScript in all SVGs via CSP directive
  • COLLATE tag column case-insensitive for ORDER BY and LIKE 
    •  ORDER BY tag COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci ASC	
    •  WHERE tag COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci LIKE
  • set missing context for comments and news feed
  • fixed some incompatible backports for PHP 7.3 - 7.4

2.1. Methods

This is only a random selection.

  • added
    • Ut::normalize()
    • Ut::translit()
    • get_favicon()
  • modified
    • href($method = '', $tag = '', $params = [], $addpage = false, $anchor = '', $alter = true, $encode = true, , $absolute = false)
      • added $encode to URL-encode according to RFC 3986
      • added $absolute to use absolute URL path
    • save_page($tag, $body, $title = '', [...])
      • changed order of 2nd and 3rd parameter, now $body is in second place
    • get_page_path($tag = '', $titles = false, $separator = '/', $linking = true, $root_page = false)
      • added $tag as first argument, this changes the order of the parameters
  • renamed
    • slim_url() -> underscore_url() - it is no longer used for transliteration
  • removed
    • try_utf_decode()
    • do_unicode_entities()
    • utf8_to_unicode_entities()
    • translit()
    • get_description()

2.2. Folders

  • renamed folder wacko to src

3. Database

  • dropped support for MyISAM
    • DB sessions are not compatible with MyISAM database engine.
  • uses utf8mb4 as default encoding
  • removed obsolete supertag field from all related tables
  • changed all lang fields to VARCHAR(5) to fit in the new language tag sub-code scheme
  • set collation for tag in page table to utf8mb4_bin
  • changed field
    1. referrer to VARCHAR(2083) in referrer table
    2. email to VARCHAR(254) in user table
    3. query to VARCHAR(255) in cache table
  • removed obsolete hits field from file table
    • the file hit counter worked only for non-image files in local namespace

Database schema changes


4. Installer

  • adds all base pages now for all languages only once
  • sets database collation to utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci as default
  • added localized default site_name
  • fixed wrong version sorting of upgrade array

5. Formatters

  • new syntax for auto-generated footnote [[^ footnote here]]
  • moved BBcode formatter to community repo
  • removed obsolete legacy image/ folder look up via ((image.png))
  • file:attachment.jpg loads now only the local file, use file:/attachment.jpg for global attachments
    • all links to global files must have a slash after the colon file:/ to work from now on
  • removed support for Tiki-Links, e.g. Wiki.Word -> Wiki/Word
    • allows dot as part of namespace, e.g. Release/6.0/Upgrade
  • added id for file backlink to media
  • added lazy loading for images, e.g. loading="lazy"
  • fixed broken image resizing from external sources, e.g. ((https://example.com/image.png width=500 align=center))
  • added details formatter
    • %%(details title="summary" open=1) Details info. %%
    • Summary The HTML Details Element (<details>) creates a disclosure widget in which information is visible only when the widget is toggled into an "open" state. A summary or label can be provided using the <summary> element.

      A disclosure widget is typically presented onscreen using a small triangle which rotates (or twists) to indicate open/closed status, with a label next to the triangle. If the first child of the <details> element is a <summary>, the contents of the <summary> element are used as the label for the disclosure widget.
  • added info formatter
    • %%(info type="warning" title="Warning") Formatter info.%%

    • Warning

      Formatter info.
      1. type="default | error | example | important | note | question | quote | success | warning"
      2. title="Title"
      3. icon=1 | 0
  • added chat formatter
    • supports various date-username-message chat log formats
    • %%(chat type="[div|table]" user=[0|1]) chat log%%
    • User One Message text by User.
      		 12:04
      User Two Message text by Another User. Link in text https://example.com/
      		 12:05
      User Three Message text by Yet Another User.
      With
      several lines
      ot text!      		 12:10

5.1. Wrapper

new arguments:

  1. wrapper_type="default | error | example | important | note | question | quote | success | warning"
  2. wrapper_title="Title"
  3. col=1 | 0

box shade page text
type + + – -
title + + – -
alignment + –1 –2 +
clear + + – –
width + –1 + –3
column – + – +
frame + + – –
automatic line feed + + + –

1 This option does not make sense, because the width of the block is always equal to the width of the page.
2 Only to the left.
3 If you don't put the line feeds yourself, the block width is fixed by the engine at approximately 90% of the page width.


%%(wacko wrapper="shade" wrapper_type="note" wrapper_title="Columns" col=4) content... %%

Columns

Unicode has the explicit aim of transcending the limitations of traditional character encodings, such as those defined by the ISO 8859 standard, which find wide usage in various countries of the world but remain largely incompatible with each other. Many traditional character encodings share a common problem in that they allow bilingual computer processing (usually using Latin characters and the local script), but not multilingual computer processing (computer processing of arbitrary scripts mixed with each other).

Unicode, in intent, encodes the underlying characters—graphemes and grapheme-like units—rather than the variant glyphs (renderings) for such characters. In the case of Chinese characters, this sometimes leads to controversies over distinguishing the underlying character from its variant glyphs (see Han unification).


In text processing, Unicode takes the role of providing a unique code point—a number, not a glyph—for each character. In other words, Unicode represents a character in an abstract way and leaves the visual rendering (size, shape, font, or style) to other software, such as a web browser or word processor. This simple aim becomes complicated, however, because of concessions made by Unicode's designers in the hope of encouraging a more rapid adoption of Unicode.


A tiny part of the Unicode table


The first 256 code points were made identical to the content of ISO-8859-1 so as to make it trivial to convert existing western text. Many essentially identical characters were encoded multiple times at different code points to preserve distinctions used by legacy encodings and therefore, allow conversion from those encodings to Unicode (and back) without losing any information. For example, the "fullwidth forms" section of code points encompasses a full Latin alphabet that is separate from the main Latin alphabet section because in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK) fonts, these Latin characters are rendered at the same width as CJK characters, rather than at half the width. For other examples, see duplicate characters in Unicode.

6. Actions

  • admin_utf8 - database UTF-8 conversion script
  • fixed urls_underscores option breaks path to local file in various actions
  • category : shows now only categories with assigned records by default
  • embed : added optional parameter align="left|center|right"
  • whatsnew : added optional parameter page="Cluster", it does not include files uploaded in global namespace
  • feed : added pagination
  • adminupdate : added option to reset legacy password hashes (only affects inactive legacy accounts used before R5.5)
  • renamed
    • flash -> embed
    • fileusage -> filelinks
  • added
    • pagelinks - the counterpart to backlinks
    • blog - creates a blog in the namespace of your choice

7. Handlers

  • added option to disable the source handler
  • shows a notice in the edit handler, when you create a new page and a similar page already exists
  • edit: fixed selected categories were not saved with new page
  • show: added navigation between revisions
  • categories: removed auto-selection of parent category
  • edit: fixed HTML form nesting issue in preview mode
  • diff: added diff mode Merged
  • enables doubleclick edit now only in show handler
  • file: removed hit counter for local file
  • remove: added ability to remove / hide only certain revisions

8. Themes

  • added <link rel="canonical" href="..."> to common page header
  • added OpenSearch autodiscovery
  • changed default font-size to 14px
  • set viewBox and removed height and width in all SVG files
  • reset nested list style in comments
  • .visuallyhidden class hides non-visible form labels
  • .no-print class hides elements in print view

9. WikiEdit

  • removed obsolete browser cases
  • added button and icon for <small>
  • replaced 'Help' text with icon
  • ECMAScript 2015 Migration
  • added Unicode support

10. Admin panel

  1. added option to create user without setting email confirm token
  2. removed transliterate module
  3. stores admin panel menu in session
  4. data synchronization: added option to reparse all pages
  5. resync: fixed broken setting of resync_limit
  6. the panel now uses the language of the user account
  7. users: added option to resend email confirmation code
  8. backup: added missing column collation to backup script
  9. sets DEFAULT for all fields in backup module script

11. Translations

  • all translation files are now encoded as UTF-8
  • updated German, Russian and Spanish
  • added support for Chinese, Hindi, Japanese, Korean and Persian
    • work in progress, help from native speakers appreciated

12. Packages

updated


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Note that the changelog is usually incomplete, for a complete list of changes that went into R6.0, you can browse the Commit log, the Bug Tracker Log and ToDo list.