6.1

(03.09.2025) d777cb5 -> M29 (Release Notes | by release)

1. Features

1. section edit support
2. thumbnail creation
3. global string find-and-replace action

2. Configuration

2.1. primary config

1. new
   • db_vendor
2. renamed
   • sql_mode_strict to sql_mode
     • 0 - server (default)
     • 1 - session lax
     • 2 - session strict

2.2. secondary config

1. new
   • american_date
   • comments_offset
   • email_confirmation
   • email_subject_prefix
   • forbidden_email_domains
   • jpeg_quality
   • login_notice
   • max_image_width
   • max_page_size
   • min_thumbnail_distance
   • news_structure
   • section_edit
   • session_notice
   • svg_sanitizer
   • theme_color
   • thumbnail_image_area
   • upload_allowed_exts
   • upload_translit_lower
   • xml_sitemap_gz
2. renamed
   • default_typografica -> typografica
   • img_max_thumb_width -> max_thumb_width
   • img_create_thumbnail -> create_thumbnail
3. removed
   • dst
   • footer_rating

2.3. theme config

• custom_menus - shows custom menu options (hide_toc, hide_index, tree_level)

2.4. constants

1. new
   • COOKIE_SAMESITE : 'Strict', 'Lax' (default), 'None'
   • DB_ERROR_MODE : 0 - silent (default), 1 - warning, 2 - exception
2. renamed
   • UPLOAD_PER_PAGE_DIR to UPLOAD_LOCAL_DIR
   • SQL_MODE_PERMISSIVE to SQL_MODE_LAX
3. removed
   • XML_HTMLSAX3, see autoload.conf

2.5. conf files

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

3. Core

• added option to set the SameSite attribute, default 'Lax' , see constants.php

  While 'Strict' provides stronger protection against CSRF attacks, it actually prevents the user's session from being recognized when clicking a link from a notification e-mail, causing WackoWiki to start an anonymous session even if the user is already logged in.

  
  
• added thumbnail support
• use of new str_contains(), str_starts_with(), str_ends_with() functions and Match expression
• use of PHP null coalescing assignment operator ??=
• added option to compress sitemap.xml
• writes sitemap.xml now by default into the xml/ folder

  • Sitemap: https://wiki.example.com/xml/sitemap.xml.gz	

• 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	

• removed polls class
• uses now the IntlDateFormatter for localizing date and time formats & determining DST according the set timezone
• adds option to set DB error mode for MySQLi and PDO driver
• set missing context for comments and news feed
• set system language for all feeds
• fixed various SQL Strict mode issues
• show file captions also in print handler
• added option to show the session termination notices (default: off)
• added option to show 'Welcome back ...' notices (default: off)
• removed $this->user_table assignment, use db->table_prefix . 'user' instead
• new $this->prefix alias for $this->db->table_prefix for better readability in Wacko class
• fixed wrong encoding of page tag in IRI format with mode_rewrite off
• added ability to add custom message sets under lang/custom.<lang>.php apart from themes

  • <?php
    
    $custom_translation = [
        // my coffee action
        'BuyMilk'                    => 'Milch kaufen',
        'MakeCoffee'                => 'Kaffee machen',
        'AddSugar'                => 'Zucker hinzufügen',
    ];
    	

• notify_watcher(): adds direct link to diff mode in email body
• removed deprecated usage of Expires: and Pragma: header
• fixed If-Modified-Since conditional requests issues
• fixed invalid ETag
• fixed various Cache-Control header issues
• re-check for anonymous user before storing cache
  • soft_login() may set sess->user_profile
• removed redundant setlocale() call
• fixed not showing read ACL $ pages in the default menu for logged in users with no own bookmarks defined
• make date format depended on localization and user preferences
• turn off double-click editing on pages with actions having forms

3.1. Methods

This is only a random selection.

• added
  • number_format()
    • uses intl NumberFormatter class
  • mark_read()
  • extract_sections($body, $section_id, $mode, $new_section = '')
  • get_favicon()
  • get_xml_file($name)
  • date_format($unix_time, $pattern)
    • uses IntlDateFormatter::format()
    • for $pattern see ICU Dates and Times Format patterns
• modified
  • get_page_path($tag = '', $titles = false, $separator = '/', $linking = true, $root_page = false)
    • added $tag as first argument, this changes the order of the parameters
• renamed
  • binary_multiples() -> factor_multiples()
  • get_time_formatted() -> sql_time_format()
  • theme_*() -> theme_template($section, $mod = '')
• removed
  • page rating related functions

3.2. Folders

• renamed folder wacko to src
  • community/ - maintained community extensions
  • src/ - installable distibution

4. Database

1. added field
   1. acl_id INT(10) to acl table
   2. group_member_id INT(10) to usergroup_member table
   3. typografica TINYINT(1) to page table
   4. file_hash CHAR(40) to file table
   5. date_preference VARCHAR(20) to user_setting table
   6. comments_offset TINYINT(1) to user_setting table
2. changed field
   1. timezone to VARCHAR(100) in user_setting table
   2. query to VARCHAR(255) in cache table
   3. caption to DEFAULT NULL in file table
   4. category to VARCHAR(255) in category table
   5. category_description to TEXT in category table
3. renamed field
   1. lost_password_request_count to password_request_count in user table
   2. uploaded_dt to created in file table
   3. modified_dt to modified in file table
   4. name to hash in cache table
4. removed field
   1. footer_rating from page table
   2. typografica from user_setting table
   3. dst from user_setting table
5. added index
   1. idx_user_id to menu table
   2. idx_page_id to menu table
   3. idx_lang to menu table
   4. idx_user_id to watch table
   5. idx_page_id to watch table
   6. idx_file_name to file table
6. removed table
   1. poll
   2. rating

Database schema changes

5. Installer

• removed legacy code from upgrade process, requires now at least WackoWiki 6.0.22
  
• normalized inserting pages
• indicates now in the header that you're running a Installation or Upgrade
• adds option to set sql_mode and db_vendor
  • mainly to solve SQL mode incompatibilities
• add option to set wiki as public or private
• set more strict write and create ACLs for system and user pages

6. Formatters

• adds noinclude formatter
  • %%(noinclude) content not shown when embedded via include action %%
  • The include action strips the content enclosed by the noinclude tags.
    • <!--noinclude-->, <!--/noinclude-->
    • for info boxes, navigation, etc.
• adds alternate grave accents `` syntax to percent signs %% syntax
  • allows to work around parsing conflicts, e.g. the text already contains percent signs, which may be mistakenly considered markup
  • enables to wrap formatters in a formatter, e.g. wrapping a CSS highlighter in a details formatter
• fixed list regex for letters & Roman numerals
• Typografica
  • corrector is now turned off by default (typografica)
  • fixed regex for quotes
• Paragrafica: added missing <dd> and <dt> wronginators
• <ignore> is terminator tag for Paragrafica
• adds support for AVIF, requires at least LibGD 2.3.2 and PHP 8.2
• adds support for JPEG XL, LibGD and PHP support pending
• allows multi-line actions

  • {{action
    	title=""
    	info= ...
    }}	

• [[^ footnote]] extended syntax for auto-generated footnote
  • you can mix individual denominators and auto-numbering (introductory footnotes & reference footnotes)
  • [[^§ footnote]] allows you to define individual footnote denominators
  • allowed denominators are alphanumeric characters and *, †, ‡, §, ‖, ¶
  • If a already defined footnote denominator is reused, it defaults back to auto-numbering.
  • [[^#10 footnote]] resets start for auto-numbering
  • [[^c]] an empty reference refers to an existing footnote, if there is one
• add link support for geo:, git:, tel:, sftp: and ssh: URI scheme

7. Actions

• added help=1 option to show all available parameters
  • optional localization is available

  • Description:
    	Creates a link to the edit handler, if the user has the right to edit the given page.
    
    Usage:
    	{{edit}}
    
    Options:
    	[page="PageName"]
    	[text="your text"]	

• hashid: adds version parameter, 0 links to page, 1 links to version of the page (default)
• toc: adds start parameter for toc numbering
• search:
  • adds language filter to search in multi-language mode
  • adds full words highlight mode (default), use hl_simple=1 for ideographic languages such as Chinese and Japanese
  • remembers now 'Search in title only' selection across search pages
• login: removed check and rehash of legacy password formats
• adminupdate: adds option to set missing MIME type for files and option to set missing file hash for uploaded files
• files: added sorting and filter options to form, e.g. {{files form=1 options=1 all=1 media=1}}
• upload: fix uploading is rejected when upload_max_size is 0
• added
  • admin_replace - allows administrators to do a global string find-and-replace on all wiki pages
  • blog - creates a blog in the namespace of your choice
  • editsection - mainly for internal use
  • gallery - moved from community folder
  • navigation - allows to set a backward and forward link to scroll between pages
• removed
  • polls
  • pollsadd
  • pollsarchive
  • pollspreview
  • mostrated

8. Handlers

• edit: added section editing
  • Users can enable an option that allows them to edit individual sections of an article (separated by headlines) instead of loading the entire article.
• upload:
  • added duplicate file notices
  • ignores duplicate files
  • allows now hyphen-minus in file name
    • e.g. wackowiki-6.1.29.zip
  • it adds uploaded files to file table in SQL strict mode again, changed default value for caption in file table to DEFAULT NULL
  • checks if the MIME type of the uploaded file matches the file extension (may result in false negatives)
• moderate: fixed unreachable sub-forum options to delete, move, rename and merge topics
• print: sets numerated links always as absolute URL
• removed rate handler
• new: does no longer shows db->root_page as predefined cluster (as it is often mistaken as root)
  • /NewPage - new page/cluster in root
  • /HomePage/NewPage - possible, however the breadcrumbs navigation may incorrectly suggest that HomePage is the root directory
• add copy to clipboard button for page tag in properties and file syntax in filemeta handler

9. Themes

• assigns styles for table headers and columns via :nth-child()

  •  /* users table */
    .users col:nth-child(n+1):nth-child(-n+3) {
        width: 5px;
    }
    .users col:nth-child(4),
    .users col:nth-child(n+6) {
        width: 20px;
    }

• CSS: uses var() for font-family, specific color attributions and similar
• breadcrumbs: add the new first argument in the $this->get_page_path($tag) call in header.php

  • -$tpl->breadcrumbs    = $this->get_page_path(false, ' > ', true, true);
    +$tpl->breadcrumbs    = $this->get_page_path(null, false, ' > ', true, true);

• provisional RTL support for default theme
  • added [dir=rtl] CSS classes
• set visibility tag colors for access modes
• default theme
  • print and source tab now takes the revision into account
  • browser print mode: shows now only <article> content
  • uses :focus-within pseudo selector for dropdown menus
• added breeze icons for dark mode
• rename language files for theme to
  • lang/theme.<lang>.php
  • lang/theme.all.php
• add icons for archive:, geo: and tel: links
  • Original WikiWikiSandBox
  • 123-456-7890
  • Mount Kilimanjaro

10. WikiEdit

• ECMAScript 2015 Migration
• added Unicode support
• added button and icon for [[^ footnote]] and {{action}}
• added WikiEdit icons for dark mode

11. Admin panel

1. pages: determines news_levels according to the given settings
2. upload:
   • lets you now set other groups than Admins to allow file upload
   • added option to transliterate all file names to lowercase (new default: off)
3. appearance: added option to set a theme color for the address bar
4. removed obsolete convert module
5. sets DEFAULT for all fields in backup module script
6. restore: skips is_executable() check for Windows
7. changed format for backup.log to JSON
   • You have to remove the backups you've created prior to 6.1.21 from the file/backup/ folder or replace the backup.log with a new JSON formatted version.
8. added syndication module
9. formatter: add option american_date to set the default date format for English to
   • [mdy] MM/dd/y (true)
   • [dmy] dd-MM-y (false)
10. users: allows Admins to change passwords for other users
11. basic: add option comments_offset to display either the first or last comments page by default

12. Translations

• complete Chinese Simplified translation
• added Arabic, Finnish, Czech, Norwegian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Swedish and Portuguese-Brasil translation
  • Requires proofreading by native speakers via Crowdin (Pre-MT)
• added initial language files for Indonesian, Persian and Tamil (work in progress, help welcome)
• uses now English as fallback for missing message sets
• now you can add message sets for your own scripts under lang/custom.<lang>.php
  • the user must create the files himself, e.g. custom.fi.php using $custom_translation = [];
  • This way, the user's own message sets are not accidentally overwritten by updates.

13. Packages

updated

• Bad Behaviour 2.2.26
• clipboard.js v2.0.11
• freeCap 1.4.6
• Hashids 5.0.2 (Changelog)
• php-diff 2.5.0 (Changelog)
• PHPMailer 6.10.0 (Changelog)
• PHP Thumb Library 2.3.2
• SafeHTML 1.3.13
• SimplePie 1.9.0 (Changelog)
• svg-sanitizer 0.22
• Text_Highlighter 0.8.0
• WikiEdit 3.23

See core dependencies

Note that the changelog is usually incomplete, for a complete list of changes that went into R6.1, you can browse the Commit log, the Bug Tracker Log and ToDo list.