Hey all,

We are proud to announce the immediate release of Semantic MediaWiki 1.7.1, the next minor version after 1.7, which brings a few cool new features and a ton of bugfixes.

Many thanks go to all the people that contributed to this release, without you this release would not have been possible :)

== What's new ==

* Added basic support for OpenLink Virtuoso RDF database. In addition to $smwgDefaultStore = 'SMWSparqlStore', users should set $smwgSparqlDatabase = 'SMWSparqlDatabaseVirtuoso' and use Virtuoso's SPARQL endpoint at ./sparql/ for query and update alike. for further remarks and known limitations, see the file ./includes/sparql/SMW_SparqlDatabaseVirtuoso.php . * Added ability to sort dates as dates in tables generated by SMW (bug 25768). * Added "Last editor is" and "Is a new page" special properties (bug 34359).

== Bug fixes ==

Since 1.7.0.2:

* When there are only invalid query conditions, query answering is stopped (bug 33177). * Fixed display of nearby values on Special:SearchByProperty (bug 34178). * Fixed display of URL values (bug 34312, 34044). * Fixed warning when browsing certain property pages (bug 34306). * Fixed failure of SMW_setup --delete when using postgresql (bug 31153). * Fixed division by 0 error when setting the "Corresponds to" property to 0 (bug 32594). * Fixed accept header send with SPARQL query requests (bug 32280). * Fixed unresolved prefixed name in SPARQL queries (bug 33687). * Fixed issues with modification date property occurring when using SMWSparqlStore (bug 30989). * Fixed erroneous SPARQL for property value comparison queries (bug 30993). * Fixed broken +index=x for records (bug 30284). * Fixed querying of subobjects using 4store as a datastore. * Fixed issue with namespace internationalization (bug 34383).

Plus these fixed after 1.7:

* Fixed creation of concept cache and display of matching objects on concept pages (bug 32592, 32718). * Fixed fatal error occurring for some invalid property definitions (bug 33652). * Fixed error in RSS when using creator or date parameters (bug 33721). * Fixed incorrect offset of export formats (bug 33726). * Fixed bug in "further results" links causing the main column to be displayed twice on Special:Ask (bug 33473). * Fixed incorrect case-sensitivity of the format parameter (bug 31138). * Fixed internationalization of magic words. * Fixed offset and limit value in further results links (bug 33575).

== Compatibility changes ==

None. The next scheduled release of SMW, which is SMW 1.8, will drop support for MediaWiki 1.16.x.

== Download ==

You can get this release from

* SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/semediawiki/files/semediawiki/Semantic%20Med... * SVN: http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/tags/extensions/SemanticMediaWiki...

== Installation / Upgrading ==

You can install or upgrade as usual. You will need to run the table update script via Special:SMWAdmin or maintenance/SMW_setup.php.

More detailed installation instructions can be found on the SMW wiki: http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Installation_1.7.1

A slightly more extensive overview of this release can be found here: http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki_1.7.1

Cheers

-- Jeroen De Dauw http://www.bn2vs.com Don't panic. Don't be evil. --