[Mediawiki-l] SMW 0.7 released

[Markus Krötzsch]

Hi all,

Semantic MediaWiki has just been released in version 0.7. This version should 
support MediaWiki 1.9 and 1.10 (and probably 1.8), but installation for 1.10 
should be particularly simple since no manual file patches are needed any 
more.

Core new features include:

* New special pages for searching and browsing data, in particular 
Special:Browse. These replace the old Special:SearchTriple (which still 
exists as a stub for backwards compatibility).
* Informative listings of results on all pages in the namespaces Attribute, 
Relation, and Type.
* Additional options for formatting results of inline queries, supporting 
templates, transclusion of result pages, and counting of results.
* New datatype for enumerated string values.
* Maintenance script for updating the semantic database, e.g. after importing 
text-only data.
* More languages.
* A large number of smaller fixes and improvements.

Upgrading from an existing SMW 0.6 should not be difficult. The main change 
from prior versions is that the file SMW_LocalSettings.php is now obsolete 
and the contents of LocalSettings.php is slightly changed accordingly (see 
INSTALL). But the database layout is fully compatible to SMW 0.6 (in both 
directions). You may still want to use Special:SMWAdmin to trigger some added 
DB optimisations.

Some updates of the documentation are still needed to reflect the new 
features. Completed translation files can still be submitted -- there might 
be an SMW 0.7.1 to include them. If you find any problems, send a mail to 
semediawiki-user at lists.sourceforge.net or file a bug at MediaZilla.


Last but not least, big thanks to all developers, translators, and users who 
have contributed to the current release.

Have fun,

Markus

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Markus Krötzsch
Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, D-76128 Karlsruhe
mak at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de        phone +49 (0)721 608 7362
www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS/     fax +49 (0)721 693  717
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