Release Notes

We have prepared a Release Candidate of the next WIKINDX release: X.Y.Z. Note that this beta version is not for production use. However, we would appreciate the help of dedicated WIKINDX users in testing the beta version in order to ensure that the final 6.7.1 release is of the highest quality. A beta tester should be able to set up and manage a test WIKINDX environment, ideally populated with data from their production environment. We expect the beta release period to last two(?) weeks during which bugs will be reported and fixed. If you are able and willing to beta test with us, then please send an email to sirfragalot@users.sourceforge.net and we will contact you asap.

Version 6.13.0 Release Candidate 1

Focus: bug fixes, maintenance

Bug fixes

  • Fix some issues which caused logon operations (user or readOnly) to occasionally fail.
  • Fix graph display in visualize plugin after the addition of security measures (embed graphs in display dialog as base64 encoded string).
  • Wildcards in search strings (’?’ and ‘*’): safely deal with e.g. “blah ? moreblah” to avoid a fatal error.
  • Fix an error in DOCX export related to the CODE HTML entity.
  • Fix an error adding/editing users where there are no resources with creators [#737].
  • If using bibutils for the conversion of bibliography formats, ensure the output file is downloadable through the standard WIKINDX processes.
  • When importing a bibTeX file or pasting bibTeX entries, ensure all selected categories are correctly registered.
  • If searching a list and compressing attachments to a zip file, the zip file can now be successfully downloaded [#739].
  • When exporting a DOCX file from a list, ensure the interim DOCX folder is deleted after DOCX creation.
  • If using browserTabID, fix an issue that caused moderated new user registration to fail (new user was unable to log on).
  • If no word is input for QUICKSEARCH, ensure there is a valid error message.
  • Replace PHP translation catalogs by JSON, since some of them were corrupted [#742].
  • Ensure users who are members of a group bibliography, can select that bibliography when importing resources or adding/editing a new one.
  • Fix an issue in MYWIKINDX email notification where the user’s preference was not stored.
  • Fixes session purging: the session access time was not always recorded in the same time zone [#740][#743].

Improvements

  • Add a spinner when adding attachments to a resource in order to indicate ongoing activity (useful for large attachments).
  • Correct the order of publication list front page display to resource timestamp rather than publication year—this matches the typical display of the WIKINDX front page and ensures that newly added entries in the publication list that are missing a publication year are actually displayed.
  • When viewing a single resource from a list, the ‘Return to list’ link now returns to the previous place in the list (rather than the start of the list).
  • When viewing a single idea + subidea(s) from a list, the ‘Return to list’ link now returns to the previous place in the list (rather than the start of the list). Additionally, when viewing the list, make each group of idea + sub-idea(s) more distinct.
  • Allow registered users to change their preferred timezone and display all dates according to it and the user’s preferred locale.
  • CMS hooks: added getPublist as an action. This will retrieve the resources in the defined publication list for insertion into a CMS or website. The URL of the list can be obtained from the Admin|Bibliographies…|Publications menu or, for normal users and their own publication lists, the My Wikindx menu.

Maintenance

  • Update PHPMailer (v7.0.2).
  • Update Smarty (v5.8.0).
  • Unicode 17.0 support [#732].
  • Added custom exception and fatal error handlers: these should facilitate debugging and bug reporting.
  • Update jQuery (v4.0.0).
  • Update Adminer library (v5.4.2).
  • Convert and store all dates in database with UTC.
  • Bump component compatibility version of plugins to 20 (change for JSON format of translation catalogs).
  • Bump component compatibility version of styles to 31 (new fields for publications).
  • Bump component compatibility version of templates to 8 (new icons for publications).