Semantic MediaWiki 4.1.0 released

Changes

• Improved compatibility with MediaWiki 1.38 and 1.39
• Improved compatibility with PHP 8.1 (not complete yet)
• Fixed type error occurring during specific number formatting on PHP 8.0+
• Fixed bug causing the job queue to be flooded with jobs
• Fixed issue with the pipe character in the Ask API
• Fixed rebuildData.php issue for the smw_ftp_sesp_usereditcntns table
• Fixed issue in the category result format
• Fixed upsert warning log spam
• Added user preference that allows enabling or disabling the entity issue panel
• Added support for partial ISO dates
• SMW now ships with updated vocabularies including Schema.org, Dublin Core, FOAF and SKOS
• Various grammar and spelling fixes
• Translation updates

Credits

Over 20 people contributed to this release. We would like to thank all contributors.

Special credits go to Abijeet Patro (and TranslateWiki), Bernhard Krabina from KM-A, Sébastien Beyou from WikiValley and Alexander from gesinn.it.

Upgrading

We recommend that everyone running older versions of SMW upgrades. Especially if you are running SMW 4.0.1 or older, as these versions contain a known security vulnerability.

No need to run "update.php" or any other migration scripts.

Get the new version via Composer:

• Step 1: if you are upgrading from SMW older than 4.0.0, ensure the SMW version in composer.json is ^4.1.0
• Step 2: run composer in your MediaWiki directory: composer update --no-dev --optimize-autoloader

Get the new version via Git:

This is only for those that have installed SMW via Git.

• Step 1: do a git pull in the SemanticMediaWiki directory
• Step 2: run composer update --no-dev --optimize-autoloader in the MediaWiki directory

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