Revision as of 11:27, 28 June 2023 by Margit Link-Rodrigue (talk | contribs)
Introduction
Release date: 06/29/2023
BlueSpice 4.3 is a minor release
The code base was updgraded to MW 1.39. From this release on, PHP 8.2 is supported.
Compatibility
- supports PHP 8.2
- LDAP, Simple SAMLphp, OpenIDConnect : Upgraded to be compatible with PluggableAuth 6/7
New Features
| Feature | Description | Screenshot |
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| Content Droplets | We are introducing Content droplets as a convenient way to insert special content in a wiki page. This includes tags, parser functions, and templates. The feature replaces the "Magic words" menu item of the Visual Editor. | |
| Startpage Templates | To support the creation of portal pages for the main page and for all other content namespaces, we now provide two startpage templates.
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| Enhanced Menu Editor |
The main navigation can now contain hierarchical links. In addition, 4 configurations of the sidebar are possible. |
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| PDF Embed | It is now possible to embed a PDF viewer in wiki pages. It is contained in the Content Droplets menu for easy access.
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| Container Filter | You can now mark sections of a page for filtering and display a filter just for the content located within these sections of the page. |
Additional improvements
- VisualEditor: the copy and paste functionality out of other applications (e.g., MS Word) has been significantly improved.
- Tagging of page templates: Page templates can be categorized with tags in the Page template manager. The tags work as a filter when selecting page templates.
- User interface:
- Some adjustments to the menu editor interface.
- New grid view of the Quality management overview and the Workflow overview.
Added extensions (8)
| Extension | Description | Developer |
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| ContainerFilter | Allows to filter content elements within a page. | Hallo Welt! |
| ContentStabilization | Replaces the approval mechanism previously provided by the extensions FlaggedRevs / BlueSpiceFlaggedRevsConnector. The experience for the user should be seamless. | Hallo Welt! |
| FontAwesome | Provides a library of icons which can be used in conjunction with the Droplet "Icon" | MediaWiki |
| InstanceStatus | Allows to insert a header or footer (on a page basis or on a namespace basis) in the content area of a page. | Hallo Welt! |
| PDFEmbed | Media handler extension for PDF files. | MediaWiki |
| PreToClip | Copies contents of <pre> and <syntaxhightlight> tags into the clipboard.
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MediaWiki |
| SectionAnchors | Adds a link to headings for copying the path to the clipbard. | Hallo Welt! |
Removed extensions (4)
- FlaggedRevs: Replaced with extension ContentStabilization
- BlueSpiceDrawioConnector: Inntegrated into exension BlueSpiceDrawio
- BlueSpiceFlaggedRevsConnector: Replaced with extension ContentStabilization
- BlueSpiceInsertMagic: Replaced with extension ContentDroplet
Content changes
The following content changes can affect the display of content in the wiki and may require manual adjustments:
- Missing privacy pages can cause a yellow banner. This is only visible to the admin users.
- The start page templates may not be able to display all styles if templates contained therein already exist in the wiki before the update.
- Styles defined in templates or in MediaWiki:Common.css may no longer be applied.
- The ContentDroplet icon can only be inserted in block mode.
- Missing language switcher on pages whose title area is hidden.
[Known issues|More infos about the content changes]]
