[pmwiki-users] [pmwiki-announce] PmWiki 2.4.0 released

Mon Jan 20 11:44:39 PST 2025

Petko

congratulations on another outstanding PmWiki release.
Congratulations too on your leadership and stewardship of PmWiki over 16
years.

I appreciate and applaud you on keeping PmWiki up to date with the web
ecosystem, relevant, and tremendously useful.

Again well done

with many many thanks

Simon

On Mon, 20 Jan 2025 at 05:13, Petko Yotov <5ko at 5ko.fr> wrote:

> Hello. PmWiki version 2.4.0 was published today, and is available at:
>
>    https://www.pmwiki.org/pub/pmwiki/pmwiki-2.4.0.tgz
>    https://www.pmwiki.org/pub/pmwiki/pmwiki-2.4.0.zip
>      svn://www.pmwiki.org/pmwiki/tags/latest
>
> I'm happy to announce PmWiki version 2.4.0, a milestone that also marks
> 185 versions in 16 years of my journey as the core developer (Petko).
> Fun fact: that's 20 years in octal and 10000 years in binary. ;-)
>
> To mark the occasion, some extra work seemed appropriate. I hope you
> will find the new production interesting and useful.
>
> Structure changes:
> * Added a new pub/lib directory, moving core files such as
> pmwiki-utils.js, pmwiki-syntax.css, pmwiki-syntax.js, and
> pmwiki-darktoggle.js to it.
> * Added pmwiki-core.css which includes core styles previously injected
> into $HTMLStylesFmt. This change is aimed at improving performance and
> supporting stricter Content-Security-Policy. The styles include support
> for both light and dark themes and responsive layouts, with easier
> customization options.
> * Added pmwiki-lib.js, a new core JavaScript library for DOM
> manipulation, asynchronous operations, preference storage, and
> reporting. These functions can also be used by recipes.
> * Added $HTMLHeader1Fmt for insertion right after the <head> tag to
> facilitate early loading of scripts and styles, improving features like
> dark mode and easing core style overrides by skins.
>
> JavaScript and CSS updates:
> * Refactored the InsertWikiPageCSS() function. Added $WikiPageInlineCSS
> (default enabled); if set to 0, local styles will be served as a
> separate browser request ($PageUrl?action=pagecss), aligning with the
> stricter Content-Security-Policy.
>
> Form and textarea enhancements:
> * The edit form "Preview" button no longer requires validation.
> * Improved $EnableMergeLastMinorEdit behavior.
> * If $EnableEditAutoText is set to 2, any textarea with the autotext
> class will enable Cookbook:EditHelp. New shortcuts for line swapping
> (Alt+ArrowUp and Alt+ArrowDown) have been added.
> * Introduced $EditAutoBrackets to automatically insert closing
> characters in autotext textareas. If text is selected, typing an
> opening character will wrap the selection with matching characters.
> * If $EnablePmSyntax is set to 2, any textarea with the class pmsyntax
> will enable Cookbook:PmSyntax. The F8 key can now toggle syntax
> highlighting.
> * Added the (:input range:) element to forms.
> * Added support for data-labelvalue="1" attribute in form input elements
> color and range to display their values.
>    (:input color c1 #ff4500 data-labelvalue=1:)
>    (:input range r1 10 min=0 max=30 data-labelvalue=1:)
>
> New variables and enhancements:
> * Added $EnableUploadTargets and $UploadTargets to track files attached
> to a page.
> * Introduced $RehashedPassword, which contains a new hash when a user
> logs in with an outdated password hash, allowing add-ons to update the
> password hash.
> * Added $PagePathResolveFmt, if enabled, will resolve the current page
> name instead of $PagePathFmt. This is useful for wikis where both
> Main.Name and Name.HomePage (or Name.Name) exist, allowing the Name
> group to open instead of Main.Name.
>
> Table of contents updates:
> * The Table of Contents now uses <details>, <summary>, <nav> elements
> for toggling. Custom styles for div.PmTOCdiv should be updated to
> .PmTOCdiv, and div.PmTOCtable should be updated to .PmTOCtable. The
> back arrow is now defined in CSS.
>
> Other notable changes:
> * Added helper function XLHSC() and updated PosArgs().
> * The RecentChanges "plus" button from Cookbook:LocalTimes is now an
> input button element. After downloading recent page edits, it will
> display "minus" instead of disappearing, and clicking "minus" will hide
> the edits and toggle back to "plus".
> * The ?action=diag page now includes defined constants and functions,
> aiding diagnostics.
> * A couple of bugs were fixed.
>
> Documentation:
> * Simplified the docs/sample-config.php.
> * $EnableCopyCode works only on HTTPS websites. It will be disabled on
> HTTP without any console errors.
> * Updated documentation to reflect changes and new features.
>
> These changes aim to improve performance, flexibility, and usability
> across the core system, while also supporting better customization and
> tighter security.
>
> If you have any questions or encounter any issues during the upgrade,
> feel free to reach out -- I'd be happy to assist you.
>
> Thanks,
> Petko
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>
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