MediaWiki Extensions 2.0.0 Released

Last modified by Vincent Massol on 2023/06/08

Jun 08 2023

This release focused on the syntax parser, for which various bug fixes were fixed, especially:

  • support of wiki syntax in links label
  • better support of image caption
  • better support of table caption

On the less visible side, the reasons why the major version was incremented are:

  • the Bliki library, which is the low lever MediaWiki syntax parser we are currently using, is long dead, unfortunately. So it's been forked on https://github.com/xwiki-contrib/info.bliki.wikipedia_parser and that's where most low level syntax parsing related issues are going to be fixed from now on
  • to prepare the potential implementation of a new syntax parser, either from scratch or based on another library, the extension identifier of the XWiki MediaWiki syntax parser changed from org.xwiki.contrib.mediawiki:mediawiki-syntax to org.xwiki.contrib.mediawiki:mediawiki-syntax-bliki
  • to support some more recent addition to the XWiki Rendering API, the minimum supported version of XWiki jumped from 8.4 to 11.10

You can see details in the MediaWiki release notes.

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