Tiki26

Tiki 26.0 was released on July 31st, 2023.

Minimum PHP version: PHP 8.1

Release Manager: Roberto
Assistant-release manager: Rodriguez

It is a Standard Term Support (STS) version and will be supported until Tiki 27.1 is released as per the Tiki lifecycle policy.

You can see the development page at: https://dev.tiki.org/Tiki26 and all the code commits here: https://gitlab.com/tikiwiki/tiki/-/commits/26.x/

1. New features

(alphabetically sorted)

1.1. Color mode support

Upgraded to https://blog.getbootstrap.com/2023/07/26/bootstrap-5-3-1/ which brings color mode support. All themes (minimal change in some already-dark themes) are responsive to the user's browser color scheme preference, and a UI light/dark/auto toggle is provided by a new Color Mode Switch module.

1.2. Emoji picker

The Emoji picker feature has been added to Tiki for Markdown and WYSIWYG to make it possible to pick and insert modern-day emojis.

1.3. Interact.js

The Interact.js library was added to Tiki and used in the Debugger Console (which has been improved), and will be progressively deployed elsewhere in Tiki in future versions.

1.4. Themes

New theme added:
BookStacked, an implementation of BookStack theme for Tiki: https://gitlab.com/tikiwiki/tiki/-/merge_requests/3040

1.5. URL Fragment Guesser

A preference that helps to find the most similar anchor (in a wiki page, blog post or other page) if the one indicated in the URL is not found
https://gitlab.com/tikiwiki/tiki/-/merge_requests/2439

2. Enhancements

(alphabetically sorted)

2.1. Cypht Webmail

Cypht version 1.4.x has been included (instead of running on a snapshot from Cypht master/main/trunk).

2.2. Debugger Console

A tool for developers: Debugger Console

2.3. InterTiki

Fixed issues with login and contacting remote server and replaced the old, unmaintained XML RPC package with a maintained equivalent:
- https://gitlab.com/tikiwiki/tiki/-/merge_requests/2971
- https://gitlab.com/tikiwiki/tiki/-/merge_requests/2889

2.4. Manticore Search

Manticore Search was added as Unified Index option. Experimental in Tiki25, and is production-ready in Tiki26, as we now use for doc.tiki.org, themes.tiki.org and dev.tiki.org.

2.5. Markdown

Tiki-Flavored Markdown was added in Tiki25, and many bug fixes and enhancement have have happened in Tiki26:
- Support for markdown syntax in trackers
- Support for Emojis picker
- And several fixes for markdown conversion
https://gitlab.com/tikiwiki/tiki/-/commits/master?search=markdown

2.6. Modules

several bug fixes and enhancements for modules in Tiki

2.7. PHP 8

Minimum PHP version: PHP 8.1.x
More info PHP 8.

2.8. Tablesorter

Fixed to enable light and dark color modes for Tablesorter
https://gitlab.com/tikiwiki/tiki/-/merge_requests/2987

2.9. Tiki Crawl

A distinct tool: Crawl

2.10. Trackers

Dozens of bug fixes and enhancements for Relations Tracker Field
https://gitlab.com/tikiwiki/tiki/-/merge_requests/2816

2.11. WebP

Add support for the WebP image format.
Code: https://gitlab.com/tikiwiki/tiki/-/merge_requests/2405

2.12. WikiPlugin Convene

Several bug fixes and enhancements have been added to the Convene plugin

3. Known issues

3.1. Slideshow

Slideshow slides content has changed. Bookmarks will be broken. Pages number will be raised by 1 making an url like /tiki-slideshow.php?page=abc#/1 be found at /tiki-slideshow.php?page=abc#/2

4. Removed

Mobile mode preference: This was a left-over from a long time ago, pre-Bootstrap. If you were using, it will appear in Orphan preferences.