Tiki21

Tiki 21.0 was released in March 2020.

It requires PHP 7.2, vs PHP 7.1 for Tiki20.

It is a Long Term Support (LTS) version and will be supported until February March 2025 as per the Tiki lifecycle policy

About getting source code

Please note: SVN updates (for all versions of Tiki) will stop in January 2023 when Tiki18 reaches end of life, so you should get your updates from Git

1. New Features and Improvements

1.1. Calendar - CalDAV support

• See CalDAV
• https://sourceforge.net/p/tikiwiki/code/71008 via SabreDAV.
• With recurring events
• Calendar Invitations by email

1.2. Console

New actions added to console.php:

• objects:notify-maintainers: Send out email notification to maintainers for objects whose freshness is greater than the limit. Related: #Tiki_Objects\:_maintainers_and_freshness
• vcs:automerge: Semi Auto Merge (for developers)
• vcs:fixids: Fix the Id's of SVN Keyword for all files (for developers)
• vcs:update: Update SVN to latest version & perform tasks for a smooth update.
• translation:englishupdate: Fix English strings after modifying them.
• translation:getstrings: Update language.php files with new strings
• tiki:stats: Display a table with the KPIs
• preferences:export: Export preferences
• ocr:set: Set the OCR status of files (Queue, Skip)
• ocr:status: Give statistics on file OCR status (Queued, Processing, Finished, Skipped)
• dev:fixbom: Fix BOM and line endings for all files (for developers)

See Console

1.3. Contacts - CardDAV support

• See CardDAV
• http://sourceforge.net/p/tikiwiki/code/75195 via SabreDAV. See also CalDAV

1.4. Convert from absolute to relative link

Feature was improved: https://sourceforge.net/p/tikiwiki/code/71556

1.5. Custom admin panels

• PluginPreference
• http://sourceforge.net/p/tikiwiki/code/71641
• http://sourceforge.net/p/tikiwiki/code/71653

1.6. Federated search

• PluginList can be used with Federated Search
  • https://sourceforge.net/p/tikiwiki/code/71501

1.7. PDF

• Upgraded from mPDF 7 to 8
  • https://sourceforge.net/p/tikiwiki/code/70622
  • https://sourceforge.net/p/tikiwiki/code/70695

1.8. Progressive Web App

• Offline access via Progressive Web App

1.9. Roles

• Roles

1.10. Sessions

• Improvements in sessions when using mysql/memcached as storage locations (Both mechanisms now have lock/unlock grants to avoid race conditions.)

1.11. Templated Groups

• Templated Groups

1.12. Tiki Objects: maintainers and freshness

• Starting with Wiki Pages, Tiki objects now can have maintainers, an update frequency and a freshness, i.e., how long ago it has been updated. Then, when an object becomes too old relative to its update frequency, Tiki will send emails to the maintainers reminding about the need to update it (console.php objects:notify-maintainers)
• See: https://dev.tiki.org/Object-maintainers-and-freshness
• http://sourceforge.net/p/tikiwiki/code/75224

See Object Maintainers and Freshness

1.13. Trackers: ItemsList fields now editable

• ItemsList tracker fields now optionally offer an "Add new item" button and/or an edit and/or a delete icon where the user has those permissions. This allows for dealing with "children items" when you are viewing or editing the "parent item" (1 parent : N children)
• See: https://dev.tiki.org/item7206-Make-ItemsList-Tracker-Fields-Editable

• http://sourceforge.net/p/tikiwiki/code/75296

1.14. Trackers: Field Rules

• Optional new (experimental) feature to allow changes to tracker forms depending on field contents
• See: https://dev.tiki.org/item7207-Add-Conditional-Actions-for-Tracker-Fields
• Documentation coming soon here Tracker Field Rules

1.15. Two-factor authentication support

• Two-factor authentication

1.16. Vue.js support

• VueJS In Tiki

1.17. Webmail

Multiple minor enhancements to the Webmail (Cypht integration). The quality is somewhere between Alpha and Beta. It is in active development and you can expect improvements every few weeks in the 21.x branch.

Zend Framework to Laminas

Tiki21 now uses Laminas
https://framework.zend.com/blog/2020-01-24-laminas-launch
https://getlaminas.org/blog/2020-03-09-transferring-zf-to-laminas.html

ChangeLog

Since branching Tiki 21.x in January 2020 there were at least 22 enhancements (some of them cherry-picked from other branch or back-ported from the master branch) and 261 fixes made on the 21.x branch.

Commits tagged ENH

[rb/71588][ENH] Hide button when the user doesn't have permission to see the link of that button
[ENH] listexecute: Allow TrackerItemModify to update tracker items ignoring mandatory and validation errors
[ENH] tracker-rules: A couple of new operators for Collections
[ENH]Adding a target attribute for the url of the plugin button.
[ENH] Align advanced parameters in PluginCode
[ENH] Trackers, DynamicList: Add button to Select/Unselect all item of the dynamic list
[bp/r75930] [ENH] Numeric Field scrolling handling
[bp/r76005][ENH] Align advanced parameters in PluginCode
[FIX][ENH][UX] Pivot tables: indicate that the table cell is clickable by using cursor: pointer (why is _pivot-tiki.scss not compiling to tiki_base.css? Takes ages to compile all the themes while the look is basicaly same for all of them)
[ENH] tracker rules: Add custom text to display as the error message for the Required action
[ENH] Allow composer to update vendor_bundled dependencies and if changed, check for external package sources
[ENH] Improve gitlab mr script to allow create in target project id
[ENH] Support and  test PHP 7.4
[ENH] Plugin Cypht: Change parameters
[bp/r76685] [ENH] site_closed:add feeback when login fails
[ENH] search: Add similar filter for list plugin and friends - usage:
* similar to current: {filter similar="this"} or {filter similar=""}
* similar to tracker item {filter similar="trackeritem:42"}
Requires elasticsearch
[ENH] Set a new preference to show/hide templated groups features
[ENH]Tip added about where to find the "revert" profile. Thanks Ricardo
[ENH]Use updated pages for the featured profiles we tweaked during the Virtual Tiki Fest 2020. Thanks to all who participated in the virtual tiki fest (and later) tweaking these featured profiles
[ENH] Increase benchmark numbers to get better metrics
[ENH] allow math calculations to work with currency fields/values more seamlessly - e.g. (add currency_field another_currency_field)
[ENH] save col/row sort order in Pivottable plugin, add as plugin params, make plugin params save operation from within PivotUI skip overriding non-pivot plugin params
[ENH] add displayBeforeFilter pivottable plugin option to skip searching and displaying results on initial page load when 'editable' filters are used for user-entered input filters

2. General upgrade notes

Also, see the standard information about Upgrades in Tiki.

3. Related

• Calculations
• Documentation
• PluginList
• PluginListExecute
• Requirements
• Composer
• Calendar Invitations by email
• Unified Index Comparison
• PluginTogether
• Webmail
• Tiki20
• Tiki22
• Progressive Web App
• PluginSf
• PluginPreference
• Tiki24from21
• Upgrade
• CardDAV
• CalDAV
• Calendar
• Tracker Field Rules
• Permissions
• Templated Groups
• Roles
• Workspace UI

Alias names for this page:
Tiki 21