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Tiki 24.0 LTS will be released in February 2022. It is a Long Term Support (LTS) version and will be supported until February 2027 as per ((tw:Versions|the Tiki lifecycle policy))

It will be a shorter development cycle and smaller release than ((Tiki22)) and ((Tiki23)), and focused more on refinement of the many recently contributed features.

Tiki 24 ((Requirements|requires)) PHP 7.4 like ((Tiki23)) and ((Tiki22)). Unfortunately, PHP 8.x is not supported. Work to update Tiki code to PHP 8.0 was started many months before the [https://www.php.net/ChangeLog-8.php#8.0.0|release of PHP 8.0 (2020-11-26)]. With Tiki's ((tw:Model)), Tiki users are shielded from https://PluginProblems.com as all features are released at once. This being said, the Tiki development community has to deal with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependency_hell|dependency hell] as Tiki leverages over ((Composer|125 direct dependencies + the indirect dependencies)). While the vast majority of them are OK in PHP 8, some of them required more time. Specifically, ((Smarty)) version [https://github.com/smarty-php/smarty/releases/tag/v4.0.0|4.0] with [https://github.com/smarty-php/smarty/issues/686|PHP 8 support] was released on 2021-11-25, only a few weeks before our feature freeze for Tiki 24.x and thus, it's too risky to try to integrate it 

__In any case, ((Tiki25)) will for sure support PHP 8.0 and 8.1.__

!# New Features and Improvements

''(alphabetically sorted)''
!!# API
A self-documented REST API has been added exposing the (arguably) most commonly used elements of the system.

A REST API (also known as RESTful API) is an application programming interface (API or web API) that conforms to the constraints of REST architectural style and allows for interaction with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_state_transfer|RESTful web services].

See: ((API))

!!# Console
New ((Console)) commands:
* -+users:remove-cookies+- to remove user expired cookies
* -+performance:check+- to check statistics of some performance related statistics
* -+tokens:clear+- to remove expired ((tokens)) from database

!!# Date handling
Major change in how we deal with dates, which will make Tiki more reliable when working over multiple timezones. Ref: https://gitlab.com/tikiwiki/tiki/-/merge_requests/1073

!!# Interledger Protocol payments (ILP)
Interledger is an open and inclusive payments network. The Interledger Protocol (ILP) is an open protocol suite for sending payments across different ledgers. 

See ((Interledger Protocol payments))

!!# Modules
!!!# Current Activity Module
New module. It displays the current activity of the users (in the list, it displays the type of activity, the name of the activity and the names of all the users who modify a page or a tracker)

See ((Module current_activity))


!!# Real User Measurement
This new feature reuses a JavaScript library called __boomerang__ that measures the page load time experienced by real users, commonly called RUM (Real User Measurement). With this feature, you find out exactly how fast your users think your site is.

Apart from page load time, boomerang measures performance timings, metrics and characteristics of your user's web browsing experience

See ((Real User Measurement))

!!# SAML
Upgrade to [https://github.com/onelogin/php-saml|version 4.x of PHP-SAML]
https://gitlab.com/tikiwiki/tiki/-/merge_requests/1170/diffs
It will be bundled in Tiki for easy usage instead of available via ((Packages)) like older versions.

!!# Transactional Email Providers
((Transactional Email Providers))

!!# Wiki Plugins
New or improved.

!!!# Plugin Figlet
New plugin. It allows you to create text banners in different fonts. The text banners are composed of a cloud of smaller letters in the manner of ASCII art.

You may display "TIKIWIKI" as below :
{img src="display1794" link="display1794" width="400" rel="box[g]" imalign="center" desc="Click to expand" styleimage="border"}

See ((PluginFiglet))

!!!# Plugin Kanban
New plugin. It allows to move ((tracker)) items with drag & drop capabilities in Trello-like boards.

See ((PluginKanban))

!!!# Plugin List
Improved plugin. Added an option to plugin list to make caching work even for admin users to make testing easier.

See ((PluginList))

!!# Other Minor Enhancements

!!!# H5P Advanced Customisation
2 new preferences to allow the addition of extra javascript and css to customise ((H5P)) content further, which was not possible before due to browser security (also in 23.1)

!!!# Calendar Improvements
Weekly recurring events in ((Calendar)) now support multiple days (also in 23.1)

!!!# Tabbed layout for category browsing
Finally (:mrgreen:)

!!!# Cookie Consent Improvements
New option to make the checkbox agree to third party cookies so users can agree to essential (Tiki) cookies without opting in to analytics or other "tracking" cookies from other providers  (also in 23.1)

See ((Cookie Consent)) 

!# General upgrade notes
Also, see the standard information about ((Upgrade|Upgrades)) in Tiki.

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