SMW 1.0RC1

SMW 1.0RC1
Previous version:	SMW 0.7
Next version:	SMW 1.0RC2
Current version:	SMW 1.7.1

From the RELEASE-NOTES

• Simplified semantic annotations: just one kind of annotation ("Property").
• Significant speedup (both server and network load substantially reduced).
• Prettier and easier to understand interfaces:
  • New tooltips that work on both normal and special pages.
  • Simplified factbox layout, with all properties in alphabetic order.
  • Inline warnings to simplify trouble shooting with annotations.
  • Improved, more helpful and informative warning and error messages.
  • Highlighting for built-in elements. E.g. built-in types are visually distinguished from arbitrary types; useful as visual feedback.
  • Error/warning reporting for (inline) queries.
• Alias strings for all SMW elements. English labels are allowed in all languages, names of old SMW elements still work as aliases for their replacements.
• More expressivity for semantic querying:
  • support for subproperties,
  • improved equality resolution (redirects),
  • support for disjunctions,
  • inequality check for datavalues ("[[property::!value]]")
• New/improved datatypes:
  • Help:Type Page for explicitly specifying properties that are "relations"
  • Help:Type Number as universal replacement for Type:Integer and Type:Float
  • Help:Type URL as universal replacement for old Type:URL and Type:URI
  • Help:Type Geographic coordinate completely rewritten. More input formats supported now (e.g. coordinates without "," separating Lat and Long)
  • special property "allows value" works for all types
  • display units are now easier to select via property "display units"
  • Improved data display: linked URLs and tooltips work for queries and special pages
• Improved maintenance special pages:
  • Hints and warning for property usage/declaration in Special:Properties
  • Extra information and warnings for types on Special:Types
  • Special:SemanticStatistics as faster replacement for earlier "ExtendedStatistics"
• New experimental n-ary properties, allowing property values to consist of a list of entries.
• Ontology import re-enabled (simple annotation import)
• Dutch translation added (by Siebrand Mazeland)
• Improved APIs and various new hooks to simplify the life of SMW extension developers.
• Many bugfixes.

Other changes for the RC1 include:

• No more support for Help:Type Boolean. Will be re-enabled later.
• Help:Type Enum became obsolete, since all types now support "allows value", but it remains an alias for Help:Type String.
• Service links are not working in this Release Candidate yet, especially coordinate values do not link to maps yet. This will reappear before SMW 1.0 final.