Semantic MediaWiki 2.5 released

March 14, 2017

Semantic MediaWiki 2.5 (SMW 2.5.0), the next feature version after 2.4 has now been released.

This new version brings many enhancements and new features such as full-text search support for datatype "Text", query result caching for better performance and the options to record and reference provenance data, to use property chains and language filters in print requests, to define preferred property labels as well as to integrate edit protection with annotations. Moreover the links in values feature for datatype "Text" was improved a lot and the fixed properties support was repaired which is now no longer experimental. Not to forget special page "SMWAdmin" was renamed to "SemanticMediaWiki" extended and overhauled. See also the version release page for information on further improvements and new features. Additionally this version fixes a lot of bugs and brings stability and performance improvements. Automated software testing was again further expanded to assure software stability. Please see the page Installation for details on how to install and upgrade.