Semantic MediaWiki 3.0.0 released

October 12, 2018

Semantic MediaWiki 3.0 (SMW 3.0.0), the next feature version after 2.5 has now been released.

This new version brings many enhancements and new features such as most notably the reworked "list" and "template" formats, many user interface changes mostly for special pages, extended query syntax (conditions, markers, printouts), grouping of properties, the property create protection feature and new API modules ("smwbrowse" and "smwtask"). ElasticStore was added as a new query backend and not to forget special page "SemanticMediaWiki" was further extended and improved.

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 refer to the help pages on installing or upgrading Semantic MediaWiki to get detailed instructions on how to do this.