Re: [SMW-devel] [Semediawiki-user] [News] SMW 1.4.2 requires MW >=1.14.0

[Yaron K. <ya...@gm...>]

Why not revert the changes that caused the problem, and re-release version
1.4.2?

-Yaron

On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 8:28 AM, Markus Krötzsch <
ma...@se...> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> it turns out that our recent SMW 1.4.2 release included a last minute code
> change that makes SMW 1.4.2 incompatible to MediaWiki 1.11, 1.12, and 1.13.
> While we generally encourage upgrading to recent MediaWiki versions, it is
> not
> our intention to break compatibility during a minor release! The problem
> can
> be solved by replacing the file ./special/AskSpecial/SMW_SpecialAsk.php
> shipped with SMW 1.4.2 with the file found at [1]. Users of MW 1.14.0 or
> greater are not affected.
>
> The problem is due to a lack of coordination among the MediaWiki developers
> (many people contribute code directly, and they may not be aware of SMW-
> specific release plans or guidelines), and also to a lack of caution on my
> part (the change happened on Monday after I had already finished most of my
> tests for SMW 1.4.2 -- I should have repeated them on the changed code).
> Our
> apologies to anyone who was affected.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Markus
>
>
> [1]
>
> http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/tags/extensions/SemanticMediaWiki/REL_1_4_2/specials/AskSpecial/SMW_SpecialAsk_MW1.13.php
>
> --
> Markus Krötzsch
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