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by Monique Gähl

BlueSpice 4.3

BlueSpice 4.3 is a minor release.

The code base was updated to MW 1.39. From this release on, PHP 8.2 is supported.

Release date:

Patch Releases

ReleaseRelease date
4.3.3October 19, 2023
4.3.1July 20, 2023
4.3.2July 20, 2023
4.3June 29, 2023

New Features

Feature Description Screenshot
Content Droplets We are introducing Content droplets as a convenient way to insert special content in a wiki page. This includes tags, parser functions, and templates. This feature replaces the "Magic words" menu item of the Visual Editor.


Documentation

screenshot of the Content droplets menu
Content droplets
Startpage Templates To support the creation of portal pages for the main page and for all other content namespaces, we provide two startpage templates.


Startpage templates

Enhanced MenuEditor BlueSpice now includes useful page templates for numerous use cases. These can easily be modified or deactivated as needed.


Documentation

PDF Embed It is now possible to embed a PDF viewer on wiki pages.


Documentation

Screenshot of an embedded PDF file
Extension PDFEmbed
Container Filter You can now mark sections of a page for filtering and display a filter just for the content located within these sections of the page.

Documentation

All added extensions

Developer: MW=MediaWiki extension; HW=Hallo Welt! extension
Extension Description Developer
ContainerFilter Allows to filter content elements within a page. HW
ContentStabilization Improved file upload feature. HW
FontAwesome Allows highlighting of wikitext-syntax in the source view of a wiki page. MW
InstanceStatus Allows to insert a header or footer (on a page basis or on a namespace basis) in the content area of ​​a page. HW
PDFEmbed Media handler extension for PDF files. MW
PreToClip Copies contents of PRE tags into the clipboard. MW
SectionAnchors Adds a link to headings for copying the path to the clipbard. HW

No longer bundled extensions and features

  • FlaggedRevs: Replaced with extension ContentStabilization.
  • BlueSpiceFlaggedRevsConnector: Replaced with extension ContentStabilization.



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