Release date: June 13, 2024 (BlueSpice cloud release)
BlueSpice 4.5 is a minor release
New and enhanced features
| Feature | Description | Screenshot |
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| Edit together |
The new "Edit together" edit mode allows multiple users to simultaneously update a wiki page. Users can be invited to collaborate in real-time. This way of editing is efficient and convenient in different scenarios, for example for writing meeting minutes, for drafting and brainstorming new content or during quick proofreading sessions. |
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| AI-assisted editing | BlueSpice can now support users with an AI editing assistant. It allows to highlight text and have ChatGPT make improvement suggestions based on pre-defined prompts.
This feature requires an OpenAI API-key in a wiki. |
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| Books | We have modernized the approach to our book functionality. A visually appealing Bookshelf page makes it easy to organize and access books.
It is now also possible to add a wikipage to multiple books. Sinc we elimineted the bookshelf-tag, adding a page to a book no longer creates a new page revision. This ensures that the approval status of pages is not affected when a page is added to a book. |
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| Pages overview | We continued to enhance the user interface of standard special pages. The mediawiki AllPages special page has been replaced by a user-friendly version.
A filterable index of all wiki pages in the different namespaces makes it easier to quickly locate any wiki page. |
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| Uploaded files overview | Another enhanced special page is the List of files that have been uploaded to the wiki.
A decluttered grid-view and larger thumbnails support users in finding the uploaded files. |
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| Notifications | A simpler and more flexible notification system that is easier to manage and to understand. Users now subscribe to notifications based on their preferences. |
Added extensions (8)
| Extension | Description | Developer |
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| AIEditingAssistant | AI-assisted editing for VisualEditor (requires OpenAI API key). | Hallo Welt! |
| CollabPads | Allows collaborative editing of wiki pages. | Hallo Welt! |
| Notifications | Informs users about changes based on a subscription mechanism. | Hallo Welt! |
| NumberHeadings | Toggles headings autonumbering. | Hallo Welt! |
| OAuth | Allows usage of OAuth 1.0a and OAuth 2.0 for API authorization. | MediaWiki |
| TableTools | Provides a css class for tables with full accessibility support. | Hallo Welt! |
| VisualEditorPlus | Provides additional shortcuts and unicode emojis for use in VisualEditor | Hallo Welt! |
| VueJsPlus | Collection of VueJs components used in the BlueSpice user interface. | Hallo Welt! |
Removed extensions (2)
- BlueSpiceEchoConnector: Replaced with extension Notifications.
- Echo: Replaced with extension Notifications.
