History: ReleaseNotes7.0
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Tiki 7.0 Release Notes
This document includes important information about Tiki 7.0. Please review this information when installing (or upgrading to) this release.
For Tiki support, please use the forums.
Table of contents
What's New
Some major new features include:
- http://doc.tiki.org/Syntax+Highlighter
- Revamp of the search infrastructure to take advantage of Zend_Search_Lucene.
See http://doc.tiki.org/Tiki7 for complete details.
Important Changes
Tiki 7 introduces several major changes from prior versions. If you are upgrading from an earlier version, you should be aware of the following:
- Extensive changes to Module use and management.
- Custom header and footer areas in themes have been replaced with modules.
New PHP Requirement
Tiki7 requires PHP 5.2 with the PDO extension. If PDO is not available, you can revert to ADOdb. See ReleaseNotes40 for details.
See Requirements & Setup.
Installation
If this is your first installation ever of Tiki, welcome to the Tiki Community!
You'll find details about installing Tiki in the Tiki Installation Guide.
Upgrade
Introduction to upgraders from old versions
If you are migrating to Tiki7 from Tiki versions earlier than Tiki6, you are encouraged to read first the pages describing the changes introduced in earlier versions of Tiki, such as:
Steps
Remember these steps if you are upgrading from a previous version up to 7.
- Read the general Upgrade notes, if you haven't done so in the last few years.
- Remember to run setup.sh again (if you have console access).
- Beware of changes in modules and their management:
http://dev.tiki.org/Modules+Revamp - Check these two pages for notes specific on upgrading your theme style:
Keep in mind that your Custom site header might be gone and you'll have to manually re-do it using module management. - You might need to re-approve some of your plugin calls.
Go to http://yourdomain/tiki-plugins.php as admin and approve them all (after revision, if needed, as always)
Known Issues
You should be aware of the following issues when upgrading to Tiki7 from prior versions:
- Instances of HTML plugins may need to be re-approved. You can approve them individually, or select multiple plugins to approve from the tiki-plugins.php page. See http://doc.tiki.org/Plugin+Security for details.
- Tracker field IDs and names may have changed. As part of the on-going Tracker Re-vamp and to improve consistency, all tracker fields now use ins_XX, where XX is the fieldId.
If you use custom jQuery or other code with trackers, you will need to update the code to reflect this change.