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Current PmWiki version is pmwiki-2.3.38
This is the "current best guesses" on upcoming features for PmWiki:

Features planned for 3.0.0

• Add Cookbook/Ape to the main distribution - media is essential to the internet and needs to be built in
• Make all recipes require adjustment to be used in the new version 3 to help filter out old/obsolete addons. this will eliminate some software cruft
• require PHP version 8.2 or newer - see PHP Supported Versions
• PmWiki version 2.x.x will get security fixes, minor support

Features planned for 2.3.x

• Add a linkfrom= option to pagelists (with wildcards) - See (PITS:01204)
• Allow link= option to do wildcards - see PageListMultiTargets? ✓
• Syntax highlighting of PmWiki markup (documentation, editor) Cookbook:PmSyntax ✓

Features planned for 2.2.x

• tz= and localization options to {(ftime ...)} ✓
• Add list=grouphomes option to pagelists ✓
• [[ target "title"| text ]] markup (PITS:01172) ✓
• Add quiet= option to redirects (PITS:00919) ✓
• Error messages in (:include:) (PITS:00652) ✓
• Comments (PmForm Comments; see list planning, delay and announcement) ✓

Features added to the 2.2.0 beta series

• Page text variables (2.2.0-beta1) ✓
• Extensible page list (2.2.0-beta13) ✓
• Relative links and page variables in markup text (2.2.0-beta1) ✓
• Add an UpdatePage() function for recipes to update pages (2.2.0-beta13) ✓
• (:input select ...:) markup (PITS:00567) (2.2.0-beta17) ✓
• Set default values for input forms (2.2.0-beta17) ✓
• Built-in blocklist capability (2.2.0-beta13) ✓
• Leading spaces rule can be disabled (2.2.0-beta41) ✓
• Improved draft capabilities (PITS:00755) (2.2.0-beta43) ✓
• Set input focus (2.2.0-beta53) ✓
• Listing of site-wide permissions settings (AuthList) (2.2.0-beta52) ✓
• Improved UTF-8 handling in searches (2.2.0-beta43) ✓
• Move admin pages in Site.* to SiteAdmin group (2.2.0-beta58) ✓

Things planned post-2.3.0

• add some of the core candidates? to the PmWiki base
• Convert PmWiki default charset to UTF-8
• Show search terms in context
• Sort search results by relevance
  • um; don't know if there's already some progress on those; however, not knowing about these plans, I've done something similar myself; if interested, see: Cookbook.SortByScore? (in tandem with Cookbook.Excerpts?) - (~Mateusz?)
• Allow spaces in usernames and authorization groups
• Centralized authorization control
• Redesign of PageStore and $PCache (likely 2.3 or later)
  • more efficient searches/indexing
  • handle non-UTF-8 characters on Mac OS/X
  • case-insensitive page names on case-sensitive filesystems
    • see Cookbook.CaseCorrection? for a platform-independent implementation of this. --Eemeli Aro?
  • page names with spaces
• Email to wiki gateway
  • see Cookbook.WikiBox? for an implementation of this. -- Peter Bowers?
• Blogging (PITS:BlogFeatures)
• WikiCreole 1.0 support
• Better RTL support (from ideas contributed by anyone who can test and report)
• Update pagelists to be able to do refcounts
• Allow trail= option to pagelist to accept wildcards
• Add duplicates=yes option to pagelist (default to duplicates=no)

Requests for new features should be added to PITS?, or sent to the pmwiki-users mailing list.

Categories: PmWiki Developer