Distributed Proofreaders R202409
Distributed Proofreaders is proud to announce our latest release. This continues our almost-every-6-month release of the code running at pgdp.net.
Changes since R202403
Noteworthy changes since our last release (see git history for the complete list):
- Updated minimum middleware to MySQL 8.0 (cpeel)
- The deprecated globals mentioned in the last release notes were removed (cpeel)
- Most
faq/*
content has been deleted (cpeel) - A
metadata.json
file has replaceddc.xml
in the project directory (cpeel) - New API endpoints for proofreading (70ray)
- Cronjobs now run through common interface with SA UI to show job status (cpeel)
- Typing added to numerous functions and classes (bpfoley, jchaffraix)
- XML feed types removed and feed backend improved (mrducky4)
- Navigation bar updates for smaller screens (cpeel)
- New site search page (cpeel)
past_tallies
is now a sparse table (cpeel)
Future deprecations
This is the last release to support PHP 7.4. Future releases will only support PHP 8.1 and later.
This is the last release to support the Hieroglyphs tool. WikiHiero which backs the tool has been unsupported for 20+ years and was written for PHP 4.3.3.