1.8 release focus : FREEZE !

No new feature should be added right now. Please do not add anyhting new, and refrein enhancements.
1.8 development now in a new Branch: BRANCH-1-8 See CvsBranch18 for more info
The following points are focal in that release process and are blocking points for release. The freeze stage will last until final release, if you want to add new features, go to HEAD.

• Installer has to be improved greatly
• Upgrade script 1.7 to 1.8 is required for db, with a compilation of all one-time upgrade scripts (structures and comments fix have to be totally bug free)
• Search function has to be finished : scanning all content (e.g. including comments), write a script for manual scanning all content, and fix pagination bug
• Finish the calendar evolution — done, mose
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  • Chealer9 notes : I looked and found a number of problems. Update : not that bad actually. Probably not as intuitive as it could be 😕 Looks like the way to add an event changed since 1.7. There are still a dot and a really small add icon. I suppose a bit of work could interestingly improve initial accessibility.
• Make images galleries work with no doubt

The following points are also focal with an optional completion at release time.

• I just got this too : 868732 Articles : Topic image is broken We need at least an idea of how much systems are concerned. Please test and report.
• TikiWikifier (if html glossary is fixed ❗
• Fix Backup feature
• Fix {SPLIT}
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  • There's a misunderstanding about 843705 SPLIT() gives no line breaks in columns between Chris Holman and zaufi. zaufi must patch before 1.8 release if holman doesn't explain his change. Chealer9
• Dumps
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  • However no bug reports were written I heard many things about that and can't get them to work neither. They seem highly untrustable and should be ideally tested before 1.8. Plus, a teedog's 1.7 HTML workaround was not ported. Chealer9

see also : ReleaseProcess18rc1 - ReleaseProcess18rc2 - ReleaseProcess18rc3 - UpgradeTo18
The release Process 1.8 is managed by UserPageredflo helped by the whole community.

If you are not a developer but would like to help test the latest 1.8 code, download the following archive, updated every hour from CVS:
http://tikiwiki.org/lastiki18.tar.bz2 (extracted root dir will be HEAD/ )

We are still hunting down the famous browser-based layout display problem named the LeftColBug !