Extension:Widgets/Version history

The version history of the Widgets extension.

• 1.7.1 (21 May 2026) - Removed call to wfUrlProtocols(), which was deprecated in MW 1.39
• 1.7.0 (25 April 2025) - Added "allowedprefixes" modifier, added support for MW 1.44
• 1.6.0 (2 August 2024) - Updated Smarty to v. 4.5.3, dropped support for Smarty 3, added silencing of PHP 8 warnings, dropped compatibility with MW 1.37 and earlier
• 1.5.0 (13 November 2023) - Updated Smarty to v. 3.1.46, added support for Smarty 4, fixed support for FlaggedRevs extension, dropped compatibility with MW 1.34 and earlier
• 1.4.2 (14 February 2023) - Improved language conversion, improved validation, removed Widgets.php entry point
• 1.4.1 (10 December 2020) - Improved Smarty validation
• 1.4.0 (10 October 2018) - Added extension.json file, dropped compatibility with MW 1.29 and earlier, Smarty downloaded via Composer rather than Git submodule, removed Makefile
• 1.3.0 (3 August 2017) - Removed i18n php shim, dropped compatibility with MW 1.22 and earlier
• 1.2.2 (14 April 2017) - Restored compatibility with MW 1.27 and later
• 1.2.1 (9 November 2015) - Minor changes: improved debugging, license to show on "Special:Version"
• 1.2.0 (29 April 2015) - Possibility of arbitrary HTML output removed, support added for PHP 5.3
• 1.1.0 (28 May 2014) - i18n messages moved into JSON files, fixes for MediaWiki 1.21+, new parameter for setting the storage location of compiled widgets, removed support for PHP 5.2 and earlier
• 1.0 (21 February 2013) - Security leak fixed.
• 0.10.1 (20 February 2013) - Smarty added as a Git submodule, and updated to version 3.1.7.
• 0.10.0 (19 January 2012) - 'editwidgets' permission given to sysops by default, support removed for MediaWiki < 1.16.
• 0.9.2 (12 January 2011) - PHP fixes.
• 0.9.1 (19 September 2010) - Some code structure changes and fix to a bug 25219.
• 0.9 (16 April 2010) - Added support for FlaggedRev extension controlling Widget review.
• 0.8.10 (27 November 2009) - Security Release: Fixed a security hole in error message.
• 0.8.9 (11 November 2009) - Bugfix release: base64 wasn't identified properly which caused some widgets not to be displayed.
• 0.8.8 (2 November 2009) - HTML is inserted as-is, thanks to Joshua C. Lerner.
• 0.8.7 (19 June 2009) - namespaces issues and i18n issues fixed by ialex.
• 0.8.6 (22 May 2009) - some important security fixes by Tim Starling.
• 0.8.5 (12 March 2009) - Allowing parameters without values to work as bulean "true" and converting test "false" into boolean false (which is not the case in PHP itself).
• 0.8.4 (11 March 2009) - Minor security release - compiled Smarty templates can't be accessed directly. Also fixed a problem with compiled_templates being empty in archives and therefore not extractable by some software.
• 0.8.3 (10 February 2009) - Added 'validate' modifier that makes sure variable value conforms to validation rules (using https://php.net/filter).
• 0.8.2 (27 January 2009) - Fixed a bug when widgets were not showing up correctly on old versions of the pages. Thanks to Max Ingleton for a bug report.
• 0.8.1 (25 June 2008) - Worked around MediaWiki bug that inserts ‎<p>‎</p> in front of widget output.
• 0.8.0 (10 June 2008) - Fixed a bug where variables were carried over from one widget to another on the same page
• 0.7.0 (23 May 2008) - Added support for arrays and Smarty's dotted notation
• 0.6.0 (9 May 2008) - Minor tweaks and bug fixes, release Makefile
• 0.5.0 (11 February 2008) - First public release