4.0.0-alpha.1

[Universal-Omega]

🚀 DynamicPageList4 - Alpha 1 Release

This is the very first alpha release of DynamicPageList4! This release includes many changes, fixes, and internal refactors.

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🛠️ Changes and Improvements

• Configuration Handling:
  Configuration fetching is now more reliable and uses MediaWiki's built-in mechanisms.

• Parameters Refactored:
  The Parameters class has been heavily refactored to use modern PHP features. Some regressions or edge cases may exist — please open an issue if you encounter any!

• Enhanced %ARGS% Handling:
  Updated symbols within %ARGS% to avoid parser conflicts. This resolves several bugs with template expansion.

• Display Title Support:
  Added support for display titles:

  • New format option: %DISPLAYTITLE% (falls back to %TITLE% if no display title is set; available only when using the title parameter).
  • New order method: ordermethod=displaytitle (automatically falls back to sorting by title when no display title exists).

• Category & Handling:
  Previously, using & in a category name would incorrectly be interpreted as a logical AND separator between multiple categories, instead of being treated as a literal character in the category name. This meant that querying for categories containing an actual & (like "Cats & Dogs") would fail to match any pages.

  This behavior has been fixed:

  • To perform a logical AND between categories, you now must explicitly use <&>.
  • A literal & in category names will now be treated correctly as part of the name.

• Category Headings Fix:
  Fixed handling of catheadings and catnotheadings (via + and - in category=). Previously, category=+ would error and category=- could yield unpredictable results.

• Rebranded to DPL4:
  The codebase has been updated to reference DynamicPageList4 throughout. However, the actual extension name remains DynamicPageList3 for now. This is to keep the extension name consistent with the repository name and to avoid confusion during the transition.

  The extension name will be officially changed in a future release.

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There’s a lot packed into this release, with much more to come. If you run into any issues, please open an issue on this repository or leave a comment in the discussion for this release.

Thank you for testing DPL4!

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This discussion was created from the release 4.0.0-alpha.1.