BlueSpice 5

BlueSpice 5 is a major release.

all releases

Compatibility

• BlueSpice 5 bundles the MediaWiki LTS (Longterm support) version MW 1.43
• BlueSpice 5 is PHP 8.3 compatible

New and enhanced features

Feature	Description	Screenshot
BPMN diagrams	The extension CognitiveProcessDesigner has been fully reworked. Users now have the option to create BPMN-diagrams that create wiki pages in the background. ​​​ BPMN-diagrams documentation	BPMN editor
Multi-language support
PDF Export	The PDF export is now based on a new PDF processor backend. Administrators can create and maintain multiple PDF templates directly in the wiki. Server-access is no longer required. ​ PDF export documentation	pdf cover of a building maintenance manual with worker in industrial bunny suit Custom PDF cover
Simple blog page	We included a new simplified blogging and discussion system with commenting and voting features. It replaces the BlueSpiceSocial extensions. ​ Blog documentation	Blog page
Link articles	We added the third-party extension LinkTitles. It allows to configure the wiki to automatically link page titles if they are found in the content of other wiki pages. ​​ LinkTitles documentation
Improved special pages

Important content changes

Blog functionality

Blog and discussion entries do not carry over to BlueSpice 5. You need to start new blogs and discussions. If you used these features extensively in previous versions, talk to your project manager before updating your system to discuss possible migration scenarios.

Discussions

Discussions are now handled by the extension CommentStreams. If you have previously used the behavior switch __NODISCUSSION__ to hide the discussions section on a page, you need to replace it with the new tag <no-comment-streams />

PDF templates

Cloud wikis: Make sure to read the documentation on how to copy your template customization to the new template pages. Your customization will still work in BlueSpice 5 after moving it to the new pages. In addition, you now have much more flexibility, because you can now set up more than one template.

On-premise wikis: Before upgrading your wiki, talk to your project manager about migrating your custom PDF templates from the server directory to the wiki.

Added extensions (6)

• BlueSpiceTranslationTransfer
• CommentStreams
• LinkTitles
• PDFCreator
• SimpleBlogPage
• UserProfile

Removed extensions (23)

• BlueSpiceExtendedFileList
• BlueSpiceInsertTemplate
• BlueSpiceMultiUpload: replaced by EnhancedUpload
• BlueSpiceSocial
• BlueSpiceSocialBlog: replaced by SimpleBlogPage
• BlueSpiceSocialProfile: new implementation already done as a replacement
• BlueSpiceSocialComments
• BlueSpiceSocialMicroBlog
• BlueSpiceSocialRating
• BlueSpiceSocialTags
• BlueSpiceSocialResolve
• BlueSpiceSocialTopics
• BluespiceSocialTimelineUpdate
• BlueSpiceSocialWatch
• BlueSpiceWebDAVClientIntegration
• WebDAV
• BlueSpiceUEModuleBookPDF
• BlueSpiceUEModuleDOCX
• BlueSpiceUEModuleHTML
• BlueSpiceUEModulePDF
• BlueSpiceUEModulePDFRecursive
• BlueSpiceUEModulePDFSubpages

PDF exclude - start

---

To submit feedback about this documentation, visit our community forum.

PDF exclude - end