Extension:External Data/Version history

Here is the version history for External Data:


 * 0.1 - January 12, 2009 - initial version


 * 0.2 - January 14, 2009 - support for JSON data added


 * 0.3 - February 3, 2009 - optional database caching added; string replacement in URLs added


 * 0.4 - February 10, 2009 - 'GetData' special page added; #for_external_table function added; 'EDUtils' class added; internationalization added
 * 0.4.1 - February 13, 2009 - support for retrieval of XML table data; handling of XML tag attribute


 * 0.5 - March 2, 2009 - 'CSV with header' format added; 'GetData' changed to use this format; filtering added to #get_external_data; fix for field names containing blanks
 * 0.5.1 - March 16, 2009 - CSV values that contain newlines handled correctly
 * 0.5.2 - March 19, 2009 - security fix for wikis that contain read-protected pages


 * 0.6 - April 2, 2009 - support for JSON table data; data gets reset between one page and another when handling multiple pages
 * 0.6.1 - May 20, 2009 - renamed "ED_Settings.php" to "ExternalData.php"


 * 0.7 - June 19, 2009 - added #get_db_data and #get_ldap_data functions; minor bug fixes
 * 0.7.1 - July 21, 2009 - fix for URLs containing spaces; fix for non-lowercase filtered fields in #get_external_data


 * 0.8 - August 12, 2009 - expiration time added for caching; magic-words handling updated for MediaWiki 1.16; internationalization added for error messages
 * 0.8.1 - August 20, 2009 - backwards compatibility added for magic-words handling; improvements to error-message internationalization


 * 0.9 - September 1, 2009 - $edgAllowExternalDataFrom whitelist variable added for #get_external_data; fix for incorrectly-formatted parameters for #get_external_data
 * 0.9.1 - September 30, 2009 - $edgAllowSSL variable added
 * 0.9.2 - January 8, 2010 - ".urlencode" command added for #for_external_table; fix for JSON tags containing capital letters


 * 1.0 - May 3, 2010 - #store_external_table function added; fixes for parameters that have extra whitespace or don't contain an equals sign; removed still-buggy usage of PHP str_getcsv function; other bug fixes
 * 1.0.1 - August 27, 2010 - fix for "qualified column names" in #get_db_data


 * 1.1 - September 23, 2010 - support added for GFF data format