The below issue has now been fixed: SMW 1.4.2 is again compatible with MW >= 
1.11 by default. The released files have been updated accordingly.

Cheers,

Markus

On Freitag, 13. Februar 2009, Markus Krötzsch wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> it turns out that our recent SMW 1.4.2 release included a last minute code
> change that makes SMW 1.4.2 incompatible to MediaWiki 1.11, 1.12, and 1.13.
> While we generally encourage upgrading to recent MediaWiki versions, it is
> not our intention to break compatibility during a minor release! The
> problem can be solved by replacing the file
> ./special/AskSpecial/SMW_SpecialAsk.php shipped with SMW 1.4.2 with the
> file found at [1]. Users of MW 1.14.0 or greater are not affected.
>
> The problem is due to a lack of coordination among the MediaWiki developers
> (many people contribute code directly, and they may not be aware of SMW-
> specific release plans or guidelines), and also to a lack of caution on my
> part (the change happened on Monday after I had already finished most of my
> tests for SMW 1.4.2 -- I should have repeated them on the changed code).
> Our apologies to anyone who was affected.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Markus
>
>
> [1]
> http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/tags/extensions/SemanticMediaWik
>i/REL_1_4_2/specials/AskSpecial/SMW_SpecialAsk_MW1.13.php

-- 
Markus Krötzsch
Semantic MediaWiki    http://semantic-mediawiki.org
http://korrekt.org    mar...@semantic-mediawiki.org

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