Chameleon 2.2.0

Released on March 25, 2020 - RELEASE NOTES

Note: The provided source code links do not include required dependencies therefore are not recommended for running Chameleon without further preparations.

Chameleon 2.1

Changes:

• Add Font-Awesome Brands font

Fixes:

• (#87) Show formedit button on the navbar
• (#89) Show default icon for unknown page tools on the navbar
• (#91) Ensure mediawiki.skinning.content module is loadable

Chameleon 2.0

Changes:

• Support
  • MediaWiki 1.31.0 and later
  • PHP 7.0 and later
• Use Bootstrap 4
• Use SCSS for styling
• Use Font-Awesome instead of Glyphicons
• Use MediaWiki's new skin registration mechanism (i.e. wfLoadSkin)
• Add Toolbox component, which allows to add the toolbox links (e.g. What
  links here, Related changes, ...) to a NavbarHorizontal.
• Add LangLinks component, which allows to add language links to a
  NavbarHorizontal.
• Remove ToolbarHorizontal component. You can use NavbarHorizontal instead
  with the new components Toolbox and LangLinks.
• Remove the PageToolsAdaptable component. It's functionality is now
  available from the regular PageTools component.
• Add buttons attribute to the PageTools component.
• Remove attributes showTools and showLanguages from the NavMenu
  component. You can use the new components Toolbox and LangLinks instead.
• Improve the Menu component to allow setting a class string on the menu item
  link. This can be used to show an icon in front of a menu item.
• Remove button for fulltext search from default Searchbar.
• Rename $egChameleonExternalLessVariables to $egChameleonExternalStyleVariables
• New variable $egScssCacheType

Chameleon 1.7.1

Fixes the reported version in Special:Version.

Chameleon 1.7

Changes:

• (#49) Allows skins that build on top of Chameleon to set a specific layout
  file without the need to manipulate the global config variables.
  (Robert Vogel (HalloWelt)
• (#60) Add PageToolsAdaptable, an adaptable NavbarHorizontal/PageTools
  component (Tobias Oetterer)

Fixes:

• Create a stacking context on the main content to avoid elements with z-index
  messing up the nav elements (e.g. being shown in front of a sticky navbar
  instead of going behind it)
• (#65) Fix z-index for Echo notifications
• Remove usage of functions deprecated in MediaWiki 1.31

Chameleon 1.6

Changes:

• Grid: Add mode attribute. This allows to switch the grid to fluid mode. (Robert Vogel (HalloWelt))
• Allow full qualified class names as component type. This allows to use custom components. (Robert Vogel (HalloWelt))
• Searchbar: Add buttons attribute. This allows to hide one of the Searchbar buttons. Allowed values are search, go and search go.
• Initial integration of the Echo extension. Mostly styles fixes to avoid breaking the skin.
• Improve documentation

Fixes:

• (#2) Fix font size and z-index of Echo popup
• (#31) The Pencil button triggers "Edit with form" when $wgPageFormsRenameEditTabs of PageForms is set
• (#32) Sticky elements now appear on top of MW Indicators
• (#34) Some MediaWiki styles (mw-headline and mw-body) interfered with Bootstrap styles (Dennis Groenewegen)
• (#35) Subcomponents of NavbarHorizontal have dedicated classes now and use the central component factory now. This allows to us Modifications on them.

Chameleon 1.5

Changes:

• Move from WMF server to GitHub:
  • Updates of documentation and scripts,
  • Registration with translatewiki
• Improve documentation
• NavbarHorizontal: Allow custom types and classes for Navbar elements
• PersonalTools: Add attribute hideNewtalkNotifier
• Replace jquery-sticky by
  sticky-kit
• Fixedhead layout: Use sticky for the navbar
• Standard layout: Use separate NewtalkNotifier and PersonalTools components
• Add schema description for layout files: layout.rng
• Add validation script for layout files:
  
  Call php maintenance/validateLayout.php <layout.xml>
• Add composer scripts: test, phpunit, build
• Add JS linting for better code quality

Fixes:

• Javascript modules were not loading in MW 1.28+
• Logo: Link to main page by default, i.e. when addLink attribute is not present