Planning for release of v5.3.2

[Jermolene]

The planned schedule for the release of v5.3.2 is as follows:

• Monday 13th November 2023 27th November 2023- PR merging freeze, apart from docs and bug fixes. This is also when I will kick off the banner artwork competition
• Monday 27th November 2023 11th December - Release of v5.3.2

I am hoping to merge the following PRs before the freeze:

• Core macros don't allow pragmas in action strings #7855
• Allow negative indexes in json operators #7849
• Fix syncer race condition #7843
• Allow scrollable widget to bind scroll position to a tiddler #7649
• Add data attribute support to button and other widgets #7769
• Add join attribute to list widget #7694
• make all list-* macros readable for easier future improvements #7551
• add archive HTML wikis, add index.html + css #7776
• Add usemap attribute to image widget #7634

Deferred – see #7856 for details

• Add <$testcase> widget #7817
• add browser dark/light theme detection #7830
• Fix 7701 filtered transclusion fails if "}" follows somewhere in the text #7822
• Remove full rebuilds for tag indexer with every keystroke or UI click #7615
• Fix and extend tag picker functions  #7548
• Simplify Permalink/Permaview URLs #7729
• Introduce Tour Plugin and Confetti Plugin, improve Dynannotate Plugin #7734

Please let me know here if there are other PRs for consideration.

[CrossEye]

I don't know if #7729 is ready from your perspective. It feels complete to me. If so, I hope it's up for consideration.

[rmunn]

I want to get #7694 in. It's been ready for a while, just need to work out the best way to add a $list-join widget to parallel the $list-template widget. Which means getting #7804 fixed. (I think fixing #7804 before release is really important, otherwise the current surprising behavior will become locked in by backwards-compatibility policies, and I don't think that's what we want.)

[pmario]

Please check: @pmario's Open Pull Requests #7657 -- especially

• Fix and extend tag picker functions  #7548
• make all list-* macros readable for easier future improvements #7551
• Remove full rebuilds for tag indexer with every keystroke or UI click #7615

[pmario]

• Fix 7701 filtered transclusion fails if "}" follows somewhere in the text #7822

[pmario]

• add archive HTML wikis, add index.html + css #7776

[pmario]

• add browser dark/light theme detection #7830

[rmunn]

• Alternate fix for inconsistent list template syntax #7827 is ready to merge
• Once that one is merged, Add join attribute to list widget #7694 will be ready to go, possibly after I solve an easy merge conflict

[rmunn]

Doing extensive tests on #7694, and found a weird corner-case bug as well as a simpler reproduction for it (though that might be a different bug). No more merge conflicts on #7694, but I need to nail down those bugs before I feel confident in merging it. If #7694 misses the merge window for 5.3.2, oh well, it can go into 5.3.3. I really want to get it into 5.3.2, though, so I'll keep you updated on my progress nailing down those last couple of bugs.

[rmunn]

• Add join attribute to list widget #7694 is now ready to merge. All bugs found so far are fixed, and I've been unable to turn up any more bugs in quite extensive testing.

[Jermolene]

Thanks @CrossEye @rmunn @pmario I've updated the OP with the tickets you've mentioned.

[rmunn]

• Avoid skipping extra whitespace in wikiparser.js #7835 needs to be merged before Add join attribute to list widget #7694. It's a fix for the parsing bug I discovered that was causing list joins to come out as "1and 2and 3" instead of "1 and 2 and 3" (i.e., the first space character was incorrectly being skipped).

(To clarify, #7694 used to contain that bugfix, but I pulled it out into its own PR as per @Jermolene's request in #7694 (comment))

[Jermolene]

I've updated the roadmap in the OP to push the release out by 2 weeks. The reason is that I have been working on #7837 and would like to try to get a fix into the next release.

[rmunn]

Then maybe I'll work on PRs for #7839 and #7840 (negative indexes, and adding jsoninsert, jsonremove, jsonpush, and jsonpop operators). They should be straightforward; with a couple extra weeks to work with I should be able to get them done before the new PR freeze date.

[Jermolene]

I've updated the roadmap in the OP to push the release out by 2 weeks. The reason is that I have been working on #7837 and would like to try to get a fix into the next release.

The draft PR is at #7843

Then maybe I'll work on PRs for #7839 and #7840 (negative indexes, and adding jsoninsert, jsonremove, jsonpush, and jsonpop operators). They should be straightforward; with a couple extra weeks to work with I should be able to get them done before the new PR freeze date.

Great, thanks @rmunn

[rmunn]

#7849 is a PR for #7839 (allowing negative indexes in JSON operators). I'll defer implementing #7840 until the 5.3.3 release cycle, so that there's time to have a conversation about the best set of operators to implement.

[Jermolene]

I've created the usual ticket to track PRs that have been deferred from this release: #7856

[pmario]

@Jermolene ... It seems the current timeline "stands". right? -- I would like to create a post at Talk, to let the users know, that they should start extensive testing of the prerelease version. I'll pin the post till 8th. Dec 23

[Jermolene]

@Jermolene ... It seems the current timeline "stands". right? -- I would like to create a post at Talk, to let the users know, that they should start extensive testing of the prerelease version. I'll pin the post till 8th. Dec 23

Yes, the freeze is now in place, albeit @saqimtiaz and I plan to continue work on #7734 for a few days because it doesn't affect the core itself.

I plan to make an announcement on Talk shortly.

[pmario]

I plan to make an announcement on Talk shortly.

We also need a new banner

[Jermolene]

Yes, the freeze is now in place, albeit @saqimtiaz and I plan to continue work on #7734 for a few days because it doesn't affect the core itself.

We've decided to defer the improvements to the Tour plugin until the next release. There are no other PRs planned for merging but we will continue to accept translation updates (and docs updates, as always).

[Jermolene]

Closing this now that v5.3.2 has been released