Planning for release of v5.3.4

[Jermolene]

The proposed schedule for the release of v5.3.4 is as follows:

• Monday 10th June 2024 - PR merging freeze, apart from docs and bug fixes. Kick off the banner artwork competition
• Thursday 27th June 2024 - Release of v5.3.4

I intend to review the remaining tickets listed in #7856:

• Add <$testcase> widget #7817
  • Needs investigation of tighter unification between the testcase widget and the innerwiki widget
• add browser dark/light theme detection #7830
  • Needs investigation of the user interface for handling automatic dark mode
• Remove full rebuilds for tag indexer with every keystroke or UI click #7615
  • Needs more evidence of efficacy
• Add start and end properties to WikiText AST nodes for all elements. #7866
• Improve command line logging #3704
• add jsonvariables operator plus documentation #8206
• Pending discussion of operator name

[pmario]

@Jermolene -- I do have 2 important ones, that are needed to allow me to convert dumpvariables - rewrite into a plugin

• Fix get variable info params #8179
• add jsonvariables operator plus documentation #8206

Then there are several others which contain a lot of quality of live improvements. Most of them where requested at Talk. Some of the are waiting for review for several month. The earlier new PR are pushed to the prerelease the better they can be tested. If everything is "rushed" near a release date, there is not enough time to fix things.

• use a textarea in advanced-search-filter tab #8194
• add // filter comment till linebreak #8191
• add tag-tiddler to tag-pill drag & drop import, add hidden setting for TagPillDragFilter #8182
• table parser add data attributes for easier styling #8175
• add new classes to wikitext created emphasised elements to make them easily stylable #8163
• add a search button to the control panel tiddler fields tab #8157
• tabs-missing-explicitState-added #8108
• New v5.3.x syntax for page template sidebar #8087
• make $:/core/ui/PageTemplate/sidebar human readable #8086
• Sidebar-Tools tab new syntax and fix vertical spacing in story river #8078
• dumpvariables - new v5.3.x syntax #7998
• Add trimSelection parameter to text editor #7944
• add startCount to unusedtitle macro, new tests, new docs #7941
• Fix 7701 filtered transclusion fails if "}" follows somewhere in the text #7822

Then there are some important drafts and PRs which will prevent fatal failure using transclusions

• This one is yours and IMO should be merged. Even if it does not fully solve the problem. It is an improvement for most users: Fix crash with empty transclusions #8145
• implement dynamic config and check for max-widget-tree-depth recursion detection #8147 This one can handle problems, that your PR and flibbles PR cannot handle. eg: Nested HTML elements in recursive transclusions. eg: buttons
  • add button custom recursion detection and protection #8155
• To fully solve the problem we will also need to take @flibbles PR into account: Introduced preliminary idea for infinite recurse exception #7882 -- This one can handle problems, that my draft cannot handle. eg: <$transclude/> <$transclude/>

[pmario]

While I think it does matter, I cannot easily proof it at the moment. I do have no problem, if this one is pushed after v5.3.4. I think the other PRs from my earlier post are more important.

• Remove full rebuilds for tag indexer with every keystroke or UI click #7615
  • Needs more evidence of efficacy

[CrossEye]

I don't know if it's too late to offer also #7990, but I would love to see it included too.