Upcoming DokuWiki Release "Mort"

A new release of DokuWiki is making progress. Its release name will be Mort (which follows Librarian, released 2025.05.14).

The major new features are:

Optional Markdown¹⁾ (actually GFM with minor deviations) support.
- Note that this support still has some limitations, both in the supported syntax and for things like missing editor toolbar support.
- I haven't explored much yet, but at least some settings seem to allow both DokuWiki syntax and Markdown to be used, even on the same page.
Rewritten (improved) search.
And more …

The minimum PHP version is now PHP 8.2, which corresponds to the oldest version still under some sort of support at this time.

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Markdown was originally invented by John Gruber and Aaron Swartz in 2004 and debuted as a Perl script to convert text to HTML. It has since become a de facto standard for many systems, including GitHub, which enhanced the specification.