OJS/OMP/OPS 3.5.0 Change Orientation

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For the Release Notebook

Items needing addition to the 3.5.0 Release Notebook should be noted here.

• Invitations toolset Invitations backoffice support added #9197
• Slim API endpoints moved to Laravel Investigate replacing Slim with Laravel-based routing toolset #7698 (comment)
• Hook self-documentation Improve HookRegistry hook calling conventions #8089 (reply in thread)
• The Stringy dependency has been removed in favour of Laravel's Str; many PKPString wrapper functions have been removed
• Add documentation note for those who are upgrading on how to add an app key (Introduce APP KEY feature of Laravel #9895 -- see release notes)
• Add documentation note about new API endpoint hook and how to add/modify API endpoint from plugin (Allow plugins to add/modify API endpoints of existing entity #9434)
• ..._codesafe string wrapper functions removed (no longer necessary due to PHP8.2 baseline)
• Previously deprecated behaviours removed:
  • .inc.php file suffixes are no longer supported
  • Use of HANDLER_CLASS no longer supported
  • All calls to Router::url or Dispatcher::url should use arrays for the $path parameter -- scalars no longer supported
  • Non-namespaced plugins are no longer supported.
• The fatalError error handling function has been removed; use exceptions instead.
• Email logging now uses an Eloquent model in place of a DAO (Port EmailLogDao and EmailLogEntry to Eloquent Model #10129).
• Add documentation about new scheduler tool with new configs and deprecation of XML based tasks along with deprecation of Acron Plugin (Replace task scheduler by Laravel scheduler #9678) comment
• Add documentation about deprecation of Services and PKPServices classes and moving the service classes resolving via laravel container (Replace pimple with laravel's dependency injection container  #9913)
• Add documentation about the new config and control mechanism to process queue jobs via schedule tasks (Improve job runner configuration/execution #9823)
• New URL paths for frontend JS dependencies: Update jquery, jquery-ui and chart.js to address security vulnerability reports #9753
  • jQuery: js/build/jquery/
  • jQuery UI: js/build/jquery-ui/
  • jQuery Validation: js/build/jquery-validation/
  • ChartJS: js/build/chart.js/

For Documentation

Items that will require documentation updates should be captured here.

(TBD: Review the issue list and populate)

All Applications

OJS-specific

OMP-specific

• The ONIX schema version has been updated for OMP. In some metadata fields (e.g. for Publication Formats or Marketing), metadata values in lists will appear as "Discontinued". This means they have been deprecated in the Onix schema and should no longer be used, but are included for backwards compatibility.