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TWiki Release 4.0.0 (Dakar), 01 Feb 2006
Major New Features
- Much simpler install and configuration
- Integrated session support
- Webserver-independent login/logout
- Security sandbox blocking exploits for remote command execution on the server
- Edit conflict resolution with automatic merge
- Multilingual UI
- E-mail confirmations for registration
- WYSIWYG editor (beta)
- Hierarchical sub-webs (beta)
Many, many people worked on TWiki-4.0.0. The credits in the table below only list the people who worked on individual enhancements. If you find an omission please fix it at TWiki:TWiki.TWikiHistory. There were many other contributors; for a full list, visit TWikiContributor.
Most of the redesign, refactoring and new documentation work in Dakar release was done by Crawford Currie. Michael Sparks provided ideas and proof of concept for several improvements. Other people who gave large amounts of their time and patience to less sexy aspects of the work, such as testing, infrastructure and documentation, are AntonAylward, KennethLavrsen, LynnwoodBrown, MichaelDaum, Peter Thoeny, Sven Dowideit, WillNorris.
Installation & configuration |
Contributor |
Much simpler install and configuration |
Crawford Currie, LynnwoodBrown, ArthurClemens |
mod_perl safe code for better performance |
Crawford Currie |
Security |
Security sandbox blocking exploits for remote command execution on the server |
Florian Weimer, Crawford Currie, Sven Dowideit |
Reworked access permission model |
Crawford Currie |
Internationalization & localization |
User Interface Internationalisation |
AntonioTerceiro |
Chinese translation |
CheDong |
Danish translation |
SteffenPoulsen |
Dutch translation |
ArthurClemens |
French translation |
BenVoui |
German translation |
AndreUlrich |
Portuguese translation |
AntonioTerceiro, CarlinhosCecconi |
Spanish translation |
WillNorris, MiguelABayona |
New features for users |
Edit conflict resolution with automatic merge |
Crawford Currie |
Fine grained change notification on page level and parent/child relationship |
Crawford Currie |
WYSIWYG editor |
Crawford Currie, ColasNahaboo, DamienMandrioli, RomainRaugi |
Integrated session support |
GregAbbas, Crawford Currie |
Webserver-independent login/logout |
Crawford Currie |
Registration process with e-mail confirmation |
MartinCleaver |
Tip of the Day box in TWiki Home |
PaulineCheung, Peter Thoeny, AntonAylward |
ATOM feeds |
Peter Thoeny |
"Force New Revision" check box for topic save |
WillNorris |
New features for TWiki administrators and wiki application developers |
Improved preferences handling |
ThomasWeigert, Crawford Currie |
Named include sections |
RafaelAlvarez |
Create topic names with consecutive numbers |
Sven Dowideit |
Parameterized includes |
Crawford Currie |
Dynamic form option definitions of TWikiForms with FormattedSearch |
MartinCleaver |
SEARCH enhancements with new parameters excludeweb , newline , noempty , nofinalnewline , nonoise , recurse , zeroresults |
Crawford Currie, ArthurClemens, Peter Thoeny, ThomasWeigert |
FormattedSearch enhancements with $changes , $count , $formfield(name, 30, ...) , $summary(expandvar) , $summary(noheaders) , $summary(showvarnames) |
ColasNahaboo, Crawford Currie, Peter Thoeny, Sven Dowideit |
New TWikiVariables ACTIVATEDPLUGINS, ALLVARIABLES, AUTHREALM, EMAILS, FAILEDPLUGINS, HTTP, HTTPS, ICONURL, ICONURLPATH, IF, LANGUAGES, LOCALSITEPREFS, LOGIN, LOGOUT, MAKETEXT, META, PLUGINDESCRIPTIONS, QUERYSTRING, STARTSECTION/ENDSECTION, SESSION_VARIABLE, SESSIONID, SESSIONVAR, SPACEOUT, USERLANGUAGE, WIKIHOMEURL |
ArthurClemens, AntonioTerceiro, Crawford Currie, GregAbbas, Peter Thoeny, Sven Dowideit, WillNorris and many more |
TWiki form with hidden type and other form enhancements |
LynnwoodBrown, ThomasWeigert |
Support topic-specific templates for TWiki applications |
ThomasWeigert |
Direct save feature for one-click template-based topic creation |
LynnwoodBrown, Crawford Currie, ThomasWeigert |
Automatic Attachments showing all files in the attachment directory |
MartinCleaver |
Rename, move or delete webs |
PeterNixon |
Hierarchical subwebs (beta) |
PeterNixon |
New features for Plugin developers |
REST (representational state transfer) interface for Plugins |
RafaelAlvarez, TWiki:Main.MartinCleaver, Sven Dowideit |
New and improved Plugins APIs |
Crawford Currie, ThomasWeigert |
Improvements in the TWiki engine room |
Major OO redesign and refactoring of codebase |
Crawford Currie |
Automatic build system |
Crawford Currie |
Extensive test suite, unit tests and testcases |
Crawford Currie |
TWiki:Codev.DevelopBranch , DEVELOP branch Bugs system |
Sven Dowideit |
Documentation, logo artwork, skins: |
Documentation |
Crawford Currie, LynnwoodBrown, Peter Thoeny, Sven Dowideit and others |
Design of TWikiLogos with big "T" in a speech bubble |
ArthurClemens, Peter Thoeny |
Improved templates and PatternSkin |
ArthurClemens |
See more details at TWikiReleaseNotes04x00x00
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Major New Features |
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- Many improvements to SEARCH
- Improved support for internationalisation
- Better topic management screens
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- More pre-installed Plugins: CommentPlugin, EditTablePlugin, RenderListPlugin, SlideShowPlugin, SmiliesPlugin, SpreadSheetPlugin, TablePlugin
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- Improved Plugins API and more Plugin callbacks
- Better support for different authentication methods
- Many user interface and usability improvements
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Fix: Several RSS readers do not show all entries seen in the WebChanges list; repeated updates to the same topics get lost. Details |
TWiki:Main.ArthurClemens |
Fix: TWiki::Access::checkAccessPermission function improperly handles Main and TWiki webs. Details |
TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit |
Fix: Topic save returns error CI Date precedes date in revision. Details |
TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
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Fix: Double quotes got replaced by " in TWiki forms. Details |
TWiki: MS TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
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Fix: Double quotes got replaced by " in TWiki forms. Details |
TWiki:Main.MichaelSparks TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
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Fix: Duplicated Wiki name in .htpasswd entry for sha1 encoding. Details |
TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
Fix: When viewing a previous version of a topic, the view script substitutes only one occurrence of the variable EDITTOPIC. Details |
TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
Fix: Form default values are not working for text fields. Details |
TWiki:Main.ThomasWeigert TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit |
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Fix: Clean up the WebRssBase INCLUDES to use VARIABLES set in TWikiPreferences. Details |
TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit |
Fix: Resolving variables in included topics. Details |
TWiki:Main.OliverKrueger TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit |
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- 18 Jan 2003 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
- Support for
/bin/view/Web.TopicName topic view URL (besides the default /bin/view/Web/TopicName URL); useful for InterwikiPlugin links like TWiki:Codev.ReadmeFirst
- 31 Dec 2002 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
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- Enhanced Plugin API to manipulate topic data with new functions in TWikiFuncModule:
readTopicText , saveTopicText , setTopicEditLock , checkTopicEditLock
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- Enhanced Plugin API to manipulate topic data with new functions in Func.pm:
readTopicText , saveTopicText , setTopicEditLock , checkTopicEditLock
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- 31 Dec 2002 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
- 29 Dec 2002 - TWiki:Main.AndreaSterbini, TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny, TWiki:Main.RichardDonkin, TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit
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- 09 Jan 2002 - TWiki:Main.JohnTalintyre
- Variables inside
<verbatim> tags are no longer expanded
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| 01-Dec-2001 Release (Athens)
- 25 Oct 2001 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
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| 01-Dec-2000 Release
- 03 Nov 2000 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
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$doHidePasswdInRegistration in wikicfg.pm to hide plain text password in registration email.
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- Flag
$doHidePasswdInRegistration in wikicfg.pm to hide plain text password in registration e-mail.
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- 01 Nov 2000 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
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- New variable
%VAR{"NAME" web="Web"}% to get web specific preferences. More in TWikiVariables.
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- New variable
%VAR{"NAME" web="Web"}% to get web-specific preferences. More in TWikiVariables.
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- 01 Nov 2000 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
- Added a "Cancel" link in edit that releases the edit lock.
- 23 Oct 2000 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
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- 29 Jan 2000 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
- Fixed bug where TWiki would not initialize correctly under certain circumstances, i.e. when running it under mod_perl. Sub
initialize in wiki.pm did not handle $thePathInfo correctly.
- 24 Jan 2000 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
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- 10 Jan 2000 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
- No more escaping for '%' percent characters. (Number of consecutive '%' entered and displayed is identical.)
- 03 Oct 1999 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
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- Limit the number of revisions shown at the bottom of the topic. Example
Topic TWikiHistory . { ..... Diffs r1.10 > r1.9 > r1.8 > r1.7 >... } Additional revisions can be selected by pressing the >... link.
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Topic TWikiHistory . { ..... Diffs r1.10 > r1.9 > r1.8 > r1.7 >... } Additional revisions can be selected by pressing the >... link.
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- 20 May 1999 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
- Added meta tag so that robots index only /view/ of topics, not /edit/, /attach/ e.t.c. Tag <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX">
- 20 May 1999 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
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%WIKIHOMEURL% (link when pressing the icon on the upper left corner) and %WIKITOOLNAME% (the name of the wiki tool TWiki ).
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- New variables
%WIKIHOMEURL% (link when pressing the icon on the upper left corner) and %WIKITOOLNAME% (the name of the wiki tool TWiki ).
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- 15 Apr 1999 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
- Topic locking Warn user if a topic has been edited by an other person within one hour. This is to prevent contention, e.g. simultaneous topic updates.
- 26 Mar 1999 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
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- 09 Feb 1999 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
- No new topic revision is created if the same person saves a topic again within one hour.
- 03 Feb 1999 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
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- Possible to view complete revision history of a topic on one page. Access at the linked date in the Changes page, or the
Diffs link at the bottom of each topic, e.g. Topic TWikiHistory . { Edit Ref-By Diffs r1.3 > r1.2 > r1.1 } Revision r1.3 1998/11/10 01:34 by PeterThoeny
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- Possible to view complete revision history of a topic on one page. Access at the linked date in the Changes page, or the
Diffs link at the bottom of each topic, e.g. Topic TWikiHistory . { Edit Ref-By Diffs r1.3 > r1.2 > r1.1 } Revision r1.3 1998/11/10 01:34 by PeterThoeny
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- 04 Jan 1999 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
- Fixed bug when viewing differences between topic revisions that include HTML table tags like <table>, <tr>, <td>.
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- 18 Nov 1998 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
- Internal log of topic save actions to the file
data/logYYYYMM.txt , where YYYYMM the year and month in numeric format is. Intended for auditing only, not accessible from the web.
- 10 Nov 1998 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
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- The e-mail notification and the Changes topic have now a topic date that is linked. Clicking on the link will show the difference between the two most recent topic revisions.
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- 10 Nov 1998 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
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- View differences between topic revisions. Each topic has a list of revisions (e.g.
r1.3 ) and differences thereof (e.g. > ) at the bottom Topic TWikiHistory . { Edit Ref-By r1.3 > r1.2 > r1.1 } Revision r1.3 1998/11/10 01:34 by TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
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- View differences between topic revisions. Each topic has a list of revisions (e.g.
r1.3 ) and differences thereof (e.g. > ) at the bottom Topic TWikiHistory . { Edit Ref-By r1.3 > r1.2 > r1.1 } Revision r1.3 1998/11/10 01:34 by TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
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- 26 Oct 1998 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
- Added preview of topic changes before saving the topic. This was necessary to prevent unneeded revisions.
- 26 Oct 1998 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
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- Added revision control using RCS. Each topic has now a list of revisions at the bottom and a revision info, e.g.
Topic TWikiHistory . { Edit Ref-By r1.3 r1.2 r1.1 } Revision r1.3 1998/10/26 01:34:00 by TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
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Topic TWikiHistory . { Edit Ref-By r1.3 r1.2 r1.1 } Revision r1.3 1998/10/26 01:34:00 by TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
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- 14 Oct 1998 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
- Refered-By Find out which topics have a link to the current topic. Each topic has a Ref-By link for that. Note Only references from the current web are shown, not references from other webs.
- 13 Oct 1998 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
- 24 Sep 1998 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
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- 13 Aug 1998 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
- WikiNotation allows also numbers after the
AaA sequence, e.g. AaA1 is a valid WikiTopic name, but not Aa1 .
- 07 Aug 1998 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
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- 06 Aug 1998 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
- Added server side include of files. Syntax is
%INCLUDE:"filename.ext"%
- 05 Aug 1998 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
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- TWiki:Codev.FeatureDocumented: documented feature
- TWikiDocumentation: reference manual for the latest TWiki
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