Foswiki archived release

See Release Dates for the complete list of available releases. This first official version of Foswiki was released on 09 Jan 2009 by the Foswiki team, continuing the tradition of a community-led project.

Download

GPG Signatures and MD5 checksums are provided for verifying the integrity of the files for the primary download packages.

File	GPG	MD5	Description
Foswiki-1.0.0.tgz	GPG	MD5	tar gz version of Foswiki
Foswiki-1.0.0.zip	GPG	MD5	zip version of Foswiki

Upgrade packages

If you already have an earlier version of Foswiki 1.0.X installed, you can extract an upgrade package on top of the installation. The major.minor part of the release should not be changed by an upgrade package.

Upgrade packages must not be used to upgrade older releases.

File	GPG	MD5	Description
Foswiki-upgrade-1.0.0.tgz	GPG	MD5	upgrade tar gz version of Foswiki
Foswiki-upgrade-1.0.0.zip	GPG	MD5	upgrade zip version of Foswiki

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Other downloads/installers

Other release packages

Platform	File	Description
Linux, Windows, Mac	Virtual Machine image / software appliance for novices	An easy-to-setup software appliance for VMware or VirtualBox or any other vmdk-based virtualizers. An alternative for native Windows installations. The underlying Debian Linux system is configured rudimentary, so use it with care in productive environments.
Windows	Updated 26 Jan 2009 Foswiki-1.0.0-2-strawberry.exe	Foswiki v1.0.0-2 Windows installer (auto-setup) including Strawberry Perl, Apache 2.2 fixes Extension installation, installation to non-default dir and a few other things can be installed over an existing system - please backup first though
Mac OS X 10.5	Foswiki-1.0.0.pkg	Foswiki v1.0.0 Mac OS X 10.5 installer package (see FoswikiOnMacOSXLeopard)
Linux	Unofficial Debian packages repository for Foswiki and extensions	Foswiki v.1.0.0 and 105 Extensions with dependencies - for instructions follow the link. _Works for Debian and Ubuntu._
-	Subversion based installs	Installs based on subversion: check out the latest version from the development trunk, or a specific release version

Getting help & providing feedback

Don't forget to use the upgrade or installation guides. If you need help, there are several options:

• The IRC channel
• foswiki-discuss mailing list
• Support forum
• Paid support

We want to hear from you! Especially if you have noticed a bug, have some ideas we could use, or just want to contribute:

• File a new task for bug reports
• Create, review or comment on feature proposals to help influence the future of Foswiki
• Chat with other users, developers, translators, and testers on our friendly IRC channel
• If E-mail is more your thing, try our foswiki-discuss mailing list

Installation

System requirements and general installation instructions — relevant for all platforms

Platform-specific installation instructions

Foswiki: Introduction

Foswiki is an enterprise collaboration and information sharing tool targeted for professional use in many types of companies—from small businesses to large organizations.

Foswiki is a wiki: a website with easily editable web pages. It looks like a normal web site but it encourages contributions, edits, updates, questions, and answers from its users. It's a powerful way of enabling a community to communicate asynchronously using intranet or public internet websites. Foswiki is simple to learn and use. It aims to provide a transparent way for you to publish and exchange your ideas with others over the web and eliminates the one-webmaster syndrome of outdated intranet content.

Foswiki supports storing structured data—name-value pairs—and provides advanced query tools that enable users without programming skills to build powerful yet simple applications to process information and support workflows. Developers can extend the functionality of Foswiki with plugins.

Foswiki is a fork from the TWiki project. Restrictions on the use of the TWiki brand resulted in many of its developers starting the Foswiki project. Foswiki is backwards compatible with all content from older TWiki installations.

Foswiki 1.1 ships with TWikiCompatibilityPlugin installed by default, thus if activated enables most extensions made for TWiki to work under Foswiki.

Foswiki is released under the GNU General Public License.

What's new — highlights:

• Foswiki 1.0.0 is built on a new platform called Foswiki Stand Alone which adds support for FastCGI and enables more optimized functionality in mod_perl and other similar runtime environments. Foswiki Stand Alone will also enable future features such as running Foswiki without a separate web server. You can ensure your applications and plugins will work properly on the new platform (and thus with any future capabilities dependent on the new architecture) by testing them out now with Foswiki 1.0.0.
• The PatternSkin has been given a facelift: The PatternSkin topic offers a choice of multiple themes, the sidebar can be placed either on the left or right, a frame can be added around the main content area, and a TWiki theme is available to make it easier for those upgrading from TWiki (dimensions such as the top bar size match the dimensions in the TWiki PatternSkin).
• The Advanced Search screen now supports a query-based search that can search meta data and field data associated with a topic.
• New section type "expandvariables" adds better control over macro expansion in topic templates. You can now create template topics with sections within which all macros are expanded.
• New "Copy topic" feature in the "More topic actions" tools.
• IF conditions has been expanded with new "isempty" test condition.
• viewfile script can be used as a webserver ErrorDocument enabling both more secure attachments and user focused error dialogs.

Security Updates

Foswiki is much more secure than TWiki 4.2.4:

• The Foswiki 1.0.0 has chosen to secure by default the powerful but also vulnerable URLPARAM macro against cross site scripting (XSS) attacks. URLPARAM now by default encodes a short list of unsafe characters '"<>% which eliminates most XSS possibilities within normal use of URLPARAM. This means that not only the distributed topics but also your existing topics are better protected against XSS.
• Functions QUERYPARAMS, ORIGURL (skin macro) are secured against XSS attacks. QUERYPARAMS, like URLPARAM, is now encoded with the new, safe encoding.
• Print preview link is no longer vulnerable to XSS attacks.
• Additional security fixes have been made, based on security audits performed by the Foswiki team.

Development statistics

• Roughly 150 bugs have been fixed since TWiki 4.2.3.
• 6 Enhancements have been added.
• Nearly 1900 checkins have been made to the Foswiki code repository since the start of the project.

Why install or upgrade to Foswiki?

There are about 60'000 TWiki installations on the Internet and on corporate intranets. Do you run one of them, or are you thinking of installing a tool for information sharing? Here is why you should turn to Foswiki:

• The Foswiki community is vibrant and active. The Foswiki project was founded by all of the key active TWiki developers as of October, 2008. In a little over two months, the Foswiki team has eliminated 150 bugs and made nearly 1900 checkins to improve the robustness and maintainability of the Foswiki product, as well as reduce the backlog of old problem reports. In comparison, TWiki 4.2.4 contained 30 bug fixes.

Upgrading From TWiki 4.2

Foswiki is compatible with content of TWiki releases up to and including 4.2, as part of its design.

As part of the creation of the Foswiki project, the Foswiki community is evaluating all of the hundreds of extensions that are available for TWiki. All that are working are ported over to the Foswiki name space. Many of them are being enhanced through the removal of bugs and security vulnerabilities, resulting in better, more functional plugins for Foswiki. The most popular plugins are already ported and more are added every day.

If you are upgrading, please first read the version 1.0 release notes and follow the instructions in the UpgradeGuide. These two documents can also be found as HTML documents in the root of the distribution.

Resources

• Release notes
• UpgradeGuide
• Known issues
• Bug reports
• Support Requests
• SystemRequirements
• Foswiki consultants

Release Details

As a service to the many test beta testers we provide patches to quickly bring the last beta3 up to release level.

• beta3-release.diff.gz: a recursive diff between beta3 and the final 1.0.0 release (patch -p1 < beta3-release.diff)
• beta3-release.tgz: the files changed between beta3 and the v1.0.0 release (copy over existing fosiki beta3)

Installation

Please refer to the INSTALL.html which can be found the downloaded tgz/zip. It can be also found on Foswiki.org in the System.InstallationGuide

Upgrade Instructions

• See System.UpgradeGuide for details on upgrading from older versions of Foswiki
• See System.SystemRequirements for the latest System Requirements.
• Be sure to take a backup!
• The upgrade packages excludes files "commonly" modified, for example, WebHome, WebPreferences, AdminGroup, etc. If your installation has modified other topics, or template files, those updates will be lost!
• If you use tar, then you can extract the upgrade package on top of your installation by using: (Be sure to run this as your web server user to avoid changing file ownership.)

cd /var/www/foswiki
tar --strip-components=1 -zxf /path/to/Foswiki-upgrade-2.x.x.tgz
cd tools
./configure --save

• Similarly, if you are using the zip upgrade package, then

cd /var/www/foswiki
unzip -o /path/to/Foswiki-upgrade-2.x.x.zip
cd tools
./configure --save

• After upgrade, restart the web server, clear the foswiki page cache, clear your browser cache.
• If things are not fully working, verify file system permissions and ownership. See System.InstallationGuide#Step_2:_Confirm_file_and_directory_ownership_and_permissions

License

• This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
• This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
• See the GNU General Public License for more details, published at http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

Release Details

• Build date 2009-01-08
• Publish date 2009-01-09
• Built from http://svn.foswiki.org/branches/Release01x00 svn revision 1878