Foswiki archived release

See Release Dates for the complete list of available releases. More than 150 bug fixes and improvements relative to 1.1.2

This is the Foswiki 1.1.3 patch release - built 16 Apr 2011.

You can upgrade 1.1.0, 1.1.1, 1.1.2, and 1.1.3-RC1 to 1.1.3 using the upgrade package

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-1.1.3.tgz	GPG	MD5	tar gz version of Foswiki
Foswiki-1.1.3.zip	GPG	MD5	zip version of Foswiki

Upgrade packages

If you already have an earlier version of Foswiki 1.1.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-1.1.3.tgz	GPG	MD5	upgrade tar gz version of Foswiki
Foswiki-upgrade-1.1.3.zip	GPG	MD5	upgrade zip version of Foswiki

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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

Known Issues

After installation the SlideShowPlugin should be updated as it contains a security related fix.

There is currently a known issue with date type form fields. A simple fix is available. See KnownIssuesOfFoswiki01x01

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.

TBD

Changes since Foswiki 1.1.2

• Facelift of the history user interface
• Update to the Wysiwyg editor TinyMCE to 3.3.9.3 and further improvements of the Wysiwyg editor has been made
• Fatwilly PatternSkin theme has been fixed. This is the skin theme we use on foswiki.org.
• Improvement of the UI for managing webs
• Default jQuery is now 1.4.3. JQueryPlugin's form plugin form is upgraded to 2.49 and jquery-ui is upgraded to 1.8
• Code that sends emails is improved
• Fixes in the access controls for renaming attachments
• TablePlugin now handles table row spans and can now initsort even when there is no headerrow
• Improved login screen
• Configure user interface has been further improved
• Improved the use of international characters in attachment names
• Icons have been fixed and added
• Fixed an annoying issue where configure could only install or upgrade one extension at a time
• SEARCH order=created and order=formfield(date) now works allowing sorting by dates given in any of the standard Foswiki formats
• Query search using the new =~ regex operator was totally broken and has been fixed
• Improved and fixed the page feature for SEARCH
• SEARCH limit fixed so it again works per web
• New languages added
• CommentPlugin now allows the use of COMMENT inside TML tables
• Scripted update of the "shebang" line for the bin files (important for Windows based server installations)
• Cookies are now forced to be secure when using https connection
• Redirect when renaming fixed
• Fixed bugs in the renaming user interface
• Corrected the documentation for access controls
• Improved how search handles access controlled group topics
• Fixes to the new group user interface
• Extension installers now tries to install the zip file if tgz missing
• Fixed some intermittent rendering issues under FastCGI
• Interwiki links now allows that the destination topic contains parentheses
• Rename topics now updates backlinking inside INCLUDEs
• Split Installation Guide in a part 1 which covers the steps until a basic Foswiki is running and a part 2 which covers how to tailor and setup all the details.
• Fixed TOC rendering of anchors for INCLUDEd content
• Fixed the renaming of webs web so it no longer modifies links within topic starting with old web name
• Fixed a problem with date formats inside EditTablePlugin formats being seen as macros
• Fixed the function of buttons in the FamFamFamContrib toolbar
• Rename will now list children to update even when the topic is not WikiWord
• First save of files without rcs ,v file now creates a new revision
• Restore a topic to older version now also restores META preferences
• Search with zeroresults="0" now prints a 0 when nothing is found
• Fixed the use of default value for FORMFIELD macro
• Better cleanup of LocalSite.cfg when removing a plugin
• Logging improved and more events are now logged
• URLENCODE macro fixed
• Fixed bugs related to adding a form when editing
• Fixed defaults not initialized in persistent perl environments
• Fix for REVINFO format tokens
• When editing a form only, Save and Continue no longer end up showing the topic text
• The 8 char password trunc behavior of the crypt encoding is now clearly added as working in configure info texts
• Fix for WEBLIST macro which wrongly included current web when webs=webtemplate requested
• Added missing Submit button for renaming/deleting a web
• Webnotify now supports wildcard use like 'Abc*Xyz?' for sending out news on change
• Fixed a problem where TwistyPlugin crashes Foswiki when topic has a trailing )
• InterwikiPlugin links can now be formatted
• Fixed a problem with operator precedence for queries and IF defined.
• TWiki web is now again hidden if TWikiCompatibilityPlugin is disabled - also for the admin
• Many improvements to the installation documentation.
• Wysiwyg editor now converts less of the international characters to entities which made it impossible to search for the saved text

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 2011-04-16
• Publish date 2011-04-16
• Built from http://svn.foswiki.org/branches/Release01x01 svn revision 11475