Appendix A: TWiki Development Time-line

TWiki Release 4.2.3 (Freetown) released 00:54:17 12 September 2008

Patch release following the 4.2.0 released 22 Jan 2008

New Features and Enhancements of TWiki Release 4.2

• Security Release
  • TWiki 4.2.3 is a patch release which only contains an emergency fix to the configure script to close an exploit found in the configure script when left unprotected using apache auth (see the Protect the configure script step in the TWikiInstallationGuide).

• Easier Installation and Upgrade
  • New Internal Admin Login feature
  • The Main.TWikiUsers topic is no longer distributed as a default topic in Main web
  • A new directory working which per default is located in the TWiki root which contains registration_approvals, tmp, and work_areas
  • Configure can now authenticate when connecting to local plugins repository.

• Usability Enhancements
  • New WYSIWYG editor based on TinyMCE replaces the Kupu based editor
  • New "Restore topic" feature has been added to the More Topic Actions menu to easily restore an older version of a topic

• Application Platform Enhancements
  • Enhancements to IF: allows, ingroup, istopic, and isweb

• Search Enhancements
  • New query search mode supports SQL-style queries over form fields and other meta-data

• Skins and Templates Enhancements
  • The PatternSkin which is the default skin for TWiki has got a face lift
  • The default templates have been heavily refactored to make it easier to create skins reusing the default skin.

• Miscellaneous Feature Enhancements
  • Many new functions in the API for plugin developers
  • Table of Content (TOC) feature enhanced
  • re-architected Pluggable user mapping (between login name and WikiName) to integrate with alternative authentication and Management schemes
  • Topic based User management has been extracted into a separately update-able package (TWikiUsersContrib)

• Enhancements of Pre-installed Plugins
  • CommentPlugin: New templatetopic parameter to point to custom comment template topic
  • EditTablePlugin: Move and delete rows
  • MailerContrib: Allow Exclusion Of Webs
  • SpreadSheetPlugin: 6 new math formulas; formula to format time diff

• Bug Fixes
  • More than 300 bugs fixes since 4.1.2

Hall of Fame of TWiki Release 4.2

Many people have been involved in creating TWiki 4.2. Special thanks go to the most active contributors in the following areas:

• Release management led by TWiki:Main.KennethLavrsen, ably assisted by TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit
• Design and development driven by TWiki:Main.CrawfordCurrie, TWiki:Main.ArthurClemens, KennethLavrsen? and TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit
• Testing driven by TWiki:Main.KennethLavrsen

Many thanks also to the contributors in the following areas:

• Sponsor and facilitator: TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
• Testing and bug fixing: TWiki:Main.KennethLavrsen, TWiki:Main.CrawfordCurrie, TWiki:Main.ArthurClemens, TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit, TWiki:Main.SteffenPoulsen, TWiki:Main.MichaelDaum, TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny, TWiki:Main.RichardDonkin
• Spec and code: TWiki:Main.CrawfordCurrie (2323), TWiki:Main.ArthurClemens (566), TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit (507), TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny (83), TWiki:Main.KennethLavrsen (73), TWiki:Main.SteffenPoulsen (72), TWiki:Main.AntonioTerceiro (63) - ( 3857 changes by 20 authors )
• Templates and skins: TWiki:Main.ArthurClemens (587), TWiki:Main.CrawfordCurrie (130), TWiki:Main.AndreUlrich (73), TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit (44) - ( 869 changes by 12 authors )
• Documentation: TWiki:Main.ArthurClemens (460), TWiki:Main.CrawfordCurrie (377), TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny (233), TWiki:Main.AndreUlrich (157), TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit (118), TWiki:Main.KennethLavrsen (68) - ( 1450 changes by 14 authors )
• Release package builds: TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit
• Usability: TWiki:Main.CarloSchulz, TWiki:Main.ArthurClemens
• Translations: Coordinated by TWiki:Main.AntonioTerceiro
  • Bulgarian: TWiki:Main.KrassimirBerov
  • Danish: TWiki:Main.SteffenPoulsen
  • Dutch: TWiki:Main.ArthurClemens
  • Finnish: TWiki:Main.HeikkiToivonen
  • French: TWiki:Main.BenVoui
  • German: TWiki:Main.OliverKrueger, TWiki:Main.AndreUlrich
  • Italian: TWiki:Main.MassimoMancini
  • Portuguese: TWiki:Main.CarlinhosCecconi
  • Simplified Chinese: TWiki:Main.CheDong
  • Swedish: TWiki:Main.ErikAman
  • Traditional Chinese: TWiki:Main.CheDong
  • Ukrainian: TWiki:Main.SerhijDubyk
• Marketing: TWiki:Main.RodBeckstrom, TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny, TWiki:Main.MichaelCorbett, TWiki:Main.KoenMartens
• Public relations: TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny, TWiki:Main.MichaelCorbett
• Meetups: TWiki:Main.AmirShobeiri
• TWiki.org wiki champions: TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny, TWiki:Main.ArthurClemens, TWiki:Main.CrawfordCurrie, TWiki:Main.KennethLavrsen, TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit, TWiki:Main.MichaelDaum, TWiki:Main.CarloSchulz, TWiki:Main.StephaneLenclud, TWiki:Main.RichardDonkin, TWiki:Main.KoenMartens
• Customer support: TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny, TWiki:Main.ArthurClemens, TWiki:Main.CrawfordCurrie, TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit, TWiki:Main.HaraldJoerg
• System administration: TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit, TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny, TWiki:Main.CrawfordCurrie

If you find an omission please fix it at TWiki:TWiki.TWikiHistory. For the full list of contributors see TWikiContributor.

Note: Order of contributors under "Spec and code", "Templates and skins" and "Documentation" is based on number of SVN file changes for core and default extensions from March 2007 (svn rev:13046) to Jan 2008 (svn rev:16210). (Details at TWikibug:TWiki420SvnLog). Order of contributors under "Testing and bug fixing" is based on Bugs web statistics from 2007-03 to 2007-12. Order of contributors under "TWiki.org wiki champions" and "Customer support" is based on TWiki.org web statistics from 2007-02 to 2007-12.

See more details on the TWiki 4.2 release at TWikiReleaseNotes04x02.

TWiki Release 4.1 (Edinburgh), 16 Jan 2007

New Features and Enhancements of TWiki Release 4.1

• Easier Installation and Upgrade
  • Plugins can now be installed from the configure script.
  • The loading of plugin preferences settings has been moved earlier in the preferences evaluation order so that plugin settings can be redefined in Main.TWikiPreferences, WebPreferences and in topics. To make TWiki upgrades easier, it is recommended to set the plugin settings in Main.TWikiPreferences, and not to customize the settings in the plugin topic. For example, to change the TEMPLATES setting of the CommentPlugin, create a new COMMENTPLUGIN_TEMPLATES setting in Main.TWikiPreferences.
  • Plugin settings can now be defined in configure instead of in the plugin topic (requires that the individual plugin has implemented this). TWiki performs slightly better by not looking for preferences settings in plugin topics.
  • Configure no longer shows many unnecessary errors when run first time.
  • The webmaster email address is now defined in configure instead of TWikiPreferences.
  • Default file access rights in the distribution package have been changed to be more universally defined and in line with the default access rights for new topics.

• Usability Enhancements
  • Redesigned result page when typing incomplete topic name into the Jump box, so that it is possible to quickly navigate to a topic, also in a very large TWiki installation. For example, "I know there is a topic about Ajax somewhere in the Eng web. OK, let my type Eng.ajax into the Jump box... Here we go, the third link is the AjaxCookbook I was looking for."
  • Many user documentation improvements.
  • URL parameters maintained in Table of Contents links so you can stay in a temporary skin (e.g. print) and keep URLPARAM values when you click the TOC links
  • Attachment tables now sorted alphabetically.
  • Better printing of tables and verbatim text in PatternSkin.

• Application Platform Enhancements
  • Auto-incremented topic name on save with AUTOINC<n> in topic name; used by TWiki applications to create topic based database records.
  • The edit and save scripts support a redirectto parameter to redirect to a topic or a URL; for security, redirect to URL needs to be enabled with a {AllowRedirectUrl} configure flag.
  • CommentPlugin supports the redirectto parameter to redirect to a URL or link to TWiki topic after submitting comment.
  • The topic URL parameter also respects the {AllowRedirectUrl} configure flag so redirects to URLs can be disabled which could be abused for phishing attacks.
  • The view script supports a section URL parameter to view just a named section within a topic. Useful for simple AJAX type applications.
  • New plugin handler for content move.
  • Enhancements for Ajax based applications with TWiki:Plugins/YahooUserInterfaceContrib and TWiki:Plugins.TWikiAjaxContrib (available at twiki.org).

• Search Enhancements
  • METASEARCH handles a format parameter like SEARCH.
  • Topic not found / WebTopicViewTemplate search now case insensitive.
  • FormattedSearch header supporting $nop, $quot, $percnt, $dollar.
  • Add search by createdate option to SEARCH.
  • New newline option for SEARCH to protect e.g. formfields from being altered during rendering in SEARCH.

• Skins and Templates Enhancements
  • Support for templates to have text rendering affecting aspect outside of textarea.
  • Pattern skin dependence on TwistyPlugin instead of TwistyContrib (performance improvement.)
  • Don't strip newlines from the front of TMPL:DEFs.

• Miscellaneous Feature Enhancements
  • Change in WikiWord definition: Numbers are treated as lower case letters, e.g. Y2K is now a WikiWord.
  • Configurable template load path. Advanced feature for those that work with customized templates.
  • Added %VBAR% to TWikiPreferences for vertical bar symbol.
  • On topic creation, force initial letter of topic name to be upper case.
  • Allow date format in form fields.
  • Enhance REVINFO{} variable with same date qualifiers as GMTIME{}.
  • WebTopicCreator - adding ability to select a template from any topic name ending in ...Template
  • Functionality of TWiki:Plugins.DateFieldPlugin merged into core

• Enhancements of Pre-installed Plugins
  • CommentPlugin: Supports removal of comment prompt after a comment is made.
  • EditTablePlugin: Default date format based on JSCalendarContrib instead of plugin topic.
  • InterwikiPlugin: Supports custom link formats.
  • SlideShowPlugin: Preserves URL parameters in slideshow
  • SpreadSheetPlugin: New functions $LISTRAND(), $LISTSHUFFLE(), $LISTTRUNCATE().
  • TablePlugin: New attribute cellborder.
  • TablePlugin: Highlight the sorted column with custom colors; includes also a general cosmetic update of default colors.
  • TablePlugin: Support for initsort on more than one table. A table with the initsort option is initsorted UNLESS it is sorted by clicking on a column header. If you click on a header of another table all other tables goes back to the default sort defined by initsort or not sorted if no initsort, and the new table is sorted based on the user clicking on a table header.

• Bugfixes
  • More than 200 bugs fixed since 4.0.5

Hall of Fame of TWiki Release 4.1

Although many more people have been involved in creating TWiki-4.1, special thanks go to the most active contributors in the following areas:

• Sponsor and facilitator: TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
• Process improvement: TWiki:Main.KennethLavrsen, TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny, TWiki:Main.SteffenPoulsen, TWiki:Main.CrawfordCurrie
• Release management: TWiki:Main.KennethLavrsen
• Spec, code, testing: TWiki:Main.CrawfordCurrie, TWiki:Main.ArthurClemens, TWiki:Main.SteffenPoulsen, TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny, TWiki:Main.ThomasWeigert, TWiki:Main.KennethLavrsen, TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit, TWiki:Main.HaraldJoerg, TWiki:Main.MichaelDaum, TWiki:Main.MeredithLesly, TWiki:Main.WillNorris, TWiki:Main.RafaelAlvarez, TWiki:Main.AntonioTerceiro
• Templates and skins: TWiki:Main.ArthurClemens, TWiki:Main.MichaelDaum, TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit
• Documentation: TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny, TWiki:Main.CrawfordCurrie, TWiki:Main.ArthurClemens, TWiki:Main.SteffenPoulsen, TWiki:Main.KennethLavrsen
• Translations: Coordinated by TWiki:Main.AntonioTerceiro
  • Chinese: TWiki:Main.CheDong
  • Czech: TWiki:Main.IvanKuncl
  • Danish: TWiki:Main.SteffenPoulsen
  • Dutch: TWiki:Main.ArthurClemens
  • French: TWiki:Main.BenVoui
  • German: TWiki:Main.AndreUlrich
  • Italian: TWiki:Main.MassimoMancini
  • Polish: TWiki:Main.ZbigniewKulesza
  • Portuguese: TWiki:Main.AntonioTerceiro, TWiki:Main.CarlinhosCecconi
  • Russian: TWiki:Main.AndreyTkachenko, TWiki:Main.SergejZnamenskij, TWiki:Main.SergeyJSinx, TWiki:Main.AlexTananaev
  • Spanish: TWiki:Main.WillNorris, TWiki:Main.MiguelABayona
  • Swedish: TWiki:Main.ErikAman
• Public relations: TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny, TWiki:Main.TomTansy
• TWiki.org wiki champions: TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny, TWiki:Main.CrawfordCurrie, TWiki:Main.KennethLavrsen, TWiki:Main.SteffenPoulsen, TWiki:Main.ArthurClemens, TWiki:Main.ThomasWeigert, TWiki:Main.MichaelDaum
• Customer support: TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny, TWiki:Main.CrawfordCurrie, TWiki:Main.ArthurClemens, TWiki:Main.SteffenPoulsen, TWiki:Main.SteveStark, TWiki:Main.MichaelDaum
• System administration: TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit, TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny, TWiki:Main.CrawfordCurrie

If you find an omission please fix it at TWiki:TWiki.TWikiHistory. For the full list of contributors see TWikiContributor.

Note: Sequence of contributors under "Spec, code, testing", "Templates and skins" and "Documentation" is based on number of SVN check-ins for core and default extensions from 2006-02 to 2006-12. Sequence of contributors under "TWiki.org wiki champions" and "Customer support" is based on TWiki.org web statistics from 2006-02 to 2006-12.

See more details on the TWiki 4.1 release at TWikiReleaseNotes04x01.

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, SteffenPoulsen, Sven Dowideit, WillNorris.

See more details at TWikiReleaseNotes04x00

01-Sep-2004 Release (Cairo)

Major New Features

• Automatic upgrade script, and easier first-time installation
• Attractive new skins, using a standard set of CSS classes, and a skin browser to help you choose
• New easier-to-use save options
• Many improvements to SEARCH
• Improved support for internationalisation
• Better topic management screens
• More pre-installed Plugins: CommentPlugin, EditTablePlugin, RenderListPlugin, SlideShowPlugin, SmiliesPlugin, SpreadSheetPlugin, TablePlugin
• Improved Plugins API and more Plugin callbacks
• Better support for different authentication methods
• Many user interface and usability improvements
• And many, many more enhancements

01-Feb-2003 Release (Beijing)

• 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
  • Enhanced Plugin API to manipulate topic data with new functions in Func.pm: readTopicText, saveTopicText, setTopicEditLock, checkTopicEditLock
• 31 Dec 2002 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • New %NOAUTOLINK% setting in the TWikiPreferences to disable the auto-linking of WikiWords
• 29 Dec 2002 - TWiki:Main.AndreaSterbini, TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny, TWiki:Main.RichardDonkin, TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit
  • New Plugin hooks registrationHandler, beforeEditHandler, afterEditHandler, beforeSaveHandler, writeHeaderHandler, redirectCgiQueryHandler, getSessionValueHandler, setSessionValueHandler
• 30 Nov 2002 - TWiki:Main.RichardDonkin
  • Internationalization ('I18N') support for international characters in WikiWords, such as ISO-8859-15, KOI8-R - also supports Chinese, Japanese, etc.
• 25 Nov 2002 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Include previous topic revision with %INCLUDE{ "OtherTopic" rev="1.2" }%
• 15 Nov 2002 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • The Go box understands also URLs, useful for special TWikiSkins handling
• 08 Nov 2002 - TWiki:Main.ColasNahaboo, TWiki:Main.RichardDonkin
  • In WebNotify, if only the WikiName is specified, the e-mail is taken from the user's home page; if the WikiName is a group name, a notification is sent to all members of the group
• 30 Oct 2002 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • New %NOP{}% variable in TWikiTemplates topic gets removed at topic creation time; useful to write protect template topics
• 28 Sep 2002 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • The %URLPARAM{}% variable in TWikiTemplates topic gets expanded at topic creation time; useful for dynamic content creation
• 28 Sep 2002 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • New $logDir introduced in TWiki.cfg to set the log directory
• 13 Sep 2002 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Renamed the Test web to Sandbox
• 03 Aug 2002 - TWiki:Main.RichardDonkin
  • New setlib.cfg file in the bin directory to set the TWiki library path
• 02 Aug 2002 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny, TWiki:Main.RyanFreebern
  • Support for outbound HTTP proxy when including URLs based on new %PROXYHOST and %PROXYPORT% settings in the TWikiPreferences
• 12 Jul 2002 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • The page logo is configurable with new %WIKILOGOIMG%, %TWIKILOGOURL% and %WIKILOGOALT% variables in TWikiPreferences; replacing $wikiHomeUrl in TWiki.cfg
• 12 Jun 2002 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • New %WIKITOOLNAME% variable in TWikiPreferences; replacing $wikiToolName in TWiki.cfg
• 31 May 2002 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • New %EDITBOXSTYLE% preferences variable which sets the edit box width automatically to the window width
• 17 May 2002 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • New %URLENCODE{}% variable to encodes a string for using in a URL parameter, e.g. %URLENCODE{"spaced name"}% returns spaced%20name
• 17 May 2002 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • FormattedSearch can be nested
• 05 May 2002 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • New user home pages are now based on the NewUserTemplate, replacing the /twiki/templates/register.tmpl template file
• 26 Apr 2002 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • New markup to exclude heading from a %TOC% table of content, e.g. ---+!! This heading is not shown in a TOC
• 13 Apr 2002 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Form and script to create new webs, see ManagingWebs
• 01 Apr 2002 - TWiki:Main.JohnTalintyre
  • New data storage framework that lets you use external RCS commands for revision control, or a new native Perl implementation that does not depend on the external RCS commands
• 28 Mar 2002 - TWiki:Main.RichardDonkin
  • Fixed IE5/IE6-specific problem whereby going back from preview sometimes removes all edit changes
• 23 Mar 2002 - TWiki:Main.JohnTalintyre
  • New AND search; with regular expression enabled, use the semicolon ";" as the AND operator in %SEARCH{}% variable, FormattedSearch and WebSearch
• 21 Mar 2002 - TWiki:Main.ColasNahaboo, TWiki:Main.RichardDonkin
  • Fixed cache issue where the edit page showed outdated content
• 06 Mar 2002 - TWiki:Main.RichardDonkin
  • Improved statistics script which uses less memory to process large log files
• 09 Jan 2002 - TWiki:Main.JohnTalintyre
  • Variables inside <verbatim> tags are no longer expanded

01-Dec-2001 Release (Athens)

• 25 Oct 2001 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Added FormattedSearch to %SEARCH{}% variable for database like reporting.

01-Sep-2001 Release

• 30 Aug 2001 - TWiki:Main.JohnTalintyre
  • Easier install for Windows, including auto detection in TWiki.cfg
• 30 Aug 2001 - TWiki:Main.JohnTalintyre
  • Ability to move attachments between topics, see FileAttachments
• 21 Aug 2001 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Convert to XHTML 1.0 function: first step to XHTML-ifying TWiki
• 26 Jun 2001 - TWiki:Main.JohnTalintyre
  • Category information to forms using the TWikiMetaData format, see TWikiForms
• 07 Jun 2001 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • New topic templates as topics instead of templates. Customize by editing the topic. Retired notedited.tmpl, notext.tmpl and notwiki.tmpl templates. More in TWikiTemplates.
• 07 Jun 2001 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • New %TOPICLIST{"format"}% and %WEBLIST{"format"}% variables to get a formatted topic index and web index, respectively. More in TWikiVariables.
• 01 Jun 2001 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • New %URLPARAM{"name"}% variable to query URL parameters. More in TWikiVariables.
• 01 Jun 2001 - TWiki:Main.AndreaSterbini
  • API to extend TWiki, see TWikiPluginAPI
• 01 Jun 2001 - TWiki:Main.KlausWriessnegger, TWiki:Main.AndreaSterbini
  • Forms to change/reset/install passwords, see ChangePassword & ResetPassword
• 01 May 2001 - TWiki:Main.AndreaSterbini
  • The TWikiAdminGroup (or other group) can be enabled as a SuperAdminGroup. Members have browser edit access to all locked topics.
• 01 May 2001 - TWiki:Main.JohnTalintyre
  • Meta information format, see TWikiMetaData
• 01 May 2001 - TWiki:Main.JohnTalintyre
  • Attachment under revision control See FileAttachment
• 01 May 2001 - TWiki:Main.JohnTalintyre
  • Ability to rename/move topics, ManagingTopics
• 27 Mar 2001 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • The table syntax has been enhanced to (i) render | *bold* | cells as table headers, (ii) render space padded cells |   center aligned   | and |   right aligned |, (iii) span multiple columns using | empty cells |||. More in TextFormattingRules.
• 25 Mar 2001 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Security fix Questionable files like PHP scripts (executables) and .htaccess files that are attached to a topic get a .txt suffix appended to the file name. See also TWiki:Codev/FileAttachmentFilterSecurityAlert
• 28 Feb 2001 - TWiki:Main.AndreaSterbini, TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • New Wiki rule for headings, i.e. ---++ My Title; and new %TOC% variable to build a table of content from headings in a topic. More in TWikiVariables.
• 28 Feb 2001 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • New Wiki rule to specify arbitrary text for external links (i.e. [[http://TWki.org][TWiki]]) and internal links (i.e [[WikiSyntax][syntax]]). More in TWikiVariables.
• 28 Feb 2001 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • New Wiki rule for named anchors, e.g. links within a topic. Define a named anchor with #MyAnchor at the beginning of a line, and link to it with [[#MyAnchor]]. More in TWikiVariables.
• 25 Feb 2001 - TWiki:Main.NicholasLee, TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Use Net::SMTP module instead of sendmail if installed.
• 01 Feb 2001 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Added <verbatim> ... </verbatim> tags to show source code "as is". Unlike the <pre> ... </pre> tags, it also shows <, >, & characters "as is".
• 01 Feb 2001 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Fixed TWiki:Codev/CreateLinkToAttachedFileBug.
• 21 Jan 2001 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Added a "Minor change, don't notify" checkbox in preview. More in DontNotify.
• 21 Jan 2001 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Added Bold Fixed formatting using double-equal signs, e.g. write ==Bold Fixed== to get Bold Fixed.
• 20 Jan 2001 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Format changed of %GMTIME{"..."}% and %SERVERTIME{"..."}% variables. Format is now "$hour:$min" instead of "hour:min". More in TWikiVariables. Attention: Check your existing topics when you upgrade TWiki!
• 18 Jan 2001 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • WebChanges, WebSearch and e-mail notification indicate also the revision number of a topic (i.e. 18 Jan 2001 16:43 r1.5), or NEW for a new topic (i.e. i.e. 18 Jan 2001 16:43 NEW).
• 16 Jan 2001 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • New variable %STARTINCLUDE% and %STOPINCLUDE% variables to control what gets included of a topic. More in TWikiVariables.
• 16 Jan 2001 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • TWiki skins Define a different page layout with a customized header and footer layout, i.e. a print skin for a printable view of a topic. More in TWikiSkins and TWiki:Codev/TWikiSkins.
• 07 Jan 2001 - TWiki:Main.StanleyKnutson
  • Better error handling when saving a topic.
• 05 Jan 2001 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • View authorization based on groups. Define who is allowed to see a TWiki web. More in TWikiAccessControl and TWiki:Codev/AuthenticationBasedOnGroups.
• 05 Dec 2000 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Improved include handling. Infinite recursion of includes are prevented; new variables %BASEWEB%, %INCLUDINGWEB%, %BASETOPIC% and %INCLUDINGTOPIC% to have more control over include handling. More in TWikiVariables and TWiki:Codev/IncludeHandlingImprovements.
• 03 Dec 2000 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • New noheader="on" switch in %SEARCH{...}% to suppress table header. More in TWikiVariables.

01-Dec-2000 Release

• 03 Nov 2000 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Flag $doHidePasswdInRegistration in wikicfg.pm to hide plain text password in registration e-mail.
• 01 Nov 2000 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • New variable %VAR{"NAME" web="Web"}% to get web-specific preferences. More in TWikiVariables.
• 01 Nov 2000 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Added a "Cancel" link in edit that releases the edit lock.
• 23 Oct 2000 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Authorization based on groups. Define fine graned control who is allowed to change or create topics. More in TWikiAccessControl and TWiki:Codev/AuthenticationBasedOnGroups.
• 05 Oct 2000 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Remember user by IP address so that view "knows" the user once authenticated in edit. More in TWikiUserAuthentication.
• 26 Sep 2000 - TWiki:Main.AlWilliams, TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Fixed TWiki:Codev/UppercaseAttachments bug and added png image support.
• 26 Sep 2000 - TWiki:Main.HaroldGottschalk, TWiki:Main.AndreaSterbini, TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Allow nesting of variables, i.e. %INCLUDE{"%TWIKIWEB%.TWikiWebsTable"}%. More in TWiki:Codev/BetterTWikiTagTemplateProcessing.
• 20 Sep 2000 - TWiki:Main.ManpreetSingh
  • New -q switch in mailnotify to suppress all normal output.
• 19 Sep 2000 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Fixed TWiki:Codev/AttachedNotificationLinksBug.
• 18 Sep 2000 - TWiki:Main.ManpreetSingh, TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Added forced internal links. Write [[text formatting FAQ]] to get the link text formatting FAQ that points to topic TextFormattingFAQ.
• 19 Aug 2000 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Ref-By link searches all webs (not just the current web.)
• 16 Aug 2000 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • New TWikiPreferences variables %HTTP_EQUIV_ON_VIEW% , %HTTP_EQUIV_ON_EDIT% and %HTTP_EQUIV_ON_PREVIEW% that define the <meta http-equiv="..."> meta tags for the TWiki templates. This can be used for example to set a document expiration time.
• 29 Jul 2000 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • New variables %GMTIME{"..."}% and %SERVERTIME{"..."}% . More in TWikiVariables.
• 23 Jul 2000 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Changed include syntax from %INCLUDE{"Web/TopicName.txt"}% to %INCLUDE{"Web.TopicName"}% . Legacy syntax still supported.
• 23 Jul 2000 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • BookView search allows you show a set of topics for easy printing.
• 22 Jul 2000 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • More forgiving syntax for *bold*, italic, __bold italic__ and fixed , where it is not necessary anymore to have a trailing space before .,;:?! characters.
• 22 Jul 2000 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Split the TWiki.Main web into TWiki.Main (users, company data) and TWiki.TWiki (TWiki related documentation, registration)
• 07 Jul 2000 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Added an "Release edit lock" checkbox in preview to let other people edit the topic immediately without the one hour lock.
• 07 Jul 2000 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Fixed problem of losing carriage returns when editing topics with KDE KFM browser or W3M browser.
• 21 Jun 2000 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Fixed problem that a page redirect on some server environments is not working (host name is needed in URL).
• 21 Jun 2000 - TWiki:Main.CrisBailiff, TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Fixed security issue to prevent a server side %INCLUDE% of arbitrary files.
• 29 May 2000 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • New %GMTIME% variable that shows the current GM time.
• 28 May 2000 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Lock warning shows remaining lock time in minutes.
• 15 May 2000 - TWiki:Main.PeterFokkinga
  • Each topic can have its own template file. TWikiTemplates has more.
• 02 May 2000 - TWiki:Main.KevinKinnell, TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Advanced search features like search multiple webs; sort by topic name / modified time / author; limit the number of results returned. More in TWikiVariables.

01-May-2000 Release

• 21 Apr 2000 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • New TWikiVariables %HTTP_HOST% , %REMOTE_ADDR% , %REMOTE_PORT% and %REMOTE_USER% .
• 21 Apr 2000 - TWiki:Main.JohnAltstadt, TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • TWikiRegistration is done separately for Intranet use (depends on remote_user) or Internet use (depends on .htpasswd file).
• 20 Mar 2000 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Uploading a file (topic file attachment) will optionally create a link to the uploaded file at the end of the topic. The preference variable %ATTACHLINKBOX% controls the default state of the link check box in the attach file page.
• 11 Mar 2000 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Better security with taint checking ( Perl -T option )
• 25 Feb 2000 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • New preference variables %EDITBOXWIDTH% and %EDITBOXHEIGHT% to specify the edit box size.
• 25 Feb 2000 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Edit preferences topics to set TWiki variables. There are three level of preferences Site-level (TWikiPreferences), web-level (WebPreferences in each web) and user-level preferences (for each of the TWikiUsers). With this, discontinue use of server side include of wikiwebs.inc , wikiwebtable.inc , weblist.inc , webcopyright.inc and webcolors.inc files.
• 11 Feb 2000 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • New variable %SCRIPTSUFFIX% / $scriptSuffix containing an optional file extension of the TWiki Perl script. Templates have been changed to use this variable. This allows you to rename the Perl script files to have a file extension like for example ".cgi".
• 11 Feb 2000 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • New variable %SCRIPTURLPATH% / $scriptUrlPath containing the script URL without the domain name. Templates have been changed to use this variable instead of %SCRIPTURL% . This is for performance reasons.
• 07 Feb 2000 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Changed the syntax for server side include variable from %INCLUDE:"filename.ext"% to %INCLUDE{"filename.ext"}% . (Previous syntax still supported. Change was done because of inline search syntax)
• 07 Feb 2000 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Inline search. New variable %SEARCH{"str" ...}% to show a search result embedded in a topic text. TWikiVariables has more on the syntax. Inline search combined with the category table feature can be used for example to create a simple bug tracking system.
• 04 Feb 2000 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Access statistics. Each web has a WebStatistics topic that shows monthy statistics with number of topic views and changes, most popular topics, and top contributors. (It needs to be enabled, TWikiDocumentation has more.)
• 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
  • Fixed bug where an e-mail address starting with a WikiName was rendered as an internal Wiki link instead of an e-mail address, i.e. SomeWikiName@somewhereNOSPAM.test .
• 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
  • 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.

01-Sep-1999 Release

• 31 Aug 1999 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Fixed Y2K bug. (Date in year 2000 had wrong format.)
• 08 Aug 1999 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • New text formatting rule for creating tables. Text gets rendered as a table if enclosed in " " vertical bars. Example line as it is written and how it shows up
• 03 Aug 1999 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Online registration of new user using web form in TWikiRegistration. Authentication of users.
• 22 Jul 1999 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Flags $doLogTopic* in wikicfg.pm to selectively log topic view, edit, save, rdiff, attach, search and changes to monthly log file.
• 21 Jul 1999 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Flag $doRemovePortNumber in wikicfg.pm to optionally remove the port number from the TWiki URL. Example www.some.domain:1234/twiki gets www.some.domain/twiki .
• 15 Jul 1999 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Search path for include files in %INCLUDE:"file.inc"% variable. Search first in the current web, then in parent data directory. Useful to overload default include text in the data directory by web-specific text, like for example webcopyright.inc text.
• 07 Jul 1999 - TWiki:Main.ChristopheVermeulen
  • Link a plural topic to a singular topic in case the plural topic does not exist. Example TestVersion / TestVersions , TestPolicy / TestPolicies , TestAddress / TestAddresses , TestBox / TestBoxes .

01-Jul-1999 Release

• 23 Jun 1999 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • New TextFormattingRules to write bold italic text by enclosing words with double underline characters.
• 23 Jun 1999 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Separate wiki.pm into configuration (wikicfg.pm) and TWiki core (wiki.pm) . This is to ease the upgrade of TWiki installations, it also allows customized extensions to TWiki without affecting the TWiki core.
• 21 May 1999 - TWiki:Main.DavidWarman
  • Externalize copyright text at the bottom of every page into a web-specific webcopyright.inc file. This is to easily customize the copyright text.
• 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
  • New variables %WIKIHOMEURL% (link when pressing the icon on the upper left corner) and %WIKITOOLNAME% (the name of the wiki tool TWiki ).
• 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
  • File attachments Upload and download any file as a topic attachment by using the browser. FileAttachment has more.
• 26 Mar 1999 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • New variables %PUBURL% (Public directory URL) and %ATTACHURL% (URL of topic file attachment).
• 09 Feb 1999 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • New text formatting rule for creating fixed font text . Words get showns in fixed font by enclosing them in "=" equal signs. Example Writing =fixed font= will show up as fixed font .
• 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
  • 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
• 04 Jan 1999 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Fixed bug when viewing differences between topic revisions that include HTML table tags like <table>, <tr>, <td>.

1998 Releases

• 08 Dec 1998 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Signature is shown below the text area when editing a topic. Use this to easily copy & paste your signature into the text.
• 07 Dec 1998 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Possible to add a category table to a TWiki topic. This permits storing and searching for more structured information. Editing a topic shows a HTML form with the usual text area and a table with selectors, checkboxes, radio buttons and text fields. TWikiDocumentation has more on setup. The TWiki.Know web uses this category table to set classification, platform and OS version.
• 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
  • 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.
• 10 Nov 1998 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • 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
• 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
  • 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
• 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
  • Alphabetical topic index in WebSearch.
• 24 Sep 1998 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Corrected templates for automatic e-mail notification so that MS Outlook can display attachment as an HTML file.
• 13 Aug 1998 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • WikiNotation allows also numbers after the AaA sequence, e.g. AaA1 is a valid TWikiTopics name, but not Aa1.
• 07 Aug 1998 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Automatic e-mail notification when something has changed in a TWiki web. Each web has a topic WebNotify where one can subscribe and unsubscribe.
• 06 Aug 1998 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Added server side include of files. Syntax is %INCLUDE:"filename.ext"%
• 05 Aug 1998 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Signature and date is inserted automatically when creating a new topic.
• 04 Aug 1998 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Separate templates for text of non existing topic and default text of new topic. (template file templates/Web/notedited.tmpl)
• 04 Aug 1998 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Warn user if new topic name is not a valid Wiki name. (template file templates/Web/notwiki.tmpl)
• 31 Jul 1998 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Support for quoted text with a '>' at the beginning of the line.
• 28 Jul 1998 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Added TWiki variables, enclosed in % signs %TOPIC% (Topic name), %WEB% (web name), %SCRIPTURL% (script URL), %DATE% (current date), %WIKIWEBMASTER% (Wiki webmaster address), %WIKIVERSION% (Wiki version), %USERNAME% (user name), %WIKIUSERNAME% (Wiki user name).
• 28 Jul 1998 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Topic WebChanges shows Wiki username instead of Intranet username, e.g. PeterThoeny instead of thoeny in case the Wiki username exists. Implementation Automatic lookup of Wiki username in topic TWikiUsers.
• 28 Jul 1998 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Topic index. (Technically speaking a simple '.*' search on topic names.)
• 28 Jul 1998 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Topic WebSearch allows full text search and and topic search with/without regular expressions.
• 27 Jul 1998 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Added automatic links to topics in other TWiki webs by specifying <web name>.<topic name>, e.g. Know.WebSeach .
• 23 Jul 1998 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Installed initial version, based on the JOS Wiki. See WikiWikiClones for details.

Dev Flow

The typical TWiki development flow...

• TWiki:Codev.FeatureBrainstorming: open forum for new ideas
• TWiki:Codev.FeatureEnhancementRequest: specific detailed request
• TWiki:Codev.FeatureToDo: prioritized to up-next dev status
• TWiki:Codev.FeatureUnderConstruction: currently in development
• TWiki:Codev.FeatureDone: completed and implemented
• TWiki:Codev.DocRequest: request for documentation
• TWiki:Codev.DocsToDo: feature documentation pending
• TWiki:Codev.FeatureDocumented: documented feature
• TWikiDocumentation: reference manual for the latest TWiki

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