TWiki 5.1.4 - Changelog

What's new in TWiki 5.1.4:

February 19th, 2013

Usability Enhancements:

· API and GUI for point and click user data management
· Support disabled users in password manager
· More visual user profile pages with in-place editing of form fields and picture selector
· In-place editing of TWiki group settings using PreferencesPlugin
· Point and click bookmarks for better usability
· Improved statistics showing overall site usage over time, such as total number of webs, topics, users, etc
· TopMenuSkin: Option for auto-hidden or fixed top menu-bar; in auto-hidden mode, menu is always accessible with stub - added in TWiki-5.1.2

TWiki Application Platform Enhancements:

· Macro language with parameterized variables
· Ability to auto-create page on view if it does not exist
· Relative heading levels for INCLUDE
· Relative heading levels for SEARCH

Security Enhancements:

· Set a flag to force password change on next login
· S/Mime support for notification e-mails

Miscellaneous Feature Enhancements:

· TWikiDocGraphics: Added 2 new icons, and updated 1 icon - added in TWiki-5.1.1
· TWikiDocGraphics: Added 25 new icons, and updated 2 icons - added in TWiki-5.1.2
· TWikiDocGraphics: Added 5 new icons - added in TWiki-5.1.3
· TWikiDocGraphics: Added 5 new icons - added in TWiki-5.1.4
· User profile pages with CSS based box shadow and rounded corners - added in TWiki-5.1.3
· TWiki logs: Log user agent for all users; log additional info via extralog URL parameter - added in TWiki-5.1.4

Plugin Enhancements:

· New BackupRestorePlugin to easily backup, restore and upgrade TWiki installations
· BackupRestorePlugin: Add restore from backup feature - added in TWiki-5.1.1
· CommentPlugin: Send comment to multiple e-mail addresses; better layout & nicer look of default comment box - added in TWiki-5.1.3
· New ColorPickerPlugin to pick a color in form fields
· New SetGetPlugin that can store variables persistently
· SetGetPlugin: Add REST interface - added in TWiki-5.1.2
· SetGetPlugin: GET variable with format parameter - added in TWiki-5.1.3
· SpreadSheetPlugin: New functions BITXOR(), HEXENCODE(), HEXDECODE(), XOR()
· SpreadSheetPlugin: New functions FLOOR() and CEILING() - added in TWiki-5.1.1
· SpreadSheetPlugin: New CALCULATE variable using the register tag handler for variable evaluation with proper inside-out, left-to-right eval order; new functions $ISDIGIT(), $ISLOWER(), $ISUPPER(), $ISWIKIWORD() and $FILTER() - added in TWiki-5.1.2
· SpreadSheetPlugin: New function $STDEV(), $STDEVP(), $VAR(), $VARP() - added in TWiki-5.1.3

What's new in TWiki 5.1.3:

December 18th, 2012

Usability Enhancements:

· API and GUI for point and click user data management
· Support disabled users in password manager
· More visual user profile pages with in-place editing of form fields and picture selector
· In-place editing of TWiki group settings using PreferencesPlugin
· Point and click bookmarks for better usability
· Improved statistics showing overall site usage over time, such as total number of webs, topics, users, etc
· TopMenuSkin: Option for auto-hidden or fixed top menu-bar; in auto-hidden mode, menu is always accessible with stub - added in TWiki-5.1.2

TWiki Application Platform Enhancements:

· Macro language with parameterized variables
· Ability to auto-create page on view if it does not exist
· Relative heading levels for INCLUDE
· Relative heading levels for SEARCH

Security Enhancements:

· Set a flag to force password change on next login
· S/Mime support for notification e-mails

Miscellaneous Feature Enhancements:

· TWikiDocGraphics: Added 2 new icons, and updated 1 icon - added in TWiki-5.1.1
· TWikiDocGraphics: Added 25 new icons, and updated 2 icons - added in TWiki-5.1.2
· TWikiDocGraphics: Added 5 new icons - added in TWiki-5.1.3
· User profile pages with CSS based box shadow and rounded corners - added in TWiki-5.1.3

Plugin Enhancements:

· New BackupRestorePlugin to easily backup, restore and upgrade TWiki installations
· BackupRestorePlugin: Add restore from backup feature - added in TWiki-5.1.1
· CommentPlugin: Send comment to multiple e-mail addresses; better layout & nicer look of default comment box - added in TWiki-5.1.3
· New ColorPickerPlugin to pick a color in form fields
· New SetGetPlugin that can store variables persistently
· SetGetPlugin: Add REST interface - added in TWiki-5.1.2
· SetGetPlugin: GET variable with format parameter - added in TWiki-5.1.3
· SpreadSheetPlugin: New functions BITXOR(), HEXENCODE(), HEXDECODE(), XOR()
· SpreadSheetPlugin: New functions FLOOR() and CEILING() - added in TWiki-5.1.1
· SpreadSheetPlugin: New CALCULATE variable using the register tag handler for variable evaluation with proper inside-out, left-to-right eval order; new functions $ISDIGIT(), $ISLOWER(), $ISUPPER(), $ISWIKIWORD() and $FILTER() - added in TWiki-5.1.2
· SpreadSheetPlugin: New function $STDEV(), $STDEVP(), $VAR(), $VARP() - added in TWiki-5.1.3

Bug Fixes:

· 21 bug fixes since TWiki-5.0.2
· 17 bug fixes since TWiki-5.1.0 - fixed in TWiki-5.1.1
· 28 bug fixes since TWiki-5.1.1 - fixed in TWiki-5.1.2
· 19 bug fixes since TWiki-5.1.2 - fixed in TWiki-5.1.3

What's new in TWiki 5.1.2:

October 11th, 2012

· This patch release adds some usability enhancements, adds a few new features, and fixes over 20 bugs.
· It is well tested and is very stable.
· The TopMenuSkin now has an option for auto-hidden or fixed top menu-bar.
· In auto-hidden mode, the menu is always accessible via a stub on the upper left.
· For power users, the SpreadSheetPlugin has new functions $ISDIGIT(), $ISLOWER(), $ISUPPER(), $ISWIKIWORD(), and $FILTER().
· For programmers, the SetGetPlugin adds a REST interface for setting and querying variables, which is useful for TWiki apps that need to store variables persistently via Ajax calls

What's new in TWiki 5.1.1:

January 18th, 2012

· This patch release adds some usability enhancements, adds a few new features, and fixes a number of bugs.
· It is well tested and is very stable.
· Use the BackupRestorePlugin to easily upgrade your TWiki site.

What's new in TWiki 5.1.0:

August 30th, 2011

· The primary focus of this release was usability.
· It added point and click user data management, more visual user profile pages with a picture selector, and a backup feature that helps upgrade TWiki sites.
· The new release also strengthens TWiki as an application platform for more easily building custom wiki applications.

What's new in TWiki 4.3.1:

April 30th, 2009

· TWiki 4.3.0 released on 2009-03-30 introduces security enhancements, usability enhancements, feature enhancements, and adds extensions to strengthen TWiki as an enterprise collaboration platform.

What's new in TWiki 4.3.0:

March 30th, 2009

Security Enhancements:
· Reduced risk of XSS (cross-site scripting)
· S/MIME support to sign administrative e-mails

Usability Enhancements:
· Replace question mark links with red-links to point to non-existing topics

Enterprise Collaboration Enhancements:
· Pre-installed HeadlinesPlugin to show headline newsfeeds in TWiki topics
· Pre-installed TWikiNetSkin, TWikiNetSkinPlugin for corporate look and feel

Search Enhancements:
· Add footer parameter to Formatted Search
· Add number of topics to Formatted Search

Miscellaneous Feature Enhancements:
· Control over variable expansion at topic creation time
· 17 new TWikiDocGraphics images
· Include URL supports list of domains to exclude from proxy
· Adding Korean language

Plugin Enhancements:
· SpreadSheetPlugin: 5 new functions Important Changes in 4.3.0 Highlights of bug fixes in 4.3.0

Security:
· Review code for robustness and security
· Secure configure script with taint mode turned on

Rendering:
· %TOC% does not distinguish two headlines that have the same text
· TablePlugin produces bad links for sorting when using "short" URLs
· %SCRIPTSUFFIX% is added twice in %TOC% links
· Incorrect Content-length breaks HTTP headers, a.o. pound fail results
· TablePlugin: Date sorting is broken
· Bullet lists in form fields are not rendered properly
· TWiki Forms expand variables like $nop, $quote $percnt
· TwistyPlugin: Twisty can't be placed in TWiki table cells

Users and groups:
· TWikiGroups shows all members twice

Editing:
· WysiwygPlugin: Bolding single character within a word introduces spaces around bolded character

Miscellaneous:
· configure's get more extensions does not work well without LWP
· CommentPlugin: Lost data if it's targeted before/after a missing anchor
· Plugin installation fails on windows: extender.pl line 684
· Statistics script does not handle properly topics with special characters The detailed release notes can be found at: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/TWikiRelease04x03x00

What's new in TWiki 4.2.4:

December 10th, 2008

· This patch release fixes two major security issues, as well as over 30 defects.