What's new in TurnKey MediaWiki Live CD 15.2
Jan 10, 2019
- Rebuild to resolve inadvertent removal of mariadb during sec-updates
New in TurnKey MediaWiki Live CD 15.1 (Oct 30, 2018)
- pgraded to the latest upstream stable LTS version (v1.31.1).
- Fixed redirection bug / added domain setting to inithook - closes #1202.
- Redirect http => https & redirect to domain configured at firstboot - part of #958.
New in TurnKey MediaWiki Live CD 15.0 (Jul 30, 2018)
- Upgraded to the latest upstream source version (1.31.0)
- Updated install procedure (conf.d/main) to leverage MediaWiki install.php [ Vlad Kuzmenko ]
- Install Adminer directly from stretch/main repo
- Provide "adminer" root-like user for Adminer MySQL access
- Replace MySQL with MariaDB (drop-in MySQL replacement)
- Updated version of mysqltuner script
- Includes PHP7.0 (installed from Debian repos)
- Updated PHP default settings
- Remove phpsh (no longer maintained)
- Note: Please refer to turnkey-core's changelog for changes common to all appliances. Here we only describe changes specific to this appliance.
New in TurnKey MediaWiki Live CD 13.0 (Nov 4, 2013)
- MediaWiki:
- Latest Debian Wheezy package version of MediaWiki.
- Removed fckeditor extension, no longer available in Debian [#73].
- PHPMyAdmin:
- Configured to allow users preferences stored in database.
- Specified blowfish_secret and regeneration on firstboot (security).
New in TurnKey MediaWiki Live CD 11.3-lucid-x86 (Dec 12, 2011)
- Installed security updates.
- Enabled etckeeper garbage collection by default.
- Upgraded to latest inithooks version (adhoc re-initialization via turnkey-init)
- VMWare build: run vmware-config-tools.pl on first boot
- Amazon EC2 EBS build: support resizing of root filesystem
New in TurnKey MediaWiki Live CD 11.1-lucid-x86 (Jan 25, 2011)
- Patched FCKeditor to be php5.3 compliant.
- Updated ConfirmEdit to be php5.3 compliant.
- Added convenience symlinks (/var/www/{webroot, config, extensions}).
- Set MediaWiki admin password on firstboot (convenience, security).
- Set MySQL root password on firstboot (convenience, security).
- Force MySQL to use Unicode/UTF8.
- Added php-xcache PHP opcode cacher / optimizer (performance).
- Set postfix MTA myhostname to localhost (bugfix).
- Enabled tracking in PHPMyAdmin.
New in TurnKey MediaWiki Live CD 2009.10-hardy-x86 (Oct 25, 2009)
- Upgraded to MediaWiki 1.15.1
- Upgraded extensions to be compatible with 1.15
- Added AWC forum extension.
- Reverted FHS compliance patch (extension directory location).
- Not yet accepted upstream.
- Prioritizing ability to upgrade directly from upstream.
- PHPMyAdmin improvements:
- Added pmadb (linked tables) advanced features to PHPMyAdmin (LP#426303).
- Pinned phpmyadmin to update directly from Debian (security).
- di-live (installer) MySQL component:
- Added support for complex passwords (LP#416515).
- Added CLI options (user/pass/query/chroot).
- Bugfixes:
- Increase PHP memory limit to 32M to match Apache PHP limit (#LP:360606).
- Removed Wikipedia namespace declarations from preloader extension.
- Removed build systems hostname from MySQL user table.
- Regenerates all secrets during installation / firstboot (security).
New in TurnKey MediaWiki Live CD 2009.04-hardy-x86 (Apr 13, 2009)
- upgraded fckeditor extension (fixes LP#358294 - corrupted links)
New in TurnKey MediaWiki Live CD 2009.03-hardy-x86 (Mar 22, 2009)
- upgraded mediawiki to version 1.14
- upgraded extensions to be compatible with 1.14
- patched FCKeditor to fix issues with 1.14
- removed Universal Edit Button (integrated into 1.14 core)
- moved extensions to /usr/local/share (better compliance with FHS)
- fixed phpmyadmin error: cannot load mcrypt extension (LP#345275)
- improved MediaWiki passwords/secrets (security)
- wiki database password is now randomly generated, and regenerated during installation
- better random secret regeneration during installation
- major component versions
- mediawiki 1:1.14.0-1
- mysql-server 5.0.51a-3ubuntu5.4
- apache2 2.2.8-1ubuntu0.5
- php5 5.2.4-2ubuntu5.5
- phpmyadmin 2.11.8.1-5
New in TurnKey MediaWiki Live CD 2009.02-hardy-x86 (Mar 3, 2009)
- Popular extensions for MediaWiki.
- Postfix MTA (bound to localhost) to enable password recovery.
- Rebuilt on top of TurnKey Core, the new common base for all software appliances, which is assembled from Ubuntu 8.04.2 LTS packages.
- A bugfix in the daily auto-updates mechanism. Significant usability and security enhancements: confconsole support for systems with multiple NICs, password-free login in demo mode, SSL support, database password setting during installation, no passwords in demo mode, many generically useful Webmin modules, and improved embedded documentation.