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News for ikiwiki 2.60: Admin preferences are moving from the web interface to the setup file. There are three new options in the setup file: locked_pages, banned_users, and allowed_attachments. The admin prefs page can still be used, but that's ... [More] deprecated, and the prefs will be hidden if a value is not already set. If a value is set in the web interface, you're encouraged to move that setting to your setup file now, since version 3.0 will remove the deprecated admin prefs web interface. Also, the layout of the setup file has changed in a significant way in this release. Old setup files will continue to work, but new features, like the new websetup interface, require a new format setup file. You can convert old setup files into the new format by running ikiwiki-transition setupformat ikiwiki.setup ikiwiki 2.60 released with these changes [ Joey Hess ] Starting with this version, "ikiwiki -setup /etc/ikiwiki/auto.setup" can be used create a new wiki in seconds. websetup: New plugin providing a setup form on the web. ikiwiki --dumpsetup can generate a nice setup file snapshotting ikiwiki's current configuration. The way wrappers are defined in the setup file has changed. Old setup files will continue to work, for now. ikiwiki-transition setupformat can be used to convert a setup file to the new format. Version control backends promoted to first-class plugins. ikiwiki-update-wikilist: Add -r switch to remove. Default behavior is now always to add. Start moving admin preferences from the web interface to the setup file. Add getsetup hook, all plugins should use it to record information about themselves and any fields they add to %config Large amounts of internal config data reorg. ikiwiki-makerepo: Bail if both srcdir and repository are not specified. Closes: #493628 Clarify some wording in the setup documentation that could maybe lead users to putting paths with "~/" in the setup file, which doesn't work. Closes: #493835 autoindex: Ignore internal pages, and take underlay directories into account. Also, avoid making index pages for directories that contain no files. external: Fix support for hooks called in an array context. Options set in the setup file are now immediatly loaded by ikiwiki -setup. This allows later switches to override them. Previously, setup file options overrode most command line options. Added a small icon to the search input box. [ Josh Triplett ] Add Suggests on texlive and texlive-science for the teximg plugin [ Joey Hess ] inline: Ignore parent dirs when sorting pages by title. rename: Support changing page extensions. (willu) Danish update. Closes: #494632 [Less]

ikiwiki 2.56 released with these changes autoindex: New plugin that generates missing index pages. (Sponsored by The TOVA Company.) Escape HTML is rss and atom feeds instead of respectively using CDATA and treating it as XHTML. This avoids ... [More] problems with escaping the end of the CDATA when the htmlscrubber is not used, and it avoids problems with atom XHTML using named entity references that are not in the atom DTD. (Simon McVittie) Add test for old versions of git that don't support --cleanup=verbatim, and munge empty commit messages. [Less]

ikiwiki 2.55 released with these changes remove: New plugin that adds the ability to remove pages via the web. (Sponsored by The TOVA Company.) rename: New plugin that adds the ability to rename pages via the web. (Sponsored by The TOVA ... [More] Company.) (This one's for you, Kyle.) All rcs backends need to implement rcs_remove, rcs_commitstaged, and rcs_rename. (Done for svn, git). This version adds renamepage hooks, which can be used to modify page content, including links, during renames. prefix_directives enabled in doc wiki, all preprocessor directives converted. (Simon McVittie) editpage: Don't show attachments link when attachments are disabled. tag: Allow tagbase to be overridden by starting a tag with "./" or "/". (Simon McVittie) Really fix bug with links to pages with names containing colons. Previous fix mised a few cases. Avoid troublesome abs_path calls in wrapper setup. Add allow_symlinks_before_srcdir config setting that can be used to avoid a security check that is a good safe default, but problimatic overkill in some situations. Don't allow uploading an attachment with the same name as an existing page, to avoid confusion. Split out error messages from editpage.tmpl into several separate templates. attachment: Do not escape _ when determining attachment filenames. Rebuild pages that change their type. (Gabriel McManus) monotone: Add support for rename, delete, and also diff. (William Uther) toggle: Fix incompatability between javascript and webkit. bzr: Add support for rename and delete. (Jelmer Vernooij) attachment: Use relative paths when inserting links. toggle: Fix for when html got tidied. Closes: #492529 (Enrico Zini) cutpaste: New plugin by Enrico Zini [Less]

ikiwiki 2.54 released with these changes [ Joey Hess ] Make it possible to load setup files w/o running them. Code needing to do so can call IkiWiki::Setup::load, which will return a hash of values. [ Josh Triplett ] ikiwiki-transition: Fix ... [More] command-line processing so the prefix_directives transition works again. [ Joey Hess ] template: Add support for a BASENAME variable. Fixes creation of pages when clicking on WikiLinks starting with "/". Change deb dependencies to list Text::Markdown before markdown, since the former, while slower, has a much better html parser that avoids numerous bugs. Move yesno function out of inline and into IkiWiki core, not exported. Error handling improvement for preprocess hooks. It's now safe to call error() from such hooks; it will cause a nicely formatted error message to be inserted into the page. Cut the size of the binary package in half by excluding pages for bugs and todo items from the html shipped in it. parentlinks: New plugin, split out of ikiwiki core and enabled by default, and several new fields added to allow for advanced styling. (intrigeri) smileys: Some fixes for escaped smileys. smileys: Note that smileys need to be double-escaped for the escaping to work. Markdown removes one level of escaping. Add a postscan hook. search: Use postscan hook, avoid updating index when previewing. git: Put web committer name/openid/address in the git author field. The committer's email address is not used (because leaking email addresses is not liked by many users). Closes: #451023 git: Fix parsing of git logs with no commit messages at all. search: Fixes for title stemming, and use better term for tags. (Gabriel McManus) (Rebuilding the wiki on upgrade to this version is recommended if you use the search plugin.) [ Simon McVittie ] meta, inline: Support guid options, to allow forcing a particular url or uuid in feeds. meta: fix title() PageSpec Some footer style changes. aggregate: Add an aggregateinternal option, which allows storing aggregated data to internal-use files, rather than wiki pages. This can save disk space, and be faster. ikiwiki-transition: Add a aggregateinternal transition to rename the aggregated files. [Less]

I've produced a code_swarm visualization of the first 2 years of ikiwiki's commit history. 15 mb avi stream on vimeo PS, while I'm posting links to videos, here's a video of a lightning talk about ikiwiki. --Joey notes Interesting things ... [More] to watch for: Initial development of ikiwiki to the point it was getting web edits. (First 2 seconds of video!) Introduction to plugin support, and later, plugin changes dominating code changes. Introduction of openid support and the resulting swarm of openid commenters. Switch to git, my name in the logs changes from "joey" to "Joey Hess", and there are more code commits directly from others. Getting the commit log was tricky because every web commit is in there too, so it has to deal with things like IPs and openids. The code swarm log.pl script will munge the log to handle these, and it was configured with code swarm.config. Video editing by kino, ffmpeg, ffmpeg2theora, and too many hours of pain. Audio by the Punch Brothers. [Less]

ikiwiki 2.53 released with these changes search: generate configuration files once only when rebuilding (Gabriel McManus) attachment: Fix an uninitialised value warning when editing a page that currently has no attachments. Fix a bug with links ... [More] to pages whose names contained colons. attachment: Support old versions of CGI.pm that lack an upload method. Include ikiwiki.setup in examples in the debian package. attachment: Support perl 5.8's buggy version of CGI.pm. otl: Support utf-8 files. (Recai Oktaş) [Less]

News for ikiwiki 2.52: All wikis need to be rebuilt on upgrade to this version. If you listed your wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically when the Debian package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force a ... [More] rebuild. ikiwiki 2.52 released with these changes attachment: New plugin for uploading and managing attachments. This includes a fairly powerful PageSpec based admin pref for deciding whether to accept a given upload, and an attachment management interface on the edit page. (Sponsored by The TOVA Company.) If attachments are not enabled, configure CGI.pm to disable file uploads by default. (An anti-DOS measure.) toggle: Add support for toggles that are open by default. toggle: Fix to work in preview mode. toggle: Add javascript to top of page, not to end. This avoids flicker since closed toggles will not be displayed as the page is loading. The editpage form now uses the raw page name, not the page title, in its 'page' cgi parameter. Using the title was ambiguous and made it impossible to tell between some pages, like "foo/bar" and "foo__47__bar", sometimes causing the wrong page to be edited. This change means that some edit links need to be updated. Force a rebuild on upgrade to this version. Above change also allowed really fixing escaped slashes from the blogpost form. [Less]

ikiwiki 2.51 released with these changes Improve toplevel parentlink to link directly to index.html when usedirs is disabled. map: Add a "show" parameter. "show=title" can be used to display page titles, rather than the default page name. Based ... [More] on a patch from Jaldhar H. Vyas, Closes: #484510 hnb: New plugin, contributed by Axel Beckert. meta: Store "description" in pagestate for use by other plugins. map: Support show=description. textile: The Text::Textile perl module has some regexps that fail if input is flagged as utf-8, but contains invalid characters such as 0x92. To prevent it from crashing, re-encode the content before calling it, which will ensure that it's really utf-8. Version the suggests of xapian-omega to a version known to be new enough to work with ikiwiki. Reportedly, version 0.9.9 is too old to work. Closes: #486592 creole: New plugin from Bernd Zeimetz. Closes: #486930 aggregate: Add template parameter. Add support for the universal edit button (To get this on all pages of an exiting wiki, rebuild the wiki.) txt: New plugin, contributed by Gabriel McManus. smiley: Generate links relative to the destpage. (Fixes a reversion from 2.41.) toc: Revert change in 2.45 that made it run at sanitize time. That broke use of toc in a sidebar. Call format hooks when generating page previews, thus fixing toc display there, as well as fixing inlins to again display in page previews, since it's started using format hooks. This also allows several other things, like embed, that use format hooks, to work during page preview time. Format hooks should not rely on getting an entire html document, as they will only get the body during page preview. toggle: Deal with preview mode when adding javascript. [Less]

ikiwiki 2.50 released with these changes img: Support captions. img: Don't generate empty title attributes, etc. img: Allow setting defaults for class and id too. ikiwiki-mass-rebuild: Make group list comparison more robust. search: Work around xapian bug #486138 by only stemming locales in a whitelist.

I was asked a good question today: How can a company find someone to work on ikiwiki? To help answer this question, I've set up a consultants page. If you might be interested in being paid to work on ikiwiki, please add your information to the page. ... [More] --Joey And here's the first company looking for an ikiwiki developer that I am aware of: The TOVA Company, a small medical software and hardware company in Portland, Oregon, is looking for developers to add functionality to ikiwiki. We're looking for developers who are already familiar with ikiwiki development, including plugins, and who would be willing to work on a part-time, non-employee, project-based basis for each of the small features that we want. The features we're interested in would obviously be GPL'd, and released to the community (if they'll have them ). Please contact Andrew Greenberg (andrew@thetovacompany) if you're interested. Thanks! [Less]