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Release of Foswiki version 1.0.4, 19 Mar 2009

On behalf of the entire Foswiki community I can proudly announce the release of the Foswiki patch release 1.0.4

Foswiki 1.0.4 is available for download at the following locations

* Foswiki web site: http://foswiki.org/Download

Since the January release of 1.0.0 more than 100 additional bugs have been fixed.

The number of bugs fixed relatively to the current TWiki release has exceeded 300.

The Foswiki development community has focused on getting the first follow-up patch release very stable. We discarded 3 release attempts in the process of creating this release because we were not satisfied with the quality. With 1.0.4 we have managed to make an already stable 1.0.0 even better.

In addition many more plugins and other extensions are now available in native Foswiki versions that have been refreshed and tested and often enhanced. More are added every day. The number of subversion code checkins has passed 3200 now. Work has started on release 1.1.0. In parallel the Foswiki community has branched out a stable release branch from which this 1.0.4 is built from.

Foswiki 1.0.4 is released in two versions. The regular version (Foswiki-1.0.4…) is the full version with all files. The upgrade version (Foswiki-upgrade-1.0.4…) contains the full file package except the files that you will typical have tailored in your installation and do not want overwritten when you upgrade. The upgrade package will upgrade 1.0.0 to 1.0.4 simply by copying all the files in the upgrade package on top of the existing 1.0.0. The exact steps are described on the download page.

The beta testers that installed the discarded 1.0.1-1.0.3 releases can also upgrade using this upgrade package.

As release manager on the project I want to say a sincere thank you to all the many that have worked hard on this release happen.

You should also both when you download and install Foswiki and regularly visit http://foswiki.org/Support/KnownIssuesOfFoswiki01×00 where we will list the more annoying bugs that have been found and most often you will find an immediate solution that you can apply.

We will be many developers that are ready to help you with the installation of (or upgrade to) Foswiki on the IRC channel #foswiki on the freenode.org network.

On behalf of the Foswiki community
Enjoy the Foswiki 1.0.4

Kenneth Lavrsen is the release manager for the Foswiki community.

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Foswiki offers all users a free live support over the IRC chat protocol. We have on the average about 35 community members online, that help each other with the Foswiki-development and support new users, that have questions about Foswiki.

The benefits of Foswiki’s live support over IRC

• Get answers on your Foswiki-questions in real time.
• Meet the core developers online and talk to them.
• Find out about new developments in a conversation.
• Fix problems and optimize your Foswiki configuration for free with our users.
• Meet our best developers and get in contact.
• Find out what makes the Foswiki community so special and attractive.

If you want to meet Eugen Mayer, Sven Dowideit, Olivier Raginel (Babar), Crawford Currie (CDot), Will Norris, Kenneth Lavrsen or Arthur Clemens, then you should definitely look in our IRC channel. If you refer to our IRC statistics, you will see, that we can offer a 24-hour-support.

Whenever you have a question, the community will be there for you. More than 350 users used our IRC chat during the last 3 months.

Do you want to see, what we are talking about? Check the IRC logs, that are provided by courtesy of Colas Nahaboo. You can read through more than 110701 lines of chat conversations. Take your time.

How do you start an IRC chat?

Chatting over IRC is very easy. There is a huge number of IRC software clients for your computer. But even without a software, you can easily chat with the foswiki community members over your web browser.

See our IRC help page on www.foswiki.org for more information on how to chat with us.

We are looking forward to help you online: live and for free.

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It is of great pleasure to announce, that in the current code repository, that can be tested at http://trunk.foswiki.org by community members, one can use the current version of TinyMCE 3.2.2.

Crawford Currie says in a message to the community:

This was a major upgrade, as it required recoding of all the Foswiki-specific code due to extensive API changes in TinyMCE. Hopefully this new version of Tiny MCE will fix some of the old niggles. However it will not be in Foswiki 1.0.4.

Please note, that the Foswiki community will test the new editor thoroughly before adding the feature to the official core code. Fosiwiki 1.0.4 will be released within the next days. Please do not expect this feature to be part of that release.

What are the benefits for Foswiki?

• You will be able to use an even more mature WYSIWYG-editor in your Foswiki.
• It will reduce errors and offer some more features. Please refer to the TinyMCE-Homepage for more info about the latest features.
• You will be able to integrate the powerful TinyMCE-Plugins like MCImageManager and MCFileManager.
• A lot of other additional TinyMCE-Plugins will be compatible with your Foswiki-editor in the future.

What can you do with it now?

• Help us to test the new feature, by using trunk.foswiki.org instead of www.foswiki.org for browsing through our website. You might need to get a registered foswiki user to edit pages.
• You can also test the implementation in your own foswiki, that you should install from trunk.

The Foswiki community says: “Thank you for your contribution, Crawford!”

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This is a cool study of the admin area of future Foswiki-impelementations from Sven Dowideit. Please help us to improve it by adding your thoughts below.

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