Foswiki 1.1.3 released: they did it again

After another round of intense coding Foswiki 1.1.3 has been released this weekend and is available for download at

http://foswiki.org/Download/FoswikiRelease01x01x03

Foswiki 1.1.3 is a release that adds more than 150 bug fixes and improvements making it better than the already stable 1.1.2. Upgrade package is available for upgrading from any earlier 1.1.X version to 1.1.2.

Here is a summarized but still detailed list of the many small fixes and improvements

• Facelift of the history user interface
• Update to the Wysiwyg editor TinyMCE to 3.3.9.3 and further
• improvements of the Wysiwyg editor has been made
• Fatwilly PatternSkin theme has been fixed. This is the skin theme
• we use on foswiki.org.
• Improvement of the UI for managing webs
• Default jQuery is now 1.4.3. JQueryPlugin's form plugin form is
• upgraded to 2.49 and jquery-ui is upgraded to 1.8
• Code that sends emails is improved
• Fixes in the access controls for renaming attachments
• TablePlugin now handles table row spans and can now initsort even when there is no headerrow
• Improved login screen
• Configure user interface has been further improved
• Improved the use of international characters in attachment names
• Icons have been fixed and added
• Fixed an annoying issue where configure could only install or
• upgrade one extension at a time
• SEARCH order=created and order=formfield(date) now works allowing sorting by dates given in any of the standard Foswiki formats
• Query search using the new =~ regex operator was totally broken and has been fixed
• Improved and fixed the page feature for SEARCH
• SEARCH limit fixed so it again works per web
• New languages added
• CommentPlugin now allows the use of COMMENT inside TML tables
• Scripted update of the "shebang" line for the bin files (important for Windows based server installations)
• Cookies are now forced to be secure when using https connection
• Redirect when renaming fixed
• Fixed bugs in the renaming user interface
• Corrected the documentation for access controls
• Improved how search handles access controlled group topics
• Fixes to the new group user interface
• Extension installers now tries to install the zip file if tgz missing
• Fixed some intermittent rendering issues under FastCGI
• Interwiki links now allows that the destination topic contains parentheses
• Rename topics now updates backlinking inside INCLUDEs
• Split Installation Guide in a part 1 which covers the steps until a basic Foswiki is running and a part 2 which covers how to tailor and setup all the details.
• Fixed TOC rendering of anchors for INCLUDEd content
• Fixed the renaming of webs web so it no longer modifies links within topic starting with old web name
• Fixed a problem with date formats inside EditTablePlugin formats being seen as macros
• Fixed the function of buttons in the FamFamFamContrib toolbar
• Rename will now list children to update even when the topic is not a WikiWord
• First save of files without rcs ,v file now creates a new revision
• Restore a topic to older version now also restores META preferences
• Search with zeroresults="0" now prints a 0 when nothing is found
• Fixed the use of default value for FORMFIELD macro
• Better cleanup of LocalSite.cfg when removing a plugin
• Logging improved and more events are now logged
• URLENCODE macro fixed
• Fixed bugs related to adding a form when editing
• Fixed defaults not initialized in persistent perl environments
• Fix for REVINFO format tokens
• When editing a form only, Save and Continue no longer end up showing the topic text
• The 8 char password trunc behavior of the crypt encoding is now clearly added as working in configure info texts
• Fix for WEBLIST macro which wrongly included current web when webs=webtemplate requested
• Added missing Submit button for renaming/deleting a web
• Webnotify now supports wildcard use like 'Abc*Xyz?' for sending out news on change
• Fixed a problem where TwistyPlugin crashes Foswiki when topic has a trailing )
• InterwikiPlugin links can now be formatted
• Fixed a problem with operator precedence for queries and IF defined.
• TWiki web is now again hidden if TWikiCompatibilityPlugin is disabled - also for the admin
• Many improvements to the installation documentation.
• Wysiwyg editor now converts less of the international characters to entities which made it impossible to search for the saved text