Foswiki will have a booth on this year’s CeBIT fair sponsored by Linux New Media AG. So come visit us in Hall 2, Section E58 at the Open Source Forum 6th – 10th March. More information at http://foswiki.org/Community/FoswikiCeBIT2012.
It took 8 months and 2 days since the previous one to come out with yet another release of Foswiki, the Open Source Enterprise Wiki. Just in time before people dash off into Christmas holidays. So don’t forget to fetch your copy now available at http://foswiki.org/Download/DownloadFoswiki.
This release of Foswiki comes with quite some new features and more than 160 crunched bugs relative to the previous release. Here are some highlights:
Read up all the details on the full release notes.
The Foswiki team wishes you quiet and relaxing Christmas holidays. See you next year.
The intrepid Foswiki computer science & engineering team, prepared with appropriate safety gear, about to delve into the core. Boldly seeking new discoveries and features to enhance Foswiki for the benefit of all. More at Sven’s photo stream …
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/FoswikiRelease01×01x03
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
On behalf of the Foswiki Association and the entire Foswiki Community: Enjoy the Foswiki 1.1.3
Foswiki 1.1.0 is out in the wild. This one was a rather long development cycle with a lot of work going on in various places. One of the most significant changes is Foswiki’s adoption of jQuery as its primary JavaScript framework. As a consequence we redesigned the way static files like css and js are added to a page which results in a much improved load performance of pages. So while we’ve added a wide range of new functionality to Foswiki that comes with jQuery, we also streamlined the way pages are loaded to make this feasible. Thank goes to all of the third party jQuery modules that made it into the Foswiki core for writing such great Open Source software.
We’ve got more in this release. Let me pick another two. See the full release notes below.
There’s a new macro called QUERY which leverages the query syntax known from good old SEARCH to query meta data of a topic. Think of it as FORMFIELD on steroids: while FORMFIELD was only able to retrieve a single value of a DataForm, QUERY can now return a wide range of properties bringing them in to an SQL -like query language. In other words: lots of power for your wiki applications.
The other big addition is a page cache. Foswiki can now cache pages being rendered and deliver them the next time they are requested from cache instead of computing them again. Caching pages within Foswiki itself has got the big advantage of allowing to track dependencies among the ingredients needed to render a single page from within the engine itself. This kind of deep dependency tracking mechanism takes care that wiki pages are recomputed as needed in a transparent way. Caching full wiki pages can dramatically improve performance of a single page as well as overall throughput of the site while requiring less cpu to cope with certain kinds of trafic. The implementation has already been used successfully in a couple of high end public sites running a backport of the page cache to previous Foswiki releases.
Well, folks, try yourself. We have got plans for the next 2.0 release already but are also anticipating further 1.x maintenance releases on the way.
Here’s the full release notes by Kenneth. Have fun.
Yours,
Michael Daum.
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Release of Foswiki version 1.1.0 – 04 Oct 2010
On behalf of the entire Foswiki community I can proudly announce that
the release of the Foswiki release 1.1.0 is available for download at
Foswiki web site: http://foswiki.org/Download/FoswikiRelease01×01x00
It is a release with more than 270 bug fixes relative to 1.0.10 and more
than 680 bug fixes relative to 1.0.0. And the release adds more than 100
enhancements. Foswiki 1.1.0 introduces jQuery Javascript user interface
framework, improved topic history display, new QUERY and FORMAT macros,
better user interface for group management, much improved WYSIWYG
editor, facelift of the default skin, much improved configure tool, and
many more enhancements.
Foswiki 1.1 has many improvements that end-users as well as
administrators will appreciate. In addition Foswiki 1.1 comes with a lot
of “under the hood” improvements to the core code, with the goal of
making it easier to plug in work from other projects, such as jQuery,
KinoSearch, Solr and others. Work has been made to improve the
definition of internal APIs to allow other not-yet-written modules, such
as store implementations. Most of these modifications should be
invisible to the end user and admin, but are important to position
Foswiki for the next generation of plugins.
What’s new – highlights:
Bugs can be reported on http://foswiki.org/Tasks/CreateNewTask
On behalf of the Foswiki Association and the entire Foswiki Community:
Enjoy the Foswiki 1.1.0
Kenneth Lavrsen
Release manager