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Release of Foswiki version 1.0.10 – 08 Sep 2010

On behalf of the entire Foswiki community I can proudly announce the 
release of the Foswiki patch release 1.0.10 

Foswiki 1.0.10 is available for download at

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

Foswiki 1.0.10 was built 08 Sep 2010. It is a patch release with more 
than 410 bug fixes relative to 1.0.0.

If you already run Foswiki 1.0.9 and you do not have any severe issues 
with it, you are recommended to stay with 1.0.9 and wait for Foswiki 
1.1.0 which we plan to release in October. We are going beta within a 
few days. Foswiki 1.1.0 is an exciting new release that you can all look 
forward to with some significant enhancements for both end users and 
application developers.

The reason for releasing 1.0.10 now is mainly that people installing 
Foswiki for the first time on Perl 5.12 are having severe issues with 
the installation. Foswiki 1.0.10 does not have any important 
enhancements compared to 1.0.9. Read the 1.0.10 release notes which are 
available at …

* http://foswiki.org/System/ReleaseNotes01×00

.. and review if an upgrade is desired

The regular version (Foswiki-1.0.10…) is the full version with all 
files. The upgrade version (Foswiki-upgrade-1.0.10…) 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 any version from 1.0.0 or later to 1.0.10 
simply by copying all the files in the upgrade package on top of the 
existing 1.0.X. The exact steps are described on the download page. If 
you are at 1.0.0 there is no need to upgrade to 1.0.4 through 1.0.9 first.

Also note that many plugins and other extensions are being released or 
updated every week. Follow the Extensions News at where important news 
about extensions releases are announced.

* http://foswiki.org/Extensions/ExtensionNews

The number of subversion code check-ins near 9000 now and still more 
developers join the project.

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. A special 
thank you to those that tested the release candidate. Remember that you 
can upgrade also the release candidate using the upgrade package.

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.

The special installer and virtual machine versions of Foswiki will be 
updated to 1.0.10 version within the next days. Keep an eye on the 
download page if you use one of these versions.

On behalf of the Foswiki Association and the entire Foswiki Community: 
Enjoy the Foswiki 1.0.10

Kenneth Lavrsen 
Release manager

See the whole discussion on Nabble.

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Release of Foswiki version 1.0.9, 17 Jan 2010

On behalf of the entire Foswiki community I can proudly announce the
release of the Foswiki patch release 1.0.9

Foswiki 1.0.9 is available for download from foswiki.org/Download/

Foswiki 1.0.9 was built 17 Jan 2010. It is a patch release with more
than 320 bug fixes relative to 1.0.0 and many small enhancements. This
release fixes many bugs in the Wysiwyg editor, bugs related to more
advanced wiki applications and bugs in the Plugin API. It contains
several bug fixes and enhancements related to security and spam fighting.

It is highly recommended to upgrade your Foswiki to 1.0.9.

The regular version (Foswiki-1.0.9…) is the full version with all
files. The upgrade version (Foswiki-upgrade-1.0.9…) 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 any version from 1.0.0 or later to 1.0.9
simply by copying all the files in the upgrade package on top of the
existing 1.0.X. The exact steps are described on the download page. If
you are at 1.0.0 there is no need to upgrade to 1.0.4 through 1.0.8 first.

Also note that many plugins and other extensions are being released or
updated every week. Follow the Extensions News at where important news
about extensions releases are announced.

foswiki.org/Extensions/ExtensionNews

The number of subversion code check-ins is over 6000 now and still more
developers join the project.

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. A special
thank you to those that tested the two release candidates. Remember that
you can upgrade also the release candidates using the upgrade package.

You should also both when you download and install Foswiki and regularly
visit 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.

The special installer and virtual machine versions of Foswiki will be
updated to 1.0.9 version within the next days. Keep an eye on the
download page if you use one of these versions.

On behalf of the Foswiki Association and the entire Foswiki Community:
Enjoy the Foswiki 1.0.9

Kenneth Lavrsen
Release manager

Join the conversation also on our nabble-instance.

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The Foswiki community loves Kenneth Larvsen for releasing the next Foswiki version 1.0.7 last Monday with the following email:

Release of Foswiki version 1.0.7, 20 Sep 2009

On behalf of the entire Foswiki community I can proudly announce the
release of the Foswiki patch release 1.0.7

Foswiki 1.0.7 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 190 additional bugs have
been fixed.

Foswiki 1.0.7 was built 20 Sep 2009. It is a patch release with more
than 190 bug fixes relative to 1.0.0 and some enhancements. This release
fixes some serious issues introduced by the CSRF fix and the redirect
cache fix in 1.0.6. Major enhancement that also fixes many annoying
editor bugs is the upgrade of the !Tiny MCE editor to version 3.2.2.

It is highly recommended to upgrade your Foswiki to 1.0.7.

You can read the full email here.

• Installers for Windows and Mac are already available on the download page just as other downloads.

Important Changes since Foswiki 1.0.6

• The Wysiwyg editor has been upgraded to using Tiny MCE editor version 3.2.2 which solves many editor related bugs. The pickaxe icon has been replaced by a “Wiki Text” button as the pickaxe was hard to guess the function of. And the editor now has a full screen editing feature. This is the biggest and most important change in that release, that you will find in Foswiki 1.0.7. A big thank you goes to Crawford Currie for making this possible.
• Several bugs fixed related to the Cross-Site Request Forgery feature.
• Cross-Site Request Forgery feature has been enhanced to also protect against unwanted attachment of files
• TablePlugin sorts numbers and dates better
• EditTablePlugin handles SpreadSheetPlugin in footer rows correctly
• Fixed a problem where Windows installations of Foswiki would create new users with non-working passwords
• “Managing webs” feature redesigned for better usability

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Foswiki is now also available over a FreeBSD port. See the following mail vom Greg Larkin:

I just committed the initial version of the FreeBSD port for Foswiki
1.0.6: http://www.freshports.org/www/foswiki/

This port enables you to install Foswiki on FreeBSD with the simple
command:

cd /usr/ports/www/foswiki && make install clean

I’m still working on some scaffolding in the port to support
auto-generated Foswiki plugin ports. Once that’s done, I’ll add a port
for each plugin found in http://svn.foswiki.org/trunk/.

If anyone has feedback, bug reports or patches, please send them along!

If you want to make Foswiki adapt better to your needs help us to improve this open source software.

Here is, how you can help.

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When Foswiki emerged from the ashes of the TW*ki (TM) project, server infrastructure was needed in a hurry. At that time, I happened to have available a brand new server. Bought by a customer, but no immediate deployment plans. Foswiki.org lived happily on that server for months. However, recently the server was reclaimed by the customer and foswiki.org had to move. This weekend I configured and installed the new server, and I must say: i’m happy with the result.

4 250GB disks

Although providing less CPU power (a quad core Xeon CPU at 2.00GHz), the new server surpasses the previous one on disk-I/O: with 4 250GB 7200RPM SATA-II disks each with 8MB cache, a RAID 1+0 setup gives us 500GB of fast storage. The decrease in CPU power is insignificant against this improvement in I/O-throughput; foswiki is I/O-bound in nature, not CPU-bound. This also goes for the subversion repository. By the way, the server has 6GB of memory.

The new server was paid for by my company, Sonologic. I hope to recover some of the investment by donations from the community, and so far 5 people have pledged an amount already (covering about a third of the cost). Colocation and bandwidth is provided free of charge to the project.

Connected to the net

The server capacity more than suffices for the task at hand (hosting foswiki.org and the subversion repository), but plans are in place to distribute the load among multiple servers. On the one hand we want to distribute web page requests for the wiki geographically, with multiple servers distributed around the globe. On the other hand, whereas now all services run on one server, in the future (near-future I hope) this might prove to be too much. At that point, we will have to move the subversion repository, for example, to another server.

But that is all in the future. For now, the Foswiki community can be happy with having their own server. I want to thank the govcom.org foundation for hosting the Foswiki community up until now, giving us time to sort things out!

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Did you ever ask yourself how one can improve the WebIndex in Foswiki, that simply lists the entries of a Foswiki-Web in alphabetical order? Andrew R. Jones created a Best Practice Tip on Foswiki.org and in his weblog (Improving the Web Index in Foswiki using the Filter Plugin):

In a standard Foswiki setup there is a topic in every web called WebTopicList, which is linked to from the side bar as Index. By default it simply lists all the topics in one big list, as shown below (or view onfoswiki.org):

This certainly isn’t very elegant. Luckily by using Michael Daum’s Filter Plugin we can improve the index by giving it some structure and making it more like a directory, as shown below:

To do this we only need to make a small change to the WebTopicList in the System web. Since all the other webs simply import that page the changes will be immediately visible across the wiki with just the one change.

Edit the WebTopicList topic and replace this line:

%TOPICLIST{"   * [[%BASEWEB%.$name][$name]]"}%

With this:

%MAKEINDEX{"%TOPICLIST{"$name" separator=","}%" cols="3" header="$anchors" format="[[%BASEWEB%.$item][$item]]"}%

Thats it! You now get a much more friendly and useful index in all of your webs.

Note: This tip has also been made available on foswiki.org.

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Foswiki Release Manager Kenneth Lavrsen

Tonight the Foswiki release Manager Kenneth Lavrsen announced the release of Foswiki 1.0.6:

Since the January release of 1.0.0 more than 160 additional bugs have been fixed.

This release includes further security improvements including a major enhancement in security against Cross-Site Request Forgery. These are further security enhancements we have decided to implement as a follow up on Security Alert CVE-2009-1434 that we issued on the 27th of April.

An updated version of the security will be sent to the major security sites.

It is highly recommended to upgrade your Foswiki to 1.0.6.

He also states, that relatively to the current TWiki release 350 more bugs have been fixed by the active Foswiki-community. The number of checkins surmounted 4.300 and a lot of new native Versions of Foswiki-Plugins are available.

Read the full announcement here.

You can download the new Foswiki version on the Foswiki web site: http://foswiki.org/Download

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Release of Foswiki version 1.0.5, 25 Apr 2009

On behalf of the entire Foswiki community I can proudly announce the release of the Foswiki patch release 1.0.5

Foswiki 1.0.5 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 120 additional bugs have been fixed.

This release includes further security improvements, and it is highly recommended to upgrade your Foswiki to 1.0.5.  The regular releases of our stable release line send a clear message to all companies interested in a stable enterprise wiki that the community behind Foswiki has a strong commitment to quality, stability, and security.

Since we forked, Foswiki contributors have fixed around 330 bugs, and contributed hundreds more fixes and improvement to non-core extensions.

Since 1.0.4 even more plugins and other extensions have been made available in native Foswiki versions that have been refreshed and tested and often enhanced. Still more are added every day. The number of subversion code checkins has passed 3700 now.

Foswiki is a growing community, with more than 30 professional developers contributing regularly to the project, and many more contributors helping with testing, document writing, and customer support.

The regular version (Foswiki-1.0.5…) is the full revision with all files. The upgrade version (Foswiki-upgrade-1.0.5…) contains all files except the files that you will typically have tailored in your installation and do not want overwritten when you upgrade. The upgrade package will upgrade 1.0.0 or 1.0.4 to 1.0.5 simply by copying all the files in the upgrade package on top of the existing 1.0.0/1.0.4. The exact steps are described on the download page.
If you are at 1.0.0 there is no need to upgrade to 1.0.4 first.

As release manager on the project I would like to express sincere thanks to all that have worked hard on this release.

If you maintain active installations of Foswiki, you should regularly visit http://foswiki.org/Support/KnownIssuesOfFoswiki01×00 where you will find descriptions of significant bugs and workarounds that can be used until the next release.

There are 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.

The specialized packages for automatic installation on various operating systems and the pre-packaged virtual machine instances will be updated to version 1.0.5 within the next few days.  Keep an eye on the download page if you use one of these versions.

On behalf of the Foswiki community
Enjoy Foswiki 1.0.5

Kenneth Lavrsen
Release manager

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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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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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