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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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The Foswiki community summit last year was a big success. A lot of participants founded an association and had a lot of fun. Some of them talked to me on the camera. Hear and see what they had to say about foswiki:

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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.

klavrsen Release community, Development, foswiki, kennethlavrsen, Release

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 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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