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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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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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