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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 The pickaxe icon has been replaced by a “Wiki Text” button as the pickaxe was hard to guess the function of.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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The 09th of September 2009 is a very important date for the whole Foswiki-community and all users of its wiki-software. You might still remember how the hostile takeover of the TWiki.org-webserver by Peter Thoeny and his TWiki.net-company let to the creation of Foswiki, the successful TWiki-fork.

Foswiki has been full of activity after the fork and we are happy to see, that former TWiki-contributors  have almost completely moved to Foswiki and more and more new developers have started to join the young Foswiki-project.

We will run a series of blog posts, that will show you new plugins and features, that do not and will most likely never exist in TWiki, that are already available in the Foswiki-core-repository.

To prevent a dependency to single individuals in the future, the forkers have started to work on a Foswiki-association ever since the fork was created. Namely Jens Hansen and André Ulrich pushed the project of founding a Foswiki-association with their TaskTeam.

The result will be an official entity, that has professional bylaws and will be led by true and fair democratic principles, that will guarantee an independent, strong and transparent community leadership. At the moment the Foswiki association is pending in the registration process. That will last for about 4 weeks. These are the official bylaws of the Foswiki-community, which are available in English and German language:

The official Foswiki Articles Association

The official founding protocol is only available in German:

Founding Protocol Foswiki Association

“On Wednesday the 09.09.2009 we came together for the initial Founding of the Foswiki Association. After four hours of meeting it was created – articles explained and agreed, iInitial board elected as well as signatures approved with the notary. Afterwards we took a beer and had some nice chats. I guess we will manage to upload some pictures during the weekend.
Oh by the way…

This is the (temporary) board:

1. Chairman: André Ulrich
2. Vice Chairman: Ingo Kappler
3. Treasurer: Oliver Krüger
4. Member of Board: Oliver Laudenbach
5. Member of Board: Markus Ueberall

Congratulations and thanks for the effort. Some of you did a lot of traveling to make this possible.”

Foswiki is now one out of few if not the only free-and-open-source-wiki for enterprises that has an official association, to back it. We hope that this will increase the trust in our project and will protect us from shortcomings, that we suffered from as the “real” TWiki-community.

The community is now preparing a general community gathering to let all association members vote on a new and legitimate board of directors. The community assembly will be both physical and virtual. So please help us creating the agenda and join the Foswiki community for this virtual assembly.

We need your support to make Foswiki an on-going success. Here is how you can help us.

There has been a lot of cheering for the founding members going on in our mailing list already. Cheer us up by commenting this topic.

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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 1.0.4, 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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