Download TWiki Release 5.0.0

TWiki is an enterprise collaboration platform and application platform. TWiki has been downloaded over half a million times and is used by leading Fortune 500 businesses and Government agencies as an intranet, extranet or a public internet website.

Feature	TWiki Community Release	Twiki Enterprise Release
	Download	Learn More    Special Offer
Description	Open source structured wiki and application platform.	Enterprise Agility Platform with added functionality, support and updates.
Audience	Do-it-yourself developers, technical enthusiasts and self-maintained installations	Businesses, Government institutions and users looking for the highest reliability
Installation	I'm comfortable installing, configuring, and provisioning. I will take care of the dependencies on Perl, Apache, Linux and other software in the stack.	I need easy, virtualization-ready installation of the fully tested stack on my own hardware or on a hosted server.
System Updates	I have my own method of keeping my systems up to date and am comfortable configuring TWiki	I want automated notifications and predictable releases of well tested updates and upgrades
Security	I'm comfortable monitoring security alerts so that I can patch my server if a security breach has occurred	I need security monitoring and patching
Support	I've got time to identify and resolve technical issues with help of community	I need fast resolution and committed response times to avoid loss of downtime
Maintenance	I'm comfortable designing and tuning TWiki for optimal performance	Give me access to the most experienced support available to resolve my issues quickly
Hosting	3rd party provider available with limited support.	Secure, scalable managed hosting, start using immediately.
Plugins	Many plugins. I can install and tune on my own	I can rely on many pre-installed and tested plugins
Enterprise Social networking	Not available	Included
Applications	I can develop and install my own applications	I can also get project management, document management, CRM and more

Get Twiki Enterprise Edition

Download TWiki Community Release

Date	Stable?	Download	Version	Type	Code Name
2010-05-29		zip, tgz, tar.bz2, md5	5.0.0 (r18859)	Production	HelsinkiRelease

TWiki-5.0.0 released on 2010-05-29 is a major release with security enhancements, usability enhancements, feature enhancements, and added extensions to strengthen TWiki as an enterprise collaboration platform.

It is highly recommended to upgrade to TWiki-5.0.0. Users will find this release much more stable and secure in daily use.

TWiki-5.0 Release highlights

• Security Enhancements
  • Configure script requires authentication to reduce exposure of internal system settings.
  • The twiki root directory is no longer HTML doc enabled, reducing the odds of exposing data due to webserver misconfiguration.
• Usability Enhancements
  • New TopMenuSkin with pulldown menus for better usability and corporate/modern look&feel.
  • Attach multiple files at once, useful when attaching many files.
  • Pre-installed TagMePlugin, useful to tag topics to quickly access content in a large TWiki.
  • Upgraded TinyMCEPlugin to latest TinyMCE 3.2.4.1 for better WYSIWYG editing experience.
  • Open ID 2.0 integration, useful for public TWiki sites (separate download)
• TWiki Application Platform Enhancements
  • Pre-installed JQueryPlugin, adding a lightweight cross-browser JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML.
  • Improvements to ENCODE, IF, URLPARAM, WEB and WEBLIST variables.
• Search Enhancements
  • Query syntax with array size, useful to query TWiki forms and attachments.
  • Query syntax can be used in format parameter of search, giving more control over formatting.
• Miscellaneous Feature Enhancements
  • Adding 51 new TWikiDocGraphics icons, and 11 updated icons.
  • The TWiki doc graphics library is now aware of image size and is cached for speed.
• Plugin Enhancements
  • SpreadSheetPlugin: Improvements to $TIME() and $NOP() functions.
  • HeadlinesPlugin: New touch parameter in HEADLINES variable to alert users via e-mail notification of news updates
  • API: New TWiki::Func::buildWikiWord function

See the full feature and bug list
See the contributor list

Upgrading From TWiki-4.x.x

Significant changes has been made since TWiki-4.3.2 so upgrading cannot be done by applying a patch.

The upgrade can be done relatively easily by following the the procedure described on TWikiUpgradeGuide.

Known Issues

Known defects are listed at known issues of TWiki-5.0, alongside with workarounds where possible.

License

• This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
• This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
• See the GNU General Public License for more details, published at http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
• Please note that TWiki is not distributed under the LGPL (Lesser General Public Licence), which implies TWiki can only be distributed with software that is licensed under conditions compliant with the GPL. Embedding in proprietary software requires an alternative license. Contact the author for details.

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