Helsinki Release - Released 2010-05-29

Helsinki, Finland

Introduction

Helsinki Release is the CodeName for the TWiki Release 5.0, TWikiRelease05x00, released on 2010-05-29. The previous release was GeorgetownRelease (TWikiRelease04x03). The next one is IstanbulRelease (TWikiRelease05x01).

Releases

Release topic	Date	Stable?	Download	Rev	Type	Code Name
TWikiRelease05x00x02	2011-05-03		zip, tgz, VM zip, md5	5.0.2 (r21156)	Production	HelsinkiRelease
TWikiRelease05x00x02rc1	2011-04-21		zip, tgz, md5	5.0.2-rc1 (r21061)	RC	HelsinkiRelease
TWikiRelease05x00x01	2010-10-10		zip, tgz, md5	5.0.1 (r19570)	Production	HelsinkiRelease
TWikiRelease05x00x01rc1	2010-10-03		zip, tgz, md5	5.0.1-rc1 (r19556)	RC	HelsinkiRelease
TWikiRelease05x00x00	2010-05-29		zip, tgz, tar.bz2, md5	5.0.0 (r18859)	Production	HelsinkiRelease
TWikiRelease05x00x00rc3	2010-05-17		zip , tgz	5.0.0-rc3 (r18715)	RC	HelsinkiRelease
TWikiRelease05x00x00rc2	2010-05-09		zip , tgz	5.0.0-rc2 (r18615)	RC	HelsinkiRelease
TWikiRelease05x00x00rc1	2010-05-03		zip , tgz	5.0.0-rc1 (r18580)	RC	HelsinkiRelease

Release Focus

The TWikiMission specifies the overall purpose of the project.

The release focus is per our roadmap:

• Usability:
  • Seamless, quick, extensible WYSIWYG
  • Mange TML code via "sectional edit" widgets
  • Point and click permissions
  • Flow of manipulating content: File upload, more screen,... Drag and drop file attachments
  • Copy existing page to make new page
  • Clean up diff's presentation of page history
• Performance & scalability:
  • Fast structured queries
  • Fast text search including attachment content
  • SQL Storage back-end that scales to gazillions of pages with compatibility and audit trail
  • Address high traffic bottlenecks by e.g. implementing caching
  • Topic Object Model
  • Archive Data
• Application platform:
  • Easy ways to build & exchange applications & component
• Internationalization:
  • Full UTF-8 Support (including WikiWords),both LR and RL.
• Enterprise Social Networking (ESN) Features:
  • Ad-hoc creation of communities, invite to community, join/leave a community
  • ESN specific search
  • Definition of standard ESN fields and their relation to LDAP
• Mashups:
  • Easy ways to mash up different data sources & applications (XML/SOAP/JSON/OpenSocial toolkit)
  • Tight Integration with other related applications, such as Sharepoint, Google Search Appliance, SalesForce, Bugzilla, Nagios
• Skins:
  • Stable template baseline for skins
  • Easily customizable skin
• Administration:
  • Improved User, group and other management
  • Add site metrics, User page views, user page adds over time
  • Content converters to import content from other wiki platforms
• Documentation:
  • Reorganize and polish content of the TWiki distribution to be more accessible, not only for TWiki Administrators or developers
  • Refactor TWiki.org site navigation and presentation to be more accessible by evaluators and press/bloggers

See latest TWikiRoadMap

Release Management

• Please follow our TWikiReleaseManagementProcess
• Release manager for Helsinki release is SopanShewale

Helsinki Release Meetings

Meetings are held in #twiki_release IRC channel.

Feature & Change Proposals

See all TWikiFeatureProposals

-- Contributors: PeterThoeny - 30 Mar 2009

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