Beta Releases of TWiki

• Relatively stable new features
• Intended for testing and test driving, new code
• The package contains the complete distribution
• The latest Beta is announced in DevelopersNews, SourceForge's TWiki project, WikiMatrix

Recent Beta releases

Release topic	Date	Stable?	Download	Rev	Type	Code Name
TWikiRelease04x02x00rc2	2007-12-10		zip , tgz, Windows installer , Mac OSX installer , Centos & FedoraCore combined Installers	4.2.0 rc 2 (r15958)	RC	FreetownRelease
TWikiRelease04x02x00rc1	2007-11-26		zip , tgz, Windows installer , Mac OSX installer , Centos & FedoraCore combined Installers	4.2.0 rc 1 (r15793)	RC	FreetownRelease
TWikiRelease04x02x00beta3	2007-11-01		zip , tgz, Windows installer v3.1, Centos & FedoraCore combined Installers	4.2.0 beta 3 (r15442)	Beta	FreetownRelease
TWikiRelease04x02x00beta2	2007-10-02		zip , tgz, Windows installer , Mac OSX installer , Centos & FedoraCore combined Installers	4.2.0 beta 2 (r15127)	Beta	FreetownRelease
TWikiRelease04x02x00beta1	2007-09-20		zip , tgz, Windows installer	4.2.0 (r14960)	Beta	FreetownRelease
TWikiRelease04x01x00rc3	2007-01-09		zip, tgz	4.1.0-rc3 (r12467)	Beta	EdinburghRelease
TWikiRelease04x01x00rc2	2006-12-30		zip, tgz	4.1.0-rc2 (r12380)	Beta	EdinburghRelease
TWikiRelease04x01x00rc1	2006-12-18		zip, tgz	4.1.0-rc1 (r12298)	Beta	EdinburghRelease
TWikiRelease04x01x00beta3	2006-12-10		zip, tgz	4.1.0-beta3 (r12214)	Beta	EdinburghRelease
TWikiRelease04x01x00beta2	2006-11-29		zip, tgz	4.1.0-beta2 (r12100)	Beta	EdinburghRelease

• Feedback on Beta releases? TWikiBetaReleaseDiscussions
• Beta releases of older TWiki releases can be found at TWikiOldBetaReleases

See also TWikiAlphaReleases and TWikiProductionReleases

Comments

New Beta release topics should be based on TWikiBetaReleaseTemplate (ideally automated by a script), and follow the TWikiReleaseNamingConvention.

-- PeterThoeny - 02 Nov 2005

TWikiRelease2005x11x06x7338beta? can not support UTF-8(Japanese,Chinese) correctly that supported by TWiki20040904.
Edit view in textarea display chinese(eg.奇数页) by code (eg.&# 22855;&# 25968;&# 39029; ) the same problem occur in relase2001 is again occuring in TWikiRelease2005x11x06x7338beta (HowToEditChineseCharacters) -- DylanYin - 03 Dec 2005

If you think you discovered a bug: Please file a bug report.

-- PeterThoeny - 03 Dec 2005

It's worth getting the latest alpha from SVN, as some bug fixes have gone in recently since that beta. Note that UnicodeSupport is not a real feature of Dakar - one recent fix was to disable conversion of UTF-8 bytes into Perl's internal Unicode characters, which might help.

As always, it's a lot more helpful if you log all the details mentioned in SupportGuidelines, but in particular the HTML output of configure and the LocalSite.cfg file. Guessing your configuration is not a very productive way to diagnose bugs.

-- RichardDonkin - 04 Dec 2005

Thank you for your quickly reply. I have want to report a bug for Beta release. but i can not [Create New Item] in the beta bug report page by my wikiname(DylanYin). the error message is "Unrecognised user and/or password " . may be a beta tester QUALIFICATION is need. would you like get me a QUALIFICATION let me report the bug for beta release?

-- DylanYin - 08 Dec 2005

Dylan, we periodically copy the password file from twiki.org to develop.twiki.org. My apologies for the trouble.

SvenDowideit: Could you do the sync?

-- PeterThoeny - 08 Dec 2005

Hi Dylan, did you read HowToEditChineseCharacters ? It looks like you didn't set UTF-8 as your {SiteCharset}.

-- AntonioTerceiro - 17 Dec 2005

TWikiRelease2005x12x17x7873beta solved the problem(the detail of bug) that can not edit UTF-8(Chinese 0r Japanese) in TWikiRelease2005x11x06x7338beta. Thank you.

-- DylanYin - 18 Dec 2005

Hi, I had an error in my installation in twiki/lib/LocalSite.cfg in the line with the parameter NameFilter? . This caused an internal Apache Server Error - So I commented the line out and then my Installation of 2005x12x17x7873 beta worked. I guess it is not the right thing to do, but I did not what should be the right code. Maybe it helps to enhance the beta. Regards.

-- HelmutRother - 26 Dec 2005

I installed the beta release from Jan-17. I am able to read index.html and its 4 documents. the script configure only complains about 2 warnings and this is because I dont have CGI::Session installed. Permissions on all directories are ok and everything else seems ok. However when I try and view a TWiki document I get a apche server error. The error log complains about line 1222 on TWiki.pm. Any suggestions?

-- PeterJones - 26 Jan 2006

Please consider providing a stable and sane URL to tarballs. That would greatly help us maintain TWiki on Gentoo. The current URL ( http://twiki.org/p/pub/Codev/TWikiRelease04x00x00rc01/TWiki-4.0.0-rc1.tgz ) is unnecessarily difficult to include in automatic install scripts. Would it be possible to use something like http://twiki.org/p/pub/Codev/downloads/TWiki-4.0.0-rc1.tgz instead? thanks.

-- RenatLumpau - 27 Jan 2006

I'm not sure if this is fixed in a newer beta release but here's a patch against TWikiRelease2005x12x17x7873beta that allows new users to register if you've made it so that only certain groups can modify the Main web:

--- lib/TWiki/UI/Register.pm.orig       2006-01-04 01:34:48.968947681 -0600
+++ lib/TWiki/UI/Register.pm    2006-01-04 01:35:48.999652157 -0600
@@ -828,11 +828,12 @@
 
     my $userName = $data->{remoteUser} || $data->{WikiName};
     my $user = $session->{users}->findUser( $userName );
+    my $agent = $session->{users}->findUser( $twikiRegistrationAgent );
     $text = $session->expandVariablesOnTopicCreation( $text, $user );
 
     $meta->put( 'TOPICPARENT', { 'name' => $TWiki::cfg{UsersTopicName}} );
 
-    $session->{store}->saveTopic($user, $data->{webName},
+    $session->{store}->saveTopic($agent, $data->{webName},
                                  $data->{WikiName}, $text, $meta );
     return $log;
 }

-- TiLeggett - 28 Jan 2006