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Overview of TWiki Community Release
TWiki-6.1.0 released on 2018-07-16 is a minor release that brings many usability enhancements, strengthens TWiki as an application platform, and has enhanced security.
We highly recommend to upgrade to TWiki-6.1.0. Users will find this release more usable, stable and secure in daily use.
TWiki-6.1.0 Release highlights
- Usability Enhancements
- New HIDEINPRINT variable to hide some topic from printing
- New
attachment
parameter for INCLUDE variable to include an attachment
- Expand
$name
token in links [[WebName.TopicName][$name]]
and [[%ATTACHURL%/filename.ext][$name]]
- New
exclude
parameter for WEBLIST variable
- Support for literal search for %SOME% variable, such as
%BR%
- TWiki Application Platform Enhancements
- New FORM and EDITFORM variables
- The WEB variable now has the nameless parameter to specify output format with tokens
$top(n)
, $last(n)
, $item(n)
, $list
, $size
- The EDITFORMFIELD variable supports
textarea
type
- Link
[[TopicName?param=value][label]]
becomes a parameterized link to the topic view URL
- Variables in VIEW_TEMPLATE and EDIT_TEMPLATE are expanded
- The
redirectto
URL parameter for the save
script may contain $web
and $topic
tokens
- Security Enhancements
- Log-in with two-step authentication
- A number of enhancements to guard against Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) and Code Injection attacks
- New mode="search" encoding in ENCODE and URLPARAM
- Do anti-spam e-mail padding only for unauthenticated guests
- Predefined variables can no longer be redefined with preferences settings
- Extensions Enhancements
- Add new TWikiSheetPlugin to TWiki core distribution, allowing simultaneous editing of spreadsheets
- TinyMCEPlugin: Document how to add custom toolbar button to TinyMCE editor
- Miscellaneous Feature Enhancements
- The configure script can now run under the PSGI engine
- User preferences can be demoted under web preferences (site-wide configuration); specific user preferences can be denied and allowed
- 8 new TWikiDocGraphics icons: car, desk, milestone-add, program, program-add, project-add, refresh, sprint; 1 updated icon: project
- The HTML title shows the more descriptive TOPICTITLE instead of just TOPIC
See the full feature and bug list
See the contributor list
Upgrade From Earlier Releases
For an easy point& click upgrade, use the preinstalled
BackupRestorePlugin and follow the instructions at
BackupRestorePlugin. For a manual upgrade, follow the
TWikiUpgradeGuide to install TWiki and migrate data from your existing TWiki.
Known Issues
Known defects are listed at
known issues of TWiki-6.0, 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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