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TWiki 5.1.0-rc1 release candidate 1
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• Release notes
• System requirements
• Upgrade guide
• Reference manual
• Advocacy
• Known issues
• Bug reports

See also:
• TWiki announce & security mailing list
• TWiki consultants for hire
• Support forum

Download TWiki-5.1.0-rc1 (Release Candidate 1)

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

TWiki Release 5.1 is a minor release that brings many usability enhancements (such as point and click user data management, more visual user profile pages with picture selector, and a backup feature that helps upgrade TWiki sites) and strengthens TWiki as an application platform (such as a new macro language with parameterized variables). This release candidate is not for production use.

New Features Highlights

• Usability Enhancements
  • API and GUI for point and click user data management
  • Support disabled users in password manager
  • More visual user profile pages with in-place editing of form fields and picture selector
  • In-place editing of TWiki group settings using PreferencesPlugin
  • Point and click bookmarks for better usability
  • Improved statistics showing overall site usage over time, such as total number of webs, topics, users, etc
• TWiki Application Platform Enhancements
  • Macro language with parameterized variables
  • Ability to auto-create page on view if it does not exist
  • Relative heading levels for INCLUDE
  • Relative heading levels for SEARCH
• Security Enhancements
  • Set a flag to force password change on next login
  • S/Mime support for notification e-mails
• Plugin Enhancements
  • New BackupRestorePlugin to easily backup, restore and upgrade TWiki installations
  • New SetGetPlugin that can store variables persistently
  • New ColorPickerPlugin to pick a color in form fields
  • SpreadSheetPlugin: New functions BITXOR(), HEXDECODE(), HEXDECODE(), XOR()

Details at TWiki-5.1 Release Notes.

Release download information

TWiki is open source software. The Perl CGI source code, default templates and documentation are available for free and can be redistributed under the terms of GPL (GNU General Public License). The identical .zip and .tgz packages can be used on all platforms; an installation guide is included in the package; supplemental documentation contain platform specific instructions.

Date	Stable?	Download	Version	Type	Code Name
2011-07-17		zip, tgz, md5	5.1.0-rc1 (r21777)	RC	Istanbul Release

• Read also the known issues topic.
• TWiki Release 5.1.0 will in future supersede TWiki Release 5.0.2
• See other TWikiBetaReleases and TWikiProductionReleases

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.

-- Contributors: GeorgeTrubisky, PeterThoeny - 2011-07-17

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