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TWiki 6.0.0-rc1 release candidate 1
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• Known issues
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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 as a mission critical platform by many leading Fortune 500 businesses and government agencies on their intranet, extranet or public website. Users without programming skills can create web applications. Developers can integrate TWiki applications with other enterprise applications.

TWiki-6.0 release is a major release that has a shiny new dashboard look. It brings many usability enhancements, strengthens TWiki as an application platform, and scales to very large deployments. This release candidate is not for production use.

New Features Highlights

• Usability Enhancements
  • Add dashboards to Web home topics
  • Categorize TWiki variables & TWiki Variables wizard
  • New TOPICTITLE variable for non-WikiWord topic titles
  • Show topic title in square bracket links using [[+TopicName]] syntax
  • Icon bullet lists: Specify any TWiki doc graphics icon as a bullet
  • WebChanges showing topic age instead of date
  • Auto-discover TWiki forms, no need to set in WEBFORMS preferences setting
  • Move change TWiki form from edit screen to "more" screen
  • Show link to older versions of attachments in attachment table
  • Automatically link @Twitter handles
  • Add comment section to new topic template
  • Copy/clone topic function in more topic action screen
  • Configurable signatures with profile pictures
  • Open external links in new browser window or tab

• Scalability Enhancements
  • Repository for site metadata, web metadata, and more
  • Read-only and mirror web support for distributed TWiki sites
  • Rename topic operation with option to not replace web internal references
  • Rename web operation can cope with a large site and read-only/mirror webs
  • Introducing web-level administrator for higher web autonomy; web specific WIKIWEBMASTER
  • Support for multiple disk drives for data and pub directories

• TWiki Application Platform Enhancements
  • New EDITFORMFIELD variable to easily create custom forms to create/change topics with TWiki Forms
  • Add rev parameter to FORMFIELD variable
  • New combobox TWiki Form field type
  • New ENTITY variable to entity encode content
  • Add createdate, default, encode parameters to SEARCH variable
  • SEARCH variable with sort by parent feature
  • Add encode, newline, nofinalnewline, allowanytype to INCLUDE variable
  • Add subwebs and depth parameters to WEBLIST variable
  • Add section parameter to ADDTOHEAD variable
  • Add encode and decode functions to TWiki::Func
  • Add LWP parameters to TWiki::Func::getExternalResource
  • Conditional Skin based on group membership and other criteria
  • Finer-control variable expansion in topic creation
  • Add topic parameter to VAR variable to get settings defined in another topic

• Security Enhancements
  • Support for an implicit "all users" group
  • Empty DENY setting means undefined setting
  • Dynamic access control
  • Upgrade support for secure email notification
  • Restrict HTTP variable to not reveal certain header fields

• Extensions Enhancements
  • Add new WatchlistPlugin to core and deprecate MailerContrib
  • Add new TWikiDashboardAddOn to core distribution
  • Add new ScrollBoxAddOn to core distribution
  • Add new DatePickerPlugin to core and deprecate JSCalendarContrib
  • Add new MovedSkin to core distribution
  • SpreadSheetPlugin supports hash variables and adds many new functions
  • InterwikiPlugin to observe the links configuration parameter
  • TagMePlugin with support for multiple tag namespaces

• Miscellaneous Feature Enhancements
  • CGI Engine to be made Fast CGI compatible
  • Empty IF condition to be regarded valid and false
  • Add seconds to the timestamp in debug/log/warn
  • Viewing topic text with variables expanded
  • WEBLIST canmoveto and cancopyto
  • Add viewRedirectHandler callback to plugins API
  • Remove deprecated ClassicSkin from core TWiki

Details at TWiki-6.0 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
2013-09-19		zip, tgz, md5	6.0.0-rc1 (r26403)	RC	Jerusalem Release

• TWiki Release 6.0.0 will in future supersede TWiki-5.1.4
• 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: PeterThoeny - 2013-09-19

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