Announcement of 01 Dec 2001 Production Release to Users and Developers

See also: TWikiAnnouncements, TWikiPublicity20011201

Announcement to Users

Dear TWiki User:

A new TWiki version is available:

• Production release 01 Dec 2001.
• Download from ...

The new version is a small incremental release over the 01 Sep 2001 version.

TWiki (TM) is a trademark of Peter Thoeny. TWiki is developed as Free Software under the GNU/GPL.

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CHANGES AND UPGRADE:

• Formatted Search - New format="" parameter in %SEARCH{...}% variable for database like reporting.
• Various bug fixes

The complete change history is at http://TWiki.org/cgi-bin/view/TWiki/TWikiHistory

Upgrading from the 01 Dec 2000 or 01 Sep 2001 version is described in http://TWiki.org/cgi-bin/view/TWiki/TWikiUpgradeGuide

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TWIKI DEVELOPMENT

We have a very active developer's community. The place to collaborate and brainstorm on TWiki development is at https://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/WebHome . ReadmeFirst tells you about our development process. If interested you can subscribe to the TWiki.Codev web.

Check out the Plugins, like CommentPlugin, PollPlugin, SessionPlugin, SmiliesPlugin, SpreadSheetPlugin, TocPlugin, TWikiDrawPlugin and more, at https://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/WebHome .

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TWIKI SUPPORT

For software support, the TWiki.Support web is available for people who have a technical questions or questions about TWiki deployment. This support forum is for TWiki users by TWiki users. The core development team keeps an eye on postings, but doesn't necessarily answer questions. In practice, contributors and users are active in discussing and helping out! Get TWiki Support at: https://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Support/WebHome

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TWIKI USERS

TWiki is steadily growing in popularity, we have now many downloads everyday. TWiki is mainly used behind corporate firewalls. Users include many major companies, like 3Com, AMD, Alcatel, Amazon.com, AT&T,...through Xerox.

Word of mouth is a good way of spreading the TWiki word - all support is appreciated! More exposure means more contributions, and a better system!

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* REQUEST FOR PAPER! *

If you have a successful deployment of TWiki, we would really appreciate your supporting the TWiki project by writing a TWiki success story. This helps to promote the tool, leading to more input, and a continuously improving product! More on this at: https://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Main/TWikiSuccessStories

Last but not least, thanks for all the contributions of ideas, code and docs. We have a great community at TWiki.org!

Best regards and happy TWiki'ing,

Peter

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Peter@ThoenyPLEASENOSPAM.com - http://TWiki.org/

PS: You received this e-mail because you, or someone using your e-mail address, downloaded TWiki in the past and checkmarked to be notified of new Production releases. Please let me know if you would like to be removed from the list.

Announcement to Beta Users

Dear TWiki Developer:

A new TWiki version is available:

• Production release 01 Dec 2001.
• Download from ...

The new version is a small incremental release over the 01 Sep 2001 version.

CHANGES:

• Formatted Search - New format="" parameter in %SEARCH{...}% variable for database like reporting.
• Various bug fixes

The complete change history is at http://TWiki.org/cgi-bin/view/TWiki/TWikiHistory

Upgrading from the 01 Dec 2000 or 01 Sep 2001 version is described in http://TWiki.org/cgi-bin/view/TWiki/TWikiUpgradeGuide

As you know, the place to collaborate on TWiki development is at http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/WebHome . ReadmeFirst tells you more about our development process. If interested you can subscribe to the TWiki.Codev web and also to the TWiki-Dev mailing list.

We have a very active developer's community. There have been many contributions since the last release; and there are many contributions that could not make it into this release. More to come soon. Thanks to everyone for the ongoing effort!

Check out the new Plugins, like SessionPlugin, SmiliesPlugin, SpreadSheetPlugin, TocPlugin and more, at http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/WebHome .

You as a developer are encouraged to write your own Plugins and contribute back to the TWiki community. Our goal is to get many useful Plugins over time. Those Plugins are the foundation to establish a powerful collaboration platform.

TWiki is unsupported software. The TWiki.Support web is established for people who have a technical question or any question about the TWiki deployment. This support web is for TWiki users by TWiki users. We developers should keep an eye on this web, but we do not necessarily need to answer questions. Nevertheless I would appreciate if you'd monitor this web by subscribing in WebNotify. The goal is to help out users when needed, but also to recognize where program, documentation and FAQs need to improve. Access at http://TWiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Support/WebHome .

TWiki is getting more and more popular. We have now many downloads per day. TWiki is mainly used behind corporate firewalls, including many major companies, like 3Com, AMD, Alcatel, Amazon.com, AT&T,... through Xerox.

Word of mouth is a good way of spreading the TWiki platform; any help is appreciated! More exposure means more contributions, thus a better system!

Last but not least, thanks for all the contributions of ideas, code and docs. We have a great community at TWiki.org!

* REQUEST FOR PAPER:

If you have a successful deployment of TWiki, we would really appreciate if you could support the TWiki community by writing a TWiki success story. This helps in promoting the tool, which in turn will result in a better product. More on that at http://TWiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Main/TWikiSuccessStories

Best regards and happy TWiki'ing,

Peter

--
Peter@ThoenyPLEASENOSPAM.com - http://TWiki.org/

PS: You received this e-mail because you, or someone using your e-mail address, downloaded TWiki in the past and checkmarked to be notified of new Production and Beta releases. Please let me know if you would like to be removed from the list.

See also: TWikiAnnouncements, TWikiPublicity20011201

-- PeterThoeny - 09 Dec 2001