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[TWiki-Announce] Announcement: TWiki-5.1.2 Released: Rock Solid. Usable. Fun.
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From: TWiki a. - r. s. a. n. \(l. volume\) <twi...@li...> - 2012-10-17 04:29:17
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Dear TWiki administrator: Great work, TWiki.org team! Again a rock solid release. We just released TWiki-5.1.2 aka Istanbul Release. A big THANK YOU to everybody who contributed to this release! And special thanks to our release manager George Trubisky who built this release. In all, 50 people are listed in the Istanbul Hall of Fame. Thank you! We invite developers who appreciate to work on quality code to join us, get involved! See our blog about this release: http://bit.ly/twRel512 TWiki-5.1.2 is now available for download from the http://twiki.org/ website. The TWiki-VM will be released in the next few days. The latest release adds new features and fixes a number of bugs. As for the last four years since we introduced the Ubuntu style community governance, this new release is well tested and is very stable. Upgrade is recommended to this TWiki-5.1.2 release. This release replaces earlier TWiki-5.1 releases, which introduced many usability enhancements, such as point and click user data management, more visual user profile pages with picture selector, and a backup feature to help upgrade TWiki sites. TWiki-5.1 also strengthens TWiki as an application platform to more easily build custom wiki applications. Table of contents: * Changes and Upgrade * What is TWiki * TWiki Community - Get Involved! * TWiki User Community * TWiki Support * TWiki Deployment and Advocacy * Call for Papers! ______________________________________________________________ ---++ CHANGES AND UPGRADE The TWiki-5.1 (code named Istanbul) release 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). TWiki-5.1.1 released on 2012-01-14 adds some minor new features and fixes a number of bugs. TWiki-5.1.2 released on 2012-10-07 adds some new features and fixes a number of bugs. TWiki is now localized to Bulgarian, Chinese (simplified and traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Ukrainian. To date, 270 extensions have been tested and enhanced for TWiki-5.1. ---+++ TWiki-5.1 Release Feature Highlights New features in the latest release are marked as "added in TWiki-5.1.2". * For Users: Better Usability * 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 * The TopMenuSkin has a new option for auto-hidden or fixed top menu-bar. In auto-hidden mode, the menu is always accessible with a stub on the upper left, as seen on TWiki.org. - added in TWiki-5.1.2 * New ColorPickerPlugin to pick a color in form fields * For Administrators: More Control * API and GUI for point and click user data management * Improved statistics showing overall site usage over time, such as total number of webs, topics, users, etc * New BackupRestorePlugin to easily backup, restore and upgrade TWiki installations * BackupRestorePlugin: Add restore from backup feature - added in TWiki-5.1.1 * Security: Set a flag to force password change on next login * Security: Support disabled users in password manager * S/Mime support for notification e-mails * For Power Users: More Power * New SetGetPlugin that can store variables persistently * SpreadSheetPlugin: New functions BITXOR(), HEXENCODE(), HEXDECODE(), XOR() * SpreadSheetPlugin: New functions FLOOR() and CEILING() - added in TWiki-5.1.1 * SpreadSheetPlugin: New functions $ISDIGIT(), $ISLOWER(), $ISUPPER(), $ISWIKIWORD() and $FILTER() - added in TWiki-5.1.2 * For Programmers: TWiki Application Platform Enhancements * The SetGetPlugin adds a REST interface to set and query variables - useful for TWiki applications that need to store variables persistently via Ajax calls. - added in TWiki-5.1.2 * Macro language with parameterized variables * The SpreadSheetPlugin has a new CALCULATE variable that gets evaluated in the proper inside-out, left-to-right order among other TWiki Variables. In contrast, the older CALC variable gets evaluated with some delay, which can result in some surprises. - added in TWiki-5.1.2 * Ability to auto-create page on view if it does not exist * Relative heading levels for INCLUDE * Relative heading levels for SEARCH ---+++ Details and Upgrade Overview blog with screenshots: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/BlogEntry201210x1 Details are listed in the release notes at: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/TWiki/TWikiReleaseNotes05x01 Use the BackupRestorePlugin to easily upgrade from earlier TWiki releases: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/BackupRestorePlugin Manual upgrade instructions are at: http://TWiki.org/cgi-bin/view/TWiki/TWikiUpgradeGuide ______________________________________________________________ ---++ WHAT IS TWIKI The TWiki.org community is committed to building a leading open source enterprise wiki and application platform with an extensible plugin architecture. Users without programming skills can create web applications. Developers can integrate TWiki applications with other enterprise applications. Unlike some other open source projects, the TWiki.org project is focusing mainly on quality, stability & performance. While we regularly release new features, we put a priority on maintaining quality, stability & performance over releasing new features too quickly. Many enterprises have mission critical content in TWiki; we earned their trust and we are committed to continue with our priorities so that enterprises can depend on us. The open source TWiki.org was founded in 1998 by Peter Thoeny and is managed by a team of open-source software engineers around the world. It is an active project with more than 3,000 downloads per month, 200+ contributors, more than 700,000 downloads and over 1 Million users across 130 countries in 14+ languages worldwide, including Cisco Systems, Google, IBM, Lufthansa, Morgan Stanley, Motorola, Nokia, Oracle, TI, UBS and many more. TWiki is released as Free Software under the GNU/GPL (General Public License). TWiki is a registered trademark of Peter Thoeny. ______________________________________________________________ ---++ TWIKI COMMUNITY - GET INVOLVED! Get involved at: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/GettingInvolved Although we have a lot of developer activity, we are still quite a small community. We are looking to grow our community and we invite you to get involved! We now have a more predictable governance model based on the successful Ubuntu community, designed to get away from personality driven decision making and politics to a friendly community that has a clear mission and development processes. This means that you as a developer get to work with contributors that are really focused on building the best technology. Are you a developer, tech writer or marketeer with interest in open source? Have you ever participated in an open source community? It's lots of fun to collaborate on a common goal. The twiki.org community is looking for new contributors. As a contributor you can actively make a difference and help shape the product. To get started, visit: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/GettingInvolved We'd love to get you involved! A good way to get started is to meet the TWiki team at a release meetings on IRC channel #twiki_release on chat.freenode.net - the next one is on 2012-10-26: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/JerusalemReleaseMeeting2012x10x26 TWiki has now more than 400 Add-ons, Plugins, Contribs and Skins available. We have lots of ideas for additional extensions and for improving existing ones. Enhancing an extension is also a good way to get started with TWiki development. More on that at: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/WebHome and http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/GettingInvolved ______________________________________________________________ ---++ TWIKI USER COMMUNITY Wouldn't it be great to meet fellow TWiki champions in your neighborhood to exchange ideas and best practices? We started to organize TWiki user meetups in Amsterdam, Berlin, Copenhagen, Silicon Valley and Zurich. Please organize one in your town too! Helpful people on twiki.org will assist you. More at: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/TWikiMeetUps ______________________________________________________________ ---++ TWIKI SUPPORT The Support web at TWiki.org 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 TWiki community keeps an eye on postings, but doesn't necessarily answer questions. In practice, contributors and users are actively discussing and helping out! Get TWiki community support at: http://TWiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Support/WebHome If you prefer IRC you can use the #twiki channel on chat.freenode.net to get in touch with the TWiki community. A number of consultants provide consulting services to help you customize TWiki, see: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/TWikiConsultants ______________________________________________________________ ---++ TWIKI DEPLOYMENT AND ADVOCACY It is mainly used behind corporate firewalls and has grown into a mission critical system at many major corporations such as Google, Motorola, Nokia, Oracle and Texas Instruments! In case you installed TWiki on your server we invite you to list your TWiki at: http://TWiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Main/TWikiInstallation Word of mouth is a good way of spreading TWiki - your help is greatly appreciated! More exposure means more contributions, and a better system! Please help spread the word in Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, blogs etc. You can point your connections to the blog post at: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/BlogEntry201210x1 - short link is: http://bit.ly/twRel512 Sample tweet you could use: New TWiki-5.1.2 release available: Enterprise Collaboration. Rock Solid. Usable. Easy. Fun: http://bit.ly/twRel512 #e20 #enterprise #wiki Your help in spreading the word of the new release is greatly appreciated! To promote TWiki in magazines and web sites use the material at: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/TWikiAdvocacy05x01 ______________________________________________________________ ---++ CALL FOR PAPERS! If you have a successful deployment of TWiki, we would really appreciate if you could support the TWiki project by writing a TWiki success story. This helps in promoting the platform, leading to more contributions, and a continuously improving product! Read more on this at: http://TWiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Main/TWikiSuccessStories Last but not least, thanks for contributing many ideas, code, docs, quality and more! Best regards and happy TWiki'ing, Peter, on behalf of the TWiki community -- * Peter Thoeny - peter09[at]thoeny.org * http://TWiki.org - is your team already TWiki enabled? * Knowledge cannot be managed, it can be discovered and shared * This e-mail is: (_) private (_) ask first (x) public |