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[TWiki-Dev] Announcement: TWiki-6.1.0 Released - Better Usability, Better App Platform
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From: Peter T. <pe...@th...> - 2018-08-20 02:24:08
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Dear TWiki administrator: TWiki-6.1.0 is released, shipped through the virtual door! This release brings a number of usability enhancements, and strengthens TWiki as an application platform. We recommend to upgrade to this latest release. The new release can be downloaded from TWiki.org and SourceForge.net. The TWiki-VM has not yet been updated. TWiki's user base consists of millions of users on tens of thousands of installations in over 130 countries, backed by an open source community of hundreds of contributors and 70,000 twiki.org users. The TWiki community worked hard on this release. I'd like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who contributed to this release. Special kudos to Hideyo Imazu and Morgan Stanley team for supporting the open source TWiki community! In all, 82 people are listed in the Kampala Hall of Fame. Thank you, Thank You, THANK YOU! Table of contents: * Changes and Upgrade * What is TWiki * TWiki Community - Get Involved! * TWiki Support * TWiki Deployment and Advocacy * Call for Papers! ______________________________________________________________ ---++ CHANGES AND UPGRADE TWiki-6.1.0 released on 2018-07-16 adds 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, 300 extensions have been tested and enhanced for TWiki-6.1 ---+++ TWiki-6.1.0 Release Feature 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 ---+++ Details and Upgrade Overview blog with screenshots: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/BlogEntry201808x1 Details are listed in the release notes at: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/TWiki/TWikiReleaseNotes06x01 Use the BackupRestorePlugin to easily upgrade from earlier TWiki releases: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/BackupRestorePlugin (pre-installed) 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 200+ contributors, thousands of downloads each month, more than 780,000 downloads in total, 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 The TWiki community is making steadily progress. We are still quite a small developer community and we are looking to growing our community. 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. Thetwiki.org community is looking for new contributors. As a contributor you can actively make a difference and help shape the product. 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 Lima Release Meeting is on 2018-09-06: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/LimaReleaseMeeting2018x09x06 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 SUPPORT A number of consultants provide consulting services to help you support and customize TWiki, see: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/TWikiConsultants 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 ______________________________________________________________ ---++ 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! 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/BlogEntry201808x1 - short link is: http://bit.ly/twRel610 Sample tweet you could use: New TWiki-6.1.0 released for enterprise collaboration & apps: Get. Work. Done. http://bit.ly/twRel610 #appPlatform #enterprise #wiki Your help in spreading the word of the new release is greatly appreciated! ______________________________________________________________ ---++ 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 blog post on TWiki.org. 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/Blog/BlogIdeas 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/Mr.TWiki - consulting on enterprise collaboration http://TWiki.org - is your team already TWiki enabled? http://qualityHDR.com - Quality HDR Photography Knowledge cannot be managed, it can be discovered and shared This e-mail is: (_) private (_) ask first (x) public |
