[Veryquickwiki-announce] [ANN] 2.6.0 released

[Gareth C. <ga...@cr...>]

I keep promising this and getting delayed, so here it finally is. Download
from:
http://www.croninsolutions.com/veryquickwiki/downloads.html

Important note... VQWiki now features a "website like layout". It has an
editable left menu area, top area and bottom area. You can edit these by
editing the topics LeftMenu, TopArea and BottomArea. These topics are now
protected by being listed in a topic called AdminOnlyTopics. You'll need
to login as admin to edit this topic (unless you remove it from itself
:-)!). If you want to save screen real estate, set the left menu contents
to nothing and it will not appear.

I really wanted to have updated the admin manual, but I haven't had time
thanks to the horror of the first deployment of our new Java product at my
"paid" work (http://www.kiwiplan.com). It didn't go quite as planned so
time is very short right now! Hopefully next time. VQWiki 3 continues to
progress slowly... it will be released eventually!

Thanks

Gareth.

---WHAT'S NEW for Very Quick Wiki V2.6---

2.6.0

PostgreSQL added as a standard database type (thanks to Andre Gauthier for
the info on the
necessary script changes). Database type in admin console is now a combo box.

Added option "RecentChangesRefreshInterval" : When the user request the page
"Recent Changes", it takes long time to generate it. As this page is often
requested by users, because it briefly resumes all the updates on the web
site, it charges a lot the server CPU load processing always the same
information and producing the same page for different users.
With this option you can customize the lifetime of the RecentChanges page, so
different users requesting this page will get a "cached version" of the page
until it expires.  This greatly reduces server CPU load, speeding up the
site.

DefaultLineBreaks is now by default set to 1.

CSS are now editable by remote as any other wiki page.

"Website-like" layout by Luigi. It's now possible to create a menu that
will be
displayed on the left side of each page, a "Top Area" (for the site logo and
banner) and a "Bottom Area" (for sponsors etc.)

"AdminOnlyTopics" special wiki topic contains a white-space separated list
of topics that only admin should be allowed
to read or edit. By default this includes AdminOnlyTopics, TopArea,
BottomArea and LeftMenu.

Back-porting of JFlex from VQWiki 3 Alpha to replace the ageing JLex based
lexical analyser
generation. This together with the addition of UTF-8 encoding by Martin
Kuba for flat-file mode should
clear up problems with non-Latin characters.

Admin option to set the encoding scheme - if you're already using
ISO-8859-1 (the default prior
to using UTF-8) you'll need to set the admin option to ISO-8859-1 or
convert your existing files to
UTF-8.

Czech translation by Martin Kuba.

Bug fixes:
- typos in default topics and "is mentioned on".
- Code clean-up (some unused stuff)
- Fixed \n added in bottom of each file read, that was adding a <br> in the
  bottom of each rendered page. (WikiBase.java)
- fixed unclosed table tags in admin.jsp