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TWiki Release 4.0.0 (Dakar), 01 Feb 2006
Major New Features
- Much simpler install and configuration
- Integrated session support
- Webserver-independent login/logout
- Security sandbox blocking exploits for remote command execution on the server
- Edit conflict resolution with automatic merge
- Multilingual UI
- E-mail confirmations for registration
- WYSIWYG editor (beta)
- Hierarchical sub-webs (beta)
Many, many people worked on TWiki-4.0.0. The credits in the table below only list the people who worked on individual enhancements. If you find an omission please fix it at TWiki:TWiki.TWikiHistory. There were many other contributors; for a full list, visit TWikiContributor.
Most of the redesign, refactoring and new documentation work in Dakar release was done by Crawford Currie. Michael Sparks provided ideas and proof of concept for several improvements. Other people who gave large amounts of their time and patience to less sexy aspects of the work, such as testing, infrastructure and documentation, are AntonAylward, KennethLavrsen, LynnwoodBrown, MichaelDaum, Peter Thoeny, Sven Dowideit, WillNorris.
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| Much simpler install and configuration | Crawford Currie, LynnwoodBrown, ArthurClemens |
mod_perl safe code for better performance | Crawford Currie |
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| Security sandbox blocking exploits for remote command execution on the server | Florian Weimer, Crawford Currie, Sven Dowideit |
| Reworked access permission model | Crawford Currie |
| Internationalization & localization |
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| User Interface Internationalisation | AntonioTerceiro |
| Chinese translation | CheDong |
| Danish translation | SteffenPoulsen |
| Dutch translation | ArthurClemens |
| French translation | BenVoui |
| German translation | AndreUlrich |
| Portuguese translation | AntonioTerceiro, CarlinhosCecconi |
| Spanish translation | WillNorris, MiguelABayona |
| New features for users |
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| Edit conflict resolution with automatic merge | Crawford Currie |
| Fine grained change notification on page level and parent/child relationship | Crawford Currie |
| WYSIWYG editor | Crawford Currie, ColasNahaboo, DamienMandrioli, RomainRaugi |
| Integrated session support | GregAbbas, Crawford Currie |
| Webserver-independent login/logout | Crawford Currie |
| Registration process with e-mail confirmation | MartinCleaver |
| Tip of the Day box in TWiki Home | PaulineCheung, Peter Thoeny, AntonAylward |
| ATOM feeds | Peter Thoeny |
| "Force New Revision" check box for topic save | WillNorris |
| New features for TWiki administrators and wiki application developers |
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| Improved preferences handling | ThomasWeigert, Crawford Currie |
| Named include sections | RafaelAlvarez |
| Create topic names with consecutive numbers | Sven Dowideit |
| Parameterized includes | Crawford Currie |
| Dynamic form option definitions of TWikiForms with FormattedSearch | MartinCleaver |
SEARCH enhancements with new parameters excludeweb, newline, noempty, nofinalnewline, nonoise, recurse, zeroresults | Crawford Currie, ArthurClemens, Peter Thoeny, ThomasWeigert |
FormattedSearch enhancements with $changes, $count, $formfield(name, 30, ...), $summary(expandvar), $summary(noheaders), $summary(showvarnames) | ColasNahaboo, Crawford Currie, Peter Thoeny, Sven Dowideit |
| New TWikiVariables ACTIVATEDPLUGINS, ALLVARIABLES, AUTHREALM, EMAILS, FAILEDPLUGINS, HTTP, HTTPS, ICONURL, ICONURLPATH, IF, LANGUAGES, LOCALSITEPREFS, LOGIN, LOGOUT, MAKETEXT, META, PLUGINDESCRIPTIONS, QUERYSTRING, STARTSECTION/ENDSECTION, SESSION_VARIABLE, SESSIONID, SESSIONVAR, SPACEOUT, USERLANGUAGE, WIKIHOMEURL | ArthurClemens, AntonioTerceiro, Crawford Currie, GregAbbas, Peter Thoeny, Sven Dowideit, WillNorris and many more |
| TWiki form with hidden type and other form enhancements | LynnwoodBrown, ThomasWeigert |
| Support topic-specific templates for TWiki applications | ThomasWeigert |
| Direct save feature for one-click template-based topic creation | LynnwoodBrown, Crawford Currie, ThomasWeigert |
| Automatic Attachments showing all files in the attachment directory | MartinCleaver |
| Rename, move or delete webs | PeterNixon |
| Hierarchical subwebs (beta) | PeterNixon |
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| REST (representational state transfer) interface for Plugins | RafaelAlvarez, TWiki:Main.MartinCleaver, Sven Dowideit |
| New and improved Plugins APIs | Crawford Currie, ThomasWeigert |
| Improvements in the TWiki engine room |
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| Major OO redesign and refactoring of codebase | Crawford Currie |
| Automatic build system | Crawford Currie |
| Extensive test suite, unit tests and testcases | Crawford Currie |
| TWiki:Codev.DevelopBranch , DEVELOP branch Bugs system | Sven Dowideit |
| Documentation, logo artwork, skins: |
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| Documentation | Crawford Currie, LynnwoodBrown, Peter Thoeny, Sven Dowideit and others |
| Design of TWikiLogos with big "T" in a speech bubble | ArthurClemens, Peter Thoeny |
| Improved templates and PatternSkin | ArthurClemens |
See more details at TWikiReleaseNotes04x00x00?
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- Better support for different authentication methods
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- 29 Jan 2000 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
- Fixed bug where TWiki would not initialize correctly under certain circumstances, i.e. when running it under mod_perl. Sub
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- 24 Jan 2000 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
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Topic TWikiHistory . { ..... Diffs r1.10 > r1.9 > r1.8 > r1.7 >... }
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- 15 Apr 1999 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
- Topic locking Warn user if a topic has been edited by an other person within one hour. This is to prevent contention, e.g. simultaneous topic updates.
- 26 Mar 1999 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
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Topic TWikiHistory . { Edit Ref-By Diffs r1.3 > r1.2 > r1.1 }
Revision r1.3 1998/11/10 01:34 by PeterThoeny
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Topic TWikiHistory . { Edit Ref-By Diffs r1.3 > r1.2 > r1.1 }
Revision r1.3 1998/11/10 01:34 by PeterThoeny
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- 04 Jan 1999 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
- Fixed bug when viewing differences between topic revisions that include HTML table tags like <table>, <tr>, <td>.
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- 18 Nov 1998 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
- Internal log of topic save actions to the file
data/logYYYYMM.txt, where YYYYMM the year and month in numeric format is. Intended for auditing only, not accessible from the web.
- 10 Nov 1998 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
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Revision r1.3 1998/11/10 01:34 by TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
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Topic TWikiHistory . { Edit Ref-By r1.3 > r1.2 > r1.1 }
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