1 ikiwiki (3.20100422) unstable; urgency=low
3 This version of ikiwiki has a lot of changes that you need to know about.
5 The --getctime switch is renamed to --gettimes, and it also gets the
6 file modification time. And it's a lot faster (when using git). But
7 the really important change is, you don't have to remember to use this
8 switch. Now ikiwiki will do it when it needs to.
10 Starting from this version, the `tagged()` pagespec only matches tags,
11 not regular wikilinks. If your wiki accidentially relied on the old,
12 buggy behavior, you might need to change pagespecs to use `link()`.
14 The title_natural sort method (as used by the inline directive, etc)
15 have been moved to the new sortnaturally plugin, which is not enabled
16 by default since it requires the Sort::Naturally perl module.
18 Due to the above and other changes, all wikis need to be rebuilt on
19 upgrade to this version. If you listed your wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist
20 this will be done automatically when the Debian package is upgraded. Or
21 use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
23 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Apr 2010 20:31:29 -0400
25 ikiwiki (3.20091017) unstable; urgency=low
27 To take advantage of significant performance improvements, all
28 wikis need to be rebuilt on upgrade to this version. If you
29 listed your wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done
30 automatically when the Debian package is upgraded. Or use
31 ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
33 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:48:59 -0400
35 ikiwiki (3.1415926) unstable; urgency=low
37 In order to fix a performance bug, all wikis need to be rebuilt on
38 upgrade to this version. If you listed your wiki in
39 /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically when the
40 Debian package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force
43 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:24:43 -0400
45 ikiwiki (3.13) unstable; urgency=low
47 The `ikiwiki-transition deduplinks` command introduced in the
48 last release was buggy. If you followed the NEWS file instructions
49 and ran it, you should run `ikiwiki -setup` to rebuild your wiki
52 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 May 2009 13:04:02 -0400
54 ikiwiki (3.12) unstable; urgency=low
56 You may want to run `ikiwiki-transition deduplinks your.setup`
57 after upgrading to this version of ikiwiki. This command will
58 optimise your wiki's saved state, removing duplicate information
59 that can slow ikiwiki down.
61 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 06 May 2009 00:25:06 -0400
63 ikiwiki (3.01) unstable; urgency=low
65 If your wiki uses git, and you have a `diffurl` configured in
66 its setup file, you should be aware that gitweb has stopped
67 supporting the url form commonly used for the `diffurl`.
69 You can change your setup to use the newer gitweb url form:
71 http://git.example.com/gitweb.cgi?p=wiki.git;a=blobdiff;f=[[file]];h=[[sha1_to]];hp=[[sha1_from]];hb=[[sha1_commit]];hpb=[[sha1_parent]]
73 The changes from the old form are the addition of the `hpb` parameter,
74 and the change to the value used for the `hb` parameter.
76 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 05 Jan 2009 18:18:05 -0500
78 ikiwiki (3.00) unstable; urgency=low
80 The 3.0 release of ikiwiki changes several defaults and finishes
81 some transitions. You will need to modify your wikis to work with
82 ikiwiki 3.0. A document explaining the process is available
83 in </usr/share/doc/ikiwiki/html/tips/upgrade_to_3.0.html>
85 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:14:18 -0500
87 ikiwiki (2.62) unstable; urgency=low
89 TexImg standard preamble changed
91 The teximg plugin now has a configurable LaTeX preamble.
92 As part of this change the `mchem` LaTeX package has been removed from
93 the default LaTeX preamble as it wasn't included in many TeX installations.
95 The previous behaviour can be restored by adding the following to your
98 teximg_prefix => '\documentclass{scrartcl}
99 \usepackage[version=3]{mhchem}
101 \usepackage{amsfonts}
106 In addition, the rendering mechanism has been changed to use `dvipng` by
107 default, if available.
109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Aug 2008 15:00:40 -0400
111 ikiwiki (2.60) unstable; urgency=low
113 Admin preferences are moving from the web interface to the setup file.
114 There are three new options in the setup file: `locked_pages`, `banned_users`,
115 and `allowed_attachments`. The admin prefs page can still be used, but
116 that's deprecated, and the prefs will be hidden if a value is not already
117 set. If a value is set in the web interface, you're encouraged to move that
118 setting to your setup file now, since version 3.0 will remove the deprecated
119 admin prefs web interface.
121 Also, the layout of the setup file has changed in a significant way in this
122 release. Old setup files will continue to work, but new features, like the
123 new websetup interface, require a new format setup file. You can convert
124 old setup files into the new format by running
125 `ikiwiki-transition setupformat ikiwiki.setup`
127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:02:14 -0400
129 ikiwiki (2.52) unstable; urgency=low
131 All wikis need to be rebuilt on upgrade to this version. If you listed your
132 wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically when the
133 Debian package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:10:05 -0400
137 ikiwiki (2.49) unstable; urgency=low
139 The search plugin no longer uses hyperestraier. Instead, to use it you
140 will now need to install xapian-omega, and the Search::Xapian,
141 HTML::Scrubber, and Digest::SHA1 perl modules. Ie,
142 `apt-get install xapian-omega libsearch-xapian-perl libhtml-scrubber-perl libdigest-sha1-perl`
144 Also, wikis that use the search plugin will need to be rebuilt,
145 since the search form has changed. This will not be done automatically,
146 but can be done by running `ikiwiki-mass-upgrade` as root, or
147 running `ikiwiki -setup` on individual setup files.
149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:29:28 -0400
151 ikiwiki (2.48) unstable; urgency=high
153 If you allowed password based logins to your wiki, those passwords were
154 stored in cleartext in the userdb. To guard against exposing users'
155 passwords, I recommend you install the Authen::Passphrase perl module, and
156 then run `ikiwiki-transition hashpassword /path/to/srcdir` to replace all
157 existing cleartext passwords with strong (blowfish) hashes.
159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 May 2008 14:39:34 -0400
161 ikiwiki (2.46) unstable; urgency=low
163 There were some significant template changes in ikiwiki 2.42 (and 1.33.5).
164 If you have locally modified versions of the templates, they need to be
165 updated. Most notably, the editpage.tmpl has a new FIELD-SID added to it,
166 without which web editing will fail.
168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 May 2008 14:30:14 -0400
170 ikiwiki (2.40) unstable; urgency=low
172 ikiwiki now has an new syntax for preprocessor directives, using the
177 This new syntax no longer relies on spaces to distinguish between
178 wikilinks and preprocessor directives. Thus, wikilinks can use spaces
179 in their link text, and preprocessor directives without arguments (such
180 as "toc") need not use a trailing space.
182 To enable the new syntax, set prefix_directives to true in your ikiwiki
183 config. For backward compatibility with existing wikis,
184 prefix_directives currently defaults to false. In ikiwiki 3.0,
185 prefix_directives will default to true, and wikis which have not yet
186 converted to the new syntax will need to set prefix_directives to false
187 in their setup files.
189 To convert your wiki to the new syntax, ikiwiki provides a new script
192 Even with prefix_directives disabled, ikiwiki now allows an optional '!'
193 prefix on preprocessor directives (but still requires a space). Thus, a
194 directive which uses a '!' prefix and contains a space will work with
195 ikiwiki 2.40 and newer, regardless of the value of prefix_directives.
196 This allows the underlay to work with all ikiwikis.
198 -- Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 16:26:47 -0800
200 ikiwiki (2.30) unstable; urgency=low
202 Ever feel that ikiwiki's handling of RecentChanges wasn't truely in the
203 spirit of a wiki compiler? Well, that's changed. The RecentChanges page is
204 now a static page, not a CGI. Users can subscribe to its rss/atom feeds.
205 Custom RecentChanges pages can be easily set up that display only changes
206 to a subset of pages, or only changes by a subset of users.
208 All wikis need to be rebuilt on upgrade to this version. If you listed your
209 wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically when the
210 Debian package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
212 With this excellent new RecentChanges support, the mail notification system
213 is its age (and known to be variously buggy and underimplemented for
214 various VCSes), and so ikiwiki's support for sending commit mails is REMOVED
215 from this version. If you were subscribed to commit mails, you should be
216 able to accomplish the same thing by subscribing to a RecentChanges feed.
218 The "notify" field in setup files is no longer used, and
219 silently ignored. You may want to remove it from your setup file.
221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:18:31 -0500
223 ikiwiki (2.20) unstable; urgency=low
225 The template plugin has begin to htmlize the variables passed to templates.
226 This is normally what you want, but to get the old behavior and get at the
227 raw value, you can use `<TMPL_VAR raw_variable>` in a template.
229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Dec 2007 16:04:43 -0500
231 ikiwiki (2.16) unstable; urgency=low
233 Many of the pages in ikiwiki's basewiki have been moved and renamed in this
234 release, to avoid the basewiki including pages with names like "blog".
235 Redirection pages have been left behind for these moved pages temporarily,
236 and will be removed later.
238 If you use the calendar plugin, ikiwiki is now smarter and your nightly
239 cron job to update the wiki doesn't need to rebuild everything. Just pass
240 --refresh to ikiwiki in the cron job and it will update only pages that
241 contain out of date calendars.
243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Dec 2007 16:04:43 -0500
245 ikiwiki (2.14) unstable; urgency=low
247 This version of ikiwiki is more picky about symlinks in the path leading
248 to the srcdir, and will refuse to use a srcdir specified by such a path.
249 This was necessary to avoid some potential exploits, but could potentially
250 break (semi-)working wikis. If your wiki has a srcdir path containing a
251 symlink, you should change it to use a path that does not.
253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Nov 2007 14:57:57 -0500
255 ikiwiki (2.9) unstable; urgency=low
257 Since ikiwiki 2.0 was released, some limitiations have been added to what
258 ikiwiki considers a WikiLink. In short, if there are any spaces in between
259 the brackets, ikiwiki no longer considers it to be a WikiLink. If your wiki
260 contains things meant to be WikiLinks that contain spaces, you will need to
261 fix them, by replacing the spaces with underscores.
263 WikiLink have always been documented to not contain spaces, but bugs in
264 ikiwiki made it treat some text with spaces as WikiLinks. Most of these
265 bugs were fixed in version 2.2, and a final bug was fixed in this 2.9
266 release. These fixes are necessary to avoid ambiguity between
267 WikiLinks and PreProcessorDirectives. Apologies for any inconvenience
268 these bugs (and their fixes) may have caused.
270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Sep 2007 14:37:18 -0400
272 ikiwiki (2.6) unstable; urgency=low
274 In this version the rst plugin allows raw html to be embedded in rst files.
275 As long as the htmlscrubber is enabled, this should be safe. If you are
276 using the rst plugin without the htmlscrubber in a publically writable wiki,
277 you should turn on the htmlscrubber.
279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Jul 2007 18:37:22 -0400
281 ikiwiki (2.5) unstable; urgency=low
283 Due to some config changes in this version, wrappers need to be rebuilt on
284 upgrade. If you listed your wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be
285 one automatically when the Debian package is upgraded.
287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Jul 2007 17:54:40 -0400
289 ikiwiki (2.1) unstable; urgency=low
291 Some wikis need to be rebuilt on upgrade to this version, due to changes to
292 page templates and the style sheet. If you listed your wiki in
293 /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically when the Debian
294 package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Apr 2007 15:50:36 -0400
298 ikiwiki (2.00) unstable; urgency=low
300 With the 2.0 release of ikiwiki, some major changes have been made to the
301 default configuration:
303 * The 'usedirs' setting is enabled by default. This *will* break all URLs
304 to wikis that did not have 'usedirs' turned on before, unless you follow
305 the procedure described at <http://ikiwiki.info/tips/switching_to_usedirs>,
306 or edit your setup file to turn usedirs off:
309 * OpenID logins are now enabled by default, if the Net::OpenID::Consumer
310 perl module is available. Password logins are also still enabled
311 by default. If you like, you can turn either OpenID or password logins
312 off via the 'disable_plugins' setting.
314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Apr 2007 19:00:43 -0400
316 ikiwiki (1.51) unstable; urgency=low
318 Some wikis need to be rebuilt on upgrade to this version, due to changes to
319 page layout and the style sheet. If you listed your wiki in
320 /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically when the Debian
321 package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Apr 2007 15:50:36 -0400
325 ikiwiki (1.50) unstable; urgency=low
327 Permalinks and guids in rss and atom feeds for wikis using the usedirs
328 options will change in this release. If you have already enabled usedirs,
329 you may need to take steps to avoid flooding aggregators.
331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2007 16:08:46 -0400
333 ikiwiki (1.49) unstable; urgency=low
335 Third-party plugins that use htmlpage() or abs2rel() to generate links
336 may need changes to support the new "usedirs" option.
338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 01 Apr 2007 16:20:09 -0400
340 ikiwiki (1.47) unstable; urgency=low
342 Due to a security fix, wikis that have the htmlscrubber enabled can no
343 longer use the meta plugin to insert html link and meta tags.
345 Some special case methods have been added for safely including stylesheets,
346 and for doing openid delegation. See the meta plugin docs for details.
348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2007 14:18:40 -0400
350 ikiwiki (1.45) unstable; urgency=low
352 Wikis need to be rebuilt on upgrade to this version. If you listed your wiki
353 in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically when the Debian
354 package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Mar 2007 23:02:52 -0500
358 ikiwiki (1.44) unstable; urgency=low
360 The htmllink() function has changed slightly and plugins that use it may
361 need to change how they call it. This function's first three parameters
362 are unchanged, but additional options are now passed using named
363 parameters. If you used htmllink with more than 3 parameters, you will
364 need to change it. The plugin interface version has been increased to 1.02
365 to reflect this change.
367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Feb 2007 21:10:12 -0500
369 ikiwiki (1.42) unstable; urgency=low
371 The anonok setting in config files has been removed. To enable
372 httpauth support on your wiki, you should now enable the anonok plugin,
375 Third-party plugins that use pagespec_match() should be updated to pass
376 the new third parameter (from) to that function. This is needed for the
377 new relative glob matching to work.
379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2007 16:57:59 -0500
381 ikiwiki (1.34) unstable; urgency=low
383 The httpauth setting in config files has been removed. To enable
384 httpauth support on your wiki, you should now enable the httpauth plugin,
387 This release includes OpenID support that is enabled through the openid
388 plugin. I recommend turning this on to make it easier for users to sign
391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2006 20:53:05 -0500
393 ikiwiki (1.32) unstable; urgency=low
395 There is a change to the plugin interface in this version. Any plugins that
396 modify data in %links should pass scan => 1 when registering the hook that
399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2006 00:13:12 -0400
401 ikiwiki (1.29) unstable; urgency=low
403 Wikis need to be rebuilt on upgrade to this version. If you listed your wiki
404 in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically when the Debian
405 package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
407 There is a change to the plugin interface in this version. Plugins that use
408 %renderedfiles will need to be updated, as the hash's values are now arrays
409 of rendered files. Plugins that cause a page to render additional files
410 should use the new will_render function to register the files.
412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Oct 2006 17:27:56 -0400
414 ikiwiki (1.22) unstable; urgency=low
416 Due to some changes in the CSS, wikis should be rebuilt on upgrade to this
417 version. If you listed your wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done
418 automatically when the Debian package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild
421 If you have modified versions of ikiwiki's html templates, you will need
422 to update your templates to link to the stylesheet file using
423 "<TMPL_VAR BASEURL>style.css" instead of the old method which used
426 There have also been some changes to the plugin interface:
427 Any plugins that use santize, htmlize, or format hooks will need to be
428 updated for this version of ikiwiki since these hooks have been changed
429 to use named parameters.
431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2006 15:33:12 -0400
433 ikiwiki (1.13) unstable; urgency=low
435 The GlobList format which was used for specifiying sets of pages, has been
436 replaced with a new, more expressive PageSpec format. While GlobLists will
437 continue to work, that format is deprecated, and you are encouraged to use
438 PageSpecs from now on, and also to change any GlobLists in your wiki to
439 PageSpecs. See the new PageSpec page for details.
441 You will need to rebuild your wiki when upgrading to this version. If you
442 listed your wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically
443 when the Debian package is upgraded. Or use ikiiki-mass-rebuild to force a
446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Aug 2006 18:29:51 -0400
448 ikiwiki (1.11) unstable; urgency=low
450 Some changes to tags in this release, due to a new tag plugin. If you have
451 been using the meta plugin to tag pages, you'll want to enable the tag
452 plugin too, and change things like this:
454 [[meta link="foobar"]]
460 The new tags will appear at page footers, and are also easier to type.
462 There have also been some changes to the plugin interface, particularly the
463 interface of pagetemplate hooks has changed. See the changelog for details.
465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Jul 2006 17:03:09 -0400
467 ikiwiki (1.8) unstable; urgency=low
469 If your wiki is configured with a setup file, you should modify it to
470 stop setting the "plugin" list directly, and instead add or remove plugins
471 via the add_plugins and disable_plugins lines. For example, if you had:
473 plugin => [qw{inline smiley search}],
475 Change it to these lines, which disables the default htmlscrubber plugin
476 and adds the two additional plugins:
478 add_plugins => [qw{smiley search}],
479 disable_plugins => [qw{htmlscrubber}],
481 Making this change makes your ikiwiki setup file more future-proof since
482 new default plugins will be automatically used.
484 You will need to rebuild your ikiwiki wrappers when upgrading to this
485 version. If you listed your wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be
486 done automatically when the Debian package is upgraded. Or use
487 ikiiki-mass-rebuild --refresh to force a refresh.
489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Jul 2006 16:59:29 -0400
491 ikiwiki (1.1) unstable; urgency=low
493 There have been several configuration changes in this release of ikiwiki:
495 The --svn and --no-svn switches are removed, instead you should use
496 --rcs=svn or --no-rcs. ikiwiki setup files that set svn => 1 should
497 be changed to set rcs => "svn"; if your setup file sets svn => 0
498 then change it to use rcs => "" to disable svn.
500 The --hyperestraier switch is gone too. To enable searching, turn on the
501 search plugin, by passing --plugin=search or through the plugin setting in
504 The --sanitize and --no-sanitize switches are also gone, replaced with the
505 htmlscrubber plugin. This plugin is enabled by default, to disable it,
506 use --disable-plugin=htmlscrubber, or modify the plugin setting in the
509 Discussion pages are enabled by default, but if your wiki is configured
510 with a setup file, you need to edit it to keep them enabled on upgrade
511 to this version. Add a line reading:
514 You will need to rebuild your wiki when upgrading to this version.
515 If you listed your wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done
516 automatically when the Debian package is upgraded. Or use
517 ikiiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 May 2006 14:13:59 -0400