1 ikiwiki (3.12) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 You may want to run `ikiwiki-transition deduplinks /path/to/srcdir`
4 after upgrading to this version of ikiwiki. This command will
5 optimise your wiki's saved state, removing duplicate information
6 that can slow ikiwiki down.
8 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 06 May 2009 00:25:06 -0400
10 ikiwiki (3.01) unstable; urgency=low
12 If your wiki uses git, and you have a `diffurl` configured in
13 its setup file, you should be aware that gitweb has stopped
14 supporting the url form commonly used for the `diffurl`.
16 You can change your setup to use the newer gitweb url form:
18 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]]
20 The changes from the old form are the addition of the `hpb` parameter,
21 and the change to the value used for the `hb` parameter.
23 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 05 Jan 2009 18:18:05 -0500
25 ikiwiki (3.00) unstable; urgency=low
27 The 3.0 release of ikiwiki changes several defaults and finishes
28 some transitions. You will need to modify your wikis to work with
29 ikiwiki 3.0. A document explaining the process is available
30 in </usr/share/doc/ikiwiki/html/tips/upgrade_to_3.0.html>
32 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:14:18 -0500
34 ikiwiki (2.62) unstable; urgency=low
36 TexImg standard preamble changed
38 The teximg plugin now has a configurable LaTeX preamble.
39 As part of this change the `mchem` LaTeX package has been removed from
40 the default LaTeX preamble as it wasn't included in many TeX installations.
42 The previous behaviour can be restored by adding the following to your
45 teximg_prefix => '\documentclass{scrartcl}
46 \usepackage[version=3]{mhchem}
53 In addition, the rendering mechanism has been changed to use `dvipng` by
54 default, if available.
56 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Aug 2008 15:00:40 -0400
58 ikiwiki (2.60) unstable; urgency=low
60 Admin preferences are moving from the web interface to the setup file.
61 There are three new options in the setup file: `locked_pages`, `banned_users`,
62 and `allowed_attachments`. The admin prefs page can still be used, but
63 that's deprecated, and the prefs will be hidden if a value is not already
64 set. If a value is set in the web interface, you're encouraged to move that
65 setting to your setup file now, since version 3.0 will remove the deprecated
66 admin prefs web interface.
68 Also, the layout of the setup file has changed in a significant way in this
69 release. Old setup files will continue to work, but new features, like the
70 new websetup interface, require a new format setup file. You can convert
71 old setup files into the new format by running
72 `ikiwiki-transition setupformat ikiwiki.setup`
74 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:02:14 -0400
76 ikiwiki (2.52) unstable; urgency=low
78 All wikis need to be rebuilt on upgrade to this version. If you listed your
79 wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically when the
80 Debian package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
82 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:10:05 -0400
84 ikiwiki (2.49) unstable; urgency=low
86 The search plugin no longer uses hyperestraier. Instead, to use it you
87 will now need to install xapian-omega, and the Search::Xapian,
88 HTML::Scrubber, and Digest::SHA1 perl modules. Ie,
89 `apt-get install xapian-omega libsearch-xapian-perl libhtml-scrubber-perl libdigest-sha1-perl`
91 Also, wikis that use the search plugin will need to be rebuilt,
92 since the search form has changed. This will not be done automatically,
93 but can be done by running `ikiwiki-mass-upgrade` as root, or
94 running `ikiwiki -setup` on individual setup files.
96 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:29:28 -0400
98 ikiwiki (2.48) unstable; urgency=high
100 If you allowed password based logins to your wiki, those passwords were
101 stored in cleartext in the userdb. To guard against exposing users'
102 passwords, I recommend you install the Authen::Passphrase perl module, and
103 then run `ikiwiki-transition hashpassword /path/to/srcdir` to replace all
104 existing cleartext passwords with strong (blowfish) hashes.
106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 May 2008 14:39:34 -0400
108 ikiwiki (2.46) unstable; urgency=low
110 There were some significant template changes in ikiwiki 2.42 (and 1.33.5).
111 If you have locally modified versions of the templates, they need to be
112 updated. Most notably, the editpage.tmpl has a new FIELD-SID added to it,
113 without which web editing will fail.
115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 May 2008 14:30:14 -0400
117 ikiwiki (2.40) unstable; urgency=low
119 ikiwiki now has an new syntax for preprocessor directives, using the
124 This new syntax no longer relies on spaces to distinguish between
125 wikilinks and preprocessor directives. Thus, wikilinks can use spaces
126 in their link text, and preprocessor directives without arguments (such
127 as "toc") need not use a trailing space.
129 To enable the new syntax, set prefix_directives to true in your ikiwiki
130 config. For backward compatibility with existing wikis,
131 prefix_directives currently defaults to false. In ikiwiki 3.0,
132 prefix_directives will default to true, and wikis which have not yet
133 converted to the new syntax will need to set prefix_directives to false
134 in their setup files.
136 To convert your wiki to the new syntax, ikiwiki provides a new script
139 Even with prefix_directives disabled, ikiwiki now allows an optional '!'
140 prefix on preprocessor directives (but still requires a space). Thus, a
141 directive which uses a '!' prefix and contains a space will work with
142 ikiwiki 2.40 and newer, regardless of the value of prefix_directives.
143 This allows the underlay to work with all ikiwikis.
145 -- Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 16:26:47 -0800
147 ikiwiki (2.30) unstable; urgency=low
149 Ever feel that ikiwiki's handling of RecentChanges wasn't truely in the
150 spirit of a wiki compiler? Well, that's changed. The RecentChanges page is
151 now a static page, not a CGI. Users can subscribe to its rss/atom feeds.
152 Custom RecentChanges pages can be easily set up that display only changes
153 to a subset of pages, or only changes by a subset of users.
155 All wikis need to be rebuilt on upgrade to this version. If you listed your
156 wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically when the
157 Debian package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
159 With this excellent new RecentChanges support, the mail notification system
160 is its age (and known to be variously buggy and underimplemented for
161 various VCSes), and so ikiwiki's support for sending commit mails is REMOVED
162 from this version. If you were subscribed to commit mails, you should be
163 able to accomplish the same thing by subscribing to a RecentChanges feed.
165 The "notify" field in setup files is no longer used, and
166 silently ignored. You may want to remove it from your setup file.
168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:18:31 -0500
170 ikiwiki (2.20) unstable; urgency=low
172 The template plugin has begin to htmlize the variables passed to templates.
173 This is normally what you want, but to get the old behavior and get at the
174 raw value, you can use `<TMPL_VAR raw_variable>` in a template.
176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Dec 2007 16:04:43 -0500
178 ikiwiki (2.16) unstable; urgency=low
180 Many of the pages in ikiwiki's basewiki have been moved and renamed in this
181 release, to avoid the basewiki including pages with names like "blog".
182 Redirection pages have been left behind for these moved pages temporarily,
183 and will be removed later.
185 If you use the calendar plugin, ikiwiki is now smarter and your nightly
186 cron job to update the wiki doesn't need to rebuild everything. Just pass
187 --refresh to ikiwiki in the cron job and it will update only pages that
188 contain out of date calendars.
190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Dec 2007 16:04:43 -0500
192 ikiwiki (2.14) unstable; urgency=low
194 This version of ikiwiki is more picky about symlinks in the path leading
195 to the srcdir, and will refuse to use a srcdir specified by such a path.
196 This was necessary to avoid some potential exploits, but could potentially
197 break (semi-)working wikis. If your wiki has a srcdir path containing a
198 symlink, you should change it to use a path that does not.
200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Nov 2007 14:57:57 -0500
202 ikiwiki (2.9) unstable; urgency=low
204 Since ikiwiki 2.0 was released, some limitiations have been added to what
205 ikiwiki considers a WikiLink. In short, if there are any spaces in between
206 the brackets, ikiwiki no longer considers it to be a WikiLink. If your wiki
207 contains things meant to be WikiLinks that contain spaces, you will need to
208 fix them, by replacing the spaces with underscores.
210 WikiLink have always been documented to not contain spaces, but bugs in
211 ikiwiki made it treat some text with spaces as WikiLinks. Most of these
212 bugs were fixed in version 2.2, and a final bug was fixed in this 2.9
213 release. These fixes are necessary to avoid ambiguity between
214 WikiLinks and PreProcessorDirectives. Apologies for any inconvenience
215 these bugs (and their fixes) may have caused.
217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Sep 2007 14:37:18 -0400
219 ikiwiki (2.6) unstable; urgency=low
221 In this version the rst plugin allows raw html to be embedded in rst files.
222 As long as the htmlscrubber is enabled, this should be safe. If you are
223 using the rst plugin without the htmlscrubber in a publically writable wiki,
224 you should turn on the htmlscrubber.
226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Jul 2007 18:37:22 -0400
228 ikiwiki (2.5) unstable; urgency=low
230 Due to some config changes in this version, wrappers need to be rebuilt on
231 upgrade. If you listed your wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be
232 one automatically when the Debian package is upgraded.
234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Jul 2007 17:54:40 -0400
236 ikiwiki (2.1) unstable; urgency=low
238 Some wikis need to be rebuilt on upgrade to this version, due to changes to
239 page templates and the style sheet. If you listed your wiki in
240 /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically when the Debian
241 package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Apr 2007 15:50:36 -0400
245 ikiwiki (2.00) unstable; urgency=low
247 With the 2.0 release of ikiwiki, some major changes have been made to the
248 default configuration:
250 * The 'usedirs' setting is enabled by default. This *will* break all URLs
251 to wikis that did not have 'usedirs' turned on before, unless you follow
252 the procedure described at <http://ikiwiki.info/tips/switching_to_usedirs>,
253 or edit your setup file to turn usedirs off:
256 * OpenID logins are now enabled by default, if the Net::OpenID::Consumer
257 perl module is available. Password logins are also still enabled
258 by default. If you like, you can turn either OpenID or password logins
259 off via the 'disable_plugins' setting.
261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Apr 2007 19:00:43 -0400
263 ikiwiki (1.51) unstable; urgency=low
265 Some wikis need to be rebuilt on upgrade to this version, due to changes to
266 page layout and the style sheet. If you listed your wiki in
267 /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically when the Debian
268 package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Apr 2007 15:50:36 -0400
272 ikiwiki (1.50) unstable; urgency=low
274 Permalinks and guids in rss and atom feeds for wikis using the usedirs
275 options will change in this release. If you have already enabled usedirs,
276 you may need to take steps to avoid flooding aggregators.
278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2007 16:08:46 -0400
280 ikiwiki (1.49) unstable; urgency=low
282 Third-party plugins that use htmlpage() or abs2rel() to generate links
283 may need changes to support the new "usedirs" option.
285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 01 Apr 2007 16:20:09 -0400
287 ikiwiki (1.47) unstable; urgency=low
289 Due to a security fix, wikis that have the htmlscrubber enabled can no
290 longer use the meta plugin to insert html link and meta tags.
292 Some special case methods have been added for safely including stylesheets,
293 and for doing openid delegation. See the meta plugin docs for details.
295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2007 14:18:40 -0400
297 ikiwiki (1.45) unstable; urgency=low
299 Wikis need to be rebuilt on upgrade to this version. If you listed your wiki
300 in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically when the Debian
301 package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Mar 2007 23:02:52 -0500
305 ikiwiki (1.44) unstable; urgency=low
307 The htmllink() function has changed slightly and plugins that use it may
308 need to change how they call it. This function's first three parameters
309 are unchanged, but additional options are now passed using named
310 parameters. If you used htmllink with more than 3 parameters, you will
311 need to change it. The plugin interface version has been increased to 1.02
312 to reflect this change.
314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Feb 2007 21:10:12 -0500
316 ikiwiki (1.42) unstable; urgency=low
318 The anonok setting in config files has been removed. To enable
319 httpauth support on your wiki, you should now enable the anonok plugin,
322 Third-party plugins that use pagespec_match() should be updated to pass
323 the new third parameter (from) to that function. This is needed for the
324 new relative glob matching to work.
326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2007 16:57:59 -0500
328 ikiwiki (1.34) unstable; urgency=low
330 The httpauth setting in config files has been removed. To enable
331 httpauth support on your wiki, you should now enable the httpauth plugin,
334 This release includes OpenID support that is enabled through the openid
335 plugin. I recommend turning this on to make it easier for users to sign
338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2006 20:53:05 -0500
340 ikiwiki (1.32) unstable; urgency=low
342 There is a change to the plugin interface in this version. Any plugins that
343 modify data in %links should pass scan => 1 when registering the hook that
346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2006 00:13:12 -0400
348 ikiwiki (1.29) unstable; urgency=low
350 Wikis need to be rebuilt on upgrade to this version. If you listed your wiki
351 in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically when the Debian
352 package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
354 There is a change to the plugin interface in this version. Plugins that use
355 %renderedfiles will need to be updated, as the hash's values are now arrays
356 of rendered files. Plugins that cause a page to render additional files
357 should use the new will_render function to register the files.
359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Oct 2006 17:27:56 -0400
361 ikiwiki (1.22) unstable; urgency=low
363 Due to some changes in the CSS, wikis should be rebuilt on upgrade to this
364 version. If you listed your wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done
365 automatically when the Debian package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild
368 If you have modified versions of ikiwiki's html templates, you will need
369 to update your templates to link to the stylesheet file using
370 "<TMPL_VAR BASEURL>style.css" instead of the old method which used
373 There have also been some changes to the plugin interface:
374 Any plugins that use santize, htmlize, or format hooks will need to be
375 updated for this version of ikiwiki since these hooks have been changed
376 to use named parameters.
378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2006 15:33:12 -0400
380 ikiwiki (1.13) unstable; urgency=low
382 The GlobList format which was used for specifiying sets of pages, has been
383 replaced with a new, more expressive PageSpec format. While GlobLists will
384 continue to work, that format is deprecated, and you are encouraged to use
385 PageSpecs from now on, and also to change any GlobLists in your wiki to
386 PageSpecs. See the new PageSpec page for details.
388 You will need to rebuild your wiki when upgrading to this version. If you
389 listed your wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically
390 when the Debian package is upgraded. Or use ikiiki-mass-rebuild to force a
393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Aug 2006 18:29:51 -0400
395 ikiwiki (1.11) unstable; urgency=low
397 Some changes to tags in this release, due to a new tag plugin. If you have
398 been using the meta plugin to tag pages, you'll want to enable the tag
399 plugin too, and change things like this:
401 [[meta link="foobar"]]
407 The new tags will appear at page footers, and are also easier to type.
409 There have also been some changes to the plugin interface, particularly the
410 interface of pagetemplate hooks has changed. See the changelog for details.
412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Jul 2006 17:03:09 -0400
414 ikiwiki (1.8) unstable; urgency=low
416 If your wiki is configured with a setup file, you should modify it to
417 stop setting the "plugin" list directly, and instead add or remove plugins
418 via the add_plugins and disable_plugins lines. For example, if you had:
420 plugin => [qw{inline smiley search}],
422 Change it to these lines, which disables the default htmlscrubber plugin
423 and adds the two additional plugins:
425 add_plugins => [qw{smiley search}],
426 disable_plugins => [qw{htmlscrubber}],
428 Making this change makes your ikiwiki setup file more future-proof since
429 new default plugins will be automatically used.
431 You will need to rebuild your ikiwiki wrappers when upgrading to this
432 version. If you listed your wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be
433 done automatically when the Debian package is upgraded. Or use
434 ikiiki-mass-rebuild --refresh to force a refresh.
436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Jul 2006 16:59:29 -0400
438 ikiwiki (1.1) unstable; urgency=low
440 There have been several configuration changes in this release of ikiwiki:
442 The --svn and --no-svn switches are removed, instead you should use
443 --rcs=svn or --no-rcs. ikiwiki setup files that set svn => 1 should
444 be changed to set rcs => "svn"; if your setup file sets svn => 0
445 then change it to use rcs => "" to disable svn.
447 The --hyperestraier switch is gone too. To enable searching, turn on the
448 search plugin, by passing --plugin=search or through the plugin setting in
451 The --sanitize and --no-sanitize switches are also gone, replaced with the
452 htmlscrubber plugin. This plugin is enabled by default, to disable it,
453 use --disable-plugin=htmlscrubber, or modify the plugin setting in the
456 Discussion pages are enabled by default, but if your wiki is configured
457 with a setup file, you need to edit it to keep them enabled on upgrade
458 to this version. Add a line reading:
461 You will need to rebuild your wiki when upgrading to this version.
462 If you listed your wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done
463 automatically when the Debian package is upgraded. Or use
464 ikiiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 May 2006 14:13:59 -0400