1 ikiwiki (3.20100422) unstable; urgency=low
3 This version of ikiwiki has a lot of changes that you need to know about.
5 Now you can include customised versions of templates in the source
6 of your wiki. (For example, templates/page.tmpl.) When these templates
7 are changed, ikiwiki will automatically rebuild pages that use them.
9 The --getctime switch is renamed to --gettimes, and it also gets the
10 file modification time. And it's a lot faster (when using git). But
11 the really important change is, you don't have to remember to use this
12 switch. Now ikiwiki will do it when it needs to.
14 At last, the "tagged()" pagespec only matches tags, not regular wikilinks.
15 If your wiki accidentially relied on the old, buggy behavior, you might
16 need to change its pagespecs to use "link()".
18 Many of your wishes have been answered: Now tag pages can automatically be
19 created when new tags are used. This feature is enabled by default if you
20 have configured a tagbase. It can be turned on or off using the
21 tag_autocreate setting.
23 These changes may also affect some users:
25 * The title_natural sort method (as used by the inline directive, etc)
26 have been moved to the new sortnaturally plugin, which is not enabled
27 by default since it requires the Sort::Naturally perl module.
29 * TMPL_INCLUDE is no longer supported in any template used by ikiwiki.
30 It used to be allowed in certian templates, but not in others.
32 * The add_templates option has been removed from the underlay plugin.
33 If you used this option, you can instead use templates/ subdirectories
34 inside underlay directories added by the add_underlays option.
36 Due to the above and other changes, all wikis need to be rebuilt on
37 upgrade to this version. If you listed your wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist
38 this will be done automatically when the Debian package is upgraded. Or
39 use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
41 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Apr 2010 20:31:29 -0400
43 ikiwiki (3.20091017) unstable; urgency=low
45 To take advantage of significant performance improvements, all
46 wikis need to be rebuilt on upgrade to this version. If you
47 listed your wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done
48 automatically when the Debian package is upgraded. Or use
49 ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
51 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:48:59 -0400
53 ikiwiki (3.1415926) unstable; urgency=low
55 In order to fix a performance bug, all wikis need to be rebuilt on
56 upgrade to this version. If you listed your wiki in
57 /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically when the
58 Debian package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force
61 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:24:43 -0400
63 ikiwiki (3.13) unstable; urgency=low
65 The `ikiwiki-transition deduplinks` command introduced in the
66 last release was buggy. If you followed the NEWS file instructions
67 and ran it, you should run `ikiwiki -setup` to rebuild your wiki
70 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 May 2009 13:04:02 -0400
72 ikiwiki (3.12) unstable; urgency=low
74 You may want to run `ikiwiki-transition deduplinks your.setup`
75 after upgrading to this version of ikiwiki. This command will
76 optimise your wiki's saved state, removing duplicate information
77 that can slow ikiwiki down.
79 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 06 May 2009 00:25:06 -0400
81 ikiwiki (3.01) unstable; urgency=low
83 If your wiki uses git, and you have a `diffurl` configured in
84 its setup file, you should be aware that gitweb has stopped
85 supporting the url form commonly used for the `diffurl`.
87 You can change your setup to use the newer gitweb url form:
89 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]]
91 The changes from the old form are the addition of the `hpb` parameter,
92 and the change to the value used for the `hb` parameter.
94 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 05 Jan 2009 18:18:05 -0500
96 ikiwiki (3.00) unstable; urgency=low
98 The 3.0 release of ikiwiki changes several defaults and finishes
99 some transitions. You will need to modify your wikis to work with
100 ikiwiki 3.0. A document explaining the process is available
101 in </usr/share/doc/ikiwiki/html/tips/upgrade_to_3.0.html>
103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:14:18 -0500
105 ikiwiki (2.62) unstable; urgency=low
107 TexImg standard preamble changed
109 The teximg plugin now has a configurable LaTeX preamble.
110 As part of this change the `mchem` LaTeX package has been removed from
111 the default LaTeX preamble as it wasn't included in many TeX installations.
113 The previous behaviour can be restored by adding the following to your
116 teximg_prefix => '\documentclass{scrartcl}
117 \usepackage[version=3]{mhchem}
119 \usepackage{amsfonts}
124 In addition, the rendering mechanism has been changed to use `dvipng` by
125 default, if available.
127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Aug 2008 15:00:40 -0400
129 ikiwiki (2.60) unstable; urgency=low
131 Admin preferences are moving from the web interface to the setup file.
132 There are three new options in the setup file: `locked_pages`, `banned_users`,
133 and `allowed_attachments`. The admin prefs page can still be used, but
134 that's deprecated, and the prefs will be hidden if a value is not already
135 set. If a value is set in the web interface, you're encouraged to move that
136 setting to your setup file now, since version 3.0 will remove the deprecated
137 admin prefs web interface.
139 Also, the layout of the setup file has changed in a significant way in this
140 release. Old setup files will continue to work, but new features, like the
141 new websetup interface, require a new format setup file. You can convert
142 old setup files into the new format by running
143 `ikiwiki-transition setupformat ikiwiki.setup`
145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:02:14 -0400
147 ikiwiki (2.52) unstable; urgency=low
149 All wikis need to be rebuilt on upgrade to this version. If you listed your
150 wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically when the
151 Debian package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:10:05 -0400
155 ikiwiki (2.49) unstable; urgency=low
157 The search plugin no longer uses hyperestraier. Instead, to use it you
158 will now need to install xapian-omega, and the Search::Xapian,
159 HTML::Scrubber, and Digest::SHA1 perl modules. Ie,
160 `apt-get install xapian-omega libsearch-xapian-perl libhtml-scrubber-perl libdigest-sha1-perl`
162 Also, wikis that use the search plugin will need to be rebuilt,
163 since the search form has changed. This will not be done automatically,
164 but can be done by running `ikiwiki-mass-upgrade` as root, or
165 running `ikiwiki -setup` on individual setup files.
167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:29:28 -0400
169 ikiwiki (2.48) unstable; urgency=high
171 If you allowed password based logins to your wiki, those passwords were
172 stored in cleartext in the userdb. To guard against exposing users'
173 passwords, I recommend you install the Authen::Passphrase perl module, and
174 then run `ikiwiki-transition hashpassword /path/to/srcdir` to replace all
175 existing cleartext passwords with strong (blowfish) hashes.
177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 May 2008 14:39:34 -0400
179 ikiwiki (2.46) unstable; urgency=low
181 There were some significant template changes in ikiwiki 2.42 (and 1.33.5).
182 If you have locally modified versions of the templates, they need to be
183 updated. Most notably, the editpage.tmpl has a new FIELD-SID added to it,
184 without which web editing will fail.
186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 May 2008 14:30:14 -0400
188 ikiwiki (2.40) unstable; urgency=low
190 ikiwiki now has an new syntax for preprocessor directives, using the
195 This new syntax no longer relies on spaces to distinguish between
196 wikilinks and preprocessor directives. Thus, wikilinks can use spaces
197 in their link text, and preprocessor directives without arguments (such
198 as "toc") need not use a trailing space.
200 To enable the new syntax, set prefix_directives to true in your ikiwiki
201 config. For backward compatibility with existing wikis,
202 prefix_directives currently defaults to false. In ikiwiki 3.0,
203 prefix_directives will default to true, and wikis which have not yet
204 converted to the new syntax will need to set prefix_directives to false
205 in their setup files.
207 To convert your wiki to the new syntax, ikiwiki provides a new script
210 Even with prefix_directives disabled, ikiwiki now allows an optional '!'
211 prefix on preprocessor directives (but still requires a space). Thus, a
212 directive which uses a '!' prefix and contains a space will work with
213 ikiwiki 2.40 and newer, regardless of the value of prefix_directives.
214 This allows the underlay to work with all ikiwikis.
216 -- Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 16:26:47 -0800
218 ikiwiki (2.30) unstable; urgency=low
220 Ever feel that ikiwiki's handling of RecentChanges wasn't truely in the
221 spirit of a wiki compiler? Well, that's changed. The RecentChanges page is
222 now a static page, not a CGI. Users can subscribe to its rss/atom feeds.
223 Custom RecentChanges pages can be easily set up that display only changes
224 to a subset of pages, or only changes by a subset of users.
226 All wikis need to be rebuilt on upgrade to this version. If you listed your
227 wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically when the
228 Debian package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
230 With this excellent new RecentChanges support, the mail notification system
231 is its age (and known to be variously buggy and underimplemented for
232 various VCSes), and so ikiwiki's support for sending commit mails is REMOVED
233 from this version. If you were subscribed to commit mails, you should be
234 able to accomplish the same thing by subscribing to a RecentChanges feed.
236 The "notify" field in setup files is no longer used, and
237 silently ignored. You may want to remove it from your setup file.
239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:18:31 -0500
241 ikiwiki (2.20) unstable; urgency=low
243 The template plugin has begin to htmlize the variables passed to templates.
244 This is normally what you want, but to get the old behavior and get at the
245 raw value, you can use `<TMPL_VAR raw_variable>` in a template.
247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Dec 2007 16:04:43 -0500
249 ikiwiki (2.16) unstable; urgency=low
251 Many of the pages in ikiwiki's basewiki have been moved and renamed in this
252 release, to avoid the basewiki including pages with names like "blog".
253 Redirection pages have been left behind for these moved pages temporarily,
254 and will be removed later.
256 If you use the calendar plugin, ikiwiki is now smarter and your nightly
257 cron job to update the wiki doesn't need to rebuild everything. Just pass
258 --refresh to ikiwiki in the cron job and it will update only pages that
259 contain out of date calendars.
261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Dec 2007 16:04:43 -0500
263 ikiwiki (2.14) unstable; urgency=low
265 This version of ikiwiki is more picky about symlinks in the path leading
266 to the srcdir, and will refuse to use a srcdir specified by such a path.
267 This was necessary to avoid some potential exploits, but could potentially
268 break (semi-)working wikis. If your wiki has a srcdir path containing a
269 symlink, you should change it to use a path that does not.
271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Nov 2007 14:57:57 -0500
273 ikiwiki (2.9) unstable; urgency=low
275 Since ikiwiki 2.0 was released, some limitiations have been added to what
276 ikiwiki considers a WikiLink. In short, if there are any spaces in between
277 the brackets, ikiwiki no longer considers it to be a WikiLink. If your wiki
278 contains things meant to be WikiLinks that contain spaces, you will need to
279 fix them, by replacing the spaces with underscores.
281 WikiLink have always been documented to not contain spaces, but bugs in
282 ikiwiki made it treat some text with spaces as WikiLinks. Most of these
283 bugs were fixed in version 2.2, and a final bug was fixed in this 2.9
284 release. These fixes are necessary to avoid ambiguity between
285 WikiLinks and PreProcessorDirectives. Apologies for any inconvenience
286 these bugs (and their fixes) may have caused.
288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Sep 2007 14:37:18 -0400
290 ikiwiki (2.6) unstable; urgency=low
292 In this version the rst plugin allows raw html to be embedded in rst files.
293 As long as the htmlscrubber is enabled, this should be safe. If you are
294 using the rst plugin without the htmlscrubber in a publically writable wiki,
295 you should turn on the htmlscrubber.
297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Jul 2007 18:37:22 -0400
299 ikiwiki (2.5) unstable; urgency=low
301 Due to some config changes in this version, wrappers need to be rebuilt on
302 upgrade. If you listed your wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be
303 one automatically when the Debian package is upgraded.
305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Jul 2007 17:54:40 -0400
307 ikiwiki (2.1) unstable; urgency=low
309 Some wikis need to be rebuilt on upgrade to this version, due to changes to
310 page templates and the style sheet. If you listed your wiki in
311 /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically when the Debian
312 package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Apr 2007 15:50:36 -0400
316 ikiwiki (2.00) unstable; urgency=low
318 With the 2.0 release of ikiwiki, some major changes have been made to the
319 default configuration:
321 * The 'usedirs' setting is enabled by default. This *will* break all URLs
322 to wikis that did not have 'usedirs' turned on before, unless you follow
323 the procedure described at <http://ikiwiki.info/tips/switching_to_usedirs>,
324 or edit your setup file to turn usedirs off:
327 * OpenID logins are now enabled by default, if the Net::OpenID::Consumer
328 perl module is available. Password logins are also still enabled
329 by default. If you like, you can turn either OpenID or password logins
330 off via the 'disable_plugins' setting.
332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Apr 2007 19:00:43 -0400
334 ikiwiki (1.51) unstable; urgency=low
336 Some wikis need to be rebuilt on upgrade to this version, due to changes to
337 page layout and the style sheet. If you listed your wiki in
338 /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically when the Debian
339 package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Apr 2007 15:50:36 -0400
343 ikiwiki (1.50) unstable; urgency=low
345 Permalinks and guids in rss and atom feeds for wikis using the usedirs
346 options will change in this release. If you have already enabled usedirs,
347 you may need to take steps to avoid flooding aggregators.
349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2007 16:08:46 -0400
351 ikiwiki (1.49) unstable; urgency=low
353 Third-party plugins that use htmlpage() or abs2rel() to generate links
354 may need changes to support the new "usedirs" option.
356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 01 Apr 2007 16:20:09 -0400
358 ikiwiki (1.47) unstable; urgency=low
360 Due to a security fix, wikis that have the htmlscrubber enabled can no
361 longer use the meta plugin to insert html link and meta tags.
363 Some special case methods have been added for safely including stylesheets,
364 and for doing openid delegation. See the meta plugin docs for details.
366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2007 14:18:40 -0400
368 ikiwiki (1.45) unstable; urgency=low
370 Wikis need to be rebuilt on upgrade to this version. If you listed your wiki
371 in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically when the Debian
372 package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Mar 2007 23:02:52 -0500
376 ikiwiki (1.44) unstable; urgency=low
378 The htmllink() function has changed slightly and plugins that use it may
379 need to change how they call it. This function's first three parameters
380 are unchanged, but additional options are now passed using named
381 parameters. If you used htmllink with more than 3 parameters, you will
382 need to change it. The plugin interface version has been increased to 1.02
383 to reflect this change.
385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Feb 2007 21:10:12 -0500
387 ikiwiki (1.42) unstable; urgency=low
389 The anonok setting in config files has been removed. To enable
390 httpauth support on your wiki, you should now enable the anonok plugin,
393 Third-party plugins that use pagespec_match() should be updated to pass
394 the new third parameter (from) to that function. This is needed for the
395 new relative glob matching to work.
397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2007 16:57:59 -0500
399 ikiwiki (1.34) unstable; urgency=low
401 The httpauth setting in config files has been removed. To enable
402 httpauth support on your wiki, you should now enable the httpauth plugin,
405 This release includes OpenID support that is enabled through the openid
406 plugin. I recommend turning this on to make it easier for users to sign
409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2006 20:53:05 -0500
411 ikiwiki (1.32) unstable; urgency=low
413 There is a change to the plugin interface in this version. Any plugins that
414 modify data in %links should pass scan => 1 when registering the hook that
417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2006 00:13:12 -0400
419 ikiwiki (1.29) unstable; urgency=low
421 Wikis need to be rebuilt on upgrade to this version. If you listed your wiki
422 in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically when the Debian
423 package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
425 There is a change to the plugin interface in this version. Plugins that use
426 %renderedfiles will need to be updated, as the hash's values are now arrays
427 of rendered files. Plugins that cause a page to render additional files
428 should use the new will_render function to register the files.
430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Oct 2006 17:27:56 -0400
432 ikiwiki (1.22) unstable; urgency=low
434 Due to some changes in the CSS, wikis should be rebuilt on upgrade to this
435 version. If you listed your wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done
436 automatically when the Debian package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild
439 If you have modified versions of ikiwiki's html templates, you will need
440 to update your templates to link to the stylesheet file using
441 "<TMPL_VAR BASEURL>style.css" instead of the old method which used
444 There have also been some changes to the plugin interface:
445 Any plugins that use santize, htmlize, or format hooks will need to be
446 updated for this version of ikiwiki since these hooks have been changed
447 to use named parameters.
449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2006 15:33:12 -0400
451 ikiwiki (1.13) unstable; urgency=low
453 The GlobList format which was used for specifiying sets of pages, has been
454 replaced with a new, more expressive PageSpec format. While GlobLists will
455 continue to work, that format is deprecated, and you are encouraged to use
456 PageSpecs from now on, and also to change any GlobLists in your wiki to
457 PageSpecs. See the new PageSpec page for details.
459 You will need to rebuild your wiki when upgrading to this version. If you
460 listed your wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically
461 when the Debian package is upgraded. Or use ikiiki-mass-rebuild to force a
464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Aug 2006 18:29:51 -0400
466 ikiwiki (1.11) unstable; urgency=low
468 Some changes to tags in this release, due to a new tag plugin. If you have
469 been using the meta plugin to tag pages, you'll want to enable the tag
470 plugin too, and change things like this:
472 [[meta link="foobar"]]
478 The new tags will appear at page footers, and are also easier to type.
480 There have also been some changes to the plugin interface, particularly the
481 interface of pagetemplate hooks has changed. See the changelog for details.
483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Jul 2006 17:03:09 -0400
485 ikiwiki (1.8) unstable; urgency=low
487 If your wiki is configured with a setup file, you should modify it to
488 stop setting the "plugin" list directly, and instead add or remove plugins
489 via the add_plugins and disable_plugins lines. For example, if you had:
491 plugin => [qw{inline smiley search}],
493 Change it to these lines, which disables the default htmlscrubber plugin
494 and adds the two additional plugins:
496 add_plugins => [qw{smiley search}],
497 disable_plugins => [qw{htmlscrubber}],
499 Making this change makes your ikiwiki setup file more future-proof since
500 new default plugins will be automatically used.
502 You will need to rebuild your ikiwiki wrappers when upgrading to this
503 version. If you listed your wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be
504 done automatically when the Debian package is upgraded. Or use
505 ikiiki-mass-rebuild --refresh to force a refresh.
507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Jul 2006 16:59:29 -0400
509 ikiwiki (1.1) unstable; urgency=low
511 There have been several configuration changes in this release of ikiwiki:
513 The --svn and --no-svn switches are removed, instead you should use
514 --rcs=svn or --no-rcs. ikiwiki setup files that set svn => 1 should
515 be changed to set rcs => "svn"; if your setup file sets svn => 0
516 then change it to use rcs => "" to disable svn.
518 The --hyperestraier switch is gone too. To enable searching, turn on the
519 search plugin, by passing --plugin=search or through the plugin setting in
522 The --sanitize and --no-sanitize switches are also gone, replaced with the
523 htmlscrubber plugin. This plugin is enabled by default, to disable it,
524 use --disable-plugin=htmlscrubber, or modify the plugin setting in the
527 Discussion pages are enabled by default, but if your wiki is configured
528 with a setup file, you need to edit it to keep them enabled on upgrade
529 to this version. Add a line reading:
532 You will need to rebuild your wiki when upgrading to this version.
533 If you listed your wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done
534 automatically when the Debian package is upgraded. Or use
535 ikiiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 May 2006 14:13:59 -0400