1 ikiwiki (3.14159266) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 To take advantage of significant performance improvements, all
4 wikis need to be rebuilt on upgrade to this version. If you
5 listed your wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done
6 automatically when the Debian package is upgraded. Or use
7 ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
9 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:48:59 -0400
11 ikiwiki (3.1415926) unstable; urgency=low
13 In order to fix a performance bug, all wikis need to be rebuilt on
14 upgrade to this version. If you listed your wiki in
15 /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically when the
16 Debian package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force
19 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:24:43 -0400
21 ikiwiki (3.13) unstable; urgency=low
23 The `ikiwiki-transition deduplinks` command introduced in the
24 last release was buggy. If you followed the NEWS file instructions
25 and ran it, you should run `ikiwiki -setup` to rebuild your wiki
28 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 May 2009 13:04:02 -0400
30 ikiwiki (3.12) unstable; urgency=low
32 You may want to run `ikiwiki-transition deduplinks your.setup`
33 after upgrading to this version of ikiwiki. This command will
34 optimise your wiki's saved state, removing duplicate information
35 that can slow ikiwiki down.
37 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 06 May 2009 00:25:06 -0400
39 ikiwiki (3.01) unstable; urgency=low
41 If your wiki uses git, and you have a `diffurl` configured in
42 its setup file, you should be aware that gitweb has stopped
43 supporting the url form commonly used for the `diffurl`.
45 You can change your setup to use the newer gitweb url form:
47 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]]
49 The changes from the old form are the addition of the `hpb` parameter,
50 and the change to the value used for the `hb` parameter.
52 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 05 Jan 2009 18:18:05 -0500
54 ikiwiki (3.00) unstable; urgency=low
56 The 3.0 release of ikiwiki changes several defaults and finishes
57 some transitions. You will need to modify your wikis to work with
58 ikiwiki 3.0. A document explaining the process is available
59 in </usr/share/doc/ikiwiki/html/tips/upgrade_to_3.0.html>
61 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:14:18 -0500
63 ikiwiki (2.62) unstable; urgency=low
65 TexImg standard preamble changed
67 The teximg plugin now has a configurable LaTeX preamble.
68 As part of this change the `mchem` LaTeX package has been removed from
69 the default LaTeX preamble as it wasn't included in many TeX installations.
71 The previous behaviour can be restored by adding the following to your
74 teximg_prefix => '\documentclass{scrartcl}
75 \usepackage[version=3]{mhchem}
82 In addition, the rendering mechanism has been changed to use `dvipng` by
83 default, if available.
85 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Aug 2008 15:00:40 -0400
87 ikiwiki (2.60) unstable; urgency=low
89 Admin preferences are moving from the web interface to the setup file.
90 There are three new options in the setup file: `locked_pages`, `banned_users`,
91 and `allowed_attachments`. The admin prefs page can still be used, but
92 that's deprecated, and the prefs will be hidden if a value is not already
93 set. If a value is set in the web interface, you're encouraged to move that
94 setting to your setup file now, since version 3.0 will remove the deprecated
95 admin prefs web interface.
97 Also, the layout of the setup file has changed in a significant way in this
98 release. Old setup files will continue to work, but new features, like the
99 new websetup interface, require a new format setup file. You can convert
100 old setup files into the new format by running
101 `ikiwiki-transition setupformat ikiwiki.setup`
103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:02:14 -0400
105 ikiwiki (2.52) unstable; urgency=low
107 All wikis need to be rebuilt on upgrade to this version. If you listed your
108 wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically when the
109 Debian package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:10:05 -0400
113 ikiwiki (2.49) unstable; urgency=low
115 The search plugin no longer uses hyperestraier. Instead, to use it you
116 will now need to install xapian-omega, and the Search::Xapian,
117 HTML::Scrubber, and Digest::SHA1 perl modules. Ie,
118 `apt-get install xapian-omega libsearch-xapian-perl libhtml-scrubber-perl libdigest-sha1-perl`
120 Also, wikis that use the search plugin will need to be rebuilt,
121 since the search form has changed. This will not be done automatically,
122 but can be done by running `ikiwiki-mass-upgrade` as root, or
123 running `ikiwiki -setup` on individual setup files.
125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:29:28 -0400
127 ikiwiki (2.48) unstable; urgency=high
129 If you allowed password based logins to your wiki, those passwords were
130 stored in cleartext in the userdb. To guard against exposing users'
131 passwords, I recommend you install the Authen::Passphrase perl module, and
132 then run `ikiwiki-transition hashpassword /path/to/srcdir` to replace all
133 existing cleartext passwords with strong (blowfish) hashes.
135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 May 2008 14:39:34 -0400
137 ikiwiki (2.46) unstable; urgency=low
139 There were some significant template changes in ikiwiki 2.42 (and 1.33.5).
140 If you have locally modified versions of the templates, they need to be
141 updated. Most notably, the editpage.tmpl has a new FIELD-SID added to it,
142 without which web editing will fail.
144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 May 2008 14:30:14 -0400
146 ikiwiki (2.40) unstable; urgency=low
148 ikiwiki now has an new syntax for preprocessor directives, using the
153 This new syntax no longer relies on spaces to distinguish between
154 wikilinks and preprocessor directives. Thus, wikilinks can use spaces
155 in their link text, and preprocessor directives without arguments (such
156 as "toc") need not use a trailing space.
158 To enable the new syntax, set prefix_directives to true in your ikiwiki
159 config. For backward compatibility with existing wikis,
160 prefix_directives currently defaults to false. In ikiwiki 3.0,
161 prefix_directives will default to true, and wikis which have not yet
162 converted to the new syntax will need to set prefix_directives to false
163 in their setup files.
165 To convert your wiki to the new syntax, ikiwiki provides a new script
168 Even with prefix_directives disabled, ikiwiki now allows an optional '!'
169 prefix on preprocessor directives (but still requires a space). Thus, a
170 directive which uses a '!' prefix and contains a space will work with
171 ikiwiki 2.40 and newer, regardless of the value of prefix_directives.
172 This allows the underlay to work with all ikiwikis.
174 -- Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 16:26:47 -0800
176 ikiwiki (2.30) unstable; urgency=low
178 Ever feel that ikiwiki's handling of RecentChanges wasn't truely in the
179 spirit of a wiki compiler? Well, that's changed. The RecentChanges page is
180 now a static page, not a CGI. Users can subscribe to its rss/atom feeds.
181 Custom RecentChanges pages can be easily set up that display only changes
182 to a subset of pages, or only changes by a subset of users.
184 All wikis need to be rebuilt on upgrade to this version. If you listed your
185 wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically when the
186 Debian package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
188 With this excellent new RecentChanges support, the mail notification system
189 is its age (and known to be variously buggy and underimplemented for
190 various VCSes), and so ikiwiki's support for sending commit mails is REMOVED
191 from this version. If you were subscribed to commit mails, you should be
192 able to accomplish the same thing by subscribing to a RecentChanges feed.
194 The "notify" field in setup files is no longer used, and
195 silently ignored. You may want to remove it from your setup file.
197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:18:31 -0500
199 ikiwiki (2.20) unstable; urgency=low
201 The template plugin has begin to htmlize the variables passed to templates.
202 This is normally what you want, but to get the old behavior and get at the
203 raw value, you can use `<TMPL_VAR raw_variable>` in a template.
205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Dec 2007 16:04:43 -0500
207 ikiwiki (2.16) unstable; urgency=low
209 Many of the pages in ikiwiki's basewiki have been moved and renamed in this
210 release, to avoid the basewiki including pages with names like "blog".
211 Redirection pages have been left behind for these moved pages temporarily,
212 and will be removed later.
214 If you use the calendar plugin, ikiwiki is now smarter and your nightly
215 cron job to update the wiki doesn't need to rebuild everything. Just pass
216 --refresh to ikiwiki in the cron job and it will update only pages that
217 contain out of date calendars.
219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Dec 2007 16:04:43 -0500
221 ikiwiki (2.14) unstable; urgency=low
223 This version of ikiwiki is more picky about symlinks in the path leading
224 to the srcdir, and will refuse to use a srcdir specified by such a path.
225 This was necessary to avoid some potential exploits, but could potentially
226 break (semi-)working wikis. If your wiki has a srcdir path containing a
227 symlink, you should change it to use a path that does not.
229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Nov 2007 14:57:57 -0500
231 ikiwiki (2.9) unstable; urgency=low
233 Since ikiwiki 2.0 was released, some limitiations have been added to what
234 ikiwiki considers a WikiLink. In short, if there are any spaces in between
235 the brackets, ikiwiki no longer considers it to be a WikiLink. If your wiki
236 contains things meant to be WikiLinks that contain spaces, you will need to
237 fix them, by replacing the spaces with underscores.
239 WikiLink have always been documented to not contain spaces, but bugs in
240 ikiwiki made it treat some text with spaces as WikiLinks. Most of these
241 bugs were fixed in version 2.2, and a final bug was fixed in this 2.9
242 release. These fixes are necessary to avoid ambiguity between
243 WikiLinks and PreProcessorDirectives. Apologies for any inconvenience
244 these bugs (and their fixes) may have caused.
246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Sep 2007 14:37:18 -0400
248 ikiwiki (2.6) unstable; urgency=low
250 In this version the rst plugin allows raw html to be embedded in rst files.
251 As long as the htmlscrubber is enabled, this should be safe. If you are
252 using the rst plugin without the htmlscrubber in a publically writable wiki,
253 you should turn on the htmlscrubber.
255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Jul 2007 18:37:22 -0400
257 ikiwiki (2.5) unstable; urgency=low
259 Due to some config changes in this version, wrappers need to be rebuilt on
260 upgrade. If you listed your wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be
261 one automatically when the Debian package is upgraded.
263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Jul 2007 17:54:40 -0400
265 ikiwiki (2.1) unstable; urgency=low
267 Some wikis need to be rebuilt on upgrade to this version, due to changes to
268 page templates and the style sheet. If you listed your wiki in
269 /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically when the Debian
270 package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Apr 2007 15:50:36 -0400
274 ikiwiki (2.00) unstable; urgency=low
276 With the 2.0 release of ikiwiki, some major changes have been made to the
277 default configuration:
279 * The 'usedirs' setting is enabled by default. This *will* break all URLs
280 to wikis that did not have 'usedirs' turned on before, unless you follow
281 the procedure described at <http://ikiwiki.info/tips/switching_to_usedirs>,
282 or edit your setup file to turn usedirs off:
285 * OpenID logins are now enabled by default, if the Net::OpenID::Consumer
286 perl module is available. Password logins are also still enabled
287 by default. If you like, you can turn either OpenID or password logins
288 off via the 'disable_plugins' setting.
290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Apr 2007 19:00:43 -0400
292 ikiwiki (1.51) unstable; urgency=low
294 Some wikis need to be rebuilt on upgrade to this version, due to changes to
295 page layout and the style sheet. If you listed your wiki in
296 /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically when the Debian
297 package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Apr 2007 15:50:36 -0400
301 ikiwiki (1.50) unstable; urgency=low
303 Permalinks and guids in rss and atom feeds for wikis using the usedirs
304 options will change in this release. If you have already enabled usedirs,
305 you may need to take steps to avoid flooding aggregators.
307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2007 16:08:46 -0400
309 ikiwiki (1.49) unstable; urgency=low
311 Third-party plugins that use htmlpage() or abs2rel() to generate links
312 may need changes to support the new "usedirs" option.
314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 01 Apr 2007 16:20:09 -0400
316 ikiwiki (1.47) unstable; urgency=low
318 Due to a security fix, wikis that have the htmlscrubber enabled can no
319 longer use the meta plugin to insert html link and meta tags.
321 Some special case methods have been added for safely including stylesheets,
322 and for doing openid delegation. See the meta plugin docs for details.
324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2007 14:18:40 -0400
326 ikiwiki (1.45) unstable; urgency=low
328 Wikis need to be rebuilt on upgrade to this version. If you listed your wiki
329 in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically when the Debian
330 package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Mar 2007 23:02:52 -0500
334 ikiwiki (1.44) unstable; urgency=low
336 The htmllink() function has changed slightly and plugins that use it may
337 need to change how they call it. This function's first three parameters
338 are unchanged, but additional options are now passed using named
339 parameters. If you used htmllink with more than 3 parameters, you will
340 need to change it. The plugin interface version has been increased to 1.02
341 to reflect this change.
343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Feb 2007 21:10:12 -0500
345 ikiwiki (1.42) unstable; urgency=low
347 The anonok setting in config files has been removed. To enable
348 httpauth support on your wiki, you should now enable the anonok plugin,
351 Third-party plugins that use pagespec_match() should be updated to pass
352 the new third parameter (from) to that function. This is needed for the
353 new relative glob matching to work.
355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2007 16:57:59 -0500
357 ikiwiki (1.34) unstable; urgency=low
359 The httpauth setting in config files has been removed. To enable
360 httpauth support on your wiki, you should now enable the httpauth plugin,
363 This release includes OpenID support that is enabled through the openid
364 plugin. I recommend turning this on to make it easier for users to sign
367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2006 20:53:05 -0500
369 ikiwiki (1.32) unstable; urgency=low
371 There is a change to the plugin interface in this version. Any plugins that
372 modify data in %links should pass scan => 1 when registering the hook that
375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2006 00:13:12 -0400
377 ikiwiki (1.29) unstable; urgency=low
379 Wikis need to be rebuilt on upgrade to this version. If you listed your wiki
380 in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically when the Debian
381 package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
383 There is a change to the plugin interface in this version. Plugins that use
384 %renderedfiles will need to be updated, as the hash's values are now arrays
385 of rendered files. Plugins that cause a page to render additional files
386 should use the new will_render function to register the files.
388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Oct 2006 17:27:56 -0400
390 ikiwiki (1.22) unstable; urgency=low
392 Due to some changes in the CSS, wikis should be rebuilt on upgrade to this
393 version. If you listed your wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done
394 automatically when the Debian package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild
397 If you have modified versions of ikiwiki's html templates, you will need
398 to update your templates to link to the stylesheet file using
399 "<TMPL_VAR BASEURL>style.css" instead of the old method which used
402 There have also been some changes to the plugin interface:
403 Any plugins that use santize, htmlize, or format hooks will need to be
404 updated for this version of ikiwiki since these hooks have been changed
405 to use named parameters.
407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2006 15:33:12 -0400
409 ikiwiki (1.13) unstable; urgency=low
411 The GlobList format which was used for specifiying sets of pages, has been
412 replaced with a new, more expressive PageSpec format. While GlobLists will
413 continue to work, that format is deprecated, and you are encouraged to use
414 PageSpecs from now on, and also to change any GlobLists in your wiki to
415 PageSpecs. See the new PageSpec page for details.
417 You will need to rebuild your wiki when upgrading to this version. If you
418 listed your wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically
419 when the Debian package is upgraded. Or use ikiiki-mass-rebuild to force a
422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Aug 2006 18:29:51 -0400
424 ikiwiki (1.11) unstable; urgency=low
426 Some changes to tags in this release, due to a new tag plugin. If you have
427 been using the meta plugin to tag pages, you'll want to enable the tag
428 plugin too, and change things like this:
430 [[meta link="foobar"]]
436 The new tags will appear at page footers, and are also easier to type.
438 There have also been some changes to the plugin interface, particularly the
439 interface of pagetemplate hooks has changed. See the changelog for details.
441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Jul 2006 17:03:09 -0400
443 ikiwiki (1.8) unstable; urgency=low
445 If your wiki is configured with a setup file, you should modify it to
446 stop setting the "plugin" list directly, and instead add or remove plugins
447 via the add_plugins and disable_plugins lines. For example, if you had:
449 plugin => [qw{inline smiley search}],
451 Change it to these lines, which disables the default htmlscrubber plugin
452 and adds the two additional plugins:
454 add_plugins => [qw{smiley search}],
455 disable_plugins => [qw{htmlscrubber}],
457 Making this change makes your ikiwiki setup file more future-proof since
458 new default plugins will be automatically used.
460 You will need to rebuild your ikiwiki wrappers when upgrading to this
461 version. If you listed your wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be
462 done automatically when the Debian package is upgraded. Or use
463 ikiiki-mass-rebuild --refresh to force a refresh.
465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Jul 2006 16:59:29 -0400
467 ikiwiki (1.1) unstable; urgency=low
469 There have been several configuration changes in this release of ikiwiki:
471 The --svn and --no-svn switches are removed, instead you should use
472 --rcs=svn or --no-rcs. ikiwiki setup files that set svn => 1 should
473 be changed to set rcs => "svn"; if your setup file sets svn => 0
474 then change it to use rcs => "" to disable svn.
476 The --hyperestraier switch is gone too. To enable searching, turn on the
477 search plugin, by passing --plugin=search or through the plugin setting in
480 The --sanitize and --no-sanitize switches are also gone, replaced with the
481 htmlscrubber plugin. This plugin is enabled by default, to disable it,
482 use --disable-plugin=htmlscrubber, or modify the plugin setting in the
485 Discussion pages are enabled by default, but if your wiki is configured
486 with a setup file, you need to edit it to keep them enabled on upgrade
487 to this version. Add a line reading:
490 You will need to rebuild your wiki when upgrading to this version.
491 If you listed your wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done
492 automatically when the Debian package is upgraded. Or use
493 ikiiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 May 2006 14:13:59 -0400