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 its pagespecs to use "link()".
14 Now tag pages can automatically be created as new tags are used. This
15 feature is enabled by default if you have configured a tagbase. It
16 can be turned on or off using the tag_autocreate setting.
18 The title_natural sort method (as used by the inline directive, etc)
19 have been moved to the new sortnaturally plugin, which is not enabled
20 by default since it requires the Sort::Naturally perl module.
22 Due to the above and other changes, all wikis need to be rebuilt on
23 upgrade to this version. If you listed your wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist
24 this will be done automatically when the Debian package is upgraded. Or
25 use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
27 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Apr 2010 20:31:29 -0400
29 ikiwiki (3.20091017) unstable; urgency=low
31 To take advantage of significant performance improvements, all
32 wikis need to be rebuilt on upgrade to this version. If you
33 listed your wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done
34 automatically when the Debian package is upgraded. Or use
35 ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
37 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:48:59 -0400
39 ikiwiki (3.1415926) unstable; urgency=low
41 In order to fix a performance bug, all wikis need to be rebuilt on
42 upgrade to this version. If you listed your wiki in
43 /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically when the
44 Debian package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force
47 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:24:43 -0400
49 ikiwiki (3.13) unstable; urgency=low
51 The `ikiwiki-transition deduplinks` command introduced in the
52 last release was buggy. If you followed the NEWS file instructions
53 and ran it, you should run `ikiwiki -setup` to rebuild your wiki
56 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 May 2009 13:04:02 -0400
58 ikiwiki (3.12) unstable; urgency=low
60 You may want to run `ikiwiki-transition deduplinks your.setup`
61 after upgrading to this version of ikiwiki. This command will
62 optimise your wiki's saved state, removing duplicate information
63 that can slow ikiwiki down.
65 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 06 May 2009 00:25:06 -0400
67 ikiwiki (3.01) unstable; urgency=low
69 If your wiki uses git, and you have a `diffurl` configured in
70 its setup file, you should be aware that gitweb has stopped
71 supporting the url form commonly used for the `diffurl`.
73 You can change your setup to use the newer gitweb url form:
75 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]]
77 The changes from the old form are the addition of the `hpb` parameter,
78 and the change to the value used for the `hb` parameter.
80 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 05 Jan 2009 18:18:05 -0500
82 ikiwiki (3.00) unstable; urgency=low
84 The 3.0 release of ikiwiki changes several defaults and finishes
85 some transitions. You will need to modify your wikis to work with
86 ikiwiki 3.0. A document explaining the process is available
87 in </usr/share/doc/ikiwiki/html/tips/upgrade_to_3.0.html>
89 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:14:18 -0500
91 ikiwiki (2.62) unstable; urgency=low
93 TexImg standard preamble changed
95 The teximg plugin now has a configurable LaTeX preamble.
96 As part of this change the `mchem` LaTeX package has been removed from
97 the default LaTeX preamble as it wasn't included in many TeX installations.
99 The previous behaviour can be restored by adding the following to your
102 teximg_prefix => '\documentclass{scrartcl}
103 \usepackage[version=3]{mhchem}
105 \usepackage{amsfonts}
110 In addition, the rendering mechanism has been changed to use `dvipng` by
111 default, if available.
113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Aug 2008 15:00:40 -0400
115 ikiwiki (2.60) unstable; urgency=low
117 Admin preferences are moving from the web interface to the setup file.
118 There are three new options in the setup file: `locked_pages`, `banned_users`,
119 and `allowed_attachments`. The admin prefs page can still be used, but
120 that's deprecated, and the prefs will be hidden if a value is not already
121 set. If a value is set in the web interface, you're encouraged to move that
122 setting to your setup file now, since version 3.0 will remove the deprecated
123 admin prefs web interface.
125 Also, the layout of the setup file has changed in a significant way in this
126 release. Old setup files will continue to work, but new features, like the
127 new websetup interface, require a new format setup file. You can convert
128 old setup files into the new format by running
129 `ikiwiki-transition setupformat ikiwiki.setup`
131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:02:14 -0400
133 ikiwiki (2.52) unstable; urgency=low
135 All wikis need to be rebuilt on upgrade to this version. If you listed your
136 wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically when the
137 Debian package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:10:05 -0400
141 ikiwiki (2.49) unstable; urgency=low
143 The search plugin no longer uses hyperestraier. Instead, to use it you
144 will now need to install xapian-omega, and the Search::Xapian,
145 HTML::Scrubber, and Digest::SHA1 perl modules. Ie,
146 `apt-get install xapian-omega libsearch-xapian-perl libhtml-scrubber-perl libdigest-sha1-perl`
148 Also, wikis that use the search plugin will need to be rebuilt,
149 since the search form has changed. This will not be done automatically,
150 but can be done by running `ikiwiki-mass-upgrade` as root, or
151 running `ikiwiki -setup` on individual setup files.
153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:29:28 -0400
155 ikiwiki (2.48) unstable; urgency=high
157 If you allowed password based logins to your wiki, those passwords were
158 stored in cleartext in the userdb. To guard against exposing users'
159 passwords, I recommend you install the Authen::Passphrase perl module, and
160 then run `ikiwiki-transition hashpassword /path/to/srcdir` to replace all
161 existing cleartext passwords with strong (blowfish) hashes.
163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 May 2008 14:39:34 -0400
165 ikiwiki (2.46) unstable; urgency=low
167 There were some significant template changes in ikiwiki 2.42 (and 1.33.5).
168 If you have locally modified versions of the templates, they need to be
169 updated. Most notably, the editpage.tmpl has a new FIELD-SID added to it,
170 without which web editing will fail.
172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 May 2008 14:30:14 -0400
174 ikiwiki (2.40) unstable; urgency=low
176 ikiwiki now has an new syntax for preprocessor directives, using the
181 This new syntax no longer relies on spaces to distinguish between
182 wikilinks and preprocessor directives. Thus, wikilinks can use spaces
183 in their link text, and preprocessor directives without arguments (such
184 as "toc") need not use a trailing space.
186 To enable the new syntax, set prefix_directives to true in your ikiwiki
187 config. For backward compatibility with existing wikis,
188 prefix_directives currently defaults to false. In ikiwiki 3.0,
189 prefix_directives will default to true, and wikis which have not yet
190 converted to the new syntax will need to set prefix_directives to false
191 in their setup files.
193 To convert your wiki to the new syntax, ikiwiki provides a new script
196 Even with prefix_directives disabled, ikiwiki now allows an optional '!'
197 prefix on preprocessor directives (but still requires a space). Thus, a
198 directive which uses a '!' prefix and contains a space will work with
199 ikiwiki 2.40 and newer, regardless of the value of prefix_directives.
200 This allows the underlay to work with all ikiwikis.
202 -- Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 16:26:47 -0800
204 ikiwiki (2.30) unstable; urgency=low
206 Ever feel that ikiwiki's handling of RecentChanges wasn't truely in the
207 spirit of a wiki compiler? Well, that's changed. The RecentChanges page is
208 now a static page, not a CGI. Users can subscribe to its rss/atom feeds.
209 Custom RecentChanges pages can be easily set up that display only changes
210 to a subset of pages, or only changes by a subset of users.
212 All wikis need to be rebuilt on upgrade to this version. If you listed your
213 wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically when the
214 Debian package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
216 With this excellent new RecentChanges support, the mail notification system
217 is its age (and known to be variously buggy and underimplemented for
218 various VCSes), and so ikiwiki's support for sending commit mails is REMOVED
219 from this version. If you were subscribed to commit mails, you should be
220 able to accomplish the same thing by subscribing to a RecentChanges feed.
222 The "notify" field in setup files is no longer used, and
223 silently ignored. You may want to remove it from your setup file.
225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:18:31 -0500
227 ikiwiki (2.20) unstable; urgency=low
229 The template plugin has begin to htmlize the variables passed to templates.
230 This is normally what you want, but to get the old behavior and get at the
231 raw value, you can use `<TMPL_VAR raw_variable>` in a template.
233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Dec 2007 16:04:43 -0500
235 ikiwiki (2.16) unstable; urgency=low
237 Many of the pages in ikiwiki's basewiki have been moved and renamed in this
238 release, to avoid the basewiki including pages with names like "blog".
239 Redirection pages have been left behind for these moved pages temporarily,
240 and will be removed later.
242 If you use the calendar plugin, ikiwiki is now smarter and your nightly
243 cron job to update the wiki doesn't need to rebuild everything. Just pass
244 --refresh to ikiwiki in the cron job and it will update only pages that
245 contain out of date calendars.
247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Dec 2007 16:04:43 -0500
249 ikiwiki (2.14) unstable; urgency=low
251 This version of ikiwiki is more picky about symlinks in the path leading
252 to the srcdir, and will refuse to use a srcdir specified by such a path.
253 This was necessary to avoid some potential exploits, but could potentially
254 break (semi-)working wikis. If your wiki has a srcdir path containing a
255 symlink, you should change it to use a path that does not.
257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Nov 2007 14:57:57 -0500
259 ikiwiki (2.9) unstable; urgency=low
261 Since ikiwiki 2.0 was released, some limitiations have been added to what
262 ikiwiki considers a WikiLink. In short, if there are any spaces in between
263 the brackets, ikiwiki no longer considers it to be a WikiLink. If your wiki
264 contains things meant to be WikiLinks that contain spaces, you will need to
265 fix them, by replacing the spaces with underscores.
267 WikiLink have always been documented to not contain spaces, but bugs in
268 ikiwiki made it treat some text with spaces as WikiLinks. Most of these
269 bugs were fixed in version 2.2, and a final bug was fixed in this 2.9
270 release. These fixes are necessary to avoid ambiguity between
271 WikiLinks and PreProcessorDirectives. Apologies for any inconvenience
272 these bugs (and their fixes) may have caused.
274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Sep 2007 14:37:18 -0400
276 ikiwiki (2.6) unstable; urgency=low
278 In this version the rst plugin allows raw html to be embedded in rst files.
279 As long as the htmlscrubber is enabled, this should be safe. If you are
280 using the rst plugin without the htmlscrubber in a publically writable wiki,
281 you should turn on the htmlscrubber.
283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Jul 2007 18:37:22 -0400
285 ikiwiki (2.5) unstable; urgency=low
287 Due to some config changes in this version, wrappers need to be rebuilt on
288 upgrade. If you listed your wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be
289 one automatically when the Debian package is upgraded.
291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Jul 2007 17:54:40 -0400
293 ikiwiki (2.1) unstable; urgency=low
295 Some wikis need to be rebuilt on upgrade to this version, due to changes to
296 page templates and the style sheet. If you listed your wiki in
297 /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically when the Debian
298 package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Apr 2007 15:50:36 -0400
302 ikiwiki (2.00) unstable; urgency=low
304 With the 2.0 release of ikiwiki, some major changes have been made to the
305 default configuration:
307 * The 'usedirs' setting is enabled by default. This *will* break all URLs
308 to wikis that did not have 'usedirs' turned on before, unless you follow
309 the procedure described at <http://ikiwiki.info/tips/switching_to_usedirs>,
310 or edit your setup file to turn usedirs off:
313 * OpenID logins are now enabled by default, if the Net::OpenID::Consumer
314 perl module is available. Password logins are also still enabled
315 by default. If you like, you can turn either OpenID or password logins
316 off via the 'disable_plugins' setting.
318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Apr 2007 19:00:43 -0400
320 ikiwiki (1.51) unstable; urgency=low
322 Some wikis need to be rebuilt on upgrade to this version, due to changes to
323 page layout and the style sheet. If you listed your wiki in
324 /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically when the Debian
325 package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Apr 2007 15:50:36 -0400
329 ikiwiki (1.50) unstable; urgency=low
331 Permalinks and guids in rss and atom feeds for wikis using the usedirs
332 options will change in this release. If you have already enabled usedirs,
333 you may need to take steps to avoid flooding aggregators.
335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2007 16:08:46 -0400
337 ikiwiki (1.49) unstable; urgency=low
339 Third-party plugins that use htmlpage() or abs2rel() to generate links
340 may need changes to support the new "usedirs" option.
342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 01 Apr 2007 16:20:09 -0400
344 ikiwiki (1.47) unstable; urgency=low
346 Due to a security fix, wikis that have the htmlscrubber enabled can no
347 longer use the meta plugin to insert html link and meta tags.
349 Some special case methods have been added for safely including stylesheets,
350 and for doing openid delegation. See the meta plugin docs for details.
352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2007 14:18:40 -0400
354 ikiwiki (1.45) unstable; urgency=low
356 Wikis need to be rebuilt on upgrade to this version. If you listed your wiki
357 in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically when the Debian
358 package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Mar 2007 23:02:52 -0500
362 ikiwiki (1.44) unstable; urgency=low
364 The htmllink() function has changed slightly and plugins that use it may
365 need to change how they call it. This function's first three parameters
366 are unchanged, but additional options are now passed using named
367 parameters. If you used htmllink with more than 3 parameters, you will
368 need to change it. The plugin interface version has been increased to 1.02
369 to reflect this change.
371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Feb 2007 21:10:12 -0500
373 ikiwiki (1.42) unstable; urgency=low
375 The anonok setting in config files has been removed. To enable
376 httpauth support on your wiki, you should now enable the anonok plugin,
379 Third-party plugins that use pagespec_match() should be updated to pass
380 the new third parameter (from) to that function. This is needed for the
381 new relative glob matching to work.
383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2007 16:57:59 -0500
385 ikiwiki (1.34) unstable; urgency=low
387 The httpauth setting in config files has been removed. To enable
388 httpauth support on your wiki, you should now enable the httpauth plugin,
391 This release includes OpenID support that is enabled through the openid
392 plugin. I recommend turning this on to make it easier for users to sign
395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2006 20:53:05 -0500
397 ikiwiki (1.32) unstable; urgency=low
399 There is a change to the plugin interface in this version. Any plugins that
400 modify data in %links should pass scan => 1 when registering the hook that
403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2006 00:13:12 -0400
405 ikiwiki (1.29) unstable; urgency=low
407 Wikis need to be rebuilt on upgrade to this version. If you listed your wiki
408 in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically when the Debian
409 package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
411 There is a change to the plugin interface in this version. Plugins that use
412 %renderedfiles will need to be updated, as the hash's values are now arrays
413 of rendered files. Plugins that cause a page to render additional files
414 should use the new will_render function to register the files.
416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Oct 2006 17:27:56 -0400
418 ikiwiki (1.22) unstable; urgency=low
420 Due to some changes in the CSS, wikis should be rebuilt on upgrade to this
421 version. If you listed your wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done
422 automatically when the Debian package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild
425 If you have modified versions of ikiwiki's html templates, you will need
426 to update your templates to link to the stylesheet file using
427 "<TMPL_VAR BASEURL>style.css" instead of the old method which used
430 There have also been some changes to the plugin interface:
431 Any plugins that use santize, htmlize, or format hooks will need to be
432 updated for this version of ikiwiki since these hooks have been changed
433 to use named parameters.
435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2006 15:33:12 -0400
437 ikiwiki (1.13) unstable; urgency=low
439 The GlobList format which was used for specifiying sets of pages, has been
440 replaced with a new, more expressive PageSpec format. While GlobLists will
441 continue to work, that format is deprecated, and you are encouraged to use
442 PageSpecs from now on, and also to change any GlobLists in your wiki to
443 PageSpecs. See the new PageSpec page for details.
445 You will need to rebuild your wiki when upgrading to this version. If you
446 listed your wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically
447 when the Debian package is upgraded. Or use ikiiki-mass-rebuild to force a
450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Aug 2006 18:29:51 -0400
452 ikiwiki (1.11) unstable; urgency=low
454 Some changes to tags in this release, due to a new tag plugin. If you have
455 been using the meta plugin to tag pages, you'll want to enable the tag
456 plugin too, and change things like this:
458 [[meta link="foobar"]]
464 The new tags will appear at page footers, and are also easier to type.
466 There have also been some changes to the plugin interface, particularly the
467 interface of pagetemplate hooks has changed. See the changelog for details.
469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Jul 2006 17:03:09 -0400
471 ikiwiki (1.8) unstable; urgency=low
473 If your wiki is configured with a setup file, you should modify it to
474 stop setting the "plugin" list directly, and instead add or remove plugins
475 via the add_plugins and disable_plugins lines. For example, if you had:
477 plugin => [qw{inline smiley search}],
479 Change it to these lines, which disables the default htmlscrubber plugin
480 and adds the two additional plugins:
482 add_plugins => [qw{smiley search}],
483 disable_plugins => [qw{htmlscrubber}],
485 Making this change makes your ikiwiki setup file more future-proof since
486 new default plugins will be automatically used.
488 You will need to rebuild your ikiwiki wrappers when upgrading to this
489 version. If you listed your wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be
490 done automatically when the Debian package is upgraded. Or use
491 ikiiki-mass-rebuild --refresh to force a refresh.
493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Jul 2006 16:59:29 -0400
495 ikiwiki (1.1) unstable; urgency=low
497 There have been several configuration changes in this release of ikiwiki:
499 The --svn and --no-svn switches are removed, instead you should use
500 --rcs=svn or --no-rcs. ikiwiki setup files that set svn => 1 should
501 be changed to set rcs => "svn"; if your setup file sets svn => 0
502 then change it to use rcs => "" to disable svn.
504 The --hyperestraier switch is gone too. To enable searching, turn on the
505 search plugin, by passing --plugin=search or through the plugin setting in
508 The --sanitize and --no-sanitize switches are also gone, replaced with the
509 htmlscrubber plugin. This plugin is enabled by default, to disable it,
510 use --disable-plugin=htmlscrubber, or modify the plugin setting in the
513 Discussion pages are enabled by default, but if your wiki is configured
514 with a setup file, you need to edit it to keep them enabled on upgrade
515 to this version. Add a line reading:
518 You will need to rebuild your wiki when upgrading to this version.
519 If you listed your wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done
520 automatically when the Debian package is upgraded. Or use
521 ikiiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 May 2006 14:13:59 -0400