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