1 ikiwiki (2.60) unstable; urgency=low
3 Admin preferences are moving from the web interface to the setup file.
4 There are three new options in the setup file: `locked_pages`, `banned_users`,
5 and `allowed_attachments`. The admin prefs page can still be used, but
6 that's deprecated, and the prefs will be hidden if a value is not already
7 set. If a value is set in the web interface, you're encouraged to move that
8 setting to your setup file now, since version 3.0 will remove the deprecated
11 Also, the layout of the setup file has changed in a significant way in this
12 release. Old setup files will continue to work, but new features, like the
13 new websetup interface, require a new format setup file. You can convert
14 old setup files into the new format by running
15 `ikiwiki-transition setupformat ikiwiki.setup`
17 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:02:14 -0400
19 ikiwiki (2.52) unstable; urgency=low
21 All wikis need to be rebuilt on upgrade to this version. If you listed your
22 wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically when the
23 Debian package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
25 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:10:05 -0400
27 ikiwiki (2.49) unstable; urgency=low
29 The search plugin no longer uses hyperestraier. Instead, to use it you
30 will now need to install xapian-omega, and the Search::Xapian,
31 HTML::Scrubber, and Digest::SHA1 perl modules. Ie,
32 `apt-get install xapian-omega libsearch-xapian-perl libhtml-scrubber-perl libdigest-sha1-perl`
34 Also, wikis that use the search plugin will need to be rebuilt,
35 since the search form has changed. This will not be done automatically,
36 but can be done by running `ikiwiki-mass-upgrade` as root, or
37 running `ikiwiki -setup` on individual setup files.
39 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:29:28 -0400
41 ikiwiki (2.48) unstable; urgency=high
43 If you allowed password based logins to your wiki, those passwords were
44 stored in cleartext in the userdb. To guard against exposing users'
45 passwords, I recommend you install the Authen::Passphrase perl module, and
46 then run `ikiwiki-transition hashpassword /path/to/srcdir` to replace all
47 existing cleartext passwords with strong (blowfish) hashes.
49 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 May 2008 14:39:34 -0400
51 ikiwiki (2.46) unstable; urgency=low
53 There were some significant template changes in ikiwiki 2.42 (and 1.33.5).
54 If you have locally modified versions of the templates, they need to be
55 updated. Most notably, the editpage.tmpl has a new FIELD-SID added to it,
56 without which web editing will fail.
58 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 May 2008 14:30:14 -0400
60 ikiwiki (2.40) unstable; urgency=low
62 ikiwiki now has an new syntax for preprocessor directives, using the
67 This new syntax no longer relies on spaces to distinguish between
68 wikilinks and preprocessor directives. Thus, wikilinks can use spaces
69 in their link text, and preprocessor directives without arguments (such
70 as "toc") need not use a trailing space.
72 To enable the new syntax, set prefix_directives to true in your ikiwiki
73 config. For backward compatibility with existing wikis,
74 prefix_directives currently defaults to false. In ikiwiki 3.0,
75 prefix_directives will default to true, and wikis which have not yet
76 converted to the new syntax will need to set prefix_directives to false
79 To convert your wiki to the new syntax, ikiwiki provides a new script
80 ikiwiki-transition. It will convert preprocessor directives in
81 all files given on the command line. To convert an entire wiki:
83 find wikidir/ -type f -name '*.mdwn' -print0 | xargs -0 ikiwiki-transition prefix_directives
85 Even with prefix_directives disabled, ikiwiki now allows an optional '!'
86 prefix on preprocessor directives (but still requires a space). Thus, a
87 directive which uses a '!' prefix and contains a space will work with
88 ikiwiki 2.40 and newer, regardless of the value of prefix_directives.
89 This allows the underlay to work with all ikiwikis.
91 -- Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 16:26:47 -0800
93 ikiwiki (2.30) unstable; urgency=low
95 Ever feel that ikiwiki's handling of RecentChanges wasn't truely in the
96 spirit of a wiki compiler? Well, that's changed. The RecentChanges page is
97 now a static page, not a CGI. Users can subscribe to its rss/atom feeds.
98 Custom RecentChanges pages can be easily set up that display only changes
99 to a subset of pages, or only changes by a subset of users.
101 All wikis need to be rebuilt on upgrade to this version. If you listed your
102 wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically when the
103 Debian package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
105 With this excellent new RecentChanges support, the mail notification system
106 is its age (and known to be variously buggy and underimplemented for
107 various VCSes), and so ikiwiki's support for sending commit mails is REMOVED
108 from this version. If you were subscribed to commit mails, you should be
109 able to accomplish the same thing by subscribing to a RecentChanges feed.
111 The "notify" field in setup files is no longer used, and
112 silently ignored. You may want to remove it from your setup file.
114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:18:31 -0500
116 ikiwiki (2.20) unstable; urgency=low
118 The template plugin has begin to htmlize the variables passed to templates.
119 This is normally what you want, but to get the old behavior and get at the
120 raw value, you can use `<TMPL_VAR raw_variable>` in a template.
122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Dec 2007 16:04:43 -0500
124 ikiwiki (2.16) unstable; urgency=low
126 Many of the pages in ikiwiki's basewiki have been moved and renamed in this
127 release, to avoid the basewiki including pages with names like "blog".
128 Redirection pages have been left behind for these moved pages temporarily,
129 and will be removed later.
131 If you use the calendar plugin, ikiwiki is now smarter and your nightly
132 cron job to update the wiki doesn't need to rebuild everything. Just pass
133 --refresh to ikiwiki in the cron job and it will update only pages that
134 contain out of date calendars.
136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Dec 2007 16:04:43 -0500
138 ikiwiki (2.14) unstable; urgency=low
140 This version of ikiwiki is more picky about symlinks in the path leading
141 to the srcdir, and will refuse to use a srcdir specified by such a path.
142 This was necessary to avoid some potential exploits, but could potentially
143 break (semi-)working wikis. If your wiki has a srcdir path containing a
144 symlink, you should change it to use a path that does not.
146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Nov 2007 14:57:57 -0500
148 ikiwiki (2.9) unstable; urgency=low
150 Since ikiwiki 2.0 was released, some limitiations have been added to what
151 ikiwiki considers a WikiLink. In short, if there are any spaces in between
152 the brackets, ikiwiki no longer considers it to be a WikiLink. If your wiki
153 contains things meant to be WikiLinks that contain spaces, you will need to
154 fix them, by replacing the spaces with underscores.
156 WikiLink have always been documented to not contain spaces, but bugs in
157 ikiwiki made it treat some text with spaces as WikiLinks. Most of these
158 bugs were fixed in version 2.2, and a final bug was fixed in this 2.9
159 release. These fixes are necessary to avoid ambiguity between
160 WikiLinks and PreProcessorDirectives. Apologies for any inconvenience
161 these bugs (and their fixes) may have caused.
163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Sep 2007 14:37:18 -0400
165 ikiwiki (2.6) unstable; urgency=low
167 In this version the rst plugin allows raw html to be embedded in rst files.
168 As long as the htmlscrubber is enabled, this should be safe. If you are
169 using the rst plugin without the htmlscrubber in a publically writable wiki,
170 you should turn on the htmlscrubber.
172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Jul 2007 18:37:22 -0400
174 ikiwiki (2.5) unstable; urgency=low
176 Due to some config changes in this version, wrappers need to be rebuilt on
177 upgrade. If you listed your wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be
178 one automatically when the Debian package is upgraded.
180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Jul 2007 17:54:40 -0400
182 ikiwiki (2.1) unstable; urgency=low
184 Some wikis need to be rebuilt on upgrade to this version, due to changes to
185 page templates and the style sheet. If you listed your wiki in
186 /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically when the Debian
187 package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Apr 2007 15:50:36 -0400
191 ikiwiki (2.00) unstable; urgency=low
193 With the 2.0 release of ikiwiki, some major changes have been made to the
194 default configuration:
196 * The 'usedirs' setting is enabled by default. This *will* break all URLs
197 to wikis that did not have 'usedirs' turned on before, unless you follow
198 the procedure described at <http://ikiwiki.info/tips/switching_to_usedirs>,
199 or edit your setup file to turn usedirs off:
202 * OpenID logins are now enabled by default, if the Net::OpenID::Consumer
203 perl module is available. Password logins are also still enabled
204 by default. If you like, you can turn either OpenID or password logins
205 off via the 'disable_plugins' setting.
207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Apr 2007 19:00:43 -0400
209 ikiwiki (1.51) unstable; urgency=low
211 Some wikis need to be rebuilt on upgrade to this version, due to changes to
212 page layout and the style sheet. If you listed your wiki in
213 /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically when the Debian
214 package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Apr 2007 15:50:36 -0400
218 ikiwiki (1.50) unstable; urgency=low
220 Permalinks and guids in rss and atom feeds for wikis using the usedirs
221 options will change in this release. If you have already enabled usedirs,
222 you may need to take steps to avoid flooding aggregators.
224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2007 16:08:46 -0400
226 ikiwiki (1.49) unstable; urgency=low
228 Third-party plugins that use htmlpage() or abs2rel() to generate links
229 may need changes to support the new "usedirs" option.
231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 01 Apr 2007 16:20:09 -0400
233 ikiwiki (1.47) unstable; urgency=low
235 Due to a security fix, wikis that have the htmlscrubber enabled can no
236 longer use the meta plugin to insert html link and meta tags.
238 Some special case methods have been added for safely including stylesheets,
239 and for doing openid delegation. See the meta plugin docs for details.
241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2007 14:18:40 -0400
243 ikiwiki (1.45) unstable; urgency=low
245 Wikis need to be rebuilt on upgrade to this version. If you listed your wiki
246 in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically when the Debian
247 package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Mar 2007 23:02:52 -0500
251 ikiwiki (1.44) unstable; urgency=low
253 The htmllink() function has changed slightly and plugins that use it may
254 need to change how they call it. This function's first three parameters
255 are unchanged, but additional options are now passed using named
256 parameters. If you used htmllink with more than 3 parameters, you will
257 need to change it. The plugin interface version has been increased to 1.02
258 to reflect this change.
260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Feb 2007 21:10:12 -0500
262 ikiwiki (1.42) unstable; urgency=low
264 The anonok setting in config files has been removed. To enable
265 httpauth support on your wiki, you should now enable the anonok plugin,
268 Third-party plugins that use pagespec_match() should be updated to pass
269 the new third parameter (from) to that function. This is needed for the
270 new relative glob matching to work.
272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2007 16:57:59 -0500
274 ikiwiki (1.34) unstable; urgency=low
276 The httpauth setting in config files has been removed. To enable
277 httpauth support on your wiki, you should now enable the httpauth plugin,
280 This release includes OpenID support that is enabled through the openid
281 plugin. I recommend turning this on to make it easier for users to sign
284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2006 20:53:05 -0500
286 ikiwiki (1.32) unstable; urgency=low
288 There is a change to the plugin interface in this version. Any plugins that
289 modify data in %links should pass scan => 1 when registering the hook that
292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2006 00:13:12 -0400
294 ikiwiki (1.29) unstable; urgency=low
296 Wikis need to be rebuilt on upgrade to this version. If you listed your wiki
297 in /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 There is a change to the plugin interface in this version. Plugins that use
301 %renderedfiles will need to be updated, as the hash's values are now arrays
302 of rendered files. Plugins that cause a page to render additional files
303 should use the new will_render function to register the files.
305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Oct 2006 17:27:56 -0400
307 ikiwiki (1.22) unstable; urgency=low
309 Due to some changes in the CSS, wikis should be rebuilt on upgrade to this
310 version. If you listed your wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done
311 automatically when the Debian package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild
314 If you have modified versions of ikiwiki's html templates, you will need
315 to update your templates to link to the stylesheet file using
316 "<TMPL_VAR BASEURL>style.css" instead of the old method which used
319 There have also been some changes to the plugin interface:
320 Any plugins that use santize, htmlize, or format hooks will need to be
321 updated for this version of ikiwiki since these hooks have been changed
322 to use named parameters.
324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2006 15:33:12 -0400
326 ikiwiki (1.13) unstable; urgency=low
328 The GlobList format which was used for specifiying sets of pages, has been
329 replaced with a new, more expressive PageSpec format. While GlobLists will
330 continue to work, that format is deprecated, and you are encouraged to use
331 PageSpecs from now on, and also to change any GlobLists in your wiki to
332 PageSpecs. See the new PageSpec page for details.
334 You will need to rebuild your wiki when upgrading to this version. If you
335 listed your wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically
336 when the Debian package is upgraded. Or use ikiiki-mass-rebuild to force a
339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Aug 2006 18:29:51 -0400
341 ikiwiki (1.11) unstable; urgency=low
343 Some changes to tags in this release, due to a new tag plugin. If you have
344 been using the meta plugin to tag pages, you'll want to enable the tag
345 plugin too, and change things like this:
347 [[meta link="foobar"]]
353 The new tags will appear at page footers, and are also easier to type.
355 There have also been some changes to the plugin interface, particularly the
356 interface of pagetemplate hooks has changed. See the changelog for details.
358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Jul 2006 17:03:09 -0400
360 ikiwiki (1.8) unstable; urgency=low
362 If your wiki is configured with a setup file, you should modify it to
363 stop setting the "plugin" list directly, and instead add or remove plugins
364 via the add_plugins and disable_plugins lines. For example, if you had:
366 plugin => [qw{inline smiley search}],
368 Change it to these lines, which disables the default htmlscrubber plugin
369 and adds the two additional plugins:
371 add_plugins => [qw{smiley search}],
372 disable_plugins => [qw{htmlscrubber}],
374 Making this change makes your ikiwiki setup file more future-proof since
375 new default plugins will be automatically used.
377 You will need to rebuild your ikiwiki wrappers when upgrading to this
378 version. If you listed your wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be
379 done automatically when the Debian package is upgraded. Or use
380 ikiiki-mass-rebuild --refresh to force a refresh.
382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Jul 2006 16:59:29 -0400
384 ikiwiki (1.1) unstable; urgency=low
386 There have been several configuration changes in this release of ikiwiki:
388 The --svn and --no-svn switches are removed, instead you should use
389 --rcs=svn or --no-rcs. ikiwiki setup files that set svn => 1 should
390 be changed to set rcs => "svn"; if your setup file sets svn => 0
391 then change it to use rcs => "" to disable svn.
393 The --hyperestraier switch is gone too. To enable searching, turn on the
394 search plugin, by passing --plugin=search or through the plugin setting in
397 The --sanitize and --no-sanitize switches are also gone, replaced with the
398 htmlscrubber plugin. This plugin is enabled by default, to disable it,
399 use --disable-plugin=htmlscrubber, or modify the plugin setting in the
402 Discussion pages are enabled by default, but if your wiki is configured
403 with a setup file, you need to edit it to keep them enabled on upgrade
404 to this version. Add a line reading:
407 You will need to rebuild your wiki when upgrading to this version.
408 If you listed your wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done
409 automatically when the Debian package is upgraded. Or use
410 ikiiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 May 2006 14:13:59 -0400