1 ikiwiki (3.UNRELEASED) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 Starting from this version, the tagged(x) pagespec only matches links that
4 were set up by the [[!tag]] or [[!taglink]] directives. To make this change,
5 all wikis need to be rebuilt on upgrade to this version. If you listed your
6 wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically when the
7 Debian package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
9 -- Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> Tue, 06 Apr 2010 20:53:07 +0100
11 ikiwiki (3.20091017) unstable; urgency=low
13 To take advantage of significant performance improvements, all
14 wikis need to be rebuilt on upgrade to this version. If you
15 listed your wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done
16 automatically when the Debian package is upgraded. Or use
17 ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
19 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:48:59 -0400
21 ikiwiki (3.1415926) unstable; urgency=low
23 In order to fix a performance bug, all wikis need to be rebuilt on
24 upgrade to this version. If you listed your wiki in
25 /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically when the
26 Debian package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force
29 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:24:43 -0400
31 ikiwiki (3.13) unstable; urgency=low
33 The `ikiwiki-transition deduplinks` command introduced in the
34 last release was buggy. If you followed the NEWS file instructions
35 and ran it, you should run `ikiwiki -setup` to rebuild your wiki
38 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 May 2009 13:04:02 -0400
40 ikiwiki (3.12) unstable; urgency=low
42 You may want to run `ikiwiki-transition deduplinks your.setup`
43 after upgrading to this version of ikiwiki. This command will
44 optimise your wiki's saved state, removing duplicate information
45 that can slow ikiwiki down.
47 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 06 May 2009 00:25:06 -0400
49 ikiwiki (3.01) unstable; urgency=low
51 If your wiki uses git, and you have a `diffurl` configured in
52 its setup file, you should be aware that gitweb has stopped
53 supporting the url form commonly used for the `diffurl`.
55 You can change your setup to use the newer gitweb url form:
57 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]]
59 The changes from the old form are the addition of the `hpb` parameter,
60 and the change to the value used for the `hb` parameter.
62 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 05 Jan 2009 18:18:05 -0500
64 ikiwiki (3.00) unstable; urgency=low
66 The 3.0 release of ikiwiki changes several defaults and finishes
67 some transitions. You will need to modify your wikis to work with
68 ikiwiki 3.0. A document explaining the process is available
69 in </usr/share/doc/ikiwiki/html/tips/upgrade_to_3.0.html>
71 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:14:18 -0500
73 ikiwiki (2.62) unstable; urgency=low
75 TexImg standard preamble changed
77 The teximg plugin now has a configurable LaTeX preamble.
78 As part of this change the `mchem` LaTeX package has been removed from
79 the default LaTeX preamble as it wasn't included in many TeX installations.
81 The previous behaviour can be restored by adding the following to your
84 teximg_prefix => '\documentclass{scrartcl}
85 \usepackage[version=3]{mhchem}
92 In addition, the rendering mechanism has been changed to use `dvipng` by
93 default, if available.
95 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Aug 2008 15:00:40 -0400
97 ikiwiki (2.60) unstable; urgency=low
99 Admin preferences are moving from the web interface to the setup file.
100 There are three new options in the setup file: `locked_pages`, `banned_users`,
101 and `allowed_attachments`. The admin prefs page can still be used, but
102 that's deprecated, and the prefs will be hidden if a value is not already
103 set. If a value is set in the web interface, you're encouraged to move that
104 setting to your setup file now, since version 3.0 will remove the deprecated
105 admin prefs web interface.
107 Also, the layout of the setup file has changed in a significant way in this
108 release. Old setup files will continue to work, but new features, like the
109 new websetup interface, require a new format setup file. You can convert
110 old setup files into the new format by running
111 `ikiwiki-transition setupformat ikiwiki.setup`
113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:02:14 -0400
115 ikiwiki (2.52) unstable; urgency=low
117 All wikis need to be rebuilt on upgrade to this version. If you listed your
118 wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically when the
119 Debian package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:10:05 -0400
123 ikiwiki (2.49) unstable; urgency=low
125 The search plugin no longer uses hyperestraier. Instead, to use it you
126 will now need to install xapian-omega, and the Search::Xapian,
127 HTML::Scrubber, and Digest::SHA1 perl modules. Ie,
128 `apt-get install xapian-omega libsearch-xapian-perl libhtml-scrubber-perl libdigest-sha1-perl`
130 Also, wikis that use the search plugin will need to be rebuilt,
131 since the search form has changed. This will not be done automatically,
132 but can be done by running `ikiwiki-mass-upgrade` as root, or
133 running `ikiwiki -setup` on individual setup files.
135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:29:28 -0400
137 ikiwiki (2.48) unstable; urgency=high
139 If you allowed password based logins to your wiki, those passwords were
140 stored in cleartext in the userdb. To guard against exposing users'
141 passwords, I recommend you install the Authen::Passphrase perl module, and
142 then run `ikiwiki-transition hashpassword /path/to/srcdir` to replace all
143 existing cleartext passwords with strong (blowfish) hashes.
145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 May 2008 14:39:34 -0400
147 ikiwiki (2.46) unstable; urgency=low
149 There were some significant template changes in ikiwiki 2.42 (and 1.33.5).
150 If you have locally modified versions of the templates, they need to be
151 updated. Most notably, the editpage.tmpl has a new FIELD-SID added to it,
152 without which web editing will fail.
154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 May 2008 14:30:14 -0400
156 ikiwiki (2.40) unstable; urgency=low
158 ikiwiki now has an new syntax for preprocessor directives, using the
163 This new syntax no longer relies on spaces to distinguish between
164 wikilinks and preprocessor directives. Thus, wikilinks can use spaces
165 in their link text, and preprocessor directives without arguments (such
166 as "toc") need not use a trailing space.
168 To enable the new syntax, set prefix_directives to true in your ikiwiki
169 config. For backward compatibility with existing wikis,
170 prefix_directives currently defaults to false. In ikiwiki 3.0,
171 prefix_directives will default to true, and wikis which have not yet
172 converted to the new syntax will need to set prefix_directives to false
173 in their setup files.
175 To convert your wiki to the new syntax, ikiwiki provides a new script
178 Even with prefix_directives disabled, ikiwiki now allows an optional '!'
179 prefix on preprocessor directives (but still requires a space). Thus, a
180 directive which uses a '!' prefix and contains a space will work with
181 ikiwiki 2.40 and newer, regardless of the value of prefix_directives.
182 This allows the underlay to work with all ikiwikis.
184 -- Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 16:26:47 -0800
186 ikiwiki (2.30) unstable; urgency=low
188 Ever feel that ikiwiki's handling of RecentChanges wasn't truely in the
189 spirit of a wiki compiler? Well, that's changed. The RecentChanges page is
190 now a static page, not a CGI. Users can subscribe to its rss/atom feeds.
191 Custom RecentChanges pages can be easily set up that display only changes
192 to a subset of pages, or only changes by a subset of users.
194 All wikis need to be rebuilt on upgrade to this version. If you listed your
195 wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically when the
196 Debian package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
198 With this excellent new RecentChanges support, the mail notification system
199 is its age (and known to be variously buggy and underimplemented for
200 various VCSes), and so ikiwiki's support for sending commit mails is REMOVED
201 from this version. If you were subscribed to commit mails, you should be
202 able to accomplish the same thing by subscribing to a RecentChanges feed.
204 The "notify" field in setup files is no longer used, and
205 silently ignored. You may want to remove it from your setup file.
207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:18:31 -0500
209 ikiwiki (2.20) unstable; urgency=low
211 The template plugin has begin to htmlize the variables passed to templates.
212 This is normally what you want, but to get the old behavior and get at the
213 raw value, you can use `<TMPL_VAR raw_variable>` in a template.
215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Dec 2007 16:04:43 -0500
217 ikiwiki (2.16) unstable; urgency=low
219 Many of the pages in ikiwiki's basewiki have been moved and renamed in this
220 release, to avoid the basewiki including pages with names like "blog".
221 Redirection pages have been left behind for these moved pages temporarily,
222 and will be removed later.
224 If you use the calendar plugin, ikiwiki is now smarter and your nightly
225 cron job to update the wiki doesn't need to rebuild everything. Just pass
226 --refresh to ikiwiki in the cron job and it will update only pages that
227 contain out of date calendars.
229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Dec 2007 16:04:43 -0500
231 ikiwiki (2.14) unstable; urgency=low
233 This version of ikiwiki is more picky about symlinks in the path leading
234 to the srcdir, and will refuse to use a srcdir specified by such a path.
235 This was necessary to avoid some potential exploits, but could potentially
236 break (semi-)working wikis. If your wiki has a srcdir path containing a
237 symlink, you should change it to use a path that does not.
239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Nov 2007 14:57:57 -0500
241 ikiwiki (2.9) unstable; urgency=low
243 Since ikiwiki 2.0 was released, some limitiations have been added to what
244 ikiwiki considers a WikiLink. In short, if there are any spaces in between
245 the brackets, ikiwiki no longer considers it to be a WikiLink. If your wiki
246 contains things meant to be WikiLinks that contain spaces, you will need to
247 fix them, by replacing the spaces with underscores.
249 WikiLink have always been documented to not contain spaces, but bugs in
250 ikiwiki made it treat some text with spaces as WikiLinks. Most of these
251 bugs were fixed in version 2.2, and a final bug was fixed in this 2.9
252 release. These fixes are necessary to avoid ambiguity between
253 WikiLinks and PreProcessorDirectives. Apologies for any inconvenience
254 these bugs (and their fixes) may have caused.
256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Sep 2007 14:37:18 -0400
258 ikiwiki (2.6) unstable; urgency=low
260 In this version the rst plugin allows raw html to be embedded in rst files.
261 As long as the htmlscrubber is enabled, this should be safe. If you are
262 using the rst plugin without the htmlscrubber in a publically writable wiki,
263 you should turn on the htmlscrubber.
265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Jul 2007 18:37:22 -0400
267 ikiwiki (2.5) unstable; urgency=low
269 Due to some config changes in this version, wrappers need to be rebuilt on
270 upgrade. If you listed your wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be
271 one automatically when the Debian package is upgraded.
273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Jul 2007 17:54:40 -0400
275 ikiwiki (2.1) unstable; urgency=low
277 Some wikis need to be rebuilt on upgrade to this version, due to changes to
278 page templates and the style sheet. If you listed your wiki in
279 /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically when the Debian
280 package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Apr 2007 15:50:36 -0400
284 ikiwiki (2.00) unstable; urgency=low
286 With the 2.0 release of ikiwiki, some major changes have been made to the
287 default configuration:
289 * The 'usedirs' setting is enabled by default. This *will* break all URLs
290 to wikis that did not have 'usedirs' turned on before, unless you follow
291 the procedure described at <http://ikiwiki.info/tips/switching_to_usedirs>,
292 or edit your setup file to turn usedirs off:
295 * OpenID logins are now enabled by default, if the Net::OpenID::Consumer
296 perl module is available. Password logins are also still enabled
297 by default. If you like, you can turn either OpenID or password logins
298 off via the 'disable_plugins' setting.
300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Apr 2007 19:00:43 -0400
302 ikiwiki (1.51) unstable; urgency=low
304 Some wikis need to be rebuilt on upgrade to this version, due to changes to
305 page layout and the style sheet. If you listed your wiki in
306 /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically when the Debian
307 package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Apr 2007 15:50:36 -0400
311 ikiwiki (1.50) unstable; urgency=low
313 Permalinks and guids in rss and atom feeds for wikis using the usedirs
314 options will change in this release. If you have already enabled usedirs,
315 you may need to take steps to avoid flooding aggregators.
317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2007 16:08:46 -0400
319 ikiwiki (1.49) unstable; urgency=low
321 Third-party plugins that use htmlpage() or abs2rel() to generate links
322 may need changes to support the new "usedirs" option.
324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 01 Apr 2007 16:20:09 -0400
326 ikiwiki (1.47) unstable; urgency=low
328 Due to a security fix, wikis that have the htmlscrubber enabled can no
329 longer use the meta plugin to insert html link and meta tags.
331 Some special case methods have been added for safely including stylesheets,
332 and for doing openid delegation. See the meta plugin docs for details.
334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2007 14:18:40 -0400
336 ikiwiki (1.45) unstable; urgency=low
338 Wikis need to be rebuilt on upgrade to this version. If you listed your wiki
339 in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically when the Debian
340 package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Mar 2007 23:02:52 -0500
344 ikiwiki (1.44) unstable; urgency=low
346 The htmllink() function has changed slightly and plugins that use it may
347 need to change how they call it. This function's first three parameters
348 are unchanged, but additional options are now passed using named
349 parameters. If you used htmllink with more than 3 parameters, you will
350 need to change it. The plugin interface version has been increased to 1.02
351 to reflect this change.
353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Feb 2007 21:10:12 -0500
355 ikiwiki (1.42) unstable; urgency=low
357 The anonok setting in config files has been removed. To enable
358 httpauth support on your wiki, you should now enable the anonok plugin,
361 Third-party plugins that use pagespec_match() should be updated to pass
362 the new third parameter (from) to that function. This is needed for the
363 new relative glob matching to work.
365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2007 16:57:59 -0500
367 ikiwiki (1.34) unstable; urgency=low
369 The httpauth setting in config files has been removed. To enable
370 httpauth support on your wiki, you should now enable the httpauth plugin,
373 This release includes OpenID support that is enabled through the openid
374 plugin. I recommend turning this on to make it easier for users to sign
377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2006 20:53:05 -0500
379 ikiwiki (1.32) unstable; urgency=low
381 There is a change to the plugin interface in this version. Any plugins that
382 modify data in %links should pass scan => 1 when registering the hook that
385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2006 00:13:12 -0400
387 ikiwiki (1.29) unstable; urgency=low
389 Wikis need to be rebuilt on upgrade to this version. If you listed your wiki
390 in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically when the Debian
391 package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
393 There is a change to the plugin interface in this version. Plugins that use
394 %renderedfiles will need to be updated, as the hash's values are now arrays
395 of rendered files. Plugins that cause a page to render additional files
396 should use the new will_render function to register the files.
398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Oct 2006 17:27:56 -0400
400 ikiwiki (1.22) unstable; urgency=low
402 Due to some changes in the CSS, wikis should be rebuilt on upgrade to this
403 version. If you listed your wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done
404 automatically when the Debian package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild
407 If you have modified versions of ikiwiki's html templates, you will need
408 to update your templates to link to the stylesheet file using
409 "<TMPL_VAR BASEURL>style.css" instead of the old method which used
412 There have also been some changes to the plugin interface:
413 Any plugins that use santize, htmlize, or format hooks will need to be
414 updated for this version of ikiwiki since these hooks have been changed
415 to use named parameters.
417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2006 15:33:12 -0400
419 ikiwiki (1.13) unstable; urgency=low
421 The GlobList format which was used for specifiying sets of pages, has been
422 replaced with a new, more expressive PageSpec format. While GlobLists will
423 continue to work, that format is deprecated, and you are encouraged to use
424 PageSpecs from now on, and also to change any GlobLists in your wiki to
425 PageSpecs. See the new PageSpec page for details.
427 You will need to rebuild your wiki when upgrading to this version. If you
428 listed your wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically
429 when the Debian package is upgraded. Or use ikiiki-mass-rebuild to force a
432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Aug 2006 18:29:51 -0400
434 ikiwiki (1.11) unstable; urgency=low
436 Some changes to tags in this release, due to a new tag plugin. If you have
437 been using the meta plugin to tag pages, you'll want to enable the tag
438 plugin too, and change things like this:
440 [[meta link="foobar"]]
446 The new tags will appear at page footers, and are also easier to type.
448 There have also been some changes to the plugin interface, particularly the
449 interface of pagetemplate hooks has changed. See the changelog for details.
451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Jul 2006 17:03:09 -0400
453 ikiwiki (1.8) unstable; urgency=low
455 If your wiki is configured with a setup file, you should modify it to
456 stop setting the "plugin" list directly, and instead add or remove plugins
457 via the add_plugins and disable_plugins lines. For example, if you had:
459 plugin => [qw{inline smiley search}],
461 Change it to these lines, which disables the default htmlscrubber plugin
462 and adds the two additional plugins:
464 add_plugins => [qw{smiley search}],
465 disable_plugins => [qw{htmlscrubber}],
467 Making this change makes your ikiwiki setup file more future-proof since
468 new default plugins will be automatically used.
470 You will need to rebuild your ikiwiki wrappers when upgrading to this
471 version. If you listed your wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be
472 done automatically when the Debian package is upgraded. Or use
473 ikiiki-mass-rebuild --refresh to force a refresh.
475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Jul 2006 16:59:29 -0400
477 ikiwiki (1.1) unstable; urgency=low
479 There have been several configuration changes in this release of ikiwiki:
481 The --svn and --no-svn switches are removed, instead you should use
482 --rcs=svn or --no-rcs. ikiwiki setup files that set svn => 1 should
483 be changed to set rcs => "svn"; if your setup file sets svn => 0
484 then change it to use rcs => "" to disable svn.
486 The --hyperestraier switch is gone too. To enable searching, turn on the
487 search plugin, by passing --plugin=search or through the plugin setting in
490 The --sanitize and --no-sanitize switches are also gone, replaced with the
491 htmlscrubber plugin. This plugin is enabled by default, to disable it,
492 use --disable-plugin=htmlscrubber, or modify the plugin setting in the
495 Discussion pages are enabled by default, but if your wiki is configured
496 with a setup file, you need to edit it to keep them enabled on upgrade
497 to this version. Add a line reading:
500 You will need to rebuild your wiki when upgrading to this version.
501 If you listed your wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done
502 automatically when the Debian package is upgraded. Or use
503 ikiiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 May 2006 14:13:59 -0400