ikiwiki (3.20141016.3) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
To mitigate CVE-2016-3714 and similar ImageMagick security vulnerabilities,
the [[!img]] directive is now restricted to these common web formats by
default:
* JPEG (.jpg, .jpeg)
* PNG (.png)
* GIF (.gif)
* SVG (.svg)
(In particular, by default resizing PDF files is no longer allowed.)
Additionally, resized SVG files are displayed in the browser as SVG
instead of being converted to PNG.
If all users who can attach images are fully trusted, this restriction
can be removed with the new img_allowed_formats setup option.
See
or for
more details.
-- Simon McVittie Fri, 06 May 2016 07:07:29 +0100
ikiwiki (3.20110122) unstable; urgency=low
If you have custom CSS that uses "#feedlinks" or "#blogform", you will
need to change it to instead use ".feedlinks" and ".blogform"
-- Joey Hess Fri, 14 Jan 2011 14:34:54 -0400
ikiwiki (3.20100515) unstable; urgency=low
There are two significant changes to the page.tmpl template in this version.
If you have a locally modified version of that template, you will need to
update it at least to contain the following in the HTML :
Also, the footer should be wrapped in ...
There is a new "comment()" pagespec, that can be used to match a
comment on a page. It is recommended it be used instead of the old
method of using a pagespec such as "internal(comment_*)" to match
things that looked like comments. The old pagespec will now also match
comments that are held for moderation; likely not what you want.
There have also been some changes to the style.css in this version,
particularly to support the new openid selector. If you have a modified
version, of style.css, updating it (or moving it to local.css) is
recommended.
-- Joey Hess Wed, 05 May 2010 21:47:08 -0400
ikiwiki (3.20100427) unstable; urgency=low
This version of ikiwiki has a lot of changes that you need to know about.
Now you can include customised versions of templates in the source
of your wiki. (For example, templates/page.tmpl.) When these templates
are changed, ikiwiki will automatically rebuild pages that use them.
Allowing untrusted users to upload attachments with the ".tmpl"
extension is not recommended, as that allows anyone to change
a wiki's templates.
The --getctime switch is renamed to --gettime, and it also gets the
file modification time. And it's a lot faster (when using git). But
the really important change is, you don't have to remember to use this
switch. Now ikiwiki will do it when it needs to.
At last, the "tagged()" pagespec only matches tags, not regular wikilinks.
If your wiki accidentially relied on the old, buggy behavior, you might
need to change its pagespecs to use "link()".
Many of your wishes have been answered: Now tag pages can automatically be
created when new tags are used. This feature is enabled by default if you
have configured a tagbase. It can be turned on or off using the
tag_autocreate setting.
These changes may also affect some users:
* The title_natural sort method (as used by the inline directive, etc)
has been moved to the new sortnaturally plugin, which is not enabled
by default since it requires the Sort::Naturally perl module.
* The add_templates option has been removed from the underlay plugin.
If you used this option, you can instead use templates/ subdirectories
inside underlay directories added by the add_underlays option.
Due to the above and other changes, all wikis need to be rebuilt on
upgrade to this version. If you listed your wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist
this will be done automatically when the Debian package is upgraded. Or
use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
-- Joey Hess Tue, 27 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0400
ikiwiki (3.20091017) unstable; urgency=low
To take advantage of significant performance improvements, all
wikis need to be rebuilt on upgrade to this version. If you
listed your wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done
automatically when the Debian package is upgraded. Or use
ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
-- Joey Hess Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:48:59 -0400
ikiwiki (3.1415926) unstable; urgency=low
In order to fix a performance bug, all wikis need to be rebuilt on
upgrade to this version. If you listed your wiki in
/etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically when the
Debian package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force
a rebuild.
-- Joey Hess Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:24:43 -0400
ikiwiki (3.13) unstable; urgency=low
The `ikiwiki-transition deduplinks` command introduced in the
last release was buggy. If you followed the NEWS file instructions
and ran it, you should run `ikiwiki -setup` to rebuild your wiki
to fix the problem.
-- Joey Hess Fri, 22 May 2009 13:04:02 -0400
ikiwiki (3.12) unstable; urgency=low
You may want to run `ikiwiki-transition deduplinks your.setup`
after upgrading to this version of ikiwiki. This command will
optimise your wiki's saved state, removing duplicate information
that can slow ikiwiki down.
-- Joey Hess Wed, 06 May 2009 00:25:06 -0400
ikiwiki (3.01) unstable; urgency=low
If your wiki uses git, and you have a `diffurl` configured in
its setup file, you should be aware that gitweb has stopped
supporting the url form commonly used for the `diffurl`.
You can change your setup to use the newer gitweb url form:
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]]
The changes from the old form are the addition of the `hpb` parameter,
and the change to the value used for the `hb` parameter.
-- Joey Hess Mon, 05 Jan 2009 18:18:05 -0500
ikiwiki (3.00) unstable; urgency=low
The 3.0 release of ikiwiki changes several defaults and finishes
some transitions. You will need to modify your wikis to work with
ikiwiki 3.0. A document explaining the process is available
in
-- Joey Hess Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:14:18 -0500
ikiwiki (2.62) unstable; urgency=low
TexImg standard preamble changed
The teximg plugin now has a configurable LaTeX preamble.
As part of this change the `mchem` LaTeX package has been removed from
the default LaTeX preamble as it wasn't included in many TeX installations.
The previous behaviour can be restored by adding the following to your
ikiwiki setup:
teximg_prefix => '\documentclass{scrartcl}
\usepackage[version=3]{mhchem}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\pagestyle{empty}
\begin{document}',
In addition, the rendering mechanism has been changed to use `dvipng` by
default, if available.
-- Joey Hess Sun, 24 Aug 2008 15:00:40 -0400
ikiwiki (2.60) unstable; urgency=low
Admin preferences are moving from the web interface to the setup file.
There are three new options in the setup file: `locked_pages`, `banned_users`,
and `allowed_attachments`. The admin prefs page can still be used, but
that's deprecated, and the prefs will be hidden if a value is not already
set. If a value is set in the web interface, you're encouraged to move that
setting to your setup file now, since version 3.0 will remove the deprecated
admin prefs web interface.
Also, the layout of the setup file has changed in a significant way in this
release. Old setup files will continue to work, but new features, like the
new websetup interface, require a new format setup file. You can convert
old setup files into the new format by running
`ikiwiki-transition setupformat ikiwiki.setup`
-- Joey Hess Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:02:14 -0400
ikiwiki (2.52) unstable; urgency=low
All wikis need to be rebuilt on upgrade to this version. If you listed your
wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically when the
Debian package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
-- Joey Hess Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:10:05 -0400
ikiwiki (2.49) unstable; urgency=low
The search plugin no longer uses hyperestraier. Instead, to use it you
will now need to install xapian-omega, and the Search::Xapian,
HTML::Scrubber, and Digest::SHA1 perl modules. Ie,
`apt-get install xapian-omega libsearch-xapian-perl libhtml-scrubber-perl libdigest-sha1-perl`
Also, wikis that use the search plugin will need to be rebuilt,
since the search form has changed. This will not be done automatically,
but can be done by running `ikiwiki-mass-upgrade` as root, or
running `ikiwiki -setup` on individual setup files.
-- Joey Hess Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:29:28 -0400
ikiwiki (2.48) unstable; urgency=high
If you allowed password based logins to your wiki, those passwords were
stored in cleartext in the userdb. To guard against exposing users'
passwords, I recommend you install the Authen::Passphrase perl module, and
then run `ikiwiki-transition hashpassword /path/to/srcdir` to replace all
existing cleartext passwords with strong (blowfish) hashes.
-- Joey Hess Thu, 29 May 2008 14:39:34 -0400
ikiwiki (2.46) unstable; urgency=low
There were some significant template changes in ikiwiki 2.42 (and 1.33.5).
If you have locally modified versions of the templates, they need to be
updated. Most notably, the editpage.tmpl has a new FIELD-SID added to it,
without which web editing will fail.
-- Joey Hess Tue, 06 May 2008 14:30:14 -0400
ikiwiki (2.40) unstable; urgency=low
ikiwiki now has an new syntax for preprocessor directives, using the
prefix '!':
[[!directive ...]]
This new syntax no longer relies on spaces to distinguish between
wikilinks and preprocessor directives. Thus, wikilinks can use spaces
in their link text, and preprocessor directives without arguments (such
as "toc") need not use a trailing space.
To enable the new syntax, set prefix_directives to true in your ikiwiki
config. For backward compatibility with existing wikis,
prefix_directives currently defaults to false. In ikiwiki 3.0,
prefix_directives will default to true, and wikis which have not yet
converted to the new syntax will need to set prefix_directives to false
in their setup files.
To convert your wiki to the new syntax, ikiwiki provides a new script
ikiwiki-transition.
Even with prefix_directives disabled, ikiwiki now allows an optional '!'
prefix on preprocessor directives (but still requires a space). Thus, a
directive which uses a '!' prefix and contains a space will work with
ikiwiki 2.40 and newer, regardless of the value of prefix_directives.
This allows the underlay to work with all ikiwikis.
-- Josh Triplett Sat, 26 Jan 2008 16:26:47 -0800
ikiwiki (2.30) unstable; urgency=low
Ever feel that ikiwiki's handling of RecentChanges wasn't truely in the
spirit of a wiki compiler? Well, that's changed. The RecentChanges page is
now a static page, not a CGI. Users can subscribe to its rss/atom feeds.
Custom RecentChanges pages can be easily set up that display only changes
to a subset of pages, or only changes by a subset of users.
All wikis need to be rebuilt on upgrade to this version. If you listed your
wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically when the
Debian package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
With this excellent new RecentChanges support, the mail notification system
is its age (and known to be variously buggy and underimplemented for
various VCSes), and so ikiwiki's support for sending commit mails is REMOVED
from this version. If you were subscribed to commit mails, you should be
able to accomplish the same thing by subscribing to a RecentChanges feed.
The "notify" field in setup files is no longer used, and
silently ignored. You may want to remove it from your setup file.
-- Joey Hess Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:18:31 -0500
ikiwiki (2.20) unstable; urgency=low
The template plugin has begin to htmlize the variables passed to templates.
This is normally what you want, but to get the old behavior and get at the
raw value, you can use `` in a template.
-- Joey Hess Sat, 08 Dec 2007 16:04:43 -0500
ikiwiki (2.16) unstable; urgency=low
Many of the pages in ikiwiki's basewiki have been moved and renamed in this
release, to avoid the basewiki including pages with names like "blog".
Redirection pages have been left behind for these moved pages temporarily,
and will be removed later.
If you use the calendar plugin, ikiwiki is now smarter and your nightly
cron job to update the wiki doesn't need to rebuild everything. Just pass
--refresh to ikiwiki in the cron job and it will update only pages that
contain out of date calendars.
-- Joey Hess Sat, 08 Dec 2007 16:04:43 -0500
ikiwiki (2.14) unstable; urgency=low
This version of ikiwiki is more picky about symlinks in the path leading
to the srcdir, and will refuse to use a srcdir specified by such a path.
This was necessary to avoid some potential exploits, but could potentially
break (semi-)working wikis. If your wiki has a srcdir path containing a
symlink, you should change it to use a path that does not.
-- Joey Hess Mon, 26 Nov 2007 14:57:57 -0500
ikiwiki (2.9) unstable; urgency=low
Since ikiwiki 2.0 was released, some limitiations have been added to what
ikiwiki considers a WikiLink. In short, if there are any spaces in between
the brackets, ikiwiki no longer considers it to be a WikiLink. If your wiki
contains things meant to be WikiLinks that contain spaces, you will need to
fix them, by replacing the spaces with underscores.
WikiLink have always been documented to not contain spaces, but bugs in
ikiwiki made it treat some text with spaces as WikiLinks. Most of these
bugs were fixed in version 2.2, and a final bug was fixed in this 2.9
release. These fixes are necessary to avoid ambiguity between
WikiLinks and PreProcessorDirectives. Apologies for any inconvenience
these bugs (and their fixes) may have caused.
-- Joey Hess Sat, 29 Sep 2007 14:37:18 -0400
ikiwiki (2.6) unstable; urgency=low
In this version the rst plugin allows raw html to be embedded in rst files.
As long as the htmlscrubber is enabled, this should be safe. If you are
using the rst plugin without the htmlscrubber in a publically writable wiki,
you should turn on the htmlscrubber.
-- Joey Hess Sun, 29 Jul 2007 18:37:22 -0400
ikiwiki (2.5) unstable; urgency=low
Due to some config changes in this version, wrappers need to be rebuilt on
upgrade. If you listed your wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be
one automatically when the Debian package is upgraded.
-- Joey Hess Sun, 29 Jul 2007 17:54:40 -0400
ikiwiki (2.1) unstable; urgency=low
Some wikis need to be rebuilt on upgrade to this version, due to changes to
page templates and the style sheet. If you listed your wiki in
/etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically when the Debian
package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
-- Joey Hess Thu, 26 Apr 2007 15:50:36 -0400
ikiwiki (2.00) unstable; urgency=low
With the 2.0 release of ikiwiki, some major changes have been made to the
default configuration:
* The 'usedirs' setting is enabled by default. This *will* break all URLs
to wikis that did not have 'usedirs' turned on before, unless you follow
the procedure described at ,
or edit your setup file to turn usedirs off:
usedirs => 0,
* OpenID logins are now enabled by default, if the Net::OpenID::Consumer
perl module is available. Password logins are also still enabled
by default. If you like, you can turn either OpenID or password logins
off via the 'disable_plugins' setting.
-- Joey Hess Sun, 29 Apr 2007 19:00:43 -0400
ikiwiki (1.51) unstable; urgency=low
Some wikis need to be rebuilt on upgrade to this version, due to changes to
page layout and the style sheet. If you listed your wiki in
/etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically when the Debian
package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
-- Joey Hess Thu, 26 Apr 2007 15:50:36 -0400
ikiwiki (1.50) unstable; urgency=low
Permalinks and guids in rss and atom feeds for wikis using the usedirs
options will change in this release. If you have already enabled usedirs,
you may need to take steps to avoid flooding aggregators.
-- Joey Hess Sat, 14 Apr 2007 16:08:46 -0400
ikiwiki (1.49) unstable; urgency=low
Third-party plugins that use htmlpage() or abs2rel() to generate links
may need changes to support the new "usedirs" option.
-- Joey Hess Sun, 01 Apr 2007 16:20:09 -0400
ikiwiki (1.47) unstable; urgency=low
Due to a security fix, wikis that have the htmlscrubber enabled can no
longer use the meta plugin to insert html link and meta tags.
Some special case methods have been added for safely including stylesheets,
and for doing openid delegation. See the meta plugin docs for details.
-- Joey Hess Wed, 21 Mar 2007 14:18:40 -0400
ikiwiki (1.45) unstable; urgency=low
Wikis need to be rebuilt on upgrade to this version. If you listed your wiki
in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically when the Debian
package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
-- Joey Hess Wed, 7 Mar 2007 23:02:52 -0500
ikiwiki (1.44) unstable; urgency=low
The htmllink() function has changed slightly and plugins that use it may
need to change how they call it. This function's first three parameters
are unchanged, but additional options are now passed using named
parameters. If you used htmllink with more than 3 parameters, you will
need to change it. The plugin interface version has been increased to 1.02
to reflect this change.
-- Joey Hess Mon, 19 Feb 2007 21:10:12 -0500
ikiwiki (1.42) unstable; urgency=low
The anonok setting in config files has been removed. To enable
httpauth support on your wiki, you should now enable the anonok plugin,
instead.
Third-party plugins that use pagespec_match() should be updated to pass
the new third parameter (from) to that function. This is needed for the
new relative glob matching to work.
-- Joey Hess Thu, 1 Feb 2007 16:57:59 -0500
ikiwiki (1.34) unstable; urgency=low
The httpauth setting in config files has been removed. To enable
httpauth support on your wiki, you should now enable the httpauth plugin,
instead.
This release includes OpenID support that is enabled through the openid
plugin. I recommend turning this on to make it easier for users to sign
in to your wiki.
-- Joey Hess Sun, 19 Nov 2006 20:53:05 -0500
ikiwiki (1.32) unstable; urgency=low
There is a change to the plugin interface in this version. Any plugins that
modify data in %links should pass scan => 1 when registering the hook that
does so.
-- Joey Hess Sat, 28 Oct 2006 00:13:12 -0400
ikiwiki (1.29) unstable; urgency=low
Wikis need to be rebuilt on upgrade to this version. If you listed your wiki
in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically when the Debian
package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
There is a change to the plugin interface in this version. Plugins that use
%renderedfiles will need to be updated, as the hash's values are now arrays
of rendered files. Plugins that cause a page to render additional files
should use the new will_render function to register the files.
-- Joey Hess Sun, 8 Oct 2006 17:27:56 -0400
ikiwiki (1.22) unstable; urgency=low
Due to some changes in the CSS, wikis should be rebuilt on upgrade to this
version. If you listed your wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done
automatically when the Debian package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild
to force a rebuild.
If you have modified versions of ikiwiki's html templates, you will need
to update your templates to link to the stylesheet file using
"style.css" instead of the old method which used
STYLEURL.
There have also been some changes to the plugin interface:
Any plugins that use santize, htmlize, or format hooks will need to be
updated for this version of ikiwiki since these hooks have been changed
to use named parameters.
-- Joey Hess Tue, 22 Aug 2006 15:33:12 -0400
ikiwiki (1.13) unstable; urgency=low
The GlobList format which was used for specifiying sets of pages, has been
replaced with a new, more expressive PageSpec format. While GlobLists will
continue to work, that format is deprecated, and you are encouraged to use
PageSpecs from now on, and also to change any GlobLists in your wiki to
PageSpecs. See the new PageSpec page for details.
You will need to rebuild your wiki when upgrading to this version. If you
listed your wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically
when the Debian package is upgraded. Or use ikiiki-mass-rebuild to force a
rebuild.
-- Joey Hess Tue, 1 Aug 2006 18:29:51 -0400
ikiwiki (1.11) unstable; urgency=low
Some changes to tags in this release, due to a new tag plugin. If you have
been using the meta plugin to tag pages, you'll want to enable the tag
plugin too, and change things like this:
[[meta link="foobar"]]
To this:
[[tag foobar]]
The new tags will appear at page footers, and are also easier to type.
There have also been some changes to the plugin interface, particularly the
interface of pagetemplate hooks has changed. See the changelog for details.
-- Joey Hess Thu, 27 Jul 2006 17:03:09 -0400
ikiwiki (1.8) unstable; urgency=low
If your wiki is configured with a setup file, you should modify it to
stop setting the "plugin" list directly, and instead add or remove plugins
via the add_plugins and disable_plugins lines. For example, if you had:
plugin => [qw{inline smiley search}],
Change it to these lines, which disables the default htmlscrubber plugin
and adds the two additional plugins:
add_plugins => [qw{smiley search}],
disable_plugins => [qw{htmlscrubber}],
Making this change makes your ikiwiki setup file more future-proof since
new default plugins will be automatically used.
You will need to rebuild your ikiwiki wrappers when upgrading to this
version. If you listed your wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be
done automatically when the Debian package is upgraded. Or use
ikiiki-mass-rebuild --refresh to force a refresh.
-- Joey Hess Mon, 3 Jul 2006 16:59:29 -0400
ikiwiki (1.1) unstable; urgency=low
There have been several configuration changes in this release of ikiwiki:
The --svn and --no-svn switches are removed, instead you should use
--rcs=svn or --no-rcs. ikiwiki setup files that set svn => 1 should
be changed to set rcs => "svn"; if your setup file sets svn => 0
then change it to use rcs => "" to disable svn.
The --hyperestraier switch is gone too. To enable searching, turn on the
search plugin, by passing --plugin=search or through the plugin setting in
the setup file.
The --sanitize and --no-sanitize switches are also gone, replaced with the
htmlscrubber plugin. This plugin is enabled by default, to disable it,
use --disable-plugin=htmlscrubber, or modify the plugin setting in the
setup file.
Discussion pages are enabled by default, but if your wiki is configured
with a setup file, you need to edit it to keep them enabled on upgrade
to this version. Add a line reading:
discussion => 1,
You will need to rebuild your wiki when upgrading to this version.
If you listed your wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done
automatically when the Debian package is upgraded. Or use
ikiiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
-- Joey Hess Tue, 2 May 2006 14:13:59 -0400