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+**This release fixes an important security hole, upgrade immediately.**
+

 News for ikiwiki 2.48:
 
    If you allowed password based logins to your wiki, those passwords were
    stored in cleartext in the userdb. To guard against exposing users'
 News for ikiwiki 2.48:
 
    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
+   passwords, I recommend you install the [[cpan Authen::Passphrase]] perl module, and

    then run `ikiwiki-transition hashpassword /path/to/srcdir` to replace all
    existing cleartext passwords with strong (blowfish) hashes.
 
    then run `ikiwiki-transition hashpassword /path/to/srcdir` to replace all
    existing cleartext passwords with strong (blowfish) hashes.
 


@@ -11,6 +13,7 @@ ikiwiki 2.48 released with [[toggle text="these changes"]]
    * Fix security hole that occurred if openid and passwordauth were both
      enabled. passwordauth would allow logging in as a known openid, with an
      empty password. Closes: #[483770](http://bugs.debian.org/483770)
    * Fix security hole that occurred if openid and passwordauth were both
      enabled. passwordauth would allow logging in as a known openid, with an
      empty password. Closes: #[483770](http://bugs.debian.org/483770)

+     (CVE-2008-0169)

    * Add rel=nofollow to edit links. This may prevent some spiders from
      pounding on the cgi following edit links.
    * passwordauth: If Authen::Passphrase is installed, use it to store
    * Add rel=nofollow to edit links. This may prevent some spiders from
      pounding on the cgi following edit links.
    * passwordauth: If Authen::Passphrase is installed, use it to store


@@ -21,4 +24,4 @@ ikiwiki 2.48 released with [[toggle text="these changes"]]
    * The password\_cost config setting is provided as a "more security" knob.
    * teximg: Fix logurl.
    * teximg: If the log isn't written, avoid ugly error messages.
    * The password\_cost config setting is provided as a "more security" knob.
    * teximg: Fix logurl.
    * teximg: If the log isn't written, avoid ugly error messages.

-   * Updated French translation. Closes: #[478530](http://bugs.debian.org/478530)"""]]
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+   * Updated French translation. Closes: #[478530](http://bugs.debian.org/478530)"""]]