X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/ed30330ac23ca84235e09cfc2f0acd55d62e4a09..c1687b1f1e13ce4acbe9aa8ad162918c78681a84:/debian/NEWS diff --git a/debian/NEWS b/debian/NEWS index 5515bbd7d..80da496fb 100644 --- a/debian/NEWS +++ b/debian/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,92 @@ +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. It will convert preprocessor directives in + all files given on the command line. To convert an entire wiki: + + find wikidir/ -type f -name '*.mdwn' -print0 | xargs -0 ikiwiki-transition prefix_directives + + 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. @@ -24,7 +113,7 @@ 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 + 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.