1 ikiwiki (3.20100427) unstable; urgency=low
3 This version of ikiwiki has a lot of changes that you need to know about.
5 Now you can include customised versions of templates in the source
6 of your wiki. (For example, templates/page.tmpl.) When these templates
7 are changed, ikiwiki will automatically rebuild pages that use them.
9 Allowing untrusted users to upload attachments with the ".tmpl"
10 extension is not recommended, as that allows anyone to change
13 The --getctime switch is renamed to --gettimes, and it also gets the
14 file modification time. And it's a lot faster (when using git). But
15 the really important change is, you don't have to remember to use this
16 switch. Now ikiwiki will do it when it needs to.
18 At last, the "tagged()" pagespec only matches tags, not regular wikilinks.
19 If your wiki accidentially relied on the old, buggy behavior, you might
20 need to change its pagespecs to use "link()".
22 Many of your wishes have been answered: Now tag pages can automatically be
23 created when new tags are used. This feature is enabled by default if you
24 have configured a tagbase. It can be turned on or off using the
25 tag_autocreate setting.
27 These changes may also affect some users:
29 * The title_natural sort method (as used by the inline directive, etc)
30 has been moved to the new sortnaturally plugin, which is not enabled
31 by default since it requires the Sort::Naturally perl module.
33 * The add_templates option has been removed from the underlay plugin.
34 If you used this option, you can instead use templates/ subdirectories
35 inside underlay directories added by the add_underlays option.
37 Due to the above and other changes, all wikis need to be rebuilt on
38 upgrade to this version. If you listed your wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist
39 this will be done automatically when the Debian package is upgraded. Or
40 use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
42 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0400
44 ikiwiki (3.20091017) unstable; urgency=low
46 To take advantage of significant performance improvements, all
47 wikis need to be rebuilt on upgrade to this version. If you
48 listed your wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done
49 automatically when the Debian package is upgraded. Or use
50 ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
52 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:48:59 -0400
54 ikiwiki (3.1415926) unstable; urgency=low
56 In order to fix a performance bug, all wikis need to be rebuilt on
57 upgrade to this version. If you listed your wiki in
58 /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically when the
59 Debian package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force
62 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:24:43 -0400
64 ikiwiki (3.13) unstable; urgency=low
66 The `ikiwiki-transition deduplinks` command introduced in the
67 last release was buggy. If you followed the NEWS file instructions
68 and ran it, you should run `ikiwiki -setup` to rebuild your wiki
71 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 May 2009 13:04:02 -0400
73 ikiwiki (3.12) unstable; urgency=low
75 You may want to run `ikiwiki-transition deduplinks your.setup`
76 after upgrading to this version of ikiwiki. This command will
77 optimise your wiki's saved state, removing duplicate information
78 that can slow ikiwiki down.
80 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 06 May 2009 00:25:06 -0400
82 ikiwiki (3.01) unstable; urgency=low
84 If your wiki uses git, and you have a `diffurl` configured in
85 its setup file, you should be aware that gitweb has stopped
86 supporting the url form commonly used for the `diffurl`.
88 You can change your setup to use the newer gitweb url form:
90 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]]
92 The changes from the old form are the addition of the `hpb` parameter,
93 and the change to the value used for the `hb` parameter.
95 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 05 Jan 2009 18:18:05 -0500
97 ikiwiki (3.00) unstable; urgency=low
99 The 3.0 release of ikiwiki changes several defaults and finishes
100 some transitions. You will need to modify your wikis to work with
101 ikiwiki 3.0. A document explaining the process is available
102 in </usr/share/doc/ikiwiki/html/tips/upgrade_to_3.0.html>
104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:14:18 -0500
106 ikiwiki (2.62) unstable; urgency=low
108 TexImg standard preamble changed
110 The teximg plugin now has a configurable LaTeX preamble.
111 As part of this change the `mchem` LaTeX package has been removed from
112 the default LaTeX preamble as it wasn't included in many TeX installations.
114 The previous behaviour can be restored by adding the following to your
117 teximg_prefix => '\documentclass{scrartcl}
118 \usepackage[version=3]{mhchem}
120 \usepackage{amsfonts}
125 In addition, the rendering mechanism has been changed to use `dvipng` by
126 default, if available.
128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Aug 2008 15:00:40 -0400
130 ikiwiki (2.60) unstable; urgency=low
132 Admin preferences are moving from the web interface to the setup file.
133 There are three new options in the setup file: `locked_pages`, `banned_users`,
134 and `allowed_attachments`. The admin prefs page can still be used, but
135 that's deprecated, and the prefs will be hidden if a value is not already
136 set. If a value is set in the web interface, you're encouraged to move that
137 setting to your setup file now, since version 3.0 will remove the deprecated
138 admin prefs web interface.
140 Also, the layout of the setup file has changed in a significant way in this
141 release. Old setup files will continue to work, but new features, like the
142 new websetup interface, require a new format setup file. You can convert
143 old setup files into the new format by running
144 `ikiwiki-transition setupformat ikiwiki.setup`
146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:02:14 -0400
148 ikiwiki (2.52) unstable; urgency=low
150 All wikis need to be rebuilt on upgrade to this version. If you listed your
151 wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically when the
152 Debian package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:10:05 -0400
156 ikiwiki (2.49) unstable; urgency=low
158 The search plugin no longer uses hyperestraier. Instead, to use it you
159 will now need to install xapian-omega, and the Search::Xapian,
160 HTML::Scrubber, and Digest::SHA1 perl modules. Ie,
161 `apt-get install xapian-omega libsearch-xapian-perl libhtml-scrubber-perl libdigest-sha1-perl`
163 Also, wikis that use the search plugin will need to be rebuilt,
164 since the search form has changed. This will not be done automatically,
165 but can be done by running `ikiwiki-mass-upgrade` as root, or
166 running `ikiwiki -setup` on individual setup files.
168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:29:28 -0400
170 ikiwiki (2.48) unstable; urgency=high
172 If you allowed password based logins to your wiki, those passwords were
173 stored in cleartext in the userdb. To guard against exposing users'
174 passwords, I recommend you install the Authen::Passphrase perl module, and
175 then run `ikiwiki-transition hashpassword /path/to/srcdir` to replace all
176 existing cleartext passwords with strong (blowfish) hashes.
178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 May 2008 14:39:34 -0400
180 ikiwiki (2.46) unstable; urgency=low
182 There were some significant template changes in ikiwiki 2.42 (and 1.33.5).
183 If you have locally modified versions of the templates, they need to be
184 updated. Most notably, the editpage.tmpl has a new FIELD-SID added to it,
185 without which web editing will fail.
187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 May 2008 14:30:14 -0400
189 ikiwiki (2.40) unstable; urgency=low
191 ikiwiki now has an new syntax for preprocessor directives, using the
196 This new syntax no longer relies on spaces to distinguish between
197 wikilinks and preprocessor directives. Thus, wikilinks can use spaces
198 in their link text, and preprocessor directives without arguments (such
199 as "toc") need not use a trailing space.
201 To enable the new syntax, set prefix_directives to true in your ikiwiki
202 config. For backward compatibility with existing wikis,
203 prefix_directives currently defaults to false. In ikiwiki 3.0,
204 prefix_directives will default to true, and wikis which have not yet
205 converted to the new syntax will need to set prefix_directives to false
206 in their setup files.
208 To convert your wiki to the new syntax, ikiwiki provides a new script
211 Even with prefix_directives disabled, ikiwiki now allows an optional '!'
212 prefix on preprocessor directives (but still requires a space). Thus, a
213 directive which uses a '!' prefix and contains a space will work with
214 ikiwiki 2.40 and newer, regardless of the value of prefix_directives.
215 This allows the underlay to work with all ikiwikis.
217 -- Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 16:26:47 -0800
219 ikiwiki (2.30) unstable; urgency=low
221 Ever feel that ikiwiki's handling of RecentChanges wasn't truely in the
222 spirit of a wiki compiler? Well, that's changed. The RecentChanges page is
223 now a static page, not a CGI. Users can subscribe to its rss/atom feeds.
224 Custom RecentChanges pages can be easily set up that display only changes
225 to a subset of pages, or only changes by a subset of users.
227 All wikis need to be rebuilt on upgrade to this version. If you listed your
228 wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically when the
229 Debian package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
231 With this excellent new RecentChanges support, the mail notification system
232 is its age (and known to be variously buggy and underimplemented for
233 various VCSes), and so ikiwiki's support for sending commit mails is REMOVED
234 from this version. If you were subscribed to commit mails, you should be
235 able to accomplish the same thing by subscribing to a RecentChanges feed.
237 The "notify" field in setup files is no longer used, and
238 silently ignored. You may want to remove it from your setup file.
240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:18:31 -0500
242 ikiwiki (2.20) unstable; urgency=low
244 The template plugin has begin to htmlize the variables passed to templates.
245 This is normally what you want, but to get the old behavior and get at the
246 raw value, you can use `<TMPL_VAR raw_variable>` in a template.
248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Dec 2007 16:04:43 -0500
250 ikiwiki (2.16) unstable; urgency=low
252 Many of the pages in ikiwiki's basewiki have been moved and renamed in this
253 release, to avoid the basewiki including pages with names like "blog".
254 Redirection pages have been left behind for these moved pages temporarily,
255 and will be removed later.
257 If you use the calendar plugin, ikiwiki is now smarter and your nightly
258 cron job to update the wiki doesn't need to rebuild everything. Just pass
259 --refresh to ikiwiki in the cron job and it will update only pages that
260 contain out of date calendars.
262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Dec 2007 16:04:43 -0500
264 ikiwiki (2.14) unstable; urgency=low
266 This version of ikiwiki is more picky about symlinks in the path leading
267 to the srcdir, and will refuse to use a srcdir specified by such a path.
268 This was necessary to avoid some potential exploits, but could potentially
269 break (semi-)working wikis. If your wiki has a srcdir path containing a
270 symlink, you should change it to use a path that does not.
272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Nov 2007 14:57:57 -0500
274 ikiwiki (2.9) unstable; urgency=low
276 Since ikiwiki 2.0 was released, some limitiations have been added to what
277 ikiwiki considers a WikiLink. In short, if there are any spaces in between
278 the brackets, ikiwiki no longer considers it to be a WikiLink. If your wiki
279 contains things meant to be WikiLinks that contain spaces, you will need to
280 fix them, by replacing the spaces with underscores.
282 WikiLink have always been documented to not contain spaces, but bugs in
283 ikiwiki made it treat some text with spaces as WikiLinks. Most of these
284 bugs were fixed in version 2.2, and a final bug was fixed in this 2.9
285 release. These fixes are necessary to avoid ambiguity between
286 WikiLinks and PreProcessorDirectives. Apologies for any inconvenience
287 these bugs (and their fixes) may have caused.
289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Sep 2007 14:37:18 -0400
291 ikiwiki (2.6) unstable; urgency=low
293 In this version the rst plugin allows raw html to be embedded in rst files.
294 As long as the htmlscrubber is enabled, this should be safe. If you are
295 using the rst plugin without the htmlscrubber in a publically writable wiki,
296 you should turn on the htmlscrubber.
298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Jul 2007 18:37:22 -0400
300 ikiwiki (2.5) unstable; urgency=low
302 Due to some config changes in this version, wrappers need to be rebuilt on
303 upgrade. If you listed your wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be
304 one automatically when the Debian package is upgraded.
306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Jul 2007 17:54:40 -0400
308 ikiwiki (2.1) unstable; urgency=low
310 Some wikis need to be rebuilt on upgrade to this version, due to changes to
311 page templates and the style sheet. If you listed your wiki in
312 /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically when the Debian
313 package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Apr 2007 15:50:36 -0400
317 ikiwiki (2.00) unstable; urgency=low
319 With the 2.0 release of ikiwiki, some major changes have been made to the
320 default configuration:
322 * The 'usedirs' setting is enabled by default. This *will* break all URLs
323 to wikis that did not have 'usedirs' turned on before, unless you follow
324 the procedure described at <http://ikiwiki.info/tips/switching_to_usedirs>,
325 or edit your setup file to turn usedirs off:
328 * OpenID logins are now enabled by default, if the Net::OpenID::Consumer
329 perl module is available. Password logins are also still enabled
330 by default. If you like, you can turn either OpenID or password logins
331 off via the 'disable_plugins' setting.
333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Apr 2007 19:00:43 -0400
335 ikiwiki (1.51) unstable; urgency=low
337 Some wikis need to be rebuilt on upgrade to this version, due to changes to
338 page layout and the style sheet. If you listed your wiki in
339 /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> Thu, 26 Apr 2007 15:50:36 -0400
344 ikiwiki (1.50) unstable; urgency=low
346 Permalinks and guids in rss and atom feeds for wikis using the usedirs
347 options will change in this release. If you have already enabled usedirs,
348 you may need to take steps to avoid flooding aggregators.
350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2007 16:08:46 -0400
352 ikiwiki (1.49) unstable; urgency=low
354 Third-party plugins that use htmlpage() or abs2rel() to generate links
355 may need changes to support the new "usedirs" option.
357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 01 Apr 2007 16:20:09 -0400
359 ikiwiki (1.47) unstable; urgency=low
361 Due to a security fix, wikis that have the htmlscrubber enabled can no
362 longer use the meta plugin to insert html link and meta tags.
364 Some special case methods have been added for safely including stylesheets,
365 and for doing openid delegation. See the meta plugin docs for details.
367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2007 14:18:40 -0400
369 ikiwiki (1.45) unstable; urgency=low
371 Wikis need to be rebuilt on upgrade to this version. If you listed your wiki
372 in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically when the Debian
373 package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Mar 2007 23:02:52 -0500
377 ikiwiki (1.44) unstable; urgency=low
379 The htmllink() function has changed slightly and plugins that use it may
380 need to change how they call it. This function's first three parameters
381 are unchanged, but additional options are now passed using named
382 parameters. If you used htmllink with more than 3 parameters, you will
383 need to change it. The plugin interface version has been increased to 1.02
384 to reflect this change.
386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Feb 2007 21:10:12 -0500
388 ikiwiki (1.42) unstable; urgency=low
390 The anonok setting in config files has been removed. To enable
391 httpauth support on your wiki, you should now enable the anonok plugin,
394 Third-party plugins that use pagespec_match() should be updated to pass
395 the new third parameter (from) to that function. This is needed for the
396 new relative glob matching to work.
398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2007 16:57:59 -0500
400 ikiwiki (1.34) unstable; urgency=low
402 The httpauth setting in config files has been removed. To enable
403 httpauth support on your wiki, you should now enable the httpauth plugin,
406 This release includes OpenID support that is enabled through the openid
407 plugin. I recommend turning this on to make it easier for users to sign
410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2006 20:53:05 -0500
412 ikiwiki (1.32) unstable; urgency=low
414 There is a change to the plugin interface in this version. Any plugins that
415 modify data in %links should pass scan => 1 when registering the hook that
418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2006 00:13:12 -0400
420 ikiwiki (1.29) unstable; urgency=low
422 Wikis need to be rebuilt on upgrade to this version. If you listed your wiki
423 in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically when the Debian
424 package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
426 There is a change to the plugin interface in this version. Plugins that use
427 %renderedfiles will need to be updated, as the hash's values are now arrays
428 of rendered files. Plugins that cause a page to render additional files
429 should use the new will_render function to register the files.
431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Oct 2006 17:27:56 -0400
433 ikiwiki (1.22) unstable; urgency=low
435 Due to some changes in the CSS, wikis should be rebuilt on upgrade to this
436 version. If you listed your wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done
437 automatically when the Debian package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild
440 If you have modified versions of ikiwiki's html templates, you will need
441 to update your templates to link to the stylesheet file using
442 "<TMPL_VAR BASEURL>style.css" instead of the old method which used
445 There have also been some changes to the plugin interface:
446 Any plugins that use santize, htmlize, or format hooks will need to be
447 updated for this version of ikiwiki since these hooks have been changed
448 to use named parameters.
450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2006 15:33:12 -0400
452 ikiwiki (1.13) unstable; urgency=low
454 The GlobList format which was used for specifiying sets of pages, has been
455 replaced with a new, more expressive PageSpec format. While GlobLists will
456 continue to work, that format is deprecated, and you are encouraged to use
457 PageSpecs from now on, and also to change any GlobLists in your wiki to
458 PageSpecs. See the new PageSpec page for details.
460 You will need to rebuild your wiki when upgrading to this version. If you
461 listed your wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically
462 when the Debian package is upgraded. Or use ikiiki-mass-rebuild to force a
465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Aug 2006 18:29:51 -0400
467 ikiwiki (1.11) unstable; urgency=low
469 Some changes to tags in this release, due to a new tag plugin. If you have
470 been using the meta plugin to tag pages, you'll want to enable the tag
471 plugin too, and change things like this:
473 [[meta link="foobar"]]
479 The new tags will appear at page footers, and are also easier to type.
481 There have also been some changes to the plugin interface, particularly the
482 interface of pagetemplate hooks has changed. See the changelog for details.
484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Jul 2006 17:03:09 -0400
486 ikiwiki (1.8) unstable; urgency=low
488 If your wiki is configured with a setup file, you should modify it to
489 stop setting the "plugin" list directly, and instead add or remove plugins
490 via the add_plugins and disable_plugins lines. For example, if you had:
492 plugin => [qw{inline smiley search}],
494 Change it to these lines, which disables the default htmlscrubber plugin
495 and adds the two additional plugins:
497 add_plugins => [qw{smiley search}],
498 disable_plugins => [qw{htmlscrubber}],
500 Making this change makes your ikiwiki setup file more future-proof since
501 new default plugins will be automatically used.
503 You will need to rebuild your ikiwiki wrappers when upgrading to this
504 version. If you listed your wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be
505 done automatically when the Debian package is upgraded. Or use
506 ikiiki-mass-rebuild --refresh to force a refresh.
508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Jul 2006 16:59:29 -0400
510 ikiwiki (1.1) unstable; urgency=low
512 There have been several configuration changes in this release of ikiwiki:
514 The --svn and --no-svn switches are removed, instead you should use
515 --rcs=svn or --no-rcs. ikiwiki setup files that set svn => 1 should
516 be changed to set rcs => "svn"; if your setup file sets svn => 0
517 then change it to use rcs => "" to disable svn.
519 The --hyperestraier switch is gone too. To enable searching, turn on the
520 search plugin, by passing --plugin=search or through the plugin setting in
523 The --sanitize and --no-sanitize switches are also gone, replaced with the
524 htmlscrubber plugin. This plugin is enabled by default, to disable it,
525 use --disable-plugin=htmlscrubber, or modify the plugin setting in the
528 Discussion pages are enabled by default, but if your wiki is configured
529 with a setup file, you need to edit it to keep them enabled on upgrade
530 to this version. Add a line reading:
533 You will need to rebuild your wiki when upgrading to this version.
534 If you listed your wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done
535 automatically when the Debian package is upgraded. Or use
536 ikiiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 May 2006 14:13:59 -0400