1 ikiwiki (3.20100320) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 The sort="title_natural" option on [[!inline]] etc. now requires the
4 new sortnaturally plugin. This is not enabled by default, because it requires
5 the Sort::Naturally module.
7 -- Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> Sat, 03 Apr 2010 13:46:08 +0100
9 ikiwiki (3.20091017) unstable; urgency=low
11 To take advantage of significant performance improvements, all
12 wikis need to be rebuilt on upgrade to this version. If you
13 listed your wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done
14 automatically when the Debian package is upgraded. Or use
15 ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
17 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:48:59 -0400
19 ikiwiki (3.1415926) unstable; urgency=low
21 In order to fix a performance bug, all wikis need to be rebuilt on
22 upgrade to this version. If you listed your wiki in
23 /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically when the
24 Debian package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force
27 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:24:43 -0400
29 ikiwiki (3.13) unstable; urgency=low
31 The `ikiwiki-transition deduplinks` command introduced in the
32 last release was buggy. If you followed the NEWS file instructions
33 and ran it, you should run `ikiwiki -setup` to rebuild your wiki
36 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 May 2009 13:04:02 -0400
38 ikiwiki (3.12) unstable; urgency=low
40 You may want to run `ikiwiki-transition deduplinks your.setup`
41 after upgrading to this version of ikiwiki. This command will
42 optimise your wiki's saved state, removing duplicate information
43 that can slow ikiwiki down.
45 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 06 May 2009 00:25:06 -0400
47 ikiwiki (3.01) unstable; urgency=low
49 If your wiki uses git, and you have a `diffurl` configured in
50 its setup file, you should be aware that gitweb has stopped
51 supporting the url form commonly used for the `diffurl`.
53 You can change your setup to use the newer gitweb url form:
55 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]]
57 The changes from the old form are the addition of the `hpb` parameter,
58 and the change to the value used for the `hb` parameter.
60 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 05 Jan 2009 18:18:05 -0500
62 ikiwiki (3.00) unstable; urgency=low
64 The 3.0 release of ikiwiki changes several defaults and finishes
65 some transitions. You will need to modify your wikis to work with
66 ikiwiki 3.0. A document explaining the process is available
67 in </usr/share/doc/ikiwiki/html/tips/upgrade_to_3.0.html>
69 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:14:18 -0500
71 ikiwiki (2.62) unstable; urgency=low
73 TexImg standard preamble changed
75 The teximg plugin now has a configurable LaTeX preamble.
76 As part of this change the `mchem` LaTeX package has been removed from
77 the default LaTeX preamble as it wasn't included in many TeX installations.
79 The previous behaviour can be restored by adding the following to your
82 teximg_prefix => '\documentclass{scrartcl}
83 \usepackage[version=3]{mhchem}
90 In addition, the rendering mechanism has been changed to use `dvipng` by
91 default, if available.
93 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Aug 2008 15:00:40 -0400
95 ikiwiki (2.60) unstable; urgency=low
97 Admin preferences are moving from the web interface to the setup file.
98 There are three new options in the setup file: `locked_pages`, `banned_users`,
99 and `allowed_attachments`. The admin prefs page can still be used, but
100 that's deprecated, and the prefs will be hidden if a value is not already
101 set. If a value is set in the web interface, you're encouraged to move that
102 setting to your setup file now, since version 3.0 will remove the deprecated
103 admin prefs web interface.
105 Also, the layout of the setup file has changed in a significant way in this
106 release. Old setup files will continue to work, but new features, like the
107 new websetup interface, require a new format setup file. You can convert
108 old setup files into the new format by running
109 `ikiwiki-transition setupformat ikiwiki.setup`
111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:02:14 -0400
113 ikiwiki (2.52) unstable; urgency=low
115 All wikis need to be rebuilt on upgrade to this version. If you listed your
116 wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically when the
117 Debian package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:10:05 -0400
121 ikiwiki (2.49) unstable; urgency=low
123 The search plugin no longer uses hyperestraier. Instead, to use it you
124 will now need to install xapian-omega, and the Search::Xapian,
125 HTML::Scrubber, and Digest::SHA1 perl modules. Ie,
126 `apt-get install xapian-omega libsearch-xapian-perl libhtml-scrubber-perl libdigest-sha1-perl`
128 Also, wikis that use the search plugin will need to be rebuilt,
129 since the search form has changed. This will not be done automatically,
130 but can be done by running `ikiwiki-mass-upgrade` as root, or
131 running `ikiwiki -setup` on individual setup files.
133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:29:28 -0400
135 ikiwiki (2.48) unstable; urgency=high
137 If you allowed password based logins to your wiki, those passwords were
138 stored in cleartext in the userdb. To guard against exposing users'
139 passwords, I recommend you install the Authen::Passphrase perl module, and
140 then run `ikiwiki-transition hashpassword /path/to/srcdir` to replace all
141 existing cleartext passwords with strong (blowfish) hashes.
143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 May 2008 14:39:34 -0400
145 ikiwiki (2.46) unstable; urgency=low
147 There were some significant template changes in ikiwiki 2.42 (and 1.33.5).
148 If you have locally modified versions of the templates, they need to be
149 updated. Most notably, the editpage.tmpl has a new FIELD-SID added to it,
150 without which web editing will fail.
152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 May 2008 14:30:14 -0400
154 ikiwiki (2.40) unstable; urgency=low
156 ikiwiki now has an new syntax for preprocessor directives, using the
161 This new syntax no longer relies on spaces to distinguish between
162 wikilinks and preprocessor directives. Thus, wikilinks can use spaces
163 in their link text, and preprocessor directives without arguments (such
164 as "toc") need not use a trailing space.
166 To enable the new syntax, set prefix_directives to true in your ikiwiki
167 config. For backward compatibility with existing wikis,
168 prefix_directives currently defaults to false. In ikiwiki 3.0,
169 prefix_directives will default to true, and wikis which have not yet
170 converted to the new syntax will need to set prefix_directives to false
171 in their setup files.
173 To convert your wiki to the new syntax, ikiwiki provides a new script
176 Even with prefix_directives disabled, ikiwiki now allows an optional '!'
177 prefix on preprocessor directives (but still requires a space). Thus, a
178 directive which uses a '!' prefix and contains a space will work with
179 ikiwiki 2.40 and newer, regardless of the value of prefix_directives.
180 This allows the underlay to work with all ikiwikis.
182 -- Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 16:26:47 -0800
184 ikiwiki (2.30) unstable; urgency=low
186 Ever feel that ikiwiki's handling of RecentChanges wasn't truely in the
187 spirit of a wiki compiler? Well, that's changed. The RecentChanges page is
188 now a static page, not a CGI. Users can subscribe to its rss/atom feeds.
189 Custom RecentChanges pages can be easily set up that display only changes
190 to a subset of pages, or only changes by a subset of users.
192 All wikis need to be rebuilt on upgrade to this version. If you listed your
193 wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically when the
194 Debian package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
196 With this excellent new RecentChanges support, the mail notification system
197 is its age (and known to be variously buggy and underimplemented for
198 various VCSes), and so ikiwiki's support for sending commit mails is REMOVED
199 from this version. If you were subscribed to commit mails, you should be
200 able to accomplish the same thing by subscribing to a RecentChanges feed.
202 The "notify" field in setup files is no longer used, and
203 silently ignored. You may want to remove it from your setup file.
205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:18:31 -0500
207 ikiwiki (2.20) unstable; urgency=low
209 The template plugin has begin to htmlize the variables passed to templates.
210 This is normally what you want, but to get the old behavior and get at the
211 raw value, you can use `<TMPL_VAR raw_variable>` in a template.
213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Dec 2007 16:04:43 -0500
215 ikiwiki (2.16) unstable; urgency=low
217 Many of the pages in ikiwiki's basewiki have been moved and renamed in this
218 release, to avoid the basewiki including pages with names like "blog".
219 Redirection pages have been left behind for these moved pages temporarily,
220 and will be removed later.
222 If you use the calendar plugin, ikiwiki is now smarter and your nightly
223 cron job to update the wiki doesn't need to rebuild everything. Just pass
224 --refresh to ikiwiki in the cron job and it will update only pages that
225 contain out of date calendars.
227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Dec 2007 16:04:43 -0500
229 ikiwiki (2.14) unstable; urgency=low
231 This version of ikiwiki is more picky about symlinks in the path leading
232 to the srcdir, and will refuse to use a srcdir specified by such a path.
233 This was necessary to avoid some potential exploits, but could potentially
234 break (semi-)working wikis. If your wiki has a srcdir path containing a
235 symlink, you should change it to use a path that does not.
237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Nov 2007 14:57:57 -0500
239 ikiwiki (2.9) unstable; urgency=low
241 Since ikiwiki 2.0 was released, some limitiations have been added to what
242 ikiwiki considers a WikiLink. In short, if there are any spaces in between
243 the brackets, ikiwiki no longer considers it to be a WikiLink. If your wiki
244 contains things meant to be WikiLinks that contain spaces, you will need to
245 fix them, by replacing the spaces with underscores.
247 WikiLink have always been documented to not contain spaces, but bugs in
248 ikiwiki made it treat some text with spaces as WikiLinks. Most of these
249 bugs were fixed in version 2.2, and a final bug was fixed in this 2.9
250 release. These fixes are necessary to avoid ambiguity between
251 WikiLinks and PreProcessorDirectives. Apologies for any inconvenience
252 these bugs (and their fixes) may have caused.
254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Sep 2007 14:37:18 -0400
256 ikiwiki (2.6) unstable; urgency=low
258 In this version the rst plugin allows raw html to be embedded in rst files.
259 As long as the htmlscrubber is enabled, this should be safe. If you are
260 using the rst plugin without the htmlscrubber in a publically writable wiki,
261 you should turn on the htmlscrubber.
263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Jul 2007 18:37:22 -0400
265 ikiwiki (2.5) unstable; urgency=low
267 Due to some config changes in this version, wrappers need to be rebuilt on
268 upgrade. If you listed your wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be
269 one automatically when the Debian package is upgraded.
271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Jul 2007 17:54:40 -0400
273 ikiwiki (2.1) unstable; urgency=low
275 Some wikis need to be rebuilt on upgrade to this version, due to changes to
276 page templates and the style sheet. If you listed your wiki in
277 /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically when the Debian
278 package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Apr 2007 15:50:36 -0400
282 ikiwiki (2.00) unstable; urgency=low
284 With the 2.0 release of ikiwiki, some major changes have been made to the
285 default configuration:
287 * The 'usedirs' setting is enabled by default. This *will* break all URLs
288 to wikis that did not have 'usedirs' turned on before, unless you follow
289 the procedure described at <http://ikiwiki.info/tips/switching_to_usedirs>,
290 or edit your setup file to turn usedirs off:
293 * OpenID logins are now enabled by default, if the Net::OpenID::Consumer
294 perl module is available. Password logins are also still enabled
295 by default. If you like, you can turn either OpenID or password logins
296 off via the 'disable_plugins' setting.
298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Apr 2007 19:00:43 -0400
300 ikiwiki (1.51) unstable; urgency=low
302 Some wikis need to be rebuilt on upgrade to this version, due to changes to
303 page layout and the style sheet. If you listed your wiki in
304 /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically when the Debian
305 package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Apr 2007 15:50:36 -0400
309 ikiwiki (1.50) unstable; urgency=low
311 Permalinks and guids in rss and atom feeds for wikis using the usedirs
312 options will change in this release. If you have already enabled usedirs,
313 you may need to take steps to avoid flooding aggregators.
315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2007 16:08:46 -0400
317 ikiwiki (1.49) unstable; urgency=low
319 Third-party plugins that use htmlpage() or abs2rel() to generate links
320 may need changes to support the new "usedirs" option.
322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 01 Apr 2007 16:20:09 -0400
324 ikiwiki (1.47) unstable; urgency=low
326 Due to a security fix, wikis that have the htmlscrubber enabled can no
327 longer use the meta plugin to insert html link and meta tags.
329 Some special case methods have been added for safely including stylesheets,
330 and for doing openid delegation. See the meta plugin docs for details.
332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2007 14:18:40 -0400
334 ikiwiki (1.45) unstable; urgency=low
336 Wikis need to be rebuilt on upgrade to this version. If you listed your wiki
337 in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically when the Debian
338 package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Mar 2007 23:02:52 -0500
342 ikiwiki (1.44) unstable; urgency=low
344 The htmllink() function has changed slightly and plugins that use it may
345 need to change how they call it. This function's first three parameters
346 are unchanged, but additional options are now passed using named
347 parameters. If you used htmllink with more than 3 parameters, you will
348 need to change it. The plugin interface version has been increased to 1.02
349 to reflect this change.
351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Feb 2007 21:10:12 -0500
353 ikiwiki (1.42) unstable; urgency=low
355 The anonok setting in config files has been removed. To enable
356 httpauth support on your wiki, you should now enable the anonok plugin,
359 Third-party plugins that use pagespec_match() should be updated to pass
360 the new third parameter (from) to that function. This is needed for the
361 new relative glob matching to work.
363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2007 16:57:59 -0500
365 ikiwiki (1.34) unstable; urgency=low
367 The httpauth setting in config files has been removed. To enable
368 httpauth support on your wiki, you should now enable the httpauth plugin,
371 This release includes OpenID support that is enabled through the openid
372 plugin. I recommend turning this on to make it easier for users to sign
375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2006 20:53:05 -0500
377 ikiwiki (1.32) unstable; urgency=low
379 There is a change to the plugin interface in this version. Any plugins that
380 modify data in %links should pass scan => 1 when registering the hook that
383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2006 00:13:12 -0400
385 ikiwiki (1.29) unstable; urgency=low
387 Wikis need to be rebuilt on upgrade to this version. If you listed your wiki
388 in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically when the Debian
389 package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
391 There is a change to the plugin interface in this version. Plugins that use
392 %renderedfiles will need to be updated, as the hash's values are now arrays
393 of rendered files. Plugins that cause a page to render additional files
394 should use the new will_render function to register the files.
396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Oct 2006 17:27:56 -0400
398 ikiwiki (1.22) unstable; urgency=low
400 Due to some changes in the CSS, wikis should be rebuilt on upgrade to this
401 version. If you listed your wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done
402 automatically when the Debian package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild
405 If you have modified versions of ikiwiki's html templates, you will need
406 to update your templates to link to the stylesheet file using
407 "<TMPL_VAR BASEURL>style.css" instead of the old method which used
410 There have also been some changes to the plugin interface:
411 Any plugins that use santize, htmlize, or format hooks will need to be
412 updated for this version of ikiwiki since these hooks have been changed
413 to use named parameters.
415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2006 15:33:12 -0400
417 ikiwiki (1.13) unstable; urgency=low
419 The GlobList format which was used for specifiying sets of pages, has been
420 replaced with a new, more expressive PageSpec format. While GlobLists will
421 continue to work, that format is deprecated, and you are encouraged to use
422 PageSpecs from now on, and also to change any GlobLists in your wiki to
423 PageSpecs. See the new PageSpec page for details.
425 You will need to rebuild your wiki when upgrading to this version. If you
426 listed your wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically
427 when the Debian package is upgraded. Or use ikiiki-mass-rebuild to force a
430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Aug 2006 18:29:51 -0400
432 ikiwiki (1.11) unstable; urgency=low
434 Some changes to tags in this release, due to a new tag plugin. If you have
435 been using the meta plugin to tag pages, you'll want to enable the tag
436 plugin too, and change things like this:
438 [[meta link="foobar"]]
444 The new tags will appear at page footers, and are also easier to type.
446 There have also been some changes to the plugin interface, particularly the
447 interface of pagetemplate hooks has changed. See the changelog for details.
449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Jul 2006 17:03:09 -0400
451 ikiwiki (1.8) unstable; urgency=low
453 If your wiki is configured with a setup file, you should modify it to
454 stop setting the "plugin" list directly, and instead add or remove plugins
455 via the add_plugins and disable_plugins lines. For example, if you had:
457 plugin => [qw{inline smiley search}],
459 Change it to these lines, which disables the default htmlscrubber plugin
460 and adds the two additional plugins:
462 add_plugins => [qw{smiley search}],
463 disable_plugins => [qw{htmlscrubber}],
465 Making this change makes your ikiwiki setup file more future-proof since
466 new default plugins will be automatically used.
468 You will need to rebuild your ikiwiki wrappers when upgrading to this
469 version. If you listed your wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be
470 done automatically when the Debian package is upgraded. Or use
471 ikiiki-mass-rebuild --refresh to force a refresh.
473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Jul 2006 16:59:29 -0400
475 ikiwiki (1.1) unstable; urgency=low
477 There have been several configuration changes in this release of ikiwiki:
479 The --svn and --no-svn switches are removed, instead you should use
480 --rcs=svn or --no-rcs. ikiwiki setup files that set svn => 1 should
481 be changed to set rcs => "svn"; if your setup file sets svn => 0
482 then change it to use rcs => "" to disable svn.
484 The --hyperestraier switch is gone too. To enable searching, turn on the
485 search plugin, by passing --plugin=search or through the plugin setting in
488 The --sanitize and --no-sanitize switches are also gone, replaced with the
489 htmlscrubber plugin. This plugin is enabled by default, to disable it,
490 use --disable-plugin=htmlscrubber, or modify the plugin setting in the
493 Discussion pages are enabled by default, but if your wiki is configured
494 with a setup file, you need to edit it to keep them enabled on upgrade
495 to this version. Add a line reading:
498 You will need to rebuild your wiki when upgrading to this version.
499 If you listed your wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done
500 automatically when the Debian package is upgraded. Or use
501 ikiiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 May 2006 14:13:59 -0400