1 MoinMoin Version History
2 ========================
4 Please completely read CHANGES text until you reach the version you were
5 using until now. Otherwise you might miss some important upgrading and
8 Starting with 1.5.3, update installation hints are marked with HINT.
9 They assume you are upgrading from the last release version before (e.g. from
13 already better than the previous stable release. Our release policy is not
14 trying to make a "perfect release" (as that release might NEVER get released),
15 but to make progress and don't delay releases too much.
19 * The GUI WYSIWYG editor has still some issues and limitations.
20 If you can't live with those, you can simply switch it off by using:
22 editor_default = 'text' # internal default, just for completeness
24 * TWikiDraw may have some issues - we need some JAVA guy caring for it!
26 * "Backup" and especially "Restore" action (both new in 1.5) have some
27 issues, so please DON'T USE THEM except if you want to help debugging
28 and improving it and after having made a backup with some other, proven
29 method. USE BOTH ON YOUR OWN RISK!
33 Fixed parsing of free URLs, see:
36 Please use [[...]] or surrounding blanks in cases of trouble.
38 wiki parser: fix interwiki detection (matched stuff like '''Foo:''' before)
39 wiki parser: fix parser shebang line detection, re-enable tests
40 1.6 mig scripts: better error handling
41 wikiutil.url_unquote: try harder when decoding to unicode, avoid crashing
46 stats macro which shows the preferred language distribution of the wiki users (Thanks to Nina Kuisma)
47 fix suid, add action parameter to createTicket, improve checkTicket logging
48 refactored action.PackagePages for CloneWikiPagesByPackagePages (Thanks to Federico Lorenzi)
49 test_packages: further tests for PackagePages (Thanks to Federico Lorenzi)
50 useragent/language stats: fixed division by zero, do not use 'sum' (reserved)
51 moin export dump: added kw args to _attachment(), fixes exception when dumping pages
52 adapting moin export dump to the current heading style (removing duplicate h1), thanks to Boleslaw Kulbabinski
53 UserPreferences 'send account data' also accepts username now (not only email addr), thanks to Joel Nackman
54 Creole parser fixes, '#format creole' works now
55 WSGI: initialize logging (untested)
56 Navigation macro: use re.escape to fix problems with pagenames containing special regex chars (thanks to Boleslaw Kulbabinski)
57 action.edit: bug fix for missing #format (Page for send_page)
62 * textchas_disabled_group = None # (default)
63 Set this to some group name and noone in this group will get textchas.
64 E.g.: textchas_disabled_group = u'NoTextChasGroup'
65 * Added a --dump-user option to the moin dump command. Thanks to Oliver O'Halloran.
68 * Nested parser/pre sections should work now, using this syntax:
69 a) just use more curly braces if you have 3 closing in your content:
71 }}} <- does not terminate the section!
73 b) use {{{ + some magic string:
75 }}} <- does not terminate the section!
77 c) {{{whatever#!python
80 Pitfall: stuff like below does not work as it did in 1.5:
88 Maybe this can get automatically converted by the mig script (TODO).
89 * While fixing the nested parser/pre section, some other related rendering
90 bugs were also fixed (e.g. missing blanks after }}}).
92 Search: add debug logging, fix bugs (negative search terms failing, and others - backport from 1.7)
93 Avoid empty highlight query arg, do not use highlight for titlesearch terms
94 Wiki parser section nesting:
95 Reverting parser nesting changesets
96 Enable switching the scanning regex while processing some line (fixes missing blank after }}} bug, maybe other bugs, too)
97 Integrate pre section into parser section processing, fix bugs, clean up
98 Solve nesting problems by letting the user use more curly braces or a unique string, updated CHANGES
99 Fixing parser arg parsing, fixing 'set' compatibility for py 2.3
100 Fix end of parser/pre section detection for indented stuff, fix empty lines at beginning of rendered parser sections
101 Do not treat SystemExit exception as a failure (fixes SystemExit showing up in the logs when using fastcgi)
102 Fix NameError exception in gui converter
103 Fix gui editor insertion of .jpeg images
104 Fix ValueError exception for strange url_prefix_action URLs
105 Fix attachment_link of docbook formatter
106 Fix "MakeIconLinkLosesAltTitle", thanks to "bolekk".
107 Fix for WrongAlignedAttachment (Thanks to Benjamin Weber)
111 Fix quicklink action using same URL for link/unlink (thanks to Federico Lorenzi)
112 Better no content-length header than a wrong one, fixes truncated action=raw output for non-ascii pages
113 Do not send any 404 content to bots
115 Added some rel=nofollow so that at least some well-behaved bots won't read the calendar forever
116 Avoid even bad behaved bots reading more than current year +/- 1 in the calendar, rel=nofollow for links to nonexisting day pages
121 * cfg.password_checker (default: use some simple builtin checks for too
122 easy passwords and, if available, python-crack).
123 Use password_checker = None to disable password checking.
124 * Added some trivial xmlrpc examples (scripts).
125 * Added some experimental and disabled code, that uses x-forwarded-for
126 header (if present) to get the right "outside" IP before a request
127 enters our chain of trusted (reverse) proxies.
128 This code has the problem that we can't configure it in wikiconfig, so
129 if you want to use it / test it, you have to edit the moin code:
130 MoinMoin/request/__init__.py - edit proxies_trusted (near the top).
131 We will try to make this easier to configure, but there was no time left
132 before 1.6.0 release for doing bigger code refactorings needed for that.
135 * Do not modify cfg.page_icons_table (fixes sticky/wrong rev param in
136 iconbar for themes using an icon bar).
137 * Do not show 2 editor links if text editor is forced.
139 * The regex for /* inline comments */ was way to generic and broke some
140 pages. We now require whitespace before and after /* and */.
141 * Misc. small fixes and backports from 1.7:
142 fix traceback when there are errors in the config file, don't tell people to report a bug for that (backport from 1.7)
143 don't require all plugins to be in the data/plugin dir, cache modules list (backported from 1.7)
144 text_html_text_moin_wiki: linebreak in table cell should be written into wiki text as <<BR>> (backported from 1.7)
145 text_html_text_moin_wiki: an empty formatted cell of a pasted table should not be saved as a formatted br (backported from 1.7)
146 text_html_text_moin_wiki.process_inline: linebreaks as <<BR>> and not \n (backported from 1.7)
147 introduced hitsInfo keyword for results.pageList (default is 0). Action fullsearch does set it to 1. So the macro FullSearch does not show the hits info. (backported from 1.7)
148 Creole parser: fixed bug in anchors + test for it
149 search.results: added missing hitsInfo=0 to pageListWithContext (backport from 1.7)
150 only display textcha row on UserPreferences if there really is one
151 CopyPage/RenamePage/DeletePage action: fix regex compile errors due to unescaped pagename usage, fix cosmetic bug, simplify/optimize code
152 i18n: trying to fix recursion in formatMarkup in a cleaner way
155 * Updated the ldap_login code from 1.5 branch, supports TLS now.
156 See MoinMoin/config/multiconfig.py for supported configuration options
157 and their defaults (and please just change what you need to change,
159 PLEASE TEST THIS, IT IS COMPLETELY UNTESTED!
160 Please test with OpenLDAP and MS Active Directory.
166 * Changed markup for links, images and macros, see these wiki pages:
167 HelpOnLinking, HelpOnMacros
168 * TextCHAs (text-form CAPTCHAs).
169 Due to increasingly annoying wiki spammers, we added the option to use
170 TextCHAs (for page save (not for preview!), for attachment upload, for
171 user creation (not for profile save)).
172 This function is disabled by default. If you run a wiki that is editable
173 by anonymous or non-approved users from the internet (i.e. All: or Known:
174 in ACL terms), you should enable it in your wiki config by:
175 textchas = { # DO NOT USE EXACTLY THESE QUESTIONS!!!
177 u'H2O is ...': u'water', # bad: too common
178 u'2 apples and three bananas makes how many fruits?': ur'(five|5)', # good
179 u'2 apples and three pigs makes how many fruits?': ur'(two|2)', # good
180 u'2+3': ur'5', # bad: computable
183 'de': { # for german users
184 u'H2O ist ...': u'wasser',
187 This means that english users will get some random question from the 'en'
188 set, german users will get some from the 'de' set. If there is no 'de'
189 set configured, moin will fallback to language_default and then to 'en',
190 so make sure that you at least have a 'en' set configured (or whatever
191 you have set as language_default).
192 You need to use unicode for the questions and answers (see that u"...").
193 For the answer, you need to give a regular expression:
194 * In the easiest case, this is just some word or sentence (first en
195 example). It will be matched in a case-insensitive way.
196 * For more complex stuff, you can use the power of regular expressions,
197 e.g. if multiple answers are correct (second en example). Any answer
198 matching the regular expression will be considered as correct, any
199 non-matching answer will be considered as incorrect.
201 Tipps for making it hard to break for the spammers and easy for the users:
202 * Use site-specific (not too common) questions.
203 * Don't use too hard questions (annoys legitimate users).
204 * Don't use computable questions.
205 * Don't reuse textchas from other sites.
206 * Added Xapian (see http://xapian.org/) based indexed search code.
208 * Install xapian-core and xapian-bindings on your machine.
209 We used 0.9.4, but newer code should hopefully work, too.
210 * cfg.xapian_search = True
211 * Execute this to build the index:
212 $ moin ... index build # indexes pages and attachments
213 $ moin ... index build --files=files.lst # same plus a list of files
214 You should run those commands as the same user you use for your wiki,
215 usually this is the webserver userid, e.g.:
216 $ sudo -u www-data moin --config=... --wiki-url=wiki.example.org/ \
217 index build --files=files.lst
219 - LanguageSearch: language:de
220 - CategorySearch: category:Homepage
221 - MimetypeSearch: mimetype:image/png (for attachments/files)
222 - DomainSearch: domain:underlay or domain:standard
223 - History Search: available in advanced ui
224 Note: Some currently only available when Xapian is used.
225 * New config options and their defaults:
226 xapian_search False enables xapian-powered search
227 xapian_index_dir None directory for xapian indices
228 (can be shared for wiki farms)
229 xapian_stemming True toggles usage of stemmer, fallback
230 to False if no stemmer installed
231 search_results_per_page 10 determines how many hits should be
232 shown on a fullsearch action
233 xapian_index_history False indexes all revisions of pages to
234 allow searching in their history
235 * The action menu now calls the actions for the revision of the page you
236 are currently viewing. If you are viewing the current page revision, you
237 get the same behaviour as in moin 1.5, but if you are viewing an old
238 page revision, action "raw" will now show you the raw text of this OLD
239 revision (not of the current revision as moin 1.5 did it).
240 Note that not every action does evaluate the rev=XX parameter it gets.
241 Also please note that the edit, info, ... links in the editbar do NOT
242 use the rev parameter, but operate on the latest page revision (as
243 they did in moin 1.5).
244 * Enhanced SystemAdmin's user browser, so a SuperUser can enable/disable
246 * Info action lost the links for "raw", "print" and "revert" actions,
247 because you can now just view an old revision and select those actions
249 * The standalone server script moved to the toplevel directory. This makes
250 it possible to directly start moin.py without additional configuration
251 to run a MoinMoin DesktopEdition like wiki setup.
252 Be careful: DesktopEdition uses relaxed security settings only suitable
253 for personal and local use.
254 * Added the MMDE scripts to contrib/DesktopEdition.
255 * Removed "underscore in URL" == "blank in pagename magic" - it made more
256 trouble than it was worth. If you still want to have a _ in URL, just
257 put a _ into pagename.
258 * FeatureRequests/WikiEmailIntegration, HelpOnConfiguration/EmailSupport
259 * HTML parser (called "html") that allows you to use HTML on the page.
260 Thanks to the trac team for the nice code.
261 * You can have a common cache_dir for your farm (will save a bit space
262 and cpu time as it shares some stuff).
263 You need to set "cache_dir = '/some/farm/cachedir' in your farmconfig.
264 * Added XMLRPC methods for attachment handling. Thanks to Matthew Gilbert.
265 * Added TLS/SSL support to the standalone server. Thanks to Matthew Gilbert.
266 To use TLS/SSL support you must also install the TLSLite library
267 (http://trevp.net/tlslite/). Version 0.3.8 was used for development and
269 * cfg.log_reverse_dns_lookups [default: True] - you can set this to False
270 if rev. dns lookups are broken in your network (leading to long delays
271 on page saves). With False, edit-log will only contain IP, not hostname.
272 * ?action=sitemap emits a google sitemap (XML), listing all your wiki pages
273 and the wiki root URL.
274 Page Priority / Frequency / Last modification
275 --------------------------------------------------------------------
276 / 1.0 / hourly / <now>
277 cfg.page_front_page 1.0 / hourly / page last edit
278 TitleIndex,RecentChanges 0.9 / hourly / <now>
279 content pages 0.5 / daily / page last edit
280 system/help pages 0.1 / yearly / page last edit
281 * We use rel="nofollow" for some action links in the hope that some search
282 engines don't fetch the targets (if they do, they will just get 403 and
283 cause unnecessary traffic).
284 * Included EmbedObject macro for embedding different major mimetypes:
285 application, audio, image, video, chemical, x-world.
286 You are able to change the defaults of allowed mimetypes in the config var mimetypes_embed.
287 The config var mimetypes_xss_protect is used to deny mimetypes. The order of both variables
288 is Allow, Deny (mimetypes_embed, mimetypes_xss_protect)
289 * @SIG@ etc. generate local time stamps now, no difference visible on page
291 * Speeded up linkto search by avoiding read locks on the pagelinks file.
292 * The i18n system no loads *.po files directly (no *.py or *.mo any more)
293 and caches the results (farm wide cache/i18n/*).
294 * Added the diff parser from ParserMarket, thanks to Emilio Lopes, Fabien
295 Ninoles and Juergen Hermann.
296 * Added support for "304 not modified" response header for AttachFile get
297 and rss_rc actions - faster, less traffic, less load.
298 * Added support for @SELF to the NewPage macro.
299 * Conflict icon in RecentChanges.
300 * New XMLRPC methods (see doc strings for details):
302 * system.multicall -- multicall support
303 * Authentication System: getAuthToken/appyAuthToken
304 * getDiff -- method to get binary diffs
305 * mergeDiff -- method to local changes remotely
306 * interwikiName -- method to get the IWID and the interwiki moniker
307 * getAllPagesEx -- method to get the pagelist in a special way (revnos,
308 no system pages etc.)
309 * getAuthToken -- make and authentication token by supplying username/password
310 * applyAuthToken -- set request.user for following xmlrpc calls (within the
312 * getUserProfile -- method to get user profile data for request.user
313 * XMLRPC putPage method adjusted to new AuthToken, config vars
314 xmlrpc_putpage_enabled and xmlrpc_putpage_trusted_only removed.
315 * actions_excluded now defaults to ['xmlrpc'] - this kind of disables the
316 built-in wiki xmlrpc server code (not completely: it will just answer
317 with a Fault instance for any request). If you want to use xmlrpc v1 or
318 v2, you have to remove 'xmlrpc' from the actions_excluded list (for
319 example if you want to use wikisync, mailimport or any other feature
320 using xmlrpc). If you enable xmlrpc, it will be possible that someone
321 changes your wiki content by using xmlrpc (it will of course honour ACLs).
322 * IWID support - i.e. every wiki instance has a unique ID.
323 * The list of InterWiki sites is editable in the wiki (page InterWikiMap),
324 it is getting reloaded every minute.
325 * Synchronisation of wikis using the SyncPages action.
326 * GetText2 macro that allows to translate messages that contain data.
327 * showtags action that lists all tags related to a page.
328 * If you have "#acl" (without the quotes) on a page, this means now:
329 "this page has own (empty) ACLs, so do not use acl_rights_default here"
330 Please note that this is COMPLETELY DIFFERENT from having no ACL line at
331 all on the page (acl_rights_default is used in that case).
332 * Added support for actions in the irssi parser. Thanks to Georg Brandl.
333 * */MoinEditorBackup pages are not created any more (TODO: write mig script
334 that removes existing ones from data/pages). We now have a drafts
335 functionality as follows:
336 * If you edit a page and cancel the edit, use preview or save, a draft
337 copy gets saved for you to a internal cache area (data/cache/drafts/).
338 * If it is a save what you did and it succeeds, the draft copy gets
339 killed right afterwards.
340 * If you accidentally used cancel or your browser or machine crashes
341 after you used preview, then just visit that page again and edit it.
342 the editor will notify you that there is a draft of this page and you
343 will see a "Load draft" button. Click on it to load the draft into the
344 editor and save the page.
345 * The draft storage is per user and per page, but only one draft per page.
346 * cfg.quicklinks_default and cfg.subscribed_pages_default can be used to
347 preload new user profiles with configurable values.
348 * Added support for ircs: URLs (secure IRC).
349 * It is now supported to resize an image from within the gui editor.
350 * We now log a rename action as SAVE/RENAME in edit-log and display
351 appropriate comments if the user did not supply an own comment.
352 We also use a different icon to display the rename action on RecentChanges.
353 TODO: add a different icon for "renamed", we currently just use the same
354 as for "updated" with different alt text, see theme/__init__.py.
356 * If a change has happened after your bookmark, the updated/new/renamed
357 icon links to the bookmark diff.
358 * If a page does not exist any more (because it was deleted or renamed),
359 we link the deleted icon to the diff showing what was deleted (for the
360 delete action). For the rename action, we just show the deleted icon.
361 * The login page gives now the possibility to recover a lost password, thanks to
362 Oliver Siemoneit. This is especially useful for wikis where access to user
363 preferences is restricted by acl.
364 * We now have the possibility to add a Discussion page
365 (FeatureRequests/DiscussionAndOrCommentPages).
366 * "Package Pages" action supports attachments now.
367 * The wiki parser can be used with css classes now:
369 This will render output within a div with class "comment".
370 You can use any wiki markup as usual.
372 You can also combine multiple css classes like this:
373 {{{#!wiki red/dotted/comment
374 This will render a red background, dotted border comment section.
376 The same thing will work for any other css classes you have.
377 If the css classes contain the word "comment", they will trigger some
378 special feature, see next item:
379 * New wiki markup for /* inline comments */ - they get rendered as a span
380 with class="comment", see next item:
381 * There is a new item in the edit bar: "Comments". If you click it, the
382 visibility of all class "comment" tags will be toggled. There is a user
383 preferences item "show_comments" to set if the default view shows them or not.
384 * Added SisterPages support:
385 * action=sisterpages will generate a list of url pagename lines for all
386 pages in your moin wiki.
387 * action=pollsistersites will poll all sister sites listed in
388 cfg.sistersites = [(wikiname, fetchURL), ...]
389 The fetch URL for the sistersites depends on the wiki engine, e.g.:
391 ('MoinExample', 'http://moin.example.org/?action=sisterpages')
392 # oddmuse based wiki:
393 ('EmacsWiki', 'http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/test?action=sisterpages')
394 # JspWiki based wiki:
395 ('JspWiki', 'http://www.jspwiki.org/SisterSites.jsp')
396 * If the current page exists on some sister wiki, a link to it will be
397 added to the navibar.
398 You can use sister wikis for adding another dimension to your wiki UI: use
399 it for simple multi language support, or for comments, or anything else
401 TODO: add sistersites_force with sister sites we link to even if they do not
402 have the page yet (will work only for moin as we don't know
403 pagename>url transformation of other wikis)
404 * Make the FootNote macro filter duplicates and display a list of numbers
405 instead of a list of identical footnotes. Thanks to Johannes Berg for the
407 * autofilters for databrowser widget. Thanks to Johannes Berg for the patch.
408 * Action DeletePage and RenamePage can now be used for subpages of a page, too.
409 * Added Action CopyPage so you can use now an existing page or page hierarchy
410 as template for a new page, see FeatureRequests/CloneOrCopyPages.
411 TODO: we need a copy icon in RC
412 * Session handling for logged-in users and (not by default due to expiry
413 problems) anonymous users.
414 * Interwiki auth: You need to define cfg.trusted_wikis and
415 cfg.user_autocreate to use it. Logging in works by entering:
416 Name: RemoteWikiName RemoteUserName
418 Then moin contacts RemoteWikiName after looking it up in the interwiki
419 map and tries to authenticate there using RemoteUserName and remotepass.
420 If it succeeds, the remote wiki will return the remote user profile items
421 and your local moin will autocreate an account with these values.
422 * Antispam master url is now configurable via cfg.antispam_master_url.
423 The default is to fetch the antispam patterns from MoinMaster wiki.
424 * Antispam now checks the edit comments against BadContent also.
425 * action=view does use mimetypes of EmbedObject too and text files will be shown
426 by using their colorized parsers
427 * Hierarchical ACLs are now supported, i.e. pages inheriting permissions
428 from higher-level pages. See HelpOnAccessControlLists.
429 * New text/creole parser that allows you to use WikiCreole 1.0 markup.
432 * lots of bugfixes related to link parsing
433 * On action "info" page, the "revert" link will not be displayed for empty
434 page revisions (but you just can delete the current page to the same
435 result: an empty rev.)
436 * Fix vanishing strike markup after gui editor usage.
437 * Fix deletion of empty Interwiki links ([wiki:MoinMaster: mm entry page]).
438 * Fix mod_python attachment upload bug (thanks to Nick Phillips).
439 * Fix show_version to show it in the same way as SystemInfo.
440 * Allow "-" in usernames (fixes "Invalid user name" msg).
441 * Fixed smiley caching bug (smileys didn't change theme).
442 * Fixed backtrace when user removed css_url entry from user_form_fields.
443 * Fixed the output of macro and "attachment:" usages of the rst parser.
444 * Removed Twisted request object reverse DNS lookup.
445 * cfg.editor_quickhelp was not parsed with the wiki parser when customized
448 * Updated ImageLink macro.
449 * Added a (less broken) MoinMoin.support.difflib, details see there.
450 * BadContent and LocalBadContent now get noindex,nofollow robots header,
452 * Fixed handling of anchors in wiki links for the Restructured text parser.
453 * Fixed http header output.
454 * Fixed request.cfg corruption in the fckdialog code that could lead
455 to e.g. stalled servers (thanks to David Linke)
456 * Fixed typo in NewPage that lead to a NameError.
457 * Fixed standalone server failing to shutdown if interface == "".
458 * Conflict resolution fixes.
459 * Python 2.5 compatibility fixes in the Page caching logic.
460 * Fixed sre pickle issues in the wikidicts code.
461 * cgitb can hide particular names, this avoids information leaks
462 if the user files cannot be parsed for example.
463 * Fixed User.__repr__ - it is insane to put the ID in there.
464 * Worked around the FastCGI problem on Lighttpd: empty lines in the error
465 log, thanks to Jay Soffian.
466 * Fixed the MetaDict code to use locks.
467 * Fixed bug in request.py that avoided showing a traceback if there was a fault
468 after the first headers were sent.
469 * Fixed severe race conditions in the meta dict and the sync tags code.
470 * Mute the tempnam warning in the caching module.
471 * diff3 algorithm extended, a new mode should reduce the conflicts,
472 fixed a bug that silently truncated pages if there was content added
473 on one side at the end.
474 * Standalone opens it logfile unbuffered from now on, thanks to
476 * Now MoinMoin does not anymore think that every page links to various user
478 * Now multiple formatters can be used per request, the send_page code was
479 not reentrant to this regard. Fixes "empty" search results.
480 * Not a moin bug, but it severely annoyed IE users and also was less
481 comfortable for users of other browser: since about 1.5.4, we served
482 attachments with Content-Disposition: attachment - so that the user has
483 to save them to disk. This was to fix a possible XSS attack using attached
484 HTML files with Javascript inside for stealing your moin cookie or doing
485 other nasty things. We improved this by using different behaviour depending
486 on the potential danger the attached file has when served inline:
487 The config option contains a few mimetypes that are known to be inherently
488 unsafe to this regard. If you know more dangerous stuff, please just
489 add the mimetypes there to protect your users and file a bug report
490 telling us what we missed.
491 * Avoid infinite recursion in Page.parsePageLinks.
492 * Now ImageLink could be used with InterwikiLinks for pages.
493 * Cookies were made more secure by signing each cookie with its own
494 secret and checking expiry, that way a cookie can no longer be stolen
495 and used again after logging out.
498 * HINT: if you run standard CGI, copy and edit the new moin.cgi from
499 wiki/server/moin.cgi (we made it more similar to how standalone or
500 Twisted start script works).
501 * HINT: instead of "from MoinMoin.multiconfig import DefaultConfig" you
502 need to use "from MoinMoin.config.multiconfig import DefaultConfig" now.
503 You need to change this in your wikiconfig.py or farmconfig.py file.
504 See MoinMoin/multiconfig.py for an alternative way if you can't do that.
505 * HINT: you need to change your auth stuff, the new way is:
506 from MoinMoin.auth import moin_login, moin_session
507 from MoinMoin.auth.http import http
508 auth = [http, moin_login, moin_session]
509 Do it in a similar way for other auth methods.
510 * HINT: you need to change your url_prefix setting in 2 ways:
511 1. The setting is now called url_prefix_static (to make it more clear
512 that we mean the static stuff, not the wiki script url).
513 2. The strongly recommended (and default) value of it is '/moin_static160'
514 for moin version 1.6.0 (and will be ...161 for moin 1.6.1). It is
515 possible and recommended to use a very long cache lifetime for static
516 stuff now (Expires: access plus 1 year), because we require to change
517 the URL of static stuff when the static stuff changes (e.g. on a
518 version upgrade of moin) to avoid problems with stale cache content.
519 Your moin will be faster with lower load and traffic because of this.
520 For standalone server, we use 1 year expiry for static stuff now.
521 For Apache, Lighttpd and other "external" servers, you have to care
522 for configuring them to use a long expiry and change url_prefix_static
523 related configuration on upgrade.
524 HINT: if you run standalone or Twisted server, the easiest way to get a
525 working configuration (with server configuration matching wiki
526 configuration) is to NOT set url_prefix_static at all. Moin will
527 use matching configuration defaults in this case.
528 * url_prefix_action ['action'] was introduced for lowering load and traffic
529 caused by searchengine crawlers. Up to now, crawlers where causing a high
530 load in internet moin wikis because they tried to get about everything,
531 including all actions linked from the user interface.
532 Known crawlers only get 403 for most actions, but nevertheless they first
533 tried. There was no means keeping them away from actions due to the rather
534 braindead robots.txt standard. You can only disallow pathes there, but
535 moin's actions were querystring based, not path based (this would need
536 regex support in robots.txt, but there is no such thing).
537 This changed now. Moin is able to generate action URLs you can handle in
538 robots.txt, like /action/info/PageName?action=info. So if you don't want
539 bots triggering actions, just disallow /action/ there. Keep in mind that
540 attachments are handled by /action/AttachFile, so if you want attached
541 files and pictures indexed by search engine, don't disallow
542 /action/AttachFile/ in your robots.txt. In order to use this feature,
543 set url_prefix_action in your wikiconfig to e.g. "action".
544 * attachment links for non-existing attachments look different now:
545 the note about the non-existing attachment moved to the link title,
546 the link is shown with nonexistent class (grey).
547 * We don't use ...?action=show any more for the "Clear message" links shown
548 in the message boxes, but directly link to the page.
549 * We use (again) the same browser compatibility check as FCKeditor uses
550 internally, too. So if GUI editor invocation is broken due to browser
551 compatibility issues or a wrong browser version check, please file a bug
552 at FCKeditor development or browser development.
553 * Mail notifications contain a link to the diff action so the user
554 can see the coloured difference more easily. Thanks to Tobias Polzin.
555 * Refactored conflict resolution and XMLRPC code.
556 * Added a module for binary diffs.
557 * The thread monitor supports the Python 2.5 feature of directly grabbing
558 the current stack frames of all threads now so it has become much faster.
559 * Made the irssi parser more tolerant (Thanks to "TheAnarcat").
560 * Changed the rst parser to be compatible to the new docutils interface
562 * We moved the IE hacks to theme/css/msie.css that gets included after all
563 other css files (but before the user css file) using a conditional
564 comment with "if IE", so it gets only loaded for MSIE (no matter which
565 version). The file has some standard css inside (evaluated on all MSIE
566 versions) and some * html hacks that only IE < 7 will read.
567 HINT: if you use custom themes, you want to update them in the same way.
568 * AttachFile displays the upload dialogue now at top, this avoids lots of
569 scrolling if you attach some new files to a page that already has lots of
571 * Removed "IE7 Hack" of Dean Edwards (has nothing to do with MS IE7).
572 It was not enabled by default, just by a cfg.hacks mechanism.
573 Reasons: it had trouble with FCKEditor and was not updated since a longer
574 time. OTOH, Microsoft released IE7. And there are lots of
575 other and better browsers anyway.
576 * HINT: We removed Lupy based indexed search code. If you were brave enough
577 to use cfg.lupy_search, you maybe want to try cfg.xapian_search instead.
579 Developer notes (these should be moved to the end in the release):
580 * changed formatter.attachment_link call (it is now more flexible,
581 because you can render the stuff between link start and link end yourself)
582 * Page.url() does not escape any more. You have to use wikiutil.escape()
583 yourself if you want to write the URL to HTML and it contains e.g. &.
584 * The testing wikiconfig moved to tests/wikiconfig.py, the testing wiki
585 is now created in tests/wiki/...
586 * HINT: Killed "processors" (finally), formatter method changed to:
587 formatter.parser(parsername, lines)
588 * Refactored some actions to use ActionBase base class.
589 * Moved "test" action from wikiaction to MoinMoin/action/
590 (and use ActionBase).
591 * Moved MoinMoin/config.py to MoinMoin/config/__init__.py.
592 * Moved MoinMoin/multiconfig.py to MoinMoin/config/multiconfig.py.
593 * Moved "SystemInfo" macro from wikimacro to MoinMoin/macro/.
594 * Moved wikiaction.py stuff to MoinMoin/action/__init__.py.
595 * Moved wikimacro.py stuff to MoinMoin/macro/__init__.py.
596 * Moved wikirpc.py stuff to MoinMoin/xmlrpc/__init__.py.
597 * Moved wikitest.py stuff to action/test.py (only used from there).
598 * Moved formatter/base.py to formatter/__init__.py (FormatterBase).
599 * Moved util/ParserBase.py to parser/ParserBase.py.
600 * Moved / splitted request.py into MoinMoin/request/*.
601 Most stuff will be broken, please help fixing it (usually some imports
602 will be missing and the adaptor script will need a change maybe):
603 Tested successfully: CGI, CLI, STANDALONE, FCGI, TWISTED
605 * Moved util/antispam.py to security/antispam.py.
606 * Moved util/autoadmin.py to security/autoadmin.py.
607 * Moved security.py to security/__init__.py.
608 * Moved wikiacl.py to security/__init__.py.
609 * Moved logfile/logfile.py to logfile/__init__.py.
610 * Moved mailimport.py to mail/mailimport.py.
611 * Moved util/mail.py to mail/sendmail.py.
612 * Moved auth.py to auth/__init__.py.
613 Moved util/sessionParser.py to auth/_PHPsessionParser.py.
614 teared auth code into single modules under auth/* - moin_session handling
615 and the builting moin_login method are in auth/__init__.py.
616 * Added wikiutil.MimeType class (works internally with sanitized mime
617 types because the official ones suck).
618 * Renamed parsers to module names representing sane mimetypes, e.g.:
619 parser.wiki -> parser.text_moin_wiki
620 * Added thread_monitor debugging aid. It can be activated using:
621 from MoinMoin.util import thread_monitor; thread_monitor.activate_hook()
622 and then triggered by requesting URL ...?action=thread_monitor - please
623 be aware that monitoring threads has a big performance impact on its own,
624 so you only want to temporarily enable this for debugging.
625 By default, it dumps its output to the data_dir as tm_<timestamp>.log,
626 you can change this at bottom of action/thread_monitor.py if you want to
627 see output in your browser.
628 * Introduced scope parameter to CacheEntry() - if you specify 'farm', it
629 will cache into a common directory for all wikis in the same farm, if you
630 specify 'wiki', it will use a cache directory per wiki and if you specify
631 'item', it will use a cache directory per item (== per page).
632 Creating a CacheEntry without explicit scope is DEPRECATED.
633 * Smileys moved from MoinMoin.config to MoinMoin.theme.
634 * Removed all _ magic in URLs and filenames.
635 * request.action now has the action requested, default: 'show'.
636 * Cleaned up duplicated http_headers code and DEPRECATED this function
637 call (it was sometimes confused with setHttpHeaders call) - it will
638 vanish with moin 1.7, so please fix your custom plugins!
640 request.emit_http_headers(more_headers=[])
641 This call pre-processes the headers list (encoding from unicode, making
642 sure that there is exactly ONE content-type header, etc.) and then
643 calls a server specific helper _emit_http_headers to emit it.
644 Tested successfully: CGI, STANDALONE, FCGI, TWISTED
645 TODO: CLI, MODPY, WSGI
646 * setResponseCode request method DEPRECATED (it only worked for Twisted
647 anyway), just use emit_http_headers and include a Status: XXX header.
648 Method will vanish with moin 1.7.
649 * cfg.url_prefix is DEPRECATED, please use cfg.url_prefix_static.
650 * d['title_link'] is not supported any more. You can easily make that link
651 on your own in your theme, see example in MoinMoin/theme/__init__.py,
653 * There is a new Page method called Page.get_raw_body_str that returns
654 the encoded page body. This is useful if you just deal with byte data
655 (e.g. while generating binary diffs).
656 * The TagStore/PickleTagStore system is used to store the syncronisation tags.
657 * XMLRPC functions may return Fault instances from now on
658 * Moin got multicall support, including a module that makes it usable on the
659 client-side without requiring Python 2.4
660 * Added no_magic to text_html formatter to disable tag autoclosing.
661 * Added logging framework, using stdlib's "logging" module. Just do
662 import logging ; logging.debug("your text"). Depending on configuration
663 in the server Config class, your stuff will be written to screen (stderr),
664 to a moin logfile, to apache's error.log, etc.:
665 logPath = None # 'moin.log'
666 loglevel_file = None # logging.DEBUG/INFO/WARNING/ERROR/CRITICAL
667 loglevel_stderr = None # logging.DEBUG/INFO/WARNING/ERROR/CRITICAL
668 NOTE: this is NOT in wikiconfig, but e.g. in moin.cgi or moin.py or ...
669 * MOIN_DEBUG can be set in the environment to let MoinMoin ignore exceptions
670 that would lead to a traceback in the browser. Thanks to Raphael Bossek.
671 * There is a new MoinMoin.Page.ItemCache class now with automatic cache
672 invalidation based on global edit-log. We currently use it to cache page
673 acls, speedup Page.get_rev and reading the page local edit-log.
674 * Added wikiutil.renderText parse and format raw wiki markup with all page elements.
675 * The user file format has changed, old files will be read correctly but
676 will silently be upgraded to the new format so old versions will not
677 read the new files correctly (this only affects 'subscribed_pages' and
678 'quicklinks' which will be lost when downgrading.)
684 * AttachFile overwrite mode (introduced in 1.5.7) did not check delete
685 rights, but only write rights. Now it checks that the user has write AND
686 delete rights before overwriting a file.
687 * GetVal respects now ACLs on the Dict page
688 * Respect ACLs when sending <link rel="Appendix" ...> for attachments.
689 * Fixed potential XSS issues related to feeding of gui editor.
690 * Fixed XSS issue in RenamePage/DeletePage action.
691 * Avoid 'current' file corruption in out-of-space conditions.
692 * Fix "Toggle line numbers" link in code areas, so it gets translated
693 for the current user's language.
694 * added missing data/plugin/converter package
698 * Added timing.log to help performance debugging. Use cfg.log_timing = True
699 to update <data_dir>/timing.log (default is False, meaning no logging).
704 Timestamp PID Timing Flag action URL
705 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
706 20070512 184401 22690 vvv None moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/RssFeeds
707 20070512 184401 22690 0.267s - show moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/RssFeeds
709 Timestamp: YYYYMMDD HHMMSS (UTC)
710 PID: the process ID of the moin process
711 Timing: when action starts, it will be "vvv"
712 when it ends, it logs the total time it needed for execution
713 Flag (some are only logged at end of action):
715 - Page does not exist
716 B user agent was recognized as bot / spider
717 !x! Action took rather long (the higher the x, the longer it took - this
718 makes it easy to grep for problematic stuff).
719 Action: action name (None is when no action was specified, moin assumes
720 "show" for that case)
721 URL: the requested URL
723 For more information about tuning your moin setup, see:
724 http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/PerformanceTuning
725 * Added support for ircs, webcal, xmpp, ed2k and rootz protocols - we
726 moved all protocols to config.url_schemas, so this is not empty any more.
727 It is possible to use these protocols now on wiki pages and in the
728 navi_bar. We just generate the URLs, it is up to your browser what it
729 does when clicking on those links.
730 * cfg.traceback_show (default: 1) can be used to disable showing tracebacks.
731 cfg.traceback_log_dir (default: None) can be used to set a directory
732 that is used to dump traceback files to. Your users will get a notice to
733 which (random) file in that directory the traceback was been written.
734 NOTE: while you can feel free to set traceback_show = 0 and
735 traceback_log_dir = None, we will also feel free to reject bug reports
736 when you (or your site's users) don't give us enough information (like a
737 traceback file) to debug the problem. If you set traceback_show = 0,
738 we recommend pointing traceback_log_dir to a directory with reasonable
739 free space and putting a page onto your wiki that describes who has to
740 get contacted (usually the wiki server admin) in case a traceback happens.
741 The admin can then locate the traceback file and submit it to moin
743 Of course we will also need all the other details of a bug report, not
744 only the traceback file.
747 * Updated spider agents list.
748 * Reduce bot/spider cpu usage for SystemInfo, OrphanedPages, WantedPages,
749 PageHits, PageSize, WordIndex macros (we just return nothing for bots).
752 * XSS fixes, see http://secunia.com/advisories/24138/ (item 1 and 2).
753 * ACL security fixes:
754 * MonthCalendar respects ACLs of day pages now.
755 * Check the ACL for the rst markup include directive.
756 * Fixed cleaning of edit comments (control chars in there could damage
758 * Fixed in-process caching of antispam patterns (didn't update the cache
759 for multi-process, persistent servers).
760 * Correct encoding/decoding for surge-log data, fixes leftover
761 surge-logXXXXXXX.tmp files in data/cache/surgeprotect.
762 * Fixed mode of cache files (mkstemp creates them with 0600 mode).
763 * Symbolic entities with numbers (like ²) did not work, fixed.
764 * We open data/error.log earlier now and we also use it for FastCGI.
765 * Fixed unicode cfg.page_group_regex.
766 * Fixed moin.spec to use english date format.
767 * GUI converter: fixed conversion of relative wiki links.
768 * Fixed NewPage macro button label to not be formatted as wiki text.
772 * added url_prefix_local which is used for stuff that must be loaded from
773 same site as the wiki engine (e.g. FCKeditor GUI editor applet), while
774 url_prefix can be a remote server serving the static files (css/img).
775 If not set (or set to None), url_prefix_local will default to the value
777 * We save some CPU and disk I/O by having EditTemplates and LikePages macro
778 (both used on MissingPage) check whether the requesting entity was
779 identified as a spider (e.g. search engine bot) and do nothing in that
780 case. Normal users won't see any difference.
781 * For AttachFile, you can now choose to overwrite existing files of same
782 name (nice for updating files).
786 * fixed unescaped page info display.
787 * fixed unescaped page name display in AttachFile, RenamePage and
789 * WantedPages listed existing pages that are not readable for the user,
790 but are linked from pages that ARE readable for the user (so this is NOT
791 a privacy/security issue). We now don't list those pages any more as it
792 is pointless/confusing, the user can't read or edit there anyway.
795 * GUI editor/converter:
796 * ignore <col>/<colgroup>/<meta> elements
797 * support <a> within blockquote
798 * Remove generated=... attribute from pagelink html output (this attr is
799 for internal use only). w3c validator is now happier again.
800 * Fixed css class "userpref" (not: "userprefs") of the Login form.
801 * Fixed the version number check in the xslt parser for 4suite >= 1.0.
802 * We reset the umask to the wanted value every request. This should fix
803 wrong file modes when used with Twisted (twistd uses a hardcoded 0077
804 umask in daemonize()).
805 * Avoid trouble when saving pages with antispam function when MoinMaster
806 wiki is having troubles (catch xmlrpc Fault).
809 * Standalone server does not do reverse DNS lookups any more (this is a
810 standard feature of BaseHTTPServer stdlib module, but we override this
811 now and just print the IP).
812 * We moved the IE hacks to theme/css/msie.css that gets included after all
813 other css files (but before the user css file) using a conditional
814 comment with "if IE", so it gets only loaded for MSIE (no matter which
815 version). The file has some standard css inside (evaluated on all MSIE
816 versions) and some * html hacks that only IE < 7 will read.
817 HINT: if you use custom themes, you want to update them in the same way.
818 * Improved ldap auth:
819 * cfg.ldap_name_attribute was removed because of new cfg.ldap_filter.
820 If you had ldap_name_attribute = 'sAMAccountName' before, just use
821 ldap_filter = '(sAMAccountName=%(username)s)' now.
822 * New cfg.ldap_filter used for the ldap filter string used in the ldap
823 search instead of the rather limited, partly hardcoded filter we used
824 before. This is much more flexible:
825 ldap_filter = '(sAMAccountName=%(username)s)'
826 You can also do more complex filtering expressions like:
827 '(&(cn=%(username)s)(memberOf=CN=WikiUsers,OU=Groups,DC=example,DC=org))'
828 * Added some processing to filter out result entries with dn == None.
829 * We set REFERRALS option to 0 before initializing the ldap server
830 connection (this seems to be needed for Active Directory servers).
831 * We support self-signed ssl certs for ldaps - completely untested.
832 * New cfg.ldap_surname_attribute (usually 'sn'), was hardcoded before.
833 * New cfg.ldap_givenname_attribute (usually 'givenName'), hardcoded before.
834 * New cfg.ldap_aliasname_attribute (usually 'displayName') - if this
835 attribute is not there or empty (in the results of the ldap lookup for
836 the user), we just make up the aliasname from surname and givenname
838 * We only request the attributes we need from ldap (was: all attrs).
839 * We deny user login (and break out of auth chain) for the following cases:
840 * if a user is not found by ldap lookup
841 * if we find more than one matching entry
842 * if the password is empty or incorrect
843 * if some exception happens
844 * Please note that there is an updated ldap sample config in directory
845 wiki/config/more_samples/.
846 * Added experimental LDAP SSL/TLS support (untested, please help testing),
847 see also the sample config.
848 * Work around a IE7 rendering problem with long pages getting more and
849 more narrow. We just applied the same "fix" as we used for IE6, using
850 "display: none" for span.anchor for IE browsers.
852 * We used to emit a <link> tag for the action=rss_rc RSS feed on any
853 page. This was changed, we now emit that link only on RecentChanges and
854 the current user's language translation of RecentChanges.
855 This was changed because Google Toolbar requests the RSS feed linked
856 by such a link tag every time it sees one. Thus, if you used the wiki
857 normally, it requested the RSS feed every few seconds and caused
858 problems due to surge protection kicking in because of that.
859 * HINT for custom theme users: if your theme code calls
860 rsslink(), then you need to change that to rsslink(d) for 1.5.7+.
864 A general security notice:
865 Check your Python version, there was a buffer overflow issue in Python
866 recently! Details: http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/PythonUnicodeEscapeBug
869 * Fix AttributeError traceback with Standalone server (if_modified_since)
870 * Fix AttachFile "304 not modified" and redirect status code for Twisted
871 * http auth: we now decode username and password to unicode (using
872 config.charset == utf-8). Same for SSL client cert auth and CN.
873 * Avoid infinite recursion in Page.parsePageLinks.
874 * Fixed standalone server failing to shutdown if interface == "".
875 * Now MoinMoin does not think anymore that every page links to various user
877 * Made the irssi parser more tolerant (Thanks to "TheAnarcat").
878 * Now multiple formatters can be used per request, the send_page code was
879 not reentrant to this regard. Fixes "empty" search results.
880 * Fixed problem with "=" in ImageLink macro links.
881 * Not a moin bug, but a silly stdlib os.tempnam function made trouble to
882 some people because it lets you override the path given in the code
883 by setting the environment variable TMP(DIR). We now use a different
884 function to avoid renaming trouble when TMP(DIR) points to a different
886 * Fixed antispam update on every save (Thanks to "TheAnarcat").
887 * GUI converter: don't throw away rowclass for tables.
888 * GUI editor formatter: allow height for table cells.
889 * GUI editor formatter: comment texts are output using the formatter now.
892 * Mail notifications contain a link to the diff action so the user
893 can see the coloured difference more easily. Thanks to Tobias Polzin.
894 * FeatureRequests/MoveAttachments - you can move attachments from one
895 page to another (and also rename the attachment at the same time).
896 Thanks to Reimar Bauer.
897 * Added support for linking to attachment: and inline: URLs with ImageLink.
898 * Added UNIX socket support for FastCGI, just set the port to some (socket)
900 * [[Attachlist(pagename,mimetype)]] lists attachments of pagename (default:
901 current page) with optional mimetype restriction (default: all).
902 Thanks to Reimar Bauer.
905 * Minor performance improvements (might be noticeable if you have many
906 custom navi_bar entries and high server load).
907 * Avoid usage of no-cache because it breaks attachment download on IE6.
908 This is a IE bug, not a moin bug.
909 * Added XHTML to the unsafe list.
910 * Changed the rst parser to be compatible to the new docutils interface
912 * Updated EmbedObject macro.
917 * fixed ticket creation to only use constant values
920 HINT: read docs/README.migration.
921 HINT: there was NO change in the underlay/ pages since 1.5.4.
922 HINT: If you experience problems with the reStructured Text (rst) parser,
923 please downgrade docutils to "0.4" because there were major interface
924 breaking API refactorings on the docutils trunk.
930 * Not a moin bug, but it severely annoyed IE users and also was less
931 comfortable for users of other browser: since about 1.5.4, we served
932 attachments with Content-Disposition: attachment - so that the user has
933 to save them to disk. This was to fix a possible XSS attack using attached
934 HTML files with Javascript inside for stealing your moin cookie or doing
935 other nasty things. We improved this by using different behaviour depending
936 on the potential danger the attached file has when served inline:
937 mimetypes_xss_protect = ['text/html', 'application/x-shockwave-flash', ]
938 This is the default value. If you know more dangerous stuff, please just
939 add the mimetypes there to protect your users and file a bug report
940 telling us what we missed.
943 * Make tickets used for some actions more safe.
946 * edit_ticketing [True] - we protect page save by a ticket (same stuff we
947 already use for DeletePage and RenamePage action).
948 NOTE: If you don't use your browser for editing, but some tool like
949 "editmoin" or "MoinMoin plugin for jEdit", you'll need an update
950 of them supporting the ticket.
951 Alternatively, you can use edit_ticketing = False setting - this
952 is not recommended for internet wikis as it will make spamming them
954 * If we detect some spammer, we kick him out by triggering surge protection
955 (if surge protection is not disabled).
960 * Fixed gui editor converter confusing of `` and {{{}}} markup.
961 * Fixed emission of HTTP headers (esp. Vary: Cache-Control:).
962 * Fixed a bad crash that happens (on ANY page!) when you put a *Dict
963 page's name as a member into a *Group page.
964 * Fix MyPages action title to use an unformatted string.
965 * Fix double quoted-printable encoding in generated emails (note: this is
966 not a moin bug - this just works around bugs in python stdlib).
967 * Fix mode of drawing files (use config.umask).
968 * Fix trouble with /?action= urls by dropping getPageNameFromQueryString
970 * Fixed sre unpickle issues seen on some machines by avoiding to pickle
972 * Fix Clock code, add more timers.
973 * Worked around FastCGI problem on Lighttpd: empty lines in the error log.
974 * Fix (add) locking for caching's .remove() call, small fixes to lock code.
975 * Print error message when --target-dir=path is missing from moin export
979 * Added support for "304 not modified" response header for AttachFile get
980 and rss_rc actions - faster, less traffic, less load.
981 * Limit rss with full diffs to 5 items.
982 * Allow surge_action_limits = None to disable surge protection.
983 * moin.fcg improved - if you use FastCGI, you must use the new file:
984 * can self-terminate after some number of requests (default: -1, this
985 means "unlimited lifetime")
986 * the count of created threads is limited now (default: 5), you can use
987 1 to use non-threaded operation.
988 * configurable socket.listen() backlog (default: 5)
989 * Added indonesian i18n (id).
990 * Some measures against spammers trying to brute force their spam into moin.
991 * EmbedObject macro: added mov, mpg and midi support
992 * moin ... export dump --target-dir=PATH --page=PAGENAME_REGEX
993 You must specify --target-dir (where dump will write the html files to)
994 and you may specify --page and either a page name or a regex used to
995 match all pages you want to export. Default is to export all pages.
999 * more efficient locking code on POSIX platforms, we do much less I/O
1001 * removed most chmod calls in favour of a single os.umask call
1002 * Improved Python 2.5 compatibility. Note: if you think that MoinMoin
1003 is using too much RAM, you might want to look at Python 2.5 because
1004 of its improved memory management.
1005 * Throw away SAVE comments longer than 200 chars (you can't enter those by
1006 the user interface, so only spammer using automatic POSTs do them).
1007 * Updated spider user agent list.
1008 * BadContent and LocalBadContent now get noindex,nofollow robots header,
1010 * Standalone opens it logfile unbuffered from now on, thanks to
1012 * Avoid trouble when request.write() data contains None, just skip it -
1013 thanks to Juergen Hermann.
1014 * Instead of showing a ConfigurationError, moin now emits "404 Not found"
1015 http headers and a hint about what could be wrong. This won't fill up
1016 your logs just because of typos and spiders still trying old URLs.
1020 HINT: read docs/README.migration.
1021 Version 1.5.4-current:
1022 * increased maxlength of some input fields from 80 to 200
1024 Version 1.5.current:
1026 * We switched to Mercurial SCM, see here for more infos:
1027 http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/MoinDev/MercurialGuide
1030 * fix MonthCalendar macro for non-ASCII pagenames (thanks to Jonas Smedegaard)
1031 * remove 'search' and 'google' from bot user agent list and add some more
1033 * Fix the forgotten password email login URL and also properly encode the
1034 email body. Thanks to Robin Dunn for the patch.
1035 * Applied a patch by Matthew Gilbert for increased compatiblity with
1041 * Added CSS classes for TableOfContents macro.
1044 * GUI editor / GUI editor converter:
1045 * Fixed missing GUI editor link in edit bar.
1046 * Fixed table/row/cell style spaces.
1047 * Changed <p> generation for macros.
1048 * Fixed handling of subpages.
1049 * Fixed processing of complex list elements (thanks to Craig Markwardt).
1050 * Fixed processing of html \n (thanks to Craig Markwardt).
1051 * Fixed joining of comment lines with text below them.
1052 * Fixed table height attribute crash.
1053 * Fixed sslclientcert auth.
1054 * Added some missing files to i18n processing, translatable strings more
1056 * Change <p> generation from self-closing (<p />) to auto-closing (only
1057 emit <p>, let browser find place for </p>).
1058 * Fix eating of newline before tables.
1059 * Fixed incorrect login hint for not logged-in users trying a disallowed
1061 * Fixed nasty missing or double </a> formatter bug (mostly happening when
1062 user has enabled questionmarks for nonexisting pages).
1065 * We catch and ignore html to wiki conversion errors in case of hitting
1066 the cancel button, so you can get out of the error screen.
1070 * Modified SystemInfo macro to give human readable units and disk usage
1071 * cfg.editor_quickhelp makes the quick help below the editor configurable
1072 (at least as far as the default_markup is concerned). If set to None,
1073 it doesn't display any quickhelp. Thanks to Seth Falcon for the patch.
1076 * Fixed double class attribute for nonexistent links
1077 * Fixed double </a> with qm_noexist option
1078 * Fixed table xxx="yyy" style attribute parsing
1079 * If not (editor_force and editor_default == 'text') then display GUI mode
1080 switch button (this is only a partial fix, but enough to deny the GUI
1081 mode to your users completely)
1082 * Fixed XSS issue which could lead to cookie theft etc.
1083 * Fixed definition list "same level" indenting.
1084 * Fixed pagename in log for PackagePages action.
1085 * Made <p> self-closing and line-anchors more well-behaved, thanks to
1086 Martin Wilck for the patch. I didn't apply the <ol> patch, because this
1087 is no real problem, just a problem of a bad standard.
1088 * Fixed gui editor *bgcolor crash.
1089 * Support/Fix tableclass attr with gui editor.
1092 * Moved back UserPreferences action link from menu to top of page (renaming
1093 it to "Preferences"), added "Cancel" button to make it possible to return
1094 to the previous page without saving preferences.
1095 * Removed formatter.url "attrs" keyword arg that took premade html, we use
1096 separate kw args per attribute now.
1097 * Moved broken tests to MoinMoin/_tests/broken (= disabling them).
1098 All "active" tests run ok now.
1099 If you want to compare, I included the output of this test run:
1100 $ make test >tests/make_test.out
1106 * HINT: please read README.migration
1107 * Login and Logout are actions now, therefore you stay on the page where
1109 * UserPreferences is also an action now and moved from top border (in
1110 modern theme) to the "more actions" dropdown menu. You also stay on the
1112 * There is also a [[Login]] macro now. You can put it on any page you want
1113 and if the user is not logged in, it renders the login form. If the user
1114 is logged in, it doesn't render anything.
1115 * We check cfg.superuser to be a list of user names (as documented) and
1116 deny superuser access if it is not. This avoids security issues by
1117 wrong configuration.
1118 * auth methods changed:
1119 HINT: if you wrote own auth methods, please change them as you see in
1120 MoinMoin/auth.py and test them again before relying on them.
1121 * now get a user_obj kw argument that is either a user object returned
1122 from a previous auth method or None (if no user has been made up yet).
1123 The auth method should either return a user object (if it has
1124 determined one) or what it got as user_obj (being "passive") or None
1125 (if it wants to "veto" some user even if a previous method already has
1126 made up some user object).
1127 * return value of continue_flag is now True in most cases (except if
1128 it wants to "veto" and abort).
1129 * moin_cookie auth method now logs out a user by deleting the cookie and
1130 setting user_obj.valid = 0. This makes it possible to still get the
1131 user's name in subsequent auth method calls within the same request.
1132 * added ldap_login and smb_mount auth methods, see MoinMoin/auth.py and
1133 wiki/config/more_samples/ldap_smb_farmconfig.py
1134 * MonthCalendar now takes an additional argument for specifying a template
1135 to use to directly invoke the page editor when clicking on non-existing
1137 * Added ImageLink macro. Thanks to Jeff Kunce, Marcin Zalewski, Reimar
1138 Bauer and Chong-Dae Park for working on it.
1139 * Lupy stuff (still experimental, partly broken and disabled by default):
1140 * Attachment search using lupy (lupy_search = 1 in your config)
1141 Title search will also search attachment filenames.
1142 Full text search will also search attachment contents.
1144 Some filters depend on external converters that might not be available
1145 for any platform (see Depends: line in filter plugin).
1146 Feel free to contribute more filter plugins, especially if you wrote
1147 some nice platform independant filter in Python for some popular file
1148 format! Filters implemented so far (depending on):
1149 MS Word, RTF, MS Excel (antiword, catdoc)
1151 OpenOffice.org XML based data formats (-)
1154 JPEG's EXIF data (-)
1156 * As you might know, Lupy is "retired" (that means it isn't developped
1157 by its authors any more). We are currently evaluating Xapian as new
1158 indexing search engine in moin.
1159 If we succeed, we will replace Lupy stuff by some Xapian interface
1161 But: the filters will likely stay, as we also need them with Xapian.
1163 * A new MoinMoin script interface was introduced:
1165 Syntax: moin [options] <cmdmodule> <cmdname> [options]
1168 moin --config-dir=/my/cfgdir --wiki-url=wiki.example.org/ \
1169 export dump --page=WikiSandBox
1171 This will call the "moin" script, which will use the --config-dir and
1172 --wiki-url options to initialize, then it will go to MoinMoin.script
1173 module, import the export.dump module from there and run it, providing
1174 the additional --page value to it.
1176 The old scripts that have not been migrated to this new interface can
1177 still be found in MoinMoin/script/old/ - including the old migration
1179 * moin ... account create --name=JoeDoe --email=joe@doe.org
1180 * moin ... account disable --name=JoeDoe
1181 * moin ... acount check <-- this is what usercheck script was before
1182 * moin ... maint cleancache <-- this is what cachecleaner script was
1183 * moin ... maint cleanpage <-- this is what pagescleaner script was
1186 * cookie_lifetime didn't work comfortable for low values. The cookie was
1187 created once on login and never updated afterwards. So you got logged
1188 out cookie_lifetime hours later, no matter whether you were active at
1189 that time or not. This has been changed, we update the cookie expiry now
1190 on every request, so it will expire cookie_lifetime after your last
1191 request (not after login).
1192 * Fixed logout problems when using cfg.cookie_path.
1193 * Fixed cookie_path for root url wikis.
1194 * Lupy search now behaves a bit less funky. Still no guarantees...
1195 * We lowered the twisted server timeout to 2 minutes now (was: 10) because
1196 it just used up too many files (open TCP connections until it timeouts)
1198 * The algorithm used for processing the farmconfig.wikis list was changed
1199 to work for big farms (>= 50 wikis), too. This works around the python
1200 "re" module limitation of having a maximum of 100 named groups in a RE.
1201 * Fixed a TypeError which occurred for formatters that dislike None values.
1203 * Fixed GUI editor converter error for https:... image URLs.
1204 * ThemeBase (use by modern/rightsidebar): removed duplicate AttachFile from
1205 actions menu (we already have it in editbar).
1206 * Speedup group/dicts scanning for persistent servers.
1207 * Implemented HEAD requests for standalone server, this should fix some of
1208 the strange effects happening when using "Save as" on attachments.
1209 * Not a moin bug, but rather a workaround for non-standard non-ASCII DNS
1210 hostnames: we just use the IP instead of crashing now.
1211 * Spurious cyclic usage error in i18n fixed.
1212 * Fixed antispam for python 2.5a xmlrpclib.
1213 * I18n for linenumber toggle in listings.
1214 * All action menu entries are translatable now.
1217 * Added css classes for the rst admonitions. Thanks to TiagoMacambira!
1222 * Added FullSearchCached macro which is statically cached.
1223 Use it if you do not depend on fresh search results but prefer raw speed.
1224 * Added surge protection, see HelpOnConfiguration/SurgeProtection.
1225 * Allow hex and symbolic entities.
1226 * If there is a user with empty password, we just generate a random one
1227 when he requests it getting sent by mail. Thanks to Reimar Bauer.
1228 * The superuser now can switch to another user using UserPreferences -
1229 nice to help your users when they forgot their password or need other
1230 help. You need to logout/relogin to use your own userid afterwards.
1231 This function only works correctly if you use moin_cookie authentication.
1232 Thanks to Reimar Bauer.
1233 * Add new markup for bulletless lists: just use a "." instead of "*".
1236 * Added "voyager" to bot useragent list.
1237 * Added locking for caching subsystem.
1238 * Deron Meranda's formatter API cleanup.
1239 * Added div and span to formatter API.
1240 * Removed old unfinished form and export code.
1244 * Fixed table attribute parsing.
1245 * Fixed cookie handling wrt properties adherance.
1246 * The new "." list markup makes it possible to have a bulletless list with
1247 elements on the same level. Before this change and only using indentation
1248 with blanks, that would get merged into a single paragraph.
1249 * It is possible now to have multiple paragraphs in the same list element,
1250 just leave an empty line in between the paragraphs.
1251 * Fixed GAP processing for ordered lists.
1252 * Fix text_gedit formatter's invalid list nesting.
1253 * Fixed hr crash in blockquote (but needs more work).
1254 * Fixed FootNote's formatter usage.
1255 * Fixed rst's headline levels.
1258 * Fixed that macros were followed by a wrong <p>.
1259 * Added <blockquote> to the block elements in the text_html formatter,
1260 so it does not close it erratically when you close a inner <p>.
1261 * GUI editor converter now also accept http: urls without // (relative or
1263 * Fixed the DocBook parser in cases where the pagename was non-ascii.
1270 * Fixed rst parser docutils version check
1271 * Repaired attachment unzipping feature.
1272 * Fixed the AddRevision command of the PackageInstaller.
1273 * improved the migration scripts (used to migrate pre-1.3 wikis to 1.3+):
1274 * do not crash on empty lines in event log
1275 * fix edit log format for very old moin data (like 0.11)
1276 * workaround for an ugly win32 operating system bug leading to wiki text
1277 file mtime not matching edit logs timestamp values if there was some
1278 timezone change since last edit (e.g. a daylight saving tz switch),
1279 but differing 3600s.
1280 This affected pre-1.3 moin wiki servers running on win32 OS only.
1281 We now try to correct those inconsistencies in mig05 by fuzzy matching.
1282 * fixed bracketed link scheme icon (css class)
1283 * we included a modified copy of Python 2.4.2's copy.py as some previous
1284 python versions seem to have problems (2.3.x, x < 5 and also 2.4[.0]),
1286 Our own copy.py was slightly modified to run on 2.3.x and 2.4.x.
1287 * Fixed the problem of not being able to change the date/time format back
1288 to "Default" (UserPreferences).
1289 * We generate the GUI editor footer now the same way as the text editor
1291 * Include a CSS workaround for yet another IE bug, see:
1292 MoinMoinBugs:InternetExplorerPeekABooBugInRightSideBar
1293 * classic theme: added GUI editor link
1294 * classic theme: added pagename header to editor screen
1295 * the "mail enabled" check now also checks whether mail_from is set
1298 * Updated FCKeditor to current CVS (2006-01-08 == 2.2+)
1299 * Split up show_hosts into show_hosts and show_names
1300 * attachment:file%20with%20spaces.txt in attachment list
1301 * added support for file:// in GUI editor link dialogue, see also:
1303 * cfg.mail_smarthost now supports "server:port" syntax, the default port
1305 * removed unused kwargs showpage/editable/form from wikiutil.send_footer
1306 * updated i18n (translation texts, additional languages)
1307 * removed interwiki:pagename from print view's top of page, added it to
1308 the "lasted edited" line at bottom right.
1312 HINT: 1.5.0 uses the same data/pages format as 1.3.x. The only thing you want
1313 to check is whether the 1.5.x version you are upgrading to has NEW mig
1314 scripts compared to the version you are running now (e.g. in 1.3.5 we
1315 added some scripts that fixed some small problems).
1316 See the MoinMoin/scripts/migration/ directory.
1317 You must run every mig script in sequence and only ONCE ever.
1319 * Fix <x=y> table attributes parsing. Thanks to Reimar Bauer.
1320 * Fixed a few bugs in the reStructured text parser. Note that you
1321 need to install docutils 0.3.10 or newer (snapshot from December 2005
1322 or newer) to make reStructuring parsing work:
1323 * Case preservation for anonymous links
1324 * MoinMoin links get the appropriate CSS class
1325 * Images do not get special CSS markup anymore
1326 Thanks to Matthew Gilbert.
1327 * Fixed a bug in the WSGI code which led to incorrect exception handling.
1328 * Removed all nationality flags. They used to be used for indicating some
1329 specific language (NOT nationality) and this was simply wrong and a bad
1331 * Fixed some header rendering issues (CSS).
1332 * SystemAdmin macro now checks against cfg.superuser list.
1335 * Added turkish i18n. To be considered as alpha as it got in last minute.
1339 This is the first release candidate of MoinMoin 1.5.0.
1342 * fixed broken logs when a DeletePage (maybe also RenamePage) comment
1343 contained CR/LF characters (could happen when using copy&paste)
1344 * fixed GUI editor MoinEditorBackup page containing HTML instead of wiki
1346 * fixed invalid HTML in FootNotes
1347 * fixed HTML source in EditorBackup after canceling GUI editor
1348 * Footnotes of included pages are not shown at the bottom of the including page.
1349 * Bug in Dict handling that often breaks first entry
1353 * Added SSO module for PHP based apps. Currently supported: eGroupware 1.2.
1354 No need to login in two systems anymore - MoinMoin will read the PHP session
1358 * Improved rendering of bullet lists and external links in Restructured text.
1359 Thanks to Matthew Gilbert.
1360 * Fixed modern theme rendering, including some fixes and workarounds for
1362 * When checking for email uniqueness, do not compare with disabled user
1364 * Fix sending of HTTP headers for Despam action.
1365 * Add some margin left and right of the link icons.
1368 * Made it easier for auth methods needing a user interface (like ldap or
1369 mysql stuff). Unlike http auth, they usually need some "login form".
1370 We made UserPreferences login form values (name, password, login, logout)
1371 available as kw args of the auth method, so it is easy and obvious now.
1372 * Make login and logout show at the same place. Is only shown when
1373 show_login is True (default).
1374 * Disabled login using &uid=12345.67.8910 method. Please use name/password.
1375 * Made builtin moin_cookie authentication more modular: the cookie is now
1376 touched by MoinMoin.auth.moin_cookie only, with one minor discomfort:
1377 When creating a user, you are not automatically logged in any more.
1378 * We now use the packager for additional help and system pages in all other
1379 languages except English. The packages are attached to SystemPagesSetup
1380 page and can be installed from there after getting "superuser" powers.
1381 The "extra" package contains a collection of orphan pages not listed on
1382 some SystemPagesIn<Language>Group page.
1387 * Fixed a minor user interface bug: it showed RenamePage and DeletePage
1388 actions in the menu if you only had write rights and then complained
1389 when you really tried when you had no delete rights additionally.
1390 * We don't remove RenamePage and DeletePage from menu any more if user is
1391 unknown. This stuff is only driven by ACLs now.
1392 * Some fixes to Despam action.
1393 * Fixed moin_dump (broken by some recent theme init change).
1394 * Fixed a few tests by moving the theme init from moin_dump to RequestCLI.
1395 * removed old_onload reference from infobox.js
1396 * Fixed MoinMoin logo for IE.
1397 * search: fixed whitespace handling in linkto: search terms
1398 * Increased stability of the tests system by outputting results to sys.stdout
1399 instead of request. Note that this changes the semantics for e.g. mod_py or
1401 * Fixed packaging system in the case of AddRevision that does not alter the page.
1402 * Fixed a few bugs in the XML formatters (dom_xml, text_xml, xml_docbook).
1403 * Fixed link icons. We now just use a.xxx.before where xxx is the link scheme,
1404 e.g. a.http.before. See theme's common.css.
1405 * Hopefully fixed some issue with non-ASCII attachment filenames.
1406 * Workaround for Opera 8.5 making silly "No addition" categories.
1407 * Do not show GUI editor for non-wiki format pages, because we only have a
1408 converter from html to wiki right now.
1409 * Fix the modern CSS issues for editbar, when it shifted content far right.
1410 Also removed the absolute height value that never was right.
1411 * Fix mod_python adaptor bugs failing to handle Location correctly.
1412 See: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=339543
1415 * Added irc:// to the builtin supported link schemas. You can remove it
1416 from config.url_schemas in case you have patched it in there.
1417 * Added cfg.user_autocreate (default: False). Use True to enable user
1418 profile autocreation, e.g. when you use http authentication, so your
1419 externally authenticated users don't need to create their moin profile
1420 manually. The auth method (see cfg.auth list) must check this setting
1421 if it supports auto creation.
1422 * Added user_autocreate support for auth.http and auth.sslclientcert.
1423 * Added "." and "@" to allowed characters in usernames. This is needed
1424 e.g. when using mod_pubcookie for authentication. mod_pubcookie returns
1425 userids like "geek@ANDREW.CMU.EDU" (e.g. the Kerberos domain is part of
1426 the id). Thanks to Brian E. Gallew for his patch, which we used for
1427 inspiration for user autocreation changes.
1428 * Changed auth method to return a tuple (user_obj, continue_flag), see
1429 comments in auth.py.
1430 * auth methods now create user objects with kw args auth_method and
1431 auth_attribs, so that moin knows later how the user was authenticated
1432 and which user object attributes were determined by the auth method.
1433 * Added MoinMoin/scripts/import/IrcLogImporter.py to import supybot's
1434 IRC logs into a moin wiki. We use MonthCalendar compatible page names,
1435 so you can use the calendar for showing / navigating the logs.
1436 * Removed packager binary from FCKeditor (fixing a Debian policy problem).
1437 * Worked around .png transparency bugs of IE with the new logo. We ship
1438 two logos: moinmoin.png without an alpha channel (IE compatible) and
1439 moinmoin_alpha.png which has an alpha channel and looks better on
1440 browsers with full .png support.
1441 * Allow a .zip file to have a directory in it if it is the only one.
1445 * use <span class="anchor"> instead of <a> for line-xxx anchors, this
1446 fixes some rendering problems on IE
1447 * Fixed the ReStructured text parser when it was used with non-HTML
1448 formatters. Increased compatiblity with new docutils code.
1449 (Thanks to Matt Gilbert.)
1451 * cfg.stylesheets = [] (default). You can use this on wiki or farm level
1452 to emit stylesheets after the theme css and before the user prefs css.
1453 The list entries must be ('screen', '/where/ever/is/my.css') style.
1454 * Added sample code for auth using an external cookie made by some other
1455 program. See contrib/auth_externalcookie/*. You need to edit it to
1456 fit whatever cookie you want to use.
1460 * fixed editor preview throwing away page content for new pages
1461 * require POST for userform save and create* action
1462 * use request.normalizePagename() while collecting pagelinks
1463 * do not offer gui editor for safari
1465 * tell user if account is disabled
1466 * added support for linking to .ico and .bmp
1467 * attachment methods for the text_xml and xml_docbook formatters
1469 * updated i18n (fixed nl, did nobody notice this?) and underlay
1470 * changed show_interwiki default to 0
1475 * fix gui editor (converter) crash on save
1478 * Avoid destroying existing page content if editor is called with
1479 template parameter for an existing page.
1480 * fix countdown javascript for browser status line in editor
1481 * added page title display for editor
1482 * added header div for classic theme
1484 Authentication and related:
1485 * Added a WhoAmI.py wiki xmlrpc plugin to check whether auth works
1486 correctly for xmlrpc. There is a counterpart script WhoAmI.py that
1487 uses http auth when calling the xmlrpc plugin, so you can use it to
1491 * Requirements changed to require Python >= 2.3. We recommend that
1492 you use the latest Python release you can get. The reason we
1493 dropped 2.2.2 support is because no developer or tester uses this
1494 old version any more, so incompatibilities crept in the code
1495 without anybody noticing. Using some recent Python usually is no
1496 real problem, see there for some hints in case you still run an
1497 old python: http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/NewPythonOnOldLinux
1498 The hint also does apply to other POSIX style operating systems,
1500 * We recommend you use MoinMoin/scripts/cachecleaner.py to clean the
1501 wiki's cache (see comments at top of the script).
1502 The cache will automatically be rebuilt (some operations may take
1503 some time when first being used, e.g. linkto: search, so be patient!).
1506 * there is a file CHANGES.config with just the recently changed stuff
1509 * page_front_page old: u"FrontPage" new: u"HelpOnLanguages"
1510 please just read the help page in case you see it :)
1511 * bang_meta old: 0 new: 1
1512 * show_section_numbers old: 1 new: 0
1513 * some regexes that used to be [a-z]Uxxxx$ are now [a-z0-9]Uxxxx$
1514 * navi_bar has no page_front_page as first element any more
1515 * removed settings and code [new behaviour]:
1517 * allow_extended_names [1]
1518 * allow_numeric_entities [1]
1520 * allow_subpages [1]
1522 * cfg.mail_sendmail = "/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i" can be used if sending
1523 via SMTP doesn't work on your server. Default is None and that means
1525 * language_default replaces the old default_lang setting (just renamed).
1526 * language_ignore_browser = True can be used to let moin ignore the
1527 user's browser settings (e.g. if you run a local-language only wiki
1528 and your users use misconfigured or buggy browsers often). Default is
1529 False. Don't forget to set language_default when using this.
1531 * Wiki Editor changes / new WYSIWYG editor
1532 * fully imported the javascript based LGPLed FCKeditor (many thanks
1533 to Fred CK for his great work). See http://fckeditor.net/ for details.
1534 * config for FCKeditor is at wiki/htdocs/applets/moinfckeditor.js
1535 * added cfg.interwiki_preferred (default = []) to set a list of wikis to
1536 show at the top of the wiki selection list when inserting an
1537 interwiki link (just use the same wiki name as in interwiki
1538 map). If the last list item is None, then the preferred wikis
1539 will not be followed by the entries of the interwiki map.
1540 * moved save/preview/... buttons to the top so that they can be
1542 * reduced edit_rows default to 20 lines
1543 * Added support for edit by doubleclick in the diff view
1545 * Improved wiki farm support
1546 * make user files sharable between several wikis in a farm
1547 * allow/use interwiki subscriptions
1548 * use interwiki links in page trail
1549 * save bookmark per wiki name
1550 * cfg.cookie_domain can be used to set a cookie valid for a complete
1551 domain (default: None == only for this host). If you use '.domain.tld',
1552 the cookie will be valid for all hosts *.domain.tld - good for host
1554 * cfg.cookie_path can be used to set a cookie valid for a wiki farm under
1555 some base path (default: None == only for this wiki's path). If you use
1556 '/wikifarm', the cookie will be valid for all wikis
1557 server.tld/wikifarm/* - good for path based wiki farms.
1558 * Interwiki user homepage (if you have MANY users)
1559 Generated links for usernames are interwiki now, use cfg.user_homewiki
1560 (default: 'Self') to specify in which wiki the user home pages are
1561 located. Note: when pointing this to another wiki, the /MoinEditorBackup
1562 functionality will be disabled.
1563 @SIG@ also uses interwiki when needed.
1565 * Authentication, ACLs and related
1566 * Modular authentication: cfg.auth is a list of functions that return a
1567 valid user or None, use it like this:
1568 from MoinMoin.auth import http, moin_cookie
1569 auth = [http, moin_cookie]
1570 * cfg.auth_http_enabled was removed, please use cfg.auth instead.
1571 * http auth now supports "Negotiate" scheme, too
1572 * Added sslclientcert auth method (Apache: untested, Twisted: not
1573 implemented, IIS: no idea). See MoinMoin/auth.py for details.
1574 Submit a patch if you have improvements.
1575 * cfg.superuser is a list of unicode usernames. It is used by some
1576 critical operations like despam action or PackageInstaller.
1577 * removed allowed_actions, we now use actions_excluded only and it
1578 defaults to [], that means, no action is excluded, everything is
1579 allowed (limited by ACLs). In case of RenamePage and DeletePage,
1580 this shouldn't be a problem as both can be reverted. In case you
1581 did not allow attachments, you now have to use:
1582 actions_excluded = ['AttachFile']
1583 * special users (All, Known, Trusted) in Groups are now supported
1584 * MoinMoin.security.autoadmin SecurityPolicy added
1585 When using this security policy, a user will get admin rights on his
1586 homepage (where pagename == username) and its sub pages. This is needed
1587 for the MyPages action, but can also get used for manual ACL changes.
1588 It can also be used for Project page auto admin functionality, see the
1589 comments in the script for details.
1590 Further it can automatically create the user's group pages when the
1591 user saves his homepage.
1592 * there is a UpdateGroup xmlrpc call, see MoinMoin/xmlrpc/UpdateGroup.py -
1593 you can use this to update your *Group pages e.g. when generating them
1594 from an external group database.
1596 * UserPreferences changes
1597 * Alias name: is used for display purposes, when "name" is cryptic. It is
1598 shown e.g. in the title attribute of userid links (displayed when
1599 moving the mouse over it).
1600 * "Publish my email (not my wiki homepage) in author info" - use this
1601 if you don't have a wiki homepage, but if you want to be contactable
1602 by email. When you edit a page, your email address will be published
1603 as mailto: link on RecentChanges, at bottom of page (last editor) and
1604 in page info. If the wiki runs publically on the internet, be careful
1605 using this or your email address might be collected by spammers.
1606 * Preferred Editor: whether you want to use the text editor (as in
1607 previous moin versions), the gui editor (new!) or both (you will get
1608 2 edit links in that case).
1609 * a user can add/remove the current page to/from his quicklinks with an
1610 appropriate action now
1611 * if cfg.user_email_unique = False, we don't require user's email
1612 addresses to be unique
1613 * removed show_fancy_links user preferences setting to simplify code and
1614 caching. Displaying those icons is now done by CSS styles (see
1615 common.css). Maybe needs fixing for non-standard themes and RTL langs.
1618 * added strikethrough markup: --(striked through text here)--
1619 * @ME@ expands to just the plain username (no markup added) on save
1622 * when a user accesses his own non-existing homepage (pagename ==
1623 username), the wiki will present the MissingHomePage system page
1624 content, explaining what a user homepage is good for and offer
1625 one-click editing it with content loaded from HomepageTemplate
1626 * creation of homepage subpages is assisted by the MyPages action, which
1627 offers rw, ro page creation (and a related group) or creation of private
1628 pages. If you are not in the user_homewiki, you will get redirected
1631 Other changes/new features:
1632 * Added PackageInstaller and unzipping support (see wiki page
1633 HelpOnActions/AttachFile for further details). PackageInstaller requires
1634 the user to be in cfg.superuser list.
1635 * Added an PackagePages action to simplify the package creation.
1636 * Added location breadcrumbs - when you are on some subpage, the page
1637 title parts link to the corresponding parent pages, the last part does
1638 the usual reverse linking.
1639 * added WSGI server support, thanks to Anakim Border, see:
1640 wiki/server/moinwsgi.py (moin as WSGI app, uses the flup WSGI server,
1641 see http://www.saddi.com/software/flup/)
1642 MoinMoin/server/wsgi.py (adaptor code)
1643 * added a "Despam" action to make de-spamming a wiki easy (mass revert
1644 bad changes done by a single author or bot). You need to be in
1645 cfg.superuser to use it.
1646 * Better diffs with links to anchors to the changed places
1647 * Enhanced table support in the DocBook formatter.
1648 * Added 'moin' daemon script, that let you run moin standalone
1649 server as daemon and control the server with simple command line
1650 intreface: moin start | stop | restart | kill
1651 * Add 'restart' option to mointwisted script
1652 * Add properties option to standalone server config. Allow
1653 overriding any request property like in other server types.
1654 * Add support for running behind proxy out of the box with out
1656 See HelpOnConfiguration/IntegratingWithApache
1657 * added a WikiBackup action, configure it similar to this:
1658 data_dir = "/path/to/data"
1659 backup_include = [data_dir, ] # you can add other dirs here
1660 backup_users = ["BackupUserName", ] # only TRUSTED users!
1661 You usually don't need to change the default backup_exclude setting.
1662 The default backup_include list is EMPTY and so will be your
1663 backup in case you don't configure it correctly.
1664 If you put your data_dir there, the backup will contain private
1665 user data like email addresses and encrypted passwords.
1666 * Added a SubscribeUser action which allows the administrator to subscribe users to the
1668 * Added thread count to SystemInfo macro.
1669 * Added Petr's newest patch against the DocBook code. It allows you to use macros (esp. the include macro) in DocBook pages in order to build larger documents.
1670 * Added a RenderAsDocbook action which redirects to the DocBook formatter.
1671 * Added searching for wiki-local words lists under <data_dir>/dict/.
1672 They are used additionally to the global lists in MoinMoin/dict/.
1673 * moin_dump now also dumps attachments referenced from the page.
1674 It doesn't dump stuff that is just attached, but not referenced!
1675 * On RecentChanges we now force the comment to be breakable, this improves
1676 rendering of over-long words or on narrow browser windows - especially
1677 for themes with limited content width like rightsidebar.
1678 * We now have the "new" icon on RecentChanges clickable, just links to the
1680 * Print view now shows "interwikiname: pagename" (for show_interwiki = 1).
1682 International support:
1683 * mail_from can be now a unicode name-address
1684 e.g u'Jürgen wiki <noreply@jhwiki.org>'
1687 * logo_string is now should be really only the logo (img).
1688 If you included your wiki's name in logo_string you maybe want to remove
1689 it now as it is shown as part of the location display now anyway (if
1690 you set show_interwiki = 1).
1691 * You maybe want to remove page_front_page from your navi_bar - we link to
1692 that page now from the logo and (new, if you set show_interwiki = 1) from
1693 the interwiki name displayed in location display, so you maybe don't need
1694 it in navi_bar, too.
1695 * If you have a custom theme, you should / may:
1696 * sync modern/css/screen.css #pagelocation #pagetrail stuff to your
1697 screen.css or pagelocation display (title()) will look strange (like a
1699 * remove "#title h1 ..." CSS (or any other CSS assuming h1 is a page
1700 title and not just a first level heading), it is not used any more.
1701 * we now render = heading = as <h1> (was <h2> before 1.5),
1702 == heading == as <h2> (was <h3>), etc.
1703 * maybe move both title() and trail() to header area, like the builtin
1705 * there is a new interwiki() base theme method that optionally (if
1706 show_interwiki = 1) shows the interwiki name of this wiki and links to
1707 page_front_page. The css for it is #interwiki.
1710 * Plugin API was improved. When plugin module is missing,
1711 wikiutil.PluginMissingError is raised. When trying to import a
1712 missing name from a plugin module, wikiutil.PluginMissingError is
1713 raised. You must update any code that use wikiutil.importPlugin.
1714 Errors in your plugin should raise now correct tracebacks. See
1715 http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/ErrorHandlingInPlugins
1716 * pysupport.importName was changed, it does not check for any
1717 errors when trying to import a name from a module. The calling
1718 code should check for ImportError or AttributeError. Previous
1719 code used to hide all errors behind None.
1720 * Its easier now to customize the editbar by overriding
1721 editbarItems() in your theme, and returning a list of items to
1722 display in the editbar. To change a single editbar link, override
1723 one of the xxxLink methods in your theme.
1726 * request.formatter (html) is available for actions now
1727 * theme API's d['page_home_page'] is gone (sorry) and replaced by
1728 d['home_page'] which is either None or tuple (wikiname,pagename).
1729 It is better to use the base classes function for username/prefs anyway.
1730 * introduced cfg.hacks for internal use by development, see comment in
1731 multiconfig.py and file HACKS.
1732 * added IE7 (v0.9) from Dean Edwards (see http://dean.edwards.name/IE7/) -
1733 that should fix quite some IE bugs and annoyances (on Win32).
1734 * for enabling IE7, use cfg.hacks = { 'ie7': True }
1735 * reducewiki now also copies all attachments (we use that to make underlay
1736 directory from moinmaster wiki's data_dir)
1739 * Fixed a typo in xslt.py which led to a traceback instead of an
1740 error message in case of disabled XSLT support.
1741 * Fixed crash in twisted server if twisted.internet.ssl is not
1743 * Fixed wrong decoding of query string, enable wiki/?page_name urls
1744 with non ascii page names.
1745 * Fixed wrong display of non ascii attachments names in
1746 RecentChanges and page revision history.
1747 * Fixed a crash when trying to run standalone server on non posix os.
1748 * Fixed highlight of misspelled words in Check Spelling action.
1749 * Fixed case insensitivity problems on darwin (Mac OS X). See
1751 * Added RecentChanges (only the english one) to the pages getting
1752 html_head_index headers
1753 * text_html cache files written with this code will invalidate themselves
1754 if they detect to be older than the wikiconfig. Note: you should remove
1755 all old text_html cache files once after upgrading, they will then be
1756 rebuilt automatically with the new code.
1758 * Fixed the word_rule: a word like AAAbbAbb isn't teared into two parts
1759 any more (was: AA<link>AbbAbb</link>)
1760 * Fixed false positive InterWiki markup for languages like Finnish.
1761 InterWiki links are only rendered if the left side has an appropriate
1762 entry in the interwiki map, otherwise it is rendered as simple text.
1763 * Fixed unicode error when uploding non-ascii file name using mod
1765 * Fixed error handling of wikirpc requests, should give more
1766 correct errors and prevent no error output and blocking the
1767 client in some cases.
1768 * Fixed the "lost password" mail processing. If a user entered some email
1769 address unknown to the system, he was not notified of this, but just got
1770 a useless mail with no account data in it. Now the system directly tells
1771 the user that he entered an unknown email address.
1772 * Fixed SystemInfo, it now also lists parsers in data/plugin/parser dir.
1773 * Fix error handling on failure, improved error display
1774 * Fix error handling when importing plugins or importing modules
1775 dynamically. The fix is not backward compatible with older plugins.
1776 * Fix chart action, returns a page with error message when chart
1778 * Fixed formatter usage in the ShowSmileys macro.
1779 * Fixed updating pagelinks cache for [:page:text] or [wiki:Self:page text],
1780 fixes display of LocalSiteMap and rendering of such links.
1781 * Hopefully fixed urllib problems (esp. with py 2.4.2, but also before) by
1782 using our own urllib wrapper that handles encoding/decoding to/from
1783 unicode, see wikiutil.py. Also made a similar fix for making and parsing
1785 * Fixed MonthCalendar tooltips when containing special chars like quotes.
1786 * Added html escaping for diff text for RSS feed with diff=1.
1787 * The distance between page content beginning and the first = heading =
1788 was much too much. Fixed.
1792 We used that version number for an internal and early development version
1793 for what will be called moin 2.0 at some time in the future.
1794 There will never be a 1.4.x release.
1797 Version 1.3.5 (2005-08-04, Revision moin--main--1.3--patch-883)
1800 * small CSS fix for rightsidebar theme
1801 * applied some Debian patches (thanks to Jonas!):
1802 * de i18n spelling fixes
1803 * AttachFile fix, we strip CR in .draw files now
1804 * when loading spellcheck dictionaries, we want utf-8, but we make
1805 a 2nd try with iso-8859-1 encoding.
1809 * enabled using https with the Twisted server:
1810 You need to use port 443, have PyOpenSSL (+ ssl libs it depends on)
1811 installed and have some site key and certificate PEM files configured in
1812 your twistedmoin.py file:
1813 sslcert = ('/whereever/cert/sitekey.pem', '/whereever/cert/sitecert.pem')
1816 Version 1.3.5rc1 (2005-07-31, Revision moin--main--1.3--patch-865)
1820 * Fixed security bug when acl of deleted page was ignored. See:
1822 * AttachFile did not display the original filename plus there
1823 was a confusion in input field labelling ('Rename to').
1824 * Fixed shortcut link non-existent page detection.
1825 * Fixed non-working bookmark function on python 2.2.x.
1826 * Fixed wikirpc getPageInfo call on python 2.2.x.
1827 * Fixed the failing import of plugins from the data/plugin/
1828 directories if run in zipimport environments.
1829 * Fixed traceback which occurred on negated searches.
1830 * Fixed crash when trying to render error message on twisted, fast
1832 * Fixed error message with modpy, used to show wrong errors below
1834 * Fixed search and goto text fields for better compatibility with
1835 dark themes and better control through css.
1836 * Show an edit link if MissingPage is missing and a warning in the
1838 * Fixed missing footer in the editor.
1839 * Fixed indented (invalid) headings with broken links in table of
1841 * Fixed crash when file name is too long, show standard error message.
1842 * Save trail file in a safe way, should be enough for normal use.
1843 * Fixed remember_last_visit user preferences option when show_trail
1845 * Fixed the tests for Standalone, Twisted, FastCGI and Mod_Python.
1846 Run with ?action=test from any page.
1847 * Fixed rare bug when wrong search type was performed when pasting
1848 search term in Safari.
1849 * Fixed crash for custom formatters and dom_xml (which occurred if
1850 smileys were in the page).
1851 * Editor opens on double click in pages with single quote in the
1852 name, like "Ben's Wiki".
1853 * '/.' in page names are not replaced any more by '/(2e)'
1854 * Fixed the long delays while saving pages using RequestCLI.
1855 * Fixed variable expanding for users with non WikiName.
1856 * Fixed MonthCalendar's calculation of "today" to use the user's
1858 * Fixed moin_dump script, use same configuration options as other
1860 * Fixed url_mappings to work in proxied setups and sent mails
1861 again. Also fixed for image links. Thanks to JohannesBerg.
1862 * Fixed page shown after saving a drawing (esp. when saved from a
1863 sub page). Fixed help link for drawings.
1864 * Fixed mig10 script to run on Python < 2.3.
1865 * The twisted server defaulted to a socket timeout of 12 hours!
1866 We reduced that to a more sane 10 minutes, that should still be more
1867 than enough. This fixed the "too many open files" problem we
1868 encountered quite often recently. Thanks to Helmut Grohne!
1873 * Added cz, pt and pt-br i18n.
1874 * We send a 404 http status code for nonexisting wiki pages now,
1875 maybe this will repell some search engines from requesting gone
1876 pages again and again. The wiki user still sees the MissingPage
1877 wiki stuff, so a user usually won't notice this change.
1878 * Return 500 error code on failure and exceptions.
1879 * Added some more bot / leech tool user agent strings.
1880 * Prevent page floating elements from floating out of the page over
1881 the footer, in modern, rightsidebar and classic themes.
1882 * Encode URLs in a safer way
1883 * We allow usernames with ' character in them now (like Tim O'Brian).
1884 * Added support for the new security flags in docutils 0.3.9.
1885 * @MAILTO@ expands now to safer [[MailTo()]] macro.
1886 * Clarified and i18ned lost password mails.
1887 * Added 'TitleIndex' and 'SiteNavigation' (+ translation) to the
1888 list of pages that use html_head_index (so that robots
1889 "index,follow"). Please make sure to have either FindPage,
1890 TitleIndex or SiteNavigation in your navi_bar or in your
1891 page_front_page content if you want search engines to find all
1893 * Make it possible to send account data when being logged in (for
1894 future reference or whatever purpose).
1895 * Speed up when running with persistent servers, the wiki config
1896 does only get loaded once and misc. stuff is being cached between
1898 * The unit tests are disabled when using multi threading, because
1899 the wiki configuration is shared between diffrent threads.
1900 * The main code path (using standalone server) of MoinMoin runs on
1902 * Formatters do automatically transform HTML to plain text if they are
1903 called with raw HTML code.
1904 * Using larger socket backlog on Standalone and FastCGI servers
1905 should be more reliable on high load.
1906 * We now strip leading path from attachments uploaded by IE (this is
1907 a bug in IE, not in MoinMoin). Better use a sane browser, like Firefox.
1908 * added "teleport" to the user agent blacklist
1912 * Integrated Lupy indexer for better search performance. It is disabled
1913 by default as of 1.3.5 as it still has known issues.
1914 See multiconfig.py if you want to test it.
1915 * Integrated MonthCalendar 2.1, with some new features:
1916 * a mouseover bubble that shows first level headlines of the linked
1918 * all calendars with same pagename move when using cal navigation,
1919 thanks to Oliver Graf
1920 * included AnnualMonthlyCalendar patch of Jonathan Dietrich
1921 (use [[MonthCalendar(Yearly,,,+1,,6,1)]] syntax for birthdays and
1922 other annually repeating stuff)
1923 Make sure you remove old MonthCalendar.* from data/plugin/macro so that
1924 moin will use the new code in MoinMoin/macro/MonthCalendar.py.
1925 Maybe also clear the text_html cache.
1926 * Added the new XSLT parser and the DocBook parser. This should increase
1927 the 4suite compatiblity. See HelpOnXmlPages for details.
1928 It now should run on 4suite 1.0a4 and 1.0b1. Thanks to Henry Ho!
1929 * Added the DocBook formatter. This will let you generate DocBook markup
1930 by writing simple wiki pages. It needs PyXML.
1931 * It is now possible to customize parts of the UserPreferences page in
1932 your wikiconfig (changing defaults, disabling fields, removing fields):
1933 * Use user_checkbox_* for the checkboxes.
1934 * Use user_form_* for other fields.
1935 * See MoinMoin/multiconfig.py for the built-in defaults.
1936 * New standalone server classes: ThreadPoolServer using pool of
1937 threads, ThreadingServer with thread limit and ForkingServer.
1938 * New standalone server configuration options: serverClass,
1939 threadLimit, requestQueueSize.
1940 * Use "PythonOption Location" in mod_python setup to solve script_name
1945 * Theme can now override maxPagenameLength() method to control page
1947 * A search Match now provides access to the full re match via
1948 the re_match attribute (use to access groups of the match)
1949 * Underlay is not managed by arch any more. The tree contains an
1950 underlay tarball, and you should untar after you update from main.
1951 * "make update-underlay" will untar underlay
1952 * "make merge" will star-merge main into your tree
1953 * "make test" will now create and run in a fresh testwiki instace
1954 * "make clean" options added
1955 * _tests module does not have a global request any more. To refer to
1956 the current request in a test, use self.request.
1957 * _tests.TestConfig class require a request in the constructor.
1958 * "python tests/runtests.py test_module" will run only test_module
1959 * request.cfg stays between requests (for persistent servers).
1962 Version 1.3.4 (2005-03-13, Revision moin--main--1.3--patch-666)
1966 * Fixed ACL check in LikePages macro that caused links to unreadable
1968 * Fixed ACL check in newpage action.
1969 * Fixed a security problem when admin policy defined in a custom
1970 SecurityPolicy class was ignored.
1971 * Fixed ACL check in action=show so that a user who may not read a page
1972 also can't find out WHEN the protected page was updated.
1973 * Workaround on Windows 95, 98, ME in order to clear the dircache.
1974 This fixes some bugs related to an outdated page list and newly created
1975 pages that did not appear immediately.
1976 * Fixed decoding issues of page names on Windows, finally.
1978 * Fixed traceback on IIS.
1980 * Fixed wikirpc for standalone server.
1981 * Other fixes (encoding and str/unicode data type related) to wikirpc
1982 server, fixing some non-ascii issues hopefully.
1983 * Fixed broken query strings for Standalone installations.
1984 * Fixed backlinks - the result did not always show all links, often it
1986 * Fixed the acceptance of the show_hosts setting. Now you should be able
1987 to hide any IP or host name from being published by MoinMoin by enabling
1989 * Fixed wrong line endings on email messages.
1991 * Fixed crash when trail file is missing.
1992 * Fixed a traceback when searching for single ( or ).
1993 * Added mig10 script to fix crashes with uncoverted edit-locks and file
1994 attachments. Just use it as you did with mig1..mig9 before.
1995 * Added mig11 script to add __init__.py files to data/plugin (and below).
1996 * added some fixes for the xslt parser (thanks to fanbanlo), it might be
1997 still broken, but someone with deeper knowledge about xslt should fix it.
1998 * Replaced image link with W3C's "html 4.01 compliance" icon by a simple
1999 text link to avoid https: or config trouble.
2000 * Catch OverflowError backtrace when illegal date strings (e.g. <1970 or
2001 >2038) are fed to moinmoin's time routines. It will just output current
2002 date / time in those cases.
2003 * UserPreferences now also set a date_fmt preference and Date macro
2004 honours it. You may have to reset your UserPreferences value for that.
2005 * Fixed free parent and subpage links in interwiki notation.
2007 * Fixed a traceback for invalid ReST markup.
2008 * Fixed UnicodeError in SystemAdmin's Attachment Browser.
2012 * Optimized the IRC parser.
2013 * Support for zipimport of the MoinMoin package. This allows you to use
2014 py2exe and similar programs.
2015 * Show the editor's name in the mail subject.
2016 * Added the pragmas description and keywords. They will add <meta> headers
2018 * Added MoinMoin/scripts/xmlrpc-tools/putPageTest.py example script, useful
2019 as a starting point for importing data using wiki xmlrpc.
2020 * Optimised display on Opera browser.
2024 * The search modifier "linkto:" was introduced. You can use it to search
2026 * The NewPage macro now can take a PageTemplate parameter, see HelpOnMacros.
2027 * New config settings (so you don't need to edit wikirpc.py any more):
2028 xmlrpc_putpage_enabled = 0 (if 1, enables writing to arbitrary page names)
2029 xmlrpc_putpage_trusted_only = 1 (if 0, doesn't require users to be
2030 authenticated by http auth - DANGEROUS, DO NOT SET TO 0!!!)
2031 * Added support for Digest and NTLM authentication with CGI (e.g. if you
2032 use those Apache modules)
2033 * The datetime string accepted by Date and DateTime macros was extended to
2034 accept a timezone specification, so now +/-HHMM is also valid, e.g.:
2035 2005-03-06T15:15:57Z (UTC, same as +0000)
2036 2005-03-06T15:15:57+0000 (UTC)
2037 2005-03-06T16:15:57+0100 (same time given as local time for time zone
2038 with offset +0100, that is CET, e.g. Germany)
2039 2005-03-06T10:15:57-0500 (same time given as local time for time zone
2040 with offset -0500, EST, US Eastern Std. Time)
2041 The values given as macro argument will be transformed to UTC internally
2042 and then adapted again according to viewing user's UserPreferences, so
2043 the user will see the same moment in time but shown in his local time
2044 zone's time (at least if he set his UserPreferences correctly and didn't
2045 forget changing them twice a year for DST and non-DST).
2046 * Readded (now optional) editlink footer to Include macro. Add
2047 ',editlink' to call to enable this.
2048 * star "smileys" e.g. {*}{*}{*}{o}{o}
2051 Version 1.3.3 (2005-01-24, Revision moin--main--1.3--patch-595)
2055 * fixed ACL security problem in search
2056 * fix for IIS with CGI allowing page names that contain chars
2057 that are not in the system code page
2058 * fixed MoinEditorBackup revisions to start with 1 now
2059 * improved page locking ('current' file)
2060 * Unittests (normally shown at end of action=test output) are currently
2061 disabled for everything except CGI, because they only work reliably with
2062 CGI, giving wrong results for other request methods.
2065 Version 1.3.2 (2005-01-23, Revision moin--main--1.3--patch-587)
2069 * ACL bugfix for deleted pages with ACL protection.
2070 * ACL bugfix for "Default" acl.
2071 * Fixed updating of groups and dicts
2072 * Python 2.2.x related fixes (worked on 2.3+)
2073 * Fixed traceback in RecentChanges.
2074 * Fixed traceback with links browser.
2075 * Fixed 0 revision display in 'Show changes'.
2076 * Fixed traceback in Antispam which occurred when it could not connect
2077 to MoinMaster. Log the errors to stderr or error.log.
2078 * Fixed bug in Page init (no date, use rev). Fixes problem with
2080 * Fixed empty lists in empty search results.
2081 * Cosmetic fix for modern theme (when viewed with Internet Explorer).
2082 * Fixed migration 9 script, do not drop newline, do not drop error.log,
2083 note about missing error.log.
2084 * Fixed repair_language.py script, keep ending newline on revisions.
2085 * Show headings and macro content in correct direction when mixing content
2086 in several directions in the same page and using caching.
2087 * Fixed bug in standalone re farmconfig.
2088 * Fixed DOS condition in antispam code.
2089 * Use smaller margin in print mode to get better results with
2091 * Fixed some user input escaping issues.
2092 * Fixed a problem when one wiki plugin override other wikis plugins in
2094 * Fixed some broken tests.
2095 * Fixed recursive include in pstats.
2096 * Fixed bug in standalone - HTTP result code was 200 even when the access
2098 * Fixed traceback when trying to login with non-ascii password.
2099 * Fixed traceback when xml is not available, reported on Python 2.2.?
2100 * Fixed slideshow to show slides in sorted order again.
2101 * Fixed serving multiple wikis on same IP/different ports with twisted and
2103 * It is possible to run with data_underlay_dir = None for special
2104 application, but be aware that the wiki won't be usable unless you have
2105 at least some of the system pages from underlay/ available.
2106 * Files with Unicode characters in their filename are possible now.
2107 * Bugfix for broken [:page#anchor:text] links.
2108 * Workaround an instability of the gdchart module leading to
2109 stalled servers etc.
2110 * Fixed some event-log decoding issues that affect charts rendering.
2114 * Major speed improvement over 1.3.1. Many times faster title search,
2115 creating new page, opening page editor and any operation that list pages.
2116 See http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/MoinBenchmarks
2117 * Improved README.migration.
2118 * Cleaner design for login/register interface, login is always the default
2119 button when the user click Enter.
2120 * If there are problems found in the configuration, log the error
2121 and display helpful error messages in the browser.
2122 * More forgiving unicode configuration policy, you must use the u'string'
2123 format only for unicode values.
2124 * Added profiling to CGI.
2125 * The content of farmconfig.py is similar to wikiconfig.py now.
2126 * Unexpected errors while loading cache files are logged.
2127 * i18n for icon ALT tags.
2128 * Include request initialization code in the profile in standalone server.
2129 * When creating new theme, style sheets are inherited correctly, no need
2130 to override style sheets just to get them working.
2131 * Many times faster plugin system. Typical pages are about 35% faster,
2132 pages with many plugins can be many times faster.
2133 * Spiders are allowed to fetch attachments.
2134 * Old user files containing password hash encoded in pre 1.3 charset
2135 are auto repaired on first login.
2136 * data_dir defaults to './data', underlay_data_dir to './underlay' now.
2137 It is a good idea to replace those by absolute pathes in wikiconfig.py.
2138 * Renamed "Refresh" to "Delete Cache" - it was misused by users. The action
2139 was also moved into the action menu in the modern and rightsidebar themes.
2140 * Added a workaround for TableOfContents missing some links by making it
2141 uncacheable via a "time" dependency.
2142 * Removed interwiki icon and title attribute for wiki:Self:... links.
2143 * Unittests (normally shown at end of action=test output) are currently
2144 disabled because they worked unreliably, giving wrong results sometimes.
2148 * Create new pages easily using configurable interface and page templates
2149 with the new NewPage macro.
2150 * ReStructuredText (rst) support is built-in now. See HelpOnParsers.
2151 * New experimental feature in mointwisted.py - each interface may
2152 specify a port: '12.34.56.78:80'. Without a port, the port option
2158 * wikiutil.importPlugin's first argument is now a wiki config instance
2159 (request.cfg) and there is no path keyword.
2160 * Wiki plugins always override MoinMoin plugins. wikiutil.importPlugin
2161 implements this override.
2162 * util.pysupport.importName does not accept path - you should call
2163 it with correct module name, e.g 'wikiconfig.plugin.parser.wiki' for
2164 wiki plugins, or 'MoinMoin.parser.wiki'.
2165 * wikiutil.extensionPlugin was renamed to wikiPlugins and it gets config
2166 instance instead of path.
2167 * New function wikiutil.importWikiPlugin used to import wiki plugins
2168 using a cache in a thread safe way.
2169 * New config option config.use_threads is used to activate thread
2171 * New keyword arguments for getPageList, enable 10X faster operation
2172 for common cases by controlling page filtering.
2173 * New up to 100X times faster getPageCount
2176 Version 1.3.1 (2004-12-13, Revision moin--main--1.3--patch-434)
2180 * Fixed "Error Cyclic usage" crash when user had Italian (it), Korean
2181 (ko), Serbian (sr) or Vietnamese (vi) as user interface language.
2182 * Fall back to en (instead of crashing) when user uses a language moin
2183 does not support / does not support any more (like pt,sv,fi,sr).
2184 * In 1.3.0, people accidentally put iso-8859-1 chars into wiki configs,
2185 but those where expected to be pure utf-8 and thus it crashed.
2186 Fixed by using unicode strings (varname = u'whatever'), a matching
2187 encoding setting (see top of script comment) and, when decoding strings,
2188 using decode to ASCII with replace mode (this replaces non-ASCII chars,
2189 but at least it won't crash - and you get a warning to better use
2191 * Fixed long time broken table formatting. ||<style="see css spec" a||b||
2192 Now even generates valid HTML! The old markup for align, valign, width,
2193 bgcolor still works, but synthesizes style attribute data.
2194 * SystemAdmin macro shows attachments of ALL pages now.
2195 * Users without write acl rights will be able to see attachments again and
2196 also have AttachFile action in menu.
2197 * Fixed wrong match count in search results, find all matches in page
2198 titles, show all matches in contents in some rare cases.
2199 * Run about 200% faster with long running processes (standalone, Twisted),
2200 about 20% faster with cgi, by better internal data handling in wikidicts.
2201 * On SF, the dict files use utf-8 encoding now. We included them also in
2202 distribution, see contrib/dict/.
2203 * Fixed permissions to shared template stuff.
2204 * Speeded up search, fixed wrong match counts.
2205 * Speeded up internal data handling (wikidicts).
2206 * Fixed rare unicode error after deleting a page (reported only on SuSE
2207 Linux 9.0 / Python 2.3.0).
2208 * Fixed file permissions of files in the data dir.
2209 * Fixed some cosmetic problems in migration scripts and use sys.path.insert
2210 to get latest moin code when executing them.
2214 * Improved docs, system and help pages.
2215 * Updated translation files.
2219 * Internet Explorer renders our HTML/CSS in a suboptimal way.
2221 Workaround: use a non-broken browser like FireFox / Mozilla.
2222 Fixed in MoinMoin 1.3.2.
2223 * Passwords using non-ascii do not work.
2225 * The TOC macro is broken partly.
2228 * See also: http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/MoinMoinBugs
2231 Version 1.3.0 (2004-12-06, Revision moin--main--1.3--patch-400)
2233 As you see from the length of the 1.3 changes below, 1.3 is a major(!)
2234 upgrade. We could have also named it "2.0", but we decided against.
2235 So take the time for reading the informations thoroughly and do the
2236 migration exactly as we tell you - this is no 5 minutes upgrade!
2238 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2239 !!! We heavily changed configuration, data encoding, dir layout: !!!
2240 !!! * the default encoding changed to utf-8. !!!
2241 !!! * also, we changed the escaping for special chars to %XX%YY in !!!
2242 !!! URL and (xxyy) in file system. !!!
2243 !!! * layout of data dir changed completely !!!
2244 !!! If you upgrade an existing wiki, you must run the migration !!!
2245 !!! scripts or you will get data corruption or other problems. !!!
2246 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2248 HINT: Upgrading your wiki - critical information
2250 If you are NOT starting from scratch, you MUST convert your existing
2251 data - see README.migration for details.
2253 If you use ##language: xx comments on your OWN pages, you should also run
2254 repair_language script. Not needed for help/system pages as we already
2255 have done that for you.
2257 MoinMoin uses Unicode internally now (UCS-2 with 16 bits or UCS-4 with
2258 32 bits, depending on your Python installation). The encoding used
2259 for page files and html output is set by config.charset.
2261 Moin 1.3 uses utf-8 encoding only, there is NO SUPPORT for using a
2262 charset different from utf-8 with 1.3. If you try, you are on your own.
2266 Directory layout was heavily changed. Each page now is a directory,
2267 containing page revisions, attachments, cache files and edit-log.
2269 You can delete a page or move a page from one wiki to another
2270 easily. Look at the wiki/data directory to see.
2273 old: data/text/FrontPage
2274 new: data/pages/FrontPage/revisions/00000042
2275 data/pages/FrontPage/current (contains: 00000042)
2276 old: data/backup/FrontPage.xxxxxxxx
2277 new: data/pages/FrontPage/revisions/00000023
2279 For cleaning up cache files, use MoinMoin/scripts/cachecleaner.py
2280 (see comments in script).
2284 * For using RSS, you need to have PyXML installed:
2285 Python 2.4* -> PyXML 0.8.4 (cvs version)
2286 Python 2.3.x -> PyXML 0.8.3
2287 Python 2.2.2+ -> ???
2288 This will also make "Live Bookmarks" of Mozilla Firefox working.
2289 New: if you don't have PyXML installed, the RSS icon on RecentChanges
2290 will not be displayed any more. Python with no PyXML installed
2291 generates invalid RSS XML.
2295 * Handling of special characters in file names changed from _xx format
2297 * In URLs, moin now uses %xx%yy quoting, (because this is supported by
2298 browsers), and sub pages use "/" instead of the ugly "_2f".
2299 * Underscore character "_" is used now as a space character " " both
2300 in file names and URLs. " " and "_" will be handled equivalent at most
2301 places in the future (represented as "_", rendered as " ").
2302 * To prevent wiki abuse and user typing errors, page names are normalized
2303 in URLs, query strings, the "go" box and when renaming pages. This
2304 include leading, trailing and multiple slashes and white space. Certain
2305 invisible unicode characters are removed from page names.
2306 * Group page names are restricted even more, any non unicode alpha-numeric
2307 character is removed. This is done to enable changing acl syntax in
2308 the future. The restriction might be loosen on future versions.
2309 * You can edit config.page_invalid_chars_regex to control which characters
2310 are allowed in page names (Changing it is not supported).
2311 * When you enter page name, it is normalized and you are redirected to
2312 the normalized page, or if nothing left (e.g '/////'), to FrontPage.
2313 * When renaming a page to a name that can be normalized to an empty string,
2314 the new page name will be "EmptyName" and the user will not get an
2319 * Pages (especially system and help pages) are now located in an underlay
2320 directory (data_underlay_dir). You will see the pages there if they are
2321 NOT covered (overlayed) by a page in the normal pages directory
2322 (as set using data_dir).
2323 MAKE SURE THAT data_underlay_dir IS CORRECT OR YOU WILL SEE MANY EMPTY
2324 PAGES ONLY IN A NEW WIKI.
2325 * If you edit a page that is shown from underlay directory, it will be
2326 copied to the normal page directory on save (copy-on-write).
2327 * You can use one copy of the underlay directory shared by many
2328 wiki instances. Each wiki will then have only your local, self-made
2329 wiki pages in its data directory, and only system and help pages in the
2330 single, shared underlay directory - this simplifies upgrades a lot.
2331 * It is recommended to keep your underlay system and help pages immutable
2332 using acl, so you can upgrade your wiki easily. The default help and
2333 system pages already have those ACLs (using MoinPagesEditorGroup).
2334 * Do not forget to remove your old help and system pages after migrating
2335 your wiki. We don't provide a script for that as that would be
2336 dangerous for edited pages. Just use some file manager (e.g. mc) to
2337 clean the data/pages/ directory. As soon as you have removed the
2338 system pages there, you will see the new pages in the underlay dir.
2339 See the EditedSystemPages page for a list of pages that exist in both
2340 data and underlay directory (use this page as admin!).
2342 When updating from 1.2 or lower to 1.3 or higher, you will want to
2343 clean out the copies of the system pages in your {{{wiki/data}}}
2344 directory. All of these pages will now reside in the underlay
2345 directory. If you have system pages from 1.2 or lower in your
2346 wiki/data/ directory, they will overshadow the more up-to-date
2347 documentation. This can be done using the following manual procedure:
2348 1. You have just converted from 1.2 or lower to post-1.3.
2349 2. Go to your wiki's EditedSystemPages.
2350 3. Find all the pages that are MoinMoin system or help pages. You will
2351 know if it is one of those pages because it is not your page.
2352 4. Check if it is okay to delete by either:
2353 1. Using the this page "info" link and check the Revision History to
2354 see if it is greater than 1. If so, there are modifications, so do
2355 not delete the page and evaluate the modifications to see if they
2357 2. Using your file browser (Windows Explorer, etc) to go to your
2358 wiki/data/<<systemPage>>/revisions/ directory and to see if there
2359 are no modifications. If there are, do not delete the page and
2360 evaluate the modifications to see if they are necessary.
2361 5. Delete that wiki/data/<<systemPage>> using your file browser.
2365 * New file name quoting method allow 50% longer page names in languages
2366 that use more than one byte per character, like Hebrew, Korean etc.
2367 * Configuration file uses 'utf-8' encoding now. Certain values that are
2368 marked with [Unicode] can use any character in your language. Examples
2369 are page names in navi_bar, page types regular expressions and site name.
2370 * For configuration examples adopted to your language, check ConfigMarket
2371 in the MoinMoin wiki.
2372 * The system and help pages that come with moin are now in utf-8.
2373 * MissingPage system page localized, should display in your language.
2374 * We did many i18n (translation) updates.
2375 * CSS file use utf-8 encoding. User css is also expected to be utf-8.
2376 This is relevant only if you use non-ASCII values in the CSS file.
2377 * config.upperletters and config.lowerletters were removed.
2378 We now use a pre-made ucs-2 spanning set and you usually don't have to
2379 change it. See MoinMoin/util/chartypes.py if you're interested.
2380 * ACL works with any user name or group name in any language, even names
2382 * Now you can use any charset in config.charset. Note: only utf-8 is
2383 a supported configuration!
2384 * Improved url handling, now creating pages directly from the browser
2385 url box with non-ascii names works in most cases, even when
2386 config.charset is not utf-8.
2387 * When using non-utf-8 config.charset, characters in URLs that does
2388 fit in the charsets are replaced with "?" (instead of crashing).
2389 * All themes and most macros and actions are Right to Left friendly.
2390 Full RTL support planned for 1.3 release.
2391 * If page language is specified with #language processing instruction
2392 the page is displayed in the correct direction. Pages without
2393 language are displayed using the wiki default_lang.
2395 Multiple configurations
2397 * You can run multiple wikis from the same wiki directory or server.
2398 For example, you can run one Twisted server that serve multiple wikis,
2399 instead of running multiple servers. Samples of the new configuration
2400 are supplied in wiki/config/*.
2401 * You can't just use your old moin_config.py file. It is now called
2402 wikiconfig.py and the config variables now have to be in a class
2403 "Config" and that class must inherit from
2404 MoinMoin.multiconfig.DefaultConfig - see the provided wikiconfig.py
2406 This is very useful, e.g. you could derive a GermanConfig from
2407 DefaultConfig. After that, you can derive configs for wikiA and wikiB
2408 from that GermanConfig.
2409 * farmconfig.py contains a mapping attribute called "wikis" with pairs of
2410 wikiconfig module name and regular expression. The regular expression
2411 is matched against the URL of the request and the first matching entry
2412 determines the config module to be imported by MoinMoin.
2413 * If you use farmconfig.py's "wikis" mapping, then any wiki has a private
2414 config module, named after the wiki - e.g. wiki named moinmoin would
2416 * If you only have a single wiki, you do not need farmconfig.py. just make
2417 a wikiconfig.py and it will be used no matter what URL is requested.
2418 * There is one common global "config" that holds sitewide settings (like
2419 umask or charset) - you do not need to change settings there.
2420 This file is located in the MoinMoin code: MoinMoin/config.py.
2422 General configuration
2424 * SecurityPolicy now uses "write" instead of "edit" (so it is may.write
2425 now). This is to get it in sync with ACLs.
2426 * SecurityPolicy now automatically can use everything in acl_rights_valid.
2427 * There is a new config option "config_check_enabled". It will warn about
2428 any unknown variable name (probably typo) to stderr or error.log.
2429 If something doesn't work at all and changing the config does no
2430 difference, switch it on and look at the error message.
2431 * The sample config file comes with config_check_enabled = 1. If you
2432 introduce additional variables yourself, you definitely want to switch
2433 that check off or it will fill your log.
2434 * If you define "page_front_page" variable, this name will show in the
2435 navigation bar now, instead of the default "FrontPage".
2439 * Full text and title search do support multiple search terms now -
2440 see HelpOnSearching for details.
2441 * Regular expressions are still supported but have to be turned on per
2442 search term. Search terms in macros using regular expressions will have
2444 * The URL interface of the search engine has also changed. Links that
2445 point directly to search actions may be broken.
2449 * User names can not use group names, even if ACLs are not enabled.
2450 This will prevent error later, if you start to use acl in the future
2451 (acl is going to be mandatory in 1.5).
2452 * User names are not restricted any more to only CamelCase.
2453 * To prevent imposing as other users, leading, trailing and multiple
2454 whitespace in user names is not allowed. Only Unicode alpha numeric
2455 characters are allowed, with optional one space character between
2457 * When a user name with a group name or "bad" name is trying to
2458 access the wiki, he is redirected to the UserPreferences page and
2459 asked to create a new account.
2460 * When trying to login or create a new account with a bad name,
2461 correct error message is displayed in all cases.
2465 * You can not use your old moin.cgi file, as we removed cgimain.py
2466 (was deprecated since 1.2). Copy the new file from the server dir.
2468 Moin servers - Twisted and standalone
2470 * Configuration self checking on startup. Will raise an error in case
2471 of bad configuration or non-accessible directories.
2472 * Both use shorter and identical configuration options.
2473 * Server scripts contain detailed comments and examples.
2474 * Configuration defaults changed to fit most users.
2475 * There is memory profiler option for debugging, switched off by default.
2476 * If you perform a standard install, server scripts should run out
2477 of the box or with minimal change.
2481 * All code moved into the new server package, the server script
2482 contains only configuration options.
2483 * Listen to more than one interface with "interfaces" list.
2484 * Code updated to new Twisted API.
2485 * Use mointwisted script to start and stop the server, using
2486 "mointwisted start" and "mointwisted stop".
2487 * The Twisted server runs as daemon by default.
2488 * All moin Twisted files are called now mointwisted instead of
2490 * Fixed getting username from Twisted request (http auth)
2494 * Configuration moved from moin_config.py to moin.py.
2495 * If run as root, you can set both user and group for the server.
2496 * Can use logfile instead of logging to stderr.
2497 * Fixed missing unquoting of query string (caused problems in rare cases).
2501 * moin_modpy server files renamed to moinmodpy.
2505 * '''strong''', ''em'' and __underline__ have now paragraph scope. You can
2506 set these attributes on words level. For multiple paragraphs, wrap each
2508 * If you leave unclosed ''', '' and __ markup, its is closed when the
2513 * Due to many changes in CSS files, the wiki may look "broken" until
2514 your reload once or twice, or empty your browser cache.
2515 * The "Send mail notification" checkbox is replaced by "Trivial change"
2516 checkbox. The default behavior did not change - regular edit is not
2517 a trivial change, and mail will be sent to subscribes. If you check
2518 trivial change, mail will be sent only to users who selected to
2519 get trivial changes in their user preferences.
2520 * New theme "modern" has been added, and used as default theme.
2521 * classic and rightsidebar improved.
2522 * viewonly theme removed, as any theme can be use now as viewonly
2523 by using #acl All:read in the wikiconfig.
2524 * All themes use new navibar, displaying both wiki links, user links
2525 and the current page.
2526 * navibar and pagetrail use now shortened page names, so very long
2527 names does not break the interface visually.
2528 * All themes have improved search interface at the top of the window.
2529 * Only avaiable actions are displayed, so most situations when a user
2530 try to do something he can't do are prevented.
2531 * When creating a new page, no action is available until the page
2532 is created. You can't attach files to non-existing page any more.
2533 * Non registered users get a "login" link. Registered uses get
2534 "username" link to their home page, and "user preferences" link.
2535 * Messages more clear using bold type, designed by css.
2536 * Few useless messages removed (but there are many more)
2537 * Default wiki logo uses the wiki name instead of the MoinMoin troll
2540 Other fixes and changes
2542 * Most generated html code is valid "html 4 strict". There are still
2543 some problems that still have to be fixed, mainly macros, table
2544 attributes, and inline markup crossing (<a><b></a></b>).
2545 * WantedPages can include and exclude system pages, which makes it
2547 * Fixed a bug in TitleIndex where not all system pages are excluded.
2548 * RenamePage action now renames everything, including backups, page
2549 history, attachments. It does not change toplevel editlog, though.
2550 After you rename a page, you are redirected to the new page.
2551 * Syntax colorization supports more languages (Java, C++, Pascal)
2552 * Inline: display of attachments was extended. A Parser now knows which
2553 extensions it can handle.
2554 * TableOfContents and Include macros now cooperate a bit better. There
2555 are still problems with multiple Includes of the same page.
2556 * Excluded actions at bottom of page are not displayed any more.
2557 * Editor: removed the columns size setting, just using 100% of browser
2558 window width (it didn't work because of that anyway). Also removed that
2559 "reduce editor size" link at top of editor as you would lose your
2560 changes when using it.
2561 * Removed the option to choose text smileys instead of images, this made
2562 more trouble than it was worth. The text version is still given in ALT
2564 * Moved stuff from contribution/ to MacroMarket page on MoinMoin wiki
2565 * Some nasty people try to use a running moin as a proxy (at least they
2566 did on moinmaster.wikiwikiweb.de:8000, maybe due to the magic port
2567 number). We changed the code to check for that and just return 403
2568 in that case. Moin can not be used as a proxy anyway.
2569 * moin.cgi?test was removed in favor of a new buildin test
2570 action. It works for all deployments, just use ?action=test.
2571 * Sending mail does use tls if server supports it.
2573 3rd party developer notes
2575 * Themes should be now sub class of MoinMoin.theme.ThemeBase. Sub
2576 classes will get automatically all new improved user interface
2578 * Theme authors should update their theme for 1.3. Some keys removed
2579 from them dict. See ThemeBase class in MoinMoin/theme/__init__.py.
2580 * Actions writers should call request.setContentLangauge with the
2581 correct language used by the action. This enable themes and other
2582 code to use correct direction.
2583 * The Formatter interface was changed. Formatters and parsers using
2584 the formatter interface have to be adjusted.
2585 * started deprecation of Processors: they are still recognized, but
2586 implementors should start to rewrite their Processors as Parsers.
2587 A processor with the same name as a parser in a pre #! section is
2588 currently preferred. This will change in the next release.
2592 * Processors are deprecated, see section above.
2594 * Using the cookie (or the login url with ID) only and not setting (or
2595 setting and not remembering) your email/password in UserPreferences
2596 is DEPRECATED. Those quite unsecure methods will likely be dropped
2597 in next moin version.
2599 * Operating with acl_enabled = 0 is also DEPRECATED. Due to some other
2600 improvements planned, we will have to operate with ACLs enabled ONLY
2601 in a future moin version, so this setting will likely be dropped.
2602 So clean up your user accounts (see moin_usercheck.py) and switch ACLs
2604 There are no drawbacks, so you will like it. Having ACLs enabled
2605 doesn't mean you really have to USE them on wiki pages...
2607 * allow_extended_names = 0 is deprecated (default was/is 1).
2608 Future versions will be able to use extended names (aka free links) in
2609 any case and the config setting will be removed.
2611 * allow_subpages = 0 is deprecated (default was/is 1).
2612 Future versions will be able to use subpages in any case and the config
2613 setting will be removed.
2615 * attachments = {...} - we would like to remove that setting because of
2617 * when not being extremely careful, this can easily lead to security
2618 problems (like when uploading a .php exploit and then executing it
2619 by accessing it directly via web server)
2620 * makes code more complicated - code that we want to change completely
2622 If you need that feature, speak up now and tell us your reasons WHY you
2626 Version 1.2.4 (2004-10-23, Revision 1.187)
2628 This will probably be the last 1.2.x release as we are soon doing release
2629 candidates for 1.3 release (with big internal changes) and are expecting
2630 release 1.3 in december 2004.
2633 * fixed "None" pagename bug in fullsearch/titlesearch
2634 * fixed projection CSS usage
2635 * the compiled page is removed when a page is deleted, so no ghost page
2636 appears after deletion
2637 * fixed AbandonedPages day-break problem
2638 * fixed [[GetVal(WikiDict,key)]]
2639 * the msg box is now outside content div on PageEditor, too
2640 * privacy fix for email notifications: you don't see other email addresses
2641 in To: any more. mail_from is now also used for To: header field, but
2642 we don't really send email to that address.
2643 * privacy fix for /MoinEditorBackup pages that were made on previews of
2644 pages that were not saved in the end
2645 * fix double content div on PageEditor preview
2648 * workaround for broken Microsoft Internet Explorer, the page editor now
2649 stops expanding to the right (e.g. with rightsidebar theme).
2650 Nevertheless it is a very good idea to use a non-broken and more secure
2651 browser like Mozilla, Firefox or Opera!
2653 * from MoinMoin.security.antispam import SecurityPolicy in your
2654 moin_config.py will protect your wiki from at least the known spammers.
2657 * xmlrpc plugin for usage logging, currently used for antispam accesses
2659 * (re-)added configurable meta tags:
2660 * html_head_queries = '''<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow">\n'''
2661 * html_head_posts = '''<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow">\n'''
2662 * html_head_index = '''<meta name="robots" content="index,follow">\n'''
2663 * html_head_normal = '''<meta name="robots" content="index,nofollow">\n'''
2665 * i18n updates/fixes
2667 * New UserPreferences switch:
2668 you may subscribe to trivial changes (when you want to be notified about ALL
2669 changes to pages, even if the author deselected to send notifications).
2671 * New AttachList and AttachInfo macros - thanks to Nigel Metheringham and
2674 Version 1.2.3 (2004-07-21, Revision 1.186)
2677 * fixed NameError "UnpicklingError" in user.py
2678 * fixed version number in moin.spec
2679 * reverts done by bots or leechers
2680 There was a bad, old bug that triggered if you did not use ACLs. In that
2681 case, moin used some simple (but wrong and incomplete) function to
2682 determine what a user (or bot) may do or may not do. The function is now
2683 fixed to allow only read and write to anon users, and only delete and
2684 revert to known users additionally - and disallow everything else.
2685 * avoid creation of unneccessary pages/* directories
2686 * removed double content divs in general info and history info pages
2687 * fixed wiki xmlrpc getPageHTML
2688 * fixed rightsidebar logout URL, also fixed top banner to link to FrontPage
2689 * use config.page_front_page and .page_title_index for robots meta tag
2690 (whether it uses index,follow or index,nofollow), not hardcoded english
2692 * ACL security fix for PageEditor, thanks to Dr. Pleger for reporting
2693 * default options for new users are same as for anon users
2695 Version 1.2.2 (2004-06-06, Revision 1.185)
2699 * own copy of difflib removed
2700 Until moin 1.2.1 we had our own copy of python 2.2.3's difflib coming
2701 with moin. This was to work around some problems with broken older 2.2
2702 python installations. We removed this now because if you have py 2.3,
2703 there is even a better difflib coming with python (and that fixes an
2704 extremely slow diff calculation happening in some rare cases).
2705 So the good news is that when you run python 2.3, you don't need to do
2706 anything and it will run great. If you run python 2.2.3, it will mostly
2707 work good and you also don't need to do anything. The bad news is that
2708 if you run an old and broken 2.2 installation (2.2.1, maybe 2.2.2) you
2709 will have to fix it on your own (just copy difflib.py from python 2.2.3
2710 over to your python 2.2.x installation).
2711 But better upgrade to python 2.3 (for debian woody, there's a backport),
2712 as 2.3 generally runs better and faster than 2.2.
2713 * scripts changed to use #!/usr/bin/env python (not /usr/bin/python2.2)
2715 * user accounts and ACLs:
2716 * we now require the user to specify a password for a new account (you
2717 were not able to login without a password anyway)
2718 * it is not allowed any more to create user accounts with user names
2719 matching config.page_group_regex - please check manually that you do
2720 not already have such users existing (like a user named "AdminGroup"):
2721 cd data/user ; grep name=.*Group * # there should be no output!
2722 * subscription email sending now honours ACLs correctly
2724 * markup / rendering / user interface fixes:
2725 * fixed merging multiple lines indented by the same amount of blanks
2726 * ## comments don't break tables in two parts
2727 * added a "remove bookmark" link to RecentChanges
2728 * fixed action=titleindex (added \n after each entry)
2731 * non-ASCII characters should work now
2732 * RSS feed (Recentchanges?action=rss_rc) gives UTC timestamps now
2733 * removed attribute breaking RSS feed on RecentChanges
2735 * better email generation:
2736 * if you use python >=2.2.2, we add a Message-ID header to emails
2737 * if you use python 2.2.1, there is no email.Header. Instead of crashing
2738 (like previous moin 1.2.x releases), we just use the subject "as is" in
2739 that case. If it is not ASCII, this is not standards compliant.
2740 * If you have >=2.2.2 it will use email.Header to make standards compliant
2742 * use config.mail_from as sender address when sending "lost my password"
2746 * fixed for standalone server
2747 * attachment URLs (when handled by moin) don't include server name
2748 * fixed some wrong &amp; in html src
2750 * better themeability:
2751 * some entries in dict "d" where only present in header theme calls, some
2752 only in footer theme calls. Now almost all is present in both calls.
2753 * added some missing "content" divs so sidebar themes look better
2755 * fixed some crashes producing backtraces:
2756 * no IOError when diffing against deleted page
2757 * no backtrace in xml footnote generation
2758 * no SystemInfo crash when no editlog exists in new wikis
2759 * xmlrpc.getRecentChanges fixed
2761 * MoinMoin.util.filesys.rename is now a wrapper around os.rename that
2762 fixes os.rename on broken win32 api semantics
2765 * saving traffic and load by improved robot meta tag generation:
2766 * "noindex,nofollow" on queries and POSTs
2767 * "index,follow" on FrontPage and TitleIndex (give robots a chance ;))
2768 * "index,nofollow" on all other pages (hopefully saving lots of senseless
2769 requests for page?action=...)
2770 * removed config.html_head_queries (was used for same stuff)
2771 * added russian i18n (utf-8)
2772 * misc. other translation updates / fixes
2773 * added rightsidebar theme
2774 * TitleIndex now folds case, so "APage" and "anotherPage" are both under
2776 * added macro/PageHits.py - it calculates the hits each page gets since
2777 beginning of logging
2780 * Full text and title search do now support multiple search terms -
2781 see HelpOnSearching for details
2783 * The Formatter interface was changed. Formatter and parser using
2784 the formatter interface have to be adjusted.
2786 Version 1.2.1 (2004-03-08, Revision 1.184)
2789 * minimum requirement to run moin 1.2/1.2.1 is python 2.2.2
2790 * not: 2.2(.0), as this does not have True/False
2791 * not: 2.2.1, as this does not have email.Header. You maybe can work
2793 * getting the python 2.2.x (x>=2) /usr/lib/python2.2/email directory
2794 * putting it into directory 'x' (whereever you like)
2795 * doing a sys.path[0:0] = ['x'] in moin.cgi [or other appropriate place]
2796 No guarantee, this is untested.
2797 * Twisted: the http headers missed the charset data, fixed
2798 * mod_python: fixes for mod_python 2.7
2799 * wiki/data/plugin/__init__.py added - fixes not working plugin modules
2800 * plugin processors work now, too
2801 * fixed displaying non-existent translations of SiteNavigation in footer
2802 * fixed zh-tw iso name (wrong zh_tw -> correct zh-tw)
2803 * fixed reversed diffs in RecentChanges RSS
2804 * fixed "last change" info in footer (wasn't updated)
2805 * fixed event.log missing pagename (and other) information
2806 * fixed horizontal line thickness >1
2807 * fixed setup.py running from CVS workdir
2808 * fixed crash when doing action=info on first revision of a page
2809 * fixed hostname truncation in footer
2811 * fixed clear msg links (they missed quoting, leading to strange page
2812 names when you click on some of them)
2813 * fixed python colorizer processor
2814 * fixed quoting of stats cache filenames
2815 * catched "bad marshal data" error when switching python versions
2818 * updated danish (da) i18n
2819 * updated japanese (ja) i18n
2820 * added serbian (sr) i18n
2821 * added chinese (zh) i18n
2822 * added a simple "viewonly" theme based on classic theme - you can use
2823 this as default theme, so anonymous users won't get the usual wiki stuff,
2824 but a far simpler (and less powerful) user interface.
2825 It also displays the navibar at the left side.
2826 * added moin.spec for building RPMs
2827 * included MoinMoin/i18n/* into distribution archive (nice for translators)
2828 * included some stuff under MoinMoin/scripts - xmlrpc-tools and account
2829 checking stuff. removed some version control clutter from the dist
2832 * code colorization was refactored and some new languages (Java, C++,
2833 Pascal) where added.
2834 * inline: display of attachments was extended. A Parser now knows which
2835 extensions it can handle.
2837 Version 1.2 (2004-02-20, Revision 1.183)
2840 * MoinMoin now requires Python >=2.2.2., we recommend to use Python >=2.3.2
2841 (with 2.3.x, MoinMoin runs about 20-30% faster).
2842 * by refactoring request processing, we made it possible to run moin under
2843 persistent environments:
2844 * twisted-web (http://twistedmatrix.com)
2845 * httpdmain.py (use moin.py for starting this mini server)
2848 Of course, CGI is still possible.
2849 * wiki pages will be compiled to bytecode now (by default), so no need for
2850 slow parsing/formatting on every view ("WASP", see caching_formats)
2851 * when using a persistent environment (like twisted) and WASP, you get up
2852 to 20x speed - compared to CGI and moin 1.1
2853 * added support for diffs between arbitrary revisions.
2854 * removed requirement of the external diff utility
2855 * config.auth_http_enabled (defaults to 0) - use this to enable moin
2856 getting your authenticated user name from apache (http basic auth,
2857 htpasswd) - if you enable this, your basic auth username has to be the
2858 same as your wiki username.
2859 Should work with CGI, FCGI and maybe even with mod_python.
2860 Does not change behaviour of moin under twisted or standalone server.
2861 * config.tz_offset = 0.0 sets a default timezone offset (in hours
2863 * config.cookie_lifetime (int, in hours, default 12) sets the lifetime of
2865 == 0 --> cookie will live forever (no matter what user has configured!)
2866 > 0 --> cookie will live for n hours (or forever when "remember_me")
2867 < 0 --> cookie will live for -n hours (forced, ignore "remember_me"!)
2868 * added themeing and some themes (if you improve the existing themes or
2869 make nice new ones, please contribute your stuff!). The default theme is
2870 set by config.theme_default (and defaults to 'classic').
2871 * now supporting plugin directory for parsers, processors, themes, xmlrpc.
2872 * action=info now defaults to showing page revision history again
2873 * all actions accessing the logfile (as RecentChanges or history) are now
2875 * #refresh processing instruction, config.refresh
2876 * config.refresh = (minimum_delay, target_allowed)
2877 * minimum delay is the minimum waiting time (in seconds) allowed
2878 * target_allowed is either 'internal' or 'external', depending on
2879 whether you want to allow only internal redirects or also
2880 external ones. For internal redirects, just use the Wiki pagename,
2881 for external, use http://... url.
2882 * #refresh 3 == refresh this page every 3 seconds
2883 * #refresh 5 FrontPage == internal redirect to FrontPage in 5s
2884 * #refresh 5 http://google.com/ == redirect to google in 5s
2885 Use very carefully! Allowing a low minimum_delay and putting a #refresh
2886 on RecentChanges might slow down your wiki significantly, when some
2887 people just let their browser refresh and refresh again. Also, it does
2888 cause quite some traffic long-term. So better do not use this without
2889 good reason! Default is None (switched off).
2890 * hide most UserPreferences options before user has logged in, less
2891 confusing for new users
2892 * "config.page_dict_regex" defines what pages are dictionary definitions
2893 Currently dictionaries are used for UserHomePage/MyDict where you can
2894 define key:: value pairs that get processed like @DATE@ expansion when
2895 saving a page. The 2 "@" will be added to your keys automatically.
2896 Please do not use @xxx@ strings on the right side (value), results may
2898 You can also access wiki dictionaries by using the internal macro
2899 [[GetVal(page,key)]]" - that will go to page "page" and return the
2900 value (right side) corresponding to "key".
2901 Implementation note: groups are a subset of the dictionary functionality.
2902 * standalone server should work now (see server/moin.py), so you don't
2903 need to setup apache or twisted for a local personal wiki, you only need
2904 python and moin for that now, no additional stuff any more!
2905 * if you run your wiki with charset = "utf-8" (the default is still
2906 iso8859-1), you might want to have a look at contributions/utf8-pages/
2907 to see if there are already translated system pages for your language.
2910 * new importPlugin routine (the old one didn't work correctly)
2911 * removed 0xA0 characters breaking utf-8
2912 * system page recognition now uses wiki groups (see AllSystemPagesGroup),
2913 fixing the long-time broken system page exclusion on TitleIndex.
2914 * mostly HTML 4.01 Strict compliant HTML
2915 * design is done by CSS now, HTML is semantic markup only
2916 * removed target attribute from links, also [^NewWindow] markup - this
2917 is a HTML 3.2 feature and not valid in HTML 4.01
2918 * updated TWikiDrawPlugin to 20021003 version, with further modifications
2919 including source. It can draw imagemaps now and saves PNG. On display a
2920 GIF will be searched if no PNG is found. We recommend changing all GIFs
2921 to indexed PNGs cause this fallback might disappear in later versions.
2923 Sample code using bash and ImageMagick (be sure you know what you do):
2924 for draw in `find /path/to/wiki/data -name \*.draw`; do
2925 file=`dirname $draw`/`basename $draw .draw`
2926 if [ -e "${file}.gif" ]; then
2927 echo "Converting ${file}.gif to ${file}.png"
2928 convert "${file}.gif" "${file}.png"
2932 * fixed email headers and encoding
2933 * Changed moin-usercheck to adhere to scripting standards; no
2934 proprietary config changes needed any more (added --config);
2935 --wikinames is now part of the usage message.
2936 * config.umask now defaults to 0770 - if you give world r/w access, ACLs
2937 could be rather pointless...
2939 Removed config variables:
2940 * external_diff (not needed any more, we have internal diff now)
2941 * shared_metadb (wasn't implemented for long - we will re-add it, when it is)
2942 * title1/2 (please use page_header1/2)
2945 Changed config variables:
2946 * changed_time_fmt (removed some html and brackets around time from default)
2947 * html_head (default is empty string now)
2948 * page_footer1/2 (default is empty string now)
2949 * page_icons (is now a list of icon names, not html any more)
2950 * umask (default is 0770 now, not world r/w any more == more secure)
2952 New config variables (see MoinMaster:HelpOnConfiguration):
2961 * page_license_enabled
2968 * lots of internal code refactoring and optimization
2969 * began moving src code documentation to epydoc, see "make epydoc"
2970 * the URL for the RecentChanges RSS feed changed. It now only works with
2974 * theme support is neither complete (although covering most important
2975 stuff) nor perfect - work on that will continue...
2976 * we removed some html from system messages (the boxes at top of page you
2977 get after some actions), so it currently looks less nice than before.
2978 * html is not completely validating and it is not xhtml - this will be
2979 fixed as soon as we have the infrastructure for that (other parser, DOM)
2980 * problems with rtl (right-to-left) languages, will be fixed in 1.3
2981 * if you change moin_config or switch themes, moin will still use already
2982 cached page content. For the config this can be fixed by touching
2983 MoinMoin/version.py (or simply deleting everything in
2984 data/cache/Page.py). If you get more annoyed by this than pleased by
2985 caching speedup, you can also switch off caching (see docs on
2988 Themeing and HTML/CSS cleanup:
2989 * Browsers with completely broken CSS support (like e.g. Netscape 4.x) are
2990 no longer supported. If you still need to support them, do not upgrade to
2991 moin 1.2. If you still use these browsers, we recommend that you upgrade
2992 your browser first (Mozilla 1.5 has nice and standards compliant HTML and
2993 CSS support and is available as Free Software for Windows, Linux and Mac).
2994 * If you changed any html in code or by config you will have to check if it
2995 still works. For the usual stuff, look into `MoinMoin/theme/classic.py`
2996 and `classic/css/screen.css`. For config defaults of the html fragments,
2997 read `MoinMoin/config.py`. If you want to modify a theme, don't simply
2998 change classic, but copy or subclass it under a new theme name.
2999 * because of the new theme support the layout of the `htdocs` directory
3001 * Instead of using icons under `img/` and css under `css/`, there will
3002 be an additional `themename/` directory in between, e.g. `classic/img/`
3003 and `classic/css/`. If you added own icons, you may have to copy them
3004 to the themes directory.
3005 * The filename of the CSS file has changed to the media type, so the
3006 normal one used for screen output has changed name from `moinmoin.css`
3007 to `screen.css`. There also were quite some changes and enhancements to
3008 the CSS files, so better use the new ones.
3009 * config.css_url was removed
3012 * we use a new plugin loader that requires a correct `__init__.py` file in
3013 the plugin directories. See the directory `wiki/data/plugin/` in the
3014 distribution archive and just copy it over to your wiki's plugin directory.
3017 Version 1.1 (2003-11-29, Revision 1.178)
3019 Version 1.1 requires Python 2.0 or higher, we recommend to use Python 2.2
3020 (version 2.2.2 if that is available on your host) or even better >= 2.3.2
3021 (with 2.3.x, MoinMoin runs about 20-30% faster).
3025 * config.default_lang lets you set a default language for users not
3026 having specified language in their browser or UserPreferences
3027 * "config.page_category_regex" defines what pages are categories
3028 * replaced `config.page_template_ending` by a more flexible setting
3029 named `config.page_template_regex`
3030 * the same with config.page_form_regex (was: page_form_ending)
3031 * "config.page_group_regex" defines what pages are group definitions
3032 Currently groups are used for "user groups" (see ACLs) and "page
3033 groups" (see AllSystemPagesGroup).
3034 * robot exclusion from all pages except the standard view action,
3035 via the config.ua_spiders regex (reduces server load)
3036 * "maxdepth" argument for the TableOfContents macro
3037 * config.title1, config.title2, config.page_footer1,
3038 config.page_footer2 can now be callables and will be called with
3039 the "request" object as a single argument (note that you should
3040 accept any keyword arguments in order to be compatible to future
3042 * "config.html_pagetitle" allows you to set a specific HTML page
3043 title (if not set, it defaults to "config.sitename")
3044 * navi_bar / quicklinks can now contain free-form links, i.e.
3045 entries of the form "[url linktext]" just like in wiki pages
3046 * if a quick link starts with '^', it opens in a new window; help
3047 now opens in a new window also
3048 * `config.smileys` for user-defined smileys (default: `{}`) - a dict
3049 with the markup as the key and a tuple of width, height, border, image
3051 * `config.hosts_deny` to forbid access based on IP address
3052 * `config.mail_login` can be set to username and password separated by
3053 a space, e.g. "username userpass", if you need to use SMTP AUTH
3054 * `config.edit_locking` can be set to None (old behaviour, no
3055 locking), 'warn <timeout mins>' (warn about concurrent edits, but
3056 do not enforce anything), or 'lock <timeout mins>' (strict locking)
3057 * optionally showing a license text on editor page, use:
3058 config.page_license_enabled = 1
3059 Optionally use these to customize what is shown there:
3060 config.page_license_text = "... your text ..."
3061 config.page_license_page = "MyLicensePage"
3062 See the default values in MoinMoin/config.py for details and
3063 override them in moin_config.py, if needed.
3064 * `config.shared_intermap` can be a list of filenames (instead of a
3066 * If you have added your own `SecurityPolicy`, the class interface for
3067 that has changed (see `security.py`).
3069 Authenticaton / Authorization:
3070 * added ACL support, written by Gustavo Niemeyer of Conectiva and
3071 Thomas Waldmann. See HelpOnAccessControlLists for more infos.
3072 You should use MoinMoin/scripts/moin_usercheck.py before activating
3073 ACLs or some users with bad or duplicate accounts might get into
3075 * A user account can be disabled using moin_usercheck.py or
3076 UserPreferences page. Disabling, but keeping it is good for edit
3078 * changed security default: deletion only available to known users
3079 * support for Basic authentication (Apache style: AUTH_TYPE="Basic",
3080 REMOTE_USER="WikiUserName"). If authentication is there, user
3081 will be in ACL class "Trusted".
3082 * support for username / password login
3083 The username / password login will ONLY work, if you define a
3084 password. With an empty password, username / password login is not
3085 allowed due to security reasons. Passwords are stored encrypted
3086 (format similar to Apache SHA) and can also be entered in the
3087 UserPreferences form in this format. When requesting login
3088 information by email, the password is also sent in this encrypted
3089 format (use copy&paste to fill it in the form).
3090 ...?action=userform?uid=<userid> is still possible, so if you have
3091 bookmarks, they will still work). The input field for the ID was
3093 NOTE: using the userid for login purposes is DEPRECATED and might
3094 be removed for better security soon.
3095 * after logging in, you will get a cookie valid until midnight.
3096 The next day, the cookie will expire and you will have to login
3097 again. If you don't want this, you can check the "remember me
3098 forever" option in UserPreferences.
3099 * if the page file is read-only, you get a message (i.e. you can now
3100 protect pages against changes if you're the wiki admin).
3101 Note: you can do that easier using ACLs.
3103 Markup / Macros / Actions:
3104 * RandomQuote macro (and even parses Wiki markup now)
3105 * `[[Navigation]]` macro for slides and subpage navigation
3106 * [[ShowSmileys]] displays ALL smileys, including user-defined ones
3107 * the Include macro has new parameters (from, to, sort, items) and
3108 is able to include more than one page (via a regex pattern)
3109 * `MailTo` macro for adding spam-safe email links to a page
3110 * if a fancy link starts with '^' (i.e. if it has the form
3111 "[^http:... ...]"), it's opened in a new window
3112 * because of that, the NewWindow macro was removed from contrib
3113 * "#pragma section-numbers 2" only displays section numbers for
3114 headings of level 2 and up (similarly for 3 to 6)
3115 * ../SubPageOfParent links
3119 * Page creation shows LikePages that already exist
3120 * editor shows the current size of the page
3121 * editor returns to including page when editing an included page
3122 * Visual indication we're on the editor page (new CSS style)
3123 * selection to add categories to a page in the editor (use preview
3124 button to add more than one category)
3125 * if user has a homepage, a backup of save/preview text is saved as
3126 a subpage UsersHomePage/MoinEditorBackup
3127 * added "revert" link to PageInfo view (which makes DeletePage more
3128 safe in public wikis, since you can easily revive deleted pages
3130 * Selection for logged in users (i.e. no bots) to extend the listing
3131 of recent changes beyond the default limits
3132 * Activated display of context for backlinks search
3133 * Subscriber list shown on page info
3134 * LikePages shows similar pages (using difflib.get_close_matches)
3135 * last edit action is stored into "last-edited" file, and
3136 displayed in the page footer
3137 * reciprocal footnote linking (definition refers back to reference)
3138 * "Ex-/Include system pages" link for title index
3139 Note: system/help pages algorithm is still mostly broken.
3140 * list items set apart by empty lines are now also set apart
3141 visually (by adding the CSS class "gap" to <li>)
3142 * "save" check for security.Permissions
3143 * Added Spanish, Croatian and Danish system texts
3144 * Added flag icons for the languages supported in "i18n"
3145 * updated help and system pages, more translations, see also
3147 * there was quite some work done on wiki xmlrpc v1 and v2 - it
3148 basically works now.
3150 Tools and other changes:
3151 * moin-dump: New option "--page"
3152 * there are some scripts MoinMoin/scripts/* using wiki xmlrpc for
3153 backup and wiki page copying applications
3154 * Updated the XSLT parser to work with 4Suite 1.0a1
3155 * more infos in cgi tracebacks
3156 * UPDATE.html is a HTML version of MoinMaster:HelpOnUpdating
3158 Unfinished or experimental features:
3159 * user defined forms
3160 * XML export of all data in the wiki
3161 * RST parser (you need to install docutils to use this)
3165 * do not use / display user's email address in public places
3168 * Removed two cross-site scripting vulnerabilities reported by "office"
3171 * Bugfix for PageList when no arguments are given
3172 * Disallow full-text searches with too short search terms
3173 * [ 566094 ] TitleIndex now supports grouping by Hangul Syllables
3174 * fix for multibyte first char in TitleIndex
3175 * Footnotes were not HTML escaped
3176 * Numbered code displays are now in a table so that you can cut the
3177 code w/o the numbers
3178 * Bugfix for wrong mail notifications
3179 * Create unique anchors for repeated titles
3180 * [ 522246 ] Transparently recode localized messages
3181 * [ 685003 ] Using "preview" button when editing can lose data
3182 * use gmtime() for time handling
3183 * fixed negative gmtime() arguments
3184 * [[Include]] accepts relative page names
3185 * fixed ||NotInterWiki:||...||
3187 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3188 Version 1.0 (2002-05-10, Revision 1.159)
3190 THIS IS THE LAST RELEASE WITH PYTHON 1.5.2 SUPPORT! If severe bugs
3191 should occur, a maintenance release will fix them.
3193 Some optional features (like statistics) already require Python 2.0.
3196 * security fix: "allow_xslt" has to be set to 1 in order to enable
3197 XSLT processing; note that this defaults to 0 because XSLT is able
3198 to insert arbitrary HTML into a wiki
3199 * "action=content" for transclusion into static web pages; emits the
3200 pure page content, without any <html>, <head>, or <body> tags
3201 * "?action=links&mimetype=text/plain" works like MeatBall:LinkDatabase
3202 * "Preferred language" and "Quick links" user settings
3203 * Added "processor" concept, processors work on the data in "code
3204 displays" and are called by a bangpath in the first line of data
3205 * Processors: Colorize, CSV (see HelpOnProcessors)
3206 * New icons: "{OK}", "(./)", "{X}", "{i}", "{1}", "{2}" and "{}"
3208 * FullSearch now displays context information for search hits
3209 * DeletePage offers a textentry field for an optional comment
3210 * Email notifications are sent in the user's language, if known from
3212 * @PAGE@ is substituted by the name of the current page (useful
3215 Unfinished features:
3216 * user defined forms
3217 * XML export of all data in the wiki
3218 * RST parser (you need to install docutils to use this)
3222 * Syntax warning with Python 2.2 fixed
3223 * Macro-generated pagelinks are no longer added to the list of links
3224 * error codes returned by "diff" are reported
3225 * fix for attachments on pages with non-USASCII names
3226 * correct handling of spaces in attachment filenames and URLs
3228 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3229 Version 0.11 (2002-03-11, Revision 1.151)
3231 Most important new features: file attachments, definition list markup
3232 (glossaries), change notification via email, variable substitution when
3233 saving pages, edit preview, and improved documentation.
3235 Note that the RSS features require a recent PyXML (CVS or 0.7) due to
3236 bugs in the namespace handling of xml.sax.saxutils in earlier versions.
3237 This is (hopefully) automatically detected on every installation.
3239 Statistical features are NOT designed to work with Python 1.5.2 and
3240 require Python 2.0 or higher. Overall, MoinMoin 0.11 is not explicitely
3241 tested for 1.5.2 compatibility.
3244 * XML formatting now (most often) produces well-formed, and, depending
3245 on proper layout of the wiki page, valid StyleBook XML
3246 * Headers are now automatically numbered, unless you set the config
3247 item 'show_section_numbers' to 0
3248 * "#pragma section-numbers off" (or "0") switches that off explicitely,
3249 and "on" or "1" enables numbering
3250 * Added a "contributions" directory for 3rd party extensions
3251 * AttachFile action, contributed by Ken Sugino; note that you have
3252 to enable this action because of the possibility of DoS attacks
3253 (malicious uploads), by adding this to your moin_config:
3254 allowed_actions = ['AttachFile']
3255 * "attachment:" URL scheme allows access to attachments, to get files
3256 from other pages use "attachment:WikiName/filename.ext".
3257 * New macros: Date(unixtimestamp) and DateTime(unixtimestamp) to
3258 display a timestamp according to system/user settings
3259 * Variable substitution when a page is saved, note that saving
3260 template pages does NOT expand variables. Supported are:
3261 @DATE@ Current date in the system's format
3262 @TIME@ Current date and time in the user's format
3263 @USERNAME@ Just the user's name (or his domain/IP)
3264 @USER@ Signature "-- loginname"
3265 @SIG@ Dated Signature "-- loginname date time"
3266 @MAILTO@ A fancy mailto: link with the user's data
3267 * Copied some new emoticons from PikiePikie
3268 || {{{ :-? }}} || :-? || tongue.gif ||
3269 || {{{ :\ }}} || :\ || ohwell.gif ||
3270 || {{{ >:> }}} || >:> || devil.gif ||
3271 || {{{ %) }}} || %) || eyes.gif ||
3272 || {{{ @) }}} || @) || eek.gif ||
3273 || {{{ |) }}} || |) || tired.gif ||
3274 || {{{ ;)) }}} || ;)) || lol.gif ||
3275 * AbandonedPages macro
3276 * Added definition list markup: {{{<whitespace>term:: definition}}}
3277 * Added email notification features contributed by Daniel Sa� * SystemInfo: show "Entries in edit log"
3278 * Added "RSS" icon to RecentChanges macro and code to generate a
3279 RecentChanges RSS channel, see
3280 http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?UnifiedRecentChanges
3282 * Added config.sitename and config.interwikiname parameter
3283 * Better WikiFarm support:
3284 * <datadir>/plugin/macro and <datadir>/plugin/action can be used
3285 to store macros and actions local to a specific wiki instance
3286 * config.shared_intermap can contain a pathname to a shared
3287 "intermap.txt" file (i.e. one stored outside the datadir)
3288 * added `backtick` shortcut for {{{inline literal}}} (has to be
3289 enabled by "backtick_meta=1" in the config file); note that ``
3290 is then a shorter replacement for '''''' escaping
3291 * added inline search fields (at the bottom of each page)
3292 * Added preview to the editor, including spell checking
3293 * New languages: Chinese (Changzhe Han) and Portuguese (Jorge
3294 Godoy), updated French (Lucas Bruand), added Korean (Hye-Shik
3295 Chang) and Italian (Lele Gaifax)
3296 * New SystemAdmin macro
3297 * `[[Anchor(anchorname)]]` macro to insert anchors into a page,
3298 and [#anchorname Anchor Links].
3299 * User option to open editor view via a double-click
3300 * Added commentary field to editor, recent changes and page info
3301 * Page trails (user option)
3302 * UserPreferences: checkboxes for double-click edit, page trail,
3303 fancy links, emoticons, jump to last page visited, and some
3304 other yes/no options
3305 * "config.nonexist_qm" is now the default for a user setting
3306 * `[[GetText(text)]]` macro loads I18N texts (mainly intended
3307 for use on Help pages)
3308 * table attributes via "||<attrlist> ... ||", more details on
3309 http://purl.net/wiki/moin/HelpOnTables
3310 * PythonFaq interwiki tag and support for $PAGE placeholder
3311 * event logging, as the basis for future statistics
3312 * "moin-dump" command line tool to create a static copy of
3314 * "config.external_diff" allows to set an exact path to the
3315 command, or change the name to for example "gdiff" if GNU
3316 diff is not a native command in your UNIX flavour
3317 * `[[PageSize]]` macro
3318 * the interwiki name "Self" now always points to the own wiki
3319 * config.title1 and config.title2 are inserted into the output
3320 right before and after the system title html code (title1
3321 is right after the <body> tag and normally undefined, title2
3322 defaults to the "<hr>" above the page contents)
3323 * Additional link on diff pages to ignore whitespace changes
3324 * Subpages (config.allow_subpages, config.page_icons_up)
3325 * super^script^, sub,,script,, and __underline__ markup
3326 * `[[FootNote]]` macro
3327 * many other new config options, see HelpOnConfiguration for
3329 * [[StatsChart(type)]] shows statistical charts (currently
3330 defined types: hitcounts, pagesize, useragents)
3331 * 'inline:' scheme works like 'attachment:', but tries to
3332 inline the content of the attachment into the page;
3333 currently knows about "*.py" sources and colorizes them
3334 * support for Java applet "TWikiDrawPlugin" via
3335 drawing:<drawingname> URL scheme (you need to activate
3336 the AttachFile action if you want drawings)
3337 * numeric entities (&#nnnnn;) are now optionally NOT escaped,
3338 which allows you to insert more characters into a Latin-1
3339 page, especially the Euro symbol
3340 * navi_bar is now a list of page names which should be linked
3342 * test.cgi is now rolled into moin.cgi, and can be called
3343 by adding "?test" to the wiki base URL. Also, as a security
3344 feature, the server's environment is only shown for requests
3345 local to the web server.
3347 Unfinished features:
3348 * user defined forms
3349 * XML export of all data in the wiki
3352 * extended the online help ("Help*" pages)
3353 * German help pages (thanks to Thomas Waldmann)
3356 * #425857: python Parser bug on the second call
3357 * #424917: Caching control
3358 * #465499: Two HTTPS problems
3359 * #491155: FrontPage hardcoded
3360 * Handling of inbound UTF-8 encoded URIs (only with Python >= 2.0)
3361 * Fix for subtle changes in "re" of Python 2.2
3362 * User-provided URLs are now never URL-escaped, which allows appending
3363 #anchors and using %20 for spaces in InterWiki links
3365 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3366 Version 0.10 (2001-10-28, Revision 1.134)
3368 This version is still Python 1.5.2 compatible, but it's not extensively
3369 tested for that version and some parts of the system might not work
3370 there, especially seldom used macros and actions. Bug reports welcome!
3373 * "#deprecated" processing instruction
3374 * config entry "SecurityPolicy" to allow for customized permissions
3375 (see "security.py" for more)
3376 * added distutils support
3377 * though not extensively tested, the standalone server now does POST
3378 requests, i.e. you can save pages; there are still problems with
3379 persistent global variables! It only works for Python >= 2.0.
3380 * "bang_meta" config variable and "!NotWikiWord" markup
3381 * "url_mappings" config variable to dynamically change URL prefixes
3382 (especially useful in intranets, when whole trees of externally
3383 hosted documents move around)
3384 * setting "mail_smarthost" and "mail_from" activates mailing
3385 features (sending login data on the UserPreferences page)
3386 * very useful for intranet developer wikis, a means to view pydoc
3387 documentation, formatted via a XSLT stylesheet, for details see
3388 http://purl.net/wiki/python/TeudViewer?module=MoinMoin.macro.TeudView
3389 or MoinMoin/macro/TeudView.py
3390 * "LocalSiteMap" action by Steve Howell <showell@zipcon.com>
3391 * Added FOLDOC to intermap.txt
3394 * Full config defaults, import MoinMoin now works w/o moin_config.py
3395 * Better control over permissions with config.umask
3396 * Bugfix for a UNIX time billenium bug (affecting RecentChanges
3397 sorting and page diffs)
3398 * data paths with directory names containing dots caused problems
3400 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3401 Version 0.9 (2001-05-07)
3404 * XML page input (pages that start with "<?xml") and XSLT formatting
3405 * Page caching, for now limited to XSLT processing (where it's
3406 absolutely needed); new code & API to add the "RefreshCache" link
3407 * Selection of common date/time formats in UserPreferences
3408 * New action "titleindex" to support wiki introspection (MetaWiki);
3409 see the new links below the index bar in "TitleIndex"
3410 * UserPreferences: editable CSS URL for personal styles
3411 * PageInfo: the editor's name or IP is shown for each change
3412 * WantedPages: a new macro that lists links to non-existent pages
3413 * OrphanedPages: a new macro that lists pages no other page links to
3414 * Extensions to the FullSearch macro (see HelpOnMacros)
3415 * Python syntax highlighting
3416 * "DeletePage" action (has to be activated, see MoinMoinFaq)
3417 * "Remove trailing whitespace from each line" option in the editor
3418 * I18N (currently German and Swedish)
3419 * Config option "url_schemas" to extend the supported URL types
3420 * Improved tracebacks by using Ka-Ping's "cgitb"
3423 * The editor now sends a "no-cache" HTTP header
3424 * "PageList" results are now sorted
3425 * New config parameter "html_head_queries": send additional header
3426 for all pages EXCEPT the "normal" view; main usage is to have
3427 only the normal pages indexed by a spider, not the edit, print,
3428 etc. views (which cause multiple hits on the same information)
3429 * Store the modification time of the page file in the editlog, not
3430 the current time when the log entry is created
3432 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3433 Version 0.8 (2001-01-23)
3436 * Page templates (create a new page using a template page, by Richard)
3437 * Pluggable actions (by Richard)
3438 * Added "diff since bookmark"
3439 * Only "normal" URLs (outside of brackets) are converted to inline images
3440 * Show number of backups in SystemInfo macro
3441 * Show info on installed extension macros and actions
3442 * New macro: [[BR]] for line breaks
3443 * New action "LikePages" (again, Richard)
3444 * Highlighting of search results, and of bad words when spellchecking
3445 * Support for "file:" URLS
3446 * "SpellCheck" action (Richard, me, and Christian)
3447 * [[Include]] macro (you guessed it, Richard)
3450 * Update bookmark with load time, not click time
3451 * Changed CSS styles to better suit Netscape's broken handling of CSS
3453 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3454 Version 0.7 (2000-12-06)
3457 * RecentChanges bookmarking
3461 * Non-greedy extended WikiNames
3463 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3464 Version 0.6 (2000-12-04)
3467 * [[UserPreferences]] macro and associated functions
3468 * [[TableOfContents]] macro
3469 * Mechanism for external macros (user extensions)
3470 * Numbered list types and start offsets
3473 * Search dialogs did not work on the FrontPage
3474 * Add newline to text if last line has none (better diffs)
3476 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3477 Version 0.5 (2000-11-17)
3480 * Major refactoring: code is now broken up into modules within the
3482 * Diagnosis of installation via a "test.cgi" script
3484 * "#format" processing instruction
3486 * [[RandomPage]] and [[RandomPage(number)]] macro
3487 * configurable footer ("page_footer1" and "page_footer2")
3488 * "#redirect" processing instruction
3491 * Bugfix for broken CGI environment of IIS/4.0
3492 * URLs and InterWiki links are now less greedy (punctuation at the end
3493 is excluded, and "<" ends them, too)
3495 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3496 Version 0.4 (2000-11-01)
3499 * Table markup "||a||b||c||"
3500 * Headlines "= H1 =", "== H2 ==", and so on up to H5
3501 * [[PageCount]] macro
3502 * Added [[Icon(image)]] macro and macro arguments
3503 * [[PageList(title-regex)]] macro
3504 * New help system (set of help pages describing all features)
3507 * Create complete URL for "Clear message" link
3508 * Inline code spans needed cgi.escape
3509 * Better fix for Python 1.6 "re" problems
3510 * Fix for uppercase extensions in inline images ("foo.JPG")
3511 * Fixed colspan in RecentChanges
3512 * HR size is now limited to 8
3513 * "}" ends an URL pattern (fixes URLs right at the end of code displays)
3515 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3516 Version 0.3 (2000-10-25)
3519 * Check for inline images with InterWiki links (Spam:eggs.gif)
3520 * New config variable "allow_extended_names", which enables markup for
3521 wiki names containing ANY character like this: ["any chars"]
3522 * New config variable "html_head"
3523 * New macro [[SystemInfo]]
3524 * Added inline code ("{{{" and "}}}" on the same line)
3525 * Support for new config variable "max_macro_size"
3528 * Don't treat sequences with a double colon (CPP::Namespace) as an
3530 * The local part of InterWiki links is now correctly URL-escaped
3531 * Quickfix for a bug in 1.6's regular expressions
3532 * Fixed "SpamSpamSpam" bug (multiple entries in word list)
3533 * Anchor names get quoted in WordIndex and TitleIndex
3534 * Filtering of filenames in page_list() corrected
3535 * Escape &, <, > when sending the editor
3536 * Final(?) fix for japanese wiki names
3538 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3539 Version 0.2 (2000-08-26)
3542 * When saving, a datestamp saved in the form and that of the file are
3543 compared now; so, accidently saving over changes of other people is
3544 not possible anymore (saving still needs file locking though, for
3546 * if the directory "backup" exists in the data dir, pages are saved
3547 there before a new version is written to disk
3548 * Removed the "Reset" button from EditPage
3549 * Added "Reduce editor size" link
3550 * Added Latin-1 WikiNames (JürgenHermann ;)
3551 * Speeded up RecentChanges by looking up hostnames ONCE while saving
3552 * Show at most 14 (distinct) days in RecentChanges
3553 * Added icons for common functions, at the top of the page
3554 * Added a printing preview (no icons, etc.)
3555 * Added bracketed (external) URLs
3556 * Added support for quoted URLs ("http://...")
3557 * Added styles for :visited links to CSS
3558 * Embed image if an URL ends in .gif/.jpg/.png
3559 * No markup detection in code sections
3560 * Grey background for code sections
3561 * Added handling for numbered lists
3562 * the edit textarea now grows in width with the browser window
3563 (thanks to Sebastian Dau�for that idea)
3564 * Added page info (revision history) and viewing of old revisions
3565 * Added page diff, and diff links on page info
3566 * Added InterWiki support (use "wiki:WikiServer/theirlocalname"; the list
3567 of WikiServers is read from "data/intermap.txt")
3568 * Added "normal" InterWiki links
3569 * Added "action=raw" to send the raw wiki markup as text/plain (e.g. for
3570 backup purposes via wget)
3573 * Removed an exception when saving empty pages
3574 * Fixed bold nested into emphasis ('''''Bold''' Italic'')
3576 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3577 Version 0.1 (2000-07-29)
3579 Improvements over PikiPiki 1.62:
3580 * Moved configuration to "moin_config.py"
3581 * Added "edit_rows" setting
3582 * Added navigation bar
3583 * Improved HTML formatting
3584 * Added timing comment (page created in xx secs)
3585 * ISO date and time formats by default
3586 * Formatted RecentChanges with HTML tables
3587 * Uppercase letters for the index pages
3588 * Added PythonPowered logo
3591 * Javadoc comments now get formatted properly in {{{ }}} sections
3592 * Remove \r from submitted pages (so we get PORTABLE wiki files)
3593 * chmod(0666) eases manual changes to the data dir
3595 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------