1 MoinMoin Documentation Overview
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4 docs/INSTALL.html: generic instructions about installing MoinMoin
6 docs/UPDATE.html: generic instructions about updating MoinMoin
8 docs/README.migration: migration procedure for your data_dir
10 docs/CHANGES (this file): please completely read it until you reach the version
11 you were using until now - otherwise you might miss
12 some important upgrading and configuration hints.
13 Starting with 1.5.3, update installation hints are
14 marked with HINT. They assume you are upgrading from
15 the last release version before (e.g. from 1.5.2 to
19 MoinMoin Version History
20 ========================
23 already better than the previous stable release. Our release policy is not
24 trying to make a "perfect release" (as that release might NEVER get released),
25 but to make progress and don't delay releases too much.
29 * The GUI WYSIWYG editor has still some issues and limitations.
30 If you can't live with those, you can simply switch it off by using:
32 editor_default = 'text' # internal default, just for completeness
37 * Search results: link to 'view' rendering of found attachments.
38 * Fixed moin server standalone argument processing for --interface="".
39 * mointwisted: fixed Twisted start script.
40 * Fix dbw_hide_buttons javascript.
42 * Use logging framework for messages emitted by warnings module (e.g.
43 DeprecationWarning), silence some specific warnings.
44 * Removed superfluous linefeeds in timing log output.
49 * Jabber bot can now be configured to use an authentication realm which
50 is different from the server's hostname; the xmpp_node configuration
51 parameter can now contain a full JID and the xmpp_resource parameter
52 is no longer supported.
53 * Added translation to the password checker result messages.
55 * diff action: make output valid html 4.01
56 * Fixed editbar hidden comment link cosmetics for sidebar themes (hide the
57 complete list element).
58 * Standalone server: fix serverClass argument processing, announce used
59 serverClass in log output.
62 * Speed up javascript comments processing on IE by getElementsByClassName()
67 * GUI Editor - fixed bugs:
68 * Create shorter output for colors (better roundtripping).
69 * Fixed heading level roundtripping.
70 * Handle th in the same way as td (instead of giving traceback due to
73 attachment links with &do=get param (q&d fix)
75 of free interwiki links)
79 unsupported elements, do not traceback for these)
81 action, if the wiki does not run in the root url of the site)
82 * Fixed a Python2.3 incompatibility (base64.b64decode).
83 * Fixed backup action configuration (broke on win32).
84 * Added link icon for ssh: links.
86 * Increased padding-left for correct rendering of bigger icons on MS IE.
87 * Changed some modernized images to always get the same white background
94 * New "modernized" theme.
96 * upgraded to use FCKEditor version 2.6.3 (current version)
97 * user can insert and modify various types of MoinMoin links
98 * New plugin_dirs setting to allow multiple plugin paths (additional to
99 the automatically configured plugin_dir [default: data_dir/plugin]).
100 * @EMAIL@ expands to a MailTo macro call with the obfuscated email address
102 * New macros "WikiConfig" and "WikiConfigHelp".
103 * Per-parser quickhelp, 'quickhelp' class variable of parser class.
104 * Secure session cookies for https (see cfg.cookie_secure).
107 * GUI Editor - fixed bugs:
145 * url_prefix setting (use url_prefix_static or just use the default)
146 * traceback_log_dir setting (we just use logging.exception)
147 * editor_quickhelp setting (replaced by per-parser quickhelp)
148 * Restoring backups with the backup action and related settings (while
149 creating backups is no big issue and should work OK, restoring them
150 had fundamental issues related to overwriting or not-overwriting of
151 existing files - thus we removed the "restore" part of the action and
152 recommend that you just contact the wiki server admin in case of trouble,
153 give him your wiki backup file and let him carefully restore it.)
154 * Removed unmaintained DesktopEdition (moin 1.5.x style) and phpwiki
155 migration scripts from contrib/ directory.
158 * user_autocreate setting was removed from wiki configuration and replaced
159 by a autocreate=<boolean> parameter of the auth objects that support user
160 profile auto creation.
161 * backup action: backup_exclude (default: "do not exclude anything") is now
162 a function f(filename) that tells whether a file should be excluded from
164 You can get the old regex exclusion functionality by using:
165 backup_exclude = re.compile(your_regex).search
166 Be careful with your regex, you might need to use re.escape() to escape
167 characters that have a special meaning in regexes (e.g.: \.[] etc.).
168 If in doubt, maybe just leave backup_exclude at the default and don't
173 * Fix leakage of edit-log file handles (leaked 1 file handle / request!).
175 * Wiki parser: avoid IndexError for empty #! line
176 * MonthCalendar macro: fix parameter parsing / url generation
177 * Xapian indexing filters (MoinMoin/filter/ or data/plugin/filter/):
178 Some indexing filter scripts (e.g. for MS Word documents or PDF files)
179 failed on windows because of the single-quote quoting we used (that
180 works on Linux and other Posix systems). The fix introduces platform-
181 dependant automatic quoting, using double-quotes on win32 and single-
183 HINT: if you use own filter plugins based on execfilter, you have to
184 update them as the filename quoting (was '%s') is now done automatically
185 and must not be part of the command string any more (now just use %s).
186 See MoinMoin/filter/ for some up-to-date code (esp. the PDF filter).
187 * Prevent CategoryTemplate being listed as a category (it is a Template,
188 but matched also the category regex) - added to sample wikiconfig.
189 * LDAP auth: fix processing of TLS options
190 * UpdateGroup xmlrpc server side: fix wrong arg count error
191 * UpdateGroup client: use multicall / auth_token, refactor code so that
192 updateGroup function is reusable.
193 * Improve Python 2.3 compatibility, add notes where 2.4 is required.
198 * New 'cache' action (see developer notes).
201 * Security fix: XSS fix for advanced search form
202 * Avoid creation of new pagedirs with empty edit-log files by just
203 accessing a non-existant page. If you used 1.7 before, you likely have
204 quite some trash pagedirs now and you can clean them up by using:
205 moin --config-dir=... --wiki-url=... maint cleanpage
206 This will output some shell script (please review it before running!)
207 that can be used to move trash pages into some trash/ directory and also
208 moves deleted pages into some deleted/ directory. Maybe keep a copy of
209 those directories for a while just for the case.
210 * Server specific fixes:
211 * standalone (wikiserver.py): fix --pidfile and --group option, fix
212 operation without a wikiserverconfig.py (use builtin defaults).
213 * mod_python: work around mod_python 3.3.1 problems with file uploads.
214 Note: if you are still using mod_python, we strongly recommend you
215 try out mod_wsgi (in daemon mode) - it has less bugs, better
216 security, better separation, WSGI is a Python standard, and moin
217 developers also use WSGI. See HelpOnInstalling/ApacheWithModWSGI.
218 * revert action: fixed for deleted pages.
220 * Xapian indexing: Removed crappy "hostname" tokenization.
222 Also tokenize CamelCase parts of non-wikiwords.
223 * Make query parser reject more invalid input.
224 * If query parsing raises a BracketError, at least tell what the problem
225 is (and not just raise empty ValueError).
226 * Category search: ignore traling whitespace after ----
228 * Fixed sort() usage in UnitArgument to be Python 2.3 compatible.
231 * TableOfContents: skip outer-most <ol> levels when page isn't using
235 * OpenID RP: make it compatible to python-openid 2.2.x
236 * PackagePages.collectpackage: removed encoding from file name of zipfile
237 * Surge protection: exclude localnet no matter whether user is known or not.
239 * Script moin account create/disable/resetpw: checks for already existing
243 * Prevent CategoryTemplate being listed as a category (it is a Template)
244 by changing the default page_category_regex.
247 * New MoinMoin.action.cache - can be used to cache expensively rendered
248 output, e.g. generated images). Once put into the cache, moin can emit
249 a http response for that content very fast and very efficient (including
250 "304 not changed" handling.
251 * New file-like API in MoinMoin.caching (good for dealing with medium
252 to large files without consuming lots of memory).
253 * wikiutil.importPlugin supports getting the whole plugin module object
254 by giving function=None.
258 Note: This is a reduced CHANGES, ommitting details from rc/beta test and
259 also less interesting minor changes and fixes. It shows changes
260 relative to 1.6.3 release.
261 If you want to see full detail, read it there:
262 http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/1.7/file/76265568e8d3/docs/CHANGES
264 New Features: ==============================================================
265 * HINT: we added generic UPDATE instructions as docs/UPDATE.html.
267 * HINT: Standalone server usage changed:
268 * Standalone server can now be started via the "moin" script command,
269 optionally backgrounding itself.
270 See: moin server standalone --help
271 * In the toplevel dir, we have renamed moin.py to wikiserver.py (it was
272 often confused with the moin scripting command).
274 * wikiserver.py - to start the standalone server
275 * wikiserverconfig.py - to configure the standalone server
276 * wikiserverlogging.conf - to configure logging for it (default config
277 is ok for all day use, but can easily be modified for debugging)
278 * wikiconfig.py - to configure the wiki engine
279 * Removed old moin daemonizing script (replaced by moin server standalone
281 * We now provide the "moin" script command also for people not using
282 setup.py, see wiki/server/moin.
285 * New powerful and flexible logging, please see wiki/config/logging/ -
286 HINT: you have to upgrade your server adaptor script (e.g. moin.cgi)
287 and load a logging configuration that fits your needs from there, or
288 alternatively you can also set MOINLOGGINGCONF environment variable
289 to point at your logging config file.
290 If you use some of our sample logging configs, make sure you have a
291 look INTO them to fix e.g. the path of the logfile it will use.
292 * Moin now logs the path from where it loaded its configuration(s).
294 * Authentication / Sessions:
295 * HINT: New authentication plugin system, see HelpOnAuthentication. If
296 you do not use the builtin default for 'auth' list, you likely have to
297 change your configuration. See wiki/config/snippets/ for some samples.
298 * HINT: New session handling system (no moin_session any more, now done
299 internally and automatically), see HelpOnSessions for details.
300 * Added OpenID client and server support.
301 See: HelpOnAuthentication and HelpOnOpenIDProvider.
302 * cfg.trusted_auth_methods is a list of auth methods that put an
303 authenticated user into the "Trusted" ACL group.
305 * User profiles / password recovery / notification:
306 * New newacount action for creating new user accounts/profiles. If you
307 don't want users creating new accounts on their own, you can add this
308 action to actions_excluded list.
309 * New recoverpass action for password recovery:
310 If you forgot your password, recoverpass sends you an email with a
311 password recovery token (NOT the encrypted password) that is valid
313 * New moin account resetpw script for resetting a user's password by
315 * New preferences plugin system, see MoinMoin/userprefs/__init__.py.
316 * New notification system with an optional jabber notification bot, see
317 HelpOnNotification. HINT: wiki users have to check their notification
318 settings, esp. if they want to receive trivial update notifications.
320 * The diff action now has navigation buttons for prev/next change and also
321 a revert button to revert to the revision shown below the diff display.
322 * ThemeBase: support Universal Edit Button, see there for details:
323 http://universaleditbutton.org/
324 * ?action=info&max_count=42 - show the last 42 history entries of the page.
325 max_count has a default of default_count and a upper limit of
326 limit_max_count - you can configure both in your wiki config:
327 cfg.history_count = (100, 200) # (default_count, limit_max_count) default
328 * The CSV parser can sniff the delimiter from the first CSV line so other
329 delimeters than ";" can be used.
330 * Admonition support. Added styling for tip, note, important, warning
331 and caution in the modern theme. For more info see HelpOnAdmonitions.
333 * supports HTML entities like → and ☃
334 * supports the FootNote macro
335 * supports bulletless lists
336 * support for admonitions
337 * will export the wiki page's edit history as the generated article's
338 revision history. Doesn't add history of included pages.
339 * supports for the MoinMoin comment element, though only inline comments
340 are likely to be valid since the DocBook remark is an inline element.
341 * New Hits macro: shows the total hits for the page it is used on.
343 Removed Features: ==========================================================
344 * HINT: Removed attachments direct serving (cfg.attachments - this was
345 deprecated since long!). Use AttachFile action to serve attachments.
346 * Duplicated file attachment upload code was removed from Load action (just
347 use AttachFile action to deal with attachments).
348 * Removed 'test' action. If you like to run unit tests, use py.test.
349 * Removed Login macro.
351 Bug Fixes: =================================================================
352 * Better handling of ImportErrors (farmconfig, macros, wikiserverconfig).
353 * Fix failure of detection of on-disk cache updates.
354 * Fix traceback in filesys.py on Mac OS X when "import Carbon" fails.
356 * AttachFile action / file up- and download / zip support:
357 * WSGI: use wsgi.file_wrapper (or a builtin simple wrapper). Fixes memory
358 consumption for sending of large file attachments.
359 * FastCGI: flush often. Fixes memory consumption for sending of large
361 * Use the open temporary file for receiving file attachment uploads
362 (fixes big memory consumption for large file uploads).
363 * Catch runtime errors raised by zipfile stdlib modules when trying to
364 process a defective zip.
365 * When unzipping member files, decode their filenames from utf-8 and
366 replace invalid chars.
367 * Make error msg less confusing when trying to overwrite a file attachment
368 without having 'delete' rights.
370 * HINT: page_*_regex processing had to be changed to fix category search.
371 If you don't use the builtin (english) defaults, you will have to change
373 old (default): page_category_regex = u'^Category[A-Z]'
374 new (default): page_category_regex = ur'(?P<all>Category(?P<key>\S+))'
375 As you see, the old regex did work for detecting whether a pagename is
376 a category, but it could not be used to search for a category tag in the
377 page text. The new regex can be used for both and identifies the complete
378 category tag (match in group 'all', e.g. "CategoryFoo") as well as the
379 category key (match in group 'key', e.g. "Foo") by using named regex
380 groups. \S+ means the category key can be anything non-blank.
381 If you like to simultaneously support multiple languages, use something
382 like this: ur'(?P<all>(Kategorie|Category)(?P<key>\S+))'
384 * Xapian search / indexing / stemming:
385 * Use text/<format> as mimetype for pages.
386 * Index also major and minor for mimetypes, so it will find 'text' or
387 'plain' as well as 'text/plain'
388 * Fix searching for negative terms.
389 * Improve result list ordering.
390 * Index filters: redirect stderr to logging system.
391 * Remove crappy num regex from WikiAnalyzer, improve tokenization.
392 * Fix AttributeError that happened when trying to access an attribute only
393 used with xapian search (but regex search is not done by xapian)
394 * Fix IndexErrors happening when pages are renamed/nuked after the index
396 * Fixed indexing of WikiWords (index "WikiWords", "Wiki" and "Words").
397 * Fix crash if default language is un-stemmable.
398 * xapian_stemming: removed some strange code (fixes search
399 title:lowercaseword with xapian_stemming enabled)
400 * Fixed category indexing (index CategoryFoo correctly as CategoryFoo, not
401 Foo - for all languages, see page_*_regex change above).
402 * Builtin search: support mimetype: search for pages for the builtin search
403 engine (using text/<format>).
406 * Wiki: fix subscript parsing (was broken for cases like 'a,,1,2,,').
407 * Docbook: fixed detection of WikiWords.
408 * All: Add ssh protocol to url_schemas for ssh:... URLs.
411 * Fix xmlrpc request.read() call to use content-length, if available,
412 fixes hangs with wsgiref server.
413 * Wiki xmlrpc getPageInfoVersion() fixed:
414 * works correctly now for old page versions (was unsupported)
415 * works correctly now for current page version (reported wrong
416 data when a page had attachment uploads after the last page
418 * returns a Fault if it did not find a edit-log entry
420 Other Changes: =============================================================
421 * Using better ACLs and comments on system/help pages now, just taking
422 away 'write' permission, but using default ACLs for everything else.
423 * HINT: If you want to use xapian based indexed search, you need to have
424 Xapian >= 1.0.0 (and you can remove PyStemmer in case you have installed
425 it just for moin - we now use the stemmer built into Xapian as it
426 supports utf-8 since 1.0.0).
427 * Changed default value of cfg.search_results_per_page to 25.
428 * Surge Protection: If a user is authenticated by a trusted authentication
429 (see also cfg.auth_methods_trusted) then he/she won't trigger surge
430 protection, but moin will just log a INFO level log msg with the user's
431 name so you can find the culprit in case he/she is overusing ressources.
432 * HINT: Added MyPages and CopyPage to actions_excluded because MyPages
433 doesn't work without special SecurityPolicy anyway and CopyPage has
434 questionable behaviour.
435 * Load action now just creates a new revision of the target page, the
436 target pagename defaults to the current page name and can be edited.
437 If the target pagename is empty, moin tries to derive the target pagename
438 from the uploaded file's name.
439 Load tries to decode the file contents first using utf-8 coding and, if
440 that fails, it forces decoding using iso-8859-1 coding (and replacing
442 * HINT: cfg.show_login is gone, see code in theme/__init__.py, this may
444 * HINT: a new userprefs/ plugin directory will be created by the usual
445 "moin migration data" command.
447 * generates a valid DOCTYPE
448 * table support has been improved
449 * handling of definitions and glossaries is more robust
450 * supports program language and line numbering in code areas
451 * HINT: ldap_login behaves a bit different now:
452 In previous moin versions, ldap_login tended to either successfully
453 authenticate a user or to completely cancel the whole login process in
454 any other case (including ldap server down or exceptions happening).
455 This made subsequent auth list entries rather pointless.
456 Now it behaves like this:
457 * user not found in LDAP -> give subsequent auth list entries a
458 chance to authenticate the user (same happens if it finds multiple
459 LDAP entries when searching - it logs an additional warning then).
460 * user found, but wrong password -> cancel login
461 * ldap server not reachable or other exceptions -> give subsequent
462 auth list entries a chance
463 So please make sure that you really trust every auth list entry you have
464 configured when upgrading or it might maybe change behaviour in a
465 unexpected or unwanted way.
466 * ldap_login now supports failover: if it can't contact your LDAP server
467 (e.g. because it is down or unreachable), it will just continue and
468 try to authenticate with other authenticators (if there are any in
469 cfg.auth list). So if you have some mirroring LDAP backup server, just
470 put another authenticator querying it there:
471 ldap_auth1 = LDAPAuth(server_uri='ldap://mainserver', ...)
472 ldap_auth2 = LDAPAuth(server_uri='ldap://backupserver', ...)
473 auth = [ldap_auth1, ldap_auth2, ]
475 Developer notes: ===========================================================
476 * Page.last_edit() is DEPRECATED, please use Page.edit_info().
477 * Page._last_edited() is GONE (was broken anyway), please use
478 Page.editlog_entry().
479 * New request.send_file() call, making it possible to use server-specific
481 * getText's (aka _()) 'formatted' keyword param (default: True in 1.6 and
482 early 1.7) was renamed/changed: it is now called 'wiki' and defaults to
483 False. Example calls:
484 _('This will NOT get parsed/formatted by MoinMoin!')
485 _('This will be parsed/formatted by MoinMoin!', wiki=True)
486 _('This will be used as a left side of percent operator. %s',
487 wiki=True, percent=True)
488 * Page.url 'relative' keyword param (default: True in 1.6 and early 1.7)
489 was changed to default False).
490 * The themedict no longer contains 'page_user_prefs' and 'user_prefs',
491 this may affect custom themes.
492 * The rst-parser's admonition class names are no longer prepended with
493 "admonition_". Instead the class names are now for example "note"
494 and not "admonition_note".
499 * Security fix: a check in the user form processing was not working as
500 expected, leading to a major ACL and superuser priviledge escalation
501 problem. If you use ACL entries other than "Known:" or "All:" and/or
502 a non-empty superuser list, you need to urgently install this upgrade.
503 * Security fix: if acl_hierarchic=True was used (False is the default),
504 ACL processing was wrong for some cases, see
506 * For {{transclusion_targets}} we checked the protocol to be http(s),
507 this check was removed (because file: and ftp: should work also) and
508 it's not moin's problem if the user uses silly protocols that can't
509 work for that purpose.
510 * Fixed TableOfContents macro for included pages.
511 * server_fastcgi: added Config.port = None. If you want to use some port
512 (not a fd), you can set it now in your Config, e.g. port = 8888.
513 * category: search matches categories even if there are comment lines
514 between the horizontal rule and the real categories, e.g.:
515 ... some page text ...
517 ## optionally some comments, e.g. about possible categories:
518 ## CategoryJustACommentNotFound
519 CategoryTheRealAndOnly
521 Note: there might be multiple comment lines, but all real categories
522 must be on a single line either directly below the ---- or
523 directly below some comment lines.
526 * Added 'notes' to config.url_schemas, so you can use notes://notessrv/...
527 to invoke your Lotus Notes client.
528 * After creating a new user profile via UserPreferences, you are logged
529 in with that user (no need to immediately enter the same name/password
530 again for logging in).
535 * Security fix: check the ACL of the included page for the rst parser's
537 * Potential security/DOS fix: we removed cracklib / python-crack support
538 in password_checker as it is not thread-safe and caused segmentation
539 faults (leading to server error 500 because the moin process died).
540 * Fix moin_session code for auth methods other than moin_login (e.g. http).
541 If you have worked around this using moin_anon_session, you can remove
542 this workaround now (except if you want anon sessions for other reasons).
543 * Fix moin_session code to delete invalid session cookies and also create
544 a new session cookie if it got a valid user_obj at the same time.
545 * Fix xmlrpc applyAuthToken: give good error msg for empty token.
546 * Fixed category search, use category:CategoryFoo as search term.
547 * xapian_stemming = False (changed default) to workaround some problems
548 in the code enabled by it. Fixes the problems when searching for
549 lowercase or numeric titles or word fragments with the builtin search.
550 * Fix trail for anon users without a session, do not show a single page.
552 * Wiki parser: fixed strange insertion of unwanted paragraphs.
553 * Wiki parser: fix interwiki linking:
554 Free interwiki links did not change since 1.5 (they still require to match
555 [A-Z][A-Za-z]+ for the wikiname part, i.e. a ASCII word beginning with an
557 Bracketed interwiki links now behave similar to how they worked in 1.5:
558 Moin just splits off the part left of the colon - no matter how it looks
559 like. It then tries to find that in the interwiki map. If it is found,
560 a interwiki link gets rendered. If it is not found, moin will render a
561 link to a local wiki page (that has a colon in the pagename). It will
562 also render a local wiki page link if there is no colon at all, of course.
564 [[lowercasewikiname:somepage]] does an interwiki link (if in the map).
565 [[ABC:n]] does a local link to page ABC:n (if ABC is NOT in the map).
566 * Wiki parser: fix interwiki linking for the case that there are query args
567 in the interwiki map entry and you give additional query args via link
568 markup (uses correct query arg separator now), e.g.:
569 [[Google:searchterm|search this|&foo=bar]]
570 * Creole parser: fixed bug that prevents images inside links.
571 * Python parser: catch indentation error.
572 * PageEditor: fixed copyPage for write restricted pages.
573 * GUI editor: fixed javascript error with too complex word_rule regex,
575 * Fixed FCKeditor dialog boxes for FireFox3.
576 * NewPage macro/newpage action: fixed for non-ascii template pagenames.
578 * EmbedObject macro: bug fix for image mimetype
580 * fix TWikiDraw saving a drawing by also evaluating the query args.
581 * work around unpythonic WSGI 1.0 read() API, fixing broken xmlrpc
582 putPage with mod_wsgi
584 * Fix logfile code for EACCESS errors.
585 * Removed the "logging initialized" log messages because it was issued once
589 * Show "Comments" toggling link in edit bar only if the page really
591 * Made default configuration of surge protection a bit more forgiving,
592 especially for edit action which is currently also used for previews.
593 * Updated i18n, system/help pages, added Macedonian system text translation.
594 * Improved moin xmlrpc write command's builtin docs and auto-append
595 ?action=xmlrpc2 to the target wiki url given.
600 * Improved params for [[target|label|params]]:
601 Added accesskey link tag attribute, e.g.: [[target|label|accesskey=1]].
602 Additionally to specifying link tag attributes (like class=foo), you can
603 now also specify &key=value for getting that into the query string of
605 The "&" character is important, don't forget it or it won't get into the
607 E.g. for an attachment, you can use:
608 [[attachment:foo.pdf|Direct download of foo.pdf|&do=get]]
609 E.g. for linking to some specific diff, you can use:
610 [[SomePage|see that diff|&action=diff,&rev1=23,&rev2=42]]
611 See also the updated HelpOnLinking page!
612 * AdvancedSearch: make multipe categories/languages/mimetype selections possible
613 * Added a configuration directive to only do one bind to the LDAP server.
614 This is useful if you bind as the user the first time.
615 ldap_bindonce = False # default
618 * Fix XSS issue in login action.
619 * Fix wrong pagename when creating new pages on Mac OS X - that was a big
620 showstopper for moin 1.6.0 on Mac OS X.
621 * Fixed 1.6 migration script:
622 Make sorting python 2.3 compatible.
623 Just skip corrupted event log lines.
624 Fix link conversion by using data.pre160 as data_dir.
625 Fix bad /InterWiki pagenames when encountering interwiki links with bad
627 Improve ImageLink conversion by using its argument parser code.
628 Added STONEAGE_IMAGELINK (default: False) switch to wiki markup converter,
629 toggle it if you had a very old ImageLink macro in production and the
630 converter output has target and image interchanged.
631 Fixed UnicodeDecodeError for wrongly encoded attachment filenames.
633 Fix parsing of link/transclusion description and params.
634 Fix relative attachment targets.
635 Fix supported URL schemes (some got lost since 1.5.8).
636 Showing an upload link for non-existing non-text/non-image transclusions
637 now (like e.g. *.pdf).
638 * RST parser: fix attachment: and drawing: processing
639 * Fix quickhelp when editing RST markup pages.
640 * Fix Despam action: editor grouping was broken, increase time interval
642 * Fix AdvancedSearch domain:system search crashing.
643 * Only switch off xapian search if we didn't use it because of missing index.
644 * Fix saving twikidraw drawings by removing 'java' from spider regex.
645 * Fix classic theme's unsubscribe icon's action link.
646 * Fix AttachFile action: don't show unzip for packages, only show install
648 * Fix "su user" troubles on UserPreferences.
649 * Removed unit tests from ?action=test (due to changes in our test
650 environment, using py.test now, this was broken).
651 * Duplicated the top directories' moin.py to wiki/server/moin.py so it gets
652 installed by setup.py.
660 * I18n texts, system and help pages updated, please update your underlay
661 directory (see wiki/underlay/...).
662 * Improved "moin" script help, invoke it with "moin ... package command --help".
663 * Added some .ext -> mimetype mappings missing on some systems (like Mac OS X).
664 * Removed ImageLink macro, as this can be easily done with moin wiki link
665 syntax now - see HelpOnMacros/ImageLink (the 1.6 migration scripts convert
666 all ImageLink calls to moin wiki link syntax).
667 * Updated EmbedObject macro.
671 * This is a reduced CHANGES, ommitting details from rc/beta test and also
672 less interesting minor changes and fixes. If you want to see full detail,
673 read it there: http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/1.6/file/640f21787334/docs/CHANGES
675 It took MoinMoin development a lot of work and time to implement all the new
676 and fixed stuff, so please, before asking for support:
677 * take the time to read all the stuff below
678 * read the new help pages (copy them from wiki/underlay/ directory)
680 * HINT: If you are upgrading from a older moin version and want to keep your
681 existing data directory, it is essential that you read and follow
682 README.migration because the wiki markup and user profiles changed significantly.
683 See also more HINTs below...
685 New features: ==============================================================
687 User interface: ------------------------------------------------------------
688 * Removed "underscore in URL" == "blank in pagename magic" - it made more
689 trouble than it was worth. If you still want to have a _ in URL, just
690 put a _ into pagename.
691 * Discussion pages, see FeatureRequests/DiscussionAndOrCommentPages.
692 * cfg.password_checker (default: use some simple builtin checks for too
693 easy passwords and, if available, python-crack).
694 Use password_checker = None to disable password checking.
695 * We now have a drafts functionality (no */MoinEditorBackup pages any
697 * If you edit a page and cancel the edit, use preview or save, a draft
698 copy gets saved for you to a internal cache area (data/cache/drafts/).
699 * If it is a save what you did and it succeeds, the draft copy gets
700 killed right afterwards.
701 * If you accidentally used cancel or your browser or machine crashes
702 after you used preview, then just visit that page again and edit it.
703 the editor will notify you that there is a draft of this page and you
704 will see a "Load draft" button. Click on it to load the draft into the
705 editor and save the page.
706 * The draft storage is per user and per page, but only one draft per page.
707 * cfg.quicklinks_default and cfg.subscribed_pages_default can be used to
708 preload new user profiles with configurable values.
709 * attachment links for non-existing attachments look different now:
710 the note about the non-existing attachment moved to the link title,
711 the link is shown with nonexistent class (grey).
712 * attachment embeddings for non-existing attachments show a grey clip
713 * The list of InterWiki sites is editable in the wiki (page InterWikiMap),
714 it is getting reloaded every minute.
715 * We support some new languages and also have new underlay pages, thanks
716 to all translators and people helping with the docs!
718 Actions: -------------------------------------------------------------------
719 * Synchronisation of wikis using the SyncPages action.
720 * Xapian (see http://xapian.org/) based indexed search code.
722 * Install xapian-core and xapian-bindings on your machine.
723 We used 0.9.4, but newer code should hopefully work, too.
724 * cfg.xapian_search = True
725 * Execute this to build the index:
726 $ moin ... index build # indexes pages and attachments
727 $ moin ... index build --files=files.lst # same plus a list of files
728 You should run those commands as the same user you use for your wiki,
729 usually this is the webserver userid, e.g.:
730 $ sudo -u www-data moin --config=... --wiki-url=wiki.example.org/ \
731 index build --files=files.lst
733 - LanguageSearch: language:de
734 - CategorySearch: category:Homepage
735 - MimetypeSearch: mimetype:image/png (for attachments/files)
736 - DomainSearch: domain:underlay or domain:standard
737 - History Search: available in advanced ui
738 Note: Some currently only available when Xapian is used.
739 * New config options and their defaults:
740 xapian_search False enables xapian-powered search
741 xapian_index_dir None directory for xapian indices
742 (can be shared for wiki farms)
743 xapian_stemming True toggles usage of stemmer, fallback
744 to False if no stemmer installed
745 search_results_per_page 10 determines how many hits should be
746 shown on a fullsearch action
747 xapian_index_history False indexes all revisions of pages to
748 allow searching in their history
749 * Speeded up linkto search by avoiding read locks on the pagelinks file.
751 * The action menu now calls the actions for the revision of the page you
752 are currently viewing. If you are viewing the current page revision, you
753 get the same behaviour as in moin 1.5, but if you are viewing an old
754 page revision, action "raw" will now show you the raw text of this OLD
755 revision (not of the current revision as moin 1.5 did it).
756 Note that not every action does evaluate the rev=XX parameter it gets.
757 Also please note that the edit, info, ... links in the editbar do NOT
758 use the rev parameter, but operate on the latest page revision (as
759 they did in moin 1.5).
760 * Info action lost the links for "raw", "print" and "revert" actions,
761 because you can now just view an old revision and select those actions
764 * ?action=sitemap emits a google sitemap (XML), listing all your wiki pages
765 and the wiki root URL.
766 Page Priority / Frequency / Last modification
767 --------------------------------------------------------------------
768 / 1.0 / hourly / <now>
769 cfg.page_front_page 1.0 / hourly / page last edit
770 TitleIndex,RecentChanges 0.9 / hourly / <now>
771 content pages 0.5 / daily / page last edit
772 system/help pages 0.1 / yearly / page last edit
774 * Action DeletePage and RenamePage can now be used for subpages of a page, too.
775 * Added Action CopyPage so you can use now an existing page or page hierarchy
776 as template for a new page, see FeatureRequests/CloneOrCopyPages.
777 * "Package Pages" action supports attachments now.
778 * Added SisterPages support:
779 * action=sisterpages will generate a list of url pagename lines for all
780 pages in your moin wiki.
781 * action=pollsistersites will poll all sister sites listed in
782 cfg.sistersites = [(wikiname, fetchURL), ...]
783 The fetch URL for the sistersites depends on the wiki engine, e.g.:
785 ('MoinExample', 'http://moin.example.org/?action=sisterpages')
786 # oddmuse based wiki:
787 ('EmacsWiki', 'http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/test?action=sisterpages')
788 # JspWiki based wiki:
789 ('JspWiki', 'http://www.jspwiki.org/SisterSites.jsp')
790 * If the current page exists on some sister wiki, a link to it will be
791 added to the navibar.
792 You can use sister wikis for adding another dimension to your wiki UI: use
793 it for simple multi language support, or for comments, or anything else
795 TODO: add sistersites_force with sister sites we link to even if they do not
796 have the page yet (will work only for moin as we don't know
797 pagename>url transformation of other wikis)
798 * showtags action that lists all tags related to a page.
799 * action=view does use mimetypes of EmbedObject too and text files will be shown
800 by using their colorized parsers
802 Macros: --------------------------------------------------------------------
804 * If a change has happened after your bookmark, the updated/new/renamed
805 icon links to the bookmark diff.
806 * If a page does not exist any more (because it was deleted or renamed),
807 we link the deleted icon to the diff showing what was deleted (for the
808 delete action). For the rename action, we just show the deleted icon.
809 * Conflict icon in RecentChanges is shown if a edit conflict is detected.
810 * Enhanced SystemAdmin's user browser, so a SuperUser can enable/disable
812 * Included EmbedObject macro for embedding different major mimetypes:
813 application, audio, image, video, chemical, x-world.
814 You are able to change the defaults of allowed mimetypes in the config
815 var mimetypes_embed. The config var mimetypes_xss_protect is used to deny
816 mimetypes. The order of both variables is Allow, Deny (mimetypes_embed,
817 mimetypes_xss_protect).
818 * Added support for @SELF to the NewPage macro.
819 * GetText2 macro that allows to translate messages that contain data.
820 * Make the FootNote macro filter duplicates and display a list of numbers
821 instead of a list of identical footnotes. Thanks to Johannes Berg for the
824 Parsers: -------------------------------------------------------------------
825 * Moin Wiki parser: Changed markup for links, images and macros, see these
826 wiki pages: HelpOnLinking, HelpOnMacros
827 * New wiki markup for /* inline comments */ - they get rendered as a span
828 with class="comment", see next item:
829 * There is a new item in the edit bar: "Comments". If you click it, the
830 visibility of all class "comment" tags will be toggled. There is a user
831 preferences item "show_comments" to set if the default view shows them or not.
832 * The wiki parser can be used with css classes now:
834 This will render output within a div with class "comment".
835 You can use any wiki markup as usual.
837 You can also combine multiple css classes like this:
838 {{{#!wiki red/dotted/comment
839 This will render a red background, dotted border comment section.
841 The same thing will work for any other css classes you have.
842 If the css classes contain the word "comment", they will trigger some
843 special feature, see next item:
844 * Wiki nested parser/pre sections work now, using this syntax:
845 a) just use more curly braces if you have 3 closing in your content:
847 }}} <- does not terminate the section!
849 b) use {{{ + some magic string:
851 }}} <- does not terminate the section!
853 c) {{{whatever#!python
856 Pitfall: stuff like below does not work as it did in 1.5:
864 * Added support for ircs: URLs (secure IRC).
865 * New text/creole parser that allows you to use WikiCreole 1.0 markup,
867 * HTML parser (called "html") that allows you to use HTML on the page.
868 Thanks to the trac team for the nice code.
869 * Added the diff parser from ParserMarket, thanks to Emilio Lopes, Fabien
870 Ninoles and Juergen Hermann.
872 XMLRPC: --------------------------------------------------------------------
873 * actions_excluded now defaults to ['xmlrpc'] - this kind of disables the
874 built-in wiki xmlrpc server code (not completely: it will just answer
875 with a Fault instance for any request). If you want to use xmlrpc v1 or
876 v2, you have to remove 'xmlrpc' from the actions_excluded list (for
877 example if you want to use wikisync, mailimport or any other feature
878 using xmlrpc). If you enable xmlrpc, it will be possible that someone
879 changes your wiki content by using xmlrpc (it will of course honour ACLs).
880 * New XMLRPC methods (see doc strings for details):
882 * system.multicall -- multicall support
883 * Authentication System: getAuthToken/appyAuthToken
884 * getDiff -- method to get binary diffs
885 * mergeDiff -- method to local changes remotely
886 * interwikiName -- method to get the IWID and the interwiki moniker
887 * getAllPagesEx -- method to get the pagelist in a special way (revnos,
888 no system pages etc.)
889 * getAuthToken -- make and authentication token by supplying username/password
890 * applyAuthToken -- set request.user for following xmlrpc calls (within the
892 * getUserProfile -- method to get user profile data for request.user
893 * Added XMLRPC methods for attachment handling. Thanks to Matthew Gilbert.
894 * XMLRPC putPage method adjusted to new AuthToken, config vars
895 xmlrpc_putpage_enabled and xmlrpc_putpage_trusted_only removed.
897 Scripts / Commandline interface: -------------------------------------------
898 * moin export dump now better conforms to the theme guidelines.
899 * Added a --dump-user option to the moin export dump command.
900 Thanks to Oliver O'Halloran.
902 Security / Auth / AntiSpam / etc.: -----------------------------------------
903 * Hierarchical ACLs are now supported, i.e. pages inheriting permissions
904 from higher-level pages. See HelpOnAccessControlLists.
905 * If you have "#acl" (without the quotes) on a page, this means now:
906 "this page has own (empty) ACLs, so do not use acl_rights_default here"
907 Please note that this is COMPLETELY DIFFERENT from having no ACL line at
908 all on the page (acl_rights_default is used in that case).
909 * Antispam master url is now configurable via cfg.antispam_master_url.
910 The default is to fetch the antispam patterns from MoinMaster wiki.
911 * Antispam now checks the edit comments against BadContent also.
912 * TextCHAs (text-form CAPTCHAs).
913 Due to increasingly annoying wiki spammers, we added the option to use
914 TextCHAs (for page save (not for preview!), for attachment upload, for
915 user creation (not for profile save)).
916 This function is disabled by default. If you run a wiki that is editable
917 by anonymous or non-approved users from the internet (i.e. All: or Known:
918 in ACL terms), you should enable it in your wiki config by:
919 textchas = { # DO NOT USE EXACTLY THESE QUESTIONS!!!
921 u'H2O is ...': u'water', # bad: too common
922 u'2 apples and three bananas makes how many fruits?': ur'(five|5)', # good
923 u'2 apples and three pigs makes how many fruits?': ur'(two|2)', # good
924 u'2+3': ur'5', # bad: computable
927 'de': { # for german users
928 u'H2O ist ...': u'wasser',
931 This means that english users will get some random question from the 'en'
932 set, german users will get some from the 'de' set. If there is no 'de'
933 set configured, moin will fallback to language_default and then to 'en',
934 so make sure that you at least have a 'en' set configured (or whatever
935 you have set as language_default).
936 You need to use unicode for the questions and answers (see that u"...").
937 For the answer, you need to give a regular expression:
938 * In the easiest case, this is just some word or sentence (first en
939 example). It will be matched in a case-insensitive way.
940 * For more complex stuff, you can use the power of regular expressions,
941 e.g. if multiple answers are correct (second en example). Any answer
942 matching the regular expression will be considered as correct, any
943 non-matching answer will be considered as incorrect.
945 Tipps for making it hard to break for the spammers and easy for the users:
946 * Use site-specific (not too common) questions.
947 * Don't use too hard questions (annoys legitimate users).
948 * Don't use computable questions.
949 * Don't reuse textchas from other sites.
951 textchas_disabled_group = None # (default)
952 Set this to some group name and noone in this group will get textchas.
953 E.g.: textchas_disabled_group = u'NoTextChasGroup'
955 * The login page gives now the possibility to recover a lost password, thanks to
956 Oliver Siemoneit. This is especially useful for wikis where access to user
957 preferences is restricted by acl.
958 * Session handling for logged-in users and (not by default due to expiry
959 problems) anonymous users.
960 * Updated the ldap_login code from 1.5 branch, supports TLS now.
961 See MoinMoin/config/multiconfig.py for supported configuration options
962 and their defaults (and please just change what you need to change,
964 * Interwiki auth: You need to define cfg.trusted_wikis and
965 cfg.user_autocreate to use it. Logging in works by entering:
966 Name: RemoteWikiName RemoteUserName
968 Then moin contacts RemoteWikiName after looking it up in the interwiki
969 map and tries to authenticate there using RemoteUserName and remotepass.
970 If it succeeds, the remote wiki will return the remote user profile items
971 and your local moin will autocreate an account with these values.
973 Server / Network / Logging: ------------------------------------------------
974 * The standalone server script moved to the toplevel directory. This makes
975 it possible to directly start moin.py without additional configuration
976 to run a MoinMoin DesktopEdition like wiki setup.
977 Be careful: DesktopEdition uses relaxed security settings only suitable
978 for personal and local use.
979 * Added TLS/SSL support to the standalone server. Thanks to Matthew Gilbert.
980 To use TLS/SSL support you must also install the TLSLite library
981 (http://trevp.net/tlslite/). Version 0.3.8 was used for development and
984 * cfg.log_reverse_dns_lookups [default: True] - you can set this to False
985 if rev. dns lookups are broken in your network (leading to long delays
986 on page saves). With False, edit-log will only contain IP, not hostname.
987 * Added support for "304 not modified" response header for AttachFile get
988 and rss_rc actions - faster, less traffic, less load.
990 * Added logging framework, using stdlib's "logging" module. Just do
991 import logging ; logging.debug("your text"). Depending on configuration
992 in the server Config class, your stuff will be written to screen (stderr),
993 to a moin logfile, to apache's error.log, etc.:
994 logPath = None # 'moin.log'
995 loglevel_file = None # logging.DEBUG/INFO/WARNING/ERROR/CRITICAL
996 loglevel_stderr = None # logging.DEBUG/INFO/WARNING/ERROR/CRITICAL
997 NOTE: this is NOT in wikiconfig, but e.g. in moin.cgi or moin.py or ...
999 * Added some experimental and disabled code, that uses x-forwarded-for
1000 header (if present) to get the right "outside" IP before a request
1001 enters our chain of trusted (reverse) proxies.
1002 This code has the problem that we can't configure it in wikiconfig, so
1003 if you want to use it / test it, you have to edit the moin code:
1004 MoinMoin/request/__init__.py - edit proxies_trusted (near the top).
1005 We will try to make this easier to configure, but there was no time left
1006 before 1.6.0 release for doing bigger code refactorings needed for that.
1008 Mail: ----------------------------------------------------------------------
1009 * You can send email to the wiki now (requires xmlrpc), see:
1010 FeatureRequests/WikiEmailIntegration, HelpOnConfiguration/EmailSupport
1012 * Mail notifications contain a link to the diff action so the user
1013 can see the coloured difference more easily. Thanks to Tobias Polzin.
1015 Other changes: =============================================================
1016 * HINT: please copy a new version of your server script from the wiki/server/
1017 directory and edit it to match your setup.
1018 * HINT: instead of "from MoinMoin.multiconfig import DefaultConfig" you
1019 need to use "from MoinMoin.config.multiconfig import DefaultConfig" now.
1020 You need to change this in your wikiconfig.py or farmconfig.py file.
1021 See MoinMoin/multiconfig.py for an alternative way if you can't do that.
1022 * HINT: you need to change some imports (if you have them in your config):
1023 Old: from MoinMoin.util.antispam import SecurityPolicy
1024 New: from MoinMoin.security.antispam import SecurityPolicy
1025 Old: from MoinMoin.util.autoadmin import SecurityPolicy
1026 New: from MoinMoin.security.autoadmin import SecurityPolicy
1027 * HINT: you need to change your auth stuff, the new way is:
1028 from MoinMoin.auth import moin_login, moin_session
1029 from MoinMoin.auth.http import http
1030 auth = [http, moin_login, moin_session]
1031 Do it in a similar way for other auth methods.
1032 * HINT: you need to change your url_prefix setting in 2 ways:
1033 1. The setting is now called url_prefix_static (to make it more clear
1034 that we mean the static stuff, not the wiki script url).
1035 2. The strongly recommended (and default) value of it is '/moin_static160'
1036 for moin version 1.6.0 (and will be ...161 for moin 1.6.1). It is
1037 possible and recommended to use a very long cache lifetime for static
1038 stuff now (Expires: access plus 1 year), because we require to change
1039 the URL of static stuff when the static stuff changes (e.g. on a
1040 version upgrade of moin) to avoid problems with stale cache content.
1041 Your moin will be faster with lower load and traffic because of this.
1042 For standalone server, we use 1 year expiry for static stuff now.
1043 For Apache, Lighttpd and other "external" servers, you have to care
1044 for configuring them to use a long expiry and change url_prefix_static
1045 related configuration on upgrade.
1046 HINT: if you run standalone or Twisted server, the easiest way to get a
1047 working configuration (with server configuration matching wiki
1048 configuration) is to NOT set url_prefix_static at all. Moin will
1049 use matching configuration defaults in this case.
1050 * url_prefix_action ['action'] was introduced for lowering load and traffic
1051 caused by searchengine crawlers. Up to now, crawlers where causing a high
1052 load in internet moin wikis because they tried to get about everything,
1053 including all actions linked from the user interface.
1054 Known crawlers only get 403 for most actions, but nevertheless they first
1055 tried. There was no means keeping them away from actions due to the rather
1056 braindead robots.txt standard. You can only disallow pathes there, but
1057 moin's actions were querystring based, not path based (this would need
1058 regex support in robots.txt, but there is no such thing).
1059 This changed now. Moin is able to generate action URLs you can handle in
1060 robots.txt, like /action/info/PageName?action=info. So if you don't want
1061 bots triggering actions, just disallow /action/ there. Keep in mind that
1062 attachments are handled by /action/AttachFile, so if you want attached
1063 files and pictures indexed by search engine, don't disallow
1064 /action/AttachFile/ in your robots.txt. In order to use this feature,
1065 set url_prefix_action in your wikiconfig to e.g. "action".
1066 * We use (again) the same browser compatibility check as FCKeditor uses
1067 internally, too. So if GUI editor invocation is broken due to browser
1068 compatibility issues or a wrong browser version check, please file a bug
1069 at FCKeditor development or browser development.
1070 * HINT: We removed Lupy based indexed search code. If you were brave enough
1071 to use cfg.lupy_search, you maybe want to try cfg.xapian_search instead.
1073 Developer notes: ===========================================================
1074 * We moved the IE hacks to theme/css/msie.css that gets included after all
1075 other css files (but before the user css file) using a conditional
1076 comment with "if IE", so it gets only loaded for MSIE (no matter which
1077 version). The file has some standard css inside (evaluated on all MSIE
1078 versions) and some * html hacks that only IE < 7 will read.
1079 HINT: if you use custom themes, you want to update them in the same way.
1080 * autofilters for databrowser widget. Thanks to Johannes Berg for the patch.
1081 * changed formatter.attachment_link call (it is now more flexible,
1082 because you can render the stuff between link start and link end yourself)
1083 * Page.url() does not escape any more. You have to use wikiutil.escape()
1084 yourself if you want to write the URL to HTML and it contains e.g. &.
1085 * The testing wikiconfig moved to tests/wikiconfig.py, the testing wiki
1086 is now created in tests/wiki/...
1087 * HINT: Killed "processors" (finally), formatter method changed to:
1088 formatter.parser(parsername, lines)
1089 * Refactored some actions to use ActionBase base class.
1090 * Moved "test" action from wikiaction to MoinMoin/action/
1091 (and use ActionBase).
1092 * Moved MoinMoin/config.py to MoinMoin/config/__init__.py.
1093 * Moved MoinMoin/multiconfig.py to MoinMoin/config/multiconfig.py.
1094 * Moved "SystemInfo" macro from wikimacro to MoinMoin/macro/.
1095 * Moved wikiaction.py stuff to MoinMoin/action/__init__.py.
1096 * Moved wikimacro.py stuff to MoinMoin/macro/__init__.py.
1097 * Moved wikirpc.py stuff to MoinMoin/xmlrpc/__init__.py.
1098 * Moved wikitest.py stuff to action/test.py (only used from there).
1099 * Moved formatter/base.py to formatter/__init__.py (FormatterBase).
1100 * Moved util/ParserBase.py to parser/ParserBase.py.
1101 * Moved / splitted request.py into MoinMoin/request/*.
1102 Most stuff will be broken, please help fixing it (usually some imports
1103 will be missing and the adaptor script will need a change maybe):
1104 Tested successfully: CGI, CLI, STANDALONE, FCGI, TWISTED
1105 * Moved security.py to security/__init__.py.
1106 * Moved wikiacl.py to security/__init__.py.
1107 * Moved logfile/logfile.py to logfile/__init__.py.
1108 * Moved mailimport.py to mail/mailimport.py.
1109 * Moved util/mail.py to mail/sendmail.py.
1110 * Moved auth.py to auth/__init__.py.
1111 Moved util/sessionParser.py to auth/_PHPsessionParser.py.
1112 teared auth code into single modules under auth/* - moin_session handling
1113 and the builting moin_login method are in auth/__init__.py.
1114 * Added wikiutil.MimeType class (works internally with sanitized mime
1115 types because the official ones suck).
1116 * Renamed parsers to module names representing sane mimetypes, e.g.:
1117 parser.wiki -> parser.text_moin_wiki
1118 * Added thread_monitor debugging aid. It can be activated using:
1119 from MoinMoin.util import thread_monitor; thread_monitor.activate_hook()
1120 and then triggered by requesting URL ...?action=thread_monitor - please
1121 be aware that monitoring threads has a big performance impact on its own,
1122 so you only want to temporarily enable this for debugging.
1123 By default, it dumps its output to the data_dir as tm_<timestamp>.log,
1124 you can change this at bottom of action/thread_monitor.py if you want to
1125 see output in your browser.
1126 * Introduced scope parameter to CacheEntry() - if you specify 'farm', it
1127 will cache into a common directory for all wikis in the same farm, if you
1128 specify 'wiki', it will use a cache directory per wiki and if you specify
1129 'item', it will use a cache directory per item (== per page).
1130 Creating a CacheEntry without explicit scope is DEPRECATED.
1131 * Smileys moved from MoinMoin.config to MoinMoin.theme.
1132 * Removed all _ magic in URLs and filenames.
1133 * request.action now has the action requested, default: 'show'.
1134 * Cleaned up duplicated http_headers code and DEPRECATED this function
1135 call (it was sometimes confused with setHttpHeaders call) - it will
1136 vanish with moin 1.7, so please fix your custom plugins!
1138 request.emit_http_headers(more_headers=[])
1139 This call pre-processes the headers list (encoding from unicode, making
1140 sure that there is exactly ONE content-type header, etc.) and then
1141 calls a server specific helper _emit_http_headers to emit it.
1142 Tested successfully: CGI, STANDALONE, FCGI, TWISTED
1143 * setResponseCode request method DEPRECATED (it only worked for Twisted
1144 anyway), just use emit_http_headers and include a Status: XXX header.
1145 Method will vanish with moin 1.7.
1146 * cfg.url_prefix is DEPRECATED, please use cfg.url_prefix_static.
1147 * d['title_link'] is not supported any more. You can easily make that link
1148 on your own in your theme, see example in MoinMoin/theme/__init__.py,
1150 * There is a new Page method called Page.get_raw_body_str that returns
1151 the encoded page body. This is useful if you just deal with byte data
1152 (e.g. while generating binary diffs).
1153 * The TagStore/PickleTagStore system is used to store the syncronisation tags.
1154 * XMLRPC functions may return Fault instances from now on
1155 * Moin got multicall support, including a module that makes it usable on the
1156 client-side without requiring Python 2.4
1157 * Added no_magic to text_html formatter to disable tag autoclosing.
1158 * MOIN_DEBUG can be set in the environment to let MoinMoin ignore exceptions
1159 that would lead to a traceback in the browser. Thanks to Raphael Bossek.
1160 * There is a new MoinMoin.Page.ItemCache class now with automatic cache
1161 invalidation based on global edit-log. We currently use it to cache page
1162 acls, speedup Page.get_rev and reading the page local edit-log.
1163 * Added wikiutil.renderText parse and format raw wiki markup with all page elements.
1164 * The user file format has changed, old files will be read correctly but
1165 will silently be upgraded to the new format so old versions will not
1166 read the new files correctly (this only affects 'subscribed_pages' and
1167 'quicklinks' which will be lost when downgrading.)
1172 * Added timing.log to help performance debugging. Use cfg.log_timing = True
1173 to update <data_dir>/timing.log (default is False, meaning no logging).
1175 Example log entries:
1178 Timestamp PID Timing Flag action URL
1179 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1180 20070512 184401 22690 vvv None moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/RssFeeds
1181 20070512 184401 22690 0.267s - show moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/RssFeeds
1183 Timestamp: YYYYMMDD HHMMSS (UTC)
1184 PID: the process ID of the moin process
1185 Timing: when action starts, it will be "vvv"
1186 when it ends, it logs the total time it needed for execution
1187 Flag (some are only logged at end of action):
1189 - Page does not exist
1190 B user agent was recognized as bot / spider
1191 !x! Action took rather long (the higher the x, the longer it took - this
1192 makes it easy to grep for problematic stuff).
1193 Action: action name (None is when no action was specified, moin assumes
1194 "show" for that case)
1195 URL: the requested URL
1197 For more information about tuning your moin setup, see:
1198 http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/PerformanceTuning
1199 * Added support for ircs, webcal, xmpp, ed2k and rootz protocols - we
1200 moved all protocols to config.url_schemas, so this is not empty any more.
1201 It is possible to use these protocols now on wiki pages and in the
1202 navi_bar. We just generate the URLs, it is up to your browser what it
1203 does when clicking on those links.
1204 * cfg.traceback_show (default: 1) can be used to disable showing tracebacks.
1205 cfg.traceback_log_dir (default: None) can be used to set a directory
1206 that is used to dump traceback files to. Your users will get a notice to
1207 which (random) file in that directory the traceback was been written.
1208 NOTE: while you can feel free to set traceback_show = 0 and
1209 traceback_log_dir = None, we will also feel free to reject bug reports
1210 when you (or your site's users) don't give us enough information (like a
1211 traceback file) to debug the problem. If you set traceback_show = 0,
1212 we recommend pointing traceback_log_dir to a directory with reasonable
1213 free space and putting a page onto your wiki that describes who has to
1214 get contacted (usually the wiki server admin) in case a traceback happens.
1215 The admin can then locate the traceback file and submit it to moin
1217 Of course we will also need all the other details of a bug report, not
1218 only the traceback file.
1221 * Updated spider agents list.
1222 * Reduce bot/spider cpu usage for SystemInfo, OrphanedPages, WantedPages,
1223 PageHits, PageSize, WordIndex macros (we just return nothing for bots).
1226 * XSS fixes, see http://secunia.com/advisories/24138/ (item 1 and 2).
1227 * ACL security fixes:
1228 * MonthCalendar respects ACLs of day pages now.
1229 * Check the ACL for the rst markup include directive.
1230 * Fixed cleaning of edit comments (control chars in there could damage
1232 * Fixed in-process caching of antispam patterns (didn't update the cache
1233 for multi-process, persistent servers).
1234 * Correct encoding/decoding for surge-log data, fixes leftover
1235 surge-logXXXXXXX.tmp files in data/cache/surgeprotect.
1236 * Fixed mode of cache files (mkstemp creates them with 0600 mode).
1237 * Symbolic entities with numbers (like ²) did not work, fixed.
1238 * We open data/error.log earlier now and we also use it for FastCGI.
1239 * Fixed unicode cfg.page_group_regex.
1240 * Fixed moin.spec to use english date format.
1241 * GUI converter: fixed conversion of relative wiki links.
1242 * Fixed NewPage macro button label to not be formatted as wiki text.
1246 * added url_prefix_local which is used for stuff that must be loaded from
1247 same site as the wiki engine (e.g. FCKeditor GUI editor applet), while
1248 url_prefix can be a remote server serving the static files (css/img).
1249 If not set (or set to None), url_prefix_local will default to the value
1251 * We save some CPU and disk I/O by having EditTemplates and LikePages macro
1252 (both used on MissingPage) check whether the requesting entity was
1253 identified as a spider (e.g. search engine bot) and do nothing in that
1254 case. Normal users won't see any difference.
1255 * For AttachFile, you can now choose to overwrite existing files of same
1256 name (nice for updating files).
1260 * fixed unescaped page info display.
1261 * fixed unescaped page name display in AttachFile, RenamePage and
1262 LocalSiteMap actions
1263 * WantedPages listed existing pages that are not readable for the user,
1264 but are linked from pages that ARE readable for the user (so this is NOT
1265 a privacy/security issue). We now don't list those pages any more as it
1266 is pointless/confusing, the user can't read or edit there anyway.
1269 * GUI editor/converter:
1270 * ignore <col>/<colgroup>/<meta> elements
1271 * support <a> within blockquote
1272 * Remove generated=... attribute from pagelink html output (this attr is
1273 for internal use only). w3c validator is now happier again.
1274 * Fixed css class "userpref" (not: "userprefs") of the Login form.
1275 * Fixed the version number check in the xslt parser for 4suite >= 1.0.
1276 * We reset the umask to the wanted value every request. This should fix
1277 wrong file modes when used with Twisted (twistd uses a hardcoded 0077
1278 umask in daemonize()).
1279 * Avoid trouble when saving pages with antispam function when MoinMaster
1280 wiki is having troubles (catch xmlrpc Fault).
1283 * Standalone server does not do reverse DNS lookups any more (this is a
1284 standard feature of BaseHTTPServer stdlib module, but we override this
1285 now and just print the IP).
1286 * We moved the IE hacks to theme/css/msie.css that gets included after all
1287 other css files (but before the user css file) using a conditional
1288 comment with "if IE", so it gets only loaded for MSIE (no matter which
1289 version). The file has some standard css inside (evaluated on all MSIE
1290 versions) and some * html hacks that only IE < 7 will read.
1291 HINT: if you use custom themes, you want to update them in the same way.
1292 * Improved ldap auth:
1293 * cfg.ldap_name_attribute was removed because of new cfg.ldap_filter.
1294 If you had ldap_name_attribute = 'sAMAccountName' before, just use
1295 ldap_filter = '(sAMAccountName=%(username)s)' now.
1296 * New cfg.ldap_filter used for the ldap filter string used in the ldap
1297 search instead of the rather limited, partly hardcoded filter we used
1298 before. This is much more flexible:
1299 ldap_filter = '(sAMAccountName=%(username)s)'
1300 You can also do more complex filtering expressions like:
1301 '(&(cn=%(username)s)(memberOf=CN=WikiUsers,OU=Groups,DC=example,DC=org))'
1302 * Added some processing to filter out result entries with dn == None.
1303 * We set REFERRALS option to 0 before initializing the ldap server
1304 connection (this seems to be needed for Active Directory servers).
1305 * We support self-signed ssl certs for ldaps - completely untested.
1306 * New cfg.ldap_surname_attribute (usually 'sn'), was hardcoded before.
1307 * New cfg.ldap_givenname_attribute (usually 'givenName'), hardcoded before.
1308 * New cfg.ldap_aliasname_attribute (usually 'displayName') - if this
1309 attribute is not there or empty (in the results of the ldap lookup for
1310 the user), we just make up the aliasname from surname and givenname
1312 * We only request the attributes we need from ldap (was: all attrs).
1313 * We deny user login (and break out of auth chain) for the following cases:
1314 * if a user is not found by ldap lookup
1315 * if we find more than one matching entry
1316 * if the password is empty or incorrect
1317 * if some exception happens
1318 * Please note that there is an updated ldap sample config in directory
1319 wiki/config/more_samples/.
1320 * Added experimental LDAP SSL/TLS support (untested, please help testing),
1321 see also the sample config.
1322 * Work around a IE7 rendering problem with long pages getting more and
1323 more narrow. We just applied the same "fix" as we used for IE6, using
1324 "display: none" for span.anchor for IE browsers.
1326 * We used to emit a <link> tag for the action=rss_rc RSS feed on any
1327 page. This was changed, we now emit that link only on RecentChanges and
1328 the current user's language translation of RecentChanges.
1329 This was changed because Google Toolbar requests the RSS feed linked
1330 by such a link tag every time it sees one. Thus, if you used the wiki
1331 normally, it requested the RSS feed every few seconds and caused
1332 problems due to surge protection kicking in because of that.
1333 * HINT for custom theme users: if your theme code calls
1334 rsslink(), then you need to change that to rsslink(d) for 1.5.7+.
1338 A general security notice:
1339 Check your Python version, there was a buffer overflow issue in Python
1340 recently! Details: http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/PythonUnicodeEscapeBug
1343 * Fix AttributeError traceback with Standalone server (if_modified_since)
1344 * Fix AttachFile "304 not modified" and redirect status code for Twisted
1345 * http auth: we now decode username and password to unicode (using
1346 config.charset == utf-8). Same for SSL client cert auth and CN.
1347 * Avoid infinite recursion in Page.parsePageLinks.
1348 * Fixed standalone server failing to shutdown if interface == "".
1349 * Now MoinMoin does not think anymore that every page links to various user
1351 * Made the irssi parser more tolerant (Thanks to "TheAnarcat").
1352 * Now multiple formatters can be used per request, the send_page code was
1353 not reentrant to this regard. Fixes "empty" search results.
1354 * Fixed problem with "=" in ImageLink macro links.
1355 * Not a moin bug, but a silly stdlib os.tempnam function made trouble to
1356 some people because it lets you override the path given in the code
1357 by setting the environment variable TMP(DIR). We now use a different
1358 function to avoid renaming trouble when TMP(DIR) points to a different
1360 * Fixed antispam update on every save (Thanks to "TheAnarcat").
1361 * GUI converter: don't throw away rowclass for tables.
1362 * GUI editor formatter: allow height for table cells.
1363 * GUI editor formatter: comment texts are output using the formatter now.
1366 * Mail notifications contain a link to the diff action so the user
1367 can see the coloured difference more easily. Thanks to Tobias Polzin.
1368 * FeatureRequests/MoveAttachments - you can move attachments from one
1369 page to another (and also rename the attachment at the same time).
1370 Thanks to Reimar Bauer.
1371 * Added support for linking to attachment: and inline: URLs with ImageLink.
1372 * Added UNIX socket support for FastCGI, just set the port to some (socket)
1374 * [[Attachlist(pagename,mimetype)]] lists attachments of pagename (default:
1375 current page) with optional mimetype restriction (default: all).
1376 Thanks to Reimar Bauer.
1379 * Minor performance improvements (might be noticeable if you have many
1380 custom navi_bar entries and high server load).
1381 * Avoid usage of no-cache because it breaks attachment download on IE6.
1382 This is a IE bug, not a moin bug.
1383 * Added XHTML to the unsafe list.
1384 * Changed the rst parser to be compatible to the new docutils interface
1386 * Updated EmbedObject macro.
1391 * fixed ticket creation to only use constant values
1394 HINT: read docs/README.migration.
1395 HINT: there was NO change in the underlay/ pages since 1.5.4.
1396 HINT: If you experience problems with the reStructured Text (rst) parser,
1397 please downgrade docutils to "0.4" because there were major interface
1398 breaking API refactorings on the docutils trunk.
1404 * Not a moin bug, but it severely annoyed IE users and also was less
1405 comfortable for users of other browser: since about 1.5.4, we served
1406 attachments with Content-Disposition: attachment - so that the user has
1407 to save them to disk. This was to fix a possible XSS attack using attached
1408 HTML files with Javascript inside for stealing your moin cookie or doing
1409 other nasty things. We improved this by using different behaviour depending
1410 on the potential danger the attached file has when served inline:
1411 mimetypes_xss_protect = ['text/html', 'application/x-shockwave-flash', ]
1412 This is the default value. If you know more dangerous stuff, please just
1413 add the mimetypes there to protect your users and file a bug report
1414 telling us what we missed.
1417 * Make tickets used for some actions more safe.
1420 * edit_ticketing [True] - we protect page save by a ticket (same stuff we
1421 already use for DeletePage and RenamePage action).
1422 NOTE: If you don't use your browser for editing, but some tool like
1423 "editmoin" or "MoinMoin plugin for jEdit", you'll need an update
1424 of them supporting the ticket.
1425 Alternatively, you can use edit_ticketing = False setting - this
1426 is not recommended for internet wikis as it will make spamming them
1428 * If we detect some spammer, we kick him out by triggering surge protection
1429 (if surge protection is not disabled).
1434 * Fixed gui editor converter confusing of `` and {{{}}} markup.
1435 * Fixed emission of HTTP headers (esp. Vary: Cache-Control:).
1436 * Fixed a bad crash that happens (on ANY page!) when you put a *Dict
1437 page's name as a member into a *Group page.
1438 * Fix MyPages action title to use an unformatted string.
1439 * Fix double quoted-printable encoding in generated emails (note: this is
1440 not a moin bug - this just works around bugs in python stdlib).
1441 * Fix mode of drawing files (use config.umask).
1442 * Fix trouble with /?action= urls by dropping getPageNameFromQueryString
1444 * Fixed sre unpickle issues seen on some machines by avoiding to pickle
1446 * Fix Clock code, add more timers.
1447 * Worked around FastCGI problem on Lighttpd: empty lines in the error log.
1448 * Fix (add) locking for caching's .remove() call, small fixes to lock code.
1449 * Print error message when --target-dir=path is missing from moin export
1453 * Added support for "304 not modified" response header for AttachFile get
1454 and rss_rc actions - faster, less traffic, less load.
1455 * Limit rss with full diffs to 5 items.
1456 * Allow surge_action_limits = None to disable surge protection.
1457 * moin.fcg improved - if you use FastCGI, you must use the new file:
1458 * can self-terminate after some number of requests (default: -1, this
1459 means "unlimited lifetime")
1460 * the count of created threads is limited now (default: 5), you can use
1461 1 to use non-threaded operation.
1462 * configurable socket.listen() backlog (default: 5)
1463 * Added indonesian i18n (id).
1464 * Some measures against spammers trying to brute force their spam into moin.
1465 * EmbedObject macro: added mov, mpg and midi support
1466 * moin ... export dump --target-dir=PATH --page=PAGENAME_REGEX
1467 You must specify --target-dir (where dump will write the html files to)
1468 and you may specify --page and either a page name or a regex used to
1469 match all pages you want to export. Default is to export all pages.
1473 * more efficient locking code on POSIX platforms, we do much less I/O
1475 * removed most chmod calls in favour of a single os.umask call
1476 * Improved Python 2.5 compatibility. Note: if you think that MoinMoin
1477 is using too much RAM, you might want to look at Python 2.5 because
1478 of its improved memory management.
1479 * Throw away SAVE comments longer than 200 chars (you can't enter those by
1480 the user interface, so only spammer using automatic POSTs do them).
1481 * Updated spider user agent list.
1482 * BadContent and LocalBadContent now get noindex,nofollow robots header,
1484 * Standalone opens it logfile unbuffered from now on, thanks to
1486 * Avoid trouble when request.write() data contains None, just skip it -
1487 thanks to Juergen Hermann.
1488 * Instead of showing a ConfigurationError, moin now emits "404 Not found"
1489 http headers and a hint about what could be wrong. This won't fill up
1490 your logs just because of typos and spiders still trying old URLs.
1494 HINT: read docs/README.migration.
1495 Version 1.5.4-current:
1496 * increased maxlength of some input fields from 80 to 200
1498 Version 1.5.current:
1500 * We switched to Mercurial SCM, see here for more infos:
1501 http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/MoinDev/MercurialGuide
1504 * fix MonthCalendar macro for non-ASCII pagenames (thanks to Jonas Smedegaard)
1505 * remove 'search' and 'google' from bot user agent list and add some more
1507 * Fix the forgotten password email login URL and also properly encode the
1508 email body. Thanks to Robin Dunn for the patch.
1509 * Applied a patch by Matthew Gilbert for increased compatiblity with
1515 * Added CSS classes for TableOfContents macro.
1518 * GUI editor / GUI editor converter:
1519 * Fixed missing GUI editor link in edit bar.
1520 * Fixed table/row/cell style spaces.
1521 * Changed <p> generation for macros.
1522 * Fixed handling of subpages.
1523 * Fixed processing of complex list elements (thanks to Craig Markwardt).
1524 * Fixed processing of html \n (thanks to Craig Markwardt).
1525 * Fixed joining of comment lines with text below them.
1526 * Fixed table height attribute crash.
1527 * Fixed sslclientcert auth.
1528 * Added some missing files to i18n processing, translatable strings more
1530 * Change <p> generation from self-closing (<p />) to auto-closing (only
1531 emit <p>, let browser find place for </p>).
1532 * Fix eating of newline before tables.
1533 * Fixed incorrect login hint for not logged-in users trying a disallowed
1535 * Fixed nasty missing or double </a> formatter bug (mostly happening when
1536 user has enabled questionmarks for nonexisting pages).
1539 * We catch and ignore html to wiki conversion errors in case of hitting
1540 the cancel button, so you can get out of the error screen.
1544 * Modified SystemInfo macro to give human readable units and disk usage
1545 * cfg.editor_quickhelp makes the quick help below the editor configurable
1546 (at least as far as the default_markup is concerned). If set to None,
1547 it doesn't display any quickhelp. Thanks to Seth Falcon for the patch.
1550 * Fixed double class attribute for nonexistent links
1551 * Fixed double </a> with qm_noexist option
1552 * Fixed table xxx="yyy" style attribute parsing
1553 * If not (editor_force and editor_default == 'text') then display GUI mode
1554 switch button (this is only a partial fix, but enough to deny the GUI
1555 mode to your users completely)
1556 * Fixed XSS issue which could lead to cookie theft etc.
1557 * Fixed definition list "same level" indenting.
1558 * Fixed pagename in log for PackagePages action.
1559 * Made <p> self-closing and line-anchors more well-behaved, thanks to
1560 Martin Wilck for the patch. I didn't apply the <ol> patch, because this
1561 is no real problem, just a problem of a bad standard.
1562 * Fixed gui editor *bgcolor crash.
1563 * Support/Fix tableclass attr with gui editor.
1566 * Moved back UserPreferences action link from menu to top of page (renaming
1567 it to "Preferences"), added "Cancel" button to make it possible to return
1568 to the previous page without saving preferences.
1569 * Removed formatter.url "attrs" keyword arg that took premade html, we use
1570 separate kw args per attribute now.
1571 * Moved broken tests to MoinMoin/_tests/broken (= disabling them).
1572 All "active" tests run ok now.
1573 If you want to compare, I included the output of this test run:
1574 $ make test >tests/make_test.out
1580 * HINT: please read README.migration
1581 * Login and Logout are actions now, therefore you stay on the page where
1583 * UserPreferences is also an action now and moved from top border (in
1584 modern theme) to the "more actions" dropdown menu. You also stay on the
1586 * There is also a [[Login]] macro now. You can put it on any page you want
1587 and if the user is not logged in, it renders the login form. If the user
1588 is logged in, it doesn't render anything.
1589 * We check cfg.superuser to be a list of user names (as documented) and
1590 deny superuser access if it is not. This avoids security issues by
1591 wrong configuration.
1592 * auth methods changed:
1593 HINT: if you wrote own auth methods, please change them as you see in
1594 MoinMoin/auth.py and test them again before relying on them.
1595 * now get a user_obj kw argument that is either a user object returned
1596 from a previous auth method or None (if no user has been made up yet).
1597 The auth method should either return a user object (if it has
1598 determined one) or what it got as user_obj (being "passive") or None
1599 (if it wants to "veto" some user even if a previous method already has
1600 made up some user object).
1601 * return value of continue_flag is now True in most cases (except if
1602 it wants to "veto" and abort).
1603 * moin_cookie auth method now logs out a user by deleting the cookie and
1604 setting user_obj.valid = 0. This makes it possible to still get the
1605 user's name in subsequent auth method calls within the same request.
1606 * added ldap_login and smb_mount auth methods, see MoinMoin/auth.py and
1607 wiki/config/more_samples/ldap_smb_farmconfig.py
1608 * MonthCalendar now takes an additional argument for specifying a template
1609 to use to directly invoke the page editor when clicking on non-existing
1611 * Added ImageLink macro. Thanks to Jeff Kunce, Marcin Zalewski, Reimar
1612 Bauer and Chong-Dae Park for working on it.
1613 * Lupy stuff (still experimental, partly broken and disabled by default):
1614 * Attachment search using lupy (lupy_search = 1 in your config)
1615 Title search will also search attachment filenames.
1616 Full text search will also search attachment contents.
1618 Some filters depend on external converters that might not be available
1619 for any platform (see Depends: line in filter plugin).
1620 Feel free to contribute more filter plugins, especially if you wrote
1621 some nice platform independant filter in Python for some popular file
1622 format! Filters implemented so far (depending on):
1623 MS Word, RTF, MS Excel (antiword, catdoc)
1625 OpenOffice.org XML based data formats (-)
1628 JPEG's EXIF data (-)
1630 * As you might know, Lupy is "retired" (that means it isn't developped
1631 by its authors any more). We are currently evaluating Xapian as new
1632 indexing search engine in moin.
1633 If we succeed, we will replace Lupy stuff by some Xapian interface
1635 But: the filters will likely stay, as we also need them with Xapian.
1637 * A new MoinMoin script interface was introduced:
1639 Syntax: moin [options] <cmdmodule> <cmdname> [options]
1642 moin --config-dir=/my/cfgdir --wiki-url=wiki.example.org/ \
1643 export dump --page=WikiSandBox
1645 This will call the "moin" script, which will use the --config-dir and
1646 --wiki-url options to initialize, then it will go to MoinMoin.script
1647 module, import the export.dump module from there and run it, providing
1648 the additional --page value to it.
1650 The old scripts that have not been migrated to this new interface can
1651 still be found in MoinMoin/script/old/ - including the old migration
1653 * moin ... account create --name=JoeDoe --email=joe@doe.org
1654 * moin ... account disable --name=JoeDoe
1655 * moin ... acount check <-- this is what usercheck script was before
1656 * moin ... maint cleancache <-- this is what cachecleaner script was
1657 * moin ... maint cleanpage <-- this is what pagescleaner script was
1660 * cookie_lifetime didn't work comfortable for low values. The cookie was
1661 created once on login and never updated afterwards. So you got logged
1662 out cookie_lifetime hours later, no matter whether you were active at
1663 that time or not. This has been changed, we update the cookie expiry now
1664 on every request, so it will expire cookie_lifetime after your last
1665 request (not after login).
1666 * Fixed logout problems when using cfg.cookie_path.
1667 * Fixed cookie_path for root url wikis.
1668 * Lupy search now behaves a bit less funky. Still no guarantees...
1669 * We lowered the twisted server timeout to 2 minutes now (was: 10) because
1670 it just used up too many files (open TCP connections until it timeouts)
1672 * The algorithm used for processing the farmconfig.wikis list was changed
1673 to work for big farms (>= 50 wikis), too. This works around the python
1674 "re" module limitation of having a maximum of 100 named groups in a RE.
1675 * Fixed a TypeError which occurred for formatters that dislike None values.
1677 * Fixed GUI editor converter error for https:... image URLs.
1678 * ThemeBase (use by modern/rightsidebar): removed duplicate AttachFile from
1679 actions menu (we already have it in editbar).
1680 * Speedup group/dicts scanning for persistent servers.
1681 * Implemented HEAD requests for standalone server, this should fix some of
1682 the strange effects happening when using "Save as" on attachments.
1683 * Not a moin bug, but rather a workaround for non-standard non-ASCII DNS
1684 hostnames: we just use the IP instead of crashing now.
1685 * Spurious cyclic usage error in i18n fixed.
1686 * Fixed antispam for python 2.5a xmlrpclib.
1687 * I18n for linenumber toggle in listings.
1688 * All action menu entries are translatable now.
1691 * Added css classes for the rst admonitions. Thanks to TiagoMacambira!
1696 * Added FullSearchCached macro which is statically cached.
1697 Use it if you do not depend on fresh search results but prefer raw speed.
1698 * Added surge protection, see HelpOnConfiguration/SurgeProtection.
1699 * Allow hex and symbolic entities.
1700 * If there is a user with empty password, we just generate a random one
1701 when he requests it getting sent by mail. Thanks to Reimar Bauer.
1702 * The superuser now can switch to another user using UserPreferences -
1703 nice to help your users when they forgot their password or need other
1704 help. You need to logout/relogin to use your own userid afterwards.
1705 This function only works correctly if you use moin_cookie authentication.
1706 Thanks to Reimar Bauer.
1707 * Add new markup for bulletless lists: just use a "." instead of "*".
1710 * Added "voyager" to bot useragent list.
1711 * Added locking for caching subsystem.
1712 * Deron Meranda's formatter API cleanup.
1713 * Added div and span to formatter API.
1714 * Removed old unfinished form and export code.
1718 * Fixed table attribute parsing.
1719 * Fixed cookie handling wrt properties adherance.
1720 * The new "." list markup makes it possible to have a bulletless list with
1721 elements on the same level. Before this change and only using indentation
1722 with blanks, that would get merged into a single paragraph.
1723 * It is possible now to have multiple paragraphs in the same list element,
1724 just leave an empty line in between the paragraphs.
1725 * Fixed GAP processing for ordered lists.
1726 * Fix text_gedit formatter's invalid list nesting.
1727 * Fixed hr crash in blockquote (but needs more work).
1728 * Fixed FootNote's formatter usage.
1729 * Fixed rst's headline levels.
1732 * Fixed that macros were followed by a wrong <p>.
1733 * Added <blockquote> to the block elements in the text_html formatter,
1734 so it does not close it erratically when you close a inner <p>.
1735 * GUI editor converter now also accept http: urls without // (relative or
1737 * Fixed the DocBook parser in cases where the pagename was non-ascii.
1744 * Fixed rst parser docutils version check
1745 * Repaired attachment unzipping feature.
1746 * Fixed the AddRevision command of the PackageInstaller.
1747 * improved the migration scripts (used to migrate pre-1.3 wikis to 1.3+):
1748 * do not crash on empty lines in event log
1749 * fix edit log format for very old moin data (like 0.11)
1750 * workaround for an ugly win32 operating system bug leading to wiki text
1751 file mtime not matching edit logs timestamp values if there was some
1752 timezone change since last edit (e.g. a daylight saving tz switch),
1753 but differing 3600s.
1754 This affected pre-1.3 moin wiki servers running on win32 OS only.
1755 We now try to correct those inconsistencies in mig05 by fuzzy matching.
1756 * fixed bracketed link scheme icon (css class)
1757 * we included a modified copy of Python 2.4.2's copy.py as some previous
1758 python versions seem to have problems (2.3.x, x < 5 and also 2.4[.0]),
1760 Our own copy.py was slightly modified to run on 2.3.x and 2.4.x.
1761 * Fixed the problem of not being able to change the date/time format back
1762 to "Default" (UserPreferences).
1763 * We generate the GUI editor footer now the same way as the text editor
1765 * Include a CSS workaround for yet another IE bug, see:
1766 MoinMoinBugs:InternetExplorerPeekABooBugInRightSideBar
1767 * classic theme: added GUI editor link
1768 * classic theme: added pagename header to editor screen
1769 * the "mail enabled" check now also checks whether mail_from is set
1772 * Updated FCKeditor to current CVS (2006-01-08 == 2.2+)
1773 * Split up show_hosts into show_hosts and show_names
1774 * attachment:file%20with%20spaces.txt in attachment list
1775 * added support for file:// in GUI editor link dialogue, see also:
1777 * cfg.mail_smarthost now supports "server:port" syntax, the default port
1779 * removed unused kwargs showpage/editable/form from wikiutil.send_footer
1780 * updated i18n (translation texts, additional languages)
1781 * removed interwiki:pagename from print view's top of page, added it to
1782 the "lasted edited" line at bottom right.
1786 HINT: 1.5.0 uses the same data/pages format as 1.3.x. The only thing you want
1787 to check is whether the 1.5.x version you are upgrading to has NEW mig
1788 scripts compared to the version you are running now (e.g. in 1.3.5 we
1789 added some scripts that fixed some small problems).
1790 See the MoinMoin/scripts/migration/ directory.
1791 You must run every mig script in sequence and only ONCE ever.
1793 * Fix <x=y> table attributes parsing. Thanks to Reimar Bauer.
1794 * Fixed a few bugs in the reStructured text parser. Note that you
1795 need to install docutils 0.3.10 or newer (snapshot from December 2005
1796 or newer) to make reStructuring parsing work:
1797 * Case preservation for anonymous links
1798 * MoinMoin links get the appropriate CSS class
1799 * Images do not get special CSS markup anymore
1800 Thanks to Matthew Gilbert.
1801 * Fixed a bug in the WSGI code which led to incorrect exception handling.
1802 * Removed all nationality flags. They used to be used for indicating some
1803 specific language (NOT nationality) and this was simply wrong and a bad
1805 * Fixed some header rendering issues (CSS).
1806 * SystemAdmin macro now checks against cfg.superuser list.
1809 * Added turkish i18n. To be considered as alpha as it got in last minute.
1813 This is the first release candidate of MoinMoin 1.5.0.
1816 * fixed broken logs when a DeletePage (maybe also RenamePage) comment
1817 contained CR/LF characters (could happen when using copy&paste)
1818 * fixed GUI editor MoinEditorBackup page containing HTML instead of wiki
1820 * fixed invalid HTML in FootNotes
1821 * fixed HTML source in EditorBackup after canceling GUI editor
1822 * Footnotes of included pages are not shown at the bottom of the including page.
1823 * Bug in Dict handling that often breaks first entry
1827 * Added SSO module for PHP based apps. Currently supported: eGroupware 1.2.
1828 No need to login in two systems anymore - MoinMoin will read the PHP session
1832 * Improved rendering of bullet lists and external links in Restructured text.
1833 Thanks to Matthew Gilbert.
1834 * Fixed modern theme rendering, including some fixes and workarounds for
1836 * When checking for email uniqueness, do not compare with disabled user
1838 * Fix sending of HTTP headers for Despam action.
1839 * Add some margin left and right of the link icons.
1842 * Made it easier for auth methods needing a user interface (like ldap or
1843 mysql stuff). Unlike http auth, they usually need some "login form".
1844 We made UserPreferences login form values (name, password, login, logout)
1845 available as kw args of the auth method, so it is easy and obvious now.
1846 * Make login and logout show at the same place. Is only shown when
1847 show_login is True (default).
1848 * Disabled login using &uid=12345.67.8910 method. Please use name/password.
1849 * Made builtin moin_cookie authentication more modular: the cookie is now
1850 touched by MoinMoin.auth.moin_cookie only, with one minor discomfort:
1851 When creating a user, you are not automatically logged in any more.
1852 * We now use the packager for additional help and system pages in all other
1853 languages except English. The packages are attached to SystemPagesSetup
1854 page and can be installed from there after getting "superuser" powers.
1855 The "extra" package contains a collection of orphan pages not listed on
1856 some SystemPagesIn<Language>Group page.
1861 * Fixed a minor user interface bug: it showed RenamePage and DeletePage
1862 actions in the menu if you only had write rights and then complained
1863 when you really tried when you had no delete rights additionally.
1864 * We don't remove RenamePage and DeletePage from menu any more if user is
1865 unknown. This stuff is only driven by ACLs now.
1866 * Some fixes to Despam action.
1867 * Fixed moin_dump (broken by some recent theme init change).
1868 * Fixed a few tests by moving the theme init from moin_dump to RequestCLI.
1869 * removed old_onload reference from infobox.js
1870 * Fixed MoinMoin logo for IE.
1871 * search: fixed whitespace handling in linkto: search terms
1872 * Increased stability of the tests system by outputting results to sys.stdout
1873 instead of request. Note that this changes the semantics for e.g. mod_py or
1875 * Fixed packaging system in the case of AddRevision that does not alter the page.
1876 * Fixed a few bugs in the XML formatters (dom_xml, text_xml, xml_docbook).
1877 * Fixed link icons. We now just use a.xxx.before where xxx is the link scheme,
1878 e.g. a.http.before. See theme's common.css.
1879 * Hopefully fixed some issue with non-ASCII attachment filenames.
1880 * Workaround for Opera 8.5 making silly "No addition" categories.
1881 * Do not show GUI editor for non-wiki format pages, because we only have a
1882 converter from html to wiki right now.
1883 * Fix the modern CSS issues for editbar, when it shifted content far right.
1884 Also removed the absolute height value that never was right.
1885 * Fix mod_python adaptor bugs failing to handle Location correctly.
1886 See: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=339543
1889 * Added irc:// to the builtin supported link schemas. You can remove it
1890 from config.url_schemas in case you have patched it in there.
1891 * Added cfg.user_autocreate (default: False). Use True to enable user
1892 profile autocreation, e.g. when you use http authentication, so your
1893 externally authenticated users don't need to create their moin profile
1894 manually. The auth method (see cfg.auth list) must check this setting
1895 if it supports auto creation.
1896 * Added user_autocreate support for auth.http and auth.sslclientcert.
1897 * Added "." and "@" to allowed characters in usernames. This is needed
1898 e.g. when using mod_pubcookie for authentication. mod_pubcookie returns
1899 userids like "geek@ANDREW.CMU.EDU" (e.g. the Kerberos domain is part of
1900 the id). Thanks to Brian E. Gallew for his patch, which we used for
1901 inspiration for user autocreation changes.
1902 * Changed auth method to return a tuple (user_obj, continue_flag), see
1903 comments in auth.py.
1904 * auth methods now create user objects with kw args auth_method and
1905 auth_attribs, so that moin knows later how the user was authenticated
1906 and which user object attributes were determined by the auth method.
1907 * Added MoinMoin/scripts/import/IrcLogImporter.py to import supybot's
1908 IRC logs into a moin wiki. We use MonthCalendar compatible page names,
1909 so you can use the calendar for showing / navigating the logs.
1910 * Removed packager binary from FCKeditor (fixing a Debian policy problem).
1911 * Worked around .png transparency bugs of IE with the new logo. We ship
1912 two logos: moinmoin.png without an alpha channel (IE compatible) and
1913 moinmoin_alpha.png which has an alpha channel and looks better on
1914 browsers with full .png support.
1915 * Allow a .zip file to have a directory in it if it is the only one.
1919 * use <span class="anchor"> instead of <a> for line-xxx anchors, this
1920 fixes some rendering problems on IE
1921 * Fixed the ReStructured text parser when it was used with non-HTML
1922 formatters. Increased compatiblity with new docutils code.
1923 (Thanks to Matt Gilbert.)
1925 * cfg.stylesheets = [] (default). You can use this on wiki or farm level
1926 to emit stylesheets after the theme css and before the user prefs css.
1927 The list entries must be ('screen', '/where/ever/is/my.css') style.
1928 * Added sample code for auth using an external cookie made by some other
1929 program. See contrib/auth_externalcookie/*. You need to edit it to
1930 fit whatever cookie you want to use.
1934 * fixed editor preview throwing away page content for new pages
1935 * require POST for userform save and create* action
1936 * use request.normalizePagename() while collecting pagelinks
1937 * do not offer gui editor for safari
1939 * tell user if account is disabled
1940 * added support for linking to .ico and .bmp
1941 * attachment methods for the text_xml and xml_docbook formatters
1943 * updated i18n (fixed nl, did nobody notice this?) and underlay
1944 * changed show_interwiki default to 0
1949 * fix gui editor (converter) crash on save
1952 * Avoid destroying existing page content if editor is called with
1953 template parameter for an existing page.
1954 * fix countdown javascript for browser status line in editor
1955 * added page title display for editor
1956 * added header div for classic theme
1958 Authentication and related:
1959 * Added a WhoAmI.py wiki xmlrpc plugin to check whether auth works
1960 correctly for xmlrpc. There is a counterpart script WhoAmI.py that
1961 uses http auth when calling the xmlrpc plugin, so you can use it to
1965 * Requirements changed to require Python >= 2.3. We recommend that
1966 you use the latest Python release you can get. The reason we
1967 dropped 2.2.2 support is because no developer or tester uses this
1968 old version any more, so incompatibilities crept in the code
1969 without anybody noticing. Using some recent Python usually is no
1970 real problem, see there for some hints in case you still run an
1971 old python: http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/NewPythonOnOldLinux
1972 The hint also does apply to other POSIX style operating systems,
1974 * We recommend you use MoinMoin/scripts/cachecleaner.py to clean the
1975 wiki's cache (see comments at top of the script).
1976 The cache will automatically be rebuilt (some operations may take
1977 some time when first being used, e.g. linkto: search, so be patient!).
1980 * there is a file CHANGES.config with just the recently changed stuff
1983 * page_front_page old: u"FrontPage" new: u"HelpOnLanguages"
1984 please just read the help page in case you see it :)
1985 * bang_meta old: 0 new: 1
1986 * show_section_numbers old: 1 new: 0
1987 * some regexes that used to be [a-z]Uxxxx$ are now [a-z0-9]Uxxxx$
1988 * navi_bar has no page_front_page as first element any more
1989 * removed settings and code [new behaviour]:
1991 * allow_extended_names [1]
1992 * allow_numeric_entities [1]
1994 * allow_subpages [1]
1996 * cfg.mail_sendmail = "/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i" can be used if sending
1997 via SMTP doesn't work on your server. Default is None and that means
1999 * language_default replaces the old default_lang setting (just renamed).
2000 * language_ignore_browser = True can be used to let moin ignore the
2001 user's browser settings (e.g. if you run a local-language only wiki
2002 and your users use misconfigured or buggy browsers often). Default is
2003 False. Don't forget to set language_default when using this.
2005 * Wiki Editor changes / new WYSIWYG editor
2006 * fully imported the javascript based LGPLed FCKeditor (many thanks
2007 to Fred CK for his great work). See http://fckeditor.net/ for details.
2008 * config for FCKeditor is at wiki/htdocs/applets/moinfckeditor.js
2009 * added cfg.interwiki_preferred (default = []) to set a list of wikis to
2010 show at the top of the wiki selection list when inserting an
2011 interwiki link (just use the same wiki name as in interwiki
2012 map). If the last list item is None, then the preferred wikis
2013 will not be followed by the entries of the interwiki map.
2014 * moved save/preview/... buttons to the top so that they can be
2016 * reduced edit_rows default to 20 lines
2017 * Added support for edit by doubleclick in the diff view
2019 * Improved wiki farm support
2020 * make user files sharable between several wikis in a farm
2021 * allow/use interwiki subscriptions
2022 * use interwiki links in page trail
2023 * save bookmark per wiki name
2024 * cfg.cookie_domain can be used to set a cookie valid for a complete
2025 domain (default: None == only for this host). If you use '.domain.tld',
2026 the cookie will be valid for all hosts *.domain.tld - good for host
2028 * cfg.cookie_path can be used to set a cookie valid for a wiki farm under
2029 some base path (default: None == only for this wiki's path). If you use
2030 '/wikifarm', the cookie will be valid for all wikis
2031 server.tld/wikifarm/* - good for path based wiki farms.
2032 * Interwiki user homepage (if you have MANY users)
2033 Generated links for usernames are interwiki now, use cfg.user_homewiki
2034 (default: 'Self') to specify in which wiki the user home pages are
2035 located. Note: when pointing this to another wiki, the /MoinEditorBackup
2036 functionality will be disabled.
2037 @SIG@ also uses interwiki when needed.
2039 * Authentication, ACLs and related
2040 * Modular authentication: cfg.auth is a list of functions that return a
2041 valid user or None, use it like this:
2042 from MoinMoin.auth import http, moin_cookie
2043 auth = [http, moin_cookie]
2044 * cfg.auth_http_enabled was removed, please use cfg.auth instead.
2045 * http auth now supports "Negotiate" scheme, too
2046 * Added sslclientcert auth method (Apache: untested, Twisted: not
2047 implemented, IIS: no idea). See MoinMoin/auth.py for details.
2048 Submit a patch if you have improvements.
2049 * cfg.superuser is a list of unicode usernames. It is used by some
2050 critical operations like despam action or PackageInstaller.
2051 * removed allowed_actions, we now use actions_excluded only and it
2052 defaults to [], that means, no action is excluded, everything is
2053 allowed (limited by ACLs). In case of RenamePage and DeletePage,
2054 this shouldn't be a problem as both can be reverted. In case you
2055 did not allow attachments, you now have to use:
2056 actions_excluded = ['AttachFile']
2057 * special users (All, Known, Trusted) in Groups are now supported
2058 * MoinMoin.security.autoadmin SecurityPolicy added
2059 When using this security policy, a user will get admin rights on his
2060 homepage (where pagename == username) and its sub pages. This is needed
2061 for the MyPages action, but can also get used for manual ACL changes.
2062 It can also be used for Project page auto admin functionality, see the
2063 comments in the script for details.
2064 Further it can automatically create the user's group pages when the
2065 user saves his homepage.
2066 * there is a UpdateGroup xmlrpc call, see MoinMoin/xmlrpc/UpdateGroup.py -
2067 you can use this to update your *Group pages e.g. when generating them
2068 from an external group database.
2070 * UserPreferences changes
2071 * Alias name: is used for display purposes, when "name" is cryptic. It is
2072 shown e.g. in the title attribute of userid links (displayed when
2073 moving the mouse over it).
2074 * "Publish my email (not my wiki homepage) in author info" - use this
2075 if you don't have a wiki homepage, but if you want to be contactable
2076 by email. When you edit a page, your email address will be published
2077 as mailto: link on RecentChanges, at bottom of page (last editor) and
2078 in page info. If the wiki runs publically on the internet, be careful
2079 using this or your email address might be collected by spammers.
2080 * Preferred Editor: whether you want to use the text editor (as in
2081 previous moin versions), the gui editor (new!) or both (you will get
2082 2 edit links in that case).
2083 * a user can add/remove the current page to/from his quicklinks with an
2084 appropriate action now
2085 * if cfg.user_email_unique = False, we don't require user's email
2086 addresses to be unique
2087 * removed show_fancy_links user preferences setting to simplify code and
2088 caching. Displaying those icons is now done by CSS styles (see
2089 common.css). Maybe needs fixing for non-standard themes and RTL langs.
2092 * added strikethrough markup: --(striked through text here)--
2093 * @ME@ expands to just the plain username (no markup added) on save
2096 * when a user accesses his own non-existing homepage (pagename ==
2097 username), the wiki will present the MissingHomePage system page
2098 content, explaining what a user homepage is good for and offer
2099 one-click editing it with content loaded from HomepageTemplate
2100 * creation of homepage subpages is assisted by the MyPages action, which
2101 offers rw, ro page creation (and a related group) or creation of private
2102 pages. If you are not in the user_homewiki, you will get redirected
2105 Other changes/new features:
2106 * Added PackageInstaller and unzipping support (see wiki page
2107 HelpOnActions/AttachFile for further details). PackageInstaller requires
2108 the user to be in cfg.superuser list.
2109 * Added an PackagePages action to simplify the package creation.
2110 * Added location breadcrumbs - when you are on some subpage, the page
2111 title parts link to the corresponding parent pages, the last part does
2112 the usual reverse linking.
2113 * added WSGI server support, thanks to Anakim Border, see:
2114 wiki/server/moinwsgi.py (moin as WSGI app, uses the flup WSGI server,
2115 see http://www.saddi.com/software/flup/)
2116 MoinMoin/server/wsgi.py (adaptor code)
2117 * added a "Despam" action to make de-spamming a wiki easy (mass revert
2118 bad changes done by a single author or bot). You need to be in
2119 cfg.superuser to use it.
2120 * Better diffs with links to anchors to the changed places
2121 * Enhanced table support in the DocBook formatter.
2122 * Added 'moin' daemon script, that let you run moin standalone
2123 server as daemon and control the server with simple command line
2124 intreface: moin start | stop | restart | kill
2125 * Add 'restart' option to mointwisted script
2126 * Add properties option to standalone server config. Allow
2127 overriding any request property like in other server types.
2128 * Add support for running behind proxy out of the box with out
2130 See HelpOnConfiguration/IntegratingWithApache
2131 * added a WikiBackup action, configure it similar to this:
2132 data_dir = "/path/to/data"
2133 backup_include = [data_dir, ] # you can add other dirs here
2134 backup_users = ["BackupUserName", ] # only TRUSTED users!
2135 You usually don't need to change the default backup_exclude setting.
2136 The default backup_include list is EMPTY and so will be your
2137 backup in case you don't configure it correctly.
2138 If you put your data_dir there, the backup will contain private
2139 user data like email addresses and encrypted passwords.
2140 * Added a SubscribeUser action which allows the administrator to subscribe users to the
2142 * Added thread count to SystemInfo macro.
2143 * 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.
2144 * Added a RenderAsDocbook action which redirects to the DocBook formatter.
2145 * Added searching for wiki-local words lists under <data_dir>/dict/.
2146 They are used additionally to the global lists in MoinMoin/dict/.
2147 * moin_dump now also dumps attachments referenced from the page.
2148 It doesn't dump stuff that is just attached, but not referenced!
2149 * On RecentChanges we now force the comment to be breakable, this improves
2150 rendering of over-long words or on narrow browser windows - especially
2151 for themes with limited content width like rightsidebar.
2152 * We now have the "new" icon on RecentChanges clickable, just links to the
2154 * Print view now shows "interwikiname: pagename" (for show_interwiki = 1).
2156 International support:
2157 * mail_from can be now a unicode name-address
2158 e.g u'Jürgen wiki <noreply@jhwiki.org>'
2161 * logo_string is now should be really only the logo (img).
2162 If you included your wiki's name in logo_string you maybe want to remove
2163 it now as it is shown as part of the location display now anyway (if
2164 you set show_interwiki = 1).
2165 * You maybe want to remove page_front_page from your navi_bar - we link to
2166 that page now from the logo and (new, if you set show_interwiki = 1) from
2167 the interwiki name displayed in location display, so you maybe don't need
2168 it in navi_bar, too.
2169 * If you have a custom theme, you should / may:
2170 * sync modern/css/screen.css #pagelocation #pagetrail stuff to your
2171 screen.css or pagelocation display (title()) will look strange (like a
2173 * remove "#title h1 ..." CSS (or any other CSS assuming h1 is a page
2174 title and not just a first level heading), it is not used any more.
2175 * we now render = heading = as <h1> (was <h2> before 1.5),
2176 == heading == as <h2> (was <h3>), etc.
2177 * maybe move both title() and trail() to header area, like the builtin
2179 * there is a new interwiki() base theme method that optionally (if
2180 show_interwiki = 1) shows the interwiki name of this wiki and links to
2181 page_front_page. The css for it is #interwiki.
2184 * Plugin API was improved. When plugin module is missing,
2185 wikiutil.PluginMissingError is raised. When trying to import a
2186 missing name from a plugin module, wikiutil.PluginMissingError is
2187 raised. You must update any code that use wikiutil.importPlugin.
2188 Errors in your plugin should raise now correct tracebacks. See
2189 http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/ErrorHandlingInPlugins
2190 * pysupport.importName was changed, it does not check for any
2191 errors when trying to import a name from a module. The calling
2192 code should check for ImportError or AttributeError. Previous
2193 code used to hide all errors behind None.
2194 * Its easier now to customize the editbar by overriding
2195 editbarItems() in your theme, and returning a list of items to
2196 display in the editbar. To change a single editbar link, override
2197 one of the xxxLink methods in your theme.
2200 * request.formatter (html) is available for actions now
2201 * theme API's d['page_home_page'] is gone (sorry) and replaced by
2202 d['home_page'] which is either None or tuple (wikiname,pagename).
2203 It is better to use the base classes function for username/prefs anyway.
2204 * introduced cfg.hacks for internal use by development, see comment in
2205 multiconfig.py and file HACKS.
2206 * added IE7 (v0.9) from Dean Edwards (see http://dean.edwards.name/IE7/) -
2207 that should fix quite some IE bugs and annoyances (on Win32).
2208 * for enabling IE7, use cfg.hacks = { 'ie7': True }
2209 * reducewiki now also copies all attachments (we use that to make underlay
2210 directory from moinmaster wiki's data_dir)
2213 * Fixed a typo in xslt.py which led to a traceback instead of an
2214 error message in case of disabled XSLT support.
2215 * Fixed crash in twisted server if twisted.internet.ssl is not
2217 * Fixed wrong decoding of query string, enable wiki/?page_name urls
2218 with non ascii page names.
2219 * Fixed wrong display of non ascii attachments names in
2220 RecentChanges and page revision history.
2221 * Fixed a crash when trying to run standalone server on non posix os.
2222 * Fixed highlight of misspelled words in Check Spelling action.
2223 * Fixed case insensitivity problems on darwin (Mac OS X). See
2225 * Added RecentChanges (only the english one) to the pages getting
2226 html_head_index headers
2227 * text_html cache files written with this code will invalidate themselves
2228 if they detect to be older than the wikiconfig. Note: you should remove
2229 all old text_html cache files once after upgrading, they will then be
2230 rebuilt automatically with the new code.
2232 * Fixed the word_rule: a word like AAAbbAbb isn't teared into two parts
2233 any more (was: AA<link>AbbAbb</link>)
2234 * Fixed false positive InterWiki markup for languages like Finnish.
2235 InterWiki links are only rendered if the left side has an appropriate
2236 entry in the interwiki map, otherwise it is rendered as simple text.
2237 * Fixed unicode error when uploding non-ascii file name using mod
2239 * Fixed error handling of wikirpc requests, should give more
2240 correct errors and prevent no error output and blocking the
2241 client in some cases.
2242 * Fixed the "lost password" mail processing. If a user entered some email
2243 address unknown to the system, he was not notified of this, but just got
2244 a useless mail with no account data in it. Now the system directly tells
2245 the user that he entered an unknown email address.
2246 * Fixed SystemInfo, it now also lists parsers in data/plugin/parser dir.
2247 * Fix error handling on failure, improved error display
2248 * Fix error handling when importing plugins or importing modules
2249 dynamically. The fix is not backward compatible with older plugins.
2250 * Fix chart action, returns a page with error message when chart
2252 * Fixed formatter usage in the ShowSmileys macro.
2253 * Fixed updating pagelinks cache for [:page:text] or [wiki:Self:page text],
2254 fixes display of LocalSiteMap and rendering of such links.
2255 * Hopefully fixed urllib problems (esp. with py 2.4.2, but also before) by
2256 using our own urllib wrapper that handles encoding/decoding to/from
2257 unicode, see wikiutil.py. Also made a similar fix for making and parsing
2259 * Fixed MonthCalendar tooltips when containing special chars like quotes.
2260 * Added html escaping for diff text for RSS feed with diff=1.
2261 * The distance between page content beginning and the first = heading =
2262 was much too much. Fixed.
2266 We used that version number for an internal and early development version
2267 for what will be called moin 2.0 at some time in the future.
2268 There will never be a 1.4.x release.
2271 Version 1.3.5 (2005-08-04, Revision moin--main--1.3--patch-883)
2274 * small CSS fix for rightsidebar theme
2275 * applied some Debian patches (thanks to Jonas!):
2276 * de i18n spelling fixes
2277 * AttachFile fix, we strip CR in .draw files now
2278 * when loading spellcheck dictionaries, we want utf-8, but we make
2279 a 2nd try with iso-8859-1 encoding.
2283 * enabled using https with the Twisted server:
2284 You need to use port 443, have PyOpenSSL (+ ssl libs it depends on)
2285 installed and have some site key and certificate PEM files configured in
2286 your twistedmoin.py file:
2287 sslcert = ('/whereever/cert/sitekey.pem', '/whereever/cert/sitecert.pem')
2290 Version 1.3.5rc1 (2005-07-31, Revision moin--main--1.3--patch-865)
2294 * Fixed security bug when acl of deleted page was ignored. See:
2296 * AttachFile did not display the original filename plus there
2297 was a confusion in input field labelling ('Rename to').
2298 * Fixed shortcut link non-existent page detection.
2299 * Fixed non-working bookmark function on python 2.2.x.
2300 * Fixed wikirpc getPageInfo call on python 2.2.x.
2301 * Fixed the failing import of plugins from the data/plugin/
2302 directories if run in zipimport environments.
2303 * Fixed traceback which occurred on negated searches.
2304 * Fixed crash when trying to render error message on twisted, fast
2306 * Fixed error message with modpy, used to show wrong errors below
2308 * Fixed search and goto text fields for better compatibility with
2309 dark themes and better control through css.
2310 * Show an edit link if MissingPage is missing and a warning in the
2312 * Fixed missing footer in the editor.
2313 * Fixed indented (invalid) headings with broken links in table of
2315 * Fixed crash when file name is too long, show standard error message.
2316 * Save trail file in a safe way, should be enough for normal use.
2317 * Fixed remember_last_visit user preferences option when show_trail
2319 * Fixed the tests for Standalone, Twisted, FastCGI and Mod_Python.
2320 Run with ?action=test from any page.
2321 * Fixed rare bug when wrong search type was performed when pasting
2322 search term in Safari.
2323 * Fixed crash for custom formatters and dom_xml (which occurred if
2324 smileys were in the page).
2325 * Editor opens on double click in pages with single quote in the
2326 name, like "Ben's Wiki".
2327 * '/.' in page names are not replaced any more by '/(2e)'
2328 * Fixed the long delays while saving pages using RequestCLI.
2329 * Fixed variable expanding for users with non WikiName.
2330 * Fixed MonthCalendar's calculation of "today" to use the user's
2332 * Fixed moin_dump script, use same configuration options as other
2334 * Fixed url_mappings to work in proxied setups and sent mails
2335 again. Also fixed for image links. Thanks to JohannesBerg.
2336 * Fixed page shown after saving a drawing (esp. when saved from a
2337 sub page). Fixed help link for drawings.
2338 * Fixed mig10 script to run on Python < 2.3.
2339 * The twisted server defaulted to a socket timeout of 12 hours!
2340 We reduced that to a more sane 10 minutes, that should still be more
2341 than enough. This fixed the "too many open files" problem we
2342 encountered quite often recently. Thanks to Helmut Grohne!
2347 * Added cz, pt and pt-br i18n.
2348 * We send a 404 http status code for nonexisting wiki pages now,
2349 maybe this will repell some search engines from requesting gone
2350 pages again and again. The wiki user still sees the MissingPage
2351 wiki stuff, so a user usually won't notice this change.
2352 * Return 500 error code on failure and exceptions.
2353 * Added some more bot / leech tool user agent strings.
2354 * Prevent page floating elements from floating out of the page over
2355 the footer, in modern, rightsidebar and classic themes.
2356 * Encode URLs in a safer way
2357 * We allow usernames with ' character in them now (like Tim O'Brian).
2358 * Added support for the new security flags in docutils 0.3.9.
2359 * @MAILTO@ expands now to safer [[MailTo()]] macro.
2360 * Clarified and i18ned lost password mails.
2361 * Added 'TitleIndex' and 'SiteNavigation' (+ translation) to the
2362 list of pages that use html_head_index (so that robots
2363 "index,follow"). Please make sure to have either FindPage,
2364 TitleIndex or SiteNavigation in your navi_bar or in your
2365 page_front_page content if you want search engines to find all
2367 * Make it possible to send account data when being logged in (for
2368 future reference or whatever purpose).
2369 * Speed up when running with persistent servers, the wiki config
2370 does only get loaded once and misc. stuff is being cached between
2372 * The unit tests are disabled when using multi threading, because
2373 the wiki configuration is shared between diffrent threads.
2374 * The main code path (using standalone server) of MoinMoin runs on
2376 * Formatters do automatically transform HTML to plain text if they are
2377 called with raw HTML code.
2378 * Using larger socket backlog on Standalone and FastCGI servers
2379 should be more reliable on high load.
2380 * We now strip leading path from attachments uploaded by IE (this is
2381 a bug in IE, not in MoinMoin). Better use a sane browser, like Firefox.
2382 * added "teleport" to the user agent blacklist
2386 * Integrated Lupy indexer for better search performance. It is disabled
2387 by default as of 1.3.5 as it still has known issues.
2388 See multiconfig.py if you want to test it.
2389 * Integrated MonthCalendar 2.1, with some new features:
2390 * a mouseover bubble that shows first level headlines of the linked
2392 * all calendars with same pagename move when using cal navigation,
2393 thanks to Oliver Graf
2394 * included AnnualMonthlyCalendar patch of Jonathan Dietrich
2395 (use [[MonthCalendar(Yearly,,,+1,,6,1)]] syntax for birthdays and
2396 other annually repeating stuff)
2397 Make sure you remove old MonthCalendar.* from data/plugin/macro so that
2398 moin will use the new code in MoinMoin/macro/MonthCalendar.py.
2399 Maybe also clear the text_html cache.
2400 * Added the new XSLT parser and the DocBook parser. This should increase
2401 the 4suite compatiblity. See HelpOnXmlPages for details.
2402 It now should run on 4suite 1.0a4 and 1.0b1. Thanks to Henry Ho!
2403 * Added the DocBook formatter. This will let you generate DocBook markup
2404 by writing simple wiki pages. It needs PyXML.
2405 * It is now possible to customize parts of the UserPreferences page in
2406 your wikiconfig (changing defaults, disabling fields, removing fields):
2407 * Use user_checkbox_* for the checkboxes.
2408 * Use user_form_* for other fields.
2409 * See MoinMoin/multiconfig.py for the built-in defaults.
2410 * New standalone server classes: ThreadPoolServer using pool of
2411 threads, ThreadingServer with thread limit and ForkingServer.
2412 * New standalone server configuration options: serverClass,
2413 threadLimit, requestQueueSize.
2414 * Use "PythonOption Location" in mod_python setup to solve script_name
2419 * Theme can now override maxPagenameLength() method to control page
2421 * A search Match now provides access to the full re match via
2422 the re_match attribute (use to access groups of the match)
2423 * Underlay is not managed by arch any more. The tree contains an
2424 underlay tarball, and you should untar after you update from main.
2425 * "make update-underlay" will untar underlay
2426 * "make merge" will star-merge main into your tree
2427 * "make test" will now create and run in a fresh testwiki instace
2428 * "make clean" options added
2429 * _tests module does not have a global request any more. To refer to
2430 the current request in a test, use self.request.
2431 * _tests.TestConfig class require a request in the constructor.
2432 * "python tests/runtests.py test_module" will run only test_module
2433 * request.cfg stays between requests (for persistent servers).
2436 Version 1.3.4 (2005-03-13, Revision moin--main--1.3--patch-666)
2440 * Fixed ACL check in LikePages macro that caused links to unreadable
2442 * Fixed ACL check in newpage action.
2443 * Fixed a security problem when admin policy defined in a custom
2444 SecurityPolicy class was ignored.
2445 * Fixed ACL check in action=show so that a user who may not read a page
2446 also can't find out WHEN the protected page was updated.
2447 * Workaround on Windows 95, 98, ME in order to clear the dircache.
2448 This fixes some bugs related to an outdated page list and newly created
2449 pages that did not appear immediately.
2450 * Fixed decoding issues of page names on Windows, finally.
2452 * Fixed traceback on IIS.
2454 * Fixed wikirpc for standalone server.
2455 * Other fixes (encoding and str/unicode data type related) to wikirpc
2456 server, fixing some non-ascii issues hopefully.
2457 * Fixed broken query strings for Standalone installations.
2458 * Fixed backlinks - the result did not always show all links, often it
2460 * Fixed the acceptance of the show_hosts setting. Now you should be able
2461 to hide any IP or host name from being published by MoinMoin by enabling
2463 * Fixed wrong line endings on email messages.
2465 * Fixed crash when trail file is missing.
2466 * Fixed a traceback when searching for single ( or ).
2467 * Added mig10 script to fix crashes with uncoverted edit-locks and file
2468 attachments. Just use it as you did with mig1..mig9 before.
2469 * Added mig11 script to add __init__.py files to data/plugin (and below).
2470 * added some fixes for the xslt parser (thanks to fanbanlo), it might be
2471 still broken, but someone with deeper knowledge about xslt should fix it.
2472 * Replaced image link with W3C's "html 4.01 compliance" icon by a simple
2473 text link to avoid https: or config trouble.
2474 * Catch OverflowError backtrace when illegal date strings (e.g. <1970 or
2475 >2038) are fed to moinmoin's time routines. It will just output current
2476 date / time in those cases.
2477 * UserPreferences now also set a date_fmt preference and Date macro
2478 honours it. You may have to reset your UserPreferences value for that.
2479 * Fixed free parent and subpage links in interwiki notation.
2481 * Fixed a traceback for invalid ReST markup.
2482 * Fixed UnicodeError in SystemAdmin's Attachment Browser.
2486 * Optimized the IRC parser.
2487 * Support for zipimport of the MoinMoin package. This allows you to use
2488 py2exe and similar programs.
2489 * Show the editor's name in the mail subject.
2490 * Added the pragmas description and keywords. They will add <meta> headers
2492 * Added MoinMoin/scripts/xmlrpc-tools/putPageTest.py example script, useful
2493 as a starting point for importing data using wiki xmlrpc.
2494 * Optimised display on Opera browser.
2498 * The search modifier "linkto:" was introduced. You can use it to search
2500 * The NewPage macro now can take a PageTemplate parameter, see HelpOnMacros.
2501 * New config settings (so you don't need to edit wikirpc.py any more):
2502 xmlrpc_putpage_enabled = 0 (if 1, enables writing to arbitrary page names)
2503 xmlrpc_putpage_trusted_only = 1 (if 0, doesn't require users to be
2504 authenticated by http auth - DANGEROUS, DO NOT SET TO 0!!!)
2505 * Added support for Digest and NTLM authentication with CGI (e.g. if you
2506 use those Apache modules)
2507 * The datetime string accepted by Date and DateTime macros was extended to
2508 accept a timezone specification, so now +/-HHMM is also valid, e.g.:
2509 2005-03-06T15:15:57Z (UTC, same as +0000)
2510 2005-03-06T15:15:57+0000 (UTC)
2511 2005-03-06T16:15:57+0100 (same time given as local time for time zone
2512 with offset +0100, that is CET, e.g. Germany)
2513 2005-03-06T10:15:57-0500 (same time given as local time for time zone
2514 with offset -0500, EST, US Eastern Std. Time)
2515 The values given as macro argument will be transformed to UTC internally
2516 and then adapted again according to viewing user's UserPreferences, so
2517 the user will see the same moment in time but shown in his local time
2518 zone's time (at least if he set his UserPreferences correctly and didn't
2519 forget changing them twice a year for DST and non-DST).
2520 * Readded (now optional) editlink footer to Include macro. Add
2521 ',editlink' to call to enable this.
2522 * star "smileys" e.g. {*}{*}{*}{o}{o}
2525 Version 1.3.3 (2005-01-24, Revision moin--main--1.3--patch-595)
2529 * fixed ACL security problem in search
2530 * fix for IIS with CGI allowing page names that contain chars
2531 that are not in the system code page
2532 * fixed MoinEditorBackup revisions to start with 1 now
2533 * improved page locking ('current' file)
2534 * Unittests (normally shown at end of action=test output) are currently
2535 disabled for everything except CGI, because they only work reliably with
2536 CGI, giving wrong results for other request methods.
2539 Version 1.3.2 (2005-01-23, Revision moin--main--1.3--patch-587)
2543 * ACL bugfix for deleted pages with ACL protection.
2544 * ACL bugfix for "Default" acl.
2545 * Fixed updating of groups and dicts
2546 * Python 2.2.x related fixes (worked on 2.3+)
2547 * Fixed traceback in RecentChanges.
2548 * Fixed traceback with links browser.
2549 * Fixed 0 revision display in 'Show changes'.
2550 * Fixed traceback in Antispam which occurred when it could not connect
2551 to MoinMaster. Log the errors to stderr or error.log.
2552 * Fixed bug in Page init (no date, use rev). Fixes problem with
2554 * Fixed empty lists in empty search results.
2555 * Cosmetic fix for modern theme (when viewed with Internet Explorer).
2556 * Fixed migration 9 script, do not drop newline, do not drop error.log,
2557 note about missing error.log.
2558 * Fixed repair_language.py script, keep ending newline on revisions.
2559 * Show headings and macro content in correct direction when mixing content
2560 in several directions in the same page and using caching.
2561 * Fixed bug in standalone re farmconfig.
2562 * Fixed DOS condition in antispam code.
2563 * Use smaller margin in print mode to get better results with
2565 * Fixed some user input escaping issues.
2566 * Fixed a problem when one wiki plugin override other wikis plugins in
2568 * Fixed some broken tests.
2569 * Fixed recursive include in pstats.
2570 * Fixed bug in standalone - HTTP result code was 200 even when the access
2572 * Fixed traceback when trying to login with non-ascii password.
2573 * Fixed traceback when xml is not available, reported on Python 2.2.?
2574 * Fixed slideshow to show slides in sorted order again.
2575 * Fixed serving multiple wikis on same IP/different ports with twisted and
2577 * It is possible to run with data_underlay_dir = None for special
2578 application, but be aware that the wiki won't be usable unless you have
2579 at least some of the system pages from underlay/ available.
2580 * Files with Unicode characters in their filename are possible now.
2581 * Bugfix for broken [:page#anchor:text] links.
2582 * Workaround an instability of the gdchart module leading to
2583 stalled servers etc.
2584 * Fixed some event-log decoding issues that affect charts rendering.
2588 * Major speed improvement over 1.3.1. Many times faster title search,
2589 creating new page, opening page editor and any operation that list pages.
2590 See http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/MoinBenchmarks
2591 * Improved README.migration.
2592 * Cleaner design for login/register interface, login is always the default
2593 button when the user click Enter.
2594 * If there are problems found in the configuration, log the error
2595 and display helpful error messages in the browser.
2596 * More forgiving unicode configuration policy, you must use the u'string'
2597 format only for unicode values.
2598 * Added profiling to CGI.
2599 * The content of farmconfig.py is similar to wikiconfig.py now.
2600 * Unexpected errors while loading cache files are logged.
2601 * i18n for icon ALT tags.
2602 * Include request initialization code in the profile in standalone server.
2603 * When creating new theme, style sheets are inherited correctly, no need
2604 to override style sheets just to get them working.
2605 * Many times faster plugin system. Typical pages are about 35% faster,
2606 pages with many plugins can be many times faster.
2607 * Spiders are allowed to fetch attachments.
2608 * Old user files containing password hash encoded in pre 1.3 charset
2609 are auto repaired on first login.
2610 * data_dir defaults to './data', underlay_data_dir to './underlay' now.
2611 It is a good idea to replace those by absolute pathes in wikiconfig.py.
2612 * Renamed "Refresh" to "Delete Cache" - it was misused by users. The action
2613 was also moved into the action menu in the modern and rightsidebar themes.
2614 * Added a workaround for TableOfContents missing some links by making it
2615 uncacheable via a "time" dependency.
2616 * Removed interwiki icon and title attribute for wiki:Self:... links.
2617 * Unittests (normally shown at end of action=test output) are currently
2618 disabled because they worked unreliably, giving wrong results sometimes.
2622 * Create new pages easily using configurable interface and page templates
2623 with the new NewPage macro.
2624 * ReStructuredText (rst) support is built-in now. See HelpOnParsers.
2625 * New experimental feature in mointwisted.py - each interface may
2626 specify a port: '12.34.56.78:80'. Without a port, the port option
2632 * wikiutil.importPlugin's first argument is now a wiki config instance
2633 (request.cfg) and there is no path keyword.
2634 * Wiki plugins always override MoinMoin plugins. wikiutil.importPlugin
2635 implements this override.
2636 * util.pysupport.importName does not accept path - you should call
2637 it with correct module name, e.g 'wikiconfig.plugin.parser.wiki' for
2638 wiki plugins, or 'MoinMoin.parser.wiki'.
2639 * wikiutil.extensionPlugin was renamed to wikiPlugins and it gets config
2640 instance instead of path.
2641 * New function wikiutil.importWikiPlugin used to import wiki plugins
2642 using a cache in a thread safe way.
2643 * New config option config.use_threads is used to activate thread
2645 * New keyword arguments for getPageList, enable 10X faster operation
2646 for common cases by controlling page filtering.
2647 * New up to 100X times faster getPageCount
2650 Version 1.3.1 (2004-12-13, Revision moin--main--1.3--patch-434)
2654 * Fixed "Error Cyclic usage" crash when user had Italian (it), Korean
2655 (ko), Serbian (sr) or Vietnamese (vi) as user interface language.
2656 * Fall back to en (instead of crashing) when user uses a language moin
2657 does not support / does not support any more (like pt,sv,fi,sr).
2658 * In 1.3.0, people accidentally put iso-8859-1 chars into wiki configs,
2659 but those where expected to be pure utf-8 and thus it crashed.
2660 Fixed by using unicode strings (varname = u'whatever'), a matching
2661 encoding setting (see top of script comment) and, when decoding strings,
2662 using decode to ASCII with replace mode (this replaces non-ASCII chars,
2663 but at least it won't crash - and you get a warning to better use
2665 * Fixed long time broken table formatting. ||<style="see css spec" a||b||
2666 Now even generates valid HTML! The old markup for align, valign, width,
2667 bgcolor still works, but synthesizes style attribute data.
2668 * SystemAdmin macro shows attachments of ALL pages now.
2669 * Users without write acl rights will be able to see attachments again and
2670 also have AttachFile action in menu.
2671 * Fixed wrong match count in search results, find all matches in page
2672 titles, show all matches in contents in some rare cases.
2673 * Run about 200% faster with long running processes (standalone, Twisted),
2674 about 20% faster with cgi, by better internal data handling in wikidicts.
2675 * On SF, the dict files use utf-8 encoding now. We included them also in
2676 distribution, see contrib/dict/.
2677 * Fixed permissions to shared template stuff.
2678 * Speeded up search, fixed wrong match counts.
2679 * Speeded up internal data handling (wikidicts).
2680 * Fixed rare unicode error after deleting a page (reported only on SuSE
2681 Linux 9.0 / Python 2.3.0).
2682 * Fixed file permissions of files in the data dir.
2683 * Fixed some cosmetic problems in migration scripts and use sys.path.insert
2684 to get latest moin code when executing them.
2688 * Improved docs, system and help pages.
2689 * Updated translation files.
2693 * Internet Explorer renders our HTML/CSS in a suboptimal way.
2695 Workaround: use a non-broken browser like FireFox / Mozilla.
2696 Fixed in MoinMoin 1.3.2.
2697 * Passwords using non-ascii do not work.
2699 * The TOC macro is broken partly.
2702 * See also: http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/MoinMoinBugs
2705 Version 1.3.0 (2004-12-06, Revision moin--main--1.3--patch-400)
2707 As you see from the length of the 1.3 changes below, 1.3 is a major(!)
2708 upgrade. We could have also named it "2.0", but we decided against.
2709 So take the time for reading the informations thoroughly and do the
2710 migration exactly as we tell you - this is no 5 minutes upgrade!
2712 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2713 !!! We heavily changed configuration, data encoding, dir layout: !!!
2714 !!! * the default encoding changed to utf-8. !!!
2715 !!! * also, we changed the escaping for special chars to %XX%YY in !!!
2716 !!! URL and (xxyy) in file system. !!!
2717 !!! * layout of data dir changed completely !!!
2718 !!! If you upgrade an existing wiki, you must run the migration !!!
2719 !!! scripts or you will get data corruption or other problems. !!!
2720 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2722 HINT: Upgrading your wiki - critical information
2724 If you are NOT starting from scratch, you MUST convert your existing
2725 data - see README.migration for details.
2727 If you use ##language: xx comments on your OWN pages, you should also run
2728 repair_language script. Not needed for help/system pages as we already
2729 have done that for you.
2731 MoinMoin uses Unicode internally now (UCS-2 with 16 bits or UCS-4 with
2732 32 bits, depending on your Python installation). The encoding used
2733 for page files and html output is set by config.charset.
2735 Moin 1.3 uses utf-8 encoding only, there is NO SUPPORT for using a
2736 charset different from utf-8 with 1.3. If you try, you are on your own.
2740 Directory layout was heavily changed. Each page now is a directory,
2741 containing page revisions, attachments, cache files and edit-log.
2743 You can delete a page or move a page from one wiki to another
2744 easily. Look at the wiki/data directory to see.
2747 old: data/text/FrontPage
2748 new: data/pages/FrontPage/revisions/00000042
2749 data/pages/FrontPage/current (contains: 00000042)
2750 old: data/backup/FrontPage.xxxxxxxx
2751 new: data/pages/FrontPage/revisions/00000023
2753 For cleaning up cache files, use MoinMoin/scripts/cachecleaner.py
2754 (see comments in script).
2758 * For using RSS, you need to have PyXML installed:
2759 Python 2.4* -> PyXML 0.8.4 (cvs version)
2760 Python 2.3.x -> PyXML 0.8.3
2761 Python 2.2.2+ -> ???
2762 This will also make "Live Bookmarks" of Mozilla Firefox working.
2763 New: if you don't have PyXML installed, the RSS icon on RecentChanges
2764 will not be displayed any more. Python with no PyXML installed
2765 generates invalid RSS XML.
2769 * Handling of special characters in file names changed from _xx format
2771 * In URLs, moin now uses %xx%yy quoting, (because this is supported by
2772 browsers), and sub pages use "/" instead of the ugly "_2f".
2773 * Underscore character "_" is used now as a space character " " both
2774 in file names and URLs. " " and "_" will be handled equivalent at most
2775 places in the future (represented as "_", rendered as " ").
2776 * To prevent wiki abuse and user typing errors, page names are normalized
2777 in URLs, query strings, the "go" box and when renaming pages. This
2778 include leading, trailing and multiple slashes and white space. Certain
2779 invisible unicode characters are removed from page names.
2780 * Group page names are restricted even more, any non unicode alpha-numeric
2781 character is removed. This is done to enable changing acl syntax in
2782 the future. The restriction might be loosen on future versions.
2783 * You can edit config.page_invalid_chars_regex to control which characters
2784 are allowed in page names (Changing it is not supported).
2785 * When you enter page name, it is normalized and you are redirected to
2786 the normalized page, or if nothing left (e.g '/////'), to FrontPage.
2787 * When renaming a page to a name that can be normalized to an empty string,
2788 the new page name will be "EmptyName" and the user will not get an
2793 * Pages (especially system and help pages) are now located in an underlay
2794 directory (data_underlay_dir). You will see the pages there if they are
2795 NOT covered (overlayed) by a page in the normal pages directory
2796 (as set using data_dir).
2797 MAKE SURE THAT data_underlay_dir IS CORRECT OR YOU WILL SEE MANY EMPTY
2798 PAGES ONLY IN A NEW WIKI.
2799 * If you edit a page that is shown from underlay directory, it will be
2800 copied to the normal page directory on save (copy-on-write).
2801 * You can use one copy of the underlay directory shared by many
2802 wiki instances. Each wiki will then have only your local, self-made
2803 wiki pages in its data directory, and only system and help pages in the
2804 single, shared underlay directory - this simplifies upgrades a lot.
2805 * It is recommended to keep your underlay system and help pages immutable
2806 using acl, so you can upgrade your wiki easily. The default help and
2807 system pages already have those ACLs (using MoinPagesEditorGroup).
2808 * Do not forget to remove your old help and system pages after migrating
2809 your wiki. We don't provide a script for that as that would be
2810 dangerous for edited pages. Just use some file manager (e.g. mc) to
2811 clean the data/pages/ directory. As soon as you have removed the
2812 system pages there, you will see the new pages in the underlay dir.
2813 See the EditedSystemPages page for a list of pages that exist in both
2814 data and underlay directory (use this page as admin!).
2816 When updating from 1.2 or lower to 1.3 or higher, you will want to
2817 clean out the copies of the system pages in your {{{wiki/data}}}
2818 directory. All of these pages will now reside in the underlay
2819 directory. If you have system pages from 1.2 or lower in your
2820 wiki/data/ directory, they will overshadow the more up-to-date
2821 documentation. This can be done using the following manual procedure:
2822 1. You have just converted from 1.2 or lower to post-1.3.
2823 2. Go to your wiki's EditedSystemPages.
2824 3. Find all the pages that are MoinMoin system or help pages. You will
2825 know if it is one of those pages because it is not your page.
2826 4. Check if it is okay to delete by either:
2827 1. Using the this page "info" link and check the Revision History to
2828 see if it is greater than 1. If so, there are modifications, so do
2829 not delete the page and evaluate the modifications to see if they
2831 2. Using your file browser (Windows Explorer, etc) to go to your
2832 wiki/data/<<systemPage>>/revisions/ directory and to see if there
2833 are no modifications. If there are, do not delete the page and
2834 evaluate the modifications to see if they are necessary.
2835 5. Delete that wiki/data/<<systemPage>> using your file browser.
2839 * New file name quoting method allow 50% longer page names in languages
2840 that use more than one byte per character, like Hebrew, Korean etc.
2841 * Configuration file uses 'utf-8' encoding now. Certain values that are
2842 marked with [Unicode] can use any character in your language. Examples
2843 are page names in navi_bar, page types regular expressions and site name.
2844 * For configuration examples adopted to your language, check ConfigMarket
2845 in the MoinMoin wiki.
2846 * The system and help pages that come with moin are now in utf-8.
2847 * MissingPage system page localized, should display in your language.
2848 * We did many i18n (translation) updates.
2849 * CSS file use utf-8 encoding. User css is also expected to be utf-8.
2850 This is relevant only if you use non-ASCII values in the CSS file.
2851 * config.upperletters and config.lowerletters were removed.
2852 We now use a pre-made ucs-2 spanning set and you usually don't have to
2853 change it. See MoinMoin/util/chartypes.py if you're interested.
2854 * ACL works with any user name or group name in any language, even names
2856 * Now you can use any charset in config.charset. Note: only utf-8 is
2857 a supported configuration!
2858 * Improved url handling, now creating pages directly from the browser
2859 url box with non-ascii names works in most cases, even when
2860 config.charset is not utf-8.
2861 * When using non-utf-8 config.charset, characters in URLs that does
2862 fit in the charsets are replaced with "?" (instead of crashing).
2863 * All themes and most macros and actions are Right to Left friendly.
2864 Full RTL support planned for 1.3 release.
2865 * If page language is specified with #language processing instruction
2866 the page is displayed in the correct direction. Pages without
2867 language are displayed using the wiki default_lang.
2869 Multiple configurations
2871 * You can run multiple wikis from the same wiki directory or server.
2872 For example, you can run one Twisted server that serve multiple wikis,
2873 instead of running multiple servers. Samples of the new configuration
2874 are supplied in wiki/config/*.
2875 * You can't just use your old moin_config.py file. It is now called
2876 wikiconfig.py and the config variables now have to be in a class
2877 "Config" and that class must inherit from
2878 MoinMoin.multiconfig.DefaultConfig - see the provided wikiconfig.py
2880 This is very useful, e.g. you could derive a GermanConfig from
2881 DefaultConfig. After that, you can derive configs for wikiA and wikiB
2882 from that GermanConfig.
2883 * farmconfig.py contains a mapping attribute called "wikis" with pairs of
2884 wikiconfig module name and regular expression. The regular expression
2885 is matched against the URL of the request and the first matching entry
2886 determines the config module to be imported by MoinMoin.
2887 * If you use farmconfig.py's "wikis" mapping, then any wiki has a private
2888 config module, named after the wiki - e.g. wiki named moinmoin would
2890 * If you only have a single wiki, you do not need farmconfig.py. just make
2891 a wikiconfig.py and it will be used no matter what URL is requested.
2892 * There is one common global "config" that holds sitewide settings (like
2893 umask or charset) - you do not need to change settings there.
2894 This file is located in the MoinMoin code: MoinMoin/config.py.
2896 General configuration
2898 * SecurityPolicy now uses "write" instead of "edit" (so it is may.write
2899 now). This is to get it in sync with ACLs.
2900 * SecurityPolicy now automatically can use everything in acl_rights_valid.
2901 * There is a new config option "config_check_enabled". It will warn about
2902 any unknown variable name (probably typo) to stderr or error.log.
2903 If something doesn't work at all and changing the config does no
2904 difference, switch it on and look at the error message.
2905 * The sample config file comes with config_check_enabled = 1. If you
2906 introduce additional variables yourself, you definitely want to switch
2907 that check off or it will fill your log.
2908 * If you define "page_front_page" variable, this name will show in the
2909 navigation bar now, instead of the default "FrontPage".
2913 * Full text and title search do support multiple search terms now -
2914 see HelpOnSearching for details.
2915 * Regular expressions are still supported but have to be turned on per
2916 search term. Search terms in macros using regular expressions will have
2918 * The URL interface of the search engine has also changed. Links that
2919 point directly to search actions may be broken.
2923 * User names can not use group names, even if ACLs are not enabled.
2924 This will prevent error later, if you start to use acl in the future
2925 (acl is going to be mandatory in 1.5).
2926 * User names are not restricted any more to only CamelCase.
2927 * To prevent imposing as other users, leading, trailing and multiple
2928 whitespace in user names is not allowed. Only Unicode alpha numeric
2929 characters are allowed, with optional one space character between
2931 * When a user name with a group name or "bad" name is trying to
2932 access the wiki, he is redirected to the UserPreferences page and
2933 asked to create a new account.
2934 * When trying to login or create a new account with a bad name,
2935 correct error message is displayed in all cases.
2939 * You can not use your old moin.cgi file, as we removed cgimain.py
2940 (was deprecated since 1.2). Copy the new file from the server dir.
2942 Moin servers - Twisted and standalone
2944 * Configuration self checking on startup. Will raise an error in case
2945 of bad configuration or non-accessible directories.
2946 * Both use shorter and identical configuration options.
2947 * Server scripts contain detailed comments and examples.
2948 * Configuration defaults changed to fit most users.
2949 * There is memory profiler option for debugging, switched off by default.
2950 * If you perform a standard install, server scripts should run out
2951 of the box or with minimal change.
2955 * All code moved into the new server package, the server script
2956 contains only configuration options.
2957 * Listen to more than one interface with "interfaces" list.
2958 * Code updated to new Twisted API.
2959 * Use mointwisted script to start and stop the server, using
2960 "mointwisted start" and "mointwisted stop".
2961 * The Twisted server runs as daemon by default.
2962 * All moin Twisted files are called now mointwisted instead of
2964 * Fixed getting username from Twisted request (http auth)
2968 * Configuration moved from moin_config.py to moin.py.
2969 * If run as root, you can set both user and group for the server.
2970 * Can use logfile instead of logging to stderr.
2971 * Fixed missing unquoting of query string (caused problems in rare cases).
2975 * moin_modpy server files renamed to moinmodpy.
2979 * '''strong''', ''em'' and __underline__ have now paragraph scope. You can
2980 set these attributes on words level. For multiple paragraphs, wrap each
2982 * If you leave unclosed ''', '' and __ markup, its is closed when the
2987 * Due to many changes in CSS files, the wiki may look "broken" until
2988 your reload once or twice, or empty your browser cache.
2989 * The "Send mail notification" checkbox is replaced by "Trivial change"
2990 checkbox. The default behavior did not change - regular edit is not
2991 a trivial change, and mail will be sent to subscribes. If you check
2992 trivial change, mail will be sent only to users who selected to
2993 get trivial changes in their user preferences.
2994 * New theme "modern" has been added, and used as default theme.
2995 * classic and rightsidebar improved.
2996 * viewonly theme removed, as any theme can be use now as viewonly
2997 by using #acl All:read in the wikiconfig.
2998 * All themes use new navibar, displaying both wiki links, user links
2999 and the current page.
3000 * navibar and pagetrail use now shortened page names, so very long
3001 names does not break the interface visually.
3002 * All themes have improved search interface at the top of the window.
3003 * Only avaiable actions are displayed, so most situations when a user
3004 try to do something he can't do are prevented.
3005 * When creating a new page, no action is available until the page
3006 is created. You can't attach files to non-existing page any more.
3007 * Non registered users get a "login" link. Registered uses get
3008 "username" link to their home page, and "user preferences" link.
3009 * Messages more clear using bold type, designed by css.
3010 * Few useless messages removed (but there are many more)
3011 * Default wiki logo uses the wiki name instead of the MoinMoin troll
3014 Other fixes and changes
3016 * Most generated html code is valid "html 4 strict". There are still
3017 some problems that still have to be fixed, mainly macros, table
3018 attributes, and inline markup crossing (<a><b></a></b>).
3019 * WantedPages can include and exclude system pages, which makes it
3021 * Fixed a bug in TitleIndex where not all system pages are excluded.
3022 * RenamePage action now renames everything, including backups, page
3023 history, attachments. It does not change toplevel editlog, though.
3024 After you rename a page, you are redirected to the new page.
3025 * Syntax colorization supports more languages (Java, C++, Pascal)
3026 * Inline: display of attachments was extended. A Parser now knows which
3027 extensions it can handle.
3028 * TableOfContents and Include macros now cooperate a bit better. There
3029 are still problems with multiple Includes of the same page.
3030 * Excluded actions at bottom of page are not displayed any more.
3031 * Editor: removed the columns size setting, just using 100% of browser
3032 window width (it didn't work because of that anyway). Also removed that
3033 "reduce editor size" link at top of editor as you would lose your
3034 changes when using it.
3035 * Removed the option to choose text smileys instead of images, this made
3036 more trouble than it was worth. The text version is still given in ALT
3038 * Moved stuff from contribution/ to MacroMarket page on MoinMoin wiki
3039 * Some nasty people try to use a running moin as a proxy (at least they
3040 did on moinmaster.wikiwikiweb.de:8000, maybe due to the magic port
3041 number). We changed the code to check for that and just return 403
3042 in that case. Moin can not be used as a proxy anyway.
3043 * moin.cgi?test was removed in favor of a new buildin test
3044 action. It works for all deployments, just use ?action=test.
3045 * Sending mail does use tls if server supports it.
3047 3rd party developer notes
3049 * Themes should be now sub class of MoinMoin.theme.ThemeBase. Sub
3050 classes will get automatically all new improved user interface
3052 * Theme authors should update their theme for 1.3. Some keys removed
3053 from them dict. See ThemeBase class in MoinMoin/theme/__init__.py.
3054 * Actions writers should call request.setContentLangauge with the
3055 correct language used by the action. This enable themes and other
3056 code to use correct direction.
3057 * The Formatter interface was changed. Formatters and parsers using
3058 the formatter interface have to be adjusted.
3059 * started deprecation of Processors: they are still recognized, but
3060 implementors should start to rewrite their Processors as Parsers.
3061 A processor with the same name as a parser in a pre #! section is
3062 currently preferred. This will change in the next release.
3066 * Processors are deprecated, see section above.
3068 * Using the cookie (or the login url with ID) only and not setting (or
3069 setting and not remembering) your email/password in UserPreferences
3070 is DEPRECATED. Those quite unsecure methods will likely be dropped
3071 in next moin version.
3073 * Operating with acl_enabled = 0 is also DEPRECATED. Due to some other
3074 improvements planned, we will have to operate with ACLs enabled ONLY
3075 in a future moin version, so this setting will likely be dropped.
3076 So clean up your user accounts (see moin_usercheck.py) and switch ACLs
3078 There are no drawbacks, so you will like it. Having ACLs enabled
3079 doesn't mean you really have to USE them on wiki pages...
3081 * allow_extended_names = 0 is deprecated (default was/is 1).
3082 Future versions will be able to use extended names (aka free links) in
3083 any case and the config setting will be removed.
3085 * allow_subpages = 0 is deprecated (default was/is 1).
3086 Future versions will be able to use subpages in any case and the config
3087 setting will be removed.
3089 * attachments = {...} - we would like to remove that setting because of
3091 * when not being extremely careful, this can easily lead to security
3092 problems (like when uploading a .php exploit and then executing it
3093 by accessing it directly via web server)
3094 * makes code more complicated - code that we want to change completely
3096 If you need that feature, speak up now and tell us your reasons WHY you
3100 Version 1.2.4 (2004-10-23, Revision 1.187)
3102 This will probably be the last 1.2.x release as we are soon doing release
3103 candidates for 1.3 release (with big internal changes) and are expecting
3104 release 1.3 in december 2004.
3107 * fixed "None" pagename bug in fullsearch/titlesearch
3108 * fixed projection CSS usage
3109 * the compiled page is removed when a page is deleted, so no ghost page
3110 appears after deletion
3111 * fixed AbandonedPages day-break problem
3112 * fixed [[GetVal(WikiDict,key)]]
3113 * the msg box is now outside content div on PageEditor, too
3114 * privacy fix for email notifications: you don't see other email addresses
3115 in To: any more. mail_from is now also used for To: header field, but
3116 we don't really send email to that address.
3117 * privacy fix for /MoinEditorBackup pages that were made on previews of
3118 pages that were not saved in the end
3119 * fix double content div on PageEditor preview
3122 * workaround for broken Microsoft Internet Explorer, the page editor now
3123 stops expanding to the right (e.g. with rightsidebar theme).
3124 Nevertheless it is a very good idea to use a non-broken and more secure
3125 browser like Mozilla, Firefox or Opera!
3127 * from MoinMoin.security.antispam import SecurityPolicy in your
3128 moin_config.py will protect your wiki from at least the known spammers.
3131 * xmlrpc plugin for usage logging, currently used for antispam accesses
3133 * (re-)added configurable meta tags:
3134 * html_head_queries = '''<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow">\n'''
3135 * html_head_posts = '''<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow">\n'''
3136 * html_head_index = '''<meta name="robots" content="index,follow">\n'''
3137 * html_head_normal = '''<meta name="robots" content="index,nofollow">\n'''
3139 * i18n updates/fixes
3141 * New UserPreferences switch:
3142 you may subscribe to trivial changes (when you want to be notified about ALL
3143 changes to pages, even if the author deselected to send notifications).
3145 * New AttachList and AttachInfo macros - thanks to Nigel Metheringham and
3148 Version 1.2.3 (2004-07-21, Revision 1.186)
3151 * fixed NameError "UnpicklingError" in user.py
3152 * fixed version number in moin.spec
3153 * reverts done by bots or leechers
3154 There was a bad, old bug that triggered if you did not use ACLs. In that
3155 case, moin used some simple (but wrong and incomplete) function to
3156 determine what a user (or bot) may do or may not do. The function is now
3157 fixed to allow only read and write to anon users, and only delete and
3158 revert to known users additionally - and disallow everything else.
3159 * avoid creation of unneccessary pages/* directories
3160 * removed double content divs in general info and history info pages
3161 * fixed wiki xmlrpc getPageHTML
3162 * fixed rightsidebar logout URL, also fixed top banner to link to FrontPage
3163 * use config.page_front_page and .page_title_index for robots meta tag
3164 (whether it uses index,follow or index,nofollow), not hardcoded english
3166 * ACL security fix for PageEditor, thanks to Dr. Pleger for reporting
3167 * default options for new users are same as for anon users
3169 Version 1.2.2 (2004-06-06, Revision 1.185)
3173 * own copy of difflib removed
3174 Until moin 1.2.1 we had our own copy of python 2.2.3's difflib coming
3175 with moin. This was to work around some problems with broken older 2.2
3176 python installations. We removed this now because if you have py 2.3,
3177 there is even a better difflib coming with python (and that fixes an
3178 extremely slow diff calculation happening in some rare cases).
3179 So the good news is that when you run python 2.3, you don't need to do
3180 anything and it will run great. If you run python 2.2.3, it will mostly
3181 work good and you also don't need to do anything. The bad news is that
3182 if you run an old and broken 2.2 installation (2.2.1, maybe 2.2.2) you
3183 will have to fix it on your own (just copy difflib.py from python 2.2.3
3184 over to your python 2.2.x installation).
3185 But better upgrade to python 2.3 (for debian woody, there's a backport),
3186 as 2.3 generally runs better and faster than 2.2.
3187 * scripts changed to use #!/usr/bin/env python (not /usr/bin/python2.2)
3189 * user accounts and ACLs:
3190 * we now require the user to specify a password for a new account (you
3191 were not able to login without a password anyway)
3192 * it is not allowed any more to create user accounts with user names
3193 matching config.page_group_regex - please check manually that you do
3194 not already have such users existing (like a user named "AdminGroup"):
3195 cd data/user ; grep name=.*Group * # there should be no output!
3196 * subscription email sending now honours ACLs correctly
3198 * markup / rendering / user interface fixes:
3199 * fixed merging multiple lines indented by the same amount of blanks
3200 * ## comments don't break tables in two parts
3201 * added a "remove bookmark" link to RecentChanges
3202 * fixed action=titleindex (added \n after each entry)
3205 * non-ASCII characters should work now
3206 * RSS feed (Recentchanges?action=rss_rc) gives UTC timestamps now
3207 * removed attribute breaking RSS feed on RecentChanges
3209 * better email generation:
3210 * if you use python >=2.2.2, we add a Message-ID header to emails
3211 * if you use python 2.2.1, there is no email.Header. Instead of crashing
3212 (like previous moin 1.2.x releases), we just use the subject "as is" in
3213 that case. If it is not ASCII, this is not standards compliant.
3214 * If you have >=2.2.2 it will use email.Header to make standards compliant
3216 * use config.mail_from as sender address when sending "lost my password"
3220 * fixed for standalone server
3221 * attachment URLs (when handled by moin) don't include server name
3222 * fixed some wrong &amp; in html src
3224 * better themeability:
3225 * some entries in dict "d" where only present in header theme calls, some
3226 only in footer theme calls. Now almost all is present in both calls.
3227 * added some missing "content" divs so sidebar themes look better
3229 * fixed some crashes producing backtraces:
3230 * no IOError when diffing against deleted page
3231 * no backtrace in xml footnote generation
3232 * no SystemInfo crash when no editlog exists in new wikis
3233 * xmlrpc.getRecentChanges fixed
3235 * MoinMoin.util.filesys.rename is now a wrapper around os.rename that
3236 fixes os.rename on broken win32 api semantics
3239 * saving traffic and load by improved robot meta tag generation:
3240 * "noindex,nofollow" on queries and POSTs
3241 * "index,follow" on FrontPage and TitleIndex (give robots a chance ;))
3242 * "index,nofollow" on all other pages (hopefully saving lots of senseless
3243 requests for page?action=...)
3244 * removed config.html_head_queries (was used for same stuff)
3245 * added russian i18n (utf-8)
3246 * misc. other translation updates / fixes
3247 * added rightsidebar theme
3248 * TitleIndex now folds case, so "APage" and "anotherPage" are both under
3250 * added macro/PageHits.py - it calculates the hits each page gets since
3251 beginning of logging
3254 * Full text and title search do now support multiple search terms -
3255 see HelpOnSearching for details
3257 * The Formatter interface was changed. Formatter and parser using
3258 the formatter interface have to be adjusted.
3260 Version 1.2.1 (2004-03-08, Revision 1.184)
3263 * minimum requirement to run moin 1.2/1.2.1 is python 2.2.2
3264 * not: 2.2(.0), as this does not have True/False
3265 * not: 2.2.1, as this does not have email.Header. You maybe can work
3267 * getting the python 2.2.x (x>=2) /usr/lib/python2.2/email directory
3268 * putting it into directory 'x' (whereever you like)
3269 * doing a sys.path[0:0] = ['x'] in moin.cgi [or other appropriate place]
3270 No guarantee, this is untested.
3271 * Twisted: the http headers missed the charset data, fixed
3272 * mod_python: fixes for mod_python 2.7
3273 * wiki/data/plugin/__init__.py added - fixes not working plugin modules
3274 * plugin processors work now, too
3275 * fixed displaying non-existent translations of SiteNavigation in footer
3276 * fixed zh-tw iso name (wrong zh_tw -> correct zh-tw)
3277 * fixed reversed diffs in RecentChanges RSS
3278 * fixed "last change" info in footer (wasn't updated)
3279 * fixed event.log missing pagename (and other) information
3280 * fixed horizontal line thickness >1
3281 * fixed setup.py running from CVS workdir
3282 * fixed crash when doing action=info on first revision of a page
3283 * fixed hostname truncation in footer
3285 * fixed clear msg links (they missed quoting, leading to strange page
3286 names when you click on some of them)
3287 * fixed python colorizer processor
3288 * fixed quoting of stats cache filenames
3289 * catched "bad marshal data" error when switching python versions
3292 * updated danish (da) i18n
3293 * updated japanese (ja) i18n
3294 * added serbian (sr) i18n
3295 * added chinese (zh) i18n
3296 * added a simple "viewonly" theme based on classic theme - you can use
3297 this as default theme, so anonymous users won't get the usual wiki stuff,
3298 but a far simpler (and less powerful) user interface.
3299 It also displays the navibar at the left side.
3300 * added moin.spec for building RPMs
3301 * included MoinMoin/i18n/* into distribution archive (nice for translators)
3302 * included some stuff under MoinMoin/scripts - xmlrpc-tools and account
3303 checking stuff. removed some version control clutter from the dist
3306 * code colorization was refactored and some new languages (Java, C++,
3307 Pascal) where added.
3308 * inline: display of attachments was extended. A Parser now knows which
3309 extensions it can handle.
3311 Version 1.2 (2004-02-20, Revision 1.183)
3314 * MoinMoin now requires Python >=2.2.2., we recommend to use Python >=2.3.2
3315 (with 2.3.x, MoinMoin runs about 20-30% faster).
3316 * by refactoring request processing, we made it possible to run moin under
3317 persistent environments:
3318 * twisted-web (http://twistedmatrix.com)
3319 * httpdmain.py (use moin.py for starting this mini server)
3322 Of course, CGI is still possible.
3323 * wiki pages will be compiled to bytecode now (by default), so no need for
3324 slow parsing/formatting on every view ("WASP", see caching_formats)
3325 * when using a persistent environment (like twisted) and WASP, you get up
3326 to 20x speed - compared to CGI and moin 1.1
3327 * added support for diffs between arbitrary revisions.
3328 * removed requirement of the external diff utility
3329 * config.auth_http_enabled (defaults to 0) - use this to enable moin
3330 getting your authenticated user name from apache (http basic auth,
3331 htpasswd) - if you enable this, your basic auth username has to be the
3332 same as your wiki username.
3333 Should work with CGI, FCGI and maybe even with mod_python.
3334 Does not change behaviour of moin under twisted or standalone server.
3335 * config.tz_offset = 0.0 sets a default timezone offset (in hours
3337 * config.cookie_lifetime (int, in hours, default 12) sets the lifetime of
3339 == 0 --> cookie will live forever (no matter what user has configured!)
3340 > 0 --> cookie will live for n hours (or forever when "remember_me")
3341 < 0 --> cookie will live for -n hours (forced, ignore "remember_me"!)
3342 * added themeing and some themes (if you improve the existing themes or
3343 make nice new ones, please contribute your stuff!). The default theme is
3344 set by config.theme_default (and defaults to 'classic').
3345 * now supporting plugin directory for parsers, processors, themes, xmlrpc.
3346 * action=info now defaults to showing page revision history again
3347 * all actions accessing the logfile (as RecentChanges or history) are now
3349 * #refresh processing instruction, config.refresh
3350 * config.refresh = (minimum_delay, target_allowed)
3351 * minimum delay is the minimum waiting time (in seconds) allowed
3352 * target_allowed is either 'internal' or 'external', depending on
3353 whether you want to allow only internal redirects or also
3354 external ones. For internal redirects, just use the Wiki pagename,
3355 for external, use http://... url.
3356 * #refresh 3 == refresh this page every 3 seconds
3357 * #refresh 5 FrontPage == internal redirect to FrontPage in 5s
3358 * #refresh 5 http://google.com/ == redirect to google in 5s
3359 Use very carefully! Allowing a low minimum_delay and putting a #refresh
3360 on RecentChanges might slow down your wiki significantly, when some
3361 people just let their browser refresh and refresh again. Also, it does
3362 cause quite some traffic long-term. So better do not use this without
3363 good reason! Default is None (switched off).
3364 * hide most UserPreferences options before user has logged in, less
3365 confusing for new users
3366 * "config.page_dict_regex" defines what pages are dictionary definitions
3367 Currently dictionaries are used for UserHomePage/MyDict where you can
3368 define key:: value pairs that get processed like @DATE@ expansion when
3369 saving a page. The 2 "@" will be added to your keys automatically.
3370 Please do not use @xxx@ strings on the right side (value), results may
3372 You can also access wiki dictionaries by using the internal macro
3373 [[GetVal(page,key)]]" - that will go to page "page" and return the
3374 value (right side) corresponding to "key".
3375 Implementation note: groups are a subset of the dictionary functionality.
3376 * standalone server should work now (see server/moin.py), so you don't
3377 need to setup apache or twisted for a local personal wiki, you only need
3378 python and moin for that now, no additional stuff any more!
3379 * if you run your wiki with charset = "utf-8" (the default is still
3380 iso8859-1), you might want to have a look at contributions/utf8-pages/
3381 to see if there are already translated system pages for your language.
3384 * new importPlugin routine (the old one didn't work correctly)
3385 * removed 0xA0 characters breaking utf-8
3386 * system page recognition now uses wiki groups (see AllSystemPagesGroup),
3387 fixing the long-time broken system page exclusion on TitleIndex.
3388 * mostly HTML 4.01 Strict compliant HTML
3389 * design is done by CSS now, HTML is semantic markup only
3390 * removed target attribute from links, also [^NewWindow] markup - this
3391 is a HTML 3.2 feature and not valid in HTML 4.01
3392 * updated TWikiDrawPlugin to 20021003 version, with further modifications
3393 including source. It can draw imagemaps now and saves PNG. On display a
3394 GIF will be searched if no PNG is found. We recommend changing all GIFs
3395 to indexed PNGs cause this fallback might disappear in later versions.
3397 Sample code using bash and ImageMagick (be sure you know what you do):
3398 for draw in `find /path/to/wiki/data -name \*.draw`; do
3399 file=`dirname $draw`/`basename $draw .draw`
3400 if [ -e "${file}.gif" ]; then
3401 echo "Converting ${file}.gif to ${file}.png"
3402 convert "${file}.gif" "${file}.png"
3406 * fixed email headers and encoding
3407 * Changed moin-usercheck to adhere to scripting standards; no
3408 proprietary config changes needed any more (added --config);
3409 --wikinames is now part of the usage message.
3410 * config.umask now defaults to 0770 - if you give world r/w access, ACLs
3411 could be rather pointless...
3413 Removed config variables:
3414 * external_diff (not needed any more, we have internal diff now)
3415 * shared_metadb (wasn't implemented for long - we will re-add it, when it is)
3416 * title1/2 (please use page_header1/2)
3419 Changed config variables:
3420 * changed_time_fmt (removed some html and brackets around time from default)
3421 * html_head (default is empty string now)
3422 * page_footer1/2 (default is empty string now)
3423 * page_icons (is now a list of icon names, not html any more)
3424 * umask (default is 0770 now, not world r/w any more == more secure)
3426 New config variables (see MoinMaster:HelpOnConfiguration):
3435 * page_license_enabled
3442 * lots of internal code refactoring and optimization
3443 * began moving src code documentation to epydoc, see "make epydoc"
3444 * the URL for the RecentChanges RSS feed changed. It now only works with
3448 * theme support is neither complete (although covering most important
3449 stuff) nor perfect - work on that will continue...
3450 * we removed some html from system messages (the boxes at top of page you
3451 get after some actions), so it currently looks less nice than before.
3452 * html is not completely validating and it is not xhtml - this will be
3453 fixed as soon as we have the infrastructure for that (other parser, DOM)
3454 * problems with rtl (right-to-left) languages, will be fixed in 1.3
3455 * if you change moin_config or switch themes, moin will still use already
3456 cached page content. For the config this can be fixed by touching
3457 MoinMoin/version.py (or simply deleting everything in
3458 data/cache/Page.py). If you get more annoyed by this than pleased by
3459 caching speedup, you can also switch off caching (see docs on
3462 Themeing and HTML/CSS cleanup:
3463 * Browsers with completely broken CSS support (like e.g. Netscape 4.x) are
3464 no longer supported. If you still need to support them, do not upgrade to
3465 moin 1.2. If you still use these browsers, we recommend that you upgrade
3466 your browser first (Mozilla 1.5 has nice and standards compliant HTML and
3467 CSS support and is available as Free Software for Windows, Linux and Mac).
3468 * If you changed any html in code or by config you will have to check if it
3469 still works. For the usual stuff, look into `MoinMoin/theme/classic.py`
3470 and `classic/css/screen.css`. For config defaults of the html fragments,
3471 read `MoinMoin/config.py`. If you want to modify a theme, don't simply
3472 change classic, but copy or subclass it under a new theme name.
3473 * because of the new theme support the layout of the `htdocs` directory
3475 * Instead of using icons under `img/` and css under `css/`, there will
3476 be an additional `themename/` directory in between, e.g. `classic/img/`
3477 and `classic/css/`. If you added own icons, you may have to copy them
3478 to the themes directory.
3479 * The filename of the CSS file has changed to the media type, so the
3480 normal one used for screen output has changed name from `moinmoin.css`
3481 to `screen.css`. There also were quite some changes and enhancements to
3482 the CSS files, so better use the new ones.
3483 * config.css_url was removed
3486 * we use a new plugin loader that requires a correct `__init__.py` file in
3487 the plugin directories. See the directory `wiki/data/plugin/` in the
3488 distribution archive and just copy it over to your wiki's plugin directory.
3491 Version 1.1 (2003-11-29, Revision 1.178)
3493 Version 1.1 requires Python 2.0 or higher, we recommend to use Python 2.2
3494 (version 2.2.2 if that is available on your host) or even better >= 2.3.2
3495 (with 2.3.x, MoinMoin runs about 20-30% faster).
3499 * config.default_lang lets you set a default language for users not
3500 having specified language in their browser or UserPreferences
3501 * "config.page_category_regex" defines what pages are categories
3502 * replaced `config.page_template_ending` by a more flexible setting
3503 named `config.page_template_regex`
3504 * the same with config.page_form_regex (was: page_form_ending)
3505 * "config.page_group_regex" defines what pages are group definitions
3506 Currently groups are used for "user groups" (see ACLs) and "page
3507 groups" (see AllSystemPagesGroup).
3508 * robot exclusion from all pages except the standard view action,
3509 via the config.ua_spiders regex (reduces server load)
3510 * "maxdepth" argument for the TableOfContents macro
3511 * config.title1, config.title2, config.page_footer1,
3512 config.page_footer2 can now be callables and will be called with
3513 the "request" object as a single argument (note that you should
3514 accept any keyword arguments in order to be compatible to future
3516 * "config.html_pagetitle" allows you to set a specific HTML page
3517 title (if not set, it defaults to "config.sitename")
3518 * navi_bar / quicklinks can now contain free-form links, i.e.
3519 entries of the form "[url linktext]" just like in wiki pages
3520 * if a quick link starts with '^', it opens in a new window; help
3521 now opens in a new window also
3522 * `config.smileys` for user-defined smileys (default: `{}`) - a dict
3523 with the markup as the key and a tuple of width, height, border, image
3525 * `config.hosts_deny` to forbid access based on IP address
3526 * `config.mail_login` can be set to username and password separated by
3527 a space, e.g. "username userpass", if you need to use SMTP AUTH
3528 * `config.edit_locking` can be set to None (old behaviour, no
3529 locking), 'warn <timeout mins>' (warn about concurrent edits, but
3530 do not enforce anything), or 'lock <timeout mins>' (strict locking)
3531 * optionally showing a license text on editor page, use:
3532 config.page_license_enabled = 1
3533 Optionally use these to customize what is shown there:
3534 config.page_license_text = "... your text ..."
3535 config.page_license_page = "MyLicensePage"
3536 See the default values in MoinMoin/config.py for details and
3537 override them in moin_config.py, if needed.
3538 * `config.shared_intermap` can be a list of filenames (instead of a
3540 * If you have added your own `SecurityPolicy`, the class interface for
3541 that has changed (see `security.py`).
3543 Authenticaton / Authorization:
3544 * added ACL support, written by Gustavo Niemeyer of Conectiva and
3545 Thomas Waldmann. See HelpOnAccessControlLists for more infos.
3546 You should use MoinMoin/scripts/moin_usercheck.py before activating
3547 ACLs or some users with bad or duplicate accounts might get into
3549 * A user account can be disabled using moin_usercheck.py or
3550 UserPreferences page. Disabling, but keeping it is good for edit
3552 * changed security default: deletion only available to known users
3553 * support for Basic authentication (Apache style: AUTH_TYPE="Basic",
3554 REMOTE_USER="WikiUserName"). If authentication is there, user
3555 will be in ACL class "Trusted".
3556 * support for username / password login
3557 The username / password login will ONLY work, if you define a
3558 password. With an empty password, username / password login is not
3559 allowed due to security reasons. Passwords are stored encrypted
3560 (format similar to Apache SHA) and can also be entered in the
3561 UserPreferences form in this format. When requesting login
3562 information by email, the password is also sent in this encrypted
3563 format (use copy&paste to fill it in the form).
3564 ...?action=userform?uid=<userid> is still possible, so if you have
3565 bookmarks, they will still work). The input field for the ID was
3567 NOTE: using the userid for login purposes is DEPRECATED and might
3568 be removed for better security soon.
3569 * after logging in, you will get a cookie valid until midnight.
3570 The next day, the cookie will expire and you will have to login
3571 again. If you don't want this, you can check the "remember me
3572 forever" option in UserPreferences.
3573 * if the page file is read-only, you get a message (i.e. you can now
3574 protect pages against changes if you're the wiki admin).
3575 Note: you can do that easier using ACLs.
3577 Markup / Macros / Actions:
3578 * RandomQuote macro (and even parses Wiki markup now)
3579 * `[[Navigation]]` macro for slides and subpage navigation
3580 * [[ShowSmileys]] displays ALL smileys, including user-defined ones
3581 * the Include macro has new parameters (from, to, sort, items) and
3582 is able to include more than one page (via a regex pattern)
3583 * `MailTo` macro for adding spam-safe email links to a page
3584 * if a fancy link starts with '^' (i.e. if it has the form
3585 "[^http:... ...]"), it's opened in a new window
3586 * because of that, the NewWindow macro was removed from contrib
3587 * "#pragma section-numbers 2" only displays section numbers for
3588 headings of level 2 and up (similarly for 3 to 6)
3589 * ../SubPageOfParent links
3593 * Page creation shows LikePages that already exist
3594 * editor shows the current size of the page
3595 * editor returns to including page when editing an included page
3596 * Visual indication we're on the editor page (new CSS style)
3597 * selection to add categories to a page in the editor (use preview
3598 button to add more than one category)
3599 * if user has a homepage, a backup of save/preview text is saved as
3600 a subpage UsersHomePage/MoinEditorBackup
3601 * added "revert" link to PageInfo view (which makes DeletePage more
3602 safe in public wikis, since you can easily revive deleted pages
3604 * Selection for logged in users (i.e. no bots) to extend the listing
3605 of recent changes beyond the default limits
3606 * Activated display of context for backlinks search
3607 * Subscriber list shown on page info
3608 * LikePages shows similar pages (using difflib.get_close_matches)
3609 * last edit action is stored into "last-edited" file, and
3610 displayed in the page footer
3611 * reciprocal footnote linking (definition refers back to reference)
3612 * "Ex-/Include system pages" link for title index
3613 Note: system/help pages algorithm is still mostly broken.
3614 * list items set apart by empty lines are now also set apart
3615 visually (by adding the CSS class "gap" to <li>)
3616 * "save" check for security.Permissions
3617 * Added Spanish, Croatian and Danish system texts
3618 * Added flag icons for the languages supported in "i18n"
3619 * updated help and system pages, more translations, see also
3621 * there was quite some work done on wiki xmlrpc v1 and v2 - it
3622 basically works now.
3624 Tools and other changes:
3625 * moin-dump: New option "--page"
3626 * there are some scripts MoinMoin/scripts/* using wiki xmlrpc for
3627 backup and wiki page copying applications
3628 * Updated the XSLT parser to work with 4Suite 1.0a1
3629 * more infos in cgi tracebacks
3630 * UPDATE.html is a HTML version of MoinMaster:HelpOnUpdating
3632 Unfinished or experimental features:
3633 * user defined forms
3634 * XML export of all data in the wiki
3635 * RST parser (you need to install docutils to use this)
3639 * do not use / display user's email address in public places
3642 * Removed two cross-site scripting vulnerabilities reported by "office"
3645 * Bugfix for PageList when no arguments are given
3646 * Disallow full-text searches with too short search terms
3647 * [ 566094 ] TitleIndex now supports grouping by Hangul Syllables
3648 * fix for multibyte first char in TitleIndex
3649 * Footnotes were not HTML escaped
3650 * Numbered code displays are now in a table so that you can cut the
3651 code w/o the numbers
3652 * Bugfix for wrong mail notifications
3653 * Create unique anchors for repeated titles
3654 * [ 522246 ] Transparently recode localized messages
3655 * [ 685003 ] Using "preview" button when editing can lose data
3656 * use gmtime() for time handling
3657 * fixed negative gmtime() arguments
3658 * [[Include]] accepts relative page names
3659 * fixed ||NotInterWiki:||...||
3661 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3662 Version 1.0 (2002-05-10, Revision 1.159)
3664 THIS IS THE LAST RELEASE WITH PYTHON 1.5.2 SUPPORT! If severe bugs
3665 should occur, a maintenance release will fix them.
3667 Some optional features (like statistics) already require Python 2.0.
3670 * security fix: "allow_xslt" has to be set to 1 in order to enable
3671 XSLT processing; note that this defaults to 0 because XSLT is able
3672 to insert arbitrary HTML into a wiki
3673 * "action=content" for transclusion into static web pages; emits the
3674 pure page content, without any <html>, <head>, or <body> tags
3675 * "?action=links&mimetype=text/plain" works like MeatBall:LinkDatabase
3676 * "Preferred language" and "Quick links" user settings
3677 * Added "processor" concept, processors work on the data in "code
3678 displays" and are called by a bangpath in the first line of data
3679 * Processors: Colorize, CSV (see HelpOnProcessors)
3680 * New icons: "{OK}", "(./)", "{X}", "{i}", "{1}", "{2}" and "{}"
3682 * FullSearch now displays context information for search hits
3683 * DeletePage offers a textentry field for an optional comment
3684 * Email notifications are sent in the user's language, if known from
3686 * @PAGE@ is substituted by the name of the current page (useful
3689 Unfinished features:
3690 * user defined forms
3691 * XML export of all data in the wiki
3692 * RST parser (you need to install docutils to use this)
3696 * Syntax warning with Python 2.2 fixed
3697 * Macro-generated pagelinks are no longer added to the list of links
3698 * error codes returned by "diff" are reported
3699 * fix for attachments on pages with non-USASCII names
3700 * correct handling of spaces in attachment filenames and URLs
3702 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3703 Version 0.11 (2002-03-11, Revision 1.151)
3705 Most important new features: file attachments, definition list markup
3706 (glossaries), change notification via email, variable substitution when
3707 saving pages, edit preview, and improved documentation.
3709 Note that the RSS features require a recent PyXML (CVS or 0.7) due to
3710 bugs in the namespace handling of xml.sax.saxutils in earlier versions.
3711 This is (hopefully) automatically detected on every installation.
3713 Statistical features are NOT designed to work with Python 1.5.2 and
3714 require Python 2.0 or higher. Overall, MoinMoin 0.11 is not explicitely
3715 tested for 1.5.2 compatibility.
3718 * XML formatting now (most often) produces well-formed, and, depending
3719 on proper layout of the wiki page, valid StyleBook XML
3720 * Headers are now automatically numbered, unless you set the config
3721 item 'show_section_numbers' to 0
3722 * "#pragma section-numbers off" (or "0") switches that off explicitely,
3723 and "on" or "1" enables numbering
3724 * Added a "contributions" directory for 3rd party extensions
3725 * AttachFile action, contributed by Ken Sugino; note that you have
3726 to enable this action because of the possibility of DoS attacks
3727 (malicious uploads), by adding this to your moin_config:
3728 allowed_actions = ['AttachFile']
3729 * "attachment:" URL scheme allows access to attachments, to get files
3730 from other pages use "attachment:WikiName/filename.ext".
3731 * New macros: Date(unixtimestamp) and DateTime(unixtimestamp) to
3732 display a timestamp according to system/user settings
3733 * Variable substitution when a page is saved, note that saving
3734 template pages does NOT expand variables. Supported are:
3735 @DATE@ Current date in the system's format
3736 @TIME@ Current date and time in the user's format
3737 @USERNAME@ Just the user's name (or his domain/IP)
3738 @USER@ Signature "-- loginname"
3739 @SIG@ Dated Signature "-- loginname date time"
3740 @MAILTO@ A fancy mailto: link with the user's data
3741 * Copied some new emoticons from PikiePikie
3742 || {{{ :-? }}} || :-? || tongue.gif ||
3743 || {{{ :\ }}} || :\ || ohwell.gif ||
3744 || {{{ >:> }}} || >:> || devil.gif ||
3745 || {{{ %) }}} || %) || eyes.gif ||
3746 || {{{ @) }}} || @) || eek.gif ||
3747 || {{{ |) }}} || |) || tired.gif ||
3748 || {{{ ;)) }}} || ;)) || lol.gif ||
3749 * AbandonedPages macro
3750 * Added definition list markup: {{{<whitespace>term:: definition}}}
3751 * Added email notification features contributed by Daniel Sa� * SystemInfo: show "Entries in edit log"
3752 * Added "RSS" icon to RecentChanges macro and code to generate a
3753 RecentChanges RSS channel, see
3754 http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?UnifiedRecentChanges
3756 * Added config.sitename and config.interwikiname parameter
3757 * Better WikiFarm support:
3758 * <datadir>/plugin/macro and <datadir>/plugin/action can be used
3759 to store macros and actions local to a specific wiki instance
3760 * config.shared_intermap can contain a pathname to a shared
3761 "intermap.txt" file (i.e. one stored outside the datadir)
3762 * added `backtick` shortcut for {{{inline literal}}} (has to be
3763 enabled by "backtick_meta=1" in the config file); note that ``
3764 is then a shorter replacement for '''''' escaping
3765 * added inline search fields (at the bottom of each page)
3766 * Added preview to the editor, including spell checking
3767 * New languages: Chinese (Changzhe Han) and Portuguese (Jorge
3768 Godoy), updated French (Lucas Bruand), added Korean (Hye-Shik
3769 Chang) and Italian (Lele Gaifax)
3770 * New SystemAdmin macro
3771 * `[[Anchor(anchorname)]]` macro to insert anchors into a page,
3772 and [#anchorname Anchor Links].
3773 * User option to open editor view via a double-click
3774 * Added commentary field to editor, recent changes and page info
3775 * Page trails (user option)
3776 * UserPreferences: checkboxes for double-click edit, page trail,
3777 fancy links, emoticons, jump to last page visited, and some
3778 other yes/no options
3779 * "config.nonexist_qm" is now the default for a user setting
3780 * `[[GetText(text)]]` macro loads I18N texts (mainly intended
3781 for use on Help pages)
3782 * table attributes via "||<attrlist> ... ||", more details on
3783 http://purl.net/wiki/moin/HelpOnTables
3784 * PythonFaq interwiki tag and support for $PAGE placeholder
3785 * event logging, as the basis for future statistics
3786 * "moin-dump" command line tool to create a static copy of
3788 * "config.external_diff" allows to set an exact path to the
3789 command, or change the name to for example "gdiff" if GNU
3790 diff is not a native command in your UNIX flavour
3791 * `[[PageSize]]` macro
3792 * the interwiki name "Self" now always points to the own wiki
3793 * config.title1 and config.title2 are inserted into the output
3794 right before and after the system title html code (title1
3795 is right after the <body> tag and normally undefined, title2
3796 defaults to the "<hr>" above the page contents)
3797 * Additional link on diff pages to ignore whitespace changes
3798 * Subpages (config.allow_subpages, config.page_icons_up)
3799 * super^script^, sub,,script,, and __underline__ markup
3800 * `[[FootNote]]` macro
3801 * many other new config options, see HelpOnConfiguration for
3803 * [[StatsChart(type)]] shows statistical charts (currently
3804 defined types: hitcounts, pagesize, useragents)
3805 * 'inline:' scheme works like 'attachment:', but tries to
3806 inline the content of the attachment into the page;
3807 currently knows about "*.py" sources and colorizes them
3808 * support for Java applet "TWikiDrawPlugin" via
3809 drawing:<drawingname> URL scheme (you need to activate
3810 the AttachFile action if you want drawings)
3811 * numeric entities (&#nnnnn;) are now optionally NOT escaped,
3812 which allows you to insert more characters into a Latin-1
3813 page, especially the Euro symbol
3814 * navi_bar is now a list of page names which should be linked
3816 * test.cgi is now rolled into moin.cgi, and can be called
3817 by adding "?test" to the wiki base URL. Also, as a security
3818 feature, the server's environment is only shown for requests
3819 local to the web server.
3821 Unfinished features:
3822 * user defined forms
3823 * XML export of all data in the wiki
3826 * extended the online help ("Help*" pages)
3827 * German help pages (thanks to Thomas Waldmann)
3830 * #425857: python Parser bug on the second call
3831 * #424917: Caching control
3832 * #465499: Two HTTPS problems
3833 * #491155: FrontPage hardcoded
3834 * Handling of inbound UTF-8 encoded URIs (only with Python >= 2.0)
3835 * Fix for subtle changes in "re" of Python 2.2
3836 * User-provided URLs are now never URL-escaped, which allows appending
3837 #anchors and using %20 for spaces in InterWiki links
3839 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3840 Version 0.10 (2001-10-28, Revision 1.134)
3842 This version is still Python 1.5.2 compatible, but it's not extensively
3843 tested for that version and some parts of the system might not work
3844 there, especially seldom used macros and actions. Bug reports welcome!
3847 * "#deprecated" processing instruction
3848 * config entry "SecurityPolicy" to allow for customized permissions
3849 (see "security.py" for more)
3850 * added distutils support
3851 * though not extensively tested, the standalone server now does POST
3852 requests, i.e. you can save pages; there are still problems with
3853 persistent global variables! It only works for Python >= 2.0.
3854 * "bang_meta" config variable and "!NotWikiWord" markup
3855 * "url_mappings" config variable to dynamically change URL prefixes
3856 (especially useful in intranets, when whole trees of externally
3857 hosted documents move around)
3858 * setting "mail_smarthost" and "mail_from" activates mailing
3859 features (sending login data on the UserPreferences page)
3860 * very useful for intranet developer wikis, a means to view pydoc
3861 documentation, formatted via a XSLT stylesheet, for details see
3862 http://purl.net/wiki/python/TeudViewer?module=MoinMoin.macro.TeudView
3863 or MoinMoin/macro/TeudView.py
3864 * "LocalSiteMap" action by Steve Howell <showell@zipcon.com>
3865 * Added FOLDOC to intermap.txt
3868 * Full config defaults, import MoinMoin now works w/o moin_config.py
3869 * Better control over permissions with config.umask
3870 * Bugfix for a UNIX time billenium bug (affecting RecentChanges
3871 sorting and page diffs)
3872 * data paths with directory names containing dots caused problems
3874 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3875 Version 0.9 (2001-05-07)
3878 * XML page input (pages that start with "<?xml") and XSLT formatting
3879 * Page caching, for now limited to XSLT processing (where it's
3880 absolutely needed); new code & API to add the "RefreshCache" link
3881 * Selection of common date/time formats in UserPreferences
3882 * New action "titleindex" to support wiki introspection (MetaWiki);
3883 see the new links below the index bar in "TitleIndex"
3884 * UserPreferences: editable CSS URL for personal styles
3885 * PageInfo: the editor's name or IP is shown for each change
3886 * WantedPages: a new macro that lists links to non-existent pages
3887 * OrphanedPages: a new macro that lists pages no other page links to
3888 * Extensions to the FullSearch macro (see HelpOnMacros)
3889 * Python syntax highlighting
3890 * "DeletePage" action (has to be activated, see MoinMoinFaq)
3891 * "Remove trailing whitespace from each line" option in the editor
3892 * I18N (currently German and Swedish)
3893 * Config option "url_schemas" to extend the supported URL types
3894 * Improved tracebacks by using Ka-Ping's "cgitb"
3897 * The editor now sends a "no-cache" HTTP header
3898 * "PageList" results are now sorted
3899 * New config parameter "html_head_queries": send additional header
3900 for all pages EXCEPT the "normal" view; main usage is to have
3901 only the normal pages indexed by a spider, not the edit, print,
3902 etc. views (which cause multiple hits on the same information)
3903 * Store the modification time of the page file in the editlog, not
3904 the current time when the log entry is created
3906 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3907 Version 0.8 (2001-01-23)
3910 * Page templates (create a new page using a template page, by Richard)
3911 * Pluggable actions (by Richard)
3912 * Added "diff since bookmark"
3913 * Only "normal" URLs (outside of brackets) are converted to inline images
3914 * Show number of backups in SystemInfo macro
3915 * Show info on installed extension macros and actions
3916 * New macro: [[BR]] for line breaks
3917 * New action "LikePages" (again, Richard)
3918 * Highlighting of search results, and of bad words when spellchecking
3919 * Support for "file:" URLS
3920 * "SpellCheck" action (Richard, me, and Christian)
3921 * [[Include]] macro (you guessed it, Richard)
3924 * Update bookmark with load time, not click time
3925 * Changed CSS styles to better suit Netscape's broken handling of CSS
3927 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3928 Version 0.7 (2000-12-06)
3931 * RecentChanges bookmarking
3935 * Non-greedy extended WikiNames
3937 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3938 Version 0.6 (2000-12-04)
3941 * [[UserPreferences]] macro and associated functions
3942 * [[TableOfContents]] macro
3943 * Mechanism for external macros (user extensions)
3944 * Numbered list types and start offsets
3947 * Search dialogs did not work on the FrontPage
3948 * Add newline to text if last line has none (better diffs)
3950 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3951 Version 0.5 (2000-11-17)
3954 * Major refactoring: code is now broken up into modules within the
3956 * Diagnosis of installation via a "test.cgi" script
3958 * "#format" processing instruction
3960 * [[RandomPage]] and [[RandomPage(number)]] macro
3961 * configurable footer ("page_footer1" and "page_footer2")
3962 * "#redirect" processing instruction
3965 * Bugfix for broken CGI environment of IIS/4.0
3966 * URLs and InterWiki links are now less greedy (punctuation at the end
3967 is excluded, and "<" ends them, too)
3969 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3970 Version 0.4 (2000-11-01)
3973 * Table markup "||a||b||c||"
3974 * Headlines "= H1 =", "== H2 ==", and so on up to H5
3975 * [[PageCount]] macro
3976 * Added [[Icon(image)]] macro and macro arguments
3977 * [[PageList(title-regex)]] macro
3978 * New help system (set of help pages describing all features)
3981 * Create complete URL for "Clear message" link
3982 * Inline code spans needed cgi.escape
3983 * Better fix for Python 1.6 "re" problems
3984 * Fix for uppercase extensions in inline images ("foo.JPG")
3985 * Fixed colspan in RecentChanges
3986 * HR size is now limited to 8
3987 * "}" ends an URL pattern (fixes URLs right at the end of code displays)
3989 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3990 Version 0.3 (2000-10-25)
3993 * Check for inline images with InterWiki links (Spam:eggs.gif)
3994 * New config variable "allow_extended_names", which enables markup for
3995 wiki names containing ANY character like this: ["any chars"]
3996 * New config variable "html_head"
3997 * New macro [[SystemInfo]]
3998 * Added inline code ("{{{" and "}}}" on the same line)
3999 * Support for new config variable "max_macro_size"
4002 * Don't treat sequences with a double colon (CPP::Namespace) as an
4004 * The local part of InterWiki links is now correctly URL-escaped
4005 * Quickfix for a bug in 1.6's regular expressions
4006 * Fixed "SpamSpamSpam" bug (multiple entries in word list)
4007 * Anchor names get quoted in WordIndex and TitleIndex
4008 * Filtering of filenames in page_list() corrected
4009 * Escape &, <, > when sending the editor
4010 * Final(?) fix for japanese wiki names
4012 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4013 Version 0.2 (2000-08-26)
4016 * When saving, a datestamp saved in the form and that of the file are
4017 compared now; so, accidently saving over changes of other people is
4018 not possible anymore (saving still needs file locking though, for
4020 * if the directory "backup" exists in the data dir, pages are saved
4021 there before a new version is written to disk
4022 * Removed the "Reset" button from EditPage
4023 * Added "Reduce editor size" link
4024 * Added Latin-1 WikiNames (JürgenHermann ;)
4025 * Speeded up RecentChanges by looking up hostnames ONCE while saving
4026 * Show at most 14 (distinct) days in RecentChanges
4027 * Added icons for common functions, at the top of the page
4028 * Added a printing preview (no icons, etc.)
4029 * Added bracketed (external) URLs
4030 * Added support for quoted URLs ("http://...")
4031 * Added styles for :visited links to CSS
4032 * Embed image if an URL ends in .gif/.jpg/.png
4033 * No markup detection in code sections
4034 * Grey background for code sections
4035 * Added handling for numbered lists
4036 * the edit textarea now grows in width with the browser window
4037 (thanks to Sebastian Dau�for that idea)
4038 * Added page info (revision history) and viewing of old revisions
4039 * Added page diff, and diff links on page info
4040 * Added InterWiki support (use "wiki:WikiServer/theirlocalname"; the list
4041 of WikiServers is read from "data/intermap.txt")
4042 * Added "normal" InterWiki links
4043 * Added "action=raw" to send the raw wiki markup as text/plain (e.g. for
4044 backup purposes via wget)
4047 * Removed an exception when saving empty pages
4048 * Fixed bold nested into emphasis ('''''Bold''' Italic'')
4050 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4051 Version 0.1 (2000-07-29)
4053 Improvements over PikiPiki 1.62:
4054 * Moved configuration to "moin_config.py"
4055 * Added "edit_rows" setting
4056 * Added navigation bar
4057 * Improved HTML formatting
4058 * Added timing comment (page created in xx secs)
4059 * ISO date and time formats by default
4060 * Formatted RecentChanges with HTML tables
4061 * Uppercase letters for the index pages
4062 * Added PythonPowered logo
4065 * Javadoc comments now get formatted properly in {{{ }}} sections
4066 * Remove \r from submitted pages (so we get PORTABLE wiki files)
4067 * chmod(0666) eases manual changes to the data dir
4069 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------