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 * Python 2.3 compatibility fixes
38 * Fixing https detection for servers using HTTPS=1 and also for WSGI
39 servers not using HTTPS/SSL_ environment, but just wsgi.url_scheme.
41 * Fix crash when editing a page with non-ASCII pagename and inserting
43 * Fix inserting smiley markup that contains a backslash or single-quote.
44 * SyncPages: add workaround for callers calling log_status with encoded
47 * moin import irclog: use irssi parser to format logs, mapped .irc
48 extension to text/plain mimetype.
49 * Added sk (slovak) i18n, updated i18n.
53 * Search results: link to 'view' rendering of found attachments.
54 * Fixed moin server standalone argument processing for --interface="".
55 * mointwisted: fixed Twisted start script.
56 * Fix dbw_hide_buttons javascript.
58 * Use logging framework for messages emitted by warnings module (e.g.
59 DeprecationWarning), silence some specific warnings.
60 * Removed superfluous linefeeds in timing log output.
65 * Jabber bot can now be configured to use an authentication realm which
66 is different from the server's hostname; the xmpp_node configuration
67 parameter can now contain a full JID and the xmpp_resource parameter
68 is no longer supported.
69 * Added translation to the password checker result messages.
71 * diff action: make output valid html 4.01
72 * Fixed editbar hidden comment link cosmetics for sidebar themes (hide the
73 complete list element).
74 * Standalone server: fix serverClass argument processing, announce used
75 serverClass in log output.
78 * Speed up javascript comments processing on IE by getElementsByClassName()
83 * GUI Editor - fixed bugs:
84 * Create shorter output for colors (better roundtripping).
85 * Fixed heading level roundtripping.
86 * Handle th in the same way as td (instead of giving traceback due to
89 attachment links with &do=get param (q&d fix)
91 of free interwiki links)
95 unsupported elements, do not traceback for these)
97 action, if the wiki does not run in the root url of the site)
98 * Fixed a Python2.3 incompatibility (base64.b64decode).
99 * Fixed backup action configuration (broke on win32).
100 * Added link icon for ssh: links.
101 * "modernized" theme:
102 * Increased padding-left for correct rendering of bigger icons on MS IE.
103 * Changed some modernized images to always get the same white background
110 * New "modernized" theme.
112 * upgraded to use FCKEditor version 2.6.3 (current version)
113 * user can insert and modify various types of MoinMoin links
114 * New plugin_dirs setting to allow multiple plugin paths (additional to
115 the automatically configured plugin_dir [default: data_dir/plugin]).
116 * @EMAIL@ expands to a MailTo macro call with the obfuscated email address
118 * New macros "WikiConfig" and "WikiConfigHelp".
119 * Per-parser quickhelp, 'quickhelp' class variable of parser class.
120 * Secure session cookies for https (see cfg.cookie_secure).
123 * GUI Editor - fixed bugs:
161 * url_prefix setting (use url_prefix_static or just use the default)
162 * traceback_log_dir setting (we just use logging.exception)
163 * editor_quickhelp setting (replaced by per-parser quickhelp)
164 * Restoring backups with the backup action and related settings (while
165 creating backups is no big issue and should work OK, restoring them
166 had fundamental issues related to overwriting or not-overwriting of
167 existing files - thus we removed the "restore" part of the action and
168 recommend that you just contact the wiki server admin in case of trouble,
169 give him your wiki backup file and let him carefully restore it.)
170 * Removed unmaintained DesktopEdition (moin 1.5.x style) and phpwiki
171 migration scripts from contrib/ directory.
174 * user_autocreate setting was removed from wiki configuration and replaced
175 by a autocreate=<boolean> parameter of the auth objects that support user
176 profile auto creation.
177 * backup action: backup_exclude (default: "do not exclude anything") is now
178 a function f(filename) that tells whether a file should be excluded from
180 You can get the old regex exclusion functionality by using:
181 backup_exclude = re.compile(your_regex).search
182 Be careful with your regex, you might need to use re.escape() to escape
183 characters that have a special meaning in regexes (e.g.: \.[] etc.).
184 If in doubt, maybe just leave backup_exclude at the default and don't
189 * Fix leakage of edit-log file handles (leaked 1 file handle / request!).
191 * Wiki parser: avoid IndexError for empty #! line
192 * MonthCalendar macro: fix parameter parsing / url generation
193 * Xapian indexing filters (MoinMoin/filter/ or data/plugin/filter/):
194 Some indexing filter scripts (e.g. for MS Word documents or PDF files)
195 failed on windows because of the single-quote quoting we used (that
196 works on Linux and other Posix systems). The fix introduces platform-
197 dependant automatic quoting, using double-quotes on win32 and single-
199 HINT: if you use own filter plugins based on execfilter, you have to
200 update them as the filename quoting (was '%s') is now done automatically
201 and must not be part of the command string any more (now just use %s).
202 See MoinMoin/filter/ for some up-to-date code (esp. the PDF filter).
203 * Prevent CategoryTemplate being listed as a category (it is a Template,
204 but matched also the category regex) - added to sample wikiconfig.
205 * LDAP auth: fix processing of TLS options
206 * UpdateGroup xmlrpc server side: fix wrong arg count error
207 * UpdateGroup client: use multicall / auth_token, refactor code so that
208 updateGroup function is reusable.
209 * Improve Python 2.3 compatibility, add notes where 2.4 is required.
214 * New 'cache' action (see developer notes).
217 * Security fix: XSS fix for advanced search form
218 * Avoid creation of new pagedirs with empty edit-log files by just
219 accessing a non-existant page. If you used 1.7 before, you likely have
220 quite some trash pagedirs now and you can clean them up by using:
221 moin --config-dir=... --wiki-url=... maint cleanpage
222 This will output some shell script (please review it before running!)
223 that can be used to move trash pages into some trash/ directory and also
224 moves deleted pages into some deleted/ directory. Maybe keep a copy of
225 those directories for a while just for the case.
226 * Server specific fixes:
227 * standalone (wikiserver.py): fix --pidfile and --group option, fix
228 operation without a wikiserverconfig.py (use builtin defaults).
229 * mod_python: work around mod_python 3.3.1 problems with file uploads.
230 Note: if you are still using mod_python, we strongly recommend you
231 try out mod_wsgi (in daemon mode) - it has less bugs, better
232 security, better separation, WSGI is a Python standard, and moin
233 developers also use WSGI. See HelpOnInstalling/ApacheWithModWSGI.
234 * revert action: fixed for deleted pages.
236 * Xapian indexing: Removed crappy "hostname" tokenization.
238 Also tokenize CamelCase parts of non-wikiwords.
239 * Make query parser reject more invalid input.
240 * If query parsing raises a BracketError, at least tell what the problem
241 is (and not just raise empty ValueError).
242 * Category search: ignore traling whitespace after ----
244 * Fixed sort() usage in UnitArgument to be Python 2.3 compatible.
247 * TableOfContents: skip outer-most <ol> levels when page isn't using
251 * OpenID RP: make it compatible to python-openid 2.2.x
252 * PackagePages.collectpackage: removed encoding from file name of zipfile
253 * Surge protection: exclude localnet no matter whether user is known or not.
255 * Script moin account create/disable/resetpw: checks for already existing
259 * Prevent CategoryTemplate being listed as a category (it is a Template)
260 by changing the default page_category_regex.
263 * New MoinMoin.action.cache - can be used to cache expensively rendered
264 output, e.g. generated images). Once put into the cache, moin can emit
265 a http response for that content very fast and very efficient (including
266 "304 not changed" handling.
267 * New file-like API in MoinMoin.caching (good for dealing with medium
268 to large files without consuming lots of memory).
269 * wikiutil.importPlugin supports getting the whole plugin module object
270 by giving function=None.
274 Note: This is a reduced CHANGES, ommitting details from rc/beta test and
275 also less interesting minor changes and fixes. It shows changes
276 relative to 1.6.3 release.
277 If you want to see full detail, read it there:
278 http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/1.7/file/76265568e8d3/docs/CHANGES
280 New Features: ==============================================================
281 * HINT: we added generic UPDATE instructions as docs/UPDATE.html.
283 * HINT: Standalone server usage changed:
284 * Standalone server can now be started via the "moin" script command,
285 optionally backgrounding itself.
286 See: moin server standalone --help
287 * In the toplevel dir, we have renamed moin.py to wikiserver.py (it was
288 often confused with the moin scripting command).
290 * wikiserver.py - to start the standalone server
291 * wikiserverconfig.py - to configure the standalone server
292 * wikiserverlogging.conf - to configure logging for it (default config
293 is ok for all day use, but can easily be modified for debugging)
294 * wikiconfig.py - to configure the wiki engine
295 * Removed old moin daemonizing script (replaced by moin server standalone
297 * We now provide the "moin" script command also for people not using
298 setup.py, see wiki/server/moin.
301 * New powerful and flexible logging, please see wiki/config/logging/ -
302 HINT: you have to upgrade your server adaptor script (e.g. moin.cgi)
303 and load a logging configuration that fits your needs from there, or
304 alternatively you can also set MOINLOGGINGCONF environment variable
305 to point at your logging config file.
306 If you use some of our sample logging configs, make sure you have a
307 look INTO them to fix e.g. the path of the logfile it will use.
308 * Moin now logs the path from where it loaded its configuration(s).
310 * Authentication / Sessions:
311 * HINT: New authentication plugin system, see HelpOnAuthentication. If
312 you do not use the builtin default for 'auth' list, you likely have to
313 change your configuration. See wiki/config/snippets/ for some samples.
314 * HINT: New session handling system (no moin_session any more, now done
315 internally and automatically), see HelpOnSessions for details.
316 * Added OpenID client and server support.
317 See: HelpOnAuthentication and HelpOnOpenIDProvider.
318 * cfg.trusted_auth_methods is a list of auth methods that put an
319 authenticated user into the "Trusted" ACL group.
321 * User profiles / password recovery / notification:
322 * New newacount action for creating new user accounts/profiles. If you
323 don't want users creating new accounts on their own, you can add this
324 action to actions_excluded list.
325 * New recoverpass action for password recovery:
326 If you forgot your password, recoverpass sends you an email with a
327 password recovery token (NOT the encrypted password) that is valid
329 * New moin account resetpw script for resetting a user's password by
331 * New preferences plugin system, see MoinMoin/userprefs/__init__.py.
332 * New notification system with an optional jabber notification bot, see
333 HelpOnNotification. HINT: wiki users have to check their notification
334 settings, esp. if they want to receive trivial update notifications.
336 * The diff action now has navigation buttons for prev/next change and also
337 a revert button to revert to the revision shown below the diff display.
338 * ThemeBase: support Universal Edit Button, see there for details:
339 http://universaleditbutton.org/
340 * ?action=info&max_count=42 - show the last 42 history entries of the page.
341 max_count has a default of default_count and a upper limit of
342 limit_max_count - you can configure both in your wiki config:
343 cfg.history_count = (100, 200) # (default_count, limit_max_count) default
344 * The CSV parser can sniff the delimiter from the first CSV line so other
345 delimeters than ";" can be used.
346 * Admonition support. Added styling for tip, note, important, warning
347 and caution in the modern theme. For more info see HelpOnAdmonitions.
349 * supports HTML entities like → and ☃
350 * supports the FootNote macro
351 * supports bulletless lists
352 * support for admonitions
353 * will export the wiki page's edit history as the generated article's
354 revision history. Doesn't add history of included pages.
355 * supports for the MoinMoin comment element, though only inline comments
356 are likely to be valid since the DocBook remark is an inline element.
357 * New Hits macro: shows the total hits for the page it is used on.
359 Removed Features: ==========================================================
360 * HINT: Removed attachments direct serving (cfg.attachments - this was
361 deprecated since long!). Use AttachFile action to serve attachments.
362 * Duplicated file attachment upload code was removed from Load action (just
363 use AttachFile action to deal with attachments).
364 * Removed 'test' action. If you like to run unit tests, use py.test.
365 * Removed Login macro.
367 Bug Fixes: =================================================================
368 * Better handling of ImportErrors (farmconfig, macros, wikiserverconfig).
369 * Fix failure of detection of on-disk cache updates.
370 * Fix traceback in filesys.py on Mac OS X when "import Carbon" fails.
372 * AttachFile action / file up- and download / zip support:
373 * WSGI: use wsgi.file_wrapper (or a builtin simple wrapper). Fixes memory
374 consumption for sending of large file attachments.
375 * FastCGI: flush often. Fixes memory consumption for sending of large
377 * Use the open temporary file for receiving file attachment uploads
378 (fixes big memory consumption for large file uploads).
379 * Catch runtime errors raised by zipfile stdlib modules when trying to
380 process a defective zip.
381 * When unzipping member files, decode their filenames from utf-8 and
382 replace invalid chars.
383 * Make error msg less confusing when trying to overwrite a file attachment
384 without having 'delete' rights.
386 * HINT: page_*_regex processing had to be changed to fix category search.
387 If you don't use the builtin (english) defaults, you will have to change
389 old (default): page_category_regex = u'^Category[A-Z]'
390 new (default): page_category_regex = ur'(?P<all>Category(?P<key>\S+))'
391 As you see, the old regex did work for detecting whether a pagename is
392 a category, but it could not be used to search for a category tag in the
393 page text. The new regex can be used for both and identifies the complete
394 category tag (match in group 'all', e.g. "CategoryFoo") as well as the
395 category key (match in group 'key', e.g. "Foo") by using named regex
396 groups. \S+ means the category key can be anything non-blank.
397 If you like to simultaneously support multiple languages, use something
398 like this: ur'(?P<all>(Kategorie|Category)(?P<key>\S+))'
400 * Xapian search / indexing / stemming:
401 * Use text/<format> as mimetype for pages.
402 * Index also major and minor for mimetypes, so it will find 'text' or
403 'plain' as well as 'text/plain'
404 * Fix searching for negative terms.
405 * Improve result list ordering.
406 * Index filters: redirect stderr to logging system.
407 * Remove crappy num regex from WikiAnalyzer, improve tokenization.
408 * Fix AttributeError that happened when trying to access an attribute only
409 used with xapian search (but regex search is not done by xapian)
410 * Fix IndexErrors happening when pages are renamed/nuked after the index
412 * Fixed indexing of WikiWords (index "WikiWords", "Wiki" and "Words").
413 * Fix crash if default language is un-stemmable.
414 * xapian_stemming: removed some strange code (fixes search
415 title:lowercaseword with xapian_stemming enabled)
416 * Fixed category indexing (index CategoryFoo correctly as CategoryFoo, not
417 Foo - for all languages, see page_*_regex change above).
418 * Builtin search: support mimetype: search for pages for the builtin search
419 engine (using text/<format>).
422 * Wiki: fix subscript parsing (was broken for cases like 'a,,1,2,,').
423 * Docbook: fixed detection of WikiWords.
424 * All: Add ssh protocol to url_schemas for ssh:... URLs.
427 * Fix xmlrpc request.read() call to use content-length, if available,
428 fixes hangs with wsgiref server.
429 * Wiki xmlrpc getPageInfoVersion() fixed:
430 * works correctly now for old page versions (was unsupported)
431 * works correctly now for current page version (reported wrong
432 data when a page had attachment uploads after the last page
434 * returns a Fault if it did not find a edit-log entry
436 Other Changes: =============================================================
437 * Using better ACLs and comments on system/help pages now, just taking
438 away 'write' permission, but using default ACLs for everything else.
439 * HINT: If you want to use xapian based indexed search, you need to have
440 Xapian >= 1.0.0 (and you can remove PyStemmer in case you have installed
441 it just for moin - we now use the stemmer built into Xapian as it
442 supports utf-8 since 1.0.0).
443 * Changed default value of cfg.search_results_per_page to 25.
444 * Surge Protection: If a user is authenticated by a trusted authentication
445 (see also cfg.auth_methods_trusted) then he/she won't trigger surge
446 protection, but moin will just log a INFO level log msg with the user's
447 name so you can find the culprit in case he/she is overusing ressources.
448 * HINT: Added MyPages and CopyPage to actions_excluded because MyPages
449 doesn't work without special SecurityPolicy anyway and CopyPage has
450 questionable behaviour.
451 * Load action now just creates a new revision of the target page, the
452 target pagename defaults to the current page name and can be edited.
453 If the target pagename is empty, moin tries to derive the target pagename
454 from the uploaded file's name.
455 Load tries to decode the file contents first using utf-8 coding and, if
456 that fails, it forces decoding using iso-8859-1 coding (and replacing
458 * HINT: cfg.show_login is gone, see code in theme/__init__.py, this may
460 * HINT: a new userprefs/ plugin directory will be created by the usual
461 "moin migration data" command.
463 * generates a valid DOCTYPE
464 * table support has been improved
465 * handling of definitions and glossaries is more robust
466 * supports program language and line numbering in code areas
467 * HINT: ldap_login behaves a bit different now:
468 In previous moin versions, ldap_login tended to either successfully
469 authenticate a user or to completely cancel the whole login process in
470 any other case (including ldap server down or exceptions happening).
471 This made subsequent auth list entries rather pointless.
472 Now it behaves like this:
473 * user not found in LDAP -> give subsequent auth list entries a
474 chance to authenticate the user (same happens if it finds multiple
475 LDAP entries when searching - it logs an additional warning then).
476 * user found, but wrong password -> cancel login
477 * ldap server not reachable or other exceptions -> give subsequent
478 auth list entries a chance
479 So please make sure that you really trust every auth list entry you have
480 configured when upgrading or it might maybe change behaviour in a
481 unexpected or unwanted way.
482 * ldap_login now supports failover: if it can't contact your LDAP server
483 (e.g. because it is down or unreachable), it will just continue and
484 try to authenticate with other authenticators (if there are any in
485 cfg.auth list). So if you have some mirroring LDAP backup server, just
486 put another authenticator querying it there:
487 ldap_auth1 = LDAPAuth(server_uri='ldap://mainserver', ...)
488 ldap_auth2 = LDAPAuth(server_uri='ldap://backupserver', ...)
489 auth = [ldap_auth1, ldap_auth2, ]
491 Developer notes: ===========================================================
492 * Page.last_edit() is DEPRECATED, please use Page.edit_info().
493 * Page._last_edited() is GONE (was broken anyway), please use
494 Page.editlog_entry().
495 * New request.send_file() call, making it possible to use server-specific
497 * getText's (aka _()) 'formatted' keyword param (default: True in 1.6 and
498 early 1.7) was renamed/changed: it is now called 'wiki' and defaults to
499 False. Example calls:
500 _('This will NOT get parsed/formatted by MoinMoin!')
501 _('This will be parsed/formatted by MoinMoin!', wiki=True)
502 _('This will be used as a left side of percent operator. %s',
503 wiki=True, percent=True)
504 * Page.url 'relative' keyword param (default: True in 1.6 and early 1.7)
505 was changed to default False).
506 * The themedict no longer contains 'page_user_prefs' and 'user_prefs',
507 this may affect custom themes.
508 * The rst-parser's admonition class names are no longer prepended with
509 "admonition_". Instead the class names are now for example "note"
510 and not "admonition_note".
515 * Security fix: a check in the user form processing was not working as
516 expected, leading to a major ACL and superuser priviledge escalation
517 problem. If you use ACL entries other than "Known:" or "All:" and/or
518 a non-empty superuser list, you need to urgently install this upgrade.
519 * Security fix: if acl_hierarchic=True was used (False is the default),
520 ACL processing was wrong for some cases, see
522 * For {{transclusion_targets}} we checked the protocol to be http(s),
523 this check was removed (because file: and ftp: should work also) and
524 it's not moin's problem if the user uses silly protocols that can't
525 work for that purpose.
526 * Fixed TableOfContents macro for included pages.
527 * server_fastcgi: added Config.port = None. If you want to use some port
528 (not a fd), you can set it now in your Config, e.g. port = 8888.
529 * category: search matches categories even if there are comment lines
530 between the horizontal rule and the real categories, e.g.:
531 ... some page text ...
533 ## optionally some comments, e.g. about possible categories:
534 ## CategoryJustACommentNotFound
535 CategoryTheRealAndOnly
537 Note: there might be multiple comment lines, but all real categories
538 must be on a single line either directly below the ---- or
539 directly below some comment lines.
542 * Added 'notes' to config.url_schemas, so you can use notes://notessrv/...
543 to invoke your Lotus Notes client.
544 * After creating a new user profile via UserPreferences, you are logged
545 in with that user (no need to immediately enter the same name/password
546 again for logging in).
551 * Security fix: check the ACL of the included page for the rst parser's
553 * Potential security/DOS fix: we removed cracklib / python-crack support
554 in password_checker as it is not thread-safe and caused segmentation
555 faults (leading to server error 500 because the moin process died).
556 * Fix moin_session code for auth methods other than moin_login (e.g. http).
557 If you have worked around this using moin_anon_session, you can remove
558 this workaround now (except if you want anon sessions for other reasons).
559 * Fix moin_session code to delete invalid session cookies and also create
560 a new session cookie if it got a valid user_obj at the same time.
561 * Fix xmlrpc applyAuthToken: give good error msg for empty token.
562 * Fixed category search, use category:CategoryFoo as search term.
563 * xapian_stemming = False (changed default) to workaround some problems
564 in the code enabled by it. Fixes the problems when searching for
565 lowercase or numeric titles or word fragments with the builtin search.
566 * Fix trail for anon users without a session, do not show a single page.
568 * Wiki parser: fixed strange insertion of unwanted paragraphs.
569 * Wiki parser: fix interwiki linking:
570 Free interwiki links did not change since 1.5 (they still require to match
571 [A-Z][A-Za-z]+ for the wikiname part, i.e. a ASCII word beginning with an
573 Bracketed interwiki links now behave similar to how they worked in 1.5:
574 Moin just splits off the part left of the colon - no matter how it looks
575 like. It then tries to find that in the interwiki map. If it is found,
576 a interwiki link gets rendered. If it is not found, moin will render a
577 link to a local wiki page (that has a colon in the pagename). It will
578 also render a local wiki page link if there is no colon at all, of course.
580 [[lowercasewikiname:somepage]] does an interwiki link (if in the map).
581 [[ABC:n]] does a local link to page ABC:n (if ABC is NOT in the map).
582 * Wiki parser: fix interwiki linking for the case that there are query args
583 in the interwiki map entry and you give additional query args via link
584 markup (uses correct query arg separator now), e.g.:
585 [[Google:searchterm|search this|&foo=bar]]
586 * Creole parser: fixed bug that prevents images inside links.
587 * Python parser: catch indentation error.
588 * PageEditor: fixed copyPage for write restricted pages.
589 * GUI editor: fixed javascript error with too complex word_rule regex,
591 * Fixed FCKeditor dialog boxes for FireFox3.
592 * NewPage macro/newpage action: fixed for non-ascii template pagenames.
594 * EmbedObject macro: bug fix for image mimetype
596 * fix TWikiDraw saving a drawing by also evaluating the query args.
597 * work around unpythonic WSGI 1.0 read() API, fixing broken xmlrpc
598 putPage with mod_wsgi
600 * Fix logfile code for EACCESS errors.
601 * Removed the "logging initialized" log messages because it was issued once
605 * Show "Comments" toggling link in edit bar only if the page really
607 * Made default configuration of surge protection a bit more forgiving,
608 especially for edit action which is currently also used for previews.
609 * Updated i18n, system/help pages, added Macedonian system text translation.
610 * Improved moin xmlrpc write command's builtin docs and auto-append
611 ?action=xmlrpc2 to the target wiki url given.
616 * Improved params for [[target|label|params]]:
617 Added accesskey link tag attribute, e.g.: [[target|label|accesskey=1]].
618 Additionally to specifying link tag attributes (like class=foo), you can
619 now also specify &key=value for getting that into the query string of
621 The "&" character is important, don't forget it or it won't get into the
623 E.g. for an attachment, you can use:
624 [[attachment:foo.pdf|Direct download of foo.pdf|&do=get]]
625 E.g. for linking to some specific diff, you can use:
626 [[SomePage|see that diff|&action=diff,&rev1=23,&rev2=42]]
627 See also the updated HelpOnLinking page!
628 * AdvancedSearch: make multipe categories/languages/mimetype selections possible
629 * Added a configuration directive to only do one bind to the LDAP server.
630 This is useful if you bind as the user the first time.
631 ldap_bindonce = False # default
634 * Fix XSS issue in login action.
635 * Fix wrong pagename when creating new pages on Mac OS X - that was a big
636 showstopper for moin 1.6.0 on Mac OS X.
637 * Fixed 1.6 migration script:
638 Make sorting python 2.3 compatible.
639 Just skip corrupted event log lines.
640 Fix link conversion by using data.pre160 as data_dir.
641 Fix bad /InterWiki pagenames when encountering interwiki links with bad
643 Improve ImageLink conversion by using its argument parser code.
644 Added STONEAGE_IMAGELINK (default: False) switch to wiki markup converter,
645 toggle it if you had a very old ImageLink macro in production and the
646 converter output has target and image interchanged.
647 Fixed UnicodeDecodeError for wrongly encoded attachment filenames.
649 Fix parsing of link/transclusion description and params.
650 Fix relative attachment targets.
651 Fix supported URL schemes (some got lost since 1.5.8).
652 Showing an upload link for non-existing non-text/non-image transclusions
653 now (like e.g. *.pdf).
654 * RST parser: fix attachment: and drawing: processing
655 * Fix quickhelp when editing RST markup pages.
656 * Fix Despam action: editor grouping was broken, increase time interval
658 * Fix AdvancedSearch domain:system search crashing.
659 * Only switch off xapian search if we didn't use it because of missing index.
660 * Fix saving twikidraw drawings by removing 'java' from spider regex.
661 * Fix classic theme's unsubscribe icon's action link.
662 * Fix AttachFile action: don't show unzip for packages, only show install
664 * Fix "su user" troubles on UserPreferences.
665 * Removed unit tests from ?action=test (due to changes in our test
666 environment, using py.test now, this was broken).
667 * Duplicated the top directories' moin.py to wiki/server/moin.py so it gets
668 installed by setup.py.
676 * I18n texts, system and help pages updated, please update your underlay
677 directory (see wiki/underlay/...).
678 * Improved "moin" script help, invoke it with "moin ... package command --help".
679 * Added some .ext -> mimetype mappings missing on some systems (like Mac OS X).
680 * Removed ImageLink macro, as this can be easily done with moin wiki link
681 syntax now - see HelpOnMacros/ImageLink (the 1.6 migration scripts convert
682 all ImageLink calls to moin wiki link syntax).
683 * Updated EmbedObject macro.
687 * This is a reduced CHANGES, ommitting details from rc/beta test and also
688 less interesting minor changes and fixes. If you want to see full detail,
689 read it there: http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/1.6/file/640f21787334/docs/CHANGES
691 It took MoinMoin development a lot of work and time to implement all the new
692 and fixed stuff, so please, before asking for support:
693 * take the time to read all the stuff below
694 * read the new help pages (copy them from wiki/underlay/ directory)
696 * HINT: If you are upgrading from a older moin version and want to keep your
697 existing data directory, it is essential that you read and follow
698 README.migration because the wiki markup and user profiles changed significantly.
699 See also more HINTs below...
701 New features: ==============================================================
703 User interface: ------------------------------------------------------------
704 * Removed "underscore in URL" == "blank in pagename magic" - it made more
705 trouble than it was worth. If you still want to have a _ in URL, just
706 put a _ into pagename.
707 * Discussion pages, see FeatureRequests/DiscussionAndOrCommentPages.
708 * cfg.password_checker (default: use some simple builtin checks for too
709 easy passwords and, if available, python-crack).
710 Use password_checker = None to disable password checking.
711 * We now have a drafts functionality (no */MoinEditorBackup pages any
713 * If you edit a page and cancel the edit, use preview or save, a draft
714 copy gets saved for you to a internal cache area (data/cache/drafts/).
715 * If it is a save what you did and it succeeds, the draft copy gets
716 killed right afterwards.
717 * If you accidentally used cancel or your browser or machine crashes
718 after you used preview, then just visit that page again and edit it.
719 the editor will notify you that there is a draft of this page and you
720 will see a "Load draft" button. Click on it to load the draft into the
721 editor and save the page.
722 * The draft storage is per user and per page, but only one draft per page.
723 * cfg.quicklinks_default and cfg.subscribed_pages_default can be used to
724 preload new user profiles with configurable values.
725 * attachment links for non-existing attachments look different now:
726 the note about the non-existing attachment moved to the link title,
727 the link is shown with nonexistent class (grey).
728 * attachment embeddings for non-existing attachments show a grey clip
729 * The list of InterWiki sites is editable in the wiki (page InterWikiMap),
730 it is getting reloaded every minute.
731 * We support some new languages and also have new underlay pages, thanks
732 to all translators and people helping with the docs!
734 Actions: -------------------------------------------------------------------
735 * Synchronisation of wikis using the SyncPages action.
736 * Xapian (see http://xapian.org/) based indexed search code.
738 * Install xapian-core and xapian-bindings on your machine.
739 We used 0.9.4, but newer code should hopefully work, too.
740 * cfg.xapian_search = True
741 * Execute this to build the index:
742 $ moin ... index build # indexes pages and attachments
743 $ moin ... index build --files=files.lst # same plus a list of files
744 You should run those commands as the same user you use for your wiki,
745 usually this is the webserver userid, e.g.:
746 $ sudo -u www-data moin --config=... --wiki-url=wiki.example.org/ \
747 index build --files=files.lst
749 - LanguageSearch: language:de
750 - CategorySearch: category:Homepage
751 - MimetypeSearch: mimetype:image/png (for attachments/files)
752 - DomainSearch: domain:underlay or domain:standard
753 - History Search: available in advanced ui
754 Note: Some currently only available when Xapian is used.
755 * New config options and their defaults:
756 xapian_search False enables xapian-powered search
757 xapian_index_dir None directory for xapian indices
758 (can be shared for wiki farms)
759 xapian_stemming True toggles usage of stemmer, fallback
760 to False if no stemmer installed
761 search_results_per_page 10 determines how many hits should be
762 shown on a fullsearch action
763 xapian_index_history False indexes all revisions of pages to
764 allow searching in their history
765 * Speeded up linkto search by avoiding read locks on the pagelinks file.
767 * The action menu now calls the actions for the revision of the page you
768 are currently viewing. If you are viewing the current page revision, you
769 get the same behaviour as in moin 1.5, but if you are viewing an old
770 page revision, action "raw" will now show you the raw text of this OLD
771 revision (not of the current revision as moin 1.5 did it).
772 Note that not every action does evaluate the rev=XX parameter it gets.
773 Also please note that the edit, info, ... links in the editbar do NOT
774 use the rev parameter, but operate on the latest page revision (as
775 they did in moin 1.5).
776 * Info action lost the links for "raw", "print" and "revert" actions,
777 because you can now just view an old revision and select those actions
780 * ?action=sitemap emits a google sitemap (XML), listing all your wiki pages
781 and the wiki root URL.
782 Page Priority / Frequency / Last modification
783 --------------------------------------------------------------------
784 / 1.0 / hourly / <now>
785 cfg.page_front_page 1.0 / hourly / page last edit
786 TitleIndex,RecentChanges 0.9 / hourly / <now>
787 content pages 0.5 / daily / page last edit
788 system/help pages 0.1 / yearly / page last edit
790 * Action DeletePage and RenamePage can now be used for subpages of a page, too.
791 * Added Action CopyPage so you can use now an existing page or page hierarchy
792 as template for a new page, see FeatureRequests/CloneOrCopyPages.
793 * "Package Pages" action supports attachments now.
794 * Added SisterPages support:
795 * action=sisterpages will generate a list of url pagename lines for all
796 pages in your moin wiki.
797 * action=pollsistersites will poll all sister sites listed in
798 cfg.sistersites = [(wikiname, fetchURL), ...]
799 The fetch URL for the sistersites depends on the wiki engine, e.g.:
801 ('MoinExample', 'http://moin.example.org/?action=sisterpages')
802 # oddmuse based wiki:
803 ('EmacsWiki', 'http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/test?action=sisterpages')
804 # JspWiki based wiki:
805 ('JspWiki', 'http://www.jspwiki.org/SisterSites.jsp')
806 * If the current page exists on some sister wiki, a link to it will be
807 added to the navibar.
808 You can use sister wikis for adding another dimension to your wiki UI: use
809 it for simple multi language support, or for comments, or anything else
811 TODO: add sistersites_force with sister sites we link to even if they do not
812 have the page yet (will work only for moin as we don't know
813 pagename>url transformation of other wikis)
814 * showtags action that lists all tags related to a page.
815 * action=view does use mimetypes of EmbedObject too and text files will be shown
816 by using their colorized parsers
818 Macros: --------------------------------------------------------------------
820 * If a change has happened after your bookmark, the updated/new/renamed
821 icon links to the bookmark diff.
822 * If a page does not exist any more (because it was deleted or renamed),
823 we link the deleted icon to the diff showing what was deleted (for the
824 delete action). For the rename action, we just show the deleted icon.
825 * Conflict icon in RecentChanges is shown if a edit conflict is detected.
826 * Enhanced SystemAdmin's user browser, so a SuperUser can enable/disable
828 * Included EmbedObject macro for embedding different major mimetypes:
829 application, audio, image, video, chemical, x-world.
830 You are able to change the defaults of allowed mimetypes in the config
831 var mimetypes_embed. The config var mimetypes_xss_protect is used to deny
832 mimetypes. The order of both variables is Allow, Deny (mimetypes_embed,
833 mimetypes_xss_protect).
834 * Added support for @SELF to the NewPage macro.
835 * GetText2 macro that allows to translate messages that contain data.
836 * Make the FootNote macro filter duplicates and display a list of numbers
837 instead of a list of identical footnotes. Thanks to Johannes Berg for the
840 Parsers: -------------------------------------------------------------------
841 * Moin Wiki parser: Changed markup for links, images and macros, see these
842 wiki pages: HelpOnLinking, HelpOnMacros
843 * New wiki markup for /* inline comments */ - they get rendered as a span
844 with class="comment", see next item:
845 * There is a new item in the edit bar: "Comments". If you click it, the
846 visibility of all class "comment" tags will be toggled. There is a user
847 preferences item "show_comments" to set if the default view shows them or not.
848 * The wiki parser can be used with css classes now:
850 This will render output within a div with class "comment".
851 You can use any wiki markup as usual.
853 You can also combine multiple css classes like this:
854 {{{#!wiki red/dotted/comment
855 This will render a red background, dotted border comment section.
857 The same thing will work for any other css classes you have.
858 If the css classes contain the word "comment", they will trigger some
859 special feature, see next item:
860 * Wiki nested parser/pre sections work now, using this syntax:
861 a) just use more curly braces if you have 3 closing in your content:
863 }}} <- does not terminate the section!
865 b) use {{{ + some magic string:
867 }}} <- does not terminate the section!
869 c) {{{whatever#!python
872 Pitfall: stuff like below does not work as it did in 1.5:
880 * Added support for ircs: URLs (secure IRC).
881 * New text/creole parser that allows you to use WikiCreole 1.0 markup,
883 * HTML parser (called "html") that allows you to use HTML on the page.
884 Thanks to the trac team for the nice code.
885 * Added the diff parser from ParserMarket, thanks to Emilio Lopes, Fabien
886 Ninoles and Juergen Hermann.
888 XMLRPC: --------------------------------------------------------------------
889 * actions_excluded now defaults to ['xmlrpc'] - this kind of disables the
890 built-in wiki xmlrpc server code (not completely: it will just answer
891 with a Fault instance for any request). If you want to use xmlrpc v1 or
892 v2, you have to remove 'xmlrpc' from the actions_excluded list (for
893 example if you want to use wikisync, mailimport or any other feature
894 using xmlrpc). If you enable xmlrpc, it will be possible that someone
895 changes your wiki content by using xmlrpc (it will of course honour ACLs).
896 * New XMLRPC methods (see doc strings for details):
898 * system.multicall -- multicall support
899 * Authentication System: getAuthToken/appyAuthToken
900 * getDiff -- method to get binary diffs
901 * mergeDiff -- method to local changes remotely
902 * interwikiName -- method to get the IWID and the interwiki moniker
903 * getAllPagesEx -- method to get the pagelist in a special way (revnos,
904 no system pages etc.)
905 * getAuthToken -- make and authentication token by supplying username/password
906 * applyAuthToken -- set request.user for following xmlrpc calls (within the
908 * getUserProfile -- method to get user profile data for request.user
909 * Added XMLRPC methods for attachment handling. Thanks to Matthew Gilbert.
910 * XMLRPC putPage method adjusted to new AuthToken, config vars
911 xmlrpc_putpage_enabled and xmlrpc_putpage_trusted_only removed.
913 Scripts / Commandline interface: -------------------------------------------
914 * moin export dump now better conforms to the theme guidelines.
915 * Added a --dump-user option to the moin export dump command.
916 Thanks to Oliver O'Halloran.
918 Security / Auth / AntiSpam / etc.: -----------------------------------------
919 * Hierarchical ACLs are now supported, i.e. pages inheriting permissions
920 from higher-level pages. See HelpOnAccessControlLists.
921 * If you have "#acl" (without the quotes) on a page, this means now:
922 "this page has own (empty) ACLs, so do not use acl_rights_default here"
923 Please note that this is COMPLETELY DIFFERENT from having no ACL line at
924 all on the page (acl_rights_default is used in that case).
925 * Antispam master url is now configurable via cfg.antispam_master_url.
926 The default is to fetch the antispam patterns from MoinMaster wiki.
927 * Antispam now checks the edit comments against BadContent also.
928 * TextCHAs (text-form CAPTCHAs).
929 Due to increasingly annoying wiki spammers, we added the option to use
930 TextCHAs (for page save (not for preview!), for attachment upload, for
931 user creation (not for profile save)).
932 This function is disabled by default. If you run a wiki that is editable
933 by anonymous or non-approved users from the internet (i.e. All: or Known:
934 in ACL terms), you should enable it in your wiki config by:
935 textchas = { # DO NOT USE EXACTLY THESE QUESTIONS!!!
937 u'H2O is ...': u'water', # bad: too common
938 u'2 apples and three bananas makes how many fruits?': ur'(five|5)', # good
939 u'2 apples and three pigs makes how many fruits?': ur'(two|2)', # good
940 u'2+3': ur'5', # bad: computable
943 'de': { # for german users
944 u'H2O ist ...': u'wasser',
947 This means that english users will get some random question from the 'en'
948 set, german users will get some from the 'de' set. If there is no 'de'
949 set configured, moin will fallback to language_default and then to 'en',
950 so make sure that you at least have a 'en' set configured (or whatever
951 you have set as language_default).
952 You need to use unicode for the questions and answers (see that u"...").
953 For the answer, you need to give a regular expression:
954 * In the easiest case, this is just some word or sentence (first en
955 example). It will be matched in a case-insensitive way.
956 * For more complex stuff, you can use the power of regular expressions,
957 e.g. if multiple answers are correct (second en example). Any answer
958 matching the regular expression will be considered as correct, any
959 non-matching answer will be considered as incorrect.
961 Tipps for making it hard to break for the spammers and easy for the users:
962 * Use site-specific (not too common) questions.
963 * Don't use too hard questions (annoys legitimate users).
964 * Don't use computable questions.
965 * Don't reuse textchas from other sites.
967 textchas_disabled_group = None # (default)
968 Set this to some group name and noone in this group will get textchas.
969 E.g.: textchas_disabled_group = u'NoTextChasGroup'
971 * The login page gives now the possibility to recover a lost password, thanks to
972 Oliver Siemoneit. This is especially useful for wikis where access to user
973 preferences is restricted by acl.
974 * Session handling for logged-in users and (not by default due to expiry
975 problems) anonymous users.
976 * Updated the ldap_login code from 1.5 branch, supports TLS now.
977 See MoinMoin/config/multiconfig.py for supported configuration options
978 and their defaults (and please just change what you need to change,
980 * Interwiki auth: You need to define cfg.trusted_wikis and
981 cfg.user_autocreate to use it. Logging in works by entering:
982 Name: RemoteWikiName RemoteUserName
984 Then moin contacts RemoteWikiName after looking it up in the interwiki
985 map and tries to authenticate there using RemoteUserName and remotepass.
986 If it succeeds, the remote wiki will return the remote user profile items
987 and your local moin will autocreate an account with these values.
989 Server / Network / Logging: ------------------------------------------------
990 * The standalone server script moved to the toplevel directory. This makes
991 it possible to directly start moin.py without additional configuration
992 to run a MoinMoin DesktopEdition like wiki setup.
993 Be careful: DesktopEdition uses relaxed security settings only suitable
994 for personal and local use.
995 * Added TLS/SSL support to the standalone server. Thanks to Matthew Gilbert.
996 To use TLS/SSL support you must also install the TLSLite library
997 (http://trevp.net/tlslite/). Version 0.3.8 was used for development and
1000 * cfg.log_reverse_dns_lookups [default: True] - you can set this to False
1001 if rev. dns lookups are broken in your network (leading to long delays
1002 on page saves). With False, edit-log will only contain IP, not hostname.
1003 * Added support for "304 not modified" response header for AttachFile get
1004 and rss_rc actions - faster, less traffic, less load.
1006 * Added logging framework, using stdlib's "logging" module. Just do
1007 import logging ; logging.debug("your text"). Depending on configuration
1008 in the server Config class, your stuff will be written to screen (stderr),
1009 to a moin logfile, to apache's error.log, etc.:
1010 logPath = None # 'moin.log'
1011 loglevel_file = None # logging.DEBUG/INFO/WARNING/ERROR/CRITICAL
1012 loglevel_stderr = None # logging.DEBUG/INFO/WARNING/ERROR/CRITICAL
1013 NOTE: this is NOT in wikiconfig, but e.g. in moin.cgi or moin.py or ...
1015 * Added some experimental and disabled code, that uses x-forwarded-for
1016 header (if present) to get the right "outside" IP before a request
1017 enters our chain of trusted (reverse) proxies.
1018 This code has the problem that we can't configure it in wikiconfig, so
1019 if you want to use it / test it, you have to edit the moin code:
1020 MoinMoin/request/__init__.py - edit proxies_trusted (near the top).
1021 We will try to make this easier to configure, but there was no time left
1022 before 1.6.0 release for doing bigger code refactorings needed for that.
1024 Mail: ----------------------------------------------------------------------
1025 * You can send email to the wiki now (requires xmlrpc), see:
1026 FeatureRequests/WikiEmailIntegration, HelpOnConfiguration/EmailSupport
1028 * Mail notifications contain a link to the diff action so the user
1029 can see the coloured difference more easily. Thanks to Tobias Polzin.
1031 Other changes: =============================================================
1032 * HINT: please copy a new version of your server script from the wiki/server/
1033 directory and edit it to match your setup.
1034 * HINT: instead of "from MoinMoin.multiconfig import DefaultConfig" you
1035 need to use "from MoinMoin.config.multiconfig import DefaultConfig" now.
1036 You need to change this in your wikiconfig.py or farmconfig.py file.
1037 See MoinMoin/multiconfig.py for an alternative way if you can't do that.
1038 * HINT: you need to change some imports (if you have them in your config):
1039 Old: from MoinMoin.util.antispam import SecurityPolicy
1040 New: from MoinMoin.security.antispam import SecurityPolicy
1041 Old: from MoinMoin.util.autoadmin import SecurityPolicy
1042 New: from MoinMoin.security.autoadmin import SecurityPolicy
1043 * HINT: you need to change your auth stuff, the new way is:
1044 from MoinMoin.auth import moin_login, moin_session
1045 from MoinMoin.auth.http import http
1046 auth = [http, moin_login, moin_session]
1047 Do it in a similar way for other auth methods.
1048 * HINT: you need to change your url_prefix setting in 2 ways:
1049 1. The setting is now called url_prefix_static (to make it more clear
1050 that we mean the static stuff, not the wiki script url).
1051 2. The strongly recommended (and default) value of it is '/moin_static160'
1052 for moin version 1.6.0 (and will be ...161 for moin 1.6.1). It is
1053 possible and recommended to use a very long cache lifetime for static
1054 stuff now (Expires: access plus 1 year), because we require to change
1055 the URL of static stuff when the static stuff changes (e.g. on a
1056 version upgrade of moin) to avoid problems with stale cache content.
1057 Your moin will be faster with lower load and traffic because of this.
1058 For standalone server, we use 1 year expiry for static stuff now.
1059 For Apache, Lighttpd and other "external" servers, you have to care
1060 for configuring them to use a long expiry and change url_prefix_static
1061 related configuration on upgrade.
1062 HINT: if you run standalone or Twisted server, the easiest way to get a
1063 working configuration (with server configuration matching wiki
1064 configuration) is to NOT set url_prefix_static at all. Moin will
1065 use matching configuration defaults in this case.
1066 * url_prefix_action ['action'] was introduced for lowering load and traffic
1067 caused by searchengine crawlers. Up to now, crawlers where causing a high
1068 load in internet moin wikis because they tried to get about everything,
1069 including all actions linked from the user interface.
1070 Known crawlers only get 403 for most actions, but nevertheless they first
1071 tried. There was no means keeping them away from actions due to the rather
1072 braindead robots.txt standard. You can only disallow pathes there, but
1073 moin's actions were querystring based, not path based (this would need
1074 regex support in robots.txt, but there is no such thing).
1075 This changed now. Moin is able to generate action URLs you can handle in
1076 robots.txt, like /action/info/PageName?action=info. So if you don't want
1077 bots triggering actions, just disallow /action/ there. Keep in mind that
1078 attachments are handled by /action/AttachFile, so if you want attached
1079 files and pictures indexed by search engine, don't disallow
1080 /action/AttachFile/ in your robots.txt. In order to use this feature,
1081 set url_prefix_action in your wikiconfig to e.g. "action".
1082 * We use (again) the same browser compatibility check as FCKeditor uses
1083 internally, too. So if GUI editor invocation is broken due to browser
1084 compatibility issues or a wrong browser version check, please file a bug
1085 at FCKeditor development or browser development.
1086 * HINT: We removed Lupy based indexed search code. If you were brave enough
1087 to use cfg.lupy_search, you maybe want to try cfg.xapian_search instead.
1089 Developer notes: ===========================================================
1090 * We moved the IE hacks to theme/css/msie.css that gets included after all
1091 other css files (but before the user css file) using a conditional
1092 comment with "if IE", so it gets only loaded for MSIE (no matter which
1093 version). The file has some standard css inside (evaluated on all MSIE
1094 versions) and some * html hacks that only IE < 7 will read.
1095 HINT: if you use custom themes, you want to update them in the same way.
1096 * autofilters for databrowser widget. Thanks to Johannes Berg for the patch.
1097 * changed formatter.attachment_link call (it is now more flexible,
1098 because you can render the stuff between link start and link end yourself)
1099 * Page.url() does not escape any more. You have to use wikiutil.escape()
1100 yourself if you want to write the URL to HTML and it contains e.g. &.
1101 * The testing wikiconfig moved to tests/wikiconfig.py, the testing wiki
1102 is now created in tests/wiki/...
1103 * HINT: Killed "processors" (finally), formatter method changed to:
1104 formatter.parser(parsername, lines)
1105 * Refactored some actions to use ActionBase base class.
1106 * Moved "test" action from wikiaction to MoinMoin/action/
1107 (and use ActionBase).
1108 * Moved MoinMoin/config.py to MoinMoin/config/__init__.py.
1109 * Moved MoinMoin/multiconfig.py to MoinMoin/config/multiconfig.py.
1110 * Moved "SystemInfo" macro from wikimacro to MoinMoin/macro/.
1111 * Moved wikiaction.py stuff to MoinMoin/action/__init__.py.
1112 * Moved wikimacro.py stuff to MoinMoin/macro/__init__.py.
1113 * Moved wikirpc.py stuff to MoinMoin/xmlrpc/__init__.py.
1114 * Moved wikitest.py stuff to action/test.py (only used from there).
1115 * Moved formatter/base.py to formatter/__init__.py (FormatterBase).
1116 * Moved util/ParserBase.py to parser/ParserBase.py.
1117 * Moved / splitted request.py into MoinMoin/request/*.
1118 Most stuff will be broken, please help fixing it (usually some imports
1119 will be missing and the adaptor script will need a change maybe):
1120 Tested successfully: CGI, CLI, STANDALONE, FCGI, TWISTED
1121 * Moved security.py to security/__init__.py.
1122 * Moved wikiacl.py to security/__init__.py.
1123 * Moved logfile/logfile.py to logfile/__init__.py.
1124 * Moved mailimport.py to mail/mailimport.py.
1125 * Moved util/mail.py to mail/sendmail.py.
1126 * Moved auth.py to auth/__init__.py.
1127 Moved util/sessionParser.py to auth/_PHPsessionParser.py.
1128 teared auth code into single modules under auth/* - moin_session handling
1129 and the builting moin_login method are in auth/__init__.py.
1130 * Added wikiutil.MimeType class (works internally with sanitized mime
1131 types because the official ones suck).
1132 * Renamed parsers to module names representing sane mimetypes, e.g.:
1133 parser.wiki -> parser.text_moin_wiki
1134 * Added thread_monitor debugging aid. It can be activated using:
1135 from MoinMoin.util import thread_monitor; thread_monitor.activate_hook()
1136 and then triggered by requesting URL ...?action=thread_monitor - please
1137 be aware that monitoring threads has a big performance impact on its own,
1138 so you only want to temporarily enable this for debugging.
1139 By default, it dumps its output to the data_dir as tm_<timestamp>.log,
1140 you can change this at bottom of action/thread_monitor.py if you want to
1141 see output in your browser.
1142 * Introduced scope parameter to CacheEntry() - if you specify 'farm', it
1143 will cache into a common directory for all wikis in the same farm, if you
1144 specify 'wiki', it will use a cache directory per wiki and if you specify
1145 'item', it will use a cache directory per item (== per page).
1146 Creating a CacheEntry without explicit scope is DEPRECATED.
1147 * Smileys moved from MoinMoin.config to MoinMoin.theme.
1148 * Removed all _ magic in URLs and filenames.
1149 * request.action now has the action requested, default: 'show'.
1150 * Cleaned up duplicated http_headers code and DEPRECATED this function
1151 call (it was sometimes confused with setHttpHeaders call) - it will
1152 vanish with moin 1.7, so please fix your custom plugins!
1154 request.emit_http_headers(more_headers=[])
1155 This call pre-processes the headers list (encoding from unicode, making
1156 sure that there is exactly ONE content-type header, etc.) and then
1157 calls a server specific helper _emit_http_headers to emit it.
1158 Tested successfully: CGI, STANDALONE, FCGI, TWISTED
1159 * setResponseCode request method DEPRECATED (it only worked for Twisted
1160 anyway), just use emit_http_headers and include a Status: XXX header.
1161 Method will vanish with moin 1.7.
1162 * cfg.url_prefix is DEPRECATED, please use cfg.url_prefix_static.
1163 * d['title_link'] is not supported any more. You can easily make that link
1164 on your own in your theme, see example in MoinMoin/theme/__init__.py,
1166 * There is a new Page method called Page.get_raw_body_str that returns
1167 the encoded page body. This is useful if you just deal with byte data
1168 (e.g. while generating binary diffs).
1169 * The TagStore/PickleTagStore system is used to store the syncronisation tags.
1170 * XMLRPC functions may return Fault instances from now on
1171 * Moin got multicall support, including a module that makes it usable on the
1172 client-side without requiring Python 2.4
1173 * Added no_magic to text_html formatter to disable tag autoclosing.
1174 * MOIN_DEBUG can be set in the environment to let MoinMoin ignore exceptions
1175 that would lead to a traceback in the browser. Thanks to Raphael Bossek.
1176 * There is a new MoinMoin.Page.ItemCache class now with automatic cache
1177 invalidation based on global edit-log. We currently use it to cache page
1178 acls, speedup Page.get_rev and reading the page local edit-log.
1179 * Added wikiutil.renderText parse and format raw wiki markup with all page elements.
1180 * The user file format has changed, old files will be read correctly but
1181 will silently be upgraded to the new format so old versions will not
1182 read the new files correctly (this only affects 'subscribed_pages' and
1183 'quicklinks' which will be lost when downgrading.)
1188 * Added timing.log to help performance debugging. Use cfg.log_timing = True
1189 to update <data_dir>/timing.log (default is False, meaning no logging).
1191 Example log entries:
1194 Timestamp PID Timing Flag action URL
1195 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1196 20070512 184401 22690 vvv None moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/RssFeeds
1197 20070512 184401 22690 0.267s - show moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/RssFeeds
1199 Timestamp: YYYYMMDD HHMMSS (UTC)
1200 PID: the process ID of the moin process
1201 Timing: when action starts, it will be "vvv"
1202 when it ends, it logs the total time it needed for execution
1203 Flag (some are only logged at end of action):
1205 - Page does not exist
1206 B user agent was recognized as bot / spider
1207 !x! Action took rather long (the higher the x, the longer it took - this
1208 makes it easy to grep for problematic stuff).
1209 Action: action name (None is when no action was specified, moin assumes
1210 "show" for that case)
1211 URL: the requested URL
1213 For more information about tuning your moin setup, see:
1214 http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/PerformanceTuning
1215 * Added support for ircs, webcal, xmpp, ed2k and rootz protocols - we
1216 moved all protocols to config.url_schemas, so this is not empty any more.
1217 It is possible to use these protocols now on wiki pages and in the
1218 navi_bar. We just generate the URLs, it is up to your browser what it
1219 does when clicking on those links.
1220 * cfg.traceback_show (default: 1) can be used to disable showing tracebacks.
1221 cfg.traceback_log_dir (default: None) can be used to set a directory
1222 that is used to dump traceback files to. Your users will get a notice to
1223 which (random) file in that directory the traceback was been written.
1224 NOTE: while you can feel free to set traceback_show = 0 and
1225 traceback_log_dir = None, we will also feel free to reject bug reports
1226 when you (or your site's users) don't give us enough information (like a
1227 traceback file) to debug the problem. If you set traceback_show = 0,
1228 we recommend pointing traceback_log_dir to a directory with reasonable
1229 free space and putting a page onto your wiki that describes who has to
1230 get contacted (usually the wiki server admin) in case a traceback happens.
1231 The admin can then locate the traceback file and submit it to moin
1233 Of course we will also need all the other details of a bug report, not
1234 only the traceback file.
1237 * Updated spider agents list.
1238 * Reduce bot/spider cpu usage for SystemInfo, OrphanedPages, WantedPages,
1239 PageHits, PageSize, WordIndex macros (we just return nothing for bots).
1242 * XSS fixes, see http://secunia.com/advisories/24138/ (item 1 and 2).
1243 * ACL security fixes:
1244 * MonthCalendar respects ACLs of day pages now.
1245 * Check the ACL for the rst markup include directive.
1246 * Fixed cleaning of edit comments (control chars in there could damage
1248 * Fixed in-process caching of antispam patterns (didn't update the cache
1249 for multi-process, persistent servers).
1250 * Correct encoding/decoding for surge-log data, fixes leftover
1251 surge-logXXXXXXX.tmp files in data/cache/surgeprotect.
1252 * Fixed mode of cache files (mkstemp creates them with 0600 mode).
1253 * Symbolic entities with numbers (like ²) did not work, fixed.
1254 * We open data/error.log earlier now and we also use it for FastCGI.
1255 * Fixed unicode cfg.page_group_regex.
1256 * Fixed moin.spec to use english date format.
1257 * GUI converter: fixed conversion of relative wiki links.
1258 * Fixed NewPage macro button label to not be formatted as wiki text.
1262 * added url_prefix_local which is used for stuff that must be loaded from
1263 same site as the wiki engine (e.g. FCKeditor GUI editor applet), while
1264 url_prefix can be a remote server serving the static files (css/img).
1265 If not set (or set to None), url_prefix_local will default to the value
1267 * We save some CPU and disk I/O by having EditTemplates and LikePages macro
1268 (both used on MissingPage) check whether the requesting entity was
1269 identified as a spider (e.g. search engine bot) and do nothing in that
1270 case. Normal users won't see any difference.
1271 * For AttachFile, you can now choose to overwrite existing files of same
1272 name (nice for updating files).
1276 * fixed unescaped page info display.
1277 * fixed unescaped page name display in AttachFile, RenamePage and
1278 LocalSiteMap actions
1279 * WantedPages listed existing pages that are not readable for the user,
1280 but are linked from pages that ARE readable for the user (so this is NOT
1281 a privacy/security issue). We now don't list those pages any more as it
1282 is pointless/confusing, the user can't read or edit there anyway.
1285 * GUI editor/converter:
1286 * ignore <col>/<colgroup>/<meta> elements
1287 * support <a> within blockquote
1288 * Remove generated=... attribute from pagelink html output (this attr is
1289 for internal use only). w3c validator is now happier again.
1290 * Fixed css class "userpref" (not: "userprefs") of the Login form.
1291 * Fixed the version number check in the xslt parser for 4suite >= 1.0.
1292 * We reset the umask to the wanted value every request. This should fix
1293 wrong file modes when used with Twisted (twistd uses a hardcoded 0077
1294 umask in daemonize()).
1295 * Avoid trouble when saving pages with antispam function when MoinMaster
1296 wiki is having troubles (catch xmlrpc Fault).
1299 * Standalone server does not do reverse DNS lookups any more (this is a
1300 standard feature of BaseHTTPServer stdlib module, but we override this
1301 now and just print the IP).
1302 * We moved the IE hacks to theme/css/msie.css that gets included after all
1303 other css files (but before the user css file) using a conditional
1304 comment with "if IE", so it gets only loaded for MSIE (no matter which
1305 version). The file has some standard css inside (evaluated on all MSIE
1306 versions) and some * html hacks that only IE < 7 will read.
1307 HINT: if you use custom themes, you want to update them in the same way.
1308 * Improved ldap auth:
1309 * cfg.ldap_name_attribute was removed because of new cfg.ldap_filter.
1310 If you had ldap_name_attribute = 'sAMAccountName' before, just use
1311 ldap_filter = '(sAMAccountName=%(username)s)' now.
1312 * New cfg.ldap_filter used for the ldap filter string used in the ldap
1313 search instead of the rather limited, partly hardcoded filter we used
1314 before. This is much more flexible:
1315 ldap_filter = '(sAMAccountName=%(username)s)'
1316 You can also do more complex filtering expressions like:
1317 '(&(cn=%(username)s)(memberOf=CN=WikiUsers,OU=Groups,DC=example,DC=org))'
1318 * Added some processing to filter out result entries with dn == None.
1319 * We set REFERRALS option to 0 before initializing the ldap server
1320 connection (this seems to be needed for Active Directory servers).
1321 * We support self-signed ssl certs for ldaps - completely untested.
1322 * New cfg.ldap_surname_attribute (usually 'sn'), was hardcoded before.
1323 * New cfg.ldap_givenname_attribute (usually 'givenName'), hardcoded before.
1324 * New cfg.ldap_aliasname_attribute (usually 'displayName') - if this
1325 attribute is not there or empty (in the results of the ldap lookup for
1326 the user), we just make up the aliasname from surname and givenname
1328 * We only request the attributes we need from ldap (was: all attrs).
1329 * We deny user login (and break out of auth chain) for the following cases:
1330 * if a user is not found by ldap lookup
1331 * if we find more than one matching entry
1332 * if the password is empty or incorrect
1333 * if some exception happens
1334 * Please note that there is an updated ldap sample config in directory
1335 wiki/config/more_samples/.
1336 * Added experimental LDAP SSL/TLS support (untested, please help testing),
1337 see also the sample config.
1338 * Work around a IE7 rendering problem with long pages getting more and
1339 more narrow. We just applied the same "fix" as we used for IE6, using
1340 "display: none" for span.anchor for IE browsers.
1342 * We used to emit a <link> tag for the action=rss_rc RSS feed on any
1343 page. This was changed, we now emit that link only on RecentChanges and
1344 the current user's language translation of RecentChanges.
1345 This was changed because Google Toolbar requests the RSS feed linked
1346 by such a link tag every time it sees one. Thus, if you used the wiki
1347 normally, it requested the RSS feed every few seconds and caused
1348 problems due to surge protection kicking in because of that.
1349 * HINT for custom theme users: if your theme code calls
1350 rsslink(), then you need to change that to rsslink(d) for 1.5.7+.
1354 A general security notice:
1355 Check your Python version, there was a buffer overflow issue in Python
1356 recently! Details: http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/PythonUnicodeEscapeBug
1359 * Fix AttributeError traceback with Standalone server (if_modified_since)
1360 * Fix AttachFile "304 not modified" and redirect status code for Twisted
1361 * http auth: we now decode username and password to unicode (using
1362 config.charset == utf-8). Same for SSL client cert auth and CN.
1363 * Avoid infinite recursion in Page.parsePageLinks.
1364 * Fixed standalone server failing to shutdown if interface == "".
1365 * Now MoinMoin does not think anymore that every page links to various user
1367 * Made the irssi parser more tolerant (Thanks to "TheAnarcat").
1368 * Now multiple formatters can be used per request, the send_page code was
1369 not reentrant to this regard. Fixes "empty" search results.
1370 * Fixed problem with "=" in ImageLink macro links.
1371 * Not a moin bug, but a silly stdlib os.tempnam function made trouble to
1372 some people because it lets you override the path given in the code
1373 by setting the environment variable TMP(DIR). We now use a different
1374 function to avoid renaming trouble when TMP(DIR) points to a different
1376 * Fixed antispam update on every save (Thanks to "TheAnarcat").
1377 * GUI converter: don't throw away rowclass for tables.
1378 * GUI editor formatter: allow height for table cells.
1379 * GUI editor formatter: comment texts are output using the formatter now.
1382 * Mail notifications contain a link to the diff action so the user
1383 can see the coloured difference more easily. Thanks to Tobias Polzin.
1384 * FeatureRequests/MoveAttachments - you can move attachments from one
1385 page to another (and also rename the attachment at the same time).
1386 Thanks to Reimar Bauer.
1387 * Added support for linking to attachment: and inline: URLs with ImageLink.
1388 * Added UNIX socket support for FastCGI, just set the port to some (socket)
1390 * [[Attachlist(pagename,mimetype)]] lists attachments of pagename (default:
1391 current page) with optional mimetype restriction (default: all).
1392 Thanks to Reimar Bauer.
1395 * Minor performance improvements (might be noticeable if you have many
1396 custom navi_bar entries and high server load).
1397 * Avoid usage of no-cache because it breaks attachment download on IE6.
1398 This is a IE bug, not a moin bug.
1399 * Added XHTML to the unsafe list.
1400 * Changed the rst parser to be compatible to the new docutils interface
1402 * Updated EmbedObject macro.
1407 * fixed ticket creation to only use constant values
1410 HINT: read docs/README.migration.
1411 HINT: there was NO change in the underlay/ pages since 1.5.4.
1412 HINT: If you experience problems with the reStructured Text (rst) parser,
1413 please downgrade docutils to "0.4" because there were major interface
1414 breaking API refactorings on the docutils trunk.
1420 * Not a moin bug, but it severely annoyed IE users and also was less
1421 comfortable for users of other browser: since about 1.5.4, we served
1422 attachments with Content-Disposition: attachment - so that the user has
1423 to save them to disk. This was to fix a possible XSS attack using attached
1424 HTML files with Javascript inside for stealing your moin cookie or doing
1425 other nasty things. We improved this by using different behaviour depending
1426 on the potential danger the attached file has when served inline:
1427 mimetypes_xss_protect = ['text/html', 'application/x-shockwave-flash', ]
1428 This is the default value. If you know more dangerous stuff, please just
1429 add the mimetypes there to protect your users and file a bug report
1430 telling us what we missed.
1433 * Make tickets used for some actions more safe.
1436 * edit_ticketing [True] - we protect page save by a ticket (same stuff we
1437 already use for DeletePage and RenamePage action).
1438 NOTE: If you don't use your browser for editing, but some tool like
1439 "editmoin" or "MoinMoin plugin for jEdit", you'll need an update
1440 of them supporting the ticket.
1441 Alternatively, you can use edit_ticketing = False setting - this
1442 is not recommended for internet wikis as it will make spamming them
1444 * If we detect some spammer, we kick him out by triggering surge protection
1445 (if surge protection is not disabled).
1450 * Fixed gui editor converter confusing of `` and {{{}}} markup.
1451 * Fixed emission of HTTP headers (esp. Vary: Cache-Control:).
1452 * Fixed a bad crash that happens (on ANY page!) when you put a *Dict
1453 page's name as a member into a *Group page.
1454 * Fix MyPages action title to use an unformatted string.
1455 * Fix double quoted-printable encoding in generated emails (note: this is
1456 not a moin bug - this just works around bugs in python stdlib).
1457 * Fix mode of drawing files (use config.umask).
1458 * Fix trouble with /?action= urls by dropping getPageNameFromQueryString
1460 * Fixed sre unpickle issues seen on some machines by avoiding to pickle
1462 * Fix Clock code, add more timers.
1463 * Worked around FastCGI problem on Lighttpd: empty lines in the error log.
1464 * Fix (add) locking for caching's .remove() call, small fixes to lock code.
1465 * Print error message when --target-dir=path is missing from moin export
1469 * Added support for "304 not modified" response header for AttachFile get
1470 and rss_rc actions - faster, less traffic, less load.
1471 * Limit rss with full diffs to 5 items.
1472 * Allow surge_action_limits = None to disable surge protection.
1473 * moin.fcg improved - if you use FastCGI, you must use the new file:
1474 * can self-terminate after some number of requests (default: -1, this
1475 means "unlimited lifetime")
1476 * the count of created threads is limited now (default: 5), you can use
1477 1 to use non-threaded operation.
1478 * configurable socket.listen() backlog (default: 5)
1479 * Added indonesian i18n (id).
1480 * Some measures against spammers trying to brute force their spam into moin.
1481 * EmbedObject macro: added mov, mpg and midi support
1482 * moin ... export dump --target-dir=PATH --page=PAGENAME_REGEX
1483 You must specify --target-dir (where dump will write the html files to)
1484 and you may specify --page and either a page name or a regex used to
1485 match all pages you want to export. Default is to export all pages.
1489 * more efficient locking code on POSIX platforms, we do much less I/O
1491 * removed most chmod calls in favour of a single os.umask call
1492 * Improved Python 2.5 compatibility. Note: if you think that MoinMoin
1493 is using too much RAM, you might want to look at Python 2.5 because
1494 of its improved memory management.
1495 * Throw away SAVE comments longer than 200 chars (you can't enter those by
1496 the user interface, so only spammer using automatic POSTs do them).
1497 * Updated spider user agent list.
1498 * BadContent and LocalBadContent now get noindex,nofollow robots header,
1500 * Standalone opens it logfile unbuffered from now on, thanks to
1502 * Avoid trouble when request.write() data contains None, just skip it -
1503 thanks to Juergen Hermann.
1504 * Instead of showing a ConfigurationError, moin now emits "404 Not found"
1505 http headers and a hint about what could be wrong. This won't fill up
1506 your logs just because of typos and spiders still trying old URLs.
1510 HINT: read docs/README.migration.
1511 Version 1.5.4-current:
1512 * increased maxlength of some input fields from 80 to 200
1514 Version 1.5.current:
1516 * We switched to Mercurial SCM, see here for more infos:
1517 http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/MoinDev/MercurialGuide
1520 * fix MonthCalendar macro for non-ASCII pagenames (thanks to Jonas Smedegaard)
1521 * remove 'search' and 'google' from bot user agent list and add some more
1523 * Fix the forgotten password email login URL and also properly encode the
1524 email body. Thanks to Robin Dunn for the patch.
1525 * Applied a patch by Matthew Gilbert for increased compatiblity with
1531 * Added CSS classes for TableOfContents macro.
1534 * GUI editor / GUI editor converter:
1535 * Fixed missing GUI editor link in edit bar.
1536 * Fixed table/row/cell style spaces.
1537 * Changed <p> generation for macros.
1538 * Fixed handling of subpages.
1539 * Fixed processing of complex list elements (thanks to Craig Markwardt).
1540 * Fixed processing of html \n (thanks to Craig Markwardt).
1541 * Fixed joining of comment lines with text below them.
1542 * Fixed table height attribute crash.
1543 * Fixed sslclientcert auth.
1544 * Added some missing files to i18n processing, translatable strings more
1546 * Change <p> generation from self-closing (<p />) to auto-closing (only
1547 emit <p>, let browser find place for </p>).
1548 * Fix eating of newline before tables.
1549 * Fixed incorrect login hint for not logged-in users trying a disallowed
1551 * Fixed nasty missing or double </a> formatter bug (mostly happening when
1552 user has enabled questionmarks for nonexisting pages).
1555 * We catch and ignore html to wiki conversion errors in case of hitting
1556 the cancel button, so you can get out of the error screen.
1560 * Modified SystemInfo macro to give human readable units and disk usage
1561 * cfg.editor_quickhelp makes the quick help below the editor configurable
1562 (at least as far as the default_markup is concerned). If set to None,
1563 it doesn't display any quickhelp. Thanks to Seth Falcon for the patch.
1566 * Fixed double class attribute for nonexistent links
1567 * Fixed double </a> with qm_noexist option
1568 * Fixed table xxx="yyy" style attribute parsing
1569 * If not (editor_force and editor_default == 'text') then display GUI mode
1570 switch button (this is only a partial fix, but enough to deny the GUI
1571 mode to your users completely)
1572 * Fixed XSS issue which could lead to cookie theft etc.
1573 * Fixed definition list "same level" indenting.
1574 * Fixed pagename in log for PackagePages action.
1575 * Made <p> self-closing and line-anchors more well-behaved, thanks to
1576 Martin Wilck for the patch. I didn't apply the <ol> patch, because this
1577 is no real problem, just a problem of a bad standard.
1578 * Fixed gui editor *bgcolor crash.
1579 * Support/Fix tableclass attr with gui editor.
1582 * Moved back UserPreferences action link from menu to top of page (renaming
1583 it to "Preferences"), added "Cancel" button to make it possible to return
1584 to the previous page without saving preferences.
1585 * Removed formatter.url "attrs" keyword arg that took premade html, we use
1586 separate kw args per attribute now.
1587 * Moved broken tests to MoinMoin/_tests/broken (= disabling them).
1588 All "active" tests run ok now.
1589 If you want to compare, I included the output of this test run:
1590 $ make test >tests/make_test.out
1596 * HINT: please read README.migration
1597 * Login and Logout are actions now, therefore you stay on the page where
1599 * UserPreferences is also an action now and moved from top border (in
1600 modern theme) to the "more actions" dropdown menu. You also stay on the
1602 * There is also a [[Login]] macro now. You can put it on any page you want
1603 and if the user is not logged in, it renders the login form. If the user
1604 is logged in, it doesn't render anything.
1605 * We check cfg.superuser to be a list of user names (as documented) and
1606 deny superuser access if it is not. This avoids security issues by
1607 wrong configuration.
1608 * auth methods changed:
1609 HINT: if you wrote own auth methods, please change them as you see in
1610 MoinMoin/auth.py and test them again before relying on them.
1611 * now get a user_obj kw argument that is either a user object returned
1612 from a previous auth method or None (if no user has been made up yet).
1613 The auth method should either return a user object (if it has
1614 determined one) or what it got as user_obj (being "passive") or None
1615 (if it wants to "veto" some user even if a previous method already has
1616 made up some user object).
1617 * return value of continue_flag is now True in most cases (except if
1618 it wants to "veto" and abort).
1619 * moin_cookie auth method now logs out a user by deleting the cookie and
1620 setting user_obj.valid = 0. This makes it possible to still get the
1621 user's name in subsequent auth method calls within the same request.
1622 * added ldap_login and smb_mount auth methods, see MoinMoin/auth.py and
1623 wiki/config/more_samples/ldap_smb_farmconfig.py
1624 * MonthCalendar now takes an additional argument for specifying a template
1625 to use to directly invoke the page editor when clicking on non-existing
1627 * Added ImageLink macro. Thanks to Jeff Kunce, Marcin Zalewski, Reimar
1628 Bauer and Chong-Dae Park for working on it.
1629 * Lupy stuff (still experimental, partly broken and disabled by default):
1630 * Attachment search using lupy (lupy_search = 1 in your config)
1631 Title search will also search attachment filenames.
1632 Full text search will also search attachment contents.
1634 Some filters depend on external converters that might not be available
1635 for any platform (see Depends: line in filter plugin).
1636 Feel free to contribute more filter plugins, especially if you wrote
1637 some nice platform independant filter in Python for some popular file
1638 format! Filters implemented so far (depending on):
1639 MS Word, RTF, MS Excel (antiword, catdoc)
1641 OpenOffice.org XML based data formats (-)
1644 JPEG's EXIF data (-)
1646 * As you might know, Lupy is "retired" (that means it isn't developped
1647 by its authors any more). We are currently evaluating Xapian as new
1648 indexing search engine in moin.
1649 If we succeed, we will replace Lupy stuff by some Xapian interface
1651 But: the filters will likely stay, as we also need them with Xapian.
1653 * A new MoinMoin script interface was introduced:
1655 Syntax: moin [options] <cmdmodule> <cmdname> [options]
1658 moin --config-dir=/my/cfgdir --wiki-url=wiki.example.org/ \
1659 export dump --page=WikiSandBox
1661 This will call the "moin" script, which will use the --config-dir and
1662 --wiki-url options to initialize, then it will go to MoinMoin.script
1663 module, import the export.dump module from there and run it, providing
1664 the additional --page value to it.
1666 The old scripts that have not been migrated to this new interface can
1667 still be found in MoinMoin/script/old/ - including the old migration
1669 * moin ... account create --name=JoeDoe --email=joe@doe.org
1670 * moin ... account disable --name=JoeDoe
1671 * moin ... acount check <-- this is what usercheck script was before
1672 * moin ... maint cleancache <-- this is what cachecleaner script was
1673 * moin ... maint cleanpage <-- this is what pagescleaner script was
1676 * cookie_lifetime didn't work comfortable for low values. The cookie was
1677 created once on login and never updated afterwards. So you got logged
1678 out cookie_lifetime hours later, no matter whether you were active at
1679 that time or not. This has been changed, we update the cookie expiry now
1680 on every request, so it will expire cookie_lifetime after your last
1681 request (not after login).
1682 * Fixed logout problems when using cfg.cookie_path.
1683 * Fixed cookie_path for root url wikis.
1684 * Lupy search now behaves a bit less funky. Still no guarantees...
1685 * We lowered the twisted server timeout to 2 minutes now (was: 10) because
1686 it just used up too many files (open TCP connections until it timeouts)
1688 * The algorithm used for processing the farmconfig.wikis list was changed
1689 to work for big farms (>= 50 wikis), too. This works around the python
1690 "re" module limitation of having a maximum of 100 named groups in a RE.
1691 * Fixed a TypeError which occurred for formatters that dislike None values.
1693 * Fixed GUI editor converter error for https:... image URLs.
1694 * ThemeBase (use by modern/rightsidebar): removed duplicate AttachFile from
1695 actions menu (we already have it in editbar).
1696 * Speedup group/dicts scanning for persistent servers.
1697 * Implemented HEAD requests for standalone server, this should fix some of
1698 the strange effects happening when using "Save as" on attachments.
1699 * Not a moin bug, but rather a workaround for non-standard non-ASCII DNS
1700 hostnames: we just use the IP instead of crashing now.
1701 * Spurious cyclic usage error in i18n fixed.
1702 * Fixed antispam for python 2.5a xmlrpclib.
1703 * I18n for linenumber toggle in listings.
1704 * All action menu entries are translatable now.
1707 * Added css classes for the rst admonitions. Thanks to TiagoMacambira!
1712 * Added FullSearchCached macro which is statically cached.
1713 Use it if you do not depend on fresh search results but prefer raw speed.
1714 * Added surge protection, see HelpOnConfiguration/SurgeProtection.
1715 * Allow hex and symbolic entities.
1716 * If there is a user with empty password, we just generate a random one
1717 when he requests it getting sent by mail. Thanks to Reimar Bauer.
1718 * The superuser now can switch to another user using UserPreferences -
1719 nice to help your users when they forgot their password or need other
1720 help. You need to logout/relogin to use your own userid afterwards.
1721 This function only works correctly if you use moin_cookie authentication.
1722 Thanks to Reimar Bauer.
1723 * Add new markup for bulletless lists: just use a "." instead of "*".
1726 * Added "voyager" to bot useragent list.
1727 * Added locking for caching subsystem.
1728 * Deron Meranda's formatter API cleanup.
1729 * Added div and span to formatter API.
1730 * Removed old unfinished form and export code.
1734 * Fixed table attribute parsing.
1735 * Fixed cookie handling wrt properties adherance.
1736 * The new "." list markup makes it possible to have a bulletless list with
1737 elements on the same level. Before this change and only using indentation
1738 with blanks, that would get merged into a single paragraph.
1739 * It is possible now to have multiple paragraphs in the same list element,
1740 just leave an empty line in between the paragraphs.
1741 * Fixed GAP processing for ordered lists.
1742 * Fix text_gedit formatter's invalid list nesting.
1743 * Fixed hr crash in blockquote (but needs more work).
1744 * Fixed FootNote's formatter usage.
1745 * Fixed rst's headline levels.
1748 * Fixed that macros were followed by a wrong <p>.
1749 * Added <blockquote> to the block elements in the text_html formatter,
1750 so it does not close it erratically when you close a inner <p>.
1751 * GUI editor converter now also accept http: urls without // (relative or
1753 * Fixed the DocBook parser in cases where the pagename was non-ascii.
1760 * Fixed rst parser docutils version check
1761 * Repaired attachment unzipping feature.
1762 * Fixed the AddRevision command of the PackageInstaller.
1763 * improved the migration scripts (used to migrate pre-1.3 wikis to 1.3+):
1764 * do not crash on empty lines in event log
1765 * fix edit log format for very old moin data (like 0.11)
1766 * workaround for an ugly win32 operating system bug leading to wiki text
1767 file mtime not matching edit logs timestamp values if there was some
1768 timezone change since last edit (e.g. a daylight saving tz switch),
1769 but differing 3600s.
1770 This affected pre-1.3 moin wiki servers running on win32 OS only.
1771 We now try to correct those inconsistencies in mig05 by fuzzy matching.
1772 * fixed bracketed link scheme icon (css class)
1773 * we included a modified copy of Python 2.4.2's copy.py as some previous
1774 python versions seem to have problems (2.3.x, x < 5 and also 2.4[.0]),
1776 Our own copy.py was slightly modified to run on 2.3.x and 2.4.x.
1777 * Fixed the problem of not being able to change the date/time format back
1778 to "Default" (UserPreferences).
1779 * We generate the GUI editor footer now the same way as the text editor
1781 * Include a CSS workaround for yet another IE bug, see:
1782 MoinMoinBugs:InternetExplorerPeekABooBugInRightSideBar
1783 * classic theme: added GUI editor link
1784 * classic theme: added pagename header to editor screen
1785 * the "mail enabled" check now also checks whether mail_from is set
1788 * Updated FCKeditor to current CVS (2006-01-08 == 2.2+)
1789 * Split up show_hosts into show_hosts and show_names
1790 * attachment:file%20with%20spaces.txt in attachment list
1791 * added support for file:// in GUI editor link dialogue, see also:
1793 * cfg.mail_smarthost now supports "server:port" syntax, the default port
1795 * removed unused kwargs showpage/editable/form from wikiutil.send_footer
1796 * updated i18n (translation texts, additional languages)
1797 * removed interwiki:pagename from print view's top of page, added it to
1798 the "lasted edited" line at bottom right.
1802 HINT: 1.5.0 uses the same data/pages format as 1.3.x. The only thing you want
1803 to check is whether the 1.5.x version you are upgrading to has NEW mig
1804 scripts compared to the version you are running now (e.g. in 1.3.5 we
1805 added some scripts that fixed some small problems).
1806 See the MoinMoin/scripts/migration/ directory.
1807 You must run every mig script in sequence and only ONCE ever.
1809 * Fix <x=y> table attributes parsing. Thanks to Reimar Bauer.
1810 * Fixed a few bugs in the reStructured text parser. Note that you
1811 need to install docutils 0.3.10 or newer (snapshot from December 2005
1812 or newer) to make reStructuring parsing work:
1813 * Case preservation for anonymous links
1814 * MoinMoin links get the appropriate CSS class
1815 * Images do not get special CSS markup anymore
1816 Thanks to Matthew Gilbert.
1817 * Fixed a bug in the WSGI code which led to incorrect exception handling.
1818 * Removed all nationality flags. They used to be used for indicating some
1819 specific language (NOT nationality) and this was simply wrong and a bad
1821 * Fixed some header rendering issues (CSS).
1822 * SystemAdmin macro now checks against cfg.superuser list.
1825 * Added turkish i18n. To be considered as alpha as it got in last minute.
1829 This is the first release candidate of MoinMoin 1.5.0.
1832 * fixed broken logs when a DeletePage (maybe also RenamePage) comment
1833 contained CR/LF characters (could happen when using copy&paste)
1834 * fixed GUI editor MoinEditorBackup page containing HTML instead of wiki
1836 * fixed invalid HTML in FootNotes
1837 * fixed HTML source in EditorBackup after canceling GUI editor
1838 * Footnotes of included pages are not shown at the bottom of the including page.
1839 * Bug in Dict handling that often breaks first entry
1843 * Added SSO module for PHP based apps. Currently supported: eGroupware 1.2.
1844 No need to login in two systems anymore - MoinMoin will read the PHP session
1848 * Improved rendering of bullet lists and external links in Restructured text.
1849 Thanks to Matthew Gilbert.
1850 * Fixed modern theme rendering, including some fixes and workarounds for
1852 * When checking for email uniqueness, do not compare with disabled user
1854 * Fix sending of HTTP headers for Despam action.
1855 * Add some margin left and right of the link icons.
1858 * Made it easier for auth methods needing a user interface (like ldap or
1859 mysql stuff). Unlike http auth, they usually need some "login form".
1860 We made UserPreferences login form values (name, password, login, logout)
1861 available as kw args of the auth method, so it is easy and obvious now.
1862 * Make login and logout show at the same place. Is only shown when
1863 show_login is True (default).
1864 * Disabled login using &uid=12345.67.8910 method. Please use name/password.
1865 * Made builtin moin_cookie authentication more modular: the cookie is now
1866 touched by MoinMoin.auth.moin_cookie only, with one minor discomfort:
1867 When creating a user, you are not automatically logged in any more.
1868 * We now use the packager for additional help and system pages in all other
1869 languages except English. The packages are attached to SystemPagesSetup
1870 page and can be installed from there after getting "superuser" powers.
1871 The "extra" package contains a collection of orphan pages not listed on
1872 some SystemPagesIn<Language>Group page.
1877 * Fixed a minor user interface bug: it showed RenamePage and DeletePage
1878 actions in the menu if you only had write rights and then complained
1879 when you really tried when you had no delete rights additionally.
1880 * We don't remove RenamePage and DeletePage from menu any more if user is
1881 unknown. This stuff is only driven by ACLs now.
1882 * Some fixes to Despam action.
1883 * Fixed moin_dump (broken by some recent theme init change).
1884 * Fixed a few tests by moving the theme init from moin_dump to RequestCLI.
1885 * removed old_onload reference from infobox.js
1886 * Fixed MoinMoin logo for IE.
1887 * search: fixed whitespace handling in linkto: search terms
1888 * Increased stability of the tests system by outputting results to sys.stdout
1889 instead of request. Note that this changes the semantics for e.g. mod_py or
1891 * Fixed packaging system in the case of AddRevision that does not alter the page.
1892 * Fixed a few bugs in the XML formatters (dom_xml, text_xml, xml_docbook).
1893 * Fixed link icons. We now just use a.xxx.before where xxx is the link scheme,
1894 e.g. a.http.before. See theme's common.css.
1895 * Hopefully fixed some issue with non-ASCII attachment filenames.
1896 * Workaround for Opera 8.5 making silly "No addition" categories.
1897 * Do not show GUI editor for non-wiki format pages, because we only have a
1898 converter from html to wiki right now.
1899 * Fix the modern CSS issues for editbar, when it shifted content far right.
1900 Also removed the absolute height value that never was right.
1901 * Fix mod_python adaptor bugs failing to handle Location correctly.
1902 See: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=339543
1905 * Added irc:// to the builtin supported link schemas. You can remove it
1906 from config.url_schemas in case you have patched it in there.
1907 * Added cfg.user_autocreate (default: False). Use True to enable user
1908 profile autocreation, e.g. when you use http authentication, so your
1909 externally authenticated users don't need to create their moin profile
1910 manually. The auth method (see cfg.auth list) must check this setting
1911 if it supports auto creation.
1912 * Added user_autocreate support for auth.http and auth.sslclientcert.
1913 * Added "." and "@" to allowed characters in usernames. This is needed
1914 e.g. when using mod_pubcookie for authentication. mod_pubcookie returns
1915 userids like "geek@ANDREW.CMU.EDU" (e.g. the Kerberos domain is part of
1916 the id). Thanks to Brian E. Gallew for his patch, which we used for
1917 inspiration for user autocreation changes.
1918 * Changed auth method to return a tuple (user_obj, continue_flag), see
1919 comments in auth.py.
1920 * auth methods now create user objects with kw args auth_method and
1921 auth_attribs, so that moin knows later how the user was authenticated
1922 and which user object attributes were determined by the auth method.
1923 * Added MoinMoin/scripts/import/IrcLogImporter.py to import supybot's
1924 IRC logs into a moin wiki. We use MonthCalendar compatible page names,
1925 so you can use the calendar for showing / navigating the logs.
1926 * Removed packager binary from FCKeditor (fixing a Debian policy problem).
1927 * Worked around .png transparency bugs of IE with the new logo. We ship
1928 two logos: moinmoin.png without an alpha channel (IE compatible) and
1929 moinmoin_alpha.png which has an alpha channel and looks better on
1930 browsers with full .png support.
1931 * Allow a .zip file to have a directory in it if it is the only one.
1935 * use <span class="anchor"> instead of <a> for line-xxx anchors, this
1936 fixes some rendering problems on IE
1937 * Fixed the ReStructured text parser when it was used with non-HTML
1938 formatters. Increased compatiblity with new docutils code.
1939 (Thanks to Matt Gilbert.)
1941 * cfg.stylesheets = [] (default). You can use this on wiki or farm level
1942 to emit stylesheets after the theme css and before the user prefs css.
1943 The list entries must be ('screen', '/where/ever/is/my.css') style.
1944 * Added sample code for auth using an external cookie made by some other
1945 program. See contrib/auth_externalcookie/*. You need to edit it to
1946 fit whatever cookie you want to use.
1950 * fixed editor preview throwing away page content for new pages
1951 * require POST for userform save and create* action
1952 * use request.normalizePagename() while collecting pagelinks
1953 * do not offer gui editor for safari
1955 * tell user if account is disabled
1956 * added support for linking to .ico and .bmp
1957 * attachment methods for the text_xml and xml_docbook formatters
1959 * updated i18n (fixed nl, did nobody notice this?) and underlay
1960 * changed show_interwiki default to 0
1965 * fix gui editor (converter) crash on save
1968 * Avoid destroying existing page content if editor is called with
1969 template parameter for an existing page.
1970 * fix countdown javascript for browser status line in editor
1971 * added page title display for editor
1972 * added header div for classic theme
1974 Authentication and related:
1975 * Added a WhoAmI.py wiki xmlrpc plugin to check whether auth works
1976 correctly for xmlrpc. There is a counterpart script WhoAmI.py that
1977 uses http auth when calling the xmlrpc plugin, so you can use it to
1981 * Requirements changed to require Python >= 2.3. We recommend that
1982 you use the latest Python release you can get. The reason we
1983 dropped 2.2.2 support is because no developer or tester uses this
1984 old version any more, so incompatibilities crept in the code
1985 without anybody noticing. Using some recent Python usually is no
1986 real problem, see there for some hints in case you still run an
1987 old python: http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/NewPythonOnOldLinux
1988 The hint also does apply to other POSIX style operating systems,
1990 * We recommend you use MoinMoin/scripts/cachecleaner.py to clean the
1991 wiki's cache (see comments at top of the script).
1992 The cache will automatically be rebuilt (some operations may take
1993 some time when first being used, e.g. linkto: search, so be patient!).
1996 * there is a file CHANGES.config with just the recently changed stuff
1999 * page_front_page old: u"FrontPage" new: u"HelpOnLanguages"
2000 please just read the help page in case you see it :)
2001 * bang_meta old: 0 new: 1
2002 * show_section_numbers old: 1 new: 0
2003 * some regexes that used to be [a-z]Uxxxx$ are now [a-z0-9]Uxxxx$
2004 * navi_bar has no page_front_page as first element any more
2005 * removed settings and code [new behaviour]:
2007 * allow_extended_names [1]
2008 * allow_numeric_entities [1]
2010 * allow_subpages [1]
2012 * cfg.mail_sendmail = "/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i" can be used if sending
2013 via SMTP doesn't work on your server. Default is None and that means
2015 * language_default replaces the old default_lang setting (just renamed).
2016 * language_ignore_browser = True can be used to let moin ignore the
2017 user's browser settings (e.g. if you run a local-language only wiki
2018 and your users use misconfigured or buggy browsers often). Default is
2019 False. Don't forget to set language_default when using this.
2021 * Wiki Editor changes / new WYSIWYG editor
2022 * fully imported the javascript based LGPLed FCKeditor (many thanks
2023 to Fred CK for his great work). See http://fckeditor.net/ for details.
2024 * config for FCKeditor is at wiki/htdocs/applets/moinfckeditor.js
2025 * added cfg.interwiki_preferred (default = []) to set a list of wikis to
2026 show at the top of the wiki selection list when inserting an
2027 interwiki link (just use the same wiki name as in interwiki
2028 map). If the last list item is None, then the preferred wikis
2029 will not be followed by the entries of the interwiki map.
2030 * moved save/preview/... buttons to the top so that they can be
2032 * reduced edit_rows default to 20 lines
2033 * Added support for edit by doubleclick in the diff view
2035 * Improved wiki farm support
2036 * make user files sharable between several wikis in a farm
2037 * allow/use interwiki subscriptions
2038 * use interwiki links in page trail
2039 * save bookmark per wiki name
2040 * cfg.cookie_domain can be used to set a cookie valid for a complete
2041 domain (default: None == only for this host). If you use '.domain.tld',
2042 the cookie will be valid for all hosts *.domain.tld - good for host
2044 * cfg.cookie_path can be used to set a cookie valid for a wiki farm under
2045 some base path (default: None == only for this wiki's path). If you use
2046 '/wikifarm', the cookie will be valid for all wikis
2047 server.tld/wikifarm/* - good for path based wiki farms.
2048 * Interwiki user homepage (if you have MANY users)
2049 Generated links for usernames are interwiki now, use cfg.user_homewiki
2050 (default: 'Self') to specify in which wiki the user home pages are
2051 located. Note: when pointing this to another wiki, the /MoinEditorBackup
2052 functionality will be disabled.
2053 @SIG@ also uses interwiki when needed.
2055 * Authentication, ACLs and related
2056 * Modular authentication: cfg.auth is a list of functions that return a
2057 valid user or None, use it like this:
2058 from MoinMoin.auth import http, moin_cookie
2059 auth = [http, moin_cookie]
2060 * cfg.auth_http_enabled was removed, please use cfg.auth instead.
2061 * http auth now supports "Negotiate" scheme, too
2062 * Added sslclientcert auth method (Apache: untested, Twisted: not
2063 implemented, IIS: no idea). See MoinMoin/auth.py for details.
2064 Submit a patch if you have improvements.
2065 * cfg.superuser is a list of unicode usernames. It is used by some
2066 critical operations like despam action or PackageInstaller.
2067 * removed allowed_actions, we now use actions_excluded only and it
2068 defaults to [], that means, no action is excluded, everything is
2069 allowed (limited by ACLs). In case of RenamePage and DeletePage,
2070 this shouldn't be a problem as both can be reverted. In case you
2071 did not allow attachments, you now have to use:
2072 actions_excluded = ['AttachFile']
2073 * special users (All, Known, Trusted) in Groups are now supported
2074 * MoinMoin.security.autoadmin SecurityPolicy added
2075 When using this security policy, a user will get admin rights on his
2076 homepage (where pagename == username) and its sub pages. This is needed
2077 for the MyPages action, but can also get used for manual ACL changes.
2078 It can also be used for Project page auto admin functionality, see the
2079 comments in the script for details.
2080 Further it can automatically create the user's group pages when the
2081 user saves his homepage.
2082 * there is a UpdateGroup xmlrpc call, see MoinMoin/xmlrpc/UpdateGroup.py -
2083 you can use this to update your *Group pages e.g. when generating them
2084 from an external group database.
2086 * UserPreferences changes
2087 * Alias name: is used for display purposes, when "name" is cryptic. It is
2088 shown e.g. in the title attribute of userid links (displayed when
2089 moving the mouse over it).
2090 * "Publish my email (not my wiki homepage) in author info" - use this
2091 if you don't have a wiki homepage, but if you want to be contactable
2092 by email. When you edit a page, your email address will be published
2093 as mailto: link on RecentChanges, at bottom of page (last editor) and
2094 in page info. If the wiki runs publically on the internet, be careful
2095 using this or your email address might be collected by spammers.
2096 * Preferred Editor: whether you want to use the text editor (as in
2097 previous moin versions), the gui editor (new!) or both (you will get
2098 2 edit links in that case).
2099 * a user can add/remove the current page to/from his quicklinks with an
2100 appropriate action now
2101 * if cfg.user_email_unique = False, we don't require user's email
2102 addresses to be unique
2103 * removed show_fancy_links user preferences setting to simplify code and
2104 caching. Displaying those icons is now done by CSS styles (see
2105 common.css). Maybe needs fixing for non-standard themes and RTL langs.
2108 * added strikethrough markup: --(striked through text here)--
2109 * @ME@ expands to just the plain username (no markup added) on save
2112 * when a user accesses his own non-existing homepage (pagename ==
2113 username), the wiki will present the MissingHomePage system page
2114 content, explaining what a user homepage is good for and offer
2115 one-click editing it with content loaded from HomepageTemplate
2116 * creation of homepage subpages is assisted by the MyPages action, which
2117 offers rw, ro page creation (and a related group) or creation of private
2118 pages. If you are not in the user_homewiki, you will get redirected
2121 Other changes/new features:
2122 * Added PackageInstaller and unzipping support (see wiki page
2123 HelpOnActions/AttachFile for further details). PackageInstaller requires
2124 the user to be in cfg.superuser list.
2125 * Added an PackagePages action to simplify the package creation.
2126 * Added location breadcrumbs - when you are on some subpage, the page
2127 title parts link to the corresponding parent pages, the last part does
2128 the usual reverse linking.
2129 * added WSGI server support, thanks to Anakim Border, see:
2130 wiki/server/moinwsgi.py (moin as WSGI app, uses the flup WSGI server,
2131 see http://www.saddi.com/software/flup/)
2132 MoinMoin/server/wsgi.py (adaptor code)
2133 * added a "Despam" action to make de-spamming a wiki easy (mass revert
2134 bad changes done by a single author or bot). You need to be in
2135 cfg.superuser to use it.
2136 * Better diffs with links to anchors to the changed places
2137 * Enhanced table support in the DocBook formatter.
2138 * Added 'moin' daemon script, that let you run moin standalone
2139 server as daemon and control the server with simple command line
2140 intreface: moin start | stop | restart | kill
2141 * Add 'restart' option to mointwisted script
2142 * Add properties option to standalone server config. Allow
2143 overriding any request property like in other server types.
2144 * Add support for running behind proxy out of the box with out
2146 See HelpOnConfiguration/IntegratingWithApache
2147 * added a WikiBackup action, configure it similar to this:
2148 data_dir = "/path/to/data"
2149 backup_include = [data_dir, ] # you can add other dirs here
2150 backup_users = ["BackupUserName", ] # only TRUSTED users!
2151 You usually don't need to change the default backup_exclude setting.
2152 The default backup_include list is EMPTY and so will be your
2153 backup in case you don't configure it correctly.
2154 If you put your data_dir there, the backup will contain private
2155 user data like email addresses and encrypted passwords.
2156 * Added a SubscribeUser action which allows the administrator to subscribe users to the
2158 * Added thread count to SystemInfo macro.
2159 * 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.
2160 * Added a RenderAsDocbook action which redirects to the DocBook formatter.
2161 * Added searching for wiki-local words lists under <data_dir>/dict/.
2162 They are used additionally to the global lists in MoinMoin/dict/.
2163 * moin_dump now also dumps attachments referenced from the page.
2164 It doesn't dump stuff that is just attached, but not referenced!
2165 * On RecentChanges we now force the comment to be breakable, this improves
2166 rendering of over-long words or on narrow browser windows - especially
2167 for themes with limited content width like rightsidebar.
2168 * We now have the "new" icon on RecentChanges clickable, just links to the
2170 * Print view now shows "interwikiname: pagename" (for show_interwiki = 1).
2172 International support:
2173 * mail_from can be now a unicode name-address
2174 e.g u'Jürgen wiki <noreply@jhwiki.org>'
2177 * logo_string is now should be really only the logo (img).
2178 If you included your wiki's name in logo_string you maybe want to remove
2179 it now as it is shown as part of the location display now anyway (if
2180 you set show_interwiki = 1).
2181 * You maybe want to remove page_front_page from your navi_bar - we link to
2182 that page now from the logo and (new, if you set show_interwiki = 1) from
2183 the interwiki name displayed in location display, so you maybe don't need
2184 it in navi_bar, too.
2185 * If you have a custom theme, you should / may:
2186 * sync modern/css/screen.css #pagelocation #pagetrail stuff to your
2187 screen.css or pagelocation display (title()) will look strange (like a
2189 * remove "#title h1 ..." CSS (or any other CSS assuming h1 is a page
2190 title and not just a first level heading), it is not used any more.
2191 * we now render = heading = as <h1> (was <h2> before 1.5),
2192 == heading == as <h2> (was <h3>), etc.
2193 * maybe move both title() and trail() to header area, like the builtin
2195 * there is a new interwiki() base theme method that optionally (if
2196 show_interwiki = 1) shows the interwiki name of this wiki and links to
2197 page_front_page. The css for it is #interwiki.
2200 * Plugin API was improved. When plugin module is missing,
2201 wikiutil.PluginMissingError is raised. When trying to import a
2202 missing name from a plugin module, wikiutil.PluginMissingError is
2203 raised. You must update any code that use wikiutil.importPlugin.
2204 Errors in your plugin should raise now correct tracebacks. See
2205 http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/ErrorHandlingInPlugins
2206 * pysupport.importName was changed, it does not check for any
2207 errors when trying to import a name from a module. The calling
2208 code should check for ImportError or AttributeError. Previous
2209 code used to hide all errors behind None.
2210 * Its easier now to customize the editbar by overriding
2211 editbarItems() in your theme, and returning a list of items to
2212 display in the editbar. To change a single editbar link, override
2213 one of the xxxLink methods in your theme.
2216 * request.formatter (html) is available for actions now
2217 * theme API's d['page_home_page'] is gone (sorry) and replaced by
2218 d['home_page'] which is either None or tuple (wikiname,pagename).
2219 It is better to use the base classes function for username/prefs anyway.
2220 * introduced cfg.hacks for internal use by development, see comment in
2221 multiconfig.py and file HACKS.
2222 * added IE7 (v0.9) from Dean Edwards (see http://dean.edwards.name/IE7/) -
2223 that should fix quite some IE bugs and annoyances (on Win32).
2224 * for enabling IE7, use cfg.hacks = { 'ie7': True }
2225 * reducewiki now also copies all attachments (we use that to make underlay
2226 directory from moinmaster wiki's data_dir)
2229 * Fixed a typo in xslt.py which led to a traceback instead of an
2230 error message in case of disabled XSLT support.
2231 * Fixed crash in twisted server if twisted.internet.ssl is not
2233 * Fixed wrong decoding of query string, enable wiki/?page_name urls
2234 with non ascii page names.
2235 * Fixed wrong display of non ascii attachments names in
2236 RecentChanges and page revision history.
2237 * Fixed a crash when trying to run standalone server on non posix os.
2238 * Fixed highlight of misspelled words in Check Spelling action.
2239 * Fixed case insensitivity problems on darwin (Mac OS X). See
2241 * Added RecentChanges (only the english one) to the pages getting
2242 html_head_index headers
2243 * text_html cache files written with this code will invalidate themselves
2244 if they detect to be older than the wikiconfig. Note: you should remove
2245 all old text_html cache files once after upgrading, they will then be
2246 rebuilt automatically with the new code.
2248 * Fixed the word_rule: a word like AAAbbAbb isn't teared into two parts
2249 any more (was: AA<link>AbbAbb</link>)
2250 * Fixed false positive InterWiki markup for languages like Finnish.
2251 InterWiki links are only rendered if the left side has an appropriate
2252 entry in the interwiki map, otherwise it is rendered as simple text.
2253 * Fixed unicode error when uploding non-ascii file name using mod
2255 * Fixed error handling of wikirpc requests, should give more
2256 correct errors and prevent no error output and blocking the
2257 client in some cases.
2258 * Fixed the "lost password" mail processing. If a user entered some email
2259 address unknown to the system, he was not notified of this, but just got
2260 a useless mail with no account data in it. Now the system directly tells
2261 the user that he entered an unknown email address.
2262 * Fixed SystemInfo, it now also lists parsers in data/plugin/parser dir.
2263 * Fix error handling on failure, improved error display
2264 * Fix error handling when importing plugins or importing modules
2265 dynamically. The fix is not backward compatible with older plugins.
2266 * Fix chart action, returns a page with error message when chart
2268 * Fixed formatter usage in the ShowSmileys macro.
2269 * Fixed updating pagelinks cache for [:page:text] or [wiki:Self:page text],
2270 fixes display of LocalSiteMap and rendering of such links.
2271 * Hopefully fixed urllib problems (esp. with py 2.4.2, but also before) by
2272 using our own urllib wrapper that handles encoding/decoding to/from
2273 unicode, see wikiutil.py. Also made a similar fix for making and parsing
2275 * Fixed MonthCalendar tooltips when containing special chars like quotes.
2276 * Added html escaping for diff text for RSS feed with diff=1.
2277 * The distance between page content beginning and the first = heading =
2278 was much too much. Fixed.
2282 We used that version number for an internal and early development version
2283 for what will be called moin 2.0 at some time in the future.
2284 There will never be a 1.4.x release.
2287 Version 1.3.5 (2005-08-04, Revision moin--main--1.3--patch-883)
2290 * small CSS fix for rightsidebar theme
2291 * applied some Debian patches (thanks to Jonas!):
2292 * de i18n spelling fixes
2293 * AttachFile fix, we strip CR in .draw files now
2294 * when loading spellcheck dictionaries, we want utf-8, but we make
2295 a 2nd try with iso-8859-1 encoding.
2299 * enabled using https with the Twisted server:
2300 You need to use port 443, have PyOpenSSL (+ ssl libs it depends on)
2301 installed and have some site key and certificate PEM files configured in
2302 your twistedmoin.py file:
2303 sslcert = ('/whereever/cert/sitekey.pem', '/whereever/cert/sitecert.pem')
2306 Version 1.3.5rc1 (2005-07-31, Revision moin--main--1.3--patch-865)
2310 * Fixed security bug when acl of deleted page was ignored. See:
2312 * AttachFile did not display the original filename plus there
2313 was a confusion in input field labelling ('Rename to').
2314 * Fixed shortcut link non-existent page detection.
2315 * Fixed non-working bookmark function on python 2.2.x.
2316 * Fixed wikirpc getPageInfo call on python 2.2.x.
2317 * Fixed the failing import of plugins from the data/plugin/
2318 directories if run in zipimport environments.
2319 * Fixed traceback which occurred on negated searches.
2320 * Fixed crash when trying to render error message on twisted, fast
2322 * Fixed error message with modpy, used to show wrong errors below
2324 * Fixed search and goto text fields for better compatibility with
2325 dark themes and better control through css.
2326 * Show an edit link if MissingPage is missing and a warning in the
2328 * Fixed missing footer in the editor.
2329 * Fixed indented (invalid) headings with broken links in table of
2331 * Fixed crash when file name is too long, show standard error message.
2332 * Save trail file in a safe way, should be enough for normal use.
2333 * Fixed remember_last_visit user preferences option when show_trail
2335 * Fixed the tests for Standalone, Twisted, FastCGI and Mod_Python.
2336 Run with ?action=test from any page.
2337 * Fixed rare bug when wrong search type was performed when pasting
2338 search term in Safari.
2339 * Fixed crash for custom formatters and dom_xml (which occurred if
2340 smileys were in the page).
2341 * Editor opens on double click in pages with single quote in the
2342 name, like "Ben's Wiki".
2343 * '/.' in page names are not replaced any more by '/(2e)'
2344 * Fixed the long delays while saving pages using RequestCLI.
2345 * Fixed variable expanding for users with non WikiName.
2346 * Fixed MonthCalendar's calculation of "today" to use the user's
2348 * Fixed moin_dump script, use same configuration options as other
2350 * Fixed url_mappings to work in proxied setups and sent mails
2351 again. Also fixed for image links. Thanks to JohannesBerg.
2352 * Fixed page shown after saving a drawing (esp. when saved from a
2353 sub page). Fixed help link for drawings.
2354 * Fixed mig10 script to run on Python < 2.3.
2355 * The twisted server defaulted to a socket timeout of 12 hours!
2356 We reduced that to a more sane 10 minutes, that should still be more
2357 than enough. This fixed the "too many open files" problem we
2358 encountered quite often recently. Thanks to Helmut Grohne!
2363 * Added cz, pt and pt-br i18n.
2364 * We send a 404 http status code for nonexisting wiki pages now,
2365 maybe this will repell some search engines from requesting gone
2366 pages again and again. The wiki user still sees the MissingPage
2367 wiki stuff, so a user usually won't notice this change.
2368 * Return 500 error code on failure and exceptions.
2369 * Added some more bot / leech tool user agent strings.
2370 * Prevent page floating elements from floating out of the page over
2371 the footer, in modern, rightsidebar and classic themes.
2372 * Encode URLs in a safer way
2373 * We allow usernames with ' character in them now (like Tim O'Brian).
2374 * Added support for the new security flags in docutils 0.3.9.
2375 * @MAILTO@ expands now to safer [[MailTo()]] macro.
2376 * Clarified and i18ned lost password mails.
2377 * Added 'TitleIndex' and 'SiteNavigation' (+ translation) to the
2378 list of pages that use html_head_index (so that robots
2379 "index,follow"). Please make sure to have either FindPage,
2380 TitleIndex or SiteNavigation in your navi_bar or in your
2381 page_front_page content if you want search engines to find all
2383 * Make it possible to send account data when being logged in (for
2384 future reference or whatever purpose).
2385 * Speed up when running with persistent servers, the wiki config
2386 does only get loaded once and misc. stuff is being cached between
2388 * The unit tests are disabled when using multi threading, because
2389 the wiki configuration is shared between diffrent threads.
2390 * The main code path (using standalone server) of MoinMoin runs on
2392 * Formatters do automatically transform HTML to plain text if they are
2393 called with raw HTML code.
2394 * Using larger socket backlog on Standalone and FastCGI servers
2395 should be more reliable on high load.
2396 * We now strip leading path from attachments uploaded by IE (this is
2397 a bug in IE, not in MoinMoin). Better use a sane browser, like Firefox.
2398 * added "teleport" to the user agent blacklist
2402 * Integrated Lupy indexer for better search performance. It is disabled
2403 by default as of 1.3.5 as it still has known issues.
2404 See multiconfig.py if you want to test it.
2405 * Integrated MonthCalendar 2.1, with some new features:
2406 * a mouseover bubble that shows first level headlines of the linked
2408 * all calendars with same pagename move when using cal navigation,
2409 thanks to Oliver Graf
2410 * included AnnualMonthlyCalendar patch of Jonathan Dietrich
2411 (use [[MonthCalendar(Yearly,,,+1,,6,1)]] syntax for birthdays and
2412 other annually repeating stuff)
2413 Make sure you remove old MonthCalendar.* from data/plugin/macro so that
2414 moin will use the new code in MoinMoin/macro/MonthCalendar.py.
2415 Maybe also clear the text_html cache.
2416 * Added the new XSLT parser and the DocBook parser. This should increase
2417 the 4suite compatiblity. See HelpOnXmlPages for details.
2418 It now should run on 4suite 1.0a4 and 1.0b1. Thanks to Henry Ho!
2419 * Added the DocBook formatter. This will let you generate DocBook markup
2420 by writing simple wiki pages. It needs PyXML.
2421 * It is now possible to customize parts of the UserPreferences page in
2422 your wikiconfig (changing defaults, disabling fields, removing fields):
2423 * Use user_checkbox_* for the checkboxes.
2424 * Use user_form_* for other fields.
2425 * See MoinMoin/multiconfig.py for the built-in defaults.
2426 * New standalone server classes: ThreadPoolServer using pool of
2427 threads, ThreadingServer with thread limit and ForkingServer.
2428 * New standalone server configuration options: serverClass,
2429 threadLimit, requestQueueSize.
2430 * Use "PythonOption Location" in mod_python setup to solve script_name
2435 * Theme can now override maxPagenameLength() method to control page
2437 * A search Match now provides access to the full re match via
2438 the re_match attribute (use to access groups of the match)
2439 * Underlay is not managed by arch any more. The tree contains an
2440 underlay tarball, and you should untar after you update from main.
2441 * "make update-underlay" will untar underlay
2442 * "make merge" will star-merge main into your tree
2443 * "make test" will now create and run in a fresh testwiki instace
2444 * "make clean" options added
2445 * _tests module does not have a global request any more. To refer to
2446 the current request in a test, use self.request.
2447 * _tests.TestConfig class require a request in the constructor.
2448 * "python tests/runtests.py test_module" will run only test_module
2449 * request.cfg stays between requests (for persistent servers).
2452 Version 1.3.4 (2005-03-13, Revision moin--main--1.3--patch-666)
2456 * Fixed ACL check in LikePages macro that caused links to unreadable
2458 * Fixed ACL check in newpage action.
2459 * Fixed a security problem when admin policy defined in a custom
2460 SecurityPolicy class was ignored.
2461 * Fixed ACL check in action=show so that a user who may not read a page
2462 also can't find out WHEN the protected page was updated.
2463 * Workaround on Windows 95, 98, ME in order to clear the dircache.
2464 This fixes some bugs related to an outdated page list and newly created
2465 pages that did not appear immediately.
2466 * Fixed decoding issues of page names on Windows, finally.
2468 * Fixed traceback on IIS.
2470 * Fixed wikirpc for standalone server.
2471 * Other fixes (encoding and str/unicode data type related) to wikirpc
2472 server, fixing some non-ascii issues hopefully.
2473 * Fixed broken query strings for Standalone installations.
2474 * Fixed backlinks - the result did not always show all links, often it
2476 * Fixed the acceptance of the show_hosts setting. Now you should be able
2477 to hide any IP or host name from being published by MoinMoin by enabling
2479 * Fixed wrong line endings on email messages.
2481 * Fixed crash when trail file is missing.
2482 * Fixed a traceback when searching for single ( or ).
2483 * Added mig10 script to fix crashes with uncoverted edit-locks and file
2484 attachments. Just use it as you did with mig1..mig9 before.
2485 * Added mig11 script to add __init__.py files to data/plugin (and below).
2486 * added some fixes for the xslt parser (thanks to fanbanlo), it might be
2487 still broken, but someone with deeper knowledge about xslt should fix it.
2488 * Replaced image link with W3C's "html 4.01 compliance" icon by a simple
2489 text link to avoid https: or config trouble.
2490 * Catch OverflowError backtrace when illegal date strings (e.g. <1970 or
2491 >2038) are fed to moinmoin's time routines. It will just output current
2492 date / time in those cases.
2493 * UserPreferences now also set a date_fmt preference and Date macro
2494 honours it. You may have to reset your UserPreferences value for that.
2495 * Fixed free parent and subpage links in interwiki notation.
2497 * Fixed a traceback for invalid ReST markup.
2498 * Fixed UnicodeError in SystemAdmin's Attachment Browser.
2502 * Optimized the IRC parser.
2503 * Support for zipimport of the MoinMoin package. This allows you to use
2504 py2exe and similar programs.
2505 * Show the editor's name in the mail subject.
2506 * Added the pragmas description and keywords. They will add <meta> headers
2508 * Added MoinMoin/scripts/xmlrpc-tools/putPageTest.py example script, useful
2509 as a starting point for importing data using wiki xmlrpc.
2510 * Optimised display on Opera browser.
2514 * The search modifier "linkto:" was introduced. You can use it to search
2516 * The NewPage macro now can take a PageTemplate parameter, see HelpOnMacros.
2517 * New config settings (so you don't need to edit wikirpc.py any more):
2518 xmlrpc_putpage_enabled = 0 (if 1, enables writing to arbitrary page names)
2519 xmlrpc_putpage_trusted_only = 1 (if 0, doesn't require users to be
2520 authenticated by http auth - DANGEROUS, DO NOT SET TO 0!!!)
2521 * Added support for Digest and NTLM authentication with CGI (e.g. if you
2522 use those Apache modules)
2523 * The datetime string accepted by Date and DateTime macros was extended to
2524 accept a timezone specification, so now +/-HHMM is also valid, e.g.:
2525 2005-03-06T15:15:57Z (UTC, same as +0000)
2526 2005-03-06T15:15:57+0000 (UTC)
2527 2005-03-06T16:15:57+0100 (same time given as local time for time zone
2528 with offset +0100, that is CET, e.g. Germany)
2529 2005-03-06T10:15:57-0500 (same time given as local time for time zone
2530 with offset -0500, EST, US Eastern Std. Time)
2531 The values given as macro argument will be transformed to UTC internally
2532 and then adapted again according to viewing user's UserPreferences, so
2533 the user will see the same moment in time but shown in his local time
2534 zone's time (at least if he set his UserPreferences correctly and didn't
2535 forget changing them twice a year for DST and non-DST).
2536 * Readded (now optional) editlink footer to Include macro. Add
2537 ',editlink' to call to enable this.
2538 * star "smileys" e.g. {*}{*}{*}{o}{o}
2541 Version 1.3.3 (2005-01-24, Revision moin--main--1.3--patch-595)
2545 * fixed ACL security problem in search
2546 * fix for IIS with CGI allowing page names that contain chars
2547 that are not in the system code page
2548 * fixed MoinEditorBackup revisions to start with 1 now
2549 * improved page locking ('current' file)
2550 * Unittests (normally shown at end of action=test output) are currently
2551 disabled for everything except CGI, because they only work reliably with
2552 CGI, giving wrong results for other request methods.
2555 Version 1.3.2 (2005-01-23, Revision moin--main--1.3--patch-587)
2559 * ACL bugfix for deleted pages with ACL protection.
2560 * ACL bugfix for "Default" acl.
2561 * Fixed updating of groups and dicts
2562 * Python 2.2.x related fixes (worked on 2.3+)
2563 * Fixed traceback in RecentChanges.
2564 * Fixed traceback with links browser.
2565 * Fixed 0 revision display in 'Show changes'.
2566 * Fixed traceback in Antispam which occurred when it could not connect
2567 to MoinMaster. Log the errors to stderr or error.log.
2568 * Fixed bug in Page init (no date, use rev). Fixes problem with
2570 * Fixed empty lists in empty search results.
2571 * Cosmetic fix for modern theme (when viewed with Internet Explorer).
2572 * Fixed migration 9 script, do not drop newline, do not drop error.log,
2573 note about missing error.log.
2574 * Fixed repair_language.py script, keep ending newline on revisions.
2575 * Show headings and macro content in correct direction when mixing content
2576 in several directions in the same page and using caching.
2577 * Fixed bug in standalone re farmconfig.
2578 * Fixed DOS condition in antispam code.
2579 * Use smaller margin in print mode to get better results with
2581 * Fixed some user input escaping issues.
2582 * Fixed a problem when one wiki plugin override other wikis plugins in
2584 * Fixed some broken tests.
2585 * Fixed recursive include in pstats.
2586 * Fixed bug in standalone - HTTP result code was 200 even when the access
2588 * Fixed traceback when trying to login with non-ascii password.
2589 * Fixed traceback when xml is not available, reported on Python 2.2.?
2590 * Fixed slideshow to show slides in sorted order again.
2591 * Fixed serving multiple wikis on same IP/different ports with twisted and
2593 * It is possible to run with data_underlay_dir = None for special
2594 application, but be aware that the wiki won't be usable unless you have
2595 at least some of the system pages from underlay/ available.
2596 * Files with Unicode characters in their filename are possible now.
2597 * Bugfix for broken [:page#anchor:text] links.
2598 * Workaround an instability of the gdchart module leading to
2599 stalled servers etc.
2600 * Fixed some event-log decoding issues that affect charts rendering.
2604 * Major speed improvement over 1.3.1. Many times faster title search,
2605 creating new page, opening page editor and any operation that list pages.
2606 See http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/MoinBenchmarks
2607 * Improved README.migration.
2608 * Cleaner design for login/register interface, login is always the default
2609 button when the user click Enter.
2610 * If there are problems found in the configuration, log the error
2611 and display helpful error messages in the browser.
2612 * More forgiving unicode configuration policy, you must use the u'string'
2613 format only for unicode values.
2614 * Added profiling to CGI.
2615 * The content of farmconfig.py is similar to wikiconfig.py now.
2616 * Unexpected errors while loading cache files are logged.
2617 * i18n for icon ALT tags.
2618 * Include request initialization code in the profile in standalone server.
2619 * When creating new theme, style sheets are inherited correctly, no need
2620 to override style sheets just to get them working.
2621 * Many times faster plugin system. Typical pages are about 35% faster,
2622 pages with many plugins can be many times faster.
2623 * Spiders are allowed to fetch attachments.
2624 * Old user files containing password hash encoded in pre 1.3 charset
2625 are auto repaired on first login.
2626 * data_dir defaults to './data', underlay_data_dir to './underlay' now.
2627 It is a good idea to replace those by absolute pathes in wikiconfig.py.
2628 * Renamed "Refresh" to "Delete Cache" - it was misused by users. The action
2629 was also moved into the action menu in the modern and rightsidebar themes.
2630 * Added a workaround for TableOfContents missing some links by making it
2631 uncacheable via a "time" dependency.
2632 * Removed interwiki icon and title attribute for wiki:Self:... links.
2633 * Unittests (normally shown at end of action=test output) are currently
2634 disabled because they worked unreliably, giving wrong results sometimes.
2638 * Create new pages easily using configurable interface and page templates
2639 with the new NewPage macro.
2640 * ReStructuredText (rst) support is built-in now. See HelpOnParsers.
2641 * New experimental feature in mointwisted.py - each interface may
2642 specify a port: '12.34.56.78:80'. Without a port, the port option
2648 * wikiutil.importPlugin's first argument is now a wiki config instance
2649 (request.cfg) and there is no path keyword.
2650 * Wiki plugins always override MoinMoin plugins. wikiutil.importPlugin
2651 implements this override.
2652 * util.pysupport.importName does not accept path - you should call
2653 it with correct module name, e.g 'wikiconfig.plugin.parser.wiki' for
2654 wiki plugins, or 'MoinMoin.parser.wiki'.
2655 * wikiutil.extensionPlugin was renamed to wikiPlugins and it gets config
2656 instance instead of path.
2657 * New function wikiutil.importWikiPlugin used to import wiki plugins
2658 using a cache in a thread safe way.
2659 * New config option config.use_threads is used to activate thread
2661 * New keyword arguments for getPageList, enable 10X faster operation
2662 for common cases by controlling page filtering.
2663 * New up to 100X times faster getPageCount
2666 Version 1.3.1 (2004-12-13, Revision moin--main--1.3--patch-434)
2670 * Fixed "Error Cyclic usage" crash when user had Italian (it), Korean
2671 (ko), Serbian (sr) or Vietnamese (vi) as user interface language.
2672 * Fall back to en (instead of crashing) when user uses a language moin
2673 does not support / does not support any more (like pt,sv,fi,sr).
2674 * In 1.3.0, people accidentally put iso-8859-1 chars into wiki configs,
2675 but those where expected to be pure utf-8 and thus it crashed.
2676 Fixed by using unicode strings (varname = u'whatever'), a matching
2677 encoding setting (see top of script comment) and, when decoding strings,
2678 using decode to ASCII with replace mode (this replaces non-ASCII chars,
2679 but at least it won't crash - and you get a warning to better use
2681 * Fixed long time broken table formatting. ||<style="see css spec" a||b||
2682 Now even generates valid HTML! The old markup for align, valign, width,
2683 bgcolor still works, but synthesizes style attribute data.
2684 * SystemAdmin macro shows attachments of ALL pages now.
2685 * Users without write acl rights will be able to see attachments again and
2686 also have AttachFile action in menu.
2687 * Fixed wrong match count in search results, find all matches in page
2688 titles, show all matches in contents in some rare cases.
2689 * Run about 200% faster with long running processes (standalone, Twisted),
2690 about 20% faster with cgi, by better internal data handling in wikidicts.
2691 * On SF, the dict files use utf-8 encoding now. We included them also in
2692 distribution, see contrib/dict/.
2693 * Fixed permissions to shared template stuff.
2694 * Speeded up search, fixed wrong match counts.
2695 * Speeded up internal data handling (wikidicts).
2696 * Fixed rare unicode error after deleting a page (reported only on SuSE
2697 Linux 9.0 / Python 2.3.0).
2698 * Fixed file permissions of files in the data dir.
2699 * Fixed some cosmetic problems in migration scripts and use sys.path.insert
2700 to get latest moin code when executing them.
2704 * Improved docs, system and help pages.
2705 * Updated translation files.
2709 * Internet Explorer renders our HTML/CSS in a suboptimal way.
2711 Workaround: use a non-broken browser like FireFox / Mozilla.
2712 Fixed in MoinMoin 1.3.2.
2713 * Passwords using non-ascii do not work.
2715 * The TOC macro is broken partly.
2718 * See also: http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/MoinMoinBugs
2721 Version 1.3.0 (2004-12-06, Revision moin--main--1.3--patch-400)
2723 As you see from the length of the 1.3 changes below, 1.3 is a major(!)
2724 upgrade. We could have also named it "2.0", but we decided against.
2725 So take the time for reading the informations thoroughly and do the
2726 migration exactly as we tell you - this is no 5 minutes upgrade!
2728 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2729 !!! We heavily changed configuration, data encoding, dir layout: !!!
2730 !!! * the default encoding changed to utf-8. !!!
2731 !!! * also, we changed the escaping for special chars to %XX%YY in !!!
2732 !!! URL and (xxyy) in file system. !!!
2733 !!! * layout of data dir changed completely !!!
2734 !!! If you upgrade an existing wiki, you must run the migration !!!
2735 !!! scripts or you will get data corruption or other problems. !!!
2736 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2738 HINT: Upgrading your wiki - critical information
2740 If you are NOT starting from scratch, you MUST convert your existing
2741 data - see README.migration for details.
2743 If you use ##language: xx comments on your OWN pages, you should also run
2744 repair_language script. Not needed for help/system pages as we already
2745 have done that for you.
2747 MoinMoin uses Unicode internally now (UCS-2 with 16 bits or UCS-4 with
2748 32 bits, depending on your Python installation). The encoding used
2749 for page files and html output is set by config.charset.
2751 Moin 1.3 uses utf-8 encoding only, there is NO SUPPORT for using a
2752 charset different from utf-8 with 1.3. If you try, you are on your own.
2756 Directory layout was heavily changed. Each page now is a directory,
2757 containing page revisions, attachments, cache files and edit-log.
2759 You can delete a page or move a page from one wiki to another
2760 easily. Look at the wiki/data directory to see.
2763 old: data/text/FrontPage
2764 new: data/pages/FrontPage/revisions/00000042
2765 data/pages/FrontPage/current (contains: 00000042)
2766 old: data/backup/FrontPage.xxxxxxxx
2767 new: data/pages/FrontPage/revisions/00000023
2769 For cleaning up cache files, use MoinMoin/scripts/cachecleaner.py
2770 (see comments in script).
2774 * For using RSS, you need to have PyXML installed:
2775 Python 2.4* -> PyXML 0.8.4 (cvs version)
2776 Python 2.3.x -> PyXML 0.8.3
2777 Python 2.2.2+ -> ???
2778 This will also make "Live Bookmarks" of Mozilla Firefox working.
2779 New: if you don't have PyXML installed, the RSS icon on RecentChanges
2780 will not be displayed any more. Python with no PyXML installed
2781 generates invalid RSS XML.
2785 * Handling of special characters in file names changed from _xx format
2787 * In URLs, moin now uses %xx%yy quoting, (because this is supported by
2788 browsers), and sub pages use "/" instead of the ugly "_2f".
2789 * Underscore character "_" is used now as a space character " " both
2790 in file names and URLs. " " and "_" will be handled equivalent at most
2791 places in the future (represented as "_", rendered as " ").
2792 * To prevent wiki abuse and user typing errors, page names are normalized
2793 in URLs, query strings, the "go" box and when renaming pages. This
2794 include leading, trailing and multiple slashes and white space. Certain
2795 invisible unicode characters are removed from page names.
2796 * Group page names are restricted even more, any non unicode alpha-numeric
2797 character is removed. This is done to enable changing acl syntax in
2798 the future. The restriction might be loosen on future versions.
2799 * You can edit config.page_invalid_chars_regex to control which characters
2800 are allowed in page names (Changing it is not supported).
2801 * When you enter page name, it is normalized and you are redirected to
2802 the normalized page, or if nothing left (e.g '/////'), to FrontPage.
2803 * When renaming a page to a name that can be normalized to an empty string,
2804 the new page name will be "EmptyName" and the user will not get an
2809 * Pages (especially system and help pages) are now located in an underlay
2810 directory (data_underlay_dir). You will see the pages there if they are
2811 NOT covered (overlayed) by a page in the normal pages directory
2812 (as set using data_dir).
2813 MAKE SURE THAT data_underlay_dir IS CORRECT OR YOU WILL SEE MANY EMPTY
2814 PAGES ONLY IN A NEW WIKI.
2815 * If you edit a page that is shown from underlay directory, it will be
2816 copied to the normal page directory on save (copy-on-write).
2817 * You can use one copy of the underlay directory shared by many
2818 wiki instances. Each wiki will then have only your local, self-made
2819 wiki pages in its data directory, and only system and help pages in the
2820 single, shared underlay directory - this simplifies upgrades a lot.
2821 * It is recommended to keep your underlay system and help pages immutable
2822 using acl, so you can upgrade your wiki easily. The default help and
2823 system pages already have those ACLs (using MoinPagesEditorGroup).
2824 * Do not forget to remove your old help and system pages after migrating
2825 your wiki. We don't provide a script for that as that would be
2826 dangerous for edited pages. Just use some file manager (e.g. mc) to
2827 clean the data/pages/ directory. As soon as you have removed the
2828 system pages there, you will see the new pages in the underlay dir.
2829 See the EditedSystemPages page for a list of pages that exist in both
2830 data and underlay directory (use this page as admin!).
2832 When updating from 1.2 or lower to 1.3 or higher, you will want to
2833 clean out the copies of the system pages in your {{{wiki/data}}}
2834 directory. All of these pages will now reside in the underlay
2835 directory. If you have system pages from 1.2 or lower in your
2836 wiki/data/ directory, they will overshadow the more up-to-date
2837 documentation. This can be done using the following manual procedure:
2838 1. You have just converted from 1.2 or lower to post-1.3.
2839 2. Go to your wiki's EditedSystemPages.
2840 3. Find all the pages that are MoinMoin system or help pages. You will
2841 know if it is one of those pages because it is not your page.
2842 4. Check if it is okay to delete by either:
2843 1. Using the this page "info" link and check the Revision History to
2844 see if it is greater than 1. If so, there are modifications, so do
2845 not delete the page and evaluate the modifications to see if they
2847 2. Using your file browser (Windows Explorer, etc) to go to your
2848 wiki/data/<<systemPage>>/revisions/ directory and to see if there
2849 are no modifications. If there are, do not delete the page and
2850 evaluate the modifications to see if they are necessary.
2851 5. Delete that wiki/data/<<systemPage>> using your file browser.
2855 * New file name quoting method allow 50% longer page names in languages
2856 that use more than one byte per character, like Hebrew, Korean etc.
2857 * Configuration file uses 'utf-8' encoding now. Certain values that are
2858 marked with [Unicode] can use any character in your language. Examples
2859 are page names in navi_bar, page types regular expressions and site name.
2860 * For configuration examples adopted to your language, check ConfigMarket
2861 in the MoinMoin wiki.
2862 * The system and help pages that come with moin are now in utf-8.
2863 * MissingPage system page localized, should display in your language.
2864 * We did many i18n (translation) updates.
2865 * CSS file use utf-8 encoding. User css is also expected to be utf-8.
2866 This is relevant only if you use non-ASCII values in the CSS file.
2867 * config.upperletters and config.lowerletters were removed.
2868 We now use a pre-made ucs-2 spanning set and you usually don't have to
2869 change it. See MoinMoin/util/chartypes.py if you're interested.
2870 * ACL works with any user name or group name in any language, even names
2872 * Now you can use any charset in config.charset. Note: only utf-8 is
2873 a supported configuration!
2874 * Improved url handling, now creating pages directly from the browser
2875 url box with non-ascii names works in most cases, even when
2876 config.charset is not utf-8.
2877 * When using non-utf-8 config.charset, characters in URLs that does
2878 fit in the charsets are replaced with "?" (instead of crashing).
2879 * All themes and most macros and actions are Right to Left friendly.
2880 Full RTL support planned for 1.3 release.
2881 * If page language is specified with #language processing instruction
2882 the page is displayed in the correct direction. Pages without
2883 language are displayed using the wiki default_lang.
2885 Multiple configurations
2887 * You can run multiple wikis from the same wiki directory or server.
2888 For example, you can run one Twisted server that serve multiple wikis,
2889 instead of running multiple servers. Samples of the new configuration
2890 are supplied in wiki/config/*.
2891 * You can't just use your old moin_config.py file. It is now called
2892 wikiconfig.py and the config variables now have to be in a class
2893 "Config" and that class must inherit from
2894 MoinMoin.multiconfig.DefaultConfig - see the provided wikiconfig.py
2896 This is very useful, e.g. you could derive a GermanConfig from
2897 DefaultConfig. After that, you can derive configs for wikiA and wikiB
2898 from that GermanConfig.
2899 * farmconfig.py contains a mapping attribute called "wikis" with pairs of
2900 wikiconfig module name and regular expression. The regular expression
2901 is matched against the URL of the request and the first matching entry
2902 determines the config module to be imported by MoinMoin.
2903 * If you use farmconfig.py's "wikis" mapping, then any wiki has a private
2904 config module, named after the wiki - e.g. wiki named moinmoin would
2906 * If you only have a single wiki, you do not need farmconfig.py. just make
2907 a wikiconfig.py and it will be used no matter what URL is requested.
2908 * There is one common global "config" that holds sitewide settings (like
2909 umask or charset) - you do not need to change settings there.
2910 This file is located in the MoinMoin code: MoinMoin/config.py.
2912 General configuration
2914 * SecurityPolicy now uses "write" instead of "edit" (so it is may.write
2915 now). This is to get it in sync with ACLs.
2916 * SecurityPolicy now automatically can use everything in acl_rights_valid.
2917 * There is a new config option "config_check_enabled". It will warn about
2918 any unknown variable name (probably typo) to stderr or error.log.
2919 If something doesn't work at all and changing the config does no
2920 difference, switch it on and look at the error message.
2921 * The sample config file comes with config_check_enabled = 1. If you
2922 introduce additional variables yourself, you definitely want to switch
2923 that check off or it will fill your log.
2924 * If you define "page_front_page" variable, this name will show in the
2925 navigation bar now, instead of the default "FrontPage".
2929 * Full text and title search do support multiple search terms now -
2930 see HelpOnSearching for details.
2931 * Regular expressions are still supported but have to be turned on per
2932 search term. Search terms in macros using regular expressions will have
2934 * The URL interface of the search engine has also changed. Links that
2935 point directly to search actions may be broken.
2939 * User names can not use group names, even if ACLs are not enabled.
2940 This will prevent error later, if you start to use acl in the future
2941 (acl is going to be mandatory in 1.5).
2942 * User names are not restricted any more to only CamelCase.
2943 * To prevent imposing as other users, leading, trailing and multiple
2944 whitespace in user names is not allowed. Only Unicode alpha numeric
2945 characters are allowed, with optional one space character between
2947 * When a user name with a group name or "bad" name is trying to
2948 access the wiki, he is redirected to the UserPreferences page and
2949 asked to create a new account.
2950 * When trying to login or create a new account with a bad name,
2951 correct error message is displayed in all cases.
2955 * You can not use your old moin.cgi file, as we removed cgimain.py
2956 (was deprecated since 1.2). Copy the new file from the server dir.
2958 Moin servers - Twisted and standalone
2960 * Configuration self checking on startup. Will raise an error in case
2961 of bad configuration or non-accessible directories.
2962 * Both use shorter and identical configuration options.
2963 * Server scripts contain detailed comments and examples.
2964 * Configuration defaults changed to fit most users.
2965 * There is memory profiler option for debugging, switched off by default.
2966 * If you perform a standard install, server scripts should run out
2967 of the box or with minimal change.
2971 * All code moved into the new server package, the server script
2972 contains only configuration options.
2973 * Listen to more than one interface with "interfaces" list.
2974 * Code updated to new Twisted API.
2975 * Use mointwisted script to start and stop the server, using
2976 "mointwisted start" and "mointwisted stop".
2977 * The Twisted server runs as daemon by default.
2978 * All moin Twisted files are called now mointwisted instead of
2980 * Fixed getting username from Twisted request (http auth)
2984 * Configuration moved from moin_config.py to moin.py.
2985 * If run as root, you can set both user and group for the server.
2986 * Can use logfile instead of logging to stderr.
2987 * Fixed missing unquoting of query string (caused problems in rare cases).
2991 * moin_modpy server files renamed to moinmodpy.
2995 * '''strong''', ''em'' and __underline__ have now paragraph scope. You can
2996 set these attributes on words level. For multiple paragraphs, wrap each
2998 * If you leave unclosed ''', '' and __ markup, its is closed when the
3003 * Due to many changes in CSS files, the wiki may look "broken" until
3004 your reload once or twice, or empty your browser cache.
3005 * The "Send mail notification" checkbox is replaced by "Trivial change"
3006 checkbox. The default behavior did not change - regular edit is not
3007 a trivial change, and mail will be sent to subscribes. If you check
3008 trivial change, mail will be sent only to users who selected to
3009 get trivial changes in their user preferences.
3010 * New theme "modern" has been added, and used as default theme.
3011 * classic and rightsidebar improved.
3012 * viewonly theme removed, as any theme can be use now as viewonly
3013 by using #acl All:read in the wikiconfig.
3014 * All themes use new navibar, displaying both wiki links, user links
3015 and the current page.
3016 * navibar and pagetrail use now shortened page names, so very long
3017 names does not break the interface visually.
3018 * All themes have improved search interface at the top of the window.
3019 * Only avaiable actions are displayed, so most situations when a user
3020 try to do something he can't do are prevented.
3021 * When creating a new page, no action is available until the page
3022 is created. You can't attach files to non-existing page any more.
3023 * Non registered users get a "login" link. Registered uses get
3024 "username" link to their home page, and "user preferences" link.
3025 * Messages more clear using bold type, designed by css.
3026 * Few useless messages removed (but there are many more)
3027 * Default wiki logo uses the wiki name instead of the MoinMoin troll
3030 Other fixes and changes
3032 * Most generated html code is valid "html 4 strict". There are still
3033 some problems that still have to be fixed, mainly macros, table
3034 attributes, and inline markup crossing (<a><b></a></b>).
3035 * WantedPages can include and exclude system pages, which makes it
3037 * Fixed a bug in TitleIndex where not all system pages are excluded.
3038 * RenamePage action now renames everything, including backups, page
3039 history, attachments. It does not change toplevel editlog, though.
3040 After you rename a page, you are redirected to the new page.
3041 * Syntax colorization supports more languages (Java, C++, Pascal)
3042 * Inline: display of attachments was extended. A Parser now knows which
3043 extensions it can handle.
3044 * TableOfContents and Include macros now cooperate a bit better. There
3045 are still problems with multiple Includes of the same page.
3046 * Excluded actions at bottom of page are not displayed any more.
3047 * Editor: removed the columns size setting, just using 100% of browser
3048 window width (it didn't work because of that anyway). Also removed that
3049 "reduce editor size" link at top of editor as you would lose your
3050 changes when using it.
3051 * Removed the option to choose text smileys instead of images, this made
3052 more trouble than it was worth. The text version is still given in ALT
3054 * Moved stuff from contribution/ to MacroMarket page on MoinMoin wiki
3055 * Some nasty people try to use a running moin as a proxy (at least they
3056 did on moinmaster.wikiwikiweb.de:8000, maybe due to the magic port
3057 number). We changed the code to check for that and just return 403
3058 in that case. Moin can not be used as a proxy anyway.
3059 * moin.cgi?test was removed in favor of a new buildin test
3060 action. It works for all deployments, just use ?action=test.
3061 * Sending mail does use tls if server supports it.
3063 3rd party developer notes
3065 * Themes should be now sub class of MoinMoin.theme.ThemeBase. Sub
3066 classes will get automatically all new improved user interface
3068 * Theme authors should update their theme for 1.3. Some keys removed
3069 from them dict. See ThemeBase class in MoinMoin/theme/__init__.py.
3070 * Actions writers should call request.setContentLangauge with the
3071 correct language used by the action. This enable themes and other
3072 code to use correct direction.
3073 * The Formatter interface was changed. Formatters and parsers using
3074 the formatter interface have to be adjusted.
3075 * started deprecation of Processors: they are still recognized, but
3076 implementors should start to rewrite their Processors as Parsers.
3077 A processor with the same name as a parser in a pre #! section is
3078 currently preferred. This will change in the next release.
3082 * Processors are deprecated, see section above.
3084 * Using the cookie (or the login url with ID) only and not setting (or
3085 setting and not remembering) your email/password in UserPreferences
3086 is DEPRECATED. Those quite unsecure methods will likely be dropped
3087 in next moin version.
3089 * Operating with acl_enabled = 0 is also DEPRECATED. Due to some other
3090 improvements planned, we will have to operate with ACLs enabled ONLY
3091 in a future moin version, so this setting will likely be dropped.
3092 So clean up your user accounts (see moin_usercheck.py) and switch ACLs
3094 There are no drawbacks, so you will like it. Having ACLs enabled
3095 doesn't mean you really have to USE them on wiki pages...
3097 * allow_extended_names = 0 is deprecated (default was/is 1).
3098 Future versions will be able to use extended names (aka free links) in
3099 any case and the config setting will be removed.
3101 * allow_subpages = 0 is deprecated (default was/is 1).
3102 Future versions will be able to use subpages in any case and the config
3103 setting will be removed.
3105 * attachments = {...} - we would like to remove that setting because of
3107 * when not being extremely careful, this can easily lead to security
3108 problems (like when uploading a .php exploit and then executing it
3109 by accessing it directly via web server)
3110 * makes code more complicated - code that we want to change completely
3112 If you need that feature, speak up now and tell us your reasons WHY you
3116 Version 1.2.4 (2004-10-23, Revision 1.187)
3118 This will probably be the last 1.2.x release as we are soon doing release
3119 candidates for 1.3 release (with big internal changes) and are expecting
3120 release 1.3 in december 2004.
3123 * fixed "None" pagename bug in fullsearch/titlesearch
3124 * fixed projection CSS usage
3125 * the compiled page is removed when a page is deleted, so no ghost page
3126 appears after deletion
3127 * fixed AbandonedPages day-break problem
3128 * fixed [[GetVal(WikiDict,key)]]
3129 * the msg box is now outside content div on PageEditor, too
3130 * privacy fix for email notifications: you don't see other email addresses
3131 in To: any more. mail_from is now also used for To: header field, but
3132 we don't really send email to that address.
3133 * privacy fix for /MoinEditorBackup pages that were made on previews of
3134 pages that were not saved in the end
3135 * fix double content div on PageEditor preview
3138 * workaround for broken Microsoft Internet Explorer, the page editor now
3139 stops expanding to the right (e.g. with rightsidebar theme).
3140 Nevertheless it is a very good idea to use a non-broken and more secure
3141 browser like Mozilla, Firefox or Opera!
3143 * from MoinMoin.security.antispam import SecurityPolicy in your
3144 moin_config.py will protect your wiki from at least the known spammers.
3147 * xmlrpc plugin for usage logging, currently used for antispam accesses
3149 * (re-)added configurable meta tags:
3150 * html_head_queries = '''<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow">\n'''
3151 * html_head_posts = '''<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow">\n'''
3152 * html_head_index = '''<meta name="robots" content="index,follow">\n'''
3153 * html_head_normal = '''<meta name="robots" content="index,nofollow">\n'''
3155 * i18n updates/fixes
3157 * New UserPreferences switch:
3158 you may subscribe to trivial changes (when you want to be notified about ALL
3159 changes to pages, even if the author deselected to send notifications).
3161 * New AttachList and AttachInfo macros - thanks to Nigel Metheringham and
3164 Version 1.2.3 (2004-07-21, Revision 1.186)
3167 * fixed NameError "UnpicklingError" in user.py
3168 * fixed version number in moin.spec
3169 * reverts done by bots or leechers
3170 There was a bad, old bug that triggered if you did not use ACLs. In that
3171 case, moin used some simple (but wrong and incomplete) function to
3172 determine what a user (or bot) may do or may not do. The function is now
3173 fixed to allow only read and write to anon users, and only delete and
3174 revert to known users additionally - and disallow everything else.
3175 * avoid creation of unneccessary pages/* directories
3176 * removed double content divs in general info and history info pages
3177 * fixed wiki xmlrpc getPageHTML
3178 * fixed rightsidebar logout URL, also fixed top banner to link to FrontPage
3179 * use config.page_front_page and .page_title_index for robots meta tag
3180 (whether it uses index,follow or index,nofollow), not hardcoded english
3182 * ACL security fix for PageEditor, thanks to Dr. Pleger for reporting
3183 * default options for new users are same as for anon users
3185 Version 1.2.2 (2004-06-06, Revision 1.185)
3189 * own copy of difflib removed
3190 Until moin 1.2.1 we had our own copy of python 2.2.3's difflib coming
3191 with moin. This was to work around some problems with broken older 2.2
3192 python installations. We removed this now because if you have py 2.3,
3193 there is even a better difflib coming with python (and that fixes an
3194 extremely slow diff calculation happening in some rare cases).
3195 So the good news is that when you run python 2.3, you don't need to do
3196 anything and it will run great. If you run python 2.2.3, it will mostly
3197 work good and you also don't need to do anything. The bad news is that
3198 if you run an old and broken 2.2 installation (2.2.1, maybe 2.2.2) you
3199 will have to fix it on your own (just copy difflib.py from python 2.2.3
3200 over to your python 2.2.x installation).
3201 But better upgrade to python 2.3 (for debian woody, there's a backport),
3202 as 2.3 generally runs better and faster than 2.2.
3203 * scripts changed to use #!/usr/bin/env python (not /usr/bin/python2.2)
3205 * user accounts and ACLs:
3206 * we now require the user to specify a password for a new account (you
3207 were not able to login without a password anyway)
3208 * it is not allowed any more to create user accounts with user names
3209 matching config.page_group_regex - please check manually that you do
3210 not already have such users existing (like a user named "AdminGroup"):
3211 cd data/user ; grep name=.*Group * # there should be no output!
3212 * subscription email sending now honours ACLs correctly
3214 * markup / rendering / user interface fixes:
3215 * fixed merging multiple lines indented by the same amount of blanks
3216 * ## comments don't break tables in two parts
3217 * added a "remove bookmark" link to RecentChanges
3218 * fixed action=titleindex (added \n after each entry)
3221 * non-ASCII characters should work now
3222 * RSS feed (Recentchanges?action=rss_rc) gives UTC timestamps now
3223 * removed attribute breaking RSS feed on RecentChanges
3225 * better email generation:
3226 * if you use python >=2.2.2, we add a Message-ID header to emails
3227 * if you use python 2.2.1, there is no email.Header. Instead of crashing
3228 (like previous moin 1.2.x releases), we just use the subject "as is" in
3229 that case. If it is not ASCII, this is not standards compliant.
3230 * If you have >=2.2.2 it will use email.Header to make standards compliant
3232 * use config.mail_from as sender address when sending "lost my password"
3236 * fixed for standalone server
3237 * attachment URLs (when handled by moin) don't include server name
3238 * fixed some wrong &amp; in html src
3240 * better themeability:
3241 * some entries in dict "d" where only present in header theme calls, some
3242 only in footer theme calls. Now almost all is present in both calls.
3243 * added some missing "content" divs so sidebar themes look better
3245 * fixed some crashes producing backtraces:
3246 * no IOError when diffing against deleted page
3247 * no backtrace in xml footnote generation
3248 * no SystemInfo crash when no editlog exists in new wikis
3249 * xmlrpc.getRecentChanges fixed
3251 * MoinMoin.util.filesys.rename is now a wrapper around os.rename that
3252 fixes os.rename on broken win32 api semantics
3255 * saving traffic and load by improved robot meta tag generation:
3256 * "noindex,nofollow" on queries and POSTs
3257 * "index,follow" on FrontPage and TitleIndex (give robots a chance ;))
3258 * "index,nofollow" on all other pages (hopefully saving lots of senseless
3259 requests for page?action=...)
3260 * removed config.html_head_queries (was used for same stuff)
3261 * added russian i18n (utf-8)
3262 * misc. other translation updates / fixes
3263 * added rightsidebar theme
3264 * TitleIndex now folds case, so "APage" and "anotherPage" are both under
3266 * added macro/PageHits.py - it calculates the hits each page gets since
3267 beginning of logging
3270 * Full text and title search do now support multiple search terms -
3271 see HelpOnSearching for details
3273 * The Formatter interface was changed. Formatter and parser using
3274 the formatter interface have to be adjusted.
3276 Version 1.2.1 (2004-03-08, Revision 1.184)
3279 * minimum requirement to run moin 1.2/1.2.1 is python 2.2.2
3280 * not: 2.2(.0), as this does not have True/False
3281 * not: 2.2.1, as this does not have email.Header. You maybe can work
3283 * getting the python 2.2.x (x>=2) /usr/lib/python2.2/email directory
3284 * putting it into directory 'x' (whereever you like)
3285 * doing a sys.path[0:0] = ['x'] in moin.cgi [or other appropriate place]
3286 No guarantee, this is untested.
3287 * Twisted: the http headers missed the charset data, fixed
3288 * mod_python: fixes for mod_python 2.7
3289 * wiki/data/plugin/__init__.py added - fixes not working plugin modules
3290 * plugin processors work now, too
3291 * fixed displaying non-existent translations of SiteNavigation in footer
3292 * fixed zh-tw iso name (wrong zh_tw -> correct zh-tw)
3293 * fixed reversed diffs in RecentChanges RSS
3294 * fixed "last change" info in footer (wasn't updated)
3295 * fixed event.log missing pagename (and other) information
3296 * fixed horizontal line thickness >1
3297 * fixed setup.py running from CVS workdir
3298 * fixed crash when doing action=info on first revision of a page
3299 * fixed hostname truncation in footer
3301 * fixed clear msg links (they missed quoting, leading to strange page
3302 names when you click on some of them)
3303 * fixed python colorizer processor
3304 * fixed quoting of stats cache filenames
3305 * catched "bad marshal data" error when switching python versions
3308 * updated danish (da) i18n
3309 * updated japanese (ja) i18n
3310 * added serbian (sr) i18n
3311 * added chinese (zh) i18n
3312 * added a simple "viewonly" theme based on classic theme - you can use
3313 this as default theme, so anonymous users won't get the usual wiki stuff,
3314 but a far simpler (and less powerful) user interface.
3315 It also displays the navibar at the left side.
3316 * added moin.spec for building RPMs
3317 * included MoinMoin/i18n/* into distribution archive (nice for translators)
3318 * included some stuff under MoinMoin/scripts - xmlrpc-tools and account
3319 checking stuff. removed some version control clutter from the dist
3322 * code colorization was refactored and some new languages (Java, C++,
3323 Pascal) where added.
3324 * inline: display of attachments was extended. A Parser now knows which
3325 extensions it can handle.
3327 Version 1.2 (2004-02-20, Revision 1.183)
3330 * MoinMoin now requires Python >=2.2.2., we recommend to use Python >=2.3.2
3331 (with 2.3.x, MoinMoin runs about 20-30% faster).
3332 * by refactoring request processing, we made it possible to run moin under
3333 persistent environments:
3334 * twisted-web (http://twistedmatrix.com)
3335 * httpdmain.py (use moin.py for starting this mini server)
3338 Of course, CGI is still possible.
3339 * wiki pages will be compiled to bytecode now (by default), so no need for
3340 slow parsing/formatting on every view ("WASP", see caching_formats)
3341 * when using a persistent environment (like twisted) and WASP, you get up
3342 to 20x speed - compared to CGI and moin 1.1
3343 * added support for diffs between arbitrary revisions.
3344 * removed requirement of the external diff utility
3345 * config.auth_http_enabled (defaults to 0) - use this to enable moin
3346 getting your authenticated user name from apache (http basic auth,
3347 htpasswd) - if you enable this, your basic auth username has to be the
3348 same as your wiki username.
3349 Should work with CGI, FCGI and maybe even with mod_python.
3350 Does not change behaviour of moin under twisted or standalone server.
3351 * config.tz_offset = 0.0 sets a default timezone offset (in hours
3353 * config.cookie_lifetime (int, in hours, default 12) sets the lifetime of
3355 == 0 --> cookie will live forever (no matter what user has configured!)
3356 > 0 --> cookie will live for n hours (or forever when "remember_me")
3357 < 0 --> cookie will live for -n hours (forced, ignore "remember_me"!)
3358 * added themeing and some themes (if you improve the existing themes or
3359 make nice new ones, please contribute your stuff!). The default theme is
3360 set by config.theme_default (and defaults to 'classic').
3361 * now supporting plugin directory for parsers, processors, themes, xmlrpc.
3362 * action=info now defaults to showing page revision history again
3363 * all actions accessing the logfile (as RecentChanges or history) are now
3365 * #refresh processing instruction, config.refresh
3366 * config.refresh = (minimum_delay, target_allowed)
3367 * minimum delay is the minimum waiting time (in seconds) allowed
3368 * target_allowed is either 'internal' or 'external', depending on
3369 whether you want to allow only internal redirects or also
3370 external ones. For internal redirects, just use the Wiki pagename,
3371 for external, use http://... url.
3372 * #refresh 3 == refresh this page every 3 seconds
3373 * #refresh 5 FrontPage == internal redirect to FrontPage in 5s
3374 * #refresh 5 http://google.com/ == redirect to google in 5s
3375 Use very carefully! Allowing a low minimum_delay and putting a #refresh
3376 on RecentChanges might slow down your wiki significantly, when some
3377 people just let their browser refresh and refresh again. Also, it does
3378 cause quite some traffic long-term. So better do not use this without
3379 good reason! Default is None (switched off).
3380 * hide most UserPreferences options before user has logged in, less
3381 confusing for new users
3382 * "config.page_dict_regex" defines what pages are dictionary definitions
3383 Currently dictionaries are used for UserHomePage/MyDict where you can
3384 define key:: value pairs that get processed like @DATE@ expansion when
3385 saving a page. The 2 "@" will be added to your keys automatically.
3386 Please do not use @xxx@ strings on the right side (value), results may
3388 You can also access wiki dictionaries by using the internal macro
3389 [[GetVal(page,key)]]" - that will go to page "page" and return the
3390 value (right side) corresponding to "key".
3391 Implementation note: groups are a subset of the dictionary functionality.
3392 * standalone server should work now (see server/moin.py), so you don't
3393 need to setup apache or twisted for a local personal wiki, you only need
3394 python and moin for that now, no additional stuff any more!
3395 * if you run your wiki with charset = "utf-8" (the default is still
3396 iso8859-1), you might want to have a look at contributions/utf8-pages/
3397 to see if there are already translated system pages for your language.
3400 * new importPlugin routine (the old one didn't work correctly)
3401 * removed 0xA0 characters breaking utf-8
3402 * system page recognition now uses wiki groups (see AllSystemPagesGroup),
3403 fixing the long-time broken system page exclusion on TitleIndex.
3404 * mostly HTML 4.01 Strict compliant HTML
3405 * design is done by CSS now, HTML is semantic markup only
3406 * removed target attribute from links, also [^NewWindow] markup - this
3407 is a HTML 3.2 feature and not valid in HTML 4.01
3408 * updated TWikiDrawPlugin to 20021003 version, with further modifications
3409 including source. It can draw imagemaps now and saves PNG. On display a
3410 GIF will be searched if no PNG is found. We recommend changing all GIFs
3411 to indexed PNGs cause this fallback might disappear in later versions.
3413 Sample code using bash and ImageMagick (be sure you know what you do):
3414 for draw in `find /path/to/wiki/data -name \*.draw`; do
3415 file=`dirname $draw`/`basename $draw .draw`
3416 if [ -e "${file}.gif" ]; then
3417 echo "Converting ${file}.gif to ${file}.png"
3418 convert "${file}.gif" "${file}.png"
3422 * fixed email headers and encoding
3423 * Changed moin-usercheck to adhere to scripting standards; no
3424 proprietary config changes needed any more (added --config);
3425 --wikinames is now part of the usage message.
3426 * config.umask now defaults to 0770 - if you give world r/w access, ACLs
3427 could be rather pointless...
3429 Removed config variables:
3430 * external_diff (not needed any more, we have internal diff now)
3431 * shared_metadb (wasn't implemented for long - we will re-add it, when it is)
3432 * title1/2 (please use page_header1/2)
3435 Changed config variables:
3436 * changed_time_fmt (removed some html and brackets around time from default)
3437 * html_head (default is empty string now)
3438 * page_footer1/2 (default is empty string now)
3439 * page_icons (is now a list of icon names, not html any more)
3440 * umask (default is 0770 now, not world r/w any more == more secure)
3442 New config variables (see MoinMaster:HelpOnConfiguration):
3451 * page_license_enabled
3458 * lots of internal code refactoring and optimization
3459 * began moving src code documentation to epydoc, see "make epydoc"
3460 * the URL for the RecentChanges RSS feed changed. It now only works with
3464 * theme support is neither complete (although covering most important
3465 stuff) nor perfect - work on that will continue...
3466 * we removed some html from system messages (the boxes at top of page you
3467 get after some actions), so it currently looks less nice than before.
3468 * html is not completely validating and it is not xhtml - this will be
3469 fixed as soon as we have the infrastructure for that (other parser, DOM)
3470 * problems with rtl (right-to-left) languages, will be fixed in 1.3
3471 * if you change moin_config or switch themes, moin will still use already
3472 cached page content. For the config this can be fixed by touching
3473 MoinMoin/version.py (or simply deleting everything in
3474 data/cache/Page.py). If you get more annoyed by this than pleased by
3475 caching speedup, you can also switch off caching (see docs on
3478 Themeing and HTML/CSS cleanup:
3479 * Browsers with completely broken CSS support (like e.g. Netscape 4.x) are
3480 no longer supported. If you still need to support them, do not upgrade to
3481 moin 1.2. If you still use these browsers, we recommend that you upgrade
3482 your browser first (Mozilla 1.5 has nice and standards compliant HTML and
3483 CSS support and is available as Free Software for Windows, Linux and Mac).
3484 * If you changed any html in code or by config you will have to check if it
3485 still works. For the usual stuff, look into `MoinMoin/theme/classic.py`
3486 and `classic/css/screen.css`. For config defaults of the html fragments,
3487 read `MoinMoin/config.py`. If you want to modify a theme, don't simply
3488 change classic, but copy or subclass it under a new theme name.
3489 * because of the new theme support the layout of the `htdocs` directory
3491 * Instead of using icons under `img/` and css under `css/`, there will
3492 be an additional `themename/` directory in between, e.g. `classic/img/`
3493 and `classic/css/`. If you added own icons, you may have to copy them
3494 to the themes directory.
3495 * The filename of the CSS file has changed to the media type, so the
3496 normal one used for screen output has changed name from `moinmoin.css`
3497 to `screen.css`. There also were quite some changes and enhancements to
3498 the CSS files, so better use the new ones.
3499 * config.css_url was removed
3502 * we use a new plugin loader that requires a correct `__init__.py` file in
3503 the plugin directories. See the directory `wiki/data/plugin/` in the
3504 distribution archive and just copy it over to your wiki's plugin directory.
3507 Version 1.1 (2003-11-29, Revision 1.178)
3509 Version 1.1 requires Python 2.0 or higher, we recommend to use Python 2.2
3510 (version 2.2.2 if that is available on your host) or even better >= 2.3.2
3511 (with 2.3.x, MoinMoin runs about 20-30% faster).
3515 * config.default_lang lets you set a default language for users not
3516 having specified language in their browser or UserPreferences
3517 * "config.page_category_regex" defines what pages are categories
3518 * replaced `config.page_template_ending` by a more flexible setting
3519 named `config.page_template_regex`
3520 * the same with config.page_form_regex (was: page_form_ending)
3521 * "config.page_group_regex" defines what pages are group definitions
3522 Currently groups are used for "user groups" (see ACLs) and "page
3523 groups" (see AllSystemPagesGroup).
3524 * robot exclusion from all pages except the standard view action,
3525 via the config.ua_spiders regex (reduces server load)
3526 * "maxdepth" argument for the TableOfContents macro
3527 * config.title1, config.title2, config.page_footer1,
3528 config.page_footer2 can now be callables and will be called with
3529 the "request" object as a single argument (note that you should
3530 accept any keyword arguments in order to be compatible to future
3532 * "config.html_pagetitle" allows you to set a specific HTML page
3533 title (if not set, it defaults to "config.sitename")
3534 * navi_bar / quicklinks can now contain free-form links, i.e.
3535 entries of the form "[url linktext]" just like in wiki pages
3536 * if a quick link starts with '^', it opens in a new window; help
3537 now opens in a new window also
3538 * `config.smileys` for user-defined smileys (default: `{}`) - a dict
3539 with the markup as the key and a tuple of width, height, border, image
3541 * `config.hosts_deny` to forbid access based on IP address
3542 * `config.mail_login` can be set to username and password separated by
3543 a space, e.g. "username userpass", if you need to use SMTP AUTH
3544 * `config.edit_locking` can be set to None (old behaviour, no
3545 locking), 'warn <timeout mins>' (warn about concurrent edits, but
3546 do not enforce anything), or 'lock <timeout mins>' (strict locking)
3547 * optionally showing a license text on editor page, use:
3548 config.page_license_enabled = 1
3549 Optionally use these to customize what is shown there:
3550 config.page_license_text = "... your text ..."
3551 config.page_license_page = "MyLicensePage"
3552 See the default values in MoinMoin/config.py for details and
3553 override them in moin_config.py, if needed.
3554 * `config.shared_intermap` can be a list of filenames (instead of a
3556 * If you have added your own `SecurityPolicy`, the class interface for
3557 that has changed (see `security.py`).
3559 Authenticaton / Authorization:
3560 * added ACL support, written by Gustavo Niemeyer of Conectiva and
3561 Thomas Waldmann. See HelpOnAccessControlLists for more infos.
3562 You should use MoinMoin/scripts/moin_usercheck.py before activating
3563 ACLs or some users with bad or duplicate accounts might get into
3565 * A user account can be disabled using moin_usercheck.py or
3566 UserPreferences page. Disabling, but keeping it is good for edit
3568 * changed security default: deletion only available to known users
3569 * support for Basic authentication (Apache style: AUTH_TYPE="Basic",
3570 REMOTE_USER="WikiUserName"). If authentication is there, user
3571 will be in ACL class "Trusted".
3572 * support for username / password login
3573 The username / password login will ONLY work, if you define a
3574 password. With an empty password, username / password login is not
3575 allowed due to security reasons. Passwords are stored encrypted
3576 (format similar to Apache SHA) and can also be entered in the
3577 UserPreferences form in this format. When requesting login
3578 information by email, the password is also sent in this encrypted
3579 format (use copy&paste to fill it in the form).
3580 ...?action=userform?uid=<userid> is still possible, so if you have
3581 bookmarks, they will still work). The input field for the ID was
3583 NOTE: using the userid for login purposes is DEPRECATED and might
3584 be removed for better security soon.
3585 * after logging in, you will get a cookie valid until midnight.
3586 The next day, the cookie will expire and you will have to login
3587 again. If you don't want this, you can check the "remember me
3588 forever" option in UserPreferences.
3589 * if the page file is read-only, you get a message (i.e. you can now
3590 protect pages against changes if you're the wiki admin).
3591 Note: you can do that easier using ACLs.
3593 Markup / Macros / Actions:
3594 * RandomQuote macro (and even parses Wiki markup now)
3595 * `[[Navigation]]` macro for slides and subpage navigation
3596 * [[ShowSmileys]] displays ALL smileys, including user-defined ones
3597 * the Include macro has new parameters (from, to, sort, items) and
3598 is able to include more than one page (via a regex pattern)
3599 * `MailTo` macro for adding spam-safe email links to a page
3600 * if a fancy link starts with '^' (i.e. if it has the form
3601 "[^http:... ...]"), it's opened in a new window
3602 * because of that, the NewWindow macro was removed from contrib
3603 * "#pragma section-numbers 2" only displays section numbers for
3604 headings of level 2 and up (similarly for 3 to 6)
3605 * ../SubPageOfParent links
3609 * Page creation shows LikePages that already exist
3610 * editor shows the current size of the page
3611 * editor returns to including page when editing an included page
3612 * Visual indication we're on the editor page (new CSS style)
3613 * selection to add categories to a page in the editor (use preview
3614 button to add more than one category)
3615 * if user has a homepage, a backup of save/preview text is saved as
3616 a subpage UsersHomePage/MoinEditorBackup
3617 * added "revert" link to PageInfo view (which makes DeletePage more
3618 safe in public wikis, since you can easily revive deleted pages
3620 * Selection for logged in users (i.e. no bots) to extend the listing
3621 of recent changes beyond the default limits
3622 * Activated display of context for backlinks search
3623 * Subscriber list shown on page info
3624 * LikePages shows similar pages (using difflib.get_close_matches)
3625 * last edit action is stored into "last-edited" file, and
3626 displayed in the page footer
3627 * reciprocal footnote linking (definition refers back to reference)
3628 * "Ex-/Include system pages" link for title index
3629 Note: system/help pages algorithm is still mostly broken.
3630 * list items set apart by empty lines are now also set apart
3631 visually (by adding the CSS class "gap" to <li>)
3632 * "save" check for security.Permissions
3633 * Added Spanish, Croatian and Danish system texts
3634 * Added flag icons for the languages supported in "i18n"
3635 * updated help and system pages, more translations, see also
3637 * there was quite some work done on wiki xmlrpc v1 and v2 - it
3638 basically works now.
3640 Tools and other changes:
3641 * moin-dump: New option "--page"
3642 * there are some scripts MoinMoin/scripts/* using wiki xmlrpc for
3643 backup and wiki page copying applications
3644 * Updated the XSLT parser to work with 4Suite 1.0a1
3645 * more infos in cgi tracebacks
3646 * UPDATE.html is a HTML version of MoinMaster:HelpOnUpdating
3648 Unfinished or experimental features:
3649 * user defined forms
3650 * XML export of all data in the wiki
3651 * RST parser (you need to install docutils to use this)
3655 * do not use / display user's email address in public places
3658 * Removed two cross-site scripting vulnerabilities reported by "office"
3661 * Bugfix for PageList when no arguments are given
3662 * Disallow full-text searches with too short search terms
3663 * [ 566094 ] TitleIndex now supports grouping by Hangul Syllables
3664 * fix for multibyte first char in TitleIndex
3665 * Footnotes were not HTML escaped
3666 * Numbered code displays are now in a table so that you can cut the
3667 code w/o the numbers
3668 * Bugfix for wrong mail notifications
3669 * Create unique anchors for repeated titles
3670 * [ 522246 ] Transparently recode localized messages
3671 * [ 685003 ] Using "preview" button when editing can lose data
3672 * use gmtime() for time handling
3673 * fixed negative gmtime() arguments
3674 * [[Include]] accepts relative page names
3675 * fixed ||NotInterWiki:||...||
3677 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3678 Version 1.0 (2002-05-10, Revision 1.159)
3680 THIS IS THE LAST RELEASE WITH PYTHON 1.5.2 SUPPORT! If severe bugs
3681 should occur, a maintenance release will fix them.
3683 Some optional features (like statistics) already require Python 2.0.
3686 * security fix: "allow_xslt" has to be set to 1 in order to enable
3687 XSLT processing; note that this defaults to 0 because XSLT is able
3688 to insert arbitrary HTML into a wiki
3689 * "action=content" for transclusion into static web pages; emits the
3690 pure page content, without any <html>, <head>, or <body> tags
3691 * "?action=links&mimetype=text/plain" works like MeatBall:LinkDatabase
3692 * "Preferred language" and "Quick links" user settings
3693 * Added "processor" concept, processors work on the data in "code
3694 displays" and are called by a bangpath in the first line of data
3695 * Processors: Colorize, CSV (see HelpOnProcessors)
3696 * New icons: "{OK}", "(./)", "{X}", "{i}", "{1}", "{2}" and "{}"
3698 * FullSearch now displays context information for search hits
3699 * DeletePage offers a textentry field for an optional comment
3700 * Email notifications are sent in the user's language, if known from
3702 * @PAGE@ is substituted by the name of the current page (useful
3705 Unfinished features:
3706 * user defined forms
3707 * XML export of all data in the wiki
3708 * RST parser (you need to install docutils to use this)
3712 * Syntax warning with Python 2.2 fixed
3713 * Macro-generated pagelinks are no longer added to the list of links
3714 * error codes returned by "diff" are reported
3715 * fix for attachments on pages with non-USASCII names
3716 * correct handling of spaces in attachment filenames and URLs
3718 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3719 Version 0.11 (2002-03-11, Revision 1.151)
3721 Most important new features: file attachments, definition list markup
3722 (glossaries), change notification via email, variable substitution when
3723 saving pages, edit preview, and improved documentation.
3725 Note that the RSS features require a recent PyXML (CVS or 0.7) due to
3726 bugs in the namespace handling of xml.sax.saxutils in earlier versions.
3727 This is (hopefully) automatically detected on every installation.
3729 Statistical features are NOT designed to work with Python 1.5.2 and
3730 require Python 2.0 or higher. Overall, MoinMoin 0.11 is not explicitely
3731 tested for 1.5.2 compatibility.
3734 * XML formatting now (most often) produces well-formed, and, depending
3735 on proper layout of the wiki page, valid StyleBook XML
3736 * Headers are now automatically numbered, unless you set the config
3737 item 'show_section_numbers' to 0
3738 * "#pragma section-numbers off" (or "0") switches that off explicitely,
3739 and "on" or "1" enables numbering
3740 * Added a "contributions" directory for 3rd party extensions
3741 * AttachFile action, contributed by Ken Sugino; note that you have
3742 to enable this action because of the possibility of DoS attacks
3743 (malicious uploads), by adding this to your moin_config:
3744 allowed_actions = ['AttachFile']
3745 * "attachment:" URL scheme allows access to attachments, to get files
3746 from other pages use "attachment:WikiName/filename.ext".
3747 * New macros: Date(unixtimestamp) and DateTime(unixtimestamp) to
3748 display a timestamp according to system/user settings
3749 * Variable substitution when a page is saved, note that saving
3750 template pages does NOT expand variables. Supported are:
3751 @DATE@ Current date in the system's format
3752 @TIME@ Current date and time in the user's format
3753 @USERNAME@ Just the user's name (or his domain/IP)
3754 @USER@ Signature "-- loginname"
3755 @SIG@ Dated Signature "-- loginname date time"
3756 @MAILTO@ A fancy mailto: link with the user's data
3757 * Copied some new emoticons from PikiePikie
3758 || {{{ :-? }}} || :-? || tongue.gif ||
3759 || {{{ :\ }}} || :\ || ohwell.gif ||
3760 || {{{ >:> }}} || >:> || devil.gif ||
3761 || {{{ %) }}} || %) || eyes.gif ||
3762 || {{{ @) }}} || @) || eek.gif ||
3763 || {{{ |) }}} || |) || tired.gif ||
3764 || {{{ ;)) }}} || ;)) || lol.gif ||
3765 * AbandonedPages macro
3766 * Added definition list markup: {{{<whitespace>term:: definition}}}
3767 * Added email notification features contributed by Daniel Sa� * SystemInfo: show "Entries in edit log"
3768 * Added "RSS" icon to RecentChanges macro and code to generate a
3769 RecentChanges RSS channel, see
3770 http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?UnifiedRecentChanges
3772 * Added config.sitename and config.interwikiname parameter
3773 * Better WikiFarm support:
3774 * <datadir>/plugin/macro and <datadir>/plugin/action can be used
3775 to store macros and actions local to a specific wiki instance
3776 * config.shared_intermap can contain a pathname to a shared
3777 "intermap.txt" file (i.e. one stored outside the datadir)
3778 * added `backtick` shortcut for {{{inline literal}}} (has to be
3779 enabled by "backtick_meta=1" in the config file); note that ``
3780 is then a shorter replacement for '''''' escaping
3781 * added inline search fields (at the bottom of each page)
3782 * Added preview to the editor, including spell checking
3783 * New languages: Chinese (Changzhe Han) and Portuguese (Jorge
3784 Godoy), updated French (Lucas Bruand), added Korean (Hye-Shik
3785 Chang) and Italian (Lele Gaifax)
3786 * New SystemAdmin macro
3787 * `[[Anchor(anchorname)]]` macro to insert anchors into a page,
3788 and [#anchorname Anchor Links].
3789 * User option to open editor view via a double-click
3790 * Added commentary field to editor, recent changes and page info
3791 * Page trails (user option)
3792 * UserPreferences: checkboxes for double-click edit, page trail,
3793 fancy links, emoticons, jump to last page visited, and some
3794 other yes/no options
3795 * "config.nonexist_qm" is now the default for a user setting
3796 * `[[GetText(text)]]` macro loads I18N texts (mainly intended
3797 for use on Help pages)
3798 * table attributes via "||<attrlist> ... ||", more details on
3799 http://purl.net/wiki/moin/HelpOnTables
3800 * PythonFaq interwiki tag and support for $PAGE placeholder
3801 * event logging, as the basis for future statistics
3802 * "moin-dump" command line tool to create a static copy of
3804 * "config.external_diff" allows to set an exact path to the
3805 command, or change the name to for example "gdiff" if GNU
3806 diff is not a native command in your UNIX flavour
3807 * `[[PageSize]]` macro
3808 * the interwiki name "Self" now always points to the own wiki
3809 * config.title1 and config.title2 are inserted into the output
3810 right before and after the system title html code (title1
3811 is right after the <body> tag and normally undefined, title2
3812 defaults to the "<hr>" above the page contents)
3813 * Additional link on diff pages to ignore whitespace changes
3814 * Subpages (config.allow_subpages, config.page_icons_up)
3815 * super^script^, sub,,script,, and __underline__ markup
3816 * `[[FootNote]]` macro
3817 * many other new config options, see HelpOnConfiguration for
3819 * [[StatsChart(type)]] shows statistical charts (currently
3820 defined types: hitcounts, pagesize, useragents)
3821 * 'inline:' scheme works like 'attachment:', but tries to
3822 inline the content of the attachment into the page;
3823 currently knows about "*.py" sources and colorizes them
3824 * support for Java applet "TWikiDrawPlugin" via
3825 drawing:<drawingname> URL scheme (you need to activate
3826 the AttachFile action if you want drawings)
3827 * numeric entities (&#nnnnn;) are now optionally NOT escaped,
3828 which allows you to insert more characters into a Latin-1
3829 page, especially the Euro symbol
3830 * navi_bar is now a list of page names which should be linked
3832 * test.cgi is now rolled into moin.cgi, and can be called
3833 by adding "?test" to the wiki base URL. Also, as a security
3834 feature, the server's environment is only shown for requests
3835 local to the web server.
3837 Unfinished features:
3838 * user defined forms
3839 * XML export of all data in the wiki
3842 * extended the online help ("Help*" pages)
3843 * German help pages (thanks to Thomas Waldmann)
3846 * #425857: python Parser bug on the second call
3847 * #424917: Caching control
3848 * #465499: Two HTTPS problems
3849 * #491155: FrontPage hardcoded
3850 * Handling of inbound UTF-8 encoded URIs (only with Python >= 2.0)
3851 * Fix for subtle changes in "re" of Python 2.2
3852 * User-provided URLs are now never URL-escaped, which allows appending
3853 #anchors and using %20 for spaces in InterWiki links
3855 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3856 Version 0.10 (2001-10-28, Revision 1.134)
3858 This version is still Python 1.5.2 compatible, but it's not extensively
3859 tested for that version and some parts of the system might not work
3860 there, especially seldom used macros and actions. Bug reports welcome!
3863 * "#deprecated" processing instruction
3864 * config entry "SecurityPolicy" to allow for customized permissions
3865 (see "security.py" for more)
3866 * added distutils support
3867 * though not extensively tested, the standalone server now does POST
3868 requests, i.e. you can save pages; there are still problems with
3869 persistent global variables! It only works for Python >= 2.0.
3870 * "bang_meta" config variable and "!NotWikiWord" markup
3871 * "url_mappings" config variable to dynamically change URL prefixes
3872 (especially useful in intranets, when whole trees of externally
3873 hosted documents move around)
3874 * setting "mail_smarthost" and "mail_from" activates mailing
3875 features (sending login data on the UserPreferences page)
3876 * very useful for intranet developer wikis, a means to view pydoc
3877 documentation, formatted via a XSLT stylesheet, for details see
3878 http://purl.net/wiki/python/TeudViewer?module=MoinMoin.macro.TeudView
3879 or MoinMoin/macro/TeudView.py
3880 * "LocalSiteMap" action by Steve Howell <showell@zipcon.com>
3881 * Added FOLDOC to intermap.txt
3884 * Full config defaults, import MoinMoin now works w/o moin_config.py
3885 * Better control over permissions with config.umask
3886 * Bugfix for a UNIX time billenium bug (affecting RecentChanges
3887 sorting and page diffs)
3888 * data paths with directory names containing dots caused problems
3890 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3891 Version 0.9 (2001-05-07)
3894 * XML page input (pages that start with "<?xml") and XSLT formatting
3895 * Page caching, for now limited to XSLT processing (where it's
3896 absolutely needed); new code & API to add the "RefreshCache" link
3897 * Selection of common date/time formats in UserPreferences
3898 * New action "titleindex" to support wiki introspection (MetaWiki);
3899 see the new links below the index bar in "TitleIndex"
3900 * UserPreferences: editable CSS URL for personal styles
3901 * PageInfo: the editor's name or IP is shown for each change
3902 * WantedPages: a new macro that lists links to non-existent pages
3903 * OrphanedPages: a new macro that lists pages no other page links to
3904 * Extensions to the FullSearch macro (see HelpOnMacros)
3905 * Python syntax highlighting
3906 * "DeletePage" action (has to be activated, see MoinMoinFaq)
3907 * "Remove trailing whitespace from each line" option in the editor
3908 * I18N (currently German and Swedish)
3909 * Config option "url_schemas" to extend the supported URL types
3910 * Improved tracebacks by using Ka-Ping's "cgitb"
3913 * The editor now sends a "no-cache" HTTP header
3914 * "PageList" results are now sorted
3915 * New config parameter "html_head_queries": send additional header
3916 for all pages EXCEPT the "normal" view; main usage is to have
3917 only the normal pages indexed by a spider, not the edit, print,
3918 etc. views (which cause multiple hits on the same information)
3919 * Store the modification time of the page file in the editlog, not
3920 the current time when the log entry is created
3922 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3923 Version 0.8 (2001-01-23)
3926 * Page templates (create a new page using a template page, by Richard)
3927 * Pluggable actions (by Richard)
3928 * Added "diff since bookmark"
3929 * Only "normal" URLs (outside of brackets) are converted to inline images
3930 * Show number of backups in SystemInfo macro
3931 * Show info on installed extension macros and actions
3932 * New macro: [[BR]] for line breaks
3933 * New action "LikePages" (again, Richard)
3934 * Highlighting of search results, and of bad words when spellchecking
3935 * Support for "file:" URLS
3936 * "SpellCheck" action (Richard, me, and Christian)
3937 * [[Include]] macro (you guessed it, Richard)
3940 * Update bookmark with load time, not click time
3941 * Changed CSS styles to better suit Netscape's broken handling of CSS
3943 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3944 Version 0.7 (2000-12-06)
3947 * RecentChanges bookmarking
3951 * Non-greedy extended WikiNames
3953 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3954 Version 0.6 (2000-12-04)
3957 * [[UserPreferences]] macro and associated functions
3958 * [[TableOfContents]] macro
3959 * Mechanism for external macros (user extensions)
3960 * Numbered list types and start offsets
3963 * Search dialogs did not work on the FrontPage
3964 * Add newline to text if last line has none (better diffs)
3966 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3967 Version 0.5 (2000-11-17)
3970 * Major refactoring: code is now broken up into modules within the
3972 * Diagnosis of installation via a "test.cgi" script
3974 * "#format" processing instruction
3976 * [[RandomPage]] and [[RandomPage(number)]] macro
3977 * configurable footer ("page_footer1" and "page_footer2")
3978 * "#redirect" processing instruction
3981 * Bugfix for broken CGI environment of IIS/4.0
3982 * URLs and InterWiki links are now less greedy (punctuation at the end
3983 is excluded, and "<" ends them, too)
3985 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3986 Version 0.4 (2000-11-01)
3989 * Table markup "||a||b||c||"
3990 * Headlines "= H1 =", "== H2 ==", and so on up to H5
3991 * [[PageCount]] macro
3992 * Added [[Icon(image)]] macro and macro arguments
3993 * [[PageList(title-regex)]] macro
3994 * New help system (set of help pages describing all features)
3997 * Create complete URL for "Clear message" link
3998 * Inline code spans needed cgi.escape
3999 * Better fix for Python 1.6 "re" problems
4000 * Fix for uppercase extensions in inline images ("foo.JPG")
4001 * Fixed colspan in RecentChanges
4002 * HR size is now limited to 8
4003 * "}" ends an URL pattern (fixes URLs right at the end of code displays)
4005 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4006 Version 0.3 (2000-10-25)
4009 * Check for inline images with InterWiki links (Spam:eggs.gif)
4010 * New config variable "allow_extended_names", which enables markup for
4011 wiki names containing ANY character like this: ["any chars"]
4012 * New config variable "html_head"
4013 * New macro [[SystemInfo]]
4014 * Added inline code ("{{{" and "}}}" on the same line)
4015 * Support for new config variable "max_macro_size"
4018 * Don't treat sequences with a double colon (CPP::Namespace) as an
4020 * The local part of InterWiki links is now correctly URL-escaped
4021 * Quickfix for a bug in 1.6's regular expressions
4022 * Fixed "SpamSpamSpam" bug (multiple entries in word list)
4023 * Anchor names get quoted in WordIndex and TitleIndex
4024 * Filtering of filenames in page_list() corrected
4025 * Escape &, <, > when sending the editor
4026 * Final(?) fix for japanese wiki names
4028 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4029 Version 0.2 (2000-08-26)
4032 * When saving, a datestamp saved in the form and that of the file are
4033 compared now; so, accidently saving over changes of other people is
4034 not possible anymore (saving still needs file locking though, for
4036 * if the directory "backup" exists in the data dir, pages are saved
4037 there before a new version is written to disk
4038 * Removed the "Reset" button from EditPage
4039 * Added "Reduce editor size" link
4040 * Added Latin-1 WikiNames (JürgenHermann ;)
4041 * Speeded up RecentChanges by looking up hostnames ONCE while saving
4042 * Show at most 14 (distinct) days in RecentChanges
4043 * Added icons for common functions, at the top of the page
4044 * Added a printing preview (no icons, etc.)
4045 * Added bracketed (external) URLs
4046 * Added support for quoted URLs ("http://...")
4047 * Added styles for :visited links to CSS
4048 * Embed image if an URL ends in .gif/.jpg/.png
4049 * No markup detection in code sections
4050 * Grey background for code sections
4051 * Added handling for numbered lists
4052 * the edit textarea now grows in width with the browser window
4053 (thanks to Sebastian Dau�for that idea)
4054 * Added page info (revision history) and viewing of old revisions
4055 * Added page diff, and diff links on page info
4056 * Added InterWiki support (use "wiki:WikiServer/theirlocalname"; the list
4057 of WikiServers is read from "data/intermap.txt")
4058 * Added "normal" InterWiki links
4059 * Added "action=raw" to send the raw wiki markup as text/plain (e.g. for
4060 backup purposes via wget)
4063 * Removed an exception when saving empty pages
4064 * Fixed bold nested into emphasis ('''''Bold''' Italic'')
4066 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4067 Version 0.1 (2000-07-29)
4069 Improvements over PikiPiki 1.62:
4070 * Moved configuration to "moin_config.py"
4071 * Added "edit_rows" setting
4072 * Added navigation bar
4073 * Improved HTML formatting
4074 * Added timing comment (page created in xx secs)
4075 * ISO date and time formats by default
4076 * Formatted RecentChanges with HTML tables
4077 * Uppercase letters for the index pages
4078 * Added PythonPowered logo
4081 * Javadoc comments now get formatted properly in {{{ }}} sections
4082 * Remove \r from submitted pages (so we get PORTABLE wiki files)
4083 * chmod(0666) eases manual changes to the data dir
4085 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------