1 MoinMoin Version History
2 ========================
4 Please note: Starting from the MoinMoin version you used previously, you
5 should read all more recent entries (or at least everything marked with HINT).
8 already better than the previous stable release. Our release policy is not
9 trying to make a "perfect release" (as that release might NEVER get released),
10 but to make progress and don't delay releases too much.
14 * The GUI WYSIWYG editor has still some issues and limitations.
15 If you can't live with those, you can simply switch it off by using:
17 editor_default = 'text' # internal default, just for completeness
22 * Fixed major security issues in misc. actions.
23 HINT: if you have removed superuser configuration to workaround the issue
24 (following our security advisory), you may re-add it after installing this
26 * Improved package security: cfg.packagepages_actions_excluded excludes
27 unsafe or otherwise questionable package actions by default now.
28 * wiki parser: fixed transclusion of (e.g. video) attachments from other
30 * Fixed edit locking for non-logged in editors and cfg.log_remote_addr=False.
32 * Process attachname in get/putAttachment similarly.
33 * revertPage: convert pagename to internal representation.
34 * Fixed config.umask usage for page packages.
35 * Fixed usage of i18n.wikiLanguages() on class level (moved to method), failed
36 when tools import the module (e.g. pydoc -k foo).
37 * SubProcess: fixed win32-specific parts, fixed imports (fixes calling of
38 external xapian index filters)
43 * Xapian indexing / indexing filters:
44 * fix deadlocks with well- and misbehaving external filters
45 * work around indexing run crashing when encountering encoding problems
46 with non-ascii filenames
47 * OpenOffice/OpenDocument filters: catch UnicodeDecodeErrors (happens
48 with password protected files)
49 * i18n: check if languages is not initialized yet, don't crash
50 * http_redirect: use 301 redirect for some cases
51 * do not use httponly session cookies, makes trouble with twikidraw and ACLs
52 * GetText2 macro: fix for named placeholder
53 * Fix SHA -> SSHA password hash upgrade for old user profiles.
54 * abort RenamePage if renaming of main page fails (do not try to rename
58 * search: improve search result ordering
59 * add MS Powerpoint indexing filter (needs catppt from catdoc package)
60 * migration scripts: make finding damaged edit-log entries easier
61 * SubscribeUser action: support username regexes and unsubscribing.
62 Usage (enter this into the input form field you get after invoking
63 SubscribeUser action from the "More Actions" menu:
64 [+|-][re:]username[,username,...]
66 +username: subscribes user <username> (+ is optional/default)
67 -username: unsubscribes user <username>
68 +re:username_re: subscribes users who match <username_re> regex.
69 -re:username_re: unsubscribes users who match <username_re> regex.
74 * Attachment links: fix processing of attributes (e.g. 'target', 'title')
75 * Upgrade FCKeditor from 2.6.4 to 2.6.4.1.
76 * PDF embedding: fix html, works better with PDF browser plugins now.
77 * Fix typo in rightsidebar CSS.
78 * Action revert: avoids reverting to a deleted current revision.
79 * Action diff: enable prev/next button only in the range of given revisions.
80 * Add a Auto-Submitted: auto-generated header to generated mails.
81 * Include comment in email notifies.
82 * mailimport: fix endless looping while trying to import a forwarded mail.
83 * fuid: keep same fake_mtime for intervals of max_staleness duration.
84 * Fixes a bug with empty list items in the GUI editor.
85 * Improve filesys.rename compatibility code (win32).
86 * Fix locking for CacheEntry.
87 * Xapian indexing: catch exception when a bad zip file is encountered.
88 * openidrp / botbouncer: fix param count for CancelLogin().
91 * Added CAS authentication.
92 * Added httponly cookie support and use it for session cookie.
95 * HTTP auth: added debug logging.
96 * Minor LDAP auth improvements.
97 * Data browser widget:
98 * Add (h)column<idx> css class to make it styleable.
99 * Include only necessary autofilter options.
100 * moin maint cleancache purges now drafts, too.
101 * Add gopher and apt protocols to url_schemas.
102 * Add .csv, .flv, .swf to MIMETYPES_MORE.
107 * ACL security: fix bug in hierarchical ACL processing, more restrictive
108 sub page ACLs did not work if the current user name did not give a match
109 within the sub page ACL (instead, the less restrictive parent page ACL
111 Non-hierarchical ACL processing (the default) is NOT affected.
112 * Creole parser: fix spaces in multiline elements.
113 * Use msie.css only for Internet Explorer older than version 8, fixes
114 e.g. the double rendering of link icons.
115 * http auth: do auth_type comparisons case-insensitively (spec-compliant)
118 * EmbedObject macro: changed default width value for PDF files to 100%
119 (use a recent Adobe Reader to make this work).
120 * CopyPage action: added a TextCha for it
123 * Creole parser: Add second license: BSD
127 * AttachFile XSS fixes: move escaping to error_msg / upload_form
128 * AttachFile move: add more escaping (maybe not XSS exploitable though)
129 * email attachments import with xapian indexing enabled: fix AttributeError
130 * fix wrong links in attachment notifications
131 * AttachFile do=view: quote filename and pagename params for EmbedObject
133 * AttachFile: fix exception when someone just clicks on upload, without
135 * ldap_login: use None as default value for ssl certs/keys (using '' for
136 the pathes lets it fail with Connect Error)
137 * release edit lock if someone saves an unchanged page
138 * fix sendmail.encodeAddress (do not [QP] encode blanks, do not un-
139 necessarily use [QP] encoding for pure ascii mail addresses)
140 * Fixed docs bug: see HINT about secrets configuration at version 1.8.0
141 (1.8.0 Other changes).
142 * backup action: add 'self' dummy argument for backup_exclude function
143 * login action: fix formatting of error messages
144 * unsubscribe action: add msg types so icons get displayed
145 * fix quoting for pagehits stats (info action) - was not working for pagenames with blanks
149 * added modernized_cms theme
150 * use url_prefix_fckeditor if you don't want to use the builtin FCKeditor
151 of moin, but a separate one at some specific url
152 * action.Load: added textcha feature
153 * add mumble protocol (nice and good quality F/OSS VOIP conference chat sw)
154 * ldap auth: new name_callback param to create a custom wiki username (not
155 the ldap login username).
158 * add compatibility code for set to xapwrap.index (fix py 2.6 warnings)
159 * wikiutil: MIMETYPES_MORE extended for .md5 as text/plain
164 * Fix AttachFile and antispam XSS issues.
165 * Modernized, modern and rightsidebar themes: make nonexistent or
166 badinterwiki links gray also when they are already visited.
167 * Fix anchor parsing for interwiki links and #redirect processing
169 * user.apply_recovery_token: key must be of type string (for Python 2.6).
171 * Fix autofilter javascript breakage caused by including a databrowser
173 * Use per-wiki i18n cache (fixes wrong links to other farm wikis).
174 * Made cfg.interwikiname and cfg.user_homewiki unicode objects (str only
175 worked for ascii names).
176 * Xapian search: fixed historysearch.
177 * Xapian search indexing:
178 * Fix index updating for trivial changes.
179 * With history search enabled and in update mode, do not try to re-index
180 old page revisions again.
181 * With history search enabled, index page attachments only once.
182 * Fix last modified time of xapian index (shown on SystemInfo page).
183 * Make logging handlers defined in logging.handlers work (e.g.
184 class=handlers.RotatingFileHandler)
185 * Jabber notifications:
186 * Use an RFC compliant message type.
187 * Fix user creation notifications.
188 * OpenID: Compatibility fix for python-openid 2.x.x (also works with
189 1.x.x), fixes crash when trying to associate moin user to OpenID.
190 * Have a wikiserverconfig.py in wiki/server/ so setup.py copies it.
191 * Fixed inconsistent handling of fragments / anchor IDs:
192 * Fixed creole and wiki parser, other parsers might need similar fixes.
193 * IDs with blanks, non-ASCII chars etc. are now sanitized in the same way
194 for links as well as for link targets, so the user editing a page won't
195 have to bother with it.
196 E.g. [[#123 foo bar]] will link to:
197 * <<Anchor(123 foo bar)>> (moin) or {{#123 foo bar}} (creole)
198 * headline = 123 foo bar = (moin / creole)
199 Simple rule: if the link and the target are consistent, it should work.
200 * The creole wiki parser created non-human-readable sha1 heading IDs
201 before 1.8.2, now it creates same (sometimes readable) heading IDs as
202 the moin wiki parser.
203 * TitleIndex/WordIndex now also use IDs sanitized in that way internally.
204 HINT: if you manually worked around the inconsistencies/bugs before, you
205 likely have to remove those workarounds now. Same thing if you used
206 creole's sha1 heading IDs or IDs on TitleIndex/WordIndex.
209 * Updated FCKeditor to 2.6.4 (== many bug fixes in the GUI editor).
210 * Enhanced privacy by a new setting: cfg.log_remote_addr (default: True),
211 it controls whether moin logs the remote's IP/hostname to edit-log and
212 event-log. Use log_remote_addr = False to enhance privacy.
213 * Streamline attachment_drawing formatter behaviour.
214 * Search results: only redirect to a single search result for titlesearch
215 (fuzzy goto functionality), but not for fulltext search results.
220 * Workaround win32 locking problems (caused by spurious access denied
221 exceptions on that platform).
222 * Fix unicode errors that happened when password checker failed a password
223 * WikiConfig/WikiConfigHelp: fixed wrong language table headings
224 * Themes: make the margins around trail line work properly
225 * "modernized" theme:
226 * make broken links gray
227 * add new right/center/left/justify css classes
229 * Standalone server: be more specific when catching socket exceptions,
230 treat socket errors in http header emission in the same way.
232 * Fix heading levels when inserting new headings.
233 * Fix headers already sent exception when using e.g. edit LOCKing.
234 * Xapian indexing: fixed missing import for execfilter (only happened on
235 non-posix platforms like win32)
239 * Make the TOC shrinkwrap, add white background to navigation macro.
240 The table of contents looked bad spanning the whole width of the page.
241 It's made to shrinkwrap now, so it will only get as wide, as the longest
242 heading. We use display:inline-table, so this won't work in MS IE6,
243 which still displays it the old way.
244 Navigation macro now has a white background, to make it more readable
245 when it's floating over a pre block or TOC.
246 * Make the numbers in lists in table of contents right-aligned.
247 * Refactored and extended theme.html_stylesheets() to make alternate
248 stylesheets possible. Stylesheet definitions now can either be:
249 2-tuples: (media, href) # backwards compatibility
251 3-tuples: (media, href, title) # new, for defining alternate stylesheets
252 This works within themes as well as in the wiki config.
253 See also: http://www.w3.org/Style/Examples/007/alternatives.html
257 Note: This is a reduced CHANGES, ommitting details from rc/beta test and
258 also less interesting minor changes and fixes. It shows changes
259 relative to 1.7.2 release.
260 If you want to see full detail, read it there:
261 http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/1.8/file/6130eab15936/docs/CHANGES
263 New Features: ==============================================================
264 * HINT: New "modernized" theme - if you use "modern" [default], try:
265 theme_default = 'modernized'
266 If you find problems with "modernized", please report them because we
267 want to use it as default theme in future.
269 * upgraded to use FCKEditor version 2.6.3
270 * user can insert and modify various types of MoinMoin links
271 * New plugin_dirs setting to allow multiple plugin pathes (additional to
272 the automatically configured plugin_dir [default: data_dir/plugin]).
273 * @EMAIL@ expands to a MailTo macro call with the obfuscated email address
275 * New macros "WikiConfig" and "WikiConfigHelp".
276 * Per-parser quickhelp, 'quickhelp' class variable of parser class.
277 * Secure session cookies for https (see cfg.cookie_secure).
278 * Added left/center/right/justify css classes to builtin themes.
281 this content is justified....
284 Removed Features: ==========================================================
285 * HINT: url_prefix setting (use url_prefix_static or just use the default)
286 * traceback_log_dir setting (we just use logging.exception)
287 * editor_quickhelp setting (replaced by per-parser quickhelp)
288 * Restoring backups with the backup action and related settings (while
289 creating backups is no big issue and should work OK, restoring them
290 had fundamental issues related to overwriting or not-overwriting of
291 existing files - thus we removed the "restore" part of the action and
292 recommend that you just contact the wiki server admin in case of trouble,
293 give him your wiki backup file and let him carefully restore it.)
294 * Removed unmaintained DesktopEdition (moin 1.5.x style) and phpwiki
295 migration scripts from contrib/ directory.
297 Bug Fixes: =================================================================
298 * GUI Editor - fixed lots of bugs.
299 * Fixing https detection for servers using HTTPS=1 and also for WSGI
300 servers not using HTTPS/SSL_ environment, but just wsgi.url_scheme.
301 * Search results: link to 'view' rendering of found attachments.
302 * Standalone server: fix serverClass and interface argument processing,
303 announce used serverClass in log output.
304 * mointwisted: fixed Twisted start script.
306 * Use logging framework for messages emitted by warnings module (e.g.
307 DeprecationWarning), silence some specific warnings.
308 * Removed superfluous linefeeds in timing log output.
310 * Fixed editbar hidden comment link cosmetics for sidebar themes (hide the
311 complete list element).
313 action, if the wiki does not run in the root url of the site)
314 * Fixed backup action configuration (broke on win32).
316 * SyncPages: add workaround for callers calling log_status with encoded
318 * Fixed dbw_hide_buttons javascript.
319 * HINT: Jabber bot can now be configured to use an authentication realm
320 which is different from the server's hostname; the xmpp_node
321 configuration parameter can now contain a full JID and the xmpp_resource
322 parameter is no longer supported.
324 Other Changes: =============================================================
325 * HINT: new configuration for misc. secrets, please use either:
326 secrets = "MySecretLooongString!" # one secret for everything
329 'xmlrpc/ProcessMail': 'yourmailsecret', # for mailimport
330 'xmlrpc/RemoteScript': 'yourremotescriptsecret',
331 'action/cache': 'yourcachesecret', # unguessable cache keys
332 'wikiutil/tickets': 'yourticketsecret', # edit tickets
333 'jabberbot': 'yourjabberbotsecret', # jabberbot communication
335 Secret strings must be at least 10 chars long.
336 Note: mail_import_secret setting is gone, use
337 secrets["xmlrpc/ProcessMail"] instead of it.
338 Note: jabberbot secret setting is gone, use
339 secrets["jabberbot"] instead of it.
340 * HINT: user_autocreate setting was removed from wiki configuration and
341 replaced by a autocreate=<boolean> parameter of the auth objects that
342 support user profile auto creation.
343 * moin import irclog: use irssi parser to format logs, mapped .irc
344 extension to text/plain mimetype.
345 * HINT: backup action: backup_exclude (default: "do not exclude anything")
346 is now a function f(filename) that tells whether a file should be
347 excluded from backup.
348 You can get the old regex exclusion functionality by using:
349 backup_exclude = re.compile(your_regex).search
350 Be careful with your regex, you might need to use re.escape() to escape
351 characters that have a special meaning in regexes (e.g.: \.[] etc.).
352 If in doubt, maybe just leave backup_exclude at the default and don't
354 * Speed up javascript comments processing on IE by getElementsByClassName()
355 * Added sk (slovak) i18n, updated i18n.
360 * Secure session cookies for https, see cfg.cookie_secure.
361 * Add left/center/right/justify classes to builtin themes.
364 * Python 2.3 compatibility fixes.
365 * Fixed https detection for servers using HTTPS=1 and also for wsgi servers
366 not using HTTPS/SSL_ environment, but just wsgi.url_scheme.
368 * Fix crash when editing a page with non-ASCII pagename and inserting a link
369 * Fix "headers already sent exception" with edit LOCKs.
370 * i18n.__init__: Bug fix for wiki language not installed.
371 * Fixed URLs given by sitemap action, if the wiki does not run at / URL.
372 * Search results: link to 'view' rendering of found attachments
374 * Removed superfluous linefeed in timing log output.
375 * Use logging framework for messages emitted by warnings module (e.g.
376 DeprecationWarning), silence some specific warnings.
377 * Fix dbw_hide_buttons javascript.
379 * fix serverClass argument processing
380 * fix --interface="" argument processing
382 * added missing pidFile parameter
383 * better use Config.name for pidFile to avoid conflicts and keep same
384 behaviour as in the past
385 * Jabber bot can now be configured to use an authentication realm which
386 is different from the server's hostname
391 * Fix leakage of edit-log file handles (leaked 1 file handle / request!).
393 * Wiki parser: avoid IndexError for empty #! line
394 * MonthCalendar macro: fix parameter parsing / url generation
395 * Xapian indexing filters (MoinMoin/filter/ or data/plugin/filter/):
396 Some indexing filter scripts (e.g. for MS Word documents or PDF files)
397 failed on windows because of the single-quote quoting we used (that
398 works on Linux and other Posix systems). The fix introduces platform-
399 dependant automatic quoting, using double-quotes on win32 and single-
401 HINT: if you use own filter plugins based on execfilter, you have to
402 update them as the filename quoting (was '%s') is now done automatically
403 and must not be part of the command string any more (now just use %s).
404 See MoinMoin/filter/ for some up-to-date code (esp. the PDF filter).
405 * Prevent CategoryTemplate being listed as a category (it is a Template,
406 but matched also the category regex) - added to sample wikiconfig.
407 * LDAP auth: fix processing of TLS options
408 * UpdateGroup xmlrpc server side: fix wrong arg count error
409 * UpdateGroup client: use multicall / auth_token, refactor code so that
410 updateGroup function is reusable.
411 * Improve Python 2.3 compatibility, add notes where 2.4 is required.
416 * New 'cache' action (see developer notes).
419 * Security fix: XSS fix for advanced search form
420 * Avoid creation of new pagedirs with empty edit-log files by just
421 accessing a non-existant page. If you used 1.7 before, you likely have
422 quite some trash pagedirs now and you can clean them up by using:
423 moin --config-dir=... --wiki-url=... maint cleanpage
424 This will output some shell script (please review it before running!)
425 that can be used to move trash pages into some trash/ directory and also
426 moves deleted pages into some deleted/ directory. Maybe keep a copy of
427 those directories for a while just for the case.
428 * Server specific fixes:
429 * standalone (wikiserver.py): fix --pidfile and --group option, fix
430 operation without a wikiserverconfig.py (use builtin defaults).
431 * mod_python: work around mod_python 3.3.1 problems with file uploads.
432 Note: if you are still using mod_python, we strongly recommend you
433 try out mod_wsgi (in daemon mode) - it has less bugs, better
434 security, better separation, WSGI is a Python standard, and moin
435 developers also use WSGI. See HelpOnInstalling/ApacheWithModWSGI.
436 * revert action: fixed for deleted pages.
438 * Xapian indexing: Removed crappy "hostname" tokenization.
440 Also tokenize CamelCase parts of non-wikiwords.
441 * Make query parser reject more invalid input.
442 * If query parsing raises a BracketError, at least tell what the problem
443 is (and not just raise empty ValueError).
444 * Category search: ignore traling whitespace after ----
446 * Fixed sort() usage in UnitArgument to be Python 2.3 compatible.
449 * TableOfContents: skip outer-most <ol> levels when page isn't using
453 * OpenID RP: make it compatible to python-openid 2.2.x
454 * PackagePages.collectpackage: removed encoding from file name of zipfile
455 * Surge protection: exclude localnet no matter whether user is known or not.
457 * Script moin account create/disable/resetpw: checks for already existing
461 * Prevent CategoryTemplate being listed as a category (it is a Template)
462 by changing the default page_category_regex.
465 * New MoinMoin.action.cache - can be used to cache expensively rendered
466 output, e.g. generated images). Once put into the cache, moin can emit
467 a http response for that content very fast and very efficient (including
468 "304 not changed" handling.
469 * New file-like API in MoinMoin.caching (good for dealing with medium
470 to large files without consuming lots of memory).
471 * wikiutil.importPlugin supports getting the whole plugin module object
472 by giving function=None.
476 Note: This is a reduced CHANGES, ommitting details from rc/beta test and
477 also less interesting minor changes and fixes. It shows changes
478 relative to 1.6.3 release.
479 If you want to see full detail, read it there:
480 http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/1.7/file/76265568e8d3/docs/CHANGES
482 New Features: ==============================================================
483 * HINT: we added generic UPDATE instructions as docs/UPDATE.html.
485 * HINT: Standalone server usage changed:
486 * Standalone server can now be started via the "moin" script command,
487 optionally backgrounding itself.
488 See: moin server standalone --help
489 * In the toplevel dir, we have renamed moin.py to wikiserver.py (it was
490 often confused with the moin scripting command).
492 * wikiserver.py - to start the standalone server
493 * wikiserverconfig.py - to configure the standalone server
494 * wikiserverlogging.conf - to configure logging for it (default config
495 is ok for all day use, but can easily be modified for debugging)
496 * wikiconfig.py - to configure the wiki engine
497 * Removed old moin daemonizing script (replaced by moin server standalone
499 * We now provide the "moin" script command also for people not using
500 setup.py, see wiki/server/moin.
503 * New powerful and flexible logging, please see wiki/config/logging/ -
504 HINT: you have to upgrade your server adaptor script (e.g. moin.cgi)
505 and load a logging configuration that fits your needs from there, or
506 alternatively you can also set MOINLOGGINGCONF environment variable
507 to point at your logging config file.
508 If you use some of our sample logging configs, make sure you have a
509 look INTO them to fix e.g. the path of the logfile it will use.
510 * Moin now logs the path from where it loaded its configuration(s).
512 * Authentication / Sessions:
513 * HINT: New authentication plugin system, see HelpOnAuthentication. If
514 you do not use the builtin default for 'auth' list, you likely have to
515 change your configuration. See wiki/config/snippets/ for some samples.
516 * HINT: New session handling system (no moin_session any more, now done
517 internally and automatically), see HelpOnSessions for details.
518 * Added OpenID client and server support.
519 See: HelpOnAuthentication and HelpOnOpenIDProvider.
520 * cfg.trusted_auth_methods is a list of auth methods that put an
521 authenticated user into the "Trusted" ACL group.
523 * User profiles / password recovery / notification:
524 * New newacount action for creating new user accounts/profiles. If you
525 don't want users creating new accounts on their own, you can add this
526 action to actions_excluded list.
527 * New recoverpass action for password recovery:
528 If you forgot your password, recoverpass sends you an email with a
529 password recovery token (NOT the encrypted password) that is valid
531 * New moin account resetpw script for resetting a user's password by
533 * New preferences plugin system, see MoinMoin/userprefs/__init__.py.
534 * New notification system with an optional jabber notification bot, see
535 HelpOnNotification. HINT: wiki users have to check their notification
536 settings, esp. if they want to receive trivial update notifications.
538 * The diff action now has navigation buttons for prev/next change and also
539 a revert button to revert to the revision shown below the diff display.
540 * ThemeBase: support Universal Edit Button, see there for details:
541 http://universaleditbutton.org/
542 * ?action=info&max_count=42 - show the last 42 history entries of the page.
543 max_count has a default of default_count and a upper limit of
544 limit_max_count - you can configure both in your wiki config:
545 cfg.history_count = (100, 200) # (default_count, limit_max_count) default
546 * The CSV parser can sniff the delimiter from the first CSV line so other
547 delimeters than ";" can be used.
548 * Admonition support. Added styling for tip, note, important, warning
549 and caution in the modern theme. For more info see HelpOnAdmonitions.
551 * supports HTML entities like → and ☃
552 * supports the FootNote macro
553 * supports bulletless lists
554 * support for admonitions
555 * will export the wiki page's edit history as the generated article's
556 revision history. Doesn't add history of included pages.
557 * supports for the MoinMoin comment element, though only inline comments
558 are likely to be valid since the DocBook remark is an inline element.
559 * New Hits macro: shows the total hits for the page it is used on.
561 Removed Features: ==========================================================
562 * HINT: Removed attachments direct serving (cfg.attachments - this was
563 deprecated since long!). Use AttachFile action to serve attachments.
564 * Duplicated file attachment upload code was removed from Load action (just
565 use AttachFile action to deal with attachments).
566 * Removed 'test' action. If you like to run unit tests, use py.test.
567 * Removed Login macro.
569 Bug Fixes: =================================================================
570 * Better handling of ImportErrors (farmconfig, macros, wikiserverconfig).
571 * Fix failure of detection of on-disk cache updates.
572 * Fix traceback in filesys.py on Mac OS X when "import Carbon" fails.
574 * AttachFile action / file up- and download / zip support:
575 * WSGI: use wsgi.file_wrapper (or a builtin simple wrapper). Fixes memory
576 consumption for sending of large file attachments.
577 * FastCGI: flush often. Fixes memory consumption for sending of large
579 * Use the open temporary file for receiving file attachment uploads
580 (fixes big memory consumption for large file uploads).
581 * Catch runtime errors raised by zipfile stdlib modules when trying to
582 process a defective zip.
583 * When unzipping member files, decode their filenames from utf-8 and
584 replace invalid chars.
585 * Make error msg less confusing when trying to overwrite a file attachment
586 without having 'delete' rights.
588 * HINT: page_*_regex processing had to be changed to fix category search.
589 If you don't use the builtin (english) defaults, you will have to change
591 old (default): page_category_regex = u'^Category[A-Z]'
592 new (default): page_category_regex = ur'(?P<all>Category(?P<key>\S+))'
593 As you see, the old regex did work for detecting whether a pagename is
594 a category, but it could not be used to search for a category tag in the
595 page text. The new regex can be used for both and identifies the complete
596 category tag (match in group 'all', e.g. "CategoryFoo") as well as the
597 category key (match in group 'key', e.g. "Foo") by using named regex
598 groups. \S+ means the category key can be anything non-blank.
599 If you like to simultaneously support multiple languages, use something
600 like this: ur'(?P<all>(Kategorie|Category)(?P<key>\S+))'
601 HINT: after changing your configuration, please rebuild the cache:
603 * moin ... maint cleancache
605 If you don't do this, your groups / dicts will stop working (and also
606 your ACLs that use those groups). You better do a test whether it works.
608 * Xapian search / indexing / stemming:
609 * Use text/<format> as mimetype for pages.
610 * Index also major and minor for mimetypes, so it will find 'text' or
611 'plain' as well as 'text/plain'
612 * Fix searching for negative terms.
613 * Improve result list ordering.
614 * Index filters: redirect stderr to logging system.
615 * Remove crappy num regex from WikiAnalyzer, improve tokenization.
616 * Fix AttributeError that happened when trying to access an attribute only
617 used with xapian search (but regex search is not done by xapian)
618 * Fix IndexErrors happening when pages are renamed/nuked after the index
620 * Fixed indexing of WikiWords (index "WikiWords", "Wiki" and "Words").
621 * Fix crash if default language is un-stemmable.
622 * xapian_stemming: removed some strange code (fixes search
623 title:lowercaseword with xapian_stemming enabled)
624 * Fixed category indexing (index CategoryFoo correctly as CategoryFoo, not
625 Foo - for all languages, see page_*_regex change above).
626 * Builtin search: support mimetype: search for pages for the builtin search
627 engine (using text/<format>).
630 * Wiki: fix subscript parsing (was broken for cases like 'a,,1,2,,').
631 * Docbook: fixed detection of WikiWords.
632 * All: Add ssh protocol to url_schemas for ssh:... URLs.
635 * Fix xmlrpc request.read() call to use content-length, if available,
636 fixes hangs with wsgiref server.
637 * Wiki xmlrpc getPageInfoVersion() fixed:
638 * works correctly now for old page versions (was unsupported)
639 * works correctly now for current page version (reported wrong
640 data when a page had attachment uploads after the last page
642 * returns a Fault if it did not find a edit-log entry
644 Other Changes: =============================================================
645 * Using better ACLs and comments on system/help pages now, just taking
646 away 'write' permission, but using default ACLs for everything else.
647 * HINT: If you want to use xapian based indexed search, you need to have
648 Xapian >= 1.0.0 (and you can remove PyStemmer in case you have installed
649 it just for moin - we now use the stemmer built into Xapian as it
650 supports utf-8 since 1.0.0).
651 * Changed default value of cfg.search_results_per_page to 25.
652 * Surge Protection: If a user is authenticated by a trusted authentication
653 (see also cfg.auth_methods_trusted) then he/she won't trigger surge
654 protection, but moin will just log a INFO level log msg with the user's
655 name so you can find the culprit in case he/she is overusing ressources.
656 * HINT: Added MyPages and CopyPage to actions_excluded because MyPages
657 doesn't work without special SecurityPolicy anyway and CopyPage has
658 questionable behaviour.
659 * Load action now just creates a new revision of the target page, the
660 target pagename defaults to the current page name and can be edited.
661 If the target pagename is empty, moin tries to derive the target pagename
662 from the uploaded file's name.
663 Load tries to decode the file contents first using utf-8 coding and, if
664 that fails, it forces decoding using iso-8859-1 coding (and replacing
666 * HINT: cfg.show_login is gone, see code in theme/__init__.py, this may
668 * HINT: a new userprefs/ plugin directory will be created by the usual
669 "moin migration data" command.
671 * generates a valid DOCTYPE
672 * table support has been improved
673 * handling of definitions and glossaries is more robust
674 * supports program language and line numbering in code areas
675 * HINT: ldap_login behaves a bit different now:
676 In previous moin versions, ldap_login tended to either successfully
677 authenticate a user or to completely cancel the whole login process in
678 any other case (including ldap server down or exceptions happening).
679 This made subsequent auth list entries rather pointless.
680 Now it behaves like this:
681 * user not found in LDAP -> give subsequent auth list entries a
682 chance to authenticate the user (same happens if it finds multiple
683 LDAP entries when searching - it logs an additional warning then).
684 * user found, but wrong password -> cancel login
685 * ldap server not reachable or other exceptions -> give subsequent
686 auth list entries a chance
687 So please make sure that you really trust every auth list entry you have
688 configured when upgrading or it might maybe change behaviour in a
689 unexpected or unwanted way.
690 * ldap_login now supports failover: if it can't contact your LDAP server
691 (e.g. because it is down or unreachable), it will just continue and
692 try to authenticate with other authenticators (if there are any in
693 cfg.auth list). So if you have some mirroring LDAP backup server, just
694 put another authenticator querying it there:
695 ldap_auth1 = LDAPAuth(server_uri='ldap://mainserver', ...)
696 ldap_auth2 = LDAPAuth(server_uri='ldap://backupserver', ...)
697 auth = [ldap_auth1, ldap_auth2, ]
699 Developer notes: ===========================================================
700 * Page.last_edit() is DEPRECATED, please use Page.edit_info().
701 * Page._last_edited() is GONE (was broken anyway), please use
702 Page.editlog_entry().
703 * New request.send_file() call, making it possible to use server-specific
705 * getText's (aka _()) 'formatted' keyword param (default: True in 1.6 and
706 early 1.7) was renamed/changed: it is now called 'wiki' and defaults to
707 False. Example calls:
708 _('This will NOT get parsed/formatted by MoinMoin!')
709 _('This will be parsed/formatted by MoinMoin!', wiki=True)
710 _('This will be used as a left side of percent operator. %s',
711 wiki=True, percent=True)
712 * Page.url 'relative' keyword param (default: True in 1.6 and early 1.7)
713 was changed to default False).
714 * The themedict no longer contains 'page_user_prefs' and 'user_prefs',
715 this may affect custom themes.
716 * The rst-parser's admonition class names are no longer prepended with
717 "admonition_". Instead the class names are now for example "note"
718 and not "admonition_note".
723 * Security fix: a check in the user form processing was not working as
724 expected, leading to a major ACL and superuser priviledge escalation
725 problem. If you use ACL entries other than "Known:" or "All:" and/or
726 a non-empty superuser list, you need to urgently install this upgrade.
727 * Security fix: if acl_hierarchic=True was used (False is the default),
728 ACL processing was wrong for some cases, see
730 * For {{transclusion_targets}} we checked the protocol to be http(s),
731 this check was removed (because file: and ftp: should work also) and
732 it's not moin's problem if the user uses silly protocols that can't
733 work for that purpose.
734 * Fixed TableOfContents macro for included pages.
735 * server_fastcgi: added Config.port = None. If you want to use some port
736 (not a fd), you can set it now in your Config, e.g. port = 8888.
737 * category: search matches categories even if there are comment lines
738 between the horizontal rule and the real categories, e.g.:
739 ... some page text ...
741 ## optionally some comments, e.g. about possible categories:
742 ## CategoryJustACommentNotFound
743 CategoryTheRealAndOnly
745 Note: there might be multiple comment lines, but all real categories
746 must be on a single line either directly below the ---- or
747 directly below some comment lines.
750 * Added 'notes' to config.url_schemas, so you can use notes://notessrv/...
751 to invoke your Lotus Notes client.
752 * After creating a new user profile via UserPreferences, you are logged
753 in with that user (no need to immediately enter the same name/password
754 again for logging in).
759 * Security fix: check the ACL of the included page for the rst parser's
761 * Potential security/DOS fix: we removed cracklib / python-crack support
762 in password_checker as it is not thread-safe and caused segmentation
763 faults (leading to server error 500 because the moin process died).
764 * Fix moin_session code for auth methods other than moin_login (e.g. http).
765 If you have worked around this using moin_anon_session, you can remove
766 this workaround now (except if you want anon sessions for other reasons).
767 * Fix moin_session code to delete invalid session cookies and also create
768 a new session cookie if it got a valid user_obj at the same time.
769 * Fix xmlrpc applyAuthToken: give good error msg for empty token.
770 * Fixed category search, use category:CategoryFoo as search term.
771 * xapian_stemming = False (changed default) to workaround some problems
772 in the code enabled by it. Fixes the problems when searching for
773 lowercase or numeric titles or word fragments with the builtin search.
774 * Fix trail for anon users without a session, do not show a single page.
776 * Wiki parser: fixed strange insertion of unwanted paragraphs.
777 * Wiki parser: fix interwiki linking:
778 Free interwiki links did not change since 1.5 (they still require to match
779 [A-Z][A-Za-z]+ for the wikiname part, i.e. a ASCII word beginning with an
781 Bracketed interwiki links now behave similar to how they worked in 1.5:
782 Moin just splits off the part left of the colon - no matter how it looks
783 like. It then tries to find that in the interwiki map. If it is found,
784 a interwiki link gets rendered. If it is not found, moin will render a
785 link to a local wiki page (that has a colon in the pagename). It will
786 also render a local wiki page link if there is no colon at all, of course.
788 [[lowercasewikiname:somepage]] does an interwiki link (if in the map).
789 [[ABC:n]] does a local link to page ABC:n (if ABC is NOT in the map).
790 * Wiki parser: fix interwiki linking for the case that there are query args
791 in the interwiki map entry and you give additional query args via link
792 markup (uses correct query arg separator now), e.g.:
793 [[Google:searchterm|search this|&foo=bar]]
794 * Creole parser: fixed bug that prevents images inside links.
795 * Python parser: catch indentation error.
796 * PageEditor: fixed copyPage for write restricted pages.
797 * GUI editor: fixed javascript error with too complex word_rule regex,
799 * Fixed FCKeditor dialog boxes for FireFox3.
800 * NewPage macro/newpage action: fixed for non-ascii template pagenames.
802 * EmbedObject macro: bug fix for image mimetype
804 * fix TWikiDraw saving a drawing by also evaluating the query args.
805 * work around unpythonic WSGI 1.0 read() API, fixing broken xmlrpc
806 putPage with mod_wsgi
808 * Fix logfile code for EACCESS errors.
809 * Removed the "logging initialized" log messages because it was issued once
813 * Show "Comments" toggling link in edit bar only if the page really
815 * Made default configuration of surge protection a bit more forgiving,
816 especially for edit action which is currently also used for previews.
817 * Updated i18n, system/help pages, added Macedonian system text translation.
818 * Improved moin xmlrpc write command's builtin docs and auto-append
819 ?action=xmlrpc2 to the target wiki url given.
824 * Improved params for [[target|label|params]]:
825 Added accesskey link tag attribute, e.g.: [[target|label|accesskey=1]].
826 Additionally to specifying link tag attributes (like class=foo), you can
827 now also specify &key=value for getting that into the query string of
829 The "&" character is important, don't forget it or it won't get into the
831 E.g. for an attachment, you can use:
832 [[attachment:foo.pdf|Direct download of foo.pdf|&do=get]]
833 E.g. for linking to some specific diff, you can use:
834 [[SomePage|see that diff|&action=diff,&rev1=23,&rev2=42]]
835 See also the updated HelpOnLinking page!
836 * AdvancedSearch: make multipe categories/languages/mimetype selections possible
837 * Added a configuration directive to only do one bind to the LDAP server.
838 This is useful if you bind as the user the first time.
839 ldap_bindonce = False # default
842 * Fix XSS issue in login action.
843 * Fix wrong pagename when creating new pages on Mac OS X - that was a big
844 showstopper for moin 1.6.0 on Mac OS X.
845 * Fixed 1.6 migration script:
846 Make sorting python 2.3 compatible.
847 Just skip corrupted event log lines.
848 Fix link conversion by using data.pre160 as data_dir.
849 Fix bad /InterWiki pagenames when encountering interwiki links with bad
851 Improve ImageLink conversion by using its argument parser code.
852 Added STONEAGE_IMAGELINK (default: False) switch to wiki markup converter,
853 toggle it if you had a very old ImageLink macro in production and the
854 converter output has target and image interchanged.
855 Fixed UnicodeDecodeError for wrongly encoded attachment filenames.
857 Fix parsing of link/transclusion description and params.
858 Fix relative attachment targets.
859 Fix supported URL schemes (some got lost since 1.5.8).
860 Showing an upload link for non-existing non-text/non-image transclusions
861 now (like e.g. *.pdf).
862 * RST parser: fix attachment: and drawing: processing
863 * Fix quickhelp when editing RST markup pages.
864 * Fix Despam action: editor grouping was broken, increase time interval
866 * Fix AdvancedSearch domain:system search crashing.
867 * Only switch off xapian search if we didn't use it because of missing index.
868 * Fix saving twikidraw drawings by removing 'java' from spider regex.
869 * Fix classic theme's unsubscribe icon's action link.
870 * Fix AttachFile action: don't show unzip for packages, only show install
872 * Fix "su user" troubles on UserPreferences.
873 * Removed unit tests from ?action=test (due to changes in our test
874 environment, using py.test now, this was broken).
875 * Duplicated the top directories' moin.py to wiki/server/moin.py so it gets
876 installed by setup.py.
884 * I18n texts, system and help pages updated, please update your underlay
885 directory (see wiki/underlay/...).
886 * Improved "moin" script help, invoke it with "moin ... package command --help".
887 * Added some .ext -> mimetype mappings missing on some systems (like Mac OS X).
888 * Removed ImageLink macro, as this can be easily done with moin wiki link
889 syntax now - see HelpOnMacros/ImageLink (the 1.6 migration scripts convert
890 all ImageLink calls to moin wiki link syntax).
891 * Updated EmbedObject macro.
895 * This is a reduced CHANGES, ommitting details from rc/beta test and also
896 less interesting minor changes and fixes. If you want to see full detail,
897 read it there: http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/1.6/file/640f21787334/docs/CHANGES
899 It took MoinMoin development a lot of work and time to implement all the new
900 and fixed stuff, so please, before asking for support:
901 * take the time to read all the stuff below
902 * read the new help pages (copy them from wiki/underlay/ directory)
904 * HINT: If you are upgrading from a older moin version and want to keep your
905 existing data directory, it is essential that you read and follow
906 README.migration because the wiki markup and user profiles changed significantly.
907 See also more HINTs below...
909 New features: ==============================================================
911 User interface: ------------------------------------------------------------
912 * Removed "underscore in URL" == "blank in pagename magic" - it made more
913 trouble than it was worth. If you still want to have a _ in URL, just
914 put a _ into pagename.
915 * Discussion pages, see FeatureRequests/DiscussionAndOrCommentPages.
916 * cfg.password_checker (default: use some simple builtin checks for too
917 easy passwords and, if available, python-crack).
918 Use password_checker = None to disable password checking.
919 * We now have a drafts functionality (no */MoinEditorBackup pages any
921 * If you edit a page and cancel the edit, use preview or save, a draft
922 copy gets saved for you to a internal cache area (data/cache/drafts/).
923 * If it is a save what you did and it succeeds, the draft copy gets
924 killed right afterwards.
925 * If you accidentally used cancel or your browser or machine crashes
926 after you used preview, then just visit that page again and edit it.
927 the editor will notify you that there is a draft of this page and you
928 will see a "Load draft" button. Click on it to load the draft into the
929 editor and save the page.
930 * The draft storage is per user and per page, but only one draft per page.
931 * cfg.quicklinks_default and cfg.subscribed_pages_default can be used to
932 preload new user profiles with configurable values.
933 * attachment links for non-existing attachments look different now:
934 the note about the non-existing attachment moved to the link title,
935 the link is shown with nonexistent class (grey).
936 * attachment embeddings for non-existing attachments show a grey clip
937 * The list of InterWiki sites is editable in the wiki (page InterWikiMap),
938 it is getting reloaded every minute.
939 * We support some new languages and also have new underlay pages, thanks
940 to all translators and people helping with the docs!
942 Actions: -------------------------------------------------------------------
943 * Synchronisation of wikis using the SyncPages action.
944 * Xapian (see http://xapian.org/) based indexed search code.
946 * Install xapian-core and xapian-bindings on your machine.
947 We used 0.9.4, but newer code should hopefully work, too.
948 * cfg.xapian_search = True
949 * Execute this to build the index:
950 $ moin ... index build # indexes pages and attachments
951 $ moin ... index build --files=files.lst # same plus a list of files
952 You should run those commands as the same user you use for your wiki,
953 usually this is the webserver userid, e.g.:
954 $ sudo -u www-data moin --config=... --wiki-url=wiki.example.org/ \
955 index build --files=files.lst
957 - LanguageSearch: language:de
958 - CategorySearch: category:Homepage
959 - MimetypeSearch: mimetype:image/png (for attachments/files)
960 - DomainSearch: domain:underlay or domain:standard
961 - History Search: available in advanced ui
962 Note: Some currently only available when Xapian is used.
963 * New config options and their defaults:
964 xapian_search False enables xapian-powered search
965 xapian_index_dir None directory for xapian indices
966 (can be shared for wiki farms)
967 xapian_stemming True toggles usage of stemmer, fallback
968 to False if no stemmer installed
969 search_results_per_page 10 determines how many hits should be
970 shown on a fullsearch action
971 xapian_index_history False indexes all revisions of pages to
972 allow searching in their history
973 * Speeded up linkto search by avoiding read locks on the pagelinks file.
975 * The action menu now calls the actions for the revision of the page you
976 are currently viewing. If you are viewing the current page revision, you
977 get the same behaviour as in moin 1.5, but if you are viewing an old
978 page revision, action "raw" will now show you the raw text of this OLD
979 revision (not of the current revision as moin 1.5 did it).
980 Note that not every action does evaluate the rev=XX parameter it gets.
981 Also please note that the edit, info, ... links in the editbar do NOT
982 use the rev parameter, but operate on the latest page revision (as
983 they did in moin 1.5).
984 * Info action lost the links for "raw", "print" and "revert" actions,
985 because you can now just view an old revision and select those actions
988 * ?action=sitemap emits a google sitemap (XML), listing all your wiki pages
989 and the wiki root URL.
990 Page Priority / Frequency / Last modification
991 --------------------------------------------------------------------
992 / 1.0 / hourly / <now>
993 cfg.page_front_page 1.0 / hourly / page last edit
994 TitleIndex,RecentChanges 0.9 / hourly / <now>
995 content pages 0.5 / daily / page last edit
996 system/help pages 0.1 / yearly / page last edit
998 * Action DeletePage and RenamePage can now be used for subpages of a page, too.
999 * Added Action CopyPage so you can use now an existing page or page hierarchy
1000 as template for a new page, see FeatureRequests/CloneOrCopyPages.
1001 * "Package Pages" action supports attachments now.
1002 * Added SisterPages support:
1003 * action=sisterpages will generate a list of url pagename lines for all
1004 pages in your moin wiki.
1005 * action=pollsistersites will poll all sister sites listed in
1006 cfg.sistersites = [(wikiname, fetchURL), ...]
1007 The fetch URL for the sistersites depends on the wiki engine, e.g.:
1009 ('MoinExample', 'http://moin.example.org/?action=sisterpages')
1010 # oddmuse based wiki:
1011 ('EmacsWiki', 'http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/test?action=sisterpages')
1012 # JspWiki based wiki:
1013 ('JspWiki', 'http://www.jspwiki.org/SisterSites.jsp')
1014 * If the current page exists on some sister wiki, a link to it will be
1015 added to the navibar.
1016 You can use sister wikis for adding another dimension to your wiki UI: use
1017 it for simple multi language support, or for comments, or anything else
1019 TODO: add sistersites_force with sister sites we link to even if they do not
1020 have the page yet (will work only for moin as we don't know
1021 pagename>url transformation of other wikis)
1022 * showtags action that lists all tags related to a page.
1023 * action=view does use mimetypes of EmbedObject too and text files will be shown
1024 by using their colorized parsers
1026 Macros: --------------------------------------------------------------------
1028 * If a change has happened after your bookmark, the updated/new/renamed
1029 icon links to the bookmark diff.
1030 * If a page does not exist any more (because it was deleted or renamed),
1031 we link the deleted icon to the diff showing what was deleted (for the
1032 delete action). For the rename action, we just show the deleted icon.
1033 * Conflict icon in RecentChanges is shown if a edit conflict is detected.
1034 * Enhanced SystemAdmin's user browser, so a SuperUser can enable/disable
1036 * Included EmbedObject macro for embedding different major mimetypes:
1037 application, audio, image, video, chemical, x-world.
1038 You are able to change the defaults of allowed mimetypes in the config
1039 var mimetypes_embed. The config var mimetypes_xss_protect is used to deny
1040 mimetypes. The order of both variables is Allow, Deny (mimetypes_embed,
1041 mimetypes_xss_protect).
1042 * Added support for @SELF to the NewPage macro.
1043 * GetText2 macro that allows to translate messages that contain data.
1044 * Make the FootNote macro filter duplicates and display a list of numbers
1045 instead of a list of identical footnotes. Thanks to Johannes Berg for the
1048 Parsers: -------------------------------------------------------------------
1049 * Moin Wiki parser: Changed markup for links, images and macros, see these
1050 wiki pages: HelpOnLinking, HelpOnMacros
1051 * New wiki markup for /* inline comments */ - they get rendered as a span
1052 with class="comment", see next item:
1053 * There is a new item in the edit bar: "Comments". If you click it, the
1054 visibility of all class "comment" tags will be toggled. There is a user
1055 preferences item "show_comments" to set if the default view shows them or not.
1056 * The wiki parser can be used with css classes now:
1058 This will render output within a div with class "comment".
1059 You can use any wiki markup as usual.
1061 You can also combine multiple css classes like this:
1062 {{{#!wiki red/dotted/comment
1063 This will render a red background, dotted border comment section.
1065 The same thing will work for any other css classes you have.
1066 If the css classes contain the word "comment", they will trigger some
1067 special feature, see next item:
1068 * Wiki nested parser/pre sections work now, using this syntax:
1069 a) just use more curly braces if you have 3 closing in your content:
1071 }}} <- does not terminate the section!
1073 b) use {{{ + some magic string:
1075 }}} <- does not terminate the section!
1077 c) {{{whatever#!python
1080 Pitfall: stuff like below does not work as it did in 1.5:
1088 * Added support for ircs: URLs (secure IRC).
1089 * New text/creole parser that allows you to use WikiCreole 1.0 markup,
1091 * HTML parser (called "html") that allows you to use HTML on the page.
1092 Thanks to the trac team for the nice code.
1093 * Added the diff parser from ParserMarket, thanks to Emilio Lopes, Fabien
1094 Ninoles and Juergen Hermann.
1096 XMLRPC: --------------------------------------------------------------------
1097 * actions_excluded now defaults to ['xmlrpc'] - this kind of disables the
1098 built-in wiki xmlrpc server code (not completely: it will just answer
1099 with a Fault instance for any request). If you want to use xmlrpc v1 or
1100 v2, you have to remove 'xmlrpc' from the actions_excluded list (for
1101 example if you want to use wikisync, mailimport or any other feature
1102 using xmlrpc). If you enable xmlrpc, it will be possible that someone
1103 changes your wiki content by using xmlrpc (it will of course honour ACLs).
1104 * New XMLRPC methods (see doc strings for details):
1106 * system.multicall -- multicall support
1107 * Authentication System: getAuthToken/appyAuthToken
1108 * getDiff -- method to get binary diffs
1109 * mergeDiff -- method to local changes remotely
1110 * interwikiName -- method to get the IWID and the interwiki moniker
1111 * getAllPagesEx -- method to get the pagelist in a special way (revnos,
1112 no system pages etc.)
1113 * getAuthToken -- make and authentication token by supplying username/password
1114 * applyAuthToken -- set request.user for following xmlrpc calls (within the
1116 * getUserProfile -- method to get user profile data for request.user
1117 * Added XMLRPC methods for attachment handling. Thanks to Matthew Gilbert.
1118 * XMLRPC putPage method adjusted to new AuthToken, config vars
1119 xmlrpc_putpage_enabled and xmlrpc_putpage_trusted_only removed.
1121 Scripts / Commandline interface: -------------------------------------------
1122 * moin export dump now better conforms to the theme guidelines.
1123 * Added a --dump-user option to the moin export dump command.
1124 Thanks to Oliver O'Halloran.
1126 Security / Auth / AntiSpam / etc.: -----------------------------------------
1127 * Hierarchical ACLs are now supported, i.e. pages inheriting permissions
1128 from higher-level pages. See HelpOnAccessControlLists.
1129 * If you have "#acl" (without the quotes) on a page, this means now:
1130 "this page has own (empty) ACLs, so do not use acl_rights_default here"
1131 Please note that this is COMPLETELY DIFFERENT from having no ACL line at
1132 all on the page (acl_rights_default is used in that case).
1133 * Antispam master url is now configurable via cfg.antispam_master_url.
1134 The default is to fetch the antispam patterns from MoinMaster wiki.
1135 * Antispam now checks the edit comments against BadContent also.
1136 * TextCHAs (text-form CAPTCHAs).
1137 Due to increasingly annoying wiki spammers, we added the option to use
1138 TextCHAs (for page save (not for preview!), for attachment upload, for
1139 user creation (not for profile save)).
1140 This function is disabled by default. If you run a wiki that is editable
1141 by anonymous or non-approved users from the internet (i.e. All: or Known:
1142 in ACL terms), you should enable it in your wiki config by:
1143 textchas = { # DO NOT USE EXACTLY THESE QUESTIONS!!!
1145 u'H2O is ...': u'water', # bad: too common
1146 u'2 apples and three bananas makes how many fruits?': ur'(five|5)', # good
1147 u'2 apples and three pigs makes how many fruits?': ur'(two|2)', # good
1148 u'2+3': ur'5', # bad: computable
1151 'de': { # for german users
1152 u'H2O ist ...': u'wasser',
1155 This means that english users will get some random question from the 'en'
1156 set, german users will get some from the 'de' set. If there is no 'de'
1157 set configured, moin will fallback to language_default and then to 'en',
1158 so make sure that you at least have a 'en' set configured (or whatever
1159 you have set as language_default).
1160 You need to use unicode for the questions and answers (see that u"...").
1161 For the answer, you need to give a regular expression:
1162 * In the easiest case, this is just some word or sentence (first en
1163 example). It will be matched in a case-insensitive way.
1164 * For more complex stuff, you can use the power of regular expressions,
1165 e.g. if multiple answers are correct (second en example). Any answer
1166 matching the regular expression will be considered as correct, any
1167 non-matching answer will be considered as incorrect.
1169 Tipps for making it hard to break for the spammers and easy for the users:
1170 * Use site-specific (not too common) questions.
1171 * Don't use too hard questions (annoys legitimate users).
1172 * Don't use computable questions.
1173 * Don't reuse textchas from other sites.
1175 textchas_disabled_group = None # (default)
1176 Set this to some group name and noone in this group will get textchas.
1177 E.g.: textchas_disabled_group = u'NoTextChasGroup'
1179 * The login page gives now the possibility to recover a lost password, thanks to
1180 Oliver Siemoneit. This is especially useful for wikis where access to user
1181 preferences is restricted by acl.
1182 * Session handling for logged-in users and (not by default due to expiry
1183 problems) anonymous users.
1184 * Updated the ldap_login code from 1.5 branch, supports TLS now.
1185 See MoinMoin/config/multiconfig.py for supported configuration options
1186 and their defaults (and please just change what you need to change,
1187 in your wikiconfig).
1188 * Interwiki auth: You need to define cfg.trusted_wikis and
1189 cfg.user_autocreate to use it. Logging in works by entering:
1190 Name: RemoteWikiName RemoteUserName
1191 Password: remotepass
1192 Then moin contacts RemoteWikiName after looking it up in the interwiki
1193 map and tries to authenticate there using RemoteUserName and remotepass.
1194 If it succeeds, the remote wiki will return the remote user profile items
1195 and your local moin will autocreate an account with these values.
1197 Server / Network / Logging: ------------------------------------------------
1198 * The standalone server script moved to the toplevel directory. This makes
1199 it possible to directly start moin.py without additional configuration
1200 to run a MoinMoin DesktopEdition like wiki setup.
1201 Be careful: DesktopEdition uses relaxed security settings only suitable
1202 for personal and local use.
1203 * Added TLS/SSL support to the standalone server. Thanks to Matthew Gilbert.
1204 To use TLS/SSL support you must also install the TLSLite library
1205 (http://trevp.net/tlslite/). Version 0.3.8 was used for development and
1208 * cfg.log_reverse_dns_lookups [default: True] - you can set this to False
1209 if rev. dns lookups are broken in your network (leading to long delays
1210 on page saves). With False, edit-log will only contain IP, not hostname.
1211 * Added support for "304 not modified" response header for AttachFile get
1212 and rss_rc actions - faster, less traffic, less load.
1214 * Added logging framework, using stdlib's "logging" module. Just do
1215 import logging ; logging.debug("your text"). Depending on configuration
1216 in the server Config class, your stuff will be written to screen (stderr),
1217 to a moin logfile, to apache's error.log, etc.:
1218 logPath = None # 'moin.log'
1219 loglevel_file = None # logging.DEBUG/INFO/WARNING/ERROR/CRITICAL
1220 loglevel_stderr = None # logging.DEBUG/INFO/WARNING/ERROR/CRITICAL
1221 NOTE: this is NOT in wikiconfig, but e.g. in moin.cgi or moin.py or ...
1223 * Added some experimental and disabled code, that uses x-forwarded-for
1224 header (if present) to get the right "outside" IP before a request
1225 enters our chain of trusted (reverse) proxies.
1226 This code has the problem that we can't configure it in wikiconfig, so
1227 if you want to use it / test it, you have to edit the moin code:
1228 MoinMoin/request/__init__.py - edit proxies_trusted (near the top).
1229 We will try to make this easier to configure, but there was no time left
1230 before 1.6.0 release for doing bigger code refactorings needed for that.
1232 Mail: ----------------------------------------------------------------------
1233 * You can send email to the wiki now (requires xmlrpc), see:
1234 FeatureRequests/WikiEmailIntegration, HelpOnConfiguration/EmailSupport
1236 * Mail notifications contain a link to the diff action so the user
1237 can see the coloured difference more easily. Thanks to Tobias Polzin.
1239 Other changes: =============================================================
1240 * HINT: please copy a new version of your server script from the wiki/server/
1241 directory and edit it to match your setup.
1242 * HINT: instead of "from MoinMoin.multiconfig import DefaultConfig" you
1243 need to use "from MoinMoin.config.multiconfig import DefaultConfig" now.
1244 You need to change this in your wikiconfig.py or farmconfig.py file.
1245 See MoinMoin/multiconfig.py for an alternative way if you can't do that.
1246 * HINT: you need to change some imports (if you have them in your config):
1247 Old: from MoinMoin.util.antispam import SecurityPolicy
1248 New: from MoinMoin.security.antispam import SecurityPolicy
1249 Old: from MoinMoin.util.autoadmin import SecurityPolicy
1250 New: from MoinMoin.security.autoadmin import SecurityPolicy
1251 * HINT: you need to change your auth stuff, the new way is:
1252 from MoinMoin.auth import moin_login, moin_session
1253 from MoinMoin.auth.http import http
1254 auth = [http, moin_login, moin_session]
1255 Do it in a similar way for other auth methods.
1256 * HINT: you need to change your url_prefix setting in 2 ways:
1257 1. The setting is now called url_prefix_static (to make it more clear
1258 that we mean the static stuff, not the wiki script url).
1259 2. The strongly recommended (and default) value of it is '/moin_static160'
1260 for moin version 1.6.0 (and will be ...161 for moin 1.6.1). It is
1261 possible and recommended to use a very long cache lifetime for static
1262 stuff now (Expires: access plus 1 year), because we require to change
1263 the URL of static stuff when the static stuff changes (e.g. on a
1264 version upgrade of moin) to avoid problems with stale cache content.
1265 Your moin will be faster with lower load and traffic because of this.
1266 For standalone server, we use 1 year expiry for static stuff now.
1267 For Apache, Lighttpd and other "external" servers, you have to care
1268 for configuring them to use a long expiry and change url_prefix_static
1269 related configuration on upgrade.
1270 HINT: if you run standalone or Twisted server, the easiest way to get a
1271 working configuration (with server configuration matching wiki
1272 configuration) is to NOT set url_prefix_static at all. Moin will
1273 use matching configuration defaults in this case.
1274 * url_prefix_action ['action'] was introduced for lowering load and traffic
1275 caused by searchengine crawlers. Up to now, crawlers where causing a high
1276 load in internet moin wikis because they tried to get about everything,
1277 including all actions linked from the user interface.
1278 Known crawlers only get 403 for most actions, but nevertheless they first
1279 tried. There was no means keeping them away from actions due to the rather
1280 braindead robots.txt standard. You can only disallow pathes there, but
1281 moin's actions were querystring based, not path based (this would need
1282 regex support in robots.txt, but there is no such thing).
1283 This changed now. Moin is able to generate action URLs you can handle in
1284 robots.txt, like /action/info/PageName?action=info. So if you don't want
1285 bots triggering actions, just disallow /action/ there. Keep in mind that
1286 attachments are handled by /action/AttachFile, so if you want attached
1287 files and pictures indexed by search engine, don't disallow
1288 /action/AttachFile/ in your robots.txt. In order to use this feature,
1289 set url_prefix_action in your wikiconfig to e.g. "action".
1290 * We use (again) the same browser compatibility check as FCKeditor uses
1291 internally, too. So if GUI editor invocation is broken due to browser
1292 compatibility issues or a wrong browser version check, please file a bug
1293 at FCKeditor development or browser development.
1294 * HINT: We removed Lupy based indexed search code. If you were brave enough
1295 to use cfg.lupy_search, you maybe want to try cfg.xapian_search instead.
1297 Developer notes: ===========================================================
1298 * We moved the IE hacks to theme/css/msie.css that gets included after all
1299 other css files (but before the user css file) using a conditional
1300 comment with "if IE", so it gets only loaded for MSIE (no matter which
1301 version). The file has some standard css inside (evaluated on all MSIE
1302 versions) and some * html hacks that only IE < 7 will read.
1303 HINT: if you use custom themes, you want to update them in the same way.
1304 * autofilters for databrowser widget. Thanks to Johannes Berg for the patch.
1305 * changed formatter.attachment_link call (it is now more flexible,
1306 because you can render the stuff between link start and link end yourself)
1307 * Page.url() does not escape any more. You have to use wikiutil.escape()
1308 yourself if you want to write the URL to HTML and it contains e.g. &.
1309 * The testing wikiconfig moved to tests/wikiconfig.py, the testing wiki
1310 is now created in tests/wiki/...
1311 * HINT: Killed "processors" (finally), formatter method changed to:
1312 formatter.parser(parsername, lines)
1313 * Refactored some actions to use ActionBase base class.
1314 * Moved "test" action from wikiaction to MoinMoin/action/
1315 (and use ActionBase).
1316 * Moved MoinMoin/config.py to MoinMoin/config/__init__.py.
1317 * Moved MoinMoin/multiconfig.py to MoinMoin/config/multiconfig.py.
1318 * Moved "SystemInfo" macro from wikimacro to MoinMoin/macro/.
1319 * Moved wikiaction.py stuff to MoinMoin/action/__init__.py.
1320 * Moved wikimacro.py stuff to MoinMoin/macro/__init__.py.
1321 * Moved wikirpc.py stuff to MoinMoin/xmlrpc/__init__.py.
1322 * Moved wikitest.py stuff to action/test.py (only used from there).
1323 * Moved formatter/base.py to formatter/__init__.py (FormatterBase).
1324 * Moved util/ParserBase.py to parser/ParserBase.py.
1325 * Moved / splitted request.py into MoinMoin/request/*.
1326 Most stuff will be broken, please help fixing it (usually some imports
1327 will be missing and the adaptor script will need a change maybe):
1328 Tested successfully: CGI, CLI, STANDALONE, FCGI, TWISTED
1329 * Moved security.py to security/__init__.py.
1330 * Moved wikiacl.py to security/__init__.py.
1331 * Moved logfile/logfile.py to logfile/__init__.py.
1332 * Moved mailimport.py to mail/mailimport.py.
1333 * Moved util/mail.py to mail/sendmail.py.
1334 * Moved auth.py to auth/__init__.py.
1335 Moved util/sessionParser.py to auth/_PHPsessionParser.py.
1336 teared auth code into single modules under auth/* - moin_session handling
1337 and the builting moin_login method are in auth/__init__.py.
1338 * Added wikiutil.MimeType class (works internally with sanitized mime
1339 types because the official ones suck).
1340 * Renamed parsers to module names representing sane mimetypes, e.g.:
1341 parser.wiki -> parser.text_moin_wiki
1342 * Added thread_monitor debugging aid. It can be activated using:
1343 from MoinMoin.util import thread_monitor; thread_monitor.activate_hook()
1344 and then triggered by requesting URL ...?action=thread_monitor - please
1345 be aware that monitoring threads has a big performance impact on its own,
1346 so you only want to temporarily enable this for debugging.
1347 By default, it dumps its output to the data_dir as tm_<timestamp>.log,
1348 you can change this at bottom of action/thread_monitor.py if you want to
1349 see output in your browser.
1350 * Introduced scope parameter to CacheEntry() - if you specify 'farm', it
1351 will cache into a common directory for all wikis in the same farm, if you
1352 specify 'wiki', it will use a cache directory per wiki and if you specify
1353 'item', it will use a cache directory per item (== per page).
1354 Creating a CacheEntry without explicit scope is DEPRECATED.
1355 * Smileys moved from MoinMoin.config to MoinMoin.theme.
1356 * Removed all _ magic in URLs and filenames.
1357 * request.action now has the action requested, default: 'show'.
1358 * Cleaned up duplicated http_headers code and DEPRECATED this function
1359 call (it was sometimes confused with setHttpHeaders call) - it will
1360 vanish with moin 1.7, so please fix your custom plugins!
1362 request.emit_http_headers(more_headers=[])
1363 This call pre-processes the headers list (encoding from unicode, making
1364 sure that there is exactly ONE content-type header, etc.) and then
1365 calls a server specific helper _emit_http_headers to emit it.
1366 Tested successfully: CGI, STANDALONE, FCGI, TWISTED
1367 * setResponseCode request method DEPRECATED (it only worked for Twisted
1368 anyway), just use emit_http_headers and include a Status: XXX header.
1369 Method will vanish with moin 1.7.
1370 * cfg.url_prefix is DEPRECATED, please use cfg.url_prefix_static.
1371 * d['title_link'] is not supported any more. You can easily make that link
1372 on your own in your theme, see example in MoinMoin/theme/__init__.py,
1374 * There is a new Page method called Page.get_raw_body_str that returns
1375 the encoded page body. This is useful if you just deal with byte data
1376 (e.g. while generating binary diffs).
1377 * The TagStore/PickleTagStore system is used to store the syncronisation tags.
1378 * XMLRPC functions may return Fault instances from now on
1379 * Moin got multicall support, including a module that makes it usable on the
1380 client-side without requiring Python 2.4
1381 * Added no_magic to text_html formatter to disable tag autoclosing.
1382 * MOIN_DEBUG can be set in the environment to let MoinMoin ignore exceptions
1383 that would lead to a traceback in the browser. Thanks to Raphael Bossek.
1384 * There is a new MoinMoin.Page.ItemCache class now with automatic cache
1385 invalidation based on global edit-log. We currently use it to cache page
1386 acls, speedup Page.get_rev and reading the page local edit-log.
1387 * Added wikiutil.renderText parse and format raw wiki markup with all page elements.
1388 * The user file format has changed, old files will be read correctly but
1389 will silently be upgraded to the new format so old versions will not
1390 read the new files correctly (this only affects 'subscribed_pages' and
1391 'quicklinks' which will be lost when downgrading.)
1396 * Added timing.log to help performance debugging. Use cfg.log_timing = True
1397 to update <data_dir>/timing.log (default is False, meaning no logging).
1399 Example log entries:
1402 Timestamp PID Timing Flag action URL
1403 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1404 20070512 184401 22690 vvv None moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/RssFeeds
1405 20070512 184401 22690 0.267s - show moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/RssFeeds
1407 Timestamp: YYYYMMDD HHMMSS (UTC)
1408 PID: the process ID of the moin process
1409 Timing: when action starts, it will be "vvv"
1410 when it ends, it logs the total time it needed for execution
1411 Flag (some are only logged at end of action):
1413 - Page does not exist
1414 B user agent was recognized as bot / spider
1415 !x! Action took rather long (the higher the x, the longer it took - this
1416 makes it easy to grep for problematic stuff).
1417 Action: action name (None is when no action was specified, moin assumes
1418 "show" for that case)
1419 URL: the requested URL
1421 For more information about tuning your moin setup, see:
1422 http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/PerformanceTuning
1423 * Added support for ircs, webcal, xmpp, ed2k and rootz protocols - we
1424 moved all protocols to config.url_schemas, so this is not empty any more.
1425 It is possible to use these protocols now on wiki pages and in the
1426 navi_bar. We just generate the URLs, it is up to your browser what it
1427 does when clicking on those links.
1428 * cfg.traceback_show (default: 1) can be used to disable showing tracebacks.
1429 cfg.traceback_log_dir (default: None) can be used to set a directory
1430 that is used to dump traceback files to. Your users will get a notice to
1431 which (random) file in that directory the traceback was been written.
1432 NOTE: while you can feel free to set traceback_show = 0 and
1433 traceback_log_dir = None, we will also feel free to reject bug reports
1434 when you (or your site's users) don't give us enough information (like a
1435 traceback file) to debug the problem. If you set traceback_show = 0,
1436 we recommend pointing traceback_log_dir to a directory with reasonable
1437 free space and putting a page onto your wiki that describes who has to
1438 get contacted (usually the wiki server admin) in case a traceback happens.
1439 The admin can then locate the traceback file and submit it to moin
1441 Of course we will also need all the other details of a bug report, not
1442 only the traceback file.
1445 * Updated spider agents list.
1446 * Reduce bot/spider cpu usage for SystemInfo, OrphanedPages, WantedPages,
1447 PageHits, PageSize, WordIndex macros (we just return nothing for bots).
1450 * XSS fixes, see http://secunia.com/advisories/24138/ (item 1 and 2).
1451 * ACL security fixes:
1452 * MonthCalendar respects ACLs of day pages now.
1453 * Check the ACL for the rst markup include directive.
1454 * Fixed cleaning of edit comments (control chars in there could damage
1456 * Fixed in-process caching of antispam patterns (didn't update the cache
1457 for multi-process, persistent servers).
1458 * Correct encoding/decoding for surge-log data, fixes leftover
1459 surge-logXXXXXXX.tmp files in data/cache/surgeprotect.
1460 * Fixed mode of cache files (mkstemp creates them with 0600 mode).
1461 * Symbolic entities with numbers (like ²) did not work, fixed.
1462 * We open data/error.log earlier now and we also use it for FastCGI.
1463 * Fixed unicode cfg.page_group_regex.
1464 * Fixed moin.spec to use english date format.
1465 * GUI converter: fixed conversion of relative wiki links.
1466 * Fixed NewPage macro button label to not be formatted as wiki text.
1470 * added url_prefix_local which is used for stuff that must be loaded from
1471 same site as the wiki engine (e.g. FCKeditor GUI editor applet), while
1472 url_prefix can be a remote server serving the static files (css/img).
1473 If not set (or set to None), url_prefix_local will default to the value
1475 * We save some CPU and disk I/O by having EditTemplates and LikePages macro
1476 (both used on MissingPage) check whether the requesting entity was
1477 identified as a spider (e.g. search engine bot) and do nothing in that
1478 case. Normal users won't see any difference.
1479 * For AttachFile, you can now choose to overwrite existing files of same
1480 name (nice for updating files).
1484 * fixed unescaped page info display.
1485 * fixed unescaped page name display in AttachFile, RenamePage and
1486 LocalSiteMap actions
1487 * WantedPages listed existing pages that are not readable for the user,
1488 but are linked from pages that ARE readable for the user (so this is NOT
1489 a privacy/security issue). We now don't list those pages any more as it
1490 is pointless/confusing, the user can't read or edit there anyway.
1493 * GUI editor/converter:
1494 * ignore <col>/<colgroup>/<meta> elements
1495 * support <a> within blockquote
1496 * Remove generated=... attribute from pagelink html output (this attr is
1497 for internal use only). w3c validator is now happier again.
1498 * Fixed css class "userpref" (not: "userprefs") of the Login form.
1499 * Fixed the version number check in the xslt parser for 4suite >= 1.0.
1500 * We reset the umask to the wanted value every request. This should fix
1501 wrong file modes when used with Twisted (twistd uses a hardcoded 0077
1502 umask in daemonize()).
1503 * Avoid trouble when saving pages with antispam function when MoinMaster
1504 wiki is having troubles (catch xmlrpc Fault).
1507 * Standalone server does not do reverse DNS lookups any more (this is a
1508 standard feature of BaseHTTPServer stdlib module, but we override this
1509 now and just print the IP).
1510 * We moved the IE hacks to theme/css/msie.css that gets included after all
1511 other css files (but before the user css file) using a conditional
1512 comment with "if IE", so it gets only loaded for MSIE (no matter which
1513 version). The file has some standard css inside (evaluated on all MSIE
1514 versions) and some * html hacks that only IE < 7 will read.
1515 HINT: if you use custom themes, you want to update them in the same way.
1516 * Improved ldap auth:
1517 * cfg.ldap_name_attribute was removed because of new cfg.ldap_filter.
1518 If you had ldap_name_attribute = 'sAMAccountName' before, just use
1519 ldap_filter = '(sAMAccountName=%(username)s)' now.
1520 * New cfg.ldap_filter used for the ldap filter string used in the ldap
1521 search instead of the rather limited, partly hardcoded filter we used
1522 before. This is much more flexible:
1523 ldap_filter = '(sAMAccountName=%(username)s)'
1524 You can also do more complex filtering expressions like:
1525 '(&(cn=%(username)s)(memberOf=CN=WikiUsers,OU=Groups,DC=example,DC=org))'
1526 * Added some processing to filter out result entries with dn == None.
1527 * We set REFERRALS option to 0 before initializing the ldap server
1528 connection (this seems to be needed for Active Directory servers).
1529 * We support self-signed ssl certs for ldaps - completely untested.
1530 * New cfg.ldap_surname_attribute (usually 'sn'), was hardcoded before.
1531 * New cfg.ldap_givenname_attribute (usually 'givenName'), hardcoded before.
1532 * New cfg.ldap_aliasname_attribute (usually 'displayName') - if this
1533 attribute is not there or empty (in the results of the ldap lookup for
1534 the user), we just make up the aliasname from surname and givenname
1536 * We only request the attributes we need from ldap (was: all attrs).
1537 * We deny user login (and break out of auth chain) for the following cases:
1538 * if a user is not found by ldap lookup
1539 * if we find more than one matching entry
1540 * if the password is empty or incorrect
1541 * if some exception happens
1542 * Please note that there is an updated ldap sample config in directory
1543 wiki/config/more_samples/.
1544 * Added experimental LDAP SSL/TLS support (untested, please help testing),
1545 see also the sample config.
1546 * Work around a IE7 rendering problem with long pages getting more and
1547 more narrow. We just applied the same "fix" as we used for IE6, using
1548 "display: none" for span.anchor for IE browsers.
1550 * We used to emit a <link> tag for the action=rss_rc RSS feed on any
1551 page. This was changed, we now emit that link only on RecentChanges and
1552 the current user's language translation of RecentChanges.
1553 This was changed because Google Toolbar requests the RSS feed linked
1554 by such a link tag every time it sees one. Thus, if you used the wiki
1555 normally, it requested the RSS feed every few seconds and caused
1556 problems due to surge protection kicking in because of that.
1557 * HINT for custom theme users: if your theme code calls
1558 rsslink(), then you need to change that to rsslink(d) for 1.5.7+.
1562 A general security notice:
1563 Check your Python version, there was a buffer overflow issue in Python
1564 recently! Details: http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/PythonUnicodeEscapeBug
1567 * Fix AttributeError traceback with Standalone server (if_modified_since)
1568 * Fix AttachFile "304 not modified" and redirect status code for Twisted
1569 * http auth: we now decode username and password to unicode (using
1570 config.charset == utf-8). Same for SSL client cert auth and CN.
1571 * Avoid infinite recursion in Page.parsePageLinks.
1572 * Fixed standalone server failing to shutdown if interface == "".
1573 * Now MoinMoin does not think anymore that every page links to various user
1575 * Made the irssi parser more tolerant (Thanks to "TheAnarcat").
1576 * Now multiple formatters can be used per request, the send_page code was
1577 not reentrant to this regard. Fixes "empty" search results.
1578 * Fixed problem with "=" in ImageLink macro links.
1579 * Not a moin bug, but a silly stdlib os.tempnam function made trouble to
1580 some people because it lets you override the path given in the code
1581 by setting the environment variable TMP(DIR). We now use a different
1582 function to avoid renaming trouble when TMP(DIR) points to a different
1584 * Fixed antispam update on every save (Thanks to "TheAnarcat").
1585 * GUI converter: don't throw away rowclass for tables.
1586 * GUI editor formatter: allow height for table cells.
1587 * GUI editor formatter: comment texts are output using the formatter now.
1590 * Mail notifications contain a link to the diff action so the user
1591 can see the coloured difference more easily. Thanks to Tobias Polzin.
1592 * FeatureRequests/MoveAttachments - you can move attachments from one
1593 page to another (and also rename the attachment at the same time).
1594 Thanks to Reimar Bauer.
1595 * Added support for linking to attachment: and inline: URLs with ImageLink.
1596 * Added UNIX socket support for FastCGI, just set the port to some (socket)
1598 * [[Attachlist(pagename,mimetype)]] lists attachments of pagename (default:
1599 current page) with optional mimetype restriction (default: all).
1600 Thanks to Reimar Bauer.
1603 * Minor performance improvements (might be noticeable if you have many
1604 custom navi_bar entries and high server load).
1605 * Avoid usage of no-cache because it breaks attachment download on IE6.
1606 This is a IE bug, not a moin bug.
1607 * Added XHTML to the unsafe list.
1608 * Changed the rst parser to be compatible to the new docutils interface
1610 * Updated EmbedObject macro.
1615 * fixed ticket creation to only use constant values
1618 HINT: read docs/README.migration.
1619 HINT: there was NO change in the underlay/ pages since 1.5.4.
1620 HINT: If you experience problems with the reStructured Text (rst) parser,
1621 please downgrade docutils to "0.4" because there were major interface
1622 breaking API refactorings on the docutils trunk.
1628 * Not a moin bug, but it severely annoyed IE users and also was less
1629 comfortable for users of other browser: since about 1.5.4, we served
1630 attachments with Content-Disposition: attachment - so that the user has
1631 to save them to disk. This was to fix a possible XSS attack using attached
1632 HTML files with Javascript inside for stealing your moin cookie or doing
1633 other nasty things. We improved this by using different behaviour depending
1634 on the potential danger the attached file has when served inline:
1635 mimetypes_xss_protect = ['text/html', 'application/x-shockwave-flash', ]
1636 This is the default value. If you know more dangerous stuff, please just
1637 add the mimetypes there to protect your users and file a bug report
1638 telling us what we missed.
1641 * Make tickets used for some actions more safe.
1644 * edit_ticketing [True] - we protect page save by a ticket (same stuff we
1645 already use for DeletePage and RenamePage action).
1646 NOTE: If you don't use your browser for editing, but some tool like
1647 "editmoin" or "MoinMoin plugin for jEdit", you'll need an update
1648 of them supporting the ticket.
1649 Alternatively, you can use edit_ticketing = False setting - this
1650 is not recommended for internet wikis as it will make spamming them
1652 * If we detect some spammer, we kick him out by triggering surge protection
1653 (if surge protection is not disabled).
1658 * Fixed gui editor converter confusing of `` and {{{}}} markup.
1659 * Fixed emission of HTTP headers (esp. Vary: Cache-Control:).
1660 * Fixed a bad crash that happens (on ANY page!) when you put a *Dict
1661 page's name as a member into a *Group page.
1662 * Fix MyPages action title to use an unformatted string.
1663 * Fix double quoted-printable encoding in generated emails (note: this is
1664 not a moin bug - this just works around bugs in python stdlib).
1665 * Fix mode of drawing files (use config.umask).
1666 * Fix trouble with /?action= urls by dropping getPageNameFromQueryString
1668 * Fixed sre unpickle issues seen on some machines by avoiding to pickle
1670 * Fix Clock code, add more timers.
1671 * Worked around FastCGI problem on Lighttpd: empty lines in the error log.
1672 * Fix (add) locking for caching's .remove() call, small fixes to lock code.
1673 * Print error message when --target-dir=path is missing from moin export
1677 * Added support for "304 not modified" response header for AttachFile get
1678 and rss_rc actions - faster, less traffic, less load.
1679 * Limit rss with full diffs to 5 items.
1680 * Allow surge_action_limits = None to disable surge protection.
1681 * moin.fcg improved - if you use FastCGI, you must use the new file:
1682 * can self-terminate after some number of requests (default: -1, this
1683 means "unlimited lifetime")
1684 * the count of created threads is limited now (default: 5), you can use
1685 1 to use non-threaded operation.
1686 * configurable socket.listen() backlog (default: 5)
1687 * Added indonesian i18n (id).
1688 * Some measures against spammers trying to brute force their spam into moin.
1689 * EmbedObject macro: added mov, mpg and midi support
1690 * moin ... export dump --target-dir=PATH --page=PAGENAME_REGEX
1691 You must specify --target-dir (where dump will write the html files to)
1692 and you may specify --page and either a page name or a regex used to
1693 match all pages you want to export. Default is to export all pages.
1697 * more efficient locking code on POSIX platforms, we do much less I/O
1699 * removed most chmod calls in favour of a single os.umask call
1700 * Improved Python 2.5 compatibility. Note: if you think that MoinMoin
1701 is using too much RAM, you might want to look at Python 2.5 because
1702 of its improved memory management.
1703 * Throw away SAVE comments longer than 200 chars (you can't enter those by
1704 the user interface, so only spammer using automatic POSTs do them).
1705 * Updated spider user agent list.
1706 * BadContent and LocalBadContent now get noindex,nofollow robots header,
1708 * Standalone opens it logfile unbuffered from now on, thanks to
1710 * Avoid trouble when request.write() data contains None, just skip it -
1711 thanks to Juergen Hermann.
1712 * Instead of showing a ConfigurationError, moin now emits "404 Not found"
1713 http headers and a hint about what could be wrong. This won't fill up
1714 your logs just because of typos and spiders still trying old URLs.
1718 HINT: read docs/README.migration.
1719 Version 1.5.4-current:
1720 * increased maxlength of some input fields from 80 to 200
1722 Version 1.5.current:
1724 * We switched to Mercurial SCM, see here for more infos:
1725 http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/MoinDev/MercurialGuide
1728 * fix MonthCalendar macro for non-ASCII pagenames (thanks to Jonas Smedegaard)
1729 * remove 'search' and 'google' from bot user agent list and add some more
1731 * Fix the forgotten password email login URL and also properly encode the
1732 email body. Thanks to Robin Dunn for the patch.
1733 * Applied a patch by Matthew Gilbert for increased compatiblity with
1739 * Added CSS classes for TableOfContents macro.
1742 * GUI editor / GUI editor converter:
1743 * Fixed missing GUI editor link in edit bar.
1744 * Fixed table/row/cell style spaces.
1745 * Changed <p> generation for macros.
1746 * Fixed handling of subpages.
1747 * Fixed processing of complex list elements (thanks to Craig Markwardt).
1748 * Fixed processing of html \n (thanks to Craig Markwardt).
1749 * Fixed joining of comment lines with text below them.
1750 * Fixed table height attribute crash.
1751 * Fixed sslclientcert auth.
1752 * Added some missing files to i18n processing, translatable strings more
1754 * Change <p> generation from self-closing (<p />) to auto-closing (only
1755 emit <p>, let browser find place for </p>).
1756 * Fix eating of newline before tables.
1757 * Fixed incorrect login hint for not logged-in users trying a disallowed
1759 * Fixed nasty missing or double </a> formatter bug (mostly happening when
1760 user has enabled questionmarks for nonexisting pages).
1763 * We catch and ignore html to wiki conversion errors in case of hitting
1764 the cancel button, so you can get out of the error screen.
1768 * Modified SystemInfo macro to give human readable units and disk usage
1769 * cfg.editor_quickhelp makes the quick help below the editor configurable
1770 (at least as far as the default_markup is concerned). If set to None,
1771 it doesn't display any quickhelp. Thanks to Seth Falcon for the patch.
1774 * Fixed double class attribute for nonexistent links
1775 * Fixed double </a> with qm_noexist option
1776 * Fixed table xxx="yyy" style attribute parsing
1777 * If not (editor_force and editor_default == 'text') then display GUI mode
1778 switch button (this is only a partial fix, but enough to deny the GUI
1779 mode to your users completely)
1780 * Fixed XSS issue which could lead to cookie theft etc.
1781 * Fixed definition list "same level" indenting.
1782 * Fixed pagename in log for PackagePages action.
1783 * Made <p> self-closing and line-anchors more well-behaved, thanks to
1784 Martin Wilck for the patch. I didn't apply the <ol> patch, because this
1785 is no real problem, just a problem of a bad standard.
1786 * Fixed gui editor *bgcolor crash.
1787 * Support/Fix tableclass attr with gui editor.
1790 * Moved back UserPreferences action link from menu to top of page (renaming
1791 it to "Preferences"), added "Cancel" button to make it possible to return
1792 to the previous page without saving preferences.
1793 * Removed formatter.url "attrs" keyword arg that took premade html, we use
1794 separate kw args per attribute now.
1795 * Moved broken tests to MoinMoin/_tests/broken (= disabling them).
1796 All "active" tests run ok now.
1797 If you want to compare, I included the output of this test run:
1798 $ make test >tests/make_test.out
1804 * HINT: please read README.migration
1805 * Login and Logout are actions now, therefore you stay on the page where
1807 * UserPreferences is also an action now and moved from top border (in
1808 modern theme) to the "more actions" dropdown menu. You also stay on the
1810 * There is also a [[Login]] macro now. You can put it on any page you want
1811 and if the user is not logged in, it renders the login form. If the user
1812 is logged in, it doesn't render anything.
1813 * We check cfg.superuser to be a list of user names (as documented) and
1814 deny superuser access if it is not. This avoids security issues by
1815 wrong configuration.
1816 * auth methods changed:
1817 HINT: if you wrote own auth methods, please change them as you see in
1818 MoinMoin/auth.py and test them again before relying on them.
1819 * now get a user_obj kw argument that is either a user object returned
1820 from a previous auth method or None (if no user has been made up yet).
1821 The auth method should either return a user object (if it has
1822 determined one) or what it got as user_obj (being "passive") or None
1823 (if it wants to "veto" some user even if a previous method already has
1824 made up some user object).
1825 * return value of continue_flag is now True in most cases (except if
1826 it wants to "veto" and abort).
1827 * moin_cookie auth method now logs out a user by deleting the cookie and
1828 setting user_obj.valid = 0. This makes it possible to still get the
1829 user's name in subsequent auth method calls within the same request.
1830 * added ldap_login and smb_mount auth methods, see MoinMoin/auth.py and
1831 wiki/config/more_samples/ldap_smb_farmconfig.py
1832 * MonthCalendar now takes an additional argument for specifying a template
1833 to use to directly invoke the page editor when clicking on non-existing
1835 * Added ImageLink macro. Thanks to Jeff Kunce, Marcin Zalewski, Reimar
1836 Bauer and Chong-Dae Park for working on it.
1837 * Lupy stuff (still experimental, partly broken and disabled by default):
1838 * Attachment search using lupy (lupy_search = 1 in your config)
1839 Title search will also search attachment filenames.
1840 Full text search will also search attachment contents.
1842 Some filters depend on external converters that might not be available
1843 for any platform (see Depends: line in filter plugin).
1844 Feel free to contribute more filter plugins, especially if you wrote
1845 some nice platform independant filter in Python for some popular file
1846 format! Filters implemented so far (depending on):
1847 MS Word, RTF, MS Excel (antiword, catdoc)
1849 OpenOffice.org XML based data formats (-)
1852 JPEG's EXIF data (-)
1854 * As you might know, Lupy is "retired" (that means it isn't developped
1855 by its authors any more). We are currently evaluating Xapian as new
1856 indexing search engine in moin.
1857 If we succeed, we will replace Lupy stuff by some Xapian interface
1859 But: the filters will likely stay, as we also need them with Xapian.
1861 * A new MoinMoin script interface was introduced:
1863 Syntax: moin [options] <cmdmodule> <cmdname> [options]
1866 moin --config-dir=/my/cfgdir --wiki-url=wiki.example.org/ \
1867 export dump --page=WikiSandBox
1869 This will call the "moin" script, which will use the --config-dir and
1870 --wiki-url options to initialize, then it will go to MoinMoin.script
1871 module, import the export.dump module from there and run it, providing
1872 the additional --page value to it.
1874 The old scripts that have not been migrated to this new interface can
1875 still be found in MoinMoin/script/old/ - including the old migration
1877 * moin ... account create --name=JoeDoe --email=joe@doe.org
1878 * moin ... account disable --name=JoeDoe
1879 * moin ... acount check <-- this is what usercheck script was before
1880 * moin ... maint cleancache <-- this is what cachecleaner script was
1881 * moin ... maint cleanpage <-- this is what pagescleaner script was
1884 * cookie_lifetime didn't work comfortable for low values. The cookie was
1885 created once on login and never updated afterwards. So you got logged
1886 out cookie_lifetime hours later, no matter whether you were active at
1887 that time or not. This has been changed, we update the cookie expiry now
1888 on every request, so it will expire cookie_lifetime after your last
1889 request (not after login).
1890 * Fixed logout problems when using cfg.cookie_path.
1891 * Fixed cookie_path for root url wikis.
1892 * Lupy search now behaves a bit less funky. Still no guarantees...
1893 * We lowered the twisted server timeout to 2 minutes now (was: 10) because
1894 it just used up too many files (open TCP connections until it timeouts)
1896 * The algorithm used for processing the farmconfig.wikis list was changed
1897 to work for big farms (>= 50 wikis), too. This works around the python
1898 "re" module limitation of having a maximum of 100 named groups in a RE.
1899 * Fixed a TypeError which occurred for formatters that dislike None values.
1901 * Fixed GUI editor converter error for https:... image URLs.
1902 * ThemeBase (use by modern/rightsidebar): removed duplicate AttachFile from
1903 actions menu (we already have it in editbar).
1904 * Speedup group/dicts scanning for persistent servers.
1905 * Implemented HEAD requests for standalone server, this should fix some of
1906 the strange effects happening when using "Save as" on attachments.
1907 * Not a moin bug, but rather a workaround for non-standard non-ASCII DNS
1908 hostnames: we just use the IP instead of crashing now.
1909 * Spurious cyclic usage error in i18n fixed.
1910 * Fixed antispam for python 2.5a xmlrpclib.
1911 * I18n for linenumber toggle in listings.
1912 * All action menu entries are translatable now.
1915 * Added css classes for the rst admonitions. Thanks to TiagoMacambira!
1920 * Added FullSearchCached macro which is statically cached.
1921 Use it if you do not depend on fresh search results but prefer raw speed.
1922 * Added surge protection, see HelpOnConfiguration/SurgeProtection.
1923 * Allow hex and symbolic entities.
1924 * If there is a user with empty password, we just generate a random one
1925 when he requests it getting sent by mail. Thanks to Reimar Bauer.
1926 * The superuser now can switch to another user using UserPreferences -
1927 nice to help your users when they forgot their password or need other
1928 help. You need to logout/relogin to use your own userid afterwards.
1929 This function only works correctly if you use moin_cookie authentication.
1930 Thanks to Reimar Bauer.
1931 * Add new markup for bulletless lists: just use a "." instead of "*".
1934 * Added "voyager" to bot useragent list.
1935 * Added locking for caching subsystem.
1936 * Deron Meranda's formatter API cleanup.
1937 * Added div and span to formatter API.
1938 * Removed old unfinished form and export code.
1942 * Fixed table attribute parsing.
1943 * Fixed cookie handling wrt properties adherance.
1944 * The new "." list markup makes it possible to have a bulletless list with
1945 elements on the same level. Before this change and only using indentation
1946 with blanks, that would get merged into a single paragraph.
1947 * It is possible now to have multiple paragraphs in the same list element,
1948 just leave an empty line in between the paragraphs.
1949 * Fixed GAP processing for ordered lists.
1950 * Fix text_gedit formatter's invalid list nesting.
1951 * Fixed hr crash in blockquote (but needs more work).
1952 * Fixed FootNote's formatter usage.
1953 * Fixed rst's headline levels.
1956 * Fixed that macros were followed by a wrong <p>.
1957 * Added <blockquote> to the block elements in the text_html formatter,
1958 so it does not close it erratically when you close a inner <p>.
1959 * GUI editor converter now also accept http: urls without // (relative or
1961 * Fixed the DocBook parser in cases where the pagename was non-ascii.
1968 * Fixed rst parser docutils version check
1969 * Repaired attachment unzipping feature.
1970 * Fixed the AddRevision command of the PackageInstaller.
1971 * improved the migration scripts (used to migrate pre-1.3 wikis to 1.3+):
1972 * do not crash on empty lines in event log
1973 * fix edit log format for very old moin data (like 0.11)
1974 * workaround for an ugly win32 operating system bug leading to wiki text
1975 file mtime not matching edit logs timestamp values if there was some
1976 timezone change since last edit (e.g. a daylight saving tz switch),
1977 but differing 3600s.
1978 This affected pre-1.3 moin wiki servers running on win32 OS only.
1979 We now try to correct those inconsistencies in mig05 by fuzzy matching.
1980 * fixed bracketed link scheme icon (css class)
1981 * we included a modified copy of Python 2.4.2's copy.py as some previous
1982 python versions seem to have problems (2.3.x, x < 5 and also 2.4[.0]),
1984 Our own copy.py was slightly modified to run on 2.3.x and 2.4.x.
1985 * Fixed the problem of not being able to change the date/time format back
1986 to "Default" (UserPreferences).
1987 * We generate the GUI editor footer now the same way as the text editor
1989 * Include a CSS workaround for yet another IE bug, see:
1990 MoinMoinBugs:InternetExplorerPeekABooBugInRightSideBar
1991 * classic theme: added GUI editor link
1992 * classic theme: added pagename header to editor screen
1993 * the "mail enabled" check now also checks whether mail_from is set
1996 * Updated FCKeditor to current CVS (2006-01-08 == 2.2+)
1997 * Split up show_hosts into show_hosts and show_names
1998 * attachment:file%20with%20spaces.txt in attachment list
1999 * added support for file:// in GUI editor link dialogue, see also:
2001 * cfg.mail_smarthost now supports "server:port" syntax, the default port
2003 * removed unused kwargs showpage/editable/form from wikiutil.send_footer
2004 * updated i18n (translation texts, additional languages)
2005 * removed interwiki:pagename from print view's top of page, added it to
2006 the "lasted edited" line at bottom right.
2010 HINT: 1.5.0 uses the same data/pages format as 1.3.x. The only thing you want
2011 to check is whether the 1.5.x version you are upgrading to has NEW mig
2012 scripts compared to the version you are running now (e.g. in 1.3.5 we
2013 added some scripts that fixed some small problems).
2014 See the MoinMoin/scripts/migration/ directory.
2015 You must run every mig script in sequence and only ONCE ever.
2017 * Fix <x=y> table attributes parsing. Thanks to Reimar Bauer.
2018 * Fixed a few bugs in the reStructured text parser. Note that you
2019 need to install docutils 0.3.10 or newer (snapshot from December 2005
2020 or newer) to make reStructuring parsing work:
2021 * Case preservation for anonymous links
2022 * MoinMoin links get the appropriate CSS class
2023 * Images do not get special CSS markup anymore
2024 Thanks to Matthew Gilbert.
2025 * Fixed a bug in the WSGI code which led to incorrect exception handling.
2026 * Removed all nationality flags. They used to be used for indicating some
2027 specific language (NOT nationality) and this was simply wrong and a bad
2029 * Fixed some header rendering issues (CSS).
2030 * SystemAdmin macro now checks against cfg.superuser list.
2033 * Added turkish i18n. To be considered as alpha as it got in last minute.
2037 This is the first release candidate of MoinMoin 1.5.0.
2040 * fixed broken logs when a DeletePage (maybe also RenamePage) comment
2041 contained CR/LF characters (could happen when using copy&paste)
2042 * fixed GUI editor MoinEditorBackup page containing HTML instead of wiki
2044 * fixed invalid HTML in FootNotes
2045 * fixed HTML source in EditorBackup after canceling GUI editor
2046 * Footnotes of included pages are not shown at the bottom of the including page.
2047 * Bug in Dict handling that often breaks first entry
2051 * Added SSO module for PHP based apps. Currently supported: eGroupware 1.2.
2052 No need to login in two systems anymore - MoinMoin will read the PHP session
2056 * Improved rendering of bullet lists and external links in Restructured text.
2057 Thanks to Matthew Gilbert.
2058 * Fixed modern theme rendering, including some fixes and workarounds for
2060 * When checking for email uniqueness, do not compare with disabled user
2062 * Fix sending of HTTP headers for Despam action.
2063 * Add some margin left and right of the link icons.
2066 * Made it easier for auth methods needing a user interface (like ldap or
2067 mysql stuff). Unlike http auth, they usually need some "login form".
2068 We made UserPreferences login form values (name, password, login, logout)
2069 available as kw args of the auth method, so it is easy and obvious now.
2070 * Make login and logout show at the same place. Is only shown when
2071 show_login is True (default).
2072 * Disabled login using &uid=12345.67.8910 method. Please use name/password.
2073 * Made builtin moin_cookie authentication more modular: the cookie is now
2074 touched by MoinMoin.auth.moin_cookie only, with one minor discomfort:
2075 When creating a user, you are not automatically logged in any more.
2076 * We now use the packager for additional help and system pages in all other
2077 languages except English. The packages are attached to SystemPagesSetup
2078 page and can be installed from there after getting "superuser" powers.
2079 The "extra" package contains a collection of orphan pages not listed on
2080 some SystemPagesIn<Language>Group page.
2085 * Fixed a minor user interface bug: it showed RenamePage and DeletePage
2086 actions in the menu if you only had write rights and then complained
2087 when you really tried when you had no delete rights additionally.
2088 * We don't remove RenamePage and DeletePage from menu any more if user is
2089 unknown. This stuff is only driven by ACLs now.
2090 * Some fixes to Despam action.
2091 * Fixed moin_dump (broken by some recent theme init change).
2092 * Fixed a few tests by moving the theme init from moin_dump to RequestCLI.
2093 * removed old_onload reference from infobox.js
2094 * Fixed MoinMoin logo for IE.
2095 * search: fixed whitespace handling in linkto: search terms
2096 * Increased stability of the tests system by outputting results to sys.stdout
2097 instead of request. Note that this changes the semantics for e.g. mod_py or
2099 * Fixed packaging system in the case of AddRevision that does not alter the page.
2100 * Fixed a few bugs in the XML formatters (dom_xml, text_xml, xml_docbook).
2101 * Fixed link icons. We now just use a.xxx.before where xxx is the link scheme,
2102 e.g. a.http.before. See theme's common.css.
2103 * Hopefully fixed some issue with non-ASCII attachment filenames.
2104 * Workaround for Opera 8.5 making silly "No addition" categories.
2105 * Do not show GUI editor for non-wiki format pages, because we only have a
2106 converter from html to wiki right now.
2107 * Fix the modern CSS issues for editbar, when it shifted content far right.
2108 Also removed the absolute height value that never was right.
2109 * Fix mod_python adaptor bugs failing to handle Location correctly.
2110 See: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=339543
2113 * Added irc:// to the builtin supported link schemas. You can remove it
2114 from config.url_schemas in case you have patched it in there.
2115 * Added cfg.user_autocreate (default: False). Use True to enable user
2116 profile autocreation, e.g. when you use http authentication, so your
2117 externally authenticated users don't need to create their moin profile
2118 manually. The auth method (see cfg.auth list) must check this setting
2119 if it supports auto creation.
2120 * Added user_autocreate support for auth.http and auth.sslclientcert.
2121 * Added "." and "@" to allowed characters in usernames. This is needed
2122 e.g. when using mod_pubcookie for authentication. mod_pubcookie returns
2123 userids like "geek@ANDREW.CMU.EDU" (e.g. the Kerberos domain is part of
2124 the id). Thanks to Brian E. Gallew for his patch, which we used for
2125 inspiration for user autocreation changes.
2126 * Changed auth method to return a tuple (user_obj, continue_flag), see
2127 comments in auth.py.
2128 * auth methods now create user objects with kw args auth_method and
2129 auth_attribs, so that moin knows later how the user was authenticated
2130 and which user object attributes were determined by the auth method.
2131 * Added MoinMoin/scripts/import/IrcLogImporter.py to import supybot's
2132 IRC logs into a moin wiki. We use MonthCalendar compatible page names,
2133 so you can use the calendar for showing / navigating the logs.
2134 * Removed packager binary from FCKeditor (fixing a Debian policy problem).
2135 * Worked around .png transparency bugs of IE with the new logo. We ship
2136 two logos: moinmoin.png without an alpha channel (IE compatible) and
2137 moinmoin_alpha.png which has an alpha channel and looks better on
2138 browsers with full .png support.
2139 * Allow a .zip file to have a directory in it if it is the only one.
2143 * use <span class="anchor"> instead of <a> for line-xxx anchors, this
2144 fixes some rendering problems on IE
2145 * Fixed the ReStructured text parser when it was used with non-HTML
2146 formatters. Increased compatiblity with new docutils code.
2147 (Thanks to Matt Gilbert.)
2149 * cfg.stylesheets = [] (default). You can use this on wiki or farm level
2150 to emit stylesheets after the theme css and before the user prefs css.
2151 The list entries must be ('screen', '/where/ever/is/my.css') style.
2152 * Added sample code for auth using an external cookie made by some other
2153 program. See contrib/auth_externalcookie/*. You need to edit it to
2154 fit whatever cookie you want to use.
2158 * fixed editor preview throwing away page content for new pages
2159 * require POST for userform save and create* action
2160 * use request.normalizePagename() while collecting pagelinks
2161 * do not offer gui editor for safari
2163 * tell user if account is disabled
2164 * added support for linking to .ico and .bmp
2165 * attachment methods for the text_xml and xml_docbook formatters
2167 * updated i18n (fixed nl, did nobody notice this?) and underlay
2168 * changed show_interwiki default to 0
2173 * fix gui editor (converter) crash on save
2176 * Avoid destroying existing page content if editor is called with
2177 template parameter for an existing page.
2178 * fix countdown javascript for browser status line in editor
2179 * added page title display for editor
2180 * added header div for classic theme
2182 Authentication and related:
2183 * Added a WhoAmI.py wiki xmlrpc plugin to check whether auth works
2184 correctly for xmlrpc. There is a counterpart script WhoAmI.py that
2185 uses http auth when calling the xmlrpc plugin, so you can use it to
2189 * Requirements changed to require Python >= 2.3. We recommend that
2190 you use the latest Python release you can get. The reason we
2191 dropped 2.2.2 support is because no developer or tester uses this
2192 old version any more, so incompatibilities crept in the code
2193 without anybody noticing. Using some recent Python usually is no
2194 real problem, see there for some hints in case you still run an
2195 old python: http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/NewPythonOnOldLinux
2196 The hint also does apply to other POSIX style operating systems,
2198 * We recommend you use MoinMoin/scripts/cachecleaner.py to clean the
2199 wiki's cache (see comments at top of the script).
2200 The cache will automatically be rebuilt (some operations may take
2201 some time when first being used, e.g. linkto: search, so be patient!).
2204 * there is a file CHANGES.config with just the recently changed stuff
2207 * page_front_page old: u"FrontPage" new: u"HelpOnLanguages"
2208 please just read the help page in case you see it :)
2209 * bang_meta old: 0 new: 1
2210 * show_section_numbers old: 1 new: 0
2211 * some regexes that used to be [a-z]Uxxxx$ are now [a-z0-9]Uxxxx$
2212 * navi_bar has no page_front_page as first element any more
2213 * removed settings and code [new behaviour]:
2215 * allow_extended_names [1]
2216 * allow_numeric_entities [1]
2218 * allow_subpages [1]
2220 * cfg.mail_sendmail = "/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i" can be used if sending
2221 via SMTP doesn't work on your server. Default is None and that means
2223 * language_default replaces the old default_lang setting (just renamed).
2224 * language_ignore_browser = True can be used to let moin ignore the
2225 user's browser settings (e.g. if you run a local-language only wiki
2226 and your users use misconfigured or buggy browsers often). Default is
2227 False. Don't forget to set language_default when using this.
2229 * Wiki Editor changes / new WYSIWYG editor
2230 * fully imported the javascript based LGPLed FCKeditor (many thanks
2231 to Fred CK for his great work). See http://fckeditor.net/ for details.
2232 * config for FCKeditor is at wiki/htdocs/applets/moinfckeditor.js
2233 * added cfg.interwiki_preferred (default = []) to set a list of wikis to
2234 show at the top of the wiki selection list when inserting an
2235 interwiki link (just use the same wiki name as in interwiki
2236 map). If the last list item is None, then the preferred wikis
2237 will not be followed by the entries of the interwiki map.
2238 * moved save/preview/... buttons to the top so that they can be
2240 * reduced edit_rows default to 20 lines
2241 * Added support for edit by doubleclick in the diff view
2243 * Improved wiki farm support
2244 * make user files sharable between several wikis in a farm
2245 * allow/use interwiki subscriptions
2246 * use interwiki links in page trail
2247 * save bookmark per wiki name
2248 * cfg.cookie_domain can be used to set a cookie valid for a complete
2249 domain (default: None == only for this host). If you use '.domain.tld',
2250 the cookie will be valid for all hosts *.domain.tld - good for host
2252 * cfg.cookie_path can be used to set a cookie valid for a wiki farm under
2253 some base path (default: None == only for this wiki's path). If you use
2254 '/wikifarm', the cookie will be valid for all wikis
2255 server.tld/wikifarm/* - good for path based wiki farms.
2256 * Interwiki user homepage (if you have MANY users)
2257 Generated links for usernames are interwiki now, use cfg.user_homewiki
2258 (default: 'Self') to specify in which wiki the user home pages are
2259 located. Note: when pointing this to another wiki, the /MoinEditorBackup
2260 functionality will be disabled.
2261 @SIG@ also uses interwiki when needed.
2263 * Authentication, ACLs and related
2264 * Modular authentication: cfg.auth is a list of functions that return a
2265 valid user or None, use it like this:
2266 from MoinMoin.auth import http, moin_cookie
2267 auth = [http, moin_cookie]
2268 * cfg.auth_http_enabled was removed, please use cfg.auth instead.
2269 * http auth now supports "Negotiate" scheme, too
2270 * Added sslclientcert auth method (Apache: untested, Twisted: not
2271 implemented, IIS: no idea). See MoinMoin/auth.py for details.
2272 Submit a patch if you have improvements.
2273 * cfg.superuser is a list of unicode usernames. It is used by some
2274 critical operations like despam action or PackageInstaller.
2275 * removed allowed_actions, we now use actions_excluded only and it
2276 defaults to [], that means, no action is excluded, everything is
2277 allowed (limited by ACLs). In case of RenamePage and DeletePage,
2278 this shouldn't be a problem as both can be reverted. In case you
2279 did not allow attachments, you now have to use:
2280 actions_excluded = ['AttachFile']
2281 * special users (All, Known, Trusted) in Groups are now supported
2282 * MoinMoin.security.autoadmin SecurityPolicy added
2283 When using this security policy, a user will get admin rights on his
2284 homepage (where pagename == username) and its sub pages. This is needed
2285 for the MyPages action, but can also get used for manual ACL changes.
2286 It can also be used for Project page auto admin functionality, see the
2287 comments in the script for details.
2288 Further it can automatically create the user's group pages when the
2289 user saves his homepage.
2290 * there is a UpdateGroup xmlrpc call, see MoinMoin/xmlrpc/UpdateGroup.py -
2291 you can use this to update your *Group pages e.g. when generating them
2292 from an external group database.
2294 * UserPreferences changes
2295 * Alias name: is used for display purposes, when "name" is cryptic. It is
2296 shown e.g. in the title attribute of userid links (displayed when
2297 moving the mouse over it).
2298 * "Publish my email (not my wiki homepage) in author info" - use this
2299 if you don't have a wiki homepage, but if you want to be contactable
2300 by email. When you edit a page, your email address will be published
2301 as mailto: link on RecentChanges, at bottom of page (last editor) and
2302 in page info. If the wiki runs publically on the internet, be careful
2303 using this or your email address might be collected by spammers.
2304 * Preferred Editor: whether you want to use the text editor (as in
2305 previous moin versions), the gui editor (new!) or both (you will get
2306 2 edit links in that case).
2307 * a user can add/remove the current page to/from his quicklinks with an
2308 appropriate action now
2309 * if cfg.user_email_unique = False, we don't require user's email
2310 addresses to be unique
2311 * removed show_fancy_links user preferences setting to simplify code and
2312 caching. Displaying those icons is now done by CSS styles (see
2313 common.css). Maybe needs fixing for non-standard themes and RTL langs.
2316 * added strikethrough markup: --(striked through text here)--
2317 * @ME@ expands to just the plain username (no markup added) on save
2320 * when a user accesses his own non-existing homepage (pagename ==
2321 username), the wiki will present the MissingHomePage system page
2322 content, explaining what a user homepage is good for and offer
2323 one-click editing it with content loaded from HomepageTemplate
2324 * creation of homepage subpages is assisted by the MyPages action, which
2325 offers rw, ro page creation (and a related group) or creation of private
2326 pages. If you are not in the user_homewiki, you will get redirected
2329 Other changes/new features:
2330 * Added PackageInstaller and unzipping support (see wiki page
2331 HelpOnActions/AttachFile for further details). PackageInstaller requires
2332 the user to be in cfg.superuser list.
2333 * Added an PackagePages action to simplify the package creation.
2334 * Added location breadcrumbs - when you are on some subpage, the page
2335 title parts link to the corresponding parent pages, the last part does
2336 the usual reverse linking.
2337 * added WSGI server support, thanks to Anakim Border, see:
2338 wiki/server/moinwsgi.py (moin as WSGI app, uses the flup WSGI server,
2339 see http://www.saddi.com/software/flup/)
2340 MoinMoin/server/wsgi.py (adaptor code)
2341 * added a "Despam" action to make de-spamming a wiki easy (mass revert
2342 bad changes done by a single author or bot). You need to be in
2343 cfg.superuser to use it.
2344 * Better diffs with links to anchors to the changed places
2345 * Enhanced table support in the DocBook formatter.
2346 * Added 'moin' daemon script, that let you run moin standalone
2347 server as daemon and control the server with simple command line
2348 intreface: moin start | stop | restart | kill
2349 * Add 'restart' option to mointwisted script
2350 * Add properties option to standalone server config. Allow
2351 overriding any request property like in other server types.
2352 * Add support for running behind proxy out of the box with out
2354 See HelpOnConfiguration/IntegratingWithApache
2355 * added a WikiBackup action, configure it similar to this:
2356 data_dir = "/path/to/data"
2357 backup_include = [data_dir, ] # you can add other dirs here
2358 backup_users = ["BackupUserName", ] # only TRUSTED users!
2359 You usually don't need to change the default backup_exclude setting.
2360 The default backup_include list is EMPTY and so will be your
2361 backup in case you don't configure it correctly.
2362 If you put your data_dir there, the backup will contain private
2363 user data like email addresses and encrypted passwords.
2364 * Added a SubscribeUser action which allows the administrator to subscribe users to the
2366 * Added thread count to SystemInfo macro.
2367 * 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.
2368 * Added a RenderAsDocbook action which redirects to the DocBook formatter.
2369 * Added searching for wiki-local words lists under <data_dir>/dict/.
2370 They are used additionally to the global lists in MoinMoin/dict/.
2371 * moin_dump now also dumps attachments referenced from the page.
2372 It doesn't dump stuff that is just attached, but not referenced!
2373 * On RecentChanges we now force the comment to be breakable, this improves
2374 rendering of over-long words or on narrow browser windows - especially
2375 for themes with limited content width like rightsidebar.
2376 * We now have the "new" icon on RecentChanges clickable, just links to the
2378 * Print view now shows "interwikiname: pagename" (for show_interwiki = 1).
2380 International support:
2381 * mail_from can be now a unicode name-address
2382 e.g u'Jürgen wiki <noreply@jhwiki.org>'
2385 * logo_string is now should be really only the logo (img).
2386 If you included your wiki's name in logo_string you maybe want to remove
2387 it now as it is shown as part of the location display now anyway (if
2388 you set show_interwiki = 1).
2389 * You maybe want to remove page_front_page from your navi_bar - we link to
2390 that page now from the logo and (new, if you set show_interwiki = 1) from
2391 the interwiki name displayed in location display, so you maybe don't need
2392 it in navi_bar, too.
2393 * If you have a custom theme, you should / may:
2394 * sync modern/css/screen.css #pagelocation #pagetrail stuff to your
2395 screen.css or pagelocation display (title()) will look strange (like a
2397 * remove "#title h1 ..." CSS (or any other CSS assuming h1 is a page
2398 title and not just a first level heading), it is not used any more.
2399 * we now render = heading = as <h1> (was <h2> before 1.5),
2400 == heading == as <h2> (was <h3>), etc.
2401 * maybe move both title() and trail() to header area, like the builtin
2403 * there is a new interwiki() base theme method that optionally (if
2404 show_interwiki = 1) shows the interwiki name of this wiki and links to
2405 page_front_page. The css for it is #interwiki.
2408 * Plugin API was improved. When plugin module is missing,
2409 wikiutil.PluginMissingError is raised. When trying to import a
2410 missing name from a plugin module, wikiutil.PluginMissingError is
2411 raised. You must update any code that use wikiutil.importPlugin.
2412 Errors in your plugin should raise now correct tracebacks. See
2413 http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/ErrorHandlingInPlugins
2414 * pysupport.importName was changed, it does not check for any
2415 errors when trying to import a name from a module. The calling
2416 code should check for ImportError or AttributeError. Previous
2417 code used to hide all errors behind None.
2418 * Its easier now to customize the editbar by overriding
2419 editbarItems() in your theme, and returning a list of items to
2420 display in the editbar. To change a single editbar link, override
2421 one of the xxxLink methods in your theme.
2424 * request.formatter (html) is available for actions now
2425 * theme API's d['page_home_page'] is gone (sorry) and replaced by
2426 d['home_page'] which is either None or tuple (wikiname,pagename).
2427 It is better to use the base classes function for username/prefs anyway.
2428 * introduced cfg.hacks for internal use by development, see comment in
2429 multiconfig.py and file HACKS.
2430 * added IE7 (v0.9) from Dean Edwards (see http://dean.edwards.name/IE7/) -
2431 that should fix quite some IE bugs and annoyances (on Win32).
2432 * for enabling IE7, use cfg.hacks = { 'ie7': True }
2433 * reducewiki now also copies all attachments (we use that to make underlay
2434 directory from moinmaster wiki's data_dir)
2437 * Fixed a typo in xslt.py which led to a traceback instead of an
2438 error message in case of disabled XSLT support.
2439 * Fixed crash in twisted server if twisted.internet.ssl is not
2441 * Fixed wrong decoding of query string, enable wiki/?page_name urls
2442 with non ascii page names.
2443 * Fixed wrong display of non ascii attachments names in
2444 RecentChanges and page revision history.
2445 * Fixed a crash when trying to run standalone server on non posix os.
2446 * Fixed highlight of misspelled words in Check Spelling action.
2447 * Fixed case insensitivity problems on darwin (Mac OS X). See
2449 * Added RecentChanges (only the english one) to the pages getting
2450 html_head_index headers
2451 * text_html cache files written with this code will invalidate themselves
2452 if they detect to be older than the wikiconfig. Note: you should remove
2453 all old text_html cache files once after upgrading, they will then be
2454 rebuilt automatically with the new code.
2456 * Fixed the word_rule: a word like AAAbbAbb isn't teared into two parts
2457 any more (was: AA<link>AbbAbb</link>)
2458 * Fixed false positive InterWiki markup for languages like Finnish.
2459 InterWiki links are only rendered if the left side has an appropriate
2460 entry in the interwiki map, otherwise it is rendered as simple text.
2461 * Fixed unicode error when uploding non-ascii file name using mod
2463 * Fixed error handling of wikirpc requests, should give more
2464 correct errors and prevent no error output and blocking the
2465 client in some cases.
2466 * Fixed the "lost password" mail processing. If a user entered some email
2467 address unknown to the system, he was not notified of this, but just got
2468 a useless mail with no account data in it. Now the system directly tells
2469 the user that he entered an unknown email address.
2470 * Fixed SystemInfo, it now also lists parsers in data/plugin/parser dir.
2471 * Fix error handling on failure, improved error display
2472 * Fix error handling when importing plugins or importing modules
2473 dynamically. The fix is not backward compatible with older plugins.
2474 * Fix chart action, returns a page with error message when chart
2476 * Fixed formatter usage in the ShowSmileys macro.
2477 * Fixed updating pagelinks cache for [:page:text] or [wiki:Self:page text],
2478 fixes display of LocalSiteMap and rendering of such links.
2479 * Hopefully fixed urllib problems (esp. with py 2.4.2, but also before) by
2480 using our own urllib wrapper that handles encoding/decoding to/from
2481 unicode, see wikiutil.py. Also made a similar fix for making and parsing
2483 * Fixed MonthCalendar tooltips when containing special chars like quotes.
2484 * Added html escaping for diff text for RSS feed with diff=1.
2485 * The distance between page content beginning and the first = heading =
2486 was much too much. Fixed.
2490 We used that version number for an internal and early development version
2491 for what will be called moin 2.0 at some time in the future.
2492 There will never be a 1.4.x release.
2495 Version 1.3.5 (2005-08-04, Revision moin--main--1.3--patch-883)
2498 * small CSS fix for rightsidebar theme
2499 * applied some Debian patches (thanks to Jonas!):
2500 * de i18n spelling fixes
2501 * AttachFile fix, we strip CR in .draw files now
2502 * when loading spellcheck dictionaries, we want utf-8, but we make
2503 a 2nd try with iso-8859-1 encoding.
2507 * enabled using https with the Twisted server:
2508 You need to use port 443, have PyOpenSSL (+ ssl libs it depends on)
2509 installed and have some site key and certificate PEM files configured in
2510 your twistedmoin.py file:
2511 sslcert = ('/whereever/cert/sitekey.pem', '/whereever/cert/sitecert.pem')
2514 Version 1.3.5rc1 (2005-07-31, Revision moin--main--1.3--patch-865)
2518 * Fixed security bug when acl of deleted page was ignored. See:
2520 * AttachFile did not display the original filename plus there
2521 was a confusion in input field labelling ('Rename to').
2522 * Fixed shortcut link non-existent page detection.
2523 * Fixed non-working bookmark function on python 2.2.x.
2524 * Fixed wikirpc getPageInfo call on python 2.2.x.
2525 * Fixed the failing import of plugins from the data/plugin/
2526 directories if run in zipimport environments.
2527 * Fixed traceback which occurred on negated searches.
2528 * Fixed crash when trying to render error message on twisted, fast
2530 * Fixed error message with modpy, used to show wrong errors below
2532 * Fixed search and goto text fields for better compatibility with
2533 dark themes and better control through css.
2534 * Show an edit link if MissingPage is missing and a warning in the
2536 * Fixed missing footer in the editor.
2537 * Fixed indented (invalid) headings with broken links in table of
2539 * Fixed crash when file name is too long, show standard error message.
2540 * Save trail file in a safe way, should be enough for normal use.
2541 * Fixed remember_last_visit user preferences option when show_trail
2543 * Fixed the tests for Standalone, Twisted, FastCGI and Mod_Python.
2544 Run with ?action=test from any page.
2545 * Fixed rare bug when wrong search type was performed when pasting
2546 search term in Safari.
2547 * Fixed crash for custom formatters and dom_xml (which occurred if
2548 smileys were in the page).
2549 * Editor opens on double click in pages with single quote in the
2550 name, like "Ben's Wiki".
2551 * '/.' in page names are not replaced any more by '/(2e)'
2552 * Fixed the long delays while saving pages using RequestCLI.
2553 * Fixed variable expanding for users with non WikiName.
2554 * Fixed MonthCalendar's calculation of "today" to use the user's
2556 * Fixed moin_dump script, use same configuration options as other
2558 * Fixed url_mappings to work in proxied setups and sent mails
2559 again. Also fixed for image links. Thanks to JohannesBerg.
2560 * Fixed page shown after saving a drawing (esp. when saved from a
2561 sub page). Fixed help link for drawings.
2562 * Fixed mig10 script to run on Python < 2.3.
2563 * The twisted server defaulted to a socket timeout of 12 hours!
2564 We reduced that to a more sane 10 minutes, that should still be more
2565 than enough. This fixed the "too many open files" problem we
2566 encountered quite often recently. Thanks to Helmut Grohne!
2571 * Added cz, pt and pt-br i18n.
2572 * We send a 404 http status code for nonexisting wiki pages now,
2573 maybe this will repell some search engines from requesting gone
2574 pages again and again. The wiki user still sees the MissingPage
2575 wiki stuff, so a user usually won't notice this change.
2576 * Return 500 error code on failure and exceptions.
2577 * Added some more bot / leech tool user agent strings.
2578 * Prevent page floating elements from floating out of the page over
2579 the footer, in modern, rightsidebar and classic themes.
2580 * Encode URLs in a safer way
2581 * We allow usernames with ' character in them now (like Tim O'Brian).
2582 * Added support for the new security flags in docutils 0.3.9.
2583 * @MAILTO@ expands now to safer [[MailTo()]] macro.
2584 * Clarified and i18ned lost password mails.
2585 * Added 'TitleIndex' and 'SiteNavigation' (+ translation) to the
2586 list of pages that use html_head_index (so that robots
2587 "index,follow"). Please make sure to have either FindPage,
2588 TitleIndex or SiteNavigation in your navi_bar or in your
2589 page_front_page content if you want search engines to find all
2591 * Make it possible to send account data when being logged in (for
2592 future reference or whatever purpose).
2593 * Speed up when running with persistent servers, the wiki config
2594 does only get loaded once and misc. stuff is being cached between
2596 * The unit tests are disabled when using multi threading, because
2597 the wiki configuration is shared between diffrent threads.
2598 * The main code path (using standalone server) of MoinMoin runs on
2600 * Formatters do automatically transform HTML to plain text if they are
2601 called with raw HTML code.
2602 * Using larger socket backlog on Standalone and FastCGI servers
2603 should be more reliable on high load.
2604 * We now strip leading path from attachments uploaded by IE (this is
2605 a bug in IE, not in MoinMoin). Better use a sane browser, like Firefox.
2606 * added "teleport" to the user agent blacklist
2610 * Integrated Lupy indexer for better search performance. It is disabled
2611 by default as of 1.3.5 as it still has known issues.
2612 See multiconfig.py if you want to test it.
2613 * Integrated MonthCalendar 2.1, with some new features:
2614 * a mouseover bubble that shows first level headlines of the linked
2616 * all calendars with same pagename move when using cal navigation,
2617 thanks to Oliver Graf
2618 * included AnnualMonthlyCalendar patch of Jonathan Dietrich
2619 (use [[MonthCalendar(Yearly,,,+1,,6,1)]] syntax for birthdays and
2620 other annually repeating stuff)
2621 Make sure you remove old MonthCalendar.* from data/plugin/macro so that
2622 moin will use the new code in MoinMoin/macro/MonthCalendar.py.
2623 Maybe also clear the text_html cache.
2624 * Added the new XSLT parser and the DocBook parser. This should increase
2625 the 4suite compatiblity. See HelpOnXmlPages for details.
2626 It now should run on 4suite 1.0a4 and 1.0b1. Thanks to Henry Ho!
2627 * Added the DocBook formatter. This will let you generate DocBook markup
2628 by writing simple wiki pages. It needs PyXML.
2629 * It is now possible to customize parts of the UserPreferences page in
2630 your wikiconfig (changing defaults, disabling fields, removing fields):
2631 * Use user_checkbox_* for the checkboxes.
2632 * Use user_form_* for other fields.
2633 * See MoinMoin/multiconfig.py for the built-in defaults.
2634 * New standalone server classes: ThreadPoolServer using pool of
2635 threads, ThreadingServer with thread limit and ForkingServer.
2636 * New standalone server configuration options: serverClass,
2637 threadLimit, requestQueueSize.
2638 * Use "PythonOption Location" in mod_python setup to solve script_name
2643 * Theme can now override maxPagenameLength() method to control page
2645 * A search Match now provides access to the full re match via
2646 the re_match attribute (use to access groups of the match)
2647 * Underlay is not managed by arch any more. The tree contains an
2648 underlay tarball, and you should untar after you update from main.
2649 * "make update-underlay" will untar underlay
2650 * "make merge" will star-merge main into your tree
2651 * "make test" will now create and run in a fresh testwiki instace
2652 * "make clean" options added
2653 * _tests module does not have a global request any more. To refer to
2654 the current request in a test, use self.request.
2655 * _tests.TestConfig class require a request in the constructor.
2656 * "python tests/runtests.py test_module" will run only test_module
2657 * request.cfg stays between requests (for persistent servers).
2660 Version 1.3.4 (2005-03-13, Revision moin--main--1.3--patch-666)
2664 * Fixed ACL check in LikePages macro that caused links to unreadable
2666 * Fixed ACL check in newpage action.
2667 * Fixed a security problem when admin policy defined in a custom
2668 SecurityPolicy class was ignored.
2669 * Fixed ACL check in action=show so that a user who may not read a page
2670 also can't find out WHEN the protected page was updated.
2671 * Workaround on Windows 95, 98, ME in order to clear the dircache.
2672 This fixes some bugs related to an outdated page list and newly created
2673 pages that did not appear immediately.
2674 * Fixed decoding issues of page names on Windows, finally.
2676 * Fixed traceback on IIS.
2678 * Fixed wikirpc for standalone server.
2679 * Other fixes (encoding and str/unicode data type related) to wikirpc
2680 server, fixing some non-ascii issues hopefully.
2681 * Fixed broken query strings for Standalone installations.
2682 * Fixed backlinks - the result did not always show all links, often it
2684 * Fixed the acceptance of the show_hosts setting. Now you should be able
2685 to hide any IP or host name from being published by MoinMoin by enabling
2687 * Fixed wrong line endings on email messages.
2689 * Fixed crash when trail file is missing.
2690 * Fixed a traceback when searching for single ( or ).
2691 * Added mig10 script to fix crashes with uncoverted edit-locks and file
2692 attachments. Just use it as you did with mig1..mig9 before.
2693 * Added mig11 script to add __init__.py files to data/plugin (and below).
2694 * added some fixes for the xslt parser (thanks to fanbanlo), it might be
2695 still broken, but someone with deeper knowledge about xslt should fix it.
2696 * Replaced image link with W3C's "html 4.01 compliance" icon by a simple
2697 text link to avoid https: or config trouble.
2698 * Catch OverflowError backtrace when illegal date strings (e.g. <1970 or
2699 >2038) are fed to moinmoin's time routines. It will just output current
2700 date / time in those cases.
2701 * UserPreferences now also set a date_fmt preference and Date macro
2702 honours it. You may have to reset your UserPreferences value for that.
2703 * Fixed free parent and subpage links in interwiki notation.
2705 * Fixed a traceback for invalid ReST markup.
2706 * Fixed UnicodeError in SystemAdmin's Attachment Browser.
2710 * Optimized the IRC parser.
2711 * Support for zipimport of the MoinMoin package. This allows you to use
2712 py2exe and similar programs.
2713 * Show the editor's name in the mail subject.
2714 * Added the pragmas description and keywords. They will add <meta> headers
2716 * Added MoinMoin/scripts/xmlrpc-tools/putPageTest.py example script, useful
2717 as a starting point for importing data using wiki xmlrpc.
2718 * Optimised display on Opera browser.
2722 * The search modifier "linkto:" was introduced. You can use it to search
2724 * The NewPage macro now can take a PageTemplate parameter, see HelpOnMacros.
2725 * New config settings (so you don't need to edit wikirpc.py any more):
2726 xmlrpc_putpage_enabled = 0 (if 1, enables writing to arbitrary page names)
2727 xmlrpc_putpage_trusted_only = 1 (if 0, doesn't require users to be
2728 authenticated by http auth - DANGEROUS, DO NOT SET TO 0!!!)
2729 * Added support for Digest and NTLM authentication with CGI (e.g. if you
2730 use those Apache modules)
2731 * The datetime string accepted by Date and DateTime macros was extended to
2732 accept a timezone specification, so now +/-HHMM is also valid, e.g.:
2733 2005-03-06T15:15:57Z (UTC, same as +0000)
2734 2005-03-06T15:15:57+0000 (UTC)
2735 2005-03-06T16:15:57+0100 (same time given as local time for time zone
2736 with offset +0100, that is CET, e.g. Germany)
2737 2005-03-06T10:15:57-0500 (same time given as local time for time zone
2738 with offset -0500, EST, US Eastern Std. Time)
2739 The values given as macro argument will be transformed to UTC internally
2740 and then adapted again according to viewing user's UserPreferences, so
2741 the user will see the same moment in time but shown in his local time
2742 zone's time (at least if he set his UserPreferences correctly and didn't
2743 forget changing them twice a year for DST and non-DST).
2744 * Readded (now optional) editlink footer to Include macro. Add
2745 ',editlink' to call to enable this.
2746 * star "smileys" e.g. {*}{*}{*}{o}{o}
2749 Version 1.3.3 (2005-01-24, Revision moin--main--1.3--patch-595)
2753 * fixed ACL security problem in search
2754 * fix for IIS with CGI allowing page names that contain chars
2755 that are not in the system code page
2756 * fixed MoinEditorBackup revisions to start with 1 now
2757 * improved page locking ('current' file)
2758 * Unittests (normally shown at end of action=test output) are currently
2759 disabled for everything except CGI, because they only work reliably with
2760 CGI, giving wrong results for other request methods.
2763 Version 1.3.2 (2005-01-23, Revision moin--main--1.3--patch-587)
2767 * ACL bugfix for deleted pages with ACL protection.
2768 * ACL bugfix for "Default" acl.
2769 * Fixed updating of groups and dicts
2770 * Python 2.2.x related fixes (worked on 2.3+)
2771 * Fixed traceback in RecentChanges.
2772 * Fixed traceback with links browser.
2773 * Fixed 0 revision display in 'Show changes'.
2774 * Fixed traceback in Antispam which occurred when it could not connect
2775 to MoinMaster. Log the errors to stderr or error.log.
2776 * Fixed bug in Page init (no date, use rev). Fixes problem with
2778 * Fixed empty lists in empty search results.
2779 * Cosmetic fix for modern theme (when viewed with Internet Explorer).
2780 * Fixed migration 9 script, do not drop newline, do not drop error.log,
2781 note about missing error.log.
2782 * Fixed repair_language.py script, keep ending newline on revisions.
2783 * Show headings and macro content in correct direction when mixing content
2784 in several directions in the same page and using caching.
2785 * Fixed bug in standalone re farmconfig.
2786 * Fixed DOS condition in antispam code.
2787 * Use smaller margin in print mode to get better results with
2789 * Fixed some user input escaping issues.
2790 * Fixed a problem when one wiki plugin override other wikis plugins in
2792 * Fixed some broken tests.
2793 * Fixed recursive include in pstats.
2794 * Fixed bug in standalone - HTTP result code was 200 even when the access
2796 * Fixed traceback when trying to login with non-ascii password.
2797 * Fixed traceback when xml is not available, reported on Python 2.2.?
2798 * Fixed slideshow to show slides in sorted order again.
2799 * Fixed serving multiple wikis on same IP/different ports with twisted and
2801 * It is possible to run with data_underlay_dir = None for special
2802 application, but be aware that the wiki won't be usable unless you have
2803 at least some of the system pages from underlay/ available.
2804 * Files with Unicode characters in their filename are possible now.
2805 * Bugfix for broken [:page#anchor:text] links.
2806 * Workaround an instability of the gdchart module leading to
2807 stalled servers etc.
2808 * Fixed some event-log decoding issues that affect charts rendering.
2812 * Major speed improvement over 1.3.1. Many times faster title search,
2813 creating new page, opening page editor and any operation that list pages.
2814 See http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/MoinBenchmarks
2815 * Improved README.migration.
2816 * Cleaner design for login/register interface, login is always the default
2817 button when the user click Enter.
2818 * If there are problems found in the configuration, log the error
2819 and display helpful error messages in the browser.
2820 * More forgiving unicode configuration policy, you must use the u'string'
2821 format only for unicode values.
2822 * Added profiling to CGI.
2823 * The content of farmconfig.py is similar to wikiconfig.py now.
2824 * Unexpected errors while loading cache files are logged.
2825 * i18n for icon ALT tags.
2826 * Include request initialization code in the profile in standalone server.
2827 * When creating new theme, style sheets are inherited correctly, no need
2828 to override style sheets just to get them working.
2829 * Many times faster plugin system. Typical pages are about 35% faster,
2830 pages with many plugins can be many times faster.
2831 * Spiders are allowed to fetch attachments.
2832 * Old user files containing password hash encoded in pre 1.3 charset
2833 are auto repaired on first login.
2834 * data_dir defaults to './data', underlay_data_dir to './underlay' now.
2835 It is a good idea to replace those by absolute pathes in wikiconfig.py.
2836 * Renamed "Refresh" to "Delete Cache" - it was misused by users. The action
2837 was also moved into the action menu in the modern and rightsidebar themes.
2838 * Added a workaround for TableOfContents missing some links by making it
2839 uncacheable via a "time" dependency.
2840 * Removed interwiki icon and title attribute for wiki:Self:... links.
2841 * Unittests (normally shown at end of action=test output) are currently
2842 disabled because they worked unreliably, giving wrong results sometimes.
2846 * Create new pages easily using configurable interface and page templates
2847 with the new NewPage macro.
2848 * ReStructuredText (rst) support is built-in now. See HelpOnParsers.
2849 * New experimental feature in mointwisted.py - each interface may
2850 specify a port: '12.34.56.78:80'. Without a port, the port option
2856 * wikiutil.importPlugin's first argument is now a wiki config instance
2857 (request.cfg) and there is no path keyword.
2858 * Wiki plugins always override MoinMoin plugins. wikiutil.importPlugin
2859 implements this override.
2860 * util.pysupport.importName does not accept path - you should call
2861 it with correct module name, e.g 'wikiconfig.plugin.parser.wiki' for
2862 wiki plugins, or 'MoinMoin.parser.wiki'.
2863 * wikiutil.extensionPlugin was renamed to wikiPlugins and it gets config
2864 instance instead of path.
2865 * New function wikiutil.importWikiPlugin used to import wiki plugins
2866 using a cache in a thread safe way.
2867 * New config option config.use_threads is used to activate thread
2869 * New keyword arguments for getPageList, enable 10X faster operation
2870 for common cases by controlling page filtering.
2871 * New up to 100X times faster getPageCount
2874 Version 1.3.1 (2004-12-13, Revision moin--main--1.3--patch-434)
2878 * Fixed "Error Cyclic usage" crash when user had Italian (it), Korean
2879 (ko), Serbian (sr) or Vietnamese (vi) as user interface language.
2880 * Fall back to en (instead of crashing) when user uses a language moin
2881 does not support / does not support any more (like pt,sv,fi,sr).
2882 * In 1.3.0, people accidentally put iso-8859-1 chars into wiki configs,
2883 but those where expected to be pure utf-8 and thus it crashed.
2884 Fixed by using unicode strings (varname = u'whatever'), a matching
2885 encoding setting (see top of script comment) and, when decoding strings,
2886 using decode to ASCII with replace mode (this replaces non-ASCII chars,
2887 but at least it won't crash - and you get a warning to better use
2889 * Fixed long time broken table formatting. ||<style="see css spec" a||b||
2890 Now even generates valid HTML! The old markup for align, valign, width,
2891 bgcolor still works, but synthesizes style attribute data.
2892 * SystemAdmin macro shows attachments of ALL pages now.
2893 * Users without write acl rights will be able to see attachments again and
2894 also have AttachFile action in menu.
2895 * Fixed wrong match count in search results, find all matches in page
2896 titles, show all matches in contents in some rare cases.
2897 * Run about 200% faster with long running processes (standalone, Twisted),
2898 about 20% faster with cgi, by better internal data handling in wikidicts.
2899 * On SF, the dict files use utf-8 encoding now. We included them also in
2900 distribution, see contrib/dict/.
2901 * Fixed permissions to shared template stuff.
2902 * Speeded up search, fixed wrong match counts.
2903 * Speeded up internal data handling (wikidicts).
2904 * Fixed rare unicode error after deleting a page (reported only on SuSE
2905 Linux 9.0 / Python 2.3.0).
2906 * Fixed file permissions of files in the data dir.
2907 * Fixed some cosmetic problems in migration scripts and use sys.path.insert
2908 to get latest moin code when executing them.
2912 * Improved docs, system and help pages.
2913 * Updated translation files.
2917 * Internet Explorer renders our HTML/CSS in a suboptimal way.
2919 Workaround: use a non-broken browser like FireFox / Mozilla.
2920 Fixed in MoinMoin 1.3.2.
2921 * Passwords using non-ascii do not work.
2923 * The TOC macro is broken partly.
2926 * See also: http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/MoinMoinBugs
2929 Version 1.3.0 (2004-12-06, Revision moin--main--1.3--patch-400)
2931 As you see from the length of the 1.3 changes below, 1.3 is a major(!)
2932 upgrade. We could have also named it "2.0", but we decided against.
2933 So take the time for reading the informations thoroughly and do the
2934 migration exactly as we tell you - this is no 5 minutes upgrade!
2936 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2937 !!! We heavily changed configuration, data encoding, dir layout: !!!
2938 !!! * the default encoding changed to utf-8. !!!
2939 !!! * also, we changed the escaping for special chars to %XX%YY in !!!
2940 !!! URL and (xxyy) in file system. !!!
2941 !!! * layout of data dir changed completely !!!
2942 !!! If you upgrade an existing wiki, you must run the migration !!!
2943 !!! scripts or you will get data corruption or other problems. !!!
2944 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2946 HINT: Upgrading your wiki - critical information
2948 If you are NOT starting from scratch, you MUST convert your existing
2949 data - see README.migration for details.
2951 If you use ##language: xx comments on your OWN pages, you should also run
2952 repair_language script. Not needed for help/system pages as we already
2953 have done that for you.
2955 MoinMoin uses Unicode internally now (UCS-2 with 16 bits or UCS-4 with
2956 32 bits, depending on your Python installation). The encoding used
2957 for page files and html output is set by config.charset.
2959 Moin 1.3 uses utf-8 encoding only, there is NO SUPPORT for using a
2960 charset different from utf-8 with 1.3. If you try, you are on your own.
2964 Directory layout was heavily changed. Each page now is a directory,
2965 containing page revisions, attachments, cache files and edit-log.
2967 You can delete a page or move a page from one wiki to another
2968 easily. Look at the wiki/data directory to see.
2971 old: data/text/FrontPage
2972 new: data/pages/FrontPage/revisions/00000042
2973 data/pages/FrontPage/current (contains: 00000042)
2974 old: data/backup/FrontPage.xxxxxxxx
2975 new: data/pages/FrontPage/revisions/00000023
2977 For cleaning up cache files, use MoinMoin/scripts/cachecleaner.py
2978 (see comments in script).
2982 * For using RSS, you need to have PyXML installed:
2983 Python 2.4* -> PyXML 0.8.4 (cvs version)
2984 Python 2.3.x -> PyXML 0.8.3
2985 Python 2.2.2+ -> ???
2986 This will also make "Live Bookmarks" of Mozilla Firefox working.
2987 New: if you don't have PyXML installed, the RSS icon on RecentChanges
2988 will not be displayed any more. Python with no PyXML installed
2989 generates invalid RSS XML.
2993 * Handling of special characters in file names changed from _xx format
2995 * In URLs, moin now uses %xx%yy quoting, (because this is supported by
2996 browsers), and sub pages use "/" instead of the ugly "_2f".
2997 * Underscore character "_" is used now as a space character " " both
2998 in file names and URLs. " " and "_" will be handled equivalent at most
2999 places in the future (represented as "_", rendered as " ").
3000 * To prevent wiki abuse and user typing errors, page names are normalized
3001 in URLs, query strings, the "go" box and when renaming pages. This
3002 include leading, trailing and multiple slashes and white space. Certain
3003 invisible unicode characters are removed from page names.
3004 * Group page names are restricted even more, any non unicode alpha-numeric
3005 character is removed. This is done to enable changing acl syntax in
3006 the future. The restriction might be loosen on future versions.
3007 * You can edit config.page_invalid_chars_regex to control which characters
3008 are allowed in page names (Changing it is not supported).
3009 * When you enter page name, it is normalized and you are redirected to
3010 the normalized page, or if nothing left (e.g '/////'), to FrontPage.
3011 * When renaming a page to a name that can be normalized to an empty string,
3012 the new page name will be "EmptyName" and the user will not get an
3017 * Pages (especially system and help pages) are now located in an underlay
3018 directory (data_underlay_dir). You will see the pages there if they are
3019 NOT covered (overlayed) by a page in the normal pages directory
3020 (as set using data_dir).
3021 MAKE SURE THAT data_underlay_dir IS CORRECT OR YOU WILL SEE MANY EMPTY
3022 PAGES ONLY IN A NEW WIKI.
3023 * If you edit a page that is shown from underlay directory, it will be
3024 copied to the normal page directory on save (copy-on-write).
3025 * You can use one copy of the underlay directory shared by many
3026 wiki instances. Each wiki will then have only your local, self-made
3027 wiki pages in its data directory, and only system and help pages in the
3028 single, shared underlay directory - this simplifies upgrades a lot.
3029 * It is recommended to keep your underlay system and help pages immutable
3030 using acl, so you can upgrade your wiki easily. The default help and
3031 system pages already have those ACLs (using MoinPagesEditorGroup).
3032 * Do not forget to remove your old help and system pages after migrating
3033 your wiki. We don't provide a script for that as that would be
3034 dangerous for edited pages. Just use some file manager (e.g. mc) to
3035 clean the data/pages/ directory. As soon as you have removed the
3036 system pages there, you will see the new pages in the underlay dir.
3037 See the EditedSystemPages page for a list of pages that exist in both
3038 data and underlay directory (use this page as admin!).
3040 When updating from 1.2 or lower to 1.3 or higher, you will want to
3041 clean out the copies of the system pages in your {{{wiki/data}}}
3042 directory. All of these pages will now reside in the underlay
3043 directory. If you have system pages from 1.2 or lower in your
3044 wiki/data/ directory, they will overshadow the more up-to-date
3045 documentation. This can be done using the following manual procedure:
3046 1. You have just converted from 1.2 or lower to post-1.3.
3047 2. Go to your wiki's EditedSystemPages.
3048 3. Find all the pages that are MoinMoin system or help pages. You will
3049 know if it is one of those pages because it is not your page.
3050 4. Check if it is okay to delete by either:
3051 1. Using the this page "info" link and check the Revision History to
3052 see if it is greater than 1. If so, there are modifications, so do
3053 not delete the page and evaluate the modifications to see if they
3055 2. Using your file browser (Windows Explorer, etc) to go to your
3056 wiki/data/<<systemPage>>/revisions/ directory and to see if there
3057 are no modifications. If there are, do not delete the page and
3058 evaluate the modifications to see if they are necessary.
3059 5. Delete that wiki/data/<<systemPage>> using your file browser.
3063 * New file name quoting method allow 50% longer page names in languages
3064 that use more than one byte per character, like Hebrew, Korean etc.
3065 * Configuration file uses 'utf-8' encoding now. Certain values that are
3066 marked with [Unicode] can use any character in your language. Examples
3067 are page names in navi_bar, page types regular expressions and site name.
3068 * For configuration examples adopted to your language, check ConfigMarket
3069 in the MoinMoin wiki.
3070 * The system and help pages that come with moin are now in utf-8.
3071 * MissingPage system page localized, should display in your language.
3072 * We did many i18n (translation) updates.
3073 * CSS file use utf-8 encoding. User css is also expected to be utf-8.
3074 This is relevant only if you use non-ASCII values in the CSS file.
3075 * config.upperletters and config.lowerletters were removed.
3076 We now use a pre-made ucs-2 spanning set and you usually don't have to
3077 change it. See MoinMoin/util/chartypes.py if you're interested.
3078 * ACL works with any user name or group name in any language, even names
3080 * Now you can use any charset in config.charset. Note: only utf-8 is
3081 a supported configuration!
3082 * Improved url handling, now creating pages directly from the browser
3083 url box with non-ascii names works in most cases, even when
3084 config.charset is not utf-8.
3085 * When using non-utf-8 config.charset, characters in URLs that does
3086 fit in the charsets are replaced with "?" (instead of crashing).
3087 * All themes and most macros and actions are Right to Left friendly.
3088 Full RTL support planned for 1.3 release.
3089 * If page language is specified with #language processing instruction
3090 the page is displayed in the correct direction. Pages without
3091 language are displayed using the wiki default_lang.
3093 Multiple configurations
3095 * You can run multiple wikis from the same wiki directory or server.
3096 For example, you can run one Twisted server that serve multiple wikis,
3097 instead of running multiple servers. Samples of the new configuration
3098 are supplied in wiki/config/*.
3099 * You can't just use your old moin_config.py file. It is now called
3100 wikiconfig.py and the config variables now have to be in a class
3101 "Config" and that class must inherit from
3102 MoinMoin.multiconfig.DefaultConfig - see the provided wikiconfig.py
3104 This is very useful, e.g. you could derive a GermanConfig from
3105 DefaultConfig. After that, you can derive configs for wikiA and wikiB
3106 from that GermanConfig.
3107 * farmconfig.py contains a mapping attribute called "wikis" with pairs of
3108 wikiconfig module name and regular expression. The regular expression
3109 is matched against the URL of the request and the first matching entry
3110 determines the config module to be imported by MoinMoin.
3111 * If you use farmconfig.py's "wikis" mapping, then any wiki has a private
3112 config module, named after the wiki - e.g. wiki named moinmoin would
3114 * If you only have a single wiki, you do not need farmconfig.py. just make
3115 a wikiconfig.py and it will be used no matter what URL is requested.
3116 * There is one common global "config" that holds sitewide settings (like
3117 umask or charset) - you do not need to change settings there.
3118 This file is located in the MoinMoin code: MoinMoin/config.py.
3120 General configuration
3122 * SecurityPolicy now uses "write" instead of "edit" (so it is may.write
3123 now). This is to get it in sync with ACLs.
3124 * SecurityPolicy now automatically can use everything in acl_rights_valid.
3125 * There is a new config option "config_check_enabled". It will warn about
3126 any unknown variable name (probably typo) to stderr or error.log.
3127 If something doesn't work at all and changing the config does no
3128 difference, switch it on and look at the error message.
3129 * The sample config file comes with config_check_enabled = 1. If you
3130 introduce additional variables yourself, you definitely want to switch
3131 that check off or it will fill your log.
3132 * If you define "page_front_page" variable, this name will show in the
3133 navigation bar now, instead of the default "FrontPage".
3137 * Full text and title search do support multiple search terms now -
3138 see HelpOnSearching for details.
3139 * Regular expressions are still supported but have to be turned on per
3140 search term. Search terms in macros using regular expressions will have
3142 * The URL interface of the search engine has also changed. Links that
3143 point directly to search actions may be broken.
3147 * User names can not use group names, even if ACLs are not enabled.
3148 This will prevent error later, if you start to use acl in the future
3149 (acl is going to be mandatory in 1.5).
3150 * User names are not restricted any more to only CamelCase.
3151 * To prevent imposing as other users, leading, trailing and multiple
3152 whitespace in user names is not allowed. Only Unicode alpha numeric
3153 characters are allowed, with optional one space character between
3155 * When a user name with a group name or "bad" name is trying to
3156 access the wiki, he is redirected to the UserPreferences page and
3157 asked to create a new account.
3158 * When trying to login or create a new account with a bad name,
3159 correct error message is displayed in all cases.
3163 * You can not use your old moin.cgi file, as we removed cgimain.py
3164 (was deprecated since 1.2). Copy the new file from the server dir.
3166 Moin servers - Twisted and standalone
3168 * Configuration self checking on startup. Will raise an error in case
3169 of bad configuration or non-accessible directories.
3170 * Both use shorter and identical configuration options.
3171 * Server scripts contain detailed comments and examples.
3172 * Configuration defaults changed to fit most users.
3173 * There is memory profiler option for debugging, switched off by default.
3174 * If you perform a standard install, server scripts should run out
3175 of the box or with minimal change.
3179 * All code moved into the new server package, the server script
3180 contains only configuration options.
3181 * Listen to more than one interface with "interfaces" list.
3182 * Code updated to new Twisted API.
3183 * Use mointwisted script to start and stop the server, using
3184 "mointwisted start" and "mointwisted stop".
3185 * The Twisted server runs as daemon by default.
3186 * All moin Twisted files are called now mointwisted instead of
3188 * Fixed getting username from Twisted request (http auth)
3192 * Configuration moved from moin_config.py to moin.py.
3193 * If run as root, you can set both user and group for the server.
3194 * Can use logfile instead of logging to stderr.
3195 * Fixed missing unquoting of query string (caused problems in rare cases).
3199 * moin_modpy server files renamed to moinmodpy.
3203 * '''strong''', ''em'' and __underline__ have now paragraph scope. You can
3204 set these attributes on words level. For multiple paragraphs, wrap each
3206 * If you leave unclosed ''', '' and __ markup, its is closed when the
3211 * Due to many changes in CSS files, the wiki may look "broken" until
3212 your reload once or twice, or empty your browser cache.
3213 * The "Send mail notification" checkbox is replaced by "Trivial change"
3214 checkbox. The default behavior did not change - regular edit is not
3215 a trivial change, and mail will be sent to subscribes. If you check
3216 trivial change, mail will be sent only to users who selected to
3217 get trivial changes in their user preferences.
3218 * New theme "modern" has been added, and used as default theme.
3219 * classic and rightsidebar improved.
3220 * viewonly theme removed, as any theme can be use now as viewonly
3221 by using #acl All:read in the wikiconfig.
3222 * All themes use new navibar, displaying both wiki links, user links
3223 and the current page.
3224 * navibar and pagetrail use now shortened page names, so very long
3225 names does not break the interface visually.
3226 * All themes have improved search interface at the top of the window.
3227 * Only avaiable actions are displayed, so most situations when a user
3228 try to do something he can't do are prevented.
3229 * When creating a new page, no action is available until the page
3230 is created. You can't attach files to non-existing page any more.
3231 * Non registered users get a "login" link. Registered uses get
3232 "username" link to their home page, and "user preferences" link.
3233 * Messages more clear using bold type, designed by css.
3234 * Few useless messages removed (but there are many more)
3235 * Default wiki logo uses the wiki name instead of the MoinMoin troll
3238 Other fixes and changes
3240 * Most generated html code is valid "html 4 strict". There are still
3241 some problems that still have to be fixed, mainly macros, table
3242 attributes, and inline markup crossing (<a><b></a></b>).
3243 * WantedPages can include and exclude system pages, which makes it
3245 * Fixed a bug in TitleIndex where not all system pages are excluded.
3246 * RenamePage action now renames everything, including backups, page
3247 history, attachments. It does not change toplevel editlog, though.
3248 After you rename a page, you are redirected to the new page.
3249 * Syntax colorization supports more languages (Java, C++, Pascal)
3250 * Inline: display of attachments was extended. A Parser now knows which
3251 extensions it can handle.
3252 * TableOfContents and Include macros now cooperate a bit better. There
3253 are still problems with multiple Includes of the same page.
3254 * Excluded actions at bottom of page are not displayed any more.
3255 * Editor: removed the columns size setting, just using 100% of browser
3256 window width (it didn't work because of that anyway). Also removed that
3257 "reduce editor size" link at top of editor as you would lose your
3258 changes when using it.
3259 * Removed the option to choose text smileys instead of images, this made
3260 more trouble than it was worth. The text version is still given in ALT
3262 * Moved stuff from contribution/ to MacroMarket page on MoinMoin wiki
3263 * Some nasty people try to use a running moin as a proxy (at least they
3264 did on moinmaster.wikiwikiweb.de:8000, maybe due to the magic port
3265 number). We changed the code to check for that and just return 403
3266 in that case. Moin can not be used as a proxy anyway.
3267 * moin.cgi?test was removed in favor of a new buildin test
3268 action. It works for all deployments, just use ?action=test.
3269 * Sending mail does use tls if server supports it.
3271 3rd party developer notes
3273 * Themes should be now sub class of MoinMoin.theme.ThemeBase. Sub
3274 classes will get automatically all new improved user interface
3276 * Theme authors should update their theme for 1.3. Some keys removed
3277 from them dict. See ThemeBase class in MoinMoin/theme/__init__.py.
3278 * Actions writers should call request.setContentLangauge with the
3279 correct language used by the action. This enable themes and other
3280 code to use correct direction.
3281 * The Formatter interface was changed. Formatters and parsers using
3282 the formatter interface have to be adjusted.
3283 * started deprecation of Processors: they are still recognized, but
3284 implementors should start to rewrite their Processors as Parsers.
3285 A processor with the same name as a parser in a pre #! section is
3286 currently preferred. This will change in the next release.
3290 * Processors are deprecated, see section above.
3292 * Using the cookie (or the login url with ID) only and not setting (or
3293 setting and not remembering) your email/password in UserPreferences
3294 is DEPRECATED. Those quite unsecure methods will likely be dropped
3295 in next moin version.
3297 * Operating with acl_enabled = 0 is also DEPRECATED. Due to some other
3298 improvements planned, we will have to operate with ACLs enabled ONLY
3299 in a future moin version, so this setting will likely be dropped.
3300 So clean up your user accounts (see moin_usercheck.py) and switch ACLs
3302 There are no drawbacks, so you will like it. Having ACLs enabled
3303 doesn't mean you really have to USE them on wiki pages...
3305 * allow_extended_names = 0 is deprecated (default was/is 1).
3306 Future versions will be able to use extended names (aka free links) in
3307 any case and the config setting will be removed.
3309 * allow_subpages = 0 is deprecated (default was/is 1).
3310 Future versions will be able to use subpages in any case and the config
3311 setting will be removed.
3313 * attachments = {...} - we would like to remove that setting because of
3315 * when not being extremely careful, this can easily lead to security
3316 problems (like when uploading a .php exploit and then executing it
3317 by accessing it directly via web server)
3318 * makes code more complicated - code that we want to change completely
3320 If you need that feature, speak up now and tell us your reasons WHY you
3324 Version 1.2.4 (2004-10-23, Revision 1.187)
3326 This will probably be the last 1.2.x release as we are soon doing release
3327 candidates for 1.3 release (with big internal changes) and are expecting
3328 release 1.3 in december 2004.
3331 * fixed "None" pagename bug in fullsearch/titlesearch
3332 * fixed projection CSS usage
3333 * the compiled page is removed when a page is deleted, so no ghost page
3334 appears after deletion
3335 * fixed AbandonedPages day-break problem
3336 * fixed [[GetVal(WikiDict,key)]]
3337 * the msg box is now outside content div on PageEditor, too
3338 * privacy fix for email notifications: you don't see other email addresses
3339 in To: any more. mail_from is now also used for To: header field, but
3340 we don't really send email to that address.
3341 * privacy fix for /MoinEditorBackup pages that were made on previews of
3342 pages that were not saved in the end
3343 * fix double content div on PageEditor preview
3346 * workaround for broken Microsoft Internet Explorer, the page editor now
3347 stops expanding to the right (e.g. with rightsidebar theme).
3348 Nevertheless it is a very good idea to use a non-broken and more secure
3349 browser like Mozilla, Firefox or Opera!
3351 * from MoinMoin.security.antispam import SecurityPolicy in your
3352 moin_config.py will protect your wiki from at least the known spammers.
3355 * xmlrpc plugin for usage logging, currently used for antispam accesses
3357 * (re-)added configurable meta tags:
3358 * html_head_queries = '''<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow">\n'''
3359 * html_head_posts = '''<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow">\n'''
3360 * html_head_index = '''<meta name="robots" content="index,follow">\n'''
3361 * html_head_normal = '''<meta name="robots" content="index,nofollow">\n'''
3363 * i18n updates/fixes
3365 * New UserPreferences switch:
3366 you may subscribe to trivial changes (when you want to be notified about ALL
3367 changes to pages, even if the author deselected to send notifications).
3369 * New AttachList and AttachInfo macros - thanks to Nigel Metheringham and
3372 Version 1.2.3 (2004-07-21, Revision 1.186)
3375 * fixed NameError "UnpicklingError" in user.py
3376 * fixed version number in moin.spec
3377 * reverts done by bots or leechers
3378 There was a bad, old bug that triggered if you did not use ACLs. In that
3379 case, moin used some simple (but wrong and incomplete) function to
3380 determine what a user (or bot) may do or may not do. The function is now
3381 fixed to allow only read and write to anon users, and only delete and
3382 revert to known users additionally - and disallow everything else.
3383 * avoid creation of unneccessary pages/* directories
3384 * removed double content divs in general info and history info pages
3385 * fixed wiki xmlrpc getPageHTML
3386 * fixed rightsidebar logout URL, also fixed top banner to link to FrontPage
3387 * use config.page_front_page and .page_title_index for robots meta tag
3388 (whether it uses index,follow or index,nofollow), not hardcoded english
3390 * ACL security fix for PageEditor, thanks to Dr. Pleger for reporting
3391 * default options for new users are same as for anon users
3393 Version 1.2.2 (2004-06-06, Revision 1.185)
3397 * own copy of difflib removed
3398 Until moin 1.2.1 we had our own copy of python 2.2.3's difflib coming
3399 with moin. This was to work around some problems with broken older 2.2
3400 python installations. We removed this now because if you have py 2.3,
3401 there is even a better difflib coming with python (and that fixes an
3402 extremely slow diff calculation happening in some rare cases).
3403 So the good news is that when you run python 2.3, you don't need to do
3404 anything and it will run great. If you run python 2.2.3, it will mostly
3405 work good and you also don't need to do anything. The bad news is that
3406 if you run an old and broken 2.2 installation (2.2.1, maybe 2.2.2) you
3407 will have to fix it on your own (just copy difflib.py from python 2.2.3
3408 over to your python 2.2.x installation).
3409 But better upgrade to python 2.3 (for debian woody, there's a backport),
3410 as 2.3 generally runs better and faster than 2.2.
3411 * scripts changed to use #!/usr/bin/env python (not /usr/bin/python2.2)
3413 * user accounts and ACLs:
3414 * we now require the user to specify a password for a new account (you
3415 were not able to login without a password anyway)
3416 * it is not allowed any more to create user accounts with user names
3417 matching config.page_group_regex - please check manually that you do
3418 not already have such users existing (like a user named "AdminGroup"):
3419 cd data/user ; grep name=.*Group * # there should be no output!
3420 * subscription email sending now honours ACLs correctly
3422 * markup / rendering / user interface fixes:
3423 * fixed merging multiple lines indented by the same amount of blanks
3424 * ## comments don't break tables in two parts
3425 * added a "remove bookmark" link to RecentChanges
3426 * fixed action=titleindex (added \n after each entry)
3429 * non-ASCII characters should work now
3430 * RSS feed (Recentchanges?action=rss_rc) gives UTC timestamps now
3431 * removed attribute breaking RSS feed on RecentChanges
3433 * better email generation:
3434 * if you use python >=2.2.2, we add a Message-ID header to emails
3435 * if you use python 2.2.1, there is no email.Header. Instead of crashing
3436 (like previous moin 1.2.x releases), we just use the subject "as is" in
3437 that case. If it is not ASCII, this is not standards compliant.
3438 * If you have >=2.2.2 it will use email.Header to make standards compliant
3440 * use config.mail_from as sender address when sending "lost my password"
3444 * fixed for standalone server
3445 * attachment URLs (when handled by moin) don't include server name
3446 * fixed some wrong &amp; in html src
3448 * better themeability:
3449 * some entries in dict "d" where only present in header theme calls, some
3450 only in footer theme calls. Now almost all is present in both calls.
3451 * added some missing "content" divs so sidebar themes look better
3453 * fixed some crashes producing backtraces:
3454 * no IOError when diffing against deleted page
3455 * no backtrace in xml footnote generation
3456 * no SystemInfo crash when no editlog exists in new wikis
3457 * xmlrpc.getRecentChanges fixed
3459 * MoinMoin.util.filesys.rename is now a wrapper around os.rename that
3460 fixes os.rename on broken win32 api semantics
3463 * saving traffic and load by improved robot meta tag generation:
3464 * "noindex,nofollow" on queries and POSTs
3465 * "index,follow" on FrontPage and TitleIndex (give robots a chance ;))
3466 * "index,nofollow" on all other pages (hopefully saving lots of senseless
3467 requests for page?action=...)
3468 * removed config.html_head_queries (was used for same stuff)
3469 * added russian i18n (utf-8)
3470 * misc. other translation updates / fixes
3471 * added rightsidebar theme
3472 * TitleIndex now folds case, so "APage" and "anotherPage" are both under
3474 * added macro/PageHits.py - it calculates the hits each page gets since
3475 beginning of logging
3478 * Full text and title search do now support multiple search terms -
3479 see HelpOnSearching for details
3481 * The Formatter interface was changed. Formatter and parser using
3482 the formatter interface have to be adjusted.
3484 Version 1.2.1 (2004-03-08, Revision 1.184)
3487 * minimum requirement to run moin 1.2/1.2.1 is python 2.2.2
3488 * not: 2.2(.0), as this does not have True/False
3489 * not: 2.2.1, as this does not have email.Header. You maybe can work
3491 * getting the python 2.2.x (x>=2) /usr/lib/python2.2/email directory
3492 * putting it into directory 'x' (whereever you like)
3493 * doing a sys.path[0:0] = ['x'] in moin.cgi [or other appropriate place]
3494 No guarantee, this is untested.
3495 * Twisted: the http headers missed the charset data, fixed
3496 * mod_python: fixes for mod_python 2.7
3497 * wiki/data/plugin/__init__.py added - fixes not working plugin modules
3498 * plugin processors work now, too
3499 * fixed displaying non-existent translations of SiteNavigation in footer
3500 * fixed zh-tw iso name (wrong zh_tw -> correct zh-tw)
3501 * fixed reversed diffs in RecentChanges RSS
3502 * fixed "last change" info in footer (wasn't updated)
3503 * fixed event.log missing pagename (and other) information
3504 * fixed horizontal line thickness >1
3505 * fixed setup.py running from CVS workdir
3506 * fixed crash when doing action=info on first revision of a page
3507 * fixed hostname truncation in footer
3509 * fixed clear msg links (they missed quoting, leading to strange page
3510 names when you click on some of them)
3511 * fixed python colorizer processor
3512 * fixed quoting of stats cache filenames
3513 * catched "bad marshal data" error when switching python versions
3516 * updated danish (da) i18n
3517 * updated japanese (ja) i18n
3518 * added serbian (sr) i18n
3519 * added chinese (zh) i18n
3520 * added a simple "viewonly" theme based on classic theme - you can use
3521 this as default theme, so anonymous users won't get the usual wiki stuff,
3522 but a far simpler (and less powerful) user interface.
3523 It also displays the navibar at the left side.
3524 * added moin.spec for building RPMs
3525 * included MoinMoin/i18n/* into distribution archive (nice for translators)
3526 * included some stuff under MoinMoin/scripts - xmlrpc-tools and account
3527 checking stuff. removed some version control clutter from the dist
3530 * code colorization was refactored and some new languages (Java, C++,
3531 Pascal) where added.
3532 * inline: display of attachments was extended. A Parser now knows which
3533 extensions it can handle.
3535 Version 1.2 (2004-02-20, Revision 1.183)
3538 * MoinMoin now requires Python >=2.2.2., we recommend to use Python >=2.3.2
3539 (with 2.3.x, MoinMoin runs about 20-30% faster).
3540 * by refactoring request processing, we made it possible to run moin under
3541 persistent environments:
3542 * twisted-web (http://twistedmatrix.com)
3543 * httpdmain.py (use moin.py for starting this mini server)
3546 Of course, CGI is still possible.
3547 * wiki pages will be compiled to bytecode now (by default), so no need for
3548 slow parsing/formatting on every view ("WASP", see caching_formats)
3549 * when using a persistent environment (like twisted) and WASP, you get up
3550 to 20x speed - compared to CGI and moin 1.1
3551 * added support for diffs between arbitrary revisions.
3552 * removed requirement of the external diff utility
3553 * config.auth_http_enabled (defaults to 0) - use this to enable moin
3554 getting your authenticated user name from apache (http basic auth,
3555 htpasswd) - if you enable this, your basic auth username has to be the
3556 same as your wiki username.
3557 Should work with CGI, FCGI and maybe even with mod_python.
3558 Does not change behaviour of moin under twisted or standalone server.
3559 * config.tz_offset = 0.0 sets a default timezone offset (in hours
3561 * config.cookie_lifetime (int, in hours, default 12) sets the lifetime of
3563 == 0 --> cookie will live forever (no matter what user has configured!)
3564 > 0 --> cookie will live for n hours (or forever when "remember_me")
3565 < 0 --> cookie will live for -n hours (forced, ignore "remember_me"!)
3566 * added themeing and some themes (if you improve the existing themes or
3567 make nice new ones, please contribute your stuff!). The default theme is
3568 set by config.theme_default (and defaults to 'classic').
3569 * now supporting plugin directory for parsers, processors, themes, xmlrpc.
3570 * action=info now defaults to showing page revision history again
3571 * all actions accessing the logfile (as RecentChanges or history) are now
3573 * #refresh processing instruction, config.refresh
3574 * config.refresh = (minimum_delay, target_allowed)
3575 * minimum delay is the minimum waiting time (in seconds) allowed
3576 * target_allowed is either 'internal' or 'external', depending on
3577 whether you want to allow only internal redirects or also
3578 external ones. For internal redirects, just use the Wiki pagename,
3579 for external, use http://... url.
3580 * #refresh 3 == refresh this page every 3 seconds
3581 * #refresh 5 FrontPage == internal redirect to FrontPage in 5s
3582 * #refresh 5 http://google.com/ == redirect to google in 5s
3583 Use very carefully! Allowing a low minimum_delay and putting a #refresh
3584 on RecentChanges might slow down your wiki significantly, when some
3585 people just let their browser refresh and refresh again. Also, it does
3586 cause quite some traffic long-term. So better do not use this without
3587 good reason! Default is None (switched off).
3588 * hide most UserPreferences options before user has logged in, less
3589 confusing for new users
3590 * "config.page_dict_regex" defines what pages are dictionary definitions
3591 Currently dictionaries are used for UserHomePage/MyDict where you can
3592 define key:: value pairs that get processed like @DATE@ expansion when
3593 saving a page. The 2 "@" will be added to your keys automatically.
3594 Please do not use @xxx@ strings on the right side (value), results may
3596 You can also access wiki dictionaries by using the internal macro
3597 [[GetVal(page,key)]]" - that will go to page "page" and return the
3598 value (right side) corresponding to "key".
3599 Implementation note: groups are a subset of the dictionary functionality.
3600 * standalone server should work now (see server/moin.py), so you don't
3601 need to setup apache or twisted for a local personal wiki, you only need
3602 python and moin for that now, no additional stuff any more!
3603 * if you run your wiki with charset = "utf-8" (the default is still
3604 iso8859-1), you might want to have a look at contributions/utf8-pages/
3605 to see if there are already translated system pages for your language.
3608 * new importPlugin routine (the old one didn't work correctly)
3609 * removed 0xA0 characters breaking utf-8
3610 * system page recognition now uses wiki groups (see AllSystemPagesGroup),
3611 fixing the long-time broken system page exclusion on TitleIndex.
3612 * mostly HTML 4.01 Strict compliant HTML
3613 * design is done by CSS now, HTML is semantic markup only
3614 * removed target attribute from links, also [^NewWindow] markup - this
3615 is a HTML 3.2 feature and not valid in HTML 4.01
3616 * updated TWikiDrawPlugin to 20021003 version, with further modifications
3617 including source. It can draw imagemaps now and saves PNG. On display a
3618 GIF will be searched if no PNG is found. We recommend changing all GIFs
3619 to indexed PNGs cause this fallback might disappear in later versions.
3621 Sample code using bash and ImageMagick (be sure you know what you do):
3622 for draw in `find /path/to/wiki/data -name \*.draw`; do
3623 file=`dirname $draw`/`basename $draw .draw`
3624 if [ -e "${file}.gif" ]; then
3625 echo "Converting ${file}.gif to ${file}.png"
3626 convert "${file}.gif" "${file}.png"
3630 * fixed email headers and encoding
3631 * Changed moin-usercheck to adhere to scripting standards; no
3632 proprietary config changes needed any more (added --config);
3633 --wikinames is now part of the usage message.
3634 * config.umask now defaults to 0770 - if you give world r/w access, ACLs
3635 could be rather pointless...
3637 Removed config variables:
3638 * external_diff (not needed any more, we have internal diff now)
3639 * shared_metadb (wasn't implemented for long - we will re-add it, when it is)
3640 * title1/2 (please use page_header1/2)
3643 Changed config variables:
3644 * changed_time_fmt (removed some html and brackets around time from default)
3645 * html_head (default is empty string now)
3646 * page_footer1/2 (default is empty string now)
3647 * page_icons (is now a list of icon names, not html any more)
3648 * umask (default is 0770 now, not world r/w any more == more secure)
3650 New config variables (see MoinMaster:HelpOnConfiguration):
3659 * page_license_enabled
3666 * lots of internal code refactoring and optimization
3667 * began moving src code documentation to epydoc, see "make epydoc"
3668 * the URL for the RecentChanges RSS feed changed. It now only works with
3672 * theme support is neither complete (although covering most important
3673 stuff) nor perfect - work on that will continue...
3674 * we removed some html from system messages (the boxes at top of page you
3675 get after some actions), so it currently looks less nice than before.
3676 * html is not completely validating and it is not xhtml - this will be
3677 fixed as soon as we have the infrastructure for that (other parser, DOM)
3678 * problems with rtl (right-to-left) languages, will be fixed in 1.3
3679 * if you change moin_config or switch themes, moin will still use already
3680 cached page content. For the config this can be fixed by touching
3681 MoinMoin/version.py (or simply deleting everything in
3682 data/cache/Page.py). If you get more annoyed by this than pleased by
3683 caching speedup, you can also switch off caching (see docs on
3686 Themeing and HTML/CSS cleanup:
3687 * Browsers with completely broken CSS support (like e.g. Netscape 4.x) are
3688 no longer supported. If you still need to support them, do not upgrade to
3689 moin 1.2. If you still use these browsers, we recommend that you upgrade
3690 your browser first (Mozilla 1.5 has nice and standards compliant HTML and
3691 CSS support and is available as Free Software for Windows, Linux and Mac).
3692 * If you changed any html in code or by config you will have to check if it
3693 still works. For the usual stuff, look into `MoinMoin/theme/classic.py`
3694 and `classic/css/screen.css`. For config defaults of the html fragments,
3695 read `MoinMoin/config.py`. If you want to modify a theme, don't simply
3696 change classic, but copy or subclass it under a new theme name.
3697 * because of the new theme support the layout of the `htdocs` directory
3699 * Instead of using icons under `img/` and css under `css/`, there will
3700 be an additional `themename/` directory in between, e.g. `classic/img/`
3701 and `classic/css/`. If you added own icons, you may have to copy them
3702 to the themes directory.
3703 * The filename of the CSS file has changed to the media type, so the
3704 normal one used for screen output has changed name from `moinmoin.css`
3705 to `screen.css`. There also were quite some changes and enhancements to
3706 the CSS files, so better use the new ones.
3707 * config.css_url was removed
3710 * we use a new plugin loader that requires a correct `__init__.py` file in
3711 the plugin directories. See the directory `wiki/data/plugin/` in the
3712 distribution archive and just copy it over to your wiki's plugin directory.
3715 Version 1.1 (2003-11-29, Revision 1.178)
3717 Version 1.1 requires Python 2.0 or higher, we recommend to use Python 2.2
3718 (version 2.2.2 if that is available on your host) or even better >= 2.3.2
3719 (with 2.3.x, MoinMoin runs about 20-30% faster).
3723 * config.default_lang lets you set a default language for users not
3724 having specified language in their browser or UserPreferences
3725 * "config.page_category_regex" defines what pages are categories
3726 * replaced `config.page_template_ending` by a more flexible setting
3727 named `config.page_template_regex`
3728 * the same with config.page_form_regex (was: page_form_ending)
3729 * "config.page_group_regex" defines what pages are group definitions
3730 Currently groups are used for "user groups" (see ACLs) and "page
3731 groups" (see AllSystemPagesGroup).
3732 * robot exclusion from all pages except the standard view action,
3733 via the config.ua_spiders regex (reduces server load)
3734 * "maxdepth" argument for the TableOfContents macro
3735 * config.title1, config.title2, config.page_footer1,
3736 config.page_footer2 can now be callables and will be called with
3737 the "request" object as a single argument (note that you should
3738 accept any keyword arguments in order to be compatible to future
3740 * "config.html_pagetitle" allows you to set a specific HTML page
3741 title (if not set, it defaults to "config.sitename")
3742 * navi_bar / quicklinks can now contain free-form links, i.e.
3743 entries of the form "[url linktext]" just like in wiki pages
3744 * if a quick link starts with '^', it opens in a new window; help
3745 now opens in a new window also
3746 * `config.smileys` for user-defined smileys (default: `{}`) - a dict
3747 with the markup as the key and a tuple of width, height, border, image
3749 * `config.hosts_deny` to forbid access based on IP address
3750 * `config.mail_login` can be set to username and password separated by
3751 a space, e.g. "username userpass", if you need to use SMTP AUTH
3752 * `config.edit_locking` can be set to None (old behaviour, no
3753 locking), 'warn <timeout mins>' (warn about concurrent edits, but
3754 do not enforce anything), or 'lock <timeout mins>' (strict locking)
3755 * optionally showing a license text on editor page, use:
3756 config.page_license_enabled = 1
3757 Optionally use these to customize what is shown there:
3758 config.page_license_text = "... your text ..."
3759 config.page_license_page = "MyLicensePage"
3760 See the default values in MoinMoin/config.py for details and
3761 override them in moin_config.py, if needed.
3762 * `config.shared_intermap` can be a list of filenames (instead of a
3764 * If you have added your own `SecurityPolicy`, the class interface for
3765 that has changed (see `security.py`).
3767 Authenticaton / Authorization:
3768 * added ACL support, written by Gustavo Niemeyer of Conectiva and
3769 Thomas Waldmann. See HelpOnAccessControlLists for more infos.
3770 You should use MoinMoin/scripts/moin_usercheck.py before activating
3771 ACLs or some users with bad or duplicate accounts might get into
3773 * A user account can be disabled using moin_usercheck.py or
3774 UserPreferences page. Disabling, but keeping it is good for edit
3776 * changed security default: deletion only available to known users
3777 * support for Basic authentication (Apache style: AUTH_TYPE="Basic",
3778 REMOTE_USER="WikiUserName"). If authentication is there, user
3779 will be in ACL class "Trusted".
3780 * support for username / password login
3781 The username / password login will ONLY work, if you define a
3782 password. With an empty password, username / password login is not
3783 allowed due to security reasons. Passwords are stored encrypted
3784 (format similar to Apache SHA) and can also be entered in the
3785 UserPreferences form in this format. When requesting login
3786 information by email, the password is also sent in this encrypted
3787 format (use copy&paste to fill it in the form).
3788 ...?action=userform?uid=<userid> is still possible, so if you have
3789 bookmarks, they will still work). The input field for the ID was
3791 NOTE: using the userid for login purposes is DEPRECATED and might
3792 be removed for better security soon.
3793 * after logging in, you will get a cookie valid until midnight.
3794 The next day, the cookie will expire and you will have to login
3795 again. If you don't want this, you can check the "remember me
3796 forever" option in UserPreferences.
3797 * if the page file is read-only, you get a message (i.e. you can now
3798 protect pages against changes if you're the wiki admin).
3799 Note: you can do that easier using ACLs.
3801 Markup / Macros / Actions:
3802 * RandomQuote macro (and even parses Wiki markup now)
3803 * `[[Navigation]]` macro for slides and subpage navigation
3804 * [[ShowSmileys]] displays ALL smileys, including user-defined ones
3805 * the Include macro has new parameters (from, to, sort, items) and
3806 is able to include more than one page (via a regex pattern)
3807 * `MailTo` macro for adding spam-safe email links to a page
3808 * if a fancy link starts with '^' (i.e. if it has the form
3809 "[^http:... ...]"), it's opened in a new window
3810 * because of that, the NewWindow macro was removed from contrib
3811 * "#pragma section-numbers 2" only displays section numbers for
3812 headings of level 2 and up (similarly for 3 to 6)
3813 * ../SubPageOfParent links
3817 * Page creation shows LikePages that already exist
3818 * editor shows the current size of the page
3819 * editor returns to including page when editing an included page
3820 * Visual indication we're on the editor page (new CSS style)
3821 * selection to add categories to a page in the editor (use preview
3822 button to add more than one category)
3823 * if user has a homepage, a backup of save/preview text is saved as
3824 a subpage UsersHomePage/MoinEditorBackup
3825 * added "revert" link to PageInfo view (which makes DeletePage more
3826 safe in public wikis, since you can easily revive deleted pages
3828 * Selection for logged in users (i.e. no bots) to extend the listing
3829 of recent changes beyond the default limits
3830 * Activated display of context for backlinks search
3831 * Subscriber list shown on page info
3832 * LikePages shows similar pages (using difflib.get_close_matches)
3833 * last edit action is stored into "last-edited" file, and
3834 displayed in the page footer
3835 * reciprocal footnote linking (definition refers back to reference)
3836 * "Ex-/Include system pages" link for title index
3837 Note: system/help pages algorithm is still mostly broken.
3838 * list items set apart by empty lines are now also set apart
3839 visually (by adding the CSS class "gap" to <li>)
3840 * "save" check for security.Permissions
3841 * Added Spanish, Croatian and Danish system texts
3842 * Added flag icons for the languages supported in "i18n"
3843 * updated help and system pages, more translations, see also
3845 * there was quite some work done on wiki xmlrpc v1 and v2 - it
3846 basically works now.
3848 Tools and other changes:
3849 * moin-dump: New option "--page"
3850 * there are some scripts MoinMoin/scripts/* using wiki xmlrpc for
3851 backup and wiki page copying applications
3852 * Updated the XSLT parser to work with 4Suite 1.0a1
3853 * more infos in cgi tracebacks
3854 * UPDATE.html is a HTML version of MoinMaster:HelpOnUpdating
3856 Unfinished or experimental features:
3857 * user defined forms
3858 * XML export of all data in the wiki
3859 * RST parser (you need to install docutils to use this)
3863 * do not use / display user's email address in public places
3866 * Removed two cross-site scripting vulnerabilities reported by "office"
3869 * Bugfix for PageList when no arguments are given
3870 * Disallow full-text searches with too short search terms
3871 * [ 566094 ] TitleIndex now supports grouping by Hangul Syllables
3872 * fix for multibyte first char in TitleIndex
3873 * Footnotes were not HTML escaped
3874 * Numbered code displays are now in a table so that you can cut the
3875 code w/o the numbers
3876 * Bugfix for wrong mail notifications
3877 * Create unique anchors for repeated titles
3878 * [ 522246 ] Transparently recode localized messages
3879 * [ 685003 ] Using "preview" button when editing can lose data
3880 * use gmtime() for time handling
3881 * fixed negative gmtime() arguments
3882 * [[Include]] accepts relative page names
3883 * fixed ||NotInterWiki:||...||
3885 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3886 Version 1.0 (2002-05-10, Revision 1.159)
3888 THIS IS THE LAST RELEASE WITH PYTHON 1.5.2 SUPPORT! If severe bugs
3889 should occur, a maintenance release will fix them.
3891 Some optional features (like statistics) already require Python 2.0.
3894 * security fix: "allow_xslt" has to be set to 1 in order to enable
3895 XSLT processing; note that this defaults to 0 because XSLT is able
3896 to insert arbitrary HTML into a wiki
3897 * "action=content" for transclusion into static web pages; emits the
3898 pure page content, without any <html>, <head>, or <body> tags
3899 * "?action=links&mimetype=text/plain" works like MeatBall:LinkDatabase
3900 * "Preferred language" and "Quick links" user settings
3901 * Added "processor" concept, processors work on the data in "code
3902 displays" and are called by a bangpath in the first line of data
3903 * Processors: Colorize, CSV (see HelpOnProcessors)
3904 * New icons: "{OK}", "(./)", "{X}", "{i}", "{1}", "{2}" and "{}"
3906 * FullSearch now displays context information for search hits
3907 * DeletePage offers a textentry field for an optional comment
3908 * Email notifications are sent in the user's language, if known from
3910 * @PAGE@ is substituted by the name of the current page (useful
3913 Unfinished features:
3914 * user defined forms
3915 * XML export of all data in the wiki
3916 * RST parser (you need to install docutils to use this)
3920 * Syntax warning with Python 2.2 fixed
3921 * Macro-generated pagelinks are no longer added to the list of links
3922 * error codes returned by "diff" are reported
3923 * fix for attachments on pages with non-USASCII names
3924 * correct handling of spaces in attachment filenames and URLs
3926 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3927 Version 0.11 (2002-03-11, Revision 1.151)
3929 Most important new features: file attachments, definition list markup
3930 (glossaries), change notification via email, variable substitution when
3931 saving pages, edit preview, and improved documentation.
3933 Note that the RSS features require a recent PyXML (CVS or 0.7) due to
3934 bugs in the namespace handling of xml.sax.saxutils in earlier versions.
3935 This is (hopefully) automatically detected on every installation.
3937 Statistical features are NOT designed to work with Python 1.5.2 and
3938 require Python 2.0 or higher. Overall, MoinMoin 0.11 is not explicitely
3939 tested for 1.5.2 compatibility.
3942 * XML formatting now (most often) produces well-formed, and, depending
3943 on proper layout of the wiki page, valid StyleBook XML
3944 * Headers are now automatically numbered, unless you set the config
3945 item 'show_section_numbers' to 0
3946 * "#pragma section-numbers off" (or "0") switches that off explicitely,
3947 and "on" or "1" enables numbering
3948 * Added a "contributions" directory for 3rd party extensions
3949 * AttachFile action, contributed by Ken Sugino; note that you have
3950 to enable this action because of the possibility of DoS attacks
3951 (malicious uploads), by adding this to your moin_config:
3952 allowed_actions = ['AttachFile']
3953 * "attachment:" URL scheme allows access to attachments, to get files
3954 from other pages use "attachment:WikiName/filename.ext".
3955 * New macros: Date(unixtimestamp) and DateTime(unixtimestamp) to
3956 display a timestamp according to system/user settings
3957 * Variable substitution when a page is saved, note that saving
3958 template pages does NOT expand variables. Supported are:
3959 @DATE@ Current date in the system's format
3960 @TIME@ Current date and time in the user's format
3961 @USERNAME@ Just the user's name (or his domain/IP)
3962 @USER@ Signature "-- loginname"
3963 @SIG@ Dated Signature "-- loginname date time"
3964 @MAILTO@ A fancy mailto: link with the user's data
3965 * Copied some new emoticons from PikiePikie
3966 || {{{ :-? }}} || :-? || tongue.gif ||
3967 || {{{ :\ }}} || :\ || ohwell.gif ||
3968 || {{{ >:> }}} || >:> || devil.gif ||
3969 || {{{ %) }}} || %) || eyes.gif ||
3970 || {{{ @) }}} || @) || eek.gif ||
3971 || {{{ |) }}} || |) || tired.gif ||
3972 || {{{ ;)) }}} || ;)) || lol.gif ||
3973 * AbandonedPages macro
3974 * Added definition list markup: {{{<whitespace>term:: definition}}}
3975 * Added email notification features contributed by Daniel Sa� * SystemInfo: show "Entries in edit log"
3976 * Added "RSS" icon to RecentChanges macro and code to generate a
3977 RecentChanges RSS channel, see
3978 http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?UnifiedRecentChanges
3980 * Added config.sitename and config.interwikiname parameter
3981 * Better WikiFarm support:
3982 * <datadir>/plugin/macro and <datadir>/plugin/action can be used
3983 to store macros and actions local to a specific wiki instance
3984 * config.shared_intermap can contain a pathname to a shared
3985 "intermap.txt" file (i.e. one stored outside the datadir)
3986 * added `backtick` shortcut for {{{inline literal}}} (has to be
3987 enabled by "backtick_meta=1" in the config file); note that ``
3988 is then a shorter replacement for '''''' escaping
3989 * added inline search fields (at the bottom of each page)
3990 * Added preview to the editor, including spell checking
3991 * New languages: Chinese (Changzhe Han) and Portuguese (Jorge
3992 Godoy), updated French (Lucas Bruand), added Korean (Hye-Shik
3993 Chang) and Italian (Lele Gaifax)
3994 * New SystemAdmin macro
3995 * `[[Anchor(anchorname)]]` macro to insert anchors into a page,
3996 and [#anchorname Anchor Links].
3997 * User option to open editor view via a double-click
3998 * Added commentary field to editor, recent changes and page info
3999 * Page trails (user option)
4000 * UserPreferences: checkboxes for double-click edit, page trail,
4001 fancy links, emoticons, jump to last page visited, and some
4002 other yes/no options
4003 * "config.nonexist_qm" is now the default for a user setting
4004 * `[[GetText(text)]]` macro loads I18N texts (mainly intended
4005 for use on Help pages)
4006 * table attributes via "||<attrlist> ... ||", more details on
4007 http://purl.net/wiki/moin/HelpOnTables
4008 * PythonFaq interwiki tag and support for $PAGE placeholder
4009 * event logging, as the basis for future statistics
4010 * "moin-dump" command line tool to create a static copy of
4012 * "config.external_diff" allows to set an exact path to the
4013 command, or change the name to for example "gdiff" if GNU
4014 diff is not a native command in your UNIX flavour
4015 * `[[PageSize]]` macro
4016 * the interwiki name "Self" now always points to the own wiki
4017 * config.title1 and config.title2 are inserted into the output
4018 right before and after the system title html code (title1
4019 is right after the <body> tag and normally undefined, title2
4020 defaults to the "<hr>" above the page contents)
4021 * Additional link on diff pages to ignore whitespace changes
4022 * Subpages (config.allow_subpages, config.page_icons_up)
4023 * super^script^, sub,,script,, and __underline__ markup
4024 * `[[FootNote]]` macro
4025 * many other new config options, see HelpOnConfiguration for
4027 * [[StatsChart(type)]] shows statistical charts (currently
4028 defined types: hitcounts, pagesize, useragents)
4029 * 'inline:' scheme works like 'attachment:', but tries to
4030 inline the content of the attachment into the page;
4031 currently knows about "*.py" sources and colorizes them
4032 * support for Java applet "TWikiDrawPlugin" via
4033 drawing:<drawingname> URL scheme (you need to activate
4034 the AttachFile action if you want drawings)
4035 * numeric entities (&#nnnnn;) are now optionally NOT escaped,
4036 which allows you to insert more characters into a Latin-1
4037 page, especially the Euro symbol
4038 * navi_bar is now a list of page names which should be linked
4040 * test.cgi is now rolled into moin.cgi, and can be called
4041 by adding "?test" to the wiki base URL. Also, as a security
4042 feature, the server's environment is only shown for requests
4043 local to the web server.
4045 Unfinished features:
4046 * user defined forms
4047 * XML export of all data in the wiki
4050 * extended the online help ("Help*" pages)
4051 * German help pages (thanks to Thomas Waldmann)
4054 * #425857: python Parser bug on the second call
4055 * #424917: Caching control
4056 * #465499: Two HTTPS problems
4057 * #491155: FrontPage hardcoded
4058 * Handling of inbound UTF-8 encoded URIs (only with Python >= 2.0)
4059 * Fix for subtle changes in "re" of Python 2.2
4060 * User-provided URLs are now never URL-escaped, which allows appending
4061 #anchors and using %20 for spaces in InterWiki links
4063 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4064 Version 0.10 (2001-10-28, Revision 1.134)
4066 This version is still Python 1.5.2 compatible, but it's not extensively
4067 tested for that version and some parts of the system might not work
4068 there, especially seldom used macros and actions. Bug reports welcome!
4071 * "#deprecated" processing instruction
4072 * config entry "SecurityPolicy" to allow for customized permissions
4073 (see "security.py" for more)
4074 * added distutils support
4075 * though not extensively tested, the standalone server now does POST
4076 requests, i.e. you can save pages; there are still problems with
4077 persistent global variables! It only works for Python >= 2.0.
4078 * "bang_meta" config variable and "!NotWikiWord" markup
4079 * "url_mappings" config variable to dynamically change URL prefixes
4080 (especially useful in intranets, when whole trees of externally
4081 hosted documents move around)
4082 * setting "mail_smarthost" and "mail_from" activates mailing
4083 features (sending login data on the UserPreferences page)
4084 * very useful for intranet developer wikis, a means to view pydoc
4085 documentation, formatted via a XSLT stylesheet, for details see
4086 http://purl.net/wiki/python/TeudViewer?module=MoinMoin.macro.TeudView
4087 or MoinMoin/macro/TeudView.py
4088 * "LocalSiteMap" action by Steve Howell <showell@zipcon.com>
4089 * Added FOLDOC to intermap.txt
4092 * Full config defaults, import MoinMoin now works w/o moin_config.py
4093 * Better control over permissions with config.umask
4094 * Bugfix for a UNIX time billenium bug (affecting RecentChanges
4095 sorting and page diffs)
4096 * data paths with directory names containing dots caused problems
4098 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4099 Version 0.9 (2001-05-07)
4102 * XML page input (pages that start with "<?xml") and XSLT formatting
4103 * Page caching, for now limited to XSLT processing (where it's
4104 absolutely needed); new code & API to add the "RefreshCache" link
4105 * Selection of common date/time formats in UserPreferences
4106 * New action "titleindex" to support wiki introspection (MetaWiki);
4107 see the new links below the index bar in "TitleIndex"
4108 * UserPreferences: editable CSS URL for personal styles
4109 * PageInfo: the editor's name or IP is shown for each change
4110 * WantedPages: a new macro that lists links to non-existent pages
4111 * OrphanedPages: a new macro that lists pages no other page links to
4112 * Extensions to the FullSearch macro (see HelpOnMacros)
4113 * Python syntax highlighting
4114 * "DeletePage" action (has to be activated, see MoinMoinFaq)
4115 * "Remove trailing whitespace from each line" option in the editor
4116 * I18N (currently German and Swedish)
4117 * Config option "url_schemas" to extend the supported URL types
4118 * Improved tracebacks by using Ka-Ping's "cgitb"
4121 * The editor now sends a "no-cache" HTTP header
4122 * "PageList" results are now sorted
4123 * New config parameter "html_head_queries": send additional header
4124 for all pages EXCEPT the "normal" view; main usage is to have
4125 only the normal pages indexed by a spider, not the edit, print,
4126 etc. views (which cause multiple hits on the same information)
4127 * Store the modification time of the page file in the editlog, not
4128 the current time when the log entry is created
4130 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4131 Version 0.8 (2001-01-23)
4134 * Page templates (create a new page using a template page, by Richard)
4135 * Pluggable actions (by Richard)
4136 * Added "diff since bookmark"
4137 * Only "normal" URLs (outside of brackets) are converted to inline images
4138 * Show number of backups in SystemInfo macro
4139 * Show info on installed extension macros and actions
4140 * New macro: [[BR]] for line breaks
4141 * New action "LikePages" (again, Richard)
4142 * Highlighting of search results, and of bad words when spellchecking
4143 * Support for "file:" URLS
4144 * "SpellCheck" action (Richard, me, and Christian)
4145 * [[Include]] macro (you guessed it, Richard)
4148 * Update bookmark with load time, not click time
4149 * Changed CSS styles to better suit Netscape's broken handling of CSS
4151 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4152 Version 0.7 (2000-12-06)
4155 * RecentChanges bookmarking
4159 * Non-greedy extended WikiNames
4161 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4162 Version 0.6 (2000-12-04)
4165 * [[UserPreferences]] macro and associated functions
4166 * [[TableOfContents]] macro
4167 * Mechanism for external macros (user extensions)
4168 * Numbered list types and start offsets
4171 * Search dialogs did not work on the FrontPage
4172 * Add newline to text if last line has none (better diffs)
4174 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4175 Version 0.5 (2000-11-17)
4178 * Major refactoring: code is now broken up into modules within the
4180 * Diagnosis of installation via a "test.cgi" script
4182 * "#format" processing instruction
4184 * [[RandomPage]] and [[RandomPage(number)]] macro
4185 * configurable footer ("page_footer1" and "page_footer2")
4186 * "#redirect" processing instruction
4189 * Bugfix for broken CGI environment of IIS/4.0
4190 * URLs and InterWiki links are now less greedy (punctuation at the end
4191 is excluded, and "<" ends them, too)
4193 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4194 Version 0.4 (2000-11-01)
4197 * Table markup "||a||b||c||"
4198 * Headlines "= H1 =", "== H2 ==", and so on up to H5
4199 * [[PageCount]] macro
4200 * Added [[Icon(image)]] macro and macro arguments
4201 * [[PageList(title-regex)]] macro
4202 * New help system (set of help pages describing all features)
4205 * Create complete URL for "Clear message" link
4206 * Inline code spans needed cgi.escape
4207 * Better fix for Python 1.6 "re" problems
4208 * Fix for uppercase extensions in inline images ("foo.JPG")
4209 * Fixed colspan in RecentChanges
4210 * HR size is now limited to 8
4211 * "}" ends an URL pattern (fixes URLs right at the end of code displays)
4213 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4214 Version 0.3 (2000-10-25)
4217 * Check for inline images with InterWiki links (Spam:eggs.gif)
4218 * New config variable "allow_extended_names", which enables markup for
4219 wiki names containing ANY character like this: ["any chars"]
4220 * New config variable "html_head"
4221 * New macro [[SystemInfo]]
4222 * Added inline code ("{{{" and "}}}" on the same line)
4223 * Support for new config variable "max_macro_size"
4226 * Don't treat sequences with a double colon (CPP::Namespace) as an
4228 * The local part of InterWiki links is now correctly URL-escaped
4229 * Quickfix for a bug in 1.6's regular expressions
4230 * Fixed "SpamSpamSpam" bug (multiple entries in word list)
4231 * Anchor names get quoted in WordIndex and TitleIndex
4232 * Filtering of filenames in page_list() corrected
4233 * Escape &, <, > when sending the editor
4234 * Final(?) fix for japanese wiki names
4236 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4237 Version 0.2 (2000-08-26)
4240 * When saving, a datestamp saved in the form and that of the file are
4241 compared now; so, accidently saving over changes of other people is
4242 not possible anymore (saving still needs file locking though, for
4244 * if the directory "backup" exists in the data dir, pages are saved
4245 there before a new version is written to disk
4246 * Removed the "Reset" button from EditPage
4247 * Added "Reduce editor size" link
4248 * Added Latin-1 WikiNames (JürgenHermann ;)
4249 * Speeded up RecentChanges by looking up hostnames ONCE while saving
4250 * Show at most 14 (distinct) days in RecentChanges
4251 * Added icons for common functions, at the top of the page
4252 * Added a printing preview (no icons, etc.)
4253 * Added bracketed (external) URLs
4254 * Added support for quoted URLs ("http://...")
4255 * Added styles for :visited links to CSS
4256 * Embed image if an URL ends in .gif/.jpg/.png
4257 * No markup detection in code sections
4258 * Grey background for code sections
4259 * Added handling for numbered lists
4260 * the edit textarea now grows in width with the browser window
4261 (thanks to Sebastian Dau�for that idea)
4262 * Added page info (revision history) and viewing of old revisions
4263 * Added page diff, and diff links on page info
4264 * Added InterWiki support (use "wiki:WikiServer/theirlocalname"; the list
4265 of WikiServers is read from "data/intermap.txt")
4266 * Added "normal" InterWiki links
4267 * Added "action=raw" to send the raw wiki markup as text/plain (e.g. for
4268 backup purposes via wget)
4271 * Removed an exception when saving empty pages
4272 * Fixed bold nested into emphasis ('''''Bold''' Italic'')
4274 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4275 Version 0.1 (2000-07-29)
4277 Improvements over PikiPiki 1.62:
4278 * Moved configuration to "moin_config.py"
4279 * Added "edit_rows" setting
4280 * Added navigation bar
4281 * Improved HTML formatting
4282 * Added timing comment (page created in xx secs)
4283 * ISO date and time formats by default
4284 * Formatted RecentChanges with HTML tables
4285 * Uppercase letters for the index pages
4286 * Added PythonPowered logo
4289 * Javadoc comments now get formatted properly in {{{ }}} sections
4290 * Remove \r from submitted pages (so we get PORTABLE wiki files)
4291 * chmod(0666) eases manual changes to the data dir
4293 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------