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
23 * Fixed XSS in Despam action (CVE-2010-0828).
24 * wikiutil.clean_input: avoid crash if it gets str type
25 * Add RenderAsDocbook to actions_excluded if we have no python-xml
26 * AttachFile._build_filelist: verifies readonly flag for unzip file link
27 * attachUrl: fix wrongly generated tickets (e.g. for AttachList macro)
28 * MoinMoin.util.filesys.dc* (dircache can't work reliably):
29 * disable usage of dircache, deprecate dc* functions
30 * remove all calls to filesys.dc* (dclistdir, dcdisable)
31 * Fixed crash, see MoinMoinPatch/IncludeMacroWithDocBookFormatter
32 * Avoid hardly recoverable crashes if #format specification is invalid
33 * Fixed info action: AttachFile sub-actions that needed a ticket did not
37 * auth.ldap_login: add report_invalid_credentials param to control wrong
38 credentials error message (typically used when using multiple ldap
44 * Fixed major security issues in miscellaneous parts of moin.
45 HINT: if you have removed superuser configuration to workaround the issue
46 (following our security advisory), you may re-add it after installing this
47 moin release. If you don't need superuser capabilities often, it might be
48 wise to not have superusers configured all the time, though.
49 * Improved package security: cfg.packagepages_actions_excluded excludes
50 unsafe or otherwise questionable package actions by default now.
51 * wiki parser: fixed transclusion of (e.g. video) attachments from other
53 * Fixed edit locking for non-logged in editors and cfg.log_remote_addr=False.
55 * Process attachname in get/putAttachment similarly.
56 * revertPage: convert pagename to internal representation.
57 * Fixed config.umask usage for page packages.
58 * Fixed usage of i18n.wikiLanguages() on class level (moved to method),
59 failed when tools import the module (e.g. pydoc -k foo).
60 * SubProcess: fixed win32-specific parts, fixed imports (fixes calling of
61 external xapian index filters)
66 * Xapian indexing / indexing filters:
67 * fix deadlocks with well- and misbehaving external filters
68 * work around indexing run crashing when encountering encoding problems
69 with non-ascii filenames
70 * OpenOffice/OpenDocument filters: catch UnicodeDecodeErrors (happens
71 with password protected files)
72 * i18n: check if languages is not initialized yet, don't crash
73 * http_redirect: use 301 redirect for some cases
74 * do not use httponly session cookies, makes trouble with twikidraw and ACLs
75 * GetText2 macro: fix for named placeholder
76 * Fix SHA -> SSHA password hash upgrade for old user profiles.
77 * abort RenamePage if renaming of main page fails (do not try to rename
81 * search: improve search result ordering
82 * add MS Powerpoint indexing filter (needs catppt from catdoc package)
83 * migration scripts: make finding damaged edit-log entries easier
84 * SubscribeUser action: support username regexes and unsubscribing.
85 Usage (enter this into the input form field you get after invoking
86 SubscribeUser action from the "More Actions" menu:
87 [+|-][re:]username[,username,...]
89 +username: subscribes user <username> (+ is optional/default)
90 -username: unsubscribes user <username>
91 +re:username_re: subscribes users who match <username_re> regex.
92 -re:username_re: unsubscribes users who match <username_re> regex.
97 * Attachment links: fix processing of attributes (e.g. 'target', 'title')
98 * Upgrade FCKeditor from 2.6.4 to 2.6.4.1.
99 * PDF embedding: fix html, works better with PDF browser plugins now.
100 * Fix typo in rightsidebar CSS.
101 * Action revert: avoids reverting to a deleted current revision.
102 * Action diff: enable prev/next button only in the range of given revisions.
103 * Add a Auto-Submitted: auto-generated header to generated mails.
104 * Include comment in email notifies.
105 * mailimport: fix endless looping while trying to import a forwarded mail.
106 * fuid: keep same fake_mtime for intervals of max_staleness duration.
107 * Fixes a bug with empty list items in the GUI editor.
108 * Improve filesys.rename compatibility code (win32).
109 * Fix locking for CacheEntry.
110 * Xapian indexing: catch exception when a bad zip file is encountered.
111 * openidrp / botbouncer: fix param count for CancelLogin().
114 * Added CAS authentication.
115 * Added httponly cookie support and use it for session cookie.
118 * HTTP auth: added debug logging.
119 * Minor LDAP auth improvements.
120 * Data browser widget:
121 * Add (h)column<idx> css class to make it styleable.
122 * Include only necessary autofilter options.
123 * moin maint cleancache purges now drafts, too.
124 * Add gopher and apt protocols to url_schemas.
125 * Add .csv, .flv, .swf to MIMETYPES_MORE.
130 * ACL security: fix bug in hierarchical ACL processing, more restrictive
131 sub page ACLs did not work if the current user name did not give a match
132 within the sub page ACL (instead, the less restrictive parent page ACL
134 Non-hierarchical ACL processing (the default) is NOT affected.
135 * Creole parser: fix spaces in multiline elements.
136 * Use msie.css only for Internet Explorer older than version 8, fixes
137 e.g. the double rendering of link icons.
138 * http auth: do auth_type comparisons case-insensitively (spec-compliant)
141 * EmbedObject macro: changed default width value for PDF files to 100%
142 (use a recent Adobe Reader to make this work).
143 * CopyPage action: added a TextCha for it
146 * Creole parser: Add second license: BSD
150 * AttachFile XSS fixes: move escaping to error_msg / upload_form
151 * AttachFile move: add more escaping (maybe not XSS exploitable though)
152 * email attachments import with xapian indexing enabled: fix AttributeError
153 * fix wrong links in attachment notifications
154 * AttachFile do=view: quote filename and pagename params for EmbedObject
156 * AttachFile: fix exception when someone just clicks on upload, without
158 * ldap_login: use None as default value for ssl certs/keys (using '' for
159 the pathes lets it fail with Connect Error)
160 * release edit lock if someone saves an unchanged page
161 * fix sendmail.encodeAddress (do not [QP] encode blanks, do not un-
162 necessarily use [QP] encoding for pure ascii mail addresses)
163 * Fixed docs bug: see HINT about secrets configuration at version 1.8.0
164 (1.8.0 Other changes).
165 * backup action: add 'self' dummy argument for backup_exclude function
166 * login action: fix formatting of error messages
167 * unsubscribe action: add msg types so icons get displayed
168 * fix quoting for pagehits stats (info action) - was not working for pagenames with blanks
172 * added modernized_cms theme
173 * use url_prefix_fckeditor if you don't want to use the builtin FCKeditor
174 of moin, but a separate one at some specific url
175 * action.Load: added textcha feature
176 * add mumble protocol (nice and good quality F/OSS VOIP conference chat sw)
177 * ldap auth: new name_callback param to create a custom wiki username (not
178 the ldap login username).
181 * add compatibility code for set to xapwrap.index (fix py 2.6 warnings)
182 * wikiutil: MIMETYPES_MORE extended for .md5 as text/plain
187 * Fix AttachFile and antispam XSS issues.
188 * Modernized, modern and rightsidebar themes: make nonexistent or
189 badinterwiki links gray also when they are already visited.
190 * Fix anchor parsing for interwiki links and #redirect processing
192 * user.apply_recovery_token: key must be of type string (for Python 2.6).
194 * Fix autofilter javascript breakage caused by including a databrowser
196 * Use per-wiki i18n cache (fixes wrong links to other farm wikis).
197 * Made cfg.interwikiname and cfg.user_homewiki unicode objects (str only
198 worked for ascii names).
199 * Xapian search: fixed historysearch.
200 * Xapian search indexing:
201 * Fix index updating for trivial changes.
202 * With history search enabled and in update mode, do not try to re-index
203 old page revisions again.
204 * With history search enabled, index page attachments only once.
205 * Fix last modified time of xapian index (shown on SystemInfo page).
206 * Make logging handlers defined in logging.handlers work (e.g.
207 class=handlers.RotatingFileHandler)
208 * Jabber notifications:
209 * Use an RFC compliant message type.
210 * Fix user creation notifications.
211 * OpenID: Compatibility fix for python-openid 2.x.x (also works with
212 1.x.x), fixes crash when trying to associate moin user to OpenID.
213 * Have a wikiserverconfig.py in wiki/server/ so setup.py copies it.
214 * Fixed inconsistent handling of fragments / anchor IDs:
215 * Fixed creole and wiki parser, other parsers might need similar fixes.
216 * IDs with blanks, non-ASCII chars etc. are now sanitized in the same way
217 for links as well as for link targets, so the user editing a page won't
218 have to bother with it.
219 E.g. [[#123 foo bar]] will link to:
220 * <<Anchor(123 foo bar)>> (moin) or {{#123 foo bar}} (creole)
221 * headline = 123 foo bar = (moin / creole)
222 Simple rule: if the link and the target are consistent, it should work.
223 * The creole wiki parser created non-human-readable sha1 heading IDs
224 before 1.8.2, now it creates same (sometimes readable) heading IDs as
225 the moin wiki parser.
226 * TitleIndex/WordIndex now also use IDs sanitized in that way internally.
227 HINT: if you manually worked around the inconsistencies/bugs before, you
228 likely have to remove those workarounds now. Same thing if you used
229 creole's sha1 heading IDs or IDs on TitleIndex/WordIndex.
232 * Updated FCKeditor to 2.6.4 (== many bug fixes in the GUI editor).
233 * Enhanced privacy by a new setting: cfg.log_remote_addr (default: True),
234 it controls whether moin logs the remote's IP/hostname to edit-log and
235 event-log. Use log_remote_addr = False to enhance privacy.
236 * Streamline attachment_drawing formatter behaviour.
237 * Search results: only redirect to a single search result for titlesearch
238 (fuzzy goto functionality), but not for fulltext search results.
243 * Workaround win32 locking problems (caused by spurious access denied
244 exceptions on that platform).
245 * Fix unicode errors that happened when password checker failed a password
246 * WikiConfig/WikiConfigHelp: fixed wrong language table headings
247 * Themes: make the margins around trail line work properly
248 * "modernized" theme:
249 * make broken links gray
250 * add new right/center/left/justify css classes
252 * Standalone server: be more specific when catching socket exceptions,
253 treat socket errors in http header emission in the same way.
255 * Fix heading levels when inserting new headings.
256 * Fix headers already sent exception when using e.g. edit LOCKing.
257 * Xapian indexing: fixed missing import for execfilter (only happened on
258 non-posix platforms like win32)
262 * Make the TOC shrinkwrap, add white background to navigation macro.
263 The table of contents looked bad spanning the whole width of the page.
264 It's made to shrinkwrap now, so it will only get as wide, as the longest
265 heading. We use display:inline-table, so this won't work in MS IE6,
266 which still displays it the old way.
267 Navigation macro now has a white background, to make it more readable
268 when it's floating over a pre block or TOC.
269 * Make the numbers in lists in table of contents right-aligned.
270 * Refactored and extended theme.html_stylesheets() to make alternate
271 stylesheets possible. Stylesheet definitions now can either be:
272 2-tuples: (media, href) # backwards compatibility
274 3-tuples: (media, href, title) # new, for defining alternate stylesheets
275 This works within themes as well as in the wiki config.
276 See also: http://www.w3.org/Style/Examples/007/alternatives.html
280 Note: This is a reduced CHANGES, ommitting details from rc/beta test and
281 also less interesting minor changes and fixes. It shows changes
282 relative to 1.7.2 release.
283 If you want to see full detail, read it there:
284 http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/1.8/file/6130eab15936/docs/CHANGES
286 New Features: ==============================================================
287 * HINT: New "modernized" theme - if you use "modern" [default], try:
288 theme_default = 'modernized'
289 If you find problems with "modernized", please report them because we
290 want to use it as default theme in future.
292 * upgraded to use FCKEditor version 2.6.3
293 * user can insert and modify various types of MoinMoin links
294 * New plugin_dirs setting to allow multiple plugin pathes (additional to
295 the automatically configured plugin_dir [default: data_dir/plugin]).
296 * @EMAIL@ expands to a MailTo macro call with the obfuscated email address
298 * New macros "WikiConfig" and "WikiConfigHelp".
299 * Per-parser quickhelp, 'quickhelp' class variable of parser class.
300 * Secure session cookies for https (see cfg.cookie_secure).
301 * Added left/center/right/justify css classes to builtin themes.
304 this content is justified....
307 Removed Features: ==========================================================
308 * HINT: url_prefix setting (use url_prefix_static or just use the default)
309 * traceback_log_dir setting (we just use logging.exception)
310 * editor_quickhelp setting (replaced by per-parser quickhelp)
311 * Restoring backups with the backup action and related settings (while
312 creating backups is no big issue and should work OK, restoring them
313 had fundamental issues related to overwriting or not-overwriting of
314 existing files - thus we removed the "restore" part of the action and
315 recommend that you just contact the wiki server admin in case of trouble,
316 give him your wiki backup file and let him carefully restore it.)
317 * Removed unmaintained DesktopEdition (moin 1.5.x style) and phpwiki
318 migration scripts from contrib/ directory.
320 Bug Fixes: =================================================================
321 * GUI Editor - fixed lots of bugs.
322 * Fixing https detection for servers using HTTPS=1 and also for WSGI
323 servers not using HTTPS/SSL_ environment, but just wsgi.url_scheme.
324 * Search results: link to 'view' rendering of found attachments.
325 * Standalone server: fix serverClass and interface argument processing,
326 announce used serverClass in log output.
327 * mointwisted: fixed Twisted start script.
329 * Use logging framework for messages emitted by warnings module (e.g.
330 DeprecationWarning), silence some specific warnings.
331 * Removed superfluous linefeeds in timing log output.
333 * Fixed editbar hidden comment link cosmetics for sidebar themes (hide the
334 complete list element).
336 action, if the wiki does not run in the root url of the site)
337 * Fixed backup action configuration (broke on win32).
339 * SyncPages: add workaround for callers calling log_status with encoded
341 * Fixed dbw_hide_buttons javascript.
342 * HINT: Jabber bot can now be configured to use an authentication realm
343 which is different from the server's hostname; the xmpp_node
344 configuration parameter can now contain a full JID and the xmpp_resource
345 parameter is no longer supported.
347 Other Changes: =============================================================
348 * HINT: new configuration for misc. secrets, please use either:
349 secrets = "MySecretLooongString!" # one secret for everything
352 'xmlrpc/ProcessMail': 'yourmailsecret', # for mailimport
353 'xmlrpc/RemoteScript': 'yourremotescriptsecret',
354 'action/cache': 'yourcachesecret', # unguessable cache keys
355 'wikiutil/tickets': 'yourticketsecret', # edit tickets
356 'jabberbot': 'yourjabberbotsecret', # jabberbot communication
358 Secret strings must be at least 10 chars long.
359 Note: mail_import_secret setting is gone, use
360 secrets["xmlrpc/ProcessMail"] instead of it.
361 Note: jabberbot secret setting is gone, use
362 secrets["jabberbot"] instead of it.
363 * HINT: user_autocreate setting was removed from wiki configuration and
364 replaced by a autocreate=<boolean> parameter of the auth objects that
365 support user profile auto creation.
366 * moin import irclog: use irssi parser to format logs, mapped .irc
367 extension to text/plain mimetype.
368 * HINT: backup action: backup_exclude (default: "do not exclude anything")
369 is now a function f(filename) that tells whether a file should be
370 excluded from backup.
371 You can get the old regex exclusion functionality by using:
372 backup_exclude = re.compile(your_regex).search
373 Be careful with your regex, you might need to use re.escape() to escape
374 characters that have a special meaning in regexes (e.g.: \.[] etc.).
375 If in doubt, maybe just leave backup_exclude at the default and don't
377 * Speed up javascript comments processing on IE by getElementsByClassName()
378 * Added sk (slovak) i18n, updated i18n.
383 * Secure session cookies for https, see cfg.cookie_secure.
384 * Add left/center/right/justify classes to builtin themes.
387 * Python 2.3 compatibility fixes.
388 * Fixed https detection for servers using HTTPS=1 and also for wsgi servers
389 not using HTTPS/SSL_ environment, but just wsgi.url_scheme.
391 * Fix crash when editing a page with non-ASCII pagename and inserting a link
392 * Fix "headers already sent exception" with edit LOCKs.
393 * i18n.__init__: Bug fix for wiki language not installed.
394 * Fixed URLs given by sitemap action, if the wiki does not run at / URL.
395 * Search results: link to 'view' rendering of found attachments
397 * Removed superfluous linefeed in timing log output.
398 * Use logging framework for messages emitted by warnings module (e.g.
399 DeprecationWarning), silence some specific warnings.
400 * Fix dbw_hide_buttons javascript.
402 * fix serverClass argument processing
403 * fix --interface="" argument processing
405 * added missing pidFile parameter
406 * better use Config.name for pidFile to avoid conflicts and keep same
407 behaviour as in the past
408 * Jabber bot can now be configured to use an authentication realm which
409 is different from the server's hostname
414 * Fix leakage of edit-log file handles (leaked 1 file handle / request!).
416 * Wiki parser: avoid IndexError for empty #! line
417 * MonthCalendar macro: fix parameter parsing / url generation
418 * Xapian indexing filters (MoinMoin/filter/ or data/plugin/filter/):
419 Some indexing filter scripts (e.g. for MS Word documents or PDF files)
420 failed on windows because of the single-quote quoting we used (that
421 works on Linux and other Posix systems). The fix introduces platform-
422 dependant automatic quoting, using double-quotes on win32 and single-
424 HINT: if you use own filter plugins based on execfilter, you have to
425 update them as the filename quoting (was '%s') is now done automatically
426 and must not be part of the command string any more (now just use %s).
427 See MoinMoin/filter/ for some up-to-date code (esp. the PDF filter).
428 * Prevent CategoryTemplate being listed as a category (it is a Template,
429 but matched also the category regex) - added to sample wikiconfig.
430 * LDAP auth: fix processing of TLS options
431 * UpdateGroup xmlrpc server side: fix wrong arg count error
432 * UpdateGroup client: use multicall / auth_token, refactor code so that
433 updateGroup function is reusable.
434 * Improve Python 2.3 compatibility, add notes where 2.4 is required.
439 * New 'cache' action (see developer notes).
442 * Security fix: XSS fix for advanced search form
443 * Avoid creation of new pagedirs with empty edit-log files by just
444 accessing a non-existant page. If you used 1.7 before, you likely have
445 quite some trash pagedirs now and you can clean them up by using:
446 moin --config-dir=... --wiki-url=... maint cleanpage
447 This will output some shell script (please review it before running!)
448 that can be used to move trash pages into some trash/ directory and also
449 moves deleted pages into some deleted/ directory. Maybe keep a copy of
450 those directories for a while just for the case.
451 * Server specific fixes:
452 * standalone (wikiserver.py): fix --pidfile and --group option, fix
453 operation without a wikiserverconfig.py (use builtin defaults).
454 * mod_python: work around mod_python 3.3.1 problems with file uploads.
455 Note: if you are still using mod_python, we strongly recommend you
456 try out mod_wsgi (in daemon mode) - it has less bugs, better
457 security, better separation, WSGI is a Python standard, and moin
458 developers also use WSGI. See HelpOnInstalling/ApacheWithModWSGI.
459 * revert action: fixed for deleted pages.
461 * Xapian indexing: Removed crappy "hostname" tokenization.
463 Also tokenize CamelCase parts of non-wikiwords.
464 * Make query parser reject more invalid input.
465 * If query parsing raises a BracketError, at least tell what the problem
466 is (and not just raise empty ValueError).
467 * Category search: ignore traling whitespace after ----
469 * Fixed sort() usage in UnitArgument to be Python 2.3 compatible.
472 * TableOfContents: skip outer-most <ol> levels when page isn't using
476 * OpenID RP: make it compatible to python-openid 2.2.x
477 * PackagePages.collectpackage: removed encoding from file name of zipfile
478 * Surge protection: exclude localnet no matter whether user is known or not.
480 * Script moin account create/disable/resetpw: checks for already existing
484 * Prevent CategoryTemplate being listed as a category (it is a Template)
485 by changing the default page_category_regex.
488 * New MoinMoin.action.cache - can be used to cache expensively rendered
489 output, e.g. generated images). Once put into the cache, moin can emit
490 a http response for that content very fast and very efficient (including
491 "304 not changed" handling.
492 * New file-like API in MoinMoin.caching (good for dealing with medium
493 to large files without consuming lots of memory).
494 * wikiutil.importPlugin supports getting the whole plugin module object
495 by giving function=None.
499 Note: This is a reduced CHANGES, ommitting details from rc/beta test and
500 also less interesting minor changes and fixes. It shows changes
501 relative to 1.6.3 release.
502 If you want to see full detail, read it there:
503 http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/1.7/file/76265568e8d3/docs/CHANGES
505 New Features: ==============================================================
506 * HINT: we added generic UPDATE instructions as docs/UPDATE.html.
508 * HINT: Standalone server usage changed:
509 * Standalone server can now be started via the "moin" script command,
510 optionally backgrounding itself.
511 See: moin server standalone --help
512 * In the toplevel dir, we have renamed moin.py to wikiserver.py (it was
513 often confused with the moin scripting command).
515 * wikiserver.py - to start the standalone server
516 * wikiserverconfig.py - to configure the standalone server
517 * wikiserverlogging.conf - to configure logging for it (default config
518 is ok for all day use, but can easily be modified for debugging)
519 * wikiconfig.py - to configure the wiki engine
520 * Removed old moin daemonizing script (replaced by moin server standalone
522 * We now provide the "moin" script command also for people not using
523 setup.py, see wiki/server/moin.
526 * New powerful and flexible logging, please see wiki/config/logging/ -
527 HINT: you have to upgrade your server adaptor script (e.g. moin.cgi)
528 and load a logging configuration that fits your needs from there, or
529 alternatively you can also set MOINLOGGINGCONF environment variable
530 to point at your logging config file.
531 If you use some of our sample logging configs, make sure you have a
532 look INTO them to fix e.g. the path of the logfile it will use.
533 * Moin now logs the path from where it loaded its configuration(s).
535 * Authentication / Sessions:
536 * HINT: New authentication plugin system, see HelpOnAuthentication. If
537 you do not use the builtin default for 'auth' list, you likely have to
538 change your configuration. See wiki/config/snippets/ for some samples.
539 * HINT: New session handling system (no moin_session any more, now done
540 internally and automatically), see HelpOnSessions for details.
541 * Added OpenID client and server support.
542 See: HelpOnAuthentication and HelpOnOpenIDProvider.
543 * cfg.trusted_auth_methods is a list of auth methods that put an
544 authenticated user into the "Trusted" ACL group.
546 * User profiles / password recovery / notification:
547 * New newacount action for creating new user accounts/profiles. If you
548 don't want users creating new accounts on their own, you can add this
549 action to actions_excluded list.
550 * New recoverpass action for password recovery:
551 If you forgot your password, recoverpass sends you an email with a
552 password recovery token (NOT the encrypted password) that is valid
554 * New moin account resetpw script for resetting a user's password by
556 * New preferences plugin system, see MoinMoin/userprefs/__init__.py.
557 * New notification system with an optional jabber notification bot, see
558 HelpOnNotification. HINT: wiki users have to check their notification
559 settings, esp. if they want to receive trivial update notifications.
561 * The diff action now has navigation buttons for prev/next change and also
562 a revert button to revert to the revision shown below the diff display.
563 * ThemeBase: support Universal Edit Button, see there for details:
564 http://universaleditbutton.org/
565 * ?action=info&max_count=42 - show the last 42 history entries of the page.
566 max_count has a default of default_count and a upper limit of
567 limit_max_count - you can configure both in your wiki config:
568 cfg.history_count = (100, 200) # (default_count, limit_max_count) default
569 * The CSV parser can sniff the delimiter from the first CSV line so other
570 delimeters than ";" can be used.
571 * Admonition support. Added styling for tip, note, important, warning
572 and caution in the modern theme. For more info see HelpOnAdmonitions.
574 * supports HTML entities like → and ☃
575 * supports the FootNote macro
576 * supports bulletless lists
577 * support for admonitions
578 * will export the wiki page's edit history as the generated article's
579 revision history. Doesn't add history of included pages.
580 * supports for the MoinMoin comment element, though only inline comments
581 are likely to be valid since the DocBook remark is an inline element.
582 * New Hits macro: shows the total hits for the page it is used on.
584 Removed Features: ==========================================================
585 * HINT: Removed attachments direct serving (cfg.attachments - this was
586 deprecated since long!). Use AttachFile action to serve attachments.
587 * Duplicated file attachment upload code was removed from Load action (just
588 use AttachFile action to deal with attachments).
589 * Removed 'test' action. If you like to run unit tests, use py.test.
590 * Removed Login macro.
592 Bug Fixes: =================================================================
593 * Better handling of ImportErrors (farmconfig, macros, wikiserverconfig).
594 * Fix failure of detection of on-disk cache updates.
595 * Fix traceback in filesys.py on Mac OS X when "import Carbon" fails.
597 * AttachFile action / file up- and download / zip support:
598 * WSGI: use wsgi.file_wrapper (or a builtin simple wrapper). Fixes memory
599 consumption for sending of large file attachments.
600 * FastCGI: flush often. Fixes memory consumption for sending of large
602 * Use the open temporary file for receiving file attachment uploads
603 (fixes big memory consumption for large file uploads).
604 * Catch runtime errors raised by zipfile stdlib modules when trying to
605 process a defective zip.
606 * When unzipping member files, decode their filenames from utf-8 and
607 replace invalid chars.
608 * Make error msg less confusing when trying to overwrite a file attachment
609 without having 'delete' rights.
611 * HINT: page_*_regex processing had to be changed to fix category search.
612 If you don't use the builtin (english) defaults, you will have to change
614 old (default): page_category_regex = u'^Category[A-Z]'
615 new (default): page_category_regex = ur'(?P<all>Category(?P<key>\S+))'
616 As you see, the old regex did work for detecting whether a pagename is
617 a category, but it could not be used to search for a category tag in the
618 page text. The new regex can be used for both and identifies the complete
619 category tag (match in group 'all', e.g. "CategoryFoo") as well as the
620 category key (match in group 'key', e.g. "Foo") by using named regex
621 groups. \S+ means the category key can be anything non-blank.
622 If you like to simultaneously support multiple languages, use something
623 like this: ur'(?P<all>(Kategorie|Category)(?P<key>\S+))'
624 HINT: after changing your configuration, please rebuild the cache:
626 * moin ... maint cleancache
628 If you don't do this, your groups / dicts will stop working (and also
629 your ACLs that use those groups). You better do a test whether it works.
631 * Xapian search / indexing / stemming:
632 * Use text/<format> as mimetype for pages.
633 * Index also major and minor for mimetypes, so it will find 'text' or
634 'plain' as well as 'text/plain'
635 * Fix searching for negative terms.
636 * Improve result list ordering.
637 * Index filters: redirect stderr to logging system.
638 * Remove crappy num regex from WikiAnalyzer, improve tokenization.
639 * Fix AttributeError that happened when trying to access an attribute only
640 used with xapian search (but regex search is not done by xapian)
641 * Fix IndexErrors happening when pages are renamed/nuked after the index
643 * Fixed indexing of WikiWords (index "WikiWords", "Wiki" and "Words").
644 * Fix crash if default language is un-stemmable.
645 * xapian_stemming: removed some strange code (fixes search
646 title:lowercaseword with xapian_stemming enabled)
647 * Fixed category indexing (index CategoryFoo correctly as CategoryFoo, not
648 Foo - for all languages, see page_*_regex change above).
649 * Builtin search: support mimetype: search for pages for the builtin search
650 engine (using text/<format>).
653 * Wiki: fix subscript parsing (was broken for cases like 'a,,1,2,,').
654 * Docbook: fixed detection of WikiWords.
655 * All: Add ssh protocol to url_schemas for ssh:... URLs.
658 * Fix xmlrpc request.read() call to use content-length, if available,
659 fixes hangs with wsgiref server.
660 * Wiki xmlrpc getPageInfoVersion() fixed:
661 * works correctly now for old page versions (was unsupported)
662 * works correctly now for current page version (reported wrong
663 data when a page had attachment uploads after the last page
665 * returns a Fault if it did not find a edit-log entry
667 Other Changes: =============================================================
668 * Using better ACLs and comments on system/help pages now, just taking
669 away 'write' permission, but using default ACLs for everything else.
670 * HINT: If you want to use xapian based indexed search, you need to have
671 Xapian >= 1.0.0 (and you can remove PyStemmer in case you have installed
672 it just for moin - we now use the stemmer built into Xapian as it
673 supports utf-8 since 1.0.0).
674 * Changed default value of cfg.search_results_per_page to 25.
675 * Surge Protection: If a user is authenticated by a trusted authentication
676 (see also cfg.auth_methods_trusted) then he/she won't trigger surge
677 protection, but moin will just log a INFO level log msg with the user's
678 name so you can find the culprit in case he/she is overusing ressources.
679 * HINT: Added MyPages and CopyPage to actions_excluded because MyPages
680 doesn't work without special SecurityPolicy anyway and CopyPage has
681 questionable behaviour.
682 * Load action now just creates a new revision of the target page, the
683 target pagename defaults to the current page name and can be edited.
684 If the target pagename is empty, moin tries to derive the target pagename
685 from the uploaded file's name.
686 Load tries to decode the file contents first using utf-8 coding and, if
687 that fails, it forces decoding using iso-8859-1 coding (and replacing
689 * HINT: cfg.show_login is gone, see code in theme/__init__.py, this may
691 * HINT: a new userprefs/ plugin directory will be created by the usual
692 "moin migration data" command.
694 * generates a valid DOCTYPE
695 * table support has been improved
696 * handling of definitions and glossaries is more robust
697 * supports program language and line numbering in code areas
698 * HINT: ldap_login behaves a bit different now:
699 In previous moin versions, ldap_login tended to either successfully
700 authenticate a user or to completely cancel the whole login process in
701 any other case (including ldap server down or exceptions happening).
702 This made subsequent auth list entries rather pointless.
703 Now it behaves like this:
704 * user not found in LDAP -> give subsequent auth list entries a
705 chance to authenticate the user (same happens if it finds multiple
706 LDAP entries when searching - it logs an additional warning then).
707 * user found, but wrong password -> cancel login
708 * ldap server not reachable or other exceptions -> give subsequent
709 auth list entries a chance
710 So please make sure that you really trust every auth list entry you have
711 configured when upgrading or it might maybe change behaviour in a
712 unexpected or unwanted way.
713 * ldap_login now supports failover: if it can't contact your LDAP server
714 (e.g. because it is down or unreachable), it will just continue and
715 try to authenticate with other authenticators (if there are any in
716 cfg.auth list). So if you have some mirroring LDAP backup server, just
717 put another authenticator querying it there:
718 ldap_auth1 = LDAPAuth(server_uri='ldap://mainserver', ...)
719 ldap_auth2 = LDAPAuth(server_uri='ldap://backupserver', ...)
720 auth = [ldap_auth1, ldap_auth2, ]
722 Developer notes: ===========================================================
723 * Page.last_edit() is DEPRECATED, please use Page.edit_info().
724 * Page._last_edited() is GONE (was broken anyway), please use
725 Page.editlog_entry().
726 * New request.send_file() call, making it possible to use server-specific
728 * getText's (aka _()) 'formatted' keyword param (default: True in 1.6 and
729 early 1.7) was renamed/changed: it is now called 'wiki' and defaults to
730 False. Example calls:
731 _('This will NOT get parsed/formatted by MoinMoin!')
732 _('This will be parsed/formatted by MoinMoin!', wiki=True)
733 _('This will be used as a left side of percent operator. %s',
734 wiki=True, percent=True)
735 * Page.url 'relative' keyword param (default: True in 1.6 and early 1.7)
736 was changed to default False).
737 * The themedict no longer contains 'page_user_prefs' and 'user_prefs',
738 this may affect custom themes.
739 * The rst-parser's admonition class names are no longer prepended with
740 "admonition_". Instead the class names are now for example "note"
741 and not "admonition_note".
746 * Security fix: a check in the user form processing was not working as
747 expected, leading to a major ACL and superuser priviledge escalation
748 problem. If you use ACL entries other than "Known:" or "All:" and/or
749 a non-empty superuser list, you need to urgently install this upgrade.
750 * Security fix: if acl_hierarchic=True was used (False is the default),
751 ACL processing was wrong for some cases, see
753 * For {{transclusion_targets}} we checked the protocol to be http(s),
754 this check was removed (because file: and ftp: should work also) and
755 it's not moin's problem if the user uses silly protocols that can't
756 work for that purpose.
757 * Fixed TableOfContents macro for included pages.
758 * server_fastcgi: added Config.port = None. If you want to use some port
759 (not a fd), you can set it now in your Config, e.g. port = 8888.
760 * category: search matches categories even if there are comment lines
761 between the horizontal rule and the real categories, e.g.:
762 ... some page text ...
764 ## optionally some comments, e.g. about possible categories:
765 ## CategoryJustACommentNotFound
766 CategoryTheRealAndOnly
768 Note: there might be multiple comment lines, but all real categories
769 must be on a single line either directly below the ---- or
770 directly below some comment lines.
773 * Added 'notes' to config.url_schemas, so you can use notes://notessrv/...
774 to invoke your Lotus Notes client.
775 * After creating a new user profile via UserPreferences, you are logged
776 in with that user (no need to immediately enter the same name/password
777 again for logging in).
782 * Security fix: check the ACL of the included page for the rst parser's
784 * Potential security/DOS fix: we removed cracklib / python-crack support
785 in password_checker as it is not thread-safe and caused segmentation
786 faults (leading to server error 500 because the moin process died).
787 * Fix moin_session code for auth methods other than moin_login (e.g. http).
788 If you have worked around this using moin_anon_session, you can remove
789 this workaround now (except if you want anon sessions for other reasons).
790 * Fix moin_session code to delete invalid session cookies and also create
791 a new session cookie if it got a valid user_obj at the same time.
792 * Fix xmlrpc applyAuthToken: give good error msg for empty token.
793 * Fixed category search, use category:CategoryFoo as search term.
794 * xapian_stemming = False (changed default) to workaround some problems
795 in the code enabled by it. Fixes the problems when searching for
796 lowercase or numeric titles or word fragments with the builtin search.
797 * Fix trail for anon users without a session, do not show a single page.
799 * Wiki parser: fixed strange insertion of unwanted paragraphs.
800 * Wiki parser: fix interwiki linking:
801 Free interwiki links did not change since 1.5 (they still require to match
802 [A-Z][A-Za-z]+ for the wikiname part, i.e. a ASCII word beginning with an
804 Bracketed interwiki links now behave similar to how they worked in 1.5:
805 Moin just splits off the part left of the colon - no matter how it looks
806 like. It then tries to find that in the interwiki map. If it is found,
807 a interwiki link gets rendered. If it is not found, moin will render a
808 link to a local wiki page (that has a colon in the pagename). It will
809 also render a local wiki page link if there is no colon at all, of course.
811 [[lowercasewikiname:somepage]] does an interwiki link (if in the map).
812 [[ABC:n]] does a local link to page ABC:n (if ABC is NOT in the map).
813 * Wiki parser: fix interwiki linking for the case that there are query args
814 in the interwiki map entry and you give additional query args via link
815 markup (uses correct query arg separator now), e.g.:
816 [[Google:searchterm|search this|&foo=bar]]
817 * Creole parser: fixed bug that prevents images inside links.
818 * Python parser: catch indentation error.
819 * PageEditor: fixed copyPage for write restricted pages.
820 * GUI editor: fixed javascript error with too complex word_rule regex,
822 * Fixed FCKeditor dialog boxes for FireFox3.
823 * NewPage macro/newpage action: fixed for non-ascii template pagenames.
825 * EmbedObject macro: bug fix for image mimetype
827 * fix TWikiDraw saving a drawing by also evaluating the query args.
828 * work around unpythonic WSGI 1.0 read() API, fixing broken xmlrpc
829 putPage with mod_wsgi
831 * Fix logfile code for EACCESS errors.
832 * Removed the "logging initialized" log messages because it was issued once
836 * Show "Comments" toggling link in edit bar only if the page really
838 * Made default configuration of surge protection a bit more forgiving,
839 especially for edit action which is currently also used for previews.
840 * Updated i18n, system/help pages, added Macedonian system text translation.
841 * Improved moin xmlrpc write command's builtin docs and auto-append
842 ?action=xmlrpc2 to the target wiki url given.
847 * Improved params for [[target|label|params]]:
848 Added accesskey link tag attribute, e.g.: [[target|label|accesskey=1]].
849 Additionally to specifying link tag attributes (like class=foo), you can
850 now also specify &key=value for getting that into the query string of
852 The "&" character is important, don't forget it or it won't get into the
854 E.g. for an attachment, you can use:
855 [[attachment:foo.pdf|Direct download of foo.pdf|&do=get]]
856 E.g. for linking to some specific diff, you can use:
857 [[SomePage|see that diff|&action=diff,&rev1=23,&rev2=42]]
858 See also the updated HelpOnLinking page!
859 * AdvancedSearch: make multipe categories/languages/mimetype selections possible
860 * Added a configuration directive to only do one bind to the LDAP server.
861 This is useful if you bind as the user the first time.
862 ldap_bindonce = False # default
865 * Fix XSS issue in login action.
866 * Fix wrong pagename when creating new pages on Mac OS X - that was a big
867 showstopper for moin 1.6.0 on Mac OS X.
868 * Fixed 1.6 migration script:
869 Make sorting python 2.3 compatible.
870 Just skip corrupted event log lines.
871 Fix link conversion by using data.pre160 as data_dir.
872 Fix bad /InterWiki pagenames when encountering interwiki links with bad
874 Improve ImageLink conversion by using its argument parser code.
875 Added STONEAGE_IMAGELINK (default: False) switch to wiki markup converter,
876 toggle it if you had a very old ImageLink macro in production and the
877 converter output has target and image interchanged.
878 Fixed UnicodeDecodeError for wrongly encoded attachment filenames.
880 Fix parsing of link/transclusion description and params.
881 Fix relative attachment targets.
882 Fix supported URL schemes (some got lost since 1.5.8).
883 Showing an upload link for non-existing non-text/non-image transclusions
884 now (like e.g. *.pdf).
885 * RST parser: fix attachment: and drawing: processing
886 * Fix quickhelp when editing RST markup pages.
887 * Fix Despam action: editor grouping was broken, increase time interval
889 * Fix AdvancedSearch domain:system search crashing.
890 * Only switch off xapian search if we didn't use it because of missing index.
891 * Fix saving twikidraw drawings by removing 'java' from spider regex.
892 * Fix classic theme's unsubscribe icon's action link.
893 * Fix AttachFile action: don't show unzip for packages, only show install
895 * Fix "su user" troubles on UserPreferences.
896 * Removed unit tests from ?action=test (due to changes in our test
897 environment, using py.test now, this was broken).
898 * Duplicated the top directories' moin.py to wiki/server/moin.py so it gets
899 installed by setup.py.
907 * I18n texts, system and help pages updated, please update your underlay
908 directory (see wiki/underlay/...).
909 * Improved "moin" script help, invoke it with "moin ... package command --help".
910 * Added some .ext -> mimetype mappings missing on some systems (like Mac OS X).
911 * Removed ImageLink macro, as this can be easily done with moin wiki link
912 syntax now - see HelpOnMacros/ImageLink (the 1.6 migration scripts convert
913 all ImageLink calls to moin wiki link syntax).
914 * Updated EmbedObject macro.
918 * This is a reduced CHANGES, ommitting details from rc/beta test and also
919 less interesting minor changes and fixes. If you want to see full detail,
920 read it there: http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/1.6/file/640f21787334/docs/CHANGES
922 It took MoinMoin development a lot of work and time to implement all the new
923 and fixed stuff, so please, before asking for support:
924 * take the time to read all the stuff below
925 * read the new help pages (copy them from wiki/underlay/ directory)
927 * HINT: If you are upgrading from a older moin version and want to keep your
928 existing data directory, it is essential that you read and follow
929 README.migration because the wiki markup and user profiles changed significantly.
930 See also more HINTs below...
932 New features: ==============================================================
934 User interface: ------------------------------------------------------------
935 * Removed "underscore in URL" == "blank in pagename magic" - it made more
936 trouble than it was worth. If you still want to have a _ in URL, just
937 put a _ into pagename.
938 * Discussion pages, see FeatureRequests/DiscussionAndOrCommentPages.
939 * cfg.password_checker (default: use some simple builtin checks for too
940 easy passwords and, if available, python-crack).
941 Use password_checker = None to disable password checking.
942 * We now have a drafts functionality (no */MoinEditorBackup pages any
944 * If you edit a page and cancel the edit, use preview or save, a draft
945 copy gets saved for you to a internal cache area (data/cache/drafts/).
946 * If it is a save what you did and it succeeds, the draft copy gets
947 killed right afterwards.
948 * If you accidentally used cancel or your browser or machine crashes
949 after you used preview, then just visit that page again and edit it.
950 the editor will notify you that there is a draft of this page and you
951 will see a "Load draft" button. Click on it to load the draft into the
952 editor and save the page.
953 * The draft storage is per user and per page, but only one draft per page.
954 * cfg.quicklinks_default and cfg.subscribed_pages_default can be used to
955 preload new user profiles with configurable values.
956 * attachment links for non-existing attachments look different now:
957 the note about the non-existing attachment moved to the link title,
958 the link is shown with nonexistent class (grey).
959 * attachment embeddings for non-existing attachments show a grey clip
960 * The list of InterWiki sites is editable in the wiki (page InterWikiMap),
961 it is getting reloaded every minute.
962 * We support some new languages and also have new underlay pages, thanks
963 to all translators and people helping with the docs!
965 Actions: -------------------------------------------------------------------
966 * Synchronisation of wikis using the SyncPages action.
967 * Xapian (see http://xapian.org/) based indexed search code.
969 * Install xapian-core and xapian-bindings on your machine.
970 We used 0.9.4, but newer code should hopefully work, too.
971 * cfg.xapian_search = True
972 * Execute this to build the index:
973 $ moin ... index build # indexes pages and attachments
974 $ moin ... index build --files=files.lst # same plus a list of files
975 You should run those commands as the same user you use for your wiki,
976 usually this is the webserver userid, e.g.:
977 $ sudo -u www-data moin --config=... --wiki-url=wiki.example.org/ \
978 index build --files=files.lst
980 - LanguageSearch: language:de
981 - CategorySearch: category:Homepage
982 - MimetypeSearch: mimetype:image/png (for attachments/files)
983 - DomainSearch: domain:underlay or domain:standard
984 - History Search: available in advanced ui
985 Note: Some currently only available when Xapian is used.
986 * New config options and their defaults:
987 xapian_search False enables xapian-powered search
988 xapian_index_dir None directory for xapian indices
989 (can be shared for wiki farms)
990 xapian_stemming True toggles usage of stemmer, fallback
991 to False if no stemmer installed
992 search_results_per_page 10 determines how many hits should be
993 shown on a fullsearch action
994 xapian_index_history False indexes all revisions of pages to
995 allow searching in their history
996 * Speeded up linkto search by avoiding read locks on the pagelinks file.
998 * The action menu now calls the actions for the revision of the page you
999 are currently viewing. If you are viewing the current page revision, you
1000 get the same behaviour as in moin 1.5, but if you are viewing an old
1001 page revision, action "raw" will now show you the raw text of this OLD
1002 revision (not of the current revision as moin 1.5 did it).
1003 Note that not every action does evaluate the rev=XX parameter it gets.
1004 Also please note that the edit, info, ... links in the editbar do NOT
1005 use the rev parameter, but operate on the latest page revision (as
1006 they did in moin 1.5).
1007 * Info action lost the links for "raw", "print" and "revert" actions,
1008 because you can now just view an old revision and select those actions
1009 from the menu there.
1011 * ?action=sitemap emits a google sitemap (XML), listing all your wiki pages
1012 and the wiki root URL.
1013 Page Priority / Frequency / Last modification
1014 --------------------------------------------------------------------
1015 / 1.0 / hourly / <now>
1016 cfg.page_front_page 1.0 / hourly / page last edit
1017 TitleIndex,RecentChanges 0.9 / hourly / <now>
1018 content pages 0.5 / daily / page last edit
1019 system/help pages 0.1 / yearly / page last edit
1021 * Action DeletePage and RenamePage can now be used for subpages of a page, too.
1022 * Added Action CopyPage so you can use now an existing page or page hierarchy
1023 as template for a new page, see FeatureRequests/CloneOrCopyPages.
1024 * "Package Pages" action supports attachments now.
1025 * Added SisterPages support:
1026 * action=sisterpages will generate a list of url pagename lines for all
1027 pages in your moin wiki.
1028 * action=pollsistersites will poll all sister sites listed in
1029 cfg.sistersites = [(wikiname, fetchURL), ...]
1030 The fetch URL for the sistersites depends on the wiki engine, e.g.:
1032 ('MoinExample', 'http://moin.example.org/?action=sisterpages')
1033 # oddmuse based wiki:
1034 ('EmacsWiki', 'http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/test?action=sisterpages')
1035 # JspWiki based wiki:
1036 ('JspWiki', 'http://www.jspwiki.org/SisterSites.jsp')
1037 * If the current page exists on some sister wiki, a link to it will be
1038 added to the navibar.
1039 You can use sister wikis for adding another dimension to your wiki UI: use
1040 it for simple multi language support, or for comments, or anything else
1042 TODO: add sistersites_force with sister sites we link to even if they do not
1043 have the page yet (will work only for moin as we don't know
1044 pagename>url transformation of other wikis)
1045 * showtags action that lists all tags related to a page.
1046 * action=view does use mimetypes of EmbedObject too and text files will be shown
1047 by using their colorized parsers
1049 Macros: --------------------------------------------------------------------
1051 * If a change has happened after your bookmark, the updated/new/renamed
1052 icon links to the bookmark diff.
1053 * If a page does not exist any more (because it was deleted or renamed),
1054 we link the deleted icon to the diff showing what was deleted (for the
1055 delete action). For the rename action, we just show the deleted icon.
1056 * Conflict icon in RecentChanges is shown if a edit conflict is detected.
1057 * Enhanced SystemAdmin's user browser, so a SuperUser can enable/disable
1059 * Included EmbedObject macro for embedding different major mimetypes:
1060 application, audio, image, video, chemical, x-world.
1061 You are able to change the defaults of allowed mimetypes in the config
1062 var mimetypes_embed. The config var mimetypes_xss_protect is used to deny
1063 mimetypes. The order of both variables is Allow, Deny (mimetypes_embed,
1064 mimetypes_xss_protect).
1065 * Added support for @SELF to the NewPage macro.
1066 * GetText2 macro that allows to translate messages that contain data.
1067 * Make the FootNote macro filter duplicates and display a list of numbers
1068 instead of a list of identical footnotes. Thanks to Johannes Berg for the
1071 Parsers: -------------------------------------------------------------------
1072 * Moin Wiki parser: Changed markup for links, images and macros, see these
1073 wiki pages: HelpOnLinking, HelpOnMacros
1074 * New wiki markup for /* inline comments */ - they get rendered as a span
1075 with class="comment", see next item:
1076 * There is a new item in the edit bar: "Comments". If you click it, the
1077 visibility of all class "comment" tags will be toggled. There is a user
1078 preferences item "show_comments" to set if the default view shows them or not.
1079 * The wiki parser can be used with css classes now:
1081 This will render output within a div with class "comment".
1082 You can use any wiki markup as usual.
1084 You can also combine multiple css classes like this:
1085 {{{#!wiki red/dotted/comment
1086 This will render a red background, dotted border comment section.
1088 The same thing will work for any other css classes you have.
1089 If the css classes contain the word "comment", they will trigger some
1090 special feature, see next item:
1091 * Wiki nested parser/pre sections work now, using this syntax:
1092 a) just use more curly braces if you have 3 closing in your content:
1094 }}} <- does not terminate the section!
1096 b) use {{{ + some magic string:
1098 }}} <- does not terminate the section!
1100 c) {{{whatever#!python
1103 Pitfall: stuff like below does not work as it did in 1.5:
1111 * Added support for ircs: URLs (secure IRC).
1112 * New text/creole parser that allows you to use WikiCreole 1.0 markup,
1114 * HTML parser (called "html") that allows you to use HTML on the page.
1115 Thanks to the trac team for the nice code.
1116 * Added the diff parser from ParserMarket, thanks to Emilio Lopes, Fabien
1117 Ninoles and Juergen Hermann.
1119 XMLRPC: --------------------------------------------------------------------
1120 * actions_excluded now defaults to ['xmlrpc'] - this kind of disables the
1121 built-in wiki xmlrpc server code (not completely: it will just answer
1122 with a Fault instance for any request). If you want to use xmlrpc v1 or
1123 v2, you have to remove 'xmlrpc' from the actions_excluded list (for
1124 example if you want to use wikisync, mailimport or any other feature
1125 using xmlrpc). If you enable xmlrpc, it will be possible that someone
1126 changes your wiki content by using xmlrpc (it will of course honour ACLs).
1127 * New XMLRPC methods (see doc strings for details):
1129 * system.multicall -- multicall support
1130 * Authentication System: getAuthToken/appyAuthToken
1131 * getDiff -- method to get binary diffs
1132 * mergeDiff -- method to local changes remotely
1133 * interwikiName -- method to get the IWID and the interwiki moniker
1134 * getAllPagesEx -- method to get the pagelist in a special way (revnos,
1135 no system pages etc.)
1136 * getAuthToken -- make and authentication token by supplying username/password
1137 * applyAuthToken -- set request.user for following xmlrpc calls (within the
1139 * getUserProfile -- method to get user profile data for request.user
1140 * Added XMLRPC methods for attachment handling. Thanks to Matthew Gilbert.
1141 * XMLRPC putPage method adjusted to new AuthToken, config vars
1142 xmlrpc_putpage_enabled and xmlrpc_putpage_trusted_only removed.
1144 Scripts / Commandline interface: -------------------------------------------
1145 * moin export dump now better conforms to the theme guidelines.
1146 * Added a --dump-user option to the moin export dump command.
1147 Thanks to Oliver O'Halloran.
1149 Security / Auth / AntiSpam / etc.: -----------------------------------------
1150 * Hierarchical ACLs are now supported, i.e. pages inheriting permissions
1151 from higher-level pages. See HelpOnAccessControlLists.
1152 * If you have "#acl" (without the quotes) on a page, this means now:
1153 "this page has own (empty) ACLs, so do not use acl_rights_default here"
1154 Please note that this is COMPLETELY DIFFERENT from having no ACL line at
1155 all on the page (acl_rights_default is used in that case).
1156 * Antispam master url is now configurable via cfg.antispam_master_url.
1157 The default is to fetch the antispam patterns from MoinMaster wiki.
1158 * Antispam now checks the edit comments against BadContent also.
1159 * TextCHAs (text-form CAPTCHAs).
1160 Due to increasingly annoying wiki spammers, we added the option to use
1161 TextCHAs (for page save (not for preview!), for attachment upload, for
1162 user creation (not for profile save)).
1163 This function is disabled by default. If you run a wiki that is editable
1164 by anonymous or non-approved users from the internet (i.e. All: or Known:
1165 in ACL terms), you should enable it in your wiki config by:
1166 textchas = { # DO NOT USE EXACTLY THESE QUESTIONS!!!
1168 u'H2O is ...': u'water', # bad: too common
1169 u'2 apples and three bananas makes how many fruits?': ur'(five|5)', # good
1170 u'2 apples and three pigs makes how many fruits?': ur'(two|2)', # good
1171 u'2+3': ur'5', # bad: computable
1174 'de': { # for german users
1175 u'H2O ist ...': u'wasser',
1178 This means that english users will get some random question from the 'en'
1179 set, german users will get some from the 'de' set. If there is no 'de'
1180 set configured, moin will fallback to language_default and then to 'en',
1181 so make sure that you at least have a 'en' set configured (or whatever
1182 you have set as language_default).
1183 You need to use unicode for the questions and answers (see that u"...").
1184 For the answer, you need to give a regular expression:
1185 * In the easiest case, this is just some word or sentence (first en
1186 example). It will be matched in a case-insensitive way.
1187 * For more complex stuff, you can use the power of regular expressions,
1188 e.g. if multiple answers are correct (second en example). Any answer
1189 matching the regular expression will be considered as correct, any
1190 non-matching answer will be considered as incorrect.
1192 Tipps for making it hard to break for the spammers and easy for the users:
1193 * Use site-specific (not too common) questions.
1194 * Don't use too hard questions (annoys legitimate users).
1195 * Don't use computable questions.
1196 * Don't reuse textchas from other sites.
1198 textchas_disabled_group = None # (default)
1199 Set this to some group name and noone in this group will get textchas.
1200 E.g.: textchas_disabled_group = u'NoTextChasGroup'
1202 * The login page gives now the possibility to recover a lost password, thanks to
1203 Oliver Siemoneit. This is especially useful for wikis where access to user
1204 preferences is restricted by acl.
1205 * Session handling for logged-in users and (not by default due to expiry
1206 problems) anonymous users.
1207 * Updated the ldap_login code from 1.5 branch, supports TLS now.
1208 See MoinMoin/config/multiconfig.py for supported configuration options
1209 and their defaults (and please just change what you need to change,
1210 in your wikiconfig).
1211 * Interwiki auth: You need to define cfg.trusted_wikis and
1212 cfg.user_autocreate to use it. Logging in works by entering:
1213 Name: RemoteWikiName RemoteUserName
1214 Password: remotepass
1215 Then moin contacts RemoteWikiName after looking it up in the interwiki
1216 map and tries to authenticate there using RemoteUserName and remotepass.
1217 If it succeeds, the remote wiki will return the remote user profile items
1218 and your local moin will autocreate an account with these values.
1220 Server / Network / Logging: ------------------------------------------------
1221 * The standalone server script moved to the toplevel directory. This makes
1222 it possible to directly start moin.py without additional configuration
1223 to run a MoinMoin DesktopEdition like wiki setup.
1224 Be careful: DesktopEdition uses relaxed security settings only suitable
1225 for personal and local use.
1226 * Added TLS/SSL support to the standalone server. Thanks to Matthew Gilbert.
1227 To use TLS/SSL support you must also install the TLSLite library
1228 (http://trevp.net/tlslite/). Version 0.3.8 was used for development and
1231 * cfg.log_reverse_dns_lookups [default: True] - you can set this to False
1232 if rev. dns lookups are broken in your network (leading to long delays
1233 on page saves). With False, edit-log will only contain IP, not hostname.
1234 * Added support for "304 not modified" response header for AttachFile get
1235 and rss_rc actions - faster, less traffic, less load.
1237 * Added logging framework, using stdlib's "logging" module. Just do
1238 import logging ; logging.debug("your text"). Depending on configuration
1239 in the server Config class, your stuff will be written to screen (stderr),
1240 to a moin logfile, to apache's error.log, etc.:
1241 logPath = None # 'moin.log'
1242 loglevel_file = None # logging.DEBUG/INFO/WARNING/ERROR/CRITICAL
1243 loglevel_stderr = None # logging.DEBUG/INFO/WARNING/ERROR/CRITICAL
1244 NOTE: this is NOT in wikiconfig, but e.g. in moin.cgi or moin.py or ...
1246 * Added some experimental and disabled code, that uses x-forwarded-for
1247 header (if present) to get the right "outside" IP before a request
1248 enters our chain of trusted (reverse) proxies.
1249 This code has the problem that we can't configure it in wikiconfig, so
1250 if you want to use it / test it, you have to edit the moin code:
1251 MoinMoin/request/__init__.py - edit proxies_trusted (near the top).
1252 We will try to make this easier to configure, but there was no time left
1253 before 1.6.0 release for doing bigger code refactorings needed for that.
1255 Mail: ----------------------------------------------------------------------
1256 * You can send email to the wiki now (requires xmlrpc), see:
1257 FeatureRequests/WikiEmailIntegration, HelpOnConfiguration/EmailSupport
1259 * Mail notifications contain a link to the diff action so the user
1260 can see the coloured difference more easily. Thanks to Tobias Polzin.
1262 Other changes: =============================================================
1263 * HINT: please copy a new version of your server script from the wiki/server/
1264 directory and edit it to match your setup.
1265 * HINT: instead of "from MoinMoin.multiconfig import DefaultConfig" you
1266 need to use "from MoinMoin.config.multiconfig import DefaultConfig" now.
1267 You need to change this in your wikiconfig.py or farmconfig.py file.
1268 See MoinMoin/multiconfig.py for an alternative way if you can't do that.
1269 * HINT: you need to change some imports (if you have them in your config):
1270 Old: from MoinMoin.util.antispam import SecurityPolicy
1271 New: from MoinMoin.security.antispam import SecurityPolicy
1272 Old: from MoinMoin.util.autoadmin import SecurityPolicy
1273 New: from MoinMoin.security.autoadmin import SecurityPolicy
1274 * HINT: you need to change your auth stuff, the new way is:
1275 from MoinMoin.auth import moin_login, moin_session
1276 from MoinMoin.auth.http import http
1277 auth = [http, moin_login, moin_session]
1278 Do it in a similar way for other auth methods.
1279 * HINT: you need to change your url_prefix setting in 2 ways:
1280 1. The setting is now called url_prefix_static (to make it more clear
1281 that we mean the static stuff, not the wiki script url).
1282 2. The strongly recommended (and default) value of it is '/moin_static160'
1283 for moin version 1.6.0 (and will be ...161 for moin 1.6.1). It is
1284 possible and recommended to use a very long cache lifetime for static
1285 stuff now (Expires: access plus 1 year), because we require to change
1286 the URL of static stuff when the static stuff changes (e.g. on a
1287 version upgrade of moin) to avoid problems with stale cache content.
1288 Your moin will be faster with lower load and traffic because of this.
1289 For standalone server, we use 1 year expiry for static stuff now.
1290 For Apache, Lighttpd and other "external" servers, you have to care
1291 for configuring them to use a long expiry and change url_prefix_static
1292 related configuration on upgrade.
1293 HINT: if you run standalone or Twisted server, the easiest way to get a
1294 working configuration (with server configuration matching wiki
1295 configuration) is to NOT set url_prefix_static at all. Moin will
1296 use matching configuration defaults in this case.
1297 * url_prefix_action ['action'] was introduced for lowering load and traffic
1298 caused by searchengine crawlers. Up to now, crawlers where causing a high
1299 load in internet moin wikis because they tried to get about everything,
1300 including all actions linked from the user interface.
1301 Known crawlers only get 403 for most actions, but nevertheless they first
1302 tried. There was no means keeping them away from actions due to the rather
1303 braindead robots.txt standard. You can only disallow pathes there, but
1304 moin's actions were querystring based, not path based (this would need
1305 regex support in robots.txt, but there is no such thing).
1306 This changed now. Moin is able to generate action URLs you can handle in
1307 robots.txt, like /action/info/PageName?action=info. So if you don't want
1308 bots triggering actions, just disallow /action/ there. Keep in mind that
1309 attachments are handled by /action/AttachFile, so if you want attached
1310 files and pictures indexed by search engine, don't disallow
1311 /action/AttachFile/ in your robots.txt. In order to use this feature,
1312 set url_prefix_action in your wikiconfig to e.g. "action".
1313 * We use (again) the same browser compatibility check as FCKeditor uses
1314 internally, too. So if GUI editor invocation is broken due to browser
1315 compatibility issues or a wrong browser version check, please file a bug
1316 at FCKeditor development or browser development.
1317 * HINT: We removed Lupy based indexed search code. If you were brave enough
1318 to use cfg.lupy_search, you maybe want to try cfg.xapian_search instead.
1320 Developer notes: ===========================================================
1321 * We moved the IE hacks to theme/css/msie.css that gets included after all
1322 other css files (but before the user css file) using a conditional
1323 comment with "if IE", so it gets only loaded for MSIE (no matter which
1324 version). The file has some standard css inside (evaluated on all MSIE
1325 versions) and some * html hacks that only IE < 7 will read.
1326 HINT: if you use custom themes, you want to update them in the same way.
1327 * autofilters for databrowser widget. Thanks to Johannes Berg for the patch.
1328 * changed formatter.attachment_link call (it is now more flexible,
1329 because you can render the stuff between link start and link end yourself)
1330 * Page.url() does not escape any more. You have to use wikiutil.escape()
1331 yourself if you want to write the URL to HTML and it contains e.g. &.
1332 * The testing wikiconfig moved to tests/wikiconfig.py, the testing wiki
1333 is now created in tests/wiki/...
1334 * HINT: Killed "processors" (finally), formatter method changed to:
1335 formatter.parser(parsername, lines)
1336 * Refactored some actions to use ActionBase base class.
1337 * Moved "test" action from wikiaction to MoinMoin/action/
1338 (and use ActionBase).
1339 * Moved MoinMoin/config.py to MoinMoin/config/__init__.py.
1340 * Moved MoinMoin/multiconfig.py to MoinMoin/config/multiconfig.py.
1341 * Moved "SystemInfo" macro from wikimacro to MoinMoin/macro/.
1342 * Moved wikiaction.py stuff to MoinMoin/action/__init__.py.
1343 * Moved wikimacro.py stuff to MoinMoin/macro/__init__.py.
1344 * Moved wikirpc.py stuff to MoinMoin/xmlrpc/__init__.py.
1345 * Moved wikitest.py stuff to action/test.py (only used from there).
1346 * Moved formatter/base.py to formatter/__init__.py (FormatterBase).
1347 * Moved util/ParserBase.py to parser/ParserBase.py.
1348 * Moved / splitted request.py into MoinMoin/request/*.
1349 Most stuff will be broken, please help fixing it (usually some imports
1350 will be missing and the adaptor script will need a change maybe):
1351 Tested successfully: CGI, CLI, STANDALONE, FCGI, TWISTED
1352 * Moved security.py to security/__init__.py.
1353 * Moved wikiacl.py to security/__init__.py.
1354 * Moved logfile/logfile.py to logfile/__init__.py.
1355 * Moved mailimport.py to mail/mailimport.py.
1356 * Moved util/mail.py to mail/sendmail.py.
1357 * Moved auth.py to auth/__init__.py.
1358 Moved util/sessionParser.py to auth/_PHPsessionParser.py.
1359 teared auth code into single modules under auth/* - moin_session handling
1360 and the builting moin_login method are in auth/__init__.py.
1361 * Added wikiutil.MimeType class (works internally with sanitized mime
1362 types because the official ones suck).
1363 * Renamed parsers to module names representing sane mimetypes, e.g.:
1364 parser.wiki -> parser.text_moin_wiki
1365 * Added thread_monitor debugging aid. It can be activated using:
1366 from MoinMoin.util import thread_monitor; thread_monitor.activate_hook()
1367 and then triggered by requesting URL ...?action=thread_monitor - please
1368 be aware that monitoring threads has a big performance impact on its own,
1369 so you only want to temporarily enable this for debugging.
1370 By default, it dumps its output to the data_dir as tm_<timestamp>.log,
1371 you can change this at bottom of action/thread_monitor.py if you want to
1372 see output in your browser.
1373 * Introduced scope parameter to CacheEntry() - if you specify 'farm', it
1374 will cache into a common directory for all wikis in the same farm, if you
1375 specify 'wiki', it will use a cache directory per wiki and if you specify
1376 'item', it will use a cache directory per item (== per page).
1377 Creating a CacheEntry without explicit scope is DEPRECATED.
1378 * Smileys moved from MoinMoin.config to MoinMoin.theme.
1379 * Removed all _ magic in URLs and filenames.
1380 * request.action now has the action requested, default: 'show'.
1381 * Cleaned up duplicated http_headers code and DEPRECATED this function
1382 call (it was sometimes confused with setHttpHeaders call) - it will
1383 vanish with moin 1.7, so please fix your custom plugins!
1385 request.emit_http_headers(more_headers=[])
1386 This call pre-processes the headers list (encoding from unicode, making
1387 sure that there is exactly ONE content-type header, etc.) and then
1388 calls a server specific helper _emit_http_headers to emit it.
1389 Tested successfully: CGI, STANDALONE, FCGI, TWISTED
1390 * setResponseCode request method DEPRECATED (it only worked for Twisted
1391 anyway), just use emit_http_headers and include a Status: XXX header.
1392 Method will vanish with moin 1.7.
1393 * cfg.url_prefix is DEPRECATED, please use cfg.url_prefix_static.
1394 * d['title_link'] is not supported any more. You can easily make that link
1395 on your own in your theme, see example in MoinMoin/theme/__init__.py,
1397 * There is a new Page method called Page.get_raw_body_str that returns
1398 the encoded page body. This is useful if you just deal with byte data
1399 (e.g. while generating binary diffs).
1400 * The TagStore/PickleTagStore system is used to store the syncronisation tags.
1401 * XMLRPC functions may return Fault instances from now on
1402 * Moin got multicall support, including a module that makes it usable on the
1403 client-side without requiring Python 2.4
1404 * Added no_magic to text_html formatter to disable tag autoclosing.
1405 * MOIN_DEBUG can be set in the environment to let MoinMoin ignore exceptions
1406 that would lead to a traceback in the browser. Thanks to Raphael Bossek.
1407 * There is a new MoinMoin.Page.ItemCache class now with automatic cache
1408 invalidation based on global edit-log. We currently use it to cache page
1409 acls, speedup Page.get_rev and reading the page local edit-log.
1410 * Added wikiutil.renderText parse and format raw wiki markup with all page elements.
1411 * The user file format has changed, old files will be read correctly but
1412 will silently be upgraded to the new format so old versions will not
1413 read the new files correctly (this only affects 'subscribed_pages' and
1414 'quicklinks' which will be lost when downgrading.)
1419 * Added timing.log to help performance debugging. Use cfg.log_timing = True
1420 to update <data_dir>/timing.log (default is False, meaning no logging).
1422 Example log entries:
1425 Timestamp PID Timing Flag action URL
1426 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1427 20070512 184401 22690 vvv None moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/RssFeeds
1428 20070512 184401 22690 0.267s - show moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/RssFeeds
1430 Timestamp: YYYYMMDD HHMMSS (UTC)
1431 PID: the process ID of the moin process
1432 Timing: when action starts, it will be "vvv"
1433 when it ends, it logs the total time it needed for execution
1434 Flag (some are only logged at end of action):
1436 - Page does not exist
1437 B user agent was recognized as bot / spider
1438 !x! Action took rather long (the higher the x, the longer it took - this
1439 makes it easy to grep for problematic stuff).
1440 Action: action name (None is when no action was specified, moin assumes
1441 "show" for that case)
1442 URL: the requested URL
1444 For more information about tuning your moin setup, see:
1445 http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/PerformanceTuning
1446 * Added support for ircs, webcal, xmpp, ed2k and rootz protocols - we
1447 moved all protocols to config.url_schemas, so this is not empty any more.
1448 It is possible to use these protocols now on wiki pages and in the
1449 navi_bar. We just generate the URLs, it is up to your browser what it
1450 does when clicking on those links.
1451 * cfg.traceback_show (default: 1) can be used to disable showing tracebacks.
1452 cfg.traceback_log_dir (default: None) can be used to set a directory
1453 that is used to dump traceback files to. Your users will get a notice to
1454 which (random) file in that directory the traceback was been written.
1455 NOTE: while you can feel free to set traceback_show = 0 and
1456 traceback_log_dir = None, we will also feel free to reject bug reports
1457 when you (or your site's users) don't give us enough information (like a
1458 traceback file) to debug the problem. If you set traceback_show = 0,
1459 we recommend pointing traceback_log_dir to a directory with reasonable
1460 free space and putting a page onto your wiki that describes who has to
1461 get contacted (usually the wiki server admin) in case a traceback happens.
1462 The admin can then locate the traceback file and submit it to moin
1464 Of course we will also need all the other details of a bug report, not
1465 only the traceback file.
1468 * Updated spider agents list.
1469 * Reduce bot/spider cpu usage for SystemInfo, OrphanedPages, WantedPages,
1470 PageHits, PageSize, WordIndex macros (we just return nothing for bots).
1473 * XSS fixes, see http://secunia.com/advisories/24138/ (item 1 and 2).
1474 * ACL security fixes:
1475 * MonthCalendar respects ACLs of day pages now.
1476 * Check the ACL for the rst markup include directive.
1477 * Fixed cleaning of edit comments (control chars in there could damage
1479 * Fixed in-process caching of antispam patterns (didn't update the cache
1480 for multi-process, persistent servers).
1481 * Correct encoding/decoding for surge-log data, fixes leftover
1482 surge-logXXXXXXX.tmp files in data/cache/surgeprotect.
1483 * Fixed mode of cache files (mkstemp creates them with 0600 mode).
1484 * Symbolic entities with numbers (like ²) did not work, fixed.
1485 * We open data/error.log earlier now and we also use it for FastCGI.
1486 * Fixed unicode cfg.page_group_regex.
1487 * Fixed moin.spec to use english date format.
1488 * GUI converter: fixed conversion of relative wiki links.
1489 * Fixed NewPage macro button label to not be formatted as wiki text.
1493 * added url_prefix_local which is used for stuff that must be loaded from
1494 same site as the wiki engine (e.g. FCKeditor GUI editor applet), while
1495 url_prefix can be a remote server serving the static files (css/img).
1496 If not set (or set to None), url_prefix_local will default to the value
1498 * We save some CPU and disk I/O by having EditTemplates and LikePages macro
1499 (both used on MissingPage) check whether the requesting entity was
1500 identified as a spider (e.g. search engine bot) and do nothing in that
1501 case. Normal users won't see any difference.
1502 * For AttachFile, you can now choose to overwrite existing files of same
1503 name (nice for updating files).
1507 * fixed unescaped page info display.
1508 * fixed unescaped page name display in AttachFile, RenamePage and
1509 LocalSiteMap actions
1510 * WantedPages listed existing pages that are not readable for the user,
1511 but are linked from pages that ARE readable for the user (so this is NOT
1512 a privacy/security issue). We now don't list those pages any more as it
1513 is pointless/confusing, the user can't read or edit there anyway.
1516 * GUI editor/converter:
1517 * ignore <col>/<colgroup>/<meta> elements
1518 * support <a> within blockquote
1519 * Remove generated=... attribute from pagelink html output (this attr is
1520 for internal use only). w3c validator is now happier again.
1521 * Fixed css class "userpref" (not: "userprefs") of the Login form.
1522 * Fixed the version number check in the xslt parser for 4suite >= 1.0.
1523 * We reset the umask to the wanted value every request. This should fix
1524 wrong file modes when used with Twisted (twistd uses a hardcoded 0077
1525 umask in daemonize()).
1526 * Avoid trouble when saving pages with antispam function when MoinMaster
1527 wiki is having troubles (catch xmlrpc Fault).
1530 * Standalone server does not do reverse DNS lookups any more (this is a
1531 standard feature of BaseHTTPServer stdlib module, but we override this
1532 now and just print the IP).
1533 * We moved the IE hacks to theme/css/msie.css that gets included after all
1534 other css files (but before the user css file) using a conditional
1535 comment with "if IE", so it gets only loaded for MSIE (no matter which
1536 version). The file has some standard css inside (evaluated on all MSIE
1537 versions) and some * html hacks that only IE < 7 will read.
1538 HINT: if you use custom themes, you want to update them in the same way.
1539 * Improved ldap auth:
1540 * cfg.ldap_name_attribute was removed because of new cfg.ldap_filter.
1541 If you had ldap_name_attribute = 'sAMAccountName' before, just use
1542 ldap_filter = '(sAMAccountName=%(username)s)' now.
1543 * New cfg.ldap_filter used for the ldap filter string used in the ldap
1544 search instead of the rather limited, partly hardcoded filter we used
1545 before. This is much more flexible:
1546 ldap_filter = '(sAMAccountName=%(username)s)'
1547 You can also do more complex filtering expressions like:
1548 '(&(cn=%(username)s)(memberOf=CN=WikiUsers,OU=Groups,DC=example,DC=org))'
1549 * Added some processing to filter out result entries with dn == None.
1550 * We set REFERRALS option to 0 before initializing the ldap server
1551 connection (this seems to be needed for Active Directory servers).
1552 * We support self-signed ssl certs for ldaps - completely untested.
1553 * New cfg.ldap_surname_attribute (usually 'sn'), was hardcoded before.
1554 * New cfg.ldap_givenname_attribute (usually 'givenName'), hardcoded before.
1555 * New cfg.ldap_aliasname_attribute (usually 'displayName') - if this
1556 attribute is not there or empty (in the results of the ldap lookup for
1557 the user), we just make up the aliasname from surname and givenname
1559 * We only request the attributes we need from ldap (was: all attrs).
1560 * We deny user login (and break out of auth chain) for the following cases:
1561 * if a user is not found by ldap lookup
1562 * if we find more than one matching entry
1563 * if the password is empty or incorrect
1564 * if some exception happens
1565 * Please note that there is an updated ldap sample config in directory
1566 wiki/config/more_samples/.
1567 * Added experimental LDAP SSL/TLS support (untested, please help testing),
1568 see also the sample config.
1569 * Work around a IE7 rendering problem with long pages getting more and
1570 more narrow. We just applied the same "fix" as we used for IE6, using
1571 "display: none" for span.anchor for IE browsers.
1573 * We used to emit a <link> tag for the action=rss_rc RSS feed on any
1574 page. This was changed, we now emit that link only on RecentChanges and
1575 the current user's language translation of RecentChanges.
1576 This was changed because Google Toolbar requests the RSS feed linked
1577 by such a link tag every time it sees one. Thus, if you used the wiki
1578 normally, it requested the RSS feed every few seconds and caused
1579 problems due to surge protection kicking in because of that.
1580 * HINT for custom theme users: if your theme code calls
1581 rsslink(), then you need to change that to rsslink(d) for 1.5.7+.
1585 A general security notice:
1586 Check your Python version, there was a buffer overflow issue in Python
1587 recently! Details: http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/PythonUnicodeEscapeBug
1590 * Fix AttributeError traceback with Standalone server (if_modified_since)
1591 * Fix AttachFile "304 not modified" and redirect status code for Twisted
1592 * http auth: we now decode username and password to unicode (using
1593 config.charset == utf-8). Same for SSL client cert auth and CN.
1594 * Avoid infinite recursion in Page.parsePageLinks.
1595 * Fixed standalone server failing to shutdown if interface == "".
1596 * Now MoinMoin does not think anymore that every page links to various user
1598 * Made the irssi parser more tolerant (Thanks to "TheAnarcat").
1599 * Now multiple formatters can be used per request, the send_page code was
1600 not reentrant to this regard. Fixes "empty" search results.
1601 * Fixed problem with "=" in ImageLink macro links.
1602 * Not a moin bug, but a silly stdlib os.tempnam function made trouble to
1603 some people because it lets you override the path given in the code
1604 by setting the environment variable TMP(DIR). We now use a different
1605 function to avoid renaming trouble when TMP(DIR) points to a different
1607 * Fixed antispam update on every save (Thanks to "TheAnarcat").
1608 * GUI converter: don't throw away rowclass for tables.
1609 * GUI editor formatter: allow height for table cells.
1610 * GUI editor formatter: comment texts are output using the formatter now.
1613 * Mail notifications contain a link to the diff action so the user
1614 can see the coloured difference more easily. Thanks to Tobias Polzin.
1615 * FeatureRequests/MoveAttachments - you can move attachments from one
1616 page to another (and also rename the attachment at the same time).
1617 Thanks to Reimar Bauer.
1618 * Added support for linking to attachment: and inline: URLs with ImageLink.
1619 * Added UNIX socket support for FastCGI, just set the port to some (socket)
1621 * [[Attachlist(pagename,mimetype)]] lists attachments of pagename (default:
1622 current page) with optional mimetype restriction (default: all).
1623 Thanks to Reimar Bauer.
1626 * Minor performance improvements (might be noticeable if you have many
1627 custom navi_bar entries and high server load).
1628 * Avoid usage of no-cache because it breaks attachment download on IE6.
1629 This is a IE bug, not a moin bug.
1630 * Added XHTML to the unsafe list.
1631 * Changed the rst parser to be compatible to the new docutils interface
1633 * Updated EmbedObject macro.
1638 * fixed ticket creation to only use constant values
1641 HINT: read docs/README.migration.
1642 HINT: there was NO change in the underlay/ pages since 1.5.4.
1643 HINT: If you experience problems with the reStructured Text (rst) parser,
1644 please downgrade docutils to "0.4" because there were major interface
1645 breaking API refactorings on the docutils trunk.
1651 * Not a moin bug, but it severely annoyed IE users and also was less
1652 comfortable for users of other browser: since about 1.5.4, we served
1653 attachments with Content-Disposition: attachment - so that the user has
1654 to save them to disk. This was to fix a possible XSS attack using attached
1655 HTML files with Javascript inside for stealing your moin cookie or doing
1656 other nasty things. We improved this by using different behaviour depending
1657 on the potential danger the attached file has when served inline:
1658 mimetypes_xss_protect = ['text/html', 'application/x-shockwave-flash', ]
1659 This is the default value. If you know more dangerous stuff, please just
1660 add the mimetypes there to protect your users and file a bug report
1661 telling us what we missed.
1664 * Make tickets used for some actions more safe.
1667 * edit_ticketing [True] - we protect page save by a ticket (same stuff we
1668 already use for DeletePage and RenamePage action).
1669 NOTE: If you don't use your browser for editing, but some tool like
1670 "editmoin" or "MoinMoin plugin for jEdit", you'll need an update
1671 of them supporting the ticket.
1672 Alternatively, you can use edit_ticketing = False setting - this
1673 is not recommended for internet wikis as it will make spamming them
1675 * If we detect some spammer, we kick him out by triggering surge protection
1676 (if surge protection is not disabled).
1681 * Fixed gui editor converter confusing of `` and {{{}}} markup.
1682 * Fixed emission of HTTP headers (esp. Vary: Cache-Control:).
1683 * Fixed a bad crash that happens (on ANY page!) when you put a *Dict
1684 page's name as a member into a *Group page.
1685 * Fix MyPages action title to use an unformatted string.
1686 * Fix double quoted-printable encoding in generated emails (note: this is
1687 not a moin bug - this just works around bugs in python stdlib).
1688 * Fix mode of drawing files (use config.umask).
1689 * Fix trouble with /?action= urls by dropping getPageNameFromQueryString
1691 * Fixed sre unpickle issues seen on some machines by avoiding to pickle
1693 * Fix Clock code, add more timers.
1694 * Worked around FastCGI problem on Lighttpd: empty lines in the error log.
1695 * Fix (add) locking for caching's .remove() call, small fixes to lock code.
1696 * Print error message when --target-dir=path is missing from moin export
1700 * Added support for "304 not modified" response header for AttachFile get
1701 and rss_rc actions - faster, less traffic, less load.
1702 * Limit rss with full diffs to 5 items.
1703 * Allow surge_action_limits = None to disable surge protection.
1704 * moin.fcg improved - if you use FastCGI, you must use the new file:
1705 * can self-terminate after some number of requests (default: -1, this
1706 means "unlimited lifetime")
1707 * the count of created threads is limited now (default: 5), you can use
1708 1 to use non-threaded operation.
1709 * configurable socket.listen() backlog (default: 5)
1710 * Added indonesian i18n (id).
1711 * Some measures against spammers trying to brute force their spam into moin.
1712 * EmbedObject macro: added mov, mpg and midi support
1713 * moin ... export dump --target-dir=PATH --page=PAGENAME_REGEX
1714 You must specify --target-dir (where dump will write the html files to)
1715 and you may specify --page and either a page name or a regex used to
1716 match all pages you want to export. Default is to export all pages.
1720 * more efficient locking code on POSIX platforms, we do much less I/O
1722 * removed most chmod calls in favour of a single os.umask call
1723 * Improved Python 2.5 compatibility. Note: if you think that MoinMoin
1724 is using too much RAM, you might want to look at Python 2.5 because
1725 of its improved memory management.
1726 * Throw away SAVE comments longer than 200 chars (you can't enter those by
1727 the user interface, so only spammer using automatic POSTs do them).
1728 * Updated spider user agent list.
1729 * BadContent and LocalBadContent now get noindex,nofollow robots header,
1731 * Standalone opens it logfile unbuffered from now on, thanks to
1733 * Avoid trouble when request.write() data contains None, just skip it -
1734 thanks to Juergen Hermann.
1735 * Instead of showing a ConfigurationError, moin now emits "404 Not found"
1736 http headers and a hint about what could be wrong. This won't fill up
1737 your logs just because of typos and spiders still trying old URLs.
1741 HINT: read docs/README.migration.
1742 Version 1.5.4-current:
1743 * increased maxlength of some input fields from 80 to 200
1745 Version 1.5.current:
1747 * We switched to Mercurial SCM, see here for more infos:
1748 http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/MoinDev/MercurialGuide
1751 * fix MonthCalendar macro for non-ASCII pagenames (thanks to Jonas Smedegaard)
1752 * remove 'search' and 'google' from bot user agent list and add some more
1754 * Fix the forgotten password email login URL and also properly encode the
1755 email body. Thanks to Robin Dunn for the patch.
1756 * Applied a patch by Matthew Gilbert for increased compatiblity with
1762 * Added CSS classes for TableOfContents macro.
1765 * GUI editor / GUI editor converter:
1766 * Fixed missing GUI editor link in edit bar.
1767 * Fixed table/row/cell style spaces.
1768 * Changed <p> generation for macros.
1769 * Fixed handling of subpages.
1770 * Fixed processing of complex list elements (thanks to Craig Markwardt).
1771 * Fixed processing of html \n (thanks to Craig Markwardt).
1772 * Fixed joining of comment lines with text below them.
1773 * Fixed table height attribute crash.
1774 * Fixed sslclientcert auth.
1775 * Added some missing files to i18n processing, translatable strings more
1777 * Change <p> generation from self-closing (<p />) to auto-closing (only
1778 emit <p>, let browser find place for </p>).
1779 * Fix eating of newline before tables.
1780 * Fixed incorrect login hint for not logged-in users trying a disallowed
1782 * Fixed nasty missing or double </a> formatter bug (mostly happening when
1783 user has enabled questionmarks for nonexisting pages).
1786 * We catch and ignore html to wiki conversion errors in case of hitting
1787 the cancel button, so you can get out of the error screen.
1791 * Modified SystemInfo macro to give human readable units and disk usage
1792 * cfg.editor_quickhelp makes the quick help below the editor configurable
1793 (at least as far as the default_markup is concerned). If set to None,
1794 it doesn't display any quickhelp. Thanks to Seth Falcon for the patch.
1797 * Fixed double class attribute for nonexistent links
1798 * Fixed double </a> with qm_noexist option
1799 * Fixed table xxx="yyy" style attribute parsing
1800 * If not (editor_force and editor_default == 'text') then display GUI mode
1801 switch button (this is only a partial fix, but enough to deny the GUI
1802 mode to your users completely)
1803 * Fixed XSS issue which could lead to cookie theft etc.
1804 * Fixed definition list "same level" indenting.
1805 * Fixed pagename in log for PackagePages action.
1806 * Made <p> self-closing and line-anchors more well-behaved, thanks to
1807 Martin Wilck for the patch. I didn't apply the <ol> patch, because this
1808 is no real problem, just a problem of a bad standard.
1809 * Fixed gui editor *bgcolor crash.
1810 * Support/Fix tableclass attr with gui editor.
1813 * Moved back UserPreferences action link from menu to top of page (renaming
1814 it to "Preferences"), added "Cancel" button to make it possible to return
1815 to the previous page without saving preferences.
1816 * Removed formatter.url "attrs" keyword arg that took premade html, we use
1817 separate kw args per attribute now.
1818 * Moved broken tests to MoinMoin/_tests/broken (= disabling them).
1819 All "active" tests run ok now.
1820 If you want to compare, I included the output of this test run:
1821 $ make test >tests/make_test.out
1827 * HINT: please read README.migration
1828 * Login and Logout are actions now, therefore you stay on the page where
1830 * UserPreferences is also an action now and moved from top border (in
1831 modern theme) to the "more actions" dropdown menu. You also stay on the
1833 * There is also a [[Login]] macro now. You can put it on any page you want
1834 and if the user is not logged in, it renders the login form. If the user
1835 is logged in, it doesn't render anything.
1836 * We check cfg.superuser to be a list of user names (as documented) and
1837 deny superuser access if it is not. This avoids security issues by
1838 wrong configuration.
1839 * auth methods changed:
1840 HINT: if you wrote own auth methods, please change them as you see in
1841 MoinMoin/auth.py and test them again before relying on them.
1842 * now get a user_obj kw argument that is either a user object returned
1843 from a previous auth method or None (if no user has been made up yet).
1844 The auth method should either return a user object (if it has
1845 determined one) or what it got as user_obj (being "passive") or None
1846 (if it wants to "veto" some user even if a previous method already has
1847 made up some user object).
1848 * return value of continue_flag is now True in most cases (except if
1849 it wants to "veto" and abort).
1850 * moin_cookie auth method now logs out a user by deleting the cookie and
1851 setting user_obj.valid = 0. This makes it possible to still get the
1852 user's name in subsequent auth method calls within the same request.
1853 * added ldap_login and smb_mount auth methods, see MoinMoin/auth.py and
1854 wiki/config/more_samples/ldap_smb_farmconfig.py
1855 * MonthCalendar now takes an additional argument for specifying a template
1856 to use to directly invoke the page editor when clicking on non-existing
1858 * Added ImageLink macro. Thanks to Jeff Kunce, Marcin Zalewski, Reimar
1859 Bauer and Chong-Dae Park for working on it.
1860 * Lupy stuff (still experimental, partly broken and disabled by default):
1861 * Attachment search using lupy (lupy_search = 1 in your config)
1862 Title search will also search attachment filenames.
1863 Full text search will also search attachment contents.
1865 Some filters depend on external converters that might not be available
1866 for any platform (see Depends: line in filter plugin).
1867 Feel free to contribute more filter plugins, especially if you wrote
1868 some nice platform independant filter in Python for some popular file
1869 format! Filters implemented so far (depending on):
1870 MS Word, RTF, MS Excel (antiword, catdoc)
1872 OpenOffice.org XML based data formats (-)
1875 JPEG's EXIF data (-)
1877 * As you might know, Lupy is "retired" (that means it isn't developped
1878 by its authors any more). We are currently evaluating Xapian as new
1879 indexing search engine in moin.
1880 If we succeed, we will replace Lupy stuff by some Xapian interface
1882 But: the filters will likely stay, as we also need them with Xapian.
1884 * A new MoinMoin script interface was introduced:
1886 Syntax: moin [options] <cmdmodule> <cmdname> [options]
1889 moin --config-dir=/my/cfgdir --wiki-url=wiki.example.org/ \
1890 export dump --page=WikiSandBox
1892 This will call the "moin" script, which will use the --config-dir and
1893 --wiki-url options to initialize, then it will go to MoinMoin.script
1894 module, import the export.dump module from there and run it, providing
1895 the additional --page value to it.
1897 The old scripts that have not been migrated to this new interface can
1898 still be found in MoinMoin/script/old/ - including the old migration
1900 * moin ... account create --name=JoeDoe --email=joe@doe.org
1901 * moin ... account disable --name=JoeDoe
1902 * moin ... acount check <-- this is what usercheck script was before
1903 * moin ... maint cleancache <-- this is what cachecleaner script was
1904 * moin ... maint cleanpage <-- this is what pagescleaner script was
1907 * cookie_lifetime didn't work comfortable for low values. The cookie was
1908 created once on login and never updated afterwards. So you got logged
1909 out cookie_lifetime hours later, no matter whether you were active at
1910 that time or not. This has been changed, we update the cookie expiry now
1911 on every request, so it will expire cookie_lifetime after your last
1912 request (not after login).
1913 * Fixed logout problems when using cfg.cookie_path.
1914 * Fixed cookie_path for root url wikis.
1915 * Lupy search now behaves a bit less funky. Still no guarantees...
1916 * We lowered the twisted server timeout to 2 minutes now (was: 10) because
1917 it just used up too many files (open TCP connections until it timeouts)
1919 * The algorithm used for processing the farmconfig.wikis list was changed
1920 to work for big farms (>= 50 wikis), too. This works around the python
1921 "re" module limitation of having a maximum of 100 named groups in a RE.
1922 * Fixed a TypeError which occurred for formatters that dislike None values.
1924 * Fixed GUI editor converter error for https:... image URLs.
1925 * ThemeBase (use by modern/rightsidebar): removed duplicate AttachFile from
1926 actions menu (we already have it in editbar).
1927 * Speedup group/dicts scanning for persistent servers.
1928 * Implemented HEAD requests for standalone server, this should fix some of
1929 the strange effects happening when using "Save as" on attachments.
1930 * Not a moin bug, but rather a workaround for non-standard non-ASCII DNS
1931 hostnames: we just use the IP instead of crashing now.
1932 * Spurious cyclic usage error in i18n fixed.
1933 * Fixed antispam for python 2.5a xmlrpclib.
1934 * I18n for linenumber toggle in listings.
1935 * All action menu entries are translatable now.
1938 * Added css classes for the rst admonitions. Thanks to TiagoMacambira!
1943 * Added FullSearchCached macro which is statically cached.
1944 Use it if you do not depend on fresh search results but prefer raw speed.
1945 * Added surge protection, see HelpOnConfiguration/SurgeProtection.
1946 * Allow hex and symbolic entities.
1947 * If there is a user with empty password, we just generate a random one
1948 when he requests it getting sent by mail. Thanks to Reimar Bauer.
1949 * The superuser now can switch to another user using UserPreferences -
1950 nice to help your users when they forgot their password or need other
1951 help. You need to logout/relogin to use your own userid afterwards.
1952 This function only works correctly if you use moin_cookie authentication.
1953 Thanks to Reimar Bauer.
1954 * Add new markup for bulletless lists: just use a "." instead of "*".
1957 * Added "voyager" to bot useragent list.
1958 * Added locking for caching subsystem.
1959 * Deron Meranda's formatter API cleanup.
1960 * Added div and span to formatter API.
1961 * Removed old unfinished form and export code.
1965 * Fixed table attribute parsing.
1966 * Fixed cookie handling wrt properties adherance.
1967 * The new "." list markup makes it possible to have a bulletless list with
1968 elements on the same level. Before this change and only using indentation
1969 with blanks, that would get merged into a single paragraph.
1970 * It is possible now to have multiple paragraphs in the same list element,
1971 just leave an empty line in between the paragraphs.
1972 * Fixed GAP processing for ordered lists.
1973 * Fix text_gedit formatter's invalid list nesting.
1974 * Fixed hr crash in blockquote (but needs more work).
1975 * Fixed FootNote's formatter usage.
1976 * Fixed rst's headline levels.
1979 * Fixed that macros were followed by a wrong <p>.
1980 * Added <blockquote> to the block elements in the text_html formatter,
1981 so it does not close it erratically when you close a inner <p>.
1982 * GUI editor converter now also accept http: urls without // (relative or
1984 * Fixed the DocBook parser in cases where the pagename was non-ascii.
1991 * Fixed rst parser docutils version check
1992 * Repaired attachment unzipping feature.
1993 * Fixed the AddRevision command of the PackageInstaller.
1994 * improved the migration scripts (used to migrate pre-1.3 wikis to 1.3+):
1995 * do not crash on empty lines in event log
1996 * fix edit log format for very old moin data (like 0.11)
1997 * workaround for an ugly win32 operating system bug leading to wiki text
1998 file mtime not matching edit logs timestamp values if there was some
1999 timezone change since last edit (e.g. a daylight saving tz switch),
2000 but differing 3600s.
2001 This affected pre-1.3 moin wiki servers running on win32 OS only.
2002 We now try to correct those inconsistencies in mig05 by fuzzy matching.
2003 * fixed bracketed link scheme icon (css class)
2004 * we included a modified copy of Python 2.4.2's copy.py as some previous
2005 python versions seem to have problems (2.3.x, x < 5 and also 2.4[.0]),
2007 Our own copy.py was slightly modified to run on 2.3.x and 2.4.x.
2008 * Fixed the problem of not being able to change the date/time format back
2009 to "Default" (UserPreferences).
2010 * We generate the GUI editor footer now the same way as the text editor
2012 * Include a CSS workaround for yet another IE bug, see:
2013 MoinMoinBugs:InternetExplorerPeekABooBugInRightSideBar
2014 * classic theme: added GUI editor link
2015 * classic theme: added pagename header to editor screen
2016 * the "mail enabled" check now also checks whether mail_from is set
2019 * Updated FCKeditor to current CVS (2006-01-08 == 2.2+)
2020 * Split up show_hosts into show_hosts and show_names
2021 * attachment:file%20with%20spaces.txt in attachment list
2022 * added support for file:// in GUI editor link dialogue, see also:
2024 * cfg.mail_smarthost now supports "server:port" syntax, the default port
2026 * removed unused kwargs showpage/editable/form from wikiutil.send_footer
2027 * updated i18n (translation texts, additional languages)
2028 * removed interwiki:pagename from print view's top of page, added it to
2029 the "lasted edited" line at bottom right.
2033 HINT: 1.5.0 uses the same data/pages format as 1.3.x. The only thing you want
2034 to check is whether the 1.5.x version you are upgrading to has NEW mig
2035 scripts compared to the version you are running now (e.g. in 1.3.5 we
2036 added some scripts that fixed some small problems).
2037 See the MoinMoin/scripts/migration/ directory.
2038 You must run every mig script in sequence and only ONCE ever.
2040 * Fix <x=y> table attributes parsing. Thanks to Reimar Bauer.
2041 * Fixed a few bugs in the reStructured text parser. Note that you
2042 need to install docutils 0.3.10 or newer (snapshot from December 2005
2043 or newer) to make reStructuring parsing work:
2044 * Case preservation for anonymous links
2045 * MoinMoin links get the appropriate CSS class
2046 * Images do not get special CSS markup anymore
2047 Thanks to Matthew Gilbert.
2048 * Fixed a bug in the WSGI code which led to incorrect exception handling.
2049 * Removed all nationality flags. They used to be used for indicating some
2050 specific language (NOT nationality) and this was simply wrong and a bad
2052 * Fixed some header rendering issues (CSS).
2053 * SystemAdmin macro now checks against cfg.superuser list.
2056 * Added turkish i18n. To be considered as alpha as it got in last minute.
2060 This is the first release candidate of MoinMoin 1.5.0.
2063 * fixed broken logs when a DeletePage (maybe also RenamePage) comment
2064 contained CR/LF characters (could happen when using copy&paste)
2065 * fixed GUI editor MoinEditorBackup page containing HTML instead of wiki
2067 * fixed invalid HTML in FootNotes
2068 * fixed HTML source in EditorBackup after canceling GUI editor
2069 * Footnotes of included pages are not shown at the bottom of the including page.
2070 * Bug in Dict handling that often breaks first entry
2074 * Added SSO module for PHP based apps. Currently supported: eGroupware 1.2.
2075 No need to login in two systems anymore - MoinMoin will read the PHP session
2079 * Improved rendering of bullet lists and external links in Restructured text.
2080 Thanks to Matthew Gilbert.
2081 * Fixed modern theme rendering, including some fixes and workarounds for
2083 * When checking for email uniqueness, do not compare with disabled user
2085 * Fix sending of HTTP headers for Despam action.
2086 * Add some margin left and right of the link icons.
2089 * Made it easier for auth methods needing a user interface (like ldap or
2090 mysql stuff). Unlike http auth, they usually need some "login form".
2091 We made UserPreferences login form values (name, password, login, logout)
2092 available as kw args of the auth method, so it is easy and obvious now.
2093 * Make login and logout show at the same place. Is only shown when
2094 show_login is True (default).
2095 * Disabled login using &uid=12345.67.8910 method. Please use name/password.
2096 * Made builtin moin_cookie authentication more modular: the cookie is now
2097 touched by MoinMoin.auth.moin_cookie only, with one minor discomfort:
2098 When creating a user, you are not automatically logged in any more.
2099 * We now use the packager for additional help and system pages in all other
2100 languages except English. The packages are attached to SystemPagesSetup
2101 page and can be installed from there after getting "superuser" powers.
2102 The "extra" package contains a collection of orphan pages not listed on
2103 some SystemPagesIn<Language>Group page.
2108 * Fixed a minor user interface bug: it showed RenamePage and DeletePage
2109 actions in the menu if you only had write rights and then complained
2110 when you really tried when you had no delete rights additionally.
2111 * We don't remove RenamePage and DeletePage from menu any more if user is
2112 unknown. This stuff is only driven by ACLs now.
2113 * Some fixes to Despam action.
2114 * Fixed moin_dump (broken by some recent theme init change).
2115 * Fixed a few tests by moving the theme init from moin_dump to RequestCLI.
2116 * removed old_onload reference from infobox.js
2117 * Fixed MoinMoin logo for IE.
2118 * search: fixed whitespace handling in linkto: search terms
2119 * Increased stability of the tests system by outputting results to sys.stdout
2120 instead of request. Note that this changes the semantics for e.g. mod_py or
2122 * Fixed packaging system in the case of AddRevision that does not alter the page.
2123 * Fixed a few bugs in the XML formatters (dom_xml, text_xml, xml_docbook).
2124 * Fixed link icons. We now just use a.xxx.before where xxx is the link scheme,
2125 e.g. a.http.before. See theme's common.css.
2126 * Hopefully fixed some issue with non-ASCII attachment filenames.
2127 * Workaround for Opera 8.5 making silly "No addition" categories.
2128 * Do not show GUI editor for non-wiki format pages, because we only have a
2129 converter from html to wiki right now.
2130 * Fix the modern CSS issues for editbar, when it shifted content far right.
2131 Also removed the absolute height value that never was right.
2132 * Fix mod_python adaptor bugs failing to handle Location correctly.
2133 See: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=339543
2136 * Added irc:// to the builtin supported link schemas. You can remove it
2137 from config.url_schemas in case you have patched it in there.
2138 * Added cfg.user_autocreate (default: False). Use True to enable user
2139 profile autocreation, e.g. when you use http authentication, so your
2140 externally authenticated users don't need to create their moin profile
2141 manually. The auth method (see cfg.auth list) must check this setting
2142 if it supports auto creation.
2143 * Added user_autocreate support for auth.http and auth.sslclientcert.
2144 * Added "." and "@" to allowed characters in usernames. This is needed
2145 e.g. when using mod_pubcookie for authentication. mod_pubcookie returns
2146 userids like "geek@ANDREW.CMU.EDU" (e.g. the Kerberos domain is part of
2147 the id). Thanks to Brian E. Gallew for his patch, which we used for
2148 inspiration for user autocreation changes.
2149 * Changed auth method to return a tuple (user_obj, continue_flag), see
2150 comments in auth.py.
2151 * auth methods now create user objects with kw args auth_method and
2152 auth_attribs, so that moin knows later how the user was authenticated
2153 and which user object attributes were determined by the auth method.
2154 * Added MoinMoin/scripts/import/IrcLogImporter.py to import supybot's
2155 IRC logs into a moin wiki. We use MonthCalendar compatible page names,
2156 so you can use the calendar for showing / navigating the logs.
2157 * Removed packager binary from FCKeditor (fixing a Debian policy problem).
2158 * Worked around .png transparency bugs of IE with the new logo. We ship
2159 two logos: moinmoin.png without an alpha channel (IE compatible) and
2160 moinmoin_alpha.png which has an alpha channel and looks better on
2161 browsers with full .png support.
2162 * Allow a .zip file to have a directory in it if it is the only one.
2166 * use <span class="anchor"> instead of <a> for line-xxx anchors, this
2167 fixes some rendering problems on IE
2168 * Fixed the ReStructured text parser when it was used with non-HTML
2169 formatters. Increased compatiblity with new docutils code.
2170 (Thanks to Matt Gilbert.)
2172 * cfg.stylesheets = [] (default). You can use this on wiki or farm level
2173 to emit stylesheets after the theme css and before the user prefs css.
2174 The list entries must be ('screen', '/where/ever/is/my.css') style.
2175 * Added sample code for auth using an external cookie made by some other
2176 program. See contrib/auth_externalcookie/*. You need to edit it to
2177 fit whatever cookie you want to use.
2181 * fixed editor preview throwing away page content for new pages
2182 * require POST for userform save and create* action
2183 * use request.normalizePagename() while collecting pagelinks
2184 * do not offer gui editor for safari
2186 * tell user if account is disabled
2187 * added support for linking to .ico and .bmp
2188 * attachment methods for the text_xml and xml_docbook formatters
2190 * updated i18n (fixed nl, did nobody notice this?) and underlay
2191 * changed show_interwiki default to 0
2196 * fix gui editor (converter) crash on save
2199 * Avoid destroying existing page content if editor is called with
2200 template parameter for an existing page.
2201 * fix countdown javascript for browser status line in editor
2202 * added page title display for editor
2203 * added header div for classic theme
2205 Authentication and related:
2206 * Added a WhoAmI.py wiki xmlrpc plugin to check whether auth works
2207 correctly for xmlrpc. There is a counterpart script WhoAmI.py that
2208 uses http auth when calling the xmlrpc plugin, so you can use it to
2212 * Requirements changed to require Python >= 2.3. We recommend that
2213 you use the latest Python release you can get. The reason we
2214 dropped 2.2.2 support is because no developer or tester uses this
2215 old version any more, so incompatibilities crept in the code
2216 without anybody noticing. Using some recent Python usually is no
2217 real problem, see there for some hints in case you still run an
2218 old python: http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/NewPythonOnOldLinux
2219 The hint also does apply to other POSIX style operating systems,
2221 * We recommend you use MoinMoin/scripts/cachecleaner.py to clean the
2222 wiki's cache (see comments at top of the script).
2223 The cache will automatically be rebuilt (some operations may take
2224 some time when first being used, e.g. linkto: search, so be patient!).
2227 * there is a file CHANGES.config with just the recently changed stuff
2230 * page_front_page old: u"FrontPage" new: u"HelpOnLanguages"
2231 please just read the help page in case you see it :)
2232 * bang_meta old: 0 new: 1
2233 * show_section_numbers old: 1 new: 0
2234 * some regexes that used to be [a-z]Uxxxx$ are now [a-z0-9]Uxxxx$
2235 * navi_bar has no page_front_page as first element any more
2236 * removed settings and code [new behaviour]:
2238 * allow_extended_names [1]
2239 * allow_numeric_entities [1]
2241 * allow_subpages [1]
2243 * cfg.mail_sendmail = "/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i" can be used if sending
2244 via SMTP doesn't work on your server. Default is None and that means
2246 * language_default replaces the old default_lang setting (just renamed).
2247 * language_ignore_browser = True can be used to let moin ignore the
2248 user's browser settings (e.g. if you run a local-language only wiki
2249 and your users use misconfigured or buggy browsers often). Default is
2250 False. Don't forget to set language_default when using this.
2252 * Wiki Editor changes / new WYSIWYG editor
2253 * fully imported the javascript based LGPLed FCKeditor (many thanks
2254 to Fred CK for his great work). See http://fckeditor.net/ for details.
2255 * config for FCKeditor is at wiki/htdocs/applets/moinfckeditor.js
2256 * added cfg.interwiki_preferred (default = []) to set a list of wikis to
2257 show at the top of the wiki selection list when inserting an
2258 interwiki link (just use the same wiki name as in interwiki
2259 map). If the last list item is None, then the preferred wikis
2260 will not be followed by the entries of the interwiki map.
2261 * moved save/preview/... buttons to the top so that they can be
2263 * reduced edit_rows default to 20 lines
2264 * Added support for edit by doubleclick in the diff view
2266 * Improved wiki farm support
2267 * make user files sharable between several wikis in a farm
2268 * allow/use interwiki subscriptions
2269 * use interwiki links in page trail
2270 * save bookmark per wiki name
2271 * cfg.cookie_domain can be used to set a cookie valid for a complete
2272 domain (default: None == only for this host). If you use '.domain.tld',
2273 the cookie will be valid for all hosts *.domain.tld - good for host
2275 * cfg.cookie_path can be used to set a cookie valid for a wiki farm under
2276 some base path (default: None == only for this wiki's path). If you use
2277 '/wikifarm', the cookie will be valid for all wikis
2278 server.tld/wikifarm/* - good for path based wiki farms.
2279 * Interwiki user homepage (if you have MANY users)
2280 Generated links for usernames are interwiki now, use cfg.user_homewiki
2281 (default: 'Self') to specify in which wiki the user home pages are
2282 located. Note: when pointing this to another wiki, the /MoinEditorBackup
2283 functionality will be disabled.
2284 @SIG@ also uses interwiki when needed.
2286 * Authentication, ACLs and related
2287 * Modular authentication: cfg.auth is a list of functions that return a
2288 valid user or None, use it like this:
2289 from MoinMoin.auth import http, moin_cookie
2290 auth = [http, moin_cookie]
2291 * cfg.auth_http_enabled was removed, please use cfg.auth instead.
2292 * http auth now supports "Negotiate" scheme, too
2293 * Added sslclientcert auth method (Apache: untested, Twisted: not
2294 implemented, IIS: no idea). See MoinMoin/auth.py for details.
2295 Submit a patch if you have improvements.
2296 * cfg.superuser is a list of unicode usernames. It is used by some
2297 critical operations like despam action or PackageInstaller.
2298 * removed allowed_actions, we now use actions_excluded only and it
2299 defaults to [], that means, no action is excluded, everything is
2300 allowed (limited by ACLs). In case of RenamePage and DeletePage,
2301 this shouldn't be a problem as both can be reverted. In case you
2302 did not allow attachments, you now have to use:
2303 actions_excluded = ['AttachFile']
2304 * special users (All, Known, Trusted) in Groups are now supported
2305 * MoinMoin.security.autoadmin SecurityPolicy added
2306 When using this security policy, a user will get admin rights on his
2307 homepage (where pagename == username) and its sub pages. This is needed
2308 for the MyPages action, but can also get used for manual ACL changes.
2309 It can also be used for Project page auto admin functionality, see the
2310 comments in the script for details.
2311 Further it can automatically create the user's group pages when the
2312 user saves his homepage.
2313 * there is a UpdateGroup xmlrpc call, see MoinMoin/xmlrpc/UpdateGroup.py -
2314 you can use this to update your *Group pages e.g. when generating them
2315 from an external group database.
2317 * UserPreferences changes
2318 * Alias name: is used for display purposes, when "name" is cryptic. It is
2319 shown e.g. in the title attribute of userid links (displayed when
2320 moving the mouse over it).
2321 * "Publish my email (not my wiki homepage) in author info" - use this
2322 if you don't have a wiki homepage, but if you want to be contactable
2323 by email. When you edit a page, your email address will be published
2324 as mailto: link on RecentChanges, at bottom of page (last editor) and
2325 in page info. If the wiki runs publically on the internet, be careful
2326 using this or your email address might be collected by spammers.
2327 * Preferred Editor: whether you want to use the text editor (as in
2328 previous moin versions), the gui editor (new!) or both (you will get
2329 2 edit links in that case).
2330 * a user can add/remove the current page to/from his quicklinks with an
2331 appropriate action now
2332 * if cfg.user_email_unique = False, we don't require user's email
2333 addresses to be unique
2334 * removed show_fancy_links user preferences setting to simplify code and
2335 caching. Displaying those icons is now done by CSS styles (see
2336 common.css). Maybe needs fixing for non-standard themes and RTL langs.
2339 * added strikethrough markup: --(striked through text here)--
2340 * @ME@ expands to just the plain username (no markup added) on save
2343 * when a user accesses his own non-existing homepage (pagename ==
2344 username), the wiki will present the MissingHomePage system page
2345 content, explaining what a user homepage is good for and offer
2346 one-click editing it with content loaded from HomepageTemplate
2347 * creation of homepage subpages is assisted by the MyPages action, which
2348 offers rw, ro page creation (and a related group) or creation of private
2349 pages. If you are not in the user_homewiki, you will get redirected
2352 Other changes/new features:
2353 * Added PackageInstaller and unzipping support (see wiki page
2354 HelpOnActions/AttachFile for further details). PackageInstaller requires
2355 the user to be in cfg.superuser list.
2356 * Added an PackagePages action to simplify the package creation.
2357 * Added location breadcrumbs - when you are on some subpage, the page
2358 title parts link to the corresponding parent pages, the last part does
2359 the usual reverse linking.
2360 * added WSGI server support, thanks to Anakim Border, see:
2361 wiki/server/moinwsgi.py (moin as WSGI app, uses the flup WSGI server,
2362 see http://www.saddi.com/software/flup/)
2363 MoinMoin/server/wsgi.py (adaptor code)
2364 * added a "Despam" action to make de-spamming a wiki easy (mass revert
2365 bad changes done by a single author or bot). You need to be in
2366 cfg.superuser to use it.
2367 * Better diffs with links to anchors to the changed places
2368 * Enhanced table support in the DocBook formatter.
2369 * Added 'moin' daemon script, that let you run moin standalone
2370 server as daemon and control the server with simple command line
2371 intreface: moin start | stop | restart | kill
2372 * Add 'restart' option to mointwisted script
2373 * Add properties option to standalone server config. Allow
2374 overriding any request property like in other server types.
2375 * Add support for running behind proxy out of the box with out
2377 See HelpOnConfiguration/IntegratingWithApache
2378 * added a WikiBackup action, configure it similar to this:
2379 data_dir = "/path/to/data"
2380 backup_include = [data_dir, ] # you can add other dirs here
2381 backup_users = ["BackupUserName", ] # only TRUSTED users!
2382 You usually don't need to change the default backup_exclude setting.
2383 The default backup_include list is EMPTY and so will be your
2384 backup in case you don't configure it correctly.
2385 If you put your data_dir there, the backup will contain private
2386 user data like email addresses and encrypted passwords.
2387 * Added a SubscribeUser action which allows the administrator to subscribe users to the
2389 * Added thread count to SystemInfo macro.
2390 * 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.
2391 * Added a RenderAsDocbook action which redirects to the DocBook formatter.
2392 * Added searching for wiki-local words lists under <data_dir>/dict/.
2393 They are used additionally to the global lists in MoinMoin/dict/.
2394 * moin_dump now also dumps attachments referenced from the page.
2395 It doesn't dump stuff that is just attached, but not referenced!
2396 * On RecentChanges we now force the comment to be breakable, this improves
2397 rendering of over-long words or on narrow browser windows - especially
2398 for themes with limited content width like rightsidebar.
2399 * We now have the "new" icon on RecentChanges clickable, just links to the
2401 * Print view now shows "interwikiname: pagename" (for show_interwiki = 1).
2403 International support:
2404 * mail_from can be now a unicode name-address
2405 e.g u'Jürgen wiki <noreply@jhwiki.org>'
2408 * logo_string is now should be really only the logo (img).
2409 If you included your wiki's name in logo_string you maybe want to remove
2410 it now as it is shown as part of the location display now anyway (if
2411 you set show_interwiki = 1).
2412 * You maybe want to remove page_front_page from your navi_bar - we link to
2413 that page now from the logo and (new, if you set show_interwiki = 1) from
2414 the interwiki name displayed in location display, so you maybe don't need
2415 it in navi_bar, too.
2416 * If you have a custom theme, you should / may:
2417 * sync modern/css/screen.css #pagelocation #pagetrail stuff to your
2418 screen.css or pagelocation display (title()) will look strange (like a
2420 * remove "#title h1 ..." CSS (or any other CSS assuming h1 is a page
2421 title and not just a first level heading), it is not used any more.
2422 * we now render = heading = as <h1> (was <h2> before 1.5),
2423 == heading == as <h2> (was <h3>), etc.
2424 * maybe move both title() and trail() to header area, like the builtin
2426 * there is a new interwiki() base theme method that optionally (if
2427 show_interwiki = 1) shows the interwiki name of this wiki and links to
2428 page_front_page. The css for it is #interwiki.
2431 * Plugin API was improved. When plugin module is missing,
2432 wikiutil.PluginMissingError is raised. When trying to import a
2433 missing name from a plugin module, wikiutil.PluginMissingError is
2434 raised. You must update any code that use wikiutil.importPlugin.
2435 Errors in your plugin should raise now correct tracebacks. See
2436 http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/ErrorHandlingInPlugins
2437 * pysupport.importName was changed, it does not check for any
2438 errors when trying to import a name from a module. The calling
2439 code should check for ImportError or AttributeError. Previous
2440 code used to hide all errors behind None.
2441 * Its easier now to customize the editbar by overriding
2442 editbarItems() in your theme, and returning a list of items to
2443 display in the editbar. To change a single editbar link, override
2444 one of the xxxLink methods in your theme.
2447 * request.formatter (html) is available for actions now
2448 * theme API's d['page_home_page'] is gone (sorry) and replaced by
2449 d['home_page'] which is either None or tuple (wikiname,pagename).
2450 It is better to use the base classes function for username/prefs anyway.
2451 * introduced cfg.hacks for internal use by development, see comment in
2452 multiconfig.py and file HACKS.
2453 * added IE7 (v0.9) from Dean Edwards (see http://dean.edwards.name/IE7/) -
2454 that should fix quite some IE bugs and annoyances (on Win32).
2455 * for enabling IE7, use cfg.hacks = { 'ie7': True }
2456 * reducewiki now also copies all attachments (we use that to make underlay
2457 directory from moinmaster wiki's data_dir)
2460 * Fixed a typo in xslt.py which led to a traceback instead of an
2461 error message in case of disabled XSLT support.
2462 * Fixed crash in twisted server if twisted.internet.ssl is not
2464 * Fixed wrong decoding of query string, enable wiki/?page_name urls
2465 with non ascii page names.
2466 * Fixed wrong display of non ascii attachments names in
2467 RecentChanges and page revision history.
2468 * Fixed a crash when trying to run standalone server on non posix os.
2469 * Fixed highlight of misspelled words in Check Spelling action.
2470 * Fixed case insensitivity problems on darwin (Mac OS X). See
2472 * Added RecentChanges (only the english one) to the pages getting
2473 html_head_index headers
2474 * text_html cache files written with this code will invalidate themselves
2475 if they detect to be older than the wikiconfig. Note: you should remove
2476 all old text_html cache files once after upgrading, they will then be
2477 rebuilt automatically with the new code.
2479 * Fixed the word_rule: a word like AAAbbAbb isn't teared into two parts
2480 any more (was: AA<link>AbbAbb</link>)
2481 * Fixed false positive InterWiki markup for languages like Finnish.
2482 InterWiki links are only rendered if the left side has an appropriate
2483 entry in the interwiki map, otherwise it is rendered as simple text.
2484 * Fixed unicode error when uploding non-ascii file name using mod
2486 * Fixed error handling of wikirpc requests, should give more
2487 correct errors and prevent no error output and blocking the
2488 client in some cases.
2489 * Fixed the "lost password" mail processing. If a user entered some email
2490 address unknown to the system, he was not notified of this, but just got
2491 a useless mail with no account data in it. Now the system directly tells
2492 the user that he entered an unknown email address.
2493 * Fixed SystemInfo, it now also lists parsers in data/plugin/parser dir.
2494 * Fix error handling on failure, improved error display
2495 * Fix error handling when importing plugins or importing modules
2496 dynamically. The fix is not backward compatible with older plugins.
2497 * Fix chart action, returns a page with error message when chart
2499 * Fixed formatter usage in the ShowSmileys macro.
2500 * Fixed updating pagelinks cache for [:page:text] or [wiki:Self:page text],
2501 fixes display of LocalSiteMap and rendering of such links.
2502 * Hopefully fixed urllib problems (esp. with py 2.4.2, but also before) by
2503 using our own urllib wrapper that handles encoding/decoding to/from
2504 unicode, see wikiutil.py. Also made a similar fix for making and parsing
2506 * Fixed MonthCalendar tooltips when containing special chars like quotes.
2507 * Added html escaping for diff text for RSS feed with diff=1.
2508 * The distance between page content beginning and the first = heading =
2509 was much too much. Fixed.
2513 We used that version number for an internal and early development version
2514 for what will be called moin 2.0 at some time in the future.
2515 There will never be a 1.4.x release.
2518 Version 1.3.5 (2005-08-04, Revision moin--main--1.3--patch-883)
2521 * small CSS fix for rightsidebar theme
2522 * applied some Debian patches (thanks to Jonas!):
2523 * de i18n spelling fixes
2524 * AttachFile fix, we strip CR in .draw files now
2525 * when loading spellcheck dictionaries, we want utf-8, but we make
2526 a 2nd try with iso-8859-1 encoding.
2530 * enabled using https with the Twisted server:
2531 You need to use port 443, have PyOpenSSL (+ ssl libs it depends on)
2532 installed and have some site key and certificate PEM files configured in
2533 your twistedmoin.py file:
2534 sslcert = ('/whereever/cert/sitekey.pem', '/whereever/cert/sitecert.pem')
2537 Version 1.3.5rc1 (2005-07-31, Revision moin--main--1.3--patch-865)
2541 * Fixed security bug when acl of deleted page was ignored. See:
2543 * AttachFile did not display the original filename plus there
2544 was a confusion in input field labelling ('Rename to').
2545 * Fixed shortcut link non-existent page detection.
2546 * Fixed non-working bookmark function on python 2.2.x.
2547 * Fixed wikirpc getPageInfo call on python 2.2.x.
2548 * Fixed the failing import of plugins from the data/plugin/
2549 directories if run in zipimport environments.
2550 * Fixed traceback which occurred on negated searches.
2551 * Fixed crash when trying to render error message on twisted, fast
2553 * Fixed error message with modpy, used to show wrong errors below
2555 * Fixed search and goto text fields for better compatibility with
2556 dark themes and better control through css.
2557 * Show an edit link if MissingPage is missing and a warning in the
2559 * Fixed missing footer in the editor.
2560 * Fixed indented (invalid) headings with broken links in table of
2562 * Fixed crash when file name is too long, show standard error message.
2563 * Save trail file in a safe way, should be enough for normal use.
2564 * Fixed remember_last_visit user preferences option when show_trail
2566 * Fixed the tests for Standalone, Twisted, FastCGI and Mod_Python.
2567 Run with ?action=test from any page.
2568 * Fixed rare bug when wrong search type was performed when pasting
2569 search term in Safari.
2570 * Fixed crash for custom formatters and dom_xml (which occurred if
2571 smileys were in the page).
2572 * Editor opens on double click in pages with single quote in the
2573 name, like "Ben's Wiki".
2574 * '/.' in page names are not replaced any more by '/(2e)'
2575 * Fixed the long delays while saving pages using RequestCLI.
2576 * Fixed variable expanding for users with non WikiName.
2577 * Fixed MonthCalendar's calculation of "today" to use the user's
2579 * Fixed moin_dump script, use same configuration options as other
2581 * Fixed url_mappings to work in proxied setups and sent mails
2582 again. Also fixed for image links. Thanks to JohannesBerg.
2583 * Fixed page shown after saving a drawing (esp. when saved from a
2584 sub page). Fixed help link for drawings.
2585 * Fixed mig10 script to run on Python < 2.3.
2586 * The twisted server defaulted to a socket timeout of 12 hours!
2587 We reduced that to a more sane 10 minutes, that should still be more
2588 than enough. This fixed the "too many open files" problem we
2589 encountered quite often recently. Thanks to Helmut Grohne!
2594 * Added cz, pt and pt-br i18n.
2595 * We send a 404 http status code for nonexisting wiki pages now,
2596 maybe this will repell some search engines from requesting gone
2597 pages again and again. The wiki user still sees the MissingPage
2598 wiki stuff, so a user usually won't notice this change.
2599 * Return 500 error code on failure and exceptions.
2600 * Added some more bot / leech tool user agent strings.
2601 * Prevent page floating elements from floating out of the page over
2602 the footer, in modern, rightsidebar and classic themes.
2603 * Encode URLs in a safer way
2604 * We allow usernames with ' character in them now (like Tim O'Brian).
2605 * Added support for the new security flags in docutils 0.3.9.
2606 * @MAILTO@ expands now to safer [[MailTo()]] macro.
2607 * Clarified and i18ned lost password mails.
2608 * Added 'TitleIndex' and 'SiteNavigation' (+ translation) to the
2609 list of pages that use html_head_index (so that robots
2610 "index,follow"). Please make sure to have either FindPage,
2611 TitleIndex or SiteNavigation in your navi_bar or in your
2612 page_front_page content if you want search engines to find all
2614 * Make it possible to send account data when being logged in (for
2615 future reference or whatever purpose).
2616 * Speed up when running with persistent servers, the wiki config
2617 does only get loaded once and misc. stuff is being cached between
2619 * The unit tests are disabled when using multi threading, because
2620 the wiki configuration is shared between diffrent threads.
2621 * The main code path (using standalone server) of MoinMoin runs on
2623 * Formatters do automatically transform HTML to plain text if they are
2624 called with raw HTML code.
2625 * Using larger socket backlog on Standalone and FastCGI servers
2626 should be more reliable on high load.
2627 * We now strip leading path from attachments uploaded by IE (this is
2628 a bug in IE, not in MoinMoin). Better use a sane browser, like Firefox.
2629 * added "teleport" to the user agent blacklist
2633 * Integrated Lupy indexer for better search performance. It is disabled
2634 by default as of 1.3.5 as it still has known issues.
2635 See multiconfig.py if you want to test it.
2636 * Integrated MonthCalendar 2.1, with some new features:
2637 * a mouseover bubble that shows first level headlines of the linked
2639 * all calendars with same pagename move when using cal navigation,
2640 thanks to Oliver Graf
2641 * included AnnualMonthlyCalendar patch of Jonathan Dietrich
2642 (use [[MonthCalendar(Yearly,,,+1,,6,1)]] syntax for birthdays and
2643 other annually repeating stuff)
2644 Make sure you remove old MonthCalendar.* from data/plugin/macro so that
2645 moin will use the new code in MoinMoin/macro/MonthCalendar.py.
2646 Maybe also clear the text_html cache.
2647 * Added the new XSLT parser and the DocBook parser. This should increase
2648 the 4suite compatiblity. See HelpOnXmlPages for details.
2649 It now should run on 4suite 1.0a4 and 1.0b1. Thanks to Henry Ho!
2650 * Added the DocBook formatter. This will let you generate DocBook markup
2651 by writing simple wiki pages. It needs PyXML.
2652 * It is now possible to customize parts of the UserPreferences page in
2653 your wikiconfig (changing defaults, disabling fields, removing fields):
2654 * Use user_checkbox_* for the checkboxes.
2655 * Use user_form_* for other fields.
2656 * See MoinMoin/multiconfig.py for the built-in defaults.
2657 * New standalone server classes: ThreadPoolServer using pool of
2658 threads, ThreadingServer with thread limit and ForkingServer.
2659 * New standalone server configuration options: serverClass,
2660 threadLimit, requestQueueSize.
2661 * Use "PythonOption Location" in mod_python setup to solve script_name
2666 * Theme can now override maxPagenameLength() method to control page
2668 * A search Match now provides access to the full re match via
2669 the re_match attribute (use to access groups of the match)
2670 * Underlay is not managed by arch any more. The tree contains an
2671 underlay tarball, and you should untar after you update from main.
2672 * "make update-underlay" will untar underlay
2673 * "make merge" will star-merge main into your tree
2674 * "make test" will now create and run in a fresh testwiki instace
2675 * "make clean" options added
2676 * _tests module does not have a global request any more. To refer to
2677 the current request in a test, use self.request.
2678 * _tests.TestConfig class require a request in the constructor.
2679 * "python tests/runtests.py test_module" will run only test_module
2680 * request.cfg stays between requests (for persistent servers).
2683 Version 1.3.4 (2005-03-13, Revision moin--main--1.3--patch-666)
2687 * Fixed ACL check in LikePages macro that caused links to unreadable
2689 * Fixed ACL check in newpage action.
2690 * Fixed a security problem when admin policy defined in a custom
2691 SecurityPolicy class was ignored.
2692 * Fixed ACL check in action=show so that a user who may not read a page
2693 also can't find out WHEN the protected page was updated.
2694 * Workaround on Windows 95, 98, ME in order to clear the dircache.
2695 This fixes some bugs related to an outdated page list and newly created
2696 pages that did not appear immediately.
2697 * Fixed decoding issues of page names on Windows, finally.
2699 * Fixed traceback on IIS.
2701 * Fixed wikirpc for standalone server.
2702 * Other fixes (encoding and str/unicode data type related) to wikirpc
2703 server, fixing some non-ascii issues hopefully.
2704 * Fixed broken query strings for Standalone installations.
2705 * Fixed backlinks - the result did not always show all links, often it
2707 * Fixed the acceptance of the show_hosts setting. Now you should be able
2708 to hide any IP or host name from being published by MoinMoin by enabling
2710 * Fixed wrong line endings on email messages.
2712 * Fixed crash when trail file is missing.
2713 * Fixed a traceback when searching for single ( or ).
2714 * Added mig10 script to fix crashes with uncoverted edit-locks and file
2715 attachments. Just use it as you did with mig1..mig9 before.
2716 * Added mig11 script to add __init__.py files to data/plugin (and below).
2717 * added some fixes for the xslt parser (thanks to fanbanlo), it might be
2718 still broken, but someone with deeper knowledge about xslt should fix it.
2719 * Replaced image link with W3C's "html 4.01 compliance" icon by a simple
2720 text link to avoid https: or config trouble.
2721 * Catch OverflowError backtrace when illegal date strings (e.g. <1970 or
2722 >2038) are fed to moinmoin's time routines. It will just output current
2723 date / time in those cases.
2724 * UserPreferences now also set a date_fmt preference and Date macro
2725 honours it. You may have to reset your UserPreferences value for that.
2726 * Fixed free parent and subpage links in interwiki notation.
2728 * Fixed a traceback for invalid ReST markup.
2729 * Fixed UnicodeError in SystemAdmin's Attachment Browser.
2733 * Optimized the IRC parser.
2734 * Support for zipimport of the MoinMoin package. This allows you to use
2735 py2exe and similar programs.
2736 * Show the editor's name in the mail subject.
2737 * Added the pragmas description and keywords. They will add <meta> headers
2739 * Added MoinMoin/scripts/xmlrpc-tools/putPageTest.py example script, useful
2740 as a starting point for importing data using wiki xmlrpc.
2741 * Optimised display on Opera browser.
2745 * The search modifier "linkto:" was introduced. You can use it to search
2747 * The NewPage macro now can take a PageTemplate parameter, see HelpOnMacros.
2748 * New config settings (so you don't need to edit wikirpc.py any more):
2749 xmlrpc_putpage_enabled = 0 (if 1, enables writing to arbitrary page names)
2750 xmlrpc_putpage_trusted_only = 1 (if 0, doesn't require users to be
2751 authenticated by http auth - DANGEROUS, DO NOT SET TO 0!!!)
2752 * Added support for Digest and NTLM authentication with CGI (e.g. if you
2753 use those Apache modules)
2754 * The datetime string accepted by Date and DateTime macros was extended to
2755 accept a timezone specification, so now +/-HHMM is also valid, e.g.:
2756 2005-03-06T15:15:57Z (UTC, same as +0000)
2757 2005-03-06T15:15:57+0000 (UTC)
2758 2005-03-06T16:15:57+0100 (same time given as local time for time zone
2759 with offset +0100, that is CET, e.g. Germany)
2760 2005-03-06T10:15:57-0500 (same time given as local time for time zone
2761 with offset -0500, EST, US Eastern Std. Time)
2762 The values given as macro argument will be transformed to UTC internally
2763 and then adapted again according to viewing user's UserPreferences, so
2764 the user will see the same moment in time but shown in his local time
2765 zone's time (at least if he set his UserPreferences correctly and didn't
2766 forget changing them twice a year for DST and non-DST).
2767 * Readded (now optional) editlink footer to Include macro. Add
2768 ',editlink' to call to enable this.
2769 * star "smileys" e.g. {*}{*}{*}{o}{o}
2772 Version 1.3.3 (2005-01-24, Revision moin--main--1.3--patch-595)
2776 * fixed ACL security problem in search
2777 * fix for IIS with CGI allowing page names that contain chars
2778 that are not in the system code page
2779 * fixed MoinEditorBackup revisions to start with 1 now
2780 * improved page locking ('current' file)
2781 * Unittests (normally shown at end of action=test output) are currently
2782 disabled for everything except CGI, because they only work reliably with
2783 CGI, giving wrong results for other request methods.
2786 Version 1.3.2 (2005-01-23, Revision moin--main--1.3--patch-587)
2790 * ACL bugfix for deleted pages with ACL protection.
2791 * ACL bugfix for "Default" acl.
2792 * Fixed updating of groups and dicts
2793 * Python 2.2.x related fixes (worked on 2.3+)
2794 * Fixed traceback in RecentChanges.
2795 * Fixed traceback with links browser.
2796 * Fixed 0 revision display in 'Show changes'.
2797 * Fixed traceback in Antispam which occurred when it could not connect
2798 to MoinMaster. Log the errors to stderr or error.log.
2799 * Fixed bug in Page init (no date, use rev). Fixes problem with
2801 * Fixed empty lists in empty search results.
2802 * Cosmetic fix for modern theme (when viewed with Internet Explorer).
2803 * Fixed migration 9 script, do not drop newline, do not drop error.log,
2804 note about missing error.log.
2805 * Fixed repair_language.py script, keep ending newline on revisions.
2806 * Show headings and macro content in correct direction when mixing content
2807 in several directions in the same page and using caching.
2808 * Fixed bug in standalone re farmconfig.
2809 * Fixed DOS condition in antispam code.
2810 * Use smaller margin in print mode to get better results with
2812 * Fixed some user input escaping issues.
2813 * Fixed a problem when one wiki plugin override other wikis plugins in
2815 * Fixed some broken tests.
2816 * Fixed recursive include in pstats.
2817 * Fixed bug in standalone - HTTP result code was 200 even when the access
2819 * Fixed traceback when trying to login with non-ascii password.
2820 * Fixed traceback when xml is not available, reported on Python 2.2.?
2821 * Fixed slideshow to show slides in sorted order again.
2822 * Fixed serving multiple wikis on same IP/different ports with twisted and
2824 * It is possible to run with data_underlay_dir = None for special
2825 application, but be aware that the wiki won't be usable unless you have
2826 at least some of the system pages from underlay/ available.
2827 * Files with Unicode characters in their filename are possible now.
2828 * Bugfix for broken [:page#anchor:text] links.
2829 * Workaround an instability of the gdchart module leading to
2830 stalled servers etc.
2831 * Fixed some event-log decoding issues that affect charts rendering.
2835 * Major speed improvement over 1.3.1. Many times faster title search,
2836 creating new page, opening page editor and any operation that list pages.
2837 See http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/MoinBenchmarks
2838 * Improved README.migration.
2839 * Cleaner design for login/register interface, login is always the default
2840 button when the user click Enter.
2841 * If there are problems found in the configuration, log the error
2842 and display helpful error messages in the browser.
2843 * More forgiving unicode configuration policy, you must use the u'string'
2844 format only for unicode values.
2845 * Added profiling to CGI.
2846 * The content of farmconfig.py is similar to wikiconfig.py now.
2847 * Unexpected errors while loading cache files are logged.
2848 * i18n for icon ALT tags.
2849 * Include request initialization code in the profile in standalone server.
2850 * When creating new theme, style sheets are inherited correctly, no need
2851 to override style sheets just to get them working.
2852 * Many times faster plugin system. Typical pages are about 35% faster,
2853 pages with many plugins can be many times faster.
2854 * Spiders are allowed to fetch attachments.
2855 * Old user files containing password hash encoded in pre 1.3 charset
2856 are auto repaired on first login.
2857 * data_dir defaults to './data', underlay_data_dir to './underlay' now.
2858 It is a good idea to replace those by absolute pathes in wikiconfig.py.
2859 * Renamed "Refresh" to "Delete Cache" - it was misused by users. The action
2860 was also moved into the action menu in the modern and rightsidebar themes.
2861 * Added a workaround for TableOfContents missing some links by making it
2862 uncacheable via a "time" dependency.
2863 * Removed interwiki icon and title attribute for wiki:Self:... links.
2864 * Unittests (normally shown at end of action=test output) are currently
2865 disabled because they worked unreliably, giving wrong results sometimes.
2869 * Create new pages easily using configurable interface and page templates
2870 with the new NewPage macro.
2871 * ReStructuredText (rst) support is built-in now. See HelpOnParsers.
2872 * New experimental feature in mointwisted.py - each interface may
2873 specify a port: '12.34.56.78:80'. Without a port, the port option
2879 * wikiutil.importPlugin's first argument is now a wiki config instance
2880 (request.cfg) and there is no path keyword.
2881 * Wiki plugins always override MoinMoin plugins. wikiutil.importPlugin
2882 implements this override.
2883 * util.pysupport.importName does not accept path - you should call
2884 it with correct module name, e.g 'wikiconfig.plugin.parser.wiki' for
2885 wiki plugins, or 'MoinMoin.parser.wiki'.
2886 * wikiutil.extensionPlugin was renamed to wikiPlugins and it gets config
2887 instance instead of path.
2888 * New function wikiutil.importWikiPlugin used to import wiki plugins
2889 using a cache in a thread safe way.
2890 * New config option config.use_threads is used to activate thread
2892 * New keyword arguments for getPageList, enable 10X faster operation
2893 for common cases by controlling page filtering.
2894 * New up to 100X times faster getPageCount
2897 Version 1.3.1 (2004-12-13, Revision moin--main--1.3--patch-434)
2901 * Fixed "Error Cyclic usage" crash when user had Italian (it), Korean
2902 (ko), Serbian (sr) or Vietnamese (vi) as user interface language.
2903 * Fall back to en (instead of crashing) when user uses a language moin
2904 does not support / does not support any more (like pt,sv,fi,sr).
2905 * In 1.3.0, people accidentally put iso-8859-1 chars into wiki configs,
2906 but those where expected to be pure utf-8 and thus it crashed.
2907 Fixed by using unicode strings (varname = u'whatever'), a matching
2908 encoding setting (see top of script comment) and, when decoding strings,
2909 using decode to ASCII with replace mode (this replaces non-ASCII chars,
2910 but at least it won't crash - and you get a warning to better use
2912 * Fixed long time broken table formatting. ||<style="see css spec" a||b||
2913 Now even generates valid HTML! The old markup for align, valign, width,
2914 bgcolor still works, but synthesizes style attribute data.
2915 * SystemAdmin macro shows attachments of ALL pages now.
2916 * Users without write acl rights will be able to see attachments again and
2917 also have AttachFile action in menu.
2918 * Fixed wrong match count in search results, find all matches in page
2919 titles, show all matches in contents in some rare cases.
2920 * Run about 200% faster with long running processes (standalone, Twisted),
2921 about 20% faster with cgi, by better internal data handling in wikidicts.
2922 * On SF, the dict files use utf-8 encoding now. We included them also in
2923 distribution, see contrib/dict/.
2924 * Fixed permissions to shared template stuff.
2925 * Speeded up search, fixed wrong match counts.
2926 * Speeded up internal data handling (wikidicts).
2927 * Fixed rare unicode error after deleting a page (reported only on SuSE
2928 Linux 9.0 / Python 2.3.0).
2929 * Fixed file permissions of files in the data dir.
2930 * Fixed some cosmetic problems in migration scripts and use sys.path.insert
2931 to get latest moin code when executing them.
2935 * Improved docs, system and help pages.
2936 * Updated translation files.
2940 * Internet Explorer renders our HTML/CSS in a suboptimal way.
2942 Workaround: use a non-broken browser like FireFox / Mozilla.
2943 Fixed in MoinMoin 1.3.2.
2944 * Passwords using non-ascii do not work.
2946 * The TOC macro is broken partly.
2949 * See also: http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/MoinMoinBugs
2952 Version 1.3.0 (2004-12-06, Revision moin--main--1.3--patch-400)
2954 As you see from the length of the 1.3 changes below, 1.3 is a major(!)
2955 upgrade. We could have also named it "2.0", but we decided against.
2956 So take the time for reading the informations thoroughly and do the
2957 migration exactly as we tell you - this is no 5 minutes upgrade!
2959 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2960 !!! We heavily changed configuration, data encoding, dir layout: !!!
2961 !!! * the default encoding changed to utf-8. !!!
2962 !!! * also, we changed the escaping for special chars to %XX%YY in !!!
2963 !!! URL and (xxyy) in file system. !!!
2964 !!! * layout of data dir changed completely !!!
2965 !!! If you upgrade an existing wiki, you must run the migration !!!
2966 !!! scripts or you will get data corruption or other problems. !!!
2967 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2969 HINT: Upgrading your wiki - critical information
2971 If you are NOT starting from scratch, you MUST convert your existing
2972 data - see README.migration for details.
2974 If you use ##language: xx comments on your OWN pages, you should also run
2975 repair_language script. Not needed for help/system pages as we already
2976 have done that for you.
2978 MoinMoin uses Unicode internally now (UCS-2 with 16 bits or UCS-4 with
2979 32 bits, depending on your Python installation). The encoding used
2980 for page files and html output is set by config.charset.
2982 Moin 1.3 uses utf-8 encoding only, there is NO SUPPORT for using a
2983 charset different from utf-8 with 1.3. If you try, you are on your own.
2987 Directory layout was heavily changed. Each page now is a directory,
2988 containing page revisions, attachments, cache files and edit-log.
2990 You can delete a page or move a page from one wiki to another
2991 easily. Look at the wiki/data directory to see.
2994 old: data/text/FrontPage
2995 new: data/pages/FrontPage/revisions/00000042
2996 data/pages/FrontPage/current (contains: 00000042)
2997 old: data/backup/FrontPage.xxxxxxxx
2998 new: data/pages/FrontPage/revisions/00000023
3000 For cleaning up cache files, use MoinMoin/scripts/cachecleaner.py
3001 (see comments in script).
3005 * For using RSS, you need to have PyXML installed:
3006 Python 2.4* -> PyXML 0.8.4 (cvs version)
3007 Python 2.3.x -> PyXML 0.8.3
3008 Python 2.2.2+ -> ???
3009 This will also make "Live Bookmarks" of Mozilla Firefox working.
3010 New: if you don't have PyXML installed, the RSS icon on RecentChanges
3011 will not be displayed any more. Python with no PyXML installed
3012 generates invalid RSS XML.
3016 * Handling of special characters in file names changed from _xx format
3018 * In URLs, moin now uses %xx%yy quoting, (because this is supported by
3019 browsers), and sub pages use "/" instead of the ugly "_2f".
3020 * Underscore character "_" is used now as a space character " " both
3021 in file names and URLs. " " and "_" will be handled equivalent at most
3022 places in the future (represented as "_", rendered as " ").
3023 * To prevent wiki abuse and user typing errors, page names are normalized
3024 in URLs, query strings, the "go" box and when renaming pages. This
3025 include leading, trailing and multiple slashes and white space. Certain
3026 invisible unicode characters are removed from page names.
3027 * Group page names are restricted even more, any non unicode alpha-numeric
3028 character is removed. This is done to enable changing acl syntax in
3029 the future. The restriction might be loosen on future versions.
3030 * You can edit config.page_invalid_chars_regex to control which characters
3031 are allowed in page names (Changing it is not supported).
3032 * When you enter page name, it is normalized and you are redirected to
3033 the normalized page, or if nothing left (e.g '/////'), to FrontPage.
3034 * When renaming a page to a name that can be normalized to an empty string,
3035 the new page name will be "EmptyName" and the user will not get an
3040 * Pages (especially system and help pages) are now located in an underlay
3041 directory (data_underlay_dir). You will see the pages there if they are
3042 NOT covered (overlayed) by a page in the normal pages directory
3043 (as set using data_dir).
3044 MAKE SURE THAT data_underlay_dir IS CORRECT OR YOU WILL SEE MANY EMPTY
3045 PAGES ONLY IN A NEW WIKI.
3046 * If you edit a page that is shown from underlay directory, it will be
3047 copied to the normal page directory on save (copy-on-write).
3048 * You can use one copy of the underlay directory shared by many
3049 wiki instances. Each wiki will then have only your local, self-made
3050 wiki pages in its data directory, and only system and help pages in the
3051 single, shared underlay directory - this simplifies upgrades a lot.
3052 * It is recommended to keep your underlay system and help pages immutable
3053 using acl, so you can upgrade your wiki easily. The default help and
3054 system pages already have those ACLs (using MoinPagesEditorGroup).
3055 * Do not forget to remove your old help and system pages after migrating
3056 your wiki. We don't provide a script for that as that would be
3057 dangerous for edited pages. Just use some file manager (e.g. mc) to
3058 clean the data/pages/ directory. As soon as you have removed the
3059 system pages there, you will see the new pages in the underlay dir.
3060 See the EditedSystemPages page for a list of pages that exist in both
3061 data and underlay directory (use this page as admin!).
3063 When updating from 1.2 or lower to 1.3 or higher, you will want to
3064 clean out the copies of the system pages in your {{{wiki/data}}}
3065 directory. All of these pages will now reside in the underlay
3066 directory. If you have system pages from 1.2 or lower in your
3067 wiki/data/ directory, they will overshadow the more up-to-date
3068 documentation. This can be done using the following manual procedure:
3069 1. You have just converted from 1.2 or lower to post-1.3.
3070 2. Go to your wiki's EditedSystemPages.
3071 3. Find all the pages that are MoinMoin system or help pages. You will
3072 know if it is one of those pages because it is not your page.
3073 4. Check if it is okay to delete by either:
3074 1. Using the this page "info" link and check the Revision History to
3075 see if it is greater than 1. If so, there are modifications, so do
3076 not delete the page and evaluate the modifications to see if they
3078 2. Using your file browser (Windows Explorer, etc) to go to your
3079 wiki/data/<<systemPage>>/revisions/ directory and to see if there
3080 are no modifications. If there are, do not delete the page and
3081 evaluate the modifications to see if they are necessary.
3082 5. Delete that wiki/data/<<systemPage>> using your file browser.
3086 * New file name quoting method allow 50% longer page names in languages
3087 that use more than one byte per character, like Hebrew, Korean etc.
3088 * Configuration file uses 'utf-8' encoding now. Certain values that are
3089 marked with [Unicode] can use any character in your language. Examples
3090 are page names in navi_bar, page types regular expressions and site name.
3091 * For configuration examples adopted to your language, check ConfigMarket
3092 in the MoinMoin wiki.
3093 * The system and help pages that come with moin are now in utf-8.
3094 * MissingPage system page localized, should display in your language.
3095 * We did many i18n (translation) updates.
3096 * CSS file use utf-8 encoding. User css is also expected to be utf-8.
3097 This is relevant only if you use non-ASCII values in the CSS file.
3098 * config.upperletters and config.lowerletters were removed.
3099 We now use a pre-made ucs-2 spanning set and you usually don't have to
3100 change it. See MoinMoin/util/chartypes.py if you're interested.
3101 * ACL works with any user name or group name in any language, even names
3103 * Now you can use any charset in config.charset. Note: only utf-8 is
3104 a supported configuration!
3105 * Improved url handling, now creating pages directly from the browser
3106 url box with non-ascii names works in most cases, even when
3107 config.charset is not utf-8.
3108 * When using non-utf-8 config.charset, characters in URLs that does
3109 fit in the charsets are replaced with "?" (instead of crashing).
3110 * All themes and most macros and actions are Right to Left friendly.
3111 Full RTL support planned for 1.3 release.
3112 * If page language is specified with #language processing instruction
3113 the page is displayed in the correct direction. Pages without
3114 language are displayed using the wiki default_lang.
3116 Multiple configurations
3118 * You can run multiple wikis from the same wiki directory or server.
3119 For example, you can run one Twisted server that serve multiple wikis,
3120 instead of running multiple servers. Samples of the new configuration
3121 are supplied in wiki/config/*.
3122 * You can't just use your old moin_config.py file. It is now called
3123 wikiconfig.py and the config variables now have to be in a class
3124 "Config" and that class must inherit from
3125 MoinMoin.multiconfig.DefaultConfig - see the provided wikiconfig.py
3127 This is very useful, e.g. you could derive a GermanConfig from
3128 DefaultConfig. After that, you can derive configs for wikiA and wikiB
3129 from that GermanConfig.
3130 * farmconfig.py contains a mapping attribute called "wikis" with pairs of
3131 wikiconfig module name and regular expression. The regular expression
3132 is matched against the URL of the request and the first matching entry
3133 determines the config module to be imported by MoinMoin.
3134 * If you use farmconfig.py's "wikis" mapping, then any wiki has a private
3135 config module, named after the wiki - e.g. wiki named moinmoin would
3137 * If you only have a single wiki, you do not need farmconfig.py. just make
3138 a wikiconfig.py and it will be used no matter what URL is requested.
3139 * There is one common global "config" that holds sitewide settings (like
3140 umask or charset) - you do not need to change settings there.
3141 This file is located in the MoinMoin code: MoinMoin/config.py.
3143 General configuration
3145 * SecurityPolicy now uses "write" instead of "edit" (so it is may.write
3146 now). This is to get it in sync with ACLs.
3147 * SecurityPolicy now automatically can use everything in acl_rights_valid.
3148 * There is a new config option "config_check_enabled". It will warn about
3149 any unknown variable name (probably typo) to stderr or error.log.
3150 If something doesn't work at all and changing the config does no
3151 difference, switch it on and look at the error message.
3152 * The sample config file comes with config_check_enabled = 1. If you
3153 introduce additional variables yourself, you definitely want to switch
3154 that check off or it will fill your log.
3155 * If you define "page_front_page" variable, this name will show in the
3156 navigation bar now, instead of the default "FrontPage".
3160 * Full text and title search do support multiple search terms now -
3161 see HelpOnSearching for details.
3162 * Regular expressions are still supported but have to be turned on per
3163 search term. Search terms in macros using regular expressions will have
3165 * The URL interface of the search engine has also changed. Links that
3166 point directly to search actions may be broken.
3170 * User names can not use group names, even if ACLs are not enabled.
3171 This will prevent error later, if you start to use acl in the future
3172 (acl is going to be mandatory in 1.5).
3173 * User names are not restricted any more to only CamelCase.
3174 * To prevent imposing as other users, leading, trailing and multiple
3175 whitespace in user names is not allowed. Only Unicode alpha numeric
3176 characters are allowed, with optional one space character between
3178 * When a user name with a group name or "bad" name is trying to
3179 access the wiki, he is redirected to the UserPreferences page and
3180 asked to create a new account.
3181 * When trying to login or create a new account with a bad name,
3182 correct error message is displayed in all cases.
3186 * You can not use your old moin.cgi file, as we removed cgimain.py
3187 (was deprecated since 1.2). Copy the new file from the server dir.
3189 Moin servers - Twisted and standalone
3191 * Configuration self checking on startup. Will raise an error in case
3192 of bad configuration or non-accessible directories.
3193 * Both use shorter and identical configuration options.
3194 * Server scripts contain detailed comments and examples.
3195 * Configuration defaults changed to fit most users.
3196 * There is memory profiler option for debugging, switched off by default.
3197 * If you perform a standard install, server scripts should run out
3198 of the box or with minimal change.
3202 * All code moved into the new server package, the server script
3203 contains only configuration options.
3204 * Listen to more than one interface with "interfaces" list.
3205 * Code updated to new Twisted API.
3206 * Use mointwisted script to start and stop the server, using
3207 "mointwisted start" and "mointwisted stop".
3208 * The Twisted server runs as daemon by default.
3209 * All moin Twisted files are called now mointwisted instead of
3211 * Fixed getting username from Twisted request (http auth)
3215 * Configuration moved from moin_config.py to moin.py.
3216 * If run as root, you can set both user and group for the server.
3217 * Can use logfile instead of logging to stderr.
3218 * Fixed missing unquoting of query string (caused problems in rare cases).
3222 * moin_modpy server files renamed to moinmodpy.
3226 * '''strong''', ''em'' and __underline__ have now paragraph scope. You can
3227 set these attributes on words level. For multiple paragraphs, wrap each
3229 * If you leave unclosed ''', '' and __ markup, its is closed when the
3234 * Due to many changes in CSS files, the wiki may look "broken" until
3235 your reload once or twice, or empty your browser cache.
3236 * The "Send mail notification" checkbox is replaced by "Trivial change"
3237 checkbox. The default behavior did not change - regular edit is not
3238 a trivial change, and mail will be sent to subscribes. If you check
3239 trivial change, mail will be sent only to users who selected to
3240 get trivial changes in their user preferences.
3241 * New theme "modern" has been added, and used as default theme.
3242 * classic and rightsidebar improved.
3243 * viewonly theme removed, as any theme can be use now as viewonly
3244 by using #acl All:read in the wikiconfig.
3245 * All themes use new navibar, displaying both wiki links, user links
3246 and the current page.
3247 * navibar and pagetrail use now shortened page names, so very long
3248 names does not break the interface visually.
3249 * All themes have improved search interface at the top of the window.
3250 * Only avaiable actions are displayed, so most situations when a user
3251 try to do something he can't do are prevented.
3252 * When creating a new page, no action is available until the page
3253 is created. You can't attach files to non-existing page any more.
3254 * Non registered users get a "login" link. Registered uses get
3255 "username" link to their home page, and "user preferences" link.
3256 * Messages more clear using bold type, designed by css.
3257 * Few useless messages removed (but there are many more)
3258 * Default wiki logo uses the wiki name instead of the MoinMoin troll
3261 Other fixes and changes
3263 * Most generated html code is valid "html 4 strict". There are still
3264 some problems that still have to be fixed, mainly macros, table
3265 attributes, and inline markup crossing (<a><b></a></b>).
3266 * WantedPages can include and exclude system pages, which makes it
3268 * Fixed a bug in TitleIndex where not all system pages are excluded.
3269 * RenamePage action now renames everything, including backups, page
3270 history, attachments. It does not change toplevel editlog, though.
3271 After you rename a page, you are redirected to the new page.
3272 * Syntax colorization supports more languages (Java, C++, Pascal)
3273 * Inline: display of attachments was extended. A Parser now knows which
3274 extensions it can handle.
3275 * TableOfContents and Include macros now cooperate a bit better. There
3276 are still problems with multiple Includes of the same page.
3277 * Excluded actions at bottom of page are not displayed any more.
3278 * Editor: removed the columns size setting, just using 100% of browser
3279 window width (it didn't work because of that anyway). Also removed that
3280 "reduce editor size" link at top of editor as you would lose your
3281 changes when using it.
3282 * Removed the option to choose text smileys instead of images, this made
3283 more trouble than it was worth. The text version is still given in ALT
3285 * Moved stuff from contribution/ to MacroMarket page on MoinMoin wiki
3286 * Some nasty people try to use a running moin as a proxy (at least they
3287 did on moinmaster.wikiwikiweb.de:8000, maybe due to the magic port
3288 number). We changed the code to check for that and just return 403
3289 in that case. Moin can not be used as a proxy anyway.
3290 * moin.cgi?test was removed in favor of a new buildin test
3291 action. It works for all deployments, just use ?action=test.
3292 * Sending mail does use tls if server supports it.
3294 3rd party developer notes
3296 * Themes should be now sub class of MoinMoin.theme.ThemeBase. Sub
3297 classes will get automatically all new improved user interface
3299 * Theme authors should update their theme for 1.3. Some keys removed
3300 from them dict. See ThemeBase class in MoinMoin/theme/__init__.py.
3301 * Actions writers should call request.setContentLangauge with the
3302 correct language used by the action. This enable themes and other
3303 code to use correct direction.
3304 * The Formatter interface was changed. Formatters and parsers using
3305 the formatter interface have to be adjusted.
3306 * started deprecation of Processors: they are still recognized, but
3307 implementors should start to rewrite their Processors as Parsers.
3308 A processor with the same name as a parser in a pre #! section is
3309 currently preferred. This will change in the next release.
3313 * Processors are deprecated, see section above.
3315 * Using the cookie (or the login url with ID) only and not setting (or
3316 setting and not remembering) your email/password in UserPreferences
3317 is DEPRECATED. Those quite unsecure methods will likely be dropped
3318 in next moin version.
3320 * Operating with acl_enabled = 0 is also DEPRECATED. Due to some other
3321 improvements planned, we will have to operate with ACLs enabled ONLY
3322 in a future moin version, so this setting will likely be dropped.
3323 So clean up your user accounts (see moin_usercheck.py) and switch ACLs
3325 There are no drawbacks, so you will like it. Having ACLs enabled
3326 doesn't mean you really have to USE them on wiki pages...
3328 * allow_extended_names = 0 is deprecated (default was/is 1).
3329 Future versions will be able to use extended names (aka free links) in
3330 any case and the config setting will be removed.
3332 * allow_subpages = 0 is deprecated (default was/is 1).
3333 Future versions will be able to use subpages in any case and the config
3334 setting will be removed.
3336 * attachments = {...} - we would like to remove that setting because of
3338 * when not being extremely careful, this can easily lead to security
3339 problems (like when uploading a .php exploit and then executing it
3340 by accessing it directly via web server)
3341 * makes code more complicated - code that we want to change completely
3343 If you need that feature, speak up now and tell us your reasons WHY you
3347 Version 1.2.4 (2004-10-23, Revision 1.187)
3349 This will probably be the last 1.2.x release as we are soon doing release
3350 candidates for 1.3 release (with big internal changes) and are expecting
3351 release 1.3 in december 2004.
3354 * fixed "None" pagename bug in fullsearch/titlesearch
3355 * fixed projection CSS usage
3356 * the compiled page is removed when a page is deleted, so no ghost page
3357 appears after deletion
3358 * fixed AbandonedPages day-break problem
3359 * fixed [[GetVal(WikiDict,key)]]
3360 * the msg box is now outside content div on PageEditor, too
3361 * privacy fix for email notifications: you don't see other email addresses
3362 in To: any more. mail_from is now also used for To: header field, but
3363 we don't really send email to that address.
3364 * privacy fix for /MoinEditorBackup pages that were made on previews of
3365 pages that were not saved in the end
3366 * fix double content div on PageEditor preview
3369 * workaround for broken Microsoft Internet Explorer, the page editor now
3370 stops expanding to the right (e.g. with rightsidebar theme).
3371 Nevertheless it is a very good idea to use a non-broken and more secure
3372 browser like Mozilla, Firefox or Opera!
3374 * from MoinMoin.security.antispam import SecurityPolicy in your
3375 moin_config.py will protect your wiki from at least the known spammers.
3378 * xmlrpc plugin for usage logging, currently used for antispam accesses
3380 * (re-)added configurable meta tags:
3381 * html_head_queries = '''<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow">\n'''
3382 * html_head_posts = '''<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow">\n'''
3383 * html_head_index = '''<meta name="robots" content="index,follow">\n'''
3384 * html_head_normal = '''<meta name="robots" content="index,nofollow">\n'''
3386 * i18n updates/fixes
3388 * New UserPreferences switch:
3389 you may subscribe to trivial changes (when you want to be notified about ALL
3390 changes to pages, even if the author deselected to send notifications).
3392 * New AttachList and AttachInfo macros - thanks to Nigel Metheringham and
3395 Version 1.2.3 (2004-07-21, Revision 1.186)
3398 * fixed NameError "UnpicklingError" in user.py
3399 * fixed version number in moin.spec
3400 * reverts done by bots or leechers
3401 There was a bad, old bug that triggered if you did not use ACLs. In that
3402 case, moin used some simple (but wrong and incomplete) function to
3403 determine what a user (or bot) may do or may not do. The function is now
3404 fixed to allow only read and write to anon users, and only delete and
3405 revert to known users additionally - and disallow everything else.
3406 * avoid creation of unneccessary pages/* directories
3407 * removed double content divs in general info and history info pages
3408 * fixed wiki xmlrpc getPageHTML
3409 * fixed rightsidebar logout URL, also fixed top banner to link to FrontPage
3410 * use config.page_front_page and .page_title_index for robots meta tag
3411 (whether it uses index,follow or index,nofollow), not hardcoded english
3413 * ACL security fix for PageEditor, thanks to Dr. Pleger for reporting
3414 * default options for new users are same as for anon users
3416 Version 1.2.2 (2004-06-06, Revision 1.185)
3420 * own copy of difflib removed
3421 Until moin 1.2.1 we had our own copy of python 2.2.3's difflib coming
3422 with moin. This was to work around some problems with broken older 2.2
3423 python installations. We removed this now because if you have py 2.3,
3424 there is even a better difflib coming with python (and that fixes an
3425 extremely slow diff calculation happening in some rare cases).
3426 So the good news is that when you run python 2.3, you don't need to do
3427 anything and it will run great. If you run python 2.2.3, it will mostly
3428 work good and you also don't need to do anything. The bad news is that
3429 if you run an old and broken 2.2 installation (2.2.1, maybe 2.2.2) you
3430 will have to fix it on your own (just copy difflib.py from python 2.2.3
3431 over to your python 2.2.x installation).
3432 But better upgrade to python 2.3 (for debian woody, there's a backport),
3433 as 2.3 generally runs better and faster than 2.2.
3434 * scripts changed to use #!/usr/bin/env python (not /usr/bin/python2.2)
3436 * user accounts and ACLs:
3437 * we now require the user to specify a password for a new account (you
3438 were not able to login without a password anyway)
3439 * it is not allowed any more to create user accounts with user names
3440 matching config.page_group_regex - please check manually that you do
3441 not already have such users existing (like a user named "AdminGroup"):
3442 cd data/user ; grep name=.*Group * # there should be no output!
3443 * subscription email sending now honours ACLs correctly
3445 * markup / rendering / user interface fixes:
3446 * fixed merging multiple lines indented by the same amount of blanks
3447 * ## comments don't break tables in two parts
3448 * added a "remove bookmark" link to RecentChanges
3449 * fixed action=titleindex (added \n after each entry)
3452 * non-ASCII characters should work now
3453 * RSS feed (Recentchanges?action=rss_rc) gives UTC timestamps now
3454 * removed attribute breaking RSS feed on RecentChanges
3456 * better email generation:
3457 * if you use python >=2.2.2, we add a Message-ID header to emails
3458 * if you use python 2.2.1, there is no email.Header. Instead of crashing
3459 (like previous moin 1.2.x releases), we just use the subject "as is" in
3460 that case. If it is not ASCII, this is not standards compliant.
3461 * If you have >=2.2.2 it will use email.Header to make standards compliant
3463 * use config.mail_from as sender address when sending "lost my password"
3467 * fixed for standalone server
3468 * attachment URLs (when handled by moin) don't include server name
3469 * fixed some wrong &amp; in html src
3471 * better themeability:
3472 * some entries in dict "d" where only present in header theme calls, some
3473 only in footer theme calls. Now almost all is present in both calls.
3474 * added some missing "content" divs so sidebar themes look better
3476 * fixed some crashes producing backtraces:
3477 * no IOError when diffing against deleted page
3478 * no backtrace in xml footnote generation
3479 * no SystemInfo crash when no editlog exists in new wikis
3480 * xmlrpc.getRecentChanges fixed
3482 * MoinMoin.util.filesys.rename is now a wrapper around os.rename that
3483 fixes os.rename on broken win32 api semantics
3486 * saving traffic and load by improved robot meta tag generation:
3487 * "noindex,nofollow" on queries and POSTs
3488 * "index,follow" on FrontPage and TitleIndex (give robots a chance ;))
3489 * "index,nofollow" on all other pages (hopefully saving lots of senseless
3490 requests for page?action=...)
3491 * removed config.html_head_queries (was used for same stuff)
3492 * added russian i18n (utf-8)
3493 * misc. other translation updates / fixes
3494 * added rightsidebar theme
3495 * TitleIndex now folds case, so "APage" and "anotherPage" are both under
3497 * added macro/PageHits.py - it calculates the hits each page gets since
3498 beginning of logging
3501 * Full text and title search do now support multiple search terms -
3502 see HelpOnSearching for details
3504 * The Formatter interface was changed. Formatter and parser using
3505 the formatter interface have to be adjusted.
3507 Version 1.2.1 (2004-03-08, Revision 1.184)
3510 * minimum requirement to run moin 1.2/1.2.1 is python 2.2.2
3511 * not: 2.2(.0), as this does not have True/False
3512 * not: 2.2.1, as this does not have email.Header. You maybe can work
3514 * getting the python 2.2.x (x>=2) /usr/lib/python2.2/email directory
3515 * putting it into directory 'x' (whereever you like)
3516 * doing a sys.path[0:0] = ['x'] in moin.cgi [or other appropriate place]
3517 No guarantee, this is untested.
3518 * Twisted: the http headers missed the charset data, fixed
3519 * mod_python: fixes for mod_python 2.7
3520 * wiki/data/plugin/__init__.py added - fixes not working plugin modules
3521 * plugin processors work now, too
3522 * fixed displaying non-existent translations of SiteNavigation in footer
3523 * fixed zh-tw iso name (wrong zh_tw -> correct zh-tw)
3524 * fixed reversed diffs in RecentChanges RSS
3525 * fixed "last change" info in footer (wasn't updated)
3526 * fixed event.log missing pagename (and other) information
3527 * fixed horizontal line thickness >1
3528 * fixed setup.py running from CVS workdir
3529 * fixed crash when doing action=info on first revision of a page
3530 * fixed hostname truncation in footer
3532 * fixed clear msg links (they missed quoting, leading to strange page
3533 names when you click on some of them)
3534 * fixed python colorizer processor
3535 * fixed quoting of stats cache filenames
3536 * catched "bad marshal data" error when switching python versions
3539 * updated danish (da) i18n
3540 * updated japanese (ja) i18n
3541 * added serbian (sr) i18n
3542 * added chinese (zh) i18n
3543 * added a simple "viewonly" theme based on classic theme - you can use
3544 this as default theme, so anonymous users won't get the usual wiki stuff,
3545 but a far simpler (and less powerful) user interface.
3546 It also displays the navibar at the left side.
3547 * added moin.spec for building RPMs
3548 * included MoinMoin/i18n/* into distribution archive (nice for translators)
3549 * included some stuff under MoinMoin/scripts - xmlrpc-tools and account
3550 checking stuff. removed some version control clutter from the dist
3553 * code colorization was refactored and some new languages (Java, C++,
3554 Pascal) where added.
3555 * inline: display of attachments was extended. A Parser now knows which
3556 extensions it can handle.
3558 Version 1.2 (2004-02-20, Revision 1.183)
3561 * MoinMoin now requires Python >=2.2.2., we recommend to use Python >=2.3.2
3562 (with 2.3.x, MoinMoin runs about 20-30% faster).
3563 * by refactoring request processing, we made it possible to run moin under
3564 persistent environments:
3565 * twisted-web (http://twistedmatrix.com)
3566 * httpdmain.py (use moin.py for starting this mini server)
3569 Of course, CGI is still possible.
3570 * wiki pages will be compiled to bytecode now (by default), so no need for
3571 slow parsing/formatting on every view ("WASP", see caching_formats)
3572 * when using a persistent environment (like twisted) and WASP, you get up
3573 to 20x speed - compared to CGI and moin 1.1
3574 * added support for diffs between arbitrary revisions.
3575 * removed requirement of the external diff utility
3576 * config.auth_http_enabled (defaults to 0) - use this to enable moin
3577 getting your authenticated user name from apache (http basic auth,
3578 htpasswd) - if you enable this, your basic auth username has to be the
3579 same as your wiki username.
3580 Should work with CGI, FCGI and maybe even with mod_python.
3581 Does not change behaviour of moin under twisted or standalone server.
3582 * config.tz_offset = 0.0 sets a default timezone offset (in hours
3584 * config.cookie_lifetime (int, in hours, default 12) sets the lifetime of
3586 == 0 --> cookie will live forever (no matter what user has configured!)
3587 > 0 --> cookie will live for n hours (or forever when "remember_me")
3588 < 0 --> cookie will live for -n hours (forced, ignore "remember_me"!)
3589 * added themeing and some themes (if you improve the existing themes or
3590 make nice new ones, please contribute your stuff!). The default theme is
3591 set by config.theme_default (and defaults to 'classic').
3592 * now supporting plugin directory for parsers, processors, themes, xmlrpc.
3593 * action=info now defaults to showing page revision history again
3594 * all actions accessing the logfile (as RecentChanges or history) are now
3596 * #refresh processing instruction, config.refresh
3597 * config.refresh = (minimum_delay, target_allowed)
3598 * minimum delay is the minimum waiting time (in seconds) allowed
3599 * target_allowed is either 'internal' or 'external', depending on
3600 whether you want to allow only internal redirects or also
3601 external ones. For internal redirects, just use the Wiki pagename,
3602 for external, use http://... url.
3603 * #refresh 3 == refresh this page every 3 seconds
3604 * #refresh 5 FrontPage == internal redirect to FrontPage in 5s
3605 * #refresh 5 http://google.com/ == redirect to google in 5s
3606 Use very carefully! Allowing a low minimum_delay and putting a #refresh
3607 on RecentChanges might slow down your wiki significantly, when some
3608 people just let their browser refresh and refresh again. Also, it does
3609 cause quite some traffic long-term. So better do not use this without
3610 good reason! Default is None (switched off).
3611 * hide most UserPreferences options before user has logged in, less
3612 confusing for new users
3613 * "config.page_dict_regex" defines what pages are dictionary definitions
3614 Currently dictionaries are used for UserHomePage/MyDict where you can
3615 define key:: value pairs that get processed like @DATE@ expansion when
3616 saving a page. The 2 "@" will be added to your keys automatically.
3617 Please do not use @xxx@ strings on the right side (value), results may
3619 You can also access wiki dictionaries by using the internal macro
3620 [[GetVal(page,key)]]" - that will go to page "page" and return the
3621 value (right side) corresponding to "key".
3622 Implementation note: groups are a subset of the dictionary functionality.
3623 * standalone server should work now (see server/moin.py), so you don't
3624 need to setup apache or twisted for a local personal wiki, you only need
3625 python and moin for that now, no additional stuff any more!
3626 * if you run your wiki with charset = "utf-8" (the default is still
3627 iso8859-1), you might want to have a look at contributions/utf8-pages/
3628 to see if there are already translated system pages for your language.
3631 * new importPlugin routine (the old one didn't work correctly)
3632 * removed 0xA0 characters breaking utf-8
3633 * system page recognition now uses wiki groups (see AllSystemPagesGroup),
3634 fixing the long-time broken system page exclusion on TitleIndex.
3635 * mostly HTML 4.01 Strict compliant HTML
3636 * design is done by CSS now, HTML is semantic markup only
3637 * removed target attribute from links, also [^NewWindow] markup - this
3638 is a HTML 3.2 feature and not valid in HTML 4.01
3639 * updated TWikiDrawPlugin to 20021003 version, with further modifications
3640 including source. It can draw imagemaps now and saves PNG. On display a
3641 GIF will be searched if no PNG is found. We recommend changing all GIFs
3642 to indexed PNGs cause this fallback might disappear in later versions.
3644 Sample code using bash and ImageMagick (be sure you know what you do):
3645 for draw in `find /path/to/wiki/data -name \*.draw`; do
3646 file=`dirname $draw`/`basename $draw .draw`
3647 if [ -e "${file}.gif" ]; then
3648 echo "Converting ${file}.gif to ${file}.png"
3649 convert "${file}.gif" "${file}.png"
3653 * fixed email headers and encoding
3654 * Changed moin-usercheck to adhere to scripting standards; no
3655 proprietary config changes needed any more (added --config);
3656 --wikinames is now part of the usage message.
3657 * config.umask now defaults to 0770 - if you give world r/w access, ACLs
3658 could be rather pointless...
3660 Removed config variables:
3661 * external_diff (not needed any more, we have internal diff now)
3662 * shared_metadb (wasn't implemented for long - we will re-add it, when it is)
3663 * title1/2 (please use page_header1/2)
3666 Changed config variables:
3667 * changed_time_fmt (removed some html and brackets around time from default)
3668 * html_head (default is empty string now)
3669 * page_footer1/2 (default is empty string now)
3670 * page_icons (is now a list of icon names, not html any more)
3671 * umask (default is 0770 now, not world r/w any more == more secure)
3673 New config variables (see MoinMaster:HelpOnConfiguration):
3682 * page_license_enabled
3689 * lots of internal code refactoring and optimization
3690 * began moving src code documentation to epydoc, see "make epydoc"
3691 * the URL for the RecentChanges RSS feed changed. It now only works with
3695 * theme support is neither complete (although covering most important
3696 stuff) nor perfect - work on that will continue...
3697 * we removed some html from system messages (the boxes at top of page you
3698 get after some actions), so it currently looks less nice than before.
3699 * html is not completely validating and it is not xhtml - this will be
3700 fixed as soon as we have the infrastructure for that (other parser, DOM)
3701 * problems with rtl (right-to-left) languages, will be fixed in 1.3
3702 * if you change moin_config or switch themes, moin will still use already
3703 cached page content. For the config this can be fixed by touching
3704 MoinMoin/version.py (or simply deleting everything in
3705 data/cache/Page.py). If you get more annoyed by this than pleased by
3706 caching speedup, you can also switch off caching (see docs on
3709 Themeing and HTML/CSS cleanup:
3710 * Browsers with completely broken CSS support (like e.g. Netscape 4.x) are
3711 no longer supported. If you still need to support them, do not upgrade to
3712 moin 1.2. If you still use these browsers, we recommend that you upgrade
3713 your browser first (Mozilla 1.5 has nice and standards compliant HTML and
3714 CSS support and is available as Free Software for Windows, Linux and Mac).
3715 * If you changed any html in code or by config you will have to check if it
3716 still works. For the usual stuff, look into `MoinMoin/theme/classic.py`
3717 and `classic/css/screen.css`. For config defaults of the html fragments,
3718 read `MoinMoin/config.py`. If you want to modify a theme, don't simply
3719 change classic, but copy or subclass it under a new theme name.
3720 * because of the new theme support the layout of the `htdocs` directory
3722 * Instead of using icons under `img/` and css under `css/`, there will
3723 be an additional `themename/` directory in between, e.g. `classic/img/`
3724 and `classic/css/`. If you added own icons, you may have to copy them
3725 to the themes directory.
3726 * The filename of the CSS file has changed to the media type, so the
3727 normal one used for screen output has changed name from `moinmoin.css`
3728 to `screen.css`. There also were quite some changes and enhancements to
3729 the CSS files, so better use the new ones.
3730 * config.css_url was removed
3733 * we use a new plugin loader that requires a correct `__init__.py` file in
3734 the plugin directories. See the directory `wiki/data/plugin/` in the
3735 distribution archive and just copy it over to your wiki's plugin directory.
3738 Version 1.1 (2003-11-29, Revision 1.178)
3740 Version 1.1 requires Python 2.0 or higher, we recommend to use Python 2.2
3741 (version 2.2.2 if that is available on your host) or even better >= 2.3.2
3742 (with 2.3.x, MoinMoin runs about 20-30% faster).
3746 * config.default_lang lets you set a default language for users not
3747 having specified language in their browser or UserPreferences
3748 * "config.page_category_regex" defines what pages are categories
3749 * replaced `config.page_template_ending` by a more flexible setting
3750 named `config.page_template_regex`
3751 * the same with config.page_form_regex (was: page_form_ending)
3752 * "config.page_group_regex" defines what pages are group definitions
3753 Currently groups are used for "user groups" (see ACLs) and "page
3754 groups" (see AllSystemPagesGroup).
3755 * robot exclusion from all pages except the standard view action,
3756 via the config.ua_spiders regex (reduces server load)
3757 * "maxdepth" argument for the TableOfContents macro
3758 * config.title1, config.title2, config.page_footer1,
3759 config.page_footer2 can now be callables and will be called with
3760 the "request" object as a single argument (note that you should
3761 accept any keyword arguments in order to be compatible to future
3763 * "config.html_pagetitle" allows you to set a specific HTML page
3764 title (if not set, it defaults to "config.sitename")
3765 * navi_bar / quicklinks can now contain free-form links, i.e.
3766 entries of the form "[url linktext]" just like in wiki pages
3767 * if a quick link starts with '^', it opens in a new window; help
3768 now opens in a new window also
3769 * `config.smileys` for user-defined smileys (default: `{}`) - a dict
3770 with the markup as the key and a tuple of width, height, border, image
3772 * `config.hosts_deny` to forbid access based on IP address
3773 * `config.mail_login` can be set to username and password separated by
3774 a space, e.g. "username userpass", if you need to use SMTP AUTH
3775 * `config.edit_locking` can be set to None (old behaviour, no
3776 locking), 'warn <timeout mins>' (warn about concurrent edits, but
3777 do not enforce anything), or 'lock <timeout mins>' (strict locking)
3778 * optionally showing a license text on editor page, use:
3779 config.page_license_enabled = 1
3780 Optionally use these to customize what is shown there:
3781 config.page_license_text = "... your text ..."
3782 config.page_license_page = "MyLicensePage"
3783 See the default values in MoinMoin/config.py for details and
3784 override them in moin_config.py, if needed.
3785 * `config.shared_intermap` can be a list of filenames (instead of a
3787 * If you have added your own `SecurityPolicy`, the class interface for
3788 that has changed (see `security.py`).
3790 Authenticaton / Authorization:
3791 * added ACL support, written by Gustavo Niemeyer of Conectiva and
3792 Thomas Waldmann. See HelpOnAccessControlLists for more infos.
3793 You should use MoinMoin/scripts/moin_usercheck.py before activating
3794 ACLs or some users with bad or duplicate accounts might get into
3796 * A user account can be disabled using moin_usercheck.py or
3797 UserPreferences page. Disabling, but keeping it is good for edit
3799 * changed security default: deletion only available to known users
3800 * support for Basic authentication (Apache style: AUTH_TYPE="Basic",
3801 REMOTE_USER="WikiUserName"). If authentication is there, user
3802 will be in ACL class "Trusted".
3803 * support for username / password login
3804 The username / password login will ONLY work, if you define a
3805 password. With an empty password, username / password login is not
3806 allowed due to security reasons. Passwords are stored encrypted
3807 (format similar to Apache SHA) and can also be entered in the
3808 UserPreferences form in this format. When requesting login
3809 information by email, the password is also sent in this encrypted
3810 format (use copy&paste to fill it in the form).
3811 ...?action=userform?uid=<userid> is still possible, so if you have
3812 bookmarks, they will still work). The input field for the ID was
3814 NOTE: using the userid for login purposes is DEPRECATED and might
3815 be removed for better security soon.
3816 * after logging in, you will get a cookie valid until midnight.
3817 The next day, the cookie will expire and you will have to login
3818 again. If you don't want this, you can check the "remember me
3819 forever" option in UserPreferences.
3820 * if the page file is read-only, you get a message (i.e. you can now
3821 protect pages against changes if you're the wiki admin).
3822 Note: you can do that easier using ACLs.
3824 Markup / Macros / Actions:
3825 * RandomQuote macro (and even parses Wiki markup now)
3826 * `[[Navigation]]` macro for slides and subpage navigation
3827 * [[ShowSmileys]] displays ALL smileys, including user-defined ones
3828 * the Include macro has new parameters (from, to, sort, items) and
3829 is able to include more than one page (via a regex pattern)
3830 * `MailTo` macro for adding spam-safe email links to a page
3831 * if a fancy link starts with '^' (i.e. if it has the form
3832 "[^http:... ...]"), it's opened in a new window
3833 * because of that, the NewWindow macro was removed from contrib
3834 * "#pragma section-numbers 2" only displays section numbers for
3835 headings of level 2 and up (similarly for 3 to 6)
3836 * ../SubPageOfParent links
3840 * Page creation shows LikePages that already exist
3841 * editor shows the current size of the page
3842 * editor returns to including page when editing an included page
3843 * Visual indication we're on the editor page (new CSS style)
3844 * selection to add categories to a page in the editor (use preview
3845 button to add more than one category)
3846 * if user has a homepage, a backup of save/preview text is saved as
3847 a subpage UsersHomePage/MoinEditorBackup
3848 * added "revert" link to PageInfo view (which makes DeletePage more
3849 safe in public wikis, since you can easily revive deleted pages
3851 * Selection for logged in users (i.e. no bots) to extend the listing
3852 of recent changes beyond the default limits
3853 * Activated display of context for backlinks search
3854 * Subscriber list shown on page info
3855 * LikePages shows similar pages (using difflib.get_close_matches)
3856 * last edit action is stored into "last-edited" file, and
3857 displayed in the page footer
3858 * reciprocal footnote linking (definition refers back to reference)
3859 * "Ex-/Include system pages" link for title index
3860 Note: system/help pages algorithm is still mostly broken.
3861 * list items set apart by empty lines are now also set apart
3862 visually (by adding the CSS class "gap" to <li>)
3863 * "save" check for security.Permissions
3864 * Added Spanish, Croatian and Danish system texts
3865 * Added flag icons for the languages supported in "i18n"
3866 * updated help and system pages, more translations, see also
3868 * there was quite some work done on wiki xmlrpc v1 and v2 - it
3869 basically works now.
3871 Tools and other changes:
3872 * moin-dump: New option "--page"
3873 * there are some scripts MoinMoin/scripts/* using wiki xmlrpc for
3874 backup and wiki page copying applications
3875 * Updated the XSLT parser to work with 4Suite 1.0a1
3876 * more infos in cgi tracebacks
3877 * UPDATE.html is a HTML version of MoinMaster:HelpOnUpdating
3879 Unfinished or experimental features:
3880 * user defined forms
3881 * XML export of all data in the wiki
3882 * RST parser (you need to install docutils to use this)
3886 * do not use / display user's email address in public places
3889 * Removed two cross-site scripting vulnerabilities reported by "office"
3892 * Bugfix for PageList when no arguments are given
3893 * Disallow full-text searches with too short search terms
3894 * [ 566094 ] TitleIndex now supports grouping by Hangul Syllables
3895 * fix for multibyte first char in TitleIndex
3896 * Footnotes were not HTML escaped
3897 * Numbered code displays are now in a table so that you can cut the
3898 code w/o the numbers
3899 * Bugfix for wrong mail notifications
3900 * Create unique anchors for repeated titles
3901 * [ 522246 ] Transparently recode localized messages
3902 * [ 685003 ] Using "preview" button when editing can lose data
3903 * use gmtime() for time handling
3904 * fixed negative gmtime() arguments
3905 * [[Include]] accepts relative page names
3906 * fixed ||NotInterWiki:||...||
3908 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3909 Version 1.0 (2002-05-10, Revision 1.159)
3911 THIS IS THE LAST RELEASE WITH PYTHON 1.5.2 SUPPORT! If severe bugs
3912 should occur, a maintenance release will fix them.
3914 Some optional features (like statistics) already require Python 2.0.
3917 * security fix: "allow_xslt" has to be set to 1 in order to enable
3918 XSLT processing; note that this defaults to 0 because XSLT is able
3919 to insert arbitrary HTML into a wiki
3920 * "action=content" for transclusion into static web pages; emits the
3921 pure page content, without any <html>, <head>, or <body> tags
3922 * "?action=links&mimetype=text/plain" works like MeatBall:LinkDatabase
3923 * "Preferred language" and "Quick links" user settings
3924 * Added "processor" concept, processors work on the data in "code
3925 displays" and are called by a bangpath in the first line of data
3926 * Processors: Colorize, CSV (see HelpOnProcessors)
3927 * New icons: "{OK}", "(./)", "{X}", "{i}", "{1}", "{2}" and "{}"
3929 * FullSearch now displays context information for search hits
3930 * DeletePage offers a textentry field for an optional comment
3931 * Email notifications are sent in the user's language, if known from
3933 * @PAGE@ is substituted by the name of the current page (useful
3936 Unfinished features:
3937 * user defined forms
3938 * XML export of all data in the wiki
3939 * RST parser (you need to install docutils to use this)
3943 * Syntax warning with Python 2.2 fixed
3944 * Macro-generated pagelinks are no longer added to the list of links
3945 * error codes returned by "diff" are reported
3946 * fix for attachments on pages with non-USASCII names
3947 * correct handling of spaces in attachment filenames and URLs
3949 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3950 Version 0.11 (2002-03-11, Revision 1.151)
3952 Most important new features: file attachments, definition list markup
3953 (glossaries), change notification via email, variable substitution when
3954 saving pages, edit preview, and improved documentation.
3956 Note that the RSS features require a recent PyXML (CVS or 0.7) due to
3957 bugs in the namespace handling of xml.sax.saxutils in earlier versions.
3958 This is (hopefully) automatically detected on every installation.
3960 Statistical features are NOT designed to work with Python 1.5.2 and
3961 require Python 2.0 or higher. Overall, MoinMoin 0.11 is not explicitely
3962 tested for 1.5.2 compatibility.
3965 * XML formatting now (most often) produces well-formed, and, depending
3966 on proper layout of the wiki page, valid StyleBook XML
3967 * Headers are now automatically numbered, unless you set the config
3968 item 'show_section_numbers' to 0
3969 * "#pragma section-numbers off" (or "0") switches that off explicitely,
3970 and "on" or "1" enables numbering
3971 * Added a "contributions" directory for 3rd party extensions
3972 * AttachFile action, contributed by Ken Sugino; note that you have
3973 to enable this action because of the possibility of DoS attacks
3974 (malicious uploads), by adding this to your moin_config:
3975 allowed_actions = ['AttachFile']
3976 * "attachment:" URL scheme allows access to attachments, to get files
3977 from other pages use "attachment:WikiName/filename.ext".
3978 * New macros: Date(unixtimestamp) and DateTime(unixtimestamp) to
3979 display a timestamp according to system/user settings
3980 * Variable substitution when a page is saved, note that saving
3981 template pages does NOT expand variables. Supported are:
3982 @DATE@ Current date in the system's format
3983 @TIME@ Current date and time in the user's format
3984 @USERNAME@ Just the user's name (or his domain/IP)
3985 @USER@ Signature "-- loginname"
3986 @SIG@ Dated Signature "-- loginname date time"
3987 @MAILTO@ A fancy mailto: link with the user's data
3988 * Copied some new emoticons from PikiePikie
3989 || {{{ :-? }}} || :-? || tongue.gif ||
3990 || {{{ :\ }}} || :\ || ohwell.gif ||
3991 || {{{ >:> }}} || >:> || devil.gif ||
3992 || {{{ %) }}} || %) || eyes.gif ||
3993 || {{{ @) }}} || @) || eek.gif ||
3994 || {{{ |) }}} || |) || tired.gif ||
3995 || {{{ ;)) }}} || ;)) || lol.gif ||
3996 * AbandonedPages macro
3997 * Added definition list markup: {{{<whitespace>term:: definition}}}
3998 * Added email notification features contributed by Daniel Sa� * SystemInfo: show "Entries in edit log"
3999 * Added "RSS" icon to RecentChanges macro and code to generate a
4000 RecentChanges RSS channel, see
4001 http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?UnifiedRecentChanges
4003 * Added config.sitename and config.interwikiname parameter
4004 * Better WikiFarm support:
4005 * <datadir>/plugin/macro and <datadir>/plugin/action can be used
4006 to store macros and actions local to a specific wiki instance
4007 * config.shared_intermap can contain a pathname to a shared
4008 "intermap.txt" file (i.e. one stored outside the datadir)
4009 * added `backtick` shortcut for {{{inline literal}}} (has to be
4010 enabled by "backtick_meta=1" in the config file); note that ``
4011 is then a shorter replacement for '''''' escaping
4012 * added inline search fields (at the bottom of each page)
4013 * Added preview to the editor, including spell checking
4014 * New languages: Chinese (Changzhe Han) and Portuguese (Jorge
4015 Godoy), updated French (Lucas Bruand), added Korean (Hye-Shik
4016 Chang) and Italian (Lele Gaifax)
4017 * New SystemAdmin macro
4018 * `[[Anchor(anchorname)]]` macro to insert anchors into a page,
4019 and [#anchorname Anchor Links].
4020 * User option to open editor view via a double-click
4021 * Added commentary field to editor, recent changes and page info
4022 * Page trails (user option)
4023 * UserPreferences: checkboxes for double-click edit, page trail,
4024 fancy links, emoticons, jump to last page visited, and some
4025 other yes/no options
4026 * "config.nonexist_qm" is now the default for a user setting
4027 * `[[GetText(text)]]` macro loads I18N texts (mainly intended
4028 for use on Help pages)
4029 * table attributes via "||<attrlist> ... ||", more details on
4030 http://purl.net/wiki/moin/HelpOnTables
4031 * PythonFaq interwiki tag and support for $PAGE placeholder
4032 * event logging, as the basis for future statistics
4033 * "moin-dump" command line tool to create a static copy of
4035 * "config.external_diff" allows to set an exact path to the
4036 command, or change the name to for example "gdiff" if GNU
4037 diff is not a native command in your UNIX flavour
4038 * `[[PageSize]]` macro
4039 * the interwiki name "Self" now always points to the own wiki
4040 * config.title1 and config.title2 are inserted into the output
4041 right before and after the system title html code (title1
4042 is right after the <body> tag and normally undefined, title2
4043 defaults to the "<hr>" above the page contents)
4044 * Additional link on diff pages to ignore whitespace changes
4045 * Subpages (config.allow_subpages, config.page_icons_up)
4046 * super^script^, sub,,script,, and __underline__ markup
4047 * `[[FootNote]]` macro
4048 * many other new config options, see HelpOnConfiguration for
4050 * [[StatsChart(type)]] shows statistical charts (currently
4051 defined types: hitcounts, pagesize, useragents)
4052 * 'inline:' scheme works like 'attachment:', but tries to
4053 inline the content of the attachment into the page;
4054 currently knows about "*.py" sources and colorizes them
4055 * support for Java applet "TWikiDrawPlugin" via
4056 drawing:<drawingname> URL scheme (you need to activate
4057 the AttachFile action if you want drawings)
4058 * numeric entities (&#nnnnn;) are now optionally NOT escaped,
4059 which allows you to insert more characters into a Latin-1
4060 page, especially the Euro symbol
4061 * navi_bar is now a list of page names which should be linked
4063 * test.cgi is now rolled into moin.cgi, and can be called
4064 by adding "?test" to the wiki base URL. Also, as a security
4065 feature, the server's environment is only shown for requests
4066 local to the web server.
4068 Unfinished features:
4069 * user defined forms
4070 * XML export of all data in the wiki
4073 * extended the online help ("Help*" pages)
4074 * German help pages (thanks to Thomas Waldmann)
4077 * #425857: python Parser bug on the second call
4078 * #424917: Caching control
4079 * #465499: Two HTTPS problems
4080 * #491155: FrontPage hardcoded
4081 * Handling of inbound UTF-8 encoded URIs (only with Python >= 2.0)
4082 * Fix for subtle changes in "re" of Python 2.2
4083 * User-provided URLs are now never URL-escaped, which allows appending
4084 #anchors and using %20 for spaces in InterWiki links
4086 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4087 Version 0.10 (2001-10-28, Revision 1.134)
4089 This version is still Python 1.5.2 compatible, but it's not extensively
4090 tested for that version and some parts of the system might not work
4091 there, especially seldom used macros and actions. Bug reports welcome!
4094 * "#deprecated" processing instruction
4095 * config entry "SecurityPolicy" to allow for customized permissions
4096 (see "security.py" for more)
4097 * added distutils support
4098 * though not extensively tested, the standalone server now does POST
4099 requests, i.e. you can save pages; there are still problems with
4100 persistent global variables! It only works for Python >= 2.0.
4101 * "bang_meta" config variable and "!NotWikiWord" markup
4102 * "url_mappings" config variable to dynamically change URL prefixes
4103 (especially useful in intranets, when whole trees of externally
4104 hosted documents move around)
4105 * setting "mail_smarthost" and "mail_from" activates mailing
4106 features (sending login data on the UserPreferences page)
4107 * very useful for intranet developer wikis, a means to view pydoc
4108 documentation, formatted via a XSLT stylesheet, for details see
4109 http://purl.net/wiki/python/TeudViewer?module=MoinMoin.macro.TeudView
4110 or MoinMoin/macro/TeudView.py
4111 * "LocalSiteMap" action by Steve Howell <showell@zipcon.com>
4112 * Added FOLDOC to intermap.txt
4115 * Full config defaults, import MoinMoin now works w/o moin_config.py
4116 * Better control over permissions with config.umask
4117 * Bugfix for a UNIX time billenium bug (affecting RecentChanges
4118 sorting and page diffs)
4119 * data paths with directory names containing dots caused problems
4121 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4122 Version 0.9 (2001-05-07)
4125 * XML page input (pages that start with "<?xml") and XSLT formatting
4126 * Page caching, for now limited to XSLT processing (where it's
4127 absolutely needed); new code & API to add the "RefreshCache" link
4128 * Selection of common date/time formats in UserPreferences
4129 * New action "titleindex" to support wiki introspection (MetaWiki);
4130 see the new links below the index bar in "TitleIndex"
4131 * UserPreferences: editable CSS URL for personal styles
4132 * PageInfo: the editor's name or IP is shown for each change
4133 * WantedPages: a new macro that lists links to non-existent pages
4134 * OrphanedPages: a new macro that lists pages no other page links to
4135 * Extensions to the FullSearch macro (see HelpOnMacros)
4136 * Python syntax highlighting
4137 * "DeletePage" action (has to be activated, see MoinMoinFaq)
4138 * "Remove trailing whitespace from each line" option in the editor
4139 * I18N (currently German and Swedish)
4140 * Config option "url_schemas" to extend the supported URL types
4141 * Improved tracebacks by using Ka-Ping's "cgitb"
4144 * The editor now sends a "no-cache" HTTP header
4145 * "PageList" results are now sorted
4146 * New config parameter "html_head_queries": send additional header
4147 for all pages EXCEPT the "normal" view; main usage is to have
4148 only the normal pages indexed by a spider, not the edit, print,
4149 etc. views (which cause multiple hits on the same information)
4150 * Store the modification time of the page file in the editlog, not
4151 the current time when the log entry is created
4153 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4154 Version 0.8 (2001-01-23)
4157 * Page templates (create a new page using a template page, by Richard)
4158 * Pluggable actions (by Richard)
4159 * Added "diff since bookmark"
4160 * Only "normal" URLs (outside of brackets) are converted to inline images
4161 * Show number of backups in SystemInfo macro
4162 * Show info on installed extension macros and actions
4163 * New macro: [[BR]] for line breaks
4164 * New action "LikePages" (again, Richard)
4165 * Highlighting of search results, and of bad words when spellchecking
4166 * Support for "file:" URLS
4167 * "SpellCheck" action (Richard, me, and Christian)
4168 * [[Include]] macro (you guessed it, Richard)
4171 * Update bookmark with load time, not click time
4172 * Changed CSS styles to better suit Netscape's broken handling of CSS
4174 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4175 Version 0.7 (2000-12-06)
4178 * RecentChanges bookmarking
4182 * Non-greedy extended WikiNames
4184 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4185 Version 0.6 (2000-12-04)
4188 * [[UserPreferences]] macro and associated functions
4189 * [[TableOfContents]] macro
4190 * Mechanism for external macros (user extensions)
4191 * Numbered list types and start offsets
4194 * Search dialogs did not work on the FrontPage
4195 * Add newline to text if last line has none (better diffs)
4197 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4198 Version 0.5 (2000-11-17)
4201 * Major refactoring: code is now broken up into modules within the
4203 * Diagnosis of installation via a "test.cgi" script
4205 * "#format" processing instruction
4207 * [[RandomPage]] and [[RandomPage(number)]] macro
4208 * configurable footer ("page_footer1" and "page_footer2")
4209 * "#redirect" processing instruction
4212 * Bugfix for broken CGI environment of IIS/4.0
4213 * URLs and InterWiki links are now less greedy (punctuation at the end
4214 is excluded, and "<" ends them, too)
4216 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4217 Version 0.4 (2000-11-01)
4220 * Table markup "||a||b||c||"
4221 * Headlines "= H1 =", "== H2 ==", and so on up to H5
4222 * [[PageCount]] macro
4223 * Added [[Icon(image)]] macro and macro arguments
4224 * [[PageList(title-regex)]] macro
4225 * New help system (set of help pages describing all features)
4228 * Create complete URL for "Clear message" link
4229 * Inline code spans needed cgi.escape
4230 * Better fix for Python 1.6 "re" problems
4231 * Fix for uppercase extensions in inline images ("foo.JPG")
4232 * Fixed colspan in RecentChanges
4233 * HR size is now limited to 8
4234 * "}" ends an URL pattern (fixes URLs right at the end of code displays)
4236 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4237 Version 0.3 (2000-10-25)
4240 * Check for inline images with InterWiki links (Spam:eggs.gif)
4241 * New config variable "allow_extended_names", which enables markup for
4242 wiki names containing ANY character like this: ["any chars"]
4243 * New config variable "html_head"
4244 * New macro [[SystemInfo]]
4245 * Added inline code ("{{{" and "}}}" on the same line)
4246 * Support for new config variable "max_macro_size"
4249 * Don't treat sequences with a double colon (CPP::Namespace) as an
4251 * The local part of InterWiki links is now correctly URL-escaped
4252 * Quickfix for a bug in 1.6's regular expressions
4253 * Fixed "SpamSpamSpam" bug (multiple entries in word list)
4254 * Anchor names get quoted in WordIndex and TitleIndex
4255 * Filtering of filenames in page_list() corrected
4256 * Escape &, <, > when sending the editor
4257 * Final(?) fix for japanese wiki names
4259 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4260 Version 0.2 (2000-08-26)
4263 * When saving, a datestamp saved in the form and that of the file are
4264 compared now; so, accidently saving over changes of other people is
4265 not possible anymore (saving still needs file locking though, for
4267 * if the directory "backup" exists in the data dir, pages are saved
4268 there before a new version is written to disk
4269 * Removed the "Reset" button from EditPage
4270 * Added "Reduce editor size" link
4271 * Added Latin-1 WikiNames (JürgenHermann ;)
4272 * Speeded up RecentChanges by looking up hostnames ONCE while saving
4273 * Show at most 14 (distinct) days in RecentChanges
4274 * Added icons for common functions, at the top of the page
4275 * Added a printing preview (no icons, etc.)
4276 * Added bracketed (external) URLs
4277 * Added support for quoted URLs ("http://...")
4278 * Added styles for :visited links to CSS
4279 * Embed image if an URL ends in .gif/.jpg/.png
4280 * No markup detection in code sections
4281 * Grey background for code sections
4282 * Added handling for numbered lists
4283 * the edit textarea now grows in width with the browser window
4284 (thanks to Sebastian Dau�for that idea)
4285 * Added page info (revision history) and viewing of old revisions
4286 * Added page diff, and diff links on page info
4287 * Added InterWiki support (use "wiki:WikiServer/theirlocalname"; the list
4288 of WikiServers is read from "data/intermap.txt")
4289 * Added "normal" InterWiki links
4290 * Added "action=raw" to send the raw wiki markup as text/plain (e.g. for
4291 backup purposes via wget)
4294 * Removed an exception when saving empty pages
4295 * Fixed bold nested into emphasis ('''''Bold''' Italic'')
4297 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4298 Version 0.1 (2000-07-29)
4300 Improvements over PikiPiki 1.62:
4301 * Moved configuration to "moin_config.py"
4302 * Added "edit_rows" setting
4303 * Added navigation bar
4304 * Improved HTML formatting
4305 * Added timing comment (page created in xx secs)
4306 * ISO date and time formats by default
4307 * Formatted RecentChanges with HTML tables
4308 * Uppercase letters for the index pages
4309 * Added PythonPowered logo
4312 * Javadoc comments now get formatted properly in {{{ }}} sections
4313 * Remove \r from submitted pages (so we get PORTABLE wiki files)
4314 * chmod(0666) eases manual changes to the data dir
4316 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------