1 MoinMoin Version History
2 ========================
4 Please note: Starting from the MoinMoin version you used previously, you
5 should read all more recent entries (or at least everything marked with HINT).
8 already better than the previous stable release. Our release policy is not
9 trying to make a "perfect release" (as that release might NEVER get released),
10 but to make progress and don't delay releases too much.
14 * The GUI WYSIWYG editor has still some issues and limitations.
15 If you can't live with those, you can simply switch it off by using:
17 editor_default = 'text' # internal default, just for completeness
22 * Xapian indexing / indexing filters:
23 * fix deadlocks with well- and misbehaving external filters
24 * work around indexing run crashing when encountering encoding problems
25 with non-ascii filenames
26 * OpenOffice/OpenDocument filters: catch UnicodeDecodeErrors (happens
27 with password protected files)
28 * i18n: check if languages is not initialized yet, don't crash
29 * http_redirect: use 301 redirect for some cases
30 * do not use httponly session cookies, makes trouble with twikidraw and ACLs
31 * GetText2 macro: fix for named placeholder
32 * Fix SHA -> SSHA password hash upgrade for old user profiles.
33 * abort RenamePage if renaming of main page fails (do not try to rename
37 * search: improve search result ordering
38 * SubscribeUser action: username regexes, support unsubscribing
39 * add MS Powerpoint indexing filter (needs catppt from catdoc package)
40 * migration scripts: make finding damaged edit-log entries easier
45 * Attachment links: fix processing of attributes (e.g. 'target', 'title')
46 * Upgrade FCKeditor from 2.6.4 to 2.6.4.1.
47 * PDF embedding: fix html, works better with PDF browser plugins now.
48 * Fix typo in rightsidebar CSS.
49 * Action revert: avoids reverting to a deleted current revision.
50 * Action diff: enable prev/next button only in the range of given revisions.
51 * Add a Auto-Submitted: auto-generated header to generated mails.
52 * Include comment in email notifies.
53 * mailimport: fix endless looping while trying to import a forwarded mail.
54 * fuid: keep same fake_mtime for intervals of max_staleness duration.
55 * Fixes a bug with empty list items in the GUI editor.
56 * Improve filesys.rename compatibility code (win32).
57 * Fix locking for CacheEntry.
58 * Xapian indexing: catch exception when a bad zip file is encountered.
59 * openidrp / botbouncer: fix param count for CancelLogin().
62 * Added CAS authentication.
63 * Added httponly cookie support and use it for session cookie.
66 * HTTP auth: added debug logging.
67 * Minor LDAP auth improvements.
68 * Data browser widget:
69 * Add (h)column<idx> css class to make it styleable.
70 * Include only necessary autofilter options.
71 * moin maint cleancache purges now drafts, too.
72 * Add gopher and apt protocols to url_schemas.
73 * Add .csv, .flv, .swf to MIMETYPES_MORE.
78 * ACL security: fix bug in hierarchical ACL processing, more restrictive
79 sub page ACLs did not work if the current user name did not give a match
80 within the sub page ACL (instead, the less restrictive parent page ACL
82 Non-hierarchical ACL processing (the default) is NOT affected.
83 * Creole parser: fix spaces in multiline elements.
84 * Use msie.css only for Internet Explorer older than version 8, fixes
85 e.g. the double rendering of link icons.
86 * http auth: do auth_type comparisons case-insensitively (spec-compliant)
89 * EmbedObject macro: changed default width value for PDF files to 100%
90 (use a recent Adobe Reader to make this work).
91 * CopyPage action: added a TextCha for it
94 * Creole parser: Add second license: BSD
98 * AttachFile XSS fixes: move escaping to error_msg / upload_form
99 * AttachFile move: add more escaping (maybe not XSS exploitable though)
100 * email attachments import with xapian indexing enabled: fix AttributeError
101 * fix wrong links in attachment notifications
102 * AttachFile do=view: quote filename and pagename params for EmbedObject
104 * AttachFile: fix exception when someone just clicks on upload, without
106 * ldap_login: use None as default value for ssl certs/keys (using '' for
107 the pathes lets it fail with Connect Error)
108 * release edit lock if someone saves an unchanged page
109 * fix sendmail.encodeAddress (do not [QP] encode blanks, do not un-
110 necessarily use [QP] encoding for pure ascii mail addresses)
111 * Fixed docs bug: see HINT about secrets configuration at version 1.8.0
112 (1.8.0 Other changes).
113 * backup action: add 'self' dummy argument for backup_exclude function
114 * login action: fix formatting of error messages
115 * unsubscribe action: add msg types so icons get displayed
116 * fix quoting for pagehits stats (info action) - was not working for pagenames with blanks
120 * added modernized_cms theme
121 * use url_prefix_fckeditor if you don't want to use the builtin FCKeditor
122 of moin, but a separate one at some specific url
123 * action.Load: added textcha feature
124 * add mumble protocol (nice and good quality F/OSS VOIP conference chat sw)
125 * ldap auth: new name_callback param to create a custom wiki username (not
126 the ldap login username).
129 * add compatibility code for set to xapwrap.index (fix py 2.6 warnings)
130 * wikiutil: MIMETYPES_MORE extended for .md5 as text/plain
135 * Fix AttachFile and antispam XSS issues.
136 * Modernized, modern and rightsidebar themes: make nonexistent or
137 badinterwiki links gray also when they are already visited.
138 * Fix anchor parsing for interwiki links and #redirect processing
140 * user.apply_recovery_token: key must be of type string (for Python 2.6).
142 * Fix autofilter javascript breakage caused by including a databrowser
144 * Use per-wiki i18n cache (fixes wrong links to other farm wikis).
145 * Made cfg.interwikiname and cfg.user_homewiki unicode objects (str only
146 worked for ascii names).
147 * Xapian search: fixed historysearch.
148 * Xapian search indexing:
149 * Fix index updating for trivial changes.
150 * With history search enabled and in update mode, do not try to re-index
151 old page revisions again.
152 * With history search enabled, index page attachments only once.
153 * Fix last modified time of xapian index (shown on SystemInfo page).
154 * Make logging handlers defined in logging.handlers work (e.g.
155 class=handlers.RotatingFileHandler)
156 * Jabber notifications:
157 * Use an RFC compliant message type.
158 * Fix user creation notifications.
159 * OpenID: Compatibility fix for python-openid 2.x.x (also works with
160 1.x.x), fixes crash when trying to associate moin user to OpenID.
161 * Have a wikiserverconfig.py in wiki/server/ so setup.py copies it.
162 * Fixed inconsistent handling of fragments / anchor IDs:
163 * Fixed creole and wiki parser, other parsers might need similar fixes.
164 * IDs with blanks, non-ASCII chars etc. are now sanitized in the same way
165 for links as well as for link targets, so the user editing a page won't
166 have to bother with it.
167 E.g. [[#123 foo bar]] will link to:
168 * <<Anchor(123 foo bar)>> (moin) or {{#123 foo bar}} (creole)
169 * headline = 123 foo bar = (moin / creole)
170 Simple rule: if the link and the target are consistent, it should work.
171 * The creole wiki parser created non-human-readable sha1 heading IDs
172 before 1.8.2, now it creates same (sometimes readable) heading IDs as
173 the moin wiki parser.
174 * TitleIndex/WordIndex now also use IDs sanitized in that way internally.
175 HINT: if you manually worked around the inconsistencies/bugs before, you
176 likely have to remove those workarounds now. Same thing if you used
177 creole's sha1 heading IDs or IDs on TitleIndex/WordIndex.
180 * Updated FCKeditor to 2.6.4 (== many bug fixes in the GUI editor).
181 * Enhanced privacy by a new setting: cfg.log_remote_addr (default: True),
182 it controls whether moin logs the remote's IP/hostname to edit-log and
183 event-log. Use log_remote_addr = False to enhance privacy.
184 * Streamline attachment_drawing formatter behaviour.
185 * Search results: only redirect to a single search result for titlesearch
186 (fuzzy goto functionality), but not for fulltext search results.
191 * Workaround win32 locking problems (caused by spurious access denied
192 exceptions on that platform).
193 * Fix unicode errors that happened when password checker failed a password
194 * WikiConfig/WikiConfigHelp: fixed wrong language table headings
195 * Themes: make the margins around trail line work properly
196 * "modernized" theme:
197 * make broken links gray
198 * add new right/center/left/justify css classes
200 * Standalone server: be more specific when catching socket exceptions,
201 treat socket errors in http header emission in the same way.
203 * Fix heading levels when inserting new headings.
204 * Fix headers already sent exception when using e.g. edit LOCKing.
205 * Xapian indexing: fixed missing import for execfilter (only happened on
206 non-posix platforms like win32)
210 * Make the TOC shrinkwrap, add white background to navigation macro.
211 The table of contents looked bad spanning the whole width of the page.
212 It's made to shrinkwrap now, so it will only get as wide, as the longest
213 heading. We use display:inline-table, so this won't work in MS IE6,
214 which still displays it the old way.
215 Navigation macro now has a white background, to make it more readable
216 when it's floating over a pre block or TOC.
217 * Make the numbers in lists in table of contents right-aligned.
218 * Refactored and extended theme.html_stylesheets() to make alternate
219 stylesheets possible. Stylesheet definitions now can either be:
220 2-tuples: (media, href) # backwards compatibility
222 3-tuples: (media, href, title) # new, for defining alternate stylesheets
223 This works within themes as well as in the wiki config.
224 See also: http://www.w3.org/Style/Examples/007/alternatives.html
228 Note: This is a reduced CHANGES, ommitting details from rc/beta test and
229 also less interesting minor changes and fixes. It shows changes
230 relative to 1.7.2 release.
231 If you want to see full detail, read it there:
232 http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/1.8/file/6130eab15936/docs/CHANGES
234 New Features: ==============================================================
235 * HINT: New "modernized" theme - if you use "modern" [default], try:
236 theme_default = 'modernized'
237 If you find problems with "modernized", please report them because we
238 want to use it as default theme in future.
240 * upgraded to use FCKEditor version 2.6.3
241 * user can insert and modify various types of MoinMoin links
242 * New plugin_dirs setting to allow multiple plugin pathes (additional to
243 the automatically configured plugin_dir [default: data_dir/plugin]).
244 * @EMAIL@ expands to a MailTo macro call with the obfuscated email address
246 * New macros "WikiConfig" and "WikiConfigHelp".
247 * Per-parser quickhelp, 'quickhelp' class variable of parser class.
248 * Secure session cookies for https (see cfg.cookie_secure).
249 * Added left/center/right/justify css classes to builtin themes.
252 this content is justified....
255 Removed Features: ==========================================================
256 * HINT: url_prefix setting (use url_prefix_static or just use the default)
257 * traceback_log_dir setting (we just use logging.exception)
258 * editor_quickhelp setting (replaced by per-parser quickhelp)
259 * Restoring backups with the backup action and related settings (while
260 creating backups is no big issue and should work OK, restoring them
261 had fundamental issues related to overwriting or not-overwriting of
262 existing files - thus we removed the "restore" part of the action and
263 recommend that you just contact the wiki server admin in case of trouble,
264 give him your wiki backup file and let him carefully restore it.)
265 * Removed unmaintained DesktopEdition (moin 1.5.x style) and phpwiki
266 migration scripts from contrib/ directory.
268 Bug Fixes: =================================================================
269 * GUI Editor - fixed lots of bugs.
270 * Fixing https detection for servers using HTTPS=1 and also for WSGI
271 servers not using HTTPS/SSL_ environment, but just wsgi.url_scheme.
272 * Search results: link to 'view' rendering of found attachments.
273 * Standalone server: fix serverClass and interface argument processing,
274 announce used serverClass in log output.
275 * mointwisted: fixed Twisted start script.
277 * Use logging framework for messages emitted by warnings module (e.g.
278 DeprecationWarning), silence some specific warnings.
279 * Removed superfluous linefeeds in timing log output.
281 * Fixed editbar hidden comment link cosmetics for sidebar themes (hide the
282 complete list element).
284 action, if the wiki does not run in the root url of the site)
285 * Fixed backup action configuration (broke on win32).
287 * SyncPages: add workaround for callers calling log_status with encoded
289 * Fixed dbw_hide_buttons javascript.
290 * HINT: Jabber bot can now be configured to use an authentication realm
291 which is different from the server's hostname; the xmpp_node
292 configuration parameter can now contain a full JID and the xmpp_resource
293 parameter is no longer supported.
295 Other Changes: =============================================================
296 * HINT: new configuration for misc. secrets, please use either:
297 secrets = "MySecretLooongString!" # one secret for everything
300 'xmlrpc/ProcessMail': 'yourmailsecret', # for mailimport
301 'xmlrpc/RemoteScript': 'yourremotescriptsecret',
302 'action/cache': 'yourcachesecret', # unguessable cache keys
303 'wikiutil/tickets': 'yourticketsecret', # edit tickets
304 'jabberbot': 'yourjabberbotsecret', # jabberbot communication
306 Secret strings must be at least 10 chars long.
307 Note: mail_import_secret setting is gone, use
308 secrets["xmlrpc/ProcessMail"] instead of it.
309 Note: jabberbot secret setting is gone, use
310 secrets["jabberbot"] instead of it.
311 * HINT: user_autocreate setting was removed from wiki configuration and
312 replaced by a autocreate=<boolean> parameter of the auth objects that
313 support user profile auto creation.
314 * moin import irclog: use irssi parser to format logs, mapped .irc
315 extension to text/plain mimetype.
316 * HINT: backup action: backup_exclude (default: "do not exclude anything")
317 is now a function f(filename) that tells whether a file should be
318 excluded from backup.
319 You can get the old regex exclusion functionality by using:
320 backup_exclude = re.compile(your_regex).search
321 Be careful with your regex, you might need to use re.escape() to escape
322 characters that have a special meaning in regexes (e.g.: \.[] etc.).
323 If in doubt, maybe just leave backup_exclude at the default and don't
325 * Speed up javascript comments processing on IE by getElementsByClassName()
326 * Added sk (slovak) i18n, updated i18n.
331 * Secure session cookies for https, see cfg.cookie_secure.
332 * Add left/center/right/justify classes to builtin themes.
335 * Python 2.3 compatibility fixes.
336 * Fixed https detection for servers using HTTPS=1 and also for wsgi servers
337 not using HTTPS/SSL_ environment, but just wsgi.url_scheme.
339 * Fix crash when editing a page with non-ASCII pagename and inserting a link
340 * Fix "headers already sent exception" with edit LOCKs.
341 * i18n.__init__: Bug fix for wiki language not installed.
342 * Fixed URLs given by sitemap action, if the wiki does not run at / URL.
343 * Search results: link to 'view' rendering of found attachments
345 * Removed superfluous linefeed in timing log output.
346 * Use logging framework for messages emitted by warnings module (e.g.
347 DeprecationWarning), silence some specific warnings.
348 * Fix dbw_hide_buttons javascript.
350 * fix serverClass argument processing
351 * fix --interface="" argument processing
353 * added missing pidFile parameter
354 * better use Config.name for pidFile to avoid conflicts and keep same
355 behaviour as in the past
356 * Jabber bot can now be configured to use an authentication realm which
357 is different from the server's hostname
362 * Fix leakage of edit-log file handles (leaked 1 file handle / request!).
364 * Wiki parser: avoid IndexError for empty #! line
365 * MonthCalendar macro: fix parameter parsing / url generation
366 * Xapian indexing filters (MoinMoin/filter/ or data/plugin/filter/):
367 Some indexing filter scripts (e.g. for MS Word documents or PDF files)
368 failed on windows because of the single-quote quoting we used (that
369 works on Linux and other Posix systems). The fix introduces platform-
370 dependant automatic quoting, using double-quotes on win32 and single-
372 HINT: if you use own filter plugins based on execfilter, you have to
373 update them as the filename quoting (was '%s') is now done automatically
374 and must not be part of the command string any more (now just use %s).
375 See MoinMoin/filter/ for some up-to-date code (esp. the PDF filter).
376 * Prevent CategoryTemplate being listed as a category (it is a Template,
377 but matched also the category regex) - added to sample wikiconfig.
378 * LDAP auth: fix processing of TLS options
379 * UpdateGroup xmlrpc server side: fix wrong arg count error
380 * UpdateGroup client: use multicall / auth_token, refactor code so that
381 updateGroup function is reusable.
382 * Improve Python 2.3 compatibility, add notes where 2.4 is required.
387 * New 'cache' action (see developer notes).
390 * Security fix: XSS fix for advanced search form
391 * Avoid creation of new pagedirs with empty edit-log files by just
392 accessing a non-existant page. If you used 1.7 before, you likely have
393 quite some trash pagedirs now and you can clean them up by using:
394 moin --config-dir=... --wiki-url=... maint cleanpage
395 This will output some shell script (please review it before running!)
396 that can be used to move trash pages into some trash/ directory and also
397 moves deleted pages into some deleted/ directory. Maybe keep a copy of
398 those directories for a while just for the case.
399 * Server specific fixes:
400 * standalone (wikiserver.py): fix --pidfile and --group option, fix
401 operation without a wikiserverconfig.py (use builtin defaults).
402 * mod_python: work around mod_python 3.3.1 problems with file uploads.
403 Note: if you are still using mod_python, we strongly recommend you
404 try out mod_wsgi (in daemon mode) - it has less bugs, better
405 security, better separation, WSGI is a Python standard, and moin
406 developers also use WSGI. See HelpOnInstalling/ApacheWithModWSGI.
407 * revert action: fixed for deleted pages.
409 * Xapian indexing: Removed crappy "hostname" tokenization.
411 Also tokenize CamelCase parts of non-wikiwords.
412 * Make query parser reject more invalid input.
413 * If query parsing raises a BracketError, at least tell what the problem
414 is (and not just raise empty ValueError).
415 * Category search: ignore traling whitespace after ----
417 * Fixed sort() usage in UnitArgument to be Python 2.3 compatible.
420 * TableOfContents: skip outer-most <ol> levels when page isn't using
424 * OpenID RP: make it compatible to python-openid 2.2.x
425 * PackagePages.collectpackage: removed encoding from file name of zipfile
426 * Surge protection: exclude localnet no matter whether user is known or not.
428 * Script moin account create/disable/resetpw: checks for already existing
432 * Prevent CategoryTemplate being listed as a category (it is a Template)
433 by changing the default page_category_regex.
436 * New MoinMoin.action.cache - can be used to cache expensively rendered
437 output, e.g. generated images). Once put into the cache, moin can emit
438 a http response for that content very fast and very efficient (including
439 "304 not changed" handling.
440 * New file-like API in MoinMoin.caching (good for dealing with medium
441 to large files without consuming lots of memory).
442 * wikiutil.importPlugin supports getting the whole plugin module object
443 by giving function=None.
447 Note: This is a reduced CHANGES, ommitting details from rc/beta test and
448 also less interesting minor changes and fixes. It shows changes
449 relative to 1.6.3 release.
450 If you want to see full detail, read it there:
451 http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/1.7/file/76265568e8d3/docs/CHANGES
453 New Features: ==============================================================
454 * HINT: we added generic UPDATE instructions as docs/UPDATE.html.
456 * HINT: Standalone server usage changed:
457 * Standalone server can now be started via the "moin" script command,
458 optionally backgrounding itself.
459 See: moin server standalone --help
460 * In the toplevel dir, we have renamed moin.py to wikiserver.py (it was
461 often confused with the moin scripting command).
463 * wikiserver.py - to start the standalone server
464 * wikiserverconfig.py - to configure the standalone server
465 * wikiserverlogging.conf - to configure logging for it (default config
466 is ok for all day use, but can easily be modified for debugging)
467 * wikiconfig.py - to configure the wiki engine
468 * Removed old moin daemonizing script (replaced by moin server standalone
470 * We now provide the "moin" script command also for people not using
471 setup.py, see wiki/server/moin.
474 * New powerful and flexible logging, please see wiki/config/logging/ -
475 HINT: you have to upgrade your server adaptor script (e.g. moin.cgi)
476 and load a logging configuration that fits your needs from there, or
477 alternatively you can also set MOINLOGGINGCONF environment variable
478 to point at your logging config file.
479 If you use some of our sample logging configs, make sure you have a
480 look INTO them to fix e.g. the path of the logfile it will use.
481 * Moin now logs the path from where it loaded its configuration(s).
483 * Authentication / Sessions:
484 * HINT: New authentication plugin system, see HelpOnAuthentication. If
485 you do not use the builtin default for 'auth' list, you likely have to
486 change your configuration. See wiki/config/snippets/ for some samples.
487 * HINT: New session handling system (no moin_session any more, now done
488 internally and automatically), see HelpOnSessions for details.
489 * Added OpenID client and server support.
490 See: HelpOnAuthentication and HelpOnOpenIDProvider.
491 * cfg.trusted_auth_methods is a list of auth methods that put an
492 authenticated user into the "Trusted" ACL group.
494 * User profiles / password recovery / notification:
495 * New newacount action for creating new user accounts/profiles. If you
496 don't want users creating new accounts on their own, you can add this
497 action to actions_excluded list.
498 * New recoverpass action for password recovery:
499 If you forgot your password, recoverpass sends you an email with a
500 password recovery token (NOT the encrypted password) that is valid
502 * New moin account resetpw script for resetting a user's password by
504 * New preferences plugin system, see MoinMoin/userprefs/__init__.py.
505 * New notification system with an optional jabber notification bot, see
506 HelpOnNotification. HINT: wiki users have to check their notification
507 settings, esp. if they want to receive trivial update notifications.
509 * The diff action now has navigation buttons for prev/next change and also
510 a revert button to revert to the revision shown below the diff display.
511 * ThemeBase: support Universal Edit Button, see there for details:
512 http://universaleditbutton.org/
513 * ?action=info&max_count=42 - show the last 42 history entries of the page.
514 max_count has a default of default_count and a upper limit of
515 limit_max_count - you can configure both in your wiki config:
516 cfg.history_count = (100, 200) # (default_count, limit_max_count) default
517 * The CSV parser can sniff the delimiter from the first CSV line so other
518 delimeters than ";" can be used.
519 * Admonition support. Added styling for tip, note, important, warning
520 and caution in the modern theme. For more info see HelpOnAdmonitions.
522 * supports HTML entities like → and ☃
523 * supports the FootNote macro
524 * supports bulletless lists
525 * support for admonitions
526 * will export the wiki page's edit history as the generated article's
527 revision history. Doesn't add history of included pages.
528 * supports for the MoinMoin comment element, though only inline comments
529 are likely to be valid since the DocBook remark is an inline element.
530 * New Hits macro: shows the total hits for the page it is used on.
532 Removed Features: ==========================================================
533 * HINT: Removed attachments direct serving (cfg.attachments - this was
534 deprecated since long!). Use AttachFile action to serve attachments.
535 * Duplicated file attachment upload code was removed from Load action (just
536 use AttachFile action to deal with attachments).
537 * Removed 'test' action. If you like to run unit tests, use py.test.
538 * Removed Login macro.
540 Bug Fixes: =================================================================
541 * Better handling of ImportErrors (farmconfig, macros, wikiserverconfig).
542 * Fix failure of detection of on-disk cache updates.
543 * Fix traceback in filesys.py on Mac OS X when "import Carbon" fails.
545 * AttachFile action / file up- and download / zip support:
546 * WSGI: use wsgi.file_wrapper (or a builtin simple wrapper). Fixes memory
547 consumption for sending of large file attachments.
548 * FastCGI: flush often. Fixes memory consumption for sending of large
550 * Use the open temporary file for receiving file attachment uploads
551 (fixes big memory consumption for large file uploads).
552 * Catch runtime errors raised by zipfile stdlib modules when trying to
553 process a defective zip.
554 * When unzipping member files, decode their filenames from utf-8 and
555 replace invalid chars.
556 * Make error msg less confusing when trying to overwrite a file attachment
557 without having 'delete' rights.
559 * HINT: page_*_regex processing had to be changed to fix category search.
560 If you don't use the builtin (english) defaults, you will have to change
562 old (default): page_category_regex = u'^Category[A-Z]'
563 new (default): page_category_regex = ur'(?P<all>Category(?P<key>\S+))'
564 As you see, the old regex did work for detecting whether a pagename is
565 a category, but it could not be used to search for a category tag in the
566 page text. The new regex can be used for both and identifies the complete
567 category tag (match in group 'all', e.g. "CategoryFoo") as well as the
568 category key (match in group 'key', e.g. "Foo") by using named regex
569 groups. \S+ means the category key can be anything non-blank.
570 If you like to simultaneously support multiple languages, use something
571 like this: ur'(?P<all>(Kategorie|Category)(?P<key>\S+))'
572 HINT: after changing your configuration, please rebuild the cache:
574 * moin ... maint cleancache
576 If you don't do this, your groups / dicts will stop working (and also
577 your ACLs that use those groups). You better do a test whether it works.
579 * Xapian search / indexing / stemming:
580 * Use text/<format> as mimetype for pages.
581 * Index also major and minor for mimetypes, so it will find 'text' or
582 'plain' as well as 'text/plain'
583 * Fix searching for negative terms.
584 * Improve result list ordering.
585 * Index filters: redirect stderr to logging system.
586 * Remove crappy num regex from WikiAnalyzer, improve tokenization.
587 * Fix AttributeError that happened when trying to access an attribute only
588 used with xapian search (but regex search is not done by xapian)
589 * Fix IndexErrors happening when pages are renamed/nuked after the index
591 * Fixed indexing of WikiWords (index "WikiWords", "Wiki" and "Words").
592 * Fix crash if default language is un-stemmable.
593 * xapian_stemming: removed some strange code (fixes search
594 title:lowercaseword with xapian_stemming enabled)
595 * Fixed category indexing (index CategoryFoo correctly as CategoryFoo, not
596 Foo - for all languages, see page_*_regex change above).
597 * Builtin search: support mimetype: search for pages for the builtin search
598 engine (using text/<format>).
601 * Wiki: fix subscript parsing (was broken for cases like 'a,,1,2,,').
602 * Docbook: fixed detection of WikiWords.
603 * All: Add ssh protocol to url_schemas for ssh:... URLs.
606 * Fix xmlrpc request.read() call to use content-length, if available,
607 fixes hangs with wsgiref server.
608 * Wiki xmlrpc getPageInfoVersion() fixed:
609 * works correctly now for old page versions (was unsupported)
610 * works correctly now for current page version (reported wrong
611 data when a page had attachment uploads after the last page
613 * returns a Fault if it did not find a edit-log entry
615 Other Changes: =============================================================
616 * Using better ACLs and comments on system/help pages now, just taking
617 away 'write' permission, but using default ACLs for everything else.
618 * HINT: If you want to use xapian based indexed search, you need to have
619 Xapian >= 1.0.0 (and you can remove PyStemmer in case you have installed
620 it just for moin - we now use the stemmer built into Xapian as it
621 supports utf-8 since 1.0.0).
622 * Changed default value of cfg.search_results_per_page to 25.
623 * Surge Protection: If a user is authenticated by a trusted authentication
624 (see also cfg.auth_methods_trusted) then he/she won't trigger surge
625 protection, but moin will just log a INFO level log msg with the user's
626 name so you can find the culprit in case he/she is overusing ressources.
627 * HINT: Added MyPages and CopyPage to actions_excluded because MyPages
628 doesn't work without special SecurityPolicy anyway and CopyPage has
629 questionable behaviour.
630 * Load action now just creates a new revision of the target page, the
631 target pagename defaults to the current page name and can be edited.
632 If the target pagename is empty, moin tries to derive the target pagename
633 from the uploaded file's name.
634 Load tries to decode the file contents first using utf-8 coding and, if
635 that fails, it forces decoding using iso-8859-1 coding (and replacing
637 * HINT: cfg.show_login is gone, see code in theme/__init__.py, this may
639 * HINT: a new userprefs/ plugin directory will be created by the usual
640 "moin migration data" command.
642 * generates a valid DOCTYPE
643 * table support has been improved
644 * handling of definitions and glossaries is more robust
645 * supports program language and line numbering in code areas
646 * HINT: ldap_login behaves a bit different now:
647 In previous moin versions, ldap_login tended to either successfully
648 authenticate a user or to completely cancel the whole login process in
649 any other case (including ldap server down or exceptions happening).
650 This made subsequent auth list entries rather pointless.
651 Now it behaves like this:
652 * user not found in LDAP -> give subsequent auth list entries a
653 chance to authenticate the user (same happens if it finds multiple
654 LDAP entries when searching - it logs an additional warning then).
655 * user found, but wrong password -> cancel login
656 * ldap server not reachable or other exceptions -> give subsequent
657 auth list entries a chance
658 So please make sure that you really trust every auth list entry you have
659 configured when upgrading or it might maybe change behaviour in a
660 unexpected or unwanted way.
661 * ldap_login now supports failover: if it can't contact your LDAP server
662 (e.g. because it is down or unreachable), it will just continue and
663 try to authenticate with other authenticators (if there are any in
664 cfg.auth list). So if you have some mirroring LDAP backup server, just
665 put another authenticator querying it there:
666 ldap_auth1 = LDAPAuth(server_uri='ldap://mainserver', ...)
667 ldap_auth2 = LDAPAuth(server_uri='ldap://backupserver', ...)
668 auth = [ldap_auth1, ldap_auth2, ]
670 Developer notes: ===========================================================
671 * Page.last_edit() is DEPRECATED, please use Page.edit_info().
672 * Page._last_edited() is GONE (was broken anyway), please use
673 Page.editlog_entry().
674 * New request.send_file() call, making it possible to use server-specific
676 * getText's (aka _()) 'formatted' keyword param (default: True in 1.6 and
677 early 1.7) was renamed/changed: it is now called 'wiki' and defaults to
678 False. Example calls:
679 _('This will NOT get parsed/formatted by MoinMoin!')
680 _('This will be parsed/formatted by MoinMoin!', wiki=True)
681 _('This will be used as a left side of percent operator. %s',
682 wiki=True, percent=True)
683 * Page.url 'relative' keyword param (default: True in 1.6 and early 1.7)
684 was changed to default False).
685 * The themedict no longer contains 'page_user_prefs' and 'user_prefs',
686 this may affect custom themes.
687 * The rst-parser's admonition class names are no longer prepended with
688 "admonition_". Instead the class names are now for example "note"
689 and not "admonition_note".
694 * Security fix: a check in the user form processing was not working as
695 expected, leading to a major ACL and superuser priviledge escalation
696 problem. If you use ACL entries other than "Known:" or "All:" and/or
697 a non-empty superuser list, you need to urgently install this upgrade.
698 * Security fix: if acl_hierarchic=True was used (False is the default),
699 ACL processing was wrong for some cases, see
701 * For {{transclusion_targets}} we checked the protocol to be http(s),
702 this check was removed (because file: and ftp: should work also) and
703 it's not moin's problem if the user uses silly protocols that can't
704 work for that purpose.
705 * Fixed TableOfContents macro for included pages.
706 * server_fastcgi: added Config.port = None. If you want to use some port
707 (not a fd), you can set it now in your Config, e.g. port = 8888.
708 * category: search matches categories even if there are comment lines
709 between the horizontal rule and the real categories, e.g.:
710 ... some page text ...
712 ## optionally some comments, e.g. about possible categories:
713 ## CategoryJustACommentNotFound
714 CategoryTheRealAndOnly
716 Note: there might be multiple comment lines, but all real categories
717 must be on a single line either directly below the ---- or
718 directly below some comment lines.
721 * Added 'notes' to config.url_schemas, so you can use notes://notessrv/...
722 to invoke your Lotus Notes client.
723 * After creating a new user profile via UserPreferences, you are logged
724 in with that user (no need to immediately enter the same name/password
725 again for logging in).
730 * Security fix: check the ACL of the included page for the rst parser's
732 * Potential security/DOS fix: we removed cracklib / python-crack support
733 in password_checker as it is not thread-safe and caused segmentation
734 faults (leading to server error 500 because the moin process died).
735 * Fix moin_session code for auth methods other than moin_login (e.g. http).
736 If you have worked around this using moin_anon_session, you can remove
737 this workaround now (except if you want anon sessions for other reasons).
738 * Fix moin_session code to delete invalid session cookies and also create
739 a new session cookie if it got a valid user_obj at the same time.
740 * Fix xmlrpc applyAuthToken: give good error msg for empty token.
741 * Fixed category search, use category:CategoryFoo as search term.
742 * xapian_stemming = False (changed default) to workaround some problems
743 in the code enabled by it. Fixes the problems when searching for
744 lowercase or numeric titles or word fragments with the builtin search.
745 * Fix trail for anon users without a session, do not show a single page.
747 * Wiki parser: fixed strange insertion of unwanted paragraphs.
748 * Wiki parser: fix interwiki linking:
749 Free interwiki links did not change since 1.5 (they still require to match
750 [A-Z][A-Za-z]+ for the wikiname part, i.e. a ASCII word beginning with an
752 Bracketed interwiki links now behave similar to how they worked in 1.5:
753 Moin just splits off the part left of the colon - no matter how it looks
754 like. It then tries to find that in the interwiki map. If it is found,
755 a interwiki link gets rendered. If it is not found, moin will render a
756 link to a local wiki page (that has a colon in the pagename). It will
757 also render a local wiki page link if there is no colon at all, of course.
759 [[lowercasewikiname:somepage]] does an interwiki link (if in the map).
760 [[ABC:n]] does a local link to page ABC:n (if ABC is NOT in the map).
761 * Wiki parser: fix interwiki linking for the case that there are query args
762 in the interwiki map entry and you give additional query args via link
763 markup (uses correct query arg separator now), e.g.:
764 [[Google:searchterm|search this|&foo=bar]]
765 * Creole parser: fixed bug that prevents images inside links.
766 * Python parser: catch indentation error.
767 * PageEditor: fixed copyPage for write restricted pages.
768 * GUI editor: fixed javascript error with too complex word_rule regex,
770 * Fixed FCKeditor dialog boxes for FireFox3.
771 * NewPage macro/newpage action: fixed for non-ascii template pagenames.
773 * EmbedObject macro: bug fix for image mimetype
775 * fix TWikiDraw saving a drawing by also evaluating the query args.
776 * work around unpythonic WSGI 1.0 read() API, fixing broken xmlrpc
777 putPage with mod_wsgi
779 * Fix logfile code for EACCESS errors.
780 * Removed the "logging initialized" log messages because it was issued once
784 * Show "Comments" toggling link in edit bar only if the page really
786 * Made default configuration of surge protection a bit more forgiving,
787 especially for edit action which is currently also used for previews.
788 * Updated i18n, system/help pages, added Macedonian system text translation.
789 * Improved moin xmlrpc write command's builtin docs and auto-append
790 ?action=xmlrpc2 to the target wiki url given.
795 * Improved params for [[target|label|params]]:
796 Added accesskey link tag attribute, e.g.: [[target|label|accesskey=1]].
797 Additionally to specifying link tag attributes (like class=foo), you can
798 now also specify &key=value for getting that into the query string of
800 The "&" character is important, don't forget it or it won't get into the
802 E.g. for an attachment, you can use:
803 [[attachment:foo.pdf|Direct download of foo.pdf|&do=get]]
804 E.g. for linking to some specific diff, you can use:
805 [[SomePage|see that diff|&action=diff,&rev1=23,&rev2=42]]
806 See also the updated HelpOnLinking page!
807 * AdvancedSearch: make multipe categories/languages/mimetype selections possible
808 * Added a configuration directive to only do one bind to the LDAP server.
809 This is useful if you bind as the user the first time.
810 ldap_bindonce = False # default
813 * Fix XSS issue in login action.
814 * Fix wrong pagename when creating new pages on Mac OS X - that was a big
815 showstopper for moin 1.6.0 on Mac OS X.
816 * Fixed 1.6 migration script:
817 Make sorting python 2.3 compatible.
818 Just skip corrupted event log lines.
819 Fix link conversion by using data.pre160 as data_dir.
820 Fix bad /InterWiki pagenames when encountering interwiki links with bad
822 Improve ImageLink conversion by using its argument parser code.
823 Added STONEAGE_IMAGELINK (default: False) switch to wiki markup converter,
824 toggle it if you had a very old ImageLink macro in production and the
825 converter output has target and image interchanged.
826 Fixed UnicodeDecodeError for wrongly encoded attachment filenames.
828 Fix parsing of link/transclusion description and params.
829 Fix relative attachment targets.
830 Fix supported URL schemes (some got lost since 1.5.8).
831 Showing an upload link for non-existing non-text/non-image transclusions
832 now (like e.g. *.pdf).
833 * RST parser: fix attachment: and drawing: processing
834 * Fix quickhelp when editing RST markup pages.
835 * Fix Despam action: editor grouping was broken, increase time interval
837 * Fix AdvancedSearch domain:system search crashing.
838 * Only switch off xapian search if we didn't use it because of missing index.
839 * Fix saving twikidraw drawings by removing 'java' from spider regex.
840 * Fix classic theme's unsubscribe icon's action link.
841 * Fix AttachFile action: don't show unzip for packages, only show install
843 * Fix "su user" troubles on UserPreferences.
844 * Removed unit tests from ?action=test (due to changes in our test
845 environment, using py.test now, this was broken).
846 * Duplicated the top directories' moin.py to wiki/server/moin.py so it gets
847 installed by setup.py.
855 * I18n texts, system and help pages updated, please update your underlay
856 directory (see wiki/underlay/...).
857 * Improved "moin" script help, invoke it with "moin ... package command --help".
858 * Added some .ext -> mimetype mappings missing on some systems (like Mac OS X).
859 * Removed ImageLink macro, as this can be easily done with moin wiki link
860 syntax now - see HelpOnMacros/ImageLink (the 1.6 migration scripts convert
861 all ImageLink calls to moin wiki link syntax).
862 * Updated EmbedObject macro.
866 * This is a reduced CHANGES, ommitting details from rc/beta test and also
867 less interesting minor changes and fixes. If you want to see full detail,
868 read it there: http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/1.6/file/640f21787334/docs/CHANGES
870 It took MoinMoin development a lot of work and time to implement all the new
871 and fixed stuff, so please, before asking for support:
872 * take the time to read all the stuff below
873 * read the new help pages (copy them from wiki/underlay/ directory)
875 * HINT: If you are upgrading from a older moin version and want to keep your
876 existing data directory, it is essential that you read and follow
877 README.migration because the wiki markup and user profiles changed significantly.
878 See also more HINTs below...
880 New features: ==============================================================
882 User interface: ------------------------------------------------------------
883 * Removed "underscore in URL" == "blank in pagename magic" - it made more
884 trouble than it was worth. If you still want to have a _ in URL, just
885 put a _ into pagename.
886 * Discussion pages, see FeatureRequests/DiscussionAndOrCommentPages.
887 * cfg.password_checker (default: use some simple builtin checks for too
888 easy passwords and, if available, python-crack).
889 Use password_checker = None to disable password checking.
890 * We now have a drafts functionality (no */MoinEditorBackup pages any
892 * If you edit a page and cancel the edit, use preview or save, a draft
893 copy gets saved for you to a internal cache area (data/cache/drafts/).
894 * If it is a save what you did and it succeeds, the draft copy gets
895 killed right afterwards.
896 * If you accidentally used cancel or your browser or machine crashes
897 after you used preview, then just visit that page again and edit it.
898 the editor will notify you that there is a draft of this page and you
899 will see a "Load draft" button. Click on it to load the draft into the
900 editor and save the page.
901 * The draft storage is per user and per page, but only one draft per page.
902 * cfg.quicklinks_default and cfg.subscribed_pages_default can be used to
903 preload new user profiles with configurable values.
904 * attachment links for non-existing attachments look different now:
905 the note about the non-existing attachment moved to the link title,
906 the link is shown with nonexistent class (grey).
907 * attachment embeddings for non-existing attachments show a grey clip
908 * The list of InterWiki sites is editable in the wiki (page InterWikiMap),
909 it is getting reloaded every minute.
910 * We support some new languages and also have new underlay pages, thanks
911 to all translators and people helping with the docs!
913 Actions: -------------------------------------------------------------------
914 * Synchronisation of wikis using the SyncPages action.
915 * Xapian (see http://xapian.org/) based indexed search code.
917 * Install xapian-core and xapian-bindings on your machine.
918 We used 0.9.4, but newer code should hopefully work, too.
919 * cfg.xapian_search = True
920 * Execute this to build the index:
921 $ moin ... index build # indexes pages and attachments
922 $ moin ... index build --files=files.lst # same plus a list of files
923 You should run those commands as the same user you use for your wiki,
924 usually this is the webserver userid, e.g.:
925 $ sudo -u www-data moin --config=... --wiki-url=wiki.example.org/ \
926 index build --files=files.lst
928 - LanguageSearch: language:de
929 - CategorySearch: category:Homepage
930 - MimetypeSearch: mimetype:image/png (for attachments/files)
931 - DomainSearch: domain:underlay or domain:standard
932 - History Search: available in advanced ui
933 Note: Some currently only available when Xapian is used.
934 * New config options and their defaults:
935 xapian_search False enables xapian-powered search
936 xapian_index_dir None directory for xapian indices
937 (can be shared for wiki farms)
938 xapian_stemming True toggles usage of stemmer, fallback
939 to False if no stemmer installed
940 search_results_per_page 10 determines how many hits should be
941 shown on a fullsearch action
942 xapian_index_history False indexes all revisions of pages to
943 allow searching in their history
944 * Speeded up linkto search by avoiding read locks on the pagelinks file.
946 * The action menu now calls the actions for the revision of the page you
947 are currently viewing. If you are viewing the current page revision, you
948 get the same behaviour as in moin 1.5, but if you are viewing an old
949 page revision, action "raw" will now show you the raw text of this OLD
950 revision (not of the current revision as moin 1.5 did it).
951 Note that not every action does evaluate the rev=XX parameter it gets.
952 Also please note that the edit, info, ... links in the editbar do NOT
953 use the rev parameter, but operate on the latest page revision (as
954 they did in moin 1.5).
955 * Info action lost the links for "raw", "print" and "revert" actions,
956 because you can now just view an old revision and select those actions
959 * ?action=sitemap emits a google sitemap (XML), listing all your wiki pages
960 and the wiki root URL.
961 Page Priority / Frequency / Last modification
962 --------------------------------------------------------------------
963 / 1.0 / hourly / <now>
964 cfg.page_front_page 1.0 / hourly / page last edit
965 TitleIndex,RecentChanges 0.9 / hourly / <now>
966 content pages 0.5 / daily / page last edit
967 system/help pages 0.1 / yearly / page last edit
969 * Action DeletePage and RenamePage can now be used for subpages of a page, too.
970 * Added Action CopyPage so you can use now an existing page or page hierarchy
971 as template for a new page, see FeatureRequests/CloneOrCopyPages.
972 * "Package Pages" action supports attachments now.
973 * Added SisterPages support:
974 * action=sisterpages will generate a list of url pagename lines for all
975 pages in your moin wiki.
976 * action=pollsistersites will poll all sister sites listed in
977 cfg.sistersites = [(wikiname, fetchURL), ...]
978 The fetch URL for the sistersites depends on the wiki engine, e.g.:
980 ('MoinExample', 'http://moin.example.org/?action=sisterpages')
981 # oddmuse based wiki:
982 ('EmacsWiki', 'http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/test?action=sisterpages')
983 # JspWiki based wiki:
984 ('JspWiki', 'http://www.jspwiki.org/SisterSites.jsp')
985 * If the current page exists on some sister wiki, a link to it will be
986 added to the navibar.
987 You can use sister wikis for adding another dimension to your wiki UI: use
988 it for simple multi language support, or for comments, or anything else
990 TODO: add sistersites_force with sister sites we link to even if they do not
991 have the page yet (will work only for moin as we don't know
992 pagename>url transformation of other wikis)
993 * showtags action that lists all tags related to a page.
994 * action=view does use mimetypes of EmbedObject too and text files will be shown
995 by using their colorized parsers
997 Macros: --------------------------------------------------------------------
999 * If a change has happened after your bookmark, the updated/new/renamed
1000 icon links to the bookmark diff.
1001 * If a page does not exist any more (because it was deleted or renamed),
1002 we link the deleted icon to the diff showing what was deleted (for the
1003 delete action). For the rename action, we just show the deleted icon.
1004 * Conflict icon in RecentChanges is shown if a edit conflict is detected.
1005 * Enhanced SystemAdmin's user browser, so a SuperUser can enable/disable
1007 * Included EmbedObject macro for embedding different major mimetypes:
1008 application, audio, image, video, chemical, x-world.
1009 You are able to change the defaults of allowed mimetypes in the config
1010 var mimetypes_embed. The config var mimetypes_xss_protect is used to deny
1011 mimetypes. The order of both variables is Allow, Deny (mimetypes_embed,
1012 mimetypes_xss_protect).
1013 * Added support for @SELF to the NewPage macro.
1014 * GetText2 macro that allows to translate messages that contain data.
1015 * Make the FootNote macro filter duplicates and display a list of numbers
1016 instead of a list of identical footnotes. Thanks to Johannes Berg for the
1019 Parsers: -------------------------------------------------------------------
1020 * Moin Wiki parser: Changed markup for links, images and macros, see these
1021 wiki pages: HelpOnLinking, HelpOnMacros
1022 * New wiki markup for /* inline comments */ - they get rendered as a span
1023 with class="comment", see next item:
1024 * There is a new item in the edit bar: "Comments". If you click it, the
1025 visibility of all class "comment" tags will be toggled. There is a user
1026 preferences item "show_comments" to set if the default view shows them or not.
1027 * The wiki parser can be used with css classes now:
1029 This will render output within a div with class "comment".
1030 You can use any wiki markup as usual.
1032 You can also combine multiple css classes like this:
1033 {{{#!wiki red/dotted/comment
1034 This will render a red background, dotted border comment section.
1036 The same thing will work for any other css classes you have.
1037 If the css classes contain the word "comment", they will trigger some
1038 special feature, see next item:
1039 * Wiki nested parser/pre sections work now, using this syntax:
1040 a) just use more curly braces if you have 3 closing in your content:
1042 }}} <- does not terminate the section!
1044 b) use {{{ + some magic string:
1046 }}} <- does not terminate the section!
1048 c) {{{whatever#!python
1051 Pitfall: stuff like below does not work as it did in 1.5:
1059 * Added support for ircs: URLs (secure IRC).
1060 * New text/creole parser that allows you to use WikiCreole 1.0 markup,
1062 * HTML parser (called "html") that allows you to use HTML on the page.
1063 Thanks to the trac team for the nice code.
1064 * Added the diff parser from ParserMarket, thanks to Emilio Lopes, Fabien
1065 Ninoles and Juergen Hermann.
1067 XMLRPC: --------------------------------------------------------------------
1068 * actions_excluded now defaults to ['xmlrpc'] - this kind of disables the
1069 built-in wiki xmlrpc server code (not completely: it will just answer
1070 with a Fault instance for any request). If you want to use xmlrpc v1 or
1071 v2, you have to remove 'xmlrpc' from the actions_excluded list (for
1072 example if you want to use wikisync, mailimport or any other feature
1073 using xmlrpc). If you enable xmlrpc, it will be possible that someone
1074 changes your wiki content by using xmlrpc (it will of course honour ACLs).
1075 * New XMLRPC methods (see doc strings for details):
1077 * system.multicall -- multicall support
1078 * Authentication System: getAuthToken/appyAuthToken
1079 * getDiff -- method to get binary diffs
1080 * mergeDiff -- method to local changes remotely
1081 * interwikiName -- method to get the IWID and the interwiki moniker
1082 * getAllPagesEx -- method to get the pagelist in a special way (revnos,
1083 no system pages etc.)
1084 * getAuthToken -- make and authentication token by supplying username/password
1085 * applyAuthToken -- set request.user for following xmlrpc calls (within the
1087 * getUserProfile -- method to get user profile data for request.user
1088 * Added XMLRPC methods for attachment handling. Thanks to Matthew Gilbert.
1089 * XMLRPC putPage method adjusted to new AuthToken, config vars
1090 xmlrpc_putpage_enabled and xmlrpc_putpage_trusted_only removed.
1092 Scripts / Commandline interface: -------------------------------------------
1093 * moin export dump now better conforms to the theme guidelines.
1094 * Added a --dump-user option to the moin export dump command.
1095 Thanks to Oliver O'Halloran.
1097 Security / Auth / AntiSpam / etc.: -----------------------------------------
1098 * Hierarchical ACLs are now supported, i.e. pages inheriting permissions
1099 from higher-level pages. See HelpOnAccessControlLists.
1100 * If you have "#acl" (without the quotes) on a page, this means now:
1101 "this page has own (empty) ACLs, so do not use acl_rights_default here"
1102 Please note that this is COMPLETELY DIFFERENT from having no ACL line at
1103 all on the page (acl_rights_default is used in that case).
1104 * Antispam master url is now configurable via cfg.antispam_master_url.
1105 The default is to fetch the antispam patterns from MoinMaster wiki.
1106 * Antispam now checks the edit comments against BadContent also.
1107 * TextCHAs (text-form CAPTCHAs).
1108 Due to increasingly annoying wiki spammers, we added the option to use
1109 TextCHAs (for page save (not for preview!), for attachment upload, for
1110 user creation (not for profile save)).
1111 This function is disabled by default. If you run a wiki that is editable
1112 by anonymous or non-approved users from the internet (i.e. All: or Known:
1113 in ACL terms), you should enable it in your wiki config by:
1114 textchas = { # DO NOT USE EXACTLY THESE QUESTIONS!!!
1116 u'H2O is ...': u'water', # bad: too common
1117 u'2 apples and three bananas makes how many fruits?': ur'(five|5)', # good
1118 u'2 apples and three pigs makes how many fruits?': ur'(two|2)', # good
1119 u'2+3': ur'5', # bad: computable
1122 'de': { # for german users
1123 u'H2O ist ...': u'wasser',
1126 This means that english users will get some random question from the 'en'
1127 set, german users will get some from the 'de' set. If there is no 'de'
1128 set configured, moin will fallback to language_default and then to 'en',
1129 so make sure that you at least have a 'en' set configured (or whatever
1130 you have set as language_default).
1131 You need to use unicode for the questions and answers (see that u"...").
1132 For the answer, you need to give a regular expression:
1133 * In the easiest case, this is just some word or sentence (first en
1134 example). It will be matched in a case-insensitive way.
1135 * For more complex stuff, you can use the power of regular expressions,
1136 e.g. if multiple answers are correct (second en example). Any answer
1137 matching the regular expression will be considered as correct, any
1138 non-matching answer will be considered as incorrect.
1140 Tipps for making it hard to break for the spammers and easy for the users:
1141 * Use site-specific (not too common) questions.
1142 * Don't use too hard questions (annoys legitimate users).
1143 * Don't use computable questions.
1144 * Don't reuse textchas from other sites.
1146 textchas_disabled_group = None # (default)
1147 Set this to some group name and noone in this group will get textchas.
1148 E.g.: textchas_disabled_group = u'NoTextChasGroup'
1150 * The login page gives now the possibility to recover a lost password, thanks to
1151 Oliver Siemoneit. This is especially useful for wikis where access to user
1152 preferences is restricted by acl.
1153 * Session handling for logged-in users and (not by default due to expiry
1154 problems) anonymous users.
1155 * Updated the ldap_login code from 1.5 branch, supports TLS now.
1156 See MoinMoin/config/multiconfig.py for supported configuration options
1157 and their defaults (and please just change what you need to change,
1158 in your wikiconfig).
1159 * Interwiki auth: You need to define cfg.trusted_wikis and
1160 cfg.user_autocreate to use it. Logging in works by entering:
1161 Name: RemoteWikiName RemoteUserName
1162 Password: remotepass
1163 Then moin contacts RemoteWikiName after looking it up in the interwiki
1164 map and tries to authenticate there using RemoteUserName and remotepass.
1165 If it succeeds, the remote wiki will return the remote user profile items
1166 and your local moin will autocreate an account with these values.
1168 Server / Network / Logging: ------------------------------------------------
1169 * The standalone server script moved to the toplevel directory. This makes
1170 it possible to directly start moin.py without additional configuration
1171 to run a MoinMoin DesktopEdition like wiki setup.
1172 Be careful: DesktopEdition uses relaxed security settings only suitable
1173 for personal and local use.
1174 * Added TLS/SSL support to the standalone server. Thanks to Matthew Gilbert.
1175 To use TLS/SSL support you must also install the TLSLite library
1176 (http://trevp.net/tlslite/). Version 0.3.8 was used for development and
1179 * cfg.log_reverse_dns_lookups [default: True] - you can set this to False
1180 if rev. dns lookups are broken in your network (leading to long delays
1181 on page saves). With False, edit-log will only contain IP, not hostname.
1182 * Added support for "304 not modified" response header for AttachFile get
1183 and rss_rc actions - faster, less traffic, less load.
1185 * Added logging framework, using stdlib's "logging" module. Just do
1186 import logging ; logging.debug("your text"). Depending on configuration
1187 in the server Config class, your stuff will be written to screen (stderr),
1188 to a moin logfile, to apache's error.log, etc.:
1189 logPath = None # 'moin.log'
1190 loglevel_file = None # logging.DEBUG/INFO/WARNING/ERROR/CRITICAL
1191 loglevel_stderr = None # logging.DEBUG/INFO/WARNING/ERROR/CRITICAL
1192 NOTE: this is NOT in wikiconfig, but e.g. in moin.cgi or moin.py or ...
1194 * Added some experimental and disabled code, that uses x-forwarded-for
1195 header (if present) to get the right "outside" IP before a request
1196 enters our chain of trusted (reverse) proxies.
1197 This code has the problem that we can't configure it in wikiconfig, so
1198 if you want to use it / test it, you have to edit the moin code:
1199 MoinMoin/request/__init__.py - edit proxies_trusted (near the top).
1200 We will try to make this easier to configure, but there was no time left
1201 before 1.6.0 release for doing bigger code refactorings needed for that.
1203 Mail: ----------------------------------------------------------------------
1204 * You can send email to the wiki now (requires xmlrpc), see:
1205 FeatureRequests/WikiEmailIntegration, HelpOnConfiguration/EmailSupport
1207 * Mail notifications contain a link to the diff action so the user
1208 can see the coloured difference more easily. Thanks to Tobias Polzin.
1210 Other changes: =============================================================
1211 * HINT: please copy a new version of your server script from the wiki/server/
1212 directory and edit it to match your setup.
1213 * HINT: instead of "from MoinMoin.multiconfig import DefaultConfig" you
1214 need to use "from MoinMoin.config.multiconfig import DefaultConfig" now.
1215 You need to change this in your wikiconfig.py or farmconfig.py file.
1216 See MoinMoin/multiconfig.py for an alternative way if you can't do that.
1217 * HINT: you need to change some imports (if you have them in your config):
1218 Old: from MoinMoin.util.antispam import SecurityPolicy
1219 New: from MoinMoin.security.antispam import SecurityPolicy
1220 Old: from MoinMoin.util.autoadmin import SecurityPolicy
1221 New: from MoinMoin.security.autoadmin import SecurityPolicy
1222 * HINT: you need to change your auth stuff, the new way is:
1223 from MoinMoin.auth import moin_login, moin_session
1224 from MoinMoin.auth.http import http
1225 auth = [http, moin_login, moin_session]
1226 Do it in a similar way for other auth methods.
1227 * HINT: you need to change your url_prefix setting in 2 ways:
1228 1. The setting is now called url_prefix_static (to make it more clear
1229 that we mean the static stuff, not the wiki script url).
1230 2. The strongly recommended (and default) value of it is '/moin_static160'
1231 for moin version 1.6.0 (and will be ...161 for moin 1.6.1). It is
1232 possible and recommended to use a very long cache lifetime for static
1233 stuff now (Expires: access plus 1 year), because we require to change
1234 the URL of static stuff when the static stuff changes (e.g. on a
1235 version upgrade of moin) to avoid problems with stale cache content.
1236 Your moin will be faster with lower load and traffic because of this.
1237 For standalone server, we use 1 year expiry for static stuff now.
1238 For Apache, Lighttpd and other "external" servers, you have to care
1239 for configuring them to use a long expiry and change url_prefix_static
1240 related configuration on upgrade.
1241 HINT: if you run standalone or Twisted server, the easiest way to get a
1242 working configuration (with server configuration matching wiki
1243 configuration) is to NOT set url_prefix_static at all. Moin will
1244 use matching configuration defaults in this case.
1245 * url_prefix_action ['action'] was introduced for lowering load and traffic
1246 caused by searchengine crawlers. Up to now, crawlers where causing a high
1247 load in internet moin wikis because they tried to get about everything,
1248 including all actions linked from the user interface.
1249 Known crawlers only get 403 for most actions, but nevertheless they first
1250 tried. There was no means keeping them away from actions due to the rather
1251 braindead robots.txt standard. You can only disallow pathes there, but
1252 moin's actions were querystring based, not path based (this would need
1253 regex support in robots.txt, but there is no such thing).
1254 This changed now. Moin is able to generate action URLs you can handle in
1255 robots.txt, like /action/info/PageName?action=info. So if you don't want
1256 bots triggering actions, just disallow /action/ there. Keep in mind that
1257 attachments are handled by /action/AttachFile, so if you want attached
1258 files and pictures indexed by search engine, don't disallow
1259 /action/AttachFile/ in your robots.txt. In order to use this feature,
1260 set url_prefix_action in your wikiconfig to e.g. "action".
1261 * We use (again) the same browser compatibility check as FCKeditor uses
1262 internally, too. So if GUI editor invocation is broken due to browser
1263 compatibility issues or a wrong browser version check, please file a bug
1264 at FCKeditor development or browser development.
1265 * HINT: We removed Lupy based indexed search code. If you were brave enough
1266 to use cfg.lupy_search, you maybe want to try cfg.xapian_search instead.
1268 Developer notes: ===========================================================
1269 * We moved the IE hacks to theme/css/msie.css that gets included after all
1270 other css files (but before the user css file) using a conditional
1271 comment with "if IE", so it gets only loaded for MSIE (no matter which
1272 version). The file has some standard css inside (evaluated on all MSIE
1273 versions) and some * html hacks that only IE < 7 will read.
1274 HINT: if you use custom themes, you want to update them in the same way.
1275 * autofilters for databrowser widget. Thanks to Johannes Berg for the patch.
1276 * changed formatter.attachment_link call (it is now more flexible,
1277 because you can render the stuff between link start and link end yourself)
1278 * Page.url() does not escape any more. You have to use wikiutil.escape()
1279 yourself if you want to write the URL to HTML and it contains e.g. &.
1280 * The testing wikiconfig moved to tests/wikiconfig.py, the testing wiki
1281 is now created in tests/wiki/...
1282 * HINT: Killed "processors" (finally), formatter method changed to:
1283 formatter.parser(parsername, lines)
1284 * Refactored some actions to use ActionBase base class.
1285 * Moved "test" action from wikiaction to MoinMoin/action/
1286 (and use ActionBase).
1287 * Moved MoinMoin/config.py to MoinMoin/config/__init__.py.
1288 * Moved MoinMoin/multiconfig.py to MoinMoin/config/multiconfig.py.
1289 * Moved "SystemInfo" macro from wikimacro to MoinMoin/macro/.
1290 * Moved wikiaction.py stuff to MoinMoin/action/__init__.py.
1291 * Moved wikimacro.py stuff to MoinMoin/macro/__init__.py.
1292 * Moved wikirpc.py stuff to MoinMoin/xmlrpc/__init__.py.
1293 * Moved wikitest.py stuff to action/test.py (only used from there).
1294 * Moved formatter/base.py to formatter/__init__.py (FormatterBase).
1295 * Moved util/ParserBase.py to parser/ParserBase.py.
1296 * Moved / splitted request.py into MoinMoin/request/*.
1297 Most stuff will be broken, please help fixing it (usually some imports
1298 will be missing and the adaptor script will need a change maybe):
1299 Tested successfully: CGI, CLI, STANDALONE, FCGI, TWISTED
1300 * Moved security.py to security/__init__.py.
1301 * Moved wikiacl.py to security/__init__.py.
1302 * Moved logfile/logfile.py to logfile/__init__.py.
1303 * Moved mailimport.py to mail/mailimport.py.
1304 * Moved util/mail.py to mail/sendmail.py.
1305 * Moved auth.py to auth/__init__.py.
1306 Moved util/sessionParser.py to auth/_PHPsessionParser.py.
1307 teared auth code into single modules under auth/* - moin_session handling
1308 and the builting moin_login method are in auth/__init__.py.
1309 * Added wikiutil.MimeType class (works internally with sanitized mime
1310 types because the official ones suck).
1311 * Renamed parsers to module names representing sane mimetypes, e.g.:
1312 parser.wiki -> parser.text_moin_wiki
1313 * Added thread_monitor debugging aid. It can be activated using:
1314 from MoinMoin.util import thread_monitor; thread_monitor.activate_hook()
1315 and then triggered by requesting URL ...?action=thread_monitor - please
1316 be aware that monitoring threads has a big performance impact on its own,
1317 so you only want to temporarily enable this for debugging.
1318 By default, it dumps its output to the data_dir as tm_<timestamp>.log,
1319 you can change this at bottom of action/thread_monitor.py if you want to
1320 see output in your browser.
1321 * Introduced scope parameter to CacheEntry() - if you specify 'farm', it
1322 will cache into a common directory for all wikis in the same farm, if you
1323 specify 'wiki', it will use a cache directory per wiki and if you specify
1324 'item', it will use a cache directory per item (== per page).
1325 Creating a CacheEntry without explicit scope is DEPRECATED.
1326 * Smileys moved from MoinMoin.config to MoinMoin.theme.
1327 * Removed all _ magic in URLs and filenames.
1328 * request.action now has the action requested, default: 'show'.
1329 * Cleaned up duplicated http_headers code and DEPRECATED this function
1330 call (it was sometimes confused with setHttpHeaders call) - it will
1331 vanish with moin 1.7, so please fix your custom plugins!
1333 request.emit_http_headers(more_headers=[])
1334 This call pre-processes the headers list (encoding from unicode, making
1335 sure that there is exactly ONE content-type header, etc.) and then
1336 calls a server specific helper _emit_http_headers to emit it.
1337 Tested successfully: CGI, STANDALONE, FCGI, TWISTED
1338 * setResponseCode request method DEPRECATED (it only worked for Twisted
1339 anyway), just use emit_http_headers and include a Status: XXX header.
1340 Method will vanish with moin 1.7.
1341 * cfg.url_prefix is DEPRECATED, please use cfg.url_prefix_static.
1342 * d['title_link'] is not supported any more. You can easily make that link
1343 on your own in your theme, see example in MoinMoin/theme/__init__.py,
1345 * There is a new Page method called Page.get_raw_body_str that returns
1346 the encoded page body. This is useful if you just deal with byte data
1347 (e.g. while generating binary diffs).
1348 * The TagStore/PickleTagStore system is used to store the syncronisation tags.
1349 * XMLRPC functions may return Fault instances from now on
1350 * Moin got multicall support, including a module that makes it usable on the
1351 client-side without requiring Python 2.4
1352 * Added no_magic to text_html formatter to disable tag autoclosing.
1353 * MOIN_DEBUG can be set in the environment to let MoinMoin ignore exceptions
1354 that would lead to a traceback in the browser. Thanks to Raphael Bossek.
1355 * There is a new MoinMoin.Page.ItemCache class now with automatic cache
1356 invalidation based on global edit-log. We currently use it to cache page
1357 acls, speedup Page.get_rev and reading the page local edit-log.
1358 * Added wikiutil.renderText parse and format raw wiki markup with all page elements.
1359 * The user file format has changed, old files will be read correctly but
1360 will silently be upgraded to the new format so old versions will not
1361 read the new files correctly (this only affects 'subscribed_pages' and
1362 'quicklinks' which will be lost when downgrading.)
1367 * Added timing.log to help performance debugging. Use cfg.log_timing = True
1368 to update <data_dir>/timing.log (default is False, meaning no logging).
1370 Example log entries:
1373 Timestamp PID Timing Flag action URL
1374 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1375 20070512 184401 22690 vvv None moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/RssFeeds
1376 20070512 184401 22690 0.267s - show moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/RssFeeds
1378 Timestamp: YYYYMMDD HHMMSS (UTC)
1379 PID: the process ID of the moin process
1380 Timing: when action starts, it will be "vvv"
1381 when it ends, it logs the total time it needed for execution
1382 Flag (some are only logged at end of action):
1384 - Page does not exist
1385 B user agent was recognized as bot / spider
1386 !x! Action took rather long (the higher the x, the longer it took - this
1387 makes it easy to grep for problematic stuff).
1388 Action: action name (None is when no action was specified, moin assumes
1389 "show" for that case)
1390 URL: the requested URL
1392 For more information about tuning your moin setup, see:
1393 http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/PerformanceTuning
1394 * Added support for ircs, webcal, xmpp, ed2k and rootz protocols - we
1395 moved all protocols to config.url_schemas, so this is not empty any more.
1396 It is possible to use these protocols now on wiki pages and in the
1397 navi_bar. We just generate the URLs, it is up to your browser what it
1398 does when clicking on those links.
1399 * cfg.traceback_show (default: 1) can be used to disable showing tracebacks.
1400 cfg.traceback_log_dir (default: None) can be used to set a directory
1401 that is used to dump traceback files to. Your users will get a notice to
1402 which (random) file in that directory the traceback was been written.
1403 NOTE: while you can feel free to set traceback_show = 0 and
1404 traceback_log_dir = None, we will also feel free to reject bug reports
1405 when you (or your site's users) don't give us enough information (like a
1406 traceback file) to debug the problem. If you set traceback_show = 0,
1407 we recommend pointing traceback_log_dir to a directory with reasonable
1408 free space and putting a page onto your wiki that describes who has to
1409 get contacted (usually the wiki server admin) in case a traceback happens.
1410 The admin can then locate the traceback file and submit it to moin
1412 Of course we will also need all the other details of a bug report, not
1413 only the traceback file.
1416 * Updated spider agents list.
1417 * Reduce bot/spider cpu usage for SystemInfo, OrphanedPages, WantedPages,
1418 PageHits, PageSize, WordIndex macros (we just return nothing for bots).
1421 * XSS fixes, see http://secunia.com/advisories/24138/ (item 1 and 2).
1422 * ACL security fixes:
1423 * MonthCalendar respects ACLs of day pages now.
1424 * Check the ACL for the rst markup include directive.
1425 * Fixed cleaning of edit comments (control chars in there could damage
1427 * Fixed in-process caching of antispam patterns (didn't update the cache
1428 for multi-process, persistent servers).
1429 * Correct encoding/decoding for surge-log data, fixes leftover
1430 surge-logXXXXXXX.tmp files in data/cache/surgeprotect.
1431 * Fixed mode of cache files (mkstemp creates them with 0600 mode).
1432 * Symbolic entities with numbers (like ²) did not work, fixed.
1433 * We open data/error.log earlier now and we also use it for FastCGI.
1434 * Fixed unicode cfg.page_group_regex.
1435 * Fixed moin.spec to use english date format.
1436 * GUI converter: fixed conversion of relative wiki links.
1437 * Fixed NewPage macro button label to not be formatted as wiki text.
1441 * added url_prefix_local which is used for stuff that must be loaded from
1442 same site as the wiki engine (e.g. FCKeditor GUI editor applet), while
1443 url_prefix can be a remote server serving the static files (css/img).
1444 If not set (or set to None), url_prefix_local will default to the value
1446 * We save some CPU and disk I/O by having EditTemplates and LikePages macro
1447 (both used on MissingPage) check whether the requesting entity was
1448 identified as a spider (e.g. search engine bot) and do nothing in that
1449 case. Normal users won't see any difference.
1450 * For AttachFile, you can now choose to overwrite existing files of same
1451 name (nice for updating files).
1455 * fixed unescaped page info display.
1456 * fixed unescaped page name display in AttachFile, RenamePage and
1457 LocalSiteMap actions
1458 * WantedPages listed existing pages that are not readable for the user,
1459 but are linked from pages that ARE readable for the user (so this is NOT
1460 a privacy/security issue). We now don't list those pages any more as it
1461 is pointless/confusing, the user can't read or edit there anyway.
1464 * GUI editor/converter:
1465 * ignore <col>/<colgroup>/<meta> elements
1466 * support <a> within blockquote
1467 * Remove generated=... attribute from pagelink html output (this attr is
1468 for internal use only). w3c validator is now happier again.
1469 * Fixed css class "userpref" (not: "userprefs") of the Login form.
1470 * Fixed the version number check in the xslt parser for 4suite >= 1.0.
1471 * We reset the umask to the wanted value every request. This should fix
1472 wrong file modes when used with Twisted (twistd uses a hardcoded 0077
1473 umask in daemonize()).
1474 * Avoid trouble when saving pages with antispam function when MoinMaster
1475 wiki is having troubles (catch xmlrpc Fault).
1478 * Standalone server does not do reverse DNS lookups any more (this is a
1479 standard feature of BaseHTTPServer stdlib module, but we override this
1480 now and just print the IP).
1481 * We moved the IE hacks to theme/css/msie.css that gets included after all
1482 other css files (but before the user css file) using a conditional
1483 comment with "if IE", so it gets only loaded for MSIE (no matter which
1484 version). The file has some standard css inside (evaluated on all MSIE
1485 versions) and some * html hacks that only IE < 7 will read.
1486 HINT: if you use custom themes, you want to update them in the same way.
1487 * Improved ldap auth:
1488 * cfg.ldap_name_attribute was removed because of new cfg.ldap_filter.
1489 If you had ldap_name_attribute = 'sAMAccountName' before, just use
1490 ldap_filter = '(sAMAccountName=%(username)s)' now.
1491 * New cfg.ldap_filter used for the ldap filter string used in the ldap
1492 search instead of the rather limited, partly hardcoded filter we used
1493 before. This is much more flexible:
1494 ldap_filter = '(sAMAccountName=%(username)s)'
1495 You can also do more complex filtering expressions like:
1496 '(&(cn=%(username)s)(memberOf=CN=WikiUsers,OU=Groups,DC=example,DC=org))'
1497 * Added some processing to filter out result entries with dn == None.
1498 * We set REFERRALS option to 0 before initializing the ldap server
1499 connection (this seems to be needed for Active Directory servers).
1500 * We support self-signed ssl certs for ldaps - completely untested.
1501 * New cfg.ldap_surname_attribute (usually 'sn'), was hardcoded before.
1502 * New cfg.ldap_givenname_attribute (usually 'givenName'), hardcoded before.
1503 * New cfg.ldap_aliasname_attribute (usually 'displayName') - if this
1504 attribute is not there or empty (in the results of the ldap lookup for
1505 the user), we just make up the aliasname from surname and givenname
1507 * We only request the attributes we need from ldap (was: all attrs).
1508 * We deny user login (and break out of auth chain) for the following cases:
1509 * if a user is not found by ldap lookup
1510 * if we find more than one matching entry
1511 * if the password is empty or incorrect
1512 * if some exception happens
1513 * Please note that there is an updated ldap sample config in directory
1514 wiki/config/more_samples/.
1515 * Added experimental LDAP SSL/TLS support (untested, please help testing),
1516 see also the sample config.
1517 * Work around a IE7 rendering problem with long pages getting more and
1518 more narrow. We just applied the same "fix" as we used for IE6, using
1519 "display: none" for span.anchor for IE browsers.
1521 * We used to emit a <link> tag for the action=rss_rc RSS feed on any
1522 page. This was changed, we now emit that link only on RecentChanges and
1523 the current user's language translation of RecentChanges.
1524 This was changed because Google Toolbar requests the RSS feed linked
1525 by such a link tag every time it sees one. Thus, if you used the wiki
1526 normally, it requested the RSS feed every few seconds and caused
1527 problems due to surge protection kicking in because of that.
1528 * HINT for custom theme users: if your theme code calls
1529 rsslink(), then you need to change that to rsslink(d) for 1.5.7+.
1533 A general security notice:
1534 Check your Python version, there was a buffer overflow issue in Python
1535 recently! Details: http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/PythonUnicodeEscapeBug
1538 * Fix AttributeError traceback with Standalone server (if_modified_since)
1539 * Fix AttachFile "304 not modified" and redirect status code for Twisted
1540 * http auth: we now decode username and password to unicode (using
1541 config.charset == utf-8). Same for SSL client cert auth and CN.
1542 * Avoid infinite recursion in Page.parsePageLinks.
1543 * Fixed standalone server failing to shutdown if interface == "".
1544 * Now MoinMoin does not think anymore that every page links to various user
1546 * Made the irssi parser more tolerant (Thanks to "TheAnarcat").
1547 * Now multiple formatters can be used per request, the send_page code was
1548 not reentrant to this regard. Fixes "empty" search results.
1549 * Fixed problem with "=" in ImageLink macro links.
1550 * Not a moin bug, but a silly stdlib os.tempnam function made trouble to
1551 some people because it lets you override the path given in the code
1552 by setting the environment variable TMP(DIR). We now use a different
1553 function to avoid renaming trouble when TMP(DIR) points to a different
1555 * Fixed antispam update on every save (Thanks to "TheAnarcat").
1556 * GUI converter: don't throw away rowclass for tables.
1557 * GUI editor formatter: allow height for table cells.
1558 * GUI editor formatter: comment texts are output using the formatter now.
1561 * Mail notifications contain a link to the diff action so the user
1562 can see the coloured difference more easily. Thanks to Tobias Polzin.
1563 * FeatureRequests/MoveAttachments - you can move attachments from one
1564 page to another (and also rename the attachment at the same time).
1565 Thanks to Reimar Bauer.
1566 * Added support for linking to attachment: and inline: URLs with ImageLink.
1567 * Added UNIX socket support for FastCGI, just set the port to some (socket)
1569 * [[Attachlist(pagename,mimetype)]] lists attachments of pagename (default:
1570 current page) with optional mimetype restriction (default: all).
1571 Thanks to Reimar Bauer.
1574 * Minor performance improvements (might be noticeable if you have many
1575 custom navi_bar entries and high server load).
1576 * Avoid usage of no-cache because it breaks attachment download on IE6.
1577 This is a IE bug, not a moin bug.
1578 * Added XHTML to the unsafe list.
1579 * Changed the rst parser to be compatible to the new docutils interface
1581 * Updated EmbedObject macro.
1586 * fixed ticket creation to only use constant values
1589 HINT: read docs/README.migration.
1590 HINT: there was NO change in the underlay/ pages since 1.5.4.
1591 HINT: If you experience problems with the reStructured Text (rst) parser,
1592 please downgrade docutils to "0.4" because there were major interface
1593 breaking API refactorings on the docutils trunk.
1599 * Not a moin bug, but it severely annoyed IE users and also was less
1600 comfortable for users of other browser: since about 1.5.4, we served
1601 attachments with Content-Disposition: attachment - so that the user has
1602 to save them to disk. This was to fix a possible XSS attack using attached
1603 HTML files with Javascript inside for stealing your moin cookie or doing
1604 other nasty things. We improved this by using different behaviour depending
1605 on the potential danger the attached file has when served inline:
1606 mimetypes_xss_protect = ['text/html', 'application/x-shockwave-flash', ]
1607 This is the default value. If you know more dangerous stuff, please just
1608 add the mimetypes there to protect your users and file a bug report
1609 telling us what we missed.
1612 * Make tickets used for some actions more safe.
1615 * edit_ticketing [True] - we protect page save by a ticket (same stuff we
1616 already use for DeletePage and RenamePage action).
1617 NOTE: If you don't use your browser for editing, but some tool like
1618 "editmoin" or "MoinMoin plugin for jEdit", you'll need an update
1619 of them supporting the ticket.
1620 Alternatively, you can use edit_ticketing = False setting - this
1621 is not recommended for internet wikis as it will make spamming them
1623 * If we detect some spammer, we kick him out by triggering surge protection
1624 (if surge protection is not disabled).
1629 * Fixed gui editor converter confusing of `` and {{{}}} markup.
1630 * Fixed emission of HTTP headers (esp. Vary: Cache-Control:).
1631 * Fixed a bad crash that happens (on ANY page!) when you put a *Dict
1632 page's name as a member into a *Group page.
1633 * Fix MyPages action title to use an unformatted string.
1634 * Fix double quoted-printable encoding in generated emails (note: this is
1635 not a moin bug - this just works around bugs in python stdlib).
1636 * Fix mode of drawing files (use config.umask).
1637 * Fix trouble with /?action= urls by dropping getPageNameFromQueryString
1639 * Fixed sre unpickle issues seen on some machines by avoiding to pickle
1641 * Fix Clock code, add more timers.
1642 * Worked around FastCGI problem on Lighttpd: empty lines in the error log.
1643 * Fix (add) locking for caching's .remove() call, small fixes to lock code.
1644 * Print error message when --target-dir=path is missing from moin export
1648 * Added support for "304 not modified" response header for AttachFile get
1649 and rss_rc actions - faster, less traffic, less load.
1650 * Limit rss with full diffs to 5 items.
1651 * Allow surge_action_limits = None to disable surge protection.
1652 * moin.fcg improved - if you use FastCGI, you must use the new file:
1653 * can self-terminate after some number of requests (default: -1, this
1654 means "unlimited lifetime")
1655 * the count of created threads is limited now (default: 5), you can use
1656 1 to use non-threaded operation.
1657 * configurable socket.listen() backlog (default: 5)
1658 * Added indonesian i18n (id).
1659 * Some measures against spammers trying to brute force their spam into moin.
1660 * EmbedObject macro: added mov, mpg and midi support
1661 * moin ... export dump --target-dir=PATH --page=PAGENAME_REGEX
1662 You must specify --target-dir (where dump will write the html files to)
1663 and you may specify --page and either a page name or a regex used to
1664 match all pages you want to export. Default is to export all pages.
1668 * more efficient locking code on POSIX platforms, we do much less I/O
1670 * removed most chmod calls in favour of a single os.umask call
1671 * Improved Python 2.5 compatibility. Note: if you think that MoinMoin
1672 is using too much RAM, you might want to look at Python 2.5 because
1673 of its improved memory management.
1674 * Throw away SAVE comments longer than 200 chars (you can't enter those by
1675 the user interface, so only spammer using automatic POSTs do them).
1676 * Updated spider user agent list.
1677 * BadContent and LocalBadContent now get noindex,nofollow robots header,
1679 * Standalone opens it logfile unbuffered from now on, thanks to
1681 * Avoid trouble when request.write() data contains None, just skip it -
1682 thanks to Juergen Hermann.
1683 * Instead of showing a ConfigurationError, moin now emits "404 Not found"
1684 http headers and a hint about what could be wrong. This won't fill up
1685 your logs just because of typos and spiders still trying old URLs.
1689 HINT: read docs/README.migration.
1690 Version 1.5.4-current:
1691 * increased maxlength of some input fields from 80 to 200
1693 Version 1.5.current:
1695 * We switched to Mercurial SCM, see here for more infos:
1696 http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/MoinDev/MercurialGuide
1699 * fix MonthCalendar macro for non-ASCII pagenames (thanks to Jonas Smedegaard)
1700 * remove 'search' and 'google' from bot user agent list and add some more
1702 * Fix the forgotten password email login URL and also properly encode the
1703 email body. Thanks to Robin Dunn for the patch.
1704 * Applied a patch by Matthew Gilbert for increased compatiblity with
1710 * Added CSS classes for TableOfContents macro.
1713 * GUI editor / GUI editor converter:
1714 * Fixed missing GUI editor link in edit bar.
1715 * Fixed table/row/cell style spaces.
1716 * Changed <p> generation for macros.
1717 * Fixed handling of subpages.
1718 * Fixed processing of complex list elements (thanks to Craig Markwardt).
1719 * Fixed processing of html \n (thanks to Craig Markwardt).
1720 * Fixed joining of comment lines with text below them.
1721 * Fixed table height attribute crash.
1722 * Fixed sslclientcert auth.
1723 * Added some missing files to i18n processing, translatable strings more
1725 * Change <p> generation from self-closing (<p />) to auto-closing (only
1726 emit <p>, let browser find place for </p>).
1727 * Fix eating of newline before tables.
1728 * Fixed incorrect login hint for not logged-in users trying a disallowed
1730 * Fixed nasty missing or double </a> formatter bug (mostly happening when
1731 user has enabled questionmarks for nonexisting pages).
1734 * We catch and ignore html to wiki conversion errors in case of hitting
1735 the cancel button, so you can get out of the error screen.
1739 * Modified SystemInfo macro to give human readable units and disk usage
1740 * cfg.editor_quickhelp makes the quick help below the editor configurable
1741 (at least as far as the default_markup is concerned). If set to None,
1742 it doesn't display any quickhelp. Thanks to Seth Falcon for the patch.
1745 * Fixed double class attribute for nonexistent links
1746 * Fixed double </a> with qm_noexist option
1747 * Fixed table xxx="yyy" style attribute parsing
1748 * If not (editor_force and editor_default == 'text') then display GUI mode
1749 switch button (this is only a partial fix, but enough to deny the GUI
1750 mode to your users completely)
1751 * Fixed XSS issue which could lead to cookie theft etc.
1752 * Fixed definition list "same level" indenting.
1753 * Fixed pagename in log for PackagePages action.
1754 * Made <p> self-closing and line-anchors more well-behaved, thanks to
1755 Martin Wilck for the patch. I didn't apply the <ol> patch, because this
1756 is no real problem, just a problem of a bad standard.
1757 * Fixed gui editor *bgcolor crash.
1758 * Support/Fix tableclass attr with gui editor.
1761 * Moved back UserPreferences action link from menu to top of page (renaming
1762 it to "Preferences"), added "Cancel" button to make it possible to return
1763 to the previous page without saving preferences.
1764 * Removed formatter.url "attrs" keyword arg that took premade html, we use
1765 separate kw args per attribute now.
1766 * Moved broken tests to MoinMoin/_tests/broken (= disabling them).
1767 All "active" tests run ok now.
1768 If you want to compare, I included the output of this test run:
1769 $ make test >tests/make_test.out
1775 * HINT: please read README.migration
1776 * Login and Logout are actions now, therefore you stay on the page where
1778 * UserPreferences is also an action now and moved from top border (in
1779 modern theme) to the "more actions" dropdown menu. You also stay on the
1781 * There is also a [[Login]] macro now. You can put it on any page you want
1782 and if the user is not logged in, it renders the login form. If the user
1783 is logged in, it doesn't render anything.
1784 * We check cfg.superuser to be a list of user names (as documented) and
1785 deny superuser access if it is not. This avoids security issues by
1786 wrong configuration.
1787 * auth methods changed:
1788 HINT: if you wrote own auth methods, please change them as you see in
1789 MoinMoin/auth.py and test them again before relying on them.
1790 * now get a user_obj kw argument that is either a user object returned
1791 from a previous auth method or None (if no user has been made up yet).
1792 The auth method should either return a user object (if it has
1793 determined one) or what it got as user_obj (being "passive") or None
1794 (if it wants to "veto" some user even if a previous method already has
1795 made up some user object).
1796 * return value of continue_flag is now True in most cases (except if
1797 it wants to "veto" and abort).
1798 * moin_cookie auth method now logs out a user by deleting the cookie and
1799 setting user_obj.valid = 0. This makes it possible to still get the
1800 user's name in subsequent auth method calls within the same request.
1801 * added ldap_login and smb_mount auth methods, see MoinMoin/auth.py and
1802 wiki/config/more_samples/ldap_smb_farmconfig.py
1803 * MonthCalendar now takes an additional argument for specifying a template
1804 to use to directly invoke the page editor when clicking on non-existing
1806 * Added ImageLink macro. Thanks to Jeff Kunce, Marcin Zalewski, Reimar
1807 Bauer and Chong-Dae Park for working on it.
1808 * Lupy stuff (still experimental, partly broken and disabled by default):
1809 * Attachment search using lupy (lupy_search = 1 in your config)
1810 Title search will also search attachment filenames.
1811 Full text search will also search attachment contents.
1813 Some filters depend on external converters that might not be available
1814 for any platform (see Depends: line in filter plugin).
1815 Feel free to contribute more filter plugins, especially if you wrote
1816 some nice platform independant filter in Python for some popular file
1817 format! Filters implemented so far (depending on):
1818 MS Word, RTF, MS Excel (antiword, catdoc)
1820 OpenOffice.org XML based data formats (-)
1823 JPEG's EXIF data (-)
1825 * As you might know, Lupy is "retired" (that means it isn't developped
1826 by its authors any more). We are currently evaluating Xapian as new
1827 indexing search engine in moin.
1828 If we succeed, we will replace Lupy stuff by some Xapian interface
1830 But: the filters will likely stay, as we also need them with Xapian.
1832 * A new MoinMoin script interface was introduced:
1834 Syntax: moin [options] <cmdmodule> <cmdname> [options]
1837 moin --config-dir=/my/cfgdir --wiki-url=wiki.example.org/ \
1838 export dump --page=WikiSandBox
1840 This will call the "moin" script, which will use the --config-dir and
1841 --wiki-url options to initialize, then it will go to MoinMoin.script
1842 module, import the export.dump module from there and run it, providing
1843 the additional --page value to it.
1845 The old scripts that have not been migrated to this new interface can
1846 still be found in MoinMoin/script/old/ - including the old migration
1848 * moin ... account create --name=JoeDoe --email=joe@doe.org
1849 * moin ... account disable --name=JoeDoe
1850 * moin ... acount check <-- this is what usercheck script was before
1851 * moin ... maint cleancache <-- this is what cachecleaner script was
1852 * moin ... maint cleanpage <-- this is what pagescleaner script was
1855 * cookie_lifetime didn't work comfortable for low values. The cookie was
1856 created once on login and never updated afterwards. So you got logged
1857 out cookie_lifetime hours later, no matter whether you were active at
1858 that time or not. This has been changed, we update the cookie expiry now
1859 on every request, so it will expire cookie_lifetime after your last
1860 request (not after login).
1861 * Fixed logout problems when using cfg.cookie_path.
1862 * Fixed cookie_path for root url wikis.
1863 * Lupy search now behaves a bit less funky. Still no guarantees...
1864 * We lowered the twisted server timeout to 2 minutes now (was: 10) because
1865 it just used up too many files (open TCP connections until it timeouts)
1867 * The algorithm used for processing the farmconfig.wikis list was changed
1868 to work for big farms (>= 50 wikis), too. This works around the python
1869 "re" module limitation of having a maximum of 100 named groups in a RE.
1870 * Fixed a TypeError which occurred for formatters that dislike None values.
1872 * Fixed GUI editor converter error for https:... image URLs.
1873 * ThemeBase (use by modern/rightsidebar): removed duplicate AttachFile from
1874 actions menu (we already have it in editbar).
1875 * Speedup group/dicts scanning for persistent servers.
1876 * Implemented HEAD requests for standalone server, this should fix some of
1877 the strange effects happening when using "Save as" on attachments.
1878 * Not a moin bug, but rather a workaround for non-standard non-ASCII DNS
1879 hostnames: we just use the IP instead of crashing now.
1880 * Spurious cyclic usage error in i18n fixed.
1881 * Fixed antispam for python 2.5a xmlrpclib.
1882 * I18n for linenumber toggle in listings.
1883 * All action menu entries are translatable now.
1886 * Added css classes for the rst admonitions. Thanks to TiagoMacambira!
1891 * Added FullSearchCached macro which is statically cached.
1892 Use it if you do not depend on fresh search results but prefer raw speed.
1893 * Added surge protection, see HelpOnConfiguration/SurgeProtection.
1894 * Allow hex and symbolic entities.
1895 * If there is a user with empty password, we just generate a random one
1896 when he requests it getting sent by mail. Thanks to Reimar Bauer.
1897 * The superuser now can switch to another user using UserPreferences -
1898 nice to help your users when they forgot their password or need other
1899 help. You need to logout/relogin to use your own userid afterwards.
1900 This function only works correctly if you use moin_cookie authentication.
1901 Thanks to Reimar Bauer.
1902 * Add new markup for bulletless lists: just use a "." instead of "*".
1905 * Added "voyager" to bot useragent list.
1906 * Added locking for caching subsystem.
1907 * Deron Meranda's formatter API cleanup.
1908 * Added div and span to formatter API.
1909 * Removed old unfinished form and export code.
1913 * Fixed table attribute parsing.
1914 * Fixed cookie handling wrt properties adherance.
1915 * The new "." list markup makes it possible to have a bulletless list with
1916 elements on the same level. Before this change and only using indentation
1917 with blanks, that would get merged into a single paragraph.
1918 * It is possible now to have multiple paragraphs in the same list element,
1919 just leave an empty line in between the paragraphs.
1920 * Fixed GAP processing for ordered lists.
1921 * Fix text_gedit formatter's invalid list nesting.
1922 * Fixed hr crash in blockquote (but needs more work).
1923 * Fixed FootNote's formatter usage.
1924 * Fixed rst's headline levels.
1927 * Fixed that macros were followed by a wrong <p>.
1928 * Added <blockquote> to the block elements in the text_html formatter,
1929 so it does not close it erratically when you close a inner <p>.
1930 * GUI editor converter now also accept http: urls without // (relative or
1932 * Fixed the DocBook parser in cases where the pagename was non-ascii.
1939 * Fixed rst parser docutils version check
1940 * Repaired attachment unzipping feature.
1941 * Fixed the AddRevision command of the PackageInstaller.
1942 * improved the migration scripts (used to migrate pre-1.3 wikis to 1.3+):
1943 * do not crash on empty lines in event log
1944 * fix edit log format for very old moin data (like 0.11)
1945 * workaround for an ugly win32 operating system bug leading to wiki text
1946 file mtime not matching edit logs timestamp values if there was some
1947 timezone change since last edit (e.g. a daylight saving tz switch),
1948 but differing 3600s.
1949 This affected pre-1.3 moin wiki servers running on win32 OS only.
1950 We now try to correct those inconsistencies in mig05 by fuzzy matching.
1951 * fixed bracketed link scheme icon (css class)
1952 * we included a modified copy of Python 2.4.2's copy.py as some previous
1953 python versions seem to have problems (2.3.x, x < 5 and also 2.4[.0]),
1955 Our own copy.py was slightly modified to run on 2.3.x and 2.4.x.
1956 * Fixed the problem of not being able to change the date/time format back
1957 to "Default" (UserPreferences).
1958 * We generate the GUI editor footer now the same way as the text editor
1960 * Include a CSS workaround for yet another IE bug, see:
1961 MoinMoinBugs:InternetExplorerPeekABooBugInRightSideBar
1962 * classic theme: added GUI editor link
1963 * classic theme: added pagename header to editor screen
1964 * the "mail enabled" check now also checks whether mail_from is set
1967 * Updated FCKeditor to current CVS (2006-01-08 == 2.2+)
1968 * Split up show_hosts into show_hosts and show_names
1969 * attachment:file%20with%20spaces.txt in attachment list
1970 * added support for file:// in GUI editor link dialogue, see also:
1972 * cfg.mail_smarthost now supports "server:port" syntax, the default port
1974 * removed unused kwargs showpage/editable/form from wikiutil.send_footer
1975 * updated i18n (translation texts, additional languages)
1976 * removed interwiki:pagename from print view's top of page, added it to
1977 the "lasted edited" line at bottom right.
1981 HINT: 1.5.0 uses the same data/pages format as 1.3.x. The only thing you want
1982 to check is whether the 1.5.x version you are upgrading to has NEW mig
1983 scripts compared to the version you are running now (e.g. in 1.3.5 we
1984 added some scripts that fixed some small problems).
1985 See the MoinMoin/scripts/migration/ directory.
1986 You must run every mig script in sequence and only ONCE ever.
1988 * Fix <x=y> table attributes parsing. Thanks to Reimar Bauer.
1989 * Fixed a few bugs in the reStructured text parser. Note that you
1990 need to install docutils 0.3.10 or newer (snapshot from December 2005
1991 or newer) to make reStructuring parsing work:
1992 * Case preservation for anonymous links
1993 * MoinMoin links get the appropriate CSS class
1994 * Images do not get special CSS markup anymore
1995 Thanks to Matthew Gilbert.
1996 * Fixed a bug in the WSGI code which led to incorrect exception handling.
1997 * Removed all nationality flags. They used to be used for indicating some
1998 specific language (NOT nationality) and this was simply wrong and a bad
2000 * Fixed some header rendering issues (CSS).
2001 * SystemAdmin macro now checks against cfg.superuser list.
2004 * Added turkish i18n. To be considered as alpha as it got in last minute.
2008 This is the first release candidate of MoinMoin 1.5.0.
2011 * fixed broken logs when a DeletePage (maybe also RenamePage) comment
2012 contained CR/LF characters (could happen when using copy&paste)
2013 * fixed GUI editor MoinEditorBackup page containing HTML instead of wiki
2015 * fixed invalid HTML in FootNotes
2016 * fixed HTML source in EditorBackup after canceling GUI editor
2017 * Footnotes of included pages are not shown at the bottom of the including page.
2018 * Bug in Dict handling that often breaks first entry
2022 * Added SSO module for PHP based apps. Currently supported: eGroupware 1.2.
2023 No need to login in two systems anymore - MoinMoin will read the PHP session
2027 * Improved rendering of bullet lists and external links in Restructured text.
2028 Thanks to Matthew Gilbert.
2029 * Fixed modern theme rendering, including some fixes and workarounds for
2031 * When checking for email uniqueness, do not compare with disabled user
2033 * Fix sending of HTTP headers for Despam action.
2034 * Add some margin left and right of the link icons.
2037 * Made it easier for auth methods needing a user interface (like ldap or
2038 mysql stuff). Unlike http auth, they usually need some "login form".
2039 We made UserPreferences login form values (name, password, login, logout)
2040 available as kw args of the auth method, so it is easy and obvious now.
2041 * Make login and logout show at the same place. Is only shown when
2042 show_login is True (default).
2043 * Disabled login using &uid=12345.67.8910 method. Please use name/password.
2044 * Made builtin moin_cookie authentication more modular: the cookie is now
2045 touched by MoinMoin.auth.moin_cookie only, with one minor discomfort:
2046 When creating a user, you are not automatically logged in any more.
2047 * We now use the packager for additional help and system pages in all other
2048 languages except English. The packages are attached to SystemPagesSetup
2049 page and can be installed from there after getting "superuser" powers.
2050 The "extra" package contains a collection of orphan pages not listed on
2051 some SystemPagesIn<Language>Group page.
2056 * Fixed a minor user interface bug: it showed RenamePage and DeletePage
2057 actions in the menu if you only had write rights and then complained
2058 when you really tried when you had no delete rights additionally.
2059 * We don't remove RenamePage and DeletePage from menu any more if user is
2060 unknown. This stuff is only driven by ACLs now.
2061 * Some fixes to Despam action.
2062 * Fixed moin_dump (broken by some recent theme init change).
2063 * Fixed a few tests by moving the theme init from moin_dump to RequestCLI.
2064 * removed old_onload reference from infobox.js
2065 * Fixed MoinMoin logo for IE.
2066 * search: fixed whitespace handling in linkto: search terms
2067 * Increased stability of the tests system by outputting results to sys.stdout
2068 instead of request. Note that this changes the semantics for e.g. mod_py or
2070 * Fixed packaging system in the case of AddRevision that does not alter the page.
2071 * Fixed a few bugs in the XML formatters (dom_xml, text_xml, xml_docbook).
2072 * Fixed link icons. We now just use a.xxx.before where xxx is the link scheme,
2073 e.g. a.http.before. See theme's common.css.
2074 * Hopefully fixed some issue with non-ASCII attachment filenames.
2075 * Workaround for Opera 8.5 making silly "No addition" categories.
2076 * Do not show GUI editor for non-wiki format pages, because we only have a
2077 converter from html to wiki right now.
2078 * Fix the modern CSS issues for editbar, when it shifted content far right.
2079 Also removed the absolute height value that never was right.
2080 * Fix mod_python adaptor bugs failing to handle Location correctly.
2081 See: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=339543
2084 * Added irc:// to the builtin supported link schemas. You can remove it
2085 from config.url_schemas in case you have patched it in there.
2086 * Added cfg.user_autocreate (default: False). Use True to enable user
2087 profile autocreation, e.g. when you use http authentication, so your
2088 externally authenticated users don't need to create their moin profile
2089 manually. The auth method (see cfg.auth list) must check this setting
2090 if it supports auto creation.
2091 * Added user_autocreate support for auth.http and auth.sslclientcert.
2092 * Added "." and "@" to allowed characters in usernames. This is needed
2093 e.g. when using mod_pubcookie for authentication. mod_pubcookie returns
2094 userids like "geek@ANDREW.CMU.EDU" (e.g. the Kerberos domain is part of
2095 the id). Thanks to Brian E. Gallew for his patch, which we used for
2096 inspiration for user autocreation changes.
2097 * Changed auth method to return a tuple (user_obj, continue_flag), see
2098 comments in auth.py.
2099 * auth methods now create user objects with kw args auth_method and
2100 auth_attribs, so that moin knows later how the user was authenticated
2101 and which user object attributes were determined by the auth method.
2102 * Added MoinMoin/scripts/import/IrcLogImporter.py to import supybot's
2103 IRC logs into a moin wiki. We use MonthCalendar compatible page names,
2104 so you can use the calendar for showing / navigating the logs.
2105 * Removed packager binary from FCKeditor (fixing a Debian policy problem).
2106 * Worked around .png transparency bugs of IE with the new logo. We ship
2107 two logos: moinmoin.png without an alpha channel (IE compatible) and
2108 moinmoin_alpha.png which has an alpha channel and looks better on
2109 browsers with full .png support.
2110 * Allow a .zip file to have a directory in it if it is the only one.
2114 * use <span class="anchor"> instead of <a> for line-xxx anchors, this
2115 fixes some rendering problems on IE
2116 * Fixed the ReStructured text parser when it was used with non-HTML
2117 formatters. Increased compatiblity with new docutils code.
2118 (Thanks to Matt Gilbert.)
2120 * cfg.stylesheets = [] (default). You can use this on wiki or farm level
2121 to emit stylesheets after the theme css and before the user prefs css.
2122 The list entries must be ('screen', '/where/ever/is/my.css') style.
2123 * Added sample code for auth using an external cookie made by some other
2124 program. See contrib/auth_externalcookie/*. You need to edit it to
2125 fit whatever cookie you want to use.
2129 * fixed editor preview throwing away page content for new pages
2130 * require POST for userform save and create* action
2131 * use request.normalizePagename() while collecting pagelinks
2132 * do not offer gui editor for safari
2134 * tell user if account is disabled
2135 * added support for linking to .ico and .bmp
2136 * attachment methods for the text_xml and xml_docbook formatters
2138 * updated i18n (fixed nl, did nobody notice this?) and underlay
2139 * changed show_interwiki default to 0
2144 * fix gui editor (converter) crash on save
2147 * Avoid destroying existing page content if editor is called with
2148 template parameter for an existing page.
2149 * fix countdown javascript for browser status line in editor
2150 * added page title display for editor
2151 * added header div for classic theme
2153 Authentication and related:
2154 * Added a WhoAmI.py wiki xmlrpc plugin to check whether auth works
2155 correctly for xmlrpc. There is a counterpart script WhoAmI.py that
2156 uses http auth when calling the xmlrpc plugin, so you can use it to
2160 * Requirements changed to require Python >= 2.3. We recommend that
2161 you use the latest Python release you can get. The reason we
2162 dropped 2.2.2 support is because no developer or tester uses this
2163 old version any more, so incompatibilities crept in the code
2164 without anybody noticing. Using some recent Python usually is no
2165 real problem, see there for some hints in case you still run an
2166 old python: http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/NewPythonOnOldLinux
2167 The hint also does apply to other POSIX style operating systems,
2169 * We recommend you use MoinMoin/scripts/cachecleaner.py to clean the
2170 wiki's cache (see comments at top of the script).
2171 The cache will automatically be rebuilt (some operations may take
2172 some time when first being used, e.g. linkto: search, so be patient!).
2175 * there is a file CHANGES.config with just the recently changed stuff
2178 * page_front_page old: u"FrontPage" new: u"HelpOnLanguages"
2179 please just read the help page in case you see it :)
2180 * bang_meta old: 0 new: 1
2181 * show_section_numbers old: 1 new: 0
2182 * some regexes that used to be [a-z]Uxxxx$ are now [a-z0-9]Uxxxx$
2183 * navi_bar has no page_front_page as first element any more
2184 * removed settings and code [new behaviour]:
2186 * allow_extended_names [1]
2187 * allow_numeric_entities [1]
2189 * allow_subpages [1]
2191 * cfg.mail_sendmail = "/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i" can be used if sending
2192 via SMTP doesn't work on your server. Default is None and that means
2194 * language_default replaces the old default_lang setting (just renamed).
2195 * language_ignore_browser = True can be used to let moin ignore the
2196 user's browser settings (e.g. if you run a local-language only wiki
2197 and your users use misconfigured or buggy browsers often). Default is
2198 False. Don't forget to set language_default when using this.
2200 * Wiki Editor changes / new WYSIWYG editor
2201 * fully imported the javascript based LGPLed FCKeditor (many thanks
2202 to Fred CK for his great work). See http://fckeditor.net/ for details.
2203 * config for FCKeditor is at wiki/htdocs/applets/moinfckeditor.js
2204 * added cfg.interwiki_preferred (default = []) to set a list of wikis to
2205 show at the top of the wiki selection list when inserting an
2206 interwiki link (just use the same wiki name as in interwiki
2207 map). If the last list item is None, then the preferred wikis
2208 will not be followed by the entries of the interwiki map.
2209 * moved save/preview/... buttons to the top so that they can be
2211 * reduced edit_rows default to 20 lines
2212 * Added support for edit by doubleclick in the diff view
2214 * Improved wiki farm support
2215 * make user files sharable between several wikis in a farm
2216 * allow/use interwiki subscriptions
2217 * use interwiki links in page trail
2218 * save bookmark per wiki name
2219 * cfg.cookie_domain can be used to set a cookie valid for a complete
2220 domain (default: None == only for this host). If you use '.domain.tld',
2221 the cookie will be valid for all hosts *.domain.tld - good for host
2223 * cfg.cookie_path can be used to set a cookie valid for a wiki farm under
2224 some base path (default: None == only for this wiki's path). If you use
2225 '/wikifarm', the cookie will be valid for all wikis
2226 server.tld/wikifarm/* - good for path based wiki farms.
2227 * Interwiki user homepage (if you have MANY users)
2228 Generated links for usernames are interwiki now, use cfg.user_homewiki
2229 (default: 'Self') to specify in which wiki the user home pages are
2230 located. Note: when pointing this to another wiki, the /MoinEditorBackup
2231 functionality will be disabled.
2232 @SIG@ also uses interwiki when needed.
2234 * Authentication, ACLs and related
2235 * Modular authentication: cfg.auth is a list of functions that return a
2236 valid user or None, use it like this:
2237 from MoinMoin.auth import http, moin_cookie
2238 auth = [http, moin_cookie]
2239 * cfg.auth_http_enabled was removed, please use cfg.auth instead.
2240 * http auth now supports "Negotiate" scheme, too
2241 * Added sslclientcert auth method (Apache: untested, Twisted: not
2242 implemented, IIS: no idea). See MoinMoin/auth.py for details.
2243 Submit a patch if you have improvements.
2244 * cfg.superuser is a list of unicode usernames. It is used by some
2245 critical operations like despam action or PackageInstaller.
2246 * removed allowed_actions, we now use actions_excluded only and it
2247 defaults to [], that means, no action is excluded, everything is
2248 allowed (limited by ACLs). In case of RenamePage and DeletePage,
2249 this shouldn't be a problem as both can be reverted. In case you
2250 did not allow attachments, you now have to use:
2251 actions_excluded = ['AttachFile']
2252 * special users (All, Known, Trusted) in Groups are now supported
2253 * MoinMoin.security.autoadmin SecurityPolicy added
2254 When using this security policy, a user will get admin rights on his
2255 homepage (where pagename == username) and its sub pages. This is needed
2256 for the MyPages action, but can also get used for manual ACL changes.
2257 It can also be used for Project page auto admin functionality, see the
2258 comments in the script for details.
2259 Further it can automatically create the user's group pages when the
2260 user saves his homepage.
2261 * there is a UpdateGroup xmlrpc call, see MoinMoin/xmlrpc/UpdateGroup.py -
2262 you can use this to update your *Group pages e.g. when generating them
2263 from an external group database.
2265 * UserPreferences changes
2266 * Alias name: is used for display purposes, when "name" is cryptic. It is
2267 shown e.g. in the title attribute of userid links (displayed when
2268 moving the mouse over it).
2269 * "Publish my email (not my wiki homepage) in author info" - use this
2270 if you don't have a wiki homepage, but if you want to be contactable
2271 by email. When you edit a page, your email address will be published
2272 as mailto: link on RecentChanges, at bottom of page (last editor) and
2273 in page info. If the wiki runs publically on the internet, be careful
2274 using this or your email address might be collected by spammers.
2275 * Preferred Editor: whether you want to use the text editor (as in
2276 previous moin versions), the gui editor (new!) or both (you will get
2277 2 edit links in that case).
2278 * a user can add/remove the current page to/from his quicklinks with an
2279 appropriate action now
2280 * if cfg.user_email_unique = False, we don't require user's email
2281 addresses to be unique
2282 * removed show_fancy_links user preferences setting to simplify code and
2283 caching. Displaying those icons is now done by CSS styles (see
2284 common.css). Maybe needs fixing for non-standard themes and RTL langs.
2287 * added strikethrough markup: --(striked through text here)--
2288 * @ME@ expands to just the plain username (no markup added) on save
2291 * when a user accesses his own non-existing homepage (pagename ==
2292 username), the wiki will present the MissingHomePage system page
2293 content, explaining what a user homepage is good for and offer
2294 one-click editing it with content loaded from HomepageTemplate
2295 * creation of homepage subpages is assisted by the MyPages action, which
2296 offers rw, ro page creation (and a related group) or creation of private
2297 pages. If you are not in the user_homewiki, you will get redirected
2300 Other changes/new features:
2301 * Added PackageInstaller and unzipping support (see wiki page
2302 HelpOnActions/AttachFile for further details). PackageInstaller requires
2303 the user to be in cfg.superuser list.
2304 * Added an PackagePages action to simplify the package creation.
2305 * Added location breadcrumbs - when you are on some subpage, the page
2306 title parts link to the corresponding parent pages, the last part does
2307 the usual reverse linking.
2308 * added WSGI server support, thanks to Anakim Border, see:
2309 wiki/server/moinwsgi.py (moin as WSGI app, uses the flup WSGI server,
2310 see http://www.saddi.com/software/flup/)
2311 MoinMoin/server/wsgi.py (adaptor code)
2312 * added a "Despam" action to make de-spamming a wiki easy (mass revert
2313 bad changes done by a single author or bot). You need to be in
2314 cfg.superuser to use it.
2315 * Better diffs with links to anchors to the changed places
2316 * Enhanced table support in the DocBook formatter.
2317 * Added 'moin' daemon script, that let you run moin standalone
2318 server as daemon and control the server with simple command line
2319 intreface: moin start | stop | restart | kill
2320 * Add 'restart' option to mointwisted script
2321 * Add properties option to standalone server config. Allow
2322 overriding any request property like in other server types.
2323 * Add support for running behind proxy out of the box with out
2325 See HelpOnConfiguration/IntegratingWithApache
2326 * added a WikiBackup action, configure it similar to this:
2327 data_dir = "/path/to/data"
2328 backup_include = [data_dir, ] # you can add other dirs here
2329 backup_users = ["BackupUserName", ] # only TRUSTED users!
2330 You usually don't need to change the default backup_exclude setting.
2331 The default backup_include list is EMPTY and so will be your
2332 backup in case you don't configure it correctly.
2333 If you put your data_dir there, the backup will contain private
2334 user data like email addresses and encrypted passwords.
2335 * Added a SubscribeUser action which allows the administrator to subscribe users to the
2337 * Added thread count to SystemInfo macro.
2338 * 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.
2339 * Added a RenderAsDocbook action which redirects to the DocBook formatter.
2340 * Added searching for wiki-local words lists under <data_dir>/dict/.
2341 They are used additionally to the global lists in MoinMoin/dict/.
2342 * moin_dump now also dumps attachments referenced from the page.
2343 It doesn't dump stuff that is just attached, but not referenced!
2344 * On RecentChanges we now force the comment to be breakable, this improves
2345 rendering of over-long words or on narrow browser windows - especially
2346 for themes with limited content width like rightsidebar.
2347 * We now have the "new" icon on RecentChanges clickable, just links to the
2349 * Print view now shows "interwikiname: pagename" (for show_interwiki = 1).
2351 International support:
2352 * mail_from can be now a unicode name-address
2353 e.g u'Jürgen wiki <noreply@jhwiki.org>'
2356 * logo_string is now should be really only the logo (img).
2357 If you included your wiki's name in logo_string you maybe want to remove
2358 it now as it is shown as part of the location display now anyway (if
2359 you set show_interwiki = 1).
2360 * You maybe want to remove page_front_page from your navi_bar - we link to
2361 that page now from the logo and (new, if you set show_interwiki = 1) from
2362 the interwiki name displayed in location display, so you maybe don't need
2363 it in navi_bar, too.
2364 * If you have a custom theme, you should / may:
2365 * sync modern/css/screen.css #pagelocation #pagetrail stuff to your
2366 screen.css or pagelocation display (title()) will look strange (like a
2368 * remove "#title h1 ..." CSS (or any other CSS assuming h1 is a page
2369 title and not just a first level heading), it is not used any more.
2370 * we now render = heading = as <h1> (was <h2> before 1.5),
2371 == heading == as <h2> (was <h3>), etc.
2372 * maybe move both title() and trail() to header area, like the builtin
2374 * there is a new interwiki() base theme method that optionally (if
2375 show_interwiki = 1) shows the interwiki name of this wiki and links to
2376 page_front_page. The css for it is #interwiki.
2379 * Plugin API was improved. When plugin module is missing,
2380 wikiutil.PluginMissingError is raised. When trying to import a
2381 missing name from a plugin module, wikiutil.PluginMissingError is
2382 raised. You must update any code that use wikiutil.importPlugin.
2383 Errors in your plugin should raise now correct tracebacks. See
2384 http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/ErrorHandlingInPlugins
2385 * pysupport.importName was changed, it does not check for any
2386 errors when trying to import a name from a module. The calling
2387 code should check for ImportError or AttributeError. Previous
2388 code used to hide all errors behind None.
2389 * Its easier now to customize the editbar by overriding
2390 editbarItems() in your theme, and returning a list of items to
2391 display in the editbar. To change a single editbar link, override
2392 one of the xxxLink methods in your theme.
2395 * request.formatter (html) is available for actions now
2396 * theme API's d['page_home_page'] is gone (sorry) and replaced by
2397 d['home_page'] which is either None or tuple (wikiname,pagename).
2398 It is better to use the base classes function for username/prefs anyway.
2399 * introduced cfg.hacks for internal use by development, see comment in
2400 multiconfig.py and file HACKS.
2401 * added IE7 (v0.9) from Dean Edwards (see http://dean.edwards.name/IE7/) -
2402 that should fix quite some IE bugs and annoyances (on Win32).
2403 * for enabling IE7, use cfg.hacks = { 'ie7': True }
2404 * reducewiki now also copies all attachments (we use that to make underlay
2405 directory from moinmaster wiki's data_dir)
2408 * Fixed a typo in xslt.py which led to a traceback instead of an
2409 error message in case of disabled XSLT support.
2410 * Fixed crash in twisted server if twisted.internet.ssl is not
2412 * Fixed wrong decoding of query string, enable wiki/?page_name urls
2413 with non ascii page names.
2414 * Fixed wrong display of non ascii attachments names in
2415 RecentChanges and page revision history.
2416 * Fixed a crash when trying to run standalone server on non posix os.
2417 * Fixed highlight of misspelled words in Check Spelling action.
2418 * Fixed case insensitivity problems on darwin (Mac OS X). See
2420 * Added RecentChanges (only the english one) to the pages getting
2421 html_head_index headers
2422 * text_html cache files written with this code will invalidate themselves
2423 if they detect to be older than the wikiconfig. Note: you should remove
2424 all old text_html cache files once after upgrading, they will then be
2425 rebuilt automatically with the new code.
2427 * Fixed the word_rule: a word like AAAbbAbb isn't teared into two parts
2428 any more (was: AA<link>AbbAbb</link>)
2429 * Fixed false positive InterWiki markup for languages like Finnish.
2430 InterWiki links are only rendered if the left side has an appropriate
2431 entry in the interwiki map, otherwise it is rendered as simple text.
2432 * Fixed unicode error when uploding non-ascii file name using mod
2434 * Fixed error handling of wikirpc requests, should give more
2435 correct errors and prevent no error output and blocking the
2436 client in some cases.
2437 * Fixed the "lost password" mail processing. If a user entered some email
2438 address unknown to the system, he was not notified of this, but just got
2439 a useless mail with no account data in it. Now the system directly tells
2440 the user that he entered an unknown email address.
2441 * Fixed SystemInfo, it now also lists parsers in data/plugin/parser dir.
2442 * Fix error handling on failure, improved error display
2443 * Fix error handling when importing plugins or importing modules
2444 dynamically. The fix is not backward compatible with older plugins.
2445 * Fix chart action, returns a page with error message when chart
2447 * Fixed formatter usage in the ShowSmileys macro.
2448 * Fixed updating pagelinks cache for [:page:text] or [wiki:Self:page text],
2449 fixes display of LocalSiteMap and rendering of such links.
2450 * Hopefully fixed urllib problems (esp. with py 2.4.2, but also before) by
2451 using our own urllib wrapper that handles encoding/decoding to/from
2452 unicode, see wikiutil.py. Also made a similar fix for making and parsing
2454 * Fixed MonthCalendar tooltips when containing special chars like quotes.
2455 * Added html escaping for diff text for RSS feed with diff=1.
2456 * The distance between page content beginning and the first = heading =
2457 was much too much. Fixed.
2461 We used that version number for an internal and early development version
2462 for what will be called moin 2.0 at some time in the future.
2463 There will never be a 1.4.x release.
2466 Version 1.3.5 (2005-08-04, Revision moin--main--1.3--patch-883)
2469 * small CSS fix for rightsidebar theme
2470 * applied some Debian patches (thanks to Jonas!):
2471 * de i18n spelling fixes
2472 * AttachFile fix, we strip CR in .draw files now
2473 * when loading spellcheck dictionaries, we want utf-8, but we make
2474 a 2nd try with iso-8859-1 encoding.
2478 * enabled using https with the Twisted server:
2479 You need to use port 443, have PyOpenSSL (+ ssl libs it depends on)
2480 installed and have some site key and certificate PEM files configured in
2481 your twistedmoin.py file:
2482 sslcert = ('/whereever/cert/sitekey.pem', '/whereever/cert/sitecert.pem')
2485 Version 1.3.5rc1 (2005-07-31, Revision moin--main--1.3--patch-865)
2489 * Fixed security bug when acl of deleted page was ignored. See:
2491 * AttachFile did not display the original filename plus there
2492 was a confusion in input field labelling ('Rename to').
2493 * Fixed shortcut link non-existent page detection.
2494 * Fixed non-working bookmark function on python 2.2.x.
2495 * Fixed wikirpc getPageInfo call on python 2.2.x.
2496 * Fixed the failing import of plugins from the data/plugin/
2497 directories if run in zipimport environments.
2498 * Fixed traceback which occurred on negated searches.
2499 * Fixed crash when trying to render error message on twisted, fast
2501 * Fixed error message with modpy, used to show wrong errors below
2503 * Fixed search and goto text fields for better compatibility with
2504 dark themes and better control through css.
2505 * Show an edit link if MissingPage is missing and a warning in the
2507 * Fixed missing footer in the editor.
2508 * Fixed indented (invalid) headings with broken links in table of
2510 * Fixed crash when file name is too long, show standard error message.
2511 * Save trail file in a safe way, should be enough for normal use.
2512 * Fixed remember_last_visit user preferences option when show_trail
2514 * Fixed the tests for Standalone, Twisted, FastCGI and Mod_Python.
2515 Run with ?action=test from any page.
2516 * Fixed rare bug when wrong search type was performed when pasting
2517 search term in Safari.
2518 * Fixed crash for custom formatters and dom_xml (which occurred if
2519 smileys were in the page).
2520 * Editor opens on double click in pages with single quote in the
2521 name, like "Ben's Wiki".
2522 * '/.' in page names are not replaced any more by '/(2e)'
2523 * Fixed the long delays while saving pages using RequestCLI.
2524 * Fixed variable expanding for users with non WikiName.
2525 * Fixed MonthCalendar's calculation of "today" to use the user's
2527 * Fixed moin_dump script, use same configuration options as other
2529 * Fixed url_mappings to work in proxied setups and sent mails
2530 again. Also fixed for image links. Thanks to JohannesBerg.
2531 * Fixed page shown after saving a drawing (esp. when saved from a
2532 sub page). Fixed help link for drawings.
2533 * Fixed mig10 script to run on Python < 2.3.
2534 * The twisted server defaulted to a socket timeout of 12 hours!
2535 We reduced that to a more sane 10 minutes, that should still be more
2536 than enough. This fixed the "too many open files" problem we
2537 encountered quite often recently. Thanks to Helmut Grohne!
2542 * Added cz, pt and pt-br i18n.
2543 * We send a 404 http status code for nonexisting wiki pages now,
2544 maybe this will repell some search engines from requesting gone
2545 pages again and again. The wiki user still sees the MissingPage
2546 wiki stuff, so a user usually won't notice this change.
2547 * Return 500 error code on failure and exceptions.
2548 * Added some more bot / leech tool user agent strings.
2549 * Prevent page floating elements from floating out of the page over
2550 the footer, in modern, rightsidebar and classic themes.
2551 * Encode URLs in a safer way
2552 * We allow usernames with ' character in them now (like Tim O'Brian).
2553 * Added support for the new security flags in docutils 0.3.9.
2554 * @MAILTO@ expands now to safer [[MailTo()]] macro.
2555 * Clarified and i18ned lost password mails.
2556 * Added 'TitleIndex' and 'SiteNavigation' (+ translation) to the
2557 list of pages that use html_head_index (so that robots
2558 "index,follow"). Please make sure to have either FindPage,
2559 TitleIndex or SiteNavigation in your navi_bar or in your
2560 page_front_page content if you want search engines to find all
2562 * Make it possible to send account data when being logged in (for
2563 future reference or whatever purpose).
2564 * Speed up when running with persistent servers, the wiki config
2565 does only get loaded once and misc. stuff is being cached between
2567 * The unit tests are disabled when using multi threading, because
2568 the wiki configuration is shared between diffrent threads.
2569 * The main code path (using standalone server) of MoinMoin runs on
2571 * Formatters do automatically transform HTML to plain text if they are
2572 called with raw HTML code.
2573 * Using larger socket backlog on Standalone and FastCGI servers
2574 should be more reliable on high load.
2575 * We now strip leading path from attachments uploaded by IE (this is
2576 a bug in IE, not in MoinMoin). Better use a sane browser, like Firefox.
2577 * added "teleport" to the user agent blacklist
2581 * Integrated Lupy indexer for better search performance. It is disabled
2582 by default as of 1.3.5 as it still has known issues.
2583 See multiconfig.py if you want to test it.
2584 * Integrated MonthCalendar 2.1, with some new features:
2585 * a mouseover bubble that shows first level headlines of the linked
2587 * all calendars with same pagename move when using cal navigation,
2588 thanks to Oliver Graf
2589 * included AnnualMonthlyCalendar patch of Jonathan Dietrich
2590 (use [[MonthCalendar(Yearly,,,+1,,6,1)]] syntax for birthdays and
2591 other annually repeating stuff)
2592 Make sure you remove old MonthCalendar.* from data/plugin/macro so that
2593 moin will use the new code in MoinMoin/macro/MonthCalendar.py.
2594 Maybe also clear the text_html cache.
2595 * Added the new XSLT parser and the DocBook parser. This should increase
2596 the 4suite compatiblity. See HelpOnXmlPages for details.
2597 It now should run on 4suite 1.0a4 and 1.0b1. Thanks to Henry Ho!
2598 * Added the DocBook formatter. This will let you generate DocBook markup
2599 by writing simple wiki pages. It needs PyXML.
2600 * It is now possible to customize parts of the UserPreferences page in
2601 your wikiconfig (changing defaults, disabling fields, removing fields):
2602 * Use user_checkbox_* for the checkboxes.
2603 * Use user_form_* for other fields.
2604 * See MoinMoin/multiconfig.py for the built-in defaults.
2605 * New standalone server classes: ThreadPoolServer using pool of
2606 threads, ThreadingServer with thread limit and ForkingServer.
2607 * New standalone server configuration options: serverClass,
2608 threadLimit, requestQueueSize.
2609 * Use "PythonOption Location" in mod_python setup to solve script_name
2614 * Theme can now override maxPagenameLength() method to control page
2616 * A search Match now provides access to the full re match via
2617 the re_match attribute (use to access groups of the match)
2618 * Underlay is not managed by arch any more. The tree contains an
2619 underlay tarball, and you should untar after you update from main.
2620 * "make update-underlay" will untar underlay
2621 * "make merge" will star-merge main into your tree
2622 * "make test" will now create and run in a fresh testwiki instace
2623 * "make clean" options added
2624 * _tests module does not have a global request any more. To refer to
2625 the current request in a test, use self.request.
2626 * _tests.TestConfig class require a request in the constructor.
2627 * "python tests/runtests.py test_module" will run only test_module
2628 * request.cfg stays between requests (for persistent servers).
2631 Version 1.3.4 (2005-03-13, Revision moin--main--1.3--patch-666)
2635 * Fixed ACL check in LikePages macro that caused links to unreadable
2637 * Fixed ACL check in newpage action.
2638 * Fixed a security problem when admin policy defined in a custom
2639 SecurityPolicy class was ignored.
2640 * Fixed ACL check in action=show so that a user who may not read a page
2641 also can't find out WHEN the protected page was updated.
2642 * Workaround on Windows 95, 98, ME in order to clear the dircache.
2643 This fixes some bugs related to an outdated page list and newly created
2644 pages that did not appear immediately.
2645 * Fixed decoding issues of page names on Windows, finally.
2647 * Fixed traceback on IIS.
2649 * Fixed wikirpc for standalone server.
2650 * Other fixes (encoding and str/unicode data type related) to wikirpc
2651 server, fixing some non-ascii issues hopefully.
2652 * Fixed broken query strings for Standalone installations.
2653 * Fixed backlinks - the result did not always show all links, often it
2655 * Fixed the acceptance of the show_hosts setting. Now you should be able
2656 to hide any IP or host name from being published by MoinMoin by enabling
2658 * Fixed wrong line endings on email messages.
2660 * Fixed crash when trail file is missing.
2661 * Fixed a traceback when searching for single ( or ).
2662 * Added mig10 script to fix crashes with uncoverted edit-locks and file
2663 attachments. Just use it as you did with mig1..mig9 before.
2664 * Added mig11 script to add __init__.py files to data/plugin (and below).
2665 * added some fixes for the xslt parser (thanks to fanbanlo), it might be
2666 still broken, but someone with deeper knowledge about xslt should fix it.
2667 * Replaced image link with W3C's "html 4.01 compliance" icon by a simple
2668 text link to avoid https: or config trouble.
2669 * Catch OverflowError backtrace when illegal date strings (e.g. <1970 or
2670 >2038) are fed to moinmoin's time routines. It will just output current
2671 date / time in those cases.
2672 * UserPreferences now also set a date_fmt preference and Date macro
2673 honours it. You may have to reset your UserPreferences value for that.
2674 * Fixed free parent and subpage links in interwiki notation.
2676 * Fixed a traceback for invalid ReST markup.
2677 * Fixed UnicodeError in SystemAdmin's Attachment Browser.
2681 * Optimized the IRC parser.
2682 * Support for zipimport of the MoinMoin package. This allows you to use
2683 py2exe and similar programs.
2684 * Show the editor's name in the mail subject.
2685 * Added the pragmas description and keywords. They will add <meta> headers
2687 * Added MoinMoin/scripts/xmlrpc-tools/putPageTest.py example script, useful
2688 as a starting point for importing data using wiki xmlrpc.
2689 * Optimised display on Opera browser.
2693 * The search modifier "linkto:" was introduced. You can use it to search
2695 * The NewPage macro now can take a PageTemplate parameter, see HelpOnMacros.
2696 * New config settings (so you don't need to edit wikirpc.py any more):
2697 xmlrpc_putpage_enabled = 0 (if 1, enables writing to arbitrary page names)
2698 xmlrpc_putpage_trusted_only = 1 (if 0, doesn't require users to be
2699 authenticated by http auth - DANGEROUS, DO NOT SET TO 0!!!)
2700 * Added support for Digest and NTLM authentication with CGI (e.g. if you
2701 use those Apache modules)
2702 * The datetime string accepted by Date and DateTime macros was extended to
2703 accept a timezone specification, so now +/-HHMM is also valid, e.g.:
2704 2005-03-06T15:15:57Z (UTC, same as +0000)
2705 2005-03-06T15:15:57+0000 (UTC)
2706 2005-03-06T16:15:57+0100 (same time given as local time for time zone
2707 with offset +0100, that is CET, e.g. Germany)
2708 2005-03-06T10:15:57-0500 (same time given as local time for time zone
2709 with offset -0500, EST, US Eastern Std. Time)
2710 The values given as macro argument will be transformed to UTC internally
2711 and then adapted again according to viewing user's UserPreferences, so
2712 the user will see the same moment in time but shown in his local time
2713 zone's time (at least if he set his UserPreferences correctly and didn't
2714 forget changing them twice a year for DST and non-DST).
2715 * Readded (now optional) editlink footer to Include macro. Add
2716 ',editlink' to call to enable this.
2717 * star "smileys" e.g. {*}{*}{*}{o}{o}
2720 Version 1.3.3 (2005-01-24, Revision moin--main--1.3--patch-595)
2724 * fixed ACL security problem in search
2725 * fix for IIS with CGI allowing page names that contain chars
2726 that are not in the system code page
2727 * fixed MoinEditorBackup revisions to start with 1 now
2728 * improved page locking ('current' file)
2729 * Unittests (normally shown at end of action=test output) are currently
2730 disabled for everything except CGI, because they only work reliably with
2731 CGI, giving wrong results for other request methods.
2734 Version 1.3.2 (2005-01-23, Revision moin--main--1.3--patch-587)
2738 * ACL bugfix for deleted pages with ACL protection.
2739 * ACL bugfix for "Default" acl.
2740 * Fixed updating of groups and dicts
2741 * Python 2.2.x related fixes (worked on 2.3+)
2742 * Fixed traceback in RecentChanges.
2743 * Fixed traceback with links browser.
2744 * Fixed 0 revision display in 'Show changes'.
2745 * Fixed traceback in Antispam which occurred when it could not connect
2746 to MoinMaster. Log the errors to stderr or error.log.
2747 * Fixed bug in Page init (no date, use rev). Fixes problem with
2749 * Fixed empty lists in empty search results.
2750 * Cosmetic fix for modern theme (when viewed with Internet Explorer).
2751 * Fixed migration 9 script, do not drop newline, do not drop error.log,
2752 note about missing error.log.
2753 * Fixed repair_language.py script, keep ending newline on revisions.
2754 * Show headings and macro content in correct direction when mixing content
2755 in several directions in the same page and using caching.
2756 * Fixed bug in standalone re farmconfig.
2757 * Fixed DOS condition in antispam code.
2758 * Use smaller margin in print mode to get better results with
2760 * Fixed some user input escaping issues.
2761 * Fixed a problem when one wiki plugin override other wikis plugins in
2763 * Fixed some broken tests.
2764 * Fixed recursive include in pstats.
2765 * Fixed bug in standalone - HTTP result code was 200 even when the access
2767 * Fixed traceback when trying to login with non-ascii password.
2768 * Fixed traceback when xml is not available, reported on Python 2.2.?
2769 * Fixed slideshow to show slides in sorted order again.
2770 * Fixed serving multiple wikis on same IP/different ports with twisted and
2772 * It is possible to run with data_underlay_dir = None for special
2773 application, but be aware that the wiki won't be usable unless you have
2774 at least some of the system pages from underlay/ available.
2775 * Files with Unicode characters in their filename are possible now.
2776 * Bugfix for broken [:page#anchor:text] links.
2777 * Workaround an instability of the gdchart module leading to
2778 stalled servers etc.
2779 * Fixed some event-log decoding issues that affect charts rendering.
2783 * Major speed improvement over 1.3.1. Many times faster title search,
2784 creating new page, opening page editor and any operation that list pages.
2785 See http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/MoinBenchmarks
2786 * Improved README.migration.
2787 * Cleaner design for login/register interface, login is always the default
2788 button when the user click Enter.
2789 * If there are problems found in the configuration, log the error
2790 and display helpful error messages in the browser.
2791 * More forgiving unicode configuration policy, you must use the u'string'
2792 format only for unicode values.
2793 * Added profiling to CGI.
2794 * The content of farmconfig.py is similar to wikiconfig.py now.
2795 * Unexpected errors while loading cache files are logged.
2796 * i18n for icon ALT tags.
2797 * Include request initialization code in the profile in standalone server.
2798 * When creating new theme, style sheets are inherited correctly, no need
2799 to override style sheets just to get them working.
2800 * Many times faster plugin system. Typical pages are about 35% faster,
2801 pages with many plugins can be many times faster.
2802 * Spiders are allowed to fetch attachments.
2803 * Old user files containing password hash encoded in pre 1.3 charset
2804 are auto repaired on first login.
2805 * data_dir defaults to './data', underlay_data_dir to './underlay' now.
2806 It is a good idea to replace those by absolute pathes in wikiconfig.py.
2807 * Renamed "Refresh" to "Delete Cache" - it was misused by users. The action
2808 was also moved into the action menu in the modern and rightsidebar themes.
2809 * Added a workaround for TableOfContents missing some links by making it
2810 uncacheable via a "time" dependency.
2811 * Removed interwiki icon and title attribute for wiki:Self:... links.
2812 * Unittests (normally shown at end of action=test output) are currently
2813 disabled because they worked unreliably, giving wrong results sometimes.
2817 * Create new pages easily using configurable interface and page templates
2818 with the new NewPage macro.
2819 * ReStructuredText (rst) support is built-in now. See HelpOnParsers.
2820 * New experimental feature in mointwisted.py - each interface may
2821 specify a port: '12.34.56.78:80'. Without a port, the port option
2827 * wikiutil.importPlugin's first argument is now a wiki config instance
2828 (request.cfg) and there is no path keyword.
2829 * Wiki plugins always override MoinMoin plugins. wikiutil.importPlugin
2830 implements this override.
2831 * util.pysupport.importName does not accept path - you should call
2832 it with correct module name, e.g 'wikiconfig.plugin.parser.wiki' for
2833 wiki plugins, or 'MoinMoin.parser.wiki'.
2834 * wikiutil.extensionPlugin was renamed to wikiPlugins and it gets config
2835 instance instead of path.
2836 * New function wikiutil.importWikiPlugin used to import wiki plugins
2837 using a cache in a thread safe way.
2838 * New config option config.use_threads is used to activate thread
2840 * New keyword arguments for getPageList, enable 10X faster operation
2841 for common cases by controlling page filtering.
2842 * New up to 100X times faster getPageCount
2845 Version 1.3.1 (2004-12-13, Revision moin--main--1.3--patch-434)
2849 * Fixed "Error Cyclic usage" crash when user had Italian (it), Korean
2850 (ko), Serbian (sr) or Vietnamese (vi) as user interface language.
2851 * Fall back to en (instead of crashing) when user uses a language moin
2852 does not support / does not support any more (like pt,sv,fi,sr).
2853 * In 1.3.0, people accidentally put iso-8859-1 chars into wiki configs,
2854 but those where expected to be pure utf-8 and thus it crashed.
2855 Fixed by using unicode strings (varname = u'whatever'), a matching
2856 encoding setting (see top of script comment) and, when decoding strings,
2857 using decode to ASCII with replace mode (this replaces non-ASCII chars,
2858 but at least it won't crash - and you get a warning to better use
2860 * Fixed long time broken table formatting. ||<style="see css spec" a||b||
2861 Now even generates valid HTML! The old markup for align, valign, width,
2862 bgcolor still works, but synthesizes style attribute data.
2863 * SystemAdmin macro shows attachments of ALL pages now.
2864 * Users without write acl rights will be able to see attachments again and
2865 also have AttachFile action in menu.
2866 * Fixed wrong match count in search results, find all matches in page
2867 titles, show all matches in contents in some rare cases.
2868 * Run about 200% faster with long running processes (standalone, Twisted),
2869 about 20% faster with cgi, by better internal data handling in wikidicts.
2870 * On SF, the dict files use utf-8 encoding now. We included them also in
2871 distribution, see contrib/dict/.
2872 * Fixed permissions to shared template stuff.
2873 * Speeded up search, fixed wrong match counts.
2874 * Speeded up internal data handling (wikidicts).
2875 * Fixed rare unicode error after deleting a page (reported only on SuSE
2876 Linux 9.0 / Python 2.3.0).
2877 * Fixed file permissions of files in the data dir.
2878 * Fixed some cosmetic problems in migration scripts and use sys.path.insert
2879 to get latest moin code when executing them.
2883 * Improved docs, system and help pages.
2884 * Updated translation files.
2888 * Internet Explorer renders our HTML/CSS in a suboptimal way.
2890 Workaround: use a non-broken browser like FireFox / Mozilla.
2891 Fixed in MoinMoin 1.3.2.
2892 * Passwords using non-ascii do not work.
2894 * The TOC macro is broken partly.
2897 * See also: http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/MoinMoinBugs
2900 Version 1.3.0 (2004-12-06, Revision moin--main--1.3--patch-400)
2902 As you see from the length of the 1.3 changes below, 1.3 is a major(!)
2903 upgrade. We could have also named it "2.0", but we decided against.
2904 So take the time for reading the informations thoroughly and do the
2905 migration exactly as we tell you - this is no 5 minutes upgrade!
2907 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2908 !!! We heavily changed configuration, data encoding, dir layout: !!!
2909 !!! * the default encoding changed to utf-8. !!!
2910 !!! * also, we changed the escaping for special chars to %XX%YY in !!!
2911 !!! URL and (xxyy) in file system. !!!
2912 !!! * layout of data dir changed completely !!!
2913 !!! If you upgrade an existing wiki, you must run the migration !!!
2914 !!! scripts or you will get data corruption or other problems. !!!
2915 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2917 HINT: Upgrading your wiki - critical information
2919 If you are NOT starting from scratch, you MUST convert your existing
2920 data - see README.migration for details.
2922 If you use ##language: xx comments on your OWN pages, you should also run
2923 repair_language script. Not needed for help/system pages as we already
2924 have done that for you.
2926 MoinMoin uses Unicode internally now (UCS-2 with 16 bits or UCS-4 with
2927 32 bits, depending on your Python installation). The encoding used
2928 for page files and html output is set by config.charset.
2930 Moin 1.3 uses utf-8 encoding only, there is NO SUPPORT for using a
2931 charset different from utf-8 with 1.3. If you try, you are on your own.
2935 Directory layout was heavily changed. Each page now is a directory,
2936 containing page revisions, attachments, cache files and edit-log.
2938 You can delete a page or move a page from one wiki to another
2939 easily. Look at the wiki/data directory to see.
2942 old: data/text/FrontPage
2943 new: data/pages/FrontPage/revisions/00000042
2944 data/pages/FrontPage/current (contains: 00000042)
2945 old: data/backup/FrontPage.xxxxxxxx
2946 new: data/pages/FrontPage/revisions/00000023
2948 For cleaning up cache files, use MoinMoin/scripts/cachecleaner.py
2949 (see comments in script).
2953 * For using RSS, you need to have PyXML installed:
2954 Python 2.4* -> PyXML 0.8.4 (cvs version)
2955 Python 2.3.x -> PyXML 0.8.3
2956 Python 2.2.2+ -> ???
2957 This will also make "Live Bookmarks" of Mozilla Firefox working.
2958 New: if you don't have PyXML installed, the RSS icon on RecentChanges
2959 will not be displayed any more. Python with no PyXML installed
2960 generates invalid RSS XML.
2964 * Handling of special characters in file names changed from _xx format
2966 * In URLs, moin now uses %xx%yy quoting, (because this is supported by
2967 browsers), and sub pages use "/" instead of the ugly "_2f".
2968 * Underscore character "_" is used now as a space character " " both
2969 in file names and URLs. " " and "_" will be handled equivalent at most
2970 places in the future (represented as "_", rendered as " ").
2971 * To prevent wiki abuse and user typing errors, page names are normalized
2972 in URLs, query strings, the "go" box and when renaming pages. This
2973 include leading, trailing and multiple slashes and white space. Certain
2974 invisible unicode characters are removed from page names.
2975 * Group page names are restricted even more, any non unicode alpha-numeric
2976 character is removed. This is done to enable changing acl syntax in
2977 the future. The restriction might be loosen on future versions.
2978 * You can edit config.page_invalid_chars_regex to control which characters
2979 are allowed in page names (Changing it is not supported).
2980 * When you enter page name, it is normalized and you are redirected to
2981 the normalized page, or if nothing left (e.g '/////'), to FrontPage.
2982 * When renaming a page to a name that can be normalized to an empty string,
2983 the new page name will be "EmptyName" and the user will not get an
2988 * Pages (especially system and help pages) are now located in an underlay
2989 directory (data_underlay_dir). You will see the pages there if they are
2990 NOT covered (overlayed) by a page in the normal pages directory
2991 (as set using data_dir).
2992 MAKE SURE THAT data_underlay_dir IS CORRECT OR YOU WILL SEE MANY EMPTY
2993 PAGES ONLY IN A NEW WIKI.
2994 * If you edit a page that is shown from underlay directory, it will be
2995 copied to the normal page directory on save (copy-on-write).
2996 * You can use one copy of the underlay directory shared by many
2997 wiki instances. Each wiki will then have only your local, self-made
2998 wiki pages in its data directory, and only system and help pages in the
2999 single, shared underlay directory - this simplifies upgrades a lot.
3000 * It is recommended to keep your underlay system and help pages immutable
3001 using acl, so you can upgrade your wiki easily. The default help and
3002 system pages already have those ACLs (using MoinPagesEditorGroup).
3003 * Do not forget to remove your old help and system pages after migrating
3004 your wiki. We don't provide a script for that as that would be
3005 dangerous for edited pages. Just use some file manager (e.g. mc) to
3006 clean the data/pages/ directory. As soon as you have removed the
3007 system pages there, you will see the new pages in the underlay dir.
3008 See the EditedSystemPages page for a list of pages that exist in both
3009 data and underlay directory (use this page as admin!).
3011 When updating from 1.2 or lower to 1.3 or higher, you will want to
3012 clean out the copies of the system pages in your {{{wiki/data}}}
3013 directory. All of these pages will now reside in the underlay
3014 directory. If you have system pages from 1.2 or lower in your
3015 wiki/data/ directory, they will overshadow the more up-to-date
3016 documentation. This can be done using the following manual procedure:
3017 1. You have just converted from 1.2 or lower to post-1.3.
3018 2. Go to your wiki's EditedSystemPages.
3019 3. Find all the pages that are MoinMoin system or help pages. You will
3020 know if it is one of those pages because it is not your page.
3021 4. Check if it is okay to delete by either:
3022 1. Using the this page "info" link and check the Revision History to
3023 see if it is greater than 1. If so, there are modifications, so do
3024 not delete the page and evaluate the modifications to see if they
3026 2. Using your file browser (Windows Explorer, etc) to go to your
3027 wiki/data/<<systemPage>>/revisions/ directory and to see if there
3028 are no modifications. If there are, do not delete the page and
3029 evaluate the modifications to see if they are necessary.
3030 5. Delete that wiki/data/<<systemPage>> using your file browser.
3034 * New file name quoting method allow 50% longer page names in languages
3035 that use more than one byte per character, like Hebrew, Korean etc.
3036 * Configuration file uses 'utf-8' encoding now. Certain values that are
3037 marked with [Unicode] can use any character in your language. Examples
3038 are page names in navi_bar, page types regular expressions and site name.
3039 * For configuration examples adopted to your language, check ConfigMarket
3040 in the MoinMoin wiki.
3041 * The system and help pages that come with moin are now in utf-8.
3042 * MissingPage system page localized, should display in your language.
3043 * We did many i18n (translation) updates.
3044 * CSS file use utf-8 encoding. User css is also expected to be utf-8.
3045 This is relevant only if you use non-ASCII values in the CSS file.
3046 * config.upperletters and config.lowerletters were removed.
3047 We now use a pre-made ucs-2 spanning set and you usually don't have to
3048 change it. See MoinMoin/util/chartypes.py if you're interested.
3049 * ACL works with any user name or group name in any language, even names
3051 * Now you can use any charset in config.charset. Note: only utf-8 is
3052 a supported configuration!
3053 * Improved url handling, now creating pages directly from the browser
3054 url box with non-ascii names works in most cases, even when
3055 config.charset is not utf-8.
3056 * When using non-utf-8 config.charset, characters in URLs that does
3057 fit in the charsets are replaced with "?" (instead of crashing).
3058 * All themes and most macros and actions are Right to Left friendly.
3059 Full RTL support planned for 1.3 release.
3060 * If page language is specified with #language processing instruction
3061 the page is displayed in the correct direction. Pages without
3062 language are displayed using the wiki default_lang.
3064 Multiple configurations
3066 * You can run multiple wikis from the same wiki directory or server.
3067 For example, you can run one Twisted server that serve multiple wikis,
3068 instead of running multiple servers. Samples of the new configuration
3069 are supplied in wiki/config/*.
3070 * You can't just use your old moin_config.py file. It is now called
3071 wikiconfig.py and the config variables now have to be in a class
3072 "Config" and that class must inherit from
3073 MoinMoin.multiconfig.DefaultConfig - see the provided wikiconfig.py
3075 This is very useful, e.g. you could derive a GermanConfig from
3076 DefaultConfig. After that, you can derive configs for wikiA and wikiB
3077 from that GermanConfig.
3078 * farmconfig.py contains a mapping attribute called "wikis" with pairs of
3079 wikiconfig module name and regular expression. The regular expression
3080 is matched against the URL of the request and the first matching entry
3081 determines the config module to be imported by MoinMoin.
3082 * If you use farmconfig.py's "wikis" mapping, then any wiki has a private
3083 config module, named after the wiki - e.g. wiki named moinmoin would
3085 * If you only have a single wiki, you do not need farmconfig.py. just make
3086 a wikiconfig.py and it will be used no matter what URL is requested.
3087 * There is one common global "config" that holds sitewide settings (like
3088 umask or charset) - you do not need to change settings there.
3089 This file is located in the MoinMoin code: MoinMoin/config.py.
3091 General configuration
3093 * SecurityPolicy now uses "write" instead of "edit" (so it is may.write
3094 now). This is to get it in sync with ACLs.
3095 * SecurityPolicy now automatically can use everything in acl_rights_valid.
3096 * There is a new config option "config_check_enabled". It will warn about
3097 any unknown variable name (probably typo) to stderr or error.log.
3098 If something doesn't work at all and changing the config does no
3099 difference, switch it on and look at the error message.
3100 * The sample config file comes with config_check_enabled = 1. If you
3101 introduce additional variables yourself, you definitely want to switch
3102 that check off or it will fill your log.
3103 * If you define "page_front_page" variable, this name will show in the
3104 navigation bar now, instead of the default "FrontPage".
3108 * Full text and title search do support multiple search terms now -
3109 see HelpOnSearching for details.
3110 * Regular expressions are still supported but have to be turned on per
3111 search term. Search terms in macros using regular expressions will have
3113 * The URL interface of the search engine has also changed. Links that
3114 point directly to search actions may be broken.
3118 * User names can not use group names, even if ACLs are not enabled.
3119 This will prevent error later, if you start to use acl in the future
3120 (acl is going to be mandatory in 1.5).
3121 * User names are not restricted any more to only CamelCase.
3122 * To prevent imposing as other users, leading, trailing and multiple
3123 whitespace in user names is not allowed. Only Unicode alpha numeric
3124 characters are allowed, with optional one space character between
3126 * When a user name with a group name or "bad" name is trying to
3127 access the wiki, he is redirected to the UserPreferences page and
3128 asked to create a new account.
3129 * When trying to login or create a new account with a bad name,
3130 correct error message is displayed in all cases.
3134 * You can not use your old moin.cgi file, as we removed cgimain.py
3135 (was deprecated since 1.2). Copy the new file from the server dir.
3137 Moin servers - Twisted and standalone
3139 * Configuration self checking on startup. Will raise an error in case
3140 of bad configuration or non-accessible directories.
3141 * Both use shorter and identical configuration options.
3142 * Server scripts contain detailed comments and examples.
3143 * Configuration defaults changed to fit most users.
3144 * There is memory profiler option for debugging, switched off by default.
3145 * If you perform a standard install, server scripts should run out
3146 of the box or with minimal change.
3150 * All code moved into the new server package, the server script
3151 contains only configuration options.
3152 * Listen to more than one interface with "interfaces" list.
3153 * Code updated to new Twisted API.
3154 * Use mointwisted script to start and stop the server, using
3155 "mointwisted start" and "mointwisted stop".
3156 * The Twisted server runs as daemon by default.
3157 * All moin Twisted files are called now mointwisted instead of
3159 * Fixed getting username from Twisted request (http auth)
3163 * Configuration moved from moin_config.py to moin.py.
3164 * If run as root, you can set both user and group for the server.
3165 * Can use logfile instead of logging to stderr.
3166 * Fixed missing unquoting of query string (caused problems in rare cases).
3170 * moin_modpy server files renamed to moinmodpy.
3174 * '''strong''', ''em'' and __underline__ have now paragraph scope. You can
3175 set these attributes on words level. For multiple paragraphs, wrap each
3177 * If you leave unclosed ''', '' and __ markup, its is closed when the
3182 * Due to many changes in CSS files, the wiki may look "broken" until
3183 your reload once or twice, or empty your browser cache.
3184 * The "Send mail notification" checkbox is replaced by "Trivial change"
3185 checkbox. The default behavior did not change - regular edit is not
3186 a trivial change, and mail will be sent to subscribes. If you check
3187 trivial change, mail will be sent only to users who selected to
3188 get trivial changes in their user preferences.
3189 * New theme "modern" has been added, and used as default theme.
3190 * classic and rightsidebar improved.
3191 * viewonly theme removed, as any theme can be use now as viewonly
3192 by using #acl All:read in the wikiconfig.
3193 * All themes use new navibar, displaying both wiki links, user links
3194 and the current page.
3195 * navibar and pagetrail use now shortened page names, so very long
3196 names does not break the interface visually.
3197 * All themes have improved search interface at the top of the window.
3198 * Only avaiable actions are displayed, so most situations when a user
3199 try to do something he can't do are prevented.
3200 * When creating a new page, no action is available until the page
3201 is created. You can't attach files to non-existing page any more.
3202 * Non registered users get a "login" link. Registered uses get
3203 "username" link to their home page, and "user preferences" link.
3204 * Messages more clear using bold type, designed by css.
3205 * Few useless messages removed (but there are many more)
3206 * Default wiki logo uses the wiki name instead of the MoinMoin troll
3209 Other fixes and changes
3211 * Most generated html code is valid "html 4 strict". There are still
3212 some problems that still have to be fixed, mainly macros, table
3213 attributes, and inline markup crossing (<a><b></a></b>).
3214 * WantedPages can include and exclude system pages, which makes it
3216 * Fixed a bug in TitleIndex where not all system pages are excluded.
3217 * RenamePage action now renames everything, including backups, page
3218 history, attachments. It does not change toplevel editlog, though.
3219 After you rename a page, you are redirected to the new page.
3220 * Syntax colorization supports more languages (Java, C++, Pascal)
3221 * Inline: display of attachments was extended. A Parser now knows which
3222 extensions it can handle.
3223 * TableOfContents and Include macros now cooperate a bit better. There
3224 are still problems with multiple Includes of the same page.
3225 * Excluded actions at bottom of page are not displayed any more.
3226 * Editor: removed the columns size setting, just using 100% of browser
3227 window width (it didn't work because of that anyway). Also removed that
3228 "reduce editor size" link at top of editor as you would lose your
3229 changes when using it.
3230 * Removed the option to choose text smileys instead of images, this made
3231 more trouble than it was worth. The text version is still given in ALT
3233 * Moved stuff from contribution/ to MacroMarket page on MoinMoin wiki
3234 * Some nasty people try to use a running moin as a proxy (at least they
3235 did on moinmaster.wikiwikiweb.de:8000, maybe due to the magic port
3236 number). We changed the code to check for that and just return 403
3237 in that case. Moin can not be used as a proxy anyway.
3238 * moin.cgi?test was removed in favor of a new buildin test
3239 action. It works for all deployments, just use ?action=test.
3240 * Sending mail does use tls if server supports it.
3242 3rd party developer notes
3244 * Themes should be now sub class of MoinMoin.theme.ThemeBase. Sub
3245 classes will get automatically all new improved user interface
3247 * Theme authors should update their theme for 1.3. Some keys removed
3248 from them dict. See ThemeBase class in MoinMoin/theme/__init__.py.
3249 * Actions writers should call request.setContentLangauge with the
3250 correct language used by the action. This enable themes and other
3251 code to use correct direction.
3252 * The Formatter interface was changed. Formatters and parsers using
3253 the formatter interface have to be adjusted.
3254 * started deprecation of Processors: they are still recognized, but
3255 implementors should start to rewrite their Processors as Parsers.
3256 A processor with the same name as a parser in a pre #! section is
3257 currently preferred. This will change in the next release.
3261 * Processors are deprecated, see section above.
3263 * Using the cookie (or the login url with ID) only and not setting (or
3264 setting and not remembering) your email/password in UserPreferences
3265 is DEPRECATED. Those quite unsecure methods will likely be dropped
3266 in next moin version.
3268 * Operating with acl_enabled = 0 is also DEPRECATED. Due to some other
3269 improvements planned, we will have to operate with ACLs enabled ONLY
3270 in a future moin version, so this setting will likely be dropped.
3271 So clean up your user accounts (see moin_usercheck.py) and switch ACLs
3273 There are no drawbacks, so you will like it. Having ACLs enabled
3274 doesn't mean you really have to USE them on wiki pages...
3276 * allow_extended_names = 0 is deprecated (default was/is 1).
3277 Future versions will be able to use extended names (aka free links) in
3278 any case and the config setting will be removed.
3280 * allow_subpages = 0 is deprecated (default was/is 1).
3281 Future versions will be able to use subpages in any case and the config
3282 setting will be removed.
3284 * attachments = {...} - we would like to remove that setting because of
3286 * when not being extremely careful, this can easily lead to security
3287 problems (like when uploading a .php exploit and then executing it
3288 by accessing it directly via web server)
3289 * makes code more complicated - code that we want to change completely
3291 If you need that feature, speak up now and tell us your reasons WHY you
3295 Version 1.2.4 (2004-10-23, Revision 1.187)
3297 This will probably be the last 1.2.x release as we are soon doing release
3298 candidates for 1.3 release (with big internal changes) and are expecting
3299 release 1.3 in december 2004.
3302 * fixed "None" pagename bug in fullsearch/titlesearch
3303 * fixed projection CSS usage
3304 * the compiled page is removed when a page is deleted, so no ghost page
3305 appears after deletion
3306 * fixed AbandonedPages day-break problem
3307 * fixed [[GetVal(WikiDict,key)]]
3308 * the msg box is now outside content div on PageEditor, too
3309 * privacy fix for email notifications: you don't see other email addresses
3310 in To: any more. mail_from is now also used for To: header field, but
3311 we don't really send email to that address.
3312 * privacy fix for /MoinEditorBackup pages that were made on previews of
3313 pages that were not saved in the end
3314 * fix double content div on PageEditor preview
3317 * workaround for broken Microsoft Internet Explorer, the page editor now
3318 stops expanding to the right (e.g. with rightsidebar theme).
3319 Nevertheless it is a very good idea to use a non-broken and more secure
3320 browser like Mozilla, Firefox or Opera!
3322 * from MoinMoin.security.antispam import SecurityPolicy in your
3323 moin_config.py will protect your wiki from at least the known spammers.
3326 * xmlrpc plugin for usage logging, currently used for antispam accesses
3328 * (re-)added configurable meta tags:
3329 * html_head_queries = '''<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow">\n'''
3330 * html_head_posts = '''<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow">\n'''
3331 * html_head_index = '''<meta name="robots" content="index,follow">\n'''
3332 * html_head_normal = '''<meta name="robots" content="index,nofollow">\n'''
3334 * i18n updates/fixes
3336 * New UserPreferences switch:
3337 you may subscribe to trivial changes (when you want to be notified about ALL
3338 changes to pages, even if the author deselected to send notifications).
3340 * New AttachList and AttachInfo macros - thanks to Nigel Metheringham and
3343 Version 1.2.3 (2004-07-21, Revision 1.186)
3346 * fixed NameError "UnpicklingError" in user.py
3347 * fixed version number in moin.spec
3348 * reverts done by bots or leechers
3349 There was a bad, old bug that triggered if you did not use ACLs. In that
3350 case, moin used some simple (but wrong and incomplete) function to
3351 determine what a user (or bot) may do or may not do. The function is now
3352 fixed to allow only read and write to anon users, and only delete and
3353 revert to known users additionally - and disallow everything else.
3354 * avoid creation of unneccessary pages/* directories
3355 * removed double content divs in general info and history info pages
3356 * fixed wiki xmlrpc getPageHTML
3357 * fixed rightsidebar logout URL, also fixed top banner to link to FrontPage
3358 * use config.page_front_page and .page_title_index for robots meta tag
3359 (whether it uses index,follow or index,nofollow), not hardcoded english
3361 * ACL security fix for PageEditor, thanks to Dr. Pleger for reporting
3362 * default options for new users are same as for anon users
3364 Version 1.2.2 (2004-06-06, Revision 1.185)
3368 * own copy of difflib removed
3369 Until moin 1.2.1 we had our own copy of python 2.2.3's difflib coming
3370 with moin. This was to work around some problems with broken older 2.2
3371 python installations. We removed this now because if you have py 2.3,
3372 there is even a better difflib coming with python (and that fixes an
3373 extremely slow diff calculation happening in some rare cases).
3374 So the good news is that when you run python 2.3, you don't need to do
3375 anything and it will run great. If you run python 2.2.3, it will mostly
3376 work good and you also don't need to do anything. The bad news is that
3377 if you run an old and broken 2.2 installation (2.2.1, maybe 2.2.2) you
3378 will have to fix it on your own (just copy difflib.py from python 2.2.3
3379 over to your python 2.2.x installation).
3380 But better upgrade to python 2.3 (for debian woody, there's a backport),
3381 as 2.3 generally runs better and faster than 2.2.
3382 * scripts changed to use #!/usr/bin/env python (not /usr/bin/python2.2)
3384 * user accounts and ACLs:
3385 * we now require the user to specify a password for a new account (you
3386 were not able to login without a password anyway)
3387 * it is not allowed any more to create user accounts with user names
3388 matching config.page_group_regex - please check manually that you do
3389 not already have such users existing (like a user named "AdminGroup"):
3390 cd data/user ; grep name=.*Group * # there should be no output!
3391 * subscription email sending now honours ACLs correctly
3393 * markup / rendering / user interface fixes:
3394 * fixed merging multiple lines indented by the same amount of blanks
3395 * ## comments don't break tables in two parts
3396 * added a "remove bookmark" link to RecentChanges
3397 * fixed action=titleindex (added \n after each entry)
3400 * non-ASCII characters should work now
3401 * RSS feed (Recentchanges?action=rss_rc) gives UTC timestamps now
3402 * removed attribute breaking RSS feed on RecentChanges
3404 * better email generation:
3405 * if you use python >=2.2.2, we add a Message-ID header to emails
3406 * if you use python 2.2.1, there is no email.Header. Instead of crashing
3407 (like previous moin 1.2.x releases), we just use the subject "as is" in
3408 that case. If it is not ASCII, this is not standards compliant.
3409 * If you have >=2.2.2 it will use email.Header to make standards compliant
3411 * use config.mail_from as sender address when sending "lost my password"
3415 * fixed for standalone server
3416 * attachment URLs (when handled by moin) don't include server name
3417 * fixed some wrong &amp; in html src
3419 * better themeability:
3420 * some entries in dict "d" where only present in header theme calls, some
3421 only in footer theme calls. Now almost all is present in both calls.
3422 * added some missing "content" divs so sidebar themes look better
3424 * fixed some crashes producing backtraces:
3425 * no IOError when diffing against deleted page
3426 * no backtrace in xml footnote generation
3427 * no SystemInfo crash when no editlog exists in new wikis
3428 * xmlrpc.getRecentChanges fixed
3430 * MoinMoin.util.filesys.rename is now a wrapper around os.rename that
3431 fixes os.rename on broken win32 api semantics
3434 * saving traffic and load by improved robot meta tag generation:
3435 * "noindex,nofollow" on queries and POSTs
3436 * "index,follow" on FrontPage and TitleIndex (give robots a chance ;))
3437 * "index,nofollow" on all other pages (hopefully saving lots of senseless
3438 requests for page?action=...)
3439 * removed config.html_head_queries (was used for same stuff)
3440 * added russian i18n (utf-8)
3441 * misc. other translation updates / fixes
3442 * added rightsidebar theme
3443 * TitleIndex now folds case, so "APage" and "anotherPage" are both under
3445 * added macro/PageHits.py - it calculates the hits each page gets since
3446 beginning of logging
3449 * Full text and title search do now support multiple search terms -
3450 see HelpOnSearching for details
3452 * The Formatter interface was changed. Formatter and parser using
3453 the formatter interface have to be adjusted.
3455 Version 1.2.1 (2004-03-08, Revision 1.184)
3458 * minimum requirement to run moin 1.2/1.2.1 is python 2.2.2
3459 * not: 2.2(.0), as this does not have True/False
3460 * not: 2.2.1, as this does not have email.Header. You maybe can work
3462 * getting the python 2.2.x (x>=2) /usr/lib/python2.2/email directory
3463 * putting it into directory 'x' (whereever you like)
3464 * doing a sys.path[0:0] = ['x'] in moin.cgi [or other appropriate place]
3465 No guarantee, this is untested.
3466 * Twisted: the http headers missed the charset data, fixed
3467 * mod_python: fixes for mod_python 2.7
3468 * wiki/data/plugin/__init__.py added - fixes not working plugin modules
3469 * plugin processors work now, too
3470 * fixed displaying non-existent translations of SiteNavigation in footer
3471 * fixed zh-tw iso name (wrong zh_tw -> correct zh-tw)
3472 * fixed reversed diffs in RecentChanges RSS
3473 * fixed "last change" info in footer (wasn't updated)
3474 * fixed event.log missing pagename (and other) information
3475 * fixed horizontal line thickness >1
3476 * fixed setup.py running from CVS workdir
3477 * fixed crash when doing action=info on first revision of a page
3478 * fixed hostname truncation in footer
3480 * fixed clear msg links (they missed quoting, leading to strange page
3481 names when you click on some of them)
3482 * fixed python colorizer processor
3483 * fixed quoting of stats cache filenames
3484 * catched "bad marshal data" error when switching python versions
3487 * updated danish (da) i18n
3488 * updated japanese (ja) i18n
3489 * added serbian (sr) i18n
3490 * added chinese (zh) i18n
3491 * added a simple "viewonly" theme based on classic theme - you can use
3492 this as default theme, so anonymous users won't get the usual wiki stuff,
3493 but a far simpler (and less powerful) user interface.
3494 It also displays the navibar at the left side.
3495 * added moin.spec for building RPMs
3496 * included MoinMoin/i18n/* into distribution archive (nice for translators)
3497 * included some stuff under MoinMoin/scripts - xmlrpc-tools and account
3498 checking stuff. removed some version control clutter from the dist
3501 * code colorization was refactored and some new languages (Java, C++,
3502 Pascal) where added.
3503 * inline: display of attachments was extended. A Parser now knows which
3504 extensions it can handle.
3506 Version 1.2 (2004-02-20, Revision 1.183)
3509 * MoinMoin now requires Python >=2.2.2., we recommend to use Python >=2.3.2
3510 (with 2.3.x, MoinMoin runs about 20-30% faster).
3511 * by refactoring request processing, we made it possible to run moin under
3512 persistent environments:
3513 * twisted-web (http://twistedmatrix.com)
3514 * httpdmain.py (use moin.py for starting this mini server)
3517 Of course, CGI is still possible.
3518 * wiki pages will be compiled to bytecode now (by default), so no need for
3519 slow parsing/formatting on every view ("WASP", see caching_formats)
3520 * when using a persistent environment (like twisted) and WASP, you get up
3521 to 20x speed - compared to CGI and moin 1.1
3522 * added support for diffs between arbitrary revisions.
3523 * removed requirement of the external diff utility
3524 * config.auth_http_enabled (defaults to 0) - use this to enable moin
3525 getting your authenticated user name from apache (http basic auth,
3526 htpasswd) - if you enable this, your basic auth username has to be the
3527 same as your wiki username.
3528 Should work with CGI, FCGI and maybe even with mod_python.
3529 Does not change behaviour of moin under twisted or standalone server.
3530 * config.tz_offset = 0.0 sets a default timezone offset (in hours
3532 * config.cookie_lifetime (int, in hours, default 12) sets the lifetime of
3534 == 0 --> cookie will live forever (no matter what user has configured!)
3535 > 0 --> cookie will live for n hours (or forever when "remember_me")
3536 < 0 --> cookie will live for -n hours (forced, ignore "remember_me"!)
3537 * added themeing and some themes (if you improve the existing themes or
3538 make nice new ones, please contribute your stuff!). The default theme is
3539 set by config.theme_default (and defaults to 'classic').
3540 * now supporting plugin directory for parsers, processors, themes, xmlrpc.
3541 * action=info now defaults to showing page revision history again
3542 * all actions accessing the logfile (as RecentChanges or history) are now
3544 * #refresh processing instruction, config.refresh
3545 * config.refresh = (minimum_delay, target_allowed)
3546 * minimum delay is the minimum waiting time (in seconds) allowed
3547 * target_allowed is either 'internal' or 'external', depending on
3548 whether you want to allow only internal redirects or also
3549 external ones. For internal redirects, just use the Wiki pagename,
3550 for external, use http://... url.
3551 * #refresh 3 == refresh this page every 3 seconds
3552 * #refresh 5 FrontPage == internal redirect to FrontPage in 5s
3553 * #refresh 5 http://google.com/ == redirect to google in 5s
3554 Use very carefully! Allowing a low minimum_delay and putting a #refresh
3555 on RecentChanges might slow down your wiki significantly, when some
3556 people just let their browser refresh and refresh again. Also, it does
3557 cause quite some traffic long-term. So better do not use this without
3558 good reason! Default is None (switched off).
3559 * hide most UserPreferences options before user has logged in, less
3560 confusing for new users
3561 * "config.page_dict_regex" defines what pages are dictionary definitions
3562 Currently dictionaries are used for UserHomePage/MyDict where you can
3563 define key:: value pairs that get processed like @DATE@ expansion when
3564 saving a page. The 2 "@" will be added to your keys automatically.
3565 Please do not use @xxx@ strings on the right side (value), results may
3567 You can also access wiki dictionaries by using the internal macro
3568 [[GetVal(page,key)]]" - that will go to page "page" and return the
3569 value (right side) corresponding to "key".
3570 Implementation note: groups are a subset of the dictionary functionality.
3571 * standalone server should work now (see server/moin.py), so you don't
3572 need to setup apache or twisted for a local personal wiki, you only need
3573 python and moin for that now, no additional stuff any more!
3574 * if you run your wiki with charset = "utf-8" (the default is still
3575 iso8859-1), you might want to have a look at contributions/utf8-pages/
3576 to see if there are already translated system pages for your language.
3579 * new importPlugin routine (the old one didn't work correctly)
3580 * removed 0xA0 characters breaking utf-8
3581 * system page recognition now uses wiki groups (see AllSystemPagesGroup),
3582 fixing the long-time broken system page exclusion on TitleIndex.
3583 * mostly HTML 4.01 Strict compliant HTML
3584 * design is done by CSS now, HTML is semantic markup only
3585 * removed target attribute from links, also [^NewWindow] markup - this
3586 is a HTML 3.2 feature and not valid in HTML 4.01
3587 * updated TWikiDrawPlugin to 20021003 version, with further modifications
3588 including source. It can draw imagemaps now and saves PNG. On display a
3589 GIF will be searched if no PNG is found. We recommend changing all GIFs
3590 to indexed PNGs cause this fallback might disappear in later versions.
3592 Sample code using bash and ImageMagick (be sure you know what you do):
3593 for draw in `find /path/to/wiki/data -name \*.draw`; do
3594 file=`dirname $draw`/`basename $draw .draw`
3595 if [ -e "${file}.gif" ]; then
3596 echo "Converting ${file}.gif to ${file}.png"
3597 convert "${file}.gif" "${file}.png"
3601 * fixed email headers and encoding
3602 * Changed moin-usercheck to adhere to scripting standards; no
3603 proprietary config changes needed any more (added --config);
3604 --wikinames is now part of the usage message.
3605 * config.umask now defaults to 0770 - if you give world r/w access, ACLs
3606 could be rather pointless...
3608 Removed config variables:
3609 * external_diff (not needed any more, we have internal diff now)
3610 * shared_metadb (wasn't implemented for long - we will re-add it, when it is)
3611 * title1/2 (please use page_header1/2)
3614 Changed config variables:
3615 * changed_time_fmt (removed some html and brackets around time from default)
3616 * html_head (default is empty string now)
3617 * page_footer1/2 (default is empty string now)
3618 * page_icons (is now a list of icon names, not html any more)
3619 * umask (default is 0770 now, not world r/w any more == more secure)
3621 New config variables (see MoinMaster:HelpOnConfiguration):
3630 * page_license_enabled
3637 * lots of internal code refactoring and optimization
3638 * began moving src code documentation to epydoc, see "make epydoc"
3639 * the URL for the RecentChanges RSS feed changed. It now only works with
3643 * theme support is neither complete (although covering most important
3644 stuff) nor perfect - work on that will continue...
3645 * we removed some html from system messages (the boxes at top of page you
3646 get after some actions), so it currently looks less nice than before.
3647 * html is not completely validating and it is not xhtml - this will be
3648 fixed as soon as we have the infrastructure for that (other parser, DOM)
3649 * problems with rtl (right-to-left) languages, will be fixed in 1.3
3650 * if you change moin_config or switch themes, moin will still use already
3651 cached page content. For the config this can be fixed by touching
3652 MoinMoin/version.py (or simply deleting everything in
3653 data/cache/Page.py). If you get more annoyed by this than pleased by
3654 caching speedup, you can also switch off caching (see docs on
3657 Themeing and HTML/CSS cleanup:
3658 * Browsers with completely broken CSS support (like e.g. Netscape 4.x) are
3659 no longer supported. If you still need to support them, do not upgrade to
3660 moin 1.2. If you still use these browsers, we recommend that you upgrade
3661 your browser first (Mozilla 1.5 has nice and standards compliant HTML and
3662 CSS support and is available as Free Software for Windows, Linux and Mac).
3663 * If you changed any html in code or by config you will have to check if it
3664 still works. For the usual stuff, look into `MoinMoin/theme/classic.py`
3665 and `classic/css/screen.css`. For config defaults of the html fragments,
3666 read `MoinMoin/config.py`. If you want to modify a theme, don't simply
3667 change classic, but copy or subclass it under a new theme name.
3668 * because of the new theme support the layout of the `htdocs` directory
3670 * Instead of using icons under `img/` and css under `css/`, there will
3671 be an additional `themename/` directory in between, e.g. `classic/img/`
3672 and `classic/css/`. If you added own icons, you may have to copy them
3673 to the themes directory.
3674 * The filename of the CSS file has changed to the media type, so the
3675 normal one used for screen output has changed name from `moinmoin.css`
3676 to `screen.css`. There also were quite some changes and enhancements to
3677 the CSS files, so better use the new ones.
3678 * config.css_url was removed
3681 * we use a new plugin loader that requires a correct `__init__.py` file in
3682 the plugin directories. See the directory `wiki/data/plugin/` in the
3683 distribution archive and just copy it over to your wiki's plugin directory.
3686 Version 1.1 (2003-11-29, Revision 1.178)
3688 Version 1.1 requires Python 2.0 or higher, we recommend to use Python 2.2
3689 (version 2.2.2 if that is available on your host) or even better >= 2.3.2
3690 (with 2.3.x, MoinMoin runs about 20-30% faster).
3694 * config.default_lang lets you set a default language for users not
3695 having specified language in their browser or UserPreferences
3696 * "config.page_category_regex" defines what pages are categories
3697 * replaced `config.page_template_ending` by a more flexible setting
3698 named `config.page_template_regex`
3699 * the same with config.page_form_regex (was: page_form_ending)
3700 * "config.page_group_regex" defines what pages are group definitions
3701 Currently groups are used for "user groups" (see ACLs) and "page
3702 groups" (see AllSystemPagesGroup).
3703 * robot exclusion from all pages except the standard view action,
3704 via the config.ua_spiders regex (reduces server load)
3705 * "maxdepth" argument for the TableOfContents macro
3706 * config.title1, config.title2, config.page_footer1,
3707 config.page_footer2 can now be callables and will be called with
3708 the "request" object as a single argument (note that you should
3709 accept any keyword arguments in order to be compatible to future
3711 * "config.html_pagetitle" allows you to set a specific HTML page
3712 title (if not set, it defaults to "config.sitename")
3713 * navi_bar / quicklinks can now contain free-form links, i.e.
3714 entries of the form "[url linktext]" just like in wiki pages
3715 * if a quick link starts with '^', it opens in a new window; help
3716 now opens in a new window also
3717 * `config.smileys` for user-defined smileys (default: `{}`) - a dict
3718 with the markup as the key and a tuple of width, height, border, image
3720 * `config.hosts_deny` to forbid access based on IP address
3721 * `config.mail_login` can be set to username and password separated by
3722 a space, e.g. "username userpass", if you need to use SMTP AUTH
3723 * `config.edit_locking` can be set to None (old behaviour, no
3724 locking), 'warn <timeout mins>' (warn about concurrent edits, but
3725 do not enforce anything), or 'lock <timeout mins>' (strict locking)
3726 * optionally showing a license text on editor page, use:
3727 config.page_license_enabled = 1
3728 Optionally use these to customize what is shown there:
3729 config.page_license_text = "... your text ..."
3730 config.page_license_page = "MyLicensePage"
3731 See the default values in MoinMoin/config.py for details and
3732 override them in moin_config.py, if needed.
3733 * `config.shared_intermap` can be a list of filenames (instead of a
3735 * If you have added your own `SecurityPolicy`, the class interface for
3736 that has changed (see `security.py`).
3738 Authenticaton / Authorization:
3739 * added ACL support, written by Gustavo Niemeyer of Conectiva and
3740 Thomas Waldmann. See HelpOnAccessControlLists for more infos.
3741 You should use MoinMoin/scripts/moin_usercheck.py before activating
3742 ACLs or some users with bad or duplicate accounts might get into
3744 * A user account can be disabled using moin_usercheck.py or
3745 UserPreferences page. Disabling, but keeping it is good for edit
3747 * changed security default: deletion only available to known users
3748 * support for Basic authentication (Apache style: AUTH_TYPE="Basic",
3749 REMOTE_USER="WikiUserName"). If authentication is there, user
3750 will be in ACL class "Trusted".
3751 * support for username / password login
3752 The username / password login will ONLY work, if you define a
3753 password. With an empty password, username / password login is not
3754 allowed due to security reasons. Passwords are stored encrypted
3755 (format similar to Apache SHA) and can also be entered in the
3756 UserPreferences form in this format. When requesting login
3757 information by email, the password is also sent in this encrypted
3758 format (use copy&paste to fill it in the form).
3759 ...?action=userform?uid=<userid> is still possible, so if you have
3760 bookmarks, they will still work). The input field for the ID was
3762 NOTE: using the userid for login purposes is DEPRECATED and might
3763 be removed for better security soon.
3764 * after logging in, you will get a cookie valid until midnight.
3765 The next day, the cookie will expire and you will have to login
3766 again. If you don't want this, you can check the "remember me
3767 forever" option in UserPreferences.
3768 * if the page file is read-only, you get a message (i.e. you can now
3769 protect pages against changes if you're the wiki admin).
3770 Note: you can do that easier using ACLs.
3772 Markup / Macros / Actions:
3773 * RandomQuote macro (and even parses Wiki markup now)
3774 * `[[Navigation]]` macro for slides and subpage navigation
3775 * [[ShowSmileys]] displays ALL smileys, including user-defined ones
3776 * the Include macro has new parameters (from, to, sort, items) and
3777 is able to include more than one page (via a regex pattern)
3778 * `MailTo` macro for adding spam-safe email links to a page
3779 * if a fancy link starts with '^' (i.e. if it has the form
3780 "[^http:... ...]"), it's opened in a new window
3781 * because of that, the NewWindow macro was removed from contrib
3782 * "#pragma section-numbers 2" only displays section numbers for
3783 headings of level 2 and up (similarly for 3 to 6)
3784 * ../SubPageOfParent links
3788 * Page creation shows LikePages that already exist
3789 * editor shows the current size of the page
3790 * editor returns to including page when editing an included page
3791 * Visual indication we're on the editor page (new CSS style)
3792 * selection to add categories to a page in the editor (use preview
3793 button to add more than one category)
3794 * if user has a homepage, a backup of save/preview text is saved as
3795 a subpage UsersHomePage/MoinEditorBackup
3796 * added "revert" link to PageInfo view (which makes DeletePage more
3797 safe in public wikis, since you can easily revive deleted pages
3799 * Selection for logged in users (i.e. no bots) to extend the listing
3800 of recent changes beyond the default limits
3801 * Activated display of context for backlinks search
3802 * Subscriber list shown on page info
3803 * LikePages shows similar pages (using difflib.get_close_matches)
3804 * last edit action is stored into "last-edited" file, and
3805 displayed in the page footer
3806 * reciprocal footnote linking (definition refers back to reference)
3807 * "Ex-/Include system pages" link for title index
3808 Note: system/help pages algorithm is still mostly broken.
3809 * list items set apart by empty lines are now also set apart
3810 visually (by adding the CSS class "gap" to <li>)
3811 * "save" check for security.Permissions
3812 * Added Spanish, Croatian and Danish system texts
3813 * Added flag icons for the languages supported in "i18n"
3814 * updated help and system pages, more translations, see also
3816 * there was quite some work done on wiki xmlrpc v1 and v2 - it
3817 basically works now.
3819 Tools and other changes:
3820 * moin-dump: New option "--page"
3821 * there are some scripts MoinMoin/scripts/* using wiki xmlrpc for
3822 backup and wiki page copying applications
3823 * Updated the XSLT parser to work with 4Suite 1.0a1
3824 * more infos in cgi tracebacks
3825 * UPDATE.html is a HTML version of MoinMaster:HelpOnUpdating
3827 Unfinished or experimental features:
3828 * user defined forms
3829 * XML export of all data in the wiki
3830 * RST parser (you need to install docutils to use this)
3834 * do not use / display user's email address in public places
3837 * Removed two cross-site scripting vulnerabilities reported by "office"
3840 * Bugfix for PageList when no arguments are given
3841 * Disallow full-text searches with too short search terms
3842 * [ 566094 ] TitleIndex now supports grouping by Hangul Syllables
3843 * fix for multibyte first char in TitleIndex
3844 * Footnotes were not HTML escaped
3845 * Numbered code displays are now in a table so that you can cut the
3846 code w/o the numbers
3847 * Bugfix for wrong mail notifications
3848 * Create unique anchors for repeated titles
3849 * [ 522246 ] Transparently recode localized messages
3850 * [ 685003 ] Using "preview" button when editing can lose data
3851 * use gmtime() for time handling
3852 * fixed negative gmtime() arguments
3853 * [[Include]] accepts relative page names
3854 * fixed ||NotInterWiki:||...||
3856 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3857 Version 1.0 (2002-05-10, Revision 1.159)
3859 THIS IS THE LAST RELEASE WITH PYTHON 1.5.2 SUPPORT! If severe bugs
3860 should occur, a maintenance release will fix them.
3862 Some optional features (like statistics) already require Python 2.0.
3865 * security fix: "allow_xslt" has to be set to 1 in order to enable
3866 XSLT processing; note that this defaults to 0 because XSLT is able
3867 to insert arbitrary HTML into a wiki
3868 * "action=content" for transclusion into static web pages; emits the
3869 pure page content, without any <html>, <head>, or <body> tags
3870 * "?action=links&mimetype=text/plain" works like MeatBall:LinkDatabase
3871 * "Preferred language" and "Quick links" user settings
3872 * Added "processor" concept, processors work on the data in "code
3873 displays" and are called by a bangpath in the first line of data
3874 * Processors: Colorize, CSV (see HelpOnProcessors)
3875 * New icons: "{OK}", "(./)", "{X}", "{i}", "{1}", "{2}" and "{}"
3877 * FullSearch now displays context information for search hits
3878 * DeletePage offers a textentry field for an optional comment
3879 * Email notifications are sent in the user's language, if known from
3881 * @PAGE@ is substituted by the name of the current page (useful
3884 Unfinished features:
3885 * user defined forms
3886 * XML export of all data in the wiki
3887 * RST parser (you need to install docutils to use this)
3891 * Syntax warning with Python 2.2 fixed
3892 * Macro-generated pagelinks are no longer added to the list of links
3893 * error codes returned by "diff" are reported
3894 * fix for attachments on pages with non-USASCII names
3895 * correct handling of spaces in attachment filenames and URLs
3897 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3898 Version 0.11 (2002-03-11, Revision 1.151)
3900 Most important new features: file attachments, definition list markup
3901 (glossaries), change notification via email, variable substitution when
3902 saving pages, edit preview, and improved documentation.
3904 Note that the RSS features require a recent PyXML (CVS or 0.7) due to
3905 bugs in the namespace handling of xml.sax.saxutils in earlier versions.
3906 This is (hopefully) automatically detected on every installation.
3908 Statistical features are NOT designed to work with Python 1.5.2 and
3909 require Python 2.0 or higher. Overall, MoinMoin 0.11 is not explicitely
3910 tested for 1.5.2 compatibility.
3913 * XML formatting now (most often) produces well-formed, and, depending
3914 on proper layout of the wiki page, valid StyleBook XML
3915 * Headers are now automatically numbered, unless you set the config
3916 item 'show_section_numbers' to 0
3917 * "#pragma section-numbers off" (or "0") switches that off explicitely,
3918 and "on" or "1" enables numbering
3919 * Added a "contributions" directory for 3rd party extensions
3920 * AttachFile action, contributed by Ken Sugino; note that you have
3921 to enable this action because of the possibility of DoS attacks
3922 (malicious uploads), by adding this to your moin_config:
3923 allowed_actions = ['AttachFile']
3924 * "attachment:" URL scheme allows access to attachments, to get files
3925 from other pages use "attachment:WikiName/filename.ext".
3926 * New macros: Date(unixtimestamp) and DateTime(unixtimestamp) to
3927 display a timestamp according to system/user settings
3928 * Variable substitution when a page is saved, note that saving
3929 template pages does NOT expand variables. Supported are:
3930 @DATE@ Current date in the system's format
3931 @TIME@ Current date and time in the user's format
3932 @USERNAME@ Just the user's name (or his domain/IP)
3933 @USER@ Signature "-- loginname"
3934 @SIG@ Dated Signature "-- loginname date time"
3935 @MAILTO@ A fancy mailto: link with the user's data
3936 * Copied some new emoticons from PikiePikie
3937 || {{{ :-? }}} || :-? || tongue.gif ||
3938 || {{{ :\ }}} || :\ || ohwell.gif ||
3939 || {{{ >:> }}} || >:> || devil.gif ||
3940 || {{{ %) }}} || %) || eyes.gif ||
3941 || {{{ @) }}} || @) || eek.gif ||
3942 || {{{ |) }}} || |) || tired.gif ||
3943 || {{{ ;)) }}} || ;)) || lol.gif ||
3944 * AbandonedPages macro
3945 * Added definition list markup: {{{<whitespace>term:: definition}}}
3946 * Added email notification features contributed by Daniel Sa� * SystemInfo: show "Entries in edit log"
3947 * Added "RSS" icon to RecentChanges macro and code to generate a
3948 RecentChanges RSS channel, see
3949 http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?UnifiedRecentChanges
3951 * Added config.sitename and config.interwikiname parameter
3952 * Better WikiFarm support:
3953 * <datadir>/plugin/macro and <datadir>/plugin/action can be used
3954 to store macros and actions local to a specific wiki instance
3955 * config.shared_intermap can contain a pathname to a shared
3956 "intermap.txt" file (i.e. one stored outside the datadir)
3957 * added `backtick` shortcut for {{{inline literal}}} (has to be
3958 enabled by "backtick_meta=1" in the config file); note that ``
3959 is then a shorter replacement for '''''' escaping
3960 * added inline search fields (at the bottom of each page)
3961 * Added preview to the editor, including spell checking
3962 * New languages: Chinese (Changzhe Han) and Portuguese (Jorge
3963 Godoy), updated French (Lucas Bruand), added Korean (Hye-Shik
3964 Chang) and Italian (Lele Gaifax)
3965 * New SystemAdmin macro
3966 * `[[Anchor(anchorname)]]` macro to insert anchors into a page,
3967 and [#anchorname Anchor Links].
3968 * User option to open editor view via a double-click
3969 * Added commentary field to editor, recent changes and page info
3970 * Page trails (user option)
3971 * UserPreferences: checkboxes for double-click edit, page trail,
3972 fancy links, emoticons, jump to last page visited, and some
3973 other yes/no options
3974 * "config.nonexist_qm" is now the default for a user setting
3975 * `[[GetText(text)]]` macro loads I18N texts (mainly intended
3976 for use on Help pages)
3977 * table attributes via "||<attrlist> ... ||", more details on
3978 http://purl.net/wiki/moin/HelpOnTables
3979 * PythonFaq interwiki tag and support for $PAGE placeholder
3980 * event logging, as the basis for future statistics
3981 * "moin-dump" command line tool to create a static copy of
3983 * "config.external_diff" allows to set an exact path to the
3984 command, or change the name to for example "gdiff" if GNU
3985 diff is not a native command in your UNIX flavour
3986 * `[[PageSize]]` macro
3987 * the interwiki name "Self" now always points to the own wiki
3988 * config.title1 and config.title2 are inserted into the output
3989 right before and after the system title html code (title1
3990 is right after the <body> tag and normally undefined, title2
3991 defaults to the "<hr>" above the page contents)
3992 * Additional link on diff pages to ignore whitespace changes
3993 * Subpages (config.allow_subpages, config.page_icons_up)
3994 * super^script^, sub,,script,, and __underline__ markup
3995 * `[[FootNote]]` macro
3996 * many other new config options, see HelpOnConfiguration for
3998 * [[StatsChart(type)]] shows statistical charts (currently
3999 defined types: hitcounts, pagesize, useragents)
4000 * 'inline:' scheme works like 'attachment:', but tries to
4001 inline the content of the attachment into the page;
4002 currently knows about "*.py" sources and colorizes them
4003 * support for Java applet "TWikiDrawPlugin" via
4004 drawing:<drawingname> URL scheme (you need to activate
4005 the AttachFile action if you want drawings)
4006 * numeric entities (&#nnnnn;) are now optionally NOT escaped,
4007 which allows you to insert more characters into a Latin-1
4008 page, especially the Euro symbol
4009 * navi_bar is now a list of page names which should be linked
4011 * test.cgi is now rolled into moin.cgi, and can be called
4012 by adding "?test" to the wiki base URL. Also, as a security
4013 feature, the server's environment is only shown for requests
4014 local to the web server.
4016 Unfinished features:
4017 * user defined forms
4018 * XML export of all data in the wiki
4021 * extended the online help ("Help*" pages)
4022 * German help pages (thanks to Thomas Waldmann)
4025 * #425857: python Parser bug on the second call
4026 * #424917: Caching control
4027 * #465499: Two HTTPS problems
4028 * #491155: FrontPage hardcoded
4029 * Handling of inbound UTF-8 encoded URIs (only with Python >= 2.0)
4030 * Fix for subtle changes in "re" of Python 2.2
4031 * User-provided URLs are now never URL-escaped, which allows appending
4032 #anchors and using %20 for spaces in InterWiki links
4034 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4035 Version 0.10 (2001-10-28, Revision 1.134)
4037 This version is still Python 1.5.2 compatible, but it's not extensively
4038 tested for that version and some parts of the system might not work
4039 there, especially seldom used macros and actions. Bug reports welcome!
4042 * "#deprecated" processing instruction
4043 * config entry "SecurityPolicy" to allow for customized permissions
4044 (see "security.py" for more)
4045 * added distutils support
4046 * though not extensively tested, the standalone server now does POST
4047 requests, i.e. you can save pages; there are still problems with
4048 persistent global variables! It only works for Python >= 2.0.
4049 * "bang_meta" config variable and "!NotWikiWord" markup
4050 * "url_mappings" config variable to dynamically change URL prefixes
4051 (especially useful in intranets, when whole trees of externally
4052 hosted documents move around)
4053 * setting "mail_smarthost" and "mail_from" activates mailing
4054 features (sending login data on the UserPreferences page)
4055 * very useful for intranet developer wikis, a means to view pydoc
4056 documentation, formatted via a XSLT stylesheet, for details see
4057 http://purl.net/wiki/python/TeudViewer?module=MoinMoin.macro.TeudView
4058 or MoinMoin/macro/TeudView.py
4059 * "LocalSiteMap" action by Steve Howell <showell@zipcon.com>
4060 * Added FOLDOC to intermap.txt
4063 * Full config defaults, import MoinMoin now works w/o moin_config.py
4064 * Better control over permissions with config.umask
4065 * Bugfix for a UNIX time billenium bug (affecting RecentChanges
4066 sorting and page diffs)
4067 * data paths with directory names containing dots caused problems
4069 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4070 Version 0.9 (2001-05-07)
4073 * XML page input (pages that start with "<?xml") and XSLT formatting
4074 * Page caching, for now limited to XSLT processing (where it's
4075 absolutely needed); new code & API to add the "RefreshCache" link
4076 * Selection of common date/time formats in UserPreferences
4077 * New action "titleindex" to support wiki introspection (MetaWiki);
4078 see the new links below the index bar in "TitleIndex"
4079 * UserPreferences: editable CSS URL for personal styles
4080 * PageInfo: the editor's name or IP is shown for each change
4081 * WantedPages: a new macro that lists links to non-existent pages
4082 * OrphanedPages: a new macro that lists pages no other page links to
4083 * Extensions to the FullSearch macro (see HelpOnMacros)
4084 * Python syntax highlighting
4085 * "DeletePage" action (has to be activated, see MoinMoinFaq)
4086 * "Remove trailing whitespace from each line" option in the editor
4087 * I18N (currently German and Swedish)
4088 * Config option "url_schemas" to extend the supported URL types
4089 * Improved tracebacks by using Ka-Ping's "cgitb"
4092 * The editor now sends a "no-cache" HTTP header
4093 * "PageList" results are now sorted
4094 * New config parameter "html_head_queries": send additional header
4095 for all pages EXCEPT the "normal" view; main usage is to have
4096 only the normal pages indexed by a spider, not the edit, print,
4097 etc. views (which cause multiple hits on the same information)
4098 * Store the modification time of the page file in the editlog, not
4099 the current time when the log entry is created
4101 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4102 Version 0.8 (2001-01-23)
4105 * Page templates (create a new page using a template page, by Richard)
4106 * Pluggable actions (by Richard)
4107 * Added "diff since bookmark"
4108 * Only "normal" URLs (outside of brackets) are converted to inline images
4109 * Show number of backups in SystemInfo macro
4110 * Show info on installed extension macros and actions
4111 * New macro: [[BR]] for line breaks
4112 * New action "LikePages" (again, Richard)
4113 * Highlighting of search results, and of bad words when spellchecking
4114 * Support for "file:" URLS
4115 * "SpellCheck" action (Richard, me, and Christian)
4116 * [[Include]] macro (you guessed it, Richard)
4119 * Update bookmark with load time, not click time
4120 * Changed CSS styles to better suit Netscape's broken handling of CSS
4122 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4123 Version 0.7 (2000-12-06)
4126 * RecentChanges bookmarking
4130 * Non-greedy extended WikiNames
4132 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4133 Version 0.6 (2000-12-04)
4136 * [[UserPreferences]] macro and associated functions
4137 * [[TableOfContents]] macro
4138 * Mechanism for external macros (user extensions)
4139 * Numbered list types and start offsets
4142 * Search dialogs did not work on the FrontPage
4143 * Add newline to text if last line has none (better diffs)
4145 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4146 Version 0.5 (2000-11-17)
4149 * Major refactoring: code is now broken up into modules within the
4151 * Diagnosis of installation via a "test.cgi" script
4153 * "#format" processing instruction
4155 * [[RandomPage]] and [[RandomPage(number)]] macro
4156 * configurable footer ("page_footer1" and "page_footer2")
4157 * "#redirect" processing instruction
4160 * Bugfix for broken CGI environment of IIS/4.0
4161 * URLs and InterWiki links are now less greedy (punctuation at the end
4162 is excluded, and "<" ends them, too)
4164 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4165 Version 0.4 (2000-11-01)
4168 * Table markup "||a||b||c||"
4169 * Headlines "= H1 =", "== H2 ==", and so on up to H5
4170 * [[PageCount]] macro
4171 * Added [[Icon(image)]] macro and macro arguments
4172 * [[PageList(title-regex)]] macro
4173 * New help system (set of help pages describing all features)
4176 * Create complete URL for "Clear message" link
4177 * Inline code spans needed cgi.escape
4178 * Better fix for Python 1.6 "re" problems
4179 * Fix for uppercase extensions in inline images ("foo.JPG")
4180 * Fixed colspan in RecentChanges
4181 * HR size is now limited to 8
4182 * "}" ends an URL pattern (fixes URLs right at the end of code displays)
4184 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4185 Version 0.3 (2000-10-25)
4188 * Check for inline images with InterWiki links (Spam:eggs.gif)
4189 * New config variable "allow_extended_names", which enables markup for
4190 wiki names containing ANY character like this: ["any chars"]
4191 * New config variable "html_head"
4192 * New macro [[SystemInfo]]
4193 * Added inline code ("{{{" and "}}}" on the same line)
4194 * Support for new config variable "max_macro_size"
4197 * Don't treat sequences with a double colon (CPP::Namespace) as an
4199 * The local part of InterWiki links is now correctly URL-escaped
4200 * Quickfix for a bug in 1.6's regular expressions
4201 * Fixed "SpamSpamSpam" bug (multiple entries in word list)
4202 * Anchor names get quoted in WordIndex and TitleIndex
4203 * Filtering of filenames in page_list() corrected
4204 * Escape &, <, > when sending the editor
4205 * Final(?) fix for japanese wiki names
4207 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4208 Version 0.2 (2000-08-26)
4211 * When saving, a datestamp saved in the form and that of the file are
4212 compared now; so, accidently saving over changes of other people is
4213 not possible anymore (saving still needs file locking though, for
4215 * if the directory "backup" exists in the data dir, pages are saved
4216 there before a new version is written to disk
4217 * Removed the "Reset" button from EditPage
4218 * Added "Reduce editor size" link
4219 * Added Latin-1 WikiNames (JürgenHermann ;)
4220 * Speeded up RecentChanges by looking up hostnames ONCE while saving
4221 * Show at most 14 (distinct) days in RecentChanges
4222 * Added icons for common functions, at the top of the page
4223 * Added a printing preview (no icons, etc.)
4224 * Added bracketed (external) URLs
4225 * Added support for quoted URLs ("http://...")
4226 * Added styles for :visited links to CSS
4227 * Embed image if an URL ends in .gif/.jpg/.png
4228 * No markup detection in code sections
4229 * Grey background for code sections
4230 * Added handling for numbered lists
4231 * the edit textarea now grows in width with the browser window
4232 (thanks to Sebastian Dau�for that idea)
4233 * Added page info (revision history) and viewing of old revisions
4234 * Added page diff, and diff links on page info
4235 * Added InterWiki support (use "wiki:WikiServer/theirlocalname"; the list
4236 of WikiServers is read from "data/intermap.txt")
4237 * Added "normal" InterWiki links
4238 * Added "action=raw" to send the raw wiki markup as text/plain (e.g. for
4239 backup purposes via wget)
4242 * Removed an exception when saving empty pages
4243 * Fixed bold nested into emphasis ('''''Bold''' Italic'')
4245 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4246 Version 0.1 (2000-07-29)
4248 Improvements over PikiPiki 1.62:
4249 * Moved configuration to "moin_config.py"
4250 * Added "edit_rows" setting
4251 * Added navigation bar
4252 * Improved HTML formatting
4253 * Added timing comment (page created in xx secs)
4254 * ISO date and time formats by default
4255 * Formatted RecentChanges with HTML tables
4256 * Uppercase letters for the index pages
4257 * Added PythonPowered logo
4260 * Javadoc comments now get formatted properly in {{{ }}} sections
4261 * Remove \r from submitted pages (so we get PORTABLE wiki files)
4262 * chmod(0666) eases manual changes to the data dir
4264 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------