1 MoinMoin Version History
2 ========================
4 Please note: Starting from the MoinMoin version you used previously, you
5 should read all more recent entries (or at least everything marked with HINT).
8 already better than the previous stable release. Our release policy is not
9 trying to make a "perfect release" (as that release might NEVER get released),
10 but to make progress and don't delay releases too much.
14 * The GUI WYSIWYG editor has still some issues and limitations.
15 If you can't live with those, you can simply switch it off by using:
17 editor_default = 'text' # internal default, just for completeness
23 * This is a BETA/RC version, not meant for production usage, but just to
24 discover bugs, incompatibilities, installation issues, documentation issues,
26 * Translators can still work on translations, RC is mainly for testing the
27 code, we likely will update translations and wiki pages for final release.
28 Be careful though, don't break things.
29 Please see http://master19.moinmo.in/ and help cleaning up there.
32 * Improved attachment dialog for GUI editor.
33 * safe 2-stage xapian index rebuilding:
34 moin index build --mode=buildnewindex # slow, concurrent
36 moin index build --mode=usenewindex # fast
38 * added wikiconfig snippet for xapian indexed search
39 * macro WikiConfigHelp: added section keyword for selecting a subset of the
40 description, e.g. <<WikiConfigHelp(section="xapian")>>
41 * macro HighlighterList: lists all Pygments lexers (see HelpOnParsers)
42 * main exception handler: include request url in log output
45 * killed deprecated macro.form attribute (didn't work as expected anyway due
46 to WSGI refactoring) - please use macro.request.{args,form,values}
47 * fixed URL args processing for macros: MonthCalendar, FullSearch, TeudView
48 * fix load_theme call for fallback theme loading
49 * fix makeForbidden403() calls - is makeForbidden(403, ...) now
50 * fix check_surge_protect() call
51 * sendmail: add more debug logging, check for empty recipients list
52 * parsers: avoid accidental triggering of ParserBase deprecation warning
53 * SystemInfo macro: fix failure if xapian/xapian-bindings are not installed
55 * make sure DB connection gets closed
56 * rely on xapian's locking (remove moin's additional locking)
57 * removed indexer threading
58 * fixed (reimplemented) indexer queue
59 * less disruptive xapian index rebuild
60 * AttachFile: added remove_attachment() and FileRemovedEvent (mail and xapian
61 support, no jabber support yet)
62 * patch werkzeug 0.5.1 to catch OverFlowError and ValueError so it doesn't
63 crash when receiving invalid If-modified-since header from client.
64 * GetText2 macro: fix for named placeholders
66 * GUI editor: roundtripping works now for .pdf/doc/... attachment transclusion
69 * abort RenamePage if renaming of main page fails (do not try to rename
76 * config attribute extensions_mapping added for mapping of attachment file
77 extensions to actions (currently used for anywikidraw/twikidraw action)
80 * setup.py: fix wrong exitcode
81 * Xapian indexing: we need to return a UnprocessedDocument in any case, never a ProcessedDocument
82 * AdvancedSearch: example didn't work, fixed
83 * fix wrong usage of parseQueryString result
84 * SyncPages and LocalSiteMap action: fix NameError
85 * LocalSiteMap: added missing _()
86 * fix typo in Cache-Control header (max-age)
87 * fix '304 not modified' response for AttachFile do=get and do=box
88 * action CopyPage, RenamePage, DeletePage: fixed getting subpages_checked param from url
89 * action.getHandler(): make it moin 1.8 compatible again
93 * use it by default (1.8 used 'modern')
94 * move title_with_separators() from Modernized theme to ThemeBase
95 * add a span with "pagepath" class to title_with_separators
96 * add the sidebar() method from Mandarin and Gugiel themes to ThemeBase
97 * updated flup to 1.0.2+ ( http://hg.saddi.com/flup-server/rev/6ea1ffac1bcb )
98 * updated pygments to 1.1.1+ ( http://dev.pocoo.org/hg/pygments-main/rev/948f8885af16 )
99 * updated parsedatetime to 0.8.7
100 * TextCha feature of TWikiDraw removed again because AnyWikiDraw misses the
101 TextCha feature still, language detection problems.
102 * removed anywikidraw .pack.gz file, makes more trouble than it's worth
103 * MoinMoin/search/builtin.py searching does not require a lock, xapian allows several concurrent search connections.
104 * increase surge protection limits for AttachFile to avoid trouble with image galleries
110 * Moin's Xapian based search code was refactored:
111 * It is now based on the xappy library (see MoinMoin.support.xappy).
112 * Minimum Xapian requirement is 1.0.6 now.
113 * Outdated and unmaintained xapwrap lib was removed.
114 * now regex search with Xapian enabled also is based on the xapian index
115 * raw action mimetype support: ...?action=raw&mimetype=text/css
117 * support code was refactored/moved to the twikidraw action.
118 * use drawing:example.tdraw to invoke it (drawing:example also still
119 works for backwards compatibility)
120 * TextCha feature added
122 * java applet added, source code see contrib/
123 * support code for it is in anywikidraw action.
124 * use drawing:example.adraw to invoke it
125 * SlideShow action and css from moin/extensions for modernized theme added
128 * Bug with "language:en" was fixed for the Moin search. Now language:
129 behaves like described on HelpOnSearching.
130 * flup_frontend: __import__ compatibility fix for python 2.4
131 * wiki_groups and wiki_dicts caching fix.
132 * Fixed moin server standalone --start.
135 * HINT: simplify wikiserver configuration by using same names as werkzeug's
137 * Removed moin account check's --lastsaved option, it is default now
138 (checking last use with trail file did not work in 1.9 anyway).
144 * HINT: We now offer different sized sets of system/help pages and the default
145 underlay just contains a single page: LanguageSetup. You need to be
146 superuser, visit that page and then install the language packs you like
147 (minimum is the essential set for English).
148 * HINT: LanguageSetup is the default page_front_page, you need to change that
149 after installing language packs (see above).
150 * New modular group and dict data access, you can use group and dict
151 backend modules to access group and dict data stored anywhere you like.
152 Currently we provide these backends:
153 * WikiGroups and WikiDicts backends get data from wikipages. They work
154 similar to old wikidicts code (but with less caching issues :).
155 * ConfigGroups and ConfigDicts backends get data from a dictionary
156 defined in the wiki config.
157 * CompositeGroups and CompositeDicts compose several backends, so data
158 may be retrieved from several sources. For example, groups may be
159 defined in the wiki config and on wiki pages.
160 * Using cfg.groups and cfg.dicts, you can define the backend to use to
161 access group and dict information (default: WikiGroups / WikiDicts
163 See wiki/config/more_samples/ directory (groups_wikiconfig_snippet and
164 dicts_wikiconfig_snippet).
165 * See also the new HelpOnDictionaries and HelpOnGroups help pages.
166 * "moin ... account homepage" script to create user homepages.
167 * Theme packages: do_copythemefile now copies theme files to
168 MoinMoin/web/static/htdocs.
169 * OpenID: Support for Simple Registration (SREG) extension.
170 Basic profile fields can be copied from OpenID provider when logging in.
171 * OpenID: Support for Teams extension.
172 If your OpenID provider supports the Teams extension (i.e. Launchpad),
173 MoinMoin can be configured to generate
174 * OpenID: Ability to accept logins from specific OpenID providers.
175 Login form changes based on configuration for better usability:
176 * 0 providers: normal text input box for OpenID URL
177 * 1 provider: hidden field, automatic form submission with JavaScript
178 * 2+ providers: select field, uses directed identity
183 refresh the session cookie now on each request.
185 * Fix superuser functionality (broken in previous 1.9 betas).
186 * fixes misc. crashes / exceptions
187 * OpenID: request processing now works with new WSGI refactoring.
188 * OpenID: always return error messages with CancelLogin if OpenID process fails.
191 * ImageLink page has been killed (ImageLink macro is gone since 1.6.1).
192 * replace our text_irssi parser with a wrapper around pygments' irc highlighter
193 * Added disabled state for HTML select fields.
194 * Allowed disabling of timezone and language user prefs if they are
195 part of the user's login fields (i.e. OpenID SREG).
196 * Added option to disable local registration links and direct user
197 to registration page at an OpenID provider instead.
200 * groups and dicts API changes:
201 * request.groups and request.dicts provide access to groups and dicts.
202 * MoinMoin.wikidicts is gone, please use MoinMoin.datastruct.
203 * LazyGroup and LazyGroupsBackend base classes for implementing backends
204 which potentially deal with huge amounts of data (like a LDAP directory).
205 Use MoinMoin/datastruct/backends/config_lazy_groups.py as a draft for
207 * See http://moinmo.in/Groups2009 for more details.
208 * i18n: new approach for defining sets of system/help pages (see i18n.strings).
209 CheckTranslation, page packager, wikiutil.isSystemPage() use those sets.
215 * Added modernized_cms theme (hides most wiki widgets from modernized if the
216 user is not logged in).
217 * Static file serving built-in (moved wiki/htdocs to MoinMoin/web/static/htdocs).
218 MoinMoin.web.static has a static file serving wrapper that uses the files
219 from htdocs subdirectory by default (docs=True).
220 You can also give another path or switch off creation of that static wrapper.
221 See the docstring of the static package for details.
222 * Handle wikiserverconfig(_local) in the same way as wikiconfig(_local)
223 * PackagePages: create package file in memory and send it to the caller
224 * Environment variable MOIN_DEBUGGER=off/web/external (default is like "off")
225 * HTTPAuthMoin: http basic auth done by moin
226 * ldap auth: new name_callback param to create a custom wiki username (not the
228 * wikiconfig/farmconfig: improve values for data(_underlay)_dir, make logo
231 * cfg.cookie_lifetime is now a tuple (anon, loggedin), giving the lifetime
232 of the cookie in hours, accepting floats, for anon sessions and logged in
233 sessions. Default is (0, 12). 0 means not to use a session cookie (== not
234 to establish a session) and makes only sense for anon users.
235 * cfg.cookie_httponly is new and defaults to False. Please note that if you
236 set it to True, TWikiDraw and similar stuff won't be able to use the session
237 cookie. Thus, if your wiki page doesn't allow writing for everybody, saving
238 a drawing will fail, because there is no session (== no logged in user) for
239 the TWikiDraw applet's saving POSTs.
242 * Removed cfg.traceback_* settings (use logging configuration)
243 * Removed old session code and settings:
244 * Removed cfg.session_handler and session_id_handler (use cfg.session_service)
245 * Removed cfg.anonymous_session_lifetime (use cfg.cookie_lifetime)
248 * Fix ScriptContext URL default value
249 * AttachFile: get the rename field content from qs args, too
250 * Changed code to support werkzeug 0.5pre
251 * run_server param name need to match Config attribute name 'debug'
252 * Fix wiki regex samples in farmconfig
253 * 1.6.0a mig script/converter: fixed converter bug for parser sections
254 * login action: fix formatting of error messages
255 * AttachFile do=view: quote filename and pagename params for EmbedObject
257 * unsubscribe action: add msg types so icons get displayed
258 * Only save session data if we also have a cookie establishing a session
259 * suid: simplify and fix, bigger selection box
260 * Drawings: fix KeyError for non-existing map file
265 * HINT: MoinMoin requires Python 2.4 now. If you only have Python 2.3 and
266 you don't want to upgrade it, please use MoinMoin 1.8.x.
267 * HINT: MoinMoin is now a WSGI application.
268 Please read the new install docs about how to use it.
269 We are still working on the docs, please try to use them and report any
270 bugs you find: http://master19.moinmo.in/InstallDocs
271 You also have a local copy of that page as docs/INSTALL.html.
272 There is also some stuff in docs/INSTALL.wsgi.
273 * HINT: due to big changes in the request processing and the request
274 object (related to the WSGI refactoring), many 3rd party plugins might
275 need code updates to work with moin 1.9.
276 We are working on some docs about how to update them to work with 1.9.
277 * We use the pygments highlighting library now, use it like this:
281 xxx is any of the markups pygments supports.
282 Note: we still have some (deprecated) small wrappers around pygments,
283 so the old syntax #!python/pascal/cplusplus/... still works.
284 * TWikiDraw drawings are now stored as a single attachment foo.tdraw.
285 We added a migration script that converts your existing drawings.
286 * HINT: auth.http.HTTPAuth is now auth.GivenAuth
287 This was badly named from the beginning as for most servers, it just
288 looked at REMOTE_USER environment variable and relied on the server
289 doing the authentication (could be http basic auth or any other auth).
290 See HelpOnAuthentication.
296 * Xapian indexing / indexing filters:
297 * fix deadlocks with well- and misbehaving external filters
298 * work around indexing run crashing when encountering encoding problems
299 with non-ascii filenames
300 * OpenOffice/OpenDocument filters: catch UnicodeDecodeErrors (happens
301 with password protected files)
302 * i18n: check if languages is not initialized yet, don't crash
303 * http_redirect: use 301 redirect for some cases
304 * do not use httponly session cookies, makes trouble with twikidraw and ACLs
305 * GetText2 macro: fix for named placeholder
306 * Fix SHA -> SSHA password hash upgrade for old user profiles.
307 * abort RenamePage if renaming of main page fails (do not try to rename
311 * search: improve search result ordering
312 * SubscribeUser action: username regexes, support unsubscribing
313 * add MS Powerpoint indexing filter (needs catppt from catdoc package)
314 * migration scripts: make finding damaged edit-log entries easier
319 * Attachment links: fix processing of attributes (e.g. 'target', 'title')
320 * Upgrade FCKeditor from 2.6.4 to 2.6.4.1.
321 * PDF embedding: fix html, works better with PDF browser plugins now.
322 * Fix typo in rightsidebar CSS.
323 * Action revert: avoids reverting to a deleted current revision.
324 * Action diff: enable prev/next button only in the range of given revisions.
325 * Add a Auto-Submitted: auto-generated header to generated mails.
326 * Include comment in email notifies.
327 * mailimport: fix endless looping while trying to import a forwarded mail.
328 * fuid: keep same fake_mtime for intervals of max_staleness duration.
329 * Fixes a bug with empty list items in the GUI editor.
330 * Improve filesys.rename compatibility code (win32).
331 * Fix locking for CacheEntry.
332 * Xapian indexing: catch exception when a bad zip file is encountered.
333 * openidrp / botbouncer: fix param count for CancelLogin().
336 * Added CAS authentication.
337 * Added httponly cookie support and use it for session cookie.
340 * HTTP auth: added debug logging.
341 * Minor LDAP auth improvements.
342 * Data browser widget:
343 * Add (h)column<idx> css class to make it styleable.
344 * Include only necessary autofilter options.
345 * moin maint cleancache purges now drafts, too.
346 * Add gopher and apt protocols to url_schemas.
347 * Add .csv, .flv, .swf to MIMETYPES_MORE.
352 * ACL security: fix bug in hierarchical ACL processing, more restrictive
353 sub page ACLs did not work if the current user name did not give a match
354 within the sub page ACL (instead, the less restrictive parent page ACL
356 Non-hierarchical ACL processing (the default) is NOT affected.
357 * Creole parser: fix spaces in multiline elements.
358 * Use msie.css only for Internet Explorer older than version 8, fixes
359 e.g. the double rendering of link icons.
360 * http auth: do auth_type comparisons case-insensitively (spec-compliant)
363 * EmbedObject macro: changed default width value for PDF files to 100%
364 (use a recent Adobe Reader to make this work).
365 * CopyPage action: added a TextCha for it
368 * Creole parser: Add second license: BSD
373 * AttachFile XSS fixes: move escaping to error_msg / upload_form
374 * AttachFile move: add more escaping (maybe not XSS exploitable though)
375 * email attachments import with xapian indexing enabled: fix AttributeError
376 * fix wrong links in attachment notifications
377 * AttachFile do=view: quote filename and pagename params for EmbedObject
379 * AttachFile: fix exception when someone just clicks on upload, without
381 * ldap_login: use None as default value for ssl certs/keys (using '' for
382 the pathes lets it fail with Connect Error)
383 * release edit lock if someone saves an unchanged page
384 * fix sendmail.encodeAddress (do not [QP] encode blanks, do not un-
385 necessarily use [QP] encoding for pure ascii mail addresses)
386 * Fixed docs bug: see HINT about secrets configuration at version 1.8.0
387 (1.8.0 Other changes).
388 * backup action: add 'self' dummy argument for backup_exclude function
389 * login action: fix formatting of error messages
390 * unsubscribe action: add msg types so icons get displayed
391 * fix quoting for pagehits stats (info action) - was not working for pagenames with blanks
395 * added modernized_cms theme
396 * use url_prefix_fckeditor if you don't want to use the builtin FCKeditor
397 of moin, but a separate one at some specific url
398 * action.Load: added textcha feature
399 * add mumble protocol (nice and good quality F/OSS VOIP conference chat sw)
400 * ldap auth: new name_callback param to create a custom wiki username (not
401 the ldap login username).
404 * add compatibility code for set to xapwrap.index (fix py 2.6 warnings)
405 * wikiutil: MIMETYPES_MORE extended for .md5 as text/plain
410 * Fix AttachFile and antispam XSS issues.
411 * Modernized, modern and rightsidebar themes: make nonexistent or
412 badinterwiki links gray also when they are already visited.
413 * Fix anchor parsing for interwiki links and #redirect processing
415 * user.apply_recovery_token: key must be of type string (for Python 2.6).
417 * Fix autofilter javascript breakage caused by including a databrowser
419 * Use per-wiki i18n cache (fixes wrong links to other farm wikis).
420 * Made cfg.interwikiname and cfg.user_homewiki unicode objects (str only
421 worked for ascii names).
422 * Xapian search: fixed historysearch.
423 * Xapian search indexing:
424 * Fix index updating for trivial changes.
425 * With history search enabled and in update mode, do not try to re-index
426 old page revisions again.
427 * With history search enabled, index page attachments only once.
428 * Fix last modified time of xapian index (shown on SystemInfo page).
429 * Make logging handlers defined in logging.handlers work (e.g.
430 class=handlers.RotatingFileHandler)
431 * Jabber notifications:
432 * Use an RFC compliant message type.
433 * Fix user creation notifications.
434 * OpenID: Compatibility fix for python-openid 2.x.x (also works with
435 1.x.x), fixes crash when trying to associate moin user to OpenID.
436 * Have a wikiserverconfig.py in wiki/server/ so setup.py copies it.
437 * Fixed inconsistent handling of fragments / anchor IDs:
438 * Fixed creole and wiki parser, other parsers might need similar fixes.
439 * IDs with blanks, non-ASCII chars etc. are now sanitized in the same way
440 for links as well as for link targets, so the user editing a page won't
441 have to bother with it.
442 E.g. [[#123 foo bar]] will link to:
443 * <<Anchor(123 foo bar)>> (moin) or {{#123 foo bar}} (creole)
444 * headline = 123 foo bar = (moin / creole)
445 Simple rule: if the link and the target are consistent, it should work.
446 * The creole wiki parser created non-human-readable sha1 heading IDs
447 before 1.8.2, now it creates same (sometimes readable) heading IDs as
448 the moin wiki parser.
449 * TitleIndex/WordIndex now also use IDs sanitized in that way internally.
450 HINT: if you manually worked around the inconsistencies/bugs before, you
451 likely have to remove those workarounds now. Same thing if you used
452 creole's sha1 heading IDs or IDs on TitleIndex/WordIndex.
455 * Updated FCKeditor to 2.6.4 (== many bug fixes in the GUI editor).
456 * Enhanced privacy by a new setting: cfg.log_remote_addr (default: True),
457 it controls whether moin logs the remote's IP/hostname to edit-log and
458 event-log. Use log_remote_addr = False to enhance privacy.
459 * Streamline attachment_drawing formatter behaviour.
460 * Search results: only redirect to a single search result for titlesearch
461 (fuzzy goto functionality), but not for fulltext search results.
467 * Workaround win32 locking problems (caused by spurious access denied
468 exceptions on that platform).
469 * Fix unicode errors that happened when password checker failed a password
470 * WikiConfig/WikiConfigHelp: fixed wrong language table headings
471 * Themes: make the margins around trail line work properly
472 * "modernized" theme:
473 * make broken links gray
474 * add new right/center/left/justify css classes
476 * Standalone server: be more specific when catching socket exceptions,
477 treat socket errors in http header emission in the same way.
479 * Fix heading levels when inserting new headings.
480 * Fix headers already sent exception when using e.g. edit LOCKing.
481 * Xapian indexing: fixed missing import for execfilter (only happened on
482 non-posix platforms like win32)
486 * Make the TOC shrinkwrap, add white background to navigation macro.
487 The table of contents looked bad spanning the whole width of the page.
488 It's made to shrinkwrap now, so it will only get as wide, as the longest
489 heading. We use display:inline-table, so this won't work in MS IE6,
490 which still displays it the old way.
491 Navigation macro now has a white background, to make it more readable
492 when it's floating over a pre block or TOC.
493 * Make the numbers in lists in table of contents right-aligned.
494 * Refactored and extended theme.html_stylesheets() to make alternate
495 stylesheets possible. Stylesheet definitions now can either be:
496 2-tuples: (media, href) # backwards compatibility
498 3-tuples: (media, href, title) # new, for defining alternate stylesheets
499 This works within themes as well as in the wiki config.
500 See also: http://www.w3.org/Style/Examples/007/alternatives.html
504 Note: This is a reduced CHANGES, ommitting details from rc/beta test and
505 also less interesting minor changes and fixes. It shows changes
506 relative to 1.7.2 release.
507 If you want to see full detail, read it there:
508 http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/1.8/file/6130eab15936/docs/CHANGES
510 New Features: ==============================================================
511 * HINT: New "modernized" theme - if you use "modern" [default], try:
512 theme_default = 'modernized'
513 If you find problems with "modernized", please report them because we
514 want to use it as default theme in future.
516 * upgraded to use FCKEditor version 2.6.3
517 * user can insert and modify various types of MoinMoin links
518 * New plugin_dirs setting to allow multiple plugin pathes (additional to
519 the automatically configured plugin_dir [default: data_dir/plugin]).
520 * @EMAIL@ expands to a MailTo macro call with the obfuscated email address
522 * New macros "WikiConfig" and "WikiConfigHelp".
523 * Per-parser quickhelp, 'quickhelp' class variable of parser class.
524 * Secure session cookies for https (see cfg.cookie_secure).
525 * Added left/center/right/justify css classes to builtin themes.
528 this content is justified....
531 Removed Features: ==========================================================
532 * HINT: url_prefix setting (use url_prefix_static or just use the default)
533 * traceback_log_dir setting (we just use logging.exception)
534 * editor_quickhelp setting (replaced by per-parser quickhelp)
535 * Restoring backups with the backup action and related settings (while
536 creating backups is no big issue and should work OK, restoring them
537 had fundamental issues related to overwriting or not-overwriting of
538 existing files - thus we removed the "restore" part of the action and
539 recommend that you just contact the wiki server admin in case of trouble,
540 give him your wiki backup file and let him carefully restore it.)
541 * Removed unmaintained DesktopEdition (moin 1.5.x style) and phpwiki
542 migration scripts from contrib/ directory.
544 Bug Fixes: =================================================================
545 * GUI Editor - fixed lots of bugs.
546 * Fixing https detection for servers using HTTPS=1 and also for WSGI
547 servers not using HTTPS/SSL_ environment, but just wsgi.url_scheme.
548 * Search results: link to 'view' rendering of found attachments.
549 * Standalone server: fix serverClass and interface argument processing,
550 announce used serverClass in log output.
551 * mointwisted: fixed Twisted start script.
553 * Use logging framework for messages emitted by warnings module (e.g.
554 DeprecationWarning), silence some specific warnings.
555 * Removed superfluous linefeeds in timing log output.
557 * Fixed editbar hidden comment link cosmetics for sidebar themes (hide the
558 complete list element).
560 action, if the wiki does not run in the root url of the site)
561 * Fixed backup action configuration (broke on win32).
563 * SyncPages: add workaround for callers calling log_status with encoded
565 * Fixed dbw_hide_buttons javascript.
566 * HINT: Jabber bot can now be configured to use an authentication realm
567 which is different from the server's hostname; the xmpp_node
568 configuration parameter can now contain a full JID and the xmpp_resource
569 parameter is no longer supported.
571 Other Changes: =============================================================
572 * HINT: new configuration for misc. secrets, please use either:
573 secrets = "MySecretLooongString!" # one secret for everything
576 'xmlrpc/ProcessMail': 'yourmailsecret', # for mailimport
577 'xmlrpc/RemoteScript': 'yourremotescriptsecret',
578 'action/cache': 'yourcachesecret', # unguessable cache keys
579 'wikiutil/tickets': 'yourticketsecret', # edit tickets
580 'jabberbot': 'yourjabberbotsecret', # jabberbot communication
582 Secret strings must be at least 10 chars long.
583 Note: mail_import_secret setting is gone, use
584 secrets["xmlrpc/ProcessMail"] instead of it.
585 Note: jabberbot secret setting is gone, use
586 secrets["jabberbot"] instead of it.
587 * HINT: user_autocreate setting was removed from wiki configuration and
588 replaced by a autocreate=<boolean> parameter of the auth objects that
589 support user profile auto creation.
590 * moin import irclog: use irssi parser to format logs, mapped .irc
591 extension to text/plain mimetype.
592 * HINT: backup action: backup_exclude (default: "do not exclude anything")
593 is now a function f(filename) that tells whether a file should be
594 excluded from backup.
595 You can get the old regex exclusion functionality by using:
596 backup_exclude = re.compile(your_regex).search
597 Be careful with your regex, you might need to use re.escape() to escape
598 characters that have a special meaning in regexes (e.g.: \.[] etc.).
599 If in doubt, maybe just leave backup_exclude at the default and don't
601 * Speed up javascript comments processing on IE by getElementsByClassName()
602 * Added sk (slovak) i18n, updated i18n.
607 * Secure session cookies for https, see cfg.cookie_secure.
608 * Add left/center/right/justify classes to builtin themes.
611 * Python 2.3 compatibility fixes.
612 * Fixed https detection for servers using HTTPS=1 and also for wsgi servers
613 not using HTTPS/SSL_ environment, but just wsgi.url_scheme.
615 * Fix crash when editing a page with non-ASCII pagename and inserting a link
616 * Fix "headers already sent exception" with edit LOCKs.
617 * i18n.__init__: Bug fix for wiki language not installed.
618 * Fixed URLs given by sitemap action, if the wiki does not run at / URL.
619 * Search results: link to 'view' rendering of found attachments
621 * Removed superfluous linefeed in timing log output.
622 * Use logging framework for messages emitted by warnings module (e.g.
623 DeprecationWarning), silence some specific warnings.
624 * Fix dbw_hide_buttons javascript.
626 * fix serverClass argument processing
627 * fix --interface="" argument processing
629 * added missing pidFile parameter
630 * better use Config.name for pidFile to avoid conflicts and keep same
631 behaviour as in the past
632 * Jabber bot can now be configured to use an authentication realm which
633 is different from the server's hostname
638 * Fix leakage of edit-log file handles (leaked 1 file handle / request!).
640 * Wiki parser: avoid IndexError for empty #! line
641 * MonthCalendar macro: fix parameter parsing / url generation
642 * Xapian indexing filters (MoinMoin/filter/ or data/plugin/filter/):
643 Some indexing filter scripts (e.g. for MS Word documents or PDF files)
644 failed on windows because of the single-quote quoting we used (that
645 works on Linux and other Posix systems). The fix introduces platform-
646 dependant automatic quoting, using double-quotes on win32 and single-
648 HINT: if you use own filter plugins based on execfilter, you have to
649 update them as the filename quoting (was '%s') is now done automatically
650 and must not be part of the command string any more (now just use %s).
651 See MoinMoin/filter/ for some up-to-date code (esp. the PDF filter).
652 * Prevent CategoryTemplate being listed as a category (it is a Template,
653 but matched also the category regex) - added to sample wikiconfig.
654 * LDAP auth: fix processing of TLS options
655 * UpdateGroup xmlrpc server side: fix wrong arg count error
656 * UpdateGroup client: use multicall / auth_token, refactor code so that
657 updateGroup function is reusable.
658 * Improve Python 2.3 compatibility, add notes where 2.4 is required.
663 * New 'cache' action (see developer notes).
666 * Security fix: XSS fix for advanced search form
667 * Avoid creation of new pagedirs with empty edit-log files by just
668 accessing a non-existant page. If you used 1.7 before, you likely have
669 quite some trash pagedirs now and you can clean them up by using:
670 moin --config-dir=... --wiki-url=... maint cleanpage
671 This will output some shell script (please review it before running!)
672 that can be used to move trash pages into some trash/ directory and also
673 moves deleted pages into some deleted/ directory. Maybe keep a copy of
674 those directories for a while just for the case.
675 * Server specific fixes:
676 * standalone (wikiserver.py): fix --pidfile and --group option, fix
677 operation without a wikiserverconfig.py (use builtin defaults).
678 * mod_python: work around mod_python 3.3.1 problems with file uploads.
679 Note: if you are still using mod_python, we strongly recommend you
680 try out mod_wsgi (in daemon mode) - it has less bugs, better
681 security, better separation, WSGI is a Python standard, and moin
682 developers also use WSGI. See HelpOnInstalling/ApacheWithModWSGI.
683 * revert action: fixed for deleted pages.
685 * Xapian indexing: Removed crappy "hostname" tokenization.
687 Also tokenize CamelCase parts of non-wikiwords.
688 * Make query parser reject more invalid input.
689 * If query parsing raises a BracketError, at least tell what the problem
690 is (and not just raise empty ValueError).
691 * Category search: ignore traling whitespace after ----
693 * Fixed sort() usage in UnitArgument to be Python 2.3 compatible.
696 * TableOfContents: skip outer-most <ol> levels when page isn't using
700 * OpenID RP: make it compatible to python-openid 2.2.x
701 * PackagePages.collectpackage: removed encoding from file name of zipfile
702 * Surge protection: exclude localnet no matter whether user is known or not.
704 * Script moin account create/disable/resetpw: checks for already existing
708 * Prevent CategoryTemplate being listed as a category (it is a Template)
709 by changing the default page_category_regex.
712 * New MoinMoin.action.cache - can be used to cache expensively rendered
713 output, e.g. generated images). Once put into the cache, moin can emit
714 a http response for that content very fast and very efficient (including
715 "304 not changed" handling.
716 * New file-like API in MoinMoin.caching (good for dealing with medium
717 to large files without consuming lots of memory).
718 * wikiutil.importPlugin supports getting the whole plugin module object
719 by giving function=None.
723 Note: This is a reduced CHANGES, ommitting details from rc/beta test and
724 also less interesting minor changes and fixes. It shows changes
725 relative to 1.6.3 release.
726 If you want to see full detail, read it there:
727 http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/1.7/file/76265568e8d3/docs/CHANGES
729 New Features: ==============================================================
730 * HINT: we added generic UPDATE instructions as docs/UPDATE.html.
732 * HINT: Standalone server usage changed:
733 * Standalone server can now be started via the "moin" script command,
734 optionally backgrounding itself.
735 See: moin server standalone --help
736 * In the toplevel dir, we have renamed moin.py to wikiserver.py (it was
737 often confused with the moin scripting command).
739 * wikiserver.py - to start the standalone server
740 * wikiserverconfig.py - to configure the standalone server
741 * wikiserverlogging.conf - to configure logging for it (default config
742 is ok for all day use, but can easily be modified for debugging)
743 * wikiconfig.py - to configure the wiki engine
744 * Removed old moin daemonizing script (replaced by moin server standalone
746 * We now provide the "moin" script command also for people not using
747 setup.py, see wiki/server/moin.
750 * New powerful and flexible logging, please see wiki/config/logging/ -
751 HINT: you have to upgrade your server adaptor script (e.g. moin.cgi)
752 and load a logging configuration that fits your needs from there, or
753 alternatively you can also set MOINLOGGINGCONF environment variable
754 to point at your logging config file.
755 If you use some of our sample logging configs, make sure you have a
756 look INTO them to fix e.g. the path of the logfile it will use.
757 * Moin now logs the path from where it loaded its configuration(s).
759 * Authentication / Sessions:
760 * HINT: New authentication plugin system, see HelpOnAuthentication. If
761 you do not use the builtin default for 'auth' list, you likely have to
762 change your configuration. See wiki/config/snippets/ for some samples.
763 * HINT: New session handling system (no moin_session any more, now done
764 internally and automatically), see HelpOnSessions for details.
765 * Added OpenID client and server support.
766 See: HelpOnAuthentication and HelpOnOpenIDProvider.
767 * cfg.trusted_auth_methods is a list of auth methods that put an
768 authenticated user into the "Trusted" ACL group.
770 * User profiles / password recovery / notification:
771 * New newacount action for creating new user accounts/profiles. If you
772 don't want users creating new accounts on their own, you can add this
773 action to actions_excluded list.
774 * New recoverpass action for password recovery:
775 If you forgot your password, recoverpass sends you an email with a
776 password recovery token (NOT the encrypted password) that is valid
778 * New moin account resetpw script for resetting a user's password by
780 * New preferences plugin system, see MoinMoin/userprefs/__init__.py.
781 * New notification system with an optional jabber notification bot, see
782 HelpOnNotification. HINT: wiki users have to check their notification
783 settings, esp. if they want to receive trivial update notifications.
785 * The diff action now has navigation buttons for prev/next change and also
786 a revert button to revert to the revision shown below the diff display.
787 * ThemeBase: support Universal Edit Button, see there for details:
788 http://universaleditbutton.org/
789 * ?action=info&max_count=42 - show the last 42 history entries of the page.
790 max_count has a default of default_count and a upper limit of
791 limit_max_count - you can configure both in your wiki config:
792 cfg.history_count = (100, 200) # (default_count, limit_max_count) default
793 * The CSV parser can sniff the delimiter from the first CSV line so other
794 delimeters than ";" can be used.
795 * Admonition support. Added styling for tip, note, important, warning
796 and caution in the modern theme. For more info see HelpOnAdmonitions.
798 * supports HTML entities like → and ☃
799 * supports the FootNote macro
800 * supports bulletless lists
801 * support for admonitions
802 * will export the wiki page's edit history as the generated article's
803 revision history. Doesn't add history of included pages.
804 * supports for the MoinMoin comment element, though only inline comments
805 are likely to be valid since the DocBook remark is an inline element.
806 * New Hits macro: shows the total hits for the page it is used on.
808 Removed Features: ==========================================================
809 * HINT: Removed attachments direct serving (cfg.attachments - this was
810 deprecated since long!). Use AttachFile action to serve attachments.
811 * Duplicated file attachment upload code was removed from Load action (just
812 use AttachFile action to deal with attachments).
813 * Removed 'test' action. If you like to run unit tests, use py.test.
814 * Removed Login macro.
816 Bug Fixes: =================================================================
817 * Better handling of ImportErrors (farmconfig, macros, wikiserverconfig).
818 * Fix failure of detection of on-disk cache updates.
819 * Fix traceback in filesys.py on Mac OS X when "import Carbon" fails.
821 * AttachFile action / file up- and download / zip support:
822 * WSGI: use wsgi.file_wrapper (or a builtin simple wrapper). Fixes memory
823 consumption for sending of large file attachments.
824 * FastCGI: flush often. Fixes memory consumption for sending of large
826 * Use the open temporary file for receiving file attachment uploads
827 (fixes big memory consumption for large file uploads).
828 * Catch runtime errors raised by zipfile stdlib modules when trying to
829 process a defective zip.
830 * When unzipping member files, decode their filenames from utf-8 and
831 replace invalid chars.
832 * Make error msg less confusing when trying to overwrite a file attachment
833 without having 'delete' rights.
835 * HINT: page_*_regex processing had to be changed to fix category search.
836 If you don't use the builtin (english) defaults, you will have to change
838 old (default): page_category_regex = u'^Category[A-Z]'
839 new (default): page_category_regex = ur'(?P<all>Category(?P<key>\S+))'
840 As you see, the old regex did work for detecting whether a pagename is
841 a category, but it could not be used to search for a category tag in the
842 page text. The new regex can be used for both and identifies the complete
843 category tag (match in group 'all', e.g. "CategoryFoo") as well as the
844 category key (match in group 'key', e.g. "Foo") by using named regex
845 groups. \S+ means the category key can be anything non-blank.
846 If you like to simultaneously support multiple languages, use something
847 like this: ur'(?P<all>(Kategorie|Category)(?P<key>\S+))'
848 HINT: after changing your configuration, please rebuild the cache:
850 * moin ... maint cleancache
852 If you don't do this, your groups / dicts will stop working (and also
853 your ACLs that use those groups). You better do a test whether it works.
855 * Xapian search / indexing / stemming:
856 * Use text/<format> as mimetype for pages.
857 * Index also major and minor for mimetypes, so it will find 'text' or
858 'plain' as well as 'text/plain'
859 * Fix searching for negative terms.
860 * Improve result list ordering.
861 * Index filters: redirect stderr to logging system.
862 * Remove crappy num regex from WikiAnalyzer, improve tokenization.
863 * Fix AttributeError that happened when trying to access an attribute only
864 used with xapian search (but regex search is not done by xapian)
865 * Fix IndexErrors happening when pages are renamed/nuked after the index
867 * Fixed indexing of WikiWords (index "WikiWords", "Wiki" and "Words").
868 * Fix crash if default language is un-stemmable.
869 * xapian_stemming: removed some strange code (fixes search
870 title:lowercaseword with xapian_stemming enabled)
871 * Fixed category indexing (index CategoryFoo correctly as CategoryFoo, not
872 Foo - for all languages, see page_*_regex change above).
873 * Builtin search: support mimetype: search for pages for the builtin search
874 engine (using text/<format>).
877 * Wiki: fix subscript parsing (was broken for cases like 'a,,1,2,,').
878 * Docbook: fixed detection of WikiWords.
879 * All: Add ssh protocol to url_schemas for ssh:... URLs.
882 * Fix xmlrpc request.read() call to use content-length, if available,
883 fixes hangs with wsgiref server.
884 * Wiki xmlrpc getPageInfoVersion() fixed:
885 * works correctly now for old page versions (was unsupported)
886 * works correctly now for current page version (reported wrong
887 data when a page had attachment uploads after the last page
889 * returns a Fault if it did not find a edit-log entry
891 Other Changes: =============================================================
892 * Using better ACLs and comments on system/help pages now, just taking
893 away 'write' permission, but using default ACLs for everything else.
894 * HINT: If you want to use xapian based indexed search, you need to have
895 Xapian >= 1.0.0 (and you can remove PyStemmer in case you have installed
896 it just for moin - we now use the stemmer built into Xapian as it
897 supports utf-8 since 1.0.0).
898 * Changed default value of cfg.search_results_per_page to 25.
899 * Surge Protection: If a user is authenticated by a trusted authentication
900 (see also cfg.auth_methods_trusted) then he/she won't trigger surge
901 protection, but moin will just log a INFO level log msg with the user's
902 name so you can find the culprit in case he/she is overusing ressources.
903 * HINT: Added MyPages and CopyPage to actions_excluded because MyPages
904 doesn't work without special SecurityPolicy anyway and CopyPage has
905 questionable behaviour.
906 * Load action now just creates a new revision of the target page, the
907 target pagename defaults to the current page name and can be edited.
908 If the target pagename is empty, moin tries to derive the target pagename
909 from the uploaded file's name.
910 Load tries to decode the file contents first using utf-8 coding and, if
911 that fails, it forces decoding using iso-8859-1 coding (and replacing
913 * HINT: cfg.show_login is gone, see code in theme/__init__.py, this may
915 * HINT: a new userprefs/ plugin directory will be created by the usual
916 "moin migration data" command.
918 * generates a valid DOCTYPE
919 * table support has been improved
920 * handling of definitions and glossaries is more robust
921 * supports program language and line numbering in code areas
922 * HINT: ldap_login behaves a bit different now:
923 In previous moin versions, ldap_login tended to either successfully
924 authenticate a user or to completely cancel the whole login process in
925 any other case (including ldap server down or exceptions happening).
926 This made subsequent auth list entries rather pointless.
927 Now it behaves like this:
928 * user not found in LDAP -> give subsequent auth list entries a
929 chance to authenticate the user (same happens if it finds multiple
930 LDAP entries when searching - it logs an additional warning then).
931 * user found, but wrong password -> cancel login
932 * ldap server not reachable or other exceptions -> give subsequent
933 auth list entries a chance
934 So please make sure that you really trust every auth list entry you have
935 configured when upgrading or it might maybe change behaviour in a
936 unexpected or unwanted way.
937 * ldap_login now supports failover: if it can't contact your LDAP server
938 (e.g. because it is down or unreachable), it will just continue and
939 try to authenticate with other authenticators (if there are any in
940 cfg.auth list). So if you have some mirroring LDAP backup server, just
941 put another authenticator querying it there:
942 ldap_auth1 = LDAPAuth(server_uri='ldap://mainserver', ...)
943 ldap_auth2 = LDAPAuth(server_uri='ldap://backupserver', ...)
944 auth = [ldap_auth1, ldap_auth2, ]
946 Developer notes: ===========================================================
947 * Page.last_edit() is DEPRECATED, please use Page.edit_info().
948 * Page._last_edited() is GONE (was broken anyway), please use
949 Page.editlog_entry().
950 * New request.send_file() call, making it possible to use server-specific
952 * getText's (aka _()) 'formatted' keyword param (default: True in 1.6 and
953 early 1.7) was renamed/changed: it is now called 'wiki' and defaults to
954 False. Example calls:
955 _('This will NOT get parsed/formatted by MoinMoin!')
956 _('This will be parsed/formatted by MoinMoin!', wiki=True)
957 _('This will be used as a left side of percent operator. %s',
958 wiki=True, percent=True)
959 * Page.url 'relative' keyword param (default: True in 1.6 and early 1.7)
960 was changed to default False).
961 * The themedict no longer contains 'page_user_prefs' and 'user_prefs',
962 this may affect custom themes.
963 * The rst-parser's admonition class names are no longer prepended with
964 "admonition_". Instead the class names are now for example "note"
965 and not "admonition_note".
970 * Security fix: a check in the user form processing was not working as
971 expected, leading to a major ACL and superuser priviledge escalation
972 problem. If you use ACL entries other than "Known:" or "All:" and/or
973 a non-empty superuser list, you need to urgently install this upgrade.
974 * Security fix: if acl_hierarchic=True was used (False is the default),
975 ACL processing was wrong for some cases, see
977 * For {{transclusion_targets}} we checked the protocol to be http(s),
978 this check was removed (because file: and ftp: should work also) and
979 it's not moin's problem if the user uses silly protocols that can't
980 work for that purpose.
981 * Fixed TableOfContents macro for included pages.
982 * server_fastcgi: added Config.port = None. If you want to use some port
983 (not a fd), you can set it now in your Config, e.g. port = 8888.
984 * category: search matches categories even if there are comment lines
985 between the horizontal rule and the real categories, e.g.:
986 ... some page text ...
988 ## optionally some comments, e.g. about possible categories:
989 ## CategoryJustACommentNotFound
990 CategoryTheRealAndOnly
992 Note: there might be multiple comment lines, but all real categories
993 must be on a single line either directly below the ---- or
994 directly below some comment lines.
997 * Added 'notes' to config.url_schemas, so you can use notes://notessrv/...
998 to invoke your Lotus Notes client.
999 * After creating a new user profile via UserPreferences, you are logged
1000 in with that user (no need to immediately enter the same name/password
1001 again for logging in).
1006 * Security fix: check the ACL of the included page for the rst parser's
1008 * Potential security/DOS fix: we removed cracklib / python-crack support
1009 in password_checker as it is not thread-safe and caused segmentation
1010 faults (leading to server error 500 because the moin process died).
1011 * Fix moin_session code for auth methods other than moin_login (e.g. http).
1012 If you have worked around this using moin_anon_session, you can remove
1013 this workaround now (except if you want anon sessions for other reasons).
1014 * Fix moin_session code to delete invalid session cookies and also create
1015 a new session cookie if it got a valid user_obj at the same time.
1016 * Fix xmlrpc applyAuthToken: give good error msg for empty token.
1017 * Fixed category search, use category:CategoryFoo as search term.
1018 * xapian_stemming = False (changed default) to workaround some problems
1019 in the code enabled by it. Fixes the problems when searching for
1020 lowercase or numeric titles or word fragments with the builtin search.
1021 * Fix trail for anon users without a session, do not show a single page.
1023 * Wiki parser: fixed strange insertion of unwanted paragraphs.
1024 * Wiki parser: fix interwiki linking:
1025 Free interwiki links did not change since 1.5 (they still require to match
1026 [A-Z][A-Za-z]+ for the wikiname part, i.e. a ASCII word beginning with an
1028 Bracketed interwiki links now behave similar to how they worked in 1.5:
1029 Moin just splits off the part left of the colon - no matter how it looks
1030 like. It then tries to find that in the interwiki map. If it is found,
1031 a interwiki link gets rendered. If it is not found, moin will render a
1032 link to a local wiki page (that has a colon in the pagename). It will
1033 also render a local wiki page link if there is no colon at all, of course.
1035 [[lowercasewikiname:somepage]] does an interwiki link (if in the map).
1036 [[ABC:n]] does a local link to page ABC:n (if ABC is NOT in the map).
1037 * Wiki parser: fix interwiki linking for the case that there are query args
1038 in the interwiki map entry and you give additional query args via link
1039 markup (uses correct query arg separator now), e.g.:
1040 [[Google:searchterm|search this|&foo=bar]]
1041 * Creole parser: fixed bug that prevents images inside links.
1042 * Python parser: catch indentation error.
1043 * PageEditor: fixed copyPage for write restricted pages.
1044 * GUI editor: fixed javascript error with too complex word_rule regex,
1046 * Fixed FCKeditor dialog boxes for FireFox3.
1047 * NewPage macro/newpage action: fixed for non-ascii template pagenames.
1049 * EmbedObject macro: bug fix for image mimetype
1051 * fix TWikiDraw saving a drawing by also evaluating the query args.
1052 * work around unpythonic WSGI 1.0 read() API, fixing broken xmlrpc
1053 putPage with mod_wsgi
1055 * Fix logfile code for EACCESS errors.
1056 * Removed the "logging initialized" log messages because it was issued once
1057 per request for CGI.
1060 * Show "Comments" toggling link in edit bar only if the page really
1062 * Made default configuration of surge protection a bit more forgiving,
1063 especially for edit action which is currently also used for previews.
1064 * Updated i18n, system/help pages, added Macedonian system text translation.
1065 * Improved moin xmlrpc write command's builtin docs and auto-append
1066 ?action=xmlrpc2 to the target wiki url given.
1071 * Improved params for [[target|label|params]]:
1072 Added accesskey link tag attribute, e.g.: [[target|label|accesskey=1]].
1073 Additionally to specifying link tag attributes (like class=foo), you can
1074 now also specify &key=value for getting that into the query string of
1076 The "&" character is important, don't forget it or it won't get into the
1078 E.g. for an attachment, you can use:
1079 [[attachment:foo.pdf|Direct download of foo.pdf|&do=get]]
1080 E.g. for linking to some specific diff, you can use:
1081 [[SomePage|see that diff|&action=diff,&rev1=23,&rev2=42]]
1082 See also the updated HelpOnLinking page!
1083 * AdvancedSearch: make multipe categories/languages/mimetype selections possible
1084 * Added a configuration directive to only do one bind to the LDAP server.
1085 This is useful if you bind as the user the first time.
1086 ldap_bindonce = False # default
1089 * Fix XSS issue in login action.
1090 * Fix wrong pagename when creating new pages on Mac OS X - that was a big
1091 showstopper for moin 1.6.0 on Mac OS X.
1092 * Fixed 1.6 migration script:
1093 Make sorting python 2.3 compatible.
1094 Just skip corrupted event log lines.
1095 Fix link conversion by using data.pre160 as data_dir.
1096 Fix bad /InterWiki pagenames when encountering interwiki links with bad
1098 Improve ImageLink conversion by using its argument parser code.
1099 Added STONEAGE_IMAGELINK (default: False) switch to wiki markup converter,
1100 toggle it if you had a very old ImageLink macro in production and the
1101 converter output has target and image interchanged.
1102 Fixed UnicodeDecodeError for wrongly encoded attachment filenames.
1104 Fix parsing of link/transclusion description and params.
1105 Fix relative attachment targets.
1106 Fix supported URL schemes (some got lost since 1.5.8).
1107 Showing an upload link for non-existing non-text/non-image transclusions
1108 now (like e.g. *.pdf).
1109 * RST parser: fix attachment: and drawing: processing
1110 * Fix quickhelp when editing RST markup pages.
1111 * Fix Despam action: editor grouping was broken, increase time interval
1113 * Fix AdvancedSearch domain:system search crashing.
1114 * Only switch off xapian search if we didn't use it because of missing index.
1115 * Fix saving twikidraw drawings by removing 'java' from spider regex.
1116 * Fix classic theme's unsubscribe icon's action link.
1117 * Fix AttachFile action: don't show unzip for packages, only show install
1119 * Fix "su user" troubles on UserPreferences.
1120 * Removed unit tests from ?action=test (due to changes in our test
1121 environment, using py.test now, this was broken).
1122 * Duplicated the top directories' moin.py to wiki/server/moin.py so it gets
1123 installed by setup.py.
1131 * I18n texts, system and help pages updated, please update your underlay
1132 directory (see wiki/underlay/...).
1133 * Improved "moin" script help, invoke it with "moin ... package command --help".
1134 * Added some .ext -> mimetype mappings missing on some systems (like Mac OS X).
1135 * Removed ImageLink macro, as this can be easily done with moin wiki link
1136 syntax now - see HelpOnMacros/ImageLink (the 1.6 migration scripts convert
1137 all ImageLink calls to moin wiki link syntax).
1138 * Updated EmbedObject macro.
1142 * This is a reduced CHANGES, ommitting details from rc/beta test and also
1143 less interesting minor changes and fixes. If you want to see full detail,
1144 read it there: http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/1.6/file/640f21787334/docs/CHANGES
1146 It took MoinMoin development a lot of work and time to implement all the new
1147 and fixed stuff, so please, before asking for support:
1148 * take the time to read all the stuff below
1149 * read the new help pages (copy them from wiki/underlay/ directory)
1151 * HINT: If you are upgrading from a older moin version and want to keep your
1152 existing data directory, it is essential that you read and follow
1153 README.migration because the wiki markup and user profiles changed significantly.
1154 See also more HINTs below...
1156 New features: ==============================================================
1158 User interface: ------------------------------------------------------------
1159 * Removed "underscore in URL" == "blank in pagename magic" - it made more
1160 trouble than it was worth. If you still want to have a _ in URL, just
1161 put a _ into pagename.
1162 * Discussion pages, see FeatureRequests/DiscussionAndOrCommentPages.
1163 * cfg.password_checker (default: use some simple builtin checks for too
1164 easy passwords and, if available, python-crack).
1165 Use password_checker = None to disable password checking.
1166 * We now have a drafts functionality (no */MoinEditorBackup pages any
1168 * If you edit a page and cancel the edit, use preview or save, a draft
1169 copy gets saved for you to a internal cache area (data/cache/drafts/).
1170 * If it is a save what you did and it succeeds, the draft copy gets
1171 killed right afterwards.
1172 * If you accidentally used cancel or your browser or machine crashes
1173 after you used preview, then just visit that page again and edit it.
1174 the editor will notify you that there is a draft of this page and you
1175 will see a "Load draft" button. Click on it to load the draft into the
1176 editor and save the page.
1177 * The draft storage is per user and per page, but only one draft per page.
1178 * cfg.quicklinks_default and cfg.subscribed_pages_default can be used to
1179 preload new user profiles with configurable values.
1180 * attachment links for non-existing attachments look different now:
1181 the note about the non-existing attachment moved to the link title,
1182 the link is shown with nonexistent class (grey).
1183 * attachment embeddings for non-existing attachments show a grey clip
1184 * The list of InterWiki sites is editable in the wiki (page InterWikiMap),
1185 it is getting reloaded every minute.
1186 * We support some new languages and also have new underlay pages, thanks
1187 to all translators and people helping with the docs!
1189 Actions: -------------------------------------------------------------------
1190 * Synchronisation of wikis using the SyncPages action.
1191 * Xapian (see http://xapian.org/) based indexed search code.
1193 * Install xapian-core and xapian-bindings on your machine.
1194 We used 0.9.4, but newer code should hopefully work, too.
1195 * cfg.xapian_search = True
1196 * Execute this to build the index:
1197 $ moin ... index build # indexes pages and attachments
1198 $ moin ... index build --files=files.lst # same plus a list of files
1199 You should run those commands as the same user you use for your wiki,
1200 usually this is the webserver userid, e.g.:
1201 $ sudo -u www-data moin --config=... --wiki-url=wiki.example.org/ \
1202 index build --files=files.lst
1204 - LanguageSearch: language:de
1205 - CategorySearch: category:Homepage
1206 - MimetypeSearch: mimetype:image/png (for attachments/files)
1207 - DomainSearch: domain:underlay or domain:standard
1208 - History Search: available in advanced ui
1209 Note: Some currently only available when Xapian is used.
1210 * New config options and their defaults:
1211 xapian_search False enables xapian-powered search
1212 xapian_index_dir None directory for xapian indices
1213 (can be shared for wiki farms)
1214 xapian_stemming True toggles usage of stemmer, fallback
1215 to False if no stemmer installed
1216 search_results_per_page 10 determines how many hits should be
1217 shown on a fullsearch action
1218 xapian_index_history False indexes all revisions of pages to
1219 allow searching in their history
1220 * Speeded up linkto search by avoiding read locks on the pagelinks file.
1222 * The action menu now calls the actions for the revision of the page you
1223 are currently viewing. If you are viewing the current page revision, you
1224 get the same behaviour as in moin 1.5, but if you are viewing an old
1225 page revision, action "raw" will now show you the raw text of this OLD
1226 revision (not of the current revision as moin 1.5 did it).
1227 Note that not every action does evaluate the rev=XX parameter it gets.
1228 Also please note that the edit, info, ... links in the editbar do NOT
1229 use the rev parameter, but operate on the latest page revision (as
1230 they did in moin 1.5).
1231 * Info action lost the links for "raw", "print" and "revert" actions,
1232 because you can now just view an old revision and select those actions
1233 from the menu there.
1235 * ?action=sitemap emits a google sitemap (XML), listing all your wiki pages
1236 and the wiki root URL.
1237 Page Priority / Frequency / Last modification
1238 --------------------------------------------------------------------
1239 / 1.0 / hourly / <now>
1240 cfg.page_front_page 1.0 / hourly / page last edit
1241 TitleIndex,RecentChanges 0.9 / hourly / <now>
1242 content pages 0.5 / daily / page last edit
1243 system/help pages 0.1 / yearly / page last edit
1245 * Action DeletePage and RenamePage can now be used for subpages of a page, too.
1246 * Added Action CopyPage so you can use now an existing page or page hierarchy
1247 as template for a new page, see FeatureRequests/CloneOrCopyPages.
1248 * "Package Pages" action supports attachments now.
1249 * Added SisterPages support:
1250 * action=sisterpages will generate a list of url pagename lines for all
1251 pages in your moin wiki.
1252 * action=pollsistersites will poll all sister sites listed in
1253 cfg.sistersites = [(wikiname, fetchURL), ...]
1254 The fetch URL for the sistersites depends on the wiki engine, e.g.:
1256 ('MoinExample', 'http://moin.example.org/?action=sisterpages')
1257 # oddmuse based wiki:
1258 ('EmacsWiki', 'http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/test?action=sisterpages')
1259 # JspWiki based wiki:
1260 ('JspWiki', 'http://www.jspwiki.org/SisterSites.jsp')
1261 * If the current page exists on some sister wiki, a link to it will be
1262 added to the navibar.
1263 You can use sister wikis for adding another dimension to your wiki UI: use
1264 it for simple multi language support, or for comments, or anything else
1266 TODO: add sistersites_force with sister sites we link to even if they do not
1267 have the page yet (will work only for moin as we don't know
1268 pagename>url transformation of other wikis)
1269 * showtags action that lists all tags related to a page.
1270 * action=view does use mimetypes of EmbedObject too and text files will be shown
1271 by using their colorized parsers
1273 Macros: --------------------------------------------------------------------
1275 * If a change has happened after your bookmark, the updated/new/renamed
1276 icon links to the bookmark diff.
1277 * If a page does not exist any more (because it was deleted or renamed),
1278 we link the deleted icon to the diff showing what was deleted (for the
1279 delete action). For the rename action, we just show the deleted icon.
1280 * Conflict icon in RecentChanges is shown if a edit conflict is detected.
1281 * Enhanced SystemAdmin's user browser, so a SuperUser can enable/disable
1283 * Included EmbedObject macro for embedding different major mimetypes:
1284 application, audio, image, video, chemical, x-world.
1285 You are able to change the defaults of allowed mimetypes in the config
1286 var mimetypes_embed. The config var mimetypes_xss_protect is used to deny
1287 mimetypes. The order of both variables is Allow, Deny (mimetypes_embed,
1288 mimetypes_xss_protect).
1289 * Added support for @SELF to the NewPage macro.
1290 * GetText2 macro that allows to translate messages that contain data.
1291 * Make the FootNote macro filter duplicates and display a list of numbers
1292 instead of a list of identical footnotes. Thanks to Johannes Berg for the
1295 Parsers: -------------------------------------------------------------------
1296 * Moin Wiki parser: Changed markup for links, images and macros, see these
1297 wiki pages: HelpOnLinking, HelpOnMacros
1298 * New wiki markup for /* inline comments */ - they get rendered as a span
1299 with class="comment", see next item:
1300 * There is a new item in the edit bar: "Comments". If you click it, the
1301 visibility of all class "comment" tags will be toggled. There is a user
1302 preferences item "show_comments" to set if the default view shows them or not.
1303 * The wiki parser can be used with css classes now:
1305 This will render output within a div with class "comment".
1306 You can use any wiki markup as usual.
1308 You can also combine multiple css classes like this:
1309 {{{#!wiki red/dotted/comment
1310 This will render a red background, dotted border comment section.
1312 The same thing will work for any other css classes you have.
1313 If the css classes contain the word "comment", they will trigger some
1314 special feature, see next item:
1315 * Wiki nested parser/pre sections work now, using this syntax:
1316 a) just use more curly braces if you have 3 closing in your content:
1318 }}} <- does not terminate the section!
1320 b) use {{{ + some magic string:
1322 }}} <- does not terminate the section!
1324 c) {{{whatever#!python
1327 Pitfall: stuff like below does not work as it did in 1.5:
1335 * Added support for ircs: URLs (secure IRC).
1336 * New text/creole parser that allows you to use WikiCreole 1.0 markup,
1338 * HTML parser (called "html") that allows you to use HTML on the page.
1339 Thanks to the trac team for the nice code.
1340 * Added the diff parser from ParserMarket, thanks to Emilio Lopes, Fabien
1341 Ninoles and Juergen Hermann.
1343 XMLRPC: --------------------------------------------------------------------
1344 * actions_excluded now defaults to ['xmlrpc'] - this kind of disables the
1345 built-in wiki xmlrpc server code (not completely: it will just answer
1346 with a Fault instance for any request). If you want to use xmlrpc v1 or
1347 v2, you have to remove 'xmlrpc' from the actions_excluded list (for
1348 example if you want to use wikisync, mailimport or any other feature
1349 using xmlrpc). If you enable xmlrpc, it will be possible that someone
1350 changes your wiki content by using xmlrpc (it will of course honour ACLs).
1351 * New XMLRPC methods (see doc strings for details):
1353 * system.multicall -- multicall support
1354 * Authentication System: getAuthToken/appyAuthToken
1355 * getDiff -- method to get binary diffs
1356 * mergeDiff -- method to local changes remotely
1357 * interwikiName -- method to get the IWID and the interwiki moniker
1358 * getAllPagesEx -- method to get the pagelist in a special way (revnos,
1359 no system pages etc.)
1360 * getAuthToken -- make and authentication token by supplying username/password
1361 * applyAuthToken -- set request.user for following xmlrpc calls (within the
1363 * getUserProfile -- method to get user profile data for request.user
1364 * Added XMLRPC methods for attachment handling. Thanks to Matthew Gilbert.
1365 * XMLRPC putPage method adjusted to new AuthToken, config vars
1366 xmlrpc_putpage_enabled and xmlrpc_putpage_trusted_only removed.
1368 Scripts / Commandline interface: -------------------------------------------
1369 * moin export dump now better conforms to the theme guidelines.
1370 * Added a --dump-user option to the moin export dump command.
1371 Thanks to Oliver O'Halloran.
1373 Security / Auth / AntiSpam / etc.: -----------------------------------------
1374 * Hierarchical ACLs are now supported, i.e. pages inheriting permissions
1375 from higher-level pages. See HelpOnAccessControlLists.
1376 * If you have "#acl" (without the quotes) on a page, this means now:
1377 "this page has own (empty) ACLs, so do not use acl_rights_default here"
1378 Please note that this is COMPLETELY DIFFERENT from having no ACL line at
1379 all on the page (acl_rights_default is used in that case).
1380 * Antispam master url is now configurable via cfg.antispam_master_url.
1381 The default is to fetch the antispam patterns from MoinMaster wiki.
1382 * Antispam now checks the edit comments against BadContent also.
1383 * TextCHAs (text-form CAPTCHAs).
1384 Due to increasingly annoying wiki spammers, we added the option to use
1385 TextCHAs (for page save (not for preview!), for attachment upload, for
1386 user creation (not for profile save)).
1387 This function is disabled by default. If you run a wiki that is editable
1388 by anonymous or non-approved users from the internet (i.e. All: or Known:
1389 in ACL terms), you should enable it in your wiki config by:
1390 textchas = { # DO NOT USE EXACTLY THESE QUESTIONS!!!
1392 u'H2O is ...': u'water', # bad: too common
1393 u'2 apples and three bananas makes how many fruits?': ur'(five|5)', # good
1394 u'2 apples and three pigs makes how many fruits?': ur'(two|2)', # good
1395 u'2+3': ur'5', # bad: computable
1398 'de': { # for german users
1399 u'H2O ist ...': u'wasser',
1402 This means that english users will get some random question from the 'en'
1403 set, german users will get some from the 'de' set. If there is no 'de'
1404 set configured, moin will fallback to language_default and then to 'en',
1405 so make sure that you at least have a 'en' set configured (or whatever
1406 you have set as language_default).
1407 You need to use unicode for the questions and answers (see that u"...").
1408 For the answer, you need to give a regular expression:
1409 * In the easiest case, this is just some word or sentence (first en
1410 example). It will be matched in a case-insensitive way.
1411 * For more complex stuff, you can use the power of regular expressions,
1412 e.g. if multiple answers are correct (second en example). Any answer
1413 matching the regular expression will be considered as correct, any
1414 non-matching answer will be considered as incorrect.
1416 Tipps for making it hard to break for the spammers and easy for the users:
1417 * Use site-specific (not too common) questions.
1418 * Don't use too hard questions (annoys legitimate users).
1419 * Don't use computable questions.
1420 * Don't reuse textchas from other sites.
1422 textchas_disabled_group = None # (default)
1423 Set this to some group name and noone in this group will get textchas.
1424 E.g.: textchas_disabled_group = u'NoTextChasGroup'
1426 * The login page gives now the possibility to recover a lost password, thanks to
1427 Oliver Siemoneit. This is especially useful for wikis where access to user
1428 preferences is restricted by acl.
1429 * Session handling for logged-in users and (not by default due to expiry
1430 problems) anonymous users.
1431 * Updated the ldap_login code from 1.5 branch, supports TLS now.
1432 See MoinMoin/config/multiconfig.py for supported configuration options
1433 and their defaults (and please just change what you need to change,
1434 in your wikiconfig).
1435 * Interwiki auth: You need to define cfg.trusted_wikis and
1436 cfg.user_autocreate to use it. Logging in works by entering:
1437 Name: RemoteWikiName RemoteUserName
1438 Password: remotepass
1439 Then moin contacts RemoteWikiName after looking it up in the interwiki
1440 map and tries to authenticate there using RemoteUserName and remotepass.
1441 If it succeeds, the remote wiki will return the remote user profile items
1442 and your local moin will autocreate an account with these values.
1444 Server / Network / Logging: ------------------------------------------------
1445 * The standalone server script moved to the toplevel directory. This makes
1446 it possible to directly start moin.py without additional configuration
1447 to run a MoinMoin DesktopEdition like wiki setup.
1448 Be careful: DesktopEdition uses relaxed security settings only suitable
1449 for personal and local use.
1450 * Added TLS/SSL support to the standalone server. Thanks to Matthew Gilbert.
1451 To use TLS/SSL support you must also install the TLSLite library
1452 (http://trevp.net/tlslite/). Version 0.3.8 was used for development and
1455 * cfg.log_reverse_dns_lookups [default: True] - you can set this to False
1456 if rev. dns lookups are broken in your network (leading to long delays
1457 on page saves). With False, edit-log will only contain IP, not hostname.
1458 * Added support for "304 not modified" response header for AttachFile get
1459 and rss_rc actions - faster, less traffic, less load.
1461 * Added logging framework, using stdlib's "logging" module. Just do
1462 import logging ; logging.debug("your text"). Depending on configuration
1463 in the server Config class, your stuff will be written to screen (stderr),
1464 to a moin logfile, to apache's error.log, etc.:
1465 logPath = None # 'moin.log'
1466 loglevel_file = None # logging.DEBUG/INFO/WARNING/ERROR/CRITICAL
1467 loglevel_stderr = None # logging.DEBUG/INFO/WARNING/ERROR/CRITICAL
1468 NOTE: this is NOT in wikiconfig, but e.g. in moin.cgi or moin.py or ...
1470 * Added some experimental and disabled code, that uses x-forwarded-for
1471 header (if present) to get the right "outside" IP before a request
1472 enters our chain of trusted (reverse) proxies.
1473 This code has the problem that we can't configure it in wikiconfig, so
1474 if you want to use it / test it, you have to edit the moin code:
1475 MoinMoin/request/__init__.py - edit proxies_trusted (near the top).
1476 We will try to make this easier to configure, but there was no time left
1477 before 1.6.0 release for doing bigger code refactorings needed for that.
1479 Mail: ----------------------------------------------------------------------
1480 * You can send email to the wiki now (requires xmlrpc), see:
1481 FeatureRequests/WikiEmailIntegration, HelpOnConfiguration/EmailSupport
1483 * Mail notifications contain a link to the diff action so the user
1484 can see the coloured difference more easily. Thanks to Tobias Polzin.
1486 Other changes: =============================================================
1487 * HINT: please copy a new version of your server script from the wiki/server/
1488 directory and edit it to match your setup.
1489 * HINT: instead of "from MoinMoin.multiconfig import DefaultConfig" you
1490 need to use "from MoinMoin.config.multiconfig import DefaultConfig" now.
1491 You need to change this in your wikiconfig.py or farmconfig.py file.
1492 See MoinMoin/multiconfig.py for an alternative way if you can't do that.
1493 * HINT: you need to change some imports (if you have them in your config):
1494 Old: from MoinMoin.util.antispam import SecurityPolicy
1495 New: from MoinMoin.security.antispam import SecurityPolicy
1496 Old: from MoinMoin.util.autoadmin import SecurityPolicy
1497 New: from MoinMoin.security.autoadmin import SecurityPolicy
1498 * HINT: you need to change your auth stuff, the new way is:
1499 from MoinMoin.auth import moin_login, moin_session
1500 from MoinMoin.auth.http import http
1501 auth = [http, moin_login, moin_session]
1502 Do it in a similar way for other auth methods.
1503 * HINT: you need to change your url_prefix setting in 2 ways:
1504 1. The setting is now called url_prefix_static (to make it more clear
1505 that we mean the static stuff, not the wiki script url).
1506 2. The strongly recommended (and default) value of it is '/moin_static160'
1507 for moin version 1.6.0 (and will be ...161 for moin 1.6.1). It is
1508 possible and recommended to use a very long cache lifetime for static
1509 stuff now (Expires: access plus 1 year), because we require to change
1510 the URL of static stuff when the static stuff changes (e.g. on a
1511 version upgrade of moin) to avoid problems with stale cache content.
1512 Your moin will be faster with lower load and traffic because of this.
1513 For standalone server, we use 1 year expiry for static stuff now.
1514 For Apache, Lighttpd and other "external" servers, you have to care
1515 for configuring them to use a long expiry and change url_prefix_static
1516 related configuration on upgrade.
1517 HINT: if you run standalone or Twisted server, the easiest way to get a
1518 working configuration (with server configuration matching wiki
1519 configuration) is to NOT set url_prefix_static at all. Moin will
1520 use matching configuration defaults in this case.
1521 * url_prefix_action ['action'] was introduced for lowering load and traffic
1522 caused by searchengine crawlers. Up to now, crawlers where causing a high
1523 load in internet moin wikis because they tried to get about everything,
1524 including all actions linked from the user interface.
1525 Known crawlers only get 403 for most actions, but nevertheless they first
1526 tried. There was no means keeping them away from actions due to the rather
1527 braindead robots.txt standard. You can only disallow pathes there, but
1528 moin's actions were querystring based, not path based (this would need
1529 regex support in robots.txt, but there is no such thing).
1530 This changed now. Moin is able to generate action URLs you can handle in
1531 robots.txt, like /action/info/PageName?action=info. So if you don't want
1532 bots triggering actions, just disallow /action/ there. Keep in mind that
1533 attachments are handled by /action/AttachFile, so if you want attached
1534 files and pictures indexed by search engine, don't disallow
1535 /action/AttachFile/ in your robots.txt. In order to use this feature,
1536 set url_prefix_action in your wikiconfig to e.g. "action".
1537 * We use (again) the same browser compatibility check as FCKeditor uses
1538 internally, too. So if GUI editor invocation is broken due to browser
1539 compatibility issues or a wrong browser version check, please file a bug
1540 at FCKeditor development or browser development.
1541 * HINT: We removed Lupy based indexed search code. If you were brave enough
1542 to use cfg.lupy_search, you maybe want to try cfg.xapian_search instead.
1544 Developer notes: ===========================================================
1545 * We moved the IE hacks to theme/css/msie.css that gets included after all
1546 other css files (but before the user css file) using a conditional
1547 comment with "if IE", so it gets only loaded for MSIE (no matter which
1548 version). The file has some standard css inside (evaluated on all MSIE
1549 versions) and some * html hacks that only IE < 7 will read.
1550 HINT: if you use custom themes, you want to update them in the same way.
1551 * autofilters for databrowser widget. Thanks to Johannes Berg for the patch.
1552 * changed formatter.attachment_link call (it is now more flexible,
1553 because you can render the stuff between link start and link end yourself)
1554 * Page.url() does not escape any more. You have to use wikiutil.escape()
1555 yourself if you want to write the URL to HTML and it contains e.g. &.
1556 * The testing wikiconfig moved to tests/wikiconfig.py, the testing wiki
1557 is now created in tests/wiki/...
1558 * HINT: Killed "processors" (finally), formatter method changed to:
1559 formatter.parser(parsername, lines)
1560 * Refactored some actions to use ActionBase base class.
1561 * Moved "test" action from wikiaction to MoinMoin/action/
1562 (and use ActionBase).
1563 * Moved MoinMoin/config.py to MoinMoin/config/__init__.py.
1564 * Moved MoinMoin/multiconfig.py to MoinMoin/config/multiconfig.py.
1565 * Moved "SystemInfo" macro from wikimacro to MoinMoin/macro/.
1566 * Moved wikiaction.py stuff to MoinMoin/action/__init__.py.
1567 * Moved wikimacro.py stuff to MoinMoin/macro/__init__.py.
1568 * Moved wikirpc.py stuff to MoinMoin/xmlrpc/__init__.py.
1569 * Moved wikitest.py stuff to action/test.py (only used from there).
1570 * Moved formatter/base.py to formatter/__init__.py (FormatterBase).
1571 * Moved util/ParserBase.py to parser/ParserBase.py.
1572 * Moved / splitted request.py into MoinMoin/request/*.
1573 Most stuff will be broken, please help fixing it (usually some imports
1574 will be missing and the adaptor script will need a change maybe):
1575 Tested successfully: CGI, CLI, STANDALONE, FCGI, TWISTED
1576 * Moved security.py to security/__init__.py.
1577 * Moved wikiacl.py to security/__init__.py.
1578 * Moved logfile/logfile.py to logfile/__init__.py.
1579 * Moved mailimport.py to mail/mailimport.py.
1580 * Moved util/mail.py to mail/sendmail.py.
1581 * Moved auth.py to auth/__init__.py.
1582 Moved util/sessionParser.py to auth/_PHPsessionParser.py.
1583 teared auth code into single modules under auth/* - moin_session handling
1584 and the builting moin_login method are in auth/__init__.py.
1585 * Added wikiutil.MimeType class (works internally with sanitized mime
1586 types because the official ones suck).
1587 * Renamed parsers to module names representing sane mimetypes, e.g.:
1588 parser.wiki -> parser.text_moin_wiki
1589 * Added thread_monitor debugging aid. It can be activated using:
1590 from MoinMoin.util import thread_monitor; thread_monitor.activate_hook()
1591 and then triggered by requesting URL ...?action=thread_monitor - please
1592 be aware that monitoring threads has a big performance impact on its own,
1593 so you only want to temporarily enable this for debugging.
1594 By default, it dumps its output to the data_dir as tm_<timestamp>.log,
1595 you can change this at bottom of action/thread_monitor.py if you want to
1596 see output in your browser.
1597 * Introduced scope parameter to CacheEntry() - if you specify 'farm', it
1598 will cache into a common directory for all wikis in the same farm, if you
1599 specify 'wiki', it will use a cache directory per wiki and if you specify
1600 'item', it will use a cache directory per item (== per page).
1601 Creating a CacheEntry without explicit scope is DEPRECATED.
1602 * Smileys moved from MoinMoin.config to MoinMoin.theme.
1603 * Removed all _ magic in URLs and filenames.
1604 * request.action now has the action requested, default: 'show'.
1605 * Cleaned up duplicated http_headers code and DEPRECATED this function
1606 call (it was sometimes confused with setHttpHeaders call) - it will
1607 vanish with moin 1.7, so please fix your custom plugins!
1609 request.emit_http_headers(more_headers=[])
1610 This call pre-processes the headers list (encoding from unicode, making
1611 sure that there is exactly ONE content-type header, etc.) and then
1612 calls a server specific helper _emit_http_headers to emit it.
1613 Tested successfully: CGI, STANDALONE, FCGI, TWISTED
1614 * setResponseCode request method DEPRECATED (it only worked for Twisted
1615 anyway), just use emit_http_headers and include a Status: XXX header.
1616 Method will vanish with moin 1.7.
1617 * cfg.url_prefix is DEPRECATED, please use cfg.url_prefix_static.
1618 * d['title_link'] is not supported any more. You can easily make that link
1619 on your own in your theme, see example in MoinMoin/theme/__init__.py,
1621 * There is a new Page method called Page.get_raw_body_str that returns
1622 the encoded page body. This is useful if you just deal with byte data
1623 (e.g. while generating binary diffs).
1624 * The TagStore/PickleTagStore system is used to store the syncronisation tags.
1625 * XMLRPC functions may return Fault instances from now on
1626 * Moin got multicall support, including a module that makes it usable on the
1627 client-side without requiring Python 2.4
1628 * Added no_magic to text_html formatter to disable tag autoclosing.
1629 * MOIN_DEBUG can be set in the environment to let MoinMoin ignore exceptions
1630 that would lead to a traceback in the browser. Thanks to Raphael Bossek.
1631 * There is a new MoinMoin.Page.ItemCache class now with automatic cache
1632 invalidation based on global edit-log. We currently use it to cache page
1633 acls, speedup Page.get_rev and reading the page local edit-log.
1634 * Added wikiutil.renderText parse and format raw wiki markup with all page elements.
1635 * The user file format has changed, old files will be read correctly but
1636 will silently be upgraded to the new format so old versions will not
1637 read the new files correctly (this only affects 'subscribed_pages' and
1638 'quicklinks' which will be lost when downgrading.)
1643 * Added timing.log to help performance debugging. Use cfg.log_timing = True
1644 to update <data_dir>/timing.log (default is False, meaning no logging).
1646 Example log entries:
1649 Timestamp PID Timing Flag action URL
1650 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1651 20070512 184401 22690 vvv None moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/RssFeeds
1652 20070512 184401 22690 0.267s - show moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/RssFeeds
1654 Timestamp: YYYYMMDD HHMMSS (UTC)
1655 PID: the process ID of the moin process
1656 Timing: when action starts, it will be "vvv"
1657 when it ends, it logs the total time it needed for execution
1658 Flag (some are only logged at end of action):
1660 - Page does not exist
1661 B user agent was recognized as bot / spider
1662 !x! Action took rather long (the higher the x, the longer it took - this
1663 makes it easy to grep for problematic stuff).
1664 Action: action name (None is when no action was specified, moin assumes
1665 "show" for that case)
1666 URL: the requested URL
1668 For more information about tuning your moin setup, see:
1669 http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/PerformanceTuning
1670 * Added support for ircs, webcal, xmpp, ed2k and rootz protocols - we
1671 moved all protocols to config.url_schemas, so this is not empty any more.
1672 It is possible to use these protocols now on wiki pages and in the
1673 navi_bar. We just generate the URLs, it is up to your browser what it
1674 does when clicking on those links.
1675 * cfg.traceback_show (default: 1) can be used to disable showing tracebacks.
1676 cfg.traceback_log_dir (default: None) can be used to set a directory
1677 that is used to dump traceback files to. Your users will get a notice to
1678 which (random) file in that directory the traceback was been written.
1679 NOTE: while you can feel free to set traceback_show = 0 and
1680 traceback_log_dir = None, we will also feel free to reject bug reports
1681 when you (or your site's users) don't give us enough information (like a
1682 traceback file) to debug the problem. If you set traceback_show = 0,
1683 we recommend pointing traceback_log_dir to a directory with reasonable
1684 free space and putting a page onto your wiki that describes who has to
1685 get contacted (usually the wiki server admin) in case a traceback happens.
1686 The admin can then locate the traceback file and submit it to moin
1688 Of course we will also need all the other details of a bug report, not
1689 only the traceback file.
1692 * Updated spider agents list.
1693 * Reduce bot/spider cpu usage for SystemInfo, OrphanedPages, WantedPages,
1694 PageHits, PageSize, WordIndex macros (we just return nothing for bots).
1697 * XSS fixes, see http://secunia.com/advisories/24138/ (item 1 and 2).
1698 * ACL security fixes:
1699 * MonthCalendar respects ACLs of day pages now.
1700 * Check the ACL for the rst markup include directive.
1701 * Fixed cleaning of edit comments (control chars in there could damage
1703 * Fixed in-process caching of antispam patterns (didn't update the cache
1704 for multi-process, persistent servers).
1705 * Correct encoding/decoding for surge-log data, fixes leftover
1706 surge-logXXXXXXX.tmp files in data/cache/surgeprotect.
1707 * Fixed mode of cache files (mkstemp creates them with 0600 mode).
1708 * Symbolic entities with numbers (like ²) did not work, fixed.
1709 * We open data/error.log earlier now and we also use it for FastCGI.
1710 * Fixed unicode cfg.page_group_regex.
1711 * Fixed moin.spec to use english date format.
1712 * GUI converter: fixed conversion of relative wiki links.
1713 * Fixed NewPage macro button label to not be formatted as wiki text.
1717 * added url_prefix_local which is used for stuff that must be loaded from
1718 same site as the wiki engine (e.g. FCKeditor GUI editor applet), while
1719 url_prefix can be a remote server serving the static files (css/img).
1720 If not set (or set to None), url_prefix_local will default to the value
1722 * We save some CPU and disk I/O by having EditTemplates and LikePages macro
1723 (both used on MissingPage) check whether the requesting entity was
1724 identified as a spider (e.g. search engine bot) and do nothing in that
1725 case. Normal users won't see any difference.
1726 * For AttachFile, you can now choose to overwrite existing files of same
1727 name (nice for updating files).
1731 * fixed unescaped page info display.
1732 * fixed unescaped page name display in AttachFile, RenamePage and
1733 LocalSiteMap actions
1734 * WantedPages listed existing pages that are not readable for the user,
1735 but are linked from pages that ARE readable for the user (so this is NOT
1736 a privacy/security issue). We now don't list those pages any more as it
1737 is pointless/confusing, the user can't read or edit there anyway.
1740 * GUI editor/converter:
1741 * ignore <col>/<colgroup>/<meta> elements
1742 * support <a> within blockquote
1743 * Remove generated=... attribute from pagelink html output (this attr is
1744 for internal use only). w3c validator is now happier again.
1745 * Fixed css class "userpref" (not: "userprefs") of the Login form.
1746 * Fixed the version number check in the xslt parser for 4suite >= 1.0.
1747 * We reset the umask to the wanted value every request. This should fix
1748 wrong file modes when used with Twisted (twistd uses a hardcoded 0077
1749 umask in daemonize()).
1750 * Avoid trouble when saving pages with antispam function when MoinMaster
1751 wiki is having troubles (catch xmlrpc Fault).
1754 * Standalone server does not do reverse DNS lookups any more (this is a
1755 standard feature of BaseHTTPServer stdlib module, but we override this
1756 now and just print the IP).
1757 * We moved the IE hacks to theme/css/msie.css that gets included after all
1758 other css files (but before the user css file) using a conditional
1759 comment with "if IE", so it gets only loaded for MSIE (no matter which
1760 version). The file has some standard css inside (evaluated on all MSIE
1761 versions) and some * html hacks that only IE < 7 will read.
1762 HINT: if you use custom themes, you want to update them in the same way.
1763 * Improved ldap auth:
1764 * cfg.ldap_name_attribute was removed because of new cfg.ldap_filter.
1765 If you had ldap_name_attribute = 'sAMAccountName' before, just use
1766 ldap_filter = '(sAMAccountName=%(username)s)' now.
1767 * New cfg.ldap_filter used for the ldap filter string used in the ldap
1768 search instead of the rather limited, partly hardcoded filter we used
1769 before. This is much more flexible:
1770 ldap_filter = '(sAMAccountName=%(username)s)'
1771 You can also do more complex filtering expressions like:
1772 '(&(cn=%(username)s)(memberOf=CN=WikiUsers,OU=Groups,DC=example,DC=org))'
1773 * Added some processing to filter out result entries with dn == None.
1774 * We set REFERRALS option to 0 before initializing the ldap server
1775 connection (this seems to be needed for Active Directory servers).
1776 * We support self-signed ssl certs for ldaps - completely untested.
1777 * New cfg.ldap_surname_attribute (usually 'sn'), was hardcoded before.
1778 * New cfg.ldap_givenname_attribute (usually 'givenName'), hardcoded before.
1779 * New cfg.ldap_aliasname_attribute (usually 'displayName') - if this
1780 attribute is not there or empty (in the results of the ldap lookup for
1781 the user), we just make up the aliasname from surname and givenname
1783 * We only request the attributes we need from ldap (was: all attrs).
1784 * We deny user login (and break out of auth chain) for the following cases:
1785 * if a user is not found by ldap lookup
1786 * if we find more than one matching entry
1787 * if the password is empty or incorrect
1788 * if some exception happens
1789 * Please note that there is an updated ldap sample config in directory
1790 wiki/config/more_samples/.
1791 * Added experimental LDAP SSL/TLS support (untested, please help testing),
1792 see also the sample config.
1793 * Work around a IE7 rendering problem with long pages getting more and
1794 more narrow. We just applied the same "fix" as we used for IE6, using
1795 "display: none" for span.anchor for IE browsers.
1797 * We used to emit a <link> tag for the action=rss_rc RSS feed on any
1798 page. This was changed, we now emit that link only on RecentChanges and
1799 the current user's language translation of RecentChanges.
1800 This was changed because Google Toolbar requests the RSS feed linked
1801 by such a link tag every time it sees one. Thus, if you used the wiki
1802 normally, it requested the RSS feed every few seconds and caused
1803 problems due to surge protection kicking in because of that.
1804 * HINT for custom theme users: if your theme code calls
1805 rsslink(), then you need to change that to rsslink(d) for 1.5.7+.
1809 A general security notice:
1810 Check your Python version, there was a buffer overflow issue in Python
1811 recently! Details: http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/PythonUnicodeEscapeBug
1814 * Fix AttributeError traceback with Standalone server (if_modified_since)
1815 * Fix AttachFile "304 not modified" and redirect status code for Twisted
1816 * http auth: we now decode username and password to unicode (using
1817 config.charset == utf-8). Same for SSL client cert auth and CN.
1818 * Avoid infinite recursion in Page.parsePageLinks.
1819 * Fixed standalone server failing to shutdown if interface == "".
1820 * Now MoinMoin does not think anymore that every page links to various user
1822 * Made the irssi parser more tolerant (Thanks to "TheAnarcat").
1823 * Now multiple formatters can be used per request, the send_page code was
1824 not reentrant to this regard. Fixes "empty" search results.
1825 * Fixed problem with "=" in ImageLink macro links.
1826 * Not a moin bug, but a silly stdlib os.tempnam function made trouble to
1827 some people because it lets you override the path given in the code
1828 by setting the environment variable TMP(DIR). We now use a different
1829 function to avoid renaming trouble when TMP(DIR) points to a different
1831 * Fixed antispam update on every save (Thanks to "TheAnarcat").
1832 * GUI converter: don't throw away rowclass for tables.
1833 * GUI editor formatter: allow height for table cells.
1834 * GUI editor formatter: comment texts are output using the formatter now.
1837 * Mail notifications contain a link to the diff action so the user
1838 can see the coloured difference more easily. Thanks to Tobias Polzin.
1839 * FeatureRequests/MoveAttachments - you can move attachments from one
1840 page to another (and also rename the attachment at the same time).
1841 Thanks to Reimar Bauer.
1842 * Added support for linking to attachment: and inline: URLs with ImageLink.
1843 * Added UNIX socket support for FastCGI, just set the port to some (socket)
1845 * [[Attachlist(pagename,mimetype)]] lists attachments of pagename (default:
1846 current page) with optional mimetype restriction (default: all).
1847 Thanks to Reimar Bauer.
1850 * Minor performance improvements (might be noticeable if you have many
1851 custom navi_bar entries and high server load).
1852 * Avoid usage of no-cache because it breaks attachment download on IE6.
1853 This is a IE bug, not a moin bug.
1854 * Added XHTML to the unsafe list.
1855 * Changed the rst parser to be compatible to the new docutils interface
1857 * Updated EmbedObject macro.
1862 * fixed ticket creation to only use constant values
1865 HINT: read docs/README.migration.
1866 HINT: there was NO change in the underlay/ pages since 1.5.4.
1867 HINT: If you experience problems with the reStructured Text (rst) parser,
1868 please downgrade docutils to "0.4" because there were major interface
1869 breaking API refactorings on the docutils trunk.
1875 * Not a moin bug, but it severely annoyed IE users and also was less
1876 comfortable for users of other browser: since about 1.5.4, we served
1877 attachments with Content-Disposition: attachment - so that the user has
1878 to save them to disk. This was to fix a possible XSS attack using attached
1879 HTML files with Javascript inside for stealing your moin cookie or doing
1880 other nasty things. We improved this by using different behaviour depending
1881 on the potential danger the attached file has when served inline:
1882 mimetypes_xss_protect = ['text/html', 'application/x-shockwave-flash', ]
1883 This is the default value. If you know more dangerous stuff, please just
1884 add the mimetypes there to protect your users and file a bug report
1885 telling us what we missed.
1888 * Make tickets used for some actions more safe.
1891 * edit_ticketing [True] - we protect page save by a ticket (same stuff we
1892 already use for DeletePage and RenamePage action).
1893 NOTE: If you don't use your browser for editing, but some tool like
1894 "editmoin" or "MoinMoin plugin for jEdit", you'll need an update
1895 of them supporting the ticket.
1896 Alternatively, you can use edit_ticketing = False setting - this
1897 is not recommended for internet wikis as it will make spamming them
1899 * If we detect some spammer, we kick him out by triggering surge protection
1900 (if surge protection is not disabled).
1905 * Fixed gui editor converter confusing of `` and {{{}}} markup.
1906 * Fixed emission of HTTP headers (esp. Vary: Cache-Control:).
1907 * Fixed a bad crash that happens (on ANY page!) when you put a *Dict
1908 page's name as a member into a *Group page.
1909 * Fix MyPages action title to use an unformatted string.
1910 * Fix double quoted-printable encoding in generated emails (note: this is
1911 not a moin bug - this just works around bugs in python stdlib).
1912 * Fix mode of drawing files (use config.umask).
1913 * Fix trouble with /?action= urls by dropping getPageNameFromQueryString
1915 * Fixed sre unpickle issues seen on some machines by avoiding to pickle
1917 * Fix Clock code, add more timers.
1918 * Worked around FastCGI problem on Lighttpd: empty lines in the error log.
1919 * Fix (add) locking for caching's .remove() call, small fixes to lock code.
1920 * Print error message when --target-dir=path is missing from moin export
1924 * Added support for "304 not modified" response header for AttachFile get
1925 and rss_rc actions - faster, less traffic, less load.
1926 * Limit rss with full diffs to 5 items.
1927 * Allow surge_action_limits = None to disable surge protection.
1928 * moin.fcg improved - if you use FastCGI, you must use the new file:
1929 * can self-terminate after some number of requests (default: -1, this
1930 means "unlimited lifetime")
1931 * the count of created threads is limited now (default: 5), you can use
1932 1 to use non-threaded operation.
1933 * configurable socket.listen() backlog (default: 5)
1934 * Added indonesian i18n (id).
1935 * Some measures against spammers trying to brute force their spam into moin.
1936 * EmbedObject macro: added mov, mpg and midi support
1937 * moin ... export dump --target-dir=PATH --page=PAGENAME_REGEX
1938 You must specify --target-dir (where dump will write the html files to)
1939 and you may specify --page and either a page name or a regex used to
1940 match all pages you want to export. Default is to export all pages.
1944 * more efficient locking code on POSIX platforms, we do much less I/O
1946 * removed most chmod calls in favour of a single os.umask call
1947 * Improved Python 2.5 compatibility. Note: if you think that MoinMoin
1948 is using too much RAM, you might want to look at Python 2.5 because
1949 of its improved memory management.
1950 * Throw away SAVE comments longer than 200 chars (you can't enter those by
1951 the user interface, so only spammer using automatic POSTs do them).
1952 * Updated spider user agent list.
1953 * BadContent and LocalBadContent now get noindex,nofollow robots header,
1955 * Standalone opens it logfile unbuffered from now on, thanks to
1957 * Avoid trouble when request.write() data contains None, just skip it -
1958 thanks to Juergen Hermann.
1959 * Instead of showing a ConfigurationError, moin now emits "404 Not found"
1960 http headers and a hint about what could be wrong. This won't fill up
1961 your logs just because of typos and spiders still trying old URLs.
1965 HINT: read docs/README.migration.
1966 Version 1.5.4-current:
1967 * increased maxlength of some input fields from 80 to 200
1969 Version 1.5.current:
1971 * We switched to Mercurial SCM, see here for more infos:
1972 http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/MoinDev/MercurialGuide
1975 * fix MonthCalendar macro for non-ASCII pagenames (thanks to Jonas Smedegaard)
1976 * remove 'search' and 'google' from bot user agent list and add some more
1978 * Fix the forgotten password email login URL and also properly encode the
1979 email body. Thanks to Robin Dunn for the patch.
1980 * Applied a patch by Matthew Gilbert for increased compatiblity with
1986 * Added CSS classes for TableOfContents macro.
1989 * GUI editor / GUI editor converter:
1990 * Fixed missing GUI editor link in edit bar.
1991 * Fixed table/row/cell style spaces.
1992 * Changed <p> generation for macros.
1993 * Fixed handling of subpages.
1994 * Fixed processing of complex list elements (thanks to Craig Markwardt).
1995 * Fixed processing of html \n (thanks to Craig Markwardt).
1996 * Fixed joining of comment lines with text below them.
1997 * Fixed table height attribute crash.
1998 * Fixed sslclientcert auth.
1999 * Added some missing files to i18n processing, translatable strings more
2001 * Change <p> generation from self-closing (<p />) to auto-closing (only
2002 emit <p>, let browser find place for </p>).
2003 * Fix eating of newline before tables.
2004 * Fixed incorrect login hint for not logged-in users trying a disallowed
2006 * Fixed nasty missing or double </a> formatter bug (mostly happening when
2007 user has enabled questionmarks for nonexisting pages).
2010 * We catch and ignore html to wiki conversion errors in case of hitting
2011 the cancel button, so you can get out of the error screen.
2015 * Modified SystemInfo macro to give human readable units and disk usage
2016 * cfg.editor_quickhelp makes the quick help below the editor configurable
2017 (at least as far as the default_markup is concerned). If set to None,
2018 it doesn't display any quickhelp. Thanks to Seth Falcon for the patch.
2021 * Fixed double class attribute for nonexistent links
2022 * Fixed double </a> with qm_noexist option
2023 * Fixed table xxx="yyy" style attribute parsing
2024 * If not (editor_force and editor_default == 'text') then display GUI mode
2025 switch button (this is only a partial fix, but enough to deny the GUI
2026 mode to your users completely)
2027 * Fixed XSS issue which could lead to cookie theft etc.
2028 * Fixed definition list "same level" indenting.
2029 * Fixed pagename in log for PackagePages action.
2030 * Made <p> self-closing and line-anchors more well-behaved, thanks to
2031 Martin Wilck for the patch. I didn't apply the <ol> patch, because this
2032 is no real problem, just a problem of a bad standard.
2033 * Fixed gui editor *bgcolor crash.
2034 * Support/Fix tableclass attr with gui editor.
2037 * Moved back UserPreferences action link from menu to top of page (renaming
2038 it to "Preferences"), added "Cancel" button to make it possible to return
2039 to the previous page without saving preferences.
2040 * Removed formatter.url "attrs" keyword arg that took premade html, we use
2041 separate kw args per attribute now.
2042 * Moved broken tests to MoinMoin/_tests/broken (= disabling them).
2043 All "active" tests run ok now.
2044 If you want to compare, I included the output of this test run:
2045 $ make test >tests/make_test.out
2051 * HINT: please read README.migration
2052 * Login and Logout are actions now, therefore you stay on the page where
2054 * UserPreferences is also an action now and moved from top border (in
2055 modern theme) to the "more actions" dropdown menu. You also stay on the
2057 * There is also a [[Login]] macro now. You can put it on any page you want
2058 and if the user is not logged in, it renders the login form. If the user
2059 is logged in, it doesn't render anything.
2060 * We check cfg.superuser to be a list of user names (as documented) and
2061 deny superuser access if it is not. This avoids security issues by
2062 wrong configuration.
2063 * auth methods changed:
2064 HINT: if you wrote own auth methods, please change them as you see in
2065 MoinMoin/auth.py and test them again before relying on them.
2066 * now get a user_obj kw argument that is either a user object returned
2067 from a previous auth method or None (if no user has been made up yet).
2068 The auth method should either return a user object (if it has
2069 determined one) or what it got as user_obj (being "passive") or None
2070 (if it wants to "veto" some user even if a previous method already has
2071 made up some user object).
2072 * return value of continue_flag is now True in most cases (except if
2073 it wants to "veto" and abort).
2074 * moin_cookie auth method now logs out a user by deleting the cookie and
2075 setting user_obj.valid = 0. This makes it possible to still get the
2076 user's name in subsequent auth method calls within the same request.
2077 * added ldap_login and smb_mount auth methods, see MoinMoin/auth.py and
2078 wiki/config/more_samples/ldap_smb_farmconfig.py
2079 * MonthCalendar now takes an additional argument for specifying a template
2080 to use to directly invoke the page editor when clicking on non-existing
2082 * Added ImageLink macro. Thanks to Jeff Kunce, Marcin Zalewski, Reimar
2083 Bauer and Chong-Dae Park for working on it.
2084 * Lupy stuff (still experimental, partly broken and disabled by default):
2085 * Attachment search using lupy (lupy_search = 1 in your config)
2086 Title search will also search attachment filenames.
2087 Full text search will also search attachment contents.
2089 Some filters depend on external converters that might not be available
2090 for any platform (see Depends: line in filter plugin).
2091 Feel free to contribute more filter plugins, especially if you wrote
2092 some nice platform independant filter in Python for some popular file
2093 format! Filters implemented so far (depending on):
2094 MS Word, RTF, MS Excel (antiword, catdoc)
2096 OpenOffice.org XML based data formats (-)
2099 JPEG's EXIF data (-)
2101 * As you might know, Lupy is "retired" (that means it isn't developped
2102 by its authors any more). We are currently evaluating Xapian as new
2103 indexing search engine in moin.
2104 If we succeed, we will replace Lupy stuff by some Xapian interface
2106 But: the filters will likely stay, as we also need them with Xapian.
2108 * A new MoinMoin script interface was introduced:
2110 Syntax: moin [options] <cmdmodule> <cmdname> [options]
2113 moin --config-dir=/my/cfgdir --wiki-url=wiki.example.org/ \
2114 export dump --page=WikiSandBox
2116 This will call the "moin" script, which will use the --config-dir and
2117 --wiki-url options to initialize, then it will go to MoinMoin.script
2118 module, import the export.dump module from there and run it, providing
2119 the additional --page value to it.
2121 The old scripts that have not been migrated to this new interface can
2122 still be found in MoinMoin/script/old/ - including the old migration
2124 * moin ... account create --name=JoeDoe --email=joe@doe.org
2125 * moin ... account disable --name=JoeDoe
2126 * moin ... acount check <-- this is what usercheck script was before
2127 * moin ... maint cleancache <-- this is what cachecleaner script was
2128 * moin ... maint cleanpage <-- this is what pagescleaner script was
2131 * cookie_lifetime didn't work comfortable for low values. The cookie was
2132 created once on login and never updated afterwards. So you got logged
2133 out cookie_lifetime hours later, no matter whether you were active at
2134 that time or not. This has been changed, we update the cookie expiry now
2135 on every request, so it will expire cookie_lifetime after your last
2136 request (not after login).
2137 * Fixed logout problems when using cfg.cookie_path.
2138 * Fixed cookie_path for root url wikis.
2139 * Lupy search now behaves a bit less funky. Still no guarantees...
2140 * We lowered the twisted server timeout to 2 minutes now (was: 10) because
2141 it just used up too many files (open TCP connections until it timeouts)
2143 * The algorithm used for processing the farmconfig.wikis list was changed
2144 to work for big farms (>= 50 wikis), too. This works around the python
2145 "re" module limitation of having a maximum of 100 named groups in a RE.
2146 * Fixed a TypeError which occurred for formatters that dislike None values.
2148 * Fixed GUI editor converter error for https:... image URLs.
2149 * ThemeBase (use by modern/rightsidebar): removed duplicate AttachFile from
2150 actions menu (we already have it in editbar).
2151 * Speedup group/dicts scanning for persistent servers.
2152 * Implemented HEAD requests for standalone server, this should fix some of
2153 the strange effects happening when using "Save as" on attachments.
2154 * Not a moin bug, but rather a workaround for non-standard non-ASCII DNS
2155 hostnames: we just use the IP instead of crashing now.
2156 * Spurious cyclic usage error in i18n fixed.
2157 * Fixed antispam for python 2.5a xmlrpclib.
2158 * I18n for linenumber toggle in listings.
2159 * All action menu entries are translatable now.
2162 * Added css classes for the rst admonitions. Thanks to TiagoMacambira!
2167 * Added FullSearchCached macro which is statically cached.
2168 Use it if you do not depend on fresh search results but prefer raw speed.
2169 * Added surge protection, see HelpOnConfiguration/SurgeProtection.
2170 * Allow hex and symbolic entities.
2171 * If there is a user with empty password, we just generate a random one
2172 when he requests it getting sent by mail. Thanks to Reimar Bauer.
2173 * The superuser now can switch to another user using UserPreferences -
2174 nice to help your users when they forgot their password or need other
2175 help. You need to logout/relogin to use your own userid afterwards.
2176 This function only works correctly if you use moin_cookie authentication.
2177 Thanks to Reimar Bauer.
2178 * Add new markup for bulletless lists: just use a "." instead of "*".
2181 * Added "voyager" to bot useragent list.
2182 * Added locking for caching subsystem.
2183 * Deron Meranda's formatter API cleanup.
2184 * Added div and span to formatter API.
2185 * Removed old unfinished form and export code.
2189 * Fixed table attribute parsing.
2190 * Fixed cookie handling wrt properties adherance.
2191 * The new "." list markup makes it possible to have a bulletless list with
2192 elements on the same level. Before this change and only using indentation
2193 with blanks, that would get merged into a single paragraph.
2194 * It is possible now to have multiple paragraphs in the same list element,
2195 just leave an empty line in between the paragraphs.
2196 * Fixed GAP processing for ordered lists.
2197 * Fix text_gedit formatter's invalid list nesting.
2198 * Fixed hr crash in blockquote (but needs more work).
2199 * Fixed FootNote's formatter usage.
2200 * Fixed rst's headline levels.
2203 * Fixed that macros were followed by a wrong <p>.
2204 * Added <blockquote> to the block elements in the text_html formatter,
2205 so it does not close it erratically when you close a inner <p>.
2206 * GUI editor converter now also accept http: urls without // (relative or
2208 * Fixed the DocBook parser in cases where the pagename was non-ascii.
2215 * Fixed rst parser docutils version check
2216 * Repaired attachment unzipping feature.
2217 * Fixed the AddRevision command of the PackageInstaller.
2218 * improved the migration scripts (used to migrate pre-1.3 wikis to 1.3+):
2219 * do not crash on empty lines in event log
2220 * fix edit log format for very old moin data (like 0.11)
2221 * workaround for an ugly win32 operating system bug leading to wiki text
2222 file mtime not matching edit logs timestamp values if there was some
2223 timezone change since last edit (e.g. a daylight saving tz switch),
2224 but differing 3600s.
2225 This affected pre-1.3 moin wiki servers running on win32 OS only.
2226 We now try to correct those inconsistencies in mig05 by fuzzy matching.
2227 * fixed bracketed link scheme icon (css class)
2228 * we included a modified copy of Python 2.4.2's copy.py as some previous
2229 python versions seem to have problems (2.3.x, x < 5 and also 2.4[.0]),
2231 Our own copy.py was slightly modified to run on 2.3.x and 2.4.x.
2232 * Fixed the problem of not being able to change the date/time format back
2233 to "Default" (UserPreferences).
2234 * We generate the GUI editor footer now the same way as the text editor
2236 * Include a CSS workaround for yet another IE bug, see:
2237 MoinMoinBugs:InternetExplorerPeekABooBugInRightSideBar
2238 * classic theme: added GUI editor link
2239 * classic theme: added pagename header to editor screen
2240 * the "mail enabled" check now also checks whether mail_from is set
2243 * Updated FCKeditor to current CVS (2006-01-08 == 2.2+)
2244 * Split up show_hosts into show_hosts and show_names
2245 * attachment:file%20with%20spaces.txt in attachment list
2246 * added support for file:// in GUI editor link dialogue, see also:
2248 * cfg.mail_smarthost now supports "server:port" syntax, the default port
2250 * removed unused kwargs showpage/editable/form from wikiutil.send_footer
2251 * updated i18n (translation texts, additional languages)
2252 * removed interwiki:pagename from print view's top of page, added it to
2253 the "lasted edited" line at bottom right.
2257 HINT: 1.5.0 uses the same data/pages format as 1.3.x. The only thing you want
2258 to check is whether the 1.5.x version you are upgrading to has NEW mig
2259 scripts compared to the version you are running now (e.g. in 1.3.5 we
2260 added some scripts that fixed some small problems).
2261 See the MoinMoin/scripts/migration/ directory.
2262 You must run every mig script in sequence and only ONCE ever.
2264 * Fix <x=y> table attributes parsing. Thanks to Reimar Bauer.
2265 * Fixed a few bugs in the reStructured text parser. Note that you
2266 need to install docutils 0.3.10 or newer (snapshot from December 2005
2267 or newer) to make reStructuring parsing work:
2268 * Case preservation for anonymous links
2269 * MoinMoin links get the appropriate CSS class
2270 * Images do not get special CSS markup anymore
2271 Thanks to Matthew Gilbert.
2272 * Fixed a bug in the WSGI code which led to incorrect exception handling.
2273 * Removed all nationality flags. They used to be used for indicating some
2274 specific language (NOT nationality) and this was simply wrong and a bad
2276 * Fixed some header rendering issues (CSS).
2277 * SystemAdmin macro now checks against cfg.superuser list.
2280 * Added turkish i18n. To be considered as alpha as it got in last minute.
2284 This is the first release candidate of MoinMoin 1.5.0.
2287 * fixed broken logs when a DeletePage (maybe also RenamePage) comment
2288 contained CR/LF characters (could happen when using copy&paste)
2289 * fixed GUI editor MoinEditorBackup page containing HTML instead of wiki
2291 * fixed invalid HTML in FootNotes
2292 * fixed HTML source in EditorBackup after canceling GUI editor
2293 * Footnotes of included pages are not shown at the bottom of the including page.
2294 * Bug in Dict handling that often breaks first entry
2298 * Added SSO module for PHP based apps. Currently supported: eGroupware 1.2.
2299 No need to login in two systems anymore - MoinMoin will read the PHP session
2303 * Improved rendering of bullet lists and external links in Restructured text.
2304 Thanks to Matthew Gilbert.
2305 * Fixed modern theme rendering, including some fixes and workarounds for
2307 * When checking for email uniqueness, do not compare with disabled user
2309 * Fix sending of HTTP headers for Despam action.
2310 * Add some margin left and right of the link icons.
2313 * Made it easier for auth methods needing a user interface (like ldap or
2314 mysql stuff). Unlike http auth, they usually need some "login form".
2315 We made UserPreferences login form values (name, password, login, logout)
2316 available as kw args of the auth method, so it is easy and obvious now.
2317 * Make login and logout show at the same place. Is only shown when
2318 show_login is True (default).
2319 * Disabled login using &uid=12345.67.8910 method. Please use name/password.
2320 * Made builtin moin_cookie authentication more modular: the cookie is now
2321 touched by MoinMoin.auth.moin_cookie only, with one minor discomfort:
2322 When creating a user, you are not automatically logged in any more.
2323 * We now use the packager for additional help and system pages in all other
2324 languages except English. The packages are attached to SystemPagesSetup
2325 page and can be installed from there after getting "superuser" powers.
2326 The "extra" package contains a collection of orphan pages not listed on
2327 some SystemPagesIn<Language>Group page.
2332 * Fixed a minor user interface bug: it showed RenamePage and DeletePage
2333 actions in the menu if you only had write rights and then complained
2334 when you really tried when you had no delete rights additionally.
2335 * We don't remove RenamePage and DeletePage from menu any more if user is
2336 unknown. This stuff is only driven by ACLs now.
2337 * Some fixes to Despam action.
2338 * Fixed moin_dump (broken by some recent theme init change).
2339 * Fixed a few tests by moving the theme init from moin_dump to RequestCLI.
2340 * removed old_onload reference from infobox.js
2341 * Fixed MoinMoin logo for IE.
2342 * search: fixed whitespace handling in linkto: search terms
2343 * Increased stability of the tests system by outputting results to sys.stdout
2344 instead of request. Note that this changes the semantics for e.g. mod_py or
2346 * Fixed packaging system in the case of AddRevision that does not alter the page.
2347 * Fixed a few bugs in the XML formatters (dom_xml, text_xml, xml_docbook).
2348 * Fixed link icons. We now just use a.xxx.before where xxx is the link scheme,
2349 e.g. a.http.before. See theme's common.css.
2350 * Hopefully fixed some issue with non-ASCII attachment filenames.
2351 * Workaround for Opera 8.5 making silly "No addition" categories.
2352 * Do not show GUI editor for non-wiki format pages, because we only have a
2353 converter from html to wiki right now.
2354 * Fix the modern CSS issues for editbar, when it shifted content far right.
2355 Also removed the absolute height value that never was right.
2356 * Fix mod_python adaptor bugs failing to handle Location correctly.
2357 See: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=339543
2360 * Added irc:// to the builtin supported link schemas. You can remove it
2361 from config.url_schemas in case you have patched it in there.
2362 * Added cfg.user_autocreate (default: False). Use True to enable user
2363 profile autocreation, e.g. when you use http authentication, so your
2364 externally authenticated users don't need to create their moin profile
2365 manually. The auth method (see cfg.auth list) must check this setting
2366 if it supports auto creation.
2367 * Added user_autocreate support for auth.http and auth.sslclientcert.
2368 * Added "." and "@" to allowed characters in usernames. This is needed
2369 e.g. when using mod_pubcookie for authentication. mod_pubcookie returns
2370 userids like "geek@ANDREW.CMU.EDU" (e.g. the Kerberos domain is part of
2371 the id). Thanks to Brian E. Gallew for his patch, which we used for
2372 inspiration for user autocreation changes.
2373 * Changed auth method to return a tuple (user_obj, continue_flag), see
2374 comments in auth.py.
2375 * auth methods now create user objects with kw args auth_method and
2376 auth_attribs, so that moin knows later how the user was authenticated
2377 and which user object attributes were determined by the auth method.
2378 * Added MoinMoin/scripts/import/IrcLogImporter.py to import supybot's
2379 IRC logs into a moin wiki. We use MonthCalendar compatible page names,
2380 so you can use the calendar for showing / navigating the logs.
2381 * Removed packager binary from FCKeditor (fixing a Debian policy problem).
2382 * Worked around .png transparency bugs of IE with the new logo. We ship
2383 two logos: moinmoin.png without an alpha channel (IE compatible) and
2384 moinmoin_alpha.png which has an alpha channel and looks better on
2385 browsers with full .png support.
2386 * Allow a .zip file to have a directory in it if it is the only one.
2390 * use <span class="anchor"> instead of <a> for line-xxx anchors, this
2391 fixes some rendering problems on IE
2392 * Fixed the ReStructured text parser when it was used with non-HTML
2393 formatters. Increased compatiblity with new docutils code.
2394 (Thanks to Matt Gilbert.)
2396 * cfg.stylesheets = [] (default). You can use this on wiki or farm level
2397 to emit stylesheets after the theme css and before the user prefs css.
2398 The list entries must be ('screen', '/where/ever/is/my.css') style.
2399 * Added sample code for auth using an external cookie made by some other
2400 program. See contrib/auth_externalcookie/*. You need to edit it to
2401 fit whatever cookie you want to use.
2405 * fixed editor preview throwing away page content for new pages
2406 * require POST for userform save and create* action
2407 * use request.normalizePagename() while collecting pagelinks
2408 * do not offer gui editor for safari
2410 * tell user if account is disabled
2411 * added support for linking to .ico and .bmp
2412 * attachment methods for the text_xml and xml_docbook formatters
2414 * updated i18n (fixed nl, did nobody notice this?) and underlay
2415 * changed show_interwiki default to 0
2420 * fix gui editor (converter) crash on save
2423 * Avoid destroying existing page content if editor is called with
2424 template parameter for an existing page.
2425 * fix countdown javascript for browser status line in editor
2426 * added page title display for editor
2427 * added header div for classic theme
2429 Authentication and related:
2430 * Added a WhoAmI.py wiki xmlrpc plugin to check whether auth works
2431 correctly for xmlrpc. There is a counterpart script WhoAmI.py that
2432 uses http auth when calling the xmlrpc plugin, so you can use it to
2436 * Requirements changed to require Python >= 2.3. We recommend that
2437 you use the latest Python release you can get. The reason we
2438 dropped 2.2.2 support is because no developer or tester uses this
2439 old version any more, so incompatibilities crept in the code
2440 without anybody noticing. Using some recent Python usually is no
2441 real problem, see there for some hints in case you still run an
2442 old python: http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/NewPythonOnOldLinux
2443 The hint also does apply to other POSIX style operating systems,
2445 * We recommend you use MoinMoin/scripts/cachecleaner.py to clean the
2446 wiki's cache (see comments at top of the script).
2447 The cache will automatically be rebuilt (some operations may take
2448 some time when first being used, e.g. linkto: search, so be patient!).
2451 * there is a file CHANGES.config with just the recently changed stuff
2454 * page_front_page old: u"FrontPage" new: u"HelpOnLanguages"
2455 please just read the help page in case you see it :)
2456 * bang_meta old: 0 new: 1
2457 * show_section_numbers old: 1 new: 0
2458 * some regexes that used to be [a-z]Uxxxx$ are now [a-z0-9]Uxxxx$
2459 * navi_bar has no page_front_page as first element any more
2460 * removed settings and code [new behaviour]:
2462 * allow_extended_names [1]
2463 * allow_numeric_entities [1]
2465 * allow_subpages [1]
2467 * cfg.mail_sendmail = "/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i" can be used if sending
2468 via SMTP doesn't work on your server. Default is None and that means
2470 * language_default replaces the old default_lang setting (just renamed).
2471 * language_ignore_browser = True can be used to let moin ignore the
2472 user's browser settings (e.g. if you run a local-language only wiki
2473 and your users use misconfigured or buggy browsers often). Default is
2474 False. Don't forget to set language_default when using this.
2476 * Wiki Editor changes / new WYSIWYG editor
2477 * fully imported the javascript based LGPLed FCKeditor (many thanks
2478 to Fred CK for his great work). See http://fckeditor.net/ for details.
2479 * config for FCKeditor is at wiki/htdocs/applets/moinfckeditor.js
2480 * added cfg.interwiki_preferred (default = []) to set a list of wikis to
2481 show at the top of the wiki selection list when inserting an
2482 interwiki link (just use the same wiki name as in interwiki
2483 map). If the last list item is None, then the preferred wikis
2484 will not be followed by the entries of the interwiki map.
2485 * moved save/preview/... buttons to the top so that they can be
2487 * reduced edit_rows default to 20 lines
2488 * Added support for edit by doubleclick in the diff view
2490 * Improved wiki farm support
2491 * make user files sharable between several wikis in a farm
2492 * allow/use interwiki subscriptions
2493 * use interwiki links in page trail
2494 * save bookmark per wiki name
2495 * cfg.cookie_domain can be used to set a cookie valid for a complete
2496 domain (default: None == only for this host). If you use '.domain.tld',
2497 the cookie will be valid for all hosts *.domain.tld - good for host
2499 * cfg.cookie_path can be used to set a cookie valid for a wiki farm under
2500 some base path (default: None == only for this wiki's path). If you use
2501 '/wikifarm', the cookie will be valid for all wikis
2502 server.tld/wikifarm/* - good for path based wiki farms.
2503 * Interwiki user homepage (if you have MANY users)
2504 Generated links for usernames are interwiki now, use cfg.user_homewiki
2505 (default: 'Self') to specify in which wiki the user home pages are
2506 located. Note: when pointing this to another wiki, the /MoinEditorBackup
2507 functionality will be disabled.
2508 @SIG@ also uses interwiki when needed.
2510 * Authentication, ACLs and related
2511 * Modular authentication: cfg.auth is a list of functions that return a
2512 valid user or None, use it like this:
2513 from MoinMoin.auth import http, moin_cookie
2514 auth = [http, moin_cookie]
2515 * cfg.auth_http_enabled was removed, please use cfg.auth instead.
2516 * http auth now supports "Negotiate" scheme, too
2517 * Added sslclientcert auth method (Apache: untested, Twisted: not
2518 implemented, IIS: no idea). See MoinMoin/auth.py for details.
2519 Submit a patch if you have improvements.
2520 * cfg.superuser is a list of unicode usernames. It is used by some
2521 critical operations like despam action or PackageInstaller.
2522 * removed allowed_actions, we now use actions_excluded only and it
2523 defaults to [], that means, no action is excluded, everything is
2524 allowed (limited by ACLs). In case of RenamePage and DeletePage,
2525 this shouldn't be a problem as both can be reverted. In case you
2526 did not allow attachments, you now have to use:
2527 actions_excluded = ['AttachFile']
2528 * special users (All, Known, Trusted) in Groups are now supported
2529 * MoinMoin.security.autoadmin SecurityPolicy added
2530 When using this security policy, a user will get admin rights on his
2531 homepage (where pagename == username) and its sub pages. This is needed
2532 for the MyPages action, but can also get used for manual ACL changes.
2533 It can also be used for Project page auto admin functionality, see the
2534 comments in the script for details.
2535 Further it can automatically create the user's group pages when the
2536 user saves his homepage.
2537 * there is a UpdateGroup xmlrpc call, see MoinMoin/xmlrpc/UpdateGroup.py -
2538 you can use this to update your *Group pages e.g. when generating them
2539 from an external group database.
2541 * UserPreferences changes
2542 * Alias name: is used for display purposes, when "name" is cryptic. It is
2543 shown e.g. in the title attribute of userid links (displayed when
2544 moving the mouse over it).
2545 * "Publish my email (not my wiki homepage) in author info" - use this
2546 if you don't have a wiki homepage, but if you want to be contactable
2547 by email. When you edit a page, your email address will be published
2548 as mailto: link on RecentChanges, at bottom of page (last editor) and
2549 in page info. If the wiki runs publically on the internet, be careful
2550 using this or your email address might be collected by spammers.
2551 * Preferred Editor: whether you want to use the text editor (as in
2552 previous moin versions), the gui editor (new!) or both (you will get
2553 2 edit links in that case).
2554 * a user can add/remove the current page to/from his quicklinks with an
2555 appropriate action now
2556 * if cfg.user_email_unique = False, we don't require user's email
2557 addresses to be unique
2558 * removed show_fancy_links user preferences setting to simplify code and
2559 caching. Displaying those icons is now done by CSS styles (see
2560 common.css). Maybe needs fixing for non-standard themes and RTL langs.
2563 * added strikethrough markup: --(striked through text here)--
2564 * @ME@ expands to just the plain username (no markup added) on save
2567 * when a user accesses his own non-existing homepage (pagename ==
2568 username), the wiki will present the MissingHomePage system page
2569 content, explaining what a user homepage is good for and offer
2570 one-click editing it with content loaded from HomepageTemplate
2571 * creation of homepage subpages is assisted by the MyPages action, which
2572 offers rw, ro page creation (and a related group) or creation of private
2573 pages. If you are not in the user_homewiki, you will get redirected
2576 Other changes/new features:
2577 * Added PackageInstaller and unzipping support (see wiki page
2578 HelpOnActions/AttachFile for further details). PackageInstaller requires
2579 the user to be in cfg.superuser list.
2580 * Added an PackagePages action to simplify the package creation.
2581 * Added location breadcrumbs - when you are on some subpage, the page
2582 title parts link to the corresponding parent pages, the last part does
2583 the usual reverse linking.
2584 * added WSGI server support, thanks to Anakim Border, see:
2585 wiki/server/moinwsgi.py (moin as WSGI app, uses the flup WSGI server,
2586 see http://www.saddi.com/software/flup/)
2587 MoinMoin/server/wsgi.py (adaptor code)
2588 * added a "Despam" action to make de-spamming a wiki easy (mass revert
2589 bad changes done by a single author or bot). You need to be in
2590 cfg.superuser to use it.
2591 * Better diffs with links to anchors to the changed places
2592 * Enhanced table support in the DocBook formatter.
2593 * Added 'moin' daemon script, that let you run moin standalone
2594 server as daemon and control the server with simple command line
2595 intreface: moin start | stop | restart | kill
2596 * Add 'restart' option to mointwisted script
2597 * Add properties option to standalone server config. Allow
2598 overriding any request property like in other server types.
2599 * Add support for running behind proxy out of the box with out
2601 See HelpOnConfiguration/IntegratingWithApache
2602 * added a WikiBackup action, configure it similar to this:
2603 data_dir = "/path/to/data"
2604 backup_include = [data_dir, ] # you can add other dirs here
2605 backup_users = ["BackupUserName", ] # only TRUSTED users!
2606 You usually don't need to change the default backup_exclude setting.
2607 The default backup_include list is EMPTY and so will be your
2608 backup in case you don't configure it correctly.
2609 If you put your data_dir there, the backup will contain private
2610 user data like email addresses and encrypted passwords.
2611 * Added a SubscribeUser action which allows the administrator to subscribe users to the
2613 * Added thread count to SystemInfo macro.
2614 * 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.
2615 * Added a RenderAsDocbook action which redirects to the DocBook formatter.
2616 * Added searching for wiki-local words lists under <data_dir>/dict/.
2617 They are used additionally to the global lists in MoinMoin/dict/.
2618 * moin_dump now also dumps attachments referenced from the page.
2619 It doesn't dump stuff that is just attached, but not referenced!
2620 * On RecentChanges we now force the comment to be breakable, this improves
2621 rendering of over-long words or on narrow browser windows - especially
2622 for themes with limited content width like rightsidebar.
2623 * We now have the "new" icon on RecentChanges clickable, just links to the
2625 * Print view now shows "interwikiname: pagename" (for show_interwiki = 1).
2627 International support:
2628 * mail_from can be now a unicode name-address
2629 e.g u'Jürgen wiki <noreply@jhwiki.org>'
2632 * logo_string is now should be really only the logo (img).
2633 If you included your wiki's name in logo_string you maybe want to remove
2634 it now as it is shown as part of the location display now anyway (if
2635 you set show_interwiki = 1).
2636 * You maybe want to remove page_front_page from your navi_bar - we link to
2637 that page now from the logo and (new, if you set show_interwiki = 1) from
2638 the interwiki name displayed in location display, so you maybe don't need
2639 it in navi_bar, too.
2640 * If you have a custom theme, you should / may:
2641 * sync modern/css/screen.css #pagelocation #pagetrail stuff to your
2642 screen.css or pagelocation display (title()) will look strange (like a
2644 * remove "#title h1 ..." CSS (or any other CSS assuming h1 is a page
2645 title and not just a first level heading), it is not used any more.
2646 * we now render = heading = as <h1> (was <h2> before 1.5),
2647 == heading == as <h2> (was <h3>), etc.
2648 * maybe move both title() and trail() to header area, like the builtin
2650 * there is a new interwiki() base theme method that optionally (if
2651 show_interwiki = 1) shows the interwiki name of this wiki and links to
2652 page_front_page. The css for it is #interwiki.
2655 * Plugin API was improved. When plugin module is missing,
2656 wikiutil.PluginMissingError is raised. When trying to import a
2657 missing name from a plugin module, wikiutil.PluginMissingError is
2658 raised. You must update any code that use wikiutil.importPlugin.
2659 Errors in your plugin should raise now correct tracebacks. See
2660 http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/ErrorHandlingInPlugins
2661 * pysupport.importName was changed, it does not check for any
2662 errors when trying to import a name from a module. The calling
2663 code should check for ImportError or AttributeError. Previous
2664 code used to hide all errors behind None.
2665 * Its easier now to customize the editbar by overriding
2666 editbarItems() in your theme, and returning a list of items to
2667 display in the editbar. To change a single editbar link, override
2668 one of the xxxLink methods in your theme.
2671 * request.formatter (html) is available for actions now
2672 * theme API's d['page_home_page'] is gone (sorry) and replaced by
2673 d['home_page'] which is either None or tuple (wikiname,pagename).
2674 It is better to use the base classes function for username/prefs anyway.
2675 * introduced cfg.hacks for internal use by development, see comment in
2676 multiconfig.py and file HACKS.
2677 * added IE7 (v0.9) from Dean Edwards (see http://dean.edwards.name/IE7/) -
2678 that should fix quite some IE bugs and annoyances (on Win32).
2679 * for enabling IE7, use cfg.hacks = { 'ie7': True }
2680 * reducewiki now also copies all attachments (we use that to make underlay
2681 directory from moinmaster wiki's data_dir)
2684 * Fixed a typo in xslt.py which led to a traceback instead of an
2685 error message in case of disabled XSLT support.
2686 * Fixed crash in twisted server if twisted.internet.ssl is not
2688 * Fixed wrong decoding of query string, enable wiki/?page_name urls
2689 with non ascii page names.
2690 * Fixed wrong display of non ascii attachments names in
2691 RecentChanges and page revision history.
2692 * Fixed a crash when trying to run standalone server on non posix os.
2693 * Fixed highlight of misspelled words in Check Spelling action.
2694 * Fixed case insensitivity problems on darwin (Mac OS X). See
2696 * Added RecentChanges (only the english one) to the pages getting
2697 html_head_index headers
2698 * text_html cache files written with this code will invalidate themselves
2699 if they detect to be older than the wikiconfig. Note: you should remove
2700 all old text_html cache files once after upgrading, they will then be
2701 rebuilt automatically with the new code.
2703 * Fixed the word_rule: a word like AAAbbAbb isn't teared into two parts
2704 any more (was: AA<link>AbbAbb</link>)
2705 * Fixed false positive InterWiki markup for languages like Finnish.
2706 InterWiki links are only rendered if the left side has an appropriate
2707 entry in the interwiki map, otherwise it is rendered as simple text.
2708 * Fixed unicode error when uploding non-ascii file name using mod
2710 * Fixed error handling of wikirpc requests, should give more
2711 correct errors and prevent no error output and blocking the
2712 client in some cases.
2713 * Fixed the "lost password" mail processing. If a user entered some email
2714 address unknown to the system, he was not notified of this, but just got
2715 a useless mail with no account data in it. Now the system directly tells
2716 the user that he entered an unknown email address.
2717 * Fixed SystemInfo, it now also lists parsers in data/plugin/parser dir.
2718 * Fix error handling on failure, improved error display
2719 * Fix error handling when importing plugins or importing modules
2720 dynamically. The fix is not backward compatible with older plugins.
2721 * Fix chart action, returns a page with error message when chart
2723 * Fixed formatter usage in the ShowSmileys macro.
2724 * Fixed updating pagelinks cache for [:page:text] or [wiki:Self:page text],
2725 fixes display of LocalSiteMap and rendering of such links.
2726 * Hopefully fixed urllib problems (esp. with py 2.4.2, but also before) by
2727 using our own urllib wrapper that handles encoding/decoding to/from
2728 unicode, see wikiutil.py. Also made a similar fix for making and parsing
2730 * Fixed MonthCalendar tooltips when containing special chars like quotes.
2731 * Added html escaping for diff text for RSS feed with diff=1.
2732 * The distance between page content beginning and the first = heading =
2733 was much too much. Fixed.
2737 We used that version number for an internal and early development version
2738 for what will be called moin 2.0 at some time in the future.
2739 There will never be a 1.4.x release.
2742 Version 1.3.5 (2005-08-04, Revision moin--main--1.3--patch-883)
2745 * small CSS fix for rightsidebar theme
2746 * applied some Debian patches (thanks to Jonas!):
2747 * de i18n spelling fixes
2748 * AttachFile fix, we strip CR in .draw files now
2749 * when loading spellcheck dictionaries, we want utf-8, but we make
2750 a 2nd try with iso-8859-1 encoding.
2754 * enabled using https with the Twisted server:
2755 You need to use port 443, have PyOpenSSL (+ ssl libs it depends on)
2756 installed and have some site key and certificate PEM files configured in
2757 your twistedmoin.py file:
2758 sslcert = ('/whereever/cert/sitekey.pem', '/whereever/cert/sitecert.pem')
2761 Version 1.3.5rc1 (2005-07-31, Revision moin--main--1.3--patch-865)
2765 * Fixed security bug when acl of deleted page was ignored. See:
2767 * AttachFile did not display the original filename plus there
2768 was a confusion in input field labelling ('Rename to').
2769 * Fixed shortcut link non-existent page detection.
2770 * Fixed non-working bookmark function on python 2.2.x.
2771 * Fixed wikirpc getPageInfo call on python 2.2.x.
2772 * Fixed the failing import of plugins from the data/plugin/
2773 directories if run in zipimport environments.
2774 * Fixed traceback which occurred on negated searches.
2775 * Fixed crash when trying to render error message on twisted, fast
2777 * Fixed error message with modpy, used to show wrong errors below
2779 * Fixed search and goto text fields for better compatibility with
2780 dark themes and better control through css.
2781 * Show an edit link if MissingPage is missing and a warning in the
2783 * Fixed missing footer in the editor.
2784 * Fixed indented (invalid) headings with broken links in table of
2786 * Fixed crash when file name is too long, show standard error message.
2787 * Save trail file in a safe way, should be enough for normal use.
2788 * Fixed remember_last_visit user preferences option when show_trail
2790 * Fixed the tests for Standalone, Twisted, FastCGI and Mod_Python.
2791 Run with ?action=test from any page.
2792 * Fixed rare bug when wrong search type was performed when pasting
2793 search term in Safari.
2794 * Fixed crash for custom formatters and dom_xml (which occurred if
2795 smileys were in the page).
2796 * Editor opens on double click in pages with single quote in the
2797 name, like "Ben's Wiki".
2798 * '/.' in page names are not replaced any more by '/(2e)'
2799 * Fixed the long delays while saving pages using RequestCLI.
2800 * Fixed variable expanding for users with non WikiName.
2801 * Fixed MonthCalendar's calculation of "today" to use the user's
2803 * Fixed moin_dump script, use same configuration options as other
2805 * Fixed url_mappings to work in proxied setups and sent mails
2806 again. Also fixed for image links. Thanks to JohannesBerg.
2807 * Fixed page shown after saving a drawing (esp. when saved from a
2808 sub page). Fixed help link for drawings.
2809 * Fixed mig10 script to run on Python < 2.3.
2810 * The twisted server defaulted to a socket timeout of 12 hours!
2811 We reduced that to a more sane 10 minutes, that should still be more
2812 than enough. This fixed the "too many open files" problem we
2813 encountered quite often recently. Thanks to Helmut Grohne!
2818 * Added cz, pt and pt-br i18n.
2819 * We send a 404 http status code for nonexisting wiki pages now,
2820 maybe this will repell some search engines from requesting gone
2821 pages again and again. The wiki user still sees the MissingPage
2822 wiki stuff, so a user usually won't notice this change.
2823 * Return 500 error code on failure and exceptions.
2824 * Added some more bot / leech tool user agent strings.
2825 * Prevent page floating elements from floating out of the page over
2826 the footer, in modern, rightsidebar and classic themes.
2827 * Encode URLs in a safer way
2828 * We allow usernames with ' character in them now (like Tim O'Brian).
2829 * Added support for the new security flags in docutils 0.3.9.
2830 * @MAILTO@ expands now to safer [[MailTo()]] macro.
2831 * Clarified and i18ned lost password mails.
2832 * Added 'TitleIndex' and 'SiteNavigation' (+ translation) to the
2833 list of pages that use html_head_index (so that robots
2834 "index,follow"). Please make sure to have either FindPage,
2835 TitleIndex or SiteNavigation in your navi_bar or in your
2836 page_front_page content if you want search engines to find all
2838 * Make it possible to send account data when being logged in (for
2839 future reference or whatever purpose).
2840 * Speed up when running with persistent servers, the wiki config
2841 does only get loaded once and misc. stuff is being cached between
2843 * The unit tests are disabled when using multi threading, because
2844 the wiki configuration is shared between diffrent threads.
2845 * The main code path (using standalone server) of MoinMoin runs on
2847 * Formatters do automatically transform HTML to plain text if they are
2848 called with raw HTML code.
2849 * Using larger socket backlog on Standalone and FastCGI servers
2850 should be more reliable on high load.
2851 * We now strip leading path from attachments uploaded by IE (this is
2852 a bug in IE, not in MoinMoin). Better use a sane browser, like Firefox.
2853 * added "teleport" to the user agent blacklist
2857 * Integrated Lupy indexer for better search performance. It is disabled
2858 by default as of 1.3.5 as it still has known issues.
2859 See multiconfig.py if you want to test it.
2860 * Integrated MonthCalendar 2.1, with some new features:
2861 * a mouseover bubble that shows first level headlines of the linked
2863 * all calendars with same pagename move when using cal navigation,
2864 thanks to Oliver Graf
2865 * included AnnualMonthlyCalendar patch of Jonathan Dietrich
2866 (use [[MonthCalendar(Yearly,,,+1,,6,1)]] syntax for birthdays and
2867 other annually repeating stuff)
2868 Make sure you remove old MonthCalendar.* from data/plugin/macro so that
2869 moin will use the new code in MoinMoin/macro/MonthCalendar.py.
2870 Maybe also clear the text_html cache.
2871 * Added the new XSLT parser and the DocBook parser. This should increase
2872 the 4suite compatiblity. See HelpOnXmlPages for details.
2873 It now should run on 4suite 1.0a4 and 1.0b1. Thanks to Henry Ho!
2874 * Added the DocBook formatter. This will let you generate DocBook markup
2875 by writing simple wiki pages. It needs PyXML.
2876 * It is now possible to customize parts of the UserPreferences page in
2877 your wikiconfig (changing defaults, disabling fields, removing fields):
2878 * Use user_checkbox_* for the checkboxes.
2879 * Use user_form_* for other fields.
2880 * See MoinMoin/multiconfig.py for the built-in defaults.
2881 * New standalone server classes: ThreadPoolServer using pool of
2882 threads, ThreadingServer with thread limit and ForkingServer.
2883 * New standalone server configuration options: serverClass,
2884 threadLimit, requestQueueSize.
2885 * Use "PythonOption Location" in mod_python setup to solve script_name
2890 * Theme can now override maxPagenameLength() method to control page
2892 * A search Match now provides access to the full re match via
2893 the re_match attribute (use to access groups of the match)
2894 * Underlay is not managed by arch any more. The tree contains an
2895 underlay tarball, and you should untar after you update from main.
2896 * "make update-underlay" will untar underlay
2897 * "make merge" will star-merge main into your tree
2898 * "make test" will now create and run in a fresh testwiki instace
2899 * "make clean" options added
2900 * _tests module does not have a global request any more. To refer to
2901 the current request in a test, use self.request.
2902 * _tests.TestConfig class require a request in the constructor.
2903 * "python tests/runtests.py test_module" will run only test_module
2904 * request.cfg stays between requests (for persistent servers).
2907 Version 1.3.4 (2005-03-13, Revision moin--main--1.3--patch-666)
2911 * Fixed ACL check in LikePages macro that caused links to unreadable
2913 * Fixed ACL check in newpage action.
2914 * Fixed a security problem when admin policy defined in a custom
2915 SecurityPolicy class was ignored.
2916 * Fixed ACL check in action=show so that a user who may not read a page
2917 also can't find out WHEN the protected page was updated.
2918 * Workaround on Windows 95, 98, ME in order to clear the dircache.
2919 This fixes some bugs related to an outdated page list and newly created
2920 pages that did not appear immediately.
2921 * Fixed decoding issues of page names on Windows, finally.
2923 * Fixed traceback on IIS.
2925 * Fixed wikirpc for standalone server.
2926 * Other fixes (encoding and str/unicode data type related) to wikirpc
2927 server, fixing some non-ascii issues hopefully.
2928 * Fixed broken query strings for Standalone installations.
2929 * Fixed backlinks - the result did not always show all links, often it
2931 * Fixed the acceptance of the show_hosts setting. Now you should be able
2932 to hide any IP or host name from being published by MoinMoin by enabling
2934 * Fixed wrong line endings on email messages.
2936 * Fixed crash when trail file is missing.
2937 * Fixed a traceback when searching for single ( or ).
2938 * Added mig10 script to fix crashes with uncoverted edit-locks and file
2939 attachments. Just use it as you did with mig1..mig9 before.
2940 * Added mig11 script to add __init__.py files to data/plugin (and below).
2941 * added some fixes for the xslt parser (thanks to fanbanlo), it might be
2942 still broken, but someone with deeper knowledge about xslt should fix it.
2943 * Replaced image link with W3C's "html 4.01 compliance" icon by a simple
2944 text link to avoid https: or config trouble.
2945 * Catch OverflowError backtrace when illegal date strings (e.g. <1970 or
2946 >2038) are fed to moinmoin's time routines. It will just output current
2947 date / time in those cases.
2948 * UserPreferences now also set a date_fmt preference and Date macro
2949 honours it. You may have to reset your UserPreferences value for that.
2950 * Fixed free parent and subpage links in interwiki notation.
2952 * Fixed a traceback for invalid ReST markup.
2953 * Fixed UnicodeError in SystemAdmin's Attachment Browser.
2957 * Optimized the IRC parser.
2958 * Support for zipimport of the MoinMoin package. This allows you to use
2959 py2exe and similar programs.
2960 * Show the editor's name in the mail subject.
2961 * Added the pragmas description and keywords. They will add <meta> headers
2963 * Added MoinMoin/scripts/xmlrpc-tools/putPageTest.py example script, useful
2964 as a starting point for importing data using wiki xmlrpc.
2965 * Optimised display on Opera browser.
2969 * The search modifier "linkto:" was introduced. You can use it to search
2971 * The NewPage macro now can take a PageTemplate parameter, see HelpOnMacros.
2972 * New config settings (so you don't need to edit wikirpc.py any more):
2973 xmlrpc_putpage_enabled = 0 (if 1, enables writing to arbitrary page names)
2974 xmlrpc_putpage_trusted_only = 1 (if 0, doesn't require users to be
2975 authenticated by http auth - DANGEROUS, DO NOT SET TO 0!!!)
2976 * Added support for Digest and NTLM authentication with CGI (e.g. if you
2977 use those Apache modules)
2978 * The datetime string accepted by Date and DateTime macros was extended to
2979 accept a timezone specification, so now +/-HHMM is also valid, e.g.:
2980 2005-03-06T15:15:57Z (UTC, same as +0000)
2981 2005-03-06T15:15:57+0000 (UTC)
2982 2005-03-06T16:15:57+0100 (same time given as local time for time zone
2983 with offset +0100, that is CET, e.g. Germany)
2984 2005-03-06T10:15:57-0500 (same time given as local time for time zone
2985 with offset -0500, EST, US Eastern Std. Time)
2986 The values given as macro argument will be transformed to UTC internally
2987 and then adapted again according to viewing user's UserPreferences, so
2988 the user will see the same moment in time but shown in his local time
2989 zone's time (at least if he set his UserPreferences correctly and didn't
2990 forget changing them twice a year for DST and non-DST).
2991 * Readded (now optional) editlink footer to Include macro. Add
2992 ',editlink' to call to enable this.
2993 * star "smileys" e.g. {*}{*}{*}{o}{o}
2996 Version 1.3.3 (2005-01-24, Revision moin--main--1.3--patch-595)
3000 * fixed ACL security problem in search
3001 * fix for IIS with CGI allowing page names that contain chars
3002 that are not in the system code page
3003 * fixed MoinEditorBackup revisions to start with 1 now
3004 * improved page locking ('current' file)
3005 * Unittests (normally shown at end of action=test output) are currently
3006 disabled for everything except CGI, because they only work reliably with
3007 CGI, giving wrong results for other request methods.
3010 Version 1.3.2 (2005-01-23, Revision moin--main--1.3--patch-587)
3014 * ACL bugfix for deleted pages with ACL protection.
3015 * ACL bugfix for "Default" acl.
3016 * Fixed updating of groups and dicts
3017 * Python 2.2.x related fixes (worked on 2.3+)
3018 * Fixed traceback in RecentChanges.
3019 * Fixed traceback with links browser.
3020 * Fixed 0 revision display in 'Show changes'.
3021 * Fixed traceback in Antispam which occurred when it could not connect
3022 to MoinMaster. Log the errors to stderr or error.log.
3023 * Fixed bug in Page init (no date, use rev). Fixes problem with
3025 * Fixed empty lists in empty search results.
3026 * Cosmetic fix for modern theme (when viewed with Internet Explorer).
3027 * Fixed migration 9 script, do not drop newline, do not drop error.log,
3028 note about missing error.log.
3029 * Fixed repair_language.py script, keep ending newline on revisions.
3030 * Show headings and macro content in correct direction when mixing content
3031 in several directions in the same page and using caching.
3032 * Fixed bug in standalone re farmconfig.
3033 * Fixed DOS condition in antispam code.
3034 * Use smaller margin in print mode to get better results with
3036 * Fixed some user input escaping issues.
3037 * Fixed a problem when one wiki plugin override other wikis plugins in
3039 * Fixed some broken tests.
3040 * Fixed recursive include in pstats.
3041 * Fixed bug in standalone - HTTP result code was 200 even when the access
3043 * Fixed traceback when trying to login with non-ascii password.
3044 * Fixed traceback when xml is not available, reported on Python 2.2.?
3045 * Fixed slideshow to show slides in sorted order again.
3046 * Fixed serving multiple wikis on same IP/different ports with twisted and
3048 * It is possible to run with data_underlay_dir = None for special
3049 application, but be aware that the wiki won't be usable unless you have
3050 at least some of the system pages from underlay/ available.
3051 * Files with Unicode characters in their filename are possible now.
3052 * Bugfix for broken [:page#anchor:text] links.
3053 * Workaround an instability of the gdchart module leading to
3054 stalled servers etc.
3055 * Fixed some event-log decoding issues that affect charts rendering.
3059 * Major speed improvement over 1.3.1. Many times faster title search,
3060 creating new page, opening page editor and any operation that list pages.
3061 See http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/MoinBenchmarks
3062 * Improved README.migration.
3063 * Cleaner design for login/register interface, login is always the default
3064 button when the user click Enter.
3065 * If there are problems found in the configuration, log the error
3066 and display helpful error messages in the browser.
3067 * More forgiving unicode configuration policy, you must use the u'string'
3068 format only for unicode values.
3069 * Added profiling to CGI.
3070 * The content of farmconfig.py is similar to wikiconfig.py now.
3071 * Unexpected errors while loading cache files are logged.
3072 * i18n for icon ALT tags.
3073 * Include request initialization code in the profile in standalone server.
3074 * When creating new theme, style sheets are inherited correctly, no need
3075 to override style sheets just to get them working.
3076 * Many times faster plugin system. Typical pages are about 35% faster,
3077 pages with many plugins can be many times faster.
3078 * Spiders are allowed to fetch attachments.
3079 * Old user files containing password hash encoded in pre 1.3 charset
3080 are auto repaired on first login.
3081 * data_dir defaults to './data', underlay_data_dir to './underlay' now.
3082 It is a good idea to replace those by absolute pathes in wikiconfig.py.
3083 * Renamed "Refresh" to "Delete Cache" - it was misused by users. The action
3084 was also moved into the action menu in the modern and rightsidebar themes.
3085 * Added a workaround for TableOfContents missing some links by making it
3086 uncacheable via a "time" dependency.
3087 * Removed interwiki icon and title attribute for wiki:Self:... links.
3088 * Unittests (normally shown at end of action=test output) are currently
3089 disabled because they worked unreliably, giving wrong results sometimes.
3093 * Create new pages easily using configurable interface and page templates
3094 with the new NewPage macro.
3095 * ReStructuredText (rst) support is built-in now. See HelpOnParsers.
3096 * New experimental feature in mointwisted.py - each interface may
3097 specify a port: '12.34.56.78:80'. Without a port, the port option
3103 * wikiutil.importPlugin's first argument is now a wiki config instance
3104 (request.cfg) and there is no path keyword.
3105 * Wiki plugins always override MoinMoin plugins. wikiutil.importPlugin
3106 implements this override.
3107 * util.pysupport.importName does not accept path - you should call
3108 it with correct module name, e.g 'wikiconfig.plugin.parser.wiki' for
3109 wiki plugins, or 'MoinMoin.parser.wiki'.
3110 * wikiutil.extensionPlugin was renamed to wikiPlugins and it gets config
3111 instance instead of path.
3112 * New function wikiutil.importWikiPlugin used to import wiki plugins
3113 using a cache in a thread safe way.
3114 * New config option config.use_threads is used to activate thread
3116 * New keyword arguments for getPageList, enable 10X faster operation
3117 for common cases by controlling page filtering.
3118 * New up to 100X times faster getPageCount
3121 Version 1.3.1 (2004-12-13, Revision moin--main--1.3--patch-434)
3125 * Fixed "Error Cyclic usage" crash when user had Italian (it), Korean
3126 (ko), Serbian (sr) or Vietnamese (vi) as user interface language.
3127 * Fall back to en (instead of crashing) when user uses a language moin
3128 does not support / does not support any more (like pt,sv,fi,sr).
3129 * In 1.3.0, people accidentally put iso-8859-1 chars into wiki configs,
3130 but those where expected to be pure utf-8 and thus it crashed.
3131 Fixed by using unicode strings (varname = u'whatever'), a matching
3132 encoding setting (see top of script comment) and, when decoding strings,
3133 using decode to ASCII with replace mode (this replaces non-ASCII chars,
3134 but at least it won't crash - and you get a warning to better use
3136 * Fixed long time broken table formatting. ||<style="see css spec" a||b||
3137 Now even generates valid HTML! The old markup for align, valign, width,
3138 bgcolor still works, but synthesizes style attribute data.
3139 * SystemAdmin macro shows attachments of ALL pages now.
3140 * Users without write acl rights will be able to see attachments again and
3141 also have AttachFile action in menu.
3142 * Fixed wrong match count in search results, find all matches in page
3143 titles, show all matches in contents in some rare cases.
3144 * Run about 200% faster with long running processes (standalone, Twisted),
3145 about 20% faster with cgi, by better internal data handling in wikidicts.
3146 * On SF, the dict files use utf-8 encoding now. We included them also in
3147 distribution, see contrib/dict/.
3148 * Fixed permissions to shared template stuff.
3149 * Speeded up search, fixed wrong match counts.
3150 * Speeded up internal data handling (wikidicts).
3151 * Fixed rare unicode error after deleting a page (reported only on SuSE
3152 Linux 9.0 / Python 2.3.0).
3153 * Fixed file permissions of files in the data dir.
3154 * Fixed some cosmetic problems in migration scripts and use sys.path.insert
3155 to get latest moin code when executing them.
3159 * Improved docs, system and help pages.
3160 * Updated translation files.
3164 * Internet Explorer renders our HTML/CSS in a suboptimal way.
3166 Workaround: use a non-broken browser like FireFox / Mozilla.
3167 Fixed in MoinMoin 1.3.2.
3168 * Passwords using non-ascii do not work.
3170 * The TOC macro is broken partly.
3173 * See also: http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/MoinMoinBugs
3176 Version 1.3.0 (2004-12-06, Revision moin--main--1.3--patch-400)
3178 As you see from the length of the 1.3 changes below, 1.3 is a major(!)
3179 upgrade. We could have also named it "2.0", but we decided against.
3180 So take the time for reading the informations thoroughly and do the
3181 migration exactly as we tell you - this is no 5 minutes upgrade!
3183 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
3184 !!! We heavily changed configuration, data encoding, dir layout: !!!
3185 !!! * the default encoding changed to utf-8. !!!
3186 !!! * also, we changed the escaping for special chars to %XX%YY in !!!
3187 !!! URL and (xxyy) in file system. !!!
3188 !!! * layout of data dir changed completely !!!
3189 !!! If you upgrade an existing wiki, you must run the migration !!!
3190 !!! scripts or you will get data corruption or other problems. !!!
3191 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
3193 HINT: Upgrading your wiki - critical information
3195 If you are NOT starting from scratch, you MUST convert your existing
3196 data - see README.migration for details.
3198 If you use ##language: xx comments on your OWN pages, you should also run
3199 repair_language script. Not needed for help/system pages as we already
3200 have done that for you.
3202 MoinMoin uses Unicode internally now (UCS-2 with 16 bits or UCS-4 with
3203 32 bits, depending on your Python installation). The encoding used
3204 for page files and html output is set by config.charset.
3206 Moin 1.3 uses utf-8 encoding only, there is NO SUPPORT for using a
3207 charset different from utf-8 with 1.3. If you try, you are on your own.
3211 Directory layout was heavily changed. Each page now is a directory,
3212 containing page revisions, attachments, cache files and edit-log.
3214 You can delete a page or move a page from one wiki to another
3215 easily. Look at the wiki/data directory to see.
3218 old: data/text/FrontPage
3219 new: data/pages/FrontPage/revisions/00000042
3220 data/pages/FrontPage/current (contains: 00000042)
3221 old: data/backup/FrontPage.xxxxxxxx
3222 new: data/pages/FrontPage/revisions/00000023
3224 For cleaning up cache files, use MoinMoin/scripts/cachecleaner.py
3225 (see comments in script).
3229 * For using RSS, you need to have PyXML installed:
3230 Python 2.4* -> PyXML 0.8.4 (cvs version)
3231 Python 2.3.x -> PyXML 0.8.3
3232 Python 2.2.2+ -> ???
3233 This will also make "Live Bookmarks" of Mozilla Firefox working.
3234 New: if you don't have PyXML installed, the RSS icon on RecentChanges
3235 will not be displayed any more. Python with no PyXML installed
3236 generates invalid RSS XML.
3240 * Handling of special characters in file names changed from _xx format
3242 * In URLs, moin now uses %xx%yy quoting, (because this is supported by
3243 browsers), and sub pages use "/" instead of the ugly "_2f".
3244 * Underscore character "_" is used now as a space character " " both
3245 in file names and URLs. " " and "_" will be handled equivalent at most
3246 places in the future (represented as "_", rendered as " ").
3247 * To prevent wiki abuse and user typing errors, page names are normalized
3248 in URLs, query strings, the "go" box and when renaming pages. This
3249 include leading, trailing and multiple slashes and white space. Certain
3250 invisible unicode characters are removed from page names.
3251 * Group page names are restricted even more, any non unicode alpha-numeric
3252 character is removed. This is done to enable changing acl syntax in
3253 the future. The restriction might be loosen on future versions.
3254 * You can edit config.page_invalid_chars_regex to control which characters
3255 are allowed in page names (Changing it is not supported).
3256 * When you enter page name, it is normalized and you are redirected to
3257 the normalized page, or if nothing left (e.g '/////'), to FrontPage.
3258 * When renaming a page to a name that can be normalized to an empty string,
3259 the new page name will be "EmptyName" and the user will not get an
3264 * Pages (especially system and help pages) are now located in an underlay
3265 directory (data_underlay_dir). You will see the pages there if they are
3266 NOT covered (overlayed) by a page in the normal pages directory
3267 (as set using data_dir).
3268 MAKE SURE THAT data_underlay_dir IS CORRECT OR YOU WILL SEE MANY EMPTY
3269 PAGES ONLY IN A NEW WIKI.
3270 * If you edit a page that is shown from underlay directory, it will be
3271 copied to the normal page directory on save (copy-on-write).
3272 * You can use one copy of the underlay directory shared by many
3273 wiki instances. Each wiki will then have only your local, self-made
3274 wiki pages in its data directory, and only system and help pages in the
3275 single, shared underlay directory - this simplifies upgrades a lot.
3276 * It is recommended to keep your underlay system and help pages immutable
3277 using acl, so you can upgrade your wiki easily. The default help and
3278 system pages already have those ACLs (using MoinPagesEditorGroup).
3279 * Do not forget to remove your old help and system pages after migrating
3280 your wiki. We don't provide a script for that as that would be
3281 dangerous for edited pages. Just use some file manager (e.g. mc) to
3282 clean the data/pages/ directory. As soon as you have removed the
3283 system pages there, you will see the new pages in the underlay dir.
3284 See the EditedSystemPages page for a list of pages that exist in both
3285 data and underlay directory (use this page as admin!).
3287 When updating from 1.2 or lower to 1.3 or higher, you will want to
3288 clean out the copies of the system pages in your {{{wiki/data}}}
3289 directory. All of these pages will now reside in the underlay
3290 directory. If you have system pages from 1.2 or lower in your
3291 wiki/data/ directory, they will overshadow the more up-to-date
3292 documentation. This can be done using the following manual procedure:
3293 1. You have just converted from 1.2 or lower to post-1.3.
3294 2. Go to your wiki's EditedSystemPages.
3295 3. Find all the pages that are MoinMoin system or help pages. You will
3296 know if it is one of those pages because it is not your page.
3297 4. Check if it is okay to delete by either:
3298 1. Using the this page "info" link and check the Revision History to
3299 see if it is greater than 1. If so, there are modifications, so do
3300 not delete the page and evaluate the modifications to see if they
3302 2. Using your file browser (Windows Explorer, etc) to go to your
3303 wiki/data/<<systemPage>>/revisions/ directory and to see if there
3304 are no modifications. If there are, do not delete the page and
3305 evaluate the modifications to see if they are necessary.
3306 5. Delete that wiki/data/<<systemPage>> using your file browser.
3310 * New file name quoting method allow 50% longer page names in languages
3311 that use more than one byte per character, like Hebrew, Korean etc.
3312 * Configuration file uses 'utf-8' encoding now. Certain values that are
3313 marked with [Unicode] can use any character in your language. Examples
3314 are page names in navi_bar, page types regular expressions and site name.
3315 * For configuration examples adopted to your language, check ConfigMarket
3316 in the MoinMoin wiki.
3317 * The system and help pages that come with moin are now in utf-8.
3318 * MissingPage system page localized, should display in your language.
3319 * We did many i18n (translation) updates.
3320 * CSS file use utf-8 encoding. User css is also expected to be utf-8.
3321 This is relevant only if you use non-ASCII values in the CSS file.
3322 * config.upperletters and config.lowerletters were removed.
3323 We now use a pre-made ucs-2 spanning set and you usually don't have to
3324 change it. See MoinMoin/util/chartypes.py if you're interested.
3325 * ACL works with any user name or group name in any language, even names
3327 * Now you can use any charset in config.charset. Note: only utf-8 is
3328 a supported configuration!
3329 * Improved url handling, now creating pages directly from the browser
3330 url box with non-ascii names works in most cases, even when
3331 config.charset is not utf-8.
3332 * When using non-utf-8 config.charset, characters in URLs that does
3333 fit in the charsets are replaced with "?" (instead of crashing).
3334 * All themes and most macros and actions are Right to Left friendly.
3335 Full RTL support planned for 1.3 release.
3336 * If page language is specified with #language processing instruction
3337 the page is displayed in the correct direction. Pages without
3338 language are displayed using the wiki default_lang.
3340 Multiple configurations
3342 * You can run multiple wikis from the same wiki directory or server.
3343 For example, you can run one Twisted server that serve multiple wikis,
3344 instead of running multiple servers. Samples of the new configuration
3345 are supplied in wiki/config/*.
3346 * You can't just use your old moin_config.py file. It is now called
3347 wikiconfig.py and the config variables now have to be in a class
3348 "Config" and that class must inherit from
3349 MoinMoin.multiconfig.DefaultConfig - see the provided wikiconfig.py
3351 This is very useful, e.g. you could derive a GermanConfig from
3352 DefaultConfig. After that, you can derive configs for wikiA and wikiB
3353 from that GermanConfig.
3354 * farmconfig.py contains a mapping attribute called "wikis" with pairs of
3355 wikiconfig module name and regular expression. The regular expression
3356 is matched against the URL of the request and the first matching entry
3357 determines the config module to be imported by MoinMoin.
3358 * If you use farmconfig.py's "wikis" mapping, then any wiki has a private
3359 config module, named after the wiki - e.g. wiki named moinmoin would
3361 * If you only have a single wiki, you do not need farmconfig.py. just make
3362 a wikiconfig.py and it will be used no matter what URL is requested.
3363 * There is one common global "config" that holds sitewide settings (like
3364 umask or charset) - you do not need to change settings there.
3365 This file is located in the MoinMoin code: MoinMoin/config.py.
3367 General configuration
3369 * SecurityPolicy now uses "write" instead of "edit" (so it is may.write
3370 now). This is to get it in sync with ACLs.
3371 * SecurityPolicy now automatically can use everything in acl_rights_valid.
3372 * There is a new config option "config_check_enabled". It will warn about
3373 any unknown variable name (probably typo) to stderr or error.log.
3374 If something doesn't work at all and changing the config does no
3375 difference, switch it on and look at the error message.
3376 * The sample config file comes with config_check_enabled = 1. If you
3377 introduce additional variables yourself, you definitely want to switch
3378 that check off or it will fill your log.
3379 * If you define "page_front_page" variable, this name will show in the
3380 navigation bar now, instead of the default "FrontPage".
3384 * Full text and title search do support multiple search terms now -
3385 see HelpOnSearching for details.
3386 * Regular expressions are still supported but have to be turned on per
3387 search term. Search terms in macros using regular expressions will have
3389 * The URL interface of the search engine has also changed. Links that
3390 point directly to search actions may be broken.
3394 * User names can not use group names, even if ACLs are not enabled.
3395 This will prevent error later, if you start to use acl in the future
3396 (acl is going to be mandatory in 1.5).
3397 * User names are not restricted any more to only CamelCase.
3398 * To prevent imposing as other users, leading, trailing and multiple
3399 whitespace in user names is not allowed. Only Unicode alpha numeric
3400 characters are allowed, with optional one space character between
3402 * When a user name with a group name or "bad" name is trying to
3403 access the wiki, he is redirected to the UserPreferences page and
3404 asked to create a new account.
3405 * When trying to login or create a new account with a bad name,
3406 correct error message is displayed in all cases.
3410 * You can not use your old moin.cgi file, as we removed cgimain.py
3411 (was deprecated since 1.2). Copy the new file from the server dir.
3413 Moin servers - Twisted and standalone
3415 * Configuration self checking on startup. Will raise an error in case
3416 of bad configuration or non-accessible directories.
3417 * Both use shorter and identical configuration options.
3418 * Server scripts contain detailed comments and examples.
3419 * Configuration defaults changed to fit most users.
3420 * There is memory profiler option for debugging, switched off by default.
3421 * If you perform a standard install, server scripts should run out
3422 of the box or with minimal change.
3426 * All code moved into the new server package, the server script
3427 contains only configuration options.
3428 * Listen to more than one interface with "interfaces" list.
3429 * Code updated to new Twisted API.
3430 * Use mointwisted script to start and stop the server, using
3431 "mointwisted start" and "mointwisted stop".
3432 * The Twisted server runs as daemon by default.
3433 * All moin Twisted files are called now mointwisted instead of
3435 * Fixed getting username from Twisted request (http auth)
3439 * Configuration moved from moin_config.py to moin.py.
3440 * If run as root, you can set both user and group for the server.
3441 * Can use logfile instead of logging to stderr.
3442 * Fixed missing unquoting of query string (caused problems in rare cases).
3446 * moin_modpy server files renamed to moinmodpy.
3450 * '''strong''', ''em'' and __underline__ have now paragraph scope. You can
3451 set these attributes on words level. For multiple paragraphs, wrap each
3453 * If you leave unclosed ''', '' and __ markup, its is closed when the
3458 * Due to many changes in CSS files, the wiki may look "broken" until
3459 your reload once or twice, or empty your browser cache.
3460 * The "Send mail notification" checkbox is replaced by "Trivial change"
3461 checkbox. The default behavior did not change - regular edit is not
3462 a trivial change, and mail will be sent to subscribes. If you check
3463 trivial change, mail will be sent only to users who selected to
3464 get trivial changes in their user preferences.
3465 * New theme "modern" has been added, and used as default theme.
3466 * classic and rightsidebar improved.
3467 * viewonly theme removed, as any theme can be use now as viewonly
3468 by using #acl All:read in the wikiconfig.
3469 * All themes use new navibar, displaying both wiki links, user links
3470 and the current page.
3471 * navibar and pagetrail use now shortened page names, so very long
3472 names does not break the interface visually.
3473 * All themes have improved search interface at the top of the window.
3474 * Only avaiable actions are displayed, so most situations when a user
3475 try to do something he can't do are prevented.
3476 * When creating a new page, no action is available until the page
3477 is created. You can't attach files to non-existing page any more.
3478 * Non registered users get a "login" link. Registered uses get
3479 "username" link to their home page, and "user preferences" link.
3480 * Messages more clear using bold type, designed by css.
3481 * Few useless messages removed (but there are many more)
3482 * Default wiki logo uses the wiki name instead of the MoinMoin troll
3485 Other fixes and changes
3487 * Most generated html code is valid "html 4 strict". There are still
3488 some problems that still have to be fixed, mainly macros, table
3489 attributes, and inline markup crossing (<a><b></a></b>).
3490 * WantedPages can include and exclude system pages, which makes it
3492 * Fixed a bug in TitleIndex where not all system pages are excluded.
3493 * RenamePage action now renames everything, including backups, page
3494 history, attachments. It does not change toplevel editlog, though.
3495 After you rename a page, you are redirected to the new page.
3496 * Syntax colorization supports more languages (Java, C++, Pascal)
3497 * Inline: display of attachments was extended. A Parser now knows which
3498 extensions it can handle.
3499 * TableOfContents and Include macros now cooperate a bit better. There
3500 are still problems with multiple Includes of the same page.
3501 * Excluded actions at bottom of page are not displayed any more.
3502 * Editor: removed the columns size setting, just using 100% of browser
3503 window width (it didn't work because of that anyway). Also removed that
3504 "reduce editor size" link at top of editor as you would lose your
3505 changes when using it.
3506 * Removed the option to choose text smileys instead of images, this made
3507 more trouble than it was worth. The text version is still given in ALT
3509 * Moved stuff from contribution/ to MacroMarket page on MoinMoin wiki
3510 * Some nasty people try to use a running moin as a proxy (at least they
3511 did on moinmaster.wikiwikiweb.de:8000, maybe due to the magic port
3512 number). We changed the code to check for that and just return 403
3513 in that case. Moin can not be used as a proxy anyway.
3514 * moin.cgi?test was removed in favor of a new buildin test
3515 action. It works for all deployments, just use ?action=test.
3516 * Sending mail does use tls if server supports it.
3518 3rd party developer notes
3520 * Themes should be now sub class of MoinMoin.theme.ThemeBase. Sub
3521 classes will get automatically all new improved user interface
3523 * Theme authors should update their theme for 1.3. Some keys removed
3524 from them dict. See ThemeBase class in MoinMoin/theme/__init__.py.
3525 * Actions writers should call request.setContentLangauge with the
3526 correct language used by the action. This enable themes and other
3527 code to use correct direction.
3528 * The Formatter interface was changed. Formatters and parsers using
3529 the formatter interface have to be adjusted.
3530 * started deprecation of Processors: they are still recognized, but
3531 implementors should start to rewrite their Processors as Parsers.
3532 A processor with the same name as a parser in a pre #! section is
3533 currently preferred. This will change in the next release.
3537 * Processors are deprecated, see section above.
3539 * Using the cookie (or the login url with ID) only and not setting (or
3540 setting and not remembering) your email/password in UserPreferences
3541 is DEPRECATED. Those quite unsecure methods will likely be dropped
3542 in next moin version.
3544 * Operating with acl_enabled = 0 is also DEPRECATED. Due to some other
3545 improvements planned, we will have to operate with ACLs enabled ONLY
3546 in a future moin version, so this setting will likely be dropped.
3547 So clean up your user accounts (see moin_usercheck.py) and switch ACLs
3549 There are no drawbacks, so you will like it. Having ACLs enabled
3550 doesn't mean you really have to USE them on wiki pages...
3552 * allow_extended_names = 0 is deprecated (default was/is 1).
3553 Future versions will be able to use extended names (aka free links) in
3554 any case and the config setting will be removed.
3556 * allow_subpages = 0 is deprecated (default was/is 1).
3557 Future versions will be able to use subpages in any case and the config
3558 setting will be removed.
3560 * attachments = {...} - we would like to remove that setting because of
3562 * when not being extremely careful, this can easily lead to security
3563 problems (like when uploading a .php exploit and then executing it
3564 by accessing it directly via web server)
3565 * makes code more complicated - code that we want to change completely
3567 If you need that feature, speak up now and tell us your reasons WHY you
3571 Version 1.2.4 (2004-10-23, Revision 1.187)
3573 This will probably be the last 1.2.x release as we are soon doing release
3574 candidates for 1.3 release (with big internal changes) and are expecting
3575 release 1.3 in december 2004.
3578 * fixed "None" pagename bug in fullsearch/titlesearch
3579 * fixed projection CSS usage
3580 * the compiled page is removed when a page is deleted, so no ghost page
3581 appears after deletion
3582 * fixed AbandonedPages day-break problem
3583 * fixed [[GetVal(WikiDict,key)]]
3584 * the msg box is now outside content div on PageEditor, too
3585 * privacy fix for email notifications: you don't see other email addresses
3586 in To: any more. mail_from is now also used for To: header field, but
3587 we don't really send email to that address.
3588 * privacy fix for /MoinEditorBackup pages that were made on previews of
3589 pages that were not saved in the end
3590 * fix double content div on PageEditor preview
3593 * workaround for broken Microsoft Internet Explorer, the page editor now
3594 stops expanding to the right (e.g. with rightsidebar theme).
3595 Nevertheless it is a very good idea to use a non-broken and more secure
3596 browser like Mozilla, Firefox or Opera!
3598 * from MoinMoin.security.antispam import SecurityPolicy in your
3599 moin_config.py will protect your wiki from at least the known spammers.
3602 * xmlrpc plugin for usage logging, currently used for antispam accesses
3604 * (re-)added configurable meta tags:
3605 * html_head_queries = '''<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow">\n'''
3606 * html_head_posts = '''<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow">\n'''
3607 * html_head_index = '''<meta name="robots" content="index,follow">\n'''
3608 * html_head_normal = '''<meta name="robots" content="index,nofollow">\n'''
3610 * i18n updates/fixes
3612 * New UserPreferences switch:
3613 you may subscribe to trivial changes (when you want to be notified about ALL
3614 changes to pages, even if the author deselected to send notifications).
3616 * New AttachList and AttachInfo macros - thanks to Nigel Metheringham and
3619 Version 1.2.3 (2004-07-21, Revision 1.186)
3622 * fixed NameError "UnpicklingError" in user.py
3623 * fixed version number in moin.spec
3624 * reverts done by bots or leechers
3625 There was a bad, old bug that triggered if you did not use ACLs. In that
3626 case, moin used some simple (but wrong and incomplete) function to
3627 determine what a user (or bot) may do or may not do. The function is now
3628 fixed to allow only read and write to anon users, and only delete and
3629 revert to known users additionally - and disallow everything else.
3630 * avoid creation of unneccessary pages/* directories
3631 * removed double content divs in general info and history info pages
3632 * fixed wiki xmlrpc getPageHTML
3633 * fixed rightsidebar logout URL, also fixed top banner to link to FrontPage
3634 * use config.page_front_page and .page_title_index for robots meta tag
3635 (whether it uses index,follow or index,nofollow), not hardcoded english
3637 * ACL security fix for PageEditor, thanks to Dr. Pleger for reporting
3638 * default options for new users are same as for anon users
3640 Version 1.2.2 (2004-06-06, Revision 1.185)
3644 * own copy of difflib removed
3645 Until moin 1.2.1 we had our own copy of python 2.2.3's difflib coming
3646 with moin. This was to work around some problems with broken older 2.2
3647 python installations. We removed this now because if you have py 2.3,
3648 there is even a better difflib coming with python (and that fixes an
3649 extremely slow diff calculation happening in some rare cases).
3650 So the good news is that when you run python 2.3, you don't need to do
3651 anything and it will run great. If you run python 2.2.3, it will mostly
3652 work good and you also don't need to do anything. The bad news is that
3653 if you run an old and broken 2.2 installation (2.2.1, maybe 2.2.2) you
3654 will have to fix it on your own (just copy difflib.py from python 2.2.3
3655 over to your python 2.2.x installation).
3656 But better upgrade to python 2.3 (for debian woody, there's a backport),
3657 as 2.3 generally runs better and faster than 2.2.
3658 * scripts changed to use #!/usr/bin/env python (not /usr/bin/python2.2)
3660 * user accounts and ACLs:
3661 * we now require the user to specify a password for a new account (you
3662 were not able to login without a password anyway)
3663 * it is not allowed any more to create user accounts with user names
3664 matching config.page_group_regex - please check manually that you do
3665 not already have such users existing (like a user named "AdminGroup"):
3666 cd data/user ; grep name=.*Group * # there should be no output!
3667 * subscription email sending now honours ACLs correctly
3669 * markup / rendering / user interface fixes:
3670 * fixed merging multiple lines indented by the same amount of blanks
3671 * ## comments don't break tables in two parts
3672 * added a "remove bookmark" link to RecentChanges
3673 * fixed action=titleindex (added \n after each entry)
3676 * non-ASCII characters should work now
3677 * RSS feed (Recentchanges?action=rss_rc) gives UTC timestamps now
3678 * removed attribute breaking RSS feed on RecentChanges
3680 * better email generation:
3681 * if you use python >=2.2.2, we add a Message-ID header to emails
3682 * if you use python 2.2.1, there is no email.Header. Instead of crashing
3683 (like previous moin 1.2.x releases), we just use the subject "as is" in
3684 that case. If it is not ASCII, this is not standards compliant.
3685 * If you have >=2.2.2 it will use email.Header to make standards compliant
3687 * use config.mail_from as sender address when sending "lost my password"
3691 * fixed for standalone server
3692 * attachment URLs (when handled by moin) don't include server name
3693 * fixed some wrong &amp; in html src
3695 * better themeability:
3696 * some entries in dict "d" where only present in header theme calls, some
3697 only in footer theme calls. Now almost all is present in both calls.
3698 * added some missing "content" divs so sidebar themes look better
3700 * fixed some crashes producing backtraces:
3701 * no IOError when diffing against deleted page
3702 * no backtrace in xml footnote generation
3703 * no SystemInfo crash when no editlog exists in new wikis
3704 * xmlrpc.getRecentChanges fixed
3706 * MoinMoin.util.filesys.rename is now a wrapper around os.rename that
3707 fixes os.rename on broken win32 api semantics
3710 * saving traffic and load by improved robot meta tag generation:
3711 * "noindex,nofollow" on queries and POSTs
3712 * "index,follow" on FrontPage and TitleIndex (give robots a chance ;))
3713 * "index,nofollow" on all other pages (hopefully saving lots of senseless
3714 requests for page?action=...)
3715 * removed config.html_head_queries (was used for same stuff)
3716 * added russian i18n (utf-8)
3717 * misc. other translation updates / fixes
3718 * added rightsidebar theme
3719 * TitleIndex now folds case, so "APage" and "anotherPage" are both under
3721 * added macro/PageHits.py - it calculates the hits each page gets since
3722 beginning of logging
3725 * Full text and title search do now support multiple search terms -
3726 see HelpOnSearching for details
3728 * The Formatter interface was changed. Formatter and parser using
3729 the formatter interface have to be adjusted.
3731 Version 1.2.1 (2004-03-08, Revision 1.184)
3734 * minimum requirement to run moin 1.2/1.2.1 is python 2.2.2
3735 * not: 2.2(.0), as this does not have True/False
3736 * not: 2.2.1, as this does not have email.Header. You maybe can work
3738 * getting the python 2.2.x (x>=2) /usr/lib/python2.2/email directory
3739 * putting it into directory 'x' (whereever you like)
3740 * doing a sys.path[0:0] = ['x'] in moin.cgi [or other appropriate place]
3741 No guarantee, this is untested.
3742 * Twisted: the http headers missed the charset data, fixed
3743 * mod_python: fixes for mod_python 2.7
3744 * wiki/data/plugin/__init__.py added - fixes not working plugin modules
3745 * plugin processors work now, too
3746 * fixed displaying non-existent translations of SiteNavigation in footer
3747 * fixed zh-tw iso name (wrong zh_tw -> correct zh-tw)
3748 * fixed reversed diffs in RecentChanges RSS
3749 * fixed "last change" info in footer (wasn't updated)
3750 * fixed event.log missing pagename (and other) information
3751 * fixed horizontal line thickness >1
3752 * fixed setup.py running from CVS workdir
3753 * fixed crash when doing action=info on first revision of a page
3754 * fixed hostname truncation in footer
3756 * fixed clear msg links (they missed quoting, leading to strange page
3757 names when you click on some of them)
3758 * fixed python colorizer processor
3759 * fixed quoting of stats cache filenames
3760 * catched "bad marshal data" error when switching python versions
3763 * updated danish (da) i18n
3764 * updated japanese (ja) i18n
3765 * added serbian (sr) i18n
3766 * added chinese (zh) i18n
3767 * added a simple "viewonly" theme based on classic theme - you can use
3768 this as default theme, so anonymous users won't get the usual wiki stuff,
3769 but a far simpler (and less powerful) user interface.
3770 It also displays the navibar at the left side.
3771 * added moin.spec for building RPMs
3772 * included MoinMoin/i18n/* into distribution archive (nice for translators)
3773 * included some stuff under MoinMoin/scripts - xmlrpc-tools and account
3774 checking stuff. removed some version control clutter from the dist
3777 * code colorization was refactored and some new languages (Java, C++,
3778 Pascal) where added.
3779 * inline: display of attachments was extended. A Parser now knows which
3780 extensions it can handle.
3782 Version 1.2 (2004-02-20, Revision 1.183)
3785 * MoinMoin now requires Python >=2.2.2., we recommend to use Python >=2.3.2
3786 (with 2.3.x, MoinMoin runs about 20-30% faster).
3787 * by refactoring request processing, we made it possible to run moin under
3788 persistent environments:
3789 * twisted-web (http://twistedmatrix.com)
3790 * httpdmain.py (use moin.py for starting this mini server)
3793 Of course, CGI is still possible.
3794 * wiki pages will be compiled to bytecode now (by default), so no need for
3795 slow parsing/formatting on every view ("WASP", see caching_formats)
3796 * when using a persistent environment (like twisted) and WASP, you get up
3797 to 20x speed - compared to CGI and moin 1.1
3798 * added support for diffs between arbitrary revisions.
3799 * removed requirement of the external diff utility
3800 * config.auth_http_enabled (defaults to 0) - use this to enable moin
3801 getting your authenticated user name from apache (http basic auth,
3802 htpasswd) - if you enable this, your basic auth username has to be the
3803 same as your wiki username.
3804 Should work with CGI, FCGI and maybe even with mod_python.
3805 Does not change behaviour of moin under twisted or standalone server.
3806 * config.tz_offset = 0.0 sets a default timezone offset (in hours
3808 * config.cookie_lifetime (int, in hours, default 12) sets the lifetime of
3810 == 0 --> cookie will live forever (no matter what user has configured!)
3811 > 0 --> cookie will live for n hours (or forever when "remember_me")
3812 < 0 --> cookie will live for -n hours (forced, ignore "remember_me"!)
3813 * added themeing and some themes (if you improve the existing themes or
3814 make nice new ones, please contribute your stuff!). The default theme is
3815 set by config.theme_default (and defaults to 'classic').
3816 * now supporting plugin directory for parsers, processors, themes, xmlrpc.
3817 * action=info now defaults to showing page revision history again
3818 * all actions accessing the logfile (as RecentChanges or history) are now
3820 * #refresh processing instruction, config.refresh
3821 * config.refresh = (minimum_delay, target_allowed)
3822 * minimum delay is the minimum waiting time (in seconds) allowed
3823 * target_allowed is either 'internal' or 'external', depending on
3824 whether you want to allow only internal redirects or also
3825 external ones. For internal redirects, just use the Wiki pagename,
3826 for external, use http://... url.
3827 * #refresh 3 == refresh this page every 3 seconds
3828 * #refresh 5 FrontPage == internal redirect to FrontPage in 5s
3829 * #refresh 5 http://google.com/ == redirect to google in 5s
3830 Use very carefully! Allowing a low minimum_delay and putting a #refresh
3831 on RecentChanges might slow down your wiki significantly, when some
3832 people just let their browser refresh and refresh again. Also, it does
3833 cause quite some traffic long-term. So better do not use this without
3834 good reason! Default is None (switched off).
3835 * hide most UserPreferences options before user has logged in, less
3836 confusing for new users
3837 * "config.page_dict_regex" defines what pages are dictionary definitions
3838 Currently dictionaries are used for UserHomePage/MyDict where you can
3839 define key:: value pairs that get processed like @DATE@ expansion when
3840 saving a page. The 2 "@" will be added to your keys automatically.
3841 Please do not use @xxx@ strings on the right side (value), results may
3843 You can also access wiki dictionaries by using the internal macro
3844 [[GetVal(page,key)]]" - that will go to page "page" and return the
3845 value (right side) corresponding to "key".
3846 Implementation note: groups are a subset of the dictionary functionality.
3847 * standalone server should work now (see server/moin.py), so you don't
3848 need to setup apache or twisted for a local personal wiki, you only need
3849 python and moin for that now, no additional stuff any more!
3850 * if you run your wiki with charset = "utf-8" (the default is still
3851 iso8859-1), you might want to have a look at contributions/utf8-pages/
3852 to see if there are already translated system pages for your language.
3855 * new importPlugin routine (the old one didn't work correctly)
3856 * removed 0xA0 characters breaking utf-8
3857 * system page recognition now uses wiki groups (see AllSystemPagesGroup),
3858 fixing the long-time broken system page exclusion on TitleIndex.
3859 * mostly HTML 4.01 Strict compliant HTML
3860 * design is done by CSS now, HTML is semantic markup only
3861 * removed target attribute from links, also [^NewWindow] markup - this
3862 is a HTML 3.2 feature and not valid in HTML 4.01
3863 * updated TWikiDrawPlugin to 20021003 version, with further modifications
3864 including source. It can draw imagemaps now and saves PNG. On display a
3865 GIF will be searched if no PNG is found. We recommend changing all GIFs
3866 to indexed PNGs cause this fallback might disappear in later versions.
3868 Sample code using bash and ImageMagick (be sure you know what you do):
3869 for draw in `find /path/to/wiki/data -name \*.draw`; do
3870 file=`dirname $draw`/`basename $draw .draw`
3871 if [ -e "${file}.gif" ]; then
3872 echo "Converting ${file}.gif to ${file}.png"
3873 convert "${file}.gif" "${file}.png"
3877 * fixed email headers and encoding
3878 * Changed moin-usercheck to adhere to scripting standards; no
3879 proprietary config changes needed any more (added --config);
3880 --wikinames is now part of the usage message.
3881 * config.umask now defaults to 0770 - if you give world r/w access, ACLs
3882 could be rather pointless...
3884 Removed config variables:
3885 * external_diff (not needed any more, we have internal diff now)
3886 * shared_metadb (wasn't implemented for long - we will re-add it, when it is)
3887 * title1/2 (please use page_header1/2)
3890 Changed config variables:
3891 * changed_time_fmt (removed some html and brackets around time from default)
3892 * html_head (default is empty string now)
3893 * page_footer1/2 (default is empty string now)
3894 * page_icons (is now a list of icon names, not html any more)
3895 * umask (default is 0770 now, not world r/w any more == more secure)
3897 New config variables (see MoinMaster:HelpOnConfiguration):
3906 * page_license_enabled
3913 * lots of internal code refactoring and optimization
3914 * began moving src code documentation to epydoc, see "make epydoc"
3915 * the URL for the RecentChanges RSS feed changed. It now only works with
3919 * theme support is neither complete (although covering most important
3920 stuff) nor perfect - work on that will continue...
3921 * we removed some html from system messages (the boxes at top of page you
3922 get after some actions), so it currently looks less nice than before.
3923 * html is not completely validating and it is not xhtml - this will be
3924 fixed as soon as we have the infrastructure for that (other parser, DOM)
3925 * problems with rtl (right-to-left) languages, will be fixed in 1.3
3926 * if you change moin_config or switch themes, moin will still use already
3927 cached page content. For the config this can be fixed by touching
3928 MoinMoin/version.py (or simply deleting everything in
3929 data/cache/Page.py). If you get more annoyed by this than pleased by
3930 caching speedup, you can also switch off caching (see docs on
3933 Themeing and HTML/CSS cleanup:
3934 * Browsers with completely broken CSS support (like e.g. Netscape 4.x) are
3935 no longer supported. If you still need to support them, do not upgrade to
3936 moin 1.2. If you still use these browsers, we recommend that you upgrade
3937 your browser first (Mozilla 1.5 has nice and standards compliant HTML and
3938 CSS support and is available as Free Software for Windows, Linux and Mac).
3939 * If you changed any html in code or by config you will have to check if it
3940 still works. For the usual stuff, look into `MoinMoin/theme/classic.py`
3941 and `classic/css/screen.css`. For config defaults of the html fragments,
3942 read `MoinMoin/config.py`. If you want to modify a theme, don't simply
3943 change classic, but copy or subclass it under a new theme name.
3944 * because of the new theme support the layout of the `htdocs` directory
3946 * Instead of using icons under `img/` and css under `css/`, there will
3947 be an additional `themename/` directory in between, e.g. `classic/img/`
3948 and `classic/css/`. If you added own icons, you may have to copy them
3949 to the themes directory.
3950 * The filename of the CSS file has changed to the media type, so the
3951 normal one used for screen output has changed name from `moinmoin.css`
3952 to `screen.css`. There also were quite some changes and enhancements to
3953 the CSS files, so better use the new ones.
3954 * config.css_url was removed
3957 * we use a new plugin loader that requires a correct `__init__.py` file in
3958 the plugin directories. See the directory `wiki/data/plugin/` in the
3959 distribution archive and just copy it over to your wiki's plugin directory.
3962 Version 1.1 (2003-11-29, Revision 1.178)
3964 Version 1.1 requires Python 2.0 or higher, we recommend to use Python 2.2
3965 (version 2.2.2 if that is available on your host) or even better >= 2.3.2
3966 (with 2.3.x, MoinMoin runs about 20-30% faster).
3970 * config.default_lang lets you set a default language for users not
3971 having specified language in their browser or UserPreferences
3972 * "config.page_category_regex" defines what pages are categories
3973 * replaced `config.page_template_ending` by a more flexible setting
3974 named `config.page_template_regex`
3975 * the same with config.page_form_regex (was: page_form_ending)
3976 * "config.page_group_regex" defines what pages are group definitions
3977 Currently groups are used for "user groups" (see ACLs) and "page
3978 groups" (see AllSystemPagesGroup).
3979 * robot exclusion from all pages except the standard view action,
3980 via the config.ua_spiders regex (reduces server load)
3981 * "maxdepth" argument for the TableOfContents macro
3982 * config.title1, config.title2, config.page_footer1,
3983 config.page_footer2 can now be callables and will be called with
3984 the "request" object as a single argument (note that you should
3985 accept any keyword arguments in order to be compatible to future
3987 * "config.html_pagetitle" allows you to set a specific HTML page
3988 title (if not set, it defaults to "config.sitename")
3989 * navi_bar / quicklinks can now contain free-form links, i.e.
3990 entries of the form "[url linktext]" just like in wiki pages
3991 * if a quick link starts with '^', it opens in a new window; help
3992 now opens in a new window also
3993 * `config.smileys` for user-defined smileys (default: `{}`) - a dict
3994 with the markup as the key and a tuple of width, height, border, image
3996 * `config.hosts_deny` to forbid access based on IP address
3997 * `config.mail_login` can be set to username and password separated by
3998 a space, e.g. "username userpass", if you need to use SMTP AUTH
3999 * `config.edit_locking` can be set to None (old behaviour, no
4000 locking), 'warn <timeout mins>' (warn about concurrent edits, but
4001 do not enforce anything), or 'lock <timeout mins>' (strict locking)
4002 * optionally showing a license text on editor page, use:
4003 config.page_license_enabled = 1
4004 Optionally use these to customize what is shown there:
4005 config.page_license_text = "... your text ..."
4006 config.page_license_page = "MyLicensePage"
4007 See the default values in MoinMoin/config.py for details and
4008 override them in moin_config.py, if needed.
4009 * `config.shared_intermap` can be a list of filenames (instead of a
4011 * If you have added your own `SecurityPolicy`, the class interface for
4012 that has changed (see `security.py`).
4014 Authenticaton / Authorization:
4015 * added ACL support, written by Gustavo Niemeyer of Conectiva and
4016 Thomas Waldmann. See HelpOnAccessControlLists for more infos.
4017 You should use MoinMoin/scripts/moin_usercheck.py before activating
4018 ACLs or some users with bad or duplicate accounts might get into
4020 * A user account can be disabled using moin_usercheck.py or
4021 UserPreferences page. Disabling, but keeping it is good for edit
4023 * changed security default: deletion only available to known users
4024 * support for Basic authentication (Apache style: AUTH_TYPE="Basic",
4025 REMOTE_USER="WikiUserName"). If authentication is there, user
4026 will be in ACL class "Trusted".
4027 * support for username / password login
4028 The username / password login will ONLY work, if you define a
4029 password. With an empty password, username / password login is not
4030 allowed due to security reasons. Passwords are stored encrypted
4031 (format similar to Apache SHA) and can also be entered in the
4032 UserPreferences form in this format. When requesting login
4033 information by email, the password is also sent in this encrypted
4034 format (use copy&paste to fill it in the form).
4035 ...?action=userform?uid=<userid> is still possible, so if you have
4036 bookmarks, they will still work). The input field for the ID was
4038 NOTE: using the userid for login purposes is DEPRECATED and might
4039 be removed for better security soon.
4040 * after logging in, you will get a cookie valid until midnight.
4041 The next day, the cookie will expire and you will have to login
4042 again. If you don't want this, you can check the "remember me
4043 forever" option in UserPreferences.
4044 * if the page file is read-only, you get a message (i.e. you can now
4045 protect pages against changes if you're the wiki admin).
4046 Note: you can do that easier using ACLs.
4048 Markup / Macros / Actions:
4049 * RandomQuote macro (and even parses Wiki markup now)
4050 * `[[Navigation]]` macro for slides and subpage navigation
4051 * [[ShowSmileys]] displays ALL smileys, including user-defined ones
4052 * the Include macro has new parameters (from, to, sort, items) and
4053 is able to include more than one page (via a regex pattern)
4054 * `MailTo` macro for adding spam-safe email links to a page
4055 * if a fancy link starts with '^' (i.e. if it has the form
4056 "[^http:... ...]"), it's opened in a new window
4057 * because of that, the NewWindow macro was removed from contrib
4058 * "#pragma section-numbers 2" only displays section numbers for
4059 headings of level 2 and up (similarly for 3 to 6)
4060 * ../SubPageOfParent links
4064 * Page creation shows LikePages that already exist
4065 * editor shows the current size of the page
4066 * editor returns to including page when editing an included page
4067 * Visual indication we're on the editor page (new CSS style)
4068 * selection to add categories to a page in the editor (use preview
4069 button to add more than one category)
4070 * if user has a homepage, a backup of save/preview text is saved as
4071 a subpage UsersHomePage/MoinEditorBackup
4072 * added "revert" link to PageInfo view (which makes DeletePage more
4073 safe in public wikis, since you can easily revive deleted pages
4075 * Selection for logged in users (i.e. no bots) to extend the listing
4076 of recent changes beyond the default limits
4077 * Activated display of context for backlinks search
4078 * Subscriber list shown on page info
4079 * LikePages shows similar pages (using difflib.get_close_matches)
4080 * last edit action is stored into "last-edited" file, and
4081 displayed in the page footer
4082 * reciprocal footnote linking (definition refers back to reference)
4083 * "Ex-/Include system pages" link for title index
4084 Note: system/help pages algorithm is still mostly broken.
4085 * list items set apart by empty lines are now also set apart
4086 visually (by adding the CSS class "gap" to <li>)
4087 * "save" check for security.Permissions
4088 * Added Spanish, Croatian and Danish system texts
4089 * Added flag icons for the languages supported in "i18n"
4090 * updated help and system pages, more translations, see also
4092 * there was quite some work done on wiki xmlrpc v1 and v2 - it
4093 basically works now.
4095 Tools and other changes:
4096 * moin-dump: New option "--page"
4097 * there are some scripts MoinMoin/scripts/* using wiki xmlrpc for
4098 backup and wiki page copying applications
4099 * Updated the XSLT parser to work with 4Suite 1.0a1
4100 * more infos in cgi tracebacks
4101 * UPDATE.html is a HTML version of MoinMaster:HelpOnUpdating
4103 Unfinished or experimental features:
4104 * user defined forms
4105 * XML export of all data in the wiki
4106 * RST parser (you need to install docutils to use this)
4110 * do not use / display user's email address in public places
4113 * Removed two cross-site scripting vulnerabilities reported by "office"
4116 * Bugfix for PageList when no arguments are given
4117 * Disallow full-text searches with too short search terms
4118 * [ 566094 ] TitleIndex now supports grouping by Hangul Syllables
4119 * fix for multibyte first char in TitleIndex
4120 * Footnotes were not HTML escaped
4121 * Numbered code displays are now in a table so that you can cut the
4122 code w/o the numbers
4123 * Bugfix for wrong mail notifications
4124 * Create unique anchors for repeated titles
4125 * [ 522246 ] Transparently recode localized messages
4126 * [ 685003 ] Using "preview" button when editing can lose data
4127 * use gmtime() for time handling
4128 * fixed negative gmtime() arguments
4129 * [[Include]] accepts relative page names
4130 * fixed ||NotInterWiki:||...||
4132 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4133 Version 1.0 (2002-05-10, Revision 1.159)
4135 THIS IS THE LAST RELEASE WITH PYTHON 1.5.2 SUPPORT! If severe bugs
4136 should occur, a maintenance release will fix them.
4138 Some optional features (like statistics) already require Python 2.0.
4141 * security fix: "allow_xslt" has to be set to 1 in order to enable
4142 XSLT processing; note that this defaults to 0 because XSLT is able
4143 to insert arbitrary HTML into a wiki
4144 * "action=content" for transclusion into static web pages; emits the
4145 pure page content, without any <html>, <head>, or <body> tags
4146 * "?action=links&mimetype=text/plain" works like MeatBall:LinkDatabase
4147 * "Preferred language" and "Quick links" user settings
4148 * Added "processor" concept, processors work on the data in "code
4149 displays" and are called by a bangpath in the first line of data
4150 * Processors: Colorize, CSV (see HelpOnProcessors)
4151 * New icons: "{OK}", "(./)", "{X}", "{i}", "{1}", "{2}" and "{}"
4153 * FullSearch now displays context information for search hits
4154 * DeletePage offers a textentry field for an optional comment
4155 * Email notifications are sent in the user's language, if known from
4157 * @PAGE@ is substituted by the name of the current page (useful
4160 Unfinished features:
4161 * user defined forms
4162 * XML export of all data in the wiki
4163 * RST parser (you need to install docutils to use this)
4167 * Syntax warning with Python 2.2 fixed
4168 * Macro-generated pagelinks are no longer added to the list of links
4169 * error codes returned by "diff" are reported
4170 * fix for attachments on pages with non-USASCII names
4171 * correct handling of spaces in attachment filenames and URLs
4173 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4174 Version 0.11 (2002-03-11, Revision 1.151)
4176 Most important new features: file attachments, definition list markup
4177 (glossaries), change notification via email, variable substitution when
4178 saving pages, edit preview, and improved documentation.
4180 Note that the RSS features require a recent PyXML (CVS or 0.7) due to
4181 bugs in the namespace handling of xml.sax.saxutils in earlier versions.
4182 This is (hopefully) automatically detected on every installation.
4184 Statistical features are NOT designed to work with Python 1.5.2 and
4185 require Python 2.0 or higher. Overall, MoinMoin 0.11 is not explicitely
4186 tested for 1.5.2 compatibility.
4189 * XML formatting now (most often) produces well-formed, and, depending
4190 on proper layout of the wiki page, valid StyleBook XML
4191 * Headers are now automatically numbered, unless you set the config
4192 item 'show_section_numbers' to 0
4193 * "#pragma section-numbers off" (or "0") switches that off explicitely,
4194 and "on" or "1" enables numbering
4195 * Added a "contributions" directory for 3rd party extensions
4196 * AttachFile action, contributed by Ken Sugino; note that you have
4197 to enable this action because of the possibility of DoS attacks
4198 (malicious uploads), by adding this to your moin_config:
4199 allowed_actions = ['AttachFile']
4200 * "attachment:" URL scheme allows access to attachments, to get files
4201 from other pages use "attachment:WikiName/filename.ext".
4202 * New macros: Date(unixtimestamp) and DateTime(unixtimestamp) to
4203 display a timestamp according to system/user settings
4204 * Variable substitution when a page is saved, note that saving
4205 template pages does NOT expand variables. Supported are:
4206 @DATE@ Current date in the system's format
4207 @TIME@ Current date and time in the user's format
4208 @USERNAME@ Just the user's name (or his domain/IP)
4209 @USER@ Signature "-- loginname"
4210 @SIG@ Dated Signature "-- loginname date time"
4211 @MAILTO@ A fancy mailto: link with the user's data
4212 * Copied some new emoticons from PikiePikie
4213 || {{{ :-? }}} || :-? || tongue.gif ||
4214 || {{{ :\ }}} || :\ || ohwell.gif ||
4215 || {{{ >:> }}} || >:> || devil.gif ||
4216 || {{{ %) }}} || %) || eyes.gif ||
4217 || {{{ @) }}} || @) || eek.gif ||
4218 || {{{ |) }}} || |) || tired.gif ||
4219 || {{{ ;)) }}} || ;)) || lol.gif ||
4220 * AbandonedPages macro
4221 * Added definition list markup: {{{<whitespace>term:: definition}}}
4222 * Added email notification features contributed by Daniel Sa� * SystemInfo: show "Entries in edit log"
4223 * Added "RSS" icon to RecentChanges macro and code to generate a
4224 RecentChanges RSS channel, see
4225 http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?UnifiedRecentChanges
4227 * Added config.sitename and config.interwikiname parameter
4228 * Better WikiFarm support:
4229 * <datadir>/plugin/macro and <datadir>/plugin/action can be used
4230 to store macros and actions local to a specific wiki instance
4231 * config.shared_intermap can contain a pathname to a shared
4232 "intermap.txt" file (i.e. one stored outside the datadir)
4233 * added `backtick` shortcut for {{{inline literal}}} (has to be
4234 enabled by "backtick_meta=1" in the config file); note that ``
4235 is then a shorter replacement for '''''' escaping
4236 * added inline search fields (at the bottom of each page)
4237 * Added preview to the editor, including spell checking
4238 * New languages: Chinese (Changzhe Han) and Portuguese (Jorge
4239 Godoy), updated French (Lucas Bruand), added Korean (Hye-Shik
4240 Chang) and Italian (Lele Gaifax)
4241 * New SystemAdmin macro
4242 * `[[Anchor(anchorname)]]` macro to insert anchors into a page,
4243 and [#anchorname Anchor Links].
4244 * User option to open editor view via a double-click
4245 * Added commentary field to editor, recent changes and page info
4246 * Page trails (user option)
4247 * UserPreferences: checkboxes for double-click edit, page trail,
4248 fancy links, emoticons, jump to last page visited, and some
4249 other yes/no options
4250 * "config.nonexist_qm" is now the default for a user setting
4251 * `[[GetText(text)]]` macro loads I18N texts (mainly intended
4252 for use on Help pages)
4253 * table attributes via "||<attrlist> ... ||", more details on
4254 http://purl.net/wiki/moin/HelpOnTables
4255 * PythonFaq interwiki tag and support for $PAGE placeholder
4256 * event logging, as the basis for future statistics
4257 * "moin-dump" command line tool to create a static copy of
4259 * "config.external_diff" allows to set an exact path to the
4260 command, or change the name to for example "gdiff" if GNU
4261 diff is not a native command in your UNIX flavour
4262 * `[[PageSize]]` macro
4263 * the interwiki name "Self" now always points to the own wiki
4264 * config.title1 and config.title2 are inserted into the output
4265 right before and after the system title html code (title1
4266 is right after the <body> tag and normally undefined, title2
4267 defaults to the "<hr>" above the page contents)
4268 * Additional link on diff pages to ignore whitespace changes
4269 * Subpages (config.allow_subpages, config.page_icons_up)
4270 * super^script^, sub,,script,, and __underline__ markup
4271 * `[[FootNote]]` macro
4272 * many other new config options, see HelpOnConfiguration for
4274 * [[StatsChart(type)]] shows statistical charts (currently
4275 defined types: hitcounts, pagesize, useragents)
4276 * 'inline:' scheme works like 'attachment:', but tries to
4277 inline the content of the attachment into the page;
4278 currently knows about "*.py" sources and colorizes them
4279 * support for Java applet "TWikiDrawPlugin" via
4280 drawing:<drawingname> URL scheme (you need to activate
4281 the AttachFile action if you want drawings)
4282 * numeric entities (&#nnnnn;) are now optionally NOT escaped,
4283 which allows you to insert more characters into a Latin-1
4284 page, especially the Euro symbol
4285 * navi_bar is now a list of page names which should be linked
4287 * test.cgi is now rolled into moin.cgi, and can be called
4288 by adding "?test" to the wiki base URL. Also, as a security
4289 feature, the server's environment is only shown for requests
4290 local to the web server.
4292 Unfinished features:
4293 * user defined forms
4294 * XML export of all data in the wiki
4297 * extended the online help ("Help*" pages)
4298 * German help pages (thanks to Thomas Waldmann)
4301 * #425857: python Parser bug on the second call
4302 * #424917: Caching control
4303 * #465499: Two HTTPS problems
4304 * #491155: FrontPage hardcoded
4305 * Handling of inbound UTF-8 encoded URIs (only with Python >= 2.0)
4306 * Fix for subtle changes in "re" of Python 2.2
4307 * User-provided URLs are now never URL-escaped, which allows appending
4308 #anchors and using %20 for spaces in InterWiki links
4310 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4311 Version 0.10 (2001-10-28, Revision 1.134)
4313 This version is still Python 1.5.2 compatible, but it's not extensively
4314 tested for that version and some parts of the system might not work
4315 there, especially seldom used macros and actions. Bug reports welcome!
4318 * "#deprecated" processing instruction
4319 * config entry "SecurityPolicy" to allow for customized permissions
4320 (see "security.py" for more)
4321 * added distutils support
4322 * though not extensively tested, the standalone server now does POST
4323 requests, i.e. you can save pages; there are still problems with
4324 persistent global variables! It only works for Python >= 2.0.
4325 * "bang_meta" config variable and "!NotWikiWord" markup
4326 * "url_mappings" config variable to dynamically change URL prefixes
4327 (especially useful in intranets, when whole trees of externally
4328 hosted documents move around)
4329 * setting "mail_smarthost" and "mail_from" activates mailing
4330 features (sending login data on the UserPreferences page)
4331 * very useful for intranet developer wikis, a means to view pydoc
4332 documentation, formatted via a XSLT stylesheet, for details see
4333 http://purl.net/wiki/python/TeudViewer?module=MoinMoin.macro.TeudView
4334 or MoinMoin/macro/TeudView.py
4335 * "LocalSiteMap" action by Steve Howell <showell@zipcon.com>
4336 * Added FOLDOC to intermap.txt
4339 * Full config defaults, import MoinMoin now works w/o moin_config.py
4340 * Better control over permissions with config.umask
4341 * Bugfix for a UNIX time billenium bug (affecting RecentChanges
4342 sorting and page diffs)
4343 * data paths with directory names containing dots caused problems
4345 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4346 Version 0.9 (2001-05-07)
4349 * XML page input (pages that start with "<?xml") and XSLT formatting
4350 * Page caching, for now limited to XSLT processing (where it's
4351 absolutely needed); new code & API to add the "RefreshCache" link
4352 * Selection of common date/time formats in UserPreferences
4353 * New action "titleindex" to support wiki introspection (MetaWiki);
4354 see the new links below the index bar in "TitleIndex"
4355 * UserPreferences: editable CSS URL for personal styles
4356 * PageInfo: the editor's name or IP is shown for each change
4357 * WantedPages: a new macro that lists links to non-existent pages
4358 * OrphanedPages: a new macro that lists pages no other page links to
4359 * Extensions to the FullSearch macro (see HelpOnMacros)
4360 * Python syntax highlighting
4361 * "DeletePage" action (has to be activated, see MoinMoinFaq)
4362 * "Remove trailing whitespace from each line" option in the editor
4363 * I18N (currently German and Swedish)
4364 * Config option "url_schemas" to extend the supported URL types
4365 * Improved tracebacks by using Ka-Ping's "cgitb"
4368 * The editor now sends a "no-cache" HTTP header
4369 * "PageList" results are now sorted
4370 * New config parameter "html_head_queries": send additional header
4371 for all pages EXCEPT the "normal" view; main usage is to have
4372 only the normal pages indexed by a spider, not the edit, print,
4373 etc. views (which cause multiple hits on the same information)
4374 * Store the modification time of the page file in the editlog, not
4375 the current time when the log entry is created
4377 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4378 Version 0.8 (2001-01-23)
4381 * Page templates (create a new page using a template page, by Richard)
4382 * Pluggable actions (by Richard)
4383 * Added "diff since bookmark"
4384 * Only "normal" URLs (outside of brackets) are converted to inline images
4385 * Show number of backups in SystemInfo macro
4386 * Show info on installed extension macros and actions
4387 * New macro: [[BR]] for line breaks
4388 * New action "LikePages" (again, Richard)
4389 * Highlighting of search results, and of bad words when spellchecking
4390 * Support for "file:" URLS
4391 * "SpellCheck" action (Richard, me, and Christian)
4392 * [[Include]] macro (you guessed it, Richard)
4395 * Update bookmark with load time, not click time
4396 * Changed CSS styles to better suit Netscape's broken handling of CSS
4398 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4399 Version 0.7 (2000-12-06)
4402 * RecentChanges bookmarking
4406 * Non-greedy extended WikiNames
4408 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4409 Version 0.6 (2000-12-04)
4412 * [[UserPreferences]] macro and associated functions
4413 * [[TableOfContents]] macro
4414 * Mechanism for external macros (user extensions)
4415 * Numbered list types and start offsets
4418 * Search dialogs did not work on the FrontPage
4419 * Add newline to text if last line has none (better diffs)
4421 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4422 Version 0.5 (2000-11-17)
4425 * Major refactoring: code is now broken up into modules within the
4427 * Diagnosis of installation via a "test.cgi" script
4429 * "#format" processing instruction
4431 * [[RandomPage]] and [[RandomPage(number)]] macro
4432 * configurable footer ("page_footer1" and "page_footer2")
4433 * "#redirect" processing instruction
4436 * Bugfix for broken CGI environment of IIS/4.0
4437 * URLs and InterWiki links are now less greedy (punctuation at the end
4438 is excluded, and "<" ends them, too)
4440 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4441 Version 0.4 (2000-11-01)
4444 * Table markup "||a||b||c||"
4445 * Headlines "= H1 =", "== H2 ==", and so on up to H5
4446 * [[PageCount]] macro
4447 * Added [[Icon(image)]] macro and macro arguments
4448 * [[PageList(title-regex)]] macro
4449 * New help system (set of help pages describing all features)
4452 * Create complete URL for "Clear message" link
4453 * Inline code spans needed cgi.escape
4454 * Better fix for Python 1.6 "re" problems
4455 * Fix for uppercase extensions in inline images ("foo.JPG")
4456 * Fixed colspan in RecentChanges
4457 * HR size is now limited to 8
4458 * "}" ends an URL pattern (fixes URLs right at the end of code displays)
4460 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4461 Version 0.3 (2000-10-25)
4464 * Check for inline images with InterWiki links (Spam:eggs.gif)
4465 * New config variable "allow_extended_names", which enables markup for
4466 wiki names containing ANY character like this: ["any chars"]
4467 * New config variable "html_head"
4468 * New macro [[SystemInfo]]
4469 * Added inline code ("{{{" and "}}}" on the same line)
4470 * Support for new config variable "max_macro_size"
4473 * Don't treat sequences with a double colon (CPP::Namespace) as an
4475 * The local part of InterWiki links is now correctly URL-escaped
4476 * Quickfix for a bug in 1.6's regular expressions
4477 * Fixed "SpamSpamSpam" bug (multiple entries in word list)
4478 * Anchor names get quoted in WordIndex and TitleIndex
4479 * Filtering of filenames in page_list() corrected
4480 * Escape &, <, > when sending the editor
4481 * Final(?) fix for japanese wiki names
4483 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4484 Version 0.2 (2000-08-26)
4487 * When saving, a datestamp saved in the form and that of the file are
4488 compared now; so, accidently saving over changes of other people is
4489 not possible anymore (saving still needs file locking though, for
4491 * if the directory "backup" exists in the data dir, pages are saved
4492 there before a new version is written to disk
4493 * Removed the "Reset" button from EditPage
4494 * Added "Reduce editor size" link
4495 * Added Latin-1 WikiNames (JürgenHermann ;)
4496 * Speeded up RecentChanges by looking up hostnames ONCE while saving
4497 * Show at most 14 (distinct) days in RecentChanges
4498 * Added icons for common functions, at the top of the page
4499 * Added a printing preview (no icons, etc.)
4500 * Added bracketed (external) URLs
4501 * Added support for quoted URLs ("http://...")
4502 * Added styles for :visited links to CSS
4503 * Embed image if an URL ends in .gif/.jpg/.png
4504 * No markup detection in code sections
4505 * Grey background for code sections
4506 * Added handling for numbered lists
4507 * the edit textarea now grows in width with the browser window
4508 (thanks to Sebastian Dau�for that idea)
4509 * Added page info (revision history) and viewing of old revisions
4510 * Added page diff, and diff links on page info
4511 * Added InterWiki support (use "wiki:WikiServer/theirlocalname"; the list
4512 of WikiServers is read from "data/intermap.txt")
4513 * Added "normal" InterWiki links
4514 * Added "action=raw" to send the raw wiki markup as text/plain (e.g. for
4515 backup purposes via wget)
4518 * Removed an exception when saving empty pages
4519 * Fixed bold nested into emphasis ('''''Bold''' Italic'')
4521 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4522 Version 0.1 (2000-07-29)
4524 Improvements over PikiPiki 1.62:
4525 * Moved configuration to "moin_config.py"
4526 * Added "edit_rows" setting
4527 * Added navigation bar
4528 * Improved HTML formatting
4529 * Added timing comment (page created in xx secs)
4530 * ISO date and time formats by default
4531 * Formatted RecentChanges with HTML tables
4532 * Uppercase letters for the index pages
4533 * Added PythonPowered logo
4536 * Javadoc comments now get formatted properly in {{{ }}} sections
4537 * Remove \r from submitted pages (so we get PORTABLE wiki files)
4538 * chmod(0666) eases manual changes to the data dir
4540 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------