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
21 Note: This is a reduced CHANGES, ommitting details from rc/beta test and
22 also less interesting minor changes and fixes. It shows changes
23 relative to 1.8.6 release.
24 If you want to see full detail, read it there:
25 http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/1.9/file/b290d938be63/docs/CHANGES
27 New features: ==============================================================
28 * HINT: MoinMoin requires Python 2.4 now. If you only have Python 2.3 and
29 you don't want to upgrade it, please use MoinMoin 1.8.x.
30 * HINT: MoinMoin is now a WSGI application.
31 Please read the new install docs about how to use it.
32 We are still working on the docs, please try to use them and report any
33 bugs you find: http://master19.moinmo.in/InstallDocs
34 You also have a local copy of that page as docs/INSTALL.html.
35 There is also some stuff in docs/INSTALL.wsgi.
36 * HINT: due to big changes in the request processing and the request
37 object (related to the WSGI refactoring), many 3rd party plugins might
38 need code updates to work with moin 1.9.
39 We are working on some docs about how to update them to work with 1.9.
40 * HINT: We now offer different sized sets of system/help pages and the default
41 underlay just contains a single page: LanguageSetup. You need to be
42 superuser, visit that page and then install the language packs you like
43 (minimum is the essential set for English).
44 * HINT: LanguageSetup is the default page_front_page, you need to change that
45 after installing language packs (see above).
47 * New modular group and dict data access, you can use group and dict
48 backend modules to access group and dict data stored anywhere you like.
49 Currently we provide these backends:
50 * WikiGroups and WikiDicts backends get data from wikipages. They work
51 similar to old wikidicts code (but with less caching issues :).
52 * ConfigGroups and ConfigDicts backends get data from a dictionary
53 defined in the wiki config.
54 * CompositeGroups and CompositeDicts compose several backends, so data
55 may be retrieved from several sources. For example, groups may be
56 defined in the wiki config and on wiki pages.
57 * Using cfg.groups and cfg.dicts, you can define the backend to use to
58 access group and dict information (default: WikiGroups / WikiDicts
60 See wiki/config/more_samples/ directory (groups_wikiconfig_snippet and
61 dicts_wikiconfig_snippet).
62 * See also the new HelpOnDictionaries and HelpOnGroups help pages.
64 * Improved Xapian indexing / search:
65 * Moin's Xapian based search code was refactored:
66 * It is now based on the xappy library (see MoinMoin.support.xappy).
67 * Minimum Xapian requirement is 1.0.6 now.
68 * Outdated and unmaintained xapwrap lib was removed.
69 * now regex search with Xapian enabled also is based on the xapian index
70 * safe 2-stage xapian index rebuilding:
71 moin index build --mode=buildnewindex # slow, concurrent
73 moin index build --mode=usenewindex # fast
75 * added wikiconfig snippet for xapian indexed search
77 * Improved drawing support:
79 * support code was refactored/moved to the twikidraw action.
80 * use drawing:example.tdraw to invoke it (drawing:example also still
81 works for backwards compatibility)
83 * java applet added, source code see contrib/
84 * support code for it is in anywikidraw action.
85 * use drawing:example.adraw to invoke it
86 * TWikiDraw drawings are now stored as a single attachment foo.tdraw.
87 We added a migration script that converts your existing drawings.
88 * AnyWikiDraw drawings are stored in a similar way as foo.adraw.
89 * cfg.extensions_mapping added for mapping of attachment file extensions
90 to actions (currently used for anywikidraw/twikidraw action)
92 * Themes / static files related:
93 * Added modernized_cms theme (hides most wiki widgets from modernized if the
94 user is not logged in).
95 * Static file serving built-in (moved wiki/htdocs to MoinMoin/web/static/htdocs).
96 MoinMoin.web.static has a static file serving wrapper that uses the files
97 from htdocs subdirectory by default (docs=True).
98 You can also give another path or switch off creation of that static wrapper.
99 See the docstring of the static package for details.
100 * Theme packages: do_copythemefile now copies theme files to
101 MoinMoin/web/static/htdocs.
103 * Syntax highlighting is based on the pygments library now, it does this for
104 LOTS of stuff (programming languages, config files, ...) - use it like this:
108 xxx is any of the markups pygments supports (see HelpOnParsers).
109 Note: we still have some (deprecated) small wrappers around pygments,
110 so the old syntax #!python/pascal/cplusplus/... still works.
112 * Authentication improvements:
113 * HTTP auth related (see also HelpOnAuthentication):
114 * HTTPAuthMoin: http basic auth done by moin
115 * HINT: auth.http.HTTPAuth is now auth.GivenAuth
116 This was badly named from the beginning as for most servers, it just
117 looked at REMOTE_USER environment variable and relied on the server
118 doing the authentication (could be http basic auth or any other auth).
119 * LDAP/AD auth: new name_callback param to create a custom wiki username (not
120 the ldap login username)
122 * Support for Simple Registration (SREG) extension.
123 Basic profile fields can be copied from OpenID provider when logging in.
124 * Support for Teams extension.
125 If your OpenID provider supports the Teams extension (i.e. Launchpad),
126 MoinMoin can be configured to generate XXX text missing!?
127 * Ability to accept logins from specific OpenID providers.
128 Login form changes based on configuration for better usability:
129 * 0 providers: normal text input box for OpenID URL
130 * 1 provider: hidden field, automatic form submission with JavaScript
131 * 2+ providers: select field, uses directed identity
133 * Sessions / cookies:
134 * cfg.cookie_lifetime is now a tuple (anon, loggedin), giving the lifetime
135 of the cookie in hours, accepting floats, for anon sessions and logged in
136 sessions. Default is (0, 12). 0 means not to use a session cookie (== not
137 to establish a session) and makes only sense for anon users.
138 * cfg.cookie_httponly is new and defaults to False. Please note that if you
139 set it to True, TWikiDraw and similar stuff won't be able to use the session
140 cookie. Thus, if your wiki page doesn't allow writing for everybody, saving
141 a drawing will fail, because there is no session (== no logged in user) for
142 the TWikiDraw applet's saving POSTs.
145 * WikiConfigHelp: added section keyword for selecting a subset of the
146 description, e.g. <<WikiConfigHelp(section="xapian")>>
147 * HighlighterList: show Pygments syntax highlighters (see HelpOnParsers)
150 * SlideShow action added (use modernized theme) XXX does it work ONLY for modernized?
151 * raw action mimetype support: ...?action=raw&mimetype=text/css
152 * PackagePages: create package file on-the-fly in memory and send it to the
153 client (do NOT create package.zip attachment)
155 * Improved logging / debugging / developer support:
156 * main exception handler: include request url in log output
157 * Environment variable MOIN_DEBUGGER=off/web/external (default is like "off")
158 * Handle wikiserverconfig(_local) in the same way as wikiconfig(_local)
160 * GUI editor: improved attachment dialog
162 * "moin ... account homepage" script to create user homepages.
165 Removed features: ==========================================================
166 * Removed cfg.traceback_* settings (use logging configuration)
167 * Removed old session code and settings:
168 * Removed cfg.session_handler and session_id_handler (use cfg.session_service)
169 * Removed cfg.anonymous_session_lifetime (use cfg.cookie_lifetime)
172 Bug fixes: =================================================================
174 * rely on xapian's locking (remove moin's additional and sometimes broken
175 locking, that blocked index-rebuilds or updates sometimes)
176 * removed indexer threading
177 * fixed (reimplemented) indexer queue
178 * less disruptive xapian index rebuild
179 * AdvancedSearch: example didn't work, fixed
181 * With the groups/dicts code rewrite, we fixed the caching problems that the
182 old code sometimes had.
185 * GetText2: fix for named placeholders
186 * SystemInfo macro: fix failure if xapian/xapian-bindings are not installed
187 * fixed URL args processing for macros: MonthCalendar, FullSearch, TeudView
190 * abort RenamePage if renaming of main page fails (do not try to rename
192 * SyncPages and LocalSiteMap action: fix NameError
193 * LocalSiteMap: added missing _()
194 * CopyPage, RenamePage, DeletePage: fixed getting subpages_checked param from url
195 * action.getHandler(): make it moin 1.8 compatible again
196 * login action: fix formatting of error messages
197 * AttachFile do=view: quote filename and pagename params for EmbedObject
199 * unsubscribe action: add msg types so icons get displayed
202 * avoid accidental triggering of ParserBase deprecation warning
205 * GUI editor: roundtripping works now for .pdf/doc/... attachment transclusion
208 * added remove_attachment() and FileRemovedEvent (mail and xapian
209 support, no jabber support yet)
210 * get the rename field content from qs args, too
211 * fix '304 not modified' response for do=get and do=box
212 * Drawings: fix KeyError for non-existing map file
214 * fix load_theme call for fallback theme loading
215 * fix makeForbidden403() calls - is makeForbidden(403, ...) now
216 * fix check_surge_protect() call
217 * sendmail: add more debug logging, check for empty recipients list
220 * fix wrong usage of parseQueryString result
221 * Bug with "language:en" was fixed for the Moin search. Now language:
222 behaves like described on HelpOnSearching.
225 refresh the session cookie now on each request.
227 * OpenID: request processing now works with new WSGI refactoring.
228 * OpenID: always return error messages with CancelLogin if OpenID process fails.
229 * Fixed moin server standalone --start.
230 * Fix ScriptContext URL default value
231 * run_server param name need to match Config attribute name 'debug'
232 * Only save session data if we also have a cookie establishing a session
233 * suid: simplify and fix, bigger selection box
235 * patch werkzeug 0.5.1 to catch OverFlowError and ValueError so it doesn't
236 crash when receiving invalid If-modified-since header from client.
239 Other changes: =============================================================
240 * 'modernized' theme:
241 * use it by default (1.8 used 'modern')
242 * move title_with_separators() from Modernized theme to ThemeBase
243 * add a span with "pagepath" class to title_with_separators
244 * add the sidebar() method from Mandarin and Gugiel themes to ThemeBase
245 * updated flup to 1.0.2+ ( http://hg.saddi.com/flup-server/rev/6ea1ffac1bcb )
246 * updated pygments to 1.1.1+ ( http://dev.pocoo.org/hg/pygments-main/rev/948f8885af16 )
247 * updated parsedatetime to 0.8.7
248 * increase surge protection limits for AttachFile to avoid trouble with image galleries
249 * HINT: simplify wikiserver configuration by using same names as werkzeug's
251 * Removed moin account check's --lastsaved option, it is default now
252 (checking last use with trail file did not work in 1.9 anyway).
253 * ImageLink page has been killed (ImageLink macro is gone since 1.6.1).
254 * Allowed disabling of timezone and language user prefs if they are
255 part of the user's login fields (i.e. OpenID SREG).
256 * Added option to disable local registration links and direct user
257 to registration page at an OpenID provider instead.
259 Developer notes: ===========================================================
260 * groups and dicts API changes:
261 * request.groups and request.dicts provide access to groups and dicts.
262 * MoinMoin.wikidicts is gone, please use MoinMoin.datastruct.
263 * LazyGroup and LazyGroupsBackend base classes for implementing backends
264 which potentially deal with huge amounts of data (like a LDAP directory).
265 Use MoinMoin/datastruct/backends/config_lazy_groups.py as a draft for
267 * See http://moinmo.in/Groups2009 for more details.
268 * i18n: new approach for defining sets of system/help pages (see i18n.strings).
269 CheckTranslation, page packager, wikiutil.isSystemPage() use those sets.
270 * killed deprecated macro.form attribute (didn't work as expected anyway due
271 to WSGI refactoring) - please use macro.request.{args,form,values}
276 * Xapian indexing / indexing filters:
277 * fix deadlocks with well- and misbehaving external filters
278 * work around indexing run crashing when encountering encoding problems
279 with non-ascii filenames
280 * OpenOffice/OpenDocument filters: catch UnicodeDecodeErrors (happens
281 with password protected files)
282 * i18n: check if languages is not initialized yet, don't crash
283 * http_redirect: use 301 redirect for some cases
284 * do not use httponly session cookies, makes trouble with twikidraw and ACLs
285 * GetText2 macro: fix for named placeholder
286 * Fix SHA -> SSHA password hash upgrade for old user profiles.
287 * abort RenamePage if renaming of main page fails (do not try to rename
291 * search: improve search result ordering
292 * SubscribeUser action: username regexes, support unsubscribing
293 * add MS Powerpoint indexing filter (needs catppt from catdoc package)
294 * migration scripts: make finding damaged edit-log entries easier
299 * Attachment links: fix processing of attributes (e.g. 'target', 'title')
300 * Upgrade FCKeditor from 2.6.4 to 2.6.4.1.
301 * PDF embedding: fix html, works better with PDF browser plugins now.
302 * Fix typo in rightsidebar CSS.
303 * Action revert: avoids reverting to a deleted current revision.
304 * Action diff: enable prev/next button only in the range of given revisions.
305 * Add a Auto-Submitted: auto-generated header to generated mails.
306 * Include comment in email notifies.
307 * mailimport: fix endless looping while trying to import a forwarded mail.
308 * fuid: keep same fake_mtime for intervals of max_staleness duration.
309 * Fixes a bug with empty list items in the GUI editor.
310 * Improve filesys.rename compatibility code (win32).
311 * Fix locking for CacheEntry.
312 * Xapian indexing: catch exception when a bad zip file is encountered.
313 * openidrp / botbouncer: fix param count for CancelLogin().
316 * Added CAS authentication.
317 * Added httponly cookie support and use it for session cookie.
320 * HTTP auth: added debug logging.
321 * Minor LDAP auth improvements.
322 * Data browser widget:
323 * Add (h)column<idx> css class to make it styleable.
324 * Include only necessary autofilter options.
325 * moin maint cleancache purges now drafts, too.
326 * Add gopher and apt protocols to url_schemas.
327 * Add .csv, .flv, .swf to MIMETYPES_MORE.
332 * ACL security: fix bug in hierarchical ACL processing, more restrictive
333 sub page ACLs did not work if the current user name did not give a match
334 within the sub page ACL (instead, the less restrictive parent page ACL
336 Non-hierarchical ACL processing (the default) is NOT affected.
337 * Creole parser: fix spaces in multiline elements.
338 * Use msie.css only for Internet Explorer older than version 8, fixes
339 e.g. the double rendering of link icons.
340 * http auth: do auth_type comparisons case-insensitively (spec-compliant)
343 * EmbedObject macro: changed default width value for PDF files to 100%
344 (use a recent Adobe Reader to make this work).
345 * CopyPage action: added a TextCha for it
348 * Creole parser: Add second license: BSD
353 * AttachFile XSS fixes: move escaping to error_msg / upload_form
354 * AttachFile move: add more escaping (maybe not XSS exploitable though)
355 * email attachments import with xapian indexing enabled: fix AttributeError
356 * fix wrong links in attachment notifications
357 * AttachFile do=view: quote filename and pagename params for EmbedObject
359 * AttachFile: fix exception when someone just clicks on upload, without
361 * ldap_login: use None as default value for ssl certs/keys (using '' for
362 the pathes lets it fail with Connect Error)
363 * release edit lock if someone saves an unchanged page
364 * fix sendmail.encodeAddress (do not [QP] encode blanks, do not un-
365 necessarily use [QP] encoding for pure ascii mail addresses)
366 * Fixed docs bug: see HINT about secrets configuration at version 1.8.0
367 (1.8.0 Other changes).
368 * backup action: add 'self' dummy argument for backup_exclude function
369 * login action: fix formatting of error messages
370 * unsubscribe action: add msg types so icons get displayed
371 * fix quoting for pagehits stats (info action) - was not working for pagenames with blanks
375 * added modernized_cms theme
376 * use url_prefix_fckeditor if you don't want to use the builtin FCKeditor
377 of moin, but a separate one at some specific url
378 * action.Load: added textcha feature
379 * add mumble protocol (nice and good quality F/OSS VOIP conference chat sw)
380 * ldap auth: new name_callback param to create a custom wiki username (not
381 the ldap login username).
384 * add compatibility code for set to xapwrap.index (fix py 2.6 warnings)
385 * wikiutil: MIMETYPES_MORE extended for .md5 as text/plain
390 * Fix AttachFile and antispam XSS issues.
391 * Modernized, modern and rightsidebar themes: make nonexistent or
392 badinterwiki links gray also when they are already visited.
393 * Fix anchor parsing for interwiki links and #redirect processing
395 * user.apply_recovery_token: key must be of type string (for Python 2.6).
397 * Fix autofilter javascript breakage caused by including a databrowser
399 * Use per-wiki i18n cache (fixes wrong links to other farm wikis).
400 * Made cfg.interwikiname and cfg.user_homewiki unicode objects (str only
401 worked for ascii names).
402 * Xapian search: fixed historysearch.
403 * Xapian search indexing:
404 * Fix index updating for trivial changes.
405 * With history search enabled and in update mode, do not try to re-index
406 old page revisions again.
407 * With history search enabled, index page attachments only once.
408 * Fix last modified time of xapian index (shown on SystemInfo page).
409 * Make logging handlers defined in logging.handlers work (e.g.
410 class=handlers.RotatingFileHandler)
411 * Jabber notifications:
412 * Use an RFC compliant message type.
413 * Fix user creation notifications.
414 * OpenID: Compatibility fix for python-openid 2.x.x (also works with
415 1.x.x), fixes crash when trying to associate moin user to OpenID.
416 * Have a wikiserverconfig.py in wiki/server/ so setup.py copies it.
417 * Fixed inconsistent handling of fragments / anchor IDs:
418 * Fixed creole and wiki parser, other parsers might need similar fixes.
419 * IDs with blanks, non-ASCII chars etc. are now sanitized in the same way
420 for links as well as for link targets, so the user editing a page won't
421 have to bother with it.
422 E.g. [[#123 foo bar]] will link to:
423 * <<Anchor(123 foo bar)>> (moin) or {{#123 foo bar}} (creole)
424 * headline = 123 foo bar = (moin / creole)
425 Simple rule: if the link and the target are consistent, it should work.
426 * The creole wiki parser created non-human-readable sha1 heading IDs
427 before 1.8.2, now it creates same (sometimes readable) heading IDs as
428 the moin wiki parser.
429 * TitleIndex/WordIndex now also use IDs sanitized in that way internally.
430 HINT: if you manually worked around the inconsistencies/bugs before, you
431 likely have to remove those workarounds now. Same thing if you used
432 creole's sha1 heading IDs or IDs on TitleIndex/WordIndex.
435 * Updated FCKeditor to 2.6.4 (== many bug fixes in the GUI editor).
436 * Enhanced privacy by a new setting: cfg.log_remote_addr (default: True),
437 it controls whether moin logs the remote's IP/hostname to edit-log and
438 event-log. Use log_remote_addr = False to enhance privacy.
439 * Streamline attachment_drawing formatter behaviour.
440 * Search results: only redirect to a single search result for titlesearch
441 (fuzzy goto functionality), but not for fulltext search results.
447 * Workaround win32 locking problems (caused by spurious access denied
448 exceptions on that platform).
449 * Fix unicode errors that happened when password checker failed a password
450 * WikiConfig/WikiConfigHelp: fixed wrong language table headings
451 * Themes: make the margins around trail line work properly
452 * "modernized" theme:
453 * make broken links gray
454 * add new right/center/left/justify css classes
456 * Standalone server: be more specific when catching socket exceptions,
457 treat socket errors in http header emission in the same way.
459 * Fix heading levels when inserting new headings.
460 * Fix headers already sent exception when using e.g. edit LOCKing.
461 * Xapian indexing: fixed missing import for execfilter (only happened on
462 non-posix platforms like win32)
466 * Make the TOC shrinkwrap, add white background to navigation macro.
467 The table of contents looked bad spanning the whole width of the page.
468 It's made to shrinkwrap now, so it will only get as wide, as the longest
469 heading. We use display:inline-table, so this won't work in MS IE6,
470 which still displays it the old way.
471 Navigation macro now has a white background, to make it more readable
472 when it's floating over a pre block or TOC.
473 * Make the numbers in lists in table of contents right-aligned.
474 * Refactored and extended theme.html_stylesheets() to make alternate
475 stylesheets possible. Stylesheet definitions now can either be:
476 2-tuples: (media, href) # backwards compatibility
478 3-tuples: (media, href, title) # new, for defining alternate stylesheets
479 This works within themes as well as in the wiki config.
480 See also: http://www.w3.org/Style/Examples/007/alternatives.html
484 Note: This is a reduced CHANGES, ommitting details from rc/beta test and
485 also less interesting minor changes and fixes. It shows changes
486 relative to 1.7.2 release.
487 If you want to see full detail, read it there:
488 http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/1.8/file/6130eab15936/docs/CHANGES
490 New Features: ==============================================================
491 * HINT: New "modernized" theme - if you use "modern" [default], try:
492 theme_default = 'modernized'
493 If you find problems with "modernized", please report them because we
494 want to use it as default theme in future.
496 * upgraded to use FCKEditor version 2.6.3
497 * user can insert and modify various types of MoinMoin links
498 * New plugin_dirs setting to allow multiple plugin pathes (additional to
499 the automatically configured plugin_dir [default: data_dir/plugin]).
500 * @EMAIL@ expands to a MailTo macro call with the obfuscated email address
502 * New macros "WikiConfig" and "WikiConfigHelp".
503 * Per-parser quickhelp, 'quickhelp' class variable of parser class.
504 * Secure session cookies for https (see cfg.cookie_secure).
505 * Added left/center/right/justify css classes to builtin themes.
508 this content is justified....
511 Removed Features: ==========================================================
512 * HINT: url_prefix setting (use url_prefix_static or just use the default)
513 * traceback_log_dir setting (we just use logging.exception)
514 * editor_quickhelp setting (replaced by per-parser quickhelp)
515 * Restoring backups with the backup action and related settings (while
516 creating backups is no big issue and should work OK, restoring them
517 had fundamental issues related to overwriting or not-overwriting of
518 existing files - thus we removed the "restore" part of the action and
519 recommend that you just contact the wiki server admin in case of trouble,
520 give him your wiki backup file and let him carefully restore it.)
521 * Removed unmaintained DesktopEdition (moin 1.5.x style) and phpwiki
522 migration scripts from contrib/ directory.
524 Bug Fixes: =================================================================
525 * GUI Editor - fixed lots of bugs.
526 * Fixing https detection for servers using HTTPS=1 and also for WSGI
527 servers not using HTTPS/SSL_ environment, but just wsgi.url_scheme.
528 * Search results: link to 'view' rendering of found attachments.
529 * Standalone server: fix serverClass and interface argument processing,
530 announce used serverClass in log output.
531 * mointwisted: fixed Twisted start script.
533 * Use logging framework for messages emitted by warnings module (e.g.
534 DeprecationWarning), silence some specific warnings.
535 * Removed superfluous linefeeds in timing log output.
537 * Fixed editbar hidden comment link cosmetics for sidebar themes (hide the
538 complete list element).
540 action, if the wiki does not run in the root url of the site)
541 * Fixed backup action configuration (broke on win32).
543 * SyncPages: add workaround for callers calling log_status with encoded
545 * Fixed dbw_hide_buttons javascript.
546 * HINT: Jabber bot can now be configured to use an authentication realm
547 which is different from the server's hostname; the xmpp_node
548 configuration parameter can now contain a full JID and the xmpp_resource
549 parameter is no longer supported.
551 Other Changes: =============================================================
552 * HINT: new configuration for misc. secrets, please use either:
553 secrets = "MySecretLooongString!" # one secret for everything
556 'xmlrpc/ProcessMail': 'yourmailsecret', # for mailimport
557 'xmlrpc/RemoteScript': 'yourremotescriptsecret',
558 'action/cache': 'yourcachesecret', # unguessable cache keys
559 'wikiutil/tickets': 'yourticketsecret', # edit tickets
560 'jabberbot': 'yourjabberbotsecret', # jabberbot communication
562 Secret strings must be at least 10 chars long.
563 Note: mail_import_secret setting is gone, use
564 secrets["xmlrpc/ProcessMail"] instead of it.
565 Note: jabberbot secret setting is gone, use
566 secrets["jabberbot"] instead of it.
567 * HINT: user_autocreate setting was removed from wiki configuration and
568 replaced by a autocreate=<boolean> parameter of the auth objects that
569 support user profile auto creation.
570 * moin import irclog: use irssi parser to format logs, mapped .irc
571 extension to text/plain mimetype.
572 * HINT: backup action: backup_exclude (default: "do not exclude anything")
573 is now a function f(filename) that tells whether a file should be
574 excluded from backup.
575 You can get the old regex exclusion functionality by using:
576 backup_exclude = re.compile(your_regex).search
577 Be careful with your regex, you might need to use re.escape() to escape
578 characters that have a special meaning in regexes (e.g.: \.[] etc.).
579 If in doubt, maybe just leave backup_exclude at the default and don't
581 * Speed up javascript comments processing on IE by getElementsByClassName()
582 * Added sk (slovak) i18n, updated i18n.
587 * Secure session cookies for https, see cfg.cookie_secure.
588 * Add left/center/right/justify classes to builtin themes.
591 * Python 2.3 compatibility fixes.
592 * Fixed https detection for servers using HTTPS=1 and also for wsgi servers
593 not using HTTPS/SSL_ environment, but just wsgi.url_scheme.
595 * Fix crash when editing a page with non-ASCII pagename and inserting a link
596 * Fix "headers already sent exception" with edit LOCKs.
597 * i18n.__init__: Bug fix for wiki language not installed.
598 * Fixed URLs given by sitemap action, if the wiki does not run at / URL.
599 * Search results: link to 'view' rendering of found attachments
601 * Removed superfluous linefeed in timing log output.
602 * Use logging framework for messages emitted by warnings module (e.g.
603 DeprecationWarning), silence some specific warnings.
604 * Fix dbw_hide_buttons javascript.
606 * fix serverClass argument processing
607 * fix --interface="" argument processing
609 * added missing pidFile parameter
610 * better use Config.name for pidFile to avoid conflicts and keep same
611 behaviour as in the past
612 * Jabber bot can now be configured to use an authentication realm which
613 is different from the server's hostname
618 * Fix leakage of edit-log file handles (leaked 1 file handle / request!).
620 * Wiki parser: avoid IndexError for empty #! line
621 * MonthCalendar macro: fix parameter parsing / url generation
622 * Xapian indexing filters (MoinMoin/filter/ or data/plugin/filter/):
623 Some indexing filter scripts (e.g. for MS Word documents or PDF files)
624 failed on windows because of the single-quote quoting we used (that
625 works on Linux and other Posix systems). The fix introduces platform-
626 dependant automatic quoting, using double-quotes on win32 and single-
628 HINT: if you use own filter plugins based on execfilter, you have to
629 update them as the filename quoting (was '%s') is now done automatically
630 and must not be part of the command string any more (now just use %s).
631 See MoinMoin/filter/ for some up-to-date code (esp. the PDF filter).
632 * Prevent CategoryTemplate being listed as a category (it is a Template,
633 but matched also the category regex) - added to sample wikiconfig.
634 * LDAP auth: fix processing of TLS options
635 * UpdateGroup xmlrpc server side: fix wrong arg count error
636 * UpdateGroup client: use multicall / auth_token, refactor code so that
637 updateGroup function is reusable.
638 * Improve Python 2.3 compatibility, add notes where 2.4 is required.
643 * New 'cache' action (see developer notes).
646 * Security fix: XSS fix for advanced search form
647 * Avoid creation of new pagedirs with empty edit-log files by just
648 accessing a non-existant page. If you used 1.7 before, you likely have
649 quite some trash pagedirs now and you can clean them up by using:
650 moin --config-dir=... --wiki-url=... maint cleanpage
651 This will output some shell script (please review it before running!)
652 that can be used to move trash pages into some trash/ directory and also
653 moves deleted pages into some deleted/ directory. Maybe keep a copy of
654 those directories for a while just for the case.
655 * Server specific fixes:
656 * standalone (wikiserver.py): fix --pidfile and --group option, fix
657 operation without a wikiserverconfig.py (use builtin defaults).
658 * mod_python: work around mod_python 3.3.1 problems with file uploads.
659 Note: if you are still using mod_python, we strongly recommend you
660 try out mod_wsgi (in daemon mode) - it has less bugs, better
661 security, better separation, WSGI is a Python standard, and moin
662 developers also use WSGI. See HelpOnInstalling/ApacheWithModWSGI.
663 * revert action: fixed for deleted pages.
665 * Xapian indexing: Removed crappy "hostname" tokenization.
667 Also tokenize CamelCase parts of non-wikiwords.
668 * Make query parser reject more invalid input.
669 * If query parsing raises a BracketError, at least tell what the problem
670 is (and not just raise empty ValueError).
671 * Category search: ignore traling whitespace after ----
673 * Fixed sort() usage in UnitArgument to be Python 2.3 compatible.
676 * TableOfContents: skip outer-most <ol> levels when page isn't using
680 * OpenID RP: make it compatible to python-openid 2.2.x
681 * PackagePages.collectpackage: removed encoding from file name of zipfile
682 * Surge protection: exclude localnet no matter whether user is known or not.
684 * Script moin account create/disable/resetpw: checks for already existing
688 * Prevent CategoryTemplate being listed as a category (it is a Template)
689 by changing the default page_category_regex.
692 * New MoinMoin.action.cache - can be used to cache expensively rendered
693 output, e.g. generated images). Once put into the cache, moin can emit
694 a http response for that content very fast and very efficient (including
695 "304 not changed" handling.
696 * New file-like API in MoinMoin.caching (good for dealing with medium
697 to large files without consuming lots of memory).
698 * wikiutil.importPlugin supports getting the whole plugin module object
699 by giving function=None.
703 Note: This is a reduced CHANGES, ommitting details from rc/beta test and
704 also less interesting minor changes and fixes. It shows changes
705 relative to 1.6.3 release.
706 If you want to see full detail, read it there:
707 http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/1.7/file/76265568e8d3/docs/CHANGES
709 New Features: ==============================================================
710 * HINT: we added generic UPDATE instructions as docs/UPDATE.html.
712 * HINT: Standalone server usage changed:
713 * Standalone server can now be started via the "moin" script command,
714 optionally backgrounding itself.
715 See: moin server standalone --help
716 * In the toplevel dir, we have renamed moin.py to wikiserver.py (it was
717 often confused with the moin scripting command).
719 * wikiserver.py - to start the standalone server
720 * wikiserverconfig.py - to configure the standalone server
721 * wikiserverlogging.conf - to configure logging for it (default config
722 is ok for all day use, but can easily be modified for debugging)
723 * wikiconfig.py - to configure the wiki engine
724 * Removed old moin daemonizing script (replaced by moin server standalone
726 * We now provide the "moin" script command also for people not using
727 setup.py, see wiki/server/moin.
730 * New powerful and flexible logging, please see wiki/config/logging/ -
731 HINT: you have to upgrade your server adaptor script (e.g. moin.cgi)
732 and load a logging configuration that fits your needs from there, or
733 alternatively you can also set MOINLOGGINGCONF environment variable
734 to point at your logging config file.
735 If you use some of our sample logging configs, make sure you have a
736 look INTO them to fix e.g. the path of the logfile it will use.
737 * Moin now logs the path from where it loaded its configuration(s).
739 * Authentication / Sessions:
740 * HINT: New authentication plugin system, see HelpOnAuthentication. If
741 you do not use the builtin default for 'auth' list, you likely have to
742 change your configuration. See wiki/config/snippets/ for some samples.
743 * HINT: New session handling system (no moin_session any more, now done
744 internally and automatically), see HelpOnSessions for details.
745 * Added OpenID client and server support.
746 See: HelpOnAuthentication and HelpOnOpenIDProvider.
747 * cfg.trusted_auth_methods is a list of auth methods that put an
748 authenticated user into the "Trusted" ACL group.
750 * User profiles / password recovery / notification:
751 * New newacount action for creating new user accounts/profiles. If you
752 don't want users creating new accounts on their own, you can add this
753 action to actions_excluded list.
754 * New recoverpass action for password recovery:
755 If you forgot your password, recoverpass sends you an email with a
756 password recovery token (NOT the encrypted password) that is valid
758 * New moin account resetpw script for resetting a user's password by
760 * New preferences plugin system, see MoinMoin/userprefs/__init__.py.
761 * New notification system with an optional jabber notification bot, see
762 HelpOnNotification. HINT: wiki users have to check their notification
763 settings, esp. if they want to receive trivial update notifications.
765 * The diff action now has navigation buttons for prev/next change and also
766 a revert button to revert to the revision shown below the diff display.
767 * ThemeBase: support Universal Edit Button, see there for details:
768 http://universaleditbutton.org/
769 * ?action=info&max_count=42 - show the last 42 history entries of the page.
770 max_count has a default of default_count and a upper limit of
771 limit_max_count - you can configure both in your wiki config:
772 cfg.history_count = (100, 200) # (default_count, limit_max_count) default
773 * The CSV parser can sniff the delimiter from the first CSV line so other
774 delimeters than ";" can be used.
775 * Admonition support. Added styling for tip, note, important, warning
776 and caution in the modern theme. For more info see HelpOnAdmonitions.
778 * supports HTML entities like → and ☃
779 * supports the FootNote macro
780 * supports bulletless lists
781 * support for admonitions
782 * will export the wiki page's edit history as the generated article's
783 revision history. Doesn't add history of included pages.
784 * supports for the MoinMoin comment element, though only inline comments
785 are likely to be valid since the DocBook remark is an inline element.
786 * New Hits macro: shows the total hits for the page it is used on.
788 Removed Features: ==========================================================
789 * HINT: Removed attachments direct serving (cfg.attachments - this was
790 deprecated since long!). Use AttachFile action to serve attachments.
791 * Duplicated file attachment upload code was removed from Load action (just
792 use AttachFile action to deal with attachments).
793 * Removed 'test' action. If you like to run unit tests, use py.test.
794 * Removed Login macro.
796 Bug Fixes: =================================================================
797 * Better handling of ImportErrors (farmconfig, macros, wikiserverconfig).
798 * Fix failure of detection of on-disk cache updates.
799 * Fix traceback in filesys.py on Mac OS X when "import Carbon" fails.
801 * AttachFile action / file up- and download / zip support:
802 * WSGI: use wsgi.file_wrapper (or a builtin simple wrapper). Fixes memory
803 consumption for sending of large file attachments.
804 * FastCGI: flush often. Fixes memory consumption for sending of large
806 * Use the open temporary file for receiving file attachment uploads
807 (fixes big memory consumption for large file uploads).
808 * Catch runtime errors raised by zipfile stdlib modules when trying to
809 process a defective zip.
810 * When unzipping member files, decode their filenames from utf-8 and
811 replace invalid chars.
812 * Make error msg less confusing when trying to overwrite a file attachment
813 without having 'delete' rights.
815 * HINT: page_*_regex processing had to be changed to fix category search.
816 If you don't use the builtin (english) defaults, you will have to change
818 old (default): page_category_regex = u'^Category[A-Z]'
819 new (default): page_category_regex = ur'(?P<all>Category(?P<key>\S+))'
820 As you see, the old regex did work for detecting whether a pagename is
821 a category, but it could not be used to search for a category tag in the
822 page text. The new regex can be used for both and identifies the complete
823 category tag (match in group 'all', e.g. "CategoryFoo") as well as the
824 category key (match in group 'key', e.g. "Foo") by using named regex
825 groups. \S+ means the category key can be anything non-blank.
826 If you like to simultaneously support multiple languages, use something
827 like this: ur'(?P<all>(Kategorie|Category)(?P<key>\S+))'
828 HINT: after changing your configuration, please rebuild the cache:
830 * moin ... maint cleancache
832 If you don't do this, your groups / dicts will stop working (and also
833 your ACLs that use those groups). You better do a test whether it works.
835 * Xapian search / indexing / stemming:
836 * Use text/<format> as mimetype for pages.
837 * Index also major and minor for mimetypes, so it will find 'text' or
838 'plain' as well as 'text/plain'
839 * Fix searching for negative terms.
840 * Improve result list ordering.
841 * Index filters: redirect stderr to logging system.
842 * Remove crappy num regex from WikiAnalyzer, improve tokenization.
843 * Fix AttributeError that happened when trying to access an attribute only
844 used with xapian search (but regex search is not done by xapian)
845 * Fix IndexErrors happening when pages are renamed/nuked after the index
847 * Fixed indexing of WikiWords (index "WikiWords", "Wiki" and "Words").
848 * Fix crash if default language is un-stemmable.
849 * xapian_stemming: removed some strange code (fixes search
850 title:lowercaseword with xapian_stemming enabled)
851 * Fixed category indexing (index CategoryFoo correctly as CategoryFoo, not
852 Foo - for all languages, see page_*_regex change above).
853 * Builtin search: support mimetype: search for pages for the builtin search
854 engine (using text/<format>).
857 * Wiki: fix subscript parsing (was broken for cases like 'a,,1,2,,').
858 * Docbook: fixed detection of WikiWords.
859 * All: Add ssh protocol to url_schemas for ssh:... URLs.
862 * Fix xmlrpc request.read() call to use content-length, if available,
863 fixes hangs with wsgiref server.
864 * Wiki xmlrpc getPageInfoVersion() fixed:
865 * works correctly now for old page versions (was unsupported)
866 * works correctly now for current page version (reported wrong
867 data when a page had attachment uploads after the last page
869 * returns a Fault if it did not find a edit-log entry
871 Other Changes: =============================================================
872 * Using better ACLs and comments on system/help pages now, just taking
873 away 'write' permission, but using default ACLs for everything else.
874 * HINT: If you want to use xapian based indexed search, you need to have
875 Xapian >= 1.0.0 (and you can remove PyStemmer in case you have installed
876 it just for moin - we now use the stemmer built into Xapian as it
877 supports utf-8 since 1.0.0).
878 * Changed default value of cfg.search_results_per_page to 25.
879 * Surge Protection: If a user is authenticated by a trusted authentication
880 (see also cfg.auth_methods_trusted) then he/she won't trigger surge
881 protection, but moin will just log a INFO level log msg with the user's
882 name so you can find the culprit in case he/she is overusing ressources.
883 * HINT: Added MyPages and CopyPage to actions_excluded because MyPages
884 doesn't work without special SecurityPolicy anyway and CopyPage has
885 questionable behaviour.
886 * Load action now just creates a new revision of the target page, the
887 target pagename defaults to the current page name and can be edited.
888 If the target pagename is empty, moin tries to derive the target pagename
889 from the uploaded file's name.
890 Load tries to decode the file contents first using utf-8 coding and, if
891 that fails, it forces decoding using iso-8859-1 coding (and replacing
893 * HINT: cfg.show_login is gone, see code in theme/__init__.py, this may
895 * HINT: a new userprefs/ plugin directory will be created by the usual
896 "moin migration data" command.
898 * generates a valid DOCTYPE
899 * table support has been improved
900 * handling of definitions and glossaries is more robust
901 * supports program language and line numbering in code areas
902 * HINT: ldap_login behaves a bit different now:
903 In previous moin versions, ldap_login tended to either successfully
904 authenticate a user or to completely cancel the whole login process in
905 any other case (including ldap server down or exceptions happening).
906 This made subsequent auth list entries rather pointless.
907 Now it behaves like this:
908 * user not found in LDAP -> give subsequent auth list entries a
909 chance to authenticate the user (same happens if it finds multiple
910 LDAP entries when searching - it logs an additional warning then).
911 * user found, but wrong password -> cancel login
912 * ldap server not reachable or other exceptions -> give subsequent
913 auth list entries a chance
914 So please make sure that you really trust every auth list entry you have
915 configured when upgrading or it might maybe change behaviour in a
916 unexpected or unwanted way.
917 * ldap_login now supports failover: if it can't contact your LDAP server
918 (e.g. because it is down or unreachable), it will just continue and
919 try to authenticate with other authenticators (if there are any in
920 cfg.auth list). So if you have some mirroring LDAP backup server, just
921 put another authenticator querying it there:
922 ldap_auth1 = LDAPAuth(server_uri='ldap://mainserver', ...)
923 ldap_auth2 = LDAPAuth(server_uri='ldap://backupserver', ...)
924 auth = [ldap_auth1, ldap_auth2, ]
926 Developer notes: ===========================================================
927 * Page.last_edit() is DEPRECATED, please use Page.edit_info().
928 * Page._last_edited() is GONE (was broken anyway), please use
929 Page.editlog_entry().
930 * New request.send_file() call, making it possible to use server-specific
932 * getText's (aka _()) 'formatted' keyword param (default: True in 1.6 and
933 early 1.7) was renamed/changed: it is now called 'wiki' and defaults to
934 False. Example calls:
935 _('This will NOT get parsed/formatted by MoinMoin!')
936 _('This will be parsed/formatted by MoinMoin!', wiki=True)
937 _('This will be used as a left side of percent operator. %s',
938 wiki=True, percent=True)
939 * Page.url 'relative' keyword param (default: True in 1.6 and early 1.7)
940 was changed to default False).
941 * The themedict no longer contains 'page_user_prefs' and 'user_prefs',
942 this may affect custom themes.
943 * The rst-parser's admonition class names are no longer prepended with
944 "admonition_". Instead the class names are now for example "note"
945 and not "admonition_note".
950 * Security fix: a check in the user form processing was not working as
951 expected, leading to a major ACL and superuser priviledge escalation
952 problem. If you use ACL entries other than "Known:" or "All:" and/or
953 a non-empty superuser list, you need to urgently install this upgrade.
954 * Security fix: if acl_hierarchic=True was used (False is the default),
955 ACL processing was wrong for some cases, see
957 * For {{transclusion_targets}} we checked the protocol to be http(s),
958 this check was removed (because file: and ftp: should work also) and
959 it's not moin's problem if the user uses silly protocols that can't
960 work for that purpose.
961 * Fixed TableOfContents macro for included pages.
962 * server_fastcgi: added Config.port = None. If you want to use some port
963 (not a fd), you can set it now in your Config, e.g. port = 8888.
964 * category: search matches categories even if there are comment lines
965 between the horizontal rule and the real categories, e.g.:
966 ... some page text ...
968 ## optionally some comments, e.g. about possible categories:
969 ## CategoryJustACommentNotFound
970 CategoryTheRealAndOnly
972 Note: there might be multiple comment lines, but all real categories
973 must be on a single line either directly below the ---- or
974 directly below some comment lines.
977 * Added 'notes' to config.url_schemas, so you can use notes://notessrv/...
978 to invoke your Lotus Notes client.
979 * After creating a new user profile via UserPreferences, you are logged
980 in with that user (no need to immediately enter the same name/password
981 again for logging in).
986 * Security fix: check the ACL of the included page for the rst parser's
988 * Potential security/DOS fix: we removed cracklib / python-crack support
989 in password_checker as it is not thread-safe and caused segmentation
990 faults (leading to server error 500 because the moin process died).
991 * Fix moin_session code for auth methods other than moin_login (e.g. http).
992 If you have worked around this using moin_anon_session, you can remove
993 this workaround now (except if you want anon sessions for other reasons).
994 * Fix moin_session code to delete invalid session cookies and also create
995 a new session cookie if it got a valid user_obj at the same time.
996 * Fix xmlrpc applyAuthToken: give good error msg for empty token.
997 * Fixed category search, use category:CategoryFoo as search term.
998 * xapian_stemming = False (changed default) to workaround some problems
999 in the code enabled by it. Fixes the problems when searching for
1000 lowercase or numeric titles or word fragments with the builtin search.
1001 * Fix trail for anon users without a session, do not show a single page.
1003 * Wiki parser: fixed strange insertion of unwanted paragraphs.
1004 * Wiki parser: fix interwiki linking:
1005 Free interwiki links did not change since 1.5 (they still require to match
1006 [A-Z][A-Za-z]+ for the wikiname part, i.e. a ASCII word beginning with an
1008 Bracketed interwiki links now behave similar to how they worked in 1.5:
1009 Moin just splits off the part left of the colon - no matter how it looks
1010 like. It then tries to find that in the interwiki map. If it is found,
1011 a interwiki link gets rendered. If it is not found, moin will render a
1012 link to a local wiki page (that has a colon in the pagename). It will
1013 also render a local wiki page link if there is no colon at all, of course.
1015 [[lowercasewikiname:somepage]] does an interwiki link (if in the map).
1016 [[ABC:n]] does a local link to page ABC:n (if ABC is NOT in the map).
1017 * Wiki parser: fix interwiki linking for the case that there are query args
1018 in the interwiki map entry and you give additional query args via link
1019 markup (uses correct query arg separator now), e.g.:
1020 [[Google:searchterm|search this|&foo=bar]]
1021 * Creole parser: fixed bug that prevents images inside links.
1022 * Python parser: catch indentation error.
1023 * PageEditor: fixed copyPage for write restricted pages.
1024 * GUI editor: fixed javascript error with too complex word_rule regex,
1026 * Fixed FCKeditor dialog boxes for FireFox3.
1027 * NewPage macro/newpage action: fixed for non-ascii template pagenames.
1029 * EmbedObject macro: bug fix for image mimetype
1031 * fix TWikiDraw saving a drawing by also evaluating the query args.
1032 * work around unpythonic WSGI 1.0 read() API, fixing broken xmlrpc
1033 putPage with mod_wsgi
1035 * Fix logfile code for EACCESS errors.
1036 * Removed the "logging initialized" log messages because it was issued once
1037 per request for CGI.
1040 * Show "Comments" toggling link in edit bar only if the page really
1042 * Made default configuration of surge protection a bit more forgiving,
1043 especially for edit action which is currently also used for previews.
1044 * Updated i18n, system/help pages, added Macedonian system text translation.
1045 * Improved moin xmlrpc write command's builtin docs and auto-append
1046 ?action=xmlrpc2 to the target wiki url given.
1051 * Improved params for [[target|label|params]]:
1052 Added accesskey link tag attribute, e.g.: [[target|label|accesskey=1]].
1053 Additionally to specifying link tag attributes (like class=foo), you can
1054 now also specify &key=value for getting that into the query string of
1056 The "&" character is important, don't forget it or it won't get into the
1058 E.g. for an attachment, you can use:
1059 [[attachment:foo.pdf|Direct download of foo.pdf|&do=get]]
1060 E.g. for linking to some specific diff, you can use:
1061 [[SomePage|see that diff|&action=diff,&rev1=23,&rev2=42]]
1062 See also the updated HelpOnLinking page!
1063 * AdvancedSearch: make multipe categories/languages/mimetype selections possible
1064 * Added a configuration directive to only do one bind to the LDAP server.
1065 This is useful if you bind as the user the first time.
1066 ldap_bindonce = False # default
1069 * Fix XSS issue in login action.
1070 * Fix wrong pagename when creating new pages on Mac OS X - that was a big
1071 showstopper for moin 1.6.0 on Mac OS X.
1072 * Fixed 1.6 migration script:
1073 Make sorting python 2.3 compatible.
1074 Just skip corrupted event log lines.
1075 Fix link conversion by using data.pre160 as data_dir.
1076 Fix bad /InterWiki pagenames when encountering interwiki links with bad
1078 Improve ImageLink conversion by using its argument parser code.
1079 Added STONEAGE_IMAGELINK (default: False) switch to wiki markup converter,
1080 toggle it if you had a very old ImageLink macro in production and the
1081 converter output has target and image interchanged.
1082 Fixed UnicodeDecodeError for wrongly encoded attachment filenames.
1084 Fix parsing of link/transclusion description and params.
1085 Fix relative attachment targets.
1086 Fix supported URL schemes (some got lost since 1.5.8).
1087 Showing an upload link for non-existing non-text/non-image transclusions
1088 now (like e.g. *.pdf).
1089 * RST parser: fix attachment: and drawing: processing
1090 * Fix quickhelp when editing RST markup pages.
1091 * Fix Despam action: editor grouping was broken, increase time interval
1093 * Fix AdvancedSearch domain:system search crashing.
1094 * Only switch off xapian search if we didn't use it because of missing index.
1095 * Fix saving twikidraw drawings by removing 'java' from spider regex.
1096 * Fix classic theme's unsubscribe icon's action link.
1097 * Fix AttachFile action: don't show unzip for packages, only show install
1099 * Fix "su user" troubles on UserPreferences.
1100 * Removed unit tests from ?action=test (due to changes in our test
1101 environment, using py.test now, this was broken).
1102 * Duplicated the top directories' moin.py to wiki/server/moin.py so it gets
1103 installed by setup.py.
1111 * I18n texts, system and help pages updated, please update your underlay
1112 directory (see wiki/underlay/...).
1113 * Improved "moin" script help, invoke it with "moin ... package command --help".
1114 * Added some .ext -> mimetype mappings missing on some systems (like Mac OS X).
1115 * Removed ImageLink macro, as this can be easily done with moin wiki link
1116 syntax now - see HelpOnMacros/ImageLink (the 1.6 migration scripts convert
1117 all ImageLink calls to moin wiki link syntax).
1118 * Updated EmbedObject macro.
1122 * This is a reduced CHANGES, ommitting details from rc/beta test and also
1123 less interesting minor changes and fixes. If you want to see full detail,
1124 read it there: http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/1.6/file/640f21787334/docs/CHANGES
1126 It took MoinMoin development a lot of work and time to implement all the new
1127 and fixed stuff, so please, before asking for support:
1128 * take the time to read all the stuff below
1129 * read the new help pages (copy them from wiki/underlay/ directory)
1131 * HINT: If you are upgrading from a older moin version and want to keep your
1132 existing data directory, it is essential that you read and follow
1133 README.migration because the wiki markup and user profiles changed significantly.
1134 See also more HINTs below...
1136 New features: ==============================================================
1138 User interface: ------------------------------------------------------------
1139 * Removed "underscore in URL" == "blank in pagename magic" - it made more
1140 trouble than it was worth. If you still want to have a _ in URL, just
1141 put a _ into pagename.
1142 * Discussion pages, see FeatureRequests/DiscussionAndOrCommentPages.
1143 * cfg.password_checker (default: use some simple builtin checks for too
1144 easy passwords and, if available, python-crack).
1145 Use password_checker = None to disable password checking.
1146 * We now have a drafts functionality (no */MoinEditorBackup pages any
1148 * If you edit a page and cancel the edit, use preview or save, a draft
1149 copy gets saved for you to a internal cache area (data/cache/drafts/).
1150 * If it is a save what you did and it succeeds, the draft copy gets
1151 killed right afterwards.
1152 * If you accidentally used cancel or your browser or machine crashes
1153 after you used preview, then just visit that page again and edit it.
1154 the editor will notify you that there is a draft of this page and you
1155 will see a "Load draft" button. Click on it to load the draft into the
1156 editor and save the page.
1157 * The draft storage is per user and per page, but only one draft per page.
1158 * cfg.quicklinks_default and cfg.subscribed_pages_default can be used to
1159 preload new user profiles with configurable values.
1160 * attachment links for non-existing attachments look different now:
1161 the note about the non-existing attachment moved to the link title,
1162 the link is shown with nonexistent class (grey).
1163 * attachment embeddings for non-existing attachments show a grey clip
1164 * The list of InterWiki sites is editable in the wiki (page InterWikiMap),
1165 it is getting reloaded every minute.
1166 * We support some new languages and also have new underlay pages, thanks
1167 to all translators and people helping with the docs!
1169 Actions: -------------------------------------------------------------------
1170 * Synchronisation of wikis using the SyncPages action.
1171 * Xapian (see http://xapian.org/) based indexed search code.
1173 * Install xapian-core and xapian-bindings on your machine.
1174 We used 0.9.4, but newer code should hopefully work, too.
1175 * cfg.xapian_search = True
1176 * Execute this to build the index:
1177 $ moin ... index build # indexes pages and attachments
1178 $ moin ... index build --files=files.lst # same plus a list of files
1179 You should run those commands as the same user you use for your wiki,
1180 usually this is the webserver userid, e.g.:
1181 $ sudo -u www-data moin --config=... --wiki-url=wiki.example.org/ \
1182 index build --files=files.lst
1184 - LanguageSearch: language:de
1185 - CategorySearch: category:Homepage
1186 - MimetypeSearch: mimetype:image/png (for attachments/files)
1187 - DomainSearch: domain:underlay or domain:standard
1188 - History Search: available in advanced ui
1189 Note: Some currently only available when Xapian is used.
1190 * New config options and their defaults:
1191 xapian_search False enables xapian-powered search
1192 xapian_index_dir None directory for xapian indices
1193 (can be shared for wiki farms)
1194 xapian_stemming True toggles usage of stemmer, fallback
1195 to False if no stemmer installed
1196 search_results_per_page 10 determines how many hits should be
1197 shown on a fullsearch action
1198 xapian_index_history False indexes all revisions of pages to
1199 allow searching in their history
1200 * Speeded up linkto search by avoiding read locks on the pagelinks file.
1202 * The action menu now calls the actions for the revision of the page you
1203 are currently viewing. If you are viewing the current page revision, you
1204 get the same behaviour as in moin 1.5, but if you are viewing an old
1205 page revision, action "raw" will now show you the raw text of this OLD
1206 revision (not of the current revision as moin 1.5 did it).
1207 Note that not every action does evaluate the rev=XX parameter it gets.
1208 Also please note that the edit, info, ... links in the editbar do NOT
1209 use the rev parameter, but operate on the latest page revision (as
1210 they did in moin 1.5).
1211 * Info action lost the links for "raw", "print" and "revert" actions,
1212 because you can now just view an old revision and select those actions
1213 from the menu there.
1215 * ?action=sitemap emits a google sitemap (XML), listing all your wiki pages
1216 and the wiki root URL.
1217 Page Priority / Frequency / Last modification
1218 --------------------------------------------------------------------
1219 / 1.0 / hourly / <now>
1220 cfg.page_front_page 1.0 / hourly / page last edit
1221 TitleIndex,RecentChanges 0.9 / hourly / <now>
1222 content pages 0.5 / daily / page last edit
1223 system/help pages 0.1 / yearly / page last edit
1225 * Action DeletePage and RenamePage can now be used for subpages of a page, too.
1226 * Added Action CopyPage so you can use now an existing page or page hierarchy
1227 as template for a new page, see FeatureRequests/CloneOrCopyPages.
1228 * "Package Pages" action supports attachments now.
1229 * Added SisterPages support:
1230 * action=sisterpages will generate a list of url pagename lines for all
1231 pages in your moin wiki.
1232 * action=pollsistersites will poll all sister sites listed in
1233 cfg.sistersites = [(wikiname, fetchURL), ...]
1234 The fetch URL for the sistersites depends on the wiki engine, e.g.:
1236 ('MoinExample', 'http://moin.example.org/?action=sisterpages')
1237 # oddmuse based wiki:
1238 ('EmacsWiki', 'http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/test?action=sisterpages')
1239 # JspWiki based wiki:
1240 ('JspWiki', 'http://www.jspwiki.org/SisterSites.jsp')
1241 * If the current page exists on some sister wiki, a link to it will be
1242 added to the navibar.
1243 You can use sister wikis for adding another dimension to your wiki UI: use
1244 it for simple multi language support, or for comments, or anything else
1246 TODO: add sistersites_force with sister sites we link to even if they do not
1247 have the page yet (will work only for moin as we don't know
1248 pagename>url transformation of other wikis)
1249 * showtags action that lists all tags related to a page.
1250 * action=view does use mimetypes of EmbedObject too and text files will be shown
1251 by using their colorized parsers
1253 Macros: --------------------------------------------------------------------
1255 * If a change has happened after your bookmark, the updated/new/renamed
1256 icon links to the bookmark diff.
1257 * If a page does not exist any more (because it was deleted or renamed),
1258 we link the deleted icon to the diff showing what was deleted (for the
1259 delete action). For the rename action, we just show the deleted icon.
1260 * Conflict icon in RecentChanges is shown if a edit conflict is detected.
1261 * Enhanced SystemAdmin's user browser, so a SuperUser can enable/disable
1263 * Included EmbedObject macro for embedding different major mimetypes:
1264 application, audio, image, video, chemical, x-world.
1265 You are able to change the defaults of allowed mimetypes in the config
1266 var mimetypes_embed. The config var mimetypes_xss_protect is used to deny
1267 mimetypes. The order of both variables is Allow, Deny (mimetypes_embed,
1268 mimetypes_xss_protect).
1269 * Added support for @SELF to the NewPage macro.
1270 * GetText2 macro that allows to translate messages that contain data.
1271 * Make the FootNote macro filter duplicates and display a list of numbers
1272 instead of a list of identical footnotes. Thanks to Johannes Berg for the
1275 Parsers: -------------------------------------------------------------------
1276 * Moin Wiki parser: Changed markup for links, images and macros, see these
1277 wiki pages: HelpOnLinking, HelpOnMacros
1278 * New wiki markup for /* inline comments */ - they get rendered as a span
1279 with class="comment", see next item:
1280 * There is a new item in the edit bar: "Comments". If you click it, the
1281 visibility of all class "comment" tags will be toggled. There is a user
1282 preferences item "show_comments" to set if the default view shows them or not.
1283 * The wiki parser can be used with css classes now:
1285 This will render output within a div with class "comment".
1286 You can use any wiki markup as usual.
1288 You can also combine multiple css classes like this:
1289 {{{#!wiki red/dotted/comment
1290 This will render a red background, dotted border comment section.
1292 The same thing will work for any other css classes you have.
1293 If the css classes contain the word "comment", they will trigger some
1294 special feature, see next item:
1295 * Wiki nested parser/pre sections work now, using this syntax:
1296 a) just use more curly braces if you have 3 closing in your content:
1298 }}} <- does not terminate the section!
1300 b) use {{{ + some magic string:
1302 }}} <- does not terminate the section!
1304 c) {{{whatever#!python
1307 Pitfall: stuff like below does not work as it did in 1.5:
1315 * Added support for ircs: URLs (secure IRC).
1316 * New text/creole parser that allows you to use WikiCreole 1.0 markup,
1318 * HTML parser (called "html") that allows you to use HTML on the page.
1319 Thanks to the trac team for the nice code.
1320 * Added the diff parser from ParserMarket, thanks to Emilio Lopes, Fabien
1321 Ninoles and Juergen Hermann.
1323 XMLRPC: --------------------------------------------------------------------
1324 * actions_excluded now defaults to ['xmlrpc'] - this kind of disables the
1325 built-in wiki xmlrpc server code (not completely: it will just answer
1326 with a Fault instance for any request). If you want to use xmlrpc v1 or
1327 v2, you have to remove 'xmlrpc' from the actions_excluded list (for
1328 example if you want to use wikisync, mailimport or any other feature
1329 using xmlrpc). If you enable xmlrpc, it will be possible that someone
1330 changes your wiki content by using xmlrpc (it will of course honour ACLs).
1331 * New XMLRPC methods (see doc strings for details):
1333 * system.multicall -- multicall support
1334 * Authentication System: getAuthToken/appyAuthToken
1335 * getDiff -- method to get binary diffs
1336 * mergeDiff -- method to local changes remotely
1337 * interwikiName -- method to get the IWID and the interwiki moniker
1338 * getAllPagesEx -- method to get the pagelist in a special way (revnos,
1339 no system pages etc.)
1340 * getAuthToken -- make and authentication token by supplying username/password
1341 * applyAuthToken -- set request.user for following xmlrpc calls (within the
1343 * getUserProfile -- method to get user profile data for request.user
1344 * Added XMLRPC methods for attachment handling. Thanks to Matthew Gilbert.
1345 * XMLRPC putPage method adjusted to new AuthToken, config vars
1346 xmlrpc_putpage_enabled and xmlrpc_putpage_trusted_only removed.
1348 Scripts / Commandline interface: -------------------------------------------
1349 * moin export dump now better conforms to the theme guidelines.
1350 * Added a --dump-user option to the moin export dump command.
1351 Thanks to Oliver O'Halloran.
1353 Security / Auth / AntiSpam / etc.: -----------------------------------------
1354 * Hierarchical ACLs are now supported, i.e. pages inheriting permissions
1355 from higher-level pages. See HelpOnAccessControlLists.
1356 * If you have "#acl" (without the quotes) on a page, this means now:
1357 "this page has own (empty) ACLs, so do not use acl_rights_default here"
1358 Please note that this is COMPLETELY DIFFERENT from having no ACL line at
1359 all on the page (acl_rights_default is used in that case).
1360 * Antispam master url is now configurable via cfg.antispam_master_url.
1361 The default is to fetch the antispam patterns from MoinMaster wiki.
1362 * Antispam now checks the edit comments against BadContent also.
1363 * TextCHAs (text-form CAPTCHAs).
1364 Due to increasingly annoying wiki spammers, we added the option to use
1365 TextCHAs (for page save (not for preview!), for attachment upload, for
1366 user creation (not for profile save)).
1367 This function is disabled by default. If you run a wiki that is editable
1368 by anonymous or non-approved users from the internet (i.e. All: or Known:
1369 in ACL terms), you should enable it in your wiki config by:
1370 textchas = { # DO NOT USE EXACTLY THESE QUESTIONS!!!
1372 u'H2O is ...': u'water', # bad: too common
1373 u'2 apples and three bananas makes how many fruits?': ur'(five|5)', # good
1374 u'2 apples and three pigs makes how many fruits?': ur'(two|2)', # good
1375 u'2+3': ur'5', # bad: computable
1378 'de': { # for german users
1379 u'H2O ist ...': u'wasser',
1382 This means that english users will get some random question from the 'en'
1383 set, german users will get some from the 'de' set. If there is no 'de'
1384 set configured, moin will fallback to language_default and then to 'en',
1385 so make sure that you at least have a 'en' set configured (or whatever
1386 you have set as language_default).
1387 You need to use unicode for the questions and answers (see that u"...").
1388 For the answer, you need to give a regular expression:
1389 * In the easiest case, this is just some word or sentence (first en
1390 example). It will be matched in a case-insensitive way.
1391 * For more complex stuff, you can use the power of regular expressions,
1392 e.g. if multiple answers are correct (second en example). Any answer
1393 matching the regular expression will be considered as correct, any
1394 non-matching answer will be considered as incorrect.
1396 Tipps for making it hard to break for the spammers and easy for the users:
1397 * Use site-specific (not too common) questions.
1398 * Don't use too hard questions (annoys legitimate users).
1399 * Don't use computable questions.
1400 * Don't reuse textchas from other sites.
1402 textchas_disabled_group = None # (default)
1403 Set this to some group name and noone in this group will get textchas.
1404 E.g.: textchas_disabled_group = u'NoTextChasGroup'
1406 * The login page gives now the possibility to recover a lost password, thanks to
1407 Oliver Siemoneit. This is especially useful for wikis where access to user
1408 preferences is restricted by acl.
1409 * Session handling for logged-in users and (not by default due to expiry
1410 problems) anonymous users.
1411 * Updated the ldap_login code from 1.5 branch, supports TLS now.
1412 See MoinMoin/config/multiconfig.py for supported configuration options
1413 and their defaults (and please just change what you need to change,
1414 in your wikiconfig).
1415 * Interwiki auth: You need to define cfg.trusted_wikis and
1416 cfg.user_autocreate to use it. Logging in works by entering:
1417 Name: RemoteWikiName RemoteUserName
1418 Password: remotepass
1419 Then moin contacts RemoteWikiName after looking it up in the interwiki
1420 map and tries to authenticate there using RemoteUserName and remotepass.
1421 If it succeeds, the remote wiki will return the remote user profile items
1422 and your local moin will autocreate an account with these values.
1424 Server / Network / Logging: ------------------------------------------------
1425 * The standalone server script moved to the toplevel directory. This makes
1426 it possible to directly start moin.py without additional configuration
1427 to run a MoinMoin DesktopEdition like wiki setup.
1428 Be careful: DesktopEdition uses relaxed security settings only suitable
1429 for personal and local use.
1430 * Added TLS/SSL support to the standalone server. Thanks to Matthew Gilbert.
1431 To use TLS/SSL support you must also install the TLSLite library
1432 (http://trevp.net/tlslite/). Version 0.3.8 was used for development and
1435 * cfg.log_reverse_dns_lookups [default: True] - you can set this to False
1436 if rev. dns lookups are broken in your network (leading to long delays
1437 on page saves). With False, edit-log will only contain IP, not hostname.
1438 * Added support for "304 not modified" response header for AttachFile get
1439 and rss_rc actions - faster, less traffic, less load.
1441 * Added logging framework, using stdlib's "logging" module. Just do
1442 import logging ; logging.debug("your text"). Depending on configuration
1443 in the server Config class, your stuff will be written to screen (stderr),
1444 to a moin logfile, to apache's error.log, etc.:
1445 logPath = None # 'moin.log'
1446 loglevel_file = None # logging.DEBUG/INFO/WARNING/ERROR/CRITICAL
1447 loglevel_stderr = None # logging.DEBUG/INFO/WARNING/ERROR/CRITICAL
1448 NOTE: this is NOT in wikiconfig, but e.g. in moin.cgi or moin.py or ...
1450 * Added some experimental and disabled code, that uses x-forwarded-for
1451 header (if present) to get the right "outside" IP before a request
1452 enters our chain of trusted (reverse) proxies.
1453 This code has the problem that we can't configure it in wikiconfig, so
1454 if you want to use it / test it, you have to edit the moin code:
1455 MoinMoin/request/__init__.py - edit proxies_trusted (near the top).
1456 We will try to make this easier to configure, but there was no time left
1457 before 1.6.0 release for doing bigger code refactorings needed for that.
1459 Mail: ----------------------------------------------------------------------
1460 * You can send email to the wiki now (requires xmlrpc), see:
1461 FeatureRequests/WikiEmailIntegration, HelpOnConfiguration/EmailSupport
1463 * Mail notifications contain a link to the diff action so the user
1464 can see the coloured difference more easily. Thanks to Tobias Polzin.
1466 Other changes: =============================================================
1467 * HINT: please copy a new version of your server script from the wiki/server/
1468 directory and edit it to match your setup.
1469 * HINT: instead of "from MoinMoin.multiconfig import DefaultConfig" you
1470 need to use "from MoinMoin.config.multiconfig import DefaultConfig" now.
1471 You need to change this in your wikiconfig.py or farmconfig.py file.
1472 See MoinMoin/multiconfig.py for an alternative way if you can't do that.
1473 * HINT: you need to change some imports (if you have them in your config):
1474 Old: from MoinMoin.util.antispam import SecurityPolicy
1475 New: from MoinMoin.security.antispam import SecurityPolicy
1476 Old: from MoinMoin.util.autoadmin import SecurityPolicy
1477 New: from MoinMoin.security.autoadmin import SecurityPolicy
1478 * HINT: you need to change your auth stuff, the new way is:
1479 from MoinMoin.auth import moin_login, moin_session
1480 from MoinMoin.auth.http import http
1481 auth = [http, moin_login, moin_session]
1482 Do it in a similar way for other auth methods.
1483 * HINT: you need to change your url_prefix setting in 2 ways:
1484 1. The setting is now called url_prefix_static (to make it more clear
1485 that we mean the static stuff, not the wiki script url).
1486 2. The strongly recommended (and default) value of it is '/moin_static160'
1487 for moin version 1.6.0 (and will be ...161 for moin 1.6.1). It is
1488 possible and recommended to use a very long cache lifetime for static
1489 stuff now (Expires: access plus 1 year), because we require to change
1490 the URL of static stuff when the static stuff changes (e.g. on a
1491 version upgrade of moin) to avoid problems with stale cache content.
1492 Your moin will be faster with lower load and traffic because of this.
1493 For standalone server, we use 1 year expiry for static stuff now.
1494 For Apache, Lighttpd and other "external" servers, you have to care
1495 for configuring them to use a long expiry and change url_prefix_static
1496 related configuration on upgrade.
1497 HINT: if you run standalone or Twisted server, the easiest way to get a
1498 working configuration (with server configuration matching wiki
1499 configuration) is to NOT set url_prefix_static at all. Moin will
1500 use matching configuration defaults in this case.
1501 * url_prefix_action ['action'] was introduced for lowering load and traffic
1502 caused by searchengine crawlers. Up to now, crawlers where causing a high
1503 load in internet moin wikis because they tried to get about everything,
1504 including all actions linked from the user interface.
1505 Known crawlers only get 403 for most actions, but nevertheless they first
1506 tried. There was no means keeping them away from actions due to the rather
1507 braindead robots.txt standard. You can only disallow pathes there, but
1508 moin's actions were querystring based, not path based (this would need
1509 regex support in robots.txt, but there is no such thing).
1510 This changed now. Moin is able to generate action URLs you can handle in
1511 robots.txt, like /action/info/PageName?action=info. So if you don't want
1512 bots triggering actions, just disallow /action/ there. Keep in mind that
1513 attachments are handled by /action/AttachFile, so if you want attached
1514 files and pictures indexed by search engine, don't disallow
1515 /action/AttachFile/ in your robots.txt. In order to use this feature,
1516 set url_prefix_action in your wikiconfig to e.g. "action".
1517 * We use (again) the same browser compatibility check as FCKeditor uses
1518 internally, too. So if GUI editor invocation is broken due to browser
1519 compatibility issues or a wrong browser version check, please file a bug
1520 at FCKeditor development or browser development.
1521 * HINT: We removed Lupy based indexed search code. If you were brave enough
1522 to use cfg.lupy_search, you maybe want to try cfg.xapian_search instead.
1524 Developer notes: ===========================================================
1525 * We moved the IE hacks to theme/css/msie.css that gets included after all
1526 other css files (but before the user css file) using a conditional
1527 comment with "if IE", so it gets only loaded for MSIE (no matter which
1528 version). The file has some standard css inside (evaluated on all MSIE
1529 versions) and some * html hacks that only IE < 7 will read.
1530 HINT: if you use custom themes, you want to update them in the same way.
1531 * autofilters for databrowser widget. Thanks to Johannes Berg for the patch.
1532 * changed formatter.attachment_link call (it is now more flexible,
1533 because you can render the stuff between link start and link end yourself)
1534 * Page.url() does not escape any more. You have to use wikiutil.escape()
1535 yourself if you want to write the URL to HTML and it contains e.g. &.
1536 * The testing wikiconfig moved to tests/wikiconfig.py, the testing wiki
1537 is now created in tests/wiki/...
1538 * HINT: Killed "processors" (finally), formatter method changed to:
1539 formatter.parser(parsername, lines)
1540 * Refactored some actions to use ActionBase base class.
1541 * Moved "test" action from wikiaction to MoinMoin/action/
1542 (and use ActionBase).
1543 * Moved MoinMoin/config.py to MoinMoin/config/__init__.py.
1544 * Moved MoinMoin/multiconfig.py to MoinMoin/config/multiconfig.py.
1545 * Moved "SystemInfo" macro from wikimacro to MoinMoin/macro/.
1546 * Moved wikiaction.py stuff to MoinMoin/action/__init__.py.
1547 * Moved wikimacro.py stuff to MoinMoin/macro/__init__.py.
1548 * Moved wikirpc.py stuff to MoinMoin/xmlrpc/__init__.py.
1549 * Moved wikitest.py stuff to action/test.py (only used from there).
1550 * Moved formatter/base.py to formatter/__init__.py (FormatterBase).
1551 * Moved util/ParserBase.py to parser/ParserBase.py.
1552 * Moved / splitted request.py into MoinMoin/request/*.
1553 Most stuff will be broken, please help fixing it (usually some imports
1554 will be missing and the adaptor script will need a change maybe):
1555 Tested successfully: CGI, CLI, STANDALONE, FCGI, TWISTED
1556 * Moved security.py to security/__init__.py.
1557 * Moved wikiacl.py to security/__init__.py.
1558 * Moved logfile/logfile.py to logfile/__init__.py.
1559 * Moved mailimport.py to mail/mailimport.py.
1560 * Moved util/mail.py to mail/sendmail.py.
1561 * Moved auth.py to auth/__init__.py.
1562 Moved util/sessionParser.py to auth/_PHPsessionParser.py.
1563 teared auth code into single modules under auth/* - moin_session handling
1564 and the builting moin_login method are in auth/__init__.py.
1565 * Added wikiutil.MimeType class (works internally with sanitized mime
1566 types because the official ones suck).
1567 * Renamed parsers to module names representing sane mimetypes, e.g.:
1568 parser.wiki -> parser.text_moin_wiki
1569 * Added thread_monitor debugging aid. It can be activated using:
1570 from MoinMoin.util import thread_monitor; thread_monitor.activate_hook()
1571 and then triggered by requesting URL ...?action=thread_monitor - please
1572 be aware that monitoring threads has a big performance impact on its own,
1573 so you only want to temporarily enable this for debugging.
1574 By default, it dumps its output to the data_dir as tm_<timestamp>.log,
1575 you can change this at bottom of action/thread_monitor.py if you want to
1576 see output in your browser.
1577 * Introduced scope parameter to CacheEntry() - if you specify 'farm', it
1578 will cache into a common directory for all wikis in the same farm, if you
1579 specify 'wiki', it will use a cache directory per wiki and if you specify
1580 'item', it will use a cache directory per item (== per page).
1581 Creating a CacheEntry without explicit scope is DEPRECATED.
1582 * Smileys moved from MoinMoin.config to MoinMoin.theme.
1583 * Removed all _ magic in URLs and filenames.
1584 * request.action now has the action requested, default: 'show'.
1585 * Cleaned up duplicated http_headers code and DEPRECATED this function
1586 call (it was sometimes confused with setHttpHeaders call) - it will
1587 vanish with moin 1.7, so please fix your custom plugins!
1589 request.emit_http_headers(more_headers=[])
1590 This call pre-processes the headers list (encoding from unicode, making
1591 sure that there is exactly ONE content-type header, etc.) and then
1592 calls a server specific helper _emit_http_headers to emit it.
1593 Tested successfully: CGI, STANDALONE, FCGI, TWISTED
1594 * setResponseCode request method DEPRECATED (it only worked for Twisted
1595 anyway), just use emit_http_headers and include a Status: XXX header.
1596 Method will vanish with moin 1.7.
1597 * cfg.url_prefix is DEPRECATED, please use cfg.url_prefix_static.
1598 * d['title_link'] is not supported any more. You can easily make that link
1599 on your own in your theme, see example in MoinMoin/theme/__init__.py,
1601 * There is a new Page method called Page.get_raw_body_str that returns
1602 the encoded page body. This is useful if you just deal with byte data
1603 (e.g. while generating binary diffs).
1604 * The TagStore/PickleTagStore system is used to store the syncronisation tags.
1605 * XMLRPC functions may return Fault instances from now on
1606 * Moin got multicall support, including a module that makes it usable on the
1607 client-side without requiring Python 2.4
1608 * Added no_magic to text_html formatter to disable tag autoclosing.
1609 * MOIN_DEBUG can be set in the environment to let MoinMoin ignore exceptions
1610 that would lead to a traceback in the browser. Thanks to Raphael Bossek.
1611 * There is a new MoinMoin.Page.ItemCache class now with automatic cache
1612 invalidation based on global edit-log. We currently use it to cache page
1613 acls, speedup Page.get_rev and reading the page local edit-log.
1614 * Added wikiutil.renderText parse and format raw wiki markup with all page elements.
1615 * The user file format has changed, old files will be read correctly but
1616 will silently be upgraded to the new format so old versions will not
1617 read the new files correctly (this only affects 'subscribed_pages' and
1618 'quicklinks' which will be lost when downgrading.)
1623 * Added timing.log to help performance debugging. Use cfg.log_timing = True
1624 to update <data_dir>/timing.log (default is False, meaning no logging).
1626 Example log entries:
1629 Timestamp PID Timing Flag action URL
1630 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1631 20070512 184401 22690 vvv None moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/RssFeeds
1632 20070512 184401 22690 0.267s - show moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/RssFeeds
1634 Timestamp: YYYYMMDD HHMMSS (UTC)
1635 PID: the process ID of the moin process
1636 Timing: when action starts, it will be "vvv"
1637 when it ends, it logs the total time it needed for execution
1638 Flag (some are only logged at end of action):
1640 - Page does not exist
1641 B user agent was recognized as bot / spider
1642 !x! Action took rather long (the higher the x, the longer it took - this
1643 makes it easy to grep for problematic stuff).
1644 Action: action name (None is when no action was specified, moin assumes
1645 "show" for that case)
1646 URL: the requested URL
1648 For more information about tuning your moin setup, see:
1649 http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/PerformanceTuning
1650 * Added support for ircs, webcal, xmpp, ed2k and rootz protocols - we
1651 moved all protocols to config.url_schemas, so this is not empty any more.
1652 It is possible to use these protocols now on wiki pages and in the
1653 navi_bar. We just generate the URLs, it is up to your browser what it
1654 does when clicking on those links.
1655 * cfg.traceback_show (default: 1) can be used to disable showing tracebacks.
1656 cfg.traceback_log_dir (default: None) can be used to set a directory
1657 that is used to dump traceback files to. Your users will get a notice to
1658 which (random) file in that directory the traceback was been written.
1659 NOTE: while you can feel free to set traceback_show = 0 and
1660 traceback_log_dir = None, we will also feel free to reject bug reports
1661 when you (or your site's users) don't give us enough information (like a
1662 traceback file) to debug the problem. If you set traceback_show = 0,
1663 we recommend pointing traceback_log_dir to a directory with reasonable
1664 free space and putting a page onto your wiki that describes who has to
1665 get contacted (usually the wiki server admin) in case a traceback happens.
1666 The admin can then locate the traceback file and submit it to moin
1668 Of course we will also need all the other details of a bug report, not
1669 only the traceback file.
1672 * Updated spider agents list.
1673 * Reduce bot/spider cpu usage for SystemInfo, OrphanedPages, WantedPages,
1674 PageHits, PageSize, WordIndex macros (we just return nothing for bots).
1677 * XSS fixes, see http://secunia.com/advisories/24138/ (item 1 and 2).
1678 * ACL security fixes:
1679 * MonthCalendar respects ACLs of day pages now.
1680 * Check the ACL for the rst markup include directive.
1681 * Fixed cleaning of edit comments (control chars in there could damage
1683 * Fixed in-process caching of antispam patterns (didn't update the cache
1684 for multi-process, persistent servers).
1685 * Correct encoding/decoding for surge-log data, fixes leftover
1686 surge-logXXXXXXX.tmp files in data/cache/surgeprotect.
1687 * Fixed mode of cache files (mkstemp creates them with 0600 mode).
1688 * Symbolic entities with numbers (like ²) did not work, fixed.
1689 * We open data/error.log earlier now and we also use it for FastCGI.
1690 * Fixed unicode cfg.page_group_regex.
1691 * Fixed moin.spec to use english date format.
1692 * GUI converter: fixed conversion of relative wiki links.
1693 * Fixed NewPage macro button label to not be formatted as wiki text.
1697 * added url_prefix_local which is used for stuff that must be loaded from
1698 same site as the wiki engine (e.g. FCKeditor GUI editor applet), while
1699 url_prefix can be a remote server serving the static files (css/img).
1700 If not set (or set to None), url_prefix_local will default to the value
1702 * We save some CPU and disk I/O by having EditTemplates and LikePages macro
1703 (both used on MissingPage) check whether the requesting entity was
1704 identified as a spider (e.g. search engine bot) and do nothing in that
1705 case. Normal users won't see any difference.
1706 * For AttachFile, you can now choose to overwrite existing files of same
1707 name (nice for updating files).
1711 * fixed unescaped page info display.
1712 * fixed unescaped page name display in AttachFile, RenamePage and
1713 LocalSiteMap actions
1714 * WantedPages listed existing pages that are not readable for the user,
1715 but are linked from pages that ARE readable for the user (so this is NOT
1716 a privacy/security issue). We now don't list those pages any more as it
1717 is pointless/confusing, the user can't read or edit there anyway.
1720 * GUI editor/converter:
1721 * ignore <col>/<colgroup>/<meta> elements
1722 * support <a> within blockquote
1723 * Remove generated=... attribute from pagelink html output (this attr is
1724 for internal use only). w3c validator is now happier again.
1725 * Fixed css class "userpref" (not: "userprefs") of the Login form.
1726 * Fixed the version number check in the xslt parser for 4suite >= 1.0.
1727 * We reset the umask to the wanted value every request. This should fix
1728 wrong file modes when used with Twisted (twistd uses a hardcoded 0077
1729 umask in daemonize()).
1730 * Avoid trouble when saving pages with antispam function when MoinMaster
1731 wiki is having troubles (catch xmlrpc Fault).
1734 * Standalone server does not do reverse DNS lookups any more (this is a
1735 standard feature of BaseHTTPServer stdlib module, but we override this
1736 now and just print the IP).
1737 * We moved the IE hacks to theme/css/msie.css that gets included after all
1738 other css files (but before the user css file) using a conditional
1739 comment with "if IE", so it gets only loaded for MSIE (no matter which
1740 version). The file has some standard css inside (evaluated on all MSIE
1741 versions) and some * html hacks that only IE < 7 will read.
1742 HINT: if you use custom themes, you want to update them in the same way.
1743 * Improved ldap auth:
1744 * cfg.ldap_name_attribute was removed because of new cfg.ldap_filter.
1745 If you had ldap_name_attribute = 'sAMAccountName' before, just use
1746 ldap_filter = '(sAMAccountName=%(username)s)' now.
1747 * New cfg.ldap_filter used for the ldap filter string used in the ldap
1748 search instead of the rather limited, partly hardcoded filter we used
1749 before. This is much more flexible:
1750 ldap_filter = '(sAMAccountName=%(username)s)'
1751 You can also do more complex filtering expressions like:
1752 '(&(cn=%(username)s)(memberOf=CN=WikiUsers,OU=Groups,DC=example,DC=org))'
1753 * Added some processing to filter out result entries with dn == None.
1754 * We set REFERRALS option to 0 before initializing the ldap server
1755 connection (this seems to be needed for Active Directory servers).
1756 * We support self-signed ssl certs for ldaps - completely untested.
1757 * New cfg.ldap_surname_attribute (usually 'sn'), was hardcoded before.
1758 * New cfg.ldap_givenname_attribute (usually 'givenName'), hardcoded before.
1759 * New cfg.ldap_aliasname_attribute (usually 'displayName') - if this
1760 attribute is not there or empty (in the results of the ldap lookup for
1761 the user), we just make up the aliasname from surname and givenname
1763 * We only request the attributes we need from ldap (was: all attrs).
1764 * We deny user login (and break out of auth chain) for the following cases:
1765 * if a user is not found by ldap lookup
1766 * if we find more than one matching entry
1767 * if the password is empty or incorrect
1768 * if some exception happens
1769 * Please note that there is an updated ldap sample config in directory
1770 wiki/config/more_samples/.
1771 * Added experimental LDAP SSL/TLS support (untested, please help testing),
1772 see also the sample config.
1773 * Work around a IE7 rendering problem with long pages getting more and
1774 more narrow. We just applied the same "fix" as we used for IE6, using
1775 "display: none" for span.anchor for IE browsers.
1777 * We used to emit a <link> tag for the action=rss_rc RSS feed on any
1778 page. This was changed, we now emit that link only on RecentChanges and
1779 the current user's language translation of RecentChanges.
1780 This was changed because Google Toolbar requests the RSS feed linked
1781 by such a link tag every time it sees one. Thus, if you used the wiki
1782 normally, it requested the RSS feed every few seconds and caused
1783 problems due to surge protection kicking in because of that.
1784 * HINT for custom theme users: if your theme code calls
1785 rsslink(), then you need to change that to rsslink(d) for 1.5.7+.
1789 A general security notice:
1790 Check your Python version, there was a buffer overflow issue in Python
1791 recently! Details: http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/PythonUnicodeEscapeBug
1794 * Fix AttributeError traceback with Standalone server (if_modified_since)
1795 * Fix AttachFile "304 not modified" and redirect status code for Twisted
1796 * http auth: we now decode username and password to unicode (using
1797 config.charset == utf-8). Same for SSL client cert auth and CN.
1798 * Avoid infinite recursion in Page.parsePageLinks.
1799 * Fixed standalone server failing to shutdown if interface == "".
1800 * Now MoinMoin does not think anymore that every page links to various user
1802 * Made the irssi parser more tolerant (Thanks to "TheAnarcat").
1803 * Now multiple formatters can be used per request, the send_page code was
1804 not reentrant to this regard. Fixes "empty" search results.
1805 * Fixed problem with "=" in ImageLink macro links.
1806 * Not a moin bug, but a silly stdlib os.tempnam function made trouble to
1807 some people because it lets you override the path given in the code
1808 by setting the environment variable TMP(DIR). We now use a different
1809 function to avoid renaming trouble when TMP(DIR) points to a different
1811 * Fixed antispam update on every save (Thanks to "TheAnarcat").
1812 * GUI converter: don't throw away rowclass for tables.
1813 * GUI editor formatter: allow height for table cells.
1814 * GUI editor formatter: comment texts are output using the formatter now.
1817 * Mail notifications contain a link to the diff action so the user
1818 can see the coloured difference more easily. Thanks to Tobias Polzin.
1819 * FeatureRequests/MoveAttachments - you can move attachments from one
1820 page to another (and also rename the attachment at the same time).
1821 Thanks to Reimar Bauer.
1822 * Added support for linking to attachment: and inline: URLs with ImageLink.
1823 * Added UNIX socket support for FastCGI, just set the port to some (socket)
1825 * [[Attachlist(pagename,mimetype)]] lists attachments of pagename (default:
1826 current page) with optional mimetype restriction (default: all).
1827 Thanks to Reimar Bauer.
1830 * Minor performance improvements (might be noticeable if you have many
1831 custom navi_bar entries and high server load).
1832 * Avoid usage of no-cache because it breaks attachment download on IE6.
1833 This is a IE bug, not a moin bug.
1834 * Added XHTML to the unsafe list.
1835 * Changed the rst parser to be compatible to the new docutils interface
1837 * Updated EmbedObject macro.
1842 * fixed ticket creation to only use constant values
1845 HINT: read docs/README.migration.
1846 HINT: there was NO change in the underlay/ pages since 1.5.4.
1847 HINT: If you experience problems with the reStructured Text (rst) parser,
1848 please downgrade docutils to "0.4" because there were major interface
1849 breaking API refactorings on the docutils trunk.
1855 * Not a moin bug, but it severely annoyed IE users and also was less
1856 comfortable for users of other browser: since about 1.5.4, we served
1857 attachments with Content-Disposition: attachment - so that the user has
1858 to save them to disk. This was to fix a possible XSS attack using attached
1859 HTML files with Javascript inside for stealing your moin cookie or doing
1860 other nasty things. We improved this by using different behaviour depending
1861 on the potential danger the attached file has when served inline:
1862 mimetypes_xss_protect = ['text/html', 'application/x-shockwave-flash', ]
1863 This is the default value. If you know more dangerous stuff, please just
1864 add the mimetypes there to protect your users and file a bug report
1865 telling us what we missed.
1868 * Make tickets used for some actions more safe.
1871 * edit_ticketing [True] - we protect page save by a ticket (same stuff we
1872 already use for DeletePage and RenamePage action).
1873 NOTE: If you don't use your browser for editing, but some tool like
1874 "editmoin" or "MoinMoin plugin for jEdit", you'll need an update
1875 of them supporting the ticket.
1876 Alternatively, you can use edit_ticketing = False setting - this
1877 is not recommended for internet wikis as it will make spamming them
1879 * If we detect some spammer, we kick him out by triggering surge protection
1880 (if surge protection is not disabled).
1885 * Fixed gui editor converter confusing of `` and {{{}}} markup.
1886 * Fixed emission of HTTP headers (esp. Vary: Cache-Control:).
1887 * Fixed a bad crash that happens (on ANY page!) when you put a *Dict
1888 page's name as a member into a *Group page.
1889 * Fix MyPages action title to use an unformatted string.
1890 * Fix double quoted-printable encoding in generated emails (note: this is
1891 not a moin bug - this just works around bugs in python stdlib).
1892 * Fix mode of drawing files (use config.umask).
1893 * Fix trouble with /?action= urls by dropping getPageNameFromQueryString
1895 * Fixed sre unpickle issues seen on some machines by avoiding to pickle
1897 * Fix Clock code, add more timers.
1898 * Worked around FastCGI problem on Lighttpd: empty lines in the error log.
1899 * Fix (add) locking for caching's .remove() call, small fixes to lock code.
1900 * Print error message when --target-dir=path is missing from moin export
1904 * Added support for "304 not modified" response header for AttachFile get
1905 and rss_rc actions - faster, less traffic, less load.
1906 * Limit rss with full diffs to 5 items.
1907 * Allow surge_action_limits = None to disable surge protection.
1908 * moin.fcg improved - if you use FastCGI, you must use the new file:
1909 * can self-terminate after some number of requests (default: -1, this
1910 means "unlimited lifetime")
1911 * the count of created threads is limited now (default: 5), you can use
1912 1 to use non-threaded operation.
1913 * configurable socket.listen() backlog (default: 5)
1914 * Added indonesian i18n (id).
1915 * Some measures against spammers trying to brute force their spam into moin.
1916 * EmbedObject macro: added mov, mpg and midi support
1917 * moin ... export dump --target-dir=PATH --page=PAGENAME_REGEX
1918 You must specify --target-dir (where dump will write the html files to)
1919 and you may specify --page and either a page name or a regex used to
1920 match all pages you want to export. Default is to export all pages.
1924 * more efficient locking code on POSIX platforms, we do much less I/O
1926 * removed most chmod calls in favour of a single os.umask call
1927 * Improved Python 2.5 compatibility. Note: if you think that MoinMoin
1928 is using too much RAM, you might want to look at Python 2.5 because
1929 of its improved memory management.
1930 * Throw away SAVE comments longer than 200 chars (you can't enter those by
1931 the user interface, so only spammer using automatic POSTs do them).
1932 * Updated spider user agent list.
1933 * BadContent and LocalBadContent now get noindex,nofollow robots header,
1935 * Standalone opens it logfile unbuffered from now on, thanks to
1937 * Avoid trouble when request.write() data contains None, just skip it -
1938 thanks to Juergen Hermann.
1939 * Instead of showing a ConfigurationError, moin now emits "404 Not found"
1940 http headers and a hint about what could be wrong. This won't fill up
1941 your logs just because of typos and spiders still trying old URLs.
1945 HINT: read docs/README.migration.
1946 Version 1.5.4-current:
1947 * increased maxlength of some input fields from 80 to 200
1949 Version 1.5.current:
1951 * We switched to Mercurial SCM, see here for more infos:
1952 http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/MoinDev/MercurialGuide
1955 * fix MonthCalendar macro for non-ASCII pagenames (thanks to Jonas Smedegaard)
1956 * remove 'search' and 'google' from bot user agent list and add some more
1958 * Fix the forgotten password email login URL and also properly encode the
1959 email body. Thanks to Robin Dunn for the patch.
1960 * Applied a patch by Matthew Gilbert for increased compatiblity with
1966 * Added CSS classes for TableOfContents macro.
1969 * GUI editor / GUI editor converter:
1970 * Fixed missing GUI editor link in edit bar.
1971 * Fixed table/row/cell style spaces.
1972 * Changed <p> generation for macros.
1973 * Fixed handling of subpages.
1974 * Fixed processing of complex list elements (thanks to Craig Markwardt).
1975 * Fixed processing of html \n (thanks to Craig Markwardt).
1976 * Fixed joining of comment lines with text below them.
1977 * Fixed table height attribute crash.
1978 * Fixed sslclientcert auth.
1979 * Added some missing files to i18n processing, translatable strings more
1981 * Change <p> generation from self-closing (<p />) to auto-closing (only
1982 emit <p>, let browser find place for </p>).
1983 * Fix eating of newline before tables.
1984 * Fixed incorrect login hint for not logged-in users trying a disallowed
1986 * Fixed nasty missing or double </a> formatter bug (mostly happening when
1987 user has enabled questionmarks for nonexisting pages).
1990 * We catch and ignore html to wiki conversion errors in case of hitting
1991 the cancel button, so you can get out of the error screen.
1995 * Modified SystemInfo macro to give human readable units and disk usage
1996 * cfg.editor_quickhelp makes the quick help below the editor configurable
1997 (at least as far as the default_markup is concerned). If set to None,
1998 it doesn't display any quickhelp. Thanks to Seth Falcon for the patch.
2001 * Fixed double class attribute for nonexistent links
2002 * Fixed double </a> with qm_noexist option
2003 * Fixed table xxx="yyy" style attribute parsing
2004 * If not (editor_force and editor_default == 'text') then display GUI mode
2005 switch button (this is only a partial fix, but enough to deny the GUI
2006 mode to your users completely)
2007 * Fixed XSS issue which could lead to cookie theft etc.
2008 * Fixed definition list "same level" indenting.
2009 * Fixed pagename in log for PackagePages action.
2010 * Made <p> self-closing and line-anchors more well-behaved, thanks to
2011 Martin Wilck for the patch. I didn't apply the <ol> patch, because this
2012 is no real problem, just a problem of a bad standard.
2013 * Fixed gui editor *bgcolor crash.
2014 * Support/Fix tableclass attr with gui editor.
2017 * Moved back UserPreferences action link from menu to top of page (renaming
2018 it to "Preferences"), added "Cancel" button to make it possible to return
2019 to the previous page without saving preferences.
2020 * Removed formatter.url "attrs" keyword arg that took premade html, we use
2021 separate kw args per attribute now.
2022 * Moved broken tests to MoinMoin/_tests/broken (= disabling them).
2023 All "active" tests run ok now.
2024 If you want to compare, I included the output of this test run:
2025 $ make test >tests/make_test.out
2031 * HINT: please read README.migration
2032 * Login and Logout are actions now, therefore you stay on the page where
2034 * UserPreferences is also an action now and moved from top border (in
2035 modern theme) to the "more actions" dropdown menu. You also stay on the
2037 * There is also a [[Login]] macro now. You can put it on any page you want
2038 and if the user is not logged in, it renders the login form. If the user
2039 is logged in, it doesn't render anything.
2040 * We check cfg.superuser to be a list of user names (as documented) and
2041 deny superuser access if it is not. This avoids security issues by
2042 wrong configuration.
2043 * auth methods changed:
2044 HINT: if you wrote own auth methods, please change them as you see in
2045 MoinMoin/auth.py and test them again before relying on them.
2046 * now get a user_obj kw argument that is either a user object returned
2047 from a previous auth method or None (if no user has been made up yet).
2048 The auth method should either return a user object (if it has
2049 determined one) or what it got as user_obj (being "passive") or None
2050 (if it wants to "veto" some user even if a previous method already has
2051 made up some user object).
2052 * return value of continue_flag is now True in most cases (except if
2053 it wants to "veto" and abort).
2054 * moin_cookie auth method now logs out a user by deleting the cookie and
2055 setting user_obj.valid = 0. This makes it possible to still get the
2056 user's name in subsequent auth method calls within the same request.
2057 * added ldap_login and smb_mount auth methods, see MoinMoin/auth.py and
2058 wiki/config/more_samples/ldap_smb_farmconfig.py
2059 * MonthCalendar now takes an additional argument for specifying a template
2060 to use to directly invoke the page editor when clicking on non-existing
2062 * Added ImageLink macro. Thanks to Jeff Kunce, Marcin Zalewski, Reimar
2063 Bauer and Chong-Dae Park for working on it.
2064 * Lupy stuff (still experimental, partly broken and disabled by default):
2065 * Attachment search using lupy (lupy_search = 1 in your config)
2066 Title search will also search attachment filenames.
2067 Full text search will also search attachment contents.
2069 Some filters depend on external converters that might not be available
2070 for any platform (see Depends: line in filter plugin).
2071 Feel free to contribute more filter plugins, especially if you wrote
2072 some nice platform independant filter in Python for some popular file
2073 format! Filters implemented so far (depending on):
2074 MS Word, RTF, MS Excel (antiword, catdoc)
2076 OpenOffice.org XML based data formats (-)
2079 JPEG's EXIF data (-)
2081 * As you might know, Lupy is "retired" (that means it isn't developped
2082 by its authors any more). We are currently evaluating Xapian as new
2083 indexing search engine in moin.
2084 If we succeed, we will replace Lupy stuff by some Xapian interface
2086 But: the filters will likely stay, as we also need them with Xapian.
2088 * A new MoinMoin script interface was introduced:
2090 Syntax: moin [options] <cmdmodule> <cmdname> [options]
2093 moin --config-dir=/my/cfgdir --wiki-url=wiki.example.org/ \
2094 export dump --page=WikiSandBox
2096 This will call the "moin" script, which will use the --config-dir and
2097 --wiki-url options to initialize, then it will go to MoinMoin.script
2098 module, import the export.dump module from there and run it, providing
2099 the additional --page value to it.
2101 The old scripts that have not been migrated to this new interface can
2102 still be found in MoinMoin/script/old/ - including the old migration
2104 * moin ... account create --name=JoeDoe --email=joe@doe.org
2105 * moin ... account disable --name=JoeDoe
2106 * moin ... acount check <-- this is what usercheck script was before
2107 * moin ... maint cleancache <-- this is what cachecleaner script was
2108 * moin ... maint cleanpage <-- this is what pagescleaner script was
2111 * cookie_lifetime didn't work comfortable for low values. The cookie was
2112 created once on login and never updated afterwards. So you got logged
2113 out cookie_lifetime hours later, no matter whether you were active at
2114 that time or not. This has been changed, we update the cookie expiry now
2115 on every request, so it will expire cookie_lifetime after your last
2116 request (not after login).
2117 * Fixed logout problems when using cfg.cookie_path.
2118 * Fixed cookie_path for root url wikis.
2119 * Lupy search now behaves a bit less funky. Still no guarantees...
2120 * We lowered the twisted server timeout to 2 minutes now (was: 10) because
2121 it just used up too many files (open TCP connections until it timeouts)
2123 * The algorithm used for processing the farmconfig.wikis list was changed
2124 to work for big farms (>= 50 wikis), too. This works around the python
2125 "re" module limitation of having a maximum of 100 named groups in a RE.
2126 * Fixed a TypeError which occurred for formatters that dislike None values.
2128 * Fixed GUI editor converter error for https:... image URLs.
2129 * ThemeBase (use by modern/rightsidebar): removed duplicate AttachFile from
2130 actions menu (we already have it in editbar).
2131 * Speedup group/dicts scanning for persistent servers.
2132 * Implemented HEAD requests for standalone server, this should fix some of
2133 the strange effects happening when using "Save as" on attachments.
2134 * Not a moin bug, but rather a workaround for non-standard non-ASCII DNS
2135 hostnames: we just use the IP instead of crashing now.
2136 * Spurious cyclic usage error in i18n fixed.
2137 * Fixed antispam for python 2.5a xmlrpclib.
2138 * I18n for linenumber toggle in listings.
2139 * All action menu entries are translatable now.
2142 * Added css classes for the rst admonitions. Thanks to TiagoMacambira!
2147 * Added FullSearchCached macro which is statically cached.
2148 Use it if you do not depend on fresh search results but prefer raw speed.
2149 * Added surge protection, see HelpOnConfiguration/SurgeProtection.
2150 * Allow hex and symbolic entities.
2151 * If there is a user with empty password, we just generate a random one
2152 when he requests it getting sent by mail. Thanks to Reimar Bauer.
2153 * The superuser now can switch to another user using UserPreferences -
2154 nice to help your users when they forgot their password or need other
2155 help. You need to logout/relogin to use your own userid afterwards.
2156 This function only works correctly if you use moin_cookie authentication.
2157 Thanks to Reimar Bauer.
2158 * Add new markup for bulletless lists: just use a "." instead of "*".
2161 * Added "voyager" to bot useragent list.
2162 * Added locking for caching subsystem.
2163 * Deron Meranda's formatter API cleanup.
2164 * Added div and span to formatter API.
2165 * Removed old unfinished form and export code.
2169 * Fixed table attribute parsing.
2170 * Fixed cookie handling wrt properties adherance.
2171 * The new "." list markup makes it possible to have a bulletless list with
2172 elements on the same level. Before this change and only using indentation
2173 with blanks, that would get merged into a single paragraph.
2174 * It is possible now to have multiple paragraphs in the same list element,
2175 just leave an empty line in between the paragraphs.
2176 * Fixed GAP processing for ordered lists.
2177 * Fix text_gedit formatter's invalid list nesting.
2178 * Fixed hr crash in blockquote (but needs more work).
2179 * Fixed FootNote's formatter usage.
2180 * Fixed rst's headline levels.
2183 * Fixed that macros were followed by a wrong <p>.
2184 * Added <blockquote> to the block elements in the text_html formatter,
2185 so it does not close it erratically when you close a inner <p>.
2186 * GUI editor converter now also accept http: urls without // (relative or
2188 * Fixed the DocBook parser in cases where the pagename was non-ascii.
2195 * Fixed rst parser docutils version check
2196 * Repaired attachment unzipping feature.
2197 * Fixed the AddRevision command of the PackageInstaller.
2198 * improved the migration scripts (used to migrate pre-1.3 wikis to 1.3+):
2199 * do not crash on empty lines in event log
2200 * fix edit log format for very old moin data (like 0.11)
2201 * workaround for an ugly win32 operating system bug leading to wiki text
2202 file mtime not matching edit logs timestamp values if there was some
2203 timezone change since last edit (e.g. a daylight saving tz switch),
2204 but differing 3600s.
2205 This affected pre-1.3 moin wiki servers running on win32 OS only.
2206 We now try to correct those inconsistencies in mig05 by fuzzy matching.
2207 * fixed bracketed link scheme icon (css class)
2208 * we included a modified copy of Python 2.4.2's copy.py as some previous
2209 python versions seem to have problems (2.3.x, x < 5 and also 2.4[.0]),
2211 Our own copy.py was slightly modified to run on 2.3.x and 2.4.x.
2212 * Fixed the problem of not being able to change the date/time format back
2213 to "Default" (UserPreferences).
2214 * We generate the GUI editor footer now the same way as the text editor
2216 * Include a CSS workaround for yet another IE bug, see:
2217 MoinMoinBugs:InternetExplorerPeekABooBugInRightSideBar
2218 * classic theme: added GUI editor link
2219 * classic theme: added pagename header to editor screen
2220 * the "mail enabled" check now also checks whether mail_from is set
2223 * Updated FCKeditor to current CVS (2006-01-08 == 2.2+)
2224 * Split up show_hosts into show_hosts and show_names
2225 * attachment:file%20with%20spaces.txt in attachment list
2226 * added support for file:// in GUI editor link dialogue, see also:
2228 * cfg.mail_smarthost now supports "server:port" syntax, the default port
2230 * removed unused kwargs showpage/editable/form from wikiutil.send_footer
2231 * updated i18n (translation texts, additional languages)
2232 * removed interwiki:pagename from print view's top of page, added it to
2233 the "lasted edited" line at bottom right.
2237 HINT: 1.5.0 uses the same data/pages format as 1.3.x. The only thing you want
2238 to check is whether the 1.5.x version you are upgrading to has NEW mig
2239 scripts compared to the version you are running now (e.g. in 1.3.5 we
2240 added some scripts that fixed some small problems).
2241 See the MoinMoin/scripts/migration/ directory.
2242 You must run every mig script in sequence and only ONCE ever.
2244 * Fix <x=y> table attributes parsing. Thanks to Reimar Bauer.
2245 * Fixed a few bugs in the reStructured text parser. Note that you
2246 need to install docutils 0.3.10 or newer (snapshot from December 2005
2247 or newer) to make reStructuring parsing work:
2248 * Case preservation for anonymous links
2249 * MoinMoin links get the appropriate CSS class
2250 * Images do not get special CSS markup anymore
2251 Thanks to Matthew Gilbert.
2252 * Fixed a bug in the WSGI code which led to incorrect exception handling.
2253 * Removed all nationality flags. They used to be used for indicating some
2254 specific language (NOT nationality) and this was simply wrong and a bad
2256 * Fixed some header rendering issues (CSS).
2257 * SystemAdmin macro now checks against cfg.superuser list.
2260 * Added turkish i18n. To be considered as alpha as it got in last minute.
2264 This is the first release candidate of MoinMoin 1.5.0.
2267 * fixed broken logs when a DeletePage (maybe also RenamePage) comment
2268 contained CR/LF characters (could happen when using copy&paste)
2269 * fixed GUI editor MoinEditorBackup page containing HTML instead of wiki
2271 * fixed invalid HTML in FootNotes
2272 * fixed HTML source in EditorBackup after canceling GUI editor
2273 * Footnotes of included pages are not shown at the bottom of the including page.
2274 * Bug in Dict handling that often breaks first entry
2278 * Added SSO module for PHP based apps. Currently supported: eGroupware 1.2.
2279 No need to login in two systems anymore - MoinMoin will read the PHP session
2283 * Improved rendering of bullet lists and external links in Restructured text.
2284 Thanks to Matthew Gilbert.
2285 * Fixed modern theme rendering, including some fixes and workarounds for
2287 * When checking for email uniqueness, do not compare with disabled user
2289 * Fix sending of HTTP headers for Despam action.
2290 * Add some margin left and right of the link icons.
2293 * Made it easier for auth methods needing a user interface (like ldap or
2294 mysql stuff). Unlike http auth, they usually need some "login form".
2295 We made UserPreferences login form values (name, password, login, logout)
2296 available as kw args of the auth method, so it is easy and obvious now.
2297 * Make login and logout show at the same place. Is only shown when
2298 show_login is True (default).
2299 * Disabled login using &uid=12345.67.8910 method. Please use name/password.
2300 * Made builtin moin_cookie authentication more modular: the cookie is now
2301 touched by MoinMoin.auth.moin_cookie only, with one minor discomfort:
2302 When creating a user, you are not automatically logged in any more.
2303 * We now use the packager for additional help and system pages in all other
2304 languages except English. The packages are attached to SystemPagesSetup
2305 page and can be installed from there after getting "superuser" powers.
2306 The "extra" package contains a collection of orphan pages not listed on
2307 some SystemPagesIn<Language>Group page.
2312 * Fixed a minor user interface bug: it showed RenamePage and DeletePage
2313 actions in the menu if you only had write rights and then complained
2314 when you really tried when you had no delete rights additionally.
2315 * We don't remove RenamePage and DeletePage from menu any more if user is
2316 unknown. This stuff is only driven by ACLs now.
2317 * Some fixes to Despam action.
2318 * Fixed moin_dump (broken by some recent theme init change).
2319 * Fixed a few tests by moving the theme init from moin_dump to RequestCLI.
2320 * removed old_onload reference from infobox.js
2321 * Fixed MoinMoin logo for IE.
2322 * search: fixed whitespace handling in linkto: search terms
2323 * Increased stability of the tests system by outputting results to sys.stdout
2324 instead of request. Note that this changes the semantics for e.g. mod_py or
2326 * Fixed packaging system in the case of AddRevision that does not alter the page.
2327 * Fixed a few bugs in the XML formatters (dom_xml, text_xml, xml_docbook).
2328 * Fixed link icons. We now just use a.xxx.before where xxx is the link scheme,
2329 e.g. a.http.before. See theme's common.css.
2330 * Hopefully fixed some issue with non-ASCII attachment filenames.
2331 * Workaround for Opera 8.5 making silly "No addition" categories.
2332 * Do not show GUI editor for non-wiki format pages, because we only have a
2333 converter from html to wiki right now.
2334 * Fix the modern CSS issues for editbar, when it shifted content far right.
2335 Also removed the absolute height value that never was right.
2336 * Fix mod_python adaptor bugs failing to handle Location correctly.
2337 See: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=339543
2340 * Added irc:// to the builtin supported link schemas. You can remove it
2341 from config.url_schemas in case you have patched it in there.
2342 * Added cfg.user_autocreate (default: False). Use True to enable user
2343 profile autocreation, e.g. when you use http authentication, so your
2344 externally authenticated users don't need to create their moin profile
2345 manually. The auth method (see cfg.auth list) must check this setting
2346 if it supports auto creation.
2347 * Added user_autocreate support for auth.http and auth.sslclientcert.
2348 * Added "." and "@" to allowed characters in usernames. This is needed
2349 e.g. when using mod_pubcookie for authentication. mod_pubcookie returns
2350 userids like "geek@ANDREW.CMU.EDU" (e.g. the Kerberos domain is part of
2351 the id). Thanks to Brian E. Gallew for his patch, which we used for
2352 inspiration for user autocreation changes.
2353 * Changed auth method to return a tuple (user_obj, continue_flag), see
2354 comments in auth.py.
2355 * auth methods now create user objects with kw args auth_method and
2356 auth_attribs, so that moin knows later how the user was authenticated
2357 and which user object attributes were determined by the auth method.
2358 * Added MoinMoin/scripts/import/IrcLogImporter.py to import supybot's
2359 IRC logs into a moin wiki. We use MonthCalendar compatible page names,
2360 so you can use the calendar for showing / navigating the logs.
2361 * Removed packager binary from FCKeditor (fixing a Debian policy problem).
2362 * Worked around .png transparency bugs of IE with the new logo. We ship
2363 two logos: moinmoin.png without an alpha channel (IE compatible) and
2364 moinmoin_alpha.png which has an alpha channel and looks better on
2365 browsers with full .png support.
2366 * Allow a .zip file to have a directory in it if it is the only one.
2370 * use <span class="anchor"> instead of <a> for line-xxx anchors, this
2371 fixes some rendering problems on IE
2372 * Fixed the ReStructured text parser when it was used with non-HTML
2373 formatters. Increased compatiblity with new docutils code.
2374 (Thanks to Matt Gilbert.)
2376 * cfg.stylesheets = [] (default). You can use this on wiki or farm level
2377 to emit stylesheets after the theme css and before the user prefs css.
2378 The list entries must be ('screen', '/where/ever/is/my.css') style.
2379 * Added sample code for auth using an external cookie made by some other
2380 program. See contrib/auth_externalcookie/*. You need to edit it to
2381 fit whatever cookie you want to use.
2385 * fixed editor preview throwing away page content for new pages
2386 * require POST for userform save and create* action
2387 * use request.normalizePagename() while collecting pagelinks
2388 * do not offer gui editor for safari
2390 * tell user if account is disabled
2391 * added support for linking to .ico and .bmp
2392 * attachment methods for the text_xml and xml_docbook formatters
2394 * updated i18n (fixed nl, did nobody notice this?) and underlay
2395 * changed show_interwiki default to 0
2400 * fix gui editor (converter) crash on save
2403 * Avoid destroying existing page content if editor is called with
2404 template parameter for an existing page.
2405 * fix countdown javascript for browser status line in editor
2406 * added page title display for editor
2407 * added header div for classic theme
2409 Authentication and related:
2410 * Added a WhoAmI.py wiki xmlrpc plugin to check whether auth works
2411 correctly for xmlrpc. There is a counterpart script WhoAmI.py that
2412 uses http auth when calling the xmlrpc plugin, so you can use it to
2416 * Requirements changed to require Python >= 2.3. We recommend that
2417 you use the latest Python release you can get. The reason we
2418 dropped 2.2.2 support is because no developer or tester uses this
2419 old version any more, so incompatibilities crept in the code
2420 without anybody noticing. Using some recent Python usually is no
2421 real problem, see there for some hints in case you still run an
2422 old python: http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/NewPythonOnOldLinux
2423 The hint also does apply to other POSIX style operating systems,
2425 * We recommend you use MoinMoin/scripts/cachecleaner.py to clean the
2426 wiki's cache (see comments at top of the script).
2427 The cache will automatically be rebuilt (some operations may take
2428 some time when first being used, e.g. linkto: search, so be patient!).
2431 * there is a file CHANGES.config with just the recently changed stuff
2434 * page_front_page old: u"FrontPage" new: u"HelpOnLanguages"
2435 please just read the help page in case you see it :)
2436 * bang_meta old: 0 new: 1
2437 * show_section_numbers old: 1 new: 0
2438 * some regexes that used to be [a-z]Uxxxx$ are now [a-z0-9]Uxxxx$
2439 * navi_bar has no page_front_page as first element any more
2440 * removed settings and code [new behaviour]:
2442 * allow_extended_names [1]
2443 * allow_numeric_entities [1]
2445 * allow_subpages [1]
2447 * cfg.mail_sendmail = "/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i" can be used if sending
2448 via SMTP doesn't work on your server. Default is None and that means
2450 * language_default replaces the old default_lang setting (just renamed).
2451 * language_ignore_browser = True can be used to let moin ignore the
2452 user's browser settings (e.g. if you run a local-language only wiki
2453 and your users use misconfigured or buggy browsers often). Default is
2454 False. Don't forget to set language_default when using this.
2456 * Wiki Editor changes / new WYSIWYG editor
2457 * fully imported the javascript based LGPLed FCKeditor (many thanks
2458 to Fred CK for his great work). See http://fckeditor.net/ for details.
2459 * config for FCKeditor is at wiki/htdocs/applets/moinfckeditor.js
2460 * added cfg.interwiki_preferred (default = []) to set a list of wikis to
2461 show at the top of the wiki selection list when inserting an
2462 interwiki link (just use the same wiki name as in interwiki
2463 map). If the last list item is None, then the preferred wikis
2464 will not be followed by the entries of the interwiki map.
2465 * moved save/preview/... buttons to the top so that they can be
2467 * reduced edit_rows default to 20 lines
2468 * Added support for edit by doubleclick in the diff view
2470 * Improved wiki farm support
2471 * make user files sharable between several wikis in a farm
2472 * allow/use interwiki subscriptions
2473 * use interwiki links in page trail
2474 * save bookmark per wiki name
2475 * cfg.cookie_domain can be used to set a cookie valid for a complete
2476 domain (default: None == only for this host). If you use '.domain.tld',
2477 the cookie will be valid for all hosts *.domain.tld - good for host
2479 * cfg.cookie_path can be used to set a cookie valid for a wiki farm under
2480 some base path (default: None == only for this wiki's path). If you use
2481 '/wikifarm', the cookie will be valid for all wikis
2482 server.tld/wikifarm/* - good for path based wiki farms.
2483 * Interwiki user homepage (if you have MANY users)
2484 Generated links for usernames are interwiki now, use cfg.user_homewiki
2485 (default: 'Self') to specify in which wiki the user home pages are
2486 located. Note: when pointing this to another wiki, the /MoinEditorBackup
2487 functionality will be disabled.
2488 @SIG@ also uses interwiki when needed.
2490 * Authentication, ACLs and related
2491 * Modular authentication: cfg.auth is a list of functions that return a
2492 valid user or None, use it like this:
2493 from MoinMoin.auth import http, moin_cookie
2494 auth = [http, moin_cookie]
2495 * cfg.auth_http_enabled was removed, please use cfg.auth instead.
2496 * http auth now supports "Negotiate" scheme, too
2497 * Added sslclientcert auth method (Apache: untested, Twisted: not
2498 implemented, IIS: no idea). See MoinMoin/auth.py for details.
2499 Submit a patch if you have improvements.
2500 * cfg.superuser is a list of unicode usernames. It is used by some
2501 critical operations like despam action or PackageInstaller.
2502 * removed allowed_actions, we now use actions_excluded only and it
2503 defaults to [], that means, no action is excluded, everything is
2504 allowed (limited by ACLs). In case of RenamePage and DeletePage,
2505 this shouldn't be a problem as both can be reverted. In case you
2506 did not allow attachments, you now have to use:
2507 actions_excluded = ['AttachFile']
2508 * special users (All, Known, Trusted) in Groups are now supported
2509 * MoinMoin.security.autoadmin SecurityPolicy added
2510 When using this security policy, a user will get admin rights on his
2511 homepage (where pagename == username) and its sub pages. This is needed
2512 for the MyPages action, but can also get used for manual ACL changes.
2513 It can also be used for Project page auto admin functionality, see the
2514 comments in the script for details.
2515 Further it can automatically create the user's group pages when the
2516 user saves his homepage.
2517 * there is a UpdateGroup xmlrpc call, see MoinMoin/xmlrpc/UpdateGroup.py -
2518 you can use this to update your *Group pages e.g. when generating them
2519 from an external group database.
2521 * UserPreferences changes
2522 * Alias name: is used for display purposes, when "name" is cryptic. It is
2523 shown e.g. in the title attribute of userid links (displayed when
2524 moving the mouse over it).
2525 * "Publish my email (not my wiki homepage) in author info" - use this
2526 if you don't have a wiki homepage, but if you want to be contactable
2527 by email. When you edit a page, your email address will be published
2528 as mailto: link on RecentChanges, at bottom of page (last editor) and
2529 in page info. If the wiki runs publically on the internet, be careful
2530 using this or your email address might be collected by spammers.
2531 * Preferred Editor: whether you want to use the text editor (as in
2532 previous moin versions), the gui editor (new!) or both (you will get
2533 2 edit links in that case).
2534 * a user can add/remove the current page to/from his quicklinks with an
2535 appropriate action now
2536 * if cfg.user_email_unique = False, we don't require user's email
2537 addresses to be unique
2538 * removed show_fancy_links user preferences setting to simplify code and
2539 caching. Displaying those icons is now done by CSS styles (see
2540 common.css). Maybe needs fixing for non-standard themes and RTL langs.
2543 * added strikethrough markup: --(striked through text here)--
2544 * @ME@ expands to just the plain username (no markup added) on save
2547 * when a user accesses his own non-existing homepage (pagename ==
2548 username), the wiki will present the MissingHomePage system page
2549 content, explaining what a user homepage is good for and offer
2550 one-click editing it with content loaded from HomepageTemplate
2551 * creation of homepage subpages is assisted by the MyPages action, which
2552 offers rw, ro page creation (and a related group) or creation of private
2553 pages. If you are not in the user_homewiki, you will get redirected
2556 Other changes/new features:
2557 * Added PackageInstaller and unzipping support (see wiki page
2558 HelpOnActions/AttachFile for further details). PackageInstaller requires
2559 the user to be in cfg.superuser list.
2560 * Added an PackagePages action to simplify the package creation.
2561 * Added location breadcrumbs - when you are on some subpage, the page
2562 title parts link to the corresponding parent pages, the last part does
2563 the usual reverse linking.
2564 * added WSGI server support, thanks to Anakim Border, see:
2565 wiki/server/moinwsgi.py (moin as WSGI app, uses the flup WSGI server,
2566 see http://www.saddi.com/software/flup/)
2567 MoinMoin/server/wsgi.py (adaptor code)
2568 * added a "Despam" action to make de-spamming a wiki easy (mass revert
2569 bad changes done by a single author or bot). You need to be in
2570 cfg.superuser to use it.
2571 * Better diffs with links to anchors to the changed places
2572 * Enhanced table support in the DocBook formatter.
2573 * Added 'moin' daemon script, that let you run moin standalone
2574 server as daemon and control the server with simple command line
2575 intreface: moin start | stop | restart | kill
2576 * Add 'restart' option to mointwisted script
2577 * Add properties option to standalone server config. Allow
2578 overriding any request property like in other server types.
2579 * Add support for running behind proxy out of the box with out
2581 See HelpOnConfiguration/IntegratingWithApache
2582 * added a WikiBackup action, configure it similar to this:
2583 data_dir = "/path/to/data"
2584 backup_include = [data_dir, ] # you can add other dirs here
2585 backup_users = ["BackupUserName", ] # only TRUSTED users!
2586 You usually don't need to change the default backup_exclude setting.
2587 The default backup_include list is EMPTY and so will be your
2588 backup in case you don't configure it correctly.
2589 If you put your data_dir there, the backup will contain private
2590 user data like email addresses and encrypted passwords.
2591 * Added a SubscribeUser action which allows the administrator to subscribe users to the
2593 * Added thread count to SystemInfo macro.
2594 * 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.
2595 * Added a RenderAsDocbook action which redirects to the DocBook formatter.
2596 * Added searching for wiki-local words lists under <data_dir>/dict/.
2597 They are used additionally to the global lists in MoinMoin/dict/.
2598 * moin_dump now also dumps attachments referenced from the page.
2599 It doesn't dump stuff that is just attached, but not referenced!
2600 * On RecentChanges we now force the comment to be breakable, this improves
2601 rendering of over-long words or on narrow browser windows - especially
2602 for themes with limited content width like rightsidebar.
2603 * We now have the "new" icon on RecentChanges clickable, just links to the
2605 * Print view now shows "interwikiname: pagename" (for show_interwiki = 1).
2607 International support:
2608 * mail_from can be now a unicode name-address
2609 e.g u'Jürgen wiki <noreply@jhwiki.org>'
2612 * logo_string is now should be really only the logo (img).
2613 If you included your wiki's name in logo_string you maybe want to remove
2614 it now as it is shown as part of the location display now anyway (if
2615 you set show_interwiki = 1).
2616 * You maybe want to remove page_front_page from your navi_bar - we link to
2617 that page now from the logo and (new, if you set show_interwiki = 1) from
2618 the interwiki name displayed in location display, so you maybe don't need
2619 it in navi_bar, too.
2620 * If you have a custom theme, you should / may:
2621 * sync modern/css/screen.css #pagelocation #pagetrail stuff to your
2622 screen.css or pagelocation display (title()) will look strange (like a
2624 * remove "#title h1 ..." CSS (or any other CSS assuming h1 is a page
2625 title and not just a first level heading), it is not used any more.
2626 * we now render = heading = as <h1> (was <h2> before 1.5),
2627 == heading == as <h2> (was <h3>), etc.
2628 * maybe move both title() and trail() to header area, like the builtin
2630 * there is a new interwiki() base theme method that optionally (if
2631 show_interwiki = 1) shows the interwiki name of this wiki and links to
2632 page_front_page. The css for it is #interwiki.
2635 * Plugin API was improved. When plugin module is missing,
2636 wikiutil.PluginMissingError is raised. When trying to import a
2637 missing name from a plugin module, wikiutil.PluginMissingError is
2638 raised. You must update any code that use wikiutil.importPlugin.
2639 Errors in your plugin should raise now correct tracebacks. See
2640 http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/ErrorHandlingInPlugins
2641 * pysupport.importName was changed, it does not check for any
2642 errors when trying to import a name from a module. The calling
2643 code should check for ImportError or AttributeError. Previous
2644 code used to hide all errors behind None.
2645 * Its easier now to customize the editbar by overriding
2646 editbarItems() in your theme, and returning a list of items to
2647 display in the editbar. To change a single editbar link, override
2648 one of the xxxLink methods in your theme.
2651 * request.formatter (html) is available for actions now
2652 * theme API's d['page_home_page'] is gone (sorry) and replaced by
2653 d['home_page'] which is either None or tuple (wikiname,pagename).
2654 It is better to use the base classes function for username/prefs anyway.
2655 * introduced cfg.hacks for internal use by development, see comment in
2656 multiconfig.py and file HACKS.
2657 * added IE7 (v0.9) from Dean Edwards (see http://dean.edwards.name/IE7/) -
2658 that should fix quite some IE bugs and annoyances (on Win32).
2659 * for enabling IE7, use cfg.hacks = { 'ie7': True }
2660 * reducewiki now also copies all attachments (we use that to make underlay
2661 directory from moinmaster wiki's data_dir)
2664 * Fixed a typo in xslt.py which led to a traceback instead of an
2665 error message in case of disabled XSLT support.
2666 * Fixed crash in twisted server if twisted.internet.ssl is not
2668 * Fixed wrong decoding of query string, enable wiki/?page_name urls
2669 with non ascii page names.
2670 * Fixed wrong display of non ascii attachments names in
2671 RecentChanges and page revision history.
2672 * Fixed a crash when trying to run standalone server on non posix os.
2673 * Fixed highlight of misspelled words in Check Spelling action.
2674 * Fixed case insensitivity problems on darwin (Mac OS X). See
2676 * Added RecentChanges (only the english one) to the pages getting
2677 html_head_index headers
2678 * text_html cache files written with this code will invalidate themselves
2679 if they detect to be older than the wikiconfig. Note: you should remove
2680 all old text_html cache files once after upgrading, they will then be
2681 rebuilt automatically with the new code.
2683 * Fixed the word_rule: a word like AAAbbAbb isn't teared into two parts
2684 any more (was: AA<link>AbbAbb</link>)
2685 * Fixed false positive InterWiki markup for languages like Finnish.
2686 InterWiki links are only rendered if the left side has an appropriate
2687 entry in the interwiki map, otherwise it is rendered as simple text.
2688 * Fixed unicode error when uploding non-ascii file name using mod
2690 * Fixed error handling of wikirpc requests, should give more
2691 correct errors and prevent no error output and blocking the
2692 client in some cases.
2693 * Fixed the "lost password" mail processing. If a user entered some email
2694 address unknown to the system, he was not notified of this, but just got
2695 a useless mail with no account data in it. Now the system directly tells
2696 the user that he entered an unknown email address.
2697 * Fixed SystemInfo, it now also lists parsers in data/plugin/parser dir.
2698 * Fix error handling on failure, improved error display
2699 * Fix error handling when importing plugins or importing modules
2700 dynamically. The fix is not backward compatible with older plugins.
2701 * Fix chart action, returns a page with error message when chart
2703 * Fixed formatter usage in the ShowSmileys macro.
2704 * Fixed updating pagelinks cache for [:page:text] or [wiki:Self:page text],
2705 fixes display of LocalSiteMap and rendering of such links.
2706 * Hopefully fixed urllib problems (esp. with py 2.4.2, but also before) by
2707 using our own urllib wrapper that handles encoding/decoding to/from
2708 unicode, see wikiutil.py. Also made a similar fix for making and parsing
2710 * Fixed MonthCalendar tooltips when containing special chars like quotes.
2711 * Added html escaping for diff text for RSS feed with diff=1.
2712 * The distance between page content beginning and the first = heading =
2713 was much too much. Fixed.
2717 We used that version number for an internal and early development version
2718 for what will be called moin 2.0 at some time in the future.
2719 There will never be a 1.4.x release.
2722 Version 1.3.5 (2005-08-04, Revision moin--main--1.3--patch-883)
2725 * small CSS fix for rightsidebar theme
2726 * applied some Debian patches (thanks to Jonas!):
2727 * de i18n spelling fixes
2728 * AttachFile fix, we strip CR in .draw files now
2729 * when loading spellcheck dictionaries, we want utf-8, but we make
2730 a 2nd try with iso-8859-1 encoding.
2734 * enabled using https with the Twisted server:
2735 You need to use port 443, have PyOpenSSL (+ ssl libs it depends on)
2736 installed and have some site key and certificate PEM files configured in
2737 your twistedmoin.py file:
2738 sslcert = ('/whereever/cert/sitekey.pem', '/whereever/cert/sitecert.pem')
2741 Version 1.3.5rc1 (2005-07-31, Revision moin--main--1.3--patch-865)
2745 * Fixed security bug when acl of deleted page was ignored. See:
2747 * AttachFile did not display the original filename plus there
2748 was a confusion in input field labelling ('Rename to').
2749 * Fixed shortcut link non-existent page detection.
2750 * Fixed non-working bookmark function on python 2.2.x.
2751 * Fixed wikirpc getPageInfo call on python 2.2.x.
2752 * Fixed the failing import of plugins from the data/plugin/
2753 directories if run in zipimport environments.
2754 * Fixed traceback which occurred on negated searches.
2755 * Fixed crash when trying to render error message on twisted, fast
2757 * Fixed error message with modpy, used to show wrong errors below
2759 * Fixed search and goto text fields for better compatibility with
2760 dark themes and better control through css.
2761 * Show an edit link if MissingPage is missing and a warning in the
2763 * Fixed missing footer in the editor.
2764 * Fixed indented (invalid) headings with broken links in table of
2766 * Fixed crash when file name is too long, show standard error message.
2767 * Save trail file in a safe way, should be enough for normal use.
2768 * Fixed remember_last_visit user preferences option when show_trail
2770 * Fixed the tests for Standalone, Twisted, FastCGI and Mod_Python.
2771 Run with ?action=test from any page.
2772 * Fixed rare bug when wrong search type was performed when pasting
2773 search term in Safari.
2774 * Fixed crash for custom formatters and dom_xml (which occurred if
2775 smileys were in the page).
2776 * Editor opens on double click in pages with single quote in the
2777 name, like "Ben's Wiki".
2778 * '/.' in page names are not replaced any more by '/(2e)'
2779 * Fixed the long delays while saving pages using RequestCLI.
2780 * Fixed variable expanding for users with non WikiName.
2781 * Fixed MonthCalendar's calculation of "today" to use the user's
2783 * Fixed moin_dump script, use same configuration options as other
2785 * Fixed url_mappings to work in proxied setups and sent mails
2786 again. Also fixed for image links. Thanks to JohannesBerg.
2787 * Fixed page shown after saving a drawing (esp. when saved from a
2788 sub page). Fixed help link for drawings.
2789 * Fixed mig10 script to run on Python < 2.3.
2790 * The twisted server defaulted to a socket timeout of 12 hours!
2791 We reduced that to a more sane 10 minutes, that should still be more
2792 than enough. This fixed the "too many open files" problem we
2793 encountered quite often recently. Thanks to Helmut Grohne!
2798 * Added cz, pt and pt-br i18n.
2799 * We send a 404 http status code for nonexisting wiki pages now,
2800 maybe this will repell some search engines from requesting gone
2801 pages again and again. The wiki user still sees the MissingPage
2802 wiki stuff, so a user usually won't notice this change.
2803 * Return 500 error code on failure and exceptions.
2804 * Added some more bot / leech tool user agent strings.
2805 * Prevent page floating elements from floating out of the page over
2806 the footer, in modern, rightsidebar and classic themes.
2807 * Encode URLs in a safer way
2808 * We allow usernames with ' character in them now (like Tim O'Brian).
2809 * Added support for the new security flags in docutils 0.3.9.
2810 * @MAILTO@ expands now to safer [[MailTo()]] macro.
2811 * Clarified and i18ned lost password mails.
2812 * Added 'TitleIndex' and 'SiteNavigation' (+ translation) to the
2813 list of pages that use html_head_index (so that robots
2814 "index,follow"). Please make sure to have either FindPage,
2815 TitleIndex or SiteNavigation in your navi_bar or in your
2816 page_front_page content if you want search engines to find all
2818 * Make it possible to send account data when being logged in (for
2819 future reference or whatever purpose).
2820 * Speed up when running with persistent servers, the wiki config
2821 does only get loaded once and misc. stuff is being cached between
2823 * The unit tests are disabled when using multi threading, because
2824 the wiki configuration is shared between diffrent threads.
2825 * The main code path (using standalone server) of MoinMoin runs on
2827 * Formatters do automatically transform HTML to plain text if they are
2828 called with raw HTML code.
2829 * Using larger socket backlog on Standalone and FastCGI servers
2830 should be more reliable on high load.
2831 * We now strip leading path from attachments uploaded by IE (this is
2832 a bug in IE, not in MoinMoin). Better use a sane browser, like Firefox.
2833 * added "teleport" to the user agent blacklist
2837 * Integrated Lupy indexer for better search performance. It is disabled
2838 by default as of 1.3.5 as it still has known issues.
2839 See multiconfig.py if you want to test it.
2840 * Integrated MonthCalendar 2.1, with some new features:
2841 * a mouseover bubble that shows first level headlines of the linked
2843 * all calendars with same pagename move when using cal navigation,
2844 thanks to Oliver Graf
2845 * included AnnualMonthlyCalendar patch of Jonathan Dietrich
2846 (use [[MonthCalendar(Yearly,,,+1,,6,1)]] syntax for birthdays and
2847 other annually repeating stuff)
2848 Make sure you remove old MonthCalendar.* from data/plugin/macro so that
2849 moin will use the new code in MoinMoin/macro/MonthCalendar.py.
2850 Maybe also clear the text_html cache.
2851 * Added the new XSLT parser and the DocBook parser. This should increase
2852 the 4suite compatiblity. See HelpOnXmlPages for details.
2853 It now should run on 4suite 1.0a4 and 1.0b1. Thanks to Henry Ho!
2854 * Added the DocBook formatter. This will let you generate DocBook markup
2855 by writing simple wiki pages. It needs PyXML.
2856 * It is now possible to customize parts of the UserPreferences page in
2857 your wikiconfig (changing defaults, disabling fields, removing fields):
2858 * Use user_checkbox_* for the checkboxes.
2859 * Use user_form_* for other fields.
2860 * See MoinMoin/multiconfig.py for the built-in defaults.
2861 * New standalone server classes: ThreadPoolServer using pool of
2862 threads, ThreadingServer with thread limit and ForkingServer.
2863 * New standalone server configuration options: serverClass,
2864 threadLimit, requestQueueSize.
2865 * Use "PythonOption Location" in mod_python setup to solve script_name
2870 * Theme can now override maxPagenameLength() method to control page
2872 * A search Match now provides access to the full re match via
2873 the re_match attribute (use to access groups of the match)
2874 * Underlay is not managed by arch any more. The tree contains an
2875 underlay tarball, and you should untar after you update from main.
2876 * "make update-underlay" will untar underlay
2877 * "make merge" will star-merge main into your tree
2878 * "make test" will now create and run in a fresh testwiki instace
2879 * "make clean" options added
2880 * _tests module does not have a global request any more. To refer to
2881 the current request in a test, use self.request.
2882 * _tests.TestConfig class require a request in the constructor.
2883 * "python tests/runtests.py test_module" will run only test_module
2884 * request.cfg stays between requests (for persistent servers).
2887 Version 1.3.4 (2005-03-13, Revision moin--main--1.3--patch-666)
2891 * Fixed ACL check in LikePages macro that caused links to unreadable
2893 * Fixed ACL check in newpage action.
2894 * Fixed a security problem when admin policy defined in a custom
2895 SecurityPolicy class was ignored.
2896 * Fixed ACL check in action=show so that a user who may not read a page
2897 also can't find out WHEN the protected page was updated.
2898 * Workaround on Windows 95, 98, ME in order to clear the dircache.
2899 This fixes some bugs related to an outdated page list and newly created
2900 pages that did not appear immediately.
2901 * Fixed decoding issues of page names on Windows, finally.
2903 * Fixed traceback on IIS.
2905 * Fixed wikirpc for standalone server.
2906 * Other fixes (encoding and str/unicode data type related) to wikirpc
2907 server, fixing some non-ascii issues hopefully.
2908 * Fixed broken query strings for Standalone installations.
2909 * Fixed backlinks - the result did not always show all links, often it
2911 * Fixed the acceptance of the show_hosts setting. Now you should be able
2912 to hide any IP or host name from being published by MoinMoin by enabling
2914 * Fixed wrong line endings on email messages.
2916 * Fixed crash when trail file is missing.
2917 * Fixed a traceback when searching for single ( or ).
2918 * Added mig10 script to fix crashes with uncoverted edit-locks and file
2919 attachments. Just use it as you did with mig1..mig9 before.
2920 * Added mig11 script to add __init__.py files to data/plugin (and below).
2921 * added some fixes for the xslt parser (thanks to fanbanlo), it might be
2922 still broken, but someone with deeper knowledge about xslt should fix it.
2923 * Replaced image link with W3C's "html 4.01 compliance" icon by a simple
2924 text link to avoid https: or config trouble.
2925 * Catch OverflowError backtrace when illegal date strings (e.g. <1970 or
2926 >2038) are fed to moinmoin's time routines. It will just output current
2927 date / time in those cases.
2928 * UserPreferences now also set a date_fmt preference and Date macro
2929 honours it. You may have to reset your UserPreferences value for that.
2930 * Fixed free parent and subpage links in interwiki notation.
2932 * Fixed a traceback for invalid ReST markup.
2933 * Fixed UnicodeError in SystemAdmin's Attachment Browser.
2937 * Optimized the IRC parser.
2938 * Support for zipimport of the MoinMoin package. This allows you to use
2939 py2exe and similar programs.
2940 * Show the editor's name in the mail subject.
2941 * Added the pragmas description and keywords. They will add <meta> headers
2943 * Added MoinMoin/scripts/xmlrpc-tools/putPageTest.py example script, useful
2944 as a starting point for importing data using wiki xmlrpc.
2945 * Optimised display on Opera browser.
2949 * The search modifier "linkto:" was introduced. You can use it to search
2951 * The NewPage macro now can take a PageTemplate parameter, see HelpOnMacros.
2952 * New config settings (so you don't need to edit wikirpc.py any more):
2953 xmlrpc_putpage_enabled = 0 (if 1, enables writing to arbitrary page names)
2954 xmlrpc_putpage_trusted_only = 1 (if 0, doesn't require users to be
2955 authenticated by http auth - DANGEROUS, DO NOT SET TO 0!!!)
2956 * Added support for Digest and NTLM authentication with CGI (e.g. if you
2957 use those Apache modules)
2958 * The datetime string accepted by Date and DateTime macros was extended to
2959 accept a timezone specification, so now +/-HHMM is also valid, e.g.:
2960 2005-03-06T15:15:57Z (UTC, same as +0000)
2961 2005-03-06T15:15:57+0000 (UTC)
2962 2005-03-06T16:15:57+0100 (same time given as local time for time zone
2963 with offset +0100, that is CET, e.g. Germany)
2964 2005-03-06T10:15:57-0500 (same time given as local time for time zone
2965 with offset -0500, EST, US Eastern Std. Time)
2966 The values given as macro argument will be transformed to UTC internally
2967 and then adapted again according to viewing user's UserPreferences, so
2968 the user will see the same moment in time but shown in his local time
2969 zone's time (at least if he set his UserPreferences correctly and didn't
2970 forget changing them twice a year for DST and non-DST).
2971 * Readded (now optional) editlink footer to Include macro. Add
2972 ',editlink' to call to enable this.
2973 * star "smileys" e.g. {*}{*}{*}{o}{o}
2976 Version 1.3.3 (2005-01-24, Revision moin--main--1.3--patch-595)
2980 * fixed ACL security problem in search
2981 * fix for IIS with CGI allowing page names that contain chars
2982 that are not in the system code page
2983 * fixed MoinEditorBackup revisions to start with 1 now
2984 * improved page locking ('current' file)
2985 * Unittests (normally shown at end of action=test output) are currently
2986 disabled for everything except CGI, because they only work reliably with
2987 CGI, giving wrong results for other request methods.
2990 Version 1.3.2 (2005-01-23, Revision moin--main--1.3--patch-587)
2994 * ACL bugfix for deleted pages with ACL protection.
2995 * ACL bugfix for "Default" acl.
2996 * Fixed updating of groups and dicts
2997 * Python 2.2.x related fixes (worked on 2.3+)
2998 * Fixed traceback in RecentChanges.
2999 * Fixed traceback with links browser.
3000 * Fixed 0 revision display in 'Show changes'.
3001 * Fixed traceback in Antispam which occurred when it could not connect
3002 to MoinMaster. Log the errors to stderr or error.log.
3003 * Fixed bug in Page init (no date, use rev). Fixes problem with
3005 * Fixed empty lists in empty search results.
3006 * Cosmetic fix for modern theme (when viewed with Internet Explorer).
3007 * Fixed migration 9 script, do not drop newline, do not drop error.log,
3008 note about missing error.log.
3009 * Fixed repair_language.py script, keep ending newline on revisions.
3010 * Show headings and macro content in correct direction when mixing content
3011 in several directions in the same page and using caching.
3012 * Fixed bug in standalone re farmconfig.
3013 * Fixed DOS condition in antispam code.
3014 * Use smaller margin in print mode to get better results with
3016 * Fixed some user input escaping issues.
3017 * Fixed a problem when one wiki plugin override other wikis plugins in
3019 * Fixed some broken tests.
3020 * Fixed recursive include in pstats.
3021 * Fixed bug in standalone - HTTP result code was 200 even when the access
3023 * Fixed traceback when trying to login with non-ascii password.
3024 * Fixed traceback when xml is not available, reported on Python 2.2.?
3025 * Fixed slideshow to show slides in sorted order again.
3026 * Fixed serving multiple wikis on same IP/different ports with twisted and
3028 * It is possible to run with data_underlay_dir = None for special
3029 application, but be aware that the wiki won't be usable unless you have
3030 at least some of the system pages from underlay/ available.
3031 * Files with Unicode characters in their filename are possible now.
3032 * Bugfix for broken [:page#anchor:text] links.
3033 * Workaround an instability of the gdchart module leading to
3034 stalled servers etc.
3035 * Fixed some event-log decoding issues that affect charts rendering.
3039 * Major speed improvement over 1.3.1. Many times faster title search,
3040 creating new page, opening page editor and any operation that list pages.
3041 See http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/MoinBenchmarks
3042 * Improved README.migration.
3043 * Cleaner design for login/register interface, login is always the default
3044 button when the user click Enter.
3045 * If there are problems found in the configuration, log the error
3046 and display helpful error messages in the browser.
3047 * More forgiving unicode configuration policy, you must use the u'string'
3048 format only for unicode values.
3049 * Added profiling to CGI.
3050 * The content of farmconfig.py is similar to wikiconfig.py now.
3051 * Unexpected errors while loading cache files are logged.
3052 * i18n for icon ALT tags.
3053 * Include request initialization code in the profile in standalone server.
3054 * When creating new theme, style sheets are inherited correctly, no need
3055 to override style sheets just to get them working.
3056 * Many times faster plugin system. Typical pages are about 35% faster,
3057 pages with many plugins can be many times faster.
3058 * Spiders are allowed to fetch attachments.
3059 * Old user files containing password hash encoded in pre 1.3 charset
3060 are auto repaired on first login.
3061 * data_dir defaults to './data', underlay_data_dir to './underlay' now.
3062 It is a good idea to replace those by absolute pathes in wikiconfig.py.
3063 * Renamed "Refresh" to "Delete Cache" - it was misused by users. The action
3064 was also moved into the action menu in the modern and rightsidebar themes.
3065 * Added a workaround for TableOfContents missing some links by making it
3066 uncacheable via a "time" dependency.
3067 * Removed interwiki icon and title attribute for wiki:Self:... links.
3068 * Unittests (normally shown at end of action=test output) are currently
3069 disabled because they worked unreliably, giving wrong results sometimes.
3073 * Create new pages easily using configurable interface and page templates
3074 with the new NewPage macro.
3075 * ReStructuredText (rst) support is built-in now. See HelpOnParsers.
3076 * New experimental feature in mointwisted.py - each interface may
3077 specify a port: '12.34.56.78:80'. Without a port, the port option
3083 * wikiutil.importPlugin's first argument is now a wiki config instance
3084 (request.cfg) and there is no path keyword.
3085 * Wiki plugins always override MoinMoin plugins. wikiutil.importPlugin
3086 implements this override.
3087 * util.pysupport.importName does not accept path - you should call
3088 it with correct module name, e.g 'wikiconfig.plugin.parser.wiki' for
3089 wiki plugins, or 'MoinMoin.parser.wiki'.
3090 * wikiutil.extensionPlugin was renamed to wikiPlugins and it gets config
3091 instance instead of path.
3092 * New function wikiutil.importWikiPlugin used to import wiki plugins
3093 using a cache in a thread safe way.
3094 * New config option config.use_threads is used to activate thread
3096 * New keyword arguments for getPageList, enable 10X faster operation
3097 for common cases by controlling page filtering.
3098 * New up to 100X times faster getPageCount
3101 Version 1.3.1 (2004-12-13, Revision moin--main--1.3--patch-434)
3105 * Fixed "Error Cyclic usage" crash when user had Italian (it), Korean
3106 (ko), Serbian (sr) or Vietnamese (vi) as user interface language.
3107 * Fall back to en (instead of crashing) when user uses a language moin
3108 does not support / does not support any more (like pt,sv,fi,sr).
3109 * In 1.3.0, people accidentally put iso-8859-1 chars into wiki configs,
3110 but those where expected to be pure utf-8 and thus it crashed.
3111 Fixed by using unicode strings (varname = u'whatever'), a matching
3112 encoding setting (see top of script comment) and, when decoding strings,
3113 using decode to ASCII with replace mode (this replaces non-ASCII chars,
3114 but at least it won't crash - and you get a warning to better use
3116 * Fixed long time broken table formatting. ||<style="see css spec" a||b||
3117 Now even generates valid HTML! The old markup for align, valign, width,
3118 bgcolor still works, but synthesizes style attribute data.
3119 * SystemAdmin macro shows attachments of ALL pages now.
3120 * Users without write acl rights will be able to see attachments again and
3121 also have AttachFile action in menu.
3122 * Fixed wrong match count in search results, find all matches in page
3123 titles, show all matches in contents in some rare cases.
3124 * Run about 200% faster with long running processes (standalone, Twisted),
3125 about 20% faster with cgi, by better internal data handling in wikidicts.
3126 * On SF, the dict files use utf-8 encoding now. We included them also in
3127 distribution, see contrib/dict/.
3128 * Fixed permissions to shared template stuff.
3129 * Speeded up search, fixed wrong match counts.
3130 * Speeded up internal data handling (wikidicts).
3131 * Fixed rare unicode error after deleting a page (reported only on SuSE
3132 Linux 9.0 / Python 2.3.0).
3133 * Fixed file permissions of files in the data dir.
3134 * Fixed some cosmetic problems in migration scripts and use sys.path.insert
3135 to get latest moin code when executing them.
3139 * Improved docs, system and help pages.
3140 * Updated translation files.
3144 * Internet Explorer renders our HTML/CSS in a suboptimal way.
3146 Workaround: use a non-broken browser like FireFox / Mozilla.
3147 Fixed in MoinMoin 1.3.2.
3148 * Passwords using non-ascii do not work.
3150 * The TOC macro is broken partly.
3153 * See also: http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/MoinMoinBugs
3156 Version 1.3.0 (2004-12-06, Revision moin--main--1.3--patch-400)
3158 As you see from the length of the 1.3 changes below, 1.3 is a major(!)
3159 upgrade. We could have also named it "2.0", but we decided against.
3160 So take the time for reading the informations thoroughly and do the
3161 migration exactly as we tell you - this is no 5 minutes upgrade!
3163 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
3164 !!! We heavily changed configuration, data encoding, dir layout: !!!
3165 !!! * the default encoding changed to utf-8. !!!
3166 !!! * also, we changed the escaping for special chars to %XX%YY in !!!
3167 !!! URL and (xxyy) in file system. !!!
3168 !!! * layout of data dir changed completely !!!
3169 !!! If you upgrade an existing wiki, you must run the migration !!!
3170 !!! scripts or you will get data corruption or other problems. !!!
3171 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
3173 HINT: Upgrading your wiki - critical information
3175 If you are NOT starting from scratch, you MUST convert your existing
3176 data - see README.migration for details.
3178 If you use ##language: xx comments on your OWN pages, you should also run
3179 repair_language script. Not needed for help/system pages as we already
3180 have done that for you.
3182 MoinMoin uses Unicode internally now (UCS-2 with 16 bits or UCS-4 with
3183 32 bits, depending on your Python installation). The encoding used
3184 for page files and html output is set by config.charset.
3186 Moin 1.3 uses utf-8 encoding only, there is NO SUPPORT for using a
3187 charset different from utf-8 with 1.3. If you try, you are on your own.
3191 Directory layout was heavily changed. Each page now is a directory,
3192 containing page revisions, attachments, cache files and edit-log.
3194 You can delete a page or move a page from one wiki to another
3195 easily. Look at the wiki/data directory to see.
3198 old: data/text/FrontPage
3199 new: data/pages/FrontPage/revisions/00000042
3200 data/pages/FrontPage/current (contains: 00000042)
3201 old: data/backup/FrontPage.xxxxxxxx
3202 new: data/pages/FrontPage/revisions/00000023
3204 For cleaning up cache files, use MoinMoin/scripts/cachecleaner.py
3205 (see comments in script).
3209 * For using RSS, you need to have PyXML installed:
3210 Python 2.4* -> PyXML 0.8.4 (cvs version)
3211 Python 2.3.x -> PyXML 0.8.3
3212 Python 2.2.2+ -> ???
3213 This will also make "Live Bookmarks" of Mozilla Firefox working.
3214 New: if you don't have PyXML installed, the RSS icon on RecentChanges
3215 will not be displayed any more. Python with no PyXML installed
3216 generates invalid RSS XML.
3220 * Handling of special characters in file names changed from _xx format
3222 * In URLs, moin now uses %xx%yy quoting, (because this is supported by
3223 browsers), and sub pages use "/" instead of the ugly "_2f".
3224 * Underscore character "_" is used now as a space character " " both
3225 in file names and URLs. " " and "_" will be handled equivalent at most
3226 places in the future (represented as "_", rendered as " ").
3227 * To prevent wiki abuse and user typing errors, page names are normalized
3228 in URLs, query strings, the "go" box and when renaming pages. This
3229 include leading, trailing and multiple slashes and white space. Certain
3230 invisible unicode characters are removed from page names.
3231 * Group page names are restricted even more, any non unicode alpha-numeric
3232 character is removed. This is done to enable changing acl syntax in
3233 the future. The restriction might be loosen on future versions.
3234 * You can edit config.page_invalid_chars_regex to control which characters
3235 are allowed in page names (Changing it is not supported).
3236 * When you enter page name, it is normalized and you are redirected to
3237 the normalized page, or if nothing left (e.g '/////'), to FrontPage.
3238 * When renaming a page to a name that can be normalized to an empty string,
3239 the new page name will be "EmptyName" and the user will not get an
3244 * Pages (especially system and help pages) are now located in an underlay
3245 directory (data_underlay_dir). You will see the pages there if they are
3246 NOT covered (overlayed) by a page in the normal pages directory
3247 (as set using data_dir).
3248 MAKE SURE THAT data_underlay_dir IS CORRECT OR YOU WILL SEE MANY EMPTY
3249 PAGES ONLY IN A NEW WIKI.
3250 * If you edit a page that is shown from underlay directory, it will be
3251 copied to the normal page directory on save (copy-on-write).
3252 * You can use one copy of the underlay directory shared by many
3253 wiki instances. Each wiki will then have only your local, self-made
3254 wiki pages in its data directory, and only system and help pages in the
3255 single, shared underlay directory - this simplifies upgrades a lot.
3256 * It is recommended to keep your underlay system and help pages immutable
3257 using acl, so you can upgrade your wiki easily. The default help and
3258 system pages already have those ACLs (using MoinPagesEditorGroup).
3259 * Do not forget to remove your old help and system pages after migrating
3260 your wiki. We don't provide a script for that as that would be
3261 dangerous for edited pages. Just use some file manager (e.g. mc) to
3262 clean the data/pages/ directory. As soon as you have removed the
3263 system pages there, you will see the new pages in the underlay dir.
3264 See the EditedSystemPages page for a list of pages that exist in both
3265 data and underlay directory (use this page as admin!).
3267 When updating from 1.2 or lower to 1.3 or higher, you will want to
3268 clean out the copies of the system pages in your {{{wiki/data}}}
3269 directory. All of these pages will now reside in the underlay
3270 directory. If you have system pages from 1.2 or lower in your
3271 wiki/data/ directory, they will overshadow the more up-to-date
3272 documentation. This can be done using the following manual procedure:
3273 1. You have just converted from 1.2 or lower to post-1.3.
3274 2. Go to your wiki's EditedSystemPages.
3275 3. Find all the pages that are MoinMoin system or help pages. You will
3276 know if it is one of those pages because it is not your page.
3277 4. Check if it is okay to delete by either:
3278 1. Using the this page "info" link and check the Revision History to
3279 see if it is greater than 1. If so, there are modifications, so do
3280 not delete the page and evaluate the modifications to see if they
3282 2. Using your file browser (Windows Explorer, etc) to go to your
3283 wiki/data/<<systemPage>>/revisions/ directory and to see if there
3284 are no modifications. If there are, do not delete the page and
3285 evaluate the modifications to see if they are necessary.
3286 5. Delete that wiki/data/<<systemPage>> using your file browser.
3290 * New file name quoting method allow 50% longer page names in languages
3291 that use more than one byte per character, like Hebrew, Korean etc.
3292 * Configuration file uses 'utf-8' encoding now. Certain values that are
3293 marked with [Unicode] can use any character in your language. Examples
3294 are page names in navi_bar, page types regular expressions and site name.
3295 * For configuration examples adopted to your language, check ConfigMarket
3296 in the MoinMoin wiki.
3297 * The system and help pages that come with moin are now in utf-8.
3298 * MissingPage system page localized, should display in your language.
3299 * We did many i18n (translation) updates.
3300 * CSS file use utf-8 encoding. User css is also expected to be utf-8.
3301 This is relevant only if you use non-ASCII values in the CSS file.
3302 * config.upperletters and config.lowerletters were removed.
3303 We now use a pre-made ucs-2 spanning set and you usually don't have to
3304 change it. See MoinMoin/util/chartypes.py if you're interested.
3305 * ACL works with any user name or group name in any language, even names
3307 * Now you can use any charset in config.charset. Note: only utf-8 is
3308 a supported configuration!
3309 * Improved url handling, now creating pages directly from the browser
3310 url box with non-ascii names works in most cases, even when
3311 config.charset is not utf-8.
3312 * When using non-utf-8 config.charset, characters in URLs that does
3313 fit in the charsets are replaced with "?" (instead of crashing).
3314 * All themes and most macros and actions are Right to Left friendly.
3315 Full RTL support planned for 1.3 release.
3316 * If page language is specified with #language processing instruction
3317 the page is displayed in the correct direction. Pages without
3318 language are displayed using the wiki default_lang.
3320 Multiple configurations
3322 * You can run multiple wikis from the same wiki directory or server.
3323 For example, you can run one Twisted server that serve multiple wikis,
3324 instead of running multiple servers. Samples of the new configuration
3325 are supplied in wiki/config/*.
3326 * You can't just use your old moin_config.py file. It is now called
3327 wikiconfig.py and the config variables now have to be in a class
3328 "Config" and that class must inherit from
3329 MoinMoin.multiconfig.DefaultConfig - see the provided wikiconfig.py
3331 This is very useful, e.g. you could derive a GermanConfig from
3332 DefaultConfig. After that, you can derive configs for wikiA and wikiB
3333 from that GermanConfig.
3334 * farmconfig.py contains a mapping attribute called "wikis" with pairs of
3335 wikiconfig module name and regular expression. The regular expression
3336 is matched against the URL of the request and the first matching entry
3337 determines the config module to be imported by MoinMoin.
3338 * If you use farmconfig.py's "wikis" mapping, then any wiki has a private
3339 config module, named after the wiki - e.g. wiki named moinmoin would
3341 * If you only have a single wiki, you do not need farmconfig.py. just make
3342 a wikiconfig.py and it will be used no matter what URL is requested.
3343 * There is one common global "config" that holds sitewide settings (like
3344 umask or charset) - you do not need to change settings there.
3345 This file is located in the MoinMoin code: MoinMoin/config.py.
3347 General configuration
3349 * SecurityPolicy now uses "write" instead of "edit" (so it is may.write
3350 now). This is to get it in sync with ACLs.
3351 * SecurityPolicy now automatically can use everything in acl_rights_valid.
3352 * There is a new config option "config_check_enabled". It will warn about
3353 any unknown variable name (probably typo) to stderr or error.log.
3354 If something doesn't work at all and changing the config does no
3355 difference, switch it on and look at the error message.
3356 * The sample config file comes with config_check_enabled = 1. If you
3357 introduce additional variables yourself, you definitely want to switch
3358 that check off or it will fill your log.
3359 * If you define "page_front_page" variable, this name will show in the
3360 navigation bar now, instead of the default "FrontPage".
3364 * Full text and title search do support multiple search terms now -
3365 see HelpOnSearching for details.
3366 * Regular expressions are still supported but have to be turned on per
3367 search term. Search terms in macros using regular expressions will have
3369 * The URL interface of the search engine has also changed. Links that
3370 point directly to search actions may be broken.
3374 * User names can not use group names, even if ACLs are not enabled.
3375 This will prevent error later, if you start to use acl in the future
3376 (acl is going to be mandatory in 1.5).
3377 * User names are not restricted any more to only CamelCase.
3378 * To prevent imposing as other users, leading, trailing and multiple
3379 whitespace in user names is not allowed. Only Unicode alpha numeric
3380 characters are allowed, with optional one space character between
3382 * When a user name with a group name or "bad" name is trying to
3383 access the wiki, he is redirected to the UserPreferences page and
3384 asked to create a new account.
3385 * When trying to login or create a new account with a bad name,
3386 correct error message is displayed in all cases.
3390 * You can not use your old moin.cgi file, as we removed cgimain.py
3391 (was deprecated since 1.2). Copy the new file from the server dir.
3393 Moin servers - Twisted and standalone
3395 * Configuration self checking on startup. Will raise an error in case
3396 of bad configuration or non-accessible directories.
3397 * Both use shorter and identical configuration options.
3398 * Server scripts contain detailed comments and examples.
3399 * Configuration defaults changed to fit most users.
3400 * There is memory profiler option for debugging, switched off by default.
3401 * If you perform a standard install, server scripts should run out
3402 of the box or with minimal change.
3406 * All code moved into the new server package, the server script
3407 contains only configuration options.
3408 * Listen to more than one interface with "interfaces" list.
3409 * Code updated to new Twisted API.
3410 * Use mointwisted script to start and stop the server, using
3411 "mointwisted start" and "mointwisted stop".
3412 * The Twisted server runs as daemon by default.
3413 * All moin Twisted files are called now mointwisted instead of
3415 * Fixed getting username from Twisted request (http auth)
3419 * Configuration moved from moin_config.py to moin.py.
3420 * If run as root, you can set both user and group for the server.
3421 * Can use logfile instead of logging to stderr.
3422 * Fixed missing unquoting of query string (caused problems in rare cases).
3426 * moin_modpy server files renamed to moinmodpy.
3430 * '''strong''', ''em'' and __underline__ have now paragraph scope. You can
3431 set these attributes on words level. For multiple paragraphs, wrap each
3433 * If you leave unclosed ''', '' and __ markup, its is closed when the
3438 * Due to many changes in CSS files, the wiki may look "broken" until
3439 your reload once or twice, or empty your browser cache.
3440 * The "Send mail notification" checkbox is replaced by "Trivial change"
3441 checkbox. The default behavior did not change - regular edit is not
3442 a trivial change, and mail will be sent to subscribes. If you check
3443 trivial change, mail will be sent only to users who selected to
3444 get trivial changes in their user preferences.
3445 * New theme "modern" has been added, and used as default theme.
3446 * classic and rightsidebar improved.
3447 * viewonly theme removed, as any theme can be use now as viewonly
3448 by using #acl All:read in the wikiconfig.
3449 * All themes use new navibar, displaying both wiki links, user links
3450 and the current page.
3451 * navibar and pagetrail use now shortened page names, so very long
3452 names does not break the interface visually.
3453 * All themes have improved search interface at the top of the window.
3454 * Only avaiable actions are displayed, so most situations when a user
3455 try to do something he can't do are prevented.
3456 * When creating a new page, no action is available until the page
3457 is created. You can't attach files to non-existing page any more.
3458 * Non registered users get a "login" link. Registered uses get
3459 "username" link to their home page, and "user preferences" link.
3460 * Messages more clear using bold type, designed by css.
3461 * Few useless messages removed (but there are many more)
3462 * Default wiki logo uses the wiki name instead of the MoinMoin troll
3465 Other fixes and changes
3467 * Most generated html code is valid "html 4 strict". There are still
3468 some problems that still have to be fixed, mainly macros, table
3469 attributes, and inline markup crossing (<a><b></a></b>).
3470 * WantedPages can include and exclude system pages, which makes it
3472 * Fixed a bug in TitleIndex where not all system pages are excluded.
3473 * RenamePage action now renames everything, including backups, page
3474 history, attachments. It does not change toplevel editlog, though.
3475 After you rename a page, you are redirected to the new page.
3476 * Syntax colorization supports more languages (Java, C++, Pascal)
3477 * Inline: display of attachments was extended. A Parser now knows which
3478 extensions it can handle.
3479 * TableOfContents and Include macros now cooperate a bit better. There
3480 are still problems with multiple Includes of the same page.
3481 * Excluded actions at bottom of page are not displayed any more.
3482 * Editor: removed the columns size setting, just using 100% of browser
3483 window width (it didn't work because of that anyway). Also removed that
3484 "reduce editor size" link at top of editor as you would lose your
3485 changes when using it.
3486 * Removed the option to choose text smileys instead of images, this made
3487 more trouble than it was worth. The text version is still given in ALT
3489 * Moved stuff from contribution/ to MacroMarket page on MoinMoin wiki
3490 * Some nasty people try to use a running moin as a proxy (at least they
3491 did on moinmaster.wikiwikiweb.de:8000, maybe due to the magic port
3492 number). We changed the code to check for that and just return 403
3493 in that case. Moin can not be used as a proxy anyway.
3494 * moin.cgi?test was removed in favor of a new buildin test
3495 action. It works for all deployments, just use ?action=test.
3496 * Sending mail does use tls if server supports it.
3498 3rd party developer notes
3500 * Themes should be now sub class of MoinMoin.theme.ThemeBase. Sub
3501 classes will get automatically all new improved user interface
3503 * Theme authors should update their theme for 1.3. Some keys removed
3504 from them dict. See ThemeBase class in MoinMoin/theme/__init__.py.
3505 * Actions writers should call request.setContentLangauge with the
3506 correct language used by the action. This enable themes and other
3507 code to use correct direction.
3508 * The Formatter interface was changed. Formatters and parsers using
3509 the formatter interface have to be adjusted.
3510 * started deprecation of Processors: they are still recognized, but
3511 implementors should start to rewrite their Processors as Parsers.
3512 A processor with the same name as a parser in a pre #! section is
3513 currently preferred. This will change in the next release.
3517 * Processors are deprecated, see section above.
3519 * Using the cookie (or the login url with ID) only and not setting (or
3520 setting and not remembering) your email/password in UserPreferences
3521 is DEPRECATED. Those quite unsecure methods will likely be dropped
3522 in next moin version.
3524 * Operating with acl_enabled = 0 is also DEPRECATED. Due to some other
3525 improvements planned, we will have to operate with ACLs enabled ONLY
3526 in a future moin version, so this setting will likely be dropped.
3527 So clean up your user accounts (see moin_usercheck.py) and switch ACLs
3529 There are no drawbacks, so you will like it. Having ACLs enabled
3530 doesn't mean you really have to USE them on wiki pages...
3532 * allow_extended_names = 0 is deprecated (default was/is 1).
3533 Future versions will be able to use extended names (aka free links) in
3534 any case and the config setting will be removed.
3536 * allow_subpages = 0 is deprecated (default was/is 1).
3537 Future versions will be able to use subpages in any case and the config
3538 setting will be removed.
3540 * attachments = {...} - we would like to remove that setting because of
3542 * when not being extremely careful, this can easily lead to security
3543 problems (like when uploading a .php exploit and then executing it
3544 by accessing it directly via web server)
3545 * makes code more complicated - code that we want to change completely
3547 If you need that feature, speak up now and tell us your reasons WHY you
3551 Version 1.2.4 (2004-10-23, Revision 1.187)
3553 This will probably be the last 1.2.x release as we are soon doing release
3554 candidates for 1.3 release (with big internal changes) and are expecting
3555 release 1.3 in december 2004.
3558 * fixed "None" pagename bug in fullsearch/titlesearch
3559 * fixed projection CSS usage
3560 * the compiled page is removed when a page is deleted, so no ghost page
3561 appears after deletion
3562 * fixed AbandonedPages day-break problem
3563 * fixed [[GetVal(WikiDict,key)]]
3564 * the msg box is now outside content div on PageEditor, too
3565 * privacy fix for email notifications: you don't see other email addresses
3566 in To: any more. mail_from is now also used for To: header field, but
3567 we don't really send email to that address.
3568 * privacy fix for /MoinEditorBackup pages that were made on previews of
3569 pages that were not saved in the end
3570 * fix double content div on PageEditor preview
3573 * workaround for broken Microsoft Internet Explorer, the page editor now
3574 stops expanding to the right (e.g. with rightsidebar theme).
3575 Nevertheless it is a very good idea to use a non-broken and more secure
3576 browser like Mozilla, Firefox or Opera!
3578 * from MoinMoin.security.antispam import SecurityPolicy in your
3579 moin_config.py will protect your wiki from at least the known spammers.
3582 * xmlrpc plugin for usage logging, currently used for antispam accesses
3584 * (re-)added configurable meta tags:
3585 * html_head_queries = '''<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow">\n'''
3586 * html_head_posts = '''<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow">\n'''
3587 * html_head_index = '''<meta name="robots" content="index,follow">\n'''
3588 * html_head_normal = '''<meta name="robots" content="index,nofollow">\n'''
3590 * i18n updates/fixes
3592 * New UserPreferences switch:
3593 you may subscribe to trivial changes (when you want to be notified about ALL
3594 changes to pages, even if the author deselected to send notifications).
3596 * New AttachList and AttachInfo macros - thanks to Nigel Metheringham and
3599 Version 1.2.3 (2004-07-21, Revision 1.186)
3602 * fixed NameError "UnpicklingError" in user.py
3603 * fixed version number in moin.spec
3604 * reverts done by bots or leechers
3605 There was a bad, old bug that triggered if you did not use ACLs. In that
3606 case, moin used some simple (but wrong and incomplete) function to
3607 determine what a user (or bot) may do or may not do. The function is now
3608 fixed to allow only read and write to anon users, and only delete and
3609 revert to known users additionally - and disallow everything else.
3610 * avoid creation of unneccessary pages/* directories
3611 * removed double content divs in general info and history info pages
3612 * fixed wiki xmlrpc getPageHTML
3613 * fixed rightsidebar logout URL, also fixed top banner to link to FrontPage
3614 * use config.page_front_page and .page_title_index for robots meta tag
3615 (whether it uses index,follow or index,nofollow), not hardcoded english
3617 * ACL security fix for PageEditor, thanks to Dr. Pleger for reporting
3618 * default options for new users are same as for anon users
3620 Version 1.2.2 (2004-06-06, Revision 1.185)
3624 * own copy of difflib removed
3625 Until moin 1.2.1 we had our own copy of python 2.2.3's difflib coming
3626 with moin. This was to work around some problems with broken older 2.2
3627 python installations. We removed this now because if you have py 2.3,
3628 there is even a better difflib coming with python (and that fixes an
3629 extremely slow diff calculation happening in some rare cases).
3630 So the good news is that when you run python 2.3, you don't need to do
3631 anything and it will run great. If you run python 2.2.3, it will mostly
3632 work good and you also don't need to do anything. The bad news is that
3633 if you run an old and broken 2.2 installation (2.2.1, maybe 2.2.2) you
3634 will have to fix it on your own (just copy difflib.py from python 2.2.3
3635 over to your python 2.2.x installation).
3636 But better upgrade to python 2.3 (for debian woody, there's a backport),
3637 as 2.3 generally runs better and faster than 2.2.
3638 * scripts changed to use #!/usr/bin/env python (not /usr/bin/python2.2)
3640 * user accounts and ACLs:
3641 * we now require the user to specify a password for a new account (you
3642 were not able to login without a password anyway)
3643 * it is not allowed any more to create user accounts with user names
3644 matching config.page_group_regex - please check manually that you do
3645 not already have such users existing (like a user named "AdminGroup"):
3646 cd data/user ; grep name=.*Group * # there should be no output!
3647 * subscription email sending now honours ACLs correctly
3649 * markup / rendering / user interface fixes:
3650 * fixed merging multiple lines indented by the same amount of blanks
3651 * ## comments don't break tables in two parts
3652 * added a "remove bookmark" link to RecentChanges
3653 * fixed action=titleindex (added \n after each entry)
3656 * non-ASCII characters should work now
3657 * RSS feed (Recentchanges?action=rss_rc) gives UTC timestamps now
3658 * removed attribute breaking RSS feed on RecentChanges
3660 * better email generation:
3661 * if you use python >=2.2.2, we add a Message-ID header to emails
3662 * if you use python 2.2.1, there is no email.Header. Instead of crashing
3663 (like previous moin 1.2.x releases), we just use the subject "as is" in
3664 that case. If it is not ASCII, this is not standards compliant.
3665 * If you have >=2.2.2 it will use email.Header to make standards compliant
3667 * use config.mail_from as sender address when sending "lost my password"
3671 * fixed for standalone server
3672 * attachment URLs (when handled by moin) don't include server name
3673 * fixed some wrong &amp; in html src
3675 * better themeability:
3676 * some entries in dict "d" where only present in header theme calls, some
3677 only in footer theme calls. Now almost all is present in both calls.
3678 * added some missing "content" divs so sidebar themes look better
3680 * fixed some crashes producing backtraces:
3681 * no IOError when diffing against deleted page
3682 * no backtrace in xml footnote generation
3683 * no SystemInfo crash when no editlog exists in new wikis
3684 * xmlrpc.getRecentChanges fixed
3686 * MoinMoin.util.filesys.rename is now a wrapper around os.rename that
3687 fixes os.rename on broken win32 api semantics
3690 * saving traffic and load by improved robot meta tag generation:
3691 * "noindex,nofollow" on queries and POSTs
3692 * "index,follow" on FrontPage and TitleIndex (give robots a chance ;))
3693 * "index,nofollow" on all other pages (hopefully saving lots of senseless
3694 requests for page?action=...)
3695 * removed config.html_head_queries (was used for same stuff)
3696 * added russian i18n (utf-8)
3697 * misc. other translation updates / fixes
3698 * added rightsidebar theme
3699 * TitleIndex now folds case, so "APage" and "anotherPage" are both under
3701 * added macro/PageHits.py - it calculates the hits each page gets since
3702 beginning of logging
3705 * Full text and title search do now support multiple search terms -
3706 see HelpOnSearching for details
3708 * The Formatter interface was changed. Formatter and parser using
3709 the formatter interface have to be adjusted.
3711 Version 1.2.1 (2004-03-08, Revision 1.184)
3714 * minimum requirement to run moin 1.2/1.2.1 is python 2.2.2
3715 * not: 2.2(.0), as this does not have True/False
3716 * not: 2.2.1, as this does not have email.Header. You maybe can work
3718 * getting the python 2.2.x (x>=2) /usr/lib/python2.2/email directory
3719 * putting it into directory 'x' (whereever you like)
3720 * doing a sys.path[0:0] = ['x'] in moin.cgi [or other appropriate place]
3721 No guarantee, this is untested.
3722 * Twisted: the http headers missed the charset data, fixed
3723 * mod_python: fixes for mod_python 2.7
3724 * wiki/data/plugin/__init__.py added - fixes not working plugin modules
3725 * plugin processors work now, too
3726 * fixed displaying non-existent translations of SiteNavigation in footer
3727 * fixed zh-tw iso name (wrong zh_tw -> correct zh-tw)
3728 * fixed reversed diffs in RecentChanges RSS
3729 * fixed "last change" info in footer (wasn't updated)
3730 * fixed event.log missing pagename (and other) information
3731 * fixed horizontal line thickness >1
3732 * fixed setup.py running from CVS workdir
3733 * fixed crash when doing action=info on first revision of a page
3734 * fixed hostname truncation in footer
3736 * fixed clear msg links (they missed quoting, leading to strange page
3737 names when you click on some of them)
3738 * fixed python colorizer processor
3739 * fixed quoting of stats cache filenames
3740 * catched "bad marshal data" error when switching python versions
3743 * updated danish (da) i18n
3744 * updated japanese (ja) i18n
3745 * added serbian (sr) i18n
3746 * added chinese (zh) i18n
3747 * added a simple "viewonly" theme based on classic theme - you can use
3748 this as default theme, so anonymous users won't get the usual wiki stuff,
3749 but a far simpler (and less powerful) user interface.
3750 It also displays the navibar at the left side.
3751 * added moin.spec for building RPMs
3752 * included MoinMoin/i18n/* into distribution archive (nice for translators)
3753 * included some stuff under MoinMoin/scripts - xmlrpc-tools and account
3754 checking stuff. removed some version control clutter from the dist
3757 * code colorization was refactored and some new languages (Java, C++,
3758 Pascal) where added.
3759 * inline: display of attachments was extended. A Parser now knows which
3760 extensions it can handle.
3762 Version 1.2 (2004-02-20, Revision 1.183)
3765 * MoinMoin now requires Python >=2.2.2., we recommend to use Python >=2.3.2
3766 (with 2.3.x, MoinMoin runs about 20-30% faster).
3767 * by refactoring request processing, we made it possible to run moin under
3768 persistent environments:
3769 * twisted-web (http://twistedmatrix.com)
3770 * httpdmain.py (use moin.py for starting this mini server)
3773 Of course, CGI is still possible.
3774 * wiki pages will be compiled to bytecode now (by default), so no need for
3775 slow parsing/formatting on every view ("WASP", see caching_formats)
3776 * when using a persistent environment (like twisted) and WASP, you get up
3777 to 20x speed - compared to CGI and moin 1.1
3778 * added support for diffs between arbitrary revisions.
3779 * removed requirement of the external diff utility
3780 * config.auth_http_enabled (defaults to 0) - use this to enable moin
3781 getting your authenticated user name from apache (http basic auth,
3782 htpasswd) - if you enable this, your basic auth username has to be the
3783 same as your wiki username.
3784 Should work with CGI, FCGI and maybe even with mod_python.
3785 Does not change behaviour of moin under twisted or standalone server.
3786 * config.tz_offset = 0.0 sets a default timezone offset (in hours
3788 * config.cookie_lifetime (int, in hours, default 12) sets the lifetime of
3790 == 0 --> cookie will live forever (no matter what user has configured!)
3791 > 0 --> cookie will live for n hours (or forever when "remember_me")
3792 < 0 --> cookie will live for -n hours (forced, ignore "remember_me"!)
3793 * added themeing and some themes (if you improve the existing themes or
3794 make nice new ones, please contribute your stuff!). The default theme is
3795 set by config.theme_default (and defaults to 'classic').
3796 * now supporting plugin directory for parsers, processors, themes, xmlrpc.
3797 * action=info now defaults to showing page revision history again
3798 * all actions accessing the logfile (as RecentChanges or history) are now
3800 * #refresh processing instruction, config.refresh
3801 * config.refresh = (minimum_delay, target_allowed)
3802 * minimum delay is the minimum waiting time (in seconds) allowed
3803 * target_allowed is either 'internal' or 'external', depending on
3804 whether you want to allow only internal redirects or also
3805 external ones. For internal redirects, just use the Wiki pagename,
3806 for external, use http://... url.
3807 * #refresh 3 == refresh this page every 3 seconds
3808 * #refresh 5 FrontPage == internal redirect to FrontPage in 5s
3809 * #refresh 5 http://google.com/ == redirect to google in 5s
3810 Use very carefully! Allowing a low minimum_delay and putting a #refresh
3811 on RecentChanges might slow down your wiki significantly, when some
3812 people just let their browser refresh and refresh again. Also, it does
3813 cause quite some traffic long-term. So better do not use this without
3814 good reason! Default is None (switched off).
3815 * hide most UserPreferences options before user has logged in, less
3816 confusing for new users
3817 * "config.page_dict_regex" defines what pages are dictionary definitions
3818 Currently dictionaries are used for UserHomePage/MyDict where you can
3819 define key:: value pairs that get processed like @DATE@ expansion when
3820 saving a page. The 2 "@" will be added to your keys automatically.
3821 Please do not use @xxx@ strings on the right side (value), results may
3823 You can also access wiki dictionaries by using the internal macro
3824 [[GetVal(page,key)]]" - that will go to page "page" and return the
3825 value (right side) corresponding to "key".
3826 Implementation note: groups are a subset of the dictionary functionality.
3827 * standalone server should work now (see server/moin.py), so you don't
3828 need to setup apache or twisted for a local personal wiki, you only need
3829 python and moin for that now, no additional stuff any more!
3830 * if you run your wiki with charset = "utf-8" (the default is still
3831 iso8859-1), you might want to have a look at contributions/utf8-pages/
3832 to see if there are already translated system pages for your language.
3835 * new importPlugin routine (the old one didn't work correctly)
3836 * removed 0xA0 characters breaking utf-8
3837 * system page recognition now uses wiki groups (see AllSystemPagesGroup),
3838 fixing the long-time broken system page exclusion on TitleIndex.
3839 * mostly HTML 4.01 Strict compliant HTML
3840 * design is done by CSS now, HTML is semantic markup only
3841 * removed target attribute from links, also [^NewWindow] markup - this
3842 is a HTML 3.2 feature and not valid in HTML 4.01
3843 * updated TWikiDrawPlugin to 20021003 version, with further modifications
3844 including source. It can draw imagemaps now and saves PNG. On display a
3845 GIF will be searched if no PNG is found. We recommend changing all GIFs
3846 to indexed PNGs cause this fallback might disappear in later versions.
3848 Sample code using bash and ImageMagick (be sure you know what you do):
3849 for draw in `find /path/to/wiki/data -name \*.draw`; do
3850 file=`dirname $draw`/`basename $draw .draw`
3851 if [ -e "${file}.gif" ]; then
3852 echo "Converting ${file}.gif to ${file}.png"
3853 convert "${file}.gif" "${file}.png"
3857 * fixed email headers and encoding
3858 * Changed moin-usercheck to adhere to scripting standards; no
3859 proprietary config changes needed any more (added --config);
3860 --wikinames is now part of the usage message.
3861 * config.umask now defaults to 0770 - if you give world r/w access, ACLs
3862 could be rather pointless...
3864 Removed config variables:
3865 * external_diff (not needed any more, we have internal diff now)
3866 * shared_metadb (wasn't implemented for long - we will re-add it, when it is)
3867 * title1/2 (please use page_header1/2)
3870 Changed config variables:
3871 * changed_time_fmt (removed some html and brackets around time from default)
3872 * html_head (default is empty string now)
3873 * page_footer1/2 (default is empty string now)
3874 * page_icons (is now a list of icon names, not html any more)
3875 * umask (default is 0770 now, not world r/w any more == more secure)
3877 New config variables (see MoinMaster:HelpOnConfiguration):
3886 * page_license_enabled
3893 * lots of internal code refactoring and optimization
3894 * began moving src code documentation to epydoc, see "make epydoc"
3895 * the URL for the RecentChanges RSS feed changed. It now only works with
3899 * theme support is neither complete (although covering most important
3900 stuff) nor perfect - work on that will continue...
3901 * we removed some html from system messages (the boxes at top of page you
3902 get after some actions), so it currently looks less nice than before.
3903 * html is not completely validating and it is not xhtml - this will be
3904 fixed as soon as we have the infrastructure for that (other parser, DOM)
3905 * problems with rtl (right-to-left) languages, will be fixed in 1.3
3906 * if you change moin_config or switch themes, moin will still use already
3907 cached page content. For the config this can be fixed by touching
3908 MoinMoin/version.py (or simply deleting everything in
3909 data/cache/Page.py). If you get more annoyed by this than pleased by
3910 caching speedup, you can also switch off caching (see docs on
3913 Themeing and HTML/CSS cleanup:
3914 * Browsers with completely broken CSS support (like e.g. Netscape 4.x) are
3915 no longer supported. If you still need to support them, do not upgrade to
3916 moin 1.2. If you still use these browsers, we recommend that you upgrade
3917 your browser first (Mozilla 1.5 has nice and standards compliant HTML and
3918 CSS support and is available as Free Software for Windows, Linux and Mac).
3919 * If you changed any html in code or by config you will have to check if it
3920 still works. For the usual stuff, look into `MoinMoin/theme/classic.py`
3921 and `classic/css/screen.css`. For config defaults of the html fragments,
3922 read `MoinMoin/config.py`. If you want to modify a theme, don't simply
3923 change classic, but copy or subclass it under a new theme name.
3924 * because of the new theme support the layout of the `htdocs` directory
3926 * Instead of using icons under `img/` and css under `css/`, there will
3927 be an additional `themename/` directory in between, e.g. `classic/img/`
3928 and `classic/css/`. If you added own icons, you may have to copy them
3929 to the themes directory.
3930 * The filename of the CSS file has changed to the media type, so the
3931 normal one used for screen output has changed name from `moinmoin.css`
3932 to `screen.css`. There also were quite some changes and enhancements to
3933 the CSS files, so better use the new ones.
3934 * config.css_url was removed
3937 * we use a new plugin loader that requires a correct `__init__.py` file in
3938 the plugin directories. See the directory `wiki/data/plugin/` in the
3939 distribution archive and just copy it over to your wiki's plugin directory.
3942 Version 1.1 (2003-11-29, Revision 1.178)
3944 Version 1.1 requires Python 2.0 or higher, we recommend to use Python 2.2
3945 (version 2.2.2 if that is available on your host) or even better >= 2.3.2
3946 (with 2.3.x, MoinMoin runs about 20-30% faster).
3950 * config.default_lang lets you set a default language for users not
3951 having specified language in their browser or UserPreferences
3952 * "config.page_category_regex" defines what pages are categories
3953 * replaced `config.page_template_ending` by a more flexible setting
3954 named `config.page_template_regex`
3955 * the same with config.page_form_regex (was: page_form_ending)
3956 * "config.page_group_regex" defines what pages are group definitions
3957 Currently groups are used for "user groups" (see ACLs) and "page
3958 groups" (see AllSystemPagesGroup).
3959 * robot exclusion from all pages except the standard view action,
3960 via the config.ua_spiders regex (reduces server load)
3961 * "maxdepth" argument for the TableOfContents macro
3962 * config.title1, config.title2, config.page_footer1,
3963 config.page_footer2 can now be callables and will be called with
3964 the "request" object as a single argument (note that you should
3965 accept any keyword arguments in order to be compatible to future
3967 * "config.html_pagetitle" allows you to set a specific HTML page
3968 title (if not set, it defaults to "config.sitename")
3969 * navi_bar / quicklinks can now contain free-form links, i.e.
3970 entries of the form "[url linktext]" just like in wiki pages
3971 * if a quick link starts with '^', it opens in a new window; help
3972 now opens in a new window also
3973 * `config.smileys` for user-defined smileys (default: `{}`) - a dict
3974 with the markup as the key and a tuple of width, height, border, image
3976 * `config.hosts_deny` to forbid access based on IP address
3977 * `config.mail_login` can be set to username and password separated by
3978 a space, e.g. "username userpass", if you need to use SMTP AUTH
3979 * `config.edit_locking` can be set to None (old behaviour, no
3980 locking), 'warn <timeout mins>' (warn about concurrent edits, but
3981 do not enforce anything), or 'lock <timeout mins>' (strict locking)
3982 * optionally showing a license text on editor page, use:
3983 config.page_license_enabled = 1
3984 Optionally use these to customize what is shown there:
3985 config.page_license_text = "... your text ..."
3986 config.page_license_page = "MyLicensePage"
3987 See the default values in MoinMoin/config.py for details and
3988 override them in moin_config.py, if needed.
3989 * `config.shared_intermap` can be a list of filenames (instead of a
3991 * If you have added your own `SecurityPolicy`, the class interface for
3992 that has changed (see `security.py`).
3994 Authenticaton / Authorization:
3995 * added ACL support, written by Gustavo Niemeyer of Conectiva and
3996 Thomas Waldmann. See HelpOnAccessControlLists for more infos.
3997 You should use MoinMoin/scripts/moin_usercheck.py before activating
3998 ACLs or some users with bad or duplicate accounts might get into
4000 * A user account can be disabled using moin_usercheck.py or
4001 UserPreferences page. Disabling, but keeping it is good for edit
4003 * changed security default: deletion only available to known users
4004 * support for Basic authentication (Apache style: AUTH_TYPE="Basic",
4005 REMOTE_USER="WikiUserName"). If authentication is there, user
4006 will be in ACL class "Trusted".
4007 * support for username / password login
4008 The username / password login will ONLY work, if you define a
4009 password. With an empty password, username / password login is not
4010 allowed due to security reasons. Passwords are stored encrypted
4011 (format similar to Apache SHA) and can also be entered in the
4012 UserPreferences form in this format. When requesting login
4013 information by email, the password is also sent in this encrypted
4014 format (use copy&paste to fill it in the form).
4015 ...?action=userform?uid=<userid> is still possible, so if you have
4016 bookmarks, they will still work). The input field for the ID was
4018 NOTE: using the userid for login purposes is DEPRECATED and might
4019 be removed for better security soon.
4020 * after logging in, you will get a cookie valid until midnight.
4021 The next day, the cookie will expire and you will have to login
4022 again. If you don't want this, you can check the "remember me
4023 forever" option in UserPreferences.
4024 * if the page file is read-only, you get a message (i.e. you can now
4025 protect pages against changes if you're the wiki admin).
4026 Note: you can do that easier using ACLs.
4028 Markup / Macros / Actions:
4029 * RandomQuote macro (and even parses Wiki markup now)
4030 * `[[Navigation]]` macro for slides and subpage navigation
4031 * [[ShowSmileys]] displays ALL smileys, including user-defined ones
4032 * the Include macro has new parameters (from, to, sort, items) and
4033 is able to include more than one page (via a regex pattern)
4034 * `MailTo` macro for adding spam-safe email links to a page
4035 * if a fancy link starts with '^' (i.e. if it has the form
4036 "[^http:... ...]"), it's opened in a new window
4037 * because of that, the NewWindow macro was removed from contrib
4038 * "#pragma section-numbers 2" only displays section numbers for
4039 headings of level 2 and up (similarly for 3 to 6)
4040 * ../SubPageOfParent links
4044 * Page creation shows LikePages that already exist
4045 * editor shows the current size of the page
4046 * editor returns to including page when editing an included page
4047 * Visual indication we're on the editor page (new CSS style)
4048 * selection to add categories to a page in the editor (use preview
4049 button to add more than one category)
4050 * if user has a homepage, a backup of save/preview text is saved as
4051 a subpage UsersHomePage/MoinEditorBackup
4052 * added "revert" link to PageInfo view (which makes DeletePage more
4053 safe in public wikis, since you can easily revive deleted pages
4055 * Selection for logged in users (i.e. no bots) to extend the listing
4056 of recent changes beyond the default limits
4057 * Activated display of context for backlinks search
4058 * Subscriber list shown on page info
4059 * LikePages shows similar pages (using difflib.get_close_matches)
4060 * last edit action is stored into "last-edited" file, and
4061 displayed in the page footer
4062 * reciprocal footnote linking (definition refers back to reference)
4063 * "Ex-/Include system pages" link for title index
4064 Note: system/help pages algorithm is still mostly broken.
4065 * list items set apart by empty lines are now also set apart
4066 visually (by adding the CSS class "gap" to <li>)
4067 * "save" check for security.Permissions
4068 * Added Spanish, Croatian and Danish system texts
4069 * Added flag icons for the languages supported in "i18n"
4070 * updated help and system pages, more translations, see also
4072 * there was quite some work done on wiki xmlrpc v1 and v2 - it
4073 basically works now.
4075 Tools and other changes:
4076 * moin-dump: New option "--page"
4077 * there are some scripts MoinMoin/scripts/* using wiki xmlrpc for
4078 backup and wiki page copying applications
4079 * Updated the XSLT parser to work with 4Suite 1.0a1
4080 * more infos in cgi tracebacks
4081 * UPDATE.html is a HTML version of MoinMaster:HelpOnUpdating
4083 Unfinished or experimental features:
4084 * user defined forms
4085 * XML export of all data in the wiki
4086 * RST parser (you need to install docutils to use this)
4090 * do not use / display user's email address in public places
4093 * Removed two cross-site scripting vulnerabilities reported by "office"
4096 * Bugfix for PageList when no arguments are given
4097 * Disallow full-text searches with too short search terms
4098 * [ 566094 ] TitleIndex now supports grouping by Hangul Syllables
4099 * fix for multibyte first char in TitleIndex
4100 * Footnotes were not HTML escaped
4101 * Numbered code displays are now in a table so that you can cut the
4102 code w/o the numbers
4103 * Bugfix for wrong mail notifications
4104 * Create unique anchors for repeated titles
4105 * [ 522246 ] Transparently recode localized messages
4106 * [ 685003 ] Using "preview" button when editing can lose data
4107 * use gmtime() for time handling
4108 * fixed negative gmtime() arguments
4109 * [[Include]] accepts relative page names
4110 * fixed ||NotInterWiki:||...||
4112 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4113 Version 1.0 (2002-05-10, Revision 1.159)
4115 THIS IS THE LAST RELEASE WITH PYTHON 1.5.2 SUPPORT! If severe bugs
4116 should occur, a maintenance release will fix them.
4118 Some optional features (like statistics) already require Python 2.0.
4121 * security fix: "allow_xslt" has to be set to 1 in order to enable
4122 XSLT processing; note that this defaults to 0 because XSLT is able
4123 to insert arbitrary HTML into a wiki
4124 * "action=content" for transclusion into static web pages; emits the
4125 pure page content, without any <html>, <head>, or <body> tags
4126 * "?action=links&mimetype=text/plain" works like MeatBall:LinkDatabase
4127 * "Preferred language" and "Quick links" user settings
4128 * Added "processor" concept, processors work on the data in "code
4129 displays" and are called by a bangpath in the first line of data
4130 * Processors: Colorize, CSV (see HelpOnProcessors)
4131 * New icons: "{OK}", "(./)", "{X}", "{i}", "{1}", "{2}" and "{}"
4133 * FullSearch now displays context information for search hits
4134 * DeletePage offers a textentry field for an optional comment
4135 * Email notifications are sent in the user's language, if known from
4137 * @PAGE@ is substituted by the name of the current page (useful
4140 Unfinished features:
4141 * user defined forms
4142 * XML export of all data in the wiki
4143 * RST parser (you need to install docutils to use this)
4147 * Syntax warning with Python 2.2 fixed
4148 * Macro-generated pagelinks are no longer added to the list of links
4149 * error codes returned by "diff" are reported
4150 * fix for attachments on pages with non-USASCII names
4151 * correct handling of spaces in attachment filenames and URLs
4153 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4154 Version 0.11 (2002-03-11, Revision 1.151)
4156 Most important new features: file attachments, definition list markup
4157 (glossaries), change notification via email, variable substitution when
4158 saving pages, edit preview, and improved documentation.
4160 Note that the RSS features require a recent PyXML (CVS or 0.7) due to
4161 bugs in the namespace handling of xml.sax.saxutils in earlier versions.
4162 This is (hopefully) automatically detected on every installation.
4164 Statistical features are NOT designed to work with Python 1.5.2 and
4165 require Python 2.0 or higher. Overall, MoinMoin 0.11 is not explicitely
4166 tested for 1.5.2 compatibility.
4169 * XML formatting now (most often) produces well-formed, and, depending
4170 on proper layout of the wiki page, valid StyleBook XML
4171 * Headers are now automatically numbered, unless you set the config
4172 item 'show_section_numbers' to 0
4173 * "#pragma section-numbers off" (or "0") switches that off explicitely,
4174 and "on" or "1" enables numbering
4175 * Added a "contributions" directory for 3rd party extensions
4176 * AttachFile action, contributed by Ken Sugino; note that you have
4177 to enable this action because of the possibility of DoS attacks
4178 (malicious uploads), by adding this to your moin_config:
4179 allowed_actions = ['AttachFile']
4180 * "attachment:" URL scheme allows access to attachments, to get files
4181 from other pages use "attachment:WikiName/filename.ext".
4182 * New macros: Date(unixtimestamp) and DateTime(unixtimestamp) to
4183 display a timestamp according to system/user settings
4184 * Variable substitution when a page is saved, note that saving
4185 template pages does NOT expand variables. Supported are:
4186 @DATE@ Current date in the system's format
4187 @TIME@ Current date and time in the user's format
4188 @USERNAME@ Just the user's name (or his domain/IP)
4189 @USER@ Signature "-- loginname"
4190 @SIG@ Dated Signature "-- loginname date time"
4191 @MAILTO@ A fancy mailto: link with the user's data
4192 * Copied some new emoticons from PikiePikie
4193 || {{{ :-? }}} || :-? || tongue.gif ||
4194 || {{{ :\ }}} || :\ || ohwell.gif ||
4195 || {{{ >:> }}} || >:> || devil.gif ||
4196 || {{{ %) }}} || %) || eyes.gif ||
4197 || {{{ @) }}} || @) || eek.gif ||
4198 || {{{ |) }}} || |) || tired.gif ||
4199 || {{{ ;)) }}} || ;)) || lol.gif ||
4200 * AbandonedPages macro
4201 * Added definition list markup: {{{<whitespace>term:: definition}}}
4202 * Added email notification features contributed by Daniel Sa� * SystemInfo: show "Entries in edit log"
4203 * Added "RSS" icon to RecentChanges macro and code to generate a
4204 RecentChanges RSS channel, see
4205 http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?UnifiedRecentChanges
4207 * Added config.sitename and config.interwikiname parameter
4208 * Better WikiFarm support:
4209 * <datadir>/plugin/macro and <datadir>/plugin/action can be used
4210 to store macros and actions local to a specific wiki instance
4211 * config.shared_intermap can contain a pathname to a shared
4212 "intermap.txt" file (i.e. one stored outside the datadir)
4213 * added `backtick` shortcut for {{{inline literal}}} (has to be
4214 enabled by "backtick_meta=1" in the config file); note that ``
4215 is then a shorter replacement for '''''' escaping
4216 * added inline search fields (at the bottom of each page)
4217 * Added preview to the editor, including spell checking
4218 * New languages: Chinese (Changzhe Han) and Portuguese (Jorge
4219 Godoy), updated French (Lucas Bruand), added Korean (Hye-Shik
4220 Chang) and Italian (Lele Gaifax)
4221 * New SystemAdmin macro
4222 * `[[Anchor(anchorname)]]` macro to insert anchors into a page,
4223 and [#anchorname Anchor Links].
4224 * User option to open editor view via a double-click
4225 * Added commentary field to editor, recent changes and page info
4226 * Page trails (user option)
4227 * UserPreferences: checkboxes for double-click edit, page trail,
4228 fancy links, emoticons, jump to last page visited, and some
4229 other yes/no options
4230 * "config.nonexist_qm" is now the default for a user setting
4231 * `[[GetText(text)]]` macro loads I18N texts (mainly intended
4232 for use on Help pages)
4233 * table attributes via "||<attrlist> ... ||", more details on
4234 http://purl.net/wiki/moin/HelpOnTables
4235 * PythonFaq interwiki tag and support for $PAGE placeholder
4236 * event logging, as the basis for future statistics
4237 * "moin-dump" command line tool to create a static copy of
4239 * "config.external_diff" allows to set an exact path to the
4240 command, or change the name to for example "gdiff" if GNU
4241 diff is not a native command in your UNIX flavour
4242 * `[[PageSize]]` macro
4243 * the interwiki name "Self" now always points to the own wiki
4244 * config.title1 and config.title2 are inserted into the output
4245 right before and after the system title html code (title1
4246 is right after the <body> tag and normally undefined, title2
4247 defaults to the "<hr>" above the page contents)
4248 * Additional link on diff pages to ignore whitespace changes
4249 * Subpages (config.allow_subpages, config.page_icons_up)
4250 * super^script^, sub,,script,, and __underline__ markup
4251 * `[[FootNote]]` macro
4252 * many other new config options, see HelpOnConfiguration for
4254 * [[StatsChart(type)]] shows statistical charts (currently
4255 defined types: hitcounts, pagesize, useragents)
4256 * 'inline:' scheme works like 'attachment:', but tries to
4257 inline the content of the attachment into the page;
4258 currently knows about "*.py" sources and colorizes them
4259 * support for Java applet "TWikiDrawPlugin" via
4260 drawing:<drawingname> URL scheme (you need to activate
4261 the AttachFile action if you want drawings)
4262 * numeric entities (&#nnnnn;) are now optionally NOT escaped,
4263 which allows you to insert more characters into a Latin-1
4264 page, especially the Euro symbol
4265 * navi_bar is now a list of page names which should be linked
4267 * test.cgi is now rolled into moin.cgi, and can be called
4268 by adding "?test" to the wiki base URL. Also, as a security
4269 feature, the server's environment is only shown for requests
4270 local to the web server.
4272 Unfinished features:
4273 * user defined forms
4274 * XML export of all data in the wiki
4277 * extended the online help ("Help*" pages)
4278 * German help pages (thanks to Thomas Waldmann)
4281 * #425857: python Parser bug on the second call
4282 * #424917: Caching control
4283 * #465499: Two HTTPS problems
4284 * #491155: FrontPage hardcoded
4285 * Handling of inbound UTF-8 encoded URIs (only with Python >= 2.0)
4286 * Fix for subtle changes in "re" of Python 2.2
4287 * User-provided URLs are now never URL-escaped, which allows appending
4288 #anchors and using %20 for spaces in InterWiki links
4290 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4291 Version 0.10 (2001-10-28, Revision 1.134)
4293 This version is still Python 1.5.2 compatible, but it's not extensively
4294 tested for that version and some parts of the system might not work
4295 there, especially seldom used macros and actions. Bug reports welcome!
4298 * "#deprecated" processing instruction
4299 * config entry "SecurityPolicy" to allow for customized permissions
4300 (see "security.py" for more)
4301 * added distutils support
4302 * though not extensively tested, the standalone server now does POST
4303 requests, i.e. you can save pages; there are still problems with
4304 persistent global variables! It only works for Python >= 2.0.
4305 * "bang_meta" config variable and "!NotWikiWord" markup
4306 * "url_mappings" config variable to dynamically change URL prefixes
4307 (especially useful in intranets, when whole trees of externally
4308 hosted documents move around)
4309 * setting "mail_smarthost" and "mail_from" activates mailing
4310 features (sending login data on the UserPreferences page)
4311 * very useful for intranet developer wikis, a means to view pydoc
4312 documentation, formatted via a XSLT stylesheet, for details see
4313 http://purl.net/wiki/python/TeudViewer?module=MoinMoin.macro.TeudView
4314 or MoinMoin/macro/TeudView.py
4315 * "LocalSiteMap" action by Steve Howell <showell@zipcon.com>
4316 * Added FOLDOC to intermap.txt
4319 * Full config defaults, import MoinMoin now works w/o moin_config.py
4320 * Better control over permissions with config.umask
4321 * Bugfix for a UNIX time billenium bug (affecting RecentChanges
4322 sorting and page diffs)
4323 * data paths with directory names containing dots caused problems
4325 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4326 Version 0.9 (2001-05-07)
4329 * XML page input (pages that start with "<?xml") and XSLT formatting
4330 * Page caching, for now limited to XSLT processing (where it's
4331 absolutely needed); new code & API to add the "RefreshCache" link
4332 * Selection of common date/time formats in UserPreferences
4333 * New action "titleindex" to support wiki introspection (MetaWiki);
4334 see the new links below the index bar in "TitleIndex"
4335 * UserPreferences: editable CSS URL for personal styles
4336 * PageInfo: the editor's name or IP is shown for each change
4337 * WantedPages: a new macro that lists links to non-existent pages
4338 * OrphanedPages: a new macro that lists pages no other page links to
4339 * Extensions to the FullSearch macro (see HelpOnMacros)
4340 * Python syntax highlighting
4341 * "DeletePage" action (has to be activated, see MoinMoinFaq)
4342 * "Remove trailing whitespace from each line" option in the editor
4343 * I18N (currently German and Swedish)
4344 * Config option "url_schemas" to extend the supported URL types
4345 * Improved tracebacks by using Ka-Ping's "cgitb"
4348 * The editor now sends a "no-cache" HTTP header
4349 * "PageList" results are now sorted
4350 * New config parameter "html_head_queries": send additional header
4351 for all pages EXCEPT the "normal" view; main usage is to have
4352 only the normal pages indexed by a spider, not the edit, print,
4353 etc. views (which cause multiple hits on the same information)
4354 * Store the modification time of the page file in the editlog, not
4355 the current time when the log entry is created
4357 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4358 Version 0.8 (2001-01-23)
4361 * Page templates (create a new page using a template page, by Richard)
4362 * Pluggable actions (by Richard)
4363 * Added "diff since bookmark"
4364 * Only "normal" URLs (outside of brackets) are converted to inline images
4365 * Show number of backups in SystemInfo macro
4366 * Show info on installed extension macros and actions
4367 * New macro: [[BR]] for line breaks
4368 * New action "LikePages" (again, Richard)
4369 * Highlighting of search results, and of bad words when spellchecking
4370 * Support for "file:" URLS
4371 * "SpellCheck" action (Richard, me, and Christian)
4372 * [[Include]] macro (you guessed it, Richard)
4375 * Update bookmark with load time, not click time
4376 * Changed CSS styles to better suit Netscape's broken handling of CSS
4378 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4379 Version 0.7 (2000-12-06)
4382 * RecentChanges bookmarking
4386 * Non-greedy extended WikiNames
4388 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4389 Version 0.6 (2000-12-04)
4392 * [[UserPreferences]] macro and associated functions
4393 * [[TableOfContents]] macro
4394 * Mechanism for external macros (user extensions)
4395 * Numbered list types and start offsets
4398 * Search dialogs did not work on the FrontPage
4399 * Add newline to text if last line has none (better diffs)
4401 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4402 Version 0.5 (2000-11-17)
4405 * Major refactoring: code is now broken up into modules within the
4407 * Diagnosis of installation via a "test.cgi" script
4409 * "#format" processing instruction
4411 * [[RandomPage]] and [[RandomPage(number)]] macro
4412 * configurable footer ("page_footer1" and "page_footer2")
4413 * "#redirect" processing instruction
4416 * Bugfix for broken CGI environment of IIS/4.0
4417 * URLs and InterWiki links are now less greedy (punctuation at the end
4418 is excluded, and "<" ends them, too)
4420 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4421 Version 0.4 (2000-11-01)
4424 * Table markup "||a||b||c||"
4425 * Headlines "= H1 =", "== H2 ==", and so on up to H5
4426 * [[PageCount]] macro
4427 * Added [[Icon(image)]] macro and macro arguments
4428 * [[PageList(title-regex)]] macro
4429 * New help system (set of help pages describing all features)
4432 * Create complete URL for "Clear message" link
4433 * Inline code spans needed cgi.escape
4434 * Better fix for Python 1.6 "re" problems
4435 * Fix for uppercase extensions in inline images ("foo.JPG")
4436 * Fixed colspan in RecentChanges
4437 * HR size is now limited to 8
4438 * "}" ends an URL pattern (fixes URLs right at the end of code displays)
4440 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4441 Version 0.3 (2000-10-25)
4444 * Check for inline images with InterWiki links (Spam:eggs.gif)
4445 * New config variable "allow_extended_names", which enables markup for
4446 wiki names containing ANY character like this: ["any chars"]
4447 * New config variable "html_head"
4448 * New macro [[SystemInfo]]
4449 * Added inline code ("{{{" and "}}}" on the same line)
4450 * Support for new config variable "max_macro_size"
4453 * Don't treat sequences with a double colon (CPP::Namespace) as an
4455 * The local part of InterWiki links is now correctly URL-escaped
4456 * Quickfix for a bug in 1.6's regular expressions
4457 * Fixed "SpamSpamSpam" bug (multiple entries in word list)
4458 * Anchor names get quoted in WordIndex and TitleIndex
4459 * Filtering of filenames in page_list() corrected
4460 * Escape &, <, > when sending the editor
4461 * Final(?) fix for japanese wiki names
4463 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4464 Version 0.2 (2000-08-26)
4467 * When saving, a datestamp saved in the form and that of the file are
4468 compared now; so, accidently saving over changes of other people is
4469 not possible anymore (saving still needs file locking though, for
4471 * if the directory "backup" exists in the data dir, pages are saved
4472 there before a new version is written to disk
4473 * Removed the "Reset" button from EditPage
4474 * Added "Reduce editor size" link
4475 * Added Latin-1 WikiNames (JürgenHermann ;)
4476 * Speeded up RecentChanges by looking up hostnames ONCE while saving
4477 * Show at most 14 (distinct) days in RecentChanges
4478 * Added icons for common functions, at the top of the page
4479 * Added a printing preview (no icons, etc.)
4480 * Added bracketed (external) URLs
4481 * Added support for quoted URLs ("http://...")
4482 * Added styles for :visited links to CSS
4483 * Embed image if an URL ends in .gif/.jpg/.png
4484 * No markup detection in code sections
4485 * Grey background for code sections
4486 * Added handling for numbered lists
4487 * the edit textarea now grows in width with the browser window
4488 (thanks to Sebastian Dau�for that idea)
4489 * Added page info (revision history) and viewing of old revisions
4490 * Added page diff, and diff links on page info
4491 * Added InterWiki support (use "wiki:WikiServer/theirlocalname"; the list
4492 of WikiServers is read from "data/intermap.txt")
4493 * Added "normal" InterWiki links
4494 * Added "action=raw" to send the raw wiki markup as text/plain (e.g. for
4495 backup purposes via wget)
4498 * Removed an exception when saving empty pages
4499 * Fixed bold nested into emphasis ('''''Bold''' Italic'')
4501 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4502 Version 0.1 (2000-07-29)
4504 Improvements over PikiPiki 1.62:
4505 * Moved configuration to "moin_config.py"
4506 * Added "edit_rows" setting
4507 * Added navigation bar
4508 * Improved HTML formatting
4509 * Added timing comment (page created in xx secs)
4510 * ISO date and time formats by default
4511 * Formatted RecentChanges with HTML tables
4512 * Uppercase letters for the index pages
4513 * Added PythonPowered logo
4516 * Javadoc comments now get formatted properly in {{{ }}} sections
4517 * Remove \r from submitted pages (so we get PORTABLE wiki files)
4518 * chmod(0666) eases manual changes to the data dir
4520 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------