cfg.recovery_token_lifetime to determine how long the recovery token will be valid
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
20 SECURITY HINT: make sure you have allow_xslt = False (or just do not use
21 allow_xslt at all in your wiki configs, False is the internal default).
22 Allowing XSLT/4suite is very dangerous, see HelpOnConfiguration wiki page.
24 HINT: Python >= 2.5 is maybe required! See docs/REQUIREMENTS for details.
27 * cfg.log_events_format can be used to configure the format of the records
28 written to <data_dir>/event-log:
29 0 = dot not create event-log entries (saves disk space, disk I/O)
30 1 = standard (like in moin <= 1.9.7) [default]
31 2 = extended (add infos about username, wikiname, url)
32 * add a tool to output the contents of the event-log to CSV:
33 moin export eventlog --file=output.csv
34 Output encoding is utf-8, columns are in this order:
35 time, event, username, ip, wikiname, pagename, url, referrer, ua
36 time: UNIX timestamp (float)
41 * passlib support - enhanced password hash security. Special thanks go to
42 the Python Software Foundation (PSF) for sponsoring development of this!
44 Docs for passlib: http://packages.python.org/passlib/
46 If cfg.passlib_support is True (default), we try to import passlib and set
47 it up using the configuration given in cfg.passlib_crypt_context (default
48 is to use sha512_crypt with default configuration from passlib).
50 The passlib docs recommend 3 hashing schemes that have good security, but
51 some of them have additional requirements:
52 sha512_crypt needs passlib >= 1.3.0, no other requirements.
53 pbkdf2_sha512 needs passlib >= 1.4.0, no other requirements.
54 bcrypt has additional binary/compiled package requirements, please refer to
57 cfg.password_scheme should be '{PASSLIB}' (default) to tell that passlib is
58 wanted for new password hash creation and also for upgrading existing
61 For the moin code as distributed in our download release archive, passlib
62 support should just work, as we have passlib 1.6.1 bundled with MoinMoin
63 as MoinMoin/support/passlib. If you use some other moin package, please
64 first check if you have moin AND passlib installed (and also find out the
65 passlib version you have installed).
67 If you do NOT want to (not recommended!) or can't use (still using python
68 2.4?) passlib, you can disable it your wiki config:
70 passlib_support = False # do not import passlib
71 password_scheme = '{SSHA}' # use best builtin hash (like moin < 1.9.7)
73 Please note that after you have used moin with passlib support and have user
74 profiles with passlib hashes, you can't just switch off passlib support,
75 because if you did, moin would not be able to log in users with passlib
76 password hashes. Password recovery would still work, though.
78 password_scheme always gives the password scheme that is wanted for new or
79 recomputed password hashes. The code is able to upgrade and downgrade hashes
80 at login time and also when setting / resetting passwords for one or all
81 users (via the wiki web interface or via moin account resetpw script
84 So, if you want that everybody uses strong, passlib-created hashes,
85 resetting the passwords for all users is strongly recommended:
86 First have passlib support switched on (it is on by default), use
87 password_scheme = '{PASSLIB}' (also default), then reset all passwords.
89 Same procedure can be used to go back to weaker builtin hashes (not
90 recommended): First switch off passlib support, use password_scheme =
91 '{SSHA}', then reset all passwords.
93 Wiki farm admins sharing the same user_dir between multiple wikis must use
94 consistent password hashing / passlib configuration settings for all wikis
95 sharing the same user_dir. Using the builtin defaults or doing the
96 configuration in farmconfig.py is recommended.
98 Admins are advised to read the passlib docs (especially when experiencing
99 too slow logins or when running old passlib versions which may not have
100 appropriate defaults for nowadays):
101 http://packages.python.org/passlib/new_app_quickstart.html#choosing-a-hash
102 http://packages.python.org/passlib/password_hash_api.html#choosing-the-right-rounds-value
104 * Password mass reset/invalidation support, see docs/resetpw/.
105 This is useful to make sure everybody sets a new password and moin computes
106 the password hash using the current configuration.
108 * Customizable default password checker:
109 Moin's default password checker used and still uses min_length=6 (minimum pw
110 length) and min_different=4 (minimum count of different chars in the password).
111 If you feel that you need to require better passwords from your users, you
112 can customize it now like that in your wiki config:
114 password_checker = lambda cfg, request, name, pw: multiconfig._default_password_checker(cfg, request, name, pw, min_length=10, min_different=7)
116 * Removing/disabling inactive users (moin ... account inactive)
117 Many wikis have a lot of inactive users, that never ever made a single edit.
118 See help of the command for more details, be careful.
119 * SystemAdmin user browser: show disabled user accounts at the bottom of
121 * At startup, announce moin version and code path in log output (makes
122 support and debugging easier).
123 * AttachList: introduced search_term parameter (optional) for listing
124 attachments filtered by a regular expression on their name.
125 * sign release archive using GnuPG with the key of tw@waldmann-edv.de
126 ID 31A6CB60 (main key ID FAF7B393)
129 * logging: if the logging config file can't be read, give a helpful error msg
130 * logging: use info loglevel (not warning) for telling about using the builtin
131 default logging config
132 * moin script commands: warn if someone gave ... to the moin script, avoids a
133 strange and unhelpful 'empty module name' error message
134 * reorder html input fields in recoverpass form, to help browsers remember
135 the user name and password (not erroneously the recovery token and password)
136 * don't try to send password recovery email to user if email address in
137 user profile is empty
138 * cache action: fix 304 http status
139 * rst parser: fix safe_import for level param in __import__ call of docutils 0.10
140 * moin maint cleancache: also kill the i18n cache 'meta' pickle file
141 * sendmail: catch unicode errors when E-Mail addr has non-ascii chars
142 * redirect last visited: if last visited page is on same wiki, use a local
143 redirect, do not compute via interwiki map (fixes https: usage)
149 * fix remote code execution vulnerability in twikidraw/anywikidraw action
150 * fix path traversal vulnerability in AttachFile action
151 * fix XSS issue, escape page name in rss link
152 * escape user- or admin-defined css url
153 * make taintfilename more secure
154 * use a constant time str comparison function to prevent timing attacks
155 * Attachment handler: catch all Zip-related errors
161 * Security fix: fix virtual group bug in ACL evaluation.
162 * Avoid crash if #refresh processing instruction is used without arguments.
163 * Fix issue with non-ASCII textchas.
164 * Xapian indexing: remove copy.copy() that crashed on Windows/IIS/isapi-wsgi
166 * Fix dictionary file reading crash under Windows.
167 * Work around crash of AdvancedSearch macro rendering caused by non-ascii
168 mimetypes.types_map entries.
169 * Added migration script for moin 1.8.9.
170 * rss_rc: Fix diffs added in RSS with diffs=1 (now they correspond to item
171 listed in feed and not just last page diffs). Links generated with ddiffs=1
173 * rss_rc: fix double escaping issue.
174 * rss_rc: respect show_names configuration option.
175 * rss_rc: proper support of rename, revert, page creation.
176 * modern/modernized theme: fix padding/width for editor preview
177 * group/pagelinks formatters: avoid to create unnecessary output, redirect
178 output of send_page call with the groups formatter, it must not be written
180 * rst parser: fix include and macro directives
181 * wikisync: fix unicode pagename sending for python 2.7 httplib
184 * add a comment_required config option (default: False) to require a
185 non-empty comment when saving a page
186 * when a save error happens, show the editor again and highlight the error
187 * rss_rc: several new options added: lines parameter gives ability to set
188 maximum size of diffs showed in RSS. show_att parameter gives ability
189 to show information aboout attachment-related items in RSS. page parameter
190 gives ability to specify set of pages for which changes RSS feed should be
191 generated. Configuration of defaults and limits can now be done via wiki
192 configuration mechanism.
193 * As soon as it is now possible to provide RSS for page change history,
194 appropriate alternate link is now added for every page (controlled by
195 rss_show_page_history_link configuration parameter).
196 * Search: "no_highlight:" search query option provided for suppressing
197 highlighting search results.
198 * Search macros: new options for FullSearch, FullSearchCached and PageList
200 * highlight_titles option controls highlighting of matches in search
201 results provided by these macros. Default value is set in
202 search_macro_highlight_titles configuration option)
203 * highlight_pages option controls adding of highlight URL parameter to
204 page links (so search term is highlighted when user goes to one of
205 these pages via provided link) in search results. Default value is set
206 in search_macro_highlight_pages configuration option.
207 Usage of these options is disabled (via search_macro_parse_args
208 configuration option) by default due to behavioural changes introduced
209 in macro parameter parsing mechanism to support them. Related to
210 http://moinmo.in/FeatureRequests/FullSearchResultsWithoutHighlight .
213 * Remove 4suite dependency for docbook formatter, use minidom (included in
215 * Upgraded FCKeditor to 2.6.8.
220 HINT: Python >= 2.5 is maybe required! See docs/REQUIREMENTS for details.
223 * Fix XSS / remove javascript URL support in rst parser (CVE-2011-1058).
224 * werkzeug: Removed a dummy import. Fixes Python 2.7 compatibility.
225 * Fix linux-to-windows edit-log migration/upgrade issue (wrong line endings)
226 * logfile: strip \n lineends from line data (\n is part of the file
227 structure, not of the data)
229 * Simplify auto scroll initialization; fix bug in IE init discovered when
230 using IE7 on pages with wide tables.
231 * Fix timestamp in edit lock message to show the time when edit-locking ends.
232 * Updated wikiserverconfig.py from internal defaults, sync the one in
233 toplevel dir and the one in wiki/server/ - fixes hostname setting.
234 * SubProcess: make sure files are closed at the end (experimental change).
235 * text plain formatter: fix bullet_list, see number_list.
236 * Add some image mimetypes to MIMETYPES_MORE to fix windows issues.
237 * Include page name in password reset URL.
238 * Fix moin export dump to generate relative URLs.
239 * Fix MonthCalendar mouseover for pages with ampersand in page name.
240 * ldap_login: assign server early, it is used in exception handler.
241 * OpenID server preferences: fix traceback related to request method.
242 * Work around page.mtime_usecs() returning 0 for pages without edit-log.
243 * revert action: catch and display all SaveErrors when revert failed.
244 * Fixed bug in groups formatter which caused the last list item to be not in the group.
245 * Avoid strange exception in zipfile.py for pre-1980 timestamps.
246 * TableOfContents: fix for other markups than default wiki markup, e.g. rst
247 * script.account.homepage: added wiki format to homepage_default_text
248 * Enable webkit based browsers (try chrome/safari/konqueror now) for GUI
249 editing (after fixing selection FCKeditor plugin for chrome).
250 * Parsers: avoid crash when Parser.format() call gets inhibit_p kw arg.
251 * advancedsearch: fix problem with non-ascii chars breaking up words for OR
253 * fix globaledit script to keep comments on Homepage...Template pages
256 * Added print mode to action.SlideShow, see
257 FeatureRequests/PrintableSinglePageSlideshows.
258 * xmlrpc: new methods xmlrpc_getProcessingInstruction(Version)
259 * Add support for other password hashes (all of them will get auto-upgraded
260 to SSHA when user logs in):
261 * {DES} (Unix crypt(3))
262 * {MD5} (MD5-based crypt())
263 * {APR1} (Apache .htpasswd).
264 * Experimental queued indexing support to work around memory leak - use it like this:
265 # put all pages into indexer queue:
266 python MoinMoin/script/moin.py index build --mode=makequeue
267 # take <count> pages out of the indexer queue and index them,
268 # you need to repeat the following line respective to the total amount of pages
269 # in your wiki (doing more indexer calls does no harm, doing less means an
271 python MoinMoin/script/moin.py index build --mode=buildnewindexqueued --count=500
272 python MoinMoin/script/moin.py index build --mode=buildnewindexqueued --count=500
273 python MoinMoin/script/moin.py index build --mode=buildnewindexqueued --count=500
275 # switch to new index:
276 python MoinMoin/script/moin.py index build --mode=usenewindex
279 * Raise exceptions as recommended in PEP 8.
280 * Updated i18n / underlay pages.
281 * Updated interwiki map.
282 * Use logging.traceback to get more information if a indexing filter crashes.
283 * u200b is not considered a space any more in unicode 4.0.1.
284 * Improve textcha security, use some crypto and timing to make cheating
285 harder - use cfg.textchas_expiry_time = 600 (default, seconds) to set the
286 time a textcha is valid.
287 * Upgraded bundled werkzeug to 0.8.1, pygments to 1.4, flup to repo tip.
292 * Fix XSS in Despam action (CVE-2010-0828).
294 * by escaping template name in messages
295 * by fixing other places that had similar issues
296 * Make moin compatible to werkzeug 0.5 .. 0.6.2 (1.9.2 had issues
297 with xmlrpc when used with werkzeug 0.6.x).
298 * MoinMoin.util.filesys: disable usage of dircache, deprecate dc* functions,
299 because the dircache stdlib module can't work correctly for fast updates of
301 * rss_rc and sisterpages actions: fix Content-Type header (mimetype)
302 * Fix associating OpenID identity with user, wasn't adapted to werkzeug yet.
303 * openidrp auth: fix undefined _ (gettext)
304 * Fix auth.cas and userprefs.oidserv request object usage.
306 * Pygments syntax highlighting: add missing code files
307 * Notifications: use same email subject format for every notification
308 * Fix docbook formatter crashing, see MoinMoinPatch/IncludeMacroWithDocBookFormatter
309 * Fix regex content search for xapian search.
310 * Get rid of the empty line at the end of code highlights.
311 * GUI editor: compute editor height like the text editor does.
312 * Added help texts for: standalone server and moin migration.
313 * script.maint.cleancache: clean also i18n cache files
314 * Improved formatter.text_plain, see FeatureRequests/TextPlainFormatterRewrite
315 (fixes many issues of this formatter).
316 * text_html_text_moin_wiki: fixed index error for width="", see also:
318 * xmlrpc: disable editor backup for putPage, renamePage and revertPage
319 because if pages get uploaded by xmlrpc then the draft cache file can
320 rapidly increase in size, causing high memory usage because it needs to
321 get loaded into memory for updating/processing.
322 * Emit Content-Type header (with charset) for SlideShow action and many other
323 actions that just call send_title().
324 * ActionBase: better compatibility to moin 1.8, use request.values by
325 default, optionally use request.form data only
328 * RenamePage action: added ability to create redirect pages when renaming
329 (turned off by default, see show_rename_redirect config option).
330 * formatter/text_html: Added line number links to code blocks.
332 * Fixed whitespace in generated (html) diff view table so white-space: pre
333 can be used (and whitespace in diffs preserved).
334 * Added links to first/last revision.
335 * MoinMoin.widget.browser: introduced feature for sorting tables, see:
336 http://moinmo.in/FeatureRequests/SortableTables
337 * SystemAdmin user and attachment browsers: sorting feature used there now
338 * Scrolling the text editor to the double clicked line.
339 * Enable double-click-editing by default.
340 * WikiConfigHelp macro: make heading and description display optional,
341 heading level as a parameter (default 2)
342 * If edit ticket check fails, send the editor with the current content.
343 * moin import wikipage - use this script to import local files as a wiki page
346 * upgraded pygments from 1.2.2 to 1.3.1
347 * upgraded FCKeditor from 2.6.4.1 to 2.6.6
348 * added configuration snippet for ldap authentication against 2 servers
349 * improved script help output
353 * Fixed CVE-2010-0668: major security issues were discovered in misc. parts
355 HINT: if you have removed superuser configuration to workaround the issue
356 (following our security advisory), you may re-add it after installing this
357 moin release. If you don't need superuser capabilities often, it might be
358 wise to not have superusers configured all the time, though.
359 * Fixed CVE-2010-0669: potential security issue due to incomplete user profile
361 * Improved package security: cfg.packagepages_actions_excluded excludes
362 unsafe or otherwise questionable package actions by default now.
363 * wiki parser: fixed transclusion of (e.g. video) attachments from other
365 * Fixed edit locking for non-logged in editors and cfg.log_remote_addr=False.
366 * mailimport: fix missing wikiutil import for normalize_pagename
367 * SubProcess: fix "timeout" AttributeError
368 * "standalone" wikiserver.py: fixed calling non-existing os.getuid on win32
369 * HTTPAuth deprecation warning moved from class level to __init__
371 * Fixed misc. session related problems, avoid unneccessary session file
373 * Fix/improve rename-related problems on Win32 (depending on Windows version).
374 * Fixed spider / user agent detection.
375 * Make sure to use language_default when language_ignore_browser is set.
376 * diff action: fix for case when user can't revert page.
377 * Fix trail size (was off by one).
378 * Updated bundled flup middleware (upstream repo checkout), avoids
379 socket.fromfd AttributeError on win32 if cgi is forced, gives helpful
381 * wikiutil: Fixed required_arg handling (no exception when trying to raise
382 exception that choice is wrong).
383 * Do not use MoinMoin.support.* to import 3rd party code, give dist packages
385 * wikiutil.clean_input: avoid crash if it gets str type
386 * request: fixed for werkzeug 0.6 and 0.5.1 compatibility. Please note that
387 we didn't do much testing with 0.6 yet. So, if you use 0.6, please do some
388 testing and provide feedback to us.
389 * AttachFile._build_filelist: verifies readonly flag for unzip file link
390 * attachUrl: fix wrongly generated tickets (e.g. for AttachList macro)
391 * http headers: fix duplicated http headers (e.g. content-type)
394 * info action: added pagination ability to revision history viewer.
395 Use cfg.history_paging = True [default] / False to enable/disable it.
396 * ldap_login auth: add report_invalid_credentials param to control wrong
397 credentials error message (this is typically used when using multiple
398 ldap authenticators).
399 * Add RenderAsDocbook to actions_excluded if we have no python-xml.
400 * Upgraded pygments to 1.2.2 (some fixes, some new lexers).
401 * Text editor: if edit_rows==0 (user profile or config), we dynamically size
402 the text editor height. This avoids double sliders for the editor page
406 * New docs/REQUIREMENTS.
407 * Added a less magic cgi/fcgi driver (moin.fcgi), added fixer middleware
408 for apache2/win32 to it.
413 * Fixed CVE-2010-0667: sys.argv security issue.
414 * Fixed FileSessionService - use session_dir from CURRENT request.cfg (it
415 mixed up session_dirs in farm setups).
416 HINT: if you added the hotfix to your wikiconfig, please remove it now.
417 * Fixed creation of lots of session files (if anon session were enabled and
418 user agent did not support cookies).
419 * Fixed session file storage for a non-ascii base path.
420 * Fixed session cookie confusion for nested URL paths (like path=/ and
421 path=/mywiki - for more info, see also "New features").
422 * Handle cookie_lifetime / anonymous_session_lifetime upgrade issue
423 gracefully: emit errors/warnings to log, use old settings to create
424 cfg.cookie_lifetime as expected by moin 1.9.
425 * flup based frontends: fixed SCGI and AJP (didn't work).
426 * farmconfig example: remove wrong comment, add sample http/https entry.
427 * Fixed password reset url (email content needs full URL).
428 * Page: fixed adding of page contents (only data added now, without metadata) -
431 * Process attachname in get/putAttachment similarly.
432 * revertPage: convert pagename to internal representation.
433 * Fixed auth calls used by jabberbot (needs more work).
434 * Added missing config.umask support code (setting was not used), fixed
435 config.umask usage for page packages.
436 * Fixed browser language detection.
437 * Fixed language pack generation/installation for pt-br, zh, zh-tw.
439 * Fixed usage of i18n.wikiLanguages() on class level (moved to method), failed
440 when tools import the module (e.g. pydoc -k foo).
442 * fixed caching issue for "toggle line numbers" link.
443 * added missing support for console/bash session
444 * Fixed precedence of parsers: more special parsers now have precedence
445 before moin falls back to using the HighlightParser (syntax highlighting).
446 * Added extensions to the rst, moin and creole parser (example.rst, example.moin and
447 example.creole attachments are rendered now when viewed).
449 moin_wiki, highlight and plain parser.
453 * Exception raised on calling add_msg() after send_title(), which leads to
454 Internal Server Error on calling several actions (diff, preview) for
455 deprecated pages, is replaced with warning and call stack information in
457 * AttachFile.move_file: send events (so e.g. xapian index update happens)
458 * SubProcess: fixed win32-specific parts, fixed imports (fixes calling of
459 external xapian index filters)
460 * Fixed auth methods that use redirects (like OpenID).
462 * Add setting cfg.openidrp_allowed_op, default is [].
463 * Fixed logging in with openid and associating with an existing account.
464 * openidrp_sreg extension: handle UnknownTimeZoneError gracefully
467 * Fixed processing POSTed form data AND URL args.
470 * diff: Added displaying of information about revisions (editor, size,
471 timestamp, comment), added revision navigation.
472 * text editor: added @TIMESTAMP@ variable for adding a raw time stamp
473 * xmlrpc: added renamePage and deleteAttachment methods.
474 * Accept "rel" attribute for links (moin wiki parser).
475 * Generate session cookie names to fix cookie path confusion and enable port-
478 HINT: New setting cfg.cookie_name:
480 None (default): use MOIN_SESSION_<PORT>_<PATH> as session cookie name. This
481 should work out-of-the-box for most setups.
483 'siteidmagic': use MOIN_SESSION_<SITEID>, which is unique within a wiki farm
484 created by a single farmconfig (currently, cfg.siteid is just
485 the name of the wiki configuration module).
487 'other_value': use MOIN_SESSION_other_value - this gives YOU control. Just
488 use same value to share the session between wikis and use a
489 different value, if you want a separate session.
491 HINT: Please do not use cfg.cookie_path any more - it usually should not be
492 needed any more, as we now always put path=/ into the cookie except if you
493 explicitly configure something else (only do that if you know exactly what
494 you're doing and if the default does not work for you).
496 HINT: see also the HelpOnSessions page which shows some typical configs.
497 * Store expiry into sessions, use moin maint cleansessions script to clean up.
498 HINT: use moin ... maint cleansessions --all once after upgrading.
499 HINT: you may want to add a cron job calling moin ... maint cleansessions
500 to regularly cleanup expired sessions (it won't remove not expired
504 * Added rtsp, rtp, rtcp protocols to url_schemas.
505 * Added more info about index building to xapian wikiconfig snippet.
506 * Updated the wikicreole parser to version 1.1.
510 Note: This is a reduced CHANGES, ommitting details from rc/beta test and
511 also less interesting minor changes and fixes. It shows changes
512 relative to 1.8.6 release.
513 If you want to see full detail, read it there:
514 http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/1.9/file/b290d938be63/docs/CHANGES
516 New features: ==============================================================
517 * HINT: MoinMoin requires Python 2.4 now. If you only have Python 2.3 and
518 you don't want to upgrade it, please use MoinMoin 1.8.x.
519 * HINT: MoinMoin is now a WSGI application.
520 Please read the new install docs about how to use it, see:
521 http://master19.moinmo.in/InstallDocs
522 You also have a local copy of that page as docs/INSTALL.html.
523 * HINT: due to big changes in the request processing and the request
524 object (related to the WSGI refactoring), many 3rd party plugins might
525 need code updates to work with moin 1.9.
526 * HINT: We now offer different sized sets of system/help pages and the default
527 underlay just contains a single page: LanguageSetup. You need to be
528 superuser, visit that page and then install the language packs you like
529 (minimum is the essential set for English).
530 * HINT: LanguageSetup is the default page_front_page, you need to change that
531 after installing language packs (see above).
533 * New modular group and dict data access, you can use group and dict
534 backend modules to access group and dict data stored anywhere you like.
535 Currently we provide these backends:
536 * WikiGroups and WikiDicts backends get data from wikipages. They work
537 similar to old wikidicts code (but with less caching issues :).
538 * ConfigGroups and ConfigDicts backends get data from a dictionary
539 defined in the wiki config.
540 * CompositeGroups and CompositeDicts compose several backends, so data
541 may be retrieved from several sources. For example, groups may be
542 defined in the wiki config and on wiki pages.
543 * Using cfg.groups and cfg.dicts, you can define the backend to use to
544 access group and dict information (default: WikiGroups / WikiDicts
546 See the wiki/config/more_samples/ directory (groups_wikiconfig_snippet
547 and dicts_wikiconfig_snippet).
548 * See also the new HelpOnDictionaries and HelpOnGroups pages.
550 * Improved Xapian indexing / search:
551 * Moin's Xapian based search code was refactored:
552 * It is now based on the xappy library (see MoinMoin.support.xappy).
553 * Minimum Xapian requirement is 1.0.6 now.
554 * Outdated and unmaintained xapwrap lib was removed.
555 * regex search with Xapian enabled also is based on the xapian index now
556 * Safe 2-stage xapian index rebuilding:
557 moin index build --mode=buildnewindex # slow, concurrent
559 moin index build --mode=usenewindex # fast
561 * Added wikiconfig snippet for xapian search.
563 * Improved drawing support:
565 * Support code was refactored/moved to the twikidraw action.
566 * Use drawing:example.tdraw to invoke it (drawing:example also still
567 works for backwards compatibility)
568 * Drawings are now stored as a single attachment foo.tdraw.
569 We added a migration script that converts your existing drawings.
571 * Java applet added, source code see contrib/.
572 * Support code for it is in anywikidraw action.
573 * Use drawing:example.adraw to invoke it.
574 * Drawings are stored in a similar way as foo.adraw.
575 * cfg.extensions_mapping added for mapping of attachment file extensions
576 to actions (currently used for anywikidraw/twikidraw action)
578 * Themes / static files related:
579 * Added modernized_cms theme (hides most wiki widgets from modernized if the
580 user is not logged in).
581 * Static file serving built-in (moved wiki/htdocs to MoinMoin/web/static/htdocs).
582 MoinMoin.web.static has a static file serving wrapper that uses the files
583 from htdocs subdirectory by default (docs=True).
584 You can also give another path or switch off creation of that static wrapper.
585 See the docstring of the static package for details.
586 * Theme packages: do_copythemefile now copies theme files to
587 MoinMoin/web/static/htdocs.
589 * Syntax highlighting is based on the pygments library now, it does this for
590 LOTS of stuff (programming languages, config files, ...) - use it like this:
594 xxx is any of the markups pygments supports (see HelpOnParsers).
595 Note: we still have some (deprecated) small wrappers around pygments,
596 so the old syntax #!python/pascal/cplusplus/... still works.
598 * Authentication improvements:
599 * HTTP auth related (see also HelpOnAuthentication):
600 * HTTPAuthMoin: http basic auth done by moin
601 * HINT: auth.http.HTTPAuth is now auth.GivenAuth
602 This was badly named from the beginning as for most servers, it just
603 looked at REMOTE_USER environment variable and relied on the server
604 doing the authentication (could be http basic auth or any other auth).
605 * LDAP/AD auth: new name_callback param to create a custom wiki username (not
606 the ldap login username)
608 * Support for Simple Registration (SREG) extension.
609 Basic profile fields can be copied from OpenID provider when logging in.
610 * Support for Teams extension.
611 * Ability to accept logins from specific OpenID providers.
612 Login form changes based on configuration for better usability:
613 * 0 providers: normal text input box for OpenID URL
614 * 1 provider: hidden field, automatic form submission with JavaScript
615 * 2+ providers: select field, uses directed identity
617 * Sessions / cookies:
618 * HINT: cfg.cookie_lifetime is now a tuple (anon, loggedin), giving the
619 lifetime of the cookie in hours, accepting floats, for anon sessions and
620 logged-in sessions. Default is (0, 12). 0 means not to use a session
621 cookie (== not to establish a session) and makes only sense for anon users.
622 * cfg.cookie_httponly is new and defaults to False. Please note that if you
623 set it to True, TWikiDraw and similar stuff won't be able to use the session
624 cookie. Thus, if your wiki page doesn't allow writing for everybody, saving
625 a drawing will fail, because there is no session (== no logged in user) for
626 the TWikiDraw applet's saving POSTs.
629 * WikiConfigHelp: added section keyword for selecting a subset of the
630 description, e.g. <<WikiConfigHelp(section="xapian")>>
631 * HighlighterList: show Pygments syntax highlighters (see HelpOnParsers)
634 * SlideShow action added (please use the "modernized" theme [default])
635 * raw action mimetype support: ...?action=raw&mimetype=text/css
636 * PackagePages: create package file on-the-fly in memory and send it to the
637 client (do NOT create package.zip attachment)
639 * Improved logging / debugging / developer support:
640 * Main exception handler: include request url in log output.
641 * Environment variable MOIN_DEBUGGER=off/web/external (default is "off").
642 * Handle wikiserverconfig(_local) in the same way as wikiconfig(_local).
644 * GUI editor: improved attachment dialog
646 * "moin ... account homepage" script to create user homepages.
649 Removed features: ==========================================================
650 * Removed cfg.traceback_* settings (use logging configuration)
651 * Removed old session code and settings:
652 * Removed cfg.session_handler and session_id_handler (use cfg.session_service)
653 * Removed cfg.anonymous_session_lifetime (use cfg.cookie_lifetime)
656 Bug fixes: =================================================================
658 * Rely on xapian's locking (remove moin's additional and sometimes broken
659 locking, that blocked index-rebuilds or updates sometimes).
660 * Removed indexer threading.
661 * Fixed (reimplemented) indexer queue.
662 * Less disruptive xapian index rebuild.
663 * AdvancedSearch: example didn't work, fixed
665 * With the groups/dicts code rewrite, we fixed the caching problems that the
666 old code (< 1.9) sometimes had.
669 * Abort RenamePage if renaming of main page fails (do not try to rename
671 * AttachFile do=view: quote filename and pagename params for EmbedObject
673 * unsubscribe action: add msg types so icons get displayed
678 * GUI editor: roundtripping works now for .pdf/doc/... attachment transclusion
680 * AttachFile: added remove_attachment() and FileRemovedEvent (mail and xapian
681 support, no jabber support yet).
683 * Fix makeForbidden403() calls - is makeForbidden(403, ...) now.
684 * sendmail: add more debug logging, check for empty recipients list
687 * Bug with "language:en" was fixed for the Moin search. Now language:
688 behaves like described on HelpOnSearching.
690 * OpenID: always return error messages with CancelLogin if OpenID process fails.
691 * suid: simplify and fix, bigger selection box
693 * patch werkzeug 0.5.1 to catch OverFlowError and ValueError so it doesn't
694 crash when receiving invalid If-modified-since header from client.
697 Other changes: =============================================================
698 * 'modernized' theme:
699 * use it by default (1.8 used 'modern')
700 * move title_with_separators() from Modernized theme to ThemeBase
701 * add a span with "pagepath" class to title_with_separators
702 * add the sidebar() method from Mandarin and Gugiel themes to ThemeBase
703 * updated flup to 1.0.2+ ( http://hg.saddi.com/flup-server/rev/6ea1ffac1bcb )
704 * updated pygments to 1.1.1+ ( http://dev.pocoo.org/hg/pygments-main/rev/948f8885af16 )
705 * updated parsedatetime to 0.8.7
706 * increase surge protection limits for AttachFile to avoid trouble with image galleries
707 * HINT: simplify wikiserver configuration by using same names as werkzeug's
709 * Removed moin account check's --lastsaved option, it is default now
710 (checking last use with trail file did not work in 1.9 anyway).
711 * ImageLink page has been killed (ImageLink macro is gone since 1.6.1).
712 * Allowed disabling of timezone and language user prefs if they are
713 part of the user's login fields (i.e. OpenID SREG).
714 * Added option to disable local registration links and direct user
715 to registration page at an OpenID provider instead.
717 Developer notes: ===========================================================
718 * groups and dicts API changes:
719 * request.groups and request.dicts provide access to groups and dicts.
720 * MoinMoin.wikidicts is gone, please use MoinMoin.datastruct.
721 * LazyGroup and LazyGroupsBackend base classes for implementing backends
722 which potentially deal with huge amounts of data (like a LDAP directory).
723 Use MoinMoin/datastruct/backends/config_lazy_groups.py as a draft for
725 * See http://moinmo.in/Groups2009 for more details.
726 * i18n: new approach for defining sets of system/help pages (see i18n.strings).
727 CheckTranslation, page packager, wikiutil.isSystemPage() use those sets.
728 * killed deprecated macro.form attribute (didn't work as expected anyway due
729 to WSGI refactoring) - please use macro.request.{args,form,values}
735 * Fixed XSS in Despam action (CVE-2010-0828).
736 * wikiutil.clean_input: avoid crash if it gets str type
737 * Add RenderAsDocbook to actions_excluded if we have no python-xml
738 * AttachFile._build_filelist: verifies readonly flag for unzip file link
739 * attachUrl: fix wrongly generated tickets (e.g. for AttachList macro)
740 * MoinMoin.util.filesys.dc* (dircache can't work reliably):
741 * disable usage of dircache, deprecate dc* functions
742 * remove all calls to filesys.dc* (dclistdir, dcdisable)
743 * Fixed crash, see MoinMoinPatch/IncludeMacroWithDocBookFormatter
744 * Avoid hardly recoverable crashes if #format specification is invalid
747 * auth.ldap_login: add report_invalid_credentials param to control wrong
748 credentials error message (typically used when using multiple ldap
754 * Fixed major security issues in miscellaneous parts of moin.
755 HINT: if you have removed superuser configuration to workaround the issue
756 (following our security advisory), you may re-add it after installing this
757 moin release. If you don't need superuser capabilities often, it might be
758 wise to not have superusers configured all the time, though.
759 * Improved package security: cfg.packagepages_actions_excluded excludes
760 unsafe or otherwise questionable package actions by default now.
761 * wiki parser: fixed transclusion of (e.g. video) attachments from other
763 * Fixed edit locking for non-logged in editors and cfg.log_remote_addr=False.
765 * Process attachname in get/putAttachment similarly.
766 * revertPage: convert pagename to internal representation.
767 * Fixed config.umask usage for page packages.
768 * Fixed usage of i18n.wikiLanguages() on class level (moved to method),
769 failed when tools import the module (e.g. pydoc -k foo).
770 * SubProcess: fixed win32-specific parts, fixed imports (fixes calling of
771 external xapian index filters)
776 * Xapian indexing / indexing filters:
777 * fix deadlocks with well- and misbehaving external filters
778 * work around indexing run crashing when encountering encoding problems
779 with non-ascii filenames
780 * OpenOffice/OpenDocument filters: catch UnicodeDecodeErrors (happens
781 with password protected files)
782 * i18n: check if languages is not initialized yet, don't crash
783 * http_redirect: use 301 redirect for some cases
784 * do not use httponly session cookies, makes trouble with twikidraw and ACLs
785 * GetText2 macro: fix for named placeholder
786 * Fix SHA -> SSHA password hash upgrade for old user profiles.
787 * abort RenamePage if renaming of main page fails (do not try to rename
791 * search: improve search result ordering
792 * add MS Powerpoint indexing filter (needs catppt from catdoc package)
793 * migration scripts: make finding damaged edit-log entries easier
794 * SubscribeUser action: support username regexes and unsubscribing.
795 Usage (enter this into the input form field you get after invoking
796 SubscribeUser action from the "More Actions" menu:
797 [+|-][re:]username[,username,...]
799 +username: subscribes user <username> (+ is optional/default)
800 -username: unsubscribes user <username>
801 +re:username_re: subscribes users who match <username_re> regex.
802 -re:username_re: unsubscribes users who match <username_re> regex.
807 * Attachment links: fix processing of attributes (e.g. 'target', 'title')
808 * Upgrade FCKeditor from 2.6.4 to 2.6.4.1.
809 * PDF embedding: fix html, works better with PDF browser plugins now.
810 * Fix typo in rightsidebar CSS.
811 * Action revert: avoids reverting to a deleted current revision.
812 * Action diff: enable prev/next button only in the range of given revisions.
813 * Add a Auto-Submitted: auto-generated header to generated mails.
814 * Include comment in email notifies.
815 * mailimport: fix endless looping while trying to import a forwarded mail.
816 * fuid: keep same fake_mtime for intervals of max_staleness duration.
817 * Fixes a bug with empty list items in the GUI editor.
818 * Improve filesys.rename compatibility code (win32).
819 * Fix locking for CacheEntry.
820 * Xapian indexing: catch exception when a bad zip file is encountered.
821 * openidrp / botbouncer: fix param count for CancelLogin().
824 * Added CAS authentication.
825 * Added httponly cookie support and use it for session cookie.
828 * HTTP auth: added debug logging.
829 * Minor LDAP auth improvements.
830 * Data browser widget:
831 * Add (h)column<idx> css class to make it styleable.
832 * Include only necessary autofilter options.
833 * moin maint cleancache purges now drafts, too.
834 * Add gopher and apt protocols to url_schemas.
835 * Add .csv, .flv, .swf to MIMETYPES_MORE.
840 * ACL security: fix bug in hierarchical ACL processing, more restrictive
841 sub page ACLs did not work if the current user name did not give a match
842 within the sub page ACL (instead, the less restrictive parent page ACL
844 Non-hierarchical ACL processing (the default) is NOT affected.
845 * Creole parser: fix spaces in multiline elements.
846 * Use msie.css only for Internet Explorer older than version 8, fixes
847 e.g. the double rendering of link icons.
848 * http auth: do auth_type comparisons case-insensitively (spec-compliant)
851 * EmbedObject macro: changed default width value for PDF files to 100%
852 (use a recent Adobe Reader to make this work).
853 * CopyPage action: added a TextCha for it
856 * Creole parser: Add second license: BSD
861 * AttachFile XSS fixes: move escaping to error_msg / upload_form
862 * AttachFile move: add more escaping (maybe not XSS exploitable though)
863 * email attachments import with xapian indexing enabled: fix AttributeError
864 * fix wrong links in attachment notifications
865 * AttachFile do=view: quote filename and pagename params for EmbedObject
867 * AttachFile: fix exception when someone just clicks on upload, without
869 * ldap_login: use None as default value for ssl certs/keys (using '' for
870 the pathes lets it fail with Connect Error)
871 * release edit lock if someone saves an unchanged page
872 * fix sendmail.encodeAddress (do not [QP] encode blanks, do not un-
873 necessarily use [QP] encoding for pure ascii mail addresses)
874 * Fixed docs bug: see HINT about secrets configuration at version 1.8.0
875 (1.8.0 Other changes).
876 * backup action: add 'self' dummy argument for backup_exclude function
877 * login action: fix formatting of error messages
878 * unsubscribe action: add msg types so icons get displayed
879 * fix quoting for pagehits stats (info action) - was not working for pagenames with blanks
883 * added modernized_cms theme
884 * use url_prefix_fckeditor if you don't want to use the builtin FCKeditor
885 of moin, but a separate one at some specific url
886 * action.Load: added textcha feature
887 * add mumble protocol (nice and good quality F/OSS VOIP conference chat sw)
888 * ldap auth: new name_callback param to create a custom wiki username (not
889 the ldap login username).
892 * add compatibility code for set to xapwrap.index (fix py 2.6 warnings)
893 * wikiutil: MIMETYPES_MORE extended for .md5 as text/plain
898 * Fix AttachFile and antispam XSS issues.
899 * Modernized, modern and rightsidebar themes: make nonexistent or
900 badinterwiki links gray also when they are already visited.
901 * Fix anchor parsing for interwiki links and #redirect processing
903 * user.apply_recovery_token: key must be of type string (for Python 2.6).
905 * Fix autofilter javascript breakage caused by including a databrowser
907 * Use per-wiki i18n cache (fixes wrong links to other farm wikis).
908 * Made cfg.interwikiname and cfg.user_homewiki unicode objects (str only
909 worked for ascii names).
910 * Xapian search: fixed historysearch.
911 * Xapian search indexing:
912 * Fix index updating for trivial changes.
913 * With history search enabled and in update mode, do not try to re-index
914 old page revisions again.
915 * With history search enabled, index page attachments only once.
916 * Fix last modified time of xapian index (shown on SystemInfo page).
917 * Make logging handlers defined in logging.handlers work (e.g.
918 class=handlers.RotatingFileHandler)
919 * Jabber notifications:
920 * Use an RFC compliant message type.
921 * Fix user creation notifications.
922 * OpenID: Compatibility fix for python-openid 2.x.x (also works with
923 1.x.x), fixes crash when trying to associate moin user to OpenID.
924 * Have a wikiserverconfig.py in wiki/server/ so setup.py copies it.
925 * Fixed inconsistent handling of fragments / anchor IDs:
926 * Fixed creole and wiki parser, other parsers might need similar fixes.
927 * IDs with blanks, non-ASCII chars etc. are now sanitized in the same way
928 for links as well as for link targets, so the user editing a page won't
929 have to bother with it.
930 E.g. [[#123 foo bar]] will link to:
931 * <<Anchor(123 foo bar)>> (moin) or {{#123 foo bar}} (creole)
932 * headline = 123 foo bar = (moin / creole)
933 Simple rule: if the link and the target are consistent, it should work.
934 * The creole wiki parser created non-human-readable sha1 heading IDs
935 before 1.8.2, now it creates same (sometimes readable) heading IDs as
936 the moin wiki parser.
937 * TitleIndex/WordIndex now also use IDs sanitized in that way internally.
938 HINT: if you manually worked around the inconsistencies/bugs before, you
939 likely have to remove those workarounds now. Same thing if you used
940 creole's sha1 heading IDs or IDs on TitleIndex/WordIndex.
943 * Updated FCKeditor to 2.6.4 (== many bug fixes in the GUI editor).
944 * Enhanced privacy by a new setting: cfg.log_remote_addr (default: True),
945 it controls whether moin logs the remote's IP/hostname to edit-log and
946 event-log. Use log_remote_addr = False to enhance privacy.
947 * Streamline attachment_drawing formatter behaviour.
948 * Search results: only redirect to a single search result for titlesearch
949 (fuzzy goto functionality), but not for fulltext search results.
955 * Workaround win32 locking problems (caused by spurious access denied
956 exceptions on that platform).
957 * Fix unicode errors that happened when password checker failed a password
958 * WikiConfig/WikiConfigHelp: fixed wrong language table headings
959 * Themes: make the margins around trail line work properly
960 * "modernized" theme:
961 * make broken links gray
962 * add new right/center/left/justify css classes
964 * Standalone server: be more specific when catching socket exceptions,
965 treat socket errors in http header emission in the same way.
967 * Fix heading levels when inserting new headings.
968 * Fix headers already sent exception when using e.g. edit LOCKing.
969 * Xapian indexing: fixed missing import for execfilter (only happened on
970 non-posix platforms like win32)
974 * Make the TOC shrinkwrap, add white background to navigation macro.
975 The table of contents looked bad spanning the whole width of the page.
976 It's made to shrinkwrap now, so it will only get as wide, as the longest
977 heading. We use display:inline-table, so this won't work in MS IE6,
978 which still displays it the old way.
979 Navigation macro now has a white background, to make it more readable
980 when it's floating over a pre block or TOC.
981 * Make the numbers in lists in table of contents right-aligned.
982 * Refactored and extended theme.html_stylesheets() to make alternate
983 stylesheets possible. Stylesheet definitions now can either be:
984 2-tuples: (media, href) # backwards compatibility
986 3-tuples: (media, href, title) # new, for defining alternate stylesheets
987 This works within themes as well as in the wiki config.
988 See also: http://www.w3.org/Style/Examples/007/alternatives.html
992 Note: This is a reduced CHANGES, ommitting details from rc/beta test and
993 also less interesting minor changes and fixes. It shows changes
994 relative to 1.7.2 release.
995 If you want to see full detail, read it there:
996 http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/1.8/file/6130eab15936/docs/CHANGES
998 New Features: ==============================================================
999 * HINT: New "modernized" theme - if you use "modern" [default], try:
1000 theme_default = 'modernized'
1001 If you find problems with "modernized", please report them because we
1002 want to use it as default theme in future.
1004 * upgraded to use FCKEditor version 2.6.3
1005 * user can insert and modify various types of MoinMoin links
1006 * New plugin_dirs setting to allow multiple plugin pathes (additional to
1007 the automatically configured plugin_dir [default: data_dir/plugin]).
1008 * @EMAIL@ expands to a MailTo macro call with the obfuscated email address
1009 of the current user.
1010 * New macros "WikiConfig" and "WikiConfigHelp".
1011 * Per-parser quickhelp, 'quickhelp' class variable of parser class.
1012 * Secure session cookies for https (see cfg.cookie_secure).
1013 * Added left/center/right/justify css classes to builtin themes.
1016 this content is justified....
1019 Removed Features: ==========================================================
1020 * HINT: url_prefix setting (use url_prefix_static or just use the default)
1021 * traceback_log_dir setting (we just use logging.exception)
1022 * editor_quickhelp setting (replaced by per-parser quickhelp)
1023 * Restoring backups with the backup action and related settings (while
1024 creating backups is no big issue and should work OK, restoring them
1025 had fundamental issues related to overwriting or not-overwriting of
1026 existing files - thus we removed the "restore" part of the action and
1027 recommend that you just contact the wiki server admin in case of trouble,
1028 give him your wiki backup file and let him carefully restore it.)
1029 * Removed unmaintained DesktopEdition (moin 1.5.x style) and phpwiki
1030 migration scripts from contrib/ directory.
1032 Bug Fixes: =================================================================
1033 * GUI Editor - fixed lots of bugs.
1034 * Fixing https detection for servers using HTTPS=1 and also for WSGI
1035 servers not using HTTPS/SSL_ environment, but just wsgi.url_scheme.
1036 * Search results: link to 'view' rendering of found attachments.
1037 * Standalone server: fix serverClass and interface argument processing,
1038 announce used serverClass in log output.
1039 * mointwisted: fixed Twisted start script.
1041 * Use logging framework for messages emitted by warnings module (e.g.
1042 DeprecationWarning), silence some specific warnings.
1043 * Removed superfluous linefeeds in timing log output.
1045 * Fixed editbar hidden comment link cosmetics for sidebar themes (hide the
1046 complete list element).
1048 action, if the wiki does not run in the root url of the site)
1049 * Fixed backup action configuration (broke on win32).
1051 * SyncPages: add workaround for callers calling log_status with encoded
1053 * Fixed dbw_hide_buttons javascript.
1054 * HINT: Jabber bot can now be configured to use an authentication realm
1055 which is different from the server's hostname; the xmpp_node
1056 configuration parameter can now contain a full JID and the xmpp_resource
1057 parameter is no longer supported.
1059 Other Changes: =============================================================
1060 * HINT: new configuration for misc. secrets, please use either:
1061 secrets = "MySecretLooongString!" # one secret for everything
1064 'xmlrpc/ProcessMail': 'yourmailsecret', # for mailimport
1065 'xmlrpc/RemoteScript': 'yourremotescriptsecret',
1066 'action/cache': 'yourcachesecret', # unguessable cache keys
1067 'wikiutil/tickets': 'yourticketsecret', # edit tickets
1068 'jabberbot': 'yourjabberbotsecret', # jabberbot communication
1070 Secret strings must be at least 10 chars long.
1071 Note: mail_import_secret setting is gone, use
1072 secrets["xmlrpc/ProcessMail"] instead of it.
1073 Note: jabberbot secret setting is gone, use
1074 secrets["jabberbot"] instead of it.
1075 * HINT: user_autocreate setting was removed from wiki configuration and
1076 replaced by a autocreate=<boolean> parameter of the auth objects that
1077 support user profile auto creation.
1078 * moin import irclog: use irssi parser to format logs, mapped .irc
1079 extension to text/plain mimetype.
1080 * HINT: backup action: backup_exclude (default: "do not exclude anything")
1081 is now a function f(filename) that tells whether a file should be
1082 excluded from backup.
1083 You can get the old regex exclusion functionality by using:
1084 backup_exclude = re.compile(your_regex).search
1085 Be careful with your regex, you might need to use re.escape() to escape
1086 characters that have a special meaning in regexes (e.g.: \.[] etc.).
1087 If in doubt, maybe just leave backup_exclude at the default and don't
1089 * Speed up javascript comments processing on IE by getElementsByClassName()
1090 * Added sk (slovak) i18n, updated i18n.
1095 * Secure session cookies for https, see cfg.cookie_secure.
1096 * Add left/center/right/justify classes to builtin themes.
1099 * Python 2.3 compatibility fixes.
1100 * Fixed https detection for servers using HTTPS=1 and also for wsgi servers
1101 not using HTTPS/SSL_ environment, but just wsgi.url_scheme.
1103 * Fix crash when editing a page with non-ASCII pagename and inserting a link
1104 * Fix "headers already sent exception" with edit LOCKs.
1105 * i18n.__init__: Bug fix for wiki language not installed.
1106 * Fixed URLs given by sitemap action, if the wiki does not run at / URL.
1107 * Search results: link to 'view' rendering of found attachments
1109 * Removed superfluous linefeed in timing log output.
1110 * Use logging framework for messages emitted by warnings module (e.g.
1111 DeprecationWarning), silence some specific warnings.
1112 * Fix dbw_hide_buttons javascript.
1113 * Standalone server:
1114 * fix serverClass argument processing
1115 * fix --interface="" argument processing
1117 * added missing pidFile parameter
1118 * better use Config.name for pidFile to avoid conflicts and keep same
1119 behaviour as in the past
1120 * Jabber bot can now be configured to use an authentication realm which
1121 is different from the server's hostname
1126 * Fix leakage of edit-log file handles (leaked 1 file handle / request!).
1128 * Wiki parser: avoid IndexError for empty #! line
1129 * MonthCalendar macro: fix parameter parsing / url generation
1130 * Xapian indexing filters (MoinMoin/filter/ or data/plugin/filter/):
1131 Some indexing filter scripts (e.g. for MS Word documents or PDF files)
1132 failed on windows because of the single-quote quoting we used (that
1133 works on Linux and other Posix systems). The fix introduces platform-
1134 dependant automatic quoting, using double-quotes on win32 and single-
1136 HINT: if you use own filter plugins based on execfilter, you have to
1137 update them as the filename quoting (was '%s') is now done automatically
1138 and must not be part of the command string any more (now just use %s).
1139 See MoinMoin/filter/ for some up-to-date code (esp. the PDF filter).
1140 * Prevent CategoryTemplate being listed as a category (it is a Template,
1141 but matched also the category regex) - added to sample wikiconfig.
1142 * LDAP auth: fix processing of TLS options
1143 * UpdateGroup xmlrpc server side: fix wrong arg count error
1144 * UpdateGroup client: use multicall / auth_token, refactor code so that
1145 updateGroup function is reusable.
1146 * Improve Python 2.3 compatibility, add notes where 2.4 is required.
1151 * New 'cache' action (see developer notes).
1154 * Security fix: XSS fix for advanced search form
1155 * Avoid creation of new pagedirs with empty edit-log files by just
1156 accessing a non-existant page. If you used 1.7 before, you likely have
1157 quite some trash pagedirs now and you can clean them up by using:
1158 moin --config-dir=... --wiki-url=... maint cleanpage
1159 This will output some shell script (please review it before running!)
1160 that can be used to move trash pages into some trash/ directory and also
1161 moves deleted pages into some deleted/ directory. Maybe keep a copy of
1162 those directories for a while just for the case.
1163 * Server specific fixes:
1164 * standalone (wikiserver.py): fix --pidfile and --group option, fix
1165 operation without a wikiserverconfig.py (use builtin defaults).
1166 * mod_python: work around mod_python 3.3.1 problems with file uploads.
1167 Note: if you are still using mod_python, we strongly recommend you
1168 try out mod_wsgi (in daemon mode) - it has less bugs, better
1169 security, better separation, WSGI is a Python standard, and moin
1170 developers also use WSGI. See HelpOnInstalling/ApacheWithModWSGI.
1171 * revert action: fixed for deleted pages.
1173 * Xapian indexing: Removed crappy "hostname" tokenization.
1175 Also tokenize CamelCase parts of non-wikiwords.
1176 * Make query parser reject more invalid input.
1177 * If query parsing raises a BracketError, at least tell what the problem
1178 is (and not just raise empty ValueError).
1179 * Category search: ignore traling whitespace after ----
1181 * Fixed sort() usage in UnitArgument to be Python 2.3 compatible.
1184 * TableOfContents: skip outer-most <ol> levels when page isn't using
1185 the biggest headings
1188 * OpenID RP: make it compatible to python-openid 2.2.x
1189 * PackagePages.collectpackage: removed encoding from file name of zipfile
1190 * Surge protection: exclude localnet no matter whether user is known or not.
1192 * Script moin account create/disable/resetpw: checks for already existing
1196 * Prevent CategoryTemplate being listed as a category (it is a Template)
1197 by changing the default page_category_regex.
1200 * New MoinMoin.action.cache - can be used to cache expensively rendered
1201 output, e.g. generated images). Once put into the cache, moin can emit
1202 a http response for that content very fast and very efficient (including
1203 "304 not changed" handling.
1204 * New file-like API in MoinMoin.caching (good for dealing with medium
1205 to large files without consuming lots of memory).
1206 * wikiutil.importPlugin supports getting the whole plugin module object
1207 by giving function=None.
1211 Note: This is a reduced CHANGES, ommitting details from rc/beta test and
1212 also less interesting minor changes and fixes. It shows changes
1213 relative to 1.6.3 release.
1214 If you want to see full detail, read it there:
1215 http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/1.7/file/76265568e8d3/docs/CHANGES
1217 New Features: ==============================================================
1218 * HINT: we added generic UPDATE instructions as docs/UPDATE.html.
1220 * HINT: Standalone server usage changed:
1221 * Standalone server can now be started via the "moin" script command,
1222 optionally backgrounding itself.
1223 See: moin server standalone --help
1224 * In the toplevel dir, we have renamed moin.py to wikiserver.py (it was
1225 often confused with the moin scripting command).
1227 * wikiserver.py - to start the standalone server
1228 * wikiserverconfig.py - to configure the standalone server
1229 * wikiserverlogging.conf - to configure logging for it (default config
1230 is ok for all day use, but can easily be modified for debugging)
1231 * wikiconfig.py - to configure the wiki engine
1232 * Removed old moin daemonizing script (replaced by moin server standalone
1234 * We now provide the "moin" script command also for people not using
1235 setup.py, see wiki/server/moin.
1238 * New powerful and flexible logging, please see wiki/config/logging/ -
1239 HINT: you have to upgrade your server adaptor script (e.g. moin.cgi)
1240 and load a logging configuration that fits your needs from there, or
1241 alternatively you can also set MOINLOGGINGCONF environment variable
1242 to point at your logging config file.
1243 If you use some of our sample logging configs, make sure you have a
1244 look INTO them to fix e.g. the path of the logfile it will use.
1245 * Moin now logs the path from where it loaded its configuration(s).
1247 * Authentication / Sessions:
1248 * HINT: New authentication plugin system, see HelpOnAuthentication. If
1249 you do not use the builtin default for 'auth' list, you likely have to
1250 change your configuration. See wiki/config/snippets/ for some samples.
1251 * HINT: New session handling system (no moin_session any more, now done
1252 internally and automatically), see HelpOnSessions for details.
1253 * Added OpenID client and server support.
1254 See: HelpOnAuthentication and HelpOnOpenIDProvider.
1255 * cfg.trusted_auth_methods is a list of auth methods that put an
1256 authenticated user into the "Trusted" ACL group.
1258 * User profiles / password recovery / notification:
1259 * New newacount action for creating new user accounts/profiles. If you
1260 don't want users creating new accounts on their own, you can add this
1261 action to actions_excluded list.
1262 * New recoverpass action for password recovery:
1263 If you forgot your password, recoverpass sends you an email with a
1264 password recovery token (NOT the encrypted password) that is valid
1266 * New moin account resetpw script for resetting a user's password by
1268 * New preferences plugin system, see MoinMoin/userprefs/__init__.py.
1269 * New notification system with an optional jabber notification bot, see
1270 HelpOnNotification. HINT: wiki users have to check their notification
1271 settings, esp. if they want to receive trivial update notifications.
1273 * The diff action now has navigation buttons for prev/next change and also
1274 a revert button to revert to the revision shown below the diff display.
1275 * ThemeBase: support Universal Edit Button, see there for details:
1276 http://universaleditbutton.org/
1277 * ?action=info&max_count=42 - show the last 42 history entries of the page.
1278 max_count has a default of default_count and a upper limit of
1279 limit_max_count - you can configure both in your wiki config:
1280 cfg.history_count = (100, 200) # (default_count, limit_max_count) default
1281 * The CSV parser can sniff the delimiter from the first CSV line so other
1282 delimeters than ";" can be used.
1283 * Admonition support. Added styling for tip, note, important, warning
1284 and caution in the modern theme. For more info see HelpOnAdmonitions.
1285 * DocBook-formatter:
1286 * supports HTML entities like → and ☃
1287 * supports the FootNote macro
1288 * supports bulletless lists
1289 * support for admonitions
1290 * will export the wiki page's edit history as the generated article's
1291 revision history. Doesn't add history of included pages.
1292 * supports for the MoinMoin comment element, though only inline comments
1293 are likely to be valid since the DocBook remark is an inline element.
1294 * New Hits macro: shows the total hits for the page it is used on.
1296 Removed Features: ==========================================================
1297 * HINT: Removed attachments direct serving (cfg.attachments - this was
1298 deprecated since long!). Use AttachFile action to serve attachments.
1299 * Duplicated file attachment upload code was removed from Load action (just
1300 use AttachFile action to deal with attachments).
1301 * Removed 'test' action. If you like to run unit tests, use py.test.
1302 * Removed Login macro.
1304 Bug Fixes: =================================================================
1305 * Better handling of ImportErrors (farmconfig, macros, wikiserverconfig).
1306 * Fix failure of detection of on-disk cache updates.
1307 * Fix traceback in filesys.py on Mac OS X when "import Carbon" fails.
1309 * AttachFile action / file up- and download / zip support:
1310 * WSGI: use wsgi.file_wrapper (or a builtin simple wrapper). Fixes memory
1311 consumption for sending of large file attachments.
1312 * FastCGI: flush often. Fixes memory consumption for sending of large
1314 * Use the open temporary file for receiving file attachment uploads
1315 (fixes big memory consumption for large file uploads).
1316 * Catch runtime errors raised by zipfile stdlib modules when trying to
1317 process a defective zip.
1318 * When unzipping member files, decode their filenames from utf-8 and
1319 replace invalid chars.
1320 * Make error msg less confusing when trying to overwrite a file attachment
1321 without having 'delete' rights.
1323 * HINT: page_*_regex processing had to be changed to fix category search.
1324 If you don't use the builtin (english) defaults, you will have to change
1326 old (default): page_category_regex = u'^Category[A-Z]'
1327 new (default): page_category_regex = ur'(?P<all>Category(?P<key>\S+))'
1328 As you see, the old regex did work for detecting whether a pagename is
1329 a category, but it could not be used to search for a category tag in the
1330 page text. The new regex can be used for both and identifies the complete
1331 category tag (match in group 'all', e.g. "CategoryFoo") as well as the
1332 category key (match in group 'key', e.g. "Foo") by using named regex
1333 groups. \S+ means the category key can be anything non-blank.
1334 If you like to simultaneously support multiple languages, use something
1335 like this: ur'(?P<all>(Kategorie|Category)(?P<key>\S+))'
1336 HINT: after changing your configuration, please rebuild the cache:
1338 * moin ... maint cleancache
1340 If you don't do this, your groups / dicts will stop working (and also
1341 your ACLs that use those groups). You better do a test whether it works.
1343 * Xapian search / indexing / stemming:
1344 * Use text/<format> as mimetype for pages.
1345 * Index also major and minor for mimetypes, so it will find 'text' or
1346 'plain' as well as 'text/plain'
1347 * Fix searching for negative terms.
1348 * Improve result list ordering.
1349 * Index filters: redirect stderr to logging system.
1350 * Remove crappy num regex from WikiAnalyzer, improve tokenization.
1351 * Fix AttributeError that happened when trying to access an attribute only
1352 used with xapian search (but regex search is not done by xapian)
1353 * Fix IndexErrors happening when pages are renamed/nuked after the index
1355 * Fixed indexing of WikiWords (index "WikiWords", "Wiki" and "Words").
1356 * Fix crash if default language is un-stemmable.
1357 * xapian_stemming: removed some strange code (fixes search
1358 title:lowercaseword with xapian_stemming enabled)
1359 * Fixed category indexing (index CategoryFoo correctly as CategoryFoo, not
1360 Foo - for all languages, see page_*_regex change above).
1361 * Builtin search: support mimetype: search for pages for the builtin search
1362 engine (using text/<format>).
1365 * Wiki: fix subscript parsing (was broken for cases like 'a,,1,2,,').
1366 * Docbook: fixed detection of WikiWords.
1367 * All: Add ssh protocol to url_schemas for ssh:... URLs.
1370 * Fix xmlrpc request.read() call to use content-length, if available,
1371 fixes hangs with wsgiref server.
1372 * Wiki xmlrpc getPageInfoVersion() fixed:
1373 * works correctly now for old page versions (was unsupported)
1374 * works correctly now for current page version (reported wrong
1375 data when a page had attachment uploads after the last page
1377 * returns a Fault if it did not find a edit-log entry
1379 Other Changes: =============================================================
1380 * Using better ACLs and comments on system/help pages now, just taking
1381 away 'write' permission, but using default ACLs for everything else.
1382 * HINT: If you want to use xapian based indexed search, you need to have
1383 Xapian >= 1.0.0 (and you can remove PyStemmer in case you have installed
1384 it just for moin - we now use the stemmer built into Xapian as it
1385 supports utf-8 since 1.0.0).
1386 * Changed default value of cfg.search_results_per_page to 25.
1387 * Surge Protection: If a user is authenticated by a trusted authentication
1388 (see also cfg.auth_methods_trusted) then he/she won't trigger surge
1389 protection, but moin will just log a INFO level log msg with the user's
1390 name so you can find the culprit in case he/she is overusing ressources.
1391 * HINT: Added MyPages and CopyPage to actions_excluded because MyPages
1392 doesn't work without special SecurityPolicy anyway and CopyPage has
1393 questionable behaviour.
1394 * Load action now just creates a new revision of the target page, the
1395 target pagename defaults to the current page name and can be edited.
1396 If the target pagename is empty, moin tries to derive the target pagename
1397 from the uploaded file's name.
1398 Load tries to decode the file contents first using utf-8 coding and, if
1399 that fails, it forces decoding using iso-8859-1 coding (and replacing
1400 invalid characters).
1401 * HINT: cfg.show_login is gone, see code in theme/__init__.py, this may
1403 * HINT: a new userprefs/ plugin directory will be created by the usual
1404 "moin migration data" command.
1405 * DocBook-formatter:
1406 * generates a valid DOCTYPE
1407 * table support has been improved
1408 * handling of definitions and glossaries is more robust
1409 * supports program language and line numbering in code areas
1410 * HINT: ldap_login behaves a bit different now:
1411 In previous moin versions, ldap_login tended to either successfully
1412 authenticate a user or to completely cancel the whole login process in
1413 any other case (including ldap server down or exceptions happening).
1414 This made subsequent auth list entries rather pointless.
1415 Now it behaves like this:
1416 * user not found in LDAP -> give subsequent auth list entries a
1417 chance to authenticate the user (same happens if it finds multiple
1418 LDAP entries when searching - it logs an additional warning then).
1419 * user found, but wrong password -> cancel login
1420 * ldap server not reachable or other exceptions -> give subsequent
1421 auth list entries a chance
1422 So please make sure that you really trust every auth list entry you have
1423 configured when upgrading or it might maybe change behaviour in a
1424 unexpected or unwanted way.
1425 * ldap_login now supports failover: if it can't contact your LDAP server
1426 (e.g. because it is down or unreachable), it will just continue and
1427 try to authenticate with other authenticators (if there are any in
1428 cfg.auth list). So if you have some mirroring LDAP backup server, just
1429 put another authenticator querying it there:
1430 ldap_auth1 = LDAPAuth(server_uri='ldap://mainserver', ...)
1431 ldap_auth2 = LDAPAuth(server_uri='ldap://backupserver', ...)
1432 auth = [ldap_auth1, ldap_auth2, ]
1434 Developer notes: ===========================================================
1435 * Page.last_edit() is DEPRECATED, please use Page.edit_info().
1436 * Page._last_edited() is GONE (was broken anyway), please use
1437 Page.editlog_entry().
1438 * New request.send_file() call, making it possible to use server-specific
1440 * getText's (aka _()) 'formatted' keyword param (default: True in 1.6 and
1441 early 1.7) was renamed/changed: it is now called 'wiki' and defaults to
1442 False. Example calls:
1443 _('This will NOT get parsed/formatted by MoinMoin!')
1444 _('This will be parsed/formatted by MoinMoin!', wiki=True)
1445 _('This will be used as a left side of percent operator. %s',
1446 wiki=True, percent=True)
1447 * Page.url 'relative' keyword param (default: True in 1.6 and early 1.7)
1448 was changed to default False).
1449 * The themedict no longer contains 'page_user_prefs' and 'user_prefs',
1450 this may affect custom themes.
1451 * The rst-parser's admonition class names are no longer prepended with
1452 "admonition_". Instead the class names are now for example "note"
1453 and not "admonition_note".
1458 * Security fix: a check in the user form processing was not working as
1459 expected, leading to a major ACL and superuser priviledge escalation
1460 problem. If you use ACL entries other than "Known:" or "All:" and/or
1461 a non-empty superuser list, you need to urgently install this upgrade.
1462 * Security fix: if acl_hierarchic=True was used (False is the default),
1463 ACL processing was wrong for some cases, see
1465 * For {{transclusion_targets}} we checked the protocol to be http(s),
1466 this check was removed (because file: and ftp: should work also) and
1467 it's not moin's problem if the user uses silly protocols that can't
1468 work for that purpose.
1469 * Fixed TableOfContents macro for included pages.
1470 * server_fastcgi: added Config.port = None. If you want to use some port
1471 (not a fd), you can set it now in your Config, e.g. port = 8888.
1472 * category: search matches categories even if there are comment lines
1473 between the horizontal rule and the real categories, e.g.:
1474 ... some page text ...
1476 ## optionally some comments, e.g. about possible categories:
1477 ## CategoryJustACommentNotFound
1478 CategoryTheRealAndOnly
1480 Note: there might be multiple comment lines, but all real categories
1481 must be on a single line either directly below the ---- or
1482 directly below some comment lines.
1485 * Added 'notes' to config.url_schemas, so you can use notes://notessrv/...
1486 to invoke your Lotus Notes client.
1487 * After creating a new user profile via UserPreferences, you are logged
1488 in with that user (no need to immediately enter the same name/password
1489 again for logging in).
1494 * Security fix: check the ACL of the included page for the rst parser's
1496 * Potential security/DOS fix: we removed cracklib / python-crack support
1497 in password_checker as it is not thread-safe and caused segmentation
1498 faults (leading to server error 500 because the moin process died).
1499 * Fix moin_session code for auth methods other than moin_login (e.g. http).
1500 If you have worked around this using moin_anon_session, you can remove
1501 this workaround now (except if you want anon sessions for other reasons).
1502 * Fix moin_session code to delete invalid session cookies and also create
1503 a new session cookie if it got a valid user_obj at the same time.
1504 * Fix xmlrpc applyAuthToken: give good error msg for empty token.
1505 * Fixed category search, use category:CategoryFoo as search term.
1506 * xapian_stemming = False (changed default) to workaround some problems
1507 in the code enabled by it. Fixes the problems when searching for
1508 lowercase or numeric titles or word fragments with the builtin search.
1509 * Fix trail for anon users without a session, do not show a single page.
1511 * Wiki parser: fixed strange insertion of unwanted paragraphs.
1512 * Wiki parser: fix interwiki linking:
1513 Free interwiki links did not change since 1.5 (they still require to match
1514 [A-Z][A-Za-z]+ for the wikiname part, i.e. a ASCII word beginning with an
1516 Bracketed interwiki links now behave similar to how they worked in 1.5:
1517 Moin just splits off the part left of the colon - no matter how it looks
1518 like. It then tries to find that in the interwiki map. If it is found,
1519 a interwiki link gets rendered. If it is not found, moin will render a
1520 link to a local wiki page (that has a colon in the pagename). It will
1521 also render a local wiki page link if there is no colon at all, of course.
1523 [[lowercasewikiname:somepage]] does an interwiki link (if in the map).
1524 [[ABC:n]] does a local link to page ABC:n (if ABC is NOT in the map).
1525 * Wiki parser: fix interwiki linking for the case that there are query args
1526 in the interwiki map entry and you give additional query args via link
1527 markup (uses correct query arg separator now), e.g.:
1528 [[Google:searchterm|search this|&foo=bar]]
1529 * Creole parser: fixed bug that prevents images inside links.
1530 * Python parser: catch indentation error.
1531 * PageEditor: fixed copyPage for write restricted pages.
1532 * GUI editor: fixed javascript error with too complex word_rule regex,
1534 * Fixed FCKeditor dialog boxes for FireFox3.
1535 * NewPage macro/newpage action: fixed for non-ascii template pagenames.
1537 * EmbedObject macro: bug fix for image mimetype
1539 * fix TWikiDraw saving a drawing by also evaluating the query args.
1540 * work around unpythonic WSGI 1.0 read() API, fixing broken xmlrpc
1541 putPage with mod_wsgi
1543 * Fix logfile code for EACCESS errors.
1544 * Removed the "logging initialized" log messages because it was issued once
1545 per request for CGI.
1548 * Show "Comments" toggling link in edit bar only if the page really
1550 * Made default configuration of surge protection a bit more forgiving,
1551 especially for edit action which is currently also used for previews.
1552 * Updated i18n, system/help pages, added Macedonian system text translation.
1553 * Improved moin xmlrpc write command's builtin docs and auto-append
1554 ?action=xmlrpc2 to the target wiki url given.
1559 * Improved params for [[target|label|params]]:
1560 Added accesskey link tag attribute, e.g.: [[target|label|accesskey=1]].
1561 Additionally to specifying link tag attributes (like class=foo), you can
1562 now also specify &key=value for getting that into the query string of
1564 The "&" character is important, don't forget it or it won't get into the
1566 E.g. for an attachment, you can use:
1567 [[attachment:foo.pdf|Direct download of foo.pdf|&do=get]]
1568 E.g. for linking to some specific diff, you can use:
1569 [[SomePage|see that diff|&action=diff,&rev1=23,&rev2=42]]
1570 See also the updated HelpOnLinking page!
1571 * AdvancedSearch: make multipe categories/languages/mimetype selections possible
1572 * Added a configuration directive to only do one bind to the LDAP server.
1573 This is useful if you bind as the user the first time.
1574 ldap_bindonce = False # default
1577 * Fix XSS issue in login action.
1578 * Fix wrong pagename when creating new pages on Mac OS X - that was a big
1579 showstopper for moin 1.6.0 on Mac OS X.
1580 * Fixed 1.6 migration script:
1581 Make sorting python 2.3 compatible.
1582 Just skip corrupted event log lines.
1583 Fix link conversion by using data.pre160 as data_dir.
1584 Fix bad /InterWiki pagenames when encountering interwiki links with bad
1586 Improve ImageLink conversion by using its argument parser code.
1587 Added STONEAGE_IMAGELINK (default: False) switch to wiki markup converter,
1588 toggle it if you had a very old ImageLink macro in production and the
1589 converter output has target and image interchanged.
1590 Fixed UnicodeDecodeError for wrongly encoded attachment filenames.
1592 Fix parsing of link/transclusion description and params.
1593 Fix relative attachment targets.
1594 Fix supported URL schemes (some got lost since 1.5.8).
1595 Showing an upload link for non-existing non-text/non-image transclusions
1596 now (like e.g. *.pdf).
1597 * RST parser: fix attachment: and drawing: processing
1598 * Fix quickhelp when editing RST markup pages.
1599 * Fix Despam action: editor grouping was broken, increase time interval
1601 * Fix AdvancedSearch domain:system search crashing.
1602 * Only switch off xapian search if we didn't use it because of missing index.
1603 * Fix saving twikidraw drawings by removing 'java' from spider regex.
1604 * Fix classic theme's unsubscribe icon's action link.
1605 * Fix AttachFile action: don't show unzip for packages, only show install
1607 * Fix "su user" troubles on UserPreferences.
1608 * Removed unit tests from ?action=test (due to changes in our test
1609 environment, using py.test now, this was broken).
1610 * Duplicated the top directories' moin.py to wiki/server/moin.py so it gets
1611 installed by setup.py.
1619 * I18n texts, system and help pages updated, please update your underlay
1620 directory (see wiki/underlay/...).
1621 * Improved "moin" script help, invoke it with "moin ... package command --help".
1622 * Added some .ext -> mimetype mappings missing on some systems (like Mac OS X).
1623 * Removed ImageLink macro, as this can be easily done with moin wiki link
1624 syntax now - see HelpOnMacros/ImageLink (the 1.6 migration scripts convert
1625 all ImageLink calls to moin wiki link syntax).
1626 * Updated EmbedObject macro.
1630 * This is a reduced CHANGES, ommitting details from rc/beta test and also
1631 less interesting minor changes and fixes. If you want to see full detail,
1632 read it there: http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/1.6/file/640f21787334/docs/CHANGES
1634 It took MoinMoin development a lot of work and time to implement all the new
1635 and fixed stuff, so please, before asking for support:
1636 * take the time to read all the stuff below
1637 * read the new help pages (copy them from wiki/underlay/ directory)
1639 * HINT: If you are upgrading from a older moin version and want to keep your
1640 existing data directory, it is essential that you read and follow
1641 README.migration because the wiki markup and user profiles changed significantly.
1642 See also more HINTs below...
1644 New features: ==============================================================
1646 User interface: ------------------------------------------------------------
1647 * Removed "underscore in URL" == "blank in pagename magic" - it made more
1648 trouble than it was worth. If you still want to have a _ in URL, just
1649 put a _ into pagename.
1650 * Discussion pages, see FeatureRequests/DiscussionAndOrCommentPages.
1651 * cfg.password_checker (default: use some simple builtin checks for too
1652 easy passwords and, if available, python-crack).
1653 Use password_checker = None to disable password checking.
1654 * We now have a drafts functionality (no */MoinEditorBackup pages any
1656 * If you edit a page and cancel the edit, use preview or save, a draft
1657 copy gets saved for you to a internal cache area (data/cache/drafts/).
1658 * If it is a save what you did and it succeeds, the draft copy gets
1659 killed right afterwards.
1660 * If you accidentally used cancel or your browser or machine crashes
1661 after you used preview, then just visit that page again and edit it.
1662 the editor will notify you that there is a draft of this page and you
1663 will see a "Load draft" button. Click on it to load the draft into the
1664 editor and save the page.
1665 * The draft storage is per user and per page, but only one draft per page.
1666 * cfg.quicklinks_default and cfg.subscribed_pages_default can be used to
1667 preload new user profiles with configurable values.
1668 * attachment links for non-existing attachments look different now:
1669 the note about the non-existing attachment moved to the link title,
1670 the link is shown with nonexistent class (grey).
1671 * attachment embeddings for non-existing attachments show a grey clip
1672 * The list of InterWiki sites is editable in the wiki (page InterWikiMap),
1673 it is getting reloaded every minute.
1674 * We support some new languages and also have new underlay pages, thanks
1675 to all translators and people helping with the docs!
1677 Actions: -------------------------------------------------------------------
1678 * Synchronisation of wikis using the SyncPages action.
1679 * Xapian (see http://xapian.org/) based indexed search code.
1681 * Install xapian-core and xapian-bindings on your machine.
1682 We used 0.9.4, but newer code should hopefully work, too.
1683 * cfg.xapian_search = True
1684 * Execute this to build the index:
1685 $ moin ... index build # indexes pages and attachments
1686 $ moin ... index build --files=files.lst # same plus a list of files
1687 You should run those commands as the same user you use for your wiki,
1688 usually this is the webserver userid, e.g.:
1689 $ sudo -u www-data moin --config=... --wiki-url=wiki.example.org/ \
1690 index build --files=files.lst
1692 - LanguageSearch: language:de
1693 - CategorySearch: category:Homepage
1694 - MimetypeSearch: mimetype:image/png (for attachments/files)
1695 - DomainSearch: domain:underlay or domain:standard
1696 - History Search: available in advanced ui
1697 Note: Some currently only available when Xapian is used.
1698 * New config options and their defaults:
1699 xapian_search False enables xapian-powered search
1700 xapian_index_dir None directory for xapian indices
1701 (can be shared for wiki farms)
1702 xapian_stemming True toggles usage of stemmer, fallback
1703 to False if no stemmer installed
1704 search_results_per_page 10 determines how many hits should be
1705 shown on a fullsearch action
1706 xapian_index_history False indexes all revisions of pages to
1707 allow searching in their history
1708 * Speeded up linkto search by avoiding read locks on the pagelinks file.
1710 * The action menu now calls the actions for the revision of the page you
1711 are currently viewing. If you are viewing the current page revision, you
1712 get the same behaviour as in moin 1.5, but if you are viewing an old
1713 page revision, action "raw" will now show you the raw text of this OLD
1714 revision (not of the current revision as moin 1.5 did it).
1715 Note that not every action does evaluate the rev=XX parameter it gets.
1716 Also please note that the edit, info, ... links in the editbar do NOT
1717 use the rev parameter, but operate on the latest page revision (as
1718 they did in moin 1.5).
1719 * Info action lost the links for "raw", "print" and "revert" actions,
1720 because you can now just view an old revision and select those actions
1721 from the menu there.
1723 * ?action=sitemap emits a google sitemap (XML), listing all your wiki pages
1724 and the wiki root URL.
1725 Page Priority / Frequency / Last modification
1726 --------------------------------------------------------------------
1727 / 1.0 / hourly / <now>
1728 cfg.page_front_page 1.0 / hourly / page last edit
1729 TitleIndex,RecentChanges 0.9 / hourly / <now>
1730 content pages 0.5 / daily / page last edit
1731 system/help pages 0.1 / yearly / page last edit
1733 * Action DeletePage and RenamePage can now be used for subpages of a page, too.
1734 * Added Action CopyPage so you can use now an existing page or page hierarchy
1735 as template for a new page, see FeatureRequests/CloneOrCopyPages.
1736 * "Package Pages" action supports attachments now.
1737 * Added SisterPages support:
1738 * action=sisterpages will generate a list of url pagename lines for all
1739 pages in your moin wiki.
1740 * action=pollsistersites will poll all sister sites listed in
1741 cfg.sistersites = [(wikiname, fetchURL), ...]
1742 The fetch URL for the sistersites depends on the wiki engine, e.g.:
1744 ('MoinExample', 'http://moin.example.org/?action=sisterpages')
1745 # oddmuse based wiki:
1746 ('EmacsWiki', 'http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/test?action=sisterpages')
1747 # JspWiki based wiki:
1748 ('JspWiki', 'http://www.jspwiki.org/SisterSites.jsp')
1749 * If the current page exists on some sister wiki, a link to it will be
1750 added to the navibar.
1751 You can use sister wikis for adding another dimension to your wiki UI: use
1752 it for simple multi language support, or for comments, or anything else
1754 TODO: add sistersites_force with sister sites we link to even if they do not
1755 have the page yet (will work only for moin as we don't know
1756 pagename>url transformation of other wikis)
1757 * showtags action that lists all tags related to a page.
1758 * action=view does use mimetypes of EmbedObject too and text files will be shown
1759 by using their colorized parsers
1761 Macros: --------------------------------------------------------------------
1763 * If a change has happened after your bookmark, the updated/new/renamed
1764 icon links to the bookmark diff.
1765 * If a page does not exist any more (because it was deleted or renamed),
1766 we link the deleted icon to the diff showing what was deleted (for the
1767 delete action). For the rename action, we just show the deleted icon.
1768 * Conflict icon in RecentChanges is shown if a edit conflict is detected.
1769 * Enhanced SystemAdmin's user browser, so a SuperUser can enable/disable
1771 * Included EmbedObject macro for embedding different major mimetypes:
1772 application, audio, image, video, chemical, x-world.
1773 You are able to change the defaults of allowed mimetypes in the config
1774 var mimetypes_embed. The config var mimetypes_xss_protect is used to deny
1775 mimetypes. The order of both variables is Allow, Deny (mimetypes_embed,
1776 mimetypes_xss_protect).
1777 * Added support for @SELF to the NewPage macro.
1778 * GetText2 macro that allows to translate messages that contain data.
1779 * Make the FootNote macro filter duplicates and display a list of numbers
1780 instead of a list of identical footnotes. Thanks to Johannes Berg for the
1783 Parsers: -------------------------------------------------------------------
1784 * Moin Wiki parser: Changed markup for links, images and macros, see these
1785 wiki pages: HelpOnLinking, HelpOnMacros
1786 * New wiki markup for /* inline comments */ - they get rendered as a span
1787 with class="comment", see next item:
1788 * There is a new item in the edit bar: "Comments". If you click it, the
1789 visibility of all class "comment" tags will be toggled. There is a user
1790 preferences item "show_comments" to set if the default view shows them or not.
1791 * The wiki parser can be used with css classes now:
1793 This will render output within a div with class "comment".
1794 You can use any wiki markup as usual.
1796 You can also combine multiple css classes like this:
1797 {{{#!wiki red/dotted/comment
1798 This will render a red background, dotted border comment section.
1800 The same thing will work for any other css classes you have.
1801 If the css classes contain the word "comment", they will trigger some
1802 special feature, see next item:
1803 * Wiki nested parser/pre sections work now, using this syntax:
1804 a) just use more curly braces if you have 3 closing in your content:
1806 }}} <- does not terminate the section!
1808 b) use {{{ + some magic string:
1810 }}} <- does not terminate the section!
1812 c) {{{whatever#!python
1815 Pitfall: stuff like below does not work as it did in 1.5:
1823 * Added support for ircs: URLs (secure IRC).
1824 * New text/creole parser that allows you to use WikiCreole 1.0 markup,
1826 * HTML parser (called "html") that allows you to use HTML on the page.
1827 Thanks to the trac team for the nice code.
1828 * Added the diff parser from ParserMarket, thanks to Emilio Lopes, Fabien
1829 Ninoles and Juergen Hermann.
1831 XMLRPC: --------------------------------------------------------------------
1832 * actions_excluded now defaults to ['xmlrpc'] - this kind of disables the
1833 built-in wiki xmlrpc server code (not completely: it will just answer
1834 with a Fault instance for any request). If you want to use xmlrpc v1 or
1835 v2, you have to remove 'xmlrpc' from the actions_excluded list (for
1836 example if you want to use wikisync, mailimport or any other feature
1837 using xmlrpc). If you enable xmlrpc, it will be possible that someone
1838 changes your wiki content by using xmlrpc (it will of course honour ACLs).
1839 * New XMLRPC methods (see doc strings for details):
1841 * system.multicall -- multicall support
1842 * Authentication System: getAuthToken/appyAuthToken
1843 * getDiff -- method to get binary diffs
1844 * mergeDiff -- method to local changes remotely
1845 * interwikiName -- method to get the IWID and the interwiki moniker
1846 * getAllPagesEx -- method to get the pagelist in a special way (revnos,
1847 no system pages etc.)
1848 * getAuthToken -- make and authentication token by supplying username/password
1849 * applyAuthToken -- set request.user for following xmlrpc calls (within the
1851 * getUserProfile -- method to get user profile data for request.user
1852 * Added XMLRPC methods for attachment handling. Thanks to Matthew Gilbert.
1853 * XMLRPC putPage method adjusted to new AuthToken, config vars
1854 xmlrpc_putpage_enabled and xmlrpc_putpage_trusted_only removed.
1856 Scripts / Commandline interface: -------------------------------------------
1857 * moin export dump now better conforms to the theme guidelines.
1858 * Added a --dump-user option to the moin export dump command.
1859 Thanks to Oliver O'Halloran.
1861 Security / Auth / AntiSpam / etc.: -----------------------------------------
1862 * Hierarchical ACLs are now supported, i.e. pages inheriting permissions
1863 from higher-level pages. See HelpOnAccessControlLists.
1864 * If you have "#acl" (without the quotes) on a page, this means now:
1865 "this page has own (empty) ACLs, so do not use acl_rights_default here"
1866 Please note that this is COMPLETELY DIFFERENT from having no ACL line at
1867 all on the page (acl_rights_default is used in that case).
1868 * Antispam master url is now configurable via cfg.antispam_master_url.
1869 The default is to fetch the antispam patterns from MoinMaster wiki.
1870 * Antispam now checks the edit comments against BadContent also.
1871 * TextCHAs (text-form CAPTCHAs).
1872 Due to increasingly annoying wiki spammers, we added the option to use
1873 TextCHAs (for page save (not for preview!), for attachment upload, for
1874 user creation (not for profile save)).
1875 This function is disabled by default. If you run a wiki that is editable
1876 by anonymous or non-approved users from the internet (i.e. All: or Known:
1877 in ACL terms), you should enable it in your wiki config by:
1878 textchas = { # DO NOT USE EXACTLY THESE QUESTIONS!!!
1880 u'H2O is ...': u'water', # bad: too common
1881 u'2 apples and three bananas makes how many fruits?': ur'(five|5)', # good
1882 u'2 apples and three pigs makes how many fruits?': ur'(two|2)', # good
1883 u'2+3': ur'5', # bad: computable
1886 'de': { # for german users
1887 u'H2O ist ...': u'wasser',
1890 This means that english users will get some random question from the 'en'
1891 set, german users will get some from the 'de' set. If there is no 'de'
1892 set configured, moin will fallback to language_default and then to 'en',
1893 so make sure that you at least have a 'en' set configured (or whatever
1894 you have set as language_default).
1895 You need to use unicode for the questions and answers (see that u"...").
1896 For the answer, you need to give a regular expression:
1897 * In the easiest case, this is just some word or sentence (first en
1898 example). It will be matched in a case-insensitive way.
1899 * For more complex stuff, you can use the power of regular expressions,
1900 e.g. if multiple answers are correct (second en example). Any answer
1901 matching the regular expression will be considered as correct, any
1902 non-matching answer will be considered as incorrect.
1904 Tipps for making it hard to break for the spammers and easy for the users:
1905 * Use site-specific (not too common) questions.
1906 * Don't use too hard questions (annoys legitimate users).
1907 * Don't use computable questions.
1908 * Don't reuse textchas from other sites.
1910 textchas_disabled_group = None # (default)
1911 Set this to some group name and noone in this group will get textchas.
1912 E.g.: textchas_disabled_group = u'NoTextChasGroup'
1914 * The login page gives now the possibility to recover a lost password, thanks to
1915 Oliver Siemoneit. This is especially useful for wikis where access to user
1916 preferences is restricted by acl.
1917 * Session handling for logged-in users and (not by default due to expiry
1918 problems) anonymous users.
1919 * Updated the ldap_login code from 1.5 branch, supports TLS now.
1920 See MoinMoin/config/multiconfig.py for supported configuration options
1921 and their defaults (and please just change what you need to change,
1922 in your wikiconfig).
1923 * Interwiki auth: You need to define cfg.trusted_wikis and
1924 cfg.user_autocreate to use it. Logging in works by entering:
1925 Name: RemoteWikiName RemoteUserName
1926 Password: remotepass
1927 Then moin contacts RemoteWikiName after looking it up in the interwiki
1928 map and tries to authenticate there using RemoteUserName and remotepass.
1929 If it succeeds, the remote wiki will return the remote user profile items
1930 and your local moin will autocreate an account with these values.
1932 Server / Network / Logging: ------------------------------------------------
1933 * The standalone server script moved to the toplevel directory. This makes
1934 it possible to directly start moin.py without additional configuration
1935 to run a MoinMoin DesktopEdition like wiki setup.
1936 Be careful: DesktopEdition uses relaxed security settings only suitable
1937 for personal and local use.
1938 * Added TLS/SSL support to the standalone server. Thanks to Matthew Gilbert.
1939 To use TLS/SSL support you must also install the TLSLite library
1940 (http://trevp.net/tlslite/). Version 0.3.8 was used for development and
1943 * cfg.log_reverse_dns_lookups [default: True] - you can set this to False
1944 if rev. dns lookups are broken in your network (leading to long delays
1945 on page saves). With False, edit-log will only contain IP, not hostname.
1946 * Added support for "304 not modified" response header for AttachFile get
1947 and rss_rc actions - faster, less traffic, less load.
1949 * Added logging framework, using stdlib's "logging" module. Just do
1950 import logging ; logging.debug("your text"). Depending on configuration
1951 in the server Config class, your stuff will be written to screen (stderr),
1952 to a moin logfile, to apache's error.log, etc.:
1953 logPath = None # 'moin.log'
1954 loglevel_file = None # logging.DEBUG/INFO/WARNING/ERROR/CRITICAL
1955 loglevel_stderr = None # logging.DEBUG/INFO/WARNING/ERROR/CRITICAL
1956 NOTE: this is NOT in wikiconfig, but e.g. in moin.cgi or moin.py or ...
1958 * Added some experimental and disabled code, that uses x-forwarded-for
1959 header (if present) to get the right "outside" IP before a request
1960 enters our chain of trusted (reverse) proxies.
1961 This code has the problem that we can't configure it in wikiconfig, so
1962 if you want to use it / test it, you have to edit the moin code:
1963 MoinMoin/request/__init__.py - edit proxies_trusted (near the top).
1964 We will try to make this easier to configure, but there was no time left
1965 before 1.6.0 release for doing bigger code refactorings needed for that.
1967 Mail: ----------------------------------------------------------------------
1968 * You can send email to the wiki now (requires xmlrpc), see:
1969 FeatureRequests/WikiEmailIntegration, HelpOnConfiguration/EmailSupport
1971 * Mail notifications contain a link to the diff action so the user
1972 can see the coloured difference more easily. Thanks to Tobias Polzin.
1974 Other changes: =============================================================
1975 * HINT: please copy a new version of your server script from the wiki/server/
1976 directory and edit it to match your setup.
1977 * HINT: instead of "from MoinMoin.multiconfig import DefaultConfig" you
1978 need to use "from MoinMoin.config.multiconfig import DefaultConfig" now.
1979 You need to change this in your wikiconfig.py or farmconfig.py file.
1980 See MoinMoin/multiconfig.py for an alternative way if you can't do that.
1981 * HINT: you need to change some imports (if you have them in your config):
1982 Old: from MoinMoin.util.antispam import SecurityPolicy
1983 New: from MoinMoin.security.antispam import SecurityPolicy
1984 Old: from MoinMoin.util.autoadmin import SecurityPolicy
1985 New: from MoinMoin.security.autoadmin import SecurityPolicy
1986 * HINT: you need to change your auth stuff, the new way is:
1987 from MoinMoin.auth import moin_login, moin_session
1988 from MoinMoin.auth.http import http
1989 auth = [http, moin_login, moin_session]
1990 Do it in a similar way for other auth methods.
1991 * HINT: you need to change your url_prefix setting in 2 ways:
1992 1. The setting is now called url_prefix_static (to make it more clear
1993 that we mean the static stuff, not the wiki script url).
1994 2. The strongly recommended (and default) value of it is '/moin_static160'
1995 for moin version 1.6.0 (and will be ...161 for moin 1.6.1). It is
1996 possible and recommended to use a very long cache lifetime for static
1997 stuff now (Expires: access plus 1 year), because we require to change
1998 the URL of static stuff when the static stuff changes (e.g. on a
1999 version upgrade of moin) to avoid problems with stale cache content.
2000 Your moin will be faster with lower load and traffic because of this.
2001 For standalone server, we use 1 year expiry for static stuff now.
2002 For Apache, Lighttpd and other "external" servers, you have to care
2003 for configuring them to use a long expiry and change url_prefix_static
2004 related configuration on upgrade.
2005 HINT: if you run standalone or Twisted server, the easiest way to get a
2006 working configuration (with server configuration matching wiki
2007 configuration) is to NOT set url_prefix_static at all. Moin will
2008 use matching configuration defaults in this case.
2009 * url_prefix_action ['action'] was introduced for lowering load and traffic
2010 caused by searchengine crawlers. Up to now, crawlers where causing a high
2011 load in internet moin wikis because they tried to get about everything,
2012 including all actions linked from the user interface.
2013 Known crawlers only get 403 for most actions, but nevertheless they first
2014 tried. There was no means keeping them away from actions due to the rather
2015 braindead robots.txt standard. You can only disallow pathes there, but
2016 moin's actions were querystring based, not path based (this would need
2017 regex support in robots.txt, but there is no such thing).
2018 This changed now. Moin is able to generate action URLs you can handle in
2019 robots.txt, like /action/info/PageName?action=info. So if you don't want
2020 bots triggering actions, just disallow /action/ there. Keep in mind that
2021 attachments are handled by /action/AttachFile, so if you want attached
2022 files and pictures indexed by search engine, don't disallow
2023 /action/AttachFile/ in your robots.txt. In order to use this feature,
2024 set url_prefix_action in your wikiconfig to e.g. "action".
2025 * We use (again) the same browser compatibility check as FCKeditor uses
2026 internally, too. So if GUI editor invocation is broken due to browser
2027 compatibility issues or a wrong browser version check, please file a bug
2028 at FCKeditor development or browser development.
2029 * HINT: We removed Lupy based indexed search code. If you were brave enough
2030 to use cfg.lupy_search, you maybe want to try cfg.xapian_search instead.
2032 Developer notes: ===========================================================
2033 * We moved the IE hacks to theme/css/msie.css that gets included after all
2034 other css files (but before the user css file) using a conditional
2035 comment with "if IE", so it gets only loaded for MSIE (no matter which
2036 version). The file has some standard css inside (evaluated on all MSIE
2037 versions) and some * html hacks that only IE < 7 will read.
2038 HINT: if you use custom themes, you want to update them in the same way.
2039 * autofilters for databrowser widget. Thanks to Johannes Berg for the patch.
2040 * changed formatter.attachment_link call (it is now more flexible,
2041 because you can render the stuff between link start and link end yourself)
2042 * Page.url() does not escape any more. You have to use wikiutil.escape()
2043 yourself if you want to write the URL to HTML and it contains e.g. &.
2044 * The testing wikiconfig moved to tests/wikiconfig.py, the testing wiki
2045 is now created in tests/wiki/...
2046 * HINT: Killed "processors" (finally), formatter method changed to:
2047 formatter.parser(parsername, lines)
2048 * Refactored some actions to use ActionBase base class.
2049 * Moved "test" action from wikiaction to MoinMoin/action/
2050 (and use ActionBase).
2051 * Moved MoinMoin/config.py to MoinMoin/config/__init__.py.
2052 * Moved MoinMoin/multiconfig.py to MoinMoin/config/multiconfig.py.
2053 * Moved "SystemInfo" macro from wikimacro to MoinMoin/macro/.
2054 * Moved wikiaction.py stuff to MoinMoin/action/__init__.py.
2055 * Moved wikimacro.py stuff to MoinMoin/macro/__init__.py.
2056 * Moved wikirpc.py stuff to MoinMoin/xmlrpc/__init__.py.
2057 * Moved wikitest.py stuff to action/test.py (only used from there).
2058 * Moved formatter/base.py to formatter/__init__.py (FormatterBase).
2059 * Moved util/ParserBase.py to parser/ParserBase.py.
2060 * Moved / splitted request.py into MoinMoin/request/*.
2061 Most stuff will be broken, please help fixing it (usually some imports
2062 will be missing and the adaptor script will need a change maybe):
2063 Tested successfully: CGI, CLI, STANDALONE, FCGI, TWISTED
2064 * Moved security.py to security/__init__.py.
2065 * Moved wikiacl.py to security/__init__.py.
2066 * Moved logfile/logfile.py to logfile/__init__.py.
2067 * Moved mailimport.py to mail/mailimport.py.
2068 * Moved util/mail.py to mail/sendmail.py.
2069 * Moved auth.py to auth/__init__.py.
2070 Moved util/sessionParser.py to auth/_PHPsessionParser.py.
2071 teared auth code into single modules under auth/* - moin_session handling
2072 and the builting moin_login method are in auth/__init__.py.
2073 * Added wikiutil.MimeType class (works internally with sanitized mime
2074 types because the official ones suck).
2075 * Renamed parsers to module names representing sane mimetypes, e.g.:
2076 parser.wiki -> parser.text_moin_wiki
2077 * Added thread_monitor debugging aid. It can be activated using:
2078 from MoinMoin.util import thread_monitor; thread_monitor.activate_hook()
2079 and then triggered by requesting URL ...?action=thread_monitor - please
2080 be aware that monitoring threads has a big performance impact on its own,
2081 so you only want to temporarily enable this for debugging.
2082 By default, it dumps its output to the data_dir as tm_<timestamp>.log,
2083 you can change this at bottom of action/thread_monitor.py if you want to
2084 see output in your browser.
2085 * Introduced scope parameter to CacheEntry() - if you specify 'farm', it
2086 will cache into a common directory for all wikis in the same farm, if you
2087 specify 'wiki', it will use a cache directory per wiki and if you specify
2088 'item', it will use a cache directory per item (== per page).
2089 Creating a CacheEntry without explicit scope is DEPRECATED.
2090 * Smileys moved from MoinMoin.config to MoinMoin.theme.
2091 * Removed all _ magic in URLs and filenames.
2092 * request.action now has the action requested, default: 'show'.
2093 * Cleaned up duplicated http_headers code and DEPRECATED this function
2094 call (it was sometimes confused with setHttpHeaders call) - it will
2095 vanish with moin 1.7, so please fix your custom plugins!
2097 request.emit_http_headers(more_headers=[])
2098 This call pre-processes the headers list (encoding from unicode, making
2099 sure that there is exactly ONE content-type header, etc.) and then
2100 calls a server specific helper _emit_http_headers to emit it.
2101 Tested successfully: CGI, STANDALONE, FCGI, TWISTED
2102 * setResponseCode request method DEPRECATED (it only worked for Twisted
2103 anyway), just use emit_http_headers and include a Status: XXX header.
2104 Method will vanish with moin 1.7.
2105 * cfg.url_prefix is DEPRECATED, please use cfg.url_prefix_static.
2106 * d['title_link'] is not supported any more. You can easily make that link
2107 on your own in your theme, see example in MoinMoin/theme/__init__.py,
2109 * There is a new Page method called Page.get_raw_body_str that returns
2110 the encoded page body. This is useful if you just deal with byte data
2111 (e.g. while generating binary diffs).
2112 * The TagStore/PickleTagStore system is used to store the syncronisation tags.
2113 * XMLRPC functions may return Fault instances from now on
2114 * Moin got multicall support, including a module that makes it usable on the
2115 client-side without requiring Python 2.4
2116 * Added no_magic to text_html formatter to disable tag autoclosing.
2117 * MOIN_DEBUG can be set in the environment to let MoinMoin ignore exceptions
2118 that would lead to a traceback in the browser. Thanks to Raphael Bossek.
2119 * There is a new MoinMoin.Page.ItemCache class now with automatic cache
2120 invalidation based on global edit-log. We currently use it to cache page
2121 acls, speedup Page.get_rev and reading the page local edit-log.
2122 * Added wikiutil.renderText parse and format raw wiki markup with all page elements.
2123 * The user file format has changed, old files will be read correctly but
2124 will silently be upgraded to the new format so old versions will not
2125 read the new files correctly (this only affects 'subscribed_pages' and
2126 'quicklinks' which will be lost when downgrading.)
2131 * Added timing.log to help performance debugging. Use cfg.log_timing = True
2132 to update <data_dir>/timing.log (default is False, meaning no logging).
2134 Example log entries:
2137 Timestamp PID Timing Flag action URL
2138 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2139 20070512 184401 22690 vvv None moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/RssFeeds
2140 20070512 184401 22690 0.267s - show moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/RssFeeds
2142 Timestamp: YYYYMMDD HHMMSS (UTC)
2143 PID: the process ID of the moin process
2144 Timing: when action starts, it will be "vvv"
2145 when it ends, it logs the total time it needed for execution
2146 Flag (some are only logged at end of action):
2148 - Page does not exist
2149 B user agent was recognized as bot / spider
2150 !x! Action took rather long (the higher the x, the longer it took - this
2151 makes it easy to grep for problematic stuff).
2152 Action: action name (None is when no action was specified, moin assumes
2153 "show" for that case)
2154 URL: the requested URL
2156 For more information about tuning your moin setup, see:
2157 http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/PerformanceTuning
2158 * Added support for ircs, webcal, xmpp, ed2k and rootz protocols - we
2159 moved all protocols to config.url_schemas, so this is not empty any more.
2160 It is possible to use these protocols now on wiki pages and in the
2161 navi_bar. We just generate the URLs, it is up to your browser what it
2162 does when clicking on those links.
2163 * cfg.traceback_show (default: 1) can be used to disable showing tracebacks.
2164 cfg.traceback_log_dir (default: None) can be used to set a directory
2165 that is used to dump traceback files to. Your users will get a notice to
2166 which (random) file in that directory the traceback was been written.
2167 NOTE: while you can feel free to set traceback_show = 0 and
2168 traceback_log_dir = None, we will also feel free to reject bug reports
2169 when you (or your site's users) don't give us enough information (like a
2170 traceback file) to debug the problem. If you set traceback_show = 0,
2171 we recommend pointing traceback_log_dir to a directory with reasonable
2172 free space and putting a page onto your wiki that describes who has to
2173 get contacted (usually the wiki server admin) in case a traceback happens.
2174 The admin can then locate the traceback file and submit it to moin
2176 Of course we will also need all the other details of a bug report, not
2177 only the traceback file.
2180 * Updated spider agents list.
2181 * Reduce bot/spider cpu usage for SystemInfo, OrphanedPages, WantedPages,
2182 PageHits, PageSize, WordIndex macros (we just return nothing for bots).
2185 * XSS fixes, see http://secunia.com/advisories/24138/ (item 1 and 2).
2186 * ACL security fixes:
2187 * MonthCalendar respects ACLs of day pages now.
2188 * Check the ACL for the rst markup include directive.
2189 * Fixed cleaning of edit comments (control chars in there could damage
2191 * Fixed in-process caching of antispam patterns (didn't update the cache
2192 for multi-process, persistent servers).
2193 * Correct encoding/decoding for surge-log data, fixes leftover
2194 surge-logXXXXXXX.tmp files in data/cache/surgeprotect.
2195 * Fixed mode of cache files (mkstemp creates them with 0600 mode).
2196 * Symbolic entities with numbers (like ²) did not work, fixed.
2197 * We open data/error.log earlier now and we also use it for FastCGI.
2198 * Fixed unicode cfg.page_group_regex.
2199 * Fixed moin.spec to use english date format.
2200 * GUI converter: fixed conversion of relative wiki links.
2201 * Fixed NewPage macro button label to not be formatted as wiki text.
2205 * added url_prefix_local which is used for stuff that must be loaded from
2206 same site as the wiki engine (e.g. FCKeditor GUI editor applet), while
2207 url_prefix can be a remote server serving the static files (css/img).
2208 If not set (or set to None), url_prefix_local will default to the value
2210 * We save some CPU and disk I/O by having EditTemplates and LikePages macro
2211 (both used on MissingPage) check whether the requesting entity was
2212 identified as a spider (e.g. search engine bot) and do nothing in that
2213 case. Normal users won't see any difference.
2214 * For AttachFile, you can now choose to overwrite existing files of same
2215 name (nice for updating files).
2219 * fixed unescaped page info display.
2220 * fixed unescaped page name display in AttachFile, RenamePage and
2221 LocalSiteMap actions
2222 * WantedPages listed existing pages that are not readable for the user,
2223 but are linked from pages that ARE readable for the user (so this is NOT
2224 a privacy/security issue). We now don't list those pages any more as it
2225 is pointless/confusing, the user can't read or edit there anyway.
2228 * GUI editor/converter:
2229 * ignore <col>/<colgroup>/<meta> elements
2230 * support <a> within blockquote
2231 * Remove generated=... attribute from pagelink html output (this attr is
2232 for internal use only). w3c validator is now happier again.
2233 * Fixed css class "userpref" (not: "userprefs") of the Login form.
2234 * Fixed the version number check in the xslt parser for 4suite >= 1.0.
2235 * We reset the umask to the wanted value every request. This should fix
2236 wrong file modes when used with Twisted (twistd uses a hardcoded 0077
2237 umask in daemonize()).
2238 * Avoid trouble when saving pages with antispam function when MoinMaster
2239 wiki is having troubles (catch xmlrpc Fault).
2242 * Standalone server does not do reverse DNS lookups any more (this is a
2243 standard feature of BaseHTTPServer stdlib module, but we override this
2244 now and just print the IP).
2245 * We moved the IE hacks to theme/css/msie.css that gets included after all
2246 other css files (but before the user css file) using a conditional
2247 comment with "if IE", so it gets only loaded for MSIE (no matter which
2248 version). The file has some standard css inside (evaluated on all MSIE
2249 versions) and some * html hacks that only IE < 7 will read.
2250 HINT: if you use custom themes, you want to update them in the same way.
2251 * Improved ldap auth:
2252 * cfg.ldap_name_attribute was removed because of new cfg.ldap_filter.
2253 If you had ldap_name_attribute = 'sAMAccountName' before, just use
2254 ldap_filter = '(sAMAccountName=%(username)s)' now.
2255 * New cfg.ldap_filter used for the ldap filter string used in the ldap
2256 search instead of the rather limited, partly hardcoded filter we used
2257 before. This is much more flexible:
2258 ldap_filter = '(sAMAccountName=%(username)s)'
2259 You can also do more complex filtering expressions like:
2260 '(&(cn=%(username)s)(memberOf=CN=WikiUsers,OU=Groups,DC=example,DC=org))'
2261 * Added some processing to filter out result entries with dn == None.
2262 * We set REFERRALS option to 0 before initializing the ldap server
2263 connection (this seems to be needed for Active Directory servers).
2264 * We support self-signed ssl certs for ldaps - completely untested.
2265 * New cfg.ldap_surname_attribute (usually 'sn'), was hardcoded before.
2266 * New cfg.ldap_givenname_attribute (usually 'givenName'), hardcoded before.
2267 * New cfg.ldap_aliasname_attribute (usually 'displayName') - if this
2268 attribute is not there or empty (in the results of the ldap lookup for
2269 the user), we just make up the aliasname from surname and givenname
2271 * We only request the attributes we need from ldap (was: all attrs).
2272 * We deny user login (and break out of auth chain) for the following cases:
2273 * if a user is not found by ldap lookup
2274 * if we find more than one matching entry
2275 * if the password is empty or incorrect
2276 * if some exception happens
2277 * Please note that there is an updated ldap sample config in directory
2278 wiki/config/more_samples/.
2279 * Added experimental LDAP SSL/TLS support (untested, please help testing),
2280 see also the sample config.
2281 * Work around a IE7 rendering problem with long pages getting more and
2282 more narrow. We just applied the same "fix" as we used for IE6, using
2283 "display: none" for span.anchor for IE browsers.
2285 * We used to emit a <link> tag for the action=rss_rc RSS feed on any
2286 page. This was changed, we now emit that link only on RecentChanges and
2287 the current user's language translation of RecentChanges.
2288 This was changed because Google Toolbar requests the RSS feed linked
2289 by such a link tag every time it sees one. Thus, if you used the wiki
2290 normally, it requested the RSS feed every few seconds and caused
2291 problems due to surge protection kicking in because of that.
2292 * HINT for custom theme users: if your theme code calls
2293 rsslink(), then you need to change that to rsslink(d) for 1.5.7+.
2297 A general security notice:
2298 Check your Python version, there was a buffer overflow issue in Python
2299 recently! Details: http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/PythonUnicodeEscapeBug
2302 * Fix AttributeError traceback with Standalone server (if_modified_since)
2303 * Fix AttachFile "304 not modified" and redirect status code for Twisted
2304 * http auth: we now decode username and password to unicode (using
2305 config.charset == utf-8). Same for SSL client cert auth and CN.
2306 * Avoid infinite recursion in Page.parsePageLinks.
2307 * Fixed standalone server failing to shutdown if interface == "".
2308 * Now MoinMoin does not think anymore that every page links to various user
2310 * Made the irssi parser more tolerant (Thanks to "TheAnarcat").
2311 * Now multiple formatters can be used per request, the send_page code was
2312 not reentrant to this regard. Fixes "empty" search results.
2313 * Fixed problem with "=" in ImageLink macro links.
2314 * Not a moin bug, but a silly stdlib os.tempnam function made trouble to
2315 some people because it lets you override the path given in the code
2316 by setting the environment variable TMP(DIR). We now use a different
2317 function to avoid renaming trouble when TMP(DIR) points to a different
2319 * Fixed antispam update on every save (Thanks to "TheAnarcat").
2320 * GUI converter: don't throw away rowclass for tables.
2321 * GUI editor formatter: allow height for table cells.
2322 * GUI editor formatter: comment texts are output using the formatter now.
2325 * Mail notifications contain a link to the diff action so the user
2326 can see the coloured difference more easily. Thanks to Tobias Polzin.
2327 * FeatureRequests/MoveAttachments - you can move attachments from one
2328 page to another (and also rename the attachment at the same time).
2329 Thanks to Reimar Bauer.
2330 * Added support for linking to attachment: and inline: URLs with ImageLink.
2331 * Added UNIX socket support for FastCGI, just set the port to some (socket)
2333 * [[Attachlist(pagename,mimetype)]] lists attachments of pagename (default:
2334 current page) with optional mimetype restriction (default: all).
2335 Thanks to Reimar Bauer.
2338 * Minor performance improvements (might be noticeable if you have many
2339 custom navi_bar entries and high server load).
2340 * Avoid usage of no-cache because it breaks attachment download on IE6.
2341 This is a IE bug, not a moin bug.
2342 * Added XHTML to the unsafe list.
2343 * Changed the rst parser to be compatible to the new docutils interface
2345 * Updated EmbedObject macro.
2350 * fixed ticket creation to only use constant values
2353 HINT: read docs/README.migration.
2354 HINT: there was NO change in the underlay/ pages since 1.5.4.
2355 HINT: If you experience problems with the reStructured Text (rst) parser,
2356 please downgrade docutils to "0.4" because there were major interface
2357 breaking API refactorings on the docutils trunk.
2363 * Not a moin bug, but it severely annoyed IE users and also was less
2364 comfortable for users of other browser: since about 1.5.4, we served
2365 attachments with Content-Disposition: attachment - so that the user has
2366 to save them to disk. This was to fix a possible XSS attack using attached
2367 HTML files with Javascript inside for stealing your moin cookie or doing
2368 other nasty things. We improved this by using different behaviour depending
2369 on the potential danger the attached file has when served inline:
2370 mimetypes_xss_protect = ['text/html', 'application/x-shockwave-flash', ]
2371 This is the default value. If you know more dangerous stuff, please just
2372 add the mimetypes there to protect your users and file a bug report
2373 telling us what we missed.
2376 * Make tickets used for some actions more safe.
2379 * edit_ticketing [True] - we protect page save by a ticket (same stuff we
2380 already use for DeletePage and RenamePage action).
2381 NOTE: If you don't use your browser for editing, but some tool like
2382 "editmoin" or "MoinMoin plugin for jEdit", you'll need an update
2383 of them supporting the ticket.
2384 Alternatively, you can use edit_ticketing = False setting - this
2385 is not recommended for internet wikis as it will make spamming them
2387 * If we detect some spammer, we kick him out by triggering surge protection
2388 (if surge protection is not disabled).
2393 * Fixed gui editor converter confusing of `` and {{{}}} markup.
2394 * Fixed emission of HTTP headers (esp. Vary: Cache-Control:).
2395 * Fixed a bad crash that happens (on ANY page!) when you put a *Dict
2396 page's name as a member into a *Group page.
2397 * Fix MyPages action title to use an unformatted string.
2398 * Fix double quoted-printable encoding in generated emails (note: this is
2399 not a moin bug - this just works around bugs in python stdlib).
2400 * Fix mode of drawing files (use config.umask).
2401 * Fix trouble with /?action= urls by dropping getPageNameFromQueryString
2403 * Fixed sre unpickle issues seen on some machines by avoiding to pickle
2405 * Fix Clock code, add more timers.
2406 * Worked around FastCGI problem on Lighttpd: empty lines in the error log.
2407 * Fix (add) locking for caching's .remove() call, small fixes to lock code.
2408 * Print error message when --target-dir=path is missing from moin export
2412 * Added support for "304 not modified" response header for AttachFile get
2413 and rss_rc actions - faster, less traffic, less load.
2414 * Limit rss with full diffs to 5 items.
2415 * Allow surge_action_limits = None to disable surge protection.
2416 * moin.fcg improved - if you use FastCGI, you must use the new file:
2417 * can self-terminate after some number of requests (default: -1, this
2418 means "unlimited lifetime")
2419 * the count of created threads is limited now (default: 5), you can use
2420 1 to use non-threaded operation.
2421 * configurable socket.listen() backlog (default: 5)
2422 * Added indonesian i18n (id).
2423 * Some measures against spammers trying to brute force their spam into moin.
2424 * EmbedObject macro: added mov, mpg and midi support
2425 * moin ... export dump --target-dir=PATH --page=PAGENAME_REGEX
2426 You must specify --target-dir (where dump will write the html files to)
2427 and you may specify --page and either a page name or a regex used to
2428 match all pages you want to export. Default is to export all pages.
2432 * more efficient locking code on POSIX platforms, we do much less I/O
2434 * removed most chmod calls in favour of a single os.umask call
2435 * Improved Python 2.5 compatibility. Note: if you think that MoinMoin
2436 is using too much RAM, you might want to look at Python 2.5 because
2437 of its improved memory management.
2438 * Throw away SAVE comments longer than 200 chars (you can't enter those by
2439 the user interface, so only spammer using automatic POSTs do them).
2440 * Updated spider user agent list.
2441 * BadContent and LocalBadContent now get noindex,nofollow robots header,
2443 * Standalone opens it logfile unbuffered from now on, thanks to
2445 * Avoid trouble when request.write() data contains None, just skip it -
2446 thanks to Juergen Hermann.
2447 * Instead of showing a ConfigurationError, moin now emits "404 Not found"
2448 http headers and a hint about what could be wrong. This won't fill up
2449 your logs just because of typos and spiders still trying old URLs.
2453 HINT: read docs/README.migration.
2454 Version 1.5.4-current:
2455 * increased maxlength of some input fields from 80 to 200
2457 Version 1.5.current:
2459 * We switched to Mercurial SCM, see here for more infos:
2460 http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/MoinDev/MercurialGuide
2463 * fix MonthCalendar macro for non-ASCII pagenames (thanks to Jonas Smedegaard)
2464 * remove 'search' and 'google' from bot user agent list and add some more
2466 * Fix the forgotten password email login URL and also properly encode the
2467 email body. Thanks to Robin Dunn for the patch.
2468 * Applied a patch by Matthew Gilbert for increased compatiblity with
2474 * Added CSS classes for TableOfContents macro.
2477 * GUI editor / GUI editor converter:
2478 * Fixed missing GUI editor link in edit bar.
2479 * Fixed table/row/cell style spaces.
2480 * Changed <p> generation for macros.
2481 * Fixed handling of subpages.
2482 * Fixed processing of complex list elements (thanks to Craig Markwardt).
2483 * Fixed processing of html \n (thanks to Craig Markwardt).
2484 * Fixed joining of comment lines with text below them.
2485 * Fixed table height attribute crash.
2486 * Fixed sslclientcert auth.
2487 * Added some missing files to i18n processing, translatable strings more
2489 * Change <p> generation from self-closing (<p />) to auto-closing (only
2490 emit <p>, let browser find place for </p>).
2491 * Fix eating of newline before tables.
2492 * Fixed incorrect login hint for not logged-in users trying a disallowed
2494 * Fixed nasty missing or double </a> formatter bug (mostly happening when
2495 user has enabled questionmarks for nonexisting pages).
2498 * We catch and ignore html to wiki conversion errors in case of hitting
2499 the cancel button, so you can get out of the error screen.
2503 * Modified SystemInfo macro to give human readable units and disk usage
2504 * cfg.editor_quickhelp makes the quick help below the editor configurable
2505 (at least as far as the default_markup is concerned). If set to None,
2506 it doesn't display any quickhelp. Thanks to Seth Falcon for the patch.
2509 * Fixed double class attribute for nonexistent links
2510 * Fixed double </a> with qm_noexist option
2511 * Fixed table xxx="yyy" style attribute parsing
2512 * If not (editor_force and editor_default == 'text') then display GUI mode
2513 switch button (this is only a partial fix, but enough to deny the GUI
2514 mode to your users completely)
2515 * Fixed XSS issue which could lead to cookie theft etc.
2516 * Fixed definition list "same level" indenting.
2517 * Fixed pagename in log for PackagePages action.
2518 * Made <p> self-closing and line-anchors more well-behaved, thanks to
2519 Martin Wilck for the patch. I didn't apply the <ol> patch, because this
2520 is no real problem, just a problem of a bad standard.
2521 * Fixed gui editor *bgcolor crash.
2522 * Support/Fix tableclass attr with gui editor.
2525 * Moved back UserPreferences action link from menu to top of page (renaming
2526 it to "Preferences"), added "Cancel" button to make it possible to return
2527 to the previous page without saving preferences.
2528 * Removed formatter.url "attrs" keyword arg that took premade html, we use
2529 separate kw args per attribute now.
2530 * Moved broken tests to MoinMoin/_tests/broken (= disabling them).
2531 All "active" tests run ok now.
2532 If you want to compare, I included the output of this test run:
2533 $ make test >tests/make_test.out
2539 * HINT: please read README.migration
2540 * Login and Logout are actions now, therefore you stay on the page where
2542 * UserPreferences is also an action now and moved from top border (in
2543 modern theme) to the "more actions" dropdown menu. You also stay on the
2545 * There is also a [[Login]] macro now. You can put it on any page you want
2546 and if the user is not logged in, it renders the login form. If the user
2547 is logged in, it doesn't render anything.
2548 * We check cfg.superuser to be a list of user names (as documented) and
2549 deny superuser access if it is not. This avoids security issues by
2550 wrong configuration.
2551 * auth methods changed:
2552 HINT: if you wrote own auth methods, please change them as you see in
2553 MoinMoin/auth.py and test them again before relying on them.
2554 * now get a user_obj kw argument that is either a user object returned
2555 from a previous auth method or None (if no user has been made up yet).
2556 The auth method should either return a user object (if it has
2557 determined one) or what it got as user_obj (being "passive") or None
2558 (if it wants to "veto" some user even if a previous method already has
2559 made up some user object).
2560 * return value of continue_flag is now True in most cases (except if
2561 it wants to "veto" and abort).
2562 * moin_cookie auth method now logs out a user by deleting the cookie and
2563 setting user_obj.valid = 0. This makes it possible to still get the
2564 user's name in subsequent auth method calls within the same request.
2565 * added ldap_login and smb_mount auth methods, see MoinMoin/auth.py and
2566 wiki/config/more_samples/ldap_smb_farmconfig.py
2567 * MonthCalendar now takes an additional argument for specifying a template
2568 to use to directly invoke the page editor when clicking on non-existing
2570 * Added ImageLink macro. Thanks to Jeff Kunce, Marcin Zalewski, Reimar
2571 Bauer and Chong-Dae Park for working on it.
2572 * Lupy stuff (still experimental, partly broken and disabled by default):
2573 * Attachment search using lupy (lupy_search = 1 in your config)
2574 Title search will also search attachment filenames.
2575 Full text search will also search attachment contents.
2577 Some filters depend on external converters that might not be available
2578 for any platform (see Depends: line in filter plugin).
2579 Feel free to contribute more filter plugins, especially if you wrote
2580 some nice platform independant filter in Python for some popular file
2581 format! Filters implemented so far (depending on):
2582 MS Word, RTF, MS Excel (antiword, catdoc)
2584 OpenOffice.org XML based data formats (-)
2587 JPEG's EXIF data (-)
2589 * As you might know, Lupy is "retired" (that means it isn't developped
2590 by its authors any more). We are currently evaluating Xapian as new
2591 indexing search engine in moin.
2592 If we succeed, we will replace Lupy stuff by some Xapian interface
2594 But: the filters will likely stay, as we also need them with Xapian.
2596 * A new MoinMoin script interface was introduced:
2598 Syntax: moin [options] <cmdmodule> <cmdname> [options]
2601 moin --config-dir=/my/cfgdir --wiki-url=wiki.example.org/ \
2602 export dump --page=WikiSandBox
2604 This will call the "moin" script, which will use the --config-dir and
2605 --wiki-url options to initialize, then it will go to MoinMoin.script
2606 module, import the export.dump module from there and run it, providing
2607 the additional --page value to it.
2609 The old scripts that have not been migrated to this new interface can
2610 still be found in MoinMoin/script/old/ - including the old migration
2612 * moin ... account create --name=JoeDoe --email=joe@doe.org
2613 * moin ... account disable --name=JoeDoe
2614 * moin ... acount check <-- this is what usercheck script was before
2615 * moin ... maint cleancache <-- this is what cachecleaner script was
2616 * moin ... maint cleanpage <-- this is what pagescleaner script was
2619 * cookie_lifetime didn't work comfortable for low values. The cookie was
2620 created once on login and never updated afterwards. So you got logged
2621 out cookie_lifetime hours later, no matter whether you were active at
2622 that time or not. This has been changed, we update the cookie expiry now
2623 on every request, so it will expire cookie_lifetime after your last
2624 request (not after login).
2625 * Fixed logout problems when using cfg.cookie_path.
2626 * Fixed cookie_path for root url wikis.
2627 * Lupy search now behaves a bit less funky. Still no guarantees...
2628 * We lowered the twisted server timeout to 2 minutes now (was: 10) because
2629 it just used up too many files (open TCP connections until it timeouts)
2631 * The algorithm used for processing the farmconfig.wikis list was changed
2632 to work for big farms (>= 50 wikis), too. This works around the python
2633 "re" module limitation of having a maximum of 100 named groups in a RE.
2634 * Fixed a TypeError which occurred for formatters that dislike None values.
2636 * Fixed GUI editor converter error for https:... image URLs.
2637 * ThemeBase (use by modern/rightsidebar): removed duplicate AttachFile from
2638 actions menu (we already have it in editbar).
2639 * Speedup group/dicts scanning for persistent servers.
2640 * Implemented HEAD requests for standalone server, this should fix some of
2641 the strange effects happening when using "Save as" on attachments.
2642 * Not a moin bug, but rather a workaround for non-standard non-ASCII DNS
2643 hostnames: we just use the IP instead of crashing now.
2644 * Spurious cyclic usage error in i18n fixed.
2645 * Fixed antispam for python 2.5a xmlrpclib.
2646 * I18n for linenumber toggle in listings.
2647 * All action menu entries are translatable now.
2650 * Added css classes for the rst admonitions. Thanks to TiagoMacambira!
2655 * Added FullSearchCached macro which is statically cached.
2656 Use it if you do not depend on fresh search results but prefer raw speed.
2657 * Added surge protection, see HelpOnConfiguration/SurgeProtection.
2658 * Allow hex and symbolic entities.
2659 * If there is a user with empty password, we just generate a random one
2660 when he requests it getting sent by mail. Thanks to Reimar Bauer.
2661 * The superuser now can switch to another user using UserPreferences -
2662 nice to help your users when they forgot their password or need other
2663 help. You need to logout/relogin to use your own userid afterwards.
2664 This function only works correctly if you use moin_cookie authentication.
2665 Thanks to Reimar Bauer.
2666 * Add new markup for bulletless lists: just use a "." instead of "*".
2669 * Added "voyager" to bot useragent list.
2670 * Added locking for caching subsystem.
2671 * Deron Meranda's formatter API cleanup.
2672 * Added div and span to formatter API.
2673 * Removed old unfinished form and export code.
2677 * Fixed table attribute parsing.
2678 * Fixed cookie handling wrt properties adherance.
2679 * The new "." list markup makes it possible to have a bulletless list with
2680 elements on the same level. Before this change and only using indentation
2681 with blanks, that would get merged into a single paragraph.
2682 * It is possible now to have multiple paragraphs in the same list element,
2683 just leave an empty line in between the paragraphs.
2684 * Fixed GAP processing for ordered lists.
2685 * Fix text_gedit formatter's invalid list nesting.
2686 * Fixed hr crash in blockquote (but needs more work).
2687 * Fixed FootNote's formatter usage.
2688 * Fixed rst's headline levels.
2691 * Fixed that macros were followed by a wrong <p>.
2692 * Added <blockquote> to the block elements in the text_html formatter,
2693 so it does not close it erratically when you close a inner <p>.
2694 * GUI editor converter now also accept http: urls without // (relative or
2696 * Fixed the DocBook parser in cases where the pagename was non-ascii.
2703 * Fixed rst parser docutils version check
2704 * Repaired attachment unzipping feature.
2705 * Fixed the AddRevision command of the PackageInstaller.
2706 * improved the migration scripts (used to migrate pre-1.3 wikis to 1.3+):
2707 * do not crash on empty lines in event log
2708 * fix edit log format for very old moin data (like 0.11)
2709 * workaround for an ugly win32 operating system bug leading to wiki text
2710 file mtime not matching edit logs timestamp values if there was some
2711 timezone change since last edit (e.g. a daylight saving tz switch),
2712 but differing 3600s.
2713 This affected pre-1.3 moin wiki servers running on win32 OS only.
2714 We now try to correct those inconsistencies in mig05 by fuzzy matching.
2715 * fixed bracketed link scheme icon (css class)
2716 * we included a modified copy of Python 2.4.2's copy.py as some previous
2717 python versions seem to have problems (2.3.x, x < 5 and also 2.4[.0]),
2719 Our own copy.py was slightly modified to run on 2.3.x and 2.4.x.
2720 * Fixed the problem of not being able to change the date/time format back
2721 to "Default" (UserPreferences).
2722 * We generate the GUI editor footer now the same way as the text editor
2724 * Include a CSS workaround for yet another IE bug, see:
2725 MoinMoinBugs:InternetExplorerPeekABooBugInRightSideBar
2726 * classic theme: added GUI editor link
2727 * classic theme: added pagename header to editor screen
2728 * the "mail enabled" check now also checks whether mail_from is set
2731 * Updated FCKeditor to current CVS (2006-01-08 == 2.2+)
2732 * Split up show_hosts into show_hosts and show_names
2733 * attachment:file%20with%20spaces.txt in attachment list
2734 * added support for file:// in GUI editor link dialogue, see also:
2736 * cfg.mail_smarthost now supports "server:port" syntax, the default port
2738 * removed unused kwargs showpage/editable/form from wikiutil.send_footer
2739 * updated i18n (translation texts, additional languages)
2740 * removed interwiki:pagename from print view's top of page, added it to
2741 the "lasted edited" line at bottom right.
2745 HINT: 1.5.0 uses the same data/pages format as 1.3.x. The only thing you want
2746 to check is whether the 1.5.x version you are upgrading to has NEW mig
2747 scripts compared to the version you are running now (e.g. in 1.3.5 we
2748 added some scripts that fixed some small problems).
2749 See the MoinMoin/scripts/migration/ directory.
2750 You must run every mig script in sequence and only ONCE ever.
2752 * Fix <x=y> table attributes parsing. Thanks to Reimar Bauer.
2753 * Fixed a few bugs in the reStructured text parser. Note that you
2754 need to install docutils 0.3.10 or newer (snapshot from December 2005
2755 or newer) to make reStructuring parsing work:
2756 * Case preservation for anonymous links
2757 * MoinMoin links get the appropriate CSS class
2758 * Images do not get special CSS markup anymore
2759 Thanks to Matthew Gilbert.
2760 * Fixed a bug in the WSGI code which led to incorrect exception handling.
2761 * Removed all nationality flags. They used to be used for indicating some
2762 specific language (NOT nationality) and this was simply wrong and a bad
2764 * Fixed some header rendering issues (CSS).
2765 * SystemAdmin macro now checks against cfg.superuser list.
2768 * Added turkish i18n. To be considered as alpha as it got in last minute.
2772 This is the first release candidate of MoinMoin 1.5.0.
2775 * fixed broken logs when a DeletePage (maybe also RenamePage) comment
2776 contained CR/LF characters (could happen when using copy&paste)
2777 * fixed GUI editor MoinEditorBackup page containing HTML instead of wiki
2779 * fixed invalid HTML in FootNotes
2780 * fixed HTML source in EditorBackup after canceling GUI editor
2781 * Footnotes of included pages are not shown at the bottom of the including page.
2782 * Bug in Dict handling that often breaks first entry
2786 * Added SSO module for PHP based apps. Currently supported: eGroupware 1.2.
2787 No need to login in two systems anymore - MoinMoin will read the PHP session
2791 * Improved rendering of bullet lists and external links in Restructured text.
2792 Thanks to Matthew Gilbert.
2793 * Fixed modern theme rendering, including some fixes and workarounds for
2795 * When checking for email uniqueness, do not compare with disabled user
2797 * Fix sending of HTTP headers for Despam action.
2798 * Add some margin left and right of the link icons.
2801 * Made it easier for auth methods needing a user interface (like ldap or
2802 mysql stuff). Unlike http auth, they usually need some "login form".
2803 We made UserPreferences login form values (name, password, login, logout)
2804 available as kw args of the auth method, so it is easy and obvious now.
2805 * Make login and logout show at the same place. Is only shown when
2806 show_login is True (default).
2807 * Disabled login using &uid=12345.67.8910 method. Please use name/password.
2808 * Made builtin moin_cookie authentication more modular: the cookie is now
2809 touched by MoinMoin.auth.moin_cookie only, with one minor discomfort:
2810 When creating a user, you are not automatically logged in any more.
2811 * We now use the packager for additional help and system pages in all other
2812 languages except English. The packages are attached to SystemPagesSetup
2813 page and can be installed from there after getting "superuser" powers.
2814 The "extra" package contains a collection of orphan pages not listed on
2815 some SystemPagesIn<Language>Group page.
2820 * Fixed a minor user interface bug: it showed RenamePage and DeletePage
2821 actions in the menu if you only had write rights and then complained
2822 when you really tried when you had no delete rights additionally.
2823 * We don't remove RenamePage and DeletePage from menu any more if user is
2824 unknown. This stuff is only driven by ACLs now.
2825 * Some fixes to Despam action.
2826 * Fixed moin_dump (broken by some recent theme init change).
2827 * Fixed a few tests by moving the theme init from moin_dump to RequestCLI.
2828 * removed old_onload reference from infobox.js
2829 * Fixed MoinMoin logo for IE.
2830 * search: fixed whitespace handling in linkto: search terms
2831 * Increased stability of the tests system by outputting results to sys.stdout
2832 instead of request. Note that this changes the semantics for e.g. mod_py or
2834 * Fixed packaging system in the case of AddRevision that does not alter the page.
2835 * Fixed a few bugs in the XML formatters (dom_xml, text_xml, xml_docbook).
2836 * Fixed link icons. We now just use a.xxx.before where xxx is the link scheme,
2837 e.g. a.http.before. See theme's common.css.
2838 * Hopefully fixed some issue with non-ASCII attachment filenames.
2839 * Workaround for Opera 8.5 making silly "No addition" categories.
2840 * Do not show GUI editor for non-wiki format pages, because we only have a
2841 converter from html to wiki right now.
2842 * Fix the modern CSS issues for editbar, when it shifted content far right.
2843 Also removed the absolute height value that never was right.
2844 * Fix mod_python adaptor bugs failing to handle Location correctly.
2845 See: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=339543
2848 * Added irc:// to the builtin supported link schemas. You can remove it
2849 from config.url_schemas in case you have patched it in there.
2850 * Added cfg.user_autocreate (default: False). Use True to enable user
2851 profile autocreation, e.g. when you use http authentication, so your
2852 externally authenticated users don't need to create their moin profile
2853 manually. The auth method (see cfg.auth list) must check this setting
2854 if it supports auto creation.
2855 * Added user_autocreate support for auth.http and auth.sslclientcert.
2856 * Added "." and "@" to allowed characters in usernames. This is needed
2857 e.g. when using mod_pubcookie for authentication. mod_pubcookie returns
2858 userids like "geek@ANDREW.CMU.EDU" (e.g. the Kerberos domain is part of
2859 the id). Thanks to Brian E. Gallew for his patch, which we used for
2860 inspiration for user autocreation changes.
2861 * Changed auth method to return a tuple (user_obj, continue_flag), see
2862 comments in auth.py.
2863 * auth methods now create user objects with kw args auth_method and
2864 auth_attribs, so that moin knows later how the user was authenticated
2865 and which user object attributes were determined by the auth method.
2866 * Added MoinMoin/scripts/import/IrcLogImporter.py to import supybot's
2867 IRC logs into a moin wiki. We use MonthCalendar compatible page names,
2868 so you can use the calendar for showing / navigating the logs.
2869 * Removed packager binary from FCKeditor (fixing a Debian policy problem).
2870 * Worked around .png transparency bugs of IE with the new logo. We ship
2871 two logos: moinmoin.png without an alpha channel (IE compatible) and
2872 moinmoin_alpha.png which has an alpha channel and looks better on
2873 browsers with full .png support.
2874 * Allow a .zip file to have a directory in it if it is the only one.
2878 * use <span class="anchor"> instead of <a> for line-xxx anchors, this
2879 fixes some rendering problems on IE
2880 * Fixed the ReStructured text parser when it was used with non-HTML
2881 formatters. Increased compatiblity with new docutils code.
2882 (Thanks to Matt Gilbert.)
2884 * cfg.stylesheets = [] (default). You can use this on wiki or farm level
2885 to emit stylesheets after the theme css and before the user prefs css.
2886 The list entries must be ('screen', '/where/ever/is/my.css') style.
2887 * Added sample code for auth using an external cookie made by some other
2888 program. See contrib/auth_externalcookie/*. You need to edit it to
2889 fit whatever cookie you want to use.
2893 * fixed editor preview throwing away page content for new pages
2894 * require POST for userform save and create* action
2895 * use request.normalizePagename() while collecting pagelinks
2896 * do not offer gui editor for safari
2898 * tell user if account is disabled
2899 * added support for linking to .ico and .bmp
2900 * attachment methods for the text_xml and xml_docbook formatters
2902 * updated i18n (fixed nl, did nobody notice this?) and underlay
2903 * changed show_interwiki default to 0
2908 * fix gui editor (converter) crash on save
2911 * Avoid destroying existing page content if editor is called with
2912 template parameter for an existing page.
2913 * fix countdown javascript for browser status line in editor
2914 * added page title display for editor
2915 * added header div for classic theme
2917 Authentication and related:
2918 * Added a WhoAmI.py wiki xmlrpc plugin to check whether auth works
2919 correctly for xmlrpc. There is a counterpart script WhoAmI.py that
2920 uses http auth when calling the xmlrpc plugin, so you can use it to
2924 * Requirements changed to require Python >= 2.3. We recommend that
2925 you use the latest Python release you can get. The reason we
2926 dropped 2.2.2 support is because no developer or tester uses this
2927 old version any more, so incompatibilities crept in the code
2928 without anybody noticing. Using some recent Python usually is no
2929 real problem, see there for some hints in case you still run an
2930 old python: http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/NewPythonOnOldLinux
2931 The hint also does apply to other POSIX style operating systems,
2933 * We recommend you use MoinMoin/scripts/cachecleaner.py to clean the
2934 wiki's cache (see comments at top of the script).
2935 The cache will automatically be rebuilt (some operations may take
2936 some time when first being used, e.g. linkto: search, so be patient!).
2939 * there is a file CHANGES.config with just the recently changed stuff
2942 * page_front_page old: u"FrontPage" new: u"HelpOnLanguages"
2943 please just read the help page in case you see it :)
2944 * bang_meta old: 0 new: 1
2945 * show_section_numbers old: 1 new: 0
2946 * some regexes that used to be [a-z]Uxxxx$ are now [a-z0-9]Uxxxx$
2947 * navi_bar has no page_front_page as first element any more
2948 * removed settings and code [new behaviour]:
2950 * allow_extended_names [1]
2951 * allow_numeric_entities [1]
2953 * allow_subpages [1]
2955 * cfg.mail_sendmail = "/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i" can be used if sending
2956 via SMTP doesn't work on your server. Default is None and that means
2958 * language_default replaces the old default_lang setting (just renamed).
2959 * language_ignore_browser = True can be used to let moin ignore the
2960 user's browser settings (e.g. if you run a local-language only wiki
2961 and your users use misconfigured or buggy browsers often). Default is
2962 False. Don't forget to set language_default when using this.
2964 * Wiki Editor changes / new WYSIWYG editor
2965 * fully imported the javascript based LGPLed FCKeditor (many thanks
2966 to Fred CK for his great work). See http://fckeditor.net/ for details.
2967 * config for FCKeditor is at wiki/htdocs/applets/moinfckeditor.js
2968 * added cfg.interwiki_preferred (default = []) to set a list of wikis to
2969 show at the top of the wiki selection list when inserting an
2970 interwiki link (just use the same wiki name as in interwiki
2971 map). If the last list item is None, then the preferred wikis
2972 will not be followed by the entries of the interwiki map.
2973 * moved save/preview/... buttons to the top so that they can be
2975 * reduced edit_rows default to 20 lines
2976 * Added support for edit by doubleclick in the diff view
2978 * Improved wiki farm support
2979 * make user files sharable between several wikis in a farm
2980 * allow/use interwiki subscriptions
2981 * use interwiki links in page trail
2982 * save bookmark per wiki name
2983 * cfg.cookie_domain can be used to set a cookie valid for a complete
2984 domain (default: None == only for this host). If you use '.domain.tld',
2985 the cookie will be valid for all hosts *.domain.tld - good for host
2987 * cfg.cookie_path can be used to set a cookie valid for a wiki farm under
2988 some base path (default: None == only for this wiki's path). If you use
2989 '/wikifarm', the cookie will be valid for all wikis
2990 server.tld/wikifarm/* - good for path based wiki farms.
2991 * Interwiki user homepage (if you have MANY users)
2992 Generated links for usernames are interwiki now, use cfg.user_homewiki
2993 (default: 'Self') to specify in which wiki the user home pages are
2994 located. Note: when pointing this to another wiki, the /MoinEditorBackup
2995 functionality will be disabled.
2996 @SIG@ also uses interwiki when needed.
2998 * Authentication, ACLs and related
2999 * Modular authentication: cfg.auth is a list of functions that return a
3000 valid user or None, use it like this:
3001 from MoinMoin.auth import http, moin_cookie
3002 auth = [http, moin_cookie]
3003 * cfg.auth_http_enabled was removed, please use cfg.auth instead.
3004 * http auth now supports "Negotiate" scheme, too
3005 * Added sslclientcert auth method (Apache: untested, Twisted: not
3006 implemented, IIS: no idea). See MoinMoin/auth.py for details.
3007 Submit a patch if you have improvements.
3008 * cfg.superuser is a list of unicode usernames. It is used by some
3009 critical operations like despam action or PackageInstaller.
3010 * removed allowed_actions, we now use actions_excluded only and it
3011 defaults to [], that means, no action is excluded, everything is
3012 allowed (limited by ACLs). In case of RenamePage and DeletePage,
3013 this shouldn't be a problem as both can be reverted. In case you
3014 did not allow attachments, you now have to use:
3015 actions_excluded = ['AttachFile']
3016 * special users (All, Known, Trusted) in Groups are now supported
3017 * MoinMoin.security.autoadmin SecurityPolicy added
3018 When using this security policy, a user will get admin rights on his
3019 homepage (where pagename == username) and its sub pages. This is needed
3020 for the MyPages action, but can also get used for manual ACL changes.
3021 It can also be used for Project page auto admin functionality, see the
3022 comments in the script for details.
3023 Further it can automatically create the user's group pages when the
3024 user saves his homepage.
3025 * there is a UpdateGroup xmlrpc call, see MoinMoin/xmlrpc/UpdateGroup.py -
3026 you can use this to update your *Group pages e.g. when generating them
3027 from an external group database.
3029 * UserPreferences changes
3030 * Alias name: is used for display purposes, when "name" is cryptic. It is
3031 shown e.g. in the title attribute of userid links (displayed when
3032 moving the mouse over it).
3033 * "Publish my email (not my wiki homepage) in author info" - use this
3034 if you don't have a wiki homepage, but if you want to be contactable
3035 by email. When you edit a page, your email address will be published
3036 as mailto: link on RecentChanges, at bottom of page (last editor) and
3037 in page info. If the wiki runs publically on the internet, be careful
3038 using this or your email address might be collected by spammers.
3039 * Preferred Editor: whether you want to use the text editor (as in
3040 previous moin versions), the gui editor (new!) or both (you will get
3041 2 edit links in that case).
3042 * a user can add/remove the current page to/from his quicklinks with an
3043 appropriate action now
3044 * if cfg.user_email_unique = False, we don't require user's email
3045 addresses to be unique
3046 * removed show_fancy_links user preferences setting to simplify code and
3047 caching. Displaying those icons is now done by CSS styles (see
3048 common.css). Maybe needs fixing for non-standard themes and RTL langs.
3051 * added strikethrough markup: --(striked through text here)--
3052 * @ME@ expands to just the plain username (no markup added) on save
3055 * when a user accesses his own non-existing homepage (pagename ==
3056 username), the wiki will present the MissingHomePage system page
3057 content, explaining what a user homepage is good for and offer
3058 one-click editing it with content loaded from HomepageTemplate
3059 * creation of homepage subpages is assisted by the MyPages action, which
3060 offers rw, ro page creation (and a related group) or creation of private
3061 pages. If you are not in the user_homewiki, you will get redirected
3064 Other changes/new features:
3065 * Added PackageInstaller and unzipping support (see wiki page
3066 HelpOnActions/AttachFile for further details). PackageInstaller requires
3067 the user to be in cfg.superuser list.
3068 * Added an PackagePages action to simplify the package creation.
3069 * Added location breadcrumbs - when you are on some subpage, the page
3070 title parts link to the corresponding parent pages, the last part does
3071 the usual reverse linking.
3072 * added WSGI server support, thanks to Anakim Border, see:
3073 wiki/server/moinwsgi.py (moin as WSGI app, uses the flup WSGI server,
3074 see http://www.saddi.com/software/flup/)
3075 MoinMoin/server/wsgi.py (adaptor code)
3076 * added a "Despam" action to make de-spamming a wiki easy (mass revert
3077 bad changes done by a single author or bot). You need to be in
3078 cfg.superuser to use it.
3079 * Better diffs with links to anchors to the changed places
3080 * Enhanced table support in the DocBook formatter.
3081 * Added 'moin' daemon script, that let you run moin standalone
3082 server as daemon and control the server with simple command line
3083 intreface: moin start | stop | restart | kill
3084 * Add 'restart' option to mointwisted script
3085 * Add properties option to standalone server config. Allow
3086 overriding any request property like in other server types.
3087 * Add support for running behind proxy out of the box with out
3089 See HelpOnConfiguration/IntegratingWithApache
3090 * added a WikiBackup action, configure it similar to this:
3091 data_dir = "/path/to/data"
3092 backup_include = [data_dir, ] # you can add other dirs here
3093 backup_users = ["BackupUserName", ] # only TRUSTED users!
3094 You usually don't need to change the default backup_exclude setting.
3095 The default backup_include list is EMPTY and so will be your
3096 backup in case you don't configure it correctly.
3097 If you put your data_dir there, the backup will contain private
3098 user data like email addresses and encrypted passwords.
3099 * Added a SubscribeUser action which allows the administrator to subscribe users to the
3101 * Added thread count to SystemInfo macro.
3102 * 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.
3103 * Added a RenderAsDocbook action which redirects to the DocBook formatter.
3104 * Added searching for wiki-local words lists under <data_dir>/dict/.
3105 They are used additionally to the global lists in MoinMoin/dict/.
3106 * moin_dump now also dumps attachments referenced from the page.
3107 It doesn't dump stuff that is just attached, but not referenced!
3108 * On RecentChanges we now force the comment to be breakable, this improves
3109 rendering of over-long words or on narrow browser windows - especially
3110 for themes with limited content width like rightsidebar.
3111 * We now have the "new" icon on RecentChanges clickable, just links to the
3113 * Print view now shows "interwikiname: pagename" (for show_interwiki = 1).
3115 International support:
3116 * mail_from can be now a unicode name-address
3117 e.g u'Jürgen wiki <noreply@jhwiki.org>'
3120 * logo_string is now should be really only the logo (img).
3121 If you included your wiki's name in logo_string you maybe want to remove
3122 it now as it is shown as part of the location display now anyway (if
3123 you set show_interwiki = 1).
3124 * You maybe want to remove page_front_page from your navi_bar - we link to
3125 that page now from the logo and (new, if you set show_interwiki = 1) from
3126 the interwiki name displayed in location display, so you maybe don't need
3127 it in navi_bar, too.
3128 * If you have a custom theme, you should / may:
3129 * sync modern/css/screen.css #pagelocation #pagetrail stuff to your
3130 screen.css or pagelocation display (title()) will look strange (like a
3132 * remove "#title h1 ..." CSS (or any other CSS assuming h1 is a page
3133 title and not just a first level heading), it is not used any more.
3134 * we now render = heading = as <h1> (was <h2> before 1.5),
3135 == heading == as <h2> (was <h3>), etc.
3136 * maybe move both title() and trail() to header area, like the builtin
3138 * there is a new interwiki() base theme method that optionally (if
3139 show_interwiki = 1) shows the interwiki name of this wiki and links to
3140 page_front_page. The css for it is #interwiki.
3143 * Plugin API was improved. When plugin module is missing,
3144 wikiutil.PluginMissingError is raised. When trying to import a
3145 missing name from a plugin module, wikiutil.PluginMissingError is
3146 raised. You must update any code that use wikiutil.importPlugin.
3147 Errors in your plugin should raise now correct tracebacks. See
3148 http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/ErrorHandlingInPlugins
3149 * pysupport.importName was changed, it does not check for any
3150 errors when trying to import a name from a module. The calling
3151 code should check for ImportError or AttributeError. Previous
3152 code used to hide all errors behind None.
3153 * Its easier now to customize the editbar by overriding
3154 editbarItems() in your theme, and returning a list of items to
3155 display in the editbar. To change a single editbar link, override
3156 one of the xxxLink methods in your theme.
3159 * request.formatter (html) is available for actions now
3160 * theme API's d['page_home_page'] is gone (sorry) and replaced by
3161 d['home_page'] which is either None or tuple (wikiname,pagename).
3162 It is better to use the base classes function for username/prefs anyway.
3163 * introduced cfg.hacks for internal use by development, see comment in
3164 multiconfig.py and file HACKS.
3165 * added IE7 (v0.9) from Dean Edwards (see http://dean.edwards.name/IE7/) -
3166 that should fix quite some IE bugs and annoyances (on Win32).
3167 * for enabling IE7, use cfg.hacks = { 'ie7': True }
3168 * reducewiki now also copies all attachments (we use that to make underlay
3169 directory from moinmaster wiki's data_dir)
3172 * Fixed a typo in xslt.py which led to a traceback instead of an
3173 error message in case of disabled XSLT support.
3174 * Fixed crash in twisted server if twisted.internet.ssl is not
3176 * Fixed wrong decoding of query string, enable wiki/?page_name urls
3177 with non ascii page names.
3178 * Fixed wrong display of non ascii attachments names in
3179 RecentChanges and page revision history.
3180 * Fixed a crash when trying to run standalone server on non posix os.
3181 * Fixed highlight of misspelled words in Check Spelling action.
3182 * Fixed case insensitivity problems on darwin (Mac OS X). See
3184 * Added RecentChanges (only the english one) to the pages getting
3185 html_head_index headers
3186 * text_html cache files written with this code will invalidate themselves
3187 if they detect to be older than the wikiconfig. Note: you should remove
3188 all old text_html cache files once after upgrading, they will then be
3189 rebuilt automatically with the new code.
3191 * Fixed the word_rule: a word like AAAbbAbb isn't teared into two parts
3192 any more (was: AA<link>AbbAbb</link>)
3193 * Fixed false positive InterWiki markup for languages like Finnish.
3194 InterWiki links are only rendered if the left side has an appropriate
3195 entry in the interwiki map, otherwise it is rendered as simple text.
3196 * Fixed unicode error when uploding non-ascii file name using mod
3198 * Fixed error handling of wikirpc requests, should give more
3199 correct errors and prevent no error output and blocking the
3200 client in some cases.
3201 * Fixed the "lost password" mail processing. If a user entered some email
3202 address unknown to the system, he was not notified of this, but just got
3203 a useless mail with no account data in it. Now the system directly tells
3204 the user that he entered an unknown email address.
3205 * Fixed SystemInfo, it now also lists parsers in data/plugin/parser dir.
3206 * Fix error handling on failure, improved error display
3207 * Fix error handling when importing plugins or importing modules
3208 dynamically. The fix is not backward compatible with older plugins.
3209 * Fix chart action, returns a page with error message when chart
3211 * Fixed formatter usage in the ShowSmileys macro.
3212 * Fixed updating pagelinks cache for [:page:text] or [wiki:Self:page text],
3213 fixes display of LocalSiteMap and rendering of such links.
3214 * Hopefully fixed urllib problems (esp. with py 2.4.2, but also before) by
3215 using our own urllib wrapper that handles encoding/decoding to/from
3216 unicode, see wikiutil.py. Also made a similar fix for making and parsing
3218 * Fixed MonthCalendar tooltips when containing special chars like quotes.
3219 * Added html escaping for diff text for RSS feed with diff=1.
3220 * The distance between page content beginning and the first = heading =
3221 was much too much. Fixed.
3225 We used that version number for an internal and early development version
3226 for what will be called moin 2.0 at some time in the future.
3227 There will never be a 1.4.x release.
3230 Version 1.3.5 (2005-08-04, Revision moin--main--1.3--patch-883)
3233 * small CSS fix for rightsidebar theme
3234 * applied some Debian patches (thanks to Jonas!):
3235 * de i18n spelling fixes
3236 * AttachFile fix, we strip CR in .draw files now
3237 * when loading spellcheck dictionaries, we want utf-8, but we make
3238 a 2nd try with iso-8859-1 encoding.
3242 * enabled using https with the Twisted server:
3243 You need to use port 443, have PyOpenSSL (+ ssl libs it depends on)
3244 installed and have some site key and certificate PEM files configured in
3245 your twistedmoin.py file:
3246 sslcert = ('/whereever/cert/sitekey.pem', '/whereever/cert/sitecert.pem')
3249 Version 1.3.5rc1 (2005-07-31, Revision moin--main--1.3--patch-865)
3253 * Fixed security bug when acl of deleted page was ignored. See:
3255 * AttachFile did not display the original filename plus there
3256 was a confusion in input field labelling ('Rename to').
3257 * Fixed shortcut link non-existent page detection.
3258 * Fixed non-working bookmark function on python 2.2.x.
3259 * Fixed wikirpc getPageInfo call on python 2.2.x.
3260 * Fixed the failing import of plugins from the data/plugin/
3261 directories if run in zipimport environments.
3262 * Fixed traceback which occurred on negated searches.
3263 * Fixed crash when trying to render error message on twisted, fast
3265 * Fixed error message with modpy, used to show wrong errors below
3267 * Fixed search and goto text fields for better compatibility with
3268 dark themes and better control through css.
3269 * Show an edit link if MissingPage is missing and a warning in the
3271 * Fixed missing footer in the editor.
3272 * Fixed indented (invalid) headings with broken links in table of
3274 * Fixed crash when file name is too long, show standard error message.
3275 * Save trail file in a safe way, should be enough for normal use.
3276 * Fixed remember_last_visit user preferences option when show_trail
3278 * Fixed the tests for Standalone, Twisted, FastCGI and Mod_Python.
3279 Run with ?action=test from any page.
3280 * Fixed rare bug when wrong search type was performed when pasting
3281 search term in Safari.
3282 * Fixed crash for custom formatters and dom_xml (which occurred if
3283 smileys were in the page).
3284 * Editor opens on double click in pages with single quote in the
3285 name, like "Ben's Wiki".
3286 * '/.' in page names are not replaced any more by '/(2e)'
3287 * Fixed the long delays while saving pages using RequestCLI.
3288 * Fixed variable expanding for users with non WikiName.
3289 * Fixed MonthCalendar's calculation of "today" to use the user's
3291 * Fixed moin_dump script, use same configuration options as other
3293 * Fixed url_mappings to work in proxied setups and sent mails
3294 again. Also fixed for image links. Thanks to JohannesBerg.
3295 * Fixed page shown after saving a drawing (esp. when saved from a
3296 sub page). Fixed help link for drawings.
3297 * Fixed mig10 script to run on Python < 2.3.
3298 * The twisted server defaulted to a socket timeout of 12 hours!
3299 We reduced that to a more sane 10 minutes, that should still be more
3300 than enough. This fixed the "too many open files" problem we
3301 encountered quite often recently. Thanks to Helmut Grohne!
3306 * Added cz, pt and pt-br i18n.
3307 * We send a 404 http status code for nonexisting wiki pages now,
3308 maybe this will repell some search engines from requesting gone
3309 pages again and again. The wiki user still sees the MissingPage
3310 wiki stuff, so a user usually won't notice this change.
3311 * Return 500 error code on failure and exceptions.
3312 * Added some more bot / leech tool user agent strings.
3313 * Prevent page floating elements from floating out of the page over
3314 the footer, in modern, rightsidebar and classic themes.
3315 * Encode URLs in a safer way
3316 * We allow usernames with ' character in them now (like Tim O'Brian).
3317 * Added support for the new security flags in docutils 0.3.9.
3318 * @MAILTO@ expands now to safer [[MailTo()]] macro.
3319 * Clarified and i18ned lost password mails.
3320 * Added 'TitleIndex' and 'SiteNavigation' (+ translation) to the
3321 list of pages that use html_head_index (so that robots
3322 "index,follow"). Please make sure to have either FindPage,
3323 TitleIndex or SiteNavigation in your navi_bar or in your
3324 page_front_page content if you want search engines to find all
3326 * Make it possible to send account data when being logged in (for
3327 future reference or whatever purpose).
3328 * Speed up when running with persistent servers, the wiki config
3329 does only get loaded once and misc. stuff is being cached between
3331 * The unit tests are disabled when using multi threading, because
3332 the wiki configuration is shared between diffrent threads.
3333 * The main code path (using standalone server) of MoinMoin runs on
3335 * Formatters do automatically transform HTML to plain text if they are
3336 called with raw HTML code.
3337 * Using larger socket backlog on Standalone and FastCGI servers
3338 should be more reliable on high load.
3339 * We now strip leading path from attachments uploaded by IE (this is
3340 a bug in IE, not in MoinMoin). Better use a sane browser, like Firefox.
3341 * added "teleport" to the user agent blacklist
3345 * Integrated Lupy indexer for better search performance. It is disabled
3346 by default as of 1.3.5 as it still has known issues.
3347 See multiconfig.py if you want to test it.
3348 * Integrated MonthCalendar 2.1, with some new features:
3349 * a mouseover bubble that shows first level headlines of the linked
3351 * all calendars with same pagename move when using cal navigation,
3352 thanks to Oliver Graf
3353 * included AnnualMonthlyCalendar patch of Jonathan Dietrich
3354 (use [[MonthCalendar(Yearly,,,+1,,6,1)]] syntax for birthdays and
3355 other annually repeating stuff)
3356 Make sure you remove old MonthCalendar.* from data/plugin/macro so that
3357 moin will use the new code in MoinMoin/macro/MonthCalendar.py.
3358 Maybe also clear the text_html cache.
3359 * Added the new XSLT parser and the DocBook parser. This should increase
3360 the 4suite compatiblity. See HelpOnXmlPages for details.
3361 It now should run on 4suite 1.0a4 and 1.0b1. Thanks to Henry Ho!
3362 * Added the DocBook formatter. This will let you generate DocBook markup
3363 by writing simple wiki pages. It needs PyXML.
3364 * It is now possible to customize parts of the UserPreferences page in
3365 your wikiconfig (changing defaults, disabling fields, removing fields):
3366 * Use user_checkbox_* for the checkboxes.
3367 * Use user_form_* for other fields.
3368 * See MoinMoin/multiconfig.py for the built-in defaults.
3369 * New standalone server classes: ThreadPoolServer using pool of
3370 threads, ThreadingServer with thread limit and ForkingServer.
3371 * New standalone server configuration options: serverClass,
3372 threadLimit, requestQueueSize.
3373 * Use "PythonOption Location" in mod_python setup to solve script_name
3378 * Theme can now override maxPagenameLength() method to control page
3380 * A search Match now provides access to the full re match via
3381 the re_match attribute (use to access groups of the match)
3382 * Underlay is not managed by arch any more. The tree contains an
3383 underlay tarball, and you should untar after you update from main.
3384 * "make update-underlay" will untar underlay
3385 * "make merge" will star-merge main into your tree
3386 * "make test" will now create and run in a fresh testwiki instace
3387 * "make clean" options added
3388 * _tests module does not have a global request any more. To refer to
3389 the current request in a test, use self.request.
3390 * _tests.TestConfig class require a request in the constructor.
3391 * "python tests/runtests.py test_module" will run only test_module
3392 * request.cfg stays between requests (for persistent servers).
3395 Version 1.3.4 (2005-03-13, Revision moin--main--1.3--patch-666)
3399 * Fixed ACL check in LikePages macro that caused links to unreadable
3401 * Fixed ACL check in newpage action.
3402 * Fixed a security problem when admin policy defined in a custom
3403 SecurityPolicy class was ignored.
3404 * Fixed ACL check in action=show so that a user who may not read a page
3405 also can't find out WHEN the protected page was updated.
3406 * Workaround on Windows 95, 98, ME in order to clear the dircache.
3407 This fixes some bugs related to an outdated page list and newly created
3408 pages that did not appear immediately.
3409 * Fixed decoding issues of page names on Windows, finally.
3411 * Fixed traceback on IIS.
3413 * Fixed wikirpc for standalone server.
3414 * Other fixes (encoding and str/unicode data type related) to wikirpc
3415 server, fixing some non-ascii issues hopefully.
3416 * Fixed broken query strings for Standalone installations.
3417 * Fixed backlinks - the result did not always show all links, often it
3419 * Fixed the acceptance of the show_hosts setting. Now you should be able
3420 to hide any IP or host name from being published by MoinMoin by enabling
3422 * Fixed wrong line endings on email messages.
3424 * Fixed crash when trail file is missing.
3425 * Fixed a traceback when searching for single ( or ).
3426 * Added mig10 script to fix crashes with uncoverted edit-locks and file
3427 attachments. Just use it as you did with mig1..mig9 before.
3428 * Added mig11 script to add __init__.py files to data/plugin (and below).
3429 * added some fixes for the xslt parser (thanks to fanbanlo), it might be
3430 still broken, but someone with deeper knowledge about xslt should fix it.
3431 * Replaced image link with W3C's "html 4.01 compliance" icon by a simple
3432 text link to avoid https: or config trouble.
3433 * Catch OverflowError backtrace when illegal date strings (e.g. <1970 or
3434 >2038) are fed to moinmoin's time routines. It will just output current
3435 date / time in those cases.
3436 * UserPreferences now also set a date_fmt preference and Date macro
3437 honours it. You may have to reset your UserPreferences value for that.
3438 * Fixed free parent and subpage links in interwiki notation.
3440 * Fixed a traceback for invalid ReST markup.
3441 * Fixed UnicodeError in SystemAdmin's Attachment Browser.
3445 * Optimized the IRC parser.
3446 * Support for zipimport of the MoinMoin package. This allows you to use
3447 py2exe and similar programs.
3448 * Show the editor's name in the mail subject.
3449 * Added the pragmas description and keywords. They will add <meta> headers
3451 * Added MoinMoin/scripts/xmlrpc-tools/putPageTest.py example script, useful
3452 as a starting point for importing data using wiki xmlrpc.
3453 * Optimised display on Opera browser.
3457 * The search modifier "linkto:" was introduced. You can use it to search
3459 * The NewPage macro now can take a PageTemplate parameter, see HelpOnMacros.
3460 * New config settings (so you don't need to edit wikirpc.py any more):
3461 xmlrpc_putpage_enabled = 0 (if 1, enables writing to arbitrary page names)
3462 xmlrpc_putpage_trusted_only = 1 (if 0, doesn't require users to be
3463 authenticated by http auth - DANGEROUS, DO NOT SET TO 0!!!)
3464 * Added support for Digest and NTLM authentication with CGI (e.g. if you
3465 use those Apache modules)
3466 * The datetime string accepted by Date and DateTime macros was extended to
3467 accept a timezone specification, so now +/-HHMM is also valid, e.g.:
3468 2005-03-06T15:15:57Z (UTC, same as +0000)
3469 2005-03-06T15:15:57+0000 (UTC)
3470 2005-03-06T16:15:57+0100 (same time given as local time for time zone
3471 with offset +0100, that is CET, e.g. Germany)
3472 2005-03-06T10:15:57-0500 (same time given as local time for time zone
3473 with offset -0500, EST, US Eastern Std. Time)
3474 The values given as macro argument will be transformed to UTC internally
3475 and then adapted again according to viewing user's UserPreferences, so
3476 the user will see the same moment in time but shown in his local time
3477 zone's time (at least if he set his UserPreferences correctly and didn't
3478 forget changing them twice a year for DST and non-DST).
3479 * Readded (now optional) editlink footer to Include macro. Add
3480 ',editlink' to call to enable this.
3481 * star "smileys" e.g. {*}{*}{*}{o}{o}
3484 Version 1.3.3 (2005-01-24, Revision moin--main--1.3--patch-595)
3488 * fixed ACL security problem in search
3489 * fix for IIS with CGI allowing page names that contain chars
3490 that are not in the system code page
3491 * fixed MoinEditorBackup revisions to start with 1 now
3492 * improved page locking ('current' file)
3493 * Unittests (normally shown at end of action=test output) are currently
3494 disabled for everything except CGI, because they only work reliably with
3495 CGI, giving wrong results for other request methods.
3498 Version 1.3.2 (2005-01-23, Revision moin--main--1.3--patch-587)
3502 * ACL bugfix for deleted pages with ACL protection.
3503 * ACL bugfix for "Default" acl.
3504 * Fixed updating of groups and dicts
3505 * Python 2.2.x related fixes (worked on 2.3+)
3506 * Fixed traceback in RecentChanges.
3507 * Fixed traceback with links browser.
3508 * Fixed 0 revision display in 'Show changes'.
3509 * Fixed traceback in Antispam which occurred when it could not connect
3510 to MoinMaster. Log the errors to stderr or error.log.
3511 * Fixed bug in Page init (no date, use rev). Fixes problem with
3513 * Fixed empty lists in empty search results.
3514 * Cosmetic fix for modern theme (when viewed with Internet Explorer).
3515 * Fixed migration 9 script, do not drop newline, do not drop error.log,
3516 note about missing error.log.
3517 * Fixed repair_language.py script, keep ending newline on revisions.
3518 * Show headings and macro content in correct direction when mixing content
3519 in several directions in the same page and using caching.
3520 * Fixed bug in standalone re farmconfig.
3521 * Fixed DOS condition in antispam code.
3522 * Use smaller margin in print mode to get better results with
3524 * Fixed some user input escaping issues.
3525 * Fixed a problem when one wiki plugin override other wikis plugins in
3527 * Fixed some broken tests.
3528 * Fixed recursive include in pstats.
3529 * Fixed bug in standalone - HTTP result code was 200 even when the access
3531 * Fixed traceback when trying to login with non-ascii password.
3532 * Fixed traceback when xml is not available, reported on Python 2.2.?
3533 * Fixed slideshow to show slides in sorted order again.
3534 * Fixed serving multiple wikis on same IP/different ports with twisted and
3536 * It is possible to run with data_underlay_dir = None for special
3537 application, but be aware that the wiki won't be usable unless you have
3538 at least some of the system pages from underlay/ available.
3539 * Files with Unicode characters in their filename are possible now.
3540 * Bugfix for broken [:page#anchor:text] links.
3541 * Workaround an instability of the gdchart module leading to
3542 stalled servers etc.
3543 * Fixed some event-log decoding issues that affect charts rendering.
3547 * Major speed improvement over 1.3.1. Many times faster title search,
3548 creating new page, opening page editor and any operation that list pages.
3549 See http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/MoinBenchmarks
3550 * Improved README.migration.
3551 * Cleaner design for login/register interface, login is always the default
3552 button when the user click Enter.
3553 * If there are problems found in the configuration, log the error
3554 and display helpful error messages in the browser.
3555 * More forgiving unicode configuration policy, you must use the u'string'
3556 format only for unicode values.
3557 * Added profiling to CGI.
3558 * The content of farmconfig.py is similar to wikiconfig.py now.
3559 * Unexpected errors while loading cache files are logged.
3560 * i18n for icon ALT tags.
3561 * Include request initialization code in the profile in standalone server.
3562 * When creating new theme, style sheets are inherited correctly, no need
3563 to override style sheets just to get them working.
3564 * Many times faster plugin system. Typical pages are about 35% faster,
3565 pages with many plugins can be many times faster.
3566 * Spiders are allowed to fetch attachments.
3567 * Old user files containing password hash encoded in pre 1.3 charset
3568 are auto repaired on first login.
3569 * data_dir defaults to './data', underlay_data_dir to './underlay' now.
3570 It is a good idea to replace those by absolute pathes in wikiconfig.py.
3571 * Renamed "Refresh" to "Delete Cache" - it was misused by users. The action
3572 was also moved into the action menu in the modern and rightsidebar themes.
3573 * Added a workaround for TableOfContents missing some links by making it
3574 uncacheable via a "time" dependency.
3575 * Removed interwiki icon and title attribute for wiki:Self:... links.
3576 * Unittests (normally shown at end of action=test output) are currently
3577 disabled because they worked unreliably, giving wrong results sometimes.
3581 * Create new pages easily using configurable interface and page templates
3582 with the new NewPage macro.
3583 * ReStructuredText (rst) support is built-in now. See HelpOnParsers.
3584 * New experimental feature in mointwisted.py - each interface may
3585 specify a port: '12.34.56.78:80'. Without a port, the port option
3591 * wikiutil.importPlugin's first argument is now a wiki config instance
3592 (request.cfg) and there is no path keyword.
3593 * Wiki plugins always override MoinMoin plugins. wikiutil.importPlugin
3594 implements this override.
3595 * util.pysupport.importName does not accept path - you should call
3596 it with correct module name, e.g 'wikiconfig.plugin.parser.wiki' for
3597 wiki plugins, or 'MoinMoin.parser.wiki'.
3598 * wikiutil.extensionPlugin was renamed to wikiPlugins and it gets config
3599 instance instead of path.
3600 * New function wikiutil.importWikiPlugin used to import wiki plugins
3601 using a cache in a thread safe way.
3602 * New config option config.use_threads is used to activate thread
3604 * New keyword arguments for getPageList, enable 10X faster operation
3605 for common cases by controlling page filtering.
3606 * New up to 100X times faster getPageCount
3609 Version 1.3.1 (2004-12-13, Revision moin--main--1.3--patch-434)
3613 * Fixed "Error Cyclic usage" crash when user had Italian (it), Korean
3614 (ko), Serbian (sr) or Vietnamese (vi) as user interface language.
3615 * Fall back to en (instead of crashing) when user uses a language moin
3616 does not support / does not support any more (like pt,sv,fi,sr).
3617 * In 1.3.0, people accidentally put iso-8859-1 chars into wiki configs,
3618 but those where expected to be pure utf-8 and thus it crashed.
3619 Fixed by using unicode strings (varname = u'whatever'), a matching
3620 encoding setting (see top of script comment) and, when decoding strings,
3621 using decode to ASCII with replace mode (this replaces non-ASCII chars,
3622 but at least it won't crash - and you get a warning to better use
3624 * Fixed long time broken table formatting. ||<style="see css spec" a||b||
3625 Now even generates valid HTML! The old markup for align, valign, width,
3626 bgcolor still works, but synthesizes style attribute data.
3627 * SystemAdmin macro shows attachments of ALL pages now.
3628 * Users without write acl rights will be able to see attachments again and
3629 also have AttachFile action in menu.
3630 * Fixed wrong match count in search results, find all matches in page
3631 titles, show all matches in contents in some rare cases.
3632 * Run about 200% faster with long running processes (standalone, Twisted),
3633 about 20% faster with cgi, by better internal data handling in wikidicts.
3634 * On SF, the dict files use utf-8 encoding now. We included them also in
3635 distribution, see contrib/dict/.
3636 * Fixed permissions to shared template stuff.
3637 * Speeded up search, fixed wrong match counts.
3638 * Speeded up internal data handling (wikidicts).
3639 * Fixed rare unicode error after deleting a page (reported only on SuSE
3640 Linux 9.0 / Python 2.3.0).
3641 * Fixed file permissions of files in the data dir.
3642 * Fixed some cosmetic problems in migration scripts and use sys.path.insert
3643 to get latest moin code when executing them.
3647 * Improved docs, system and help pages.
3648 * Updated translation files.
3652 * Internet Explorer renders our HTML/CSS in a suboptimal way.
3654 Workaround: use a non-broken browser like FireFox / Mozilla.
3655 Fixed in MoinMoin 1.3.2.
3656 * Passwords using non-ascii do not work.
3658 * The TOC macro is broken partly.
3661 * See also: http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/MoinMoinBugs
3664 Version 1.3.0 (2004-12-06, Revision moin--main--1.3--patch-400)
3666 As you see from the length of the 1.3 changes below, 1.3 is a major(!)
3667 upgrade. We could have also named it "2.0", but we decided against.
3668 So take the time for reading the informations thoroughly and do the
3669 migration exactly as we tell you - this is no 5 minutes upgrade!
3671 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
3672 !!! We heavily changed configuration, data encoding, dir layout: !!!
3673 !!! * the default encoding changed to utf-8. !!!
3674 !!! * also, we changed the escaping for special chars to %XX%YY in !!!
3675 !!! URL and (xxyy) in file system. !!!
3676 !!! * layout of data dir changed completely !!!
3677 !!! If you upgrade an existing wiki, you must run the migration !!!
3678 !!! scripts or you will get data corruption or other problems. !!!
3679 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
3681 HINT: Upgrading your wiki - critical information
3683 If you are NOT starting from scratch, you MUST convert your existing
3684 data - see README.migration for details.
3686 If you use ##language: xx comments on your OWN pages, you should also run
3687 repair_language script. Not needed for help/system pages as we already
3688 have done that for you.
3690 MoinMoin uses Unicode internally now (UCS-2 with 16 bits or UCS-4 with
3691 32 bits, depending on your Python installation). The encoding used
3692 for page files and html output is set by config.charset.
3694 Moin 1.3 uses utf-8 encoding only, there is NO SUPPORT for using a
3695 charset different from utf-8 with 1.3. If you try, you are on your own.
3699 Directory layout was heavily changed. Each page now is a directory,
3700 containing page revisions, attachments, cache files and edit-log.
3702 You can delete a page or move a page from one wiki to another
3703 easily. Look at the wiki/data directory to see.
3706 old: data/text/FrontPage
3707 new: data/pages/FrontPage/revisions/00000042
3708 data/pages/FrontPage/current (contains: 00000042)
3709 old: data/backup/FrontPage.xxxxxxxx
3710 new: data/pages/FrontPage/revisions/00000023
3712 For cleaning up cache files, use MoinMoin/scripts/cachecleaner.py
3713 (see comments in script).
3717 * For using RSS, you need to have PyXML installed:
3718 Python 2.4* -> PyXML 0.8.4 (cvs version)
3719 Python 2.3.x -> PyXML 0.8.3
3720 Python 2.2.2+ -> ???
3721 This will also make "Live Bookmarks" of Mozilla Firefox working.
3722 New: if you don't have PyXML installed, the RSS icon on RecentChanges
3723 will not be displayed any more. Python with no PyXML installed
3724 generates invalid RSS XML.
3728 * Handling of special characters in file names changed from _xx format
3730 * In URLs, moin now uses %xx%yy quoting, (because this is supported by
3731 browsers), and sub pages use "/" instead of the ugly "_2f".
3732 * Underscore character "_" is used now as a space character " " both
3733 in file names and URLs. " " and "_" will be handled equivalent at most
3734 places in the future (represented as "_", rendered as " ").
3735 * To prevent wiki abuse and user typing errors, page names are normalized
3736 in URLs, query strings, the "go" box and when renaming pages. This
3737 include leading, trailing and multiple slashes and white space. Certain
3738 invisible unicode characters are removed from page names.
3739 * Group page names are restricted even more, any non unicode alpha-numeric
3740 character is removed. This is done to enable changing acl syntax in
3741 the future. The restriction might be loosen on future versions.
3742 * You can edit config.page_invalid_chars_regex to control which characters
3743 are allowed in page names (Changing it is not supported).
3744 * When you enter page name, it is normalized and you are redirected to
3745 the normalized page, or if nothing left (e.g '/////'), to FrontPage.
3746 * When renaming a page to a name that can be normalized to an empty string,
3747 the new page name will be "EmptyName" and the user will not get an
3752 * Pages (especially system and help pages) are now located in an underlay
3753 directory (data_underlay_dir). You will see the pages there if they are
3754 NOT covered (overlayed) by a page in the normal pages directory
3755 (as set using data_dir).
3756 MAKE SURE THAT data_underlay_dir IS CORRECT OR YOU WILL SEE MANY EMPTY
3757 PAGES ONLY IN A NEW WIKI.
3758 * If you edit a page that is shown from underlay directory, it will be
3759 copied to the normal page directory on save (copy-on-write).
3760 * You can use one copy of the underlay directory shared by many
3761 wiki instances. Each wiki will then have only your local, self-made
3762 wiki pages in its data directory, and only system and help pages in the
3763 single, shared underlay directory - this simplifies upgrades a lot.
3764 * It is recommended to keep your underlay system and help pages immutable
3765 using acl, so you can upgrade your wiki easily. The default help and
3766 system pages already have those ACLs (using MoinPagesEditorGroup).
3767 * Do not forget to remove your old help and system pages after migrating
3768 your wiki. We don't provide a script for that as that would be
3769 dangerous for edited pages. Just use some file manager (e.g. mc) to
3770 clean the data/pages/ directory. As soon as you have removed the
3771 system pages there, you will see the new pages in the underlay dir.
3772 See the EditedSystemPages page for a list of pages that exist in both
3773 data and underlay directory (use this page as admin!).
3775 When updating from 1.2 or lower to 1.3 or higher, you will want to
3776 clean out the copies of the system pages in your {{{wiki/data}}}
3777 directory. All of these pages will now reside in the underlay
3778 directory. If you have system pages from 1.2 or lower in your
3779 wiki/data/ directory, they will overshadow the more up-to-date
3780 documentation. This can be done using the following manual procedure:
3781 1. You have just converted from 1.2 or lower to post-1.3.
3782 2. Go to your wiki's EditedSystemPages.
3783 3. Find all the pages that are MoinMoin system or help pages. You will
3784 know if it is one of those pages because it is not your page.
3785 4. Check if it is okay to delete by either:
3786 1. Using the this page "info" link and check the Revision History to
3787 see if it is greater than 1. If so, there are modifications, so do
3788 not delete the page and evaluate the modifications to see if they
3790 2. Using your file browser (Windows Explorer, etc) to go to your
3791 wiki/data/<<systemPage>>/revisions/ directory and to see if there
3792 are no modifications. If there are, do not delete the page and
3793 evaluate the modifications to see if they are necessary.
3794 5. Delete that wiki/data/<<systemPage>> using your file browser.
3798 * New file name quoting method allow 50% longer page names in languages
3799 that use more than one byte per character, like Hebrew, Korean etc.
3800 * Configuration file uses 'utf-8' encoding now. Certain values that are
3801 marked with [Unicode] can use any character in your language. Examples
3802 are page names in navi_bar, page types regular expressions and site name.
3803 * For configuration examples adopted to your language, check ConfigMarket
3804 in the MoinMoin wiki.
3805 * The system and help pages that come with moin are now in utf-8.
3806 * MissingPage system page localized, should display in your language.
3807 * We did many i18n (translation) updates.
3808 * CSS file use utf-8 encoding. User css is also expected to be utf-8.
3809 This is relevant only if you use non-ASCII values in the CSS file.
3810 * config.upperletters and config.lowerletters were removed.
3811 We now use a pre-made ucs-2 spanning set and you usually don't have to
3812 change it. See MoinMoin/util/chartypes.py if you're interested.
3813 * ACL works with any user name or group name in any language, even names
3815 * Now you can use any charset in config.charset. Note: only utf-8 is
3816 a supported configuration!
3817 * Improved url handling, now creating pages directly from the browser
3818 url box with non-ascii names works in most cases, even when
3819 config.charset is not utf-8.
3820 * When using non-utf-8 config.charset, characters in URLs that does
3821 fit in the charsets are replaced with "?" (instead of crashing).
3822 * All themes and most macros and actions are Right to Left friendly.
3823 Full RTL support planned for 1.3 release.
3824 * If page language is specified with #language processing instruction
3825 the page is displayed in the correct direction. Pages without
3826 language are displayed using the wiki default_lang.
3828 Multiple configurations
3830 * You can run multiple wikis from the same wiki directory or server.
3831 For example, you can run one Twisted server that serve multiple wikis,
3832 instead of running multiple servers. Samples of the new configuration
3833 are supplied in wiki/config/*.
3834 * You can't just use your old moin_config.py file. It is now called
3835 wikiconfig.py and the config variables now have to be in a class
3836 "Config" and that class must inherit from
3837 MoinMoin.multiconfig.DefaultConfig - see the provided wikiconfig.py
3839 This is very useful, e.g. you could derive a GermanConfig from
3840 DefaultConfig. After that, you can derive configs for wikiA and wikiB
3841 from that GermanConfig.
3842 * farmconfig.py contains a mapping attribute called "wikis" with pairs of
3843 wikiconfig module name and regular expression. The regular expression
3844 is matched against the URL of the request and the first matching entry
3845 determines the config module to be imported by MoinMoin.
3846 * If you use farmconfig.py's "wikis" mapping, then any wiki has a private
3847 config module, named after the wiki - e.g. wiki named moinmoin would
3849 * If you only have a single wiki, you do not need farmconfig.py. just make
3850 a wikiconfig.py and it will be used no matter what URL is requested.
3851 * There is one common global "config" that holds sitewide settings (like
3852 umask or charset) - you do not need to change settings there.
3853 This file is located in the MoinMoin code: MoinMoin/config.py.
3855 General configuration
3857 * SecurityPolicy now uses "write" instead of "edit" (so it is may.write
3858 now). This is to get it in sync with ACLs.
3859 * SecurityPolicy now automatically can use everything in acl_rights_valid.
3860 * There is a new config option "config_check_enabled". It will warn about
3861 any unknown variable name (probably typo) to stderr or error.log.
3862 If something doesn't work at all and changing the config does no
3863 difference, switch it on and look at the error message.
3864 * The sample config file comes with config_check_enabled = 1. If you
3865 introduce additional variables yourself, you definitely want to switch
3866 that check off or it will fill your log.
3867 * If you define "page_front_page" variable, this name will show in the
3868 navigation bar now, instead of the default "FrontPage".
3872 * Full text and title search do support multiple search terms now -
3873 see HelpOnSearching for details.
3874 * Regular expressions are still supported but have to be turned on per
3875 search term. Search terms in macros using regular expressions will have
3877 * The URL interface of the search engine has also changed. Links that
3878 point directly to search actions may be broken.
3882 * User names can not use group names, even if ACLs are not enabled.
3883 This will prevent error later, if you start to use acl in the future
3884 (acl is going to be mandatory in 1.5).
3885 * User names are not restricted any more to only CamelCase.
3886 * To prevent imposing as other users, leading, trailing and multiple
3887 whitespace in user names is not allowed. Only Unicode alpha numeric
3888 characters are allowed, with optional one space character between
3890 * When a user name with a group name or "bad" name is trying to
3891 access the wiki, he is redirected to the UserPreferences page and
3892 asked to create a new account.
3893 * When trying to login or create a new account with a bad name,
3894 correct error message is displayed in all cases.
3898 * You can not use your old moin.cgi file, as we removed cgimain.py
3899 (was deprecated since 1.2). Copy the new file from the server dir.
3901 Moin servers - Twisted and standalone
3903 * Configuration self checking on startup. Will raise an error in case
3904 of bad configuration or non-accessible directories.
3905 * Both use shorter and identical configuration options.
3906 * Server scripts contain detailed comments and examples.
3907 * Configuration defaults changed to fit most users.
3908 * There is memory profiler option for debugging, switched off by default.
3909 * If you perform a standard install, server scripts should run out
3910 of the box or with minimal change.
3914 * All code moved into the new server package, the server script
3915 contains only configuration options.
3916 * Listen to more than one interface with "interfaces" list.
3917 * Code updated to new Twisted API.
3918 * Use mointwisted script to start and stop the server, using
3919 "mointwisted start" and "mointwisted stop".
3920 * The Twisted server runs as daemon by default.
3921 * All moin Twisted files are called now mointwisted instead of
3923 * Fixed getting username from Twisted request (http auth)
3927 * Configuration moved from moin_config.py to moin.py.
3928 * If run as root, you can set both user and group for the server.
3929 * Can use logfile instead of logging to stderr.
3930 * Fixed missing unquoting of query string (caused problems in rare cases).
3934 * moin_modpy server files renamed to moinmodpy.
3938 * '''strong''', ''em'' and __underline__ have now paragraph scope. You can
3939 set these attributes on words level. For multiple paragraphs, wrap each
3941 * If you leave unclosed ''', '' and __ markup, its is closed when the
3946 * Due to many changes in CSS files, the wiki may look "broken" until
3947 your reload once or twice, or empty your browser cache.
3948 * The "Send mail notification" checkbox is replaced by "Trivial change"
3949 checkbox. The default behavior did not change - regular edit is not
3950 a trivial change, and mail will be sent to subscribes. If you check
3951 trivial change, mail will be sent only to users who selected to
3952 get trivial changes in their user preferences.
3953 * New theme "modern" has been added, and used as default theme.
3954 * classic and rightsidebar improved.
3955 * viewonly theme removed, as any theme can be use now as viewonly
3956 by using #acl All:read in the wikiconfig.
3957 * All themes use new navibar, displaying both wiki links, user links
3958 and the current page.
3959 * navibar and pagetrail use now shortened page names, so very long
3960 names does not break the interface visually.
3961 * All themes have improved search interface at the top of the window.
3962 * Only avaiable actions are displayed, so most situations when a user
3963 try to do something he can't do are prevented.
3964 * When creating a new page, no action is available until the page
3965 is created. You can't attach files to non-existing page any more.
3966 * Non registered users get a "login" link. Registered uses get
3967 "username" link to their home page, and "user preferences" link.
3968 * Messages more clear using bold type, designed by css.
3969 * Few useless messages removed (but there are many more)
3970 * Default wiki logo uses the wiki name instead of the MoinMoin troll
3973 Other fixes and changes
3975 * Most generated html code is valid "html 4 strict". There are still
3976 some problems that still have to be fixed, mainly macros, table
3977 attributes, and inline markup crossing (<a><b></a></b>).
3978 * WantedPages can include and exclude system pages, which makes it
3980 * Fixed a bug in TitleIndex where not all system pages are excluded.
3981 * RenamePage action now renames everything, including backups, page
3982 history, attachments. It does not change toplevel editlog, though.
3983 After you rename a page, you are redirected to the new page.
3984 * Syntax colorization supports more languages (Java, C++, Pascal)
3985 * Inline: display of attachments was extended. A Parser now knows which
3986 extensions it can handle.
3987 * TableOfContents and Include macros now cooperate a bit better. There
3988 are still problems with multiple Includes of the same page.
3989 * Excluded actions at bottom of page are not displayed any more.
3990 * Editor: removed the columns size setting, just using 100% of browser
3991 window width (it didn't work because of that anyway). Also removed that
3992 "reduce editor size" link at top of editor as you would lose your
3993 changes when using it.
3994 * Removed the option to choose text smileys instead of images, this made
3995 more trouble than it was worth. The text version is still given in ALT
3997 * Moved stuff from contribution/ to MacroMarket page on MoinMoin wiki
3998 * Some nasty people try to use a running moin as a proxy (at least they
3999 did on moinmaster.wikiwikiweb.de:8000, maybe due to the magic port
4000 number). We changed the code to check for that and just return 403
4001 in that case. Moin can not be used as a proxy anyway.
4002 * moin.cgi?test was removed in favor of a new buildin test
4003 action. It works for all deployments, just use ?action=test.
4004 * Sending mail does use tls if server supports it.
4006 3rd party developer notes
4008 * Themes should be now sub class of MoinMoin.theme.ThemeBase. Sub
4009 classes will get automatically all new improved user interface
4011 * Theme authors should update their theme for 1.3. Some keys removed
4012 from them dict. See ThemeBase class in MoinMoin/theme/__init__.py.
4013 * Actions writers should call request.setContentLangauge with the
4014 correct language used by the action. This enable themes and other
4015 code to use correct direction.
4016 * The Formatter interface was changed. Formatters and parsers using
4017 the formatter interface have to be adjusted.
4018 * started deprecation of Processors: they are still recognized, but
4019 implementors should start to rewrite their Processors as Parsers.
4020 A processor with the same name as a parser in a pre #! section is
4021 currently preferred. This will change in the next release.
4025 * Processors are deprecated, see section above.
4027 * Using the cookie (or the login url with ID) only and not setting (or
4028 setting and not remembering) your email/password in UserPreferences
4029 is DEPRECATED. Those quite unsecure methods will likely be dropped
4030 in next moin version.
4032 * Operating with acl_enabled = 0 is also DEPRECATED. Due to some other
4033 improvements planned, we will have to operate with ACLs enabled ONLY
4034 in a future moin version, so this setting will likely be dropped.
4035 So clean up your user accounts (see moin_usercheck.py) and switch ACLs
4037 There are no drawbacks, so you will like it. Having ACLs enabled
4038 doesn't mean you really have to USE them on wiki pages...
4040 * allow_extended_names = 0 is deprecated (default was/is 1).
4041 Future versions will be able to use extended names (aka free links) in
4042 any case and the config setting will be removed.
4044 * allow_subpages = 0 is deprecated (default was/is 1).
4045 Future versions will be able to use subpages in any case and the config
4046 setting will be removed.
4048 * attachments = {...} - we would like to remove that setting because of
4050 * when not being extremely careful, this can easily lead to security
4051 problems (like when uploading a .php exploit and then executing it
4052 by accessing it directly via web server)
4053 * makes code more complicated - code that we want to change completely
4055 If you need that feature, speak up now and tell us your reasons WHY you
4059 Version 1.2.4 (2004-10-23, Revision 1.187)
4061 This will probably be the last 1.2.x release as we are soon doing release
4062 candidates for 1.3 release (with big internal changes) and are expecting
4063 release 1.3 in december 2004.
4066 * fixed "None" pagename bug in fullsearch/titlesearch
4067 * fixed projection CSS usage
4068 * the compiled page is removed when a page is deleted, so no ghost page
4069 appears after deletion
4070 * fixed AbandonedPages day-break problem
4071 * fixed [[GetVal(WikiDict,key)]]
4072 * the msg box is now outside content div on PageEditor, too
4073 * privacy fix for email notifications: you don't see other email addresses
4074 in To: any more. mail_from is now also used for To: header field, but
4075 we don't really send email to that address.
4076 * privacy fix for /MoinEditorBackup pages that were made on previews of
4077 pages that were not saved in the end
4078 * fix double content div on PageEditor preview
4081 * workaround for broken Microsoft Internet Explorer, the page editor now
4082 stops expanding to the right (e.g. with rightsidebar theme).
4083 Nevertheless it is a very good idea to use a non-broken and more secure
4084 browser like Mozilla, Firefox or Opera!
4086 * from MoinMoin.security.antispam import SecurityPolicy in your
4087 moin_config.py will protect your wiki from at least the known spammers.
4090 * xmlrpc plugin for usage logging, currently used for antispam accesses
4092 * (re-)added configurable meta tags:
4093 * html_head_queries = '''<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow">\n'''
4094 * html_head_posts = '''<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow">\n'''
4095 * html_head_index = '''<meta name="robots" content="index,follow">\n'''
4096 * html_head_normal = '''<meta name="robots" content="index,nofollow">\n'''
4098 * i18n updates/fixes
4100 * New UserPreferences switch:
4101 you may subscribe to trivial changes (when you want to be notified about ALL
4102 changes to pages, even if the author deselected to send notifications).
4104 * New AttachList and AttachInfo macros - thanks to Nigel Metheringham and
4107 Version 1.2.3 (2004-07-21, Revision 1.186)
4110 * fixed NameError "UnpicklingError" in user.py
4111 * fixed version number in moin.spec
4112 * reverts done by bots or leechers
4113 There was a bad, old bug that triggered if you did not use ACLs. In that
4114 case, moin used some simple (but wrong and incomplete) function to
4115 determine what a user (or bot) may do or may not do. The function is now
4116 fixed to allow only read and write to anon users, and only delete and
4117 revert to known users additionally - and disallow everything else.
4118 * avoid creation of unneccessary pages/* directories
4119 * removed double content divs in general info and history info pages
4120 * fixed wiki xmlrpc getPageHTML
4121 * fixed rightsidebar logout URL, also fixed top banner to link to FrontPage
4122 * use config.page_front_page and .page_title_index for robots meta tag
4123 (whether it uses index,follow or index,nofollow), not hardcoded english
4125 * ACL security fix for PageEditor, thanks to Dr. Pleger for reporting
4126 * default options for new users are same as for anon users
4128 Version 1.2.2 (2004-06-06, Revision 1.185)
4132 * own copy of difflib removed
4133 Until moin 1.2.1 we had our own copy of python 2.2.3's difflib coming
4134 with moin. This was to work around some problems with broken older 2.2
4135 python installations. We removed this now because if you have py 2.3,
4136 there is even a better difflib coming with python (and that fixes an
4137 extremely slow diff calculation happening in some rare cases).
4138 So the good news is that when you run python 2.3, you don't need to do
4139 anything and it will run great. If you run python 2.2.3, it will mostly
4140 work good and you also don't need to do anything. The bad news is that
4141 if you run an old and broken 2.2 installation (2.2.1, maybe 2.2.2) you
4142 will have to fix it on your own (just copy difflib.py from python 2.2.3
4143 over to your python 2.2.x installation).
4144 But better upgrade to python 2.3 (for debian woody, there's a backport),
4145 as 2.3 generally runs better and faster than 2.2.
4146 * scripts changed to use #!/usr/bin/env python (not /usr/bin/python2.2)
4148 * user accounts and ACLs:
4149 * we now require the user to specify a password for a new account (you
4150 were not able to login without a password anyway)
4151 * it is not allowed any more to create user accounts with user names
4152 matching config.page_group_regex - please check manually that you do
4153 not already have such users existing (like a user named "AdminGroup"):
4154 cd data/user ; grep name=.*Group * # there should be no output!
4155 * subscription email sending now honours ACLs correctly
4157 * markup / rendering / user interface fixes:
4158 * fixed merging multiple lines indented by the same amount of blanks
4159 * ## comments don't break tables in two parts
4160 * added a "remove bookmark" link to RecentChanges
4161 * fixed action=titleindex (added \n after each entry)
4164 * non-ASCII characters should work now
4165 * RSS feed (Recentchanges?action=rss_rc) gives UTC timestamps now
4166 * removed attribute breaking RSS feed on RecentChanges
4168 * better email generation:
4169 * if you use python >=2.2.2, we add a Message-ID header to emails
4170 * if you use python 2.2.1, there is no email.Header. Instead of crashing
4171 (like previous moin 1.2.x releases), we just use the subject "as is" in
4172 that case. If it is not ASCII, this is not standards compliant.
4173 * If you have >=2.2.2 it will use email.Header to make standards compliant
4175 * use config.mail_from as sender address when sending "lost my password"
4179 * fixed for standalone server
4180 * attachment URLs (when handled by moin) don't include server name
4181 * fixed some wrong &amp; in html src
4183 * better themeability:
4184 * some entries in dict "d" where only present in header theme calls, some
4185 only in footer theme calls. Now almost all is present in both calls.
4186 * added some missing "content" divs so sidebar themes look better
4188 * fixed some crashes producing backtraces:
4189 * no IOError when diffing against deleted page
4190 * no backtrace in xml footnote generation
4191 * no SystemInfo crash when no editlog exists in new wikis
4192 * xmlrpc.getRecentChanges fixed
4194 * MoinMoin.util.filesys.rename is now a wrapper around os.rename that
4195 fixes os.rename on broken win32 api semantics
4198 * saving traffic and load by improved robot meta tag generation:
4199 * "noindex,nofollow" on queries and POSTs
4200 * "index,follow" on FrontPage and TitleIndex (give robots a chance ;))
4201 * "index,nofollow" on all other pages (hopefully saving lots of senseless
4202 requests for page?action=...)
4203 * removed config.html_head_queries (was used for same stuff)
4204 * added russian i18n (utf-8)
4205 * misc. other translation updates / fixes
4206 * added rightsidebar theme
4207 * TitleIndex now folds case, so "APage" and "anotherPage" are both under
4209 * added macro/PageHits.py - it calculates the hits each page gets since
4210 beginning of logging
4213 * Full text and title search do now support multiple search terms -
4214 see HelpOnSearching for details
4216 * The Formatter interface was changed. Formatter and parser using
4217 the formatter interface have to be adjusted.
4219 Version 1.2.1 (2004-03-08, Revision 1.184)
4222 * minimum requirement to run moin 1.2/1.2.1 is python 2.2.2
4223 * not: 2.2(.0), as this does not have True/False
4224 * not: 2.2.1, as this does not have email.Header. You maybe can work
4226 * getting the python 2.2.x (x>=2) /usr/lib/python2.2/email directory
4227 * putting it into directory 'x' (whereever you like)
4228 * doing a sys.path[0:0] = ['x'] in moin.cgi [or other appropriate place]
4229 No guarantee, this is untested.
4230 * Twisted: the http headers missed the charset data, fixed
4231 * mod_python: fixes for mod_python 2.7
4232 * wiki/data/plugin/__init__.py added - fixes not working plugin modules
4233 * plugin processors work now, too
4234 * fixed displaying non-existent translations of SiteNavigation in footer
4235 * fixed zh-tw iso name (wrong zh_tw -> correct zh-tw)
4236 * fixed reversed diffs in RecentChanges RSS
4237 * fixed "last change" info in footer (wasn't updated)
4238 * fixed event.log missing pagename (and other) information
4239 * fixed horizontal line thickness >1
4240 * fixed setup.py running from CVS workdir
4241 * fixed crash when doing action=info on first revision of a page
4242 * fixed hostname truncation in footer
4244 * fixed clear msg links (they missed quoting, leading to strange page
4245 names when you click on some of them)
4246 * fixed python colorizer processor
4247 * fixed quoting of stats cache filenames
4248 * catched "bad marshal data" error when switching python versions
4251 * updated danish (da) i18n
4252 * updated japanese (ja) i18n
4253 * added serbian (sr) i18n
4254 * added chinese (zh) i18n
4255 * added a simple "viewonly" theme based on classic theme - you can use
4256 this as default theme, so anonymous users won't get the usual wiki stuff,
4257 but a far simpler (and less powerful) user interface.
4258 It also displays the navibar at the left side.
4259 * added moin.spec for building RPMs
4260 * included MoinMoin/i18n/* into distribution archive (nice for translators)
4261 * included some stuff under MoinMoin/scripts - xmlrpc-tools and account
4262 checking stuff. removed some version control clutter from the dist
4265 * code colorization was refactored and some new languages (Java, C++,
4266 Pascal) where added.
4267 * inline: display of attachments was extended. A Parser now knows which
4268 extensions it can handle.
4270 Version 1.2 (2004-02-20, Revision 1.183)
4273 * MoinMoin now requires Python >=2.2.2., we recommend to use Python >=2.3.2
4274 (with 2.3.x, MoinMoin runs about 20-30% faster).
4275 * by refactoring request processing, we made it possible to run moin under
4276 persistent environments:
4277 * twisted-web (http://twistedmatrix.com)
4278 * httpdmain.py (use moin.py for starting this mini server)
4281 Of course, CGI is still possible.
4282 * wiki pages will be compiled to bytecode now (by default), so no need for
4283 slow parsing/formatting on every view ("WASP", see caching_formats)
4284 * when using a persistent environment (like twisted) and WASP, you get up
4285 to 20x speed - compared to CGI and moin 1.1
4286 * added support for diffs between arbitrary revisions.
4287 * removed requirement of the external diff utility
4288 * config.auth_http_enabled (defaults to 0) - use this to enable moin
4289 getting your authenticated user name from apache (http basic auth,
4290 htpasswd) - if you enable this, your basic auth username has to be the
4291 same as your wiki username.
4292 Should work with CGI, FCGI and maybe even with mod_python.
4293 Does not change behaviour of moin under twisted or standalone server.
4294 * config.tz_offset = 0.0 sets a default timezone offset (in hours
4296 * config.cookie_lifetime (int, in hours, default 12) sets the lifetime of
4298 == 0 --> cookie will live forever (no matter what user has configured!)
4299 > 0 --> cookie will live for n hours (or forever when "remember_me")
4300 < 0 --> cookie will live for -n hours (forced, ignore "remember_me"!)
4301 * added themeing and some themes (if you improve the existing themes or
4302 make nice new ones, please contribute your stuff!). The default theme is
4303 set by config.theme_default (and defaults to 'classic').
4304 * now supporting plugin directory for parsers, processors, themes, xmlrpc.
4305 * action=info now defaults to showing page revision history again
4306 * all actions accessing the logfile (as RecentChanges or history) are now
4308 * #refresh processing instruction, config.refresh
4309 * config.refresh = (minimum_delay, target_allowed)
4310 * minimum delay is the minimum waiting time (in seconds) allowed
4311 * target_allowed is either 'internal' or 'external', depending on
4312 whether you want to allow only internal redirects or also
4313 external ones. For internal redirects, just use the Wiki pagename,
4314 for external, use http://... url.
4315 * #refresh 3 == refresh this page every 3 seconds
4316 * #refresh 5 FrontPage == internal redirect to FrontPage in 5s
4317 * #refresh 5 http://google.com/ == redirect to google in 5s
4318 Use very carefully! Allowing a low minimum_delay and putting a #refresh
4319 on RecentChanges might slow down your wiki significantly, when some
4320 people just let their browser refresh and refresh again. Also, it does
4321 cause quite some traffic long-term. So better do not use this without
4322 good reason! Default is None (switched off).
4323 * hide most UserPreferences options before user has logged in, less
4324 confusing for new users
4325 * "config.page_dict_regex" defines what pages are dictionary definitions
4326 Currently dictionaries are used for UserHomePage/MyDict where you can
4327 define key:: value pairs that get processed like @DATE@ expansion when
4328 saving a page. The 2 "@" will be added to your keys automatically.
4329 Please do not use @xxx@ strings on the right side (value), results may
4331 You can also access wiki dictionaries by using the internal macro
4332 [[GetVal(page,key)]]" - that will go to page "page" and return the
4333 value (right side) corresponding to "key".
4334 Implementation note: groups are a subset of the dictionary functionality.
4335 * standalone server should work now (see server/moin.py), so you don't
4336 need to setup apache or twisted for a local personal wiki, you only need
4337 python and moin for that now, no additional stuff any more!
4338 * if you run your wiki with charset = "utf-8" (the default is still
4339 iso8859-1), you might want to have a look at contributions/utf8-pages/
4340 to see if there are already translated system pages for your language.
4343 * new importPlugin routine (the old one didn't work correctly)
4344 * removed 0xA0 characters breaking utf-8
4345 * system page recognition now uses wiki groups (see AllSystemPagesGroup),
4346 fixing the long-time broken system page exclusion on TitleIndex.
4347 * mostly HTML 4.01 Strict compliant HTML
4348 * design is done by CSS now, HTML is semantic markup only
4349 * removed target attribute from links, also [^NewWindow] markup - this
4350 is a HTML 3.2 feature and not valid in HTML 4.01
4351 * updated TWikiDrawPlugin to 20021003 version, with further modifications
4352 including source. It can draw imagemaps now and saves PNG. On display a
4353 GIF will be searched if no PNG is found. We recommend changing all GIFs
4354 to indexed PNGs cause this fallback might disappear in later versions.
4356 Sample code using bash and ImageMagick (be sure you know what you do):
4357 for draw in `find /path/to/wiki/data -name \*.draw`; do
4358 file=`dirname $draw`/`basename $draw .draw`
4359 if [ -e "${file}.gif" ]; then
4360 echo "Converting ${file}.gif to ${file}.png"
4361 convert "${file}.gif" "${file}.png"
4365 * fixed email headers and encoding
4366 * Changed moin-usercheck to adhere to scripting standards; no
4367 proprietary config changes needed any more (added --config);
4368 --wikinames is now part of the usage message.
4369 * config.umask now defaults to 0770 - if you give world r/w access, ACLs
4370 could be rather pointless...
4372 Removed config variables:
4373 * external_diff (not needed any more, we have internal diff now)
4374 * shared_metadb (wasn't implemented for long - we will re-add it, when it is)
4375 * title1/2 (please use page_header1/2)
4378 Changed config variables:
4379 * changed_time_fmt (removed some html and brackets around time from default)
4380 * html_head (default is empty string now)
4381 * page_footer1/2 (default is empty string now)
4382 * page_icons (is now a list of icon names, not html any more)
4383 * umask (default is 0770 now, not world r/w any more == more secure)
4385 New config variables (see MoinMaster:HelpOnConfiguration):
4394 * page_license_enabled
4401 * lots of internal code refactoring and optimization
4402 * began moving src code documentation to epydoc, see "make epydoc"
4403 * the URL for the RecentChanges RSS feed changed. It now only works with
4407 * theme support is neither complete (although covering most important
4408 stuff) nor perfect - work on that will continue...
4409 * we removed some html from system messages (the boxes at top of page you
4410 get after some actions), so it currently looks less nice than before.
4411 * html is not completely validating and it is not xhtml - this will be
4412 fixed as soon as we have the infrastructure for that (other parser, DOM)
4413 * problems with rtl (right-to-left) languages, will be fixed in 1.3
4414 * if you change moin_config or switch themes, moin will still use already
4415 cached page content. For the config this can be fixed by touching
4416 MoinMoin/version.py (or simply deleting everything in
4417 data/cache/Page.py). If you get more annoyed by this than pleased by
4418 caching speedup, you can also switch off caching (see docs on
4421 Themeing and HTML/CSS cleanup:
4422 * Browsers with completely broken CSS support (like e.g. Netscape 4.x) are
4423 no longer supported. If you still need to support them, do not upgrade to
4424 moin 1.2. If you still use these browsers, we recommend that you upgrade
4425 your browser first (Mozilla 1.5 has nice and standards compliant HTML and
4426 CSS support and is available as Free Software for Windows, Linux and Mac).
4427 * If you changed any html in code or by config you will have to check if it
4428 still works. For the usual stuff, look into `MoinMoin/theme/classic.py`
4429 and `classic/css/screen.css`. For config defaults of the html fragments,
4430 read `MoinMoin/config.py`. If you want to modify a theme, don't simply
4431 change classic, but copy or subclass it under a new theme name.
4432 * because of the new theme support the layout of the `htdocs` directory
4434 * Instead of using icons under `img/` and css under `css/`, there will
4435 be an additional `themename/` directory in between, e.g. `classic/img/`
4436 and `classic/css/`. If you added own icons, you may have to copy them
4437 to the themes directory.
4438 * The filename of the CSS file has changed to the media type, so the
4439 normal one used for screen output has changed name from `moinmoin.css`
4440 to `screen.css`. There also were quite some changes and enhancements to
4441 the CSS files, so better use the new ones.
4442 * config.css_url was removed
4445 * we use a new plugin loader that requires a correct `__init__.py` file in
4446 the plugin directories. See the directory `wiki/data/plugin/` in the
4447 distribution archive and just copy it over to your wiki's plugin directory.
4450 Version 1.1 (2003-11-29, Revision 1.178)
4452 Version 1.1 requires Python 2.0 or higher, we recommend to use Python 2.2
4453 (version 2.2.2 if that is available on your host) or even better >= 2.3.2
4454 (with 2.3.x, MoinMoin runs about 20-30% faster).
4458 * config.default_lang lets you set a default language for users not
4459 having specified language in their browser or UserPreferences
4460 * "config.page_category_regex" defines what pages are categories
4461 * replaced `config.page_template_ending` by a more flexible setting
4462 named `config.page_template_regex`
4463 * the same with config.page_form_regex (was: page_form_ending)
4464 * "config.page_group_regex" defines what pages are group definitions
4465 Currently groups are used for "user groups" (see ACLs) and "page
4466 groups" (see AllSystemPagesGroup).
4467 * robot exclusion from all pages except the standard view action,
4468 via the config.ua_spiders regex (reduces server load)
4469 * "maxdepth" argument for the TableOfContents macro
4470 * config.title1, config.title2, config.page_footer1,
4471 config.page_footer2 can now be callables and will be called with
4472 the "request" object as a single argument (note that you should
4473 accept any keyword arguments in order to be compatible to future
4475 * "config.html_pagetitle" allows you to set a specific HTML page
4476 title (if not set, it defaults to "config.sitename")
4477 * navi_bar / quicklinks can now contain free-form links, i.e.
4478 entries of the form "[url linktext]" just like in wiki pages
4479 * if a quick link starts with '^', it opens in a new window; help
4480 now opens in a new window also
4481 * `config.smileys` for user-defined smileys (default: `{}`) - a dict
4482 with the markup as the key and a tuple of width, height, border, image
4484 * `config.hosts_deny` to forbid access based on IP address
4485 * `config.mail_login` can be set to username and password separated by
4486 a space, e.g. "username userpass", if you need to use SMTP AUTH
4487 * `config.edit_locking` can be set to None (old behaviour, no
4488 locking), 'warn <timeout mins>' (warn about concurrent edits, but
4489 do not enforce anything), or 'lock <timeout mins>' (strict locking)
4490 * optionally showing a license text on editor page, use:
4491 config.page_license_enabled = 1
4492 Optionally use these to customize what is shown there:
4493 config.page_license_text = "... your text ..."
4494 config.page_license_page = "MyLicensePage"
4495 See the default values in MoinMoin/config.py for details and
4496 override them in moin_config.py, if needed.
4497 * `config.shared_intermap` can be a list of filenames (instead of a
4499 * If you have added your own `SecurityPolicy`, the class interface for
4500 that has changed (see `security.py`).
4502 Authenticaton / Authorization:
4503 * added ACL support, written by Gustavo Niemeyer of Conectiva and
4504 Thomas Waldmann. See HelpOnAccessControlLists for more infos.
4505 You should use MoinMoin/scripts/moin_usercheck.py before activating
4506 ACLs or some users with bad or duplicate accounts might get into
4508 * A user account can be disabled using moin_usercheck.py or
4509 UserPreferences page. Disabling, but keeping it is good for edit
4511 * changed security default: deletion only available to known users
4512 * support for Basic authentication (Apache style: AUTH_TYPE="Basic",
4513 REMOTE_USER="WikiUserName"). If authentication is there, user
4514 will be in ACL class "Trusted".
4515 * support for username / password login
4516 The username / password login will ONLY work, if you define a
4517 password. With an empty password, username / password login is not
4518 allowed due to security reasons. Passwords are stored encrypted
4519 (format similar to Apache SHA) and can also be entered in the
4520 UserPreferences form in this format. When requesting login
4521 information by email, the password is also sent in this encrypted
4522 format (use copy&paste to fill it in the form).
4523 ...?action=userform?uid=<userid> is still possible, so if you have
4524 bookmarks, they will still work). The input field for the ID was
4526 NOTE: using the userid for login purposes is DEPRECATED and might
4527 be removed for better security soon.
4528 * after logging in, you will get a cookie valid until midnight.
4529 The next day, the cookie will expire and you will have to login
4530 again. If you don't want this, you can check the "remember me
4531 forever" option in UserPreferences.
4532 * if the page file is read-only, you get a message (i.e. you can now
4533 protect pages against changes if you're the wiki admin).
4534 Note: you can do that easier using ACLs.
4536 Markup / Macros / Actions:
4537 * RandomQuote macro (and even parses Wiki markup now)
4538 * `[[Navigation]]` macro for slides and subpage navigation
4539 * [[ShowSmileys]] displays ALL smileys, including user-defined ones
4540 * the Include macro has new parameters (from, to, sort, items) and
4541 is able to include more than one page (via a regex pattern)
4542 * `MailTo` macro for adding spam-safe email links to a page
4543 * if a fancy link starts with '^' (i.e. if it has the form
4544 "[^http:... ...]"), it's opened in a new window
4545 * because of that, the NewWindow macro was removed from contrib
4546 * "#pragma section-numbers 2" only displays section numbers for
4547 headings of level 2 and up (similarly for 3 to 6)
4548 * ../SubPageOfParent links
4552 * Page creation shows LikePages that already exist
4553 * editor shows the current size of the page
4554 * editor returns to including page when editing an included page
4555 * Visual indication we're on the editor page (new CSS style)
4556 * selection to add categories to a page in the editor (use preview
4557 button to add more than one category)
4558 * if user has a homepage, a backup of save/preview text is saved as
4559 a subpage UsersHomePage/MoinEditorBackup
4560 * added "revert" link to PageInfo view (which makes DeletePage more
4561 safe in public wikis, since you can easily revive deleted pages
4563 * Selection for logged in users (i.e. no bots) to extend the listing
4564 of recent changes beyond the default limits
4565 * Activated display of context for backlinks search
4566 * Subscriber list shown on page info
4567 * LikePages shows similar pages (using difflib.get_close_matches)
4568 * last edit action is stored into "last-edited" file, and
4569 displayed in the page footer
4570 * reciprocal footnote linking (definition refers back to reference)
4571 * "Ex-/Include system pages" link for title index
4572 Note: system/help pages algorithm is still mostly broken.
4573 * list items set apart by empty lines are now also set apart
4574 visually (by adding the CSS class "gap" to <li>)
4575 * "save" check for security.Permissions
4576 * Added Spanish, Croatian and Danish system texts
4577 * Added flag icons for the languages supported in "i18n"
4578 * updated help and system pages, more translations, see also
4580 * there was quite some work done on wiki xmlrpc v1 and v2 - it
4581 basically works now.
4583 Tools and other changes:
4584 * moin-dump: New option "--page"
4585 * there are some scripts MoinMoin/scripts/* using wiki xmlrpc for
4586 backup and wiki page copying applications
4587 * Updated the XSLT parser to work with 4Suite 1.0a1
4588 * more infos in cgi tracebacks
4589 * UPDATE.html is a HTML version of MoinMaster:HelpOnUpdating
4591 Unfinished or experimental features:
4592 * user defined forms
4593 * XML export of all data in the wiki
4594 * RST parser (you need to install docutils to use this)
4598 * do not use / display user's email address in public places
4601 * Removed two cross-site scripting vulnerabilities reported by "office"
4604 * Bugfix for PageList when no arguments are given
4605 * Disallow full-text searches with too short search terms
4606 * [ 566094 ] TitleIndex now supports grouping by Hangul Syllables
4607 * fix for multibyte first char in TitleIndex
4608 * Footnotes were not HTML escaped
4609 * Numbered code displays are now in a table so that you can cut the
4610 code w/o the numbers
4611 * Bugfix for wrong mail notifications
4612 * Create unique anchors for repeated titles
4613 * [ 522246 ] Transparently recode localized messages
4614 * [ 685003 ] Using "preview" button when editing can lose data
4615 * use gmtime() for time handling
4616 * fixed negative gmtime() arguments
4617 * [[Include]] accepts relative page names
4618 * fixed ||NotInterWiki:||...||
4620 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4621 Version 1.0 (2002-05-10, Revision 1.159)
4623 THIS IS THE LAST RELEASE WITH PYTHON 1.5.2 SUPPORT! If severe bugs
4624 should occur, a maintenance release will fix them.
4626 Some optional features (like statistics) already require Python 2.0.
4629 * security fix: "allow_xslt" has to be set to 1 in order to enable
4630 XSLT processing; note that this defaults to 0 because XSLT is able
4631 to insert arbitrary HTML into a wiki
4632 * "action=content" for transclusion into static web pages; emits the
4633 pure page content, without any <html>, <head>, or <body> tags
4634 * "?action=links&mimetype=text/plain" works like MeatBall:LinkDatabase
4635 * "Preferred language" and "Quick links" user settings
4636 * Added "processor" concept, processors work on the data in "code
4637 displays" and are called by a bangpath in the first line of data
4638 * Processors: Colorize, CSV (see HelpOnProcessors)
4639 * New icons: "{OK}", "(./)", "{X}", "{i}", "{1}", "{2}" and "{}"
4641 * FullSearch now displays context information for search hits
4642 * DeletePage offers a textentry field for an optional comment
4643 * Email notifications are sent in the user's language, if known from
4645 * @PAGE@ is substituted by the name of the current page (useful
4648 Unfinished features:
4649 * user defined forms
4650 * XML export of all data in the wiki
4651 * RST parser (you need to install docutils to use this)
4655 * Syntax warning with Python 2.2 fixed
4656 * Macro-generated pagelinks are no longer added to the list of links
4657 * error codes returned by "diff" are reported
4658 * fix for attachments on pages with non-USASCII names
4659 * correct handling of spaces in attachment filenames and URLs
4661 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4662 Version 0.11 (2002-03-11, Revision 1.151)
4664 Most important new features: file attachments, definition list markup
4665 (glossaries), change notification via email, variable substitution when
4666 saving pages, edit preview, and improved documentation.
4668 Note that the RSS features require a recent PyXML (CVS or 0.7) due to
4669 bugs in the namespace handling of xml.sax.saxutils in earlier versions.
4670 This is (hopefully) automatically detected on every installation.
4672 Statistical features are NOT designed to work with Python 1.5.2 and
4673 require Python 2.0 or higher. Overall, MoinMoin 0.11 is not explicitely
4674 tested for 1.5.2 compatibility.
4677 * XML formatting now (most often) produces well-formed, and, depending
4678 on proper layout of the wiki page, valid StyleBook XML
4679 * Headers are now automatically numbered, unless you set the config
4680 item 'show_section_numbers' to 0
4681 * "#pragma section-numbers off" (or "0") switches that off explicitely,
4682 and "on" or "1" enables numbering
4683 * Added a "contributions" directory for 3rd party extensions
4684 * AttachFile action, contributed by Ken Sugino; note that you have
4685 to enable this action because of the possibility of DoS attacks
4686 (malicious uploads), by adding this to your moin_config:
4687 allowed_actions = ['AttachFile']
4688 * "attachment:" URL scheme allows access to attachments, to get files
4689 from other pages use "attachment:WikiName/filename.ext".
4690 * New macros: Date(unixtimestamp) and DateTime(unixtimestamp) to
4691 display a timestamp according to system/user settings
4692 * Variable substitution when a page is saved, note that saving
4693 template pages does NOT expand variables. Supported are:
4694 @DATE@ Current date in the system's format
4695 @TIME@ Current date and time in the user's format
4696 @USERNAME@ Just the user's name (or his domain/IP)
4697 @USER@ Signature "-- loginname"
4698 @SIG@ Dated Signature "-- loginname date time"
4699 @MAILTO@ A fancy mailto: link with the user's data
4700 * Copied some new emoticons from PikiePikie
4701 || {{{ :-? }}} || :-? || tongue.gif ||
4702 || {{{ :\ }}} || :\ || ohwell.gif ||
4703 || {{{ >:> }}} || >:> || devil.gif ||
4704 || {{{ %) }}} || %) || eyes.gif ||
4705 || {{{ @) }}} || @) || eek.gif ||
4706 || {{{ |) }}} || |) || tired.gif ||
4707 || {{{ ;)) }}} || ;)) || lol.gif ||
4708 * AbandonedPages macro
4709 * Added definition list markup: {{{<whitespace>term:: definition}}}
4710 * Added email notification features contributed by Daniel Sa� * SystemInfo: show "Entries in edit log"
4711 * Added "RSS" icon to RecentChanges macro and code to generate a
4712 RecentChanges RSS channel, see
4713 http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?UnifiedRecentChanges
4715 * Added config.sitename and config.interwikiname parameter
4716 * Better WikiFarm support:
4717 * <datadir>/plugin/macro and <datadir>/plugin/action can be used
4718 to store macros and actions local to a specific wiki instance
4719 * config.shared_intermap can contain a pathname to a shared
4720 "intermap.txt" file (i.e. one stored outside the datadir)
4721 * added `backtick` shortcut for {{{inline literal}}} (has to be
4722 enabled by "backtick_meta=1" in the config file); note that ``
4723 is then a shorter replacement for '''''' escaping
4724 * added inline search fields (at the bottom of each page)
4725 * Added preview to the editor, including spell checking
4726 * New languages: Chinese (Changzhe Han) and Portuguese (Jorge
4727 Godoy), updated French (Lucas Bruand), added Korean (Hye-Shik
4728 Chang) and Italian (Lele Gaifax)
4729 * New SystemAdmin macro
4730 * `[[Anchor(anchorname)]]` macro to insert anchors into a page,
4731 and [#anchorname Anchor Links].
4732 * User option to open editor view via a double-click
4733 * Added commentary field to editor, recent changes and page info
4734 * Page trails (user option)
4735 * UserPreferences: checkboxes for double-click edit, page trail,
4736 fancy links, emoticons, jump to last page visited, and some
4737 other yes/no options
4738 * "config.nonexist_qm" is now the default for a user setting
4739 * `[[GetText(text)]]` macro loads I18N texts (mainly intended
4740 for use on Help pages)
4741 * table attributes via "||<attrlist> ... ||", more details on
4742 http://purl.net/wiki/moin/HelpOnTables
4743 * PythonFaq interwiki tag and support for $PAGE placeholder
4744 * event logging, as the basis for future statistics
4745 * "moin-dump" command line tool to create a static copy of
4747 * "config.external_diff" allows to set an exact path to the
4748 command, or change the name to for example "gdiff" if GNU
4749 diff is not a native command in your UNIX flavour
4750 * `[[PageSize]]` macro
4751 * the interwiki name "Self" now always points to the own wiki
4752 * config.title1 and config.title2 are inserted into the output
4753 right before and after the system title html code (title1
4754 is right after the <body> tag and normally undefined, title2
4755 defaults to the "<hr>" above the page contents)
4756 * Additional link on diff pages to ignore whitespace changes
4757 * Subpages (config.allow_subpages, config.page_icons_up)
4758 * super^script^, sub,,script,, and __underline__ markup
4759 * `[[FootNote]]` macro
4760 * many other new config options, see HelpOnConfiguration for
4762 * [[StatsChart(type)]] shows statistical charts (currently
4763 defined types: hitcounts, pagesize, useragents)
4764 * 'inline:' scheme works like 'attachment:', but tries to
4765 inline the content of the attachment into the page;
4766 currently knows about "*.py" sources and colorizes them
4767 * support for Java applet "TWikiDrawPlugin" via
4768 drawing:<drawingname> URL scheme (you need to activate
4769 the AttachFile action if you want drawings)
4770 * numeric entities (&#nnnnn;) are now optionally NOT escaped,
4771 which allows you to insert more characters into a Latin-1
4772 page, especially the Euro symbol
4773 * navi_bar is now a list of page names which should be linked
4775 * test.cgi is now rolled into moin.cgi, and can be called
4776 by adding "?test" to the wiki base URL. Also, as a security
4777 feature, the server's environment is only shown for requests
4778 local to the web server.
4780 Unfinished features:
4781 * user defined forms
4782 * XML export of all data in the wiki
4785 * extended the online help ("Help*" pages)
4786 * German help pages (thanks to Thomas Waldmann)
4789 * #425857: python Parser bug on the second call
4790 * #424917: Caching control
4791 * #465499: Two HTTPS problems
4792 * #491155: FrontPage hardcoded
4793 * Handling of inbound UTF-8 encoded URIs (only with Python >= 2.0)
4794 * Fix for subtle changes in "re" of Python 2.2
4795 * User-provided URLs are now never URL-escaped, which allows appending
4796 #anchors and using %20 for spaces in InterWiki links
4798 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4799 Version 0.10 (2001-10-28, Revision 1.134)
4801 This version is still Python 1.5.2 compatible, but it's not extensively
4802 tested for that version and some parts of the system might not work
4803 there, especially seldom used macros and actions. Bug reports welcome!
4806 * "#deprecated" processing instruction
4807 * config entry "SecurityPolicy" to allow for customized permissions
4808 (see "security.py" for more)
4809 * added distutils support
4810 * though not extensively tested, the standalone server now does POST
4811 requests, i.e. you can save pages; there are still problems with
4812 persistent global variables! It only works for Python >= 2.0.
4813 * "bang_meta" config variable and "!NotWikiWord" markup
4814 * "url_mappings" config variable to dynamically change URL prefixes
4815 (especially useful in intranets, when whole trees of externally
4816 hosted documents move around)
4817 * setting "mail_smarthost" and "mail_from" activates mailing
4818 features (sending login data on the UserPreferences page)
4819 * very useful for intranet developer wikis, a means to view pydoc
4820 documentation, formatted via a XSLT stylesheet, for details see
4821 http://purl.net/wiki/python/TeudViewer?module=MoinMoin.macro.TeudView
4822 or MoinMoin/macro/TeudView.py
4823 * "LocalSiteMap" action by Steve Howell <showell@zipcon.com>
4824 * Added FOLDOC to intermap.txt
4827 * Full config defaults, import MoinMoin now works w/o moin_config.py
4828 * Better control over permissions with config.umask
4829 * Bugfix for a UNIX time billenium bug (affecting RecentChanges
4830 sorting and page diffs)
4831 * data paths with directory names containing dots caused problems
4833 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4834 Version 0.9 (2001-05-07)
4837 * XML page input (pages that start with "<?xml") and XSLT formatting
4838 * Page caching, for now limited to XSLT processing (where it's
4839 absolutely needed); new code & API to add the "RefreshCache" link
4840 * Selection of common date/time formats in UserPreferences
4841 * New action "titleindex" to support wiki introspection (MetaWiki);
4842 see the new links below the index bar in "TitleIndex"
4843 * UserPreferences: editable CSS URL for personal styles
4844 * PageInfo: the editor's name or IP is shown for each change
4845 * WantedPages: a new macro that lists links to non-existent pages
4846 * OrphanedPages: a new macro that lists pages no other page links to
4847 * Extensions to the FullSearch macro (see HelpOnMacros)
4848 * Python syntax highlighting
4849 * "DeletePage" action (has to be activated, see MoinMoinFaq)
4850 * "Remove trailing whitespace from each line" option in the editor
4851 * I18N (currently German and Swedish)
4852 * Config option "url_schemas" to extend the supported URL types
4853 * Improved tracebacks by using Ka-Ping's "cgitb"
4856 * The editor now sends a "no-cache" HTTP header
4857 * "PageList" results are now sorted
4858 * New config parameter "html_head_queries": send additional header
4859 for all pages EXCEPT the "normal" view; main usage is to have
4860 only the normal pages indexed by a spider, not the edit, print,
4861 etc. views (which cause multiple hits on the same information)
4862 * Store the modification time of the page file in the editlog, not
4863 the current time when the log entry is created
4865 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4866 Version 0.8 (2001-01-23)
4869 * Page templates (create a new page using a template page, by Richard)
4870 * Pluggable actions (by Richard)
4871 * Added "diff since bookmark"
4872 * Only "normal" URLs (outside of brackets) are converted to inline images
4873 * Show number of backups in SystemInfo macro
4874 * Show info on installed extension macros and actions
4875 * New macro: [[BR]] for line breaks
4876 * New action "LikePages" (again, Richard)
4877 * Highlighting of search results, and of bad words when spellchecking
4878 * Support for "file:" URLS
4879 * "SpellCheck" action (Richard, me, and Christian)
4880 * [[Include]] macro (you guessed it, Richard)
4883 * Update bookmark with load time, not click time
4884 * Changed CSS styles to better suit Netscape's broken handling of CSS
4886 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4887 Version 0.7 (2000-12-06)
4890 * RecentChanges bookmarking
4894 * Non-greedy extended WikiNames
4896 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4897 Version 0.6 (2000-12-04)
4900 * [[UserPreferences]] macro and associated functions
4901 * [[TableOfContents]] macro
4902 * Mechanism for external macros (user extensions)
4903 * Numbered list types and start offsets
4906 * Search dialogs did not work on the FrontPage
4907 * Add newline to text if last line has none (better diffs)
4909 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4910 Version 0.5 (2000-11-17)
4913 * Major refactoring: code is now broken up into modules within the
4915 * Diagnosis of installation via a "test.cgi" script
4917 * "#format" processing instruction
4919 * [[RandomPage]] and [[RandomPage(number)]] macro
4920 * configurable footer ("page_footer1" and "page_footer2")
4921 * "#redirect" processing instruction
4924 * Bugfix for broken CGI environment of IIS/4.0
4925 * URLs and InterWiki links are now less greedy (punctuation at the end
4926 is excluded, and "<" ends them, too)
4928 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4929 Version 0.4 (2000-11-01)
4932 * Table markup "||a||b||c||"
4933 * Headlines "= H1 =", "== H2 ==", and so on up to H5
4934 * [[PageCount]] macro
4935 * Added [[Icon(image)]] macro and macro arguments
4936 * [[PageList(title-regex)]] macro
4937 * New help system (set of help pages describing all features)
4940 * Create complete URL for "Clear message" link
4941 * Inline code spans needed cgi.escape
4942 * Better fix for Python 1.6 "re" problems
4943 * Fix for uppercase extensions in inline images ("foo.JPG")
4944 * Fixed colspan in RecentChanges
4945 * HR size is now limited to 8
4946 * "}" ends an URL pattern (fixes URLs right at the end of code displays)
4948 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4949 Version 0.3 (2000-10-25)
4952 * Check for inline images with InterWiki links (Spam:eggs.gif)
4953 * New config variable "allow_extended_names", which enables markup for
4954 wiki names containing ANY character like this: ["any chars"]
4955 * New config variable "html_head"
4956 * New macro [[SystemInfo]]
4957 * Added inline code ("{{{" and "}}}" on the same line)
4958 * Support for new config variable "max_macro_size"
4961 * Don't treat sequences with a double colon (CPP::Namespace) as an
4963 * The local part of InterWiki links is now correctly URL-escaped
4964 * Quickfix for a bug in 1.6's regular expressions
4965 * Fixed "SpamSpamSpam" bug (multiple entries in word list)
4966 * Anchor names get quoted in WordIndex and TitleIndex
4967 * Filtering of filenames in page_list() corrected
4968 * Escape &, <, > when sending the editor
4969 * Final(?) fix for japanese wiki names
4971 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4972 Version 0.2 (2000-08-26)
4975 * When saving, a datestamp saved in the form and that of the file are
4976 compared now; so, accidently saving over changes of other people is
4977 not possible anymore (saving still needs file locking though, for
4979 * if the directory "backup" exists in the data dir, pages are saved
4980 there before a new version is written to disk
4981 * Removed the "Reset" button from EditPage
4982 * Added "Reduce editor size" link
4983 * Added Latin-1 WikiNames (JürgenHermann ;)
4984 * Speeded up RecentChanges by looking up hostnames ONCE while saving
4985 * Show at most 14 (distinct) days in RecentChanges
4986 * Added icons for common functions, at the top of the page
4987 * Added a printing preview (no icons, etc.)
4988 * Added bracketed (external) URLs
4989 * Added support for quoted URLs ("http://...")
4990 * Added styles for :visited links to CSS
4991 * Embed image if an URL ends in .gif/.jpg/.png
4992 * No markup detection in code sections
4993 * Grey background for code sections
4994 * Added handling for numbered lists
4995 * the edit textarea now grows in width with the browser window
4996 (thanks to Sebastian Dau�for that idea)
4997 * Added page info (revision history) and viewing of old revisions
4998 * Added page diff, and diff links on page info
4999 * Added InterWiki support (use "wiki:WikiServer/theirlocalname"; the list
5000 of WikiServers is read from "data/intermap.txt")
5001 * Added "normal" InterWiki links
5002 * Added "action=raw" to send the raw wiki markup as text/plain (e.g. for
5003 backup purposes via wget)
5006 * Removed an exception when saving empty pages
5007 * Fixed bold nested into emphasis ('''''Bold''' Italic'')
5009 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5010 Version 0.1 (2000-07-29)
5012 Improvements over PikiPiki 1.62:
5013 * Moved configuration to "moin_config.py"
5014 * Added "edit_rows" setting
5015 * Added navigation bar
5016 * Improved HTML formatting
5017 * Added timing comment (page created in xx secs)
5018 * ISO date and time formats by default
5019 * Formatted RecentChanges with HTML tables
5020 * Uppercase letters for the index pages
5021 * Added PythonPowered logo
5024 * Javadoc comments now get formatted properly in {{{ }}} sections
5025 * Remove \r from submitted pages (so we get PORTABLE wiki files)
5026 * chmod(0666) eases manual changes to the data dir
5028 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------