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Appendix D: TWiki Development Timeline

01-Sep-2004 Release (Cairo)

Major New Features

• Automatic upgrade script, and easier first-time installation
• Attractive new skins, using a standard set of CSS classes, and a skin browser to help you choose
• New easier-to-use save options
• Many improvements to SEARCH
• Improved support for internationalisation
• Better topic management screens
• More pre-installed Plugins: CommentPlugin, EditTablePlugin, RenderListPlugin, SlideShowPlugin, SmiliesPlugin, SpreadSheetPlugin, TablePlugin
• Improved Plugins API and more Plugin callbacks
• Better support for different authentication methods
• Many user interface and usability improvements
• And many, many more enhancements

01-Feb-2003 Release (Beijing)

• 18 Jan 2003 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Support for /bin/view/Web.TopicName topic view URL (besides the default /bin/view/Web/TopicName URL); useful for InterwikiPlugin links like TWiki:Codev.ReadmeFirst
• 31 Dec 2002 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Enhanced Plugin API to manipulate topic data with new functions in TWikiFuncModule: readTopicText, saveTopicText, setTopicEditLock, checkTopicEditLock
• 31 Dec 2002 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • New %NOAUTOLINK% setting in the TWikiPreferences to disable the auto-linking of WikiWords
• 29 Dec 2002 - TWiki:Main.AndreaSterbini, TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny, TWiki:Main.RichardDonkin, TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit
  • New Plugin hooks registrationHandler, beforeEditHandler, afterEditHandler, beforeSaveHandler, writeHeaderHandler, redirectCgiQueryHandler, getSessionValueHandler, setSessionValueHandler
• 30 Nov 2002 - TWiki:Main.RichardDonkin
  • Internationalization ('I18N') support for international characters in WikiWords, such as ISO-8859-15, KOI8-R - also supports Chinese, Japanese, etc.
• 25 Nov 2002 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Include previous topic revision with %INCLUDE{ "OtherTopic" rev="1.2" }%
• 15 Nov 2002 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • The Go box understands also URLs, useful for special TWikiSkins handling
• 08 Nov 2002 - TWiki:Main.ColasNahaboo, TWiki:Main.RichardDonkin
  • In WebNotify, if only the WikiName is specified, the e-mail is taken from the user's home page; if the WikiName is a group name, a notification is sent to all members of the group
• 30 Oct 2002 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • New %NOP{}% variable in TWikiTemplates topic gets removed at topic creation time; useful to write protect template topics
• 28 Sep 2002 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • The %URLPARAM{}% variable in TWikiTemplates topic gets expanded at topic creation time; useful for dynamic content creation
• 28 Sep 2002 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • New $logDir introduced in TWiki.cfg to set the log directory
• 13 Sep 2002 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Renamed the Test web to Sandbox
• 03 Aug 2002 - TWiki:Main.RichardDonkin
  • New setlib.cfg file in the bin directory to set the TWiki library path
• 02 Aug 2002 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny, TWiki:Main.RyanFreebern
  • Support for outbound HTTP proxy when including URLs based on new %PROXYHOST and %PROXYPORT% settings in the TWikiPreferences
• 12 Jul 2002 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • The page logo is configurable with new %WIKILOGOIMG%, %TWIKILOGOURL% and %WIKILOGOALT% variables in TWikiPreferences; replacing $wikiHomeUrl in TWiki.cfg
• 12 Jun 2002 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • New %WIKITOOLNAME% variable in TWikiPreferences; replacing $wikiToolName in TWiki.cfg
• 31 May 2002 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • New %EDITBOXSTYLE% preferences variable which sets the edit box width automatically to the window width
• 17 May 2002 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • New %URLENCODE{}% variable to encodes a string for using in a URL parameter, e.g. %URLENCODE{"spaced name"}% returns spaced%20name
• 17 May 2002 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • FormattedSearch can be nested
• 05 May 2002 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • New user home pages are now based on the NewUserTemplate, replacing the /twiki/templates/register.tmpl template file
• 26 Apr 2002 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • New markup to exclude heading from a %TOC% table of content, e.g. ---+!! This heading is not shown in a TOC
• 13 Apr 2002 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Form and script to create new webs, see ManagingWebs
• 01 Apr 2002 - TWiki:Main.JohnTalintyre
  • New data storage framework that lets you use external RCS commands for revision control, or a new native Perl implementation that does not depend on the external RCS commands
• 28 Mar 2002 - TWiki:Main.RichardDonkin
  • Fixed IE5/IE6-specific problem whereby going back from preview sometimes removes all edit changes
• 23 Mar 2002 - TWiki:Main.JohnTalintyre
  • New AND search; with regular expression enabled, use the semicolon ";" as the AND operator in %SEARCH{}% variable, FormattedSearch and WebSearch
• 21 Mar 2002 - TWiki:Main.ColasNahaboo, TWiki:Main.RichardDonkin
  • Fixed cache issue where the edit page showed outdated content
• 06 Mar 2002 - TWiki:Main.RichardDonkin
  • Improved statistics script which uses less memory to process large log files
• 09 Jan 2002 - TWiki:Main.JohnTalintyre
  • Variables inside <verbatim> tags are no longer expanded

01-Dec-2001 Release (Athens)

• 25 Oct 2001 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Added FormattedSearch to %SEARCH{}% variable for database like reporting.

01-Sep-2001 Release

• 30 Aug 2001 - TWiki:Main.JohnTalintyre
  • Easier install for Windows, including auto detection in TWiki.cfg
• 30 Aug 2001 - TWiki:Main.JohnTalintyre
  • Ability to move attachments between topics, see FileAttachments
• 21 Aug 2001 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Convert to XHTML 1.0 function: first step to XHTML-ifying TWiki
• 26 Jun 2001 - TWiki:Main.JohnTalintyre
  • Category information to forms using the TWikiMetaData format, see TWikiForms
• 07 Jun 2001 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • New topic templates as topics instead of templates. Customize by editing the topic. Retired notedited.tmpl, notext.tmpl and notwiki.tmpl templates. More in TWikiTemplates.
• 07 Jun 2001 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • New %TOPICLIST{"format"}% and %WEBLIST{"format"}% variables to get a formatted topic index and web index, respectively. More in TWikiVariables.
• 01 Jun 2001 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • New %URLPARAM{"name"}% variable to query URL parameters. More in TWikiVariables.
• 01 Jun 2001 - TWiki:Main.AndreaSterbini
  • API to extend TWiki, see TWikiPluginAPI
• 01 Jun 2001 - TWiki:Main.KlausWriessnegger, TWiki:Main.AndreaSterbini
  • Forms to change/reset/install passwords, see ChangePassword & ResetPassword
• 01 May 2001 - TWiki:Main.AndreaSterbini
  • The TWikiAdminGroup (or other group) can be enabled as a SuperAdminGroup. Members have browser edit access to all locked topics.
• 01 May 2001 - TWiki:Main.JohnTalintyre
  • Meta information format, see TWikiMetaData
• 01 May 2001 - TWiki:Main.JohnTalintyre
  • Attachment under revision control See FileAttachment
• 01 May 2001 - TWiki:Main.JohnTalintyre
  • Ability to rename/move topics, ManagingTopics
• 27 Mar 2001 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • The table syntax has been enhanced to (i) render | *bold* | cells as table headers, (ii) render space padded cells |   center aligned   | and |   right aligned |, (iii) span multiple columns using | empty cells |||. More in TextFormattingRules.
• 25 Mar 2001 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Security fix Questionable files like PHP scripts (executables) and .htaccess files that are attached to a topic get a .txt suffix appended to the file name. See also TWiki:Codev/FileAttachmentFilterSecurityAlert
• 28 Feb 2001 - TWiki:Main.AndreaSterbini, TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • New Wiki rule for headings, i.e. ---++ My Title; and new %TOC% variable to build a table of content from headings in a topic. More in TWikiVariables.
• 28 Feb 2001 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • New Wiki rule to specify arbitrary text for external links (i.e. [[http://TWki.org][TWiki]]) and internal links (i.e [[WikiSyntax][syntax]]). More in TWikiVariables.
• 28 Feb 2001 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • New Wiki rule for named anchors, e.g. links within a topic. Define a named anchor with #MyAnchor at the beginning of a line, and link to it with [[#MyAnchor]]. More in TWikiVariables.
• 25 Feb 2001 - TWiki:Main.NicholasLee, TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Use Net::SMTP module instead of sendmail if installed.
• 01 Feb 2001 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Added <verbatim> ... </verbatim> tags to show source code "as is". Unlike the <pre> ... </pre> tags, it also shows <, >, & characters "as is".
• 01 Feb 2001 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Fixed TWiki:Codev/CreateLinkToAttachedFileBug.
• 21 Jan 2001 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Added a "Minor change, don't notify" checkbox in preview. More in DontNotify.
• 21 Jan 2001 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Added Bold Fixed formatting using double-equal signs, e.g. write ==Bold Fixed== to get Bold Fixed.
• 20 Jan 2001 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Format changed of %GMTIME{"..."}% and %SERVERTIME{"..."}% variables. Format is now "$hour:$min" instead of "hour:min". More in TWikiVariables. Attention: Check your existing topics when you upgrade TWiki!
• 18 Jan 2001 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • WebChanges, WebSearch and e-mail notification indicate also the revision number of a topic (i.e. 18 Jan 2001 16:43 r1.5), or NEW for a new topic (i.e. i.e. 18 Jan 2001 16:43 NEW).
• 16 Jan 2001 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • New variable %STARTINCLUDE% and %STOPINCLUDE% variables to control what gets included of a topic. More in TWikiVariables.
• 16 Jan 2001 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • TWiki skins Define a different page layout with a customized header and footer layout, i.e. a print skin for a printable view of a topic. More in TWikiSkins and TWiki:Codev/TWikiSkins.
• 07 Jan 2001 - TWiki:Main.StanleyKnutson
  • Better error handling when saving a topic.
• 05 Jan 2001 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • View authorization based on groups. Define who is allowed to see a TWiki web. More in TWikiAccessControl and TWiki:Codev/AuthenticationBasedOnGroups.
• 05 Dec 2000 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Improved include handling. Infinite recursion of includes are prevented; new variables %BASEWEB%, %INCLUDINGWEB%, %BASETOPIC% and %INCLUDINGTOPIC% to have more control over include handling. More in TWikiVariables and TWiki:Codev/IncludeHandlingImprovements.
• 03 Dec 2000 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • New noheader="on" switch in %SEARCH{...}% to suppress table header. More in TWikiVariables.

01-Dec-2000 Release

• 03 Nov 2000 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Flag $doHidePasswdInRegistration in wikicfg.pm to hide plain text password in registration email.
• 01 Nov 2000 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • New variable %VAR{"NAME" web="Web"}% to get web specific preferences. More in TWikiVariables.
• 01 Nov 2000 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Added a "Cancel" link in edit that releases the edit lock.
• 23 Oct 2000 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Authorization based on groups. Define fine graned control who is allowed to change or create topics. More in TWikiAccessControl and TWiki:Codev/AuthenticationBasedOnGroups.
• 05 Oct 2000 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Remember user by IP address so that view "knows" the user once authenticated in edit. More in TWikiUserAuthentication.
• 26 Sep 2000 - TWiki:Main.AlWilliams, TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Fixed TWiki:Codev/UppercaseAttachments bug and added png image support.
• 26 Sep 2000 - TWiki:Main.HaroldGottschalk, TWiki:Main.AndreaSterbini, TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Allow nesting of variables, i.e. %INCLUDE{"%TWIKIWEB%.TWikiWebsTable"}%. More in TWiki:Codev/BetterTWikiTagTemplateProcessing.
• 20 Sep 2000 - TWiki:Main.ManpreetSingh
  • New -q switch in mailnotify to suppress all normal output.
• 19 Sep 2000 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Fixed TWiki:Codev/AttachedNotificationLinksBug.
• 18 Sep 2000 - TWiki:Main.ManpreetSingh, TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Added forced internal links. Write [[text formatting FAQ]] to get the link text formatting FAQ that points to topic TextFormattingFAQ.
• 19 Aug 2000 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Ref-By link searches all webs (not just the current web.)
• 16 Aug 2000 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • New TWikiPreferences variables %HTTP_EQUIV_ON_VIEW% , %HTTP_EQUIV_ON_EDIT% and %HTTP_EQUIV_ON_PREVIEW% that define the <meta http-equiv="..."> meta tags for the TWiki templates. This can be used for example to set a document expiration time.
• 29 Jul 2000 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • New variables %GMTIME{"..."}% and %SERVERTIME{"..."}% . More in TWikiVariables.
• 23 Jul 2000 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Changed include syntax from %INCLUDE{"Web/TopicName.txt"}% to %INCLUDE{"Web.TopicName"}% . Legacy syntax still supported.
• 23 Jul 2000 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • BookView search allows you show a set of topics for easy printing.
• 22 Jul 2000 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • More forgiving syntax for *bold*, italic, __bold italic__ and fixed , where it is not necessary anymore to have a trailing space before .,;:?! characters.
• 22 Jul 2000 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Split the TWiki.Main web into TWiki.Main (users, company data) and TWiki.TWiki (TWiki related documentation, registration)
• 07 Jul 2000 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Added an "Release edit lock" checkbox in preview to let other people edit the topic immediately without the one hour lock.
• 07 Jul 2000 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Fixed problem of losing carriage returns when editing topics with KDE KFM browser or W3M browser.
• 21 Jun 2000 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Fixed problem that a page redirect on some server environments is not working (host name is needed in URL).
• 21 Jun 2000 - TWiki:Main.CrisBailiff, TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Fixed security issue to prevent a server side %INCLUDE% of arbitrary files.
• 29 May 2000 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • New %GMTIME% variable that shows the current GM time.
• 28 May 2000 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Lock warning shows remaining lock time in minutes.
• 15 May 2000 - TWiki:Main.PeterFokkinga
  • Each topic can have its own template file. TWikiTemplates has more.
• 02 May 2000 - TWiki:Main.KevinKinnell, TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Advanced search features like search multiple webs; sort by topic name / modified time / author; limit the number of results returned. More in TWikiVariables.

01-May-2000 Release

• 21 Apr 2000 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • New TWikiVariables %HTTP_HOST% , %REMOTE_ADDR% , %REMOTE_PORT% and %REMOTE_USER% .
• 21 Apr 2000 - TWiki:Main.JohnAltstadt, TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • TWikiRegistration is done separately for Intranet use (depends on remote_user) or Internet use (depends on .htpasswd file).
• 20 Mar 2000 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Uploading a file (topic file attachment) will optionally create a link to the uploaded file at the end of the topic. The preference variable %ATTACHLINKBOX% controls the default state of the link check box in the attach file page.
• 11 Mar 2000 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Better security with taint checking ( Perl -T option )
• 25 Feb 2000 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • New preference variables %EDITBOXWIDTH% and %EDITBOXHEIGHT% to specify the edit box size.
• 25 Feb 2000 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Edit preferences topics to set TWiki variables. There are three level of preferences Site-level (TWikiPreferences), web-level (WebPreferences in each web) and user-level preferences (for each of the TWikiUsers). With this, discontinue use of server side include of wikiwebs.inc , wikiwebtable.inc , weblist.inc , webcopyright.inc and webcolors.inc files.
• 11 Feb 2000 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • New variable %SCRIPTSUFFIX% / $scriptSuffix containing an optional file extension of the TWiki Perl script. Templates have been changed to use this variable. This allows you to rename the Perl script files to have a file extension like for example ".cgi".
• 11 Feb 2000 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • New variable %SCRIPTURLPATH% / $scriptUrlPath containing the script URL without the domain name. Templates have been changed to use this variable instead of %SCRIPTURL% . This is for performance reasons.
• 07 Feb 2000 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Changed the syntax for server side include variable from %INCLUDE:"filename.ext"% to %INCLUDE{"filename.ext"}% . (Previous syntax still supported. Change was done because of inline search syntax)
• 07 Feb 2000 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Inline search. New variable %SEARCH{"str" ...}% to show a search result embedded in a topic text. TWikiVariables has more on the syntax. Inline search combined with the category table feature can be used for example to create a simple bug tracking system.
• 04 Feb 2000 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Access statistics. Each web has a WebStatistics topic that shows monthy statistics with number of topic views and changes, most popular topics, and top contributors. (It needs to be enabled, TWikiDocumentation has more.)
• 29 Jan 2000 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Fixed bug where TWiki would not initialize correctly under certain circumstances, i.e. when running it under mod_perl. Sub initialize in wiki.pm did not handle $thePathInfo correctly.
• 24 Jan 2000 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Fixed bug where an email address starting with a WikiName was rendered as an internal Wiki link instead of an email address, i.e. SomeWikiName@somewhere.test .
• 10 Jan 2000 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • No more escaping for '%' percent characters. (Number of consecutive '%' entered and displayed is identical.)
• 03 Oct 1999 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Limit the number of revisions shown at the bottom of the topic. Example
    Topic TWikiHistory . { ..... Diffs r1.10 > r1.9 > r1.8 > r1.7 >... }
    Additional revisions can be selected by pressing the >... link.

01-Sep-1999 Release

• 31 Aug 1999 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Fixed Y2K bug. (Date in year 2000 had wrong format.)
• 08 Aug 1999 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • New text formatting rule for creating tables. Text gets rendered as a table if enclosed in " " vertical bars. Example line as it is written and how it shows up
• 03 Aug 1999 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Online registration of new user using web form in TWikiRegistration. Authentication of users.
• 22 Jul 1999 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Flags $doLogTopic* in wikicfg.pm to selectively log topic view, edit, save, rdiff, attach, search and changes to monthly log file.
• 21 Jul 1999 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Flag $doRemovePortNumber in wikicfg.pm to optionally remove the port number from the TWiki URL. Example www.some.domain:1234/twiki gets www.some.domain/twiki .
• 15 Jul 1999 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Search path for include files in %INCLUDE:"file.inc"% variable. Search first in the current web, then in parent data directory. Useful to overload default include text in the data directory by web-specific text, like for example webcopyright.inc text.
• 07 Jul 1999 - TWiki:Main.ChristopheVermeulen
  • Link a plural topic to a singular topic in case the plural topic does not exist. Example TestVersion / TestVersions , TestPolicy / TestPolicies , TestAddress / TestAddresses , TestBox / TestBoxes .

01-Jul-1999 Release

• 23 Jun 1999 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • New TextFormattingRules to write bold italic text by enclosing words with double underline characters.
• 23 Jun 1999 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Separate wiki.pm into configuration (wikicfg.pm) and TWiki core (wiki.pm) . This is to ease the upgrade of TWiki installations, it also allows customized extensions to TWiki without affecting the TWiki core.
• 21 May 1999 - TWiki:Main.DavidWarman
  • Externalize copyright text at the bottom of every page into a web-specific webcopyright.inc file. This is to easily customize the copyright text.
• 20 May 1999 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Added meta tag so that robots index only /view/ of topics, not /edit/, /attach/ e.t.c. Tag <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX">
• 20 May 1999 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • New variables %WIKIHOMEURL% (link when pressing the icon on the upper left corner) and %WIKITOOLNAME% (the name of the wiki tool TWiki ).
• 15 Apr 1999 - TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Topic locking Warn user if a topic has been edited by an other person within one hour. This is to prevent contention, e.g. simultaneous topic updates.
• 26 Mar 1999 -