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Foswiki.org is upgraded, and unless major issues are reported, this will become 1.1.5. We hope to release 1.1.5 the beginning of next week.

If you run a public Foswiki site, you need to be aware of - and take action against - spammers. This post describes how.

Foswiki.org has been upgraded to 1.1.5 Beta 2. Release Candidate 1 will be released soon.

Early beta of Foswiki 1.1.5 is running on foswiki.org.

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That's right, on Redhat Enterprise and Centos, it’s now just as easy to install Foswiki and its ~300 plugins as it is on Debian.
* Debian repository for Foswiki
* Centos6 and RHEL6 repository for Foswiki
This means you can now manage your Enterprise Foswiki using the same package management tools as the rest of the operating system.

Release 1.1.5 targeted for March 31st 2012

Support.SecurityAlert-CVE-2012-1004 with hotfix is available and we will be following up with Release 1.1.5. It will be a security focused release, picking up a number of bug fixes, and a small number of minor enhancements. The anticipated timeline is:
* Feature freeze: 5th of March
* String freeze: 10th of March
* Build release candidate: 20th of March
* Release - 31 of March

Please help

We need developer help to close out the Tasks.ReleaseBlocker tasks, and do a triage of any open tasks to pull fixes into 1.1.5. And translators need to be prepared to update the strings. The User Registration messages have all been converted to use MAKETEXT.

Branch of 1.2 soon

There is still some discussion going on, but initial plans are to branch 1.2 from trunk. We really need some help updating the Development.FeatureProposals, setting the PlannedFor field to 1.2 or 2.0. Stay tuned to the blog for updates.

Details of 1.1.5 and 1.2 / 2.0 releases are found in the Development.ReleasePlan

January saw the foswiki project give 4 more people commit access to the source code YAY, we're still growing :). 23 Extensions were updated in January and a huge amount of work was done on the Core code for foswiki 1.1 and 2.0 - noteably, unifying the Extensions.UnitTestContrib to remove the double work maintaining release and development tests, user information caching and statistics script fixes, and many more...

Foswiki is now over 3 years old, and its still an extremely active project: Congratulations and thankyou!

The Foswiki Association’s Board has just elected the new Office holders:
* Chairman: Sven Dowideit
* Vice Chairman: Crawford Currie
* Treasurer: Oliver Krueger
As the new chairman, I hope to continue the great work that Crawford did in guiding our foundation so far, and take the opportunity I have to thank Kenneth for the work he did the last 2 years, and for the experience he has passed on to the Board in general.

For 2012, I have suggested that we work on improving our communications both within our community and towards the outside world – for example by developing more microblogging tools like the Extension News, and then creating a regular newsletter from those feeds. Given that foswiki is a do-ocracy, that means I just volunteered myself to building some more tools for foswiki.org, and then to write newsletters.

In case you’re still reading this, the Board has a question for you – we now have 1,385 euros in the bank, is there anything we could use this money for that would positively impact on the community, its growth and visibility?

Have a happy and productive 2012