Foswiki archived release

See Release Dates for the complete list of available releases.

Highlights of this release

• Major new Foswiki release
• 257 bugfixes, and 129 enhancements relative to 1.1.9
• Incorporates 47 "Feature proposals"
• After in-depth security review, improvements made in 15 areas.

See ReleaseNotes01x02 for complete release notes.

For users:

• New "Natural Edit" TML editor helps users learn the Topic Markup Language
• New "block indent" TML markup ( Multiple of 3 spaces, :(colon) (space) indented text )
• HomePagePlugin adds individualized homepage on login.
• More realistic edit "preview" includes active links.
• SubscribePlugin allows one-click subscribe for topic change notifications
• Old EditTablePlugin has been replaced by the EditRowPlugin. This plugin provides enhanced capabilities and client-side sorting of tables.
• Improved support for international character sets.

For administrators:

• New pluggable Store backend, and Plain File store available: higher performing and eliminates use of RCS.
• New pluggable ACL processing with Read only and Admin only access settings
• Simpler initial installation and bootstrap of settings.
• internal admin login can be eliminated, avoiding use of shared passwords.
• New configure interface requires JavaScript
• New command-line configuration tool available
• UpdatesPlugin alerts admin when updated extensions are available.
• FastCGI and mod_perl supported "out of the box".
• Simpler web server configuration: No need to apply special protection to configure script.

Translation status Help Wanted!

As of this release,

• Italian translation is 100% complete
• French and Czech are >99% complete
• German is >97%
• Danish is >90%
• Other languages are 60% complete or lower.

For more details on translation status, see Foswiki:Community.TranslationTeam and Foswiki's Weblate translation server. Foswiki thanks the Translators for their Herculean efforts. If you are interesting in helping with the translation, please contact foswiki-translations@lists.sourceforge.net.

Download Foswiki 1.2.0_Beta_1 from sourceforge

GPG Signatures and MD5 checksums are provided for verifying the integrity of the files for the primary download packages.

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Foswiki-1.2.0_Beta_1.zip	GPG	MD5	zip version of Foswiki

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Other downloads/installers

None at this time

Getting help & providing feedback

Don't forget to use the upgrade or installation guides. If you need help, there are several options:

• The IRC channel on freenode
• foswiki-discuss mailing list
• Support forum
• Paid support

We want to hear from you! Especially if you have noticed a bug, have some ideas we could use, or just want to contribute:

• File a new task for bug reports
• Create, review or comment on feature proposals to help influence the future of Foswiki
• Chat with other users, developers, translators, and testers on our friendly IRC channel
• If E-mail is more your thing, try our foswiki-discuss mailing list

Known issues

The following issues have been reported against FoswikiRelease01x02x00Beta1. Tasks in "Closed" or "Waiting for Release" state will be fixed in the next Beta.

• Item13345 (Closed): "any" pragma is deprecated in CGI-4.14 - MailerContrib.pm was missed, needed fix.
• Item13351 (Closed): ACL Converter had left-over debug code, restricts topics processed tools/convertTopicSettings.pl only updates topics containing TestTopic in the topic name. Hotfix in the task item.
• Item13355 (Closed): Formfield titles not expanding macros - Country selector in user form broken.
• Item13357 (Closed): Configure issues installing older extensions - Some config.spec definitions cause crash.
• Item13358 (Closed): Extension installer fails with multiple Taint errors installing / removing extensions. (Only an issue if ASSERTS are enabled, and Taint::Runtime is installed).
• Item13359 (No Action Required): Crash in Configure/Query.pm after installing extension - Extension is usable after refreshing configure.
• Item13365 (Closed): forcenewrevision checkbox is not working

Upgrade Instructions

In-place upgrade to Foswiki Release 1.2.0 from older releases is not recommended. Install Foswiki 1.2.0 as a new release, configure, and then migrate data to the new installation.

• See System.UpgradeGuide01x02 for the latest upgrade information.
• See System.SystemRequirements01x02 for the latest System Requirements.

Installation

Please refer to the INSTALL.html which can be found the downloaded tgz/zip. It can be also found on Foswiki.org in the System.InstallationGuide

Upgrade Instructions

License

• This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
• This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
• See the GNU General Public License for more details, published at http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

Release Details

• Build date 2015-04-03
• Publish date 2015-04-03
• Built from github commit ea31bebaad