Foswiki archived release

See Release Dates for the complete list of available releases.

Download

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

File	GPG	MD5	Description
Foswiki-1.0.3.tgz	GPG	MD5	tar gz version of Foswiki
Foswiki-1.0.3.zip	GPG	MD5	zip version of Foswiki

Upgrade packages

If you already have an earlier version of Foswiki 1.0.X installed, you can extract an upgrade package on top of the installation. The major.minor part of the release should not be changed by an upgrade package.

Upgrade packages must not be used to upgrade older releases.

File	GPG	MD5	Description
Foswiki-upgrade-1.0.3.tgz	GPG	MD5	upgrade tar gz version of Foswiki
Foswiki-upgrade-1.0.3.zip	GPG	MD5	upgrade zip version of Foswiki

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Other downloads/installers

Other release packages

Platform	Version	File	Description
Linux, Windows	1.0.0 (plus some fixes from 1.0.2)	Virtual Machine image / software appliance for novices	An easy-to-setup software appliance for VMware or VirtualBox. Not recommended for professional installations.
Windows	1.0.0	Updated 26 Jan 2009 Foswiki-1.0.0-2-strawberry.exe	Foswiki v1.0.0-2 Windows installer (auto-setup) including Strawberry Perl, Apache 2.2 fixes Extension installation, installation to non-default dir and a few other things can be installed over an existing system - please backup first though

Linux	1.0.0 (plugins follow SVN)	Unofficial Debian packages repository for Foswiki and extensions	Foswiki v.1.0.0 and 105 Extensions with dependencies - for instructions follow the link. _Works for Debian and Ubuntu._
-	latest SVN or any release	Subversion based installs	Installs based on subversion: check out the latest version from the development trunk, or a specific release version

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
• 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

Installation

System requirements and general installation instructions — relevant for all platforms

Platform-specific installation instructions

Foswiki: Introduction

Foswiki is an enterprise collaboration and information sharing tool targeted for professional use in many types of companies—from small businesses to large organizations.

Foswiki is a wiki: a website with easily editable web pages. It looks like a normal web site but it encourages contributions, edits, updates, questions, and answers from its users. It's a powerful way of enabling a community to communicate asynchronously using intranet or public internet websites. Foswiki is simple to learn and use. It aims to provide a transparent way for you to publish and exchange your ideas with others over the web and eliminates the one-webmaster syndrome of outdated intranet content.

Foswiki supports storing structured data—name-value pairs—and provides advanced query tools that enable users without programming skills to build powerful yet simple applications to process information and support workflows. Developers can extend the functionality of Foswiki with plugins.

Foswiki is a fork from the TWiki project. Restrictions on the use of the TWiki brand resulted in many of its developers starting the Foswiki project. Foswiki is backwards compatible with all content from older TWiki installations.

Foswiki 1.1 ships with TWikiCompatibilityPlugin installed by default, thus if activated enables most extensions made for TWiki to work under Foswiki.

Foswiki is released under the GNU General Public License.

What's new — highlights:

• Foswiki 1.0 is built on a new platform called Foswiki Stand Alone which adds support for FastCGI and enables more optimized functionality in mod_perl and other similar runtime environments. Foswiki Stand Alone will also enable future features such as running Foswiki without a separate web server. You can ensure your applications and plugins will work properly on the new platform (and thus with any future capabilities dependent on the new architecture) by testing them out now with Foswiki 1.0.
• The PatternSkin has been given a facelift: The PatternSkin topic offers a choice of multiple themes, the sidebar can be placed either on the left or right, a frame can be added around the main content area, and a TWiki theme is available to make it easier for those upgrading from TWiki (dimensions such as the top bar size match the dimensions in the TWiki PatternSkin).
• The Advanced Search screen now supports a query-based search that can search meta data and field data associated with a topic.
• New section type "expandvariables" adds better control over macro expansion in topic templates. You can now create template topics with sections within which all macros are expanded.
• New "Copy topic" feature in the "More topic actions" tools.
• IF conditions has been expanded with new "isempty" test condition.
• viewfile script can be used as a webserver ErrorDocument enabling both more secure attachments and user focused error dialogs.

Security Updates

Foswiki is much more secure than TWiki 4.2.4:

• The Foswiki 1.0 has chosen to secure by default the powerful but also vulnerable URLPARAM macro against cross site scripting (XSS) attacks. URLPARAM now by default encodes a short list of unsafe characters '"<>% which eliminates most XSS possibilities within normal use of URLPARAM. This means that not only the distributed topics but also your existing topics are better protected against XSS.
• Functions QUERYPARAMS, ORIGURL (skin macro) are secured against XSS attacks. QUERYPARAMS, like URLPARAM, is now encoded with the new, safe encoding.
• Print preview link is no longer vulnerable to XSS attacks.
• Additional security fixes have been made, based on security audits performed by the Foswiki team.

Development statistics

• Roughly 200 bugs have been fixed since TWiki 4.2.3.
• 12 Enhancements have been added.
• More than 2800 checkins have been made to the Foswiki code repository since the start of the project.

Upgrading from an earlier version of Foswiki 1.0.X

To upgrade from an earlier 1.0.X version:

• Download the Foswiki upgrade package.
• Unpack it in a temporary directory.
• Remove any files you know you do not want overwritten. The Foswiki upgrade package does not include any files with preference settings or other configuration information.
• Take a backup of your running Foswiki 1.0.X (just in case).
• Copy all the files from the upgrade directory on top of your existing Foswiki 1.0.X installation.
• Run a chown -R apache:apache (replace apache with the username your web server runs as) to make sure all files are owned by the web server user (or by whatever user is appropriate for your installation).
• The upgrade package does not include Main.SitePreferences to avoid overwriting your settings. You should however remove FOSWIKI_LAYOUT_URL, FOSWIKI_STYLE_URL, FOSWIKI_COLORS_URL from FINALPREFERENCES in Main.SitePreferences
• In your LocalSite.cfg, change the setting {AccessibleENV} from TWIKI_ACTION to FOSWIKI_ACTION
• You should now run Foswiki 1.0.3.

Upgrading from TWiki 4.2

Foswiki is compatible with content of TWiki releases up to and including 4.2, as part of its design.

As part of the creation of the Foswiki project, the Foswiki community is evaluating all of the hundreds of extensions that are available for TWiki. All that are working are ported over to the Foswiki name space. Many of them are being enhanced through the removal of bugs and security vulnerabilities, resulting in better, more functional plugins for Foswiki. The most popular plugins are already ported and more are added every day.

If you are upgrading, please first read the version 1.0 release notes and follow the instructions in the UpgradeGuide. These two documents can also be found as HTML documents in the root of the distribution.

Resources

• Release notes
• UpgradeGuide
• Known issues
• Bug reports
• Support Requests
• SystemRequirements
• Foswiki consultants

cd /var/www/foswiki
tar --strip-components=1 -zxf /path/to/Foswiki-upgrade-2.x.x.tgz
cd tools
./configure --save

cd /var/www/foswiki
unzip -o /path/to/Foswiki-upgrade-2.x.x.zip
cd tools
./configure --save