Foswiki archived release

See Release Dates for the complete list of available releases.

Highlights of this release

• Major new Foswiki release
• Hundreds enhancements relative to 1.1.9
• Incorporates 49 "Feature proposals"
• After in-depth security review, improvements made in 15 areas.
• UTF-8 Core. Foswiki now uses utf-8 internally for comprehensive international character set support.
• Foswiki virtual machine updated to Ubuntu LTS 14.04.

See ReleaseNotes02x00 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• Old EditTablePlugin has been replaced by the EditRowPlugin.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.
• Greatly 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

As of this release,

• Czech, Danish, French, German and Italian are >99% complete.
• Traditional Chinese is >93% complete.
• Dutch, Norwegian, and Portuguese (Brazil) are 70-88% complete.
• Other languages are 60% complete or lower.
• A new translation has been added: Klingon, 95% translated.

For more details on translation status, see Foswiki:Community.TranslationTeam and Foswiki's Weblate translation server. Foswiki is now using continuous translation, so contributions at any time are very helpful. 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

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

File	GPG	MD5	Description
Foswiki-2.0.0.tgz	GPG	MD5	tar gz version of Foswiki
Foswiki-2.0.0.zip	GPG	MD5	zip version of Foswiki
Foswiki-2.0.0-vmware.zip	GPG	MD5	VM Image (instructions)

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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

Known issues

The following issues have been reported against FoswikiRelease02x00x00. Tasks in "Closed" or "Waiting for Release" state will be fixed in the next release.

Major issues of Foswiki, to be fixed in: 2.0.1

The following "urgent" issues have been marked for resolution in Foswiki 2.0.1

Id	Summary	Component	Current State
Item13510 8 years	Configure is incorrectly applying $FALSE and $TRUE defaults from Config.spec files distro:7e1f547ac375	Configure	Closed
Item13513 8 years	Configure extension installer overlays extension settings with defaults when upgrading an extension. distro:36aca0d6cf20	Configure	Closed
Item13516 8 years	bulk_copy.pl has fails to copy some webs, crashes copyng attachment revisions. Unusable. distro:ba0a5df61641 distro:79f8f8140b33 distro:d7be7af1f170 distro:45ca0dfcf5c6	FoswikiTools	Closed
Item13518 8 years	Extra scrollbar in Support.NatEditPlugin + PatternSkin distro:f53c99239bfb	NatEditPlugin, PatternSkin	Closed
Item13520 8 years	FORMFIELD macro fails to return text in a format that can be rendered. Workaround available. distro:5e785ef971bd	FORMFIELD	Closed
Item13538 8 years	Setting DISABLEDPLUGINS causes very noisy error log distro:bc1c0044b39f	FoswikiPlugins	Closed
Item13539 8 years	Review css deprecations documented as part of defunct Support.BaseSkin effort distro:41f3bf40195e	Documentation	Closed
Item13541 8 years	eachAttachment returns directory names with Support.PlainFileStore, breaks bulk_copy.pl distro:0f280bd552b8 distro:24f2b5f567c3	PlainFileStoreContrib	Closed
Item13547 8 years	Copy failed from system to Sandbox distro:0dc2dbd23357 distro:6f244121a7ac distro:e47335091956	PlainFileStoreContrib	Closed
Item13563 8 years	Crashes in Search, Foswiki.pm and Render.pm for cUID mapped from uft8 WikiName distro:8eeffefcc1bd	I18N, SEARCH, UserMapping	Closed
Item13565 8 years	Wide char in print error registering user with utf8 topic name and "mailprogram" email distro:fc117ad74992	FoswikiNet	Closed
Item13567 8 years	TML in dirty areas not rendered correctly distro:6208df8427e0 distro:86a5bdffef71	PageCache, TipsContrib	Closed
Item13568 8 years	tools/bulk_copy.pl: removes topic data prior to saving new revision; breaks attachments and history distro:a8b56f70bbb2	FoswikiTools	Closed
Item13575 8 years	WysiwygPlugin converts entities to utf-8, then cannot save topic on iso-8859-1 store distro:7e7e1118ddd6	WysiwygPlugin	Closed
Item13599 8 years	Extensions installer fails to check in existing files, silently omits them. distro:83229de0598c	Configure	Closed

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 2015-07-04
• Publish date 2015-07-04
• Built from github commit 703bdc8dbb