Foswiki archived release

See Release Dates for the complete list of available releases.

Highlights of this maintenance release

• Contains 48 fixes since 2.1.4, 5 of which are enhancements.

See ReleaseNotes02x01 for complete release notes.

For users

• Corrects an issue where Excel is unable to open a Foswiki page that required authentication.
• Corrects an issue where some formfields would reset to default when special characters are in the selection.
• Corrects an issue where history of topics is unavailable if the underlying .txt file was edited.

For administrators:

• Several cosmetic configure issues resolved.
• UpdatesPlugin was failing to show the extensions needing update.
• Correct broken ScriptURL when the Forwarded header contains a list of proxies.
• Init script has been added for the FreeBSD platform.
• Improved compatibility with latest Perl 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-2.1.5.tgz	GPG	MD5	tar gz version of Foswiki
Foswiki-2.1.5.zip	GPG	MD5	zip version of Foswiki
Foswiki-2.1.5-vmware.7z	GPG	MD5	VM Image (instructions)

Upgrade packages

These packages can be used to upgrade Foswiki Release 2.0.0 or newer. See #Upgrade_Instructions for further information

Upgrade packages must not be used to upgrade older releases.

File	GPG	MD5	Description
Foswiki-upgrade-2.1.5.tgz	GPG	MD5	upgrade tar gz version of Foswiki
Foswiki-upgrade-2.1.5.zip	GPG	MD5	upgrade zip version of Foswiki

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Other downloads/installers

• https://github.com/foswiki/distro/releases/tag/FoswikiRelease02x01x05
• https://sourceforge.net/projects/foswiki/files/foswiki/2.1.5/

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 FoswikiRelease02x01x05. Tasks in "Closed" or "Waiting for Release" state will be fixed in the next release.

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

• See System.UpgradeGuide for details on upgrading from older versions of Foswiki
• See System.SystemRequirements for the latest System Requirements.
• Be sure to take a backup!
• The upgrade packages excludes files "commonly" modified, for example, WebHome, WebPreferences, AdminGroup, etc. If your installation has modified other topics, or template files, those updates will be lost!
• If you use tar, then you can extract the upgrade package on top of your installation by using: (Be sure to run this as your web server user to avoid changing file ownership.)

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

• Similarly, if you are using the zip upgrade package, then

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

• After upgrade, restart the web server, clear the foswiki page cache, clear your browser cache.
• If things are not fully working, verify file system permissions and ownership. See System.InstallationGuide#Step_2:_Confirm_file_and_directory_ownership_and_permissions

If upgrading from Foswiki 2.0.0, all working/tmp/cgisess_* files must be deleted. All users will have to log in after the upgrade. (This change was introduced in Foswiki 2.0.1.)

If upgrading from Foswiki 2.1.2 or earlier, all files in working/registration_approvals should be removed. Pending registrations will be lost.

If upgrading from 2.1.3, Before upgrade, the pub/System/JQueryPlugin directory can be backed up and removed. A large number of the js and css files have been relocated. This optional step will clean up a number stale files.

If your site has configured the Expert {Sessions}{CookieRealm} setting, this release will now apply the realm to all of the cookies generated by Foswiki. This might require some users to clear their cookies for proper operation.

The file lib/Foswiki/Aux/MuteOut.pm was incompatible with Windows and has been renamed. This file can be removed.

After upgrading from Foswiki 2.0.x, you should visit configure, enable "Expert" options, and visit the Security and Authentication > Environment tab, and "Reset" the "Name Filter" and "Upload Filter" to their default settings, in order to apply updated defaults.

The following files may be removed after upgrading from Foswiki 2.0.x to Foswiki 2.1.0:

• pub/System/UserRegistration/js.js
• pub/System/DefaultUserRegistration/validate.js
• ReleaseNotes02x00.html

Upgrading from Foswiki 1.x.

Caution:There are a number of significant changes that require action before migrating data from release 1.0 and 1.1. Carefully review the release notes for ReleaseNotes02x00

• If you have any DataForms using Unicode (non A-Za-z0-9) formfield names, you should enable the expert configuration setting: $Foswiki::cfg{LegacyFormfieldNames}
• JavaScript is now required for many operations.
• New default PlainFileStore cannot coexist with existing RCS revision files. If new store is selected, a conversion script must be run.
• Foswiki now defaults to utf-8, Before importing data, you must either match previous encoding, or convert the data from the old store to the new character encoding.
• Empty DENY rules must be changed to ALLOW * wildcards. Or the old feature must be enabled in the configuration.
• Sessions now use IP Matching by default. If your site supports roaming / mobile users or is behind a proxy, this must be disabled.
• Installation process has changed. Do not visit bin/configure as your first URL. Go directly to your default view url and then follow the link to configure.
• Foswiki no longer ships with CPAN perl modules. Install CPAN prerequisites using your local system package manager, cpanm, or CpanContrib
• Perl 5.8.8 is the minimum perl release. Perl 5.20 or higher is recommended for best performance.
• Foswiki now predominantly uses 'single quotes' in generated HTML, and "double quotes" in macros. The change to singe quotes in generated HTML may require some rework of Foswiki macros.
• Some versions of CGI should be avoided (especially 4.10-4.13) to prevent corruption of international characters in topics when utf-8 is enabled.

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 2018-01-22
• Publish date 2018-01-22
• Built from github commit 136475857f