1 ikiwiki (3.20110122) unstable; urgency=low
3 If you have custom CSS that uses "#feedlinks" or "#blogform", you will
4 need to change it to instead use ".feedlinks" and ".blogform"
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Jan 2011 14:34:54 -0400
8 ikiwiki (3.20100515) unstable; urgency=low
10 There are two significant changes to the page.tmpl template in this version.
11 If you have a locally modified version of that template, you will need to
12 update it at least to contain the following in the HTML <head>:
15 <TMPL_IF FORCEBASEURL><base href="<TMPL_VAR FORCEBASEURL>" /><TMPL_ELSE>
16 <TMPL_IF BASEURL><base href="<TMPL_VAR BASEURL>" /></TMPL_IF>
20 Also, the footer should be wrapped in <TMPL_UNLESS DYNAMIC> ... </TMPL_UNLESS>
22 There is a new "comment()" pagespec, that can be used to match a
23 comment on a page. It is recommended it be used instead of the old
24 method of using a pagespec such as "internal(comment_*)" to match
25 things that looked like comments. The old pagespec will now also match
26 comments that are held for moderation; likely not what you want.
28 There have also been some changes to the style.css in this version,
29 particularly to support the new openid selector. If you have a modified
30 version, of style.css, updating it (or moving it to local.css) is
33 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 May 2010 21:47:08 -0400
35 ikiwiki (3.20100427) unstable; urgency=low
37 This version of ikiwiki has a lot of changes that you need to know about.
39 Now you can include customised versions of templates in the source
40 of your wiki. (For example, templates/page.tmpl.) When these templates
41 are changed, ikiwiki will automatically rebuild pages that use them.
43 Allowing untrusted users to upload attachments with the ".tmpl"
44 extension is not recommended, as that allows anyone to change
47 The --getctime switch is renamed to --gettime, and it also gets the
48 file modification time. And it's a lot faster (when using git). But
49 the really important change is, you don't have to remember to use this
50 switch. Now ikiwiki will do it when it needs to.
52 At last, the "tagged()" pagespec only matches tags, not regular wikilinks.
53 If your wiki accidentially relied on the old, buggy behavior, you might
54 need to change its pagespecs to use "link()".
56 Many of your wishes have been answered: Now tag pages can automatically be
57 created when new tags are used. This feature is enabled by default if you
58 have configured a tagbase. It can be turned on or off using the
59 tag_autocreate setting.
61 These changes may also affect some users:
63 * The title_natural sort method (as used by the inline directive, etc)
64 has been moved to the new sortnaturally plugin, which is not enabled
65 by default since it requires the Sort::Naturally perl module.
67 * The add_templates option has been removed from the underlay plugin.
68 If you used this option, you can instead use templates/ subdirectories
69 inside underlay directories added by the add_underlays option.
71 Due to the above and other changes, all wikis need to be rebuilt on
72 upgrade to this version. If you listed your wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist
73 this will be done automatically when the Debian package is upgraded. Or
74 use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
76 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0400
78 ikiwiki (3.20091017) unstable; urgency=low
80 To take advantage of significant performance improvements, all
81 wikis need to be rebuilt on upgrade to this version. If you
82 listed your wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done
83 automatically when the Debian package is upgraded. Or use
84 ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
86 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:48:59 -0400
88 ikiwiki (3.1415926) unstable; urgency=low
90 In order to fix a performance bug, all wikis need to be rebuilt on
91 upgrade to this version. If you listed your wiki in
92 /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically when the
93 Debian package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force
96 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:24:43 -0400
98 ikiwiki (3.13) unstable; urgency=low
100 The `ikiwiki-transition deduplinks` command introduced in the
101 last release was buggy. If you followed the NEWS file instructions
102 and ran it, you should run `ikiwiki -setup` to rebuild your wiki
105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 May 2009 13:04:02 -0400
107 ikiwiki (3.12) unstable; urgency=low
109 You may want to run `ikiwiki-transition deduplinks your.setup`
110 after upgrading to this version of ikiwiki. This command will
111 optimise your wiki's saved state, removing duplicate information
112 that can slow ikiwiki down.
114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 06 May 2009 00:25:06 -0400
116 ikiwiki (3.01) unstable; urgency=low
118 If your wiki uses git, and you have a `diffurl` configured in
119 its setup file, you should be aware that gitweb has stopped
120 supporting the url form commonly used for the `diffurl`.
122 You can change your setup to use the newer gitweb url form:
124 http://git.example.com/gitweb.cgi?p=wiki.git;a=blobdiff;f=[[file]];h=[[sha1_to]];hp=[[sha1_from]];hb=[[sha1_commit]];hpb=[[sha1_parent]]
126 The changes from the old form are the addition of the `hpb` parameter,
127 and the change to the value used for the `hb` parameter.
129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 05 Jan 2009 18:18:05 -0500
131 ikiwiki (3.00) unstable; urgency=low
133 The 3.0 release of ikiwiki changes several defaults and finishes
134 some transitions. You will need to modify your wikis to work with
135 ikiwiki 3.0. A document explaining the process is available
136 in </usr/share/doc/ikiwiki/html/tips/upgrade_to_3.0.html>
138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:14:18 -0500
140 ikiwiki (2.62) unstable; urgency=low
142 TexImg standard preamble changed
144 The teximg plugin now has a configurable LaTeX preamble.
145 As part of this change the `mchem` LaTeX package has been removed from
146 the default LaTeX preamble as it wasn't included in many TeX installations.
148 The previous behaviour can be restored by adding the following to your
151 teximg_prefix => '\documentclass{scrartcl}
152 \usepackage[version=3]{mhchem}
154 \usepackage{amsfonts}
159 In addition, the rendering mechanism has been changed to use `dvipng` by
160 default, if available.
162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Aug 2008 15:00:40 -0400
164 ikiwiki (2.60) unstable; urgency=low
166 Admin preferences are moving from the web interface to the setup file.
167 There are three new options in the setup file: `locked_pages`, `banned_users`,
168 and `allowed_attachments`. The admin prefs page can still be used, but
169 that's deprecated, and the prefs will be hidden if a value is not already
170 set. If a value is set in the web interface, you're encouraged to move that
171 setting to your setup file now, since version 3.0 will remove the deprecated
172 admin prefs web interface.
174 Also, the layout of the setup file has changed in a significant way in this
175 release. Old setup files will continue to work, but new features, like the
176 new websetup interface, require a new format setup file. You can convert
177 old setup files into the new format by running
178 `ikiwiki-transition setupformat ikiwiki.setup`
180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:02:14 -0400
182 ikiwiki (2.52) unstable; urgency=low
184 All wikis need to be rebuilt on upgrade to this version. If you listed your
185 wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically when the
186 Debian package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:10:05 -0400
190 ikiwiki (2.49) unstable; urgency=low
192 The search plugin no longer uses hyperestraier. Instead, to use it you
193 will now need to install xapian-omega, and the Search::Xapian,
194 HTML::Scrubber, and Digest::SHA1 perl modules. Ie,
195 `apt-get install xapian-omega libsearch-xapian-perl libhtml-scrubber-perl libdigest-sha1-perl`
197 Also, wikis that use the search plugin will need to be rebuilt,
198 since the search form has changed. This will not be done automatically,
199 but can be done by running `ikiwiki-mass-upgrade` as root, or
200 running `ikiwiki -setup` on individual setup files.
202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:29:28 -0400
204 ikiwiki (2.48) unstable; urgency=high
206 If you allowed password based logins to your wiki, those passwords were
207 stored in cleartext in the userdb. To guard against exposing users'
208 passwords, I recommend you install the Authen::Passphrase perl module, and
209 then run `ikiwiki-transition hashpassword /path/to/srcdir` to replace all
210 existing cleartext passwords with strong (blowfish) hashes.
212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 May 2008 14:39:34 -0400
214 ikiwiki (2.46) unstable; urgency=low
216 There were some significant template changes in ikiwiki 2.42 (and 1.33.5).
217 If you have locally modified versions of the templates, they need to be
218 updated. Most notably, the editpage.tmpl has a new FIELD-SID added to it,
219 without which web editing will fail.
221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 May 2008 14:30:14 -0400
223 ikiwiki (2.40) unstable; urgency=low
225 ikiwiki now has an new syntax for preprocessor directives, using the
230 This new syntax no longer relies on spaces to distinguish between
231 wikilinks and preprocessor directives. Thus, wikilinks can use spaces
232 in their link text, and preprocessor directives without arguments (such
233 as "toc") need not use a trailing space.
235 To enable the new syntax, set prefix_directives to true in your ikiwiki
236 config. For backward compatibility with existing wikis,
237 prefix_directives currently defaults to false. In ikiwiki 3.0,
238 prefix_directives will default to true, and wikis which have not yet
239 converted to the new syntax will need to set prefix_directives to false
240 in their setup files.
242 To convert your wiki to the new syntax, ikiwiki provides a new script
245 Even with prefix_directives disabled, ikiwiki now allows an optional '!'
246 prefix on preprocessor directives (but still requires a space). Thus, a
247 directive which uses a '!' prefix and contains a space will work with
248 ikiwiki 2.40 and newer, regardless of the value of prefix_directives.
249 This allows the underlay to work with all ikiwikis.
251 -- Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 16:26:47 -0800
253 ikiwiki (2.30) unstable; urgency=low
255 Ever feel that ikiwiki's handling of RecentChanges wasn't truely in the
256 spirit of a wiki compiler? Well, that's changed. The RecentChanges page is
257 now a static page, not a CGI. Users can subscribe to its rss/atom feeds.
258 Custom RecentChanges pages can be easily set up that display only changes
259 to a subset of pages, or only changes by a subset of users.
261 All wikis need to be rebuilt on upgrade to this version. If you listed your
262 wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically when the
263 Debian package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
265 With this excellent new RecentChanges support, the mail notification system
266 is its age (and known to be variously buggy and underimplemented for
267 various VCSes), and so ikiwiki's support for sending commit mails is REMOVED
268 from this version. If you were subscribed to commit mails, you should be
269 able to accomplish the same thing by subscribing to a RecentChanges feed.
271 The "notify" field in setup files is no longer used, and
272 silently ignored. You may want to remove it from your setup file.
274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:18:31 -0500
276 ikiwiki (2.20) unstable; urgency=low
278 The template plugin has begin to htmlize the variables passed to templates.
279 This is normally what you want, but to get the old behavior and get at the
280 raw value, you can use `<TMPL_VAR raw_variable>` in a template.
282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Dec 2007 16:04:43 -0500
284 ikiwiki (2.16) unstable; urgency=low
286 Many of the pages in ikiwiki's basewiki have been moved and renamed in this
287 release, to avoid the basewiki including pages with names like "blog".
288 Redirection pages have been left behind for these moved pages temporarily,
289 and will be removed later.
291 If you use the calendar plugin, ikiwiki is now smarter and your nightly
292 cron job to update the wiki doesn't need to rebuild everything. Just pass
293 --refresh to ikiwiki in the cron job and it will update only pages that
294 contain out of date calendars.
296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Dec 2007 16:04:43 -0500
298 ikiwiki (2.14) unstable; urgency=low
300 This version of ikiwiki is more picky about symlinks in the path leading
301 to the srcdir, and will refuse to use a srcdir specified by such a path.
302 This was necessary to avoid some potential exploits, but could potentially
303 break (semi-)working wikis. If your wiki has a srcdir path containing a
304 symlink, you should change it to use a path that does not.
306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Nov 2007 14:57:57 -0500
308 ikiwiki (2.9) unstable; urgency=low
310 Since ikiwiki 2.0 was released, some limitiations have been added to what
311 ikiwiki considers a WikiLink. In short, if there are any spaces in between
312 the brackets, ikiwiki no longer considers it to be a WikiLink. If your wiki
313 contains things meant to be WikiLinks that contain spaces, you will need to
314 fix them, by replacing the spaces with underscores.
316 WikiLink have always been documented to not contain spaces, but bugs in
317 ikiwiki made it treat some text with spaces as WikiLinks. Most of these
318 bugs were fixed in version 2.2, and a final bug was fixed in this 2.9
319 release. These fixes are necessary to avoid ambiguity between
320 WikiLinks and PreProcessorDirectives. Apologies for any inconvenience
321 these bugs (and their fixes) may have caused.
323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Sep 2007 14:37:18 -0400
325 ikiwiki (2.6) unstable; urgency=low
327 In this version the rst plugin allows raw html to be embedded in rst files.
328 As long as the htmlscrubber is enabled, this should be safe. If you are
329 using the rst plugin without the htmlscrubber in a publically writable wiki,
330 you should turn on the htmlscrubber.
332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Jul 2007 18:37:22 -0400
334 ikiwiki (2.5) unstable; urgency=low
336 Due to some config changes in this version, wrappers need to be rebuilt on
337 upgrade. If you listed your wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be
338 one automatically when the Debian package is upgraded.
340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Jul 2007 17:54:40 -0400
342 ikiwiki (2.1) unstable; urgency=low
344 Some wikis need to be rebuilt on upgrade to this version, due to changes to
345 page templates and the style sheet. If you listed your wiki in
346 /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically when the Debian
347 package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Apr 2007 15:50:36 -0400
351 ikiwiki (2.00) unstable; urgency=low
353 With the 2.0 release of ikiwiki, some major changes have been made to the
354 default configuration:
356 * The 'usedirs' setting is enabled by default. This *will* break all URLs
357 to wikis that did not have 'usedirs' turned on before, unless you follow
358 the procedure described at <http://ikiwiki.info/tips/switching_to_usedirs>,
359 or edit your setup file to turn usedirs off:
362 * OpenID logins are now enabled by default, if the Net::OpenID::Consumer
363 perl module is available. Password logins are also still enabled
364 by default. If you like, you can turn either OpenID or password logins
365 off via the 'disable_plugins' setting.
367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Apr 2007 19:00:43 -0400
369 ikiwiki (1.51) unstable; urgency=low
371 Some wikis need to be rebuilt on upgrade to this version, due to changes to
372 page layout and the style sheet. If you listed your wiki in
373 /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically when the Debian
374 package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Apr 2007 15:50:36 -0400
378 ikiwiki (1.50) unstable; urgency=low
380 Permalinks and guids in rss and atom feeds for wikis using the usedirs
381 options will change in this release. If you have already enabled usedirs,
382 you may need to take steps to avoid flooding aggregators.
384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2007 16:08:46 -0400
386 ikiwiki (1.49) unstable; urgency=low
388 Third-party plugins that use htmlpage() or abs2rel() to generate links
389 may need changes to support the new "usedirs" option.
391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 01 Apr 2007 16:20:09 -0400
393 ikiwiki (1.47) unstable; urgency=low
395 Due to a security fix, wikis that have the htmlscrubber enabled can no
396 longer use the meta plugin to insert html link and meta tags.
398 Some special case methods have been added for safely including stylesheets,
399 and for doing openid delegation. See the meta plugin docs for details.
401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2007 14:18:40 -0400
403 ikiwiki (1.45) unstable; urgency=low
405 Wikis need to be rebuilt on upgrade to this version. If you listed your wiki
406 in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically when the Debian
407 package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Mar 2007 23:02:52 -0500
411 ikiwiki (1.44) unstable; urgency=low
413 The htmllink() function has changed slightly and plugins that use it may
414 need to change how they call it. This function's first three parameters
415 are unchanged, but additional options are now passed using named
416 parameters. If you used htmllink with more than 3 parameters, you will
417 need to change it. The plugin interface version has been increased to 1.02
418 to reflect this change.
420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Feb 2007 21:10:12 -0500
422 ikiwiki (1.42) unstable; urgency=low
424 The anonok setting in config files has been removed. To enable
425 httpauth support on your wiki, you should now enable the anonok plugin,
428 Third-party plugins that use pagespec_match() should be updated to pass
429 the new third parameter (from) to that function. This is needed for the
430 new relative glob matching to work.
432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2007 16:57:59 -0500
434 ikiwiki (1.34) unstable; urgency=low
436 The httpauth setting in config files has been removed. To enable
437 httpauth support on your wiki, you should now enable the httpauth plugin,
440 This release includes OpenID support that is enabled through the openid
441 plugin. I recommend turning this on to make it easier for users to sign
444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2006 20:53:05 -0500
446 ikiwiki (1.32) unstable; urgency=low
448 There is a change to the plugin interface in this version. Any plugins that
449 modify data in %links should pass scan => 1 when registering the hook that
452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2006 00:13:12 -0400
454 ikiwiki (1.29) unstable; urgency=low
456 Wikis need to be rebuilt on upgrade to this version. If you listed your wiki
457 in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically when the Debian
458 package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
460 There is a change to the plugin interface in this version. Plugins that use
461 %renderedfiles will need to be updated, as the hash's values are now arrays
462 of rendered files. Plugins that cause a page to render additional files
463 should use the new will_render function to register the files.
465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Oct 2006 17:27:56 -0400
467 ikiwiki (1.22) unstable; urgency=low
469 Due to some changes in the CSS, wikis should be rebuilt on upgrade to this
470 version. If you listed your wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done
471 automatically when the Debian package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild
474 If you have modified versions of ikiwiki's html templates, you will need
475 to update your templates to link to the stylesheet file using
476 "<TMPL_VAR BASEURL>style.css" instead of the old method which used
479 There have also been some changes to the plugin interface:
480 Any plugins that use santize, htmlize, or format hooks will need to be
481 updated for this version of ikiwiki since these hooks have been changed
482 to use named parameters.
484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2006 15:33:12 -0400
486 ikiwiki (1.13) unstable; urgency=low
488 The GlobList format which was used for specifiying sets of pages, has been
489 replaced with a new, more expressive PageSpec format. While GlobLists will
490 continue to work, that format is deprecated, and you are encouraged to use
491 PageSpecs from now on, and also to change any GlobLists in your wiki to
492 PageSpecs. See the new PageSpec page for details.
494 You will need to rebuild your wiki when upgrading to this version. If you
495 listed your wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically
496 when the Debian package is upgraded. Or use ikiiki-mass-rebuild to force a
499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Aug 2006 18:29:51 -0400
501 ikiwiki (1.11) unstable; urgency=low
503 Some changes to tags in this release, due to a new tag plugin. If you have
504 been using the meta plugin to tag pages, you'll want to enable the tag
505 plugin too, and change things like this:
507 [[meta link="foobar"]]
513 The new tags will appear at page footers, and are also easier to type.
515 There have also been some changes to the plugin interface, particularly the
516 interface of pagetemplate hooks has changed. See the changelog for details.
518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Jul 2006 17:03:09 -0400
520 ikiwiki (1.8) unstable; urgency=low
522 If your wiki is configured with a setup file, you should modify it to
523 stop setting the "plugin" list directly, and instead add or remove plugins
524 via the add_plugins and disable_plugins lines. For example, if you had:
526 plugin => [qw{inline smiley search}],
528 Change it to these lines, which disables the default htmlscrubber plugin
529 and adds the two additional plugins:
531 add_plugins => [qw{smiley search}],
532 disable_plugins => [qw{htmlscrubber}],
534 Making this change makes your ikiwiki setup file more future-proof since
535 new default plugins will be automatically used.
537 You will need to rebuild your ikiwiki wrappers when upgrading to this
538 version. If you listed your wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be
539 done automatically when the Debian package is upgraded. Or use
540 ikiiki-mass-rebuild --refresh to force a refresh.
542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Jul 2006 16:59:29 -0400
544 ikiwiki (1.1) unstable; urgency=low
546 There have been several configuration changes in this release of ikiwiki:
548 The --svn and --no-svn switches are removed, instead you should use
549 --rcs=svn or --no-rcs. ikiwiki setup files that set svn => 1 should
550 be changed to set rcs => "svn"; if your setup file sets svn => 0
551 then change it to use rcs => "" to disable svn.
553 The --hyperestraier switch is gone too. To enable searching, turn on the
554 search plugin, by passing --plugin=search or through the plugin setting in
557 The --sanitize and --no-sanitize switches are also gone, replaced with the
558 htmlscrubber plugin. This plugin is enabled by default, to disable it,
559 use --disable-plugin=htmlscrubber, or modify the plugin setting in the
562 Discussion pages are enabled by default, but if your wiki is configured
563 with a setup file, you need to edit it to keep them enabled on upgrade
564 to this version. Add a line reading:
567 You will need to rebuild your wiki when upgrading to this version.
568 If you listed your wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done
569 automatically when the Debian package is upgraded. Or use
570 ikiiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild.
572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 May 2006 14:13:59 -0400
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