Foswiki 2.1.4 RC1

Highlights of this maintenance release

• Contains 21 fixes relative to 2.1.3
• Fixes security issues and some minor cosmetic issues

See ReleaseNotes02x01 for complete release notes.

For users

• Rendering issues with EditRowPlugin resolved

For administrators:

• Several cosmetic configure issues resolved.

Foswiki 2.1.3

Highlights of this maintenance release

• Contains 81 fixes relative to 2.1.2 including 21 enhancements.
• New release of JQuery.
• Fixes several performance and security issues.

See ReleaseNotes02x01 for complete release notes.

For users

• Several performance fixes improves Foswiki's responsiveness.
• A user contributed WebSideBar toggle button can be enabled. This renders a small "hamburger" icon to
  restore the side bar when viewing Foswiki on a small device.
• Several markup issues when using the Wysiwyg editor have been resolved.

For administrators:

• A new System.PendingRegistrations page shows registrations awaiting
  validation and/or approval.
• A potential major data loss issue was detected for sites upgrading
  from Foswiki 1.x related to Unicode DataForm field names. This
  release provides a workaround.
• Improvements in bootstrap for certain Nginx, Apache, and BSD
  platforms and configurations.
• Improvements in the Email configuration Wizard to better detect /
  support SSL Certificates.
• The vmware virtual machine image has been updated to the Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS release.

Foswiki 2.1.3 RC1

Highlights of this maintenance release

• Contains 81 fixes relative to 2.1.2 including 21 enhancements.
• New release of JQuery.
• Fixes several performance and security issues.

See ReleaseNotes02x01 for complete release notes.

For users

• Several performance fixes improves Foswiki's responsiveness.
• A user contributed WebSideBar toggle button can be enabled. This renders a small "hamburger" icon to
  restore the side bar when viewing Foswiki on a small device.
• Several markup issues when using the Wysiwyg editor have been resolved.

For administrators:

• A new System.PendingRegistrations page shows registrations awaiting
  validation and/or approval.
• A potential major data loss issue was detected for sites upgrading
  from Foswiki 1.x related to Unicode DataForm field names. This
  release provides a workaround.
• Improvements in bootstrap for certain Nginx, Apache, and BSD
  platforms and configurations.
• Improvements in the Email configuration Wizard to better detect /
  support SSL Certificates.

Foswiki 2.1.3 Beta2

Highlights of this maintenance release

• Contains 81 fixes relative to 2.1.2 including 21 enhancements.
• New release of JQuery.
• Fixes several performance and security issues.

See ReleaseNotes02x01 for complete release notes.

For users

• Several performance fixes improves Foswiki's responsiveness.
• A user contributed WebSideBar toggle button can be enabled. This renders a small "hamburger" icon to
  restore the side bar when viewing Foswiki on a small device.
• Several markup issues when using the Wysiwyg editor have been resolved.

For administrators:

• A new System.PendingRegistrations page shows registrations awaiting
  validation and/or approval.
• A potential major data loss issue was detected for sites upgrading
  from Foswiki 1.x related to Unicode DataForm field names. This
  release provides a workaround.
• Improvements in bootstrap for certain Nginx, Apache, and BSD
  platforms and configurations.
• Improvements in the Email configuration Wizard to better detect /
  support SSL Certificates.

Foswiki 2.1.3 Beta1

Highlights of this maintenance release

• Contains 71 fixes relative to 2.1.2 including 22 enhancements.
• New release of JQuery.
• Fixes several performance and security issues.

See ReleaseNotes02x01 for complete release notes.

For users

• Several performance fixes improves Foswiki's responsiveness.
• A user contributed WebSideBar toggle button can be enabled. This renders a small "hamburger" icon to
  restore the side bar when viewing Foswiki on a small device.
• Several markup issues when using the Wysiwyg editor have been resolved.

For administrators:

• A new System.PendingRegistrations page shows registrations awaiting
  validation and/or approval.
• A potential major data loss issue was detected for sites upgrading
  from Foswiki 1.x related to Unicode DataForm field names. This
  release provides a workaround.
• Improvements in bootstrap for certain Nginx, Apache, and BSD
  platforms and configurations.
• Improvements in the Email configuration Wizard to better detect /
  support SSL Certificates.

Foswiki 2.1.2

Highlights of this maintenance release

• Contains 58 fixes relative to Foswiki 2.1.0 (13 marked urgent, and 21 enhancements)b
• New release of JQuery

This fixes one urgent issue since Foswiki 2.1.1.

See ReleaseNotes02x01 for complete release notes.

For administrators:

• CGI Sessions for guest users are no longer required for User Registration and Password reset to be functional. Disabling guest sessions can reduce the server workload.
• The "refresh cache" link has been removed from guest views. Bots were visiting the refresh link resulting in higher server workloads.
• New Virtual Machine image, upgraded to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Translation status

As of this release,

• French, German, Italian, Traditional Chinese and Ukrainian are 100% complete.
• Czech, Danish are >95% complete.

For more details on translation status, see 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 [email protected].

Foswiki 2.1.1

Highlights of this maintenance release

• Contains 57 fixes (13 marked urgent, and 21 enhancements)
• New release of JQuery

See ReleaseNotes02x01 for complete release notes.

For administrators:

• CGI Sessions for guest users are no longer required for User Registration and Password reset to be functional. Disabling guest sessions can reduce the server workload.

Translation status

As of this release,

• French, German, Italian, Traditional Chinese and Ukrainian are 100% complete.
• Czech, Danish are >95% complete.

For more details on translation status, see 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 [email protected].

Known Issues

A significant cache issue was found shortly after release. Item14061. Foswiki 2.1.2 will be built within the week to address this issue.

Foswiki 2.1.1 RC2 Release Candidate

FoswikiRelease02x01x01_RC2

Item000: Tag Release 2.1.1-RC2

Foswiki 2.1.1 RC1 Release Candidate

FoswikiRelease02x01x01_RC1

Item000: Tag 2.1.1 Release Candidate

Foswiki 2.1.0

Highlights of this release

• Contains 37 fixes and 14 enhancements
• Implements 7 new features.
  • New "concatenate" feature allows incremental building of complex macros.
  • Attachment names allow embedded spaces without renaming.
  • Improved international character set support.

See ReleaseNotes02x01 for complete release notes.

For administrators:

• New user registration topic features:
  • Simplified tailoring
  • Support for multiple custom registration topics with custom new user topic templates.

Foswiki 2.1.0 has an upgrade package available which can be used to upgrade in-place from a Foswiki 2.0.x system.

Translation status

As of this release,

• French, German, Italian, Traditional Chinese and Ukrainian are 100% complete.
• Czech, Danish are >95% complete.

For more details on translation status, see Translation Team 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 [email protected].

Features of Foswiki 2.1

A few of the feature proposals that have been implemented include:

• AddConcatOptionToAttrs: Add +”more” and key+”more” options to macro arguments. This allows much cleaner and easier to read macro development
• CompleteMIMESupportInEmail: Wrap all outgoing mails into uniform and safe MIME envelope. This permits full Unicode support in email messages.
• CustomNewUserTemplates: Enhance register script to specify a templatetopic param instead of hard-coded ‘NewUserTemplate’. This also restructures the UserRegistration page to allow multiple custom registration pages. For example, using separate “VendorRegistration” and “EmployeeRegistration” pages.
• DeprecateHTTPandHTTPS: Deprecate and restrict System.VarHTTP and System.VarHTTPS macros due to security concerns
• MakeItEasierToBlockSystemWebGuestAccess: Simplify hiding the System web documentation.
• SplitTopicAttachmentNameFilters: Separate the topic and attachment name filters, allow spaces in attachment names, remove colon from Topic names.

In addition to these features.

• Sorting of tables and topics with non-ASCII data is significantly improved. The data is passed to NFKD normalization before sorting. Using perl Locales would still be preferable, but it requires the very latest perl version for proper operation, and this solution is a reasonable compromise.
• Foswiki 2.1 implements Unicode NFC normalization of external data. This provides for better compatibility with users who upload attachments from a NFD normalized file system, such as Apple OS X clients, or when hosting Foswiki on an OS X file system.

For the complete list of enhancements and bug fixes, see Release Notes 02x01.

For installation information, see the System Requirements and the Installation Guide.

Please report issues at http://foswiki.org/Tasks.

We are looking forward to an interesting 2016 in the Foswiki space. There are several feature proposals under review which could be quite transforming for the next major Foswiki release.

George Clark