X-Git-Url: https://sipb.mit.edu/gitweb.cgi/ikiwiki.git/blobdiff_plain/1e62e4f87fdf1441afab47a60aaf60b9246a5876..32008f8fce2d4c513693f58b28314e08ed631cfe:/debian/NEWS diff --git a/debian/NEWS b/debian/NEWS index b24196732..22513cc4a 100644 --- a/debian/NEWS +++ b/debian/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,238 @@ +ikiwiki (3.01) unstable; urgency=low + + If your wiki uses git, and you have a `diffurl` configured in + its setup file, you should be aware that gitweb has stopped + supporting the url form commonly used for the `diffurl`. + + You can change your setup to use the newer gitweb url form: + + 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]] + + The changes from the old form are the addition of the `hpb` parameter, + and the change to the value used for the `hb` parameter. + + -- Joey Hess Mon, 05 Jan 2009 18:18:05 -0500 + +ikiwiki (3.00) unstable; urgency=low + + The 3.0 release of ikiwiki changes several defaults and finishes + some transitions. You will need to modify your wikis to work with + ikiwiki 3.0. A document explaining the process is available + in + + -- Joey Hess Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:14:18 -0500 + +ikiwiki (2.62) unstable; urgency=low + + TexImg standard preamble changed + + The teximg plugin now has a configurable LaTeX preamble. + As part of this change the `mchem` LaTeX package has been removed from + the default LaTeX preamble as it wasn't included in many TeX installations. + + The previous behaviour can be restored by adding the following to your + ikiwiki setup: + + teximg_prefix => '\documentclass{scrartcl} + \usepackage[version=3]{mhchem} + \usepackage{amsmath} + \usepackage{amsfonts} + \usepackage{amssymb} + \pagestyle{empty} + \begin{document}', + + In addition, the rendering mechanism has been changed to use `dvipng` by + default, if available. + + -- Joey Hess Sun, 24 Aug 2008 15:00:40 -0400 + +ikiwiki (2.60) unstable; urgency=low + + Admin preferences are moving from the web interface to the setup file. + There are three new options in the setup file: `locked_pages`, `banned_users`, + and `allowed_attachments`. The admin prefs page can still be used, but + that's deprecated, and the prefs will be hidden if a value is not already + set. If a value is set in the web interface, you're encouraged to move that + setting to your setup file now, since version 3.0 will remove the deprecated + admin prefs web interface. + + Also, the layout of the setup file has changed in a significant way in this + release. Old setup files will continue to work, but new features, like the + new websetup interface, require a new format setup file. You can convert + old setup files into the new format by running + `ikiwiki-transition setupformat ikiwiki.setup` + + -- Joey Hess Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:02:14 -0400 + +ikiwiki (2.52) unstable; urgency=low + + All wikis need to be rebuilt on upgrade to this version. If you listed your + wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically when the + Debian package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild. + + -- Joey Hess Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:10:05 -0400 + +ikiwiki (2.49) unstable; urgency=low + + The search plugin no longer uses hyperestraier. Instead, to use it you + will now need to install xapian-omega, and the Search::Xapian, + HTML::Scrubber, and Digest::SHA1 perl modules. Ie, + `apt-get install xapian-omega libsearch-xapian-perl libhtml-scrubber-perl libdigest-sha1-perl` + + Also, wikis that use the search plugin will need to be rebuilt, + since the search form has changed. This will not be done automatically, + but can be done by running `ikiwiki-mass-upgrade` as root, or + running `ikiwiki -setup` on individual setup files. + + -- Joey Hess Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:29:28 -0400 + +ikiwiki (2.48) unstable; urgency=high + + If you allowed password based logins to your wiki, those passwords were + stored in cleartext in the userdb. To guard against exposing users' + passwords, I recommend you install the Authen::Passphrase perl module, and + then run `ikiwiki-transition hashpassword /path/to/srcdir` to replace all + existing cleartext passwords with strong (blowfish) hashes. + + -- Joey Hess Thu, 29 May 2008 14:39:34 -0400 + +ikiwiki (2.46) unstable; urgency=low + + There were some significant template changes in ikiwiki 2.42 (and 1.33.5). + If you have locally modified versions of the templates, they need to be + updated. Most notably, the editpage.tmpl has a new FIELD-SID added to it, + without which web editing will fail. + + -- Joey Hess Tue, 06 May 2008 14:30:14 -0400 + +ikiwiki (2.40) unstable; urgency=low + + ikiwiki now has an new syntax for preprocessor directives, using the + prefix '!': + + [[!directive ...]] + + This new syntax no longer relies on spaces to distinguish between + wikilinks and preprocessor directives. Thus, wikilinks can use spaces + in their link text, and preprocessor directives without arguments (such + as "toc") need not use a trailing space. + + To enable the new syntax, set prefix_directives to true in your ikiwiki + config. For backward compatibility with existing wikis, + prefix_directives currently defaults to false. In ikiwiki 3.0, + prefix_directives will default to true, and wikis which have not yet + converted to the new syntax will need to set prefix_directives to false + in their setup files. + + To convert your wiki to the new syntax, ikiwiki provides a new script + ikiwiki-transition. + + Even with prefix_directives disabled, ikiwiki now allows an optional '!' + prefix on preprocessor directives (but still requires a space). Thus, a + directive which uses a '!' prefix and contains a space will work with + ikiwiki 2.40 and newer, regardless of the value of prefix_directives. + This allows the underlay to work with all ikiwikis. + + -- Josh Triplett Sat, 26 Jan 2008 16:26:47 -0800 + +ikiwiki (2.30) unstable; urgency=low + + Ever feel that ikiwiki's handling of RecentChanges wasn't truely in the + spirit of a wiki compiler? Well, that's changed. The RecentChanges page is + now a static page, not a CGI. Users can subscribe to its rss/atom feeds. + Custom RecentChanges pages can be easily set up that display only changes + to a subset of pages, or only changes by a subset of users. + + All wikis need to be rebuilt on upgrade to this version. If you listed your + wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically when the + Debian package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild. + + With this excellent new RecentChanges support, the mail notification system + is its age (and known to be variously buggy and underimplemented for + various VCSes), and so ikiwiki's support for sending commit mails is REMOVED + from this version. If you were subscribed to commit mails, you should be + able to accomplish the same thing by subscribing to a RecentChanges feed. + + The "notify" field in setup files is no longer used, and + silently ignored. You may want to remove it from your setup file. + + -- Joey Hess Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:18:31 -0500 + +ikiwiki (2.20) unstable; urgency=low + + The template plugin has begin to htmlize the variables passed to templates. + This is normally what you want, but to get the old behavior and get at the + raw value, you can use `` in a template. + + -- Joey Hess Sat, 08 Dec 2007 16:04:43 -0500 + +ikiwiki (2.16) unstable; urgency=low + + Many of the pages in ikiwiki's basewiki have been moved and renamed in this + release, to avoid the basewiki including pages with names like "blog". + Redirection pages have been left behind for these moved pages temporarily, + and will be removed later. + + If you use the calendar plugin, ikiwiki is now smarter and your nightly + cron job to update the wiki doesn't need to rebuild everything. Just pass + --refresh to ikiwiki in the cron job and it will update only pages that + contain out of date calendars. + + -- Joey Hess Sat, 08 Dec 2007 16:04:43 -0500 + +ikiwiki (2.14) unstable; urgency=low + + This version of ikiwiki is more picky about symlinks in the path leading + to the srcdir, and will refuse to use a srcdir specified by such a path. + This was necessary to avoid some potential exploits, but could potentially + break (semi-)working wikis. If your wiki has a srcdir path containing a + symlink, you should change it to use a path that does not. + + -- Joey Hess Mon, 26 Nov 2007 14:57:57 -0500 + +ikiwiki (2.9) unstable; urgency=low + + Since ikiwiki 2.0 was released, some limitiations have been added to what + ikiwiki considers a WikiLink. In short, if there are any spaces in between + the brackets, ikiwiki no longer considers it to be a WikiLink. If your wiki + contains things meant to be WikiLinks that contain spaces, you will need to + fix them, by replacing the spaces with underscores. + + WikiLink have always been documented to not contain spaces, but bugs in + ikiwiki made it treat some text with spaces as WikiLinks. Most of these + bugs were fixed in version 2.2, and a final bug was fixed in this 2.9 + release. These fixes are necessary to avoid ambiguity between + WikiLinks and PreProcessorDirectives. Apologies for any inconvenience + these bugs (and their fixes) may have caused. + + -- Joey Hess Sat, 29 Sep 2007 14:37:18 -0400 + +ikiwiki (2.6) unstable; urgency=low + + In this version the rst plugin allows raw html to be embedded in rst files. + As long as the htmlscrubber is enabled, this should be safe. If you are + using the rst plugin without the htmlscrubber in a publically writable wiki, + you should turn on the htmlscrubber. + + -- Joey Hess Sun, 29 Jul 2007 18:37:22 -0400 + +ikiwiki (2.5) unstable; urgency=low + + Due to some config changes in this version, wrappers need to be rebuilt on + upgrade. If you listed your wiki in /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be + one automatically when the Debian package is upgraded. + + -- Joey Hess Sun, 29 Jul 2007 17:54:40 -0400 + +ikiwiki (2.1) unstable; urgency=low + + Some wikis need to be rebuilt on upgrade to this version, due to changes to + page templates and the style sheet. If you listed your wiki in + /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist this will be done automatically when the Debian + package is upgraded. Or use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild to force a rebuild. + + -- Joey Hess Thu, 26 Apr 2007 15:50:36 -0400 + ikiwiki (2.00) unstable; urgency=low With the 2.0 release of ikiwiki, some major changes have been made to the @@ -9,10 +244,10 @@ ikiwiki (2.00) unstable; urgency=low or edit your setup file to turn usedirs off: usedirs => 0, - * OpenID logins are now enabled by default. So ikiwiki now depends on the - Net::OpenID::Consumer perl module. Password logins are also still on by - default. If you like, you can turn either OpenID or password logins off - via the 'disable_plugins' setting. + * OpenID logins are now enabled by default, if the Net::OpenID::Consumer + perl module is available. Password logins are also still enabled + by default. If you like, you can turn either OpenID or password logins + off via the 'disable_plugins' setting. -- Joey Hess Sun, 29 Apr 2007 19:00:43 -0400