Appendix B: TWiki Development Timeline
01-Feb-2003 Release (Beijing)
- 18 Jan 2003 - PeterThoeny
- 31 Dec 2002 - PeterThoeny
- Enhanced Plugin API to manipulate topic data with new functions in TWikiFuncModule:
readTopicText, saveTopicText, setTopicEditLock, checkTopicEditLock
- 31 Dec 2002 - PeterThoeny
- 29 Dec 2002 - AndreaSterbini, PeterThoeny, RichardDonkin, SvenDowideit
- New Plugin hooks
registrationHandler, beforeEditHandler, afterEditHandler, beforeSaveHandler, writeHeaderHandler, redirectCgiQueryHandler, getSessionValueHandler, setSessionValueHandler
- 30 Nov 2002 - RichardDonkin
- Internationalization ('I18N') support for international characters in WikiWords, such as ISO-8859-15, KOI8-R - also supports Chinese, Japanese, etc.
- 25 Nov 2002 - PeterThoeny
- Include previous topic revision with
%INCLUDE{ "OtherTopic" rev="1.2" }%
- 15 Nov 2002 - PeterThoeny
- The Go box understands also URLs, useful for special TWikiSkins handling
- 08 Nov 2002 - ColasNahaboo, RichardDonkin
- In WebNotify, if only the WikiName is specified, the e-mail is taken from the user's home page; if the WikiName is a group name, a notification is sent to all members of the group
- 30 Oct 2002 - PeterThoeny
- New
%NOP{}% variable in TWikiTemplates topic gets removed at topic creation time; useful to write protect template topics
- 28 Sep 2002 - PeterThoeny
- The
%URLPARAM{}% variable in TWikiTemplates topic gets expanded at topic creation time; useful for dynamic content creation
- 28 Sep 2002 - PeterThoeny
- New
$logDir introduced in TWiki.cfg to set the log directory
- 13 Sep 2002 - PeterThoeny
- Renamed the Test web to Sandbox
- 03 Aug 2002 - RichardDonkin
- New
setlib.cfg file in the bin directory to set the TWiki library path
- 02 Aug 2002 - PeterThoeny, RyanFreebern
- Support for outbound HTTP proxy when including URLs based on new
%PROXYHOST and %PROXYPORT% settings in the TWikiPreferences
- 12 Jul 2002 - PeterThoeny
- The page logo is configurable with new
%WIKILOGOIMG%, %TWIKILOGOURL% and %WIKILOGOALT% variables in TWikiPreferences; replacing $wikiHomeUrl in TWiki.cfg
- 12 Jun 2002 - PeterThoeny
- New
%WIKITOOLNAME% variable in TWikiPreferences; replacing $wikiToolName in TWiki.cfg
- 31 May 2002 - PeterThoeny
- New
%EDITBOXSTYLE% preferences variable which sets the edit box width automatically to the window width
- 17 May 2002 - PeterThoeny
- New
%URLENCODE{}% variable to encodes a string for using in a URL parameter, e.g. %URLENCODE{"spaced name"}% returns spaced%20name
- 17 May 2002 - PeterThoeny
- 05 May 2002 - PeterThoeny
- New user home pages are now based on the NewUserTemplate, replacing the
/twiki/templates/register.tmpl template file
- 26 Apr 2002 - PeterThoeny
- New markup to exclude heading from a
%TOC% table of content, e.g. ---+!! This heading is not shown in a TOC
- 13 Apr 2002 - PeterThoeny
- 01 Apr 2002 - JohnTalintyre
- New data storage framework that lets you use external RCS commands for revision control, or a new native Perl implementation that does not depend on the external RCS commands
- 28 Mar 2002 - RichardDonkin
- Fixed IE5/IE6-specific problem whereby going back from preview sometimes removes all edit changes
- 23 Mar 2002 - JohnTalintyre
- New AND search; with regular expression enabled, use the semicolon ";" as the AND operator in
%SEARCH{}% variable, FormattedSearch and WebSearch
- 21 Mar 2002 - ColasNahaboo, RichardDonkin
- Fixed cache issue where the edit page showed outdated content
- 06 Mar 2002 - RichardDonkin
- Improved statistics script which uses less memory to process large log files
- 09 Jan 2002 - JohnTalintyre
- Variables inside
<verbatim> tags are no longer expanded
01-Dec-2001 Release (Athens)
01-Sep-2001 Release
- 30 Aug 2001 - JohnTalintyre
- Easier install for Windows, including auto detection in
TWiki.cfg
- 30 Aug 2001 - JohnTalintyre
- 21 Aug 2001 - PeterThoeny
- Convert to XHTML 1.0 function: first step to XHTML-ifying TWiki
- 26 Jun 2001 - JohnTalintyre
- 07 Jun 2001 - PeterThoeny
- New topic templates as topics instead of templates. Customize by editing the topic. Retired
notedited.tmpl, notext.tmpl and notwiki.tmpl templates. More in TWikiTemplates.
- 07 Jun 2001 - PeterThoeny
- New
%TOPICLIST{"format"}% and %WEBLIST{"format"}% variables to get a formatted topic index and web index, respectively. More in TWikiVariables.
- 01 Jun 2001 - PeterThoeny
- New
%URLPARAM{"name"}% variable to query URL parameters. More in TWikiVariables.
- 01 Jun 2001 - AndreaSterbini
- 01 Jun 2001 - KlausWriessnegger, AndreaSterbini
- 01 May 2001 - AndreaSterbini
- 01 May 2001 - JohnTalintyre
- 01 May 2001 - JohnTalintyre
- 01 May 2001 - JohnTalintyre
- 27 Mar 2001 - PeterThoeny
- The table syntax has been enhanced to (i) render
| *bold* | cells as table headers, (ii) render space padded cells | center aligned | and | right aligned |, (iii) span multiple columns using | empty cells |||. More in TextFormattingRules.
- 25 Mar 2001 - PeterThoeny
- 28 Feb 2001 - AndreaSterbini, PeterThoeny
- New Wiki rule for headings, i.e.
---++ My Title; and new %TOC% variable to build a table of content from headings in a topic. More in TWikiVariables.
- 28 Feb 2001 - PeterThoeny
- New Wiki rule to specify arbitrary text for external links (i.e.
[[http://TWki.org][TWiki]]) and internal links (i.e [[WikiSyntax][syntax]]). More in TWikiVariables.
- 28 Feb 2001 - PeterThoeny
- New Wiki rule for named anchors, e.g. links within a topic. Define a named anchor with
#MyAnchor at the beginning of a line, and link to it with [[#MyAnchor]]. More in TWikiVariables.
- 25 Feb 2001 - NicholasLee, PeterThoeny
- Use
Net::SMTP module instead of sendmail if installed.
- 01 Feb 2001 - PeterThoeny
- Added
<verbatim> ... </verbatim> tags to show source code "as is". Unlike the <pre> ... </pre> tags, it also shows <, >, & characters "as is".
- 01 Feb 2001 - PeterThoeny
- 21 Jan 2001 - PeterThoeny
- Added a "Minor change, don't notify" checkbox in preview. More in DontNotify.
- 21 Jan 2001 - PeterThoeny
- Added Bold Fixed formatting using double-equal signs, e.g. write
==Bold Fixed== to get Bold Fixed.
- 20 Jan 2001 - PeterThoeny
- Format changed of
%GMTIME{"..."}% and %SERVERTIME{"..."}% variables. Format is now "$hour:$min" instead of "hour:min". More in TWikiVariables. Attention: Check your existing topics when you upgrade TWiki!
- 18 Jan 2001 - PeterThoeny
- WebChanges, WebSearch and e-mail notification indicate also the revision number of a topic (i.e. 18 Jan 2001 16:43 r1.5), or NEW for a new topic (i.e. i.e. 18 Jan 2001 16:43 NEW).
- 16 Jan 2001 - PeterThoeny
- New variable
%STARTINCLUDE% and %STOPINCLUDE% variables to control what gets included of a topic. More in TWikiVariables.
- 16 Jan 2001 - PeterThoeny
- TWiki skins Define a different page layout with a customized header and footer layout, i.e. a
print skin for a printable view of a topic. More in TWikiSkins and TWiki:Codev/TWikiSkins.
- 07 Jan 2001 - StanleyKnutson
- Better error handling when saving a topic.
- 05 Jan 2001 - PeterThoeny
- 05 Dec 2000 - PeterThoeny
- 03 Dec 2000 - PeterThoeny
- New
noheader="on" switch in %SEARCH{...}% to suppress table header. More in TWikiVariables.
01-Dec-2000 Release
- 03 Nov 2000 - PeterThoeny
- Flag
$doHidePasswdInRegistration in wikicfg.pm to hide plain text password in registration email.
- 01 Nov 2000 - PeterThoeny
- New variable
%VAR{"NAME" web="Web"}% to get web specific preferences. More in TWikiVariables.
- 01 Nov 2000 - PeterThoeny
- Added a "Cancel" link in edit that releases the edit lock.
- 23 Oct 2000 - PeterThoeny
- 05 Oct 2000 - PeterThoeny
- Remember user by IP address so that
view "knows" the user once authenticated in edit. More in TWikiUserAuthentication.
- 26 Sep 2000 - AlWilliams, PeterThoeny
- 26 Sep 2000 - HaroldGottschalk, AndreaSterbini, PeterThoeny
- 20 Sep 2000 - ManpreetSingh
- New -q switch in
mailnotify to suppress all normal output.
- 19 Sep 2000 - PeterThoeny
- 18 Sep 2000 - ManpreetSingh, PeterThoeny
- 19 Aug 2000 - PeterThoeny
- Ref-By link searches all webs (not just the current web.)
- 16 Aug 2000 - PeterThoeny
- New TWikiPreferences variables
%HTTP_EQUIV_ON_VIEW% , %HTTP_EQUIV_ON_EDIT% and %HTTP_EQUIV_ON_PREVIEW% that define the <meta http-equiv="..."> meta tags for the TWiki templates. This can be used for example to set a document expiration time.
- 29 Jul 2000 - PeterThoeny
- New variables
%GMTIME{"..."}% and %SERVERTIME{"..."}% . More in TWikiVariables.
- 23 Jul 2000 - PeterThoeny
- Changed include syntax from
%INCLUDE{"Web/TopicName.txt"}% to %INCLUDE{"Web.TopicName"}% . Legacy syntax still supported.
- 23 Jul 2000 - PeterThoeny
- BookView search allows you show a set of topics for easy printing.
- 22 Jul 2000 - PeterThoeny
- More forgiving syntax for
*bold*, italic, __bold italic__ and fixed , where it is not necessary anymore to have a trailing space before .,;:?! characters.
- 22 Jul 2000 - PeterThoeny
- Split the TWiki.Main web into TWiki.Main (users, company data) and TWiki.TWiki (TWiki related documentation, registration)
- 07 Jul 2000 - PeterThoeny
- Added an "Release edit lock" checkbox in preview to let other people edit the topic immediately without the one hour lock.
- 07 Jul 2000 - PeterThoeny
- Fixed problem of losing carriage returns when editing topics with KDE KFM browser or W3M browser.
- 21 Jun 2000 - PeterThoeny
- Fixed problem that a page redirect on some server environments is not working (host name is needed in URL).
- 21 Jun 2000 - CrisBailiff, PeterThoeny
- Fixed security issue to prevent a server side
%INCLUDE% of arbitrary files.
- 29 May 2000 - PeterThoeny
- New
%GMTIME% variable that shows the current GM time.
- 28 May 2000 - PeterThoeny
- Lock warning shows remaining lock time in minutes.
- 15 May 2000 - PeterFokkinga
- 02 May 2000 - KevinKinnell, PeterThoeny
- Advanced search features like search multiple webs; sort by topic name / modified time / author; limit the number of results returned. More in TWikiVariables.
01-May-2000 Release
- 21 Apr 2000 - PeterThoeny
- New TWikiVariables
%HTTP_HOST% , %REMOTE_ADDR% , %REMOTE_PORT% and %REMOTE_USER% .
- 21 Apr 2000 - JohnAltstadt, PeterThoeny
- TWikiRegistration is done separately for Intranet use (depends on remote_user) or Internet use (depends on .htpasswd file).
- 20 Mar 2000 - PeterThoeny
- Uploading a file (topic file attachment) will optionally create a link to the uploaded file at the end of the topic. The preference variable
%ATTACHLINKBOX% controls the default state of the link check box in the attach file page.
- 11 Mar 2000 - PeterThoeny
- Better security with taint checking (
Perl -T option )
- 25 Feb 2000 - PeterThoeny
- New preference variables
%EDITBOXWIDTH% and %EDITBOXHEIGHT% to specify the edit box size.
- 25 Feb 2000 - PeterThoeny
- Edit preferences topics to set TWiki variables. There are three level of preferences Site-level (TWikiPreferences), web-level (WebPreferences in each web) and user-level preferences (for each of the TWikiUsers). With this, discontinue use of server side include of
wikiwebs.inc , wikiwebtable.inc , weblist.inc , webcopyright.inc and webcolors.inc files.
- 11 Feb 2000 - PeterThoeny
- New variable
%SCRIPTSUFFIX% / $scriptSuffix containing an optional file extension of the TWiki Perl script. Templates have been changed to use this variable. This allows you to rename the Perl script files to have a file extension like for example ".cgi".
- 11 Feb 2000 - PeterThoeny
- New variable
%SCRIPTURLPATH% / $scriptUrlPath containing the script URL without the domain name. Templates have been changed to use this variable instead of %SCRIPTURL% . This is for performance reasons.
- 07 Feb 2000 - PeterThoeny
- Changed the syntax for server side include variable from
%INCLUDE:"filename.ext"% to %INCLUDE{"filename.ext"}% . (Previous syntax still supported. Change was done because of inline search syntax)
- 07 Feb 2000 - PeterThoeny
- Inline search. New variable
%SEARCH{"str" ...}% to show a search result embedded in a topic text. TWikiVariables has more on the syntax. Inline search combined with the category table feature can be used for example to create a simple bug tracking system.
- 04 Feb 2000 - PeterThoeny
- Access statistics. Each web has a WebStatistics topic that shows monthy statistics with number of topic views and changes, most popular topics, and top contributors. (It needs to be enabled, TWikiDocumentation has more.)
- 29 Jan 2000 - PeterThoeny
- Fixed bug where TWiki would not initialize correctly under certain circumstances, i.e. when running it under mod_perl. Sub
initialize in wiki.pm did not handle $thePathInfo correctly.
- 24 Jan 2000 - PeterThoeny
- 10 Jan 2000 - PeterThoeny
- No more escaping for '%' percent characters. (Number of consecutive '%' entered and displayed is identical.)
- 03 Oct 1999 - PeterThoeny
- Limit the number of revisions shown at the bottom of the topic. Example
Topic TWikiHistory . { ..... Diffs r1.10 > r1.9 > r1.8 > r1.7 >... }
Additional revisions can be selected by pressing the >... link.
01-Sep-1999 Release
- 31 Aug 1999 - PeterThoeny
- Fixed Y2K bug. (Date in year 2000 had wrong format.)
- 08 Aug 1999 - PeterThoeny
- New text formatting rule for creating tables. Text gets rendered as a table if enclosed in " " vertical bars. Example line as it is written and how it shows up
- 03 Aug 1999 - PeterThoeny
- Online registration of new user using web form in TWikiRegistration. Authentication of users.
- 22 Jul 1999 - PeterThoeny
- Flags
$doLogTopic* in wikicfg.pm to selectively log topic view, edit, save, rdiff, attach, search and changes to monthly log file.
- 21 Jul 1999 - PeterThoeny
- Flag
$doRemovePortNumber in wikicfg.pm to optionally remove the port number from the TWiki URL. Example www.some.domain:1234/twiki gets www.some.domain/twiki .
- 15 Jul 1999 - PeterThoeny
- Search path for include files in
%INCLUDE:"file.inc"% variable. Search first in the current web, then in parent data directory. Useful to overload default include text in the data directory by web-specific text, like for example webcopyright.inc text.
- 07 Jul 1999 - ChristopheVermeulen
- Link a plural topic to a singular topic in case the plural topic does not exist. Example
TestVersion / TestVersions , TestPolicy / TestPolicies , TestAddress / TestAddresses , TestBox / TestBoxes .
01-Jul-1999 Release
- 23 Jun 1999 - PeterThoeny
- New TextFormattingRules to write bold italic text by enclosing words with double underline characters.
- 23 Jun 1999 - PeterThoeny
- Separate wiki.pm into configuration (wikicfg.pm) and TWiki core (wiki.pm) . This is to ease the upgrade of TWiki installations, it also allows customized extensions to TWiki without affecting the TWiki core.
- 21 May 1999 - DavidWarman
- Externalize copyright text at the bottom of every page into a web-specific
webcopyright.inc file. This is to easily customize the copyright text.
- 20 May 1999 - PeterThoeny
- Added meta tag so that robots index only /view/ of topics, not /edit/, /attach/ e.t.c. Tag <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX">
- 20 May 1999 - PeterThoeny
- New variables
%WIKIHOMEURL% (link when pressing the icon on the upper left corner) and %WIKITOOLNAME% (the name of the wiki tool The Caboteria ).
- 15 Apr 1999 - PeterThoeny
- Topic locking Warn user if a topic has been edited by an other person within one hour. This is to prevent contention, e.g. simultaneous topic updates.
- 26 Mar 1999 - PeterThoeny
- File attachments Upload and download any file as a topic attachment by using the browser. FileAttachment has more.
- 26 Mar 1999 - PeterThoeny
- New variables
%PUBURL% (Public directory URL) and %ATTACHURL% (URL of topic file attachment).
- 09 Feb 1999 - PeterThoeny
- New text formatting rule for creating
fixed font text . Words get showns in fixed font by enclosing them in "=" equal signs. Example Writing =fixed font= will show up as fixed font .
- 09 Feb 1999 - PeterThoeny
- No new topic revision is created if the same person saves a topic again within one hour.
- 03 Feb 1999 - PeterThoeny
- Possible to view complete revision history of a topic on one page. Access at the linked date in the Changes page, or the
Diffs link at the bottom of each topic, e.g.
Topic TWikiHistory . { Edit Ref-By Diffs r1.3 > r1.2 > r1.1 }
Revision r1.3 1998/11/10 01:34 by PeterThoeny
- 04 Jan 1999 - PeterThoeny
- Fixed bug when viewing differences between topic revisions that include HTML table tags like <table>, <tr>, <td>.
1998 Releases
- 08 Dec 1998 - PeterThoeny
- Signature is shown below the text area when editing a topic. Use this to easily copy & paste your signature into the text.
- 07 Dec 1998 - PeterThoeny
- Possible to add a category table to a TWiki topic. This permits storing and searching for more structured information. Editing a topic shows a HTML form with the usual text area and a table with selectors, checkboxes, radio buttons and text fields. TWikiDocumentation has more on setup. The TWiki.Know web uses this category table to set classification, platform and OS version.
- 18 Nov 1998 - PeterThoeny
- Internal log of topic save actions to the file
data/logYYYYMM.txt, where YYYYMM the year and month in numeric format is. Intended for auditing only, not accessible from the web.
- 10 Nov 1998 - PeterThoeny
- The email notification and the Changes topic have now a topic date that is linked. Clicking on the link will show the difference between the two most recent topic revisions.
- 10 Nov 1998 - PeterThoeny
- View differences between topic revisions. Each topic has a list of revisions (e.g.
r1.3) and differences thereof (e.g. >) at the bottom
Topic TWikiHistory . { Edit Ref-By r1.3 > r1.2 > r1.1 }
Revision r1.3 1998/11/10 01:34 by PeterThoeny
- 26 Oct 1998 - PeterThoeny
- Added preview of topic changes before saving the topic. This was necessary to prevent unneeded revisions.
- 26 Oct 1998 - PeterThoeny
- Added revision control using RCS. Each topic has now a list of revisions at the bottom and a revision info, e.g.
Topic TWikiHistory . { Edit Ref-By r1.3 r1.2 r1.1 }
Revision r1.3 1998/10/26 01:34:00 by PeterThoeny
- 14 Oct 1998 - PeterThoeny
- Refered-By Find out which topics have a link to the current topic. Each topic has a Ref-By link for that. Note Only references from the current web are shown, not references from other webs.
- 13 Oct 1998 - PeterThoeny
- 24 Sep 1998 - PeterThoeny
- Corrected templates for automatic email notification so that MS Outlook can display attachment as an HTML file.
- 13 Aug 1998 - PeterThoeny
- WikiNotation allows also numbers after the
AaA sequence, e.g. AaA1 is a valid WikiTopic name, but not Aa1.
- 07 Aug 1998 - PeterThoeny
- Automatic email notification when something has changed in a TWiki web. Each web has a topic WebNotify where one can subscribe and unsubscribe.
- 06 Aug 1998 - PeterThoeny
- Added server side include of files. Syntax is
%INCLUDE:"filename.ext"%
- 05 Aug 1998 - PeterThoeny
- Signature and date is inserted automatically when creating a new topic.
- 04 Aug 1998 - PeterThoeny
- Separate templates for text of non existing topic and default text of new topic. (template file templates/Web/notedited.tmpl)
- 04 Aug 1998 - PeterThoeny
- Warn user if new topic name is not a valid Wiki name. (template file templates/Web/notwiki.tmpl)
- 31 Jul 1998 - PeterThoeny
- Support for quoted text with a '>' at the beginning of the line.
- 28 Jul 1998 - PeterThoeny
- Added TWiki variables, enclosed in % signs
%TOPIC% (Topic name), %WEB% (web name), %SCRIPTURL% (script URL), %DATE% (current date), %WIKIWEBMASTER% (Wiki webmaster address), %WIKIVERSION% (Wiki version), %USERNAME% (user name), %WIKIUSERNAME% (Wiki user name).
- 28 Jul 1998 - PeterThoeny
- Topic WebChanges shows Wiki username instead of Intranet username, e.g.
PeterThoeny instead of thoeny in case the Wiki username exists. Implementation Automatic lookup of Wiki username in topic TWikiUsers.
- 28 Jul 1998 - PeterThoeny
- Topic index. (Technically speaking a simple '.*' search on topic names.)
- 28 Jul 1998 - PeterThoeny
- Topic WebSearch allows full text search and and topic search with/without regular expressions.
- 27 Jul 1998 - PeterThoeny
- Added automatic links to topics in other TWiki webs by specifying <web name>.<topic name>, e.g.
Know.WebSeach .
- 23 Jul 1998 - PeterThoeny
- Installed initial version, based on the JOS Wiki. See WikiWikiClones for details.
Dev Flow
The typical TWiki development flow...
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