| Details of New Features and Enhancements of 01-Sep-2004 Release | Developer, Sponsor |
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| Install: Ship with an automatic upgrade script to facilitate TWiki upgrades. Details | TWiki:Main.MartinGregory TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit |
| Install: New testenv function to change the locks in the TWiki database to the web server user id (automates installation step). Details | TWiki:Main.MattWilkie TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit |
| Install: The shipped .htaccess.txt now needs to be edited before it is valid, to help reduce chances of error. Details | TWiki:Main.CrawfordCurrie TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit |
| Install: Configurable password file handling for different types of encryption. Details | TWiki:Main.PavelGoran TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit |
| Install: Remove office locations from registration. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
| Install: Changes to support shorter URLs with Apache Rewrite rules. Details | TWiki:Main.AntonioBellezza TWiki:Main.WalterMundt |
| Install: Remove the Know web from the distribution. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
| Internationalization: Support use of UTF-8 URLs for I18N characters in TWiki page and attachment names. Details | TWiki:Main.RichardDonkin |
| Authentication: Authenticate users when creating new topic in view restricted web. Details | TWiki:Main.JonathanGraehl TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit |
| Preferences: TWiki Preferences need to be secured properly. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
| Preferences: Use TWiki Forms to set user preferences. Details | TWiki:Main.JohnTalintyre |
| Skins: New pre-installed skins PatternSkin and DragonSkin. Details | TWiki:Main.ArthurClemens TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
| Skins: New skin browser to choose from installed skins. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
| Skins: Documented set of CSS classes that are used in standard skins. Details | TWiki:Main.ArthurClemens TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit |
| Skins: Added CSS class names to Diff output. Details | TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit |
| Skins: Templates can now be read from user topics, as well as from files in the templates diretcory. Details | TWiki:Main.CrawfordCurrie TWiki:Main.WalterMundt |
| Skins: Ensure that the default template gets overridden by a template passed in. Details | TWiki:Main.MartinCleaver TWiki:Main.WalterMundt |
| Skin: Convey an important broadcast message to all users, e.g. scheduled server downtime. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
| Skin: Balanced pastel colors for TWiki webs. Details | TWiki:Main.ArthurClemens |
| Rendering: Use exclamation point prefix to escape TWiki markup rendering. Details | TWiki:Main.ArthurClemens |
| Rendering: Ordered lists with uppercase & lowercase letters, uppercase & lowercase Roman numerals. Details | TWiki:Main.DanBoitnott TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
| Rendering: Allow custom styles for the "?" of uncreated topics. Details | TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit |
| Rendering: Render IRC and NNTP as a URL. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
| Rendering: Make acronym linking more strict by requiring a trailing boundary, e.g. excluding TLAfoobar. Details | TWiki:Main.CrawfordCurrie TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit |
| Rendering: TWiki Form with Label type. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
| Rendering: Web names can now be WikiWords. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
| Rendering: New syntax for definition list with dollar sign and colon. Details | TWiki:Main.AdamTheo TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
| Rendering: Table with multi-span rows, functionality provided by Table Plugin. Details | TWiki:Main.WalterMundt |
| Variables: New title parameter for TOC variable. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny TWiki:Main.ArthurClemens |
| Variables: New REVINFO variable in templates supports flexible display of revision information. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit |
| Variables: Set times to be displayed as gmtime or servertime. Details | TWiki:Main.SueBlake TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit |
| Variables: Properly encode parameters for form fields with ENCODE variable. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
| Variables: Expand USERNAME and WIKINAME in Template Topics. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
| Variables: Expand same variables in new user template as in template topics. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
| Variables: Optionally warn when included topic does not exist; with the option to create the included topic. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
| Variables: In topic text show file-types of attached files as icons. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
| Variables: New variable FORMFIELD returns the value of a field in the form attached to a topic.. Details | TWiki:Main.DavidSachitano TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit |
| Variables: Meta data rendering for form fields with META{"formfield"}. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
| Variables: New PLUGINVERSION variable. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
Variables: URLPARAM now has a default="..." argument, for when no value has been given. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
| Variables: URLPARAM variable with newline parameter. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
| Variables: URLPARAM variable with new multiple=on parameter. Details | TWiki:Main.PaulineCheung TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
| Search: New switch for search to perform an AND NOT search. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
| Search: Keyword search to search with implicit AND. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
| Search: Multiple searches in same topic with new multiple="on" paramter. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
| Search: Remove limitation on number of topics to search in a web. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
| Search: Exclude topics from search with an excludetopic parameter. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
| Search: Expand Variables on Formatted Search with expandvariables Flag. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
| Search: Formatted Search with WebForm? variable to retrieve the name of the form attached to a topic. Details | TWiki:Main.FrankSmith TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
| Search: Formatted Search with Conditional Output. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
| Search: Formatted Search with $parent token to get the parent topic. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
| Search: New separator parameter to SEARCH supports better SEARCH embedding. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
| Search: Improved search performance when sorting result by topic name. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
Search: New scope=all search parameter to search in topic name and topic text at the same time. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
Search: New topic parameter for AND search on topic text and topic name. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
| Search modules uses Perl-style keyword parameters (code cleanup). Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
| Search: New $wikiname variable in format parameter of formatted search. Details | TWiki:Main.ArthurClemens |
| Search: Sort search by topic creation date. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
| Search: Topic creation date and user in Formatted Search. Details | TWiki:Main.CoreyFruitman TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit |
| Search: Increase levels of nested search from 2 to 16. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
| Plugins: New pre-installed Plugins CommentPlugin, EditTablePlugin, RenderListPlugin, SlideShowPlugin, SmiliesPlugin, SpreadSheetPlugin, TablePlugin. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
Plugins: New callback afterSaveHandler, called after a topic is saved. Details | TWiki:Main.WalterMundt |
Plugins: New callbacks beforeAttachmentSaveHandler and afterAttachmentSaveHandler, used to intervene on attachment save event. Details | TWiki:Main.MartinCleaver TWiki:Main.WalterMundt |
Plugins: New callbacks beforeCommonTagsHandler and afterCommonTagsHandler. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
Plugins: New callback renderFormFieldForEditHandler to render form field for edit. Details | TWiki:Main.JohnTalintyre |
Plugins: New callback renderWikiWordHandler to custom render links. Details | TWiki:Main.MartinCleaver TWiki:Main.WalterMundt |
| Plugins: Adds new dependency checking function TWiki::Func::checkDependencies for Plugins. Details | TWiki:Main.CrawfordCurrie TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit |
| Plugins: A recommendation for where a Plugin can store its data. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
| UI: Show tool-tip topic info on WikiWord links. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
| UI: Save topic and continue edit feature. Details | TWiki:Main.ColasNahaboo |
| UI: Change topic with direct save (without edit/preview/save cycle) and checkpoint save. Details | TWiki:Main.MattWilkie TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit |
| UI: In attachment table, change 'action' to 'manage'. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny TWiki:Main.ArthurClemens |
| UI: Smaller usability enhancements on the file attachment table. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny TWiki:Main.ArthurClemens |
| UI: Removes anchor links from header content and places them before the text to fix 'header becomes link'. Details | TWiki:Main.ArthurClemens |
| UI: Improved functionality of the More screen. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny TWiki:Main.ArthurClemens |
| UI: Quick reference chart of most used markup is now listed on the edit screen. Details | TWiki:Main.ArthurClemens |
| UI: Flag for edit script to avoid overwrite of existing topic text and form data. Details | TWiki:Main.NielsKoldso TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
| UI: Disable Escape key in IE textarea to prevent it cancelling work. Details | TWiki:Main.CrawfordCurrie TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
| UI: Improved warning message on unsaved topic. Details | TWiki:Main.MartinGregory TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit |
| UI: Reverse order of words in page title for better multi-window/tab navigation. Details | TWiki:Main.ArthurClemens |
| UI: Provides a framework to create and modify a topic without going through edit->preview->save sequence. Details | TWiki:Main.AndreUlrich TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit |
| UI: Set the topic parent to none in More screen, e.g. remove the current topic parent. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
| UI: Use templates to define how file attachments are displayed. Was previously hard-coded. Details | TWiki:Main.CrawfordCurrie TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit |
| UI: Topic diff shows unified diff with unchanged context. Details | TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit |
| UI: Diff feature shows TWiki form changes in nice tables. Details | TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit |
| Code refactoring: The log entry for a save now has a dontNotify flag in the extra field if the user checked the minor changes flag. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
| Code refactoring: Server-side include of attachments accelerates INCLUDE. Details | TWiki:Main.CrawfordCurrie TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
| Code refactoring: Move functionality out of bin scripts and into included modules. Details | TWiki:Main.CrawfordCurrie TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit |
| Code refactoring: Move bin script functionality into TWiki::UI modules. Details | TWiki:Main.CrawfordCurrie TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
| Code refactoring: Optimize preferences handling for better performance. Details | TWiki:Main.PavelGoran TWiki:Main.WalterMundt |
| Code refactoring: Refactor variable expansion for edit and register. Details | TWiki:Main.CrawfordCurrie TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
| Code refactoring: Move savemulti script into TWiki::UI::Save. Details | TWiki:Main.MattWilkie TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit |
| Code refactoring: Topic search is done natively in Perl, it does not depend anymore on system calls with pipes. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
| Code refactoring: Fix logical error in upload script which prevented MIME filename from being used. Details | TWiki:Main.WalterMundt |