Appendix B: TWiki Development Timeline
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?
- Each topic can have its own template file. TWikiTemplatesVer1? has more.
- 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 TWiki
).
- 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.
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