Foswiki archived release

alert This release is superseded by Foswiki 2.1.8. Visit the download page.

See Release Dates for the complete list of available releases.

Highlights of this release

  • Security and Bug-fix Release.

For users:

  • More than 117 bug fixes and improvements relative to 1.1.5
  • TinyMCE has been updated to release 3.4.9
  • Markup within input fields are no longer rendered
  • The Chili syntax highlighter has been enabled by default

For administrators:

  • Duplicate email checks are applied to pending registrations.
  • Stale pending registrations are removed.
  • Configure makes a backup before saving configuration changes
  • Performance problems with Rename and Log Rotation have been addressed.

See the ReleaseNotes for details and other changes

Download

GPG Signatures and MD5 checksums are provided for verifying the integrity of the files for the primary download packages.

File GPG MD5 Description
download Foswiki-1.1.6.tgz GPG MD5 tar gz version of Foswiki
download Foswiki-1.1.6.zip GPG MD5 zip version of Foswiki

Upgrade packages

If you already have an earlier version of Foswiki 1.1.X installed, you can extract an upgrade package on top of the installation. The major.minor part of the release should not be changed by an upgrade package.

ALERT! Upgrade packages must not be used to upgrade older releases.

File GPG MD5 Description
download Foswiki-upgrade-1.1.6.tgz GPG MD5 upgrade tar gz version of Foswiki
download Foswiki-upgrade-1.1.6.zip GPG MD5 upgrade zip version of Foswiki

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Getting help & providing feedback

Don't forget to use the upgrade or installation guides. If you need help, there are several options:

We want to hear from you! Especially if you have noticed a bug, have some ideas we could use, or just want to contribute:

Release Notes Errata

The following tasks were fixed, but omitted from the release notes:

Upgrade Instructions

New Sandbox.WebHome is included

The upgrade packages include the Sandbox.WebHome topic. If you have a customized Sandbox WebHome topic, the upgrade package will overlay it.

New setting needed for PatternSkin

If PatternSkin is installed on an older Foswiki, or the Foswiki-upgrade package is used to upgrade an existing Foswiki system, there is a new required setting that must be added to Main.SitePreferences.
   * Set PATTERNSKIN_JQUERY_THEME = PatternSkinTheme
The new System.DefaultPreferences topic shipped with the upgrade package does have this setting, but if you have customized you DefaultPreferences, then this needs to be added.

Also, you'll need to go through one save cycle of configure to register the new JQuery pattern theme in the configuration. (If configure reports no changes, make a minor change and save again, and configure will merge in the changed settings). Or edit the LocalSite.cfg file by hand and add
$Foswiki::cfg{JQueryPlugin}{Themes}{PatternSkinTheme}{Url} = '$Foswiki::cfg{PubUrlPath}/$Foswiki::cfg{SystemWebName}/PatternSkinTheme/jquery-ui.css';
$Foswiki::cfg{JQueryPlugin}{Themes}{PatternSkinTheme}{Enabled} = 1;

Other important things to know.

Most extensions released with Foswiki 1.1.6 have converted to formal perl version strings. version->declare('v1.1.6'). The PatchFoswikiContrib must be installed on older versions of Foswiki before installing any of these extensions on older Foswiki versions. Note that they have not been tested on Foswiki 1.0

Installation

Please refer to the INSTALL.html which can be found the downloaded tgz/zip. It can be also found on Foswiki.org in the System.InstallationGuide

Upgrade Instructions

In-place upgrade from any release prior to Foswiki 1.1.0 is not recommended. Older Foswiki installations should install Foswiki as a new release, configure, and then migrate data to the new installation.
  • See System.UpgradeGuide for details on upgrading from older versions of Foswiki
  • See System.SystemRequirements for the latest System Requirements.
  • Be sure to take a backup!
  • The upgrade packages excludes files "commonly" modified, for example, WebHome, WebPreferences, AdminGroup, etc. If your installation has modified other topics, or template files, those updates will be lost!
  • If you use tar, then you can extract the upgrade package on top of your installation by using: (Be sure to run this as your web server user to avoid changing file ownership.)
cd /var/www/foswiki
tar --strip-components=1 -zxf /path/to/Foswiki-upgrade-2.x.x.tgz
cd tools
./configure --save
  • Similarly, if you are using the zip upgrade package, then
cd /var/www/foswiki
unzip -o /path/to/Foswiki-upgrade-2.x.x.zip
cd tools
./configure --save

License

  • This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
  • This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
  • See the GNU General Public License for more details, published at http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

Release Details

Topic revision: r12 - 05 Dec 2012, GeorgeClark
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