New in Version 6.5.3 (Released 6/22/2010):
- Bug Fixes and Changes:
- upgraded internal WYSIWYG editor framework to TinyMCE 3.3.7
- views, edits, posts, downloads columns in user activity summary were not sortable
- size, versions and references columns in list of pages table were not sortable
- 'only admin can create projects' setting was showing up in basic/free versions which don't allow projects
- correct errors and improve instructions in campus/enterprise when first starting out, particularly with respect to being logged in with the site admin password
New in Version 6.5.2 (Released 4/14/2010):
- User Accounts Improvements:
- simplified the user accounts screen in groups (Standard version),
separating out add/delete, improved error handling, etc.
- site administrators can now register site-wide user accounts when
adding users to a group (Standard and Enterprise versions)
- in Enterprise, added new user account options to allow non-admins
to create new groups and/or register new users from within a group
- various improvements to user access screen (in Enterprise)
- Bug Fixes and Changes:
- added two new divs (#homepageauth and #homepagemessage)
to the homepage, allowing some more css positioning of elements
- fix bug where activity screen wasn't showing up in IE6
- list of pages admin screen now supports searching and paging
- fixed problem with sorting attachments by date
- fixed bug where attached files with apostrophes in their name would
cause the attachments table in admin not to be displayed
- custom links with apostrophes or newlines could cause
the custom links table in admin not to be displayed
- reworked pages containing large tables of data to shrink page size
for faster loading times
New in Version 6.5.1 (Released 2/04/2010):
- Bug Fixes and Changes:
- fix problem where attachment popup menu wasn't being placed in the right location on IE
when the page was scrolled
- lists with empty elements would overlap subsequent lines in the page in Firefox 3.5.x
- small changes to forms used to create groups and projects
- improve handling of content pasted from other sources into the WYSIWYG editor; in
particular, many excess HTML tags found in material pasted from Microsoft Word are
stripped
New in Version 6.5.0 (Released 1/20/2010):
- Content Management Additions:
- new [page:] link type, which allows you to
link to pages but have the link display a different name,
e.g. [page:"Original Page" Other Name]
- when including pages from another forum into a page, attached images
on the other page will appear correctly
- allow a main group page to include a page from a project
within the group, provided the project is set to 'use same passwords as main
group'
- virtual host based webviews can now optionally specify a path,
so you can have several different web views sharing the same hostname,
e.g. articles.foo.com/measurement and articles.foo.com/processes
- User Interface Improvements:
- popup menus on attachment icons are now activated by a
right click, rather than automatically coming up on mouseover
- new table widget, replacing the existing one used on the
attachments, versions, user activity and pages administration screens; new
widget allows fast paging and search
- reworked sitewide user accounts, web views and custom links administration
pages to use the new table widget
- many additional layout and cosmetic changes in all administration screens
- New Administrator Features:
- new command line option -dbutil added to allow various inspection
and manipulation tasks to be performed on the underlying database files;
see the database HOWTO for more information
- allow changing the name on the 'From' line that is
used to send out notification emails
- Additional Changes:
- various changes to improve web standards compliance; most significantly, all pages
now have an explicit DOCTYPE header, which may have an impact on
any user-developed custom themes
- upgrade internal editor library to use TinyMCE 3.2.7
- upgrade to Prototype 1.6.1, new accordion widget used for editor page help
- several refactorings, cleanup and simplification of HTML files, Javascript
and CSS; minor changes to HTML generated for page content
- Bug Fixes:
- fix style sheet so that editor window is
shown full width in Firefox
- fix editor glitch with Safari when two attachments
are immediately next to each other on the same line
- images uploaded to a page, when displayed in a web
view, were being logged in the activity log (if enabled) as downloads
when the web view page was viewed; they no longer are logged
- additional quoting of ampersands in page names in various locations
in generated HTML
- leading zeros on page numbers in URL's could be misinterpreted as octal
New in Version 6.4.2 (Released 10/26/2009):
- Bug Fixes and Changes:
- Fix bug where on newer versions of Webkit-based browsers (e.g. Safari, Chrome) in rare circumstances
pieces of HTML code from parts of the edit page could be placed in the wrong location, leading to
either a display glitch in the overall page, or a snippet of HTML code inserted into the edited page
itself
- Performance improvements in generating activity log summary screen
- Fix a problem where activity log detail for some users was not being displayed
- Minor update to Windows installers
New in Version 6.4.1 (Released 6/16/2009):
- Bug Fixes and Changes:
- Upgrade internal WYSIWYG editor to use TinyMCE 3.2.4.1
- Fix bug where insert table toolbar item was not disabled when edit insertion point was in a table
- Clean up extra debugging associated with 'forgot password' in Enterprise version
- Added additional logging of startup errors to both error.log and the Windows event log
New in Version 6.4.0 (Released 5/06/2009):
- Changes to Editing Page:
- increased font size in richtext editor to more closely match the source markup editor and the rendered page
- better fit richtext editor to page horizontally, avoiding horizontal page scrolling on IE
- better match borders, toolbar sizes and button styles between richtext and source markup editors
- update onscreen formatting help; default to formatting help not being shown
- Change to Users and Permissions:
- when a central account is removed from a group's access control list, they are removed from
any notifications in that group they are subscribed to
- in Campus/Enterprise, set the default user access permissions for newly created projects to match the
enclosing course or group
- if a user is logged in both as site admin and regular user, and from the main screen logs out as a regular user,
the message that they are still logged in as site admin will be emphasized
- added a site administration 'logout' link on the site home page
- restructure activity log report to move total outside the table
- Wiki Content Improvements:
- new mp3 player, courtesy of Martin Laine's Wordpress Audio Player (wpaudioplayer.com)
- added new [inline:] markup command, which works like [include:] except will trim leading and
trailing paragraph tags
- added new custom link substitutions $U (forum urlprefix) and $F (forum name)
- Other Enhancements and Bug Fixes:
- add SSL support for SMTP, as needed to use gmail.com and some other servers to send mail notifications
- allow adding or removing multiple email addresses at the same time on the 'track changes' pages
- added option to export all projects in a group automatically
- fix sporadic problem where submitting some forms (e.g. in theme editor) would stall, requiring
the user to submit the form again
- fix a couple of inline-link related rendering bugs
- fix problem displaying detailed activity log info for users whose name contained special characters
- output of [references:] tag now appears in exports and web views
- inactive forms (create project, find pages) removed from export and web views
- fix problem cleaning up databases when removing a POP account from a forum
- added IP address of client web browser to the 'forgot password' email (Campus/Enterprise)
New in Version 6.3.0 (Released 2/09/2009):
- New Features:
- Support for displaying mathematical equations. This uses an add-on package (jsMath) to allow TeX formatted
math to be rendered in pages; see the new Math HOWTO for details.
- Web views (which provide an alternate, static view of a wiki) now include RSS feeds.
- Additional Bug Fixes and Changes:
- Significant reworking of paragraph and line break handling for the WYSIWYG editor. In the previous version,
switching between the WYSIWYG and source editors could repeatedly insert extra line breaks in some cases.
The translation between the editors now better reflects the final rendering. This means that redundant
markup entered into the source editor will be cleaned up (e.g. multiple blank lines entered in the source
editor will be simplified to a single blank line by the WYSIWYG editor).
- As a side effect of the previous change, all paragraphs will be more consistently wrapped with HTML
paragraph tags; this may affect people who create pages that include other forum pages.
- Fixed progress bar for uploads on Safari, which does not allow AJAX calls during form submission.
- The main attachments administration page now includes links to directly download each attachment.
- Allow square brackets within links, by doubling them up as in regular text. This is useful for example
in the new 'math:' links, as square brackets are used in TeX.
- Fix broken links to project pages within user activity logs.
- Fix a case where user actions would be recorded as "unverified" in the activity log if they were now
logged in using a site-wide user account, but had previously used a per-group user account, and still
had the previous authentication cookie stored in their browser.
New in Version 6.2.1 (Released 11/24/2008):
- Bug Fixes:
- Fix problems with preview on IE7
- Fix problems with external link button in WYSIWYG editor using IE7
- Fixed problems returning files >4GB
New in Version 6.2.0 (Released 10/29/2008):
- WYSIWYG Editor Improvements:
- Major version upgrade of the core WYSIWYG (richtext) editing framework (TinyMCE),
from version 2.1.1.1 to version 3.2.0.1. See TinyMCE site for details of improvements.
- Protect [slideshow:] tags in richtext editor.
- Protect HTML tags in custom links when loaded into the richtext editor, so creating custom links like
"[html:...] -> $0" will work correctly.
- Prevent entering new paragraphs in table cells, which would otherwise be stripped out anyways.
- Added email link button in richtext editor (to match one in markup editor).
- Fixed problems where richtext editor would not correctly preserve all line spacing in preformatted ('===') blocks.
- Better preserve blank lines entered into the richtext editor by converting into explicit line breaks.
- Compensate for IE automatically converting file paths in quotes to links, which made typing in e.g.
"[file:"\\foo\bar.doc" label]" generate incorrect nested wiki markup.
- Allow completely empty items in lists.
- Fix problem where comments divider immediately below a table would get repositioned above the table
- Fix additional line/paragraph spacing issues in IE
- Additional Bug Fixes and Changes:
- 'New page' link is now available when the forum requires authentication for edit access, but the user hasn't
authenticated; will now prompt for them to login.
- Additional database cleanup when deleting forums.
- Prevent rare case where searches would fail but cause prolonged excessive CPU usage.
- Changed HTML renderer to output closing paragraph tags; this helps avoid some IE bugs in preformatted
blocks that appeared in the editor
For old changes, please see the changes archive page.
