Version 2.0.beta14 (28-Dec-2004)

This release introduces a number of relatively minor optimizations and improvements, summarized below. If you don't understand what any of these mean, they probably don't affect you. :-)

• PmWiki's <img ...> tags now use style='border:0px;' instead of border='0'.
• PrintFmt() now calls Lock(0) to release any locks prior to sending output to the browser. This is important because some webservers (notably Apache) sometimes get stuck when they're unable to send output to the browser, and thus inadvertently lock others from being able to edit/post pages.
• $PageEditFmt now includes id='text' to make for easier styling/referencing.
• MarkupToHTML()'s "posteval" code has been changed considerably.
• PageExists() now caches results of checking for page existence.
• Page urls are now automatically url-encoded as needed.
• Many of PmWiki's internal regex patterns have been optimized to (hopefully) improve matching speed.
• Comparisons to substr() have been replaced with more efficient comparison functions.

Version 2.0.beta13 (22-Dec-2004)

This release fixes a bug introduced in 2.0.beta7 that prevented the refcount.php (for ?action=refcount) from generating links correctly. It also cleans up the handling of wikistyles and %-in-urls (which is what 2.0.beta7 was supposed to fix).

In general, all sites using the 2.0.betaXX series are recommended to upgrade to this latest release.

Version 2.0.beta12 (21-Dec-2004)

This release adds a number of <div> tags and identifiers around the various forms that PmWiki produces (e.g., uploads, search results, attribute pages, etc.). This makes such forms easier to style in CSS.

In addition, this release adds some functionality to the urlapprove.php script to limit the number of unapproved urls that can be saved in a page (helps to combat wikispam).

Finally the release adds the (:description:) markup for generating <meta name='description' ... /> tags in the output. (:description:) may also get used for other features later on (e.g., excerpts in search results, etc.).

Version 2.0.beta11 (19-Dec-2004)

This release primarily cleans up a number of items in the handling of uploads:

1. A new $LinkUpload variable has been defined for $...Fmt strings -- it contains the URL of the upload page for the current attachment
2. (:attachlist:) automatically adds "replace-attachment" links (denoted by triangles) to the items in the list
3. After performing an upload, the "upload name" field is automatically cleared
4. Fixed error message when upload exceeds maximum allowed by PHP

This release also changes the StopWatch() function (used internally for benchmarking/timing PmWiki performance) to only have an effect when $EnableStopWatch is set to 1 (wall clock timings only) or 2 (wall clock and user-process timings).

Version 2.0.beta10 (14-Dec-2004)

This release makes some substantial improvements in the installation procedure. First, the installation steps have been simplified, and PmWiki provides accurate instructions when it encounters a PHP "safe_mode" environment.

The release also provides better handling of the '.flock' file -- if PmWiki discovers it cannot open an existing .flock file for writing, it removes the file and tries again rather than complaining about it. This makes the system more robust when page directories are going through backup+restore.

Version 2.0.beta9 (14-Dec-2004)

This release provides some very minor bugfixes to the [[target |#]] markup, to the appearance of $...variables in documentation, and extends uploads.php to be able to work better with url rewriting.

Version 2.0.beta8 (13-Dec-2004)

This release makes a number of reasonably significant changes. First and foremost, it changes the ?pagename= uri syntax to be ?n=, and installation now defaults to $EnablePathInfo = 0; to make better compatibility.

Sites which wish to continue using the .../Main/HomePage form of uri instead of ?n=Main.HomePage should set $EnablePathInfo = 1 in config.php.

This release also fixes a probable bug in the handling of author names which was causing spaces to be incorrectly removed.

2.0.beta8 includes features for advanced CSS styling of simple tables via the $TableRowAttrFmt and $TableCellAttrFmt variables, more description will be forthcoming in a Cookbook recipe.

Also, this release includes vastly improved support for UTF-8 sites, including the ability to have UTF-8 characters in pagenames and [[utf-8 links]]. We're still working out the details to be able to support UTF-8 wikiwords -- PHP's functions don't provide good support for this. See scripts/xlpage-utf-8.php for more information on UTF-8.

Finally, the Q: and A: markups are back, and a few other minor bug fixes and documentation improvements have been included.

Version 2.0.beta7 (8-Dec-2004)

This release has a number of improvements and changes to it. First, this release provides a scripts/xlpage-utf-8.php file, which adapts PmWiki to be able to work somewhat with utf-8 characters in pagenames. Since PHP's preg_* functions seem to be unable to detect UTF-8 alphanumeric characters, the trade-off at the moment is that WikiWord links are limited to the ASCII character set. We're working on ways to get around this restriction, however.

The xlpage-utf-8.php script can be automatically loaded by any XLPage translation that specifies 'xlpage-i18n' => 'utf-8'.

This release also:

• fixes up the .htaccess files that are placed in local/ and wiki.d/
• changes the default textarea size for the pmwiki skin,
• restores the link/citation markup ([[target |#]])
• fixes the default value of $DefaultPageTextFmt (note this may change again)
• automatically converts instances of $Newline in posted text

Version 2.0.beta6 (5-Dec-2004)

This release contains a number of relatively minor bugfixes (see the ChangeLog), and it also restores the $WikiWordCount functionality from PmWiki 1 in which the wiki administrator can limit the number of conversions for each WikiWord.

The sample-config.php file has been updated with more comments and suggestions for customizations.

Finally, this release increases the default value of $MaxIncludes to 50 (and provides better documentation of the $MaxIncludes variable).

Version 2.0.beta5 (1-Dec-2004)

Version 2.0.beta4 (1-Dec-2004)

These releases fix a number of bugs introduced by the changes in 2.0.beta3. Users of 2.0.beta3 are encouraged to upgrade directly to this release.

Version 2.0.beta3 (30-Nov-2004)

This release provides a simple version of the (:attachlist:) markup (different sorting orders are not available yet as the syntax is likely to change), as well as fixes the PmWiki.EditQuickReference and PmWiki.UploadQuickReference pages. It also provides default pages to lock passwords in the Main and PmWiki groups and adds uppercase versions for ".GIF", ".JPG", and ".PNG" files.

Internally, this release also changes the edit page sequence to use the $_POST autoglobal instead of $_REQUEST (i.e., posting edits is only allowed via method='post' and not via query string parameters).

Version 2.0.beta2

This release fixes the bug that caused $PageTemplateFmt to no longer work in pmwiki-2.0.beta1.

Version 2.0.beta1

This release marks PmWiki 2.0 as entering "beta" status, as it finally begins moving towards official release. The major change for this release is in the skins code -- previous versions of PmWiki used $PageTemplateFmt to specify the location of the template file to be used; newer versions now use the $Skin variable to specify the location of the skins directory (in pub/skins/) that contains the skin template file, php configuration script, and other files.

In general, if you previously had $PageTemplateFmt set to "pub/skins/myskin/myskin.tmpl", then you now simply set $Skin='myskin'; to get things to work. See PmWiki.LayoutBasics for more details.

Version 2.0.devel releases

These are the release notes for the development releases of PmWiki 2.0.

First, this is definitely still in the development stages, so many things are likely to change between now and the official releases.

Second, at present there's not a good way to upgrade from PmWiki 1.0 to PmWiki 2.0, although upgrade support is expected to arrive in future (development) releases. So, you can use this version just to see the new developments and gain some experience, but migrating from 1.0 to this version is still likely to be a bit of a chore.

Bugs and other requests can be reported to the PmWiki Issue Tracking System at http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PITS/PITS. Any help in testing, development, and/or documentation is greatly appreciated.