TWiki Release 6.0 (Jerusalem) released on 2013-10-14

New Features and Enhancements of TWiki Release 6.0

• Usability Enhancements
  • Add dashboards to Web home topics
  • Categorize TWiki variables & add TWiki Variables wizard
  • Upgrade to TinyMCE WYSIWYG editor to version 3.5.8
  • New TOPICTITLE variable for non-WikiWord topic titles
  • Show topic title in square bracket links using [[+TopicName]] syntax
  • Icon bullet lists: Specify any TWiki doc graphics icon as a bullet
  • WebSearch and WebChanges has now search result pagination
  • WebChanges shows topic age instead of topic date
  • Auto-discover TWikiForms, e.g. no need to set in WEBFORMS preferences setting
  • Move change TWiki Form from edit screen to "more" screen
  • Show link to older versions of attachments in attachment table
  • Automatically link @Twitter handles
  • Add comment section to new topic template
  • Copy/clone topic function in more topic action screen
  • Configurable signatures with profile pictures
  • Open external links in new browser window or tab; show external link icon

• Scalability Enhancements
  • Read-only and mirror web support for distributed TWiki sites
  • MetadataRepository for site metadata and web metadata to speed up operations across many webs
  • Rename topic operation with option to not replace web internal references
  • Rename web operation can cope with a large site and read-only/mirror webs
  • Introducing web-level administrator for higher web autonomy; web specific WIKIWEBMASTER
  • Support for multiple disk drives for data and pub directories

• TWiki Application Platform Enhancements
  • New EDITFORMFIELD variable to easily create custom forms to create/change topics with TWiki Forms
  • Add rev parameter to FORMFIELD variable
  • New combobox TWiki Form field type
  • New ENTITY variable to entity encode content
  • Add createdate, default, encode parameters to SEARCH variable
  • SEARCH variable with sort by parent feature
  • SEARCH variable extended to make results pagination possible
  • Add encode, newline, nofinalnewline, allowanytype to INCLUDE variable
  • Add subwebs and depth parameters to WEBLIST variable
  • Add section parameter to ADDTOHEAD variable
  • Add encode and decode functions to TWiki::Func
  • Add LWP parameters to TWiki::Func::getExternalResource
  • Conditional Skin based on group membership and other criteria
  • Finer-control variable expansion in topic creation
  • Add topic parameter to VAR variable to get settings defined in another topic
  • Add raw parameter to INCLUDE variable to include a topic in the raw mode

• Security Enhancements
  • Support for an implicit "all users" group
  • Empty DENY setting means undefined setting
  • Dynamic access control (experimental)
  • Upgrade support for secure email notification
  • Restrict HTTP variable to not reveal certain header fields
  • User masquerading to check if access restriction is working as expected for another user
  • Disable XSS Protection for JavaScript

• Extensions Enhancements
  • Add new WatchlistPlugin to core and deprecate MailerContrib
  • Add new TWikiDashboardAddOn to core distribution
  • Add new ScrollBoxAddOn to core distribution
  • Add new DatePickerPlugin to core and deprecate JSCalendarContrib
  • Add new MovedSkin to core distribution
  • SpreadSheetPlugin supports hash variables with new functions GETHASH(), HASH2LIST(), HASHCOPY(), HASHEACH(), HASHEXISTS(), HASHREVERSE(), LIST2HASH(), SETHASH(), SETMHASH()
  • SpreadSheetPlugin adds new functions BIN2DEC(), DEC2BIN(), DEC2HEX(), DEC2OCT(), HEX2DEC(), OCT2DEC()
  • SpreadSheetPlugin supports quoted parameters with '''triple quotes'''
  • InterwikiPlugin to observe the links configuration parameter
  • TagMePlugin with support for multiple tag namespaces

• Miscellaneous Feature Enhancements
  • CGI Engine to be made Fast CGI compatible
  • Empty IF condition to be regarded valid and false
  • Add seconds to the timestamp in debug/log/warn
  • Viewing topic text with variables expanded
  • WEBLIST canmoveto and cancopyto
  • Add viewRedirectHandler callback to plugins API
  • No such topic, no such web, access denied are done right
    • Return "404 Not Found" status for topic not found instead of 200 OK status
    • Return "404 Not Found" status and show "No Such Web" page title for no such web without redirecting to an oops URL titled "Access Denied"
    • Return "403 Access Denied" status for access denied without redirecting to an oops URL whose status code is "200 OK"
  • Statistics enhancements to show most viewed webs, most updated webs, most popular webs, top viewers, # of unique users who viewed, saved, and uploaded on the web/site, affiliation breakdown
  • Specifying webs to be excluded from WebStatistics update
  • Statistics topics can be annualized to e.g. WebStatistics2013, WebStatistics2014. This prevents statistics topics from growing indefinitely
  • For paragraphs generate <p>...</p> instead of <p/>
  • 20 new TWikiDocGraphics icons

• Bug Fixes
  • 99 bugs fixed in TWiki-6.0.0

See the full list of new features and bug fixes in TWikiReleaseNotes06x00.

Hall of Fame of TWiki Release 6.0

Many people have been involved in creating TWiki 6.0. Special thanks go to the most active contributors in the following areas:

• Sponsor and facilitator: TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
• Spec and code: TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny, TWiki:Main.HideyoImazu, TWiki:Main.MahiroAndo, TWiki:Main.YaojunFei, TWiki:Main.GeorgeTrubisky, TWiki:Main.SopanShewale, TWiki:Main.DipuDeshmukh, TWiki:Main.AaronLWalker, TWiki:Main.TaitCyrus, TWiki:Main.MichaelGulitz, TWiki:Main.TimotheLitt, TWiki:Main.PeterJones, TWiki:Main.IanBerdei, TWiki:Main.MikeDoherty, TWiki:Main.IanKluft, TWiki:Main.ThomasWeigert, TWiki:Main.MateuszPles, TWiki:Main.MichaelBerger2012
• Testing and bug fixing: TWiki:Main.HideyoImazu, TWiki:Main.GeorgeTrubisky, TWiki:Main.MahiroAndo, TWiki:Main.YaojunFei, TWiki:Main.VickyBrown, TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny, TWiki:Main.SopanShewaley, TWiki:Main.GeorgeClark, TWiki:Main.TomCrane, TWiki:Main.AaronLWalker, TWiki:Main.JosephZamzow, TWiki:Main.JulianCollins, TWiki:Main.RolandOldenburg, TWiki:Main.SteveKelem, TWiki:Main.WillemEngen, TWiki:Main.StefanScherer, TWiki:Main.GertjanVanOosten, TWiki:Main.LisaTanguay, TWiki:Main.GuangyuShi, TWiki:Main.PhillipHuang, TWiki:Main.MauritzHansen, TWiki:Main.JohnWorsley, TWiki:Main.PaulMerchantJr
• Documentation: TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny, TWiki:Main.HideyoImazu, TWiki:Main.MahiroAndo, TWiki:Main.TerjeAndersen, TWiki:Main.JonForrest, TWiki:Main.VickyBrown, TWiki:Main.ThomasWeigert, TWiki:Main.TaitCyrus, TWiki:Main.EricRiebling, TWiki:Main.UweWahser, TWiki:Main.ScottFredericksen, TWiki:Main.StephenCarville, TWiki:Main.MarkBloore, TWiki:Main.WillemEngen, TWiki:Main.AlanDuan, TWiki:Main.TreyFore, TWiki:Main.GuyKroizman, TWiki:Main.RobRobason, TWiki:Main.LouisAh, TWiki:Main.StephanHennig, TWiki:Main.LonnieSandersIII
• Release package builds: TWiki:Main.GeorgeTrubisky, TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
• Usability: TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
• Translations: Coordinated by TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Bulgarian: TWiki:Main.KrassimirBerov
  • Chinese (simplified and traditional): TWiki:Main.CheDong
  • Czech: TWiki:Main.VladimirMarek, TWiki:Main.JaromirHoudek
  • Danish: TWiki:Main.ChristianOtkjaer, TWiki:Main.PeterLorenzen, TWiki:Main.ErikJohansen
  • Dutch: TWiki:Main.WoutMertens, TWiki:Main.TomArnst
  • Finnish: TWiki:Main.HeikkiToivonen
  • French: TWiki:Main.JeanbDupont, TWiki:Main.JeanFruitet, TWiki:Main.RodolpheVidal
  • German: TWiki:Main.MartinRaabe
  • Italian: TWiki:Main.MassimoMancini
  • Japanese: TWiki:Main.HideyoImazu, TWiki:Main.KenYuminaga
  • Korean: TWiki:Main.JeremySuk, TWiki:Main.JustinKim
  • Polish: TWiki:Main.ZbigniewKulesza
  • Portuguese: TWiki:Main.CarlinhosCecconi
  • Russian: TWiki:Main.AndreyTkachenko, TWiki:Main.SergejZnamenskij, TWiki:Main.SergeyJSinx
  • Spanish: TWiki:Main.EnriqueMelendez, TWiki:Main.SebastianKlus, TWiki:Main.MiguelABayona
  • Swedish: TWiki:Main.TorstenEriksson, TWiki:Main.ErikAman
  • Ukrainian: TWiki:Main.SerhijDubyk
• Marketing: TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny, TWiki:Main.VickyBrown
• Meetups: TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
• TWiki.org wiki champions: TWiki:Main.BrianMartinUK, TWiki:Main.DarrenLichty, TWiki:Main.DavidAllen, TWiki:Main.GeorgeTrubisky, TWiki:Main.HeatherStern, TWiki:Main.JitendraKavathekar, TWiki:Main.JohnRouillard, TWiki:Main.JonForrest, TWiki:Main.HideyoImazu, TWiki:Main.MadhuriYevale, TWiki:Main.MichaelGulitz, TWiki:Main.MichaelSprague, TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny, TWiki:Main.RichMorin, TWiki:Main.RuedigerPlantiko, TWiki:Main.SopanShewale, TWiki:Main.SteveKelem, TWiki:Main.TaitCyrus, TWiki:Main.TerjeAndersen, TWiki:Main.ThomasGutzmann, TWiki:Main.ThomasWeigert, TWiki:Main.TimotheLitt, TWiki:Main.VickyBrown

  <-- Blog, Codev, Plugins, TWiki webs -->

• Customer support: TWiki:Main.CarlaReitzenstein, TWiki:Main.ChengappaCB, TWiki:Main.EnriqueCadalso, TWiki:Main.JonForrest, TWiki:Main.JoshuaTharp, TWiki:Main.MichaelSevero, TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny, TWiki:Main.VickyBrown

  <-- Support web -->

• System administration: TWiki:Main.ChrisLahti, TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny, TWiki:Main.SopanShewale

If you find an omission please fix it at TWiki:TWiki.TWikiHistory. For the full list of contributors see TWikiContributor.

See more details on the TWiki 6.0 release at TWikiReleaseNotes06x00.