What's New

The following is most of the improvements, new features, and changes you'll find in Deki Wiki "Hayes".

• Complete API
• Bidirectional methods for files, pages, RSS, users, site
  
• Consume XML, JSON or PHP from API
• http://wiki.opengarden.org/Deki_Wiki_API
• New web-service extension model
  
• Services manager control panel for managing extensions
  
• See short video here: http://wiki.opengarden.org/Deki_Wiki/Release/Hayes
  
• YouTube, Viddler, Flickr, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Google, Latex, Graphing, Image manipulation and many more extensions included in this release
  
• Authentication extensions
• LDAP, Active Directory, Drupal, Joomla, Wordpress
• Easily extensible arch for authentication providers
• Honors group-based permissions from external directories
• Page comments
  
• Tagging, chrono-tagging, tag categories
• Tagging. Organize and sort pages by user-defined tags.
• Tag categories are when a user may define a page as the parent of a tag. For example. If one were to tag a page "define:music" all pages tagged with "music" would be presented on said page.
• Chrono-tagging is when a page may be tagged with a specific date. This can be achieved with prefixing "date:" to a date or time. For example, a user can tag a page with "date:May 31", "date:today", or "date:5/31/2007" and each tag will yield the same outcome.
• Related pages
• New user roles provide much more granularity in user permissions
  
• Significant improvements made to enterprise class searching, including keyword highlighting
  
• More secure new user account creation with nonce email
  
• New image gallery
  • New controls for sorting attached images
  • Lightbox for presenting attached images in page context
  • Image slide show
  • Improved user experience for image versions
• Significant improvements to the editor
• New redesigned navigation pane
• New and much improved page revision comparison
• Multiple templating support
  • See http://doc.opengarden.org/DekiWiki/Technical_Docs/Skinning .
• Multiple skinning support
  • See http://doc.opengarden.org/DekiWiki/Technical_Docs/Skinning .
• New skins including a wireframe skin to make it easier to customize Deki Wiki
  
• New control panel user interface
• New printing UI
• Dramatic improvements to the print pages dialog and print output.
• Complete rewrite of the page parser
• Web installer
• Save to PDF
  
• Hundreds of bug-fixes and enhancements.