Release Notes

Get the release

• Source: Source download (Hayes++ 1.8.3c) (instructions for source upgrades)
• VM update: 
  • IMPORTANT For 1.8.3c: You must run /usr/bin/updateWiki.sh -d first, then /usr/bin/updateWiki.sh
    
  • For previous releases: After verifying you have no local modifications that could conflict with the update, /usr/bin/updateWiki.sh
    

What's changed?

• New localization format - strings are now organized by UI views, which provides better context to translators
• New languages - Chinese, Japanese, Polish, & Spanish (Spain, Argentina)
• External group restrictions - restrict page(s) to an external group instead of individual users through the same restriction dialog
  
• New template "Fiesta" with multiple skins - the new template from Wik.is, named "Fiesta", is now available for all OSS sites
  
• Multi-tenant support - run thousands of wikis from one host, just like Wik.is!
  
• Improved SSL support - less configuration and easier to set-up
  
• Improved S3 support - fully tested and more reliable
  
• Improved email support - integration with PHPMailer allows you to use an external SMTP server to handle your Deki Wiki emails
  
• Email a page feature - send a link to any page in the wiki to a colleague
  
• Edit merging - reduce conflict errors with the new merge engine that auto-magically merges most edit conflicts
  
• Upgraded Javascript libraries - Xinha 0.94, YUI 2.3.1 (specific components), jQuery 1.2.1
• Better international character support in indexing
• Performance and stability improvements
• MySql Connector.net
• Updated to new version: 5.1.4
• Connection string cache: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=34000
• Pooling optimization: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=34001
• DB Queries
• Optimized navigation queries to support large sites
• Optimized batch permission checks by not querying unrestricting pages
• Converted several stored procedures into inline sql to take advantage of MySql query caching
• Removed redundant queries to retrieve the homepage
• Sitemap (get: pages/{pageid}/tree) optimized for larger sites
  
• Navigation
• Refactored to perform fewer XDoc calls to reduce CPU use
  
• Optimized to easily support a much larger amount of pages (25k+)
• Dream
• Avoiding unnecessary calls to set culture on new threads. This reduces CPU use considerably on Mono. (More info http://wiki.opengarden.org/User:SteveB/Mono_Issues)
• Optimizated adding elements to an XDoc
  
• New Extensions, New Functions, and Introducing Scripts
  
  • Dapper
    
  • DekiScript
    
  • GoogleService (charts)
    
    • LineChart()
    • BarChart()
    • PieChart()
  • MySql
    • Value()
    • List()
  • Syntax
    • Perl()
    • Shell()
      
  • Scripts
    
    • AccuWeather
    • Scratch
      
• Improved DekiScript Parser & Runtime
• For 1.8.3b: Automatic version pinging and a RSS feed of recent technical updates in your control panel!
  

Experimental features!

These are features that we developed, but haven't tested nor made any final decisions on implementation. These features are probably buggy and are subject to change, so use at your own risk!

• New link dialog - based on an early spec to improve the linking experience within Deki Wiki. It is disabled by default but can be enabled by adding the following line to the LocalSettings.php file:
  $wgUseNewLinkDialog = true;
  You will also need to update your rewrite rules in the Apache configuration file to look like this.
  
• Different WYSIWYG editors - use FCKeditor or TinyMCE instead of Xinha and to get Safari and Opera support. It is disabled by default, but can be enabled by adding one of the following lines to the LocalSettings.php file:
  $wgDefaultEditorEngine = 'TinyMCE';
  $wgDefaultEditorEngine = 'FCKeditor';
  Please be aware that the new editors do not have the Mindtouch add-ons for page linking and inserting images which makes them less useful than the default Xinha editor in this version.
  
• Extensions UI - use a simple graphical interface to embed Deki Wiki extensions
• Amazon S3 File Storage Provider - redirects allow your users to stream attachments directly from Amazon S3 without going through your wiki. More info here
  

Bugfix List

• Bug #1058: It's possible to create pages with not visible titles.
• Bug #1540: Switch to XHTML transitional doctype
• Bug #1870: Vertical scrollbar is appeared on tags window
• Bug #2412: Under FF impossible apply color to link
• Bug #2464: Impossible change font size on unmarked word
• Bug #2535: Background color for links
  
• Bug #2536: Losing focus after changing font size
• Bug #2538: Setting up font size work only for selected blocks
• Bug #2630: left floating image is not aligned properly (for IE)
• Bug #2637: Insert image dialog is freezing
  
• Bug #2660: Need placeholder text when no templates exist
  
• Bug #2670: Search: restricing search to path does not work as expected
• Bug #2684:  Unexpected redirect after moving page to some sub-page
  
• Bug #2697: Impossible use in tags, char "&"
  
• Bug #2698: Trailing backslashes causes config table to crash
• Bug #2700: JavaScript error during applying font size to not selected word
• Bug #2706:  Block creation of redirects on save if non-redirected children exist
  
• Bug #2707: LDAP password encoding with @ and #.
  
• Bug #2710: Failed service setting returns 'Array'
  
• Bug #2719: Font attributes are not changes without selection in FireFox
  
• Bug #2738: Web links based on images have incorrect URL
  
• Bug #2741: Remove hidden roles. Also switched reading roles from db to api.
  
• Bug #2746: GetAllHeaders not available when PHP runs via FastCGI
• Bug #2747: Mimetype extension is deprecated and not checked for.
  
• Bug #2749: Impossible preview document
• Bug #2752: Home page is strike in deleted files table
  
• Bug #2755: GET:archive/files supports only one deleted filename
• Bug #2760: Tab key for table cells with contents
• Bug #2782: It's possible use HTML tags in file description
  
• Bug #2784 Incorrect effective permission flags being returned for admin users
  
• Bug #2808: If saving page with special name, changes isn't save
• Bug #2811: Names of items in control panel are corrupted
• Bug #2816: Clear formatting is not working without word selection
  
• Bug #2821: Vertical align are not work for tables
  
• Bug #2845: user account names & template lists can be seen by users who do not have the BROWSE bit set
• Bug #2850: mailing from php: use phpmailer
  
• Bug #2873: Attachments table needs indexing
  
• Bug #2877: Remove Services_JSON.
  
• Bug #2879: Allow group permissioning
  
• Bug #2888:  Parser is turning anything with @ into email
  
• Bug #2896: Fatal error after login with permissions 'Login only'.
  
• Bug #2899: Unable to logout from system
• Bug #2909: Recent changes pane allows rendering HTML tags
  
• Bug #2910: It's possible create new user with HTML tags.
• Bug #2911: Setting default auth service from UI
  
• Bug #2918: User with only Login+Browse permissions cannot properly use the wiki.
• Bug #2923:  Unable to import Active Directory user
• Bug #2925:  Editor hangs when saving pages containing "I3*@mbJUE8G)@#&hjF" and "(#)@"
  
• Bug #2928:  Signatures should not be processed in templates until they are inserted
  
• Bug #2938: JavaScript error during changing cell background color
• Bug #2939: JS error after apply color to table
• Bug #2965: Images not storing at_image_width and at_image_height
• Bug #2971: MySql Extension -- Zero date time handling
  
• Bug #2975: Time zone addition
• Bug #2979: Moving an attachment to page that has attachment by same name
  
• Bug #2983: JavaScript error during changing skin
• Bug #2986: Creating user causes error with encoded data causes error
  
• Bug #2992: Invitation of user who already exists.
• Bug #2993: Group and user management to not communicate directly with external service. Switched to dream api from direct db calls, removed external service calls for groups.
• Bug #2996: Killing session cookie logs you out of Deki Wiki
  
• Bug #3027: User: list does not show pagination.

Database Updates

Database updates which are executed when running update-db.php (or updateWiki.sh in the VM): 

• Renaming Admin: pages to their new locations ("UserManagement" => "Users", "GroupManagement" => "Groups", "ServiceManagement" => "Services", "SiteSettings" => "Settings", "Visual" => "Styles")
• Added indices to the `attachments` table to optimize WHERE clauses
• Dropped the "role_hidden" column in the `roles` table