moin-1.8.6 released
Reimar Bauer
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MoinMoin 1.8.6 advanced wiki engine released
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MoinMoin is an easy to use, full-featured and extensible wiki software
package written in Python. It can fulfill a wide range of roles, such
as
a personal notes organizer deployed on a laptop or home web server,
a company knowledge base deployed on an intranet, or an Internet
server
open to individuals sharing the same interests, goals or projects.
A wiki is a collaborative hypertext environment with an emphasis
on easy manipulation of information.
MoinMoin 1.8.6 is a bug fix release and a recommended update. The 1.8
branch brings you several new features such as the GUI editor, which
allows the users to edit pages in a WYSIWYG environment, and many bug
fixes. The download page: http://moinmo.in/MoinMoinDownload
= 1.8.6 release infos =
For details see the http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/1.8/raw-file/1.8.6/docs/CHANGES.
== Bug fixes ==
* Xapian indexing / indexing filters:
* fix deadlocks with well- and misbehaving external filters
* work around indexing run crashing when encountering encoding
problems with non-ascii filenames
* OpenOffice/OpenDocument filters: catch UnicodeDecodeErrors
(happens with password protected files)
* i18n: check if languages is not initialized yet, don't crash
* http_redirect: use 301 redirect for some cases
* do not use httponly session cookies, makes trouble with twikidraw
and ACLs
* GetText2 macro: fix for named placeholder
* Fix SHA -> SSHA password hash upgrade for old user profiles.
* abort RenamePage if renaming of main page fails (do not try to
rename subpages)
== New features ==
* search: improve search result ordering
* add MS Powerpoint indexing filter (needs catppt from catdoc
package)
* migration scripts: make finding damaged edit-log entries easier
* SubscribeUser action: support username regexes and unsubscribing.
Note that Python 2.3 should work but we recommend 2.4 or newer.
MoinMoin History
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MoinMoin has been around since year 2000. The codebase was initally
started by Jürgen Hermann; it is currently being developed by a
growing
team. Being originally based on PikiPiki, it has evolved heavily since
then
(PikiPiki and MoinMoin 0.1 consisted of just one file!). Many large
enterprises have been using MoinMoin as a key tool of their intranet,
some
even use it for their public web page. A large number of Open Source
projects use MoinMoin for communication and documentation. Of course
there are also many private installations.
For more information see http://moinmo.in/