Foswiki archived release

See Release Dates for the complete list of available releases. This is the first release candidate for patch release 1.0.9

Foswiki 1.0.9-RC1 was built 05 Jan 2009. It is a patch release with more than 310 bug fixes relative to 1.0.0 and several enhancements. This release fixes many bug mainly in the Wysiwyg editor, bugs related to more advanced wiki applications and bugs in the Plugin API. It contains several bug fixes and enhancements related to security and spam fighting.

The final release of 1.0.9 is expected 2nd or 3rd week of January 2010.

Download

GPG Signatures and MD5 checksums are provided for verifying the integrity of the files for the primary download packages.

File	GPG	MD5	Description
Foswiki-1.0.9-rc1.tgz	GPG	MD5	tar gz version of Foswiki
Foswiki-1.0.9-rc1.zip	GPG	MD5	zip version of Foswiki

Upgrade packages

If you already have an earlier version of Foswiki 1.0.X installed, you can extract an upgrade package on top of the installation. The major.minor part of the release should not be changed by an upgrade package.

Upgrade packages must not be used to upgrade older releases.

File	GPG	MD5	Description
Foswiki-upgrade-1.0.9-rc1.tgz	GPG	MD5	upgrade tar gz version of Foswiki
Foswiki-upgrade-1.0.9-rc1.zip	GPG	MD5	upgrade zip version of Foswiki

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Getting help & providing feedback

Don't forget to use the upgrade or installation guides. If you need help, there are several options:

• The IRC channel
• foswiki-discuss mailing list
• Support forum
• Paid support

We want to hear from you! Especially if you have noticed a bug, have some ideas we could use, or just want to contribute:

• File a new task for bug reports
• Create, review or comment on feature proposals to help influence the future of Foswiki
• Chat with other users, developers, translators, and testers on our friendly IRC channel
• If E-mail is more your thing, try our foswiki-discuss mailing list

Important Changes since Foswiki 1.0.8

This release fixes some of the new bugs that Tiny MCE Editor 3.2.7 introduced in previous release. This relates to bugs that are only seen in specific browser versions but are quite annoying to the users affected. This upgrade will improve the Wysiwyg experience.

The release includes many more minor bug fixes seen only by very advanced application developers and plugin developers.

It contains several bug fixes and enhancements related to security and spam fighting. The very advanced strikeone CSRF protection that was introduced in 1.0.6 has now also been implemented to make it harder to create registration bots. Reset of password and change of email address features are now both strike one protected and you can no longer change to an empty email address. Additionally logging has been added enabling the administrator to see both old and new email address after an email address change.

Default password length is now 7 instead of 1 character. Upgraders will be affected by this as the current used setting will already be in the LocalSite.cfg file.

A rare case condition has been identified where .htpasswd files could be truncated on a very busy site or during a spam robot attack. Foswiki now uses a file locking with a semaphore file to efficiently protect .htpasswd file from ever being changed by more than one process at a time.

Download Foswiki 1.0.9 release candidate and help testing the release

Release candidates are distributed as full release packages. Upgrade packages as well as the special debian/Mac/VM/Windows versions will be available when the final version is released.

People that volunteer to test a release candidate do not need to reinstall final version later. They can use the same upgrade packages that can be used to upgrade any previous 1.0.X version of Foswiki.

If you are on 1.0.8 you can manually remove the files you do not want overwritten in your installation and later upgrade to final 1.0.9 using the upgrade package.

So go ahead and install the release candidate.

Installation

System requirements and general installation instructions - relevant for all platforms

Platform-specific installation instructions

Installation

Please refer to the INSTALL.html which can be found the downloaded tgz/zip. It can be also found on Foswiki.org in the System.InstallationGuide

Upgrade Instructions

• See System.UpgradeGuide for details on upgrading from older versions of Foswiki
• See System.SystemRequirements for the latest System Requirements.
• Be sure to take a backup!
• The upgrade packages excludes files "commonly" modified, for example, WebHome, WebPreferences, AdminGroup, etc. If your installation has modified other topics, or template files, those updates will be lost!
• If you use tar, then you can extract the upgrade package on top of your installation by using: (Be sure to run this as your web server user to avoid changing file ownership.)

cd /var/www/foswiki
tar --strip-components=1 -zxf /path/to/Foswiki-upgrade-2.x.x.tgz
cd tools
./configure --save

• Similarly, if you are using the zip upgrade package, then

cd /var/www/foswiki
unzip -o /path/to/Foswiki-upgrade-2.x.x.zip
cd tools
./configure --save

• After upgrade, restart the web server, clear the foswiki page cache, clear your browser cache.
• If things are not fully working, verify file system permissions and ownership. See System.InstallationGuide#Step_2:_Confirm_file_and_directory_ownership_and_permissions

License

• This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
• This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
• See the GNU General Public License for more details, published at http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

Release Details

• Build date 2009-01-05
• Publish date 2009-01-05
• Built from http://svn.foswiki.org/branches/Release01x00 svn revision 5945