Known Issues of Foswiki 2.0 Production Releases

These are known issues of Foswiki 2.0.X If you are still using a 1.0.X or 1.1.X version of Foswiki see KnownIssuesOfFoswiki01x00 and KnownIssuesOfFoswiki01x01

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Release Foswiki-2.0.0

Major issues of Foswiki, to be fixed in: 2.0.1

The following "urgent" issues have been marked for resolution in Foswiki 2.0.1

Id Summary Component Current State
Item13510
7 years
Configure is incorrectly applying $FALSE and $TRUE defaults from Config.spec files
distro:7e1f547ac375
Configure Closed
Item13513
7 years
Configure extension installer overlays extension settings with defaults when upgrading an extension.
distro:36aca0d6cf20
Configure Closed
Item13516
7 years
bulk_copy.pl has fails to copy some webs, crashes copyng attachment revisions. Unusable.
distro:ba0a5df61641 distro:79f8f8140b33 distro:d7be7af1f170 distro:45ca0dfcf5c6
FoswikiTools Closed
Item13518
7 years
Extra scrollbar in NatEditPlugin + PatternSkin
distro:f53c99239bfb
NatEditPlugin, PatternSkin Closed
Item13520
7 years
FORMFIELD macro fails to return text in a format that can be rendered. Workaround available.
distro:5e785ef971bd
FORMFIELD Closed
Item13538
7 years
Setting DISABLEDPLUGINS causes very noisy error log
distro:bc1c0044b39f
FoswikiPlugins Closed
Item13539
7 years
Review css deprecations documented as part of defunct BaseSkin effort
distro:41f3bf40195e
Documentation Closed
Item13541
7 years
eachAttachment returns directory names with PlainFileStore, breaks bulk_copy.pl
distro:0f280bd552b8 distro:24f2b5f567c3
PlainFileStoreContrib Closed
Item13547
7 years
Copy failed from system to Sandbox
distro:0dc2dbd23357 distro:6f244121a7ac distro:e47335091956
PlainFileStoreContrib Closed
Item13563
7 years
Crashes in Search, Foswiki.pm and Render.pm for cUID mapped from uft8 WikiName
distro:8eeffefcc1bd
I18N, SEARCH, UserMapping Closed
Item13565
7 years
Wide char in print error registering user with utf8 topic name and "mailprogram" email
distro:fc117ad74992
FoswikiNet Closed
Item13567
7 years
TML in dirty areas not rendered correctly
distro:6208df8427e0 distro:86a5bdffef71
PageCache, TipsContrib Closed
Item13568
7 years
tools/bulk_copy.pl: removes topic data prior to saving new revision; breaks attachments and history
distro:a8b56f70bbb2
FoswikiTools Closed
Item13575
7 years
WysiwygPlugin converts entities to utf-8, then cannot save topic on iso-8859-1 store
distro:7e7e1118ddd6
WysiwygPlugin Closed
Item13599
7 years
Extensions installer fails to check in existing files, silently omits them.
distro:83229de0598c
Configure Closed

Major issues of Foswiki, to be fixed in: 2.0.2

The following "urgent" issues have been marked for resolution in Foswiki 2.0.2

Id Summary Component Current State
Item13560
7 years
configure does not set initial values when extensions are installed with an external package manager.
distro:00c9e7389753 distro:921ed8f9164e distro:9a3b4612bfff distro:ed3aabefa0fd distro:b8a7893cfa4a distro:69baaf25c3f5 distro:e597e35ec868 distro:242a57cf630d distro:5088ec2bd570 distro:1f7f01184216 distro:2804659007c4 distro:e54f9dfa39fc distro:b2b931647f3c distro:c4703e9e5341
ConfigurePlugin Closed
Item13561
7 years
PERL type configuation settings lose their formatting when LocalSite.cfg is saved.
distro:90dd7ce46dad
ConfigurePlugin Closed
Item13570
7 years
EditRowPlugin does not work on page with TABLE macro.
distro:45bceb5d9e7c distro:956a65673331 distro:b99811da932a distro:e0f5ba59ba75 distro:ab48972c1f9d distro:cc3e182967a4 distro:581bd6e6910a TablesContrib:ee2f9bed9785 TablesContrib:198175cb59a4 distro:01df15f83db2 distro:21c9304cb9b9 distro:24a5f4d2f4ba distro:346900b82757
EditRowPlugin Closed
Item13583
7 years
Login form populated with incorrect path info.
distro:526290089f8d distro:d2517b1846e8
FoswikiRequestCache Closed
Item13593
7 years
Foswiki 2.0 is 350% slower doing query SEARCH compared to 1.1.9.
distro:4e7a76058509
  Closed
Item13598
7 years
Error renaming a symlinked web using PlainFile Store.
distro:0d134479ea0a
PlainFileStoreContrib Closed
Item13601
7 years
Page cache pollution by illegal path components.
distro:774bdbec99f1
  Closed
Item13609
7 years
bulk_copy.pl fails on perl 5.10.1 - Encode constants are not exported.
distro:9573c58df395
FoswikiTools Closed
Item13625
7 years
AutoViewTemplatePlugin: reports Invalid template name ( Warning: Can't find named section viewtemplate in topic...) when used in "section" mode and no section exists.
distro:40b77a99bee7
AutoViewTemplatePlugin Closed
Item13629
7 years
Hide "Title" field in natedit when unused.
distro:bd824876d6f2
NatEditPlugin Closed
Item13649
7 years
BuildContrib not properly copying copyright information releasing an extension
distro:04dca6d946c4 distro:9a922343a75f distro:994f94b51310
  Closed
Item13654
7 years
Foswiki::Func::saveFile was changed in Foswiki 2.0 to use utf-8 encoding.
distro:9de4992f3125
FoswikiFunc Closed
Item13667
7 years
Templates with leading comments disturb jquery-ui.
distro:f4be8f0aae09
JQueryPlugin Closed
Item13672
7 years
EditRowPlugin not working on mod_perl systems.
distro:fe563ecb6684
EditRowPlugin Closed
Item13676
7 years
Add jquery-2.1.4 and 1.11.3 to cure a Safari bug.
JQueryPlugin Closed
Item13685
7 years
SlideShowPlugin no longer allows scrolling down when the page is a little longer than the display.
distro:3d2b20b3eada
SlideShowPlugin Closed
Item13688
7 years
TablePlugin injected css is overwritten by the default style sheets disabling any table attributes.
distro:4f23f566902b
TablePlugin Closed
Item13692
7 years
EditRowPlugin puts the edit button the wrong place when EDITTABLE comes before TABLE.
EditRowPlugin Closed
Item13693
7 years
EditRowPlugin deletes macros from text area fields.
distro:4b02c483c597
EditRowPlugin Closed
Item13696
7 years
Some attachments can be unreachable with non-UTF8 store encoding.
distro:bd1370ecab3f distro:62c2f1e8e1a7 distro:0f499eb41281 distro:bcb6ce91455c distro:8d379427bad8 distro:3918c7a3632f
FoswikiStore Closed
Item13697
7 years
With iso-8859-1 store, it's possible to create unreachable topics and attachments.
distro:8366b8a2cdbc distro:9ec1ba127a17 distro:47f2d3e6a6e5 distro:59642e42a30c distro:bca91a0f39b7
FoswikiStore, PlainFileStoreContrib, RCSStoreContrib Closed
Item13698
7 years
Unable to move attachments if target topic is not a WikiWord.
distro:1e1b92d9f8d6
FoswikiUIRename, FoswikiUsability Closed
Item13707
7 years
PatternSkin themes are not working.
distro:a2c2200c80bb distro:0d9b34a1bc05 distro:f046d4d5ada7
PatternSkin Closed
Item13710
7 years
JQueryPlugin (6.13) version of jquery.foswiki.js fails in 1.1.9 installation. BuildContrib corrupts compressed javascript.
distro:775498952344 distro:18ecebad2da7
BuildContrib, JQueryPlugin Closed
Item13711
7 years
EditRowPlugin makes TablePlugin apply its formatting to the wrong column.
distro:aeb5dd16a31e
EditRowPlugin Closed
Item13714
7 years
EditRowPlugin adding and deleting rows fails in TestCases/TestCaseEditTableJavaScript.
distro:f6384ff6dc43 distro:aeb5dd16a31e
EditRowPlugin Closed
Item13715
7 years
EditRowPlugin does not always handle the EDITTABLE macro correctly case 2.
distro:aeb5dd16a31e
EditRowPlugin Closed
Item13717
7 years
EditRowPlugin creates massive copies of macros when you edit tables.
distro:aeb5dd16a31e
EditRowPlugin Closed
Item13720
7 years
EditRowPlugin make the headline sort mark up the wrong column as the sorted.
distro:aeb5dd16a31e
EditRowPlugin Closed
Item13721
7 years
Return EditTablePlugin to the 2.0.2 MANIFEST.
distro:5c536a685a95
EditRowPlugin, EditTablePlugin Closed
Item13728
7 years
Rename fails across symlinked directories in RCS Store.
distro:bca91a0f39b7 distro:3d80f8f7f141
RCSStoreContrib Closed
Item13730
7 years
EditTablePlugin uses unescaped braces and calls CGI::param in list context.
distro:94795ea1422f distro:f1cee9837ffc
EditTablePlugin Closed
Item13745
7 years
Set+ Unset+ save script arguments are unusable from the CLI engine.
distro:d6e008e71bf4
FoswikiEngine Closed
Item13765
7 years
EditRowPlugin TestCaseEditTableMacrosInSettings removes content of footer and label type cells.
distro:9a00e20b3b31
EditRowPlugin Closed

Major issues of Foswiki, to be fixed in: 2.0.3

The following "urgent" issues have been marked for resolution in Foswiki 2.0.3

Id Summary Component Current State
Item13519
7 years
Foswiki should clearly report missing dependencies. Don't crash with 500 Internal Server Error.
distro:b3ebab2baa48 distro:3b31eb52e2bc distro:4b424853d4c2 distro:1fc7340f4a00 distro:0987542d7058
Configure Closed
Item13816
7 years
Configure doesn't work on IE9, IE does not support console.log or console.debug.
ConfigurePlugin Closed
Item13817
7 years
EditRowPlugin performance issues with tables > 100 rows.
distro:b8d4648f340a distro:71ec7495ddf1 distro:07dfb9bd5441
EditRowPlugin Closed
Item13830
7 years
Attachments with special characters (umlauts) in Foswiki 2.0.2 with mod_perl, reported as missing or empty file.
distro:072e35817178 distro:c9bf5a4f67a1 distro:8b8a83b0d915
ModPerlEngineContrib Closed
Item13834
7 years
EditRowPlugin cannot edit cells that contain Umlauts and other non-ASCII characters.
distro:5c91079656f2
EditRowPlugin Closed
Item13837
7 years
Foswiki::Func::getScriptUrl() generates broken URL if any parameters contain embedded # characters.
distro:4bc7094810ad
FoswikiFunc Closed
Item13839
7 years
UserMapping: validateRegistrationField is too strict on usernames - unable to add users containing underscore.
distro:f853dd1b0a1f
UserMapping Closed
Item13845
7 years
bulk_copy.pl fails to copy WebPreferences topic if RcsWrap is in use.
distro:876a2396b8e9 distro:494cf991e023
FoswikiTools Closed
Item13850
7 years
Uninitialized variable trying to remove a undefined user from a group.
distro:c8cb7ef1e48d
GROUPINFO Closed
Item13852
7 years
CommentPlugin should warn about COMMENT permissions.
distro:5a38853fd6a5 distro:275ba8a0b1d9
CommentPlugin Closed

Major issues of Foswiki, to be fixed in: 2.0.4

The following "urgent" issues have been marked for resolution in Foswiki 2.0.4

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The following "urgent" issues have been marked for resolution in Foswiki %RELEASEDIN%

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    web="Tasks"
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    topic="Item*"
    type="query"
    nonoise="on"
    order="formfield(CurrentState)"
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    header="| *Id* | *Summary* | *Component* | *Current State* |"
    format="| [[$web.$topic][$topic]]%BR%<span class='foswikiGrayText foswikiSmall '>$percntCALC{$FORMATTIMEDIFF(min, 1, $ROUND($TIMEDIFF($TIME($createdate GMT), $TIME(), min)))}$percnt</span> | <noautolink>$formfield(Summary)</noautolink> <br/> $formfield(Checkins) | $formfield(Component) | $formfield(CurrentState) |"
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Topic revision: r7 - 08 Jan 2016, GeorgeClark
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