Many, many people worked on TWiki-4.0.0. The credits in the table below only list the people who worked on individual enhancements. If you find an omission please fix it at
. There were many other contributors; for a full list, visit
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Most of the redesign, refactoring and new documentation work in Dakar release was done by
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provided ideas and proof of concept for several improvements. Other people who gave
amounts of their time and patience to less sexy aspects of the work, such as testing, infrastructure and documentation, are
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Installation & configuration | Contributor |
Much simpler install and configuration | Crawford Currie, LynnwoodBrown, ArthurClemens |
mod_perl safe code for better performance | Crawford Currie |
Security |
Security sandbox blocking exploits for remote command execution on the server | Florian Weimer, Crawford Currie, Sven Dowideit |
Reworked access permission model | Crawford Currie |
Internationalization & localization |
User Interface Internationalisation | AntonioTerceiro |
Chinese translation | CheDong |
Danish translation | SteffenPoulsen |
Dutch translation | ArthurClemens |
French translation | BenVoui |
German translation | AndreUlrich |
Italian translation | MassimoMancini |
Polish translation | ZbigniewKulesza |
Portuguese translation | AntonioTerceiro, CarlinhosCecconi |
Spanish translation | WillNorris, MiguelABayona |
Swedish translation | Erik Åman |
New features for users |
Edit conflict resolution with automatic merge | Crawford Currie |
Fine grained change notification on page level and parent/child relationship | Crawford Currie |
WYSIWYG editor | Crawford Currie, ColasNahaboo, DamienMandrioli, RomainRaugi |
Integrated session support | GregAbbas, Crawford Currie |
Webserver-independent login/logout | Crawford Currie |
Registration process with e-mail confirmation | MartinCleaver |
Tip of the Day box in TWiki Home | PaulineCheung, Peter Thoeny, AntonAylward |
ATOM feeds | Peter Thoeny |
"Force New Revision" check box for topic save | WillNorris |
New features for TWiki administrators and wiki application developers |
Improved preferences handling | ThomasWeigert, Crawford Currie |
Named include sections | RafaelAlvarez |
Create topic names with consecutive numbers | Sven Dowideit |
Parameterized includes | Crawford Currie |
Dynamic form option definitions of TWikiForms with FormattedSearch | MartinCleaver |
SEARCH enhancements with new parameters excludeweb , newline , noempty , nofinalnewline , nonoise , recurse , zeroresults | Crawford Currie, ArthurClemens, Peter Thoeny, ThomasWeigert |
FormattedSearch enhancements with $changes , $count , $formfield(name, 30, ...) , $summary(expandvar) , $summary(noheaders) , $summary(showvarnames) | ColasNahaboo, Crawford Currie, Peter Thoeny, Sven Dowideit |
New TWikiVariables ACTIVATEDPLUGINS, ALLVARIABLES, AUTHREALM, EMAILS, FAILEDPLUGINS, HTTP, HTTPS, ICONURL, ICONURLPATH, IF, LANGUAGES, LOCALSITEPREFS, LOGIN, LOGOUT, MAKETEXT, META, PLUGINDESCRIPTIONS, QUERYSTRING, STARTSECTION/ENDSECTION, SESSION_VARIABLE, SESSIONID, SESSIONVAR, SPACEOUT, USERLANGUAGE, WIKIHOMEURL | ArthurClemens, AntonioTerceiro, Crawford Currie, GregAbbas, Peter Thoeny, Sven Dowideit, WillNorris and many more |
TWiki form with hidden type and other form enhancements | LynnwoodBrown, ThomasWeigert |
Support topic-specific templates for TWiki applications | ThomasWeigert |
Direct save feature for one-click template-based topic creation | LynnwoodBrown, Crawford Currie, ThomasWeigert |
Automatic Attachments showing all files in the attachment directory | MartinCleaver |
Rename, move or delete webs | PeterNixon |
Hierarchical subwebs (beta) | PeterNixon |
New features for Plugin developers |
REST (representational state transfer) interface for Plugins | RafaelAlvarez, TWiki:Main.MartinCleaver, Sven Dowideit |
New and improved Plugins APIs | Crawford Currie, ThomasWeigert |
Improvements in the TWiki engine room |
Major OO redesign and refactoring of codebase | Crawford Currie |
Automatic build system | Crawford Currie |
Extensive test suite, unit tests and testcases | Crawford Currie |
TWiki:Codev.DevelopBranch , DEVELOP branch Bugs system | Sven Dowideit |
Documentation, logo artwork, skins: |
Documentation | Crawford Currie, LynnwoodBrown, Peter Thoeny, Sven Dowideit and others |
Design of TWikiLogos with big "T" in a speech bubble | ArthurClemens, Peter Thoeny |
Improved templates and PatternSkin | ArthurClemens |
Details of New Features and Enhancements of 01-Sep-2004 Release | Developer, Sponsor |
Install: Ship with an automatic upgrade script to facilitate TWiki upgrades. Details | TWiki:Main.MartinGregory TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit |
Install: New testenv function to change the locks in the TWiki database to the web server user id (automates installation step). Details | TWiki:Main.MattWilkie TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit |
Install: The shipped .htaccess.txt now needs to be edited before it is valid, to help reduce chances of error. Details | TWiki:Main.CrawfordCurrie TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit |
Install: Configurable password file handling for different types of encryption. Details | TWiki:Main.PavelGoran TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit |
Install: Remove office locations from registration. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
Install: Changes to support shorter URLs with Apache Rewrite rules. Details | TWiki:Main.AntonioBellezza TWiki:Main.WalterMundt |
Install: Remove the Know web from the distribution. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
Internationalization: Support use of UTF-8 URLs for I18N characters in TWiki page and attachment names. Details | TWiki:Main.RichardDonkin |
Authentication: Authenticate users when creating new topic in view restricted web. Details | TWiki:Main.JonathanGraehl TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit |
Preferences: TWiki Preferences need to be secured properly. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
Preferences: Use TWiki Forms to set user preferences. Details | TWiki:Main.JohnTalintyre |
Skins: New pre-installed skins PatternSkin and DragonSkin. Details | TWiki:Main.ArthurClemens TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
Skins: New skin browser to choose from installed skins. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
Skins: Documented set of CSS classes that are used in standard skins. Details | TWiki:Main.ArthurClemens TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit |
Skins: Added CSS class names to Diff output. Details | TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit |
Skins: Templates can now be read from user topics, as well as from files in the templates diretcory. Details | TWiki:Main.CrawfordCurrie TWiki:Main.WalterMundt |
Skins: Ensure that the default template gets overridden by a template passed in. Details | TWiki:Main.MartinCleaver TWiki:Main.WalterMundt |
Skin: Convey an important broadcast message to all users, e.g. scheduled server downtime. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
Skin: Balanced pastel colors for TWiki webs. Details | TWiki:Main.ArthurClemens |
Rendering: Use exclamation point prefix to escape TWiki markup rendering. Details | TWiki:Main.ArthurClemens |
Rendering: Ordered lists with uppercase & lowercase letters, uppercase & lowercase Roman numerals. Details | TWiki:Main.DanBoitnott TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
Rendering: Allow custom styles for the "?" of uncreated topics. Details | TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit |
Rendering: Render IRC and NNTP as a URL. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
Rendering: Make acronym linking more strict by requiring a trailing boundary, e.g. excluding TLAfoobar. Details | TWiki:Main.CrawfordCurrie TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit |
Rendering: TWiki Form with Label type. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
Rendering: Web names can now be WikiWords. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
Rendering: New syntax for definition list with dollar sign and colon. Details | TWiki:Main.AdamTheo TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
Rendering: Table with multi-span rows, functionality provided by Table Plugin. Details | TWiki:Main.WalterMundt |
Variables: New title parameter for TOC variable. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny TWiki:Main.ArthurClemens |
Variables: New REVINFO variable in templates supports flexible display of revision information. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit |
Variables: Set times to be displayed as gmtime or servertime. Details | TWiki:Main.SueBlake TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit |
Variables: Properly encode parameters for form fields with ENCODE variable. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
Variables: Expand USERNAME and WIKINAME in Template Topics. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
Variables: Expand same variables in new user template as in template topics. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
Variables: Optionally warn when included topic does not exist; with the option to create the included topic. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
Variables: In topic text show file-types of attached files as icons. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
Variables: New variable FORMFIELD returns the value of a field in the form attached to a topic.. Details | TWiki:Main.DavidSachitano TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit |
Variables: Meta data rendering for form fields with META{"formfield"}. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
Variables: New PLUGINVERSION variable. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
Variables: URLPARAM now has a default="..." argument, for when no value has been given. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
Variables: URLPARAM variable with newline parameter. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
Variables: URLPARAM variable with new multiple=on parameter. Details | TWiki:Main.PaulineCheung TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
Search: New switch for search to perform an AND NOT search. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
Search: Keyword search to search with implicit AND. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
Search: Multiple searches in same topic with new multiple="on" paramter. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
Search: Remove limitation on number of topics to search in a web. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
Search: Exclude topics from search with an excludetopic parameter. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
Search: Expand Variables on Formatted Search with expandvariables Flag. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
Search: Formatted Search with Web Form variable to retrieve the name of the form attached to a topic. Details | TWiki:Main.FrankSmith TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
Search: Formatted Search with Conditional Output. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
Search: Formatted Search with $parent token to get the parent topic. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
Search: New separator parameter to SEARCH supports better SEARCH embedding. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
Search: Improved search performance when sorting result by topic name. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
Search: New scope=all search parameter to search in topic name and topic text at the same time. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
Search: New topic parameter for AND search on topic text and topic name. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
Search modules uses Perl-style keyword parameters (code cleanup). Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
Search: New $wikiname variable in format parameter of formatted search. Details | TWiki:Main.ArthurClemens |
Search: Sort search by topic creation date. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
Search: Topic creation date and user in Formatted Search. Details | TWiki:Main.CoreyFruitman TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit |
Search: Increase levels of nested search from 2 to 16. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
Plugins: New pre-installed Plugins CommentPlugin, EditTablePlugin, RenderListPlugin, SlideShowPlugin, SmiliesPlugin, SpreadSheetPlugin, TablePlugin. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
Plugins: New callback afterSaveHandler , called after a topic is saved. Details | TWiki:Main.WalterMundt |
Plugins: New callbacks beforeAttachmentSaveHandler and afterAttachmentSaveHandler , used to intervene on attachment save event. Details | TWiki:Main.MartinCleaver TWiki:Main.WalterMundt |
Plugins: New callbacks beforeCommonTagsHandler and afterCommonTagsHandler . Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
Plugins: New callback renderFormFieldForEditHandler to render form field for edit. Details | TWiki:Main.JohnTalintyre |
Plugins: New callback renderWikiWordHandler to custom render links. Details | TWiki:Main.MartinCleaver TWiki:Main.WalterMundt |
Plugins: New function TWiki::Func::formatTime to format time into a string. Details | TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit |
Plugins: New function TWiki::Func::getRegularExpression to get predefined regular expressions. Details | TWiki:Main.RichardDonkin |
Plugins: New functions TWiki::Func::getPluginPreferences* to get Plugin preferences. Details | TWiki:Main.WalterMundt |
Plugins: New function TWiki::Func::extractParameters to extract all parameters from a variable string. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
Plugins: New function TWiki::Func::checkDependencies to check for module dependency. Details | TWiki:Main.CrawfordCurrie TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit |
Plugins: A recommendation for where a Plugin can store its data. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
UI: Show tool-tip topic info on WikiWord links. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
UI: Save topic and continue edit feature. Details | TWiki:Main.ColasNahaboo |
UI: Change topic with direct save (without edit/preview/save cycle) and checkpoint save. Details | TWiki:Main.MattWilkie TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit |
UI: In attachment table, change 'action' to 'manage'. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny TWiki:Main.ArthurClemens |
UI: Smaller usability enhancements on the file attachment table. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny TWiki:Main.ArthurClemens |
UI: Removes anchor links from header content and places them before the text to fix 'header becomes link'. Details | TWiki:Main.ArthurClemens |
UI: Improved functionality of the More screen. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny TWiki:Main.ArthurClemens |
UI: Quick reference chart of most used markup is now listed on the edit screen. Details | TWiki:Main.ArthurClemens |
UI: Flag for edit script to avoid overwrite of existing topic text and form data. Details | TWiki:Main.NielsKoldso TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
UI: Disable Escape key in IE textarea to prevent it cancelling work. Details | TWiki:Main.CrawfordCurrie TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
UI: Improved warning message on unsaved topic. Details | TWiki:Main.MartinGregory TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit |
UI: Reverse order of words in page title for better multi-window/tab navigation. Details | TWiki:Main.ArthurClemens |
UI: Provides a framework to create and modify a topic without going through edit->preview->save sequence. Details | TWiki:Main.AndreUlrich TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit |
UI: Set the topic parent to none in More screen, e.g. remove the current topic parent. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
UI: Use templates to define how file attachments are displayed. Was previously hard-coded. Details | TWiki:Main.CrawfordCurrie TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit |
UI: Topic diff shows unified diff with unchanged context. Details | TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit |
UI: Diff feature shows TWiki form changes in nice tables. Details | TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit |
Code refactoring: The log entry for a save now has a dontNotify flag in the extra field if the user checked the minor changes flag. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
Code refactoring: Server-side include of attachments accelerates INCLUDE. Details | TWiki:Main.CrawfordCurrie TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
Code refactoring: Move functionality out of bin scripts and into included modules. Details | TWiki:Main.CrawfordCurrie TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit |
Code refactoring: Move bin script functionality into TWiki::UI modules. Details | TWiki:Main.CrawfordCurrie TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
Code refactoring: Optimize preferences handling for better performance. Details | TWiki:Main.PavelGoran TWiki:Main.WalterMundt |
Code refactoring: Refactor variable expansion for edit and register. Details | TWiki:Main.CrawfordCurrie TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
Code refactoring: Move savemulti script into TWiki::UI::Save. Details | TWiki:Main.MattWilkie TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit |
Code refactoring: Topic search is done natively in Perl, it does not depend anymore on system calls with pipes. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
Code refactoring: Fix logical error in upload script which prevented MIME filename from being used. Details | TWiki:Main.WalterMundt |
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