TWiki-6.1.0 Released - Better Usability, Better App Platform

TWiki-6.1.0 is released, shipped through the virtual door! This release brings a number of usability enhancements, and strengthens TWiki as an application platform. We recommend to upgrade to this latest release.

The new release can be downloaded from TWiki.org and SourceForge.net. The TWiki-VM has not yet been updated.

TWiki's user base consists of millions of users on tens of thousands of installations in over 130 countries, backed by an open source community of hundreds of contributors and 70,000 twiki.org users.

The TWiki community worked hard on this release. I'd like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who contributed to this release. Special kudos to Hideyo Imazu and Morgan Stanley team for supporting the open source TWiki community! In all, 82 people are listed in the Kampala Hall of Fame. Thank you, Thank You, THANK YOU!

Here are a few feature highlights:

• Usability Enhancements
  • New HIDEINPRINT variable to hide some topic from printing
  • New attachment parameter for INCLUDE variable to include an attachment
  • Expand $name token in links [[WebName.TopicName][$name]] and [[%ATTACHURL%/filename.ext][$name]]
  • New exclude parameter for WEBLIST variable
  • Support for literal search for %SOME% variable, such as %BR%

• TWiki Application Platform Enhancements
  • New FORM and EDITFORM variables
  • The WEB variable now has the nameless parameter to specify output format with tokens $top(n), $last(n), $item(n), $list, $size
  • The EDITFORMFIELD variable supports textarea type
  • Link [[TopicName?param=value][label]] becomes a parameterized link to the topic view URL
  • Variables in VIEW_TEMPLATE and EDIT_TEMPLATE are expanded
  • The redirectto URL parameter for the save script may contain $web and $topic tokens

• Security Enhancements
  • Log-in with two-step authentication
  • A number of enhancements to guard against Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) and Code Injection attacks
  • New mode="search" encoding in ENCODE and URLPARAM
  • Do anti-spam e-mail padding only for unauthenticated guests
  • Predefined variables can no longer be redefined with preferences settings

• Extensions Enhancements
  • Add new TWikiSheetPlugin to TWiki core distribution, allowing simultaneous editing of spreadsheets
  • TinyMCEPlugin: Document how to add custom toolbar button to TinyMCE editor

• Miscellaneous Feature Enhancements
  • The configure script can now run under the PSGI engine
  • User preferences can be demoted under web preferences (site-wide configuration); specific user preferences can be denied and allowed
  • 8 new TWikiDocGraphics icons: car, desk, milestone-add, program, program-add, project-add, refresh, sprint; 1 updated icon: project
  • The HTML title shows the more descriptive TOPICTITLE instead of just TOPIC

To learn more:

• Read the TWiki-6.1 release notes
• Curious how the latest TWiki looks like? See some TWikiScreenshots.

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How You Can Help: Spread the Word!

Word of mouth is an effective way to spread TWiki - we appreciate your help tremendously! More exposure means more contributions, and a better system! Please spread the word in Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, blogs etc. You can point your connections to this blog post at http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/BlogEntry201808x1 - short link http://bit.ly/twRel610

Sample tweet you could use:

New TWiki-6.1.0 released for enterprise collaboration & apps: Get. Work. Done. http://bit.ly/twRel610 #enterprise #wiki

TWiki keeps getting better and better thanks to the community. Please let us know in the comments below what you think of this new release!

Peter Thoeny - founder of TWiki.org

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