Changelog

This page contains a summary of changes between the official DokuWiki releases, only the bigger changes are listed here. The complete and detailed log of all changes is available through the GitHub Repository Browser.

Changelogs of older releases than the ones listed here are available at Old Changes.

Changes marked with need some attention on upgrading.

• This release needs PHP 5.1.2 or later!
• many Editor improvements
  • automatic list indention
  • better headline system
  • link wizard template authors need to provide CSS
• compatibility fixes for IE8 and Chrome
• PHP 5.3 compatibility fixes
• row span support in tables
• downloadable code blocks
• fulltext search improvements
• added filename search in media manager
• new dformat function plugin and template authors should replace strftime calls with this function
• one click revert button for managers template authors need to add this button
• nicer admin screen template authors need to provide CSS
• XMLRPC improvements
• many smaller feature enhancements
• more plugin events
• some performance optimizations
• minor security enhancements
• many, many, many bug fixes

• Flash Multiuploader
• license selector template authors need to make use of tpl_license()
• compatibility fixes with Flash Player 10
• internal changes to make farming easier
• removed old upgrade plugins¹⁾
• better support for non-default auth backends in ACL manager
• jump to edited section after saving
• much improved Japanese romanization
• improved XMLRPC interface
• improved search result display
• many smaller feature enhancements
• more plugin events
• some performance optimizations
• minor security enhancements
• security fix for a local file inclusion issue 1700 (CVE-2009-1960)
• many, many bug fixes

• Improved RSS syndication, now supports diff views and full HTML, search results are available as RSS
• Added AJAX to the index view
• Show diffs between arbitrary page revisions
• Improved search and result highlighting
• Better plugin support for modifying DokuWiki forms removes *FORM_INJECTION events
• Separation of TOC from content for more template flexibility
• Security measurements against CSRF attacks
• X-Sendfile support for supporting Webservers
• XMLRPC API
• Use of UniversalWikiEditButton in default template
• Complete rewrite of the ACL manager
• Moved spell checker from core to plugin
• Support for deep namespace templates
• Popularity plugin added by default – please help us to improve DokuWiki with your data
• Using locale aware strftime instead of date Plugin authors may need to fix their plugins
• Use fulltext index for media file usage scan for better scalability
• Introduction of a temp folder upgraders should make sure data/tmp exists and is writable
• Many bugfixes, smaller features and performance improvements.

• Revert Manager added to mass revert spam attacks
• OpenSearch Support
• DOMlib removed (smaller JavaScript footprint)
• Improved index method for the search Upgraders make sure to have data/index directory
• Improved page meta data support
• Added a manager option to open certain admin functions to a given group
• Pluggable renderers
• TOC now can be separated from the content
• MIME type heuristics to work around IE security flaws
• include and include_once support for JavaScript files
• A bucket load of smaller and bigger bugfixes and improvements
• Some more bugfixes since RC1

• automatic background draft saving
• improved caching behavior for CSS, JavaScript and RSS, with correct IMS handling
• various performance improvements including the changelog mechanism redesign
• support for storing page metadata
• improvements on the UTF-8 handling when no mb_string extension is available
• improvements on the default management plugins
• URL rewrite support for export formats
• ATOM 1.0 support for syndication
• better feed aggregation with SimplePie
• Action Plugins
• optional gzip output compression if browsers support it
• namespace restricted searchs added
• completely rewritten mediamanager template designer need to update their templates
• namespace links
• possibility to disable certain DokuWiki actions, when using it in a CMS-like environment
• made password resetting a two-stage process with confirmation emails
• webbased install wizard for first time setup
• many many bug fixes, smaller improvements and language updates

• Hotfix Release
• Fixes various bugs (736 732 731 and others)
• some language updates

• JavaScript made unobtrusive
• JavaScript and CSS compression, CSS variable replacements
• New Toolbar
• Fixes for the search indexer 563 575, commandline index updater added
• search for word parts and other search fixes552 632 653
• Completely reworked auth backend system backend config may need to be adjusted
• stricter XHTML compliance Templates need to be adjusted
• fixes for the HTTP library 626
• Google sitemap generation
• Admin plugins for managing users, configuration and plugins added
• Pagelockrefresh through background AJAX
• simple romanization support
• optional hierarchical breadcrumbs added (aka. “You are here”)
• simplified permission setting of files
• ACL now works with user and groupnames which are not valid pagenames (for some auth backends)
• XSS security fix for handling EXIF data in the mediamanager

• various bugs fixed 550, 548, 529, “basedir” problem
• GeSHi and language updates

• page template support 104
• added support for local configuration files 349
• Image metadata support (EXIF/IPTC) and detailpage added
• insitu footnotes
• removed 2MB limit in fetch.ph 506
• personal wordlist for spellchecker 488
• feed caching
• email subscription for pagechanges
• commandline utilities for scripting
• a new index based search
  • Template editors need to add the tpl_indexerWebBug() function to their main template
  • Upgraders should read Some Background on the searchindex
• URL rewriting for media files
  • Users of rewrite mode 1 need to adjust their .htaccess
• experimental Plugin Manager
• Support for admin plugins added
• Proxy support added
• Optional ImageMagick support added
• New options for image inclusion

• Security fix for ACL handling 456
• some fixes for the safemodehack option 179
• some spellchecker fixes 448

• Style fixes
• TOC Translation Problem fixed 309
• Various fixes for the getBaseURL autodetection
• ACL: The password crypting method is configurable through passcrypt, defaults to salted MD5
• ACL: The admin can create new users if openregister is disabled
• ACL: Users can set their own password (autopasswd)
• ACL: Added DELETE permission for media files
• fixed problems with footnote numbering
• Various mysql changes, support for adding Users
• Hide IP for logged in users
• Various ldap changes
• Fixed logout 319
• AJAX pagename search added
• Experimental syntax Plugin support added
• Fix for <php> mode syntax
• Directory layout was changed
• Experimental Spell Checker added
• Fix for Sessionlocking 364
• Removed short_opentag requirement
• Fixed problem with ZendOptimizer 377 378