perl | fosiki - Part 4

Mar 23 2009

Foswiki 1.1 Admin dashboard preview

Tag: enterprise,foswiki,nextwiki,open source,perl,twiki,twikiapplication,twikifork,wiki,wiki application — Sven Dowideit @ 1:34 pm

I’ve been working on expanding the use of Foswiki Applications and in the process began to build (using TML) a much more usable user interface for configuring and managing your Foswiki.

So – to the picture show

Easy to access over-view

Quickly customise your Foswiki site.

Admin friendly selection of visual settings

Many of these features already do work in Foswiki 1.0.4 – by installing FoswikiApplications Contrib, but they are a work in progress – and getting more advanced every week.

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Mar 20 2009

Foswiki 1.0.4 released – OSX, Windows and Debian installers ready too

Tag: debian,enterprise,foswiki,new,nextwiki,perl,twiki,twikiapplication,twikifork,wiki — Sven Dowideit @ 8:33 pm

Foswiki 1.0.4 has been released with more than 100 bug fixes and some small enhancements. Upgrading is highly recommended. If you did not upgrade from TWiki yet, now is a good time as Foswiki 1.0.4 fixes more around 300 bugs relative to TWiki 4.2.4.

Grab it now from : http://foswiki.org/Download/WebHome – the straight and upgrade archives, OSX installer and my Windows Installers are here.

My debian package repository now spans Foswiki 1.0.4 and 168 Foswiki extensions – its never been easier to install

see http://fosiki.com/Foswiki_debian

Over the 4 months of our project’s existence, 33 developers have been involved in making ~3000 commits – next up, the future !

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Jan 14 2009

debian repository for Foswiki

Tag: debian,enterprise,foswiki,new,nextwiki,perl,twiki,twikiapplication,twikifork,wiki — Sven Dowideit @ 12:18 am

I’ve set up a debian repository that you can help test the release package before it gets uploaded into debian proper.

To try it out, add the following to your /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://fosiki.com/Foswiki_debian/ stable main contrib deb-src http://fosiki.com/Foswiki_debian/ stable main contrib

and then run

gpg --keyserver the.earth.li --recv-keys 379393E0AAEE96F6 apt-key add /root/.gnupg/pubring.gpg

OR (if theearth.li doesn’t work for you) wget http://fosiki.com/Foswiki_debian/FoswikiReleaseGpgKey.asc apt-key add FoswikiReleaseGpgKey.asc

apt-get update

apt-get install apache2 foswiki

This repository contains about 281 (Apr2011) foswiki-extensions – auto updated nightly direct from foswiki.org. The packages have as many dependencies as I was able to coerce my build scripts to work out – but there is more work needed.

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Jan 10 2009

Foswiki delivers results.

Tag: debian,enterprise,foswiki,nextwiki,open source,perl,twiki,twikiapplication,twikifork,wiki — Sven Dowideit @ 9:51 pm

In just 10 weeks, the Foswiki project has re-built the project infrastructure, fixed an additional 100 bugs over and beyond those we fixed in the TWiki source repository before the fork, moved to a new web application architecture (FSA) and undertaken a detailed security audit, fixing at their roots a large number of potential exploits.

Additionally, we already have the following easy installers:

Windows Installer

OSX Leopard installer

Debian and Ubuntu linux

Virtual machine image

So given the over 1800 commits in 10 weeks, a release, and much much more, It seems to me that Foswiki is a success..

Download Foswiki today!

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Jan 03 2009

Foswiki v1 beta 3 Windows Installer

Tag: enterprise,foswiki,new,open source,perl,twiki,twikifork,wiki — Sven Dowideit @ 10:44 am

Yesterday I uploaded the first Foswiki Installer for windows to Foswiki Downloads. It will install Apache 2.2 (if you don’t already have it) and Strawberry Perl and then configure and install Foswiki v1.0.0 beta 3.

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Jan 01 2009

Foswiki v1.0 hits beta

Tag: enterprise,foswiki,nextwiki,open source,perl,twiki,twikiapplication,twikifork,wiki — Sven Dowideit @ 11:13 am

On the 26th of December 2008, Kenneth built Foswiki v1.0 Beta 1, and then Foswiki v1.0 Beta 2 on the 28th. Since then we’ve been busy testing and fixing things that are side effects of the Secure by default policy we’ve instigated.

I’ll be releaseing a Windows installer using Apache 2.2 and Strawberry Perl when Beta 3 is released – we’re still working through some Windows oddities.

its pretty amazing what has been achieved in the 2 months since the project forked.

Massive XSS and parameter validation changes
much more resistant input validation (Perl taint checking)
over 160 bugs fixed

Happy new year, and a happy new Data Wiki release.

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