TWiki version 4.3.1 (GeorgeTown)

This release combines features from the version 4.3 and 4.2 of TWiki

Release highlights:

New Features and Enhancements of TWiki Release 4.3

• Security Enhancements
  • Reduced risk of XSS (cross-site scripting)
  • S/MIME support to sign administrative e-mails

• Usability Enhancements
  • Replace question mark links with red-links to point to non-existing topics

• Enterprise Collaboration Enhancements
  • Pre-installed HeadlinesPlugin to show headline newsfeeds in TWiki topics
  • Pre-installed TWikiNetSkin, TWikiNetSkinPlugin for corporate look and feel

• Search Enhancements
  • Add footer parameter to Formatted Search
  • Add number of topics to Formatted Search

• Miscellaneous Feature Enhancements
  • Control over variable expansion at topic creation time
  • 17 new TWikiDocGraphics images
  • Include URL supports list of domains to exclude from proxy
  • Adding Korean language

• Plugin Enhancements
  • SpreadSheetPlugin: 5 new functions

• Bug Fixes
  • More than 30 bug fixes since 4.2.4

New Features and Enhancements of TWiki Release 4.2

• Easier Installation and Upgrade
  • New Internal Admin Login feature
  • The Main.TWikiUsers topic is no longer distributed as a default topic in Main web
  • A new directory working which per default is located in the TWiki root which contains registration_approvals, tmp, and work_areas
  • Configure can now authenticate when connecting to local plugins repository.

• Usability Enhancements
  • New WYSIWYG editor based on TinyMCE replaces the Kupu based editor
  • New "Restore topic" feature has been added to the More Topic Actions menu to easily restore an older version of a topic

• Application Platform Enhancements
  • Enhancements to IF: allows, ingroup, istopic, and isweb

• Search Enhancements
  • New query search mode supports SQL-style queries over form fields and other meta-data

• Skins and Templates Enhancements
  • The PatternSkin which is the default skin for TWiki has got a face lift
  • The default templates have been heavily refactored to make it easier to create skins reusing the default skin.

• Miscellaneous Feature Enhancements
  • Many new functions in the API for plugin developers
  • Table of Content (TOC) feature enhanced
  • re-architected Pluggable user mapping (between login name and WikiName) to integrate with alternative authentication and Management schemes
  • Topic based User management has been extracted into a separately update-able package (TWikiUsersContrib)

• Enhancements of Pre-installed Plugins
  • CommentPlugin: New templatetopic parameter to point to custom comment template topic
  • EditTablePlugin: Move and delete rows
  • MailerContrib: Allow Exclusion Of Webs
  • SpreadSheetPlugin: 6 new math formulas; formula to format time diff

• Bug Fixes
  • More than 300 bugs fixes since 4.1.2

For more details, please see: TWikiReleaseNotes04x03.

If you encounter any problems or issues, please use the regular Support line.

-- PeterJones - 18 Aug 2009