moin-1.8.6 released

[Reimar Bauer]

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 MoinMoin 1.8.6 advanced wiki engine released
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MoinMoin is an easy to use, full-featured and extensible wiki software
package written in Python. It can fulfill a wide range of roles, such
as
a personal notes organizer deployed on a laptop or home web server,
a company knowledge base deployed on an intranet, or an Internet
server
open to individuals sharing the same interests, goals or projects.

A wiki is a collaborative hypertext environment with an emphasis
on easy manipulation of information.

MoinMoin 1.8.6 is a bug fix release and a recommended update. The 1.8
branch brings you several new features such as the GUI editor, which
allows the users to edit pages in a WYSIWYG environment, and many bug
fixes. The download page: http://moinmo.in/MoinMoinDownload

= 1.8.6 release infos =
For details see the http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/1.8/raw-file/1.8.6/docs/CHANGES.

== Bug fixes ==
  * Xapian indexing / indexing filters:
    * fix deadlocks with well- and misbehaving external filters
    * work around indexing run crashing when encountering encoding
problems with non-ascii filenames
    * OpenOffice/OpenDocument filters: catch UnicodeDecodeErrors
(happens with password protected files)
  * i18n: check if languages is not initialized yet, don't crash
  * http_redirect: use 301 redirect for some cases
  * do not use httponly session cookies, makes trouble with twikidraw
and ACLs
  * GetText2 macro: fix for named placeholder
  * Fix SHA -> SSHA password hash upgrade for old user profiles.
  * abort RenamePage if renaming of main page fails (do not try to
rename subpages)

== New features ==
  * search: improve search result ordering
  * add MS Powerpoint indexing filter (needs catppt from catdoc
package)
  * migration scripts: make finding damaged edit-log entries easier
  * SubscribeUser action: support username regexes and unsubscribing.

Note that Python 2.3 should work but we recommend 2.4 or newer.

MoinMoin History
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MoinMoin has been around since year 2000. The codebase was initally
started by Jürgen Hermann; it is currently being developed by a
growing
team. Being originally based on PikiPiki, it has evolved heavily since
then
(PikiPiki and MoinMoin 0.1 consisted of just one file!). Many large
enterprises have been using MoinMoin as a key tool of their intranet,
some
even use it for their public web page. A large number of Open Source
projects use MoinMoin for communication and documentation. Of course
there are also many private installations.


For more information see http://moinmo.in/