TWiki Release 5.1 (Istanbul) released on 2011-08-20

New Features and Enhancements of TWiki Release 5.1

• Usability Enhancements
  • API and GUI for point and click user data management
  • Support disabled users in password manager
  • More visual user profile pages with in-place editing of form fields and picture selector
  • In-place editing of TWiki group settings using PreferencesPlugin
  • Point and click bookmarks for better usability
  • Improved statistics showing overall site usage over time, such as total number of webs, topics, users, etc
• TWiki Application Platform Enhancements
  • Macro language with parameterized variables
  • Ability to auto-create page on view if it does not exist
  • Relative heading levels for INCLUDE
  • Relative heading levels for SEARCH
• Security Enhancements
  • Set a flag to force password change on next login
  • S/Mime support for notification e-mails
• Plugin Enhancements
  • New BackupRestorePlugin to easily backup, restore and upgrade TWiki installations
  • New SetGetPlugin that can store variables persistently
  • New ColorPickerPlugin to pick a color in form fields
  • SpreadSheetPlugin: New functions BITXOR(), HEXDECODE(), HEXDECODE(), XOR()
• Bug Fixes
  • 21 bug fixes since TWiki-5.0.2

See the full list of new features and bug fixes in TWikiReleaseNotes05x01.

Hall of Fame of TWiki Release 5.1

Many people have been involved in creating TWiki 5.1. Special thanks go to the most active contributors in the following areas:

• Sponsor and facilitator: TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
• Spec and code: TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny, TWiki:Main.SopanShewale, TWiki:Main.GeorgeTrubisky, TWiki:Main.PeterJones, TWiki:Main.ChrisLahti, TWiki:Main.TimotheLitt, TWiki:Main.ThomasWeigert, TWiki:Main.IanKluft
• Testing and bug fixing: TWiki:Main.GeorgeTrubisky, TWiki:Main.SopanShewale, TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny, TWiki:Main.TimotheLitt, TWiki:Main.StefanWalter, TWiki:Main.SpirosDenaxas
• Documentation: TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny, TWiki:Main.ThomasWeigert, TWiki:Main.ScottGutman, TWiki:Main.SebastianKlus, TWiki:Main.DavidWTucker, TWiki:Main.JonasThomsen, TWiki:Main.MichaelRoberts, TWiki:Main.TaitCyrus, TWiki:Main.TorstenEriksson
• Release package builds: TWiki:Main.GeorgeTrubisky
• Usability: TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
• Translations: Coordinated by TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
  • Bulgarian: TWiki:Main.KrassimirBerov
  • Chinese (simplified and traditional): TWiki:Main.CheDong
  • Czech: TWiki:Main.JaromirHoudek, TWiki:Main.VladimirMarek
  • Danish: TWiki:Main.ChristianOtkjaer, TWiki:Main.PeterLorenzen, TWiki:Main.ErikJohansen
  • Dutch: TWiki:Main.WoutMertens, TWiki:Main.TomArnst
  • Finnish: TWiki:Main.HeikkiToivonen
  • French: TWiki:Main.JeanbDupont, TWiki:Main.JeanFruitet, TWiki:Main.RodolpheVidal
  • German: TWiki:Main.MartinRaabe
  • Italian: TWiki:Main.MassimoMancini
  • Japanese: TWiki:Main.KenYuminaga
  • Korean: TWiki:Main.JeremySuk, TWiki:Main.JustinKim
  • Polish: TWiki:Main.ZbigniewKulesza
  • Portuguese: TWiki:Main.CarlinhosCecconi
  • Russian: TWiki:Main.AndreyTkachenko, TWiki:Main.SergejZnamenskij, TWiki:Main.SergeyJSinx
  • Spanish: TWiki:Main.EnriqueMelendez, TWiki:Main.SebastianKlus, TWiki:Main.MiguelABayona
  • Swedish: TWiki:Main.TorstenEriksson, TWiki:Main.ErikAman
  • Ukrainian: TWiki:Main.SerhijDubyk
• Marketing: TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny, TWiki:Main.BrianMellea
• Public relations: TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny, TWiki:Main.BrianMellea
• Meetups: TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
• TWiki.org wiki champions: TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny, TWiki:Main.ThomasWeigert, TWiki:Main.TimotheLitt, TWiki:Main.TaitCyrus, TWiki:Main.GeorgeTrubisky, TWiki:Main.SopanShewale, TWiki:Main.DanielRohde, TWiki:Main.DipuDeshmukh, TWiki:Main.IanKluft

  <-- Blog, Codev, Plugins, TWiki webs -->

• Customer support: TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny, TWiki:Main.EnriqueCadalso, TWiki:Main.CarlaReitzenstein, TWiki:Main.ScottGutman, TWiki:Main.AaronLWalker, TWiki:Main.TimotheLitt

  <-- Support web -->

• System administration: TWiki:Main.ChrisLahti, TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny, TWiki:Main.SopanShewale

If you find an omission please fix it at TWiki:TWiki/TWikiHistory. For the full list of contributors see TWikiContributor.

See more details on the TWiki 5.1 release at TWikiReleaseNotes05x01.

TWiki Release 5.0 (Helsinki) released on 2010-05-29 & 2011-04-21

• • In WebNotify, if only the WikiName is specified, the e-mail is taken from the user profile page; if the WikiName is a group name, a notification is sent to all members of the group

• • New user profile pages are now based on the NewUserTemplate, replacing the /twiki/templates/register.tmpl template file