• Appendix B: TWiki Development Timeline
  • 01-Dec-2001 Release (Athens)
  • 01-Sep-2001 Release
  • 01-Dec-2000 Release
  • 01-May-2000 Release
  • 01-Sep-1999 Release
  • 01-Jul-1999 Release
  • 1998 Releases
  • Dev Flow

Appendix B: TWiki Development Timeline

01-Dec-2001 Release (Athens)

• 25 Oct 2001 - Peter Thoeny
  • Added Formatted Search to %SEARCH{}% variable for database like reporting.

01-Sep-2001 Release

• 30 Aug 2001 - John Talintyre
  • Easier install for Windows, including auto detection in TWiki.cfg
• 30 Aug 2001 - John Talintyre
  • Ability to move attachments between topics, see File Attachments
• 21 Aug 2001 - Peter Thoeny
  • Convert to XHTML 1.0 function: first step to XHTML-ifying TWiki
• 26 Jun 2001 - John Talintyre
  • Category information to forms using the TWiki Meta Data format, see TWiki Forms
• 07 Jun 2001 - Peter Thoeny
  • New topic templates as topics instead of templates. Customize by editing the topic. Retired notedited.tmpl, notext.tmpl and notwiki.tmpl templates. More in TWiki Templates.
• 07 Jun 2001 - Peter Thoeny
  • New %TOPICLIST{"format"}% and %WEBLIST{"format"}% variables to get a formatted topic index and web index, respectively. More in TWiki Variables.
• 01 Jun 2001 - Peter Thoeny
  • New %URLPARAM{"name"}% variable to query URL parameters. More in TWiki Variables.
• 01 Jun 2001 - Andrea Sterbini
  • API to extend TWiki, see TWiki Plugin API
• 01 Jun 2001 - Klaus Wriessnegger, Andrea Sterbini
  • Forms to change/reset/install passwords, see Change Password & Reset Password
• 01 May 2001 - Andrea Sterbini
  • The TWiki Admin Group (or other group) can be enabled as a Super Admin Group. Members have browser edit access to all locked topics.
• 01 May 2001 - John Talintyre
  • Meta information format, see TWiki Meta Data
• 01 May 2001 - John Talintyre
  • Attachment under revision control See File Attachment
• 01 May 2001 - John Talintyre
  • Ability to rename/move topics, Managing Topics
• 27 Mar 2001 - Peter Thoeny
  • The table syntax has been enhanced to (i) render | *bold* | cells as table headers, (ii) render space padded cells |   center aligned   | and |   right aligned |, (iii) span multiple columns using | empty cells |||. More in Text Formatting Rules.
• 25 Mar 2001 - Peter Thoeny
  • Security fix Questionable files like PHP scripts (executables) and .htaccess files that are attached to a topic get a .txt suffix appended to the file name. See also TWiki:Codev/FileAttachmentFilterSecurityAlert
• 28 Feb 2001 - Andrea Sterbini, Peter Thoeny
  • New Wiki rule for headings, i.e. ---++ My Title; and new %TOC% variable to build a table of content from headings in a topic. More in TWiki Variables.
• 28 Feb 2001 - Peter Thoeny
  • New Wiki rule to specify arbitrary text for external links (i.e. [[http://TWki.org][TWiki]]) and internal links (i.e [[WikiSyntax][syntax]]). More in TWiki Variables.
• 28 Feb 2001 - Peter Thoeny
  • New Wiki rule for named anchors, e.g. links within a topic. Define a named anchor with #MyAnchor at the beginning of a line, and link to it with [[#MyAnchor]]. More in TWiki Variables.
• 25 Feb 2001 - Nicholas Lee, Peter Thoeny
  • Use Net::SMTP module instead of sendmail if installed.
• 01 Feb 2001 - Peter Thoeny
  • Added <verbatim> ... </verbatim> tags to show source code "as is". Unlike the <pre> ... </pre> tags, it also shows <, >, & characters "as is".
• 01 Feb 2001 - Peter Thoeny
  • Fixed TWiki:Codev/CreateLinkToAttachedFileBug.
• 21 Jan 2001 - Peter Thoeny
  • Added a "Minor change, don't notify" checkbox in preview. More in Dont Notify.
• 21 Jan 2001 - Peter Thoeny
  • Added Bold Fixed formatting using double-equal signs, e.g. write ==Bold Fixed== to get Bold Fixed.
• 20 Jan 2001 - Peter Thoeny
  • Format changed of %GMTIME{"..."}% and %SERVERTIME{"..."}% variables. Format is now "$hour:$min" instead of "hour:min". More in TWiki Variables. Attention: Check your existing topics when you upgrade TWiki!
• 18 Jan 2001 - Peter Thoeny
  • Web Changes, Web Search and e-mail notification indicate also the revision number of a topic (i.e. 18 Jan 2001 16:43 r1.5), or NEW for a new topic (i.e. i.e. 18 Jan 2001 16:43 NEW).
• 16 Jan 2001 - Peter Thoeny
  • New variable %STARTINCLUDE% and %STOPINCLUDE% variables to control what gets included of a topic. More in TWiki Variables.
• 16 Jan 2001 - Peter Thoeny
  • TWiki skins Define a different page layout with a customized header and footer layout, i.e. a print skin for a printable view of a topic. More in TWiki Skins and TWiki:Codev/TWikiSkins.
• 07 Jan 2001 - Stanley Knutson
  • Better error handling when saving a topic.
• 05 Jan 2001 - Peter Thoeny
  • View authorization based on groups. Define who is allowed to see a TWiki web. More in TWiki Access Control and TWiki:Codev/AuthenticationBasedOnGroups.
• 05 Dec 2000 - Peter Thoeny
  • Improved include handling. Infinite recursion of includes are prevented; new variables %BASEWEB%, %INCLUDINGWEB%, %BASETOPIC% and %INCLUDINGTOPIC% to have more control over include handling. More in TWiki Variables and TWiki:Codev/IncludeHandlingImprovements.
• 03 Dec 2000 - Peter Thoeny
  • New noheader="on" switch in %SEARCH{...}% to suppress table header. More in TWiki Variables.

01-Dec-2000 Release

• 03 Nov 2000 - Peter Thoeny
  • Flag $doHidePasswdInRegistration in wikicfg.pm to hide plain text password in registration email.
• 01 Nov 2000 - Peter Thoeny
  • New variable %VAR{"NAME" web="Web"}% to get web specific preferences. More in TWiki Variables.
• 01 Nov 2000 - Peter Thoeny
  • Added a "Cancel" link in edit that releases the edit lock.
• 23 Oct 2000 - Peter Thoeny
  • Authorization based on groups. Define fine graned control who is allowed to change or create topics. More in TWiki Access Control and TWiki:Codev/AuthenticationBasedOnGroups.
• 05 Oct 2000 - Peter Thoeny
  • Remember user by IP address so that view "knows" the user once authenticated in edit. More in TWiki User Authentication.
• 26 Sep 2000 - Al Williams, Peter Thoeny
  • Fixed TWiki:Codev/UppercaseAttachments bug and added png image support.
• 26 Sep 2000 - Harold Gottschalk, Andrea Sterbini, Peter Thoeny
  • Allow nesting of variables, i.e. %INCLUDE{"%TWIKIWEB%.TWikiWebsTable"}%. More in TWiki:Codev/BetterTWikiTagTemplateProcessing.
• 20 Sep 2000 - Manpreet Singh
  • New -q switch in mailnotify to suppress all normal output.
• 19 Sep 2000 - Peter Thoeny
  • Fixed TWiki:Codev/AttachedNotificationLinksBug.
• 18 Sep 2000 - Manpreet Singh, Peter Thoeny
  • Added forced internal links. Write [[text formatting FAQ]] to get the link text formatting FAQ that points to topic Text Formatting FAQ.
• 19 Aug 2000 - Peter Thoeny
  • Ref-By link searches all webs (not just the current web.)
• 16 Aug 2000 - Peter Thoeny
  • New TWiki Preferences variables %HTTP_EQUIV_ON_VIEW% , %HTTP_EQUIV_ON_EDIT% and %HTTP_EQUIV_ON_PREVIEW% that define the <meta http-equiv="..."> meta tags for the TWiki templates. This can be used for example to set a document expiration time.
• 29 Jul 2000 - Peter Thoeny
  • New variables %GMTIME{"..."}% and %SERVERTIME{"..."}% . More in TWiki Variables.
• 23 Jul 2000 - Peter Thoeny
  • Changed include syntax from %INCLUDE{"Web/TopicName.txt"}% to %INCLUDE{"Web.TopicName"}% . Legacy syntax still supported.
• 23 Jul 2000 - Peter Thoeny
  • Book View search allows you show a set of topics for easy printing.
• 22 Jul 2000 - Peter Thoeny
  • More forgiving syntax for *bold*, italic, __bold italic__ and fixed , where it is not necessary anymore to have a trailing space before .,;:?! characters.
• 22 Jul 2000 - Peter Thoeny
  • Split the TWiki.Main web into TWiki.Main (users, company data) and TWiki.TWiki (TWiki related documentation, registration)
• 07 Jul 2000 - Peter Thoeny
  • Added an "Release edit lock" checkbox in preview to let other people edit the topic immediately without the one hour lock.
• 07 Jul 2000 - Peter Thoeny
  • Fixed problem of losing carriage returns when editing topics with KDE KFM browser or W3M browser.
• 21 Jun 2000 - Peter Thoeny
  • Fixed problem that a page redirect on some server environments is not working (host name is needed in URL).
• 21 Jun 2000 - Cris Bailiff, Peter Thoeny
  • Fixed security issue to prevent a server side %INCLUDE% of arbitrary files.
• 29 May 2000 - Peter Thoeny
  • New %GMTIME% variable that shows the current GM time.
• 28 May 2000 - Peter Thoeny
  • Lock warning shows remaining lock time in minutes.
• 15 May 2000 - Peter Fokkinga
  • Each topic can have its own template file. TWiki Templates Ver 1? has more.
• 02 May 2000 - Kevin Kinnell, Peter Thoeny
  • Advanced search features like search multiple webs; sort by topic name / modified time / author; limit the number of results returned. More in TWiki Variables.

01-May-2000 Release

• 21 Apr 2000 - Peter Thoeny
  • New TWiki Variables %HTTP_HOST% , %REMOTE_ADDR% , %REMOTE_PORT% and %REMOTE_USER% .
• 21 Apr 2000 - John Altstadt, Peter Thoeny
  • TWiki Registration is done separately for Intranet use (depends on remote_user) or Internet use (depends on .htpasswd file).
• 20 Mar 2000 - Peter Thoeny
  • Uploading a file (topic file attachment) will optionally create a link to the uploaded file at the end of the topic. The preference variable %ATTACHLINKBOX% controls the default state of the link check box in the attach file page.
• 11 Mar 2000 - Peter Thoeny
  • Better security with taint checking ( Perl -T option )
• 25 Feb 2000 - Peter Thoeny
  • New preference variables %EDITBOXWIDTH% and %EDITBOXHEIGHT% to specify the edit box size.
• 25 Feb 2000 - Peter Thoeny
  • Edit preferences topics to set TWiki variables. There are three level of preferences Site-level (TWiki Preferences), web-level (Web Preferences in each web) and user-level preferences (for each of the TWiki Users?). With this, discontinue use of server side include of wikiwebs.inc , wikiwebtable.inc , weblist.inc , webcopyright.inc and webcolors.inc files.
• 11 Feb 2000 - Peter Thoeny
  • New variable %SCRIPTSUFFIX% / $scriptSuffix containing an optional file extension of the TWiki Perl script. Templates have been changed to use this variable. This allows you to rename the Perl script files to have a file extension like for example ".cgi".
• 11 Feb 2000 - Peter Thoeny
  • New variable %SCRIPTURLPATH% / $scriptUrlPath containing the script URL without the domain name. Templates have been changed to use this variable instead of %SCRIPTURL% . This is for performance reasons.
• 07 Feb 2000 - Peter Thoeny
  • Changed the syntax for server side include variable from %INCLUDE:"filename.ext"% to %INCLUDE{"filename.ext"}% . (Previous syntax still supported. Change was done because of inline search syntax)
• 07 Feb 2000 - Peter Thoeny
  • Inline search. New variable %SEARCH{"str" ...}% to show a search result embedded in a topic text. TWiki Variables has more on the syntax. Inline search combined with the category table feature can be used for example to create a simple bug tracking system.
• 04 Feb 2000 - Peter Thoeny
  • Access statistics. Each web has a Web Statistics topic that shows monthy statistics with number of topic views and changes, most popular topics, and top contributors. (It needs to be enabled, TWiki Documentation has more.)
• 29 Jan 2000 - Peter Thoeny
  • Fixed bug where TWiki would not initialize correctly under certain circumstances, i.e. when running it under mod_perl. Sub initialize in wiki.pm did not handle $thePathInfo correctly.
• 24 Jan 2000 - Peter Thoeny
  • Fixed bug where an email address starting with a Wiki Name was rendered as an internal Wiki link instead of an email address, i.e. SomeWikiName@somewhereSTOPSPAM.test .
• 10 Jan 2000 - Peter Thoeny
  • No more escaping for '%' percent characters. (Number of consecutive '%' entered and displayed is identical.)
• 03 Oct 1999 - Peter Thoeny
  • Limit the number of revisions shown at the bottom of the topic. Example
    Topic TWikiHistory . { ..... Diffs r1.10 > r1.9 > r1.8 > r1.7 >... }
    Additional revisions can be selected by pressing the >... link.

01-Sep-1999 Release

• 31 Aug 1999 - Peter Thoeny
  • Fixed Y2K bug. (Date in year 2000 had wrong format.)
• 08 Aug 1999 - Peter Thoeny
  • New text formatting rule for creating tables. Text gets rendered as a table if enclosed in " " vertical bars. Example line as it is written and how it shows up
• 03 Aug 1999 - Peter Thoeny
  • Online registration of new user using web form in TWiki Registration. Authentication of users.
• 22 Jul 1999 - Peter Thoeny
  • Flags $doLogTopic* in wikicfg.pm to selectively log topic view, edit, save, rdiff, attach, search and changes to monthly log file.
• 21 Jul 1999 - Peter Thoeny
  • Flag $doRemovePortNumber in wikicfg.pm to optionally remove the port number from the TWiki URL. Example www.some.domain:1234/twiki gets www.some.domain/twiki .
• 15 Jul 1999 - Peter Thoeny
  • Search path for include files in %INCLUDE:"file.inc"% variable. Search first in the current web, then in parent data directory. Useful to overload default include text in the data directory by web-specific text, like for example webcopyright.inc text.
• 07 Jul 1999 - Christophe Vermeulen
  • Link a plural topic to a singular topic in case the plural topic does not exist. Example TestVersion / TestVersions , TestPolicy / TestPolicies , TestAddress / TestAddresses , TestBox / TestBoxes .

01-Jul-1999 Release

• 23 Jun 1999 - Peter Thoeny
  • New Text Formatting Rules to write bold italic text by enclosing words with double underline characters.
• 23 Jun 1999 - Peter Thoeny
  • Separate wiki.pm into configuration (wikicfg.pm) and TWiki core (wiki.pm) . This is to ease the upgrade of TWiki installations, it also allows customized extensions to TWiki without affecting the TWiki core.
• 21 May 1999 - David Warman
  • Externalize copyright text at the bottom of every page into a web-specific webcopyright.inc file. This is to easily customize the copyright text.
• 20 May 1999 - Peter Thoeny
  • Added meta tag so that robots index only /view/ of topics, not /edit/, /attach/ e.t.c. Tag <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX">
• 20 May 1999 - Peter Thoeny
  • New variables %WIKIHOMEURL% (link when pressing the icon on the upper left corner) and %WIKITOOLNAME% (the name of the wiki tool linux.org.ua ).
• 15 Apr 1999 - Peter Thoeny
  • Topic locking Warn user if a topic has been edited by an other person within one hour. This is to prevent contention, e.g. simultaneous topic updates.
• 26 Mar 1999 - Peter Thoeny
  • File attachments Upload and download any file as a topic attachment by using the browser. File Attachment has more.
• 26 Mar 1999 - Peter Thoeny
  • New variables %PUBURL% (Public directory URL) and %ATTACHURL% (URL of topic file attachment).
• 09 Feb 1999 - Peter Thoeny
  • New text formatting rule for creating fixed font text . Words get showns in fixed font by enclosing them in "=" equal signs. Example Writing =fixed font= will show up as fixed font .
• 09 Feb 1999 - Peter Thoeny
  • No new topic revision is created if the same person saves a topic again within one hour.
• 03 Feb 1999 - Peter Thoeny
  • Possible to view complete revision history of a topic on one page. Access at the linked date in the Changes page, or the Diffs link at the bottom of each topic, e.g.
    Topic TWikiHistory . { Edit Ref-By Diffs r1.3 > r1.2 > r1.1 }
Revision r1.3 1998/11/10 01:34 by PeterThoeny
• 04 Jan 1999 - Peter Thoeny
  • Fixed bug when viewing differences between topic revisions that include HTML table tags like <table>, <tr>, <td>.

1998 Releases

• 08 Dec 1998 - Peter Thoeny
  • Signature is shown below the text area when editing a topic. Use this to easily copy & paste your signature into the text.
• 07 Dec 1998 - Peter Thoeny
  • Possible to add a category table to a TWiki topic. This permits storing and searching for more structured information. Editing a topic shows a HTML form with the usual text area and a table with selectors, checkboxes, radio buttons and text fields. TWiki Documentation has more on setup. The TWiki.Know web uses this category table to set classification, platform and OS version.
• 18 Nov 1998 - Peter Thoeny
  • Internal log of topic save actions to the file data/logYYYYMM.txt, where YYYYMM the year and month in numeric format is. Intended for auditing only, not accessible from the web.
• 10 Nov 1998 - Peter Thoeny
  • The email notification and the Changes topic have now a topic date that is linked. Clicking on the link will show the difference between the two most recent topic revisions.
• 10 Nov 1998 - Peter Thoeny
  • View differences between topic revisions. Each topic has a list of revisions (e.g. r1.3) and differences thereof (e.g. >) at the bottom
    Topic TWikiHistory . { Edit Ref-By r1.3 > r1.2 > r1.1 }
Revision r1.3 1998/11/10 01:34 by Peter Thoeny
• 26 Oct 1998 - Peter Thoeny
  • Added preview of topic changes before saving the topic. This was necessary to prevent unneeded revisions.
• 26 Oct 1998 - Peter Thoeny
  • Added revision control using RCS. Each topic has now a list of revisions at the bottom and a revision info, e.g.
    Topic TWikiHistory . { Edit Ref-By r1.3 r1.2 r1.1 }
Revision r1.3 1998/10/26 01:34:00 by Peter Thoeny
• 14 Oct 1998 - Peter Thoeny
  • Refered-By Find out which topics have a link to the current topic. Each topic has a Ref-By link for that. Note Only references from the current web are shown, not references from other webs.
• 13 Oct 1998 - Peter Thoeny
  • Alphabetical topic index in Web Search.
• 24 Sep 1998 - Peter Thoeny
  • Corrected templates for automatic email notification so that MS Outlook can display attachment as an HTML file.
• 13 Aug 1998 - Peter Thoeny
  • Wiki Notation allows also numbers after the AaA sequence, e.g. AaA1 is a valid Wiki Topic name, but not Aa1.
• 07 Aug 1998 - Peter Thoeny
  • Automatic email notification when something has changed in a TWiki web. Each web has a topic Web Notify where one can subscribe and unsubscribe.
• 06 Aug 1998 - Peter Thoeny
  • Added server side include of files. Syntax is %INCLUDE:"filename.ext"%
• 05 Aug 1998 - Peter Thoeny
  • Signature and date is inserted automatically when creating a new topic.
• 04 Aug 1998 - Peter Thoeny
  • Separate templates for text of non existing topic and default text of new topic. (template file templates/Web/notedited.tmpl)
• 04 Aug 1998 - Peter Thoeny
  • Warn user if new topic name is not a valid Wiki name. (template file templates/Web/notwiki.tmpl)
• 31 Jul 1998 - Peter Thoeny
  • Support for quoted text with a '>' at the beginning of the line.
• 28 Jul 1998 - Peter Thoeny
  • Added TWiki variables, enclosed in % signs %TOPIC% (Topic name), %WEB% (web name), %SCRIPTURL% (script URL), %DATE% (current date), %WIKIWEBMASTER% (Wiki webmaster address), %WIKIVERSION% (Wiki version), %USERNAME% (user name), %WIKIUSERNAME% (Wiki user name).
• 28 Jul 1998 - Peter Thoeny
  • Topic Web Changes shows Wiki username instead of Intranet username, e.g. PeterThoeny instead of thoeny in case the Wiki username exists. Implementation Automatic lookup of Wiki username in topic TWiki Users?.
• 28 Jul 1998 - Peter Thoeny
  • Topic index. (Technically speaking a simple '.*' search on topic names.)
• 28 Jul 1998 - Peter Thoeny
  • Topic Web Search allows full text search and and topic search with/without regular expressions.
• 27 Jul 1998 - Peter Thoeny
  • Added automatic links to topics in other TWiki webs by specifying <web name>.<topic name>, e.g. Know.WebSeach .
• 23 Jul 1998 - Peter Thoeny
  • Installed initial version, based on the JOS Wiki. See Wiki Wiki Clones for details.

Dev Flow

The typical TWiki development flow...

• TWiki:Codev/FeatureBrainstorming: open forum for new ideas
• TWiki:Codev/TWikiEnhancementRequests: specific detailed request
• TWiki:Codev/TWikiPlannedFeatures: accepted for future development
• TWiki:Codev/FeatureToDo: prioritized to up-next dev status
• TWiki:Codev/FeatureUnderConstruction: currently in development
• TWiki:Codev/FeatureDone: completed and implemented
• TWiki:Codev/DocRequest: request for documentation
• TWiki:Codev/DocsToDo: feature documentation pending
• TWiki:Codev/FeatureDocumented: documented feature
• TWiki Documentation: reference manual for the latest TWiki