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After long hours of intensive fixing/testing/fixing, two new versions of TikiWiki are now available on Sourceforge: version 1.8.6 for the 1.8 -Polaris- branch, and 1.9.1 for the 1.9 -Sirius- branch.

These 2 releases include fixes for recent major security flaws (some disclosed, some not yet). The 2 recent XMLRPC flaws have been corrected. (http://phpxmlrpc.sourceforge.net/)

This article is mainly a notice to all users of the internal Tiki messaging system. Since a recent change in 1.9, in order to receive messages from other site users, you need to visit your user preferences through MyTiki and enable the option Allow messages from other users. Until then you cannot receive internal messages including replies to messages you send out.

With many users posting in the forums and coming into our IRC channel requesting help as their TikiWiki site after a recent upgrade to 1.9 has started to generate blank or half drawn pages, I feel its needed to highlight the PHP memory_limit requirement again. Read more for the various links relating to this problem and solutions.

Gulftech Research pointed us to a bug in the xmlrpc library. This bug can be used to execute any php code remote. This is a serious security flaw and we encourage you to either use a workaround or to install updated xmlrpc libraries immediately.

Tiki 1.9.0 -Sirius- introduces over 400 (honest!) new features & enhancements, options, modifications & bugfixes. Tiki 1.9 was started in CVS at the end of 2003 and the formal release cycle (and use on tikiwiki.org) started in June 2004.

Thank you to the unprecedented number of people who helped. Over 400 commits in the last 7 days!!

Major new features include: Enhanced wiki diff engine, Site identity, Multilingual content handling, Enhanced trackers (custom forms), TikiMods, TikiSheet, Wiki3d, RSS feeds in MBOX & OPML format, Enhanced image galleries (sub-galleries, batch upload and a slide show), Friendship network, Score system, Enhanced articles types, Wiki page & tracker rating, Category permissions, Major calendar enhancements, More intuitve user & group management, new optional validation step for user registration, group subscription to a newsletter, Admin Screen for managing Meta Tags, nicer Error 404 page with seach prompt, 18 new modules (now at 92) & 25 new plugins (now at 55).

The TikiWiki community is proud to announce TikiWiki 1.9 final. The next generation of Open Source and Open-Organizations inspired community-portal-building 'at your fingertips' is not far away.

Since TikiWiki is a community and not just a software, more social aspects than just hacking on our favourite code are considered. One of them is the TikiWiki last.fm group, where you can get an impression of the average TikiWiki-user's musical taste or even change it to become more like yours. 😊