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1.8.2 addresses some security problems in TikiWiki mainly Path Disclosure, XSS and improved CSRF routines.

Special thanks to gulftech.org

Will LUGs (Linux User Groups) in India adopt TikiWiki for their portal / groupware / content management needs? Now there is a better chance; the 2004 release of PCQ Linux, a Fedora Linux distribution highly customized for South Asia requirements, includes TikiWiki 1.7.4.

After a long wait and even CVS problems I was joined tonight in #tikiwiki by mose, chealer and MikeW for final testing of the 1.8.1 release.
Its now available on our SourceForge project page.
Whats next? Well onwards now as we look towards a 1.8.2 and the first release of Tiki 1.9!

Marking the end of the CVS line for 1.7 branch is release 1.7.6. This release contains the annoying Windows Login Bug where you needed to put your site into a sub folder. Read More the ))ChangeLog(( entry. Support for 1.7 hasnt stopped and we will still be around in #tikiwiki to help! Patches for bugfixes will be made available (and can be submitted) to http://mods.tikiwiki.org

Fantastico De Luxe is a PHP based Web application. It integrates with CPanel and gives the clients the ability to automagically install many Open Source Applications. Just today I was informed by my Web Host that Fantastico released a new version that includes our beloved Tikiwiki 1.8.

Tiki has been selected as part of the upcoming debate at the PHP Quebec Conference 2004. We will organize a TikiFest during this period. Please see: TikiFest

The TikiWiki community is expanding! We welcome aboard two brand new sites, http://hu.tikiwiki.org and http://mods.tikiwiki.org.
http://hu.tikiwiki.org is a localised Hungarian site hosted by ang.
http://mods.tikiwiki.org is the first TikiWiki mods site hosted by damian.

It has been six months since the last major release (1.7). During this period the Tiki team has grown from 68 contributors to 190!! Detailed stats here: TikiCommunity

For the last several months, Tiki has been eating it's own DogFood and using Tiki 1.8 on tikiwiki.org Three release candidates (over three months) later, the Tiki team is proud to release Polaris.

The main major new feature is a complete rewrite of all the queries to move to the ADOdb abstraction layer. This makes Tiki highly portable and useable with your favorite database. Tiki 1.8 boasts over 65 new features & enhancements. Congratulation to redflo for managing this release.

The TikiWiki documentation site http://doc.tikiwiki.org was successfully upgraded from 1.7.4 to 1.8 tonight at around 9pm GMT. Click the read more for details.