Features / Usability

Happy Birthday, Tiki!

16 years ago it started:
Oct 7th 2002 - "Project founded" (first commit to the version control system, which was still CVS back then before we switched to SVN)
Oct 8th 2002 - Version 0.9 package released on Sourceforge.net
Oct 9th 2002 - Official announcement of the 0.9 release made

Since then, tons of features were added and a strong community was built. Today while we are working on Tiki19, countless organizations, corporations and individuals rely on the powerful features of Tiki!

"Happy Birthday, Tiki" and thanks to every user and/or contributor!

The Tiki community is proud to announce the opening of Tiki Online Open Hours Friday, the 5th of October, 2018, from 13:00 UTC to 15:00 UTC

You are warmly invited to a live two-hour session with a Tiki specialist who will be available to talk with you about Tiki, try to help you and answer your questions.
It is casual and open to everyone no matter if you are a developer, a webmaster or a user or just passing by.
Just prepare your favorite beverage, put on a headset (test before the meeting, please) and we’ll talk.

There are advantages in direct one-to-one and small group conversation and we want to explore this with you.
We will start at https://tiki.org/live on Friday, the 5th of October, 2018, from 13:00 UTC to 15:00 UTC.
Visit this link to have the time converted to your local time: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Tiki+Online+Open+Hours&iso=20181005T13&p1=1440&ah=2.

Ideally, we want to have a Tiki Online Open Hours session every week, but we are in new territory here and there are a lot of options (open to everyone together, one-on-one discussions, by appointment, and so on).
We will adjust and keep improving. . . . This is the wiki way, and the Tiki way!

As requirement prior for those meeting, please, find a quiet place and use a headset, test before the meeting, prepare your question, organize with a demo or screenshot.
During the meeting, please, be respectful and patient with other participants, don't monopolize the time and attention of the facilitator.

Please find more details at : https://tiki.org/Tiki-Online-Open-Hours

I’ll be the facilitator for the next sessions and I’ll be waiting for you this Friday !
Bernard

Thanks to chbi of https://chbi.eu for the security reports and helping us to make Tiki much safer application again!

Visit https://tiki.org/Download to get the latest version.

We, the Tiki community, warmly encourage current Tiki users to update to - and new users to try out - Tiki 18.1 and benefit from the new features, options and fixes. Thanks to the hundreds of reports and wishes submitted by Tiki testers and community members, the changes from 15 to 18 have been impressive and this update continues that trend. This is another occasion to remind you that updating your site regularly will ease your own update and maintenance process as well as keep your site as secure as possible.

This is also the time to say goodbye to Tiki 17, which has come to the end of its support period and won’t be further upgraded.

The security team would like to give thanks and credit to Pranav Digambar Jagtap @pranavH4x0r, chbi of https://chbi.eu, Karim of ripstech.com and Omar Kurt of netsparker.com for their security reports and help to make Tiki a safer application.

If you like Tiki and find it useful, we invite you to join the Tiki community and to help fund our open source project.

Tiki 18, originally scheduled for an December 2017 release but pushed back for extra fixes and enhancements, brings a number of significant new features including a Composer web installer, integration of better GUI (drag and drop interface), a new Style-Guide tool, a major upgrade of the external libraries for H5P, the open source platform for creating rich HTML5 content, and many improvements around trackers, wiki plugins and the system admins tools (for detailed info and list, visit: https://doc.tiki.org/tiki18).

For the most polished and feature-complete Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware experience, an upgrade to Tiki 18.0 or new installation as a first Tiki website is highly recommended!

On October 8, Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware marked 15 years of continuous development. Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to the project over the years by coding and bug-fixing, creating and hosting websites, and providing great feedback for further improvement.

Happy Birthday, Tiki!

The Tiki Community has released updates to all supported branches of the Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware project. These updates address several vulnerabilities found in Tiki, as well as bringing miscellaneous bug fixes.

Special thanks to:

• chbi at https://chbi.eu
• leon.zhao
• Pradeep Kumar
• Tim Coen of https://www.curesec.com/
• xu yue (aka cdxy or Xyntax)

for reporting and assisting in verifying fixes for the security issues!

All Tiki website administrators are strongly encouraged to upgrade their sites to the latest Tiki versions: Tiki 17.1, Tiki 16.3, Tiki 15.5 LTS, and Tiki 12.12 LTS.

Visit https://tiki.org/Download to get the latest version.

Tiki 17, originally scheduled for an April 2017 release but pushed back for extra fixes and enhancements, brings a number of significant new features including support for modern favicons, password blacklists, and a new method for annotations.

New external libraries integrated as features include H5P, the open source platform for creating, sharing, and reusing interactive HTML5 content; and CasperJS, a browser navigation scripting and testing utility written in JavaScript for PhantomJS or SlimerJS. (Correction: A previous version of this article stated that Exposé IDS (intrusion detection system) is a new feature in Tiki 17. This feature will debut in Tiki 18. Sorry about any confusion.)

Feature advancements include a massive improvement in PDF generation via mPDF, tracker additions and enhancements including a more versatile user selector field type, typography enhancements based on PHP SmartyPants, and a number of new wiki plugins.

For the most polished and feature-complete Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware experience, an upgrade to Tiki 17.0 or new installation as a first Tiki website is highly recommended!

The Tiki Community has released updates to all current versions of Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware. These updates address a cross-site scripting vulnerability in Tiki (CVE-2016-9889). The updates also include many other fixes and improvements.

Special thanks to 0xExploit for the cooperation and assistance in reporting the security issue.

We highly encourage all Tiki administrators to upgrade their sites to the latest Tiki versions: Tiki 16.1, Tiki 15.3 LTS, and Tiki 12.10 LTS.

Visit https://tiki.org/Download to get the latest version.

You can show your support by taking a moment to vote for Tiki! Voting is open until November 1, 2016. Winners will be announced November 10, 2016.

To vote, visit https://www.cmscritic.com/awards/.

The Tiki Community is planning two TikiFest (code sprint) events in the next month:

• TikiFest FrOSCon will be held in Bonn, Germany from August 13-23 (during FrOSCon, Aug 20-21). Visit https://tiki.org/TikiFestFrOSCon2016 for details.
• TikiFest Hungary will be held in Budapest, Hungary from August 23-29. Visit https://tiki.org/TikiFestHu2016 for details.

All members of the Tiki Community, as well as anyone interested in wikis and content management systems (CMS) are invited to join us! Many of the most active contributors to Tiki will be present to plan, design, and code upcoming Tiki releases.

What is a TikiFest? It is a tradition in the Tiki community, a TikiFest is a meeting between Tiki community members (that usually only meet online). This is an opportunity to socialize, code and discuss about wiki technology and culture, etc. Learn more at https://tiki.org/TikiFest.

The Tiki Community is planning two TikiFest (code sprint) events in the next month:

• TikiFest FrOSCon will be held in Bonn, Germany from August 13-23 (during FrOSCon, Aug 20-21). Visit https://tiki.org/TikiFestFrOSCon2016 for details.
• TikiFest Hungary will be held in Budapest, Hungary from August 23-29. Visit https://tiki.org/TikiFestHu2016 for details.

All members of the Tiki Community, as well as anyone interested in wikis and content management systems (CMS) are invited to join us! Many of the most active contributors to Tiki will be present to plan, design, and code upcoming Tiki releases.

What is a TikiFest? It is a tradition in the Tiki community, a TikiFest is a meeting between Tiki community members (that usually only meet online). This is an opportunity to socialize, code and discuss about wiki technology and culture, etc. Learn more at https://tiki.org/TikiFest.

Nominations for the 2016 CMS Critic Awards remain open through September 1, 2016.

The CMS Critic awards were started three years ago in order to fill a gap that was missing in the business software industry. While there have been similar awards in the past that have been given out, none have been truly focused on ensuring fair exposure and opportunity to all players in the market. This is the reason the CMS Critic awards were created.

The products / companies with the most nominations (valid ones that is) will be shortlisted for the voting stage. As this first portion of the awards is the People's Choice portion, this all relies on you and your nominations (and votes once we get to that stage) so please support Tiki! Actual voting begins September 15.

The Tiki Community is proud to announce that Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware has been named by Small Business Computing as one of the best open source collaboration tools!

From their article:

For Tiki specifically, the article goes on to say:

See the full list at: http://www.smallbusinesscomputing.com/slideshows/10-best-open-source-collaboration-software-tools.html

Thank you to our helpful, active community of developers and users for helping Tiki make the list!

Our monthly Roundtable Meeting is scheduled for this Thursday (21/07/2016)!

If you are an active member of the Tiki community this is just a reminder.
But if you are not yet and are interested to participate or you just want to see how we discus and plan next improvement and maintain Tiki you are welcome to come.

Connect at : live.tiki.org (logon or come as guest)

Topics
1st hour quick news
• Quick update on releases (security) status
• Quick update on Tiki15 LTS status
• Quick updates on TikiFestFroscon2016 and TikiFestHu2016
• Quick update on Facebook & Twitter integration
Second hour, longer topics
• Planning TikiFestFroscon2016 and TikiFestHu2016
• Strategy discussion for Tiki
As it has been said in the devlist we are short of hands and summer won’t help
We have to adapt so our ship flag Tiki15 doesn’t suffer anymore regression and the nasty ones are fixed.
• Setting/reviewing guideline about strings and translation.

More information about this meeting at : https://tiki.org/Roundtable+Meeting+2016+07

The Tiki Community has released updates to all current versions of Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware. This update addresses a critical vulnerability found in third-party code that is included with Tiki. The update also includes many fixes and updates.

Special thanks to Mehmet Dursun İNCE of www.invictuseurope.com and to Robert Abela of www.netsparker.com for their cooperation and assistance in reporting the security issues.

We highly encourage all Tiki administrators to update their sites to the latest Tiki versions: Tiki 15.2, Tiki 14.4, and Tiki 12.9 LTS.

Visit https://tiki.org/Download to update the latest version.

This month (June) our monthly meeting, our Roundtable discussion, is on Thursday, 16 June 2016 at 13:00 utc.
Our Roundtable meetings are cordial and fun, and besides, you will learn and be at the heart of Tiki’s team action.

More information to come at : https://tiki.org/Roundtable+Meeting+2016+06

The Tiki community is pleased to announce Tiki 15.1, the latest stable LTS Tiki version featuring numerous fixes.

To download the current stable Tiki, see https://tiki.org/Download

Version updates have been released for previous Tiki versions too, including Tiki 12.8 and Tiki 14.3. These versions include critical security fixes (*) so Tiki users are recommended to upgrade to the latest version as soon as possible.