Tiki 5.0 Release Notes | |
Quick links: Changelog | Tiki5 (doc) | Tiki5 (dev) | Upgrade | Roadmap |
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Introduction to upgraders from earlier versions | |
If you are migrating to Tiki5 from Tiki versions earlier than Tiki4, you are encouraged to read first the pages describing the changes introduced in earlier versions of Tiki, such as:
If this is your first installation ever of Tiki, welcome to Tiki Community! You'll find details about the installation here:
Note:
If you are planning to Upgrade from a Tiki version earlier than Tiki5.1, or you have never fixed the potential encoding issue in your database, please follow these 3 steps once: http://doc.tiki.org/Upgrade#Fix_the_encoding_issue
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New features | |
Tiki 5 includes several new features (including shopping cart, workspaces, and perspectives) as well as hundreds of fixes and enhancements. Refer to http://doc.tiki.org/Tiki5 for complete documentation on TIki 5 release.
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Branding and Name Change | |
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Category Permissions | |
Category permissions have been dramatically revamped and improved since version 3. When upgrading to version 5.0 from version 3.x (or earlier), your permissions may not migrate properly. You should review the category permissions and reconfigure them, if necessary. Refer to http://doc.tiki.org/permission for complete information on Tiki permissions.
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Known Issues | |
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Installation Fails on PHP 5.3.0 | |
When installing Tiki5 on PHP 5.3.0, installation may fail with the following message:
This is due to a known bug with PHP 5.3.0. To install Tiki5, use PHP 5.2 or 5.3.1 instead.
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Can't connect to the database | |
Same as ReleaseNotes40, because PDO is not detected, add the following statement to the end of your ../db/local.php file, before the ?>: Copy to clipboard
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Loss of Admin Privileges | |
When upgrading to version 4 or above a Tiki site started on a Tiki version older than 3, you may experience Permission Denied messages for some features, even when logged in as the administrator (Admin) user. If your Admin account has lost permissions, you can easily recover them.
Tiki will:
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Database Encoding Issues | |
In some instances, after upgrading to Tiki 5 your wiki pages may show odd characters or demonstrate other encoding issues. To resolve this problem, edit your ../db/local.php file by commenting out the $client_charset line as follows: Copy to clipboard
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Corrupted file uploads | |
In some server configurations, even if you do not experience strange character display, you may corrupt the file you upload in the database. If you have file uploaded in the database (in file gallery, tracker, wiki...) check that a new uploaded file can be downloaded with no problem.
An alternative option might be to keep the potential problem (related to encoding character sets) that you might have in your database, and change the settings in your Tiki so that files uploaded (file galleries, image galleries, attachments, etc.) do upload to file system instead of to the database. Applying the proper fix explained above is the suggested option, of course. |
Installer | |
Installer throws up an ugly error message if you enter invalid DB connection info. (instead of asking you to try again) Will be fixed in 5.1 alias
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