After days and nights of checking and testing here is coming the first release candidate in the Sirius (1.9) family of Tikiwiki.

Download from SourceForge

Please keep in mind it's a developers release, not intended to be used in production except if you follow development process somewhat closely.

Accordingly to our secular tradition about DogFood, I migrated tw.o (tikiwiki.org) website to 1.9, to make it a perfect ground for an exhaustive quality process in 1.9 release cycle. That energy has a price and I hope you will bear the inconvenience of that more unstable ground. Help us to make it firmer !

I blew the Release Trumpet some days ago on irc for announcing the ignition of the 1.9 Release Process. The cvs HEAD has been live and kicking for some 6 months now, used by some brave (or foolish) explorers in production environment with some known hazards (but not so many, finally).

Now we can release a public tarball of that version under the Release Candidate process that we followed for 1.8 with some enhancements that I list in the body of this article.

Quick version: Main points composing the 1.9 release process

1. update changelog drastically
2. prepare new bugtrackers using 1.9 tikiwiki trackers
3. update all pages on tw.o linked from the bundled help system
4. BRANCH-1-9 appear for 1.9 road to stability : Feature Freeze !
5. 1.9rc1 will be released on june 19th (at 1:00 am ?)

TikiWiki 1.8.3 brings many fixes and some feature enhancements.

You can download it from SourceForge.

Details can be found in ReleaseNotes183.

We are proud to announce that two new localized Tiki sites have gone live! The first one is located es.tikiwiki.org and is aimed at Spanish speaking users whilst the second Tiki site is situated at nl.tikiwiki.org and is directed at Dutch speaking Tiki users.

Feel free to join up and strengthen your local Tiki community!

TikiWiki 1.7.7 has been released to address all the 1.8.2 security fixes for those running the stable/mature 1.7.x Tiki family.

Translation of an article about Wikis by Michel Dumais in "Le Devoir" on May 3rd 2004.

http://www.ledevoir.com/2004/05/03/53624.html

TikiSheet is now available for testing under Mozilla, FireFox & Internet Explorer and is one of the exciting new features which will be released in upcoming Tiki 1.9

Why is this a Big Thing? read on!

After many many hours of looking through CVS history and logs and various checkouts from many dates during the beginning part of this year, we finally have a explanation.... read more for the full details

Attention all Tiki Developers with CVS access! We have problems on our CVS area. Quote new files added on HEAD are present in release_eta_carinea_rc1 branch with no reason. Release 1.7.6 didn't suffer such invasion, the problem looks like recent. The 'guilty' files are from various committers, so it should not be a commit problem but a repository-wide problem.
We are looking for skilled cvs wizards to step forward and help us! Read more for a copy of an email mose sent to the Tiki Developers mailing list.