Main new features and enhancements:
- Enhancements in installer, articles, forums, newsletters, structures and wiki, including some new plugins and modules!
- Switch from PEAR::DB to adodb. Databases suported: ))MySql((, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Sybase, etc
- Total rewrite of the search engine with reverse index, database independence and highlighting keywords.
- Mapserver module
- TikiIntegrator: Integrate other applications in tiki
- Integration of The coolest DHTML calendar widget (JS calendar)
- Integration of The PHP Layers Menu System for the Tiki menu system.
- Enhanced user menus so that the menu items only show if a feature/permission/group is on
- WebHelp generation from Tiki structures
- Structures: Wiki pages can now belong to multiple structures
- Installation profiles allow for a pre-configured site at install time.
- Customizable article types.
- Improved global XHTML compatibility
- Started work towards WAI-508 compliance
- Jabber plugin and tikibot (IRC logging)
- Editable dynamic variables
- Enhanced cookie handling
- SourceForge tracker plugin
- Czech and Italian translations (in addition to cn,da,de,en,es,fr,he,ja,nl,no,pl,ru,sk,sr,sv,tw)
- CODE plugin now accepts php syntax highlighting
- QuickTags are now customizable and add wiki-tags on selected text (instead of at the end of the text box)
- Some new amazing themes (some backported to 1.7.5 too)
- New CSRF ticket implementation (security) (backported to 1.7.5 too)
- Enhanced the Admin System for cache and compile operations ex.: to allow easy clearing of templates_c folder (backported to 1.7.5 too)
- Smarty & ADOdb upgraded to the lastest versions.
- Automatic http://world.altavista.com/Babelfish URL link
- many, many things you can read in the changelog ...
Knoppix-based Live Tiki available!
Enjoy!
Your tikiwiki team
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