Features / Usability

Tiki 6.8LTS & 9.2LTS

The 9.2 update includes more than 500 code changes, focusing on fixes and improvements such as:

• Introduction of the Tiki Server Check, allowing users to test their server environment.
• Automatic generation of site maps
• Customized formatting for menu labels through wiki syntax and plugins
• Improvements to the user registration process
• Security fixes

On October 18, the Tiki Community will present its next community webinar. This month's webinar features an interview with long-time Tiki contributor Mose. His early work with Tiki provided the groundwork for the application we use today!

Following the interview, a developer-led discussion will explore several new features planned for upcoming Tiki releases. This is your chance for a sneak-preview of what's coming in Tiki 10! For complete details on the webinar, see http://tiki.org/October+2012+Webinar.

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Thanks to your nominations, Tik Wiki CMS Groupware has been nominated as Best Free CMS in the 2012 Critic’s Choice CMS Awards! The voting continues through November 11, so be sure to show your support by voting for Tiki.

It may be hard to believe, but the Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware project was started a decade ago with its first public release on October 9, 2002! From its humble beginnings as a mere wiki, Tiki has grown to become the Free / Libre / Open Source Web Application with the most built-in features. And as the application has grown, so has the community.

Tiki releases: 0.9 through 10.0 (click to view)

Today, there are more than 20,000 registered accounts on the Tiki websites, more than 500 contributors with commit access to the Tiki codebase, and well over 1,000,000 downloads of Tiki!

The Tiki Software Community Association is proud to announce that it has been granted a registered trademark for Tiki and TikiWiki by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). This achievement represents a culmination of work by the Tiki Community, the Tiki Legal Team, and the student attorneys at the WVU Entrepreneurship Clinic of the West Virginia University College of Law.

Trademarks prevent confusion in the marketplace of similar goods/services. By registering our trademark, users know that Tiki software is a quality product, produced by the Tiki Community — users will know what to expect.

In the coming months, you'll notice a slight change in our branding as we update our logos and websites.

Now a registered trademark!

Please consider nominating Tiki in any (or all) of the following categories:

• Best Open Source CMS
• Best Free CMS
• Best CMS for Small / Medium Sized Businesses:
• Best Enterprise CMS
• Best Website Builder

To read more about the awards and to nominate Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware, visit http://www.cmscritic.com/introducing-the-critics-choice-cms-awards/.

The Tiki 8.5 release represents the final release for the 8.x series. No additional work is planned for the 8.x series. The Tiki 9.x series is planned to be supported (as a Long Term Support) series until November 2015 (or upon the release of Tiki 16).

Both releases (8.5 and 9.1) include several fixes and updates, including a security patch first reported by Lukas Reschke regarding an optional Tiki feature, swfupload, first introduced in Tiki 7.0.

Tiki admins are highly encouraged to upgrade to Tiki 8.5 or 9.1. As a workaround, Tiki admins can set the Upload progress bar option to None in order to secure their sites. See the Tiki Release Notes (http://tiki.org/ReleaseNotes) for complete information.

To download these newest releases (or any Tiki release), visit the Tiki download page at http://tiki.org/download.

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We are just proud to have Tiki be part of our growing external sources to help other web developers find the best web application to support their online endeavor.

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• Extending the Tiki calendar to allow resource management (reservations and bookings)
• Improving the user interface for Tiki Workspaces
• Additional integration of CCLite (Community Currencies)
• Looking at ways to improve the overall Tiki Community by introducing collaborative code reviews, bug triage, and more.

Perspective participants are encouraged to add their own ideas, too. If you're planning to come to TikiFest, you might as well stay for WikiSym, which runs August 27-29.

For complete information, see http://tiki.org/TikiFestBarcelona3

Some of these new features include:

• Improved batch actions based on a URL with a token access.
• Extensive improvements to the Maps, Slideshow, Calendar, File Gallery and Drawings
• New plugins and modules
• Introduction of Timesheet functionality
• The Smarty template engine was updated to 3.1.x
• and much more!

Refer to http://doc.tiki.org/Tiki9 and the Tiki 9.0 Release Notes for details.

As is the tradition in the Tiki community, most of the *.tiki.org sites have been upgraded to 9.x before it was officially released. This helps find and fix bugs. Please see: tw:Dogfood.

The release of Tiki 9.0 marks the close of the Tiki 8.x branch. All Tiki Administrators using an 8.x version are encouraged to upgrade to Tiki 9.0. Tiki 9.x is a LTS (Long Term Support) version, and it will be supported until November 2015.

The Tiki community has also decided to extend long term support (LTS) for Tiki 6.x support until May 2014.

Please see: Version Lifecycle

For information on these releases and future Tiki plans, see http://dev.tiki.org/Roadmap. You can obtain Tiki 9.0 (as well as all other Tiki releases) from http://tiki.org/download.

The Beta release of the next generation of Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware is now available. The Tiki 9.0 Beta includes many new features and functionality, including:

• Improved batch actions, cron jobs, and token access
• Multiple improvements to calendars, file galleries, maps, and other Tiki features
• Several new plugins
• Improved security and spam protection

Review the Tiki documentation for details on what's new in Tiki 9.

Tiki Community members are encouraged to download and explore this new release. Issues and suggestions should be reported on the Tiki Developer site. Tiki Administrators are reminded that this release should not be used in production environments.

You can obtain the Beta directly from SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/tikiwiki/files/Tiki_9.x_Herbig_Haro/9.0beta/. For information on this and future Tiki plans, see http://dev.tiki.org/Roadmap.

The Tiki Admin Team is proud to announce the nominations of three new members: Rodrigo Primo, Jean-Marc Libs, and Jean-François Bilger. All three are active members of the Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware project and have contributed countless hours to the ongoing development of Tiki. As members of the Tiki Admin Team, they will continue to help shape the future of Tiki.

On May 11th 2012, the Tiki community offers a special warm welcome to the 1,000,000th downloader of Tiki, the Free / Libre / Open Source Web Application with the most built-in features!

The Tiki Community is proud to announce the release of Tiki 8.4. This release, with more than 150 code contribution by eight Tiki Community members, includes several fixes and updates.

Among the new features are:

• Several new, detailed user permissions
• Support for stateful SOAP sessions
• UI enhancements

Refer to http://doc.tiki.org/Tiki8 and the Tiki 8.4 Release Notes for details.

This is the last planned release of the Tiki 8.x branch. Tiki Administrators using the 8.x version are encouraged to upgrade to this latest release, and then to Tiki 9.0 when it become available.

Thank you Egidio Romano (aka EgiX) for reporting a security vulnerability, which is resolved in 8.4

For information on these releases and future Tiki plans, see http://dev.tiki.org/Roadmap. You can obtain Tiki 8.4 (as well as all other Tiki releases) from http://tiki.org/download.

The Tiki Community is proud to announce the release of Tiki 6.7 LTS (Long Term support Version). This release includes bug fixes and updates only — there are no new features in this release.

Thank you Egidio Romano (aka EgiX) for reporting a security vulnerability, which is resolved in 6.7

Tiki 6.7 LTS

And stay tuned for the first public beta of Tiki 9.0, the next generation of Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware, that is expected to be available shortly. This new version contains a host of improvements in multiple areas and several new features. Refer to http://dev.tiki.org/Tiki9 for details.

For information on these releases and future Tiki plans, see http://dev.tiki.org/Roadmap. You can obtain Tiki 6.7 LTS and Tiki 9.0 beta (as well as all other Tiki releases) from http://tiki.org/download.

Some of the improvements include:

• An improved Tiki plugin for embedding Kaltura media
• Improved Kaltura administration, via Tiki
• Configuration the of Kaltura Configuration Wizard (KCW) interface
• and much more.

Passing yet another milestone, the Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware project welcomed its 500th contributor with commit access to the code base, on March 5th, 2012!

On February 16, the Tiki Community will present the second in the year-long webinar series. Long-time Tiki Community members and contributors from Citadel Rock Online Communities Inc. will show a newly developed Tiki site that takes advantage of several features introduced in Tiki 8 including the Unified Search and advanced Tracker techniques.

Installatron, a leader in web application automation, now includes Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware in its Installatron family of automation products. With Installatron, users can easily install Tiki in one click to any web hosting account in the world, regardless of control panel or web host.

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For more information about Installatron, including a live demos and free version information, please visit http://www.installatron.com. To use the Installatron wizard to install Tiki, visit http://www.installatron.com/apps/tikiwiki