Features / Usability

We plan to release 1.7.1 next week. Any devs who want to check in any last minute bugfixes should do so now. It'd be greatly appreciated if doc writers can polish up the install and upgrade docs (if needed) in preparation for the new release and newcomres. See these links for more information:
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1.7.1 ready to rumble?
Fix bugs on bugfix branch *AND* HEAD

Please do not conduct your TikiWiki tests on this website. tikiwiki.org is not a demo site. You may doodle in the Sandbox; anything more should be done on a demo site, like the Tiki 1.7.x Test/Demo Site.

Thank you for helping us make tikiwiki.org a useful place for both users and developers.

Tiki 1.7 features over 150 changes (new features, usability enhancements or bugfixes) and a general improvement in usability and look and feel. New features: Galaxia Workflow Engine, JgraphPad integration, WAP & VoiceXML support, Live support system, Event Calendar, phpOpenTracker inegration, Charts and rankings, Print2PDF, Short URLs, Enhanced Install system incl. multisite feature, Banning system, Copyrights management System, Improved forums & blogs, WYSIWYG editor for blogs, UTF-8 encoding for emails and rss, Tiki Debugger Console, Improved general UI for users and admins, Multi page articles, Enhanced Category & structure systems, Many new themes, Script/robotic user registration blocker.

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This release candidate is close to the final one. Final 1.7 release will occur in a few days if all goes well.

As some of you may have noticed, all but one of the articles on tikiwiki.org disappeared today. They have all been restored, to the best of my knowledge. Rest assured that the disappearing articles had everything to do with my (Terence's) ineptitude and nothing to do with the security bug found in v1.7 RC3.

Warning to all people who have installed Tiki 1.7 RC3. There is a security issue that needs to be addressed.

The main point in that release candidate is the fixed registration. It was blocking the rc2. If you use the 1.7rc2 you should upgrade to rc3. There is no db change, only some files fixed.

RC2 included loads of bugfixes, tweaks and usability improvements added since release candidate 1:

-New jgraphpad module (v2.2.1.1)
-New themes
-Better mail handling
-Enhanced install script
-Tiki Debugger Console
-Improved wiki edit conflict detection
-New Category plugin and 2 other modules

A lot of new features, including multi-server capability, workflow engine (galaxia), WYSIWYG editor, WML&PDA extensions (HawHaw), an events and groups calendar, many new plugins, several feature enhancements, and more.
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We are currently proceeding to some major reorganization work. tikiwiki.org will be chaotic for another week or so.

Scott has transferred and renamed all the documentation pages. We will be bringing over all the interesting content from the old demo site.

Once tikiwiki.org is deemed satisfactory, it will be officially launched and it will become the main hub for all Tiki-related activity.

On 3rd of july, Thursday, we were talking on #tikiwiki irc channel (server irc.freenode.net) and we didn't find any reason why we shouldn't migrate demo server and setup the tikiwiki official website, using tikiwiki. So, we can eat our own dogfood now.

This was originally published on tikiwiki-devel at lists.sourceforge.net and has been republished without permission of the author (though I doubt he'd object). It is widely consider a wonderful contribution to the community and assessment of the current development activity going on. I'd like to see summaries of this fashion in the future but know many of the difficulties involved in regularly producing this type of documentation.

Let's start to use Tiki as the collaborative tool it can be.

-swf (scott.w.fischer@att.net)

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A bugfix version from Tiki 1.6. No new features or improvements but many bugs are now corrected.

Plenty of good news; install script added, notable performance improvement, less memory consumption, and alot of new features: user calendar, user tasks, user notepad, newsreader, ephemerides, link directory, wiki structures, new plugins and more!