I received an email earlier today introducing me to Foswiki. This free and open source wiki is a fork that began in late 2008 of another wiki you may know by the name of TWiki. Foswiki is positioning itself as the ideal collaboration tool for your project , team or business.
The sender of the email also wanted me to bring attention on the fact that Foswiki 1.1.3 has been released recently. Foswiki 1.1.3 is a release that adds more than 150 bug fixes and improvements making it better than the already stable 1.1.2. Upgrade package is available for upgrading from any earlier 1.1.X version to 1.1.2.
Some of the improvements in this version of Foswiki include:
- Facelift of the history user interface
- Update to the Wysiwyg editor TinyMCE to 3.3.9.3 and further improvements of the Wysiwyg editor has been made
- Improvement of the UI for managing webs
- Default jQuery is now 1.4.3. JQueryPlugin’s form plugin form is upgraded to 2.49 and jquery-ui is upgraded to 1.8
- Fixes in the access controls for renaming attachments
- Improved login screen
- Configure user interface has been further improved
- Improved the use of international characters in attachment names
- Icons have been fixed and added
- Improved and fixed the page feature for SEARCH
- New languages added
- Cookies are now forced to be secure when using https connection
- Split Installation Guide in a part 1 which covers the steps until a basic Foswiki is running and a part 2 which covers how to tailor and setup all the details.
- Logging improved and more events are now logged
- The 8 char password trunc behavior of the crypt encoding is now clearly added as working in configure info texts
- Webnotify now supports wildcard use like ‘Abc*Xyz?’ for sending out news on change
- InterwikiPlugin links can now be formatted
- Many improvements to the installation documentation.
Foswiki 1.1.3 is available for download at Foswiki.org.