[Veryquickwiki-announce] 2.5.0 BETA 1

[Gareth C. <su...@cr...>]

Version 2.5.0 BETA 1 is now available from:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/veryquickwiki/vqwiki-2.5.0-BETA1.war?download
or
http://veryquickwiki.croninsolutions.com/vqwiki-2.5.0-BETA1.war

It's a long "WHATSNEW" this time.

Gareth.

---WHAT'S NEW for Very Quick Wiki V2.5---

2.5.0 BETA 1

Improved performance of RecentChanges in file mode.

"ANSI-fied" the SQL used to create tables and to search the database. This
means that VQWiki should now work with most databases. Added an admin
console option for "database type". This defaults to "mysql", but can be
set to "ansi" to use the ANSI SQL.

Topic redirection. To make one topic automatically redirect to another,
simply make the contents of the topic "redirect:TopicName". Of course,
this makes it rather difficult to undo a redirection, since any attempt to
get to the topic will result in a redirection to "TopicName". So, there is
a forced edit format: "edit:TopicName" will link directly to the edit of
"TopicName".

Internal security management. The web appliaction security context is no
longer used for admin console authentication. The first time you run (or
upgrade to 2.5.0) VQWiki you will be shown a password on the first topic
you access. This is the admin password. The admin username is "admin".

Added new link-lexer "LinkLexLoose" that allows WikiNames to be
constructed from words with more than one consecutive uppercase letter,
e.g. WiKIName. LinkLexLoose is not the default link-lexer, but it can be
set from the admin console.

Admin password change on the admin console.

Default topic setting on admin console - the topic set here will be the
one that greets users if they go to the base of the wiki context
(index.jsp).

Topic total on all, orphaned and todo topics pages.

Lock list console with unlocking (requires admin login).

Extensible "pseudo-topic" makes adding new special topic URLs easier when
writing plugins.

Templates are now appended to the topic while it is being edited, rather
than appending on the topic save.

Commencement of the internationalization of strings, titles, captions etc.

Correct input and display of high unicode characters, e.g. Japanese,
Chinese etc.

Confirming membership by email doesn't require the username cookie to be
on a machine already. If the cookie isn't there at confirmation time, it
will be resent.


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