TWiki Release 4.3.2 (Georgetown), 2009-09-02

Note: This is the release note for the previous major release version 4.3.X. This note, TWikiReleaseNotes04x00, TWikiReleaseNotes04x01 and TWikiReleaseNotes04x02 are included with 5.0.X because they contain valuable information for people upgrading from earlier versions. Both for the admin and the users. See TWikiReleaseNotes05x00 for the 5.0.X release notes.

Introduction

TWiki-4.3.0 released on 2009-03-30 introduces security enhancements, usability enhancements, feature enhancements, and adds extensions to strengthen TWiki as an enterprise collaboration platform.

TWiki-4.3.1 released on 2009-04-29 introduces security enhancements. This release also introduces use of ISO date format by default.

TWiki-4.3.2 released on 2009-09-02 introduces security enhancements.

It is highly recommended to upgrade to TWiki-4.3.2. Users will find this release much more stable and secure in daily use.

Pre-installed Extensions

TWiki-4.3.2 ships with:

• Plugins: CommentPlugin, EditTablePlugin, EmptyPlugin, HeadlinesPlugin, InterwikiPlugin, PreferencesPlugin, RenderListPlugin, SlideShowPlugin, SmiliesPlugin, SpreadSheetPlugin, TablePlugin, TinyMCEPlugin, TWikiNetSkinPlugin, TwistyPlugin, WysiwygPlugin
• Contribs: BehaviourContrib, JSCalendarContrib, MailerContrib, TipsContrib, TWikiUserMappingContrib, TwistyContrib
• Skins: ClassicSkin, PatternSkin, TWikiNetSkin,

Note: HeadlinesPlugin, TWikiNetSkin and TWikiNetSkinPlugin are new in TWiki-4.3.0.

New Features Highlights

• Security Enhancements
  • Reduced risk of XSS (cross-site scripting)
  • Reduced risk CSRF (cross-site request forgery) - added in TWiki-4.3.1
  • S/MIME support to sign administrative e-mails
• Usability Enhancements
  • Replace question mark links with red-links to point to non-existing topics
  • Use ISO date format by default - added in TWiki-4.3.1
• Enterprise Collaboration Enhancements
  • Pre-installed HeadlinesPlugin to show headline newsfeeds in TWiki topics
  • Pre-installed TWikiNetSkin, TWikiNetSkinPlugin for corporate look and feel
• Search Enhancements
  • Add footer parameter to Formatted Search
  • Add number of topics to Formatted Search
• Miscellaneous Feature Enhancements
  • Control over variable expansion at topic creation time
  • 17 new TWikiDocGraphics images
  • Include URL supports list of domains to exclude from proxy
  • Adding Korean language
• Plugin Enhancements
  • SpreadSheetPlugin: 5 new functions

See the full list of bug fixes at the bottom of this topic.

Deprecation Notices

The %MAINWEB% and %TWIKIWEB% variables have been deprecated. For compatibility reasons they are unlikely to ever be removed completely, but you should use the %USERSWEB% and %SYSTEMWEB% variables instead.

In Func getOopsUrl and permissionsSet have been declared deprecated. There is no plan to remove them yet.

TWiki-4.3.0 Minor Release - Details

TWiki-4.3.0 was built from SVN http://svn.twiki.org/svn/twiki/branches/TWikiRelease04x03 revision 17948 (2009-03-30)

Highlights

• Security:
  • Review code for robustness and security
  • Secure configure script with taint mode turned on
• Rendering:
  • %TOC% does not distinguish two headlines that have the same text
  • TablePlugin produces bad links for sorting when using "short" URLs
  • %SCRIPTSUFFIX% is added twice in %TOC% links
  • Incorrect Content-length breaks HTTP headers, a.o. pound fail results
  • TablePlugin: Date sorting is broken
  • Bullet lists in form fields are not rendered properly
  • TWiki Forms expand variables like $nop, $quote $percnt
  • TwistyPlugin: Twisty can't be placed in TWiki table cells
• Users and groups:
  • TWikiGroups shows all members twice
• Editing:
  • WysiwygPlugin: Bolding single character within a word introduces spaces around bolded character
• Miscellaneous:
  • configure's get more extensions does not work well without LWP
  • CommentPlugin: Lost data if it's targeted before/after a missing anchor
  • Plugin installation fails on windows: extender.pl line 684
  • Statistics script does not handle properly topics with special characters

Enhancements

Fixes

TWiki 4.3.1 Patch Release - Details

TWiki-4.3.1 was built from SVN http://svn.twiki.org/svn/twiki/branches/TWikiRelease04x03 revision 18054 (2009-04-29)

Highlights

• Security:
  • TWiki:Codev/SecurityAlert-CVE-2009-1339: A remote user may gain TWiki admin privileges with a specially crafted image tag. This cross-site request forgery vulnerability existed because TWiki allowed HTTP GET to save content.
• Usability:
  • Use of ISO format date promoted in this release
• Handling URLPARAM:
  • The handling of URLPARAM for empty or missing was corrected in this release.

Enhancements

Fixes

TWiki 4.3.2 Patch Release - Details

TWiki-4.3.2 was built from SVN http://svn.twiki.org/svn/twiki/branches/TWikiRelease04x03 revision 18148 (2009-09-02)

Highlights

• Security:
  • TWiki:Codev/SecurityAuditTokenBasedCsrfFix: Crypt Token Based Fix for CSRF Vulnerability
• Usability:
  • Upgrade TinyMCEPlugin with latest tinyMCE WYSIWYG editor

Enhancements

TODO

Fixes

TODO

Related Topic: TWikiHistory, TWikiInstallationGuide, TWikiUpgradeGuide