This is where announcements of new releases, features, and other news are posted. IkiWikiUsers are recommended to subscribe to this page's RSS feed.

Some people may consider ikiwiki's default look to be a bit plain. Someone on slashdot even suggested perhaps it uses html 1.0. (Yes, an ikiwiki site has survived its first slashdotting. With static html, that's not very hard..) While the default style is indeed plain, there's more fine-tuning going on than you might think, and it's actually all done with xhtml and style sheets.

Stefano Zacchiroli came up with the idea of adding a css market page where IkiWikiUsers can share style sheets that you've come up with for ikiwiki. This is a great idea and I encourage those of you who have customised stylesheets to post them.

I'm also always looking for minimalistic yet refined additions to the default style sheet, and always appreciate suggestions for it.

--Joey

Posted Sat Jul 16 11:26:44 2011
Ikiwiki has its own domain now, ikiwiki.info. Update your links.
Posted Sat Jul 16 11:26:44 2011

I've started using git as ikiwiki's main repository. See download for repository locations.

Note that all the sha1sums have changed from those in previously published git repositories. Blame git-svnimport.

I hope that this will make it easier to maintain and submit patches for ikiwiki.

--Joey

Posted Sat Jul 16 11:26:44 2011

ikiwiki 3.20110711 released with these changes

  • Add build dep on python-support. Closes: #633536
  • attachment: Bugfix to move upload attachments out of holding area when saving.
  • attachment: Bugfix for trying to attach files to a subpage of the index page.
Posted Sat Jul 16 11:26:44 2011

Ikiwiki now has an IRC channel: #ikiwiki on irc.oftc.net

The channel features live commit messages for CIA for changes to both ikiwiki's code and this wiki. Plus occasional talk about ikiwiki.

Thanks to JoshTriplett for making this happen.

Posted Sat Jul 16 11:26:44 2011

The ikiwiki.info domain has been moved to a new server. If you can see this, your DNS has already caught up and you are using the new server. By the way, the new server should be somewhat faster. --Joey

Posted Sat Jul 16 11:26:44 2011

ikiwiki 3.20110608 released with these changes

  • ikiwiki-mass-rebuild: Fix tty hijacking vulnerability by using su. (Once su's related bug #628843 is fixed.) Thanks, Ludwig Nussel. (CVE-2011-1408)
  • search: Update search page when page.tmpl or searchquery.tmpl are locally modified.
Posted Sat Jul 16 11:26:44 2011

ikiwiki 3.20110431 released with these changes

  • Danish translation update. Closes: #625721
  • Danish underlay translation update. Closes: #625765 (Thanks, Jonas Smedegaard)
  • Support YAML::XS by not passing decoded unicode to Load. Closes: #625713
  • openid, aggregate, pinger: Use Net::INET6Glue if available to support making ipv6 connections. (Note that if LWPx::ParanoidAgent is installed, it defeats this for openid.)
  • Add additional directive quoting styles, to better support nested directives. Both triple-single-quote and heredoc quotes can be used. (Thanks, Timo Paulssen)
  • Changed license of madduck's python plugins from GPL-2 to BSD-2-clause.
  • po: support language codes in the form of 'es_AR', and 'arn'. (intrigeri) Closes: #627844
  • po: Make po4a warn, not error on a malformed document. (intrigeri)
  • Support the Hiawatha web server which sets HTTPS=off rather than not setting it. (There does not seem to be a standard here.)
Posted Sat Jul 16 11:26:44 2011
cia

Commits to ikiwiki's source code are now fed into CIA, and can be browsed, subscribed to etc on its project page. Note that changes to the documentation wiki are currently excluded.

Posted Sat Jul 16 11:26:44 2011

I've put together a short screencast that covers approximatly the first half of the setup document, and includes a demo of setting up a blog using ikiwiki.

http://kitenet.net/~joey/screencasts/ikiwiki_blog/

.. And now I've added a second screencast. Note that this uses a script that is only available in the as yet unreleased ikiwiki version 2.15.

http://kitenet.net/~joey/screencasts/ikiwiki_cgi_and_git/

--Joey

Posted Sat Jul 16 11:26:44 2011

I've produced a code_swarm visualization of the first 2+ years of ikiwiki's commit history.

screenshot

PS, while I'm posting links to videos, here's a video of a lightning talk about ikiwiki.

--Joey

notes

Interesting things to watch for:

  • Initial development of ikiwiki to the point it was getting web edits. (First 2 seconds of video!)
  • Introduction to plugin support, and later, plugin changes dominating code changes.
  • Introduction of openid support and the resulting swarm of openid commenters.
  • Switch to git, my name in the logs changes from "joey" to "Joey Hess", and there are more code commits directly from others.

Getting the commit log was tricky because every web commit is in there too, so it has to deal with things like IPs and openids. The code swarm log.pl script will munge the log to handle these, and it was configured with code swarm.config.

Video editing by kino, ffmpeg, ffmpeg2theora, and too many hours of pain.

Audio by the Punch Brothers.

Posted Sat Jul 16 11:26:44 2011
After looking up and noticing that another 8 hours had passed, replying to people and hacking, I've added a TipJar page, in case anyone feels like tossing me a few bucks for ikiwiki. TIA! --Joey
Posted Sat Jul 16 11:26:44 2011

Quick poll: Do you feel that ikiwiki is fast enough on this server, or should I move it to my much beefier auxiliary server?

[[!poll open=no 40 "It's fast enough" 6 "It's too slow!" 4 "No opinion"]]

If you have specifics on performance issues, you might mention them on the discussion page.

Ikiwiki is now hosted at Branchable.

Posted Sat Jul 16 11:26:44 2011

ikiwiki.info has upgraded to the not yet released ikiwiki 2.30. This version of ikiwiki drops support for subscribing to commit mail notifications for pages. The idea is that you can subscribe to the new RecentChanges feed instead. (Or create your own custom feed of only the changes you're interested in, and subscribe to that.)

So if you were subscribed to mail notifications on here, you'll need to change how you keep track of changes. Please let me know if there are any missing features in the RecentChanges feeds.

Statically building the RecentChanges also has performance implications, I'll keep an eye on server speed..

--Joey

Posted Sat Jul 16 11:26:44 2011

I was asked a good question today: How can a company find someone to work on ikiwiki? To help answer this question, I've set up a consultants page. If you might be interested in being paid to work on ikiwiki, please add your information to the page. --Joey

And here's the first company looking for an ikiwiki developer that I am aware of:

The TOVA Company, a small medical software and hardware company in Portland, Oregon, is looking for developers to add functionality to ikiwiki. We're looking for developers who are already familiar with ikiwiki development, including plugins, and who would be willing to work on a part-time, non-employee, project-based basis for each of the small features that we want. The features we're interested in would obviously be GPL'd, and released to the community (if they'll have them :) ). Please contact Andrew Greenberg (andrew@thetovacompany) if you're interested. Thanks!

Posted Sat Jul 16 11:26:44 2011

Now you can use git to clone this wiki, and push your changes back, thanks to ikiwiki's new support for untrusted git push. Enjoy working on the wiki while offline! --Joey

Posted Sat Jul 16 11:26:44 2011

ikiwiki-hosting is an interface on top of Ikiwiki to allow easy management of lots of ikiwiki sites. I developed it for Branchable, an Ikiwiki hosting provider. It has a powerful, scriptable command-line interface, and also includes special-purpose ikiwiki plugins for things like a user control panel.

To get a feel for it, here are some examples:

ikisite create foo.ikiwiki.net --admin http://joey.kitenet.net/
ikisite branch foo.ikiwiki.net bar.ikiwiki.net
ikisite backup bar.ikiwiki.net --stdout | ssh otherhost 'ikisite restore bar.ikiwiki.net --stdin'

ikiwiki-hosting is free software, released under the AGPL. Its website: http://ikiwiki-hosting.branchable.com/ --Joey

Posted Sat Jul 16 11:26:44 2011

ikiwiki 3.20110707 released with these changes

  • userlist: New plugin, lets admins see a list of users and their info.
  • aggregate: Improve checking for too long aggregated filenames.
  • Updated to jQuery 1.6.1.
  • attachment: Speed up multiple file uploads by storing uploaded files in a staging area until the page is saved/previewed, rather than refreshing the site after each upload. (Sponsored by The TOVA Company.)
  • attachment: Files can be dragged into the edit page to upload them. Multiple file batch upload support. Upload progress bars. AJAX special effects. Impemented using the jQuery-File-Upload widget. (If you don't have javascript don't worry, I kept that working too.) (Sponsored by The TOVA Company.)
  • Add libtext-multimarkdown-perl to Suggests. Closes: #630705
  • headinganchors: Plugin by Paul Wise that adds ids to <hn> headings.
  • html5 is not experimental anymore. But not the default either, quite yet.
  • Support svg as a inlinable image type; svg images can be included on a page by simply linking to them, or by using the img directive. Note that sanitizing svg files is still not addressed.
  • img: Generate png format thumbnails for svg images.
  • Preserve mixed case in page creation links, and when creating a page whose title is mixed case, allow selecting between the mixed case and all lower-case names.
  • Fix ikiwiki-update-wikilist -r to actually work.
  • comments: collect metadata in a scan-phase preprocess hook, which fixes sorting comments by date. (smcv)
  • Run scan hooks for internal pages (preprocess hooks already run in scan mode) (smcv)
  • inline: Handle obfuscated urls, such as the mailto urls generated by markdown when forcing urls absolute.
  • Bugfix for wikilink containing an email address not showing up in brokenlinks list.
  • Bugfix for trying to attach files to a subpage of the index page.
Posted Sat Jul 16 11:26:44 2011

Google has accepted ikiwiki as a mentoring organization for Summer of Code 2007.

See our Summer of Code page for projects.

--JoshTriplett

Posted Sat Jul 16 11:26:44 2011

Ikiwiki in svn now has support for using OpenID, a decentralized authentication mechanism that allows you to have one login that you can use on a growing number of websites.

Traditional password-based logins are still supported, but I'm considering switching at least ikiwiki.info over to using only OpenID logins. That would mean blowing away all the currently registered users and their preferences. If you're active on this wiki, I suggest you log out and log back in, try out the OpenID signup process if you don't already have an OpenID, and see how OpenID works for you. And let me know your feelings about making such a switch. --Joey

[[!poll 67 "Accept only OpenID for logins" 21 "Accept only password logins" 42 "Accept both"]]

Posted Sat Jul 16 11:26:44 2011
Integrated issue tracking with Ikiwiki by Joey Hess is now available on LinuxWorld.com. (LinuxWorld's author contract also allows this article to become part of the project's documentation.) Learn how to use Ikiwiki inlining and PageSpecs for lightweight workflow. Joey also explains how having the BTS and docs in the project's revision control system can help users of distributed revision control systems keep bug tracking info in sync with code changes.
Posted Sat Jul 16 11:26:44 2011

Ikiwiki has reached version 3.0 and entered a new phase in its development cycle.

The 3.0 release of ikiwiki changes several defaults and finishes some transitions. You will need to modify your wikis to work with ikiwiki 3.0. A document explaining the process is available in upgrade to 3.0.

The highlights of the changes in version 3.0 include:

Thanks to the many contributors to ikiwiki 3.0, including:

Jelmer Vernooij, Recai Oktaş, William Uther, Simon McVittie, Axel Beckert, Bernd Zeimetz, Gabriel McManus, Paweł Tęcza, Peter Simons, Manoj Srivastava, Patrick Winnertz, Jeremie Koenig, Josh Triplett, thm, Michael Gold, Jason Blevins, Alexandre Dupas, Henrik Brix Andersen, Thomas Keller, Enrico Zini, intrigeri, Scott Bronson, Brian May, Adeodato Simó, Brian Downing, Nis Martensen. (And anyone I missed.)

Also, thanks to the users, bug submitters, and documentation wiki editors. Without you, ikiwiki would just be a little thing I use for my home page.

--Joey

Posted Sat Jul 16 11:26:44 2011

I've gone ahead and moved ikiwiki.info to the faster box mentioned on server speed. Most poll respondants felt the old box was fast enough, but it's getting a bit overloaded with other stuff.

If you can see this, you're seeing the new server. If not, your DNS server hasn't caught up yet. I'll keep the old server up for a while too and merge any changes across since git makes that bog-easy.

Please report any problems..

Posted Sat Jul 16 11:26:44 2011

ikiwiki 3.20110712 released with these changes

  • attachment: Bugfix to create directory when moving attachment out of holding area.
  • Display attachment manipulation links always, since attachments can be uploaded via javascript.
Posted Tue Jul 12 16:42:01 2011

Ikiwiki has reached version 2.0 and entered a new phase in its development cycle.

With the 2.0 release of ikiwiki, some major changes have been made to the default configuration:

  • The usedirs setting is enabled by default. This will break all URLs to wikis that did not have usedirs turned on before, unless you follow the procedure described at switching to usedirs or edit your setup file to turn usedirs off: usedirs => 0,
  • OpenID logins are now enabled by default, if the Net::OpenID::Consumer perl module is available. Password logins are also still enabled by default. If you like, you can turn either OpenID or password logins off via the disable_plugins setting.

An overview of changes in the year since the 1.0 release:

  • New improved URLs to pages via usedirs.
  • OpenID support, enabled by default.
  • Plugin interface added, with some 60 plugins available, greatly expanding the capabilities of ikiwiki.
  • Tags, atom feeds, and generally full-fledged blogging support.
  • Fully working utf8.
  • Optimisations, approximately 3.5 times as fast as version 1.0.
  • Improved scalability to large numbers of pages.
  • Improved scalable logo.
  • Support for additional revision control systems besides svn: git, tla, mercurial.
  • Some support for other markup languages than markdown: rst, textile.
  • Unit test suite, with more than 300 tests.
Posted Mon Apr 30 04:51:57 2007

By the way, some other pages with RSS feeds about ikiwiki include plugins, TODO and bugs.