Foswiki

Tonight I have released the new and improved Kino Search extensions for Foswiki. Kino Search is a Perl port of the Lucene indexed based search engine from Apache. It provides a very fast full text search across large amounts of data, plus the ability to use Google style operators. The Foswiki implementation is made up of the [...]

The Foswiki community loves Kenneth Larvsen for releasing the next Foswiki version 1.0.7 last Monday with the following email: Release of Foswiki version 1.0.7, 20 Sep 2009 On behalf of the entire Foswiki community I can proudly announce the release ... [More] of the Foswiki patch release 1.0.7 Foswiki 1.0.7 is available for download at the following locations * Foswiki web site: [...] [Less]

The 09th of September 2009 is a very important date for the whole Foswiki-community and all users of its wiki-software. You might still remember how the hostile takeover of the TWiki.org-webserver by Peter Thoeny and his TWiki.net-company let to the ... [More] creation of Foswiki, the successful TWiki-fork. Foswiki has been full of activity after the fork and [...] [Less]

Foswiki is now also available over a FreeBSD port. See the following mail vom Greg Larkin: I just committed the initial version of the FreeBSD port for Foswiki 1.0.6: http://www.freshports.org/www/foswiki/ This port enables you to install Foswiki on ... [More] FreeBSD with the simple command: cd /usr/ports/www/foswiki && make install clean I’m still working on some scaffolding in the port to support auto-generated Foswiki [...] [Less]

When Foswiki emerged from the ashes of the TW*ki (TM) project, server infrastructure was needed in a hurry. At that time, I happened to have available a brand new server. Bought by a customer, but no immediate deployment plans. Foswiki.org lived happily on that server for months. However, recently the server was reclaimed by the [...]

Did you ever ask yourself how one can improve the WebIndex in Foswiki, that simply lists the entries of a Foswiki-Web in alphabetical order? Andrew R. Jones created a Best Practice Tip on Foswiki.org and in his weblog (Improving the Web Index in Foswiki using the Filter Plugin): In a standard Foswiki setup there is a [...]

With Pootle we now have a user-friendly web portal that makes our translation process much simpler. It allows online translation, work assignment, gives statistics and allows easy volunteer contribution. A flexible workflow supports translation on an ... [More] individual basis, cooperativ in teams or even by starting a powerful translation marathon. We like to say thanks to [...] [Less]

Tonight the Foswiki release Manager Kenneth Lavrsen announced the release of Foswiki 1.0.6: Since the January release of 1.0.0 more than 160 additional bugs have been fixed. This release includes further security improvements including a ... [More] major enhancement in security against Cross-Site Request Forgery. These are further security enhancements we have decided to implement as a follow up on Security Alert CVE-2009-1434 [...] [Less]

When I heard Crawford Currie say “The beauty of open source software is choice.” I finally understood, why it is not that bad, that installing and configuring Foswiki sometimes seems hard for novices. But as you can choose between so much features ... [More] and directions in Foswiki communication and guidance is important for new users. We offer preconfigured [...] [Less]