Revision history for PurpleWiki.

0.94 -- August 11, 2004

• A bug fix release. Re-added a feature that allows you to easily recover vandalized/spammed pages. Included some documentation in docs/FightingSpam.wiki.

0.93 -- August 9, 2004

• Customizable look-and-feel via templates. Improved default look-and-feel. You can also customize the create new pages look-and-feel via the new CreateLinkBefore and CreateLinkText config variables.
• Fixed major bug with retrieving old versions of a page.
• Basic access control, including a new configuration (LoginToEdit) that requires login in order to edit a page.
• MoinMoin triple braces preformatting syntax.
• Refactored session management using CGI::Session. Also generates session log.
• Built-in support for RSS syndication (action=rss). No longer need the wikirss cron script, which has been removed from the distribution.
• Refactored user database and classes. Can now log in using usernames.
• Support for Identity Commons i-names.
• Mostly complete MoinMoin parser, along with a MoinMoin-to-PurpleWiki conversion script.
• Refactored PurpleWiki::Config using singleton pattern.
• Improved XHTML conformance.
• New version numbering system to be more CPAN-friendly.
• Major code cleanup. Lots of bug fixes.
• Apache1NidHandler and Apache2NidHandler have been collapsed to NidHandler, which works for both versions of Apache.

0.9.2 -- May 3, 2004

• New and improved OO View drivers!
• Support for hard rules (using "----" on a line).
• Modified the parser to support the XHTML model of nested lists. This is the first step towards full XHTML compliance.
• Added multiline support for list items and indented paragraphs.
• Improved installation in Makefile.PL.
• Additional View drivers for better transclusion support.
• Moved parentheses support for NIDs back to the wikihtml.pm from the CSS files because Microsoft Internet Explorer doesn't support these directives.
• Experimental support for remote transclusions.
• Bug fixes galore!

0.9.1 -- February 14, 2004

• Updated the provided css files in etc to use before and after elements of ( and ) to demonstrate how display of nids can be customized.
• Umask config option has been added so that wiki pages can be created group writable, if desired. Thanks to: Matthew O'Connor
• A bug with KeptRevisions causing an error fixed. Thanks to: Matthew O'Conner
• Boolean config option, ShowNid, that controls whether NIDs should be displayed as '#' or their value.
• Support for WikiWhiteboard. See http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/11/19/svgwiki.html
• SiteBase configuration variable now used correctly, if set. Thanks to: Jason Cook
• Pluggage search modules allowing searching of external tools from the wiki. See PurpleWiki/Search/*.pm for documentation and information.
• Transclusions can now be presented as plain text rather than HTML. See PurpleWiki::Transclusion. Thanks to: Jason Cook
• Transclusions can be retrieved from sites requiring basic authentication.See PurpleWiki::Transclusion and set httpUser and httpPass in config. Thanks to: Jason Cook
• mod_perl 1 and mod_perl 2 handlers for displaying raw wikitext files as xhtml are now included. See PurpleWiki::Apache1Handler and PurpleWiki::Apache2Handler. Intended for use with tools that manipulate wikitext and PurpleNumbers external to the wiki proper.

0.9 -- August 17, 2003

• Document-independent node IDs.
• Transclusions!
• Rearchitected View drivers so that they are extensible, reusable, and dynamically loadable.
• New utilities: purple, various blog integration tools, etc. See the extras/ subdirectory.
• Major UseModWiki code cleanup, including heavily refactored Database classes.
• RSS syndication of RecentChanges.
• New config file format.
• Bug fixes galore, with updated tests and documentation.

0.1 -- January 8, 2003

• First released version.