TWiki Upgrade 29-Oct-2014
On Wednesday 29-Oct-2014 the TWiki service experienced a major upgrade. Please email
service-desk@cernNOSPAMPLEASE.ch if you have any issues to report.
New load-balanced cluster
The service now runs on a puppet managed load-balanced cluster. This cluster not only provides more resources than before but makes sure that the user's browser hits a healthy TWiki web server
New TWiki version
TWiki was upgraded to version 6.0.1, which is a major release that has a shiny new dashboard look. It brings many usability enhancements, strengthens TWiki as an application platform, and scales to very large deployments with thousands of webs and a million pages.
Feature Highlights include
- Usability Enhancements
- Add dashboards to Web home topics
- Upgrade to TinyMCE WYSIWYG editor to version 3.5.8
- Show topic title in square bracket links using
[[+TopicName]]
syntax
- Icon bullet lists: Specify any TWiki doc graphics icon as a bullet
- WebSearch and WebChanges has now search result pagination
- WebChanges shows topic age instead of topic date
- Auto-discover TWikiForms, e.g. no need to set in WEBFORMS preferences setting
- Move change TWiki Form from edit screen to "more" screen
- Show link to older versions of attachments in attachment table
- Automatically link @Twitter
handles
- Add comment section to new topic template
- Copy/clone topic function in more topic action screen
- Configurable signatures with profile pictures
- Open external links in new browser window or tab; show external link
icon
- Drag and drop file attachments - PatternSkin to integrate DropzoneJSSkin - added in TWiki-6.0.1
- Add drag and drop to change profile picture screen - added in TWiki-6.0.1
See
TWikiReleaseNotes
for more details
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PeterJones - 2014-10-29