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On February 16, the Tiki Community will present the second in the year-long webinar series. Long-time Tiki Community members and contributors from Citadel Rock Online Communities Inc. will show a newly developed Tiki site that takes advantage of several features introduced in Tiki 8 including the Unified Search and advanced Tracker techniques.

Installatron, a leader in web application automation, now includes Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware in its Installatron family of automation products. With Installatron, users can easily install Tiki in one click to any web hosting account in the world, regardless of control panel or web host.

Founded in 2004 in Pennsylvania, USA, Installatron is the leading provider of web application automation to businesses and website owners around the globe. Installatron Plugin enables web application automation for popular web hosting control panel systems, including cPanel/WHM, cPanel Enkompass, DirectAdmin, InterWorx, Kloxo/LxAdmin, Plesk Linux/Unix, and Plesk Windows; Installatron Server is a standalone solution that enables web application for proprietary web hosting systems; and Installatron Remote enables web application automation for website owners directly.

For more information about Installatron, including a live demos and free version information, please visit http://www.installatron.com. To use the Installatron wizard to install Tiki, visit http://www.installatron.com/apps/tikiwiki

The Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware project has released a security patch for its stable and LTS (long term support) versions. Both versions are available for immediate download.

Tiki 8.3 includes bug fixes and security patches. Tiki 6.6 LTS includes only the security fixes. Both releases address a Cross Site Scripting vulnerability (first reported by Mario Gomes) and a Null Byte Injection vulnerability (first reported by Egidio Romano aka EgiX). Both vulnerabilities are exploitable only by users with full administrator permissions. Refer to the release notes and change logs for complete information.

All Tiki administrators are highly encouraged to upgrade to version 6.6 or 8.3. You can download these versions (and all other Tiki releases) from http://tiki.org/download.

Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware will present a series of free webinars starting Thursday, January 19, 2012 at 21:00:00 UTC (find your timezone) using BigBlueButton (http://bigbluebutton.org). These webinars will allow the Tiki Community to introduce new features in current and upcoming releases of Tiki. Additionally, Tiki Developers will be able to show off their latest work and Tiki admins can give a virtual tour of their own sites.

The seminars are free for anyone with an interest in Tiki, wikis, and content management systems (CMS). Participants attending the seminars will use the Tiki + BigBlueButton integration. This integration features full audio and visual communication, chatting, desktop sharing, and much more... and requires only a browser! The seminars also allow the Tiki Community to "dogfood" these features!

The first webinar, on January 19, will feature a demonstration of Tiki Draw and Tiki Docs, a developer-led discussion of several upcoming features, and include plenty of open time for community discussion.

All Tiki Community members are encouraged to attend as well as present their own work. For details, see http://tiki.org/Webinars and the Tiki Community calendar: http://info.tiki.org/Calendar.

The Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware project has released a security patch for its stable and LTS (long term support) versions. Both versions are available for immediate download.

Tiki 8.2 includes several bug fixes, feature enhancements, and security fixes.

Tiki 6.5 LTS (Long Term Support) includes several bug fixes and two security patches. There are no new features in this release.

Both releases address an XSS vulnerability identified by Mario Gomes and Marc Laporte using the Vega security scanner and other XSS vulnerabilities reported by Stefan Schurtz. Refer to the release notes and change logs for complete information.

All Tiki administrators are highly encouraged to upgrade to version 6.5 or 8.2. You can download these versions (and all other Tiki releases) from http://tiki.org/download.

The latest version of Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware, Tiki 8.1 is now available for immediate download. This release includes many new features and improved functionality, with more than 3,200 code updates by 43 Tiki Community members. Review the Tiki 8 Release Notes (http://tiki.org/ReleaseNotes8.1) and change log for complete information.

Some key highlights of Tiki 8 include:

• Improved internationalization (i18n), including better support for non-English characters in page names and complete translation of German interface items.
• Improved (AJAX) interface for comments and support for Akismet spam protection
• Integration with WebODF to support Open Document Format (ODF) in Tiki Docs.
• Multiple enhancements to site search, such as indexing improvements, caching, and the ability to export search results as an RSS feed
• Several new Tiki plugins
• Update of the template engine from Smarty 2 to 3.
• Security fix, first identified by Stefan Schurtz

This is just a small sample of what's included in Tiki 8.1. Refer to http://doc.tiki.org/Tiki8 for a full list of what's new.

You can obtain Tiki 8.1 (as well as all other Tiki releases) from http://tiki.org/download. The release of Tiki 8 marks the end-of-life for the Tiki 7.x branch. All Tiki Administrators running 7.x are highly encouraged to upgrade to Tiki 8.1.

Tiki 6.x remains the LTS (Long Term Support) version. For information on this and future Tiki plans, see http://dev.tiki.org/Roadmap.

This year has been an exciting time for the Tiki Community! As the year draws to a close, we want to give a quick recap of all that's been going on. In addition to this summary, we want to pass along three important invitations:

• The 2011 Open Source CMS Market Share Survey is now open. It takes only a few minutes to complete the survey, and your input will help Tiki. See http://info.tiki.org/article179-Support-Tiki-in-the-2011-Open-Source-CMS-Market-Share-Survey for details.

• If you offer any Tiki-related services (hosting, customization, and so on), we invite you to join the Tiki Service Providers program. See http://info.tiki.org/Tiki+Service+Provider for details.

• Please support Tiki (and your favorite Free/Open Source projects) on Ohloh.net, http://info.tiki.org/article168-Support-Tiki-and-your-favorite-Free-Open-Source-projects-on-Ohloh-net

Now, on with the year in review....

The Tiki Community is proud to announce the release candidate of Tiki 8.0, the next generation of Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware. For complete details on this release, see the Release Notes and Tiki 8.0 documentation.

Tiki Community members are encouraged to download and explore this new release. Issues and suggestions should be reported on the Tiki Developer site. Tiki Administrators are reminded that this is a pre-release version and should not be used in production environments.

You can download Tiki 8.0 RC directly from http://sourceforge.net/projects/tikiwiki/files/Tiki_8.x_Acubens/8.0RC1/. You can obtain all other Tiki releases from http://tiki.org/download.

For information on this and future Tiki plans, see http://dev.tiki.org/Roadmap.

water&stone is now gathering data for the fourth annual Open Source CMS Market Share Report. This year’s report will be looking at survey data gathered from CMS users around the world. In the 2010 report, Tiki was included its list of Top 20 Open Source CMS.

You can help Tiki improve its visibility in this report by completing the online survey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/2011-OSCMS-Survey

The results from the survey will be used to compile the 2011 Open Source CMS Market Share Report. The report will be released free of charge, under an open license, in late November 2011. You can obtain copies of previous editions of the report from http://www.waterandstone.com/.

For more information, see http://www.waterandstone.com/book/2011-open-source-cms-market-share-survey-now-open.

Recently, the Tiki mailing lists posted their 100,000th message! This level of collaboration has helped Tiki become the Open Source Web Application with the most built-in features.

Even more amazingly, the mailing list traffic does not include the discussions on the Tiki forums, bug tracker and feature wishlist, IRC chatroom, and individual wiki pages!




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