Main new features and enhancements:

  • Enhancements in installer, articles, forums, newsletters, structures and wiki, including some new plugins and modules!
  • Switch from PEAR::DB to adodb. Databases suported: ))MySql((, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Sybase, etc
  • Total rewrite of the search engine with reverse index, database independence and highlighting keywords.
  • Mapserver module
  • TikiIntegrator: Integrate other applications in tiki
  • Integration of The coolest DHTML calendar widget (JS calendar)
  • Integration of The PHP Layers Menu System for the Tiki menu system.
  • Enhanced user menus so that the menu items only show if a feature/permission/group is on
  • WebHelp generation from Tiki structures
  • Structures: Wiki pages can now belong to multiple structures
  • Installation profiles allow for a pre-configured site at install time.
  • Customizable article types.
  • Improved global XHTML compatibility
  • Started work towards WAI-508 compliance
  • Jabber plugin and tikibot (IRC logging)
  • Editable dynamic variables
  • Enhanced cookie handling
  • SourceForge tracker plugin
  • Czech and Italian translations (in addition to cn,da,de,en,es,fr,he,ja,nl,no,pl,ru,sk,sr,sv,tw)
  • CODE plugin now accepts php syntax highlighting
  • QuickTags are now customizable and add wiki-tags on selected text (instead of at the end of the text box)
  • Some new amazing themes (some backported to 1.7.5 too)
  • New CSRF ticket implementation (security) (backported to 1.7.5 too)
  • Enhanced the Admin System for cache and compile operations ex.: to allow easy clearing of templates_c folder (backported to 1.7.5 too)
  • Smarty & ADOdb upgraded to the lastest versions.
  • Automatic http://world.altavista.com/Babelfish URL link
  • many, many things you can read in the changelog ...


Knoppix-based Live Tiki available!

Enjoy!

Your tikiwiki team

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