[pmwiki-users] pmwiki-2.2.0-beta58 released (IMPORTANT UPGRADE NOTES)

Patrick R. Michaud pmichaud at pobox.com
Tue Jul 17 16:53:56 CDT 2007


I've just released PmWiki version 2.2.0-beta58, now available
at the usual locations:

    http://www.pmwiki.org/pub/pmwiki/pmwiki-2.2.0-beta58.tgz
    http://www.pmwiki.org/pub/pmwiki/pmwiki-2.2.0-beta58.zip
    svn://pmwiki.org/pmwiki/tags/latest

As the Subject line indicates, this release has some significant
changes that may impact upgrades.  In this release we are
moving the locations of several "Site" pages into a new
"SiteAdmin" group specifically intended for viewing only by
site administrators (and those they trust).  In particular,
the following pages have moved to new locations:

    Site.AuthUser     --> SiteAdmin.AuthUser
    Site.Blocklist    --> SiteAdmin.Blocklist
    Site.ApprovedUrls --> SiteAdmin.ApprovedUrls
    Site.NotifyList   --> SiteAdmin.NotifyList
    Site.AuthList     --> SiteAdmin.AuthList

If you aren't using any of the above, then this note doesn't
affect you.  :-)

When running 2.2.0-beta58 for the first time after an upgrade
where any of the above pages have been used, PmWiki will
detect that an upgrade is occuring and halt further processing
with an error message until the pages have been migrated to 
their new locations.  The error message contains an option
to have PmWiki move the pages automatically, or a site
administrator may move the pages manually (essentially this
can be done by copying the existing pages to files with
the new names).

Once the pages are properly in their new locations, PmWiki
will continue processing requests.

For sites that want to continue using pages in their
old locations, this can be done by simply setting the
following in local/config.php:

    $SiteAdminGroup = $Site;


Undoubtedly there will be a few hiccups in the upgrade process
as a result of this switch, so please feel free to contact me
or the mailing list if you run into any difficulties.


Other changes in this release include:

* Attachments (uploads) can now begin with underscore characters.

* There have been some slight improvements to the SiteAdmin.AuthList page.

* An error message is generated if a site requests LDAP authentication
  and the local version of PHP doesn't have LDAP support.


Again, please send any comments, questions, or bug reports to
the mailing list.

Thanks!

Pm



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