Next Tiki Webinar to Highlight Recently Updated Tiki 8 Features

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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.

Following the demo, a developer-led discussion will explore several new features planned for upcoming Tiki releases. This is your chance for a sneak-preview of what's coming in Tiki 9! For complete details on the February webinar, see http://tiki.org/February+2012+Webinar .

Tiki Security Patches Available for 8.3 and 6.6 LTS

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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 Community Presents Free Webinars

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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. 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.

Tiki 8.1 Now Available

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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, including more than 3,200 code updates by 43 Tiki Community members. Review the Tiki 8 Release Notes and change log for complete information.

Tiki 8.1Some 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 (http://www.infoserve.de/)

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.

Tiki 8.0 Release Candidate Available for Download

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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.... 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.

Tiki Mailing Lists Pass 100,000 Messages

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Recently, the Tiki mailing lists posted their 100,000th message! This level of collaboration has helped Tiki become the FOSS Web Application with the most built-in features (http://tiki.org/FOSS+Web+Application+wit...).

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!

Happy Birthday Tiki.... our present is a shiny new beta!

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Nine years ago this month marks the initial release of the Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware project. Known then as TikiWiki, the initial release (version 0.9) included a mere fraction of the features available today. Since 2002, the Tiki Community has become one of the largest open-source teams in the world and is in the top 2% of all projects on Ohloh.

Tiki 7.2 Now Available

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The Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware community is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Tiki 7.2. This latest release includes 117 code updates contributed by Tiki community members. Tiki administrators are encouraged to upgrade their 7.x sites to this latest release.

Tiki will be at OSCON 2011

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Several members of the Tiki Community will be participating in the Community Leadership Summit (July 23-24) and the O'Reilly OSCON convention (July 25-29), both in Portland, Oregon.

OSCON 2011The Community Leadership Summit brings together the leading minds in community management, relations and online collaboration to discuss, debate and continue to refine the art of building an effective and capable community, in an open unconference-style event.

The Open Source Convention allows open source innovators, builders, and pioneers to share their expertise and experience, explore new ideas, and inspire each other. Be sure to visit the Tiki booth (#902) in the Expo Hall. This is your chance to talk with key members of the Tiki Community, learn more about Tiki, and get a highly coveted Tiki T-shirt.

Several Tiki Community members plan to attend all days of the convention and participate in several sessions and workshops.

For more information, visit http://tiki.org/OSCON+2011 .

Tiki 7 Released, the latest from Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware

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The next major release of Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware is now available -- Tiki 7. In addition to more than 200 miscellaneous fixes and code improvements, Tiki 7 boasts several eagerly awaited new features:

  • Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Drag-and-drop of modules
  •  Dozens of new plugins including Blip.tv, Vimeo, TokenAccess
  •  Introduction of the Theme Generator
  •  A new unified search infrastructure, based on Zend Lucene
  •  Integration with OpenStreetMap and Zotero
  •  Revamped Slideshow
  •  Mobile, using jQuery.mobile

With this release, Tiki has made some important technological changes, too. Tiki 7 marks the beginning of movement towards HTML5 and the end of support for Internet Explorer 6. Integration with jQuery Mobile is also featured in this release, replacing HAWHAW (first introduced in 2004) for mobile support.

The code for Tiki Trackers have been completely revamped in this release. This will allow developers to more easily improve the feature and better integrate it within all aspects of Tiki.

The release of Tiki 7 also means that Tiki 6 become the LTS (Long Term Support) version and that development on Tiki 3.x officially ends. Although Tiki 7 is available immediately for early adopters, many site administrators may elect to wait until 7.1. See http://dev.tiki.org/Version+lifecycle to determine which Tiki version is right for you.

For details on Tiki 7, review the Release Notes (http://tiki.org/ReleaseNotes7.0) and documentation (http://doc.tiki.org/Tiki7). To download Tiki 7 (and all other versions), visit http://tiki.org/download .

The 2011 Tiki Summer Tour

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This summer promises to be jam-packed with Tiki Community events. With TikiFests planned for Brazil, France, United States, Israel, Germany and Pakistan, there's likely an event near you! Be sure to review the Tiki Community Calendar (http://tiki.org/calendar) for full details.

Many of these code sprints ares organized to coincide with other open source conferences at which Tiki Community members will be attending. Be sure to join us at:

See http://tiki.org/Summer+2011+Tiki+Tour for details on all of the 2011 Tiki Summer Tour events.

Tiki 7 Beta Available for Download

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The Tiki Community is proud to announce the availability of the first beta of the next generation of Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware -- Tiki 7.

This release includes hundreds of fixes and many new features. See http://doc.tiki.org/tiki7 for details on what's new in this release. Upon the final release of Tiki 7, Tiki 6.3 will become the Long Term Support (LTS) version.

To download the Tiki 7 Beta (and all other versions), visit http://info.tiki.org/Download#All_releases. Any issues should be reported on the Tiki Developer's site: http://dev.tiki.org.

Tiki administrators are reminded that this is a beta release and should not be considered stable for production use.

Security Patch Released for Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware

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Tiki 6.3 is now available for download. This update addresses a security issue regarding LDAP authentication, first reported by Thomas Hommes. There are no other changes in this release. This update is recommended for Tiki administrators using LDAP authentication.

Visit http://tiki.org/download to obtain this (and all other) Tiki releases.

Tiki 6 will become the Long Term Support (LTS) version upon the release of Tiki 7 (scheduled for the end of April).

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