Release Notes 2.1.x

Foswiki - The Free and Open Source Wiki

Foswiki is an enterprise collaboration and information sharing tool targeted for professional use in many types of organizations: from small businesses to multi-nationals, from one-product open source groups, to worldwide research networks.

Foswiki is a wiki: fundamentally, a website with editable web pages. It looks like a normal web site but it encourages contributions, edits, updates, questions, and answers from its users. It's a powerful way of enabling a community to communicate asynchronously using intranet and public Internet websites. Foswiki is simple to learn and use. It aims to provide a transparent way for you to publish and exchange your ideas with others over the web and eliminates the one-webmaster syndrome of outdated intranet content.

Foswiki is a structured wiki with tools that enable users without programming skills to build powerful yet simple applications to process information and support workflows. Developers can extend the functionality of Foswiki with plugins.

Foswiki is backwards compatible with content generated on all previous Foswiki versions, and even content and many plugins from TWiki installations (Foswiki ships with a TWikiCompatibilityPlugin, thus enabling most extensions made for TWiki to work in Foswiki. TWiki^® is a registered trademark of Peter Thoeny.)

Foswiki is released under the GNU General Public License.

Foswiki Releases

• Foswiki 2.1.0 was built on 02 Feb 2016. It is a release that contains 37 fixes and 14 enhancements. It closes 7 Feature Requests.
• Foswiki 2.1.1 was built on 30 Apr 2016. It is a release that contains 36 fixes and 21 enhancements.
• Foswiki 2.1.2 was built on 02 May 2016. It is a release that contains 1 fix.
• Foswiki 2.1.3 was built on 12 Feb 2017. It is a release that contains 68 fixes and 21 enhancements.
• Foswiki 2.1.4 was built on 31 May 2017. It is a release that contains 31 fixes.
• Foswiki 2.1.5 was built on 22 Jan 2018. It is a release that contains 43 fixes and 5 enhancements.
• Foswiki 2.1.6 was built on 27 Feb 2018. It is a release that contains 11 fixes, including some critical security related fixes.

Pre-installed Extensions

Foswiki 2.1 is shipped with the following:

• Plugins: AutoViewTemplatePlugin, CommentPlugin, ConfigurePlugin, EditRowPlugin, EmptyPlugin, HistoryPlugin, HomePagePlugin, InterwikiPlugin, JQueryPlugin, NatEditPlugin, PreferencesPlugin, PubLinkFixupPlugin, RenderListPlugin, SlideShowPlugin, SmiliesPlugin, SpreadSheetPlugin, SubscribePlugin, TablePlugin, TinyMCEPlugin, TwistyPlugin, UpdatesPlugin, WysiwygPlugin
• Contribs: CompareRevisionsAddOn, FamFamFamContrib, FastCGIEngineContrib, JEditableContrib, JSCalendarContrib, JsonRpcContrib, MailerContrib, ModPerlEngineContrib, PlainFileStoreContrib, RCSStoreContrib, TipsContrib, TopicUserMappingContrib
• Skins: PatternSkin
• Compatibility support - TWikiCompatibilityPlugin

Known issues

For up-to-date information, see Known issues of Foswiki 2.1

Use of non-default {Store}{Encoding}

WARNING About {Store}{Encoding}: If you intend to use high-bit characters in attachment filenames (such as umlauts and accents), then links to these attachments on Foswiki pages will not work on a non-utf-8 Store without modification. This is because Foswiki works internally using Unicode, but the store saves files to disk using your chosen {Store}{Encoding}. Running the Store with other than utf-8 encoding is considered a transitional step and not recommended for long-term operation. The strongly recommended solution is to convert your store to UTF8 at the earliest opportunity.

A partial workaround is implemented in the PubLinkFixupPlugin This Plugin will attempt to rewrite broken links. This generally gets linked images and other attachments working. However the TinyMCEPlugin is still unable to render image links while editing a topic.

See Item13696 for up-to-date details.

Important changes in Foswiki 2.1.7

Multiple cross-site scripting vulnerability in jQuery and jQuery UI

These fixes are described in

• CVE-2021-41182: XSS in the `altField` option of the Datepicker widget in jQuery UI < 1.30.0
• CVE-2021-41183: XSS in `*Text` options of the Datepicker widget in jQuery UI < 1.30.0
• CVE-2021-41184: XSS in the `of` option of the `.position()` util in jQuery UI &kt; 1.30.0
• CVE-2016-7103: XSS in closeText option of Dialog in jQuery UI < 1.12.0
• Fixes for CVE-2015-9251 and CVE-2019-11358 have been backported from jquery-3.x to jquery-2.x which is being used by default

Regular Expression Denial of Service vulnerability in jquery.validate

Details in CVE-2021-21252

Possible server site request forgery exposing the session id

For decades Foswiki and TWiki had ways to access the session id of a user and make it available on a wiki page using the %SESSIONID macro. Anybody that has got access to a session id can use this session in behalf of the user that is associated with it. There are multiple ways to leak this information to the outside using this macro. Therefore the two related macros %SESSIONID and %SESSIONVAR are deprecated for security reasons and have been disabled by default using the {Sessions}{HideSessionVariable} setting. Note that these macros will be removed completely in the next minor release.

QUERY macro does not check access rights

While macros such as %FORMFIELD only allowed access only to information the current user has got view rights for, the %QUERY macro does not.

Reimplementation of livequery using mutation observer

The LiveQuery module is at the core of Foswiki's javascript framework, alas was abandoned upstream. In the meantime modern browsers now all support a feature called "mutation observer" to monitor changes to the DOM in an efficient standardized way. Thus a new module called Observer has been implemented on this base to initialize javascript modules in a declarative way as it has been done before using LiveQuery.

Important changes in Foswiki 2.1.6

CVE-2018-7446

This is a critical Security Release, addressing CVE-2018-7446. In addition to installing this patch release, site adminstrators should follow the recommended changes in Support.SecurityAlert-CVE-2018-7446 to ensure that certain critical topic are protected.

Additional default topic protections

A number of "operational" topics shipped in the Main and Sandbox web are not protected from modifications by users. This release adds an ACL to most of the default topics shipped in the Main and Sandbox webs to restrict modifications to the Admin group.

The _default template web does not provide individual topic protections. The site administrators should customize the desired permissions before allowing users to create new webs.

Issues with NatEditPlugin Permissions tab not supporting certain ACLs.

It was discovered that the NatEditPlugin under some conditions will lose topic ACLs:

• When a topic is copied, the ACLs in the source topic are not applied to the new topic.
• If a topic contains crafted ACLs set using the More topic actions -> Edit settings dialog, they can be lost when the topic is edited by NatEdit. Specifically:
  • DENYTOPIC* ACLs (except for DENY = WikiGuest) are not supported by NatEdit and were silently discarded.

NatEditPlugin version 9.21 (shipped with this release) resolves this issue by disabling the "Permissions" tab when unsupported ACLs are detected.a

Support for CaptchaPlugin in User Registration

A change has been made to the validate.js javascript used by the UserRegistration page. This will permit easier integration of the Captcha Plugin to the default user registration page.

Important changes in Foswiki 2.1.5

New zone added as a default zone.

The body zone has been added as a default zone. It is rendered at the end of the body, just before the <body> tag. This improves compatibity of PatternSkin with Foswiki:Extensions.NatSkin. A number of extensions released for NatSkin will not function correctly without this zone. No changes are required unless you have replaced the foswiki.tmpl or foswiki.pattern.tmpl with a local version.

Additional support for Proxy configurations.

Foswiki has a new option under bin/configure -> Security and Authentication -> Proxies: {PROXY}{UseForwardedHeaders}. Enable this setting if the Foswiki is accessed through a reverse proxy. Foswiki will the use the X-Forwarded-For header to determine the Client IP address. This has several effects:

• Foswiki will log the real Client IP address instead of the address of the reverse proxy server.
• Session IP matching will use the real client IP when determining if the CGI Session is for the correct client.
• Plugins that perform security functions based upon the IP address will see the real client IP address.

This setting should only be enabled if the majority of the clients access the server via the reverse proxy. It is possible for clients to spoof the X-Forwarded-For header, so only enable this setting when appropriate to avoid client IP Address spoofing.

Change in HTTP status return for authentication failures.

The fix for Item14445 changes the HTTP status return for authentiation errors from 401 - Unauthorized to 200 - OK when returning the Template Login screen. The 401 status is not valid unless it returns a WWW-Authentication challenge that can be processed by the agent. This is only valid when using HTTP authentication. The REST and JSONRPC actions will still return a 401, so that it can be handled by javascript.

Note: This change requires a corresponding fix for the LdapContrib. If you use the LdapContrib, you should not apply this release until an update of LdapContrib is available.

Running Foswiki on a Windows based web server

This release fixes a critical error that prevented Foswiki from being installed on Windows. Foswiki mistakenly used a reserved filename for a module which blocked installaion on Windows. This has been corrected in this release.

Important changes in Foswiki 2.1.3

Security issues addressed in this release.

This release addresses 7 Severity 3 security vulnerabilities which are described in further detail in Support.SecurityAlert-XSSIssues-2017-0201. See Security Alert Process for more details on how the Foswiki project handles security issues.

Possible data loss in DataForms

A possible data loss issue was discovered in DataForms migrated from Foswiki 1.x. A new configuration setting ({LegacyFormfieldNames}) was added to restore the old Foswiki 1.x behavior.

If your site uses DataForms that use non-Ascii field names, the form data will require manual migration, or you must enable {LegacyFormfieldNames} in the configuration.

• Releases prior to Foswiki 2.0 stripped characters other than A-Z, a-z, 0-9 and _. So a field named Fühler would be stored as Fhler.
• The same DataForms definition on Foswiki 2.0 would be stored as Fühler.

With the mismatch of field name, the form field will be lost when the topic is saved.

If you do not enable {LegacyFormfieldNames}, then you will need to find and update the META:FIELD definitions in the topics. This would need to be done external to Foswiki.

  %META:FIELD{name="Fhler" title="Fühler" value="123"}%

would need to be changed to

  %META:FIELD{name="Fühler" title="Fühler" value="123"}%

See Item14256 for more details.

Cookie changes

The optional (expert) configuration parameter {Sessions}{CookieRealm} now applies to the Domain of all cookies generated by the Foswiki core. In addition, if your site is accessed over HTTPS, all cooikes will now have the Secure flag set. In prior releases, only the Foswiki session cookie used the CookieRealm and Secure flag. After upgrade to 2.1.3, users may lose saved preferences and/or fail strikeone validation due to the cookie domain change. If using a non-default CookieRealm setting, users may need to delete all domain cookies after this update.

User Registration

The stored format of pending registrations has been changed to perl "Storable" in order to better support Unicode user names and other registration fields. As this format is binary and not generally human readable, a new report: PendingRegistrations has been added. It shows registrations that are awating email verification and registrations awating approval. Registrations awaiting approval can be directly approved from the new page.

Any existing pending registrations should be resolved prior to upgrading to Foswiki 2.1.3. Existing submissions will be lost.

Usability on small screens

A user contributed WebSideBar toggle button can be enabled. This renders a small "hamburg" icon to restore the side bar when viewing Foswiki on a small device. See PatternSkinCssCookbookSidebarToggle.

Configuration bootstrap

Bootstrap should be able to detect operation behind a proxy server, and will try harder to get the protocol (HTTP or HTTPS) and the hostname used by the user correct. If bootstrap fails to properly set up a proxy configuration, we would appreciate bug reports that will help us improve operation. Note that operation behind a chain of multiple proxy servers is not currently detected.

Page cache tuning.

A new optional (expert) configuration parameter {Cache}{TrackInternalLinks} is available for tuning how the cache tracks dependencies of topic references. Default is on which is the same as prior releases. Foswiki will record every topic link as a dependency. This can result in extrememly large cache dependency tables, especially when using a WebLeftBar that displays a large number of webs and/or topics.

Set this to authenticated to track these topic references only for logged in users. Set to off (not recommended) to disable all reference link tracking.

The side effect of not tracking a link dependency is that cached pages will not reflect updates that remove or add a topic.

Note that the PageCache should be globally flushed whenever any configuration changes are made, or after updating Foswiki or any Extensions.

JQuery

This release updates to a newer maintenance version of JQuery. You should visit bin/configure and select the updated versions of JQuery.

Important changes in Foswiki 2.1.1

Page Caching

The Foswiki PageCache has added another index on the dependencies table. After installing this update, you should issue the refresh=all option to drop the foswiki cache tables, and allow them to be recreated. This will create the new index.

New CPAN dependency, and foswiki.org changes

Due to upstream changes, the Perl LWP package has been split into two packages. You may need to install LWP::Protocol::https for https support in extension installation and accessing remote sites with the INCLUDE macro.

Important changes in Foswiki 2.1

Deprecations

The %HTTP% and %HTTPS% macros are deprecated and will be removed in a future release. These macros now restrict the available information to the Accept-language and User-Agent headers. The list of available headers is now configurable.

The PatternSkin created contentheader and contentfooter as aliases for the beforetext and aftertext templates and deprecated the older templates. As this broke compatibity with other skins, that deprecation has been reversed. For best compatibiliy continue to use beforetext and aftertext.

API Change

The Foswiki API version is incremented to version 2.4 in Foswiki 2.1.0. Foswiki 2.1 permits template names using Unicode characters.

New Perl CPAN dependencies!

Enhanced Registration form

The registration form now accepts the parameter templatename to override the default NewUserTemplate. In addition the registration topics have been restructured to permit multiple custom registration pages. Customization of the registration form is greatly simplified.

Easier to restrict access to the System web.

Some sites prefer to block access to the System web documentation for guest users. Duplicated content can result in lowered search engine rank, so it is advantageous to restrict access to the System web. Foswiki now includes ALLOWTOPICVIEW settings for critical system topics that are required for guest access.

Changes in permitted characters in topic and attachment names.

Foswiki has split the topic and attachment name filters. The topic name filter has become more restrictive. Attachment names now permit embedded spaces, and attachments with spaces will no longer be renamed to underscores. If you would prefer to use the old behavior, enable $Foswiki::cfg{AttachmentReplaceSpaces}.

Improvements in International Character Set support

Foswiki 2.1 has further improved support for utf-8 based character sets. Topics and data forms can use utf-8 characters. They will be properly rendered and preserved during edit. The Foswiki core has been fully converted to utf-8 and unicode. All encoding / decoding is done "at the edge", when reading from / writing to the Foswiki store.

• Foswiki 2.1 International support
  • Emails sent by Foswiki now fully support International Character Sets.
  • Foswiki now uses NFC Normalization of Unicode characters. This greatly improves compatibility with Operating Systems like OSX which use NFD form characters by default.
  • Template names are no longer restricted to ASCII characters.

• Foswiki 2.0 International support
  • New sites will use utf-8 by default. Internationalizaiton should just work.
  • Sites migrating data from a previous installation have two choices:
    • Set {Store}{Encoding} to match the previous ={Site}{CharSet}. (Default was iso-8859-1)
    • Migrate the data to utf-8 by using the tools/bulk_copy.pl script. This is the recommended solution.
  • Support for Locales is still known to have issues. {UseLocales} should not be enabled in the configuration.

Translation Status

As of this release,

• Italian and Ukrainian are 100% complete.
• Traditional Chinese, French and German are >99% complete.
• Czech, Danish are >95% complete.

For more details on translation status, see TranslationTeam and Foswiki's Weblate translation server. Foswiki thanks the Translators for their efforts. If you are interesting in helping with the translation, please contact foswiki-translations@lists.sourceforge.net.

Foswiki Release 2.1 Details

New Features

AddConcatOptionToAttrs	Add +"more" and key+"more" options to Foswiki::Attrs
CompleteMIMESupportInEmail	Wrap all outgoing mails into uniform and safe MIME envelope.
CustomNewUserTemplates	Enhance register script to specify a templatetopic param instead of hard-coded 'NewUserTemplate'
DeprecateHTTPandHTTPS	Deprecate and restrict System.VarHTTP and System.VarHTTPS macros due to security concerns
MakeItEasierToBlockSystemWebGuestAccess	Simplify hiding the System web documentation.
MakeZonesLessIntrusive	Make zones less intrusive, especially for non-HTML output
SplitTopicAttachmentNameFilters	Separate the topic and attachment name filters, allow spaces in attachment names, remove colon from Topic names.

Fixes

Item10916	Pencils disappear after row move when both js and non-js controls are present.
Item11609	No information how to un-set a topic parent.
Item12067	Removing members via WikiGroups not possible when login name different from WikiName.
Item12569	Sorting in tableplugin is wrong in German.
Item13405	Unicode Normalisation.
Item13677	regression: extension tabs in configure aren't sorted alphabetically anymore.
Item13699	Mail sending fails when non-latin text in utf8 is being sent.
Item13857	Mac OS X RCS "not found" by configure.
Item13860	UploadFilter isn't blocking HTML attachments.
Item13863	FileAttachment: generated filenames are not correct foswiki 2.0.3 mod_cgi, utf-8 store when uploaded from OS X.
Item13865	Configure file permissions checker detects ,pfv directories as possible webs.
Item13869	FoswikiServerInformation warns about undefined variables.
Item13870	RCSStoreContrib configure check error by syntax shell command error in RCSChecker.pm.
Item13875	Configure fails to perserve permissions when backing up config.
Item13877	Certificate wizards not functional, always generates CSR, dependencies not documented.
Item13880	TML rendered in head and script zones causes malformed html in WebCreateNewTopic.
Item13881	Table header problem in unicode named web/topic.
Item13885	PatternSkin should be backwards compatible to Foswiki 1.1.
Item13886	Default id="foswikiTOC" creates illegal duplicate CSS IDs when multiple TOC macros are present.
Item13889	Processing of dynamically generated META in a new topic template is displayed as plain text until saved.
Item13890	bulk_copy ignores --latest option.
Item13891	bulk_copy.pl does not copy user information for attachment histories.
Item13893	Performance fixes for Foswiki 2.0.4.
Item13894	RcsStore double-encodes utf8 comments into the attachment revision log.
Item13896	TWISTY incorrectly used in Sandbox.WebHome, generates broken HTML.
Item13898	JQueryAjaxHelper jumpbox code does not work with short URLs.
Item13899	save: ignores new topic text if it is empty.
Item13900	Logout redirects to wrong path when ForceDefaultHostUrl is enabled.
Item13903	Redirect for authentication breaks utf8 topic names.
Item13906	EditRowPlugin create table row without spaces.
Item13912	perldoc does not process bulk_copy.pl correctly because of missing POD marker.
Item13913	CLI scripts broken on windows. setlib.cfg issues "require CGI" which sets binmode on STDIN and breaks prompts.
Item13917	NameFilter not working on 2.0 / 2.1 if configure reset to default is used.
Item13924	Old style UserRegistration pages not working on 2.1 beta 1.
Item13925	Leading spaces in DefaultUrlHost causes malformed URL links.
Item13926	ModPerlEngineContrib is not backwards compatible with Foswiki 1.1.x.
Item13927	Configure rcs checker crashes if configured command is not found.

Enhancements

Item12560	NameFilter should reject colon, conflicts with Interwiki links. Restructure filters to improve flexibility.
Item13436	Adding the class parameter to the TablePlugin.
Item13444	Foswiki::Net::getExternalResource does a poor job of parsing URLs.
Item13553	Add form-definition-table template.
Item13554	Foswiki doesn't work with accented Template names.
Item13594	Implement feature AddConcatOptionToAttrs.
Item13848	Deprecate, and restrict HTTP and HTTPS macros.
Item13849	Implement MakeZonesLessIntrusive.
Item13854	Implemement MakeItEasierToBlockSystemWebGuestAccess.
Item13864	Implement CustomNewUserTemplates - Registration can override the template for the user topic.
Item13866	Add a file permission fixer script to tools.
Item13867	bin/upload failed from the command line.
Item13874	Don't encode URLs in links inserted by Upload.
Item13914	rewriteshebang should use setlib, don't make user enter -I ../lib.

Foswiki Release 2.1.1 Details

Fixes

Item975	BulkRegistration should work with ApacheLogin.
Item13795	Redundant url params generated by %SCRIPTURLPATH macro.
Item13941	%EDITTABLE macro visible in print mode.
Item13944	Foswiki::Func::addToHEAD (deprecated in 2010) breaks with Foswiki 2.1 Zones rewrite.
Item13945	Software error with Perl 5.10. Can't find Ascii Unicode entity.
Item13947	Issues in Store Implementaton and Cache Implementation checkers.
Item13950	Refresh cache needs better controls, to minimize bot clicks.
Item13957	TinyMCEPlugin does not handle indent correctly.
Item13958	The indent feature with colon does not render an empty line.
Item13960	Wysiwyg editor cannot right align a table cell if the content of the cell is a "0".
Item13975	Do a deep merge gathering foswikiPreferences.
Item13989	When you disable guest sessions you also disable all registration and reset of password.
Item13995	Search $changes renders a simple summary.
Item13997	Incorrect assumption about encodings in Foswiki::Store.
Item14000	Wrong row is deleted by EditRowPlugin in full table edit mode.
Item14004	EditRowPlugin textarea doesn't honor the dimensions.
Item14008	Configure checker should warn/error if AutoAttachPubFiles is used with PlainFile store.
Item14010	Add mime type for woff2.
Item14011	Make sure HTTP2 is always compressing HTML.
Item14012	Prevent page caching under certain conditions.
Item14013	Make sure zones are stable when reloading a page.
Item14014	Comment plugin unable to use template files in hierarchical webs in Foswiki 2.1.
Item14022	All internal links should be changed to https://foswik.org to avoid redirects.
Item14024	JQueryPlugin (v6.32) might not initialise correctly with current JSON (v2.90) / JSON-XS (v3.02) modules w/o allow_nonref.
Item14025	JsonRpcContrib requires allow_nonref (when using JSON-XS v3.02).
Item14032	INCLUDE doesn't rewrite other webs' links in 2.1.
Item14035	Plain file logger fails to rotate the log.
Item14037	PageCache needs an index on the to_topic field.
Item14038	PageCache generates too many dependencies on System.ParentList.
Item14039	System.SkinBrowser takes too long to render due to Search performance.
Item14042	Typo in JQueryPlugin defaults causes missing jquery version.
Item14049	Configure hangs if URL has a trailing slash.
Item14050	Link to missing topic in WelcomeGuest.
Item14051	Page cache not respecting the Host URL.
Item14053	Registration confirmation emails BCC the Webmaster. Causes too much noise.
Item14055	If beforeUploadHandler modifies an attachment, it is recorded with the wrong size.

Enhancements

Item13970	Modernize BUTTON.
Item13971	Add latest jquery and remove some outdated versions.
Item13972	Update fontawesome and extend %JQICON to be able to use fontawesome icons.
Item13973	Deprecate bgiframe and media jquery plugins.
Item13974	Update jquery.form to latest upstream version.
Item13976	Update localScroll, scrollTo and serialScroll.
Item13977	Update JQuery maskedInput.
Item13978	Update JQuery masonry and externalize imagesLoaded module.
Item13979	Update jquery.migrate.
Item13980	Update jquery.queryObject.
Item13981	Update jquery.render.
Item13982	Update jquery.sprintf.
Item13983	Update jquery.stars.
Item13984	Update jquery superfish.
Item13985	Update jquery.tabpane.
Item13996	BulkRegistration should process the AddToGroups field.
Item14005	Custom registration needs to pass user template name to email templates.
Item14028	Add jquery-1.12.1 / jquery-2.2.1.
Item14042	Add jquery-1.12.3 / jquery-2.2.3.
Item14047	Simplify the htaccess configuration examples.
Item4992	Work out how to translate Javascript strings.

Foswiki Release 2.1.2 Details

Fixes

Item14061

Non-admin users are unable to refresh the page cache using the refresh query param. It's silently ignored.

Foswiki Release 2.1.3 Details

Fixes

Item11548	INCLUDE{warn="custom"} only works for topic-missing warnings.
Item13206	Upgrade to latest jquery-ui.
Item13785	ExtensionInstaller fails to replace files under some conditions.
Item13831	JS error in System.LanguageSelector
Item13892	CALC doesn't work in %SEARCH despite of what documention says.
Item13928	Mistypes to be fixed in the core.
Item13929	FileUtil doesn't work correctly with BSD tar.
Item13963	Foswiki::Form::getField() might generate 'use of undefined value' warnings.
Item13986	Any changes to a topic text made after pushing the topic to the context stack are ignored even changes are related to topic-level preferences.
Item14009	Comment plugin does not properly identify location to insert comment.
Item14063	Bootstrap fails to correctly detect path when mod_rewrite engine is disabled.
Item14064	Bad link in index.html in 2.1.0 and 2.1.2.
Item14066	Performance issue sorting list based on NFKD.
Item14068	Excessive calls of getPreferences(LINKTOOLTIP) causes performance issues.
Item14069	Attach filename parameter needs further sanitization.
Item14071	Register script reports zero values as missing registration fields.
Item14077	INCLUDE{"topic,list"} fails if first topic is access denied.
Item14078	Wysiwyg merges horizontal rules (---) into a preceeding list and looses the TML markup.
Item14098	Approve User Registration should not require Verify User Registration.
Item14102	Documentation suggest a Short URL configuration (renaming view script to xview) which is no longer supported.
Item14104	Plain text password is sent by email in registration approval request.
Item14107	Cancel doesn't undo add/delete row or move row actions. Document the restriction.
Item14125	"Start Presentation" button needs further sanitization.
Item14128	WebTopicEditTemplate not readable in restricted system web.
Item14139	debugenableplugins not correctly handled.
Item14146	Configure permissions checker fails to check some files, excessively checks others and crashes trying to report utf8 names.
Item14150	Reload of a page in the cache fails to recompute strikeone keys.
Item14169	Verification for {FeatureAccess}{Configure} in configure fails to handle login names.
Item14171	Error message of jquery.render needs sanitization.
Item14172	jquery.stars width incorrect in modal dialogs.
Item14173	Invalid call to foswiki.getScriptUrl() in foswiki.getPreference().
Item14174	Missing files in MANIFEST of EditRowPlugin.
Item14176	Don't add POSTDATA to TOC or QUERYSTRING.
Item14195	Loop in Foswiki::UI::View::revisionsAround under some conditions.
Item14199	Registration confirmation process corrupts utf-8 wiki names.
Item14202	PageCache tweaks to control dependency growth.
Item14204	Port JsonRpcContrib unit tests from master to Release02x01 - and fix error with redirectto revealed by test.
Item14205	Autoconfig Email failing with recent versions of IO::Socket::SSL.
Item14209	Email wizard for SSLCaFile and SSLCaPath doesn't return any results.
Item14211	System.DataForms topic use the NEW macro. Should be N.
Item14213	EditRowPlugin: "Use of uninitialized value in addition" warning when clicking on Edit button.
Item14216	MailerContrib mailnotify fails with wide character print when run from Web when unicode webnames are in use.
Item14218	EditRowPlugin: edit button does not work when using Internet Explorer.
Item14227	Potential use of uninitialized value in a rating formfield.
Item14235	Sanitize some template fields.
Item14236	EditTablePlugin doesn't create compressed / gzipped css and js.
Item14238	Documentation for the reverted META:CREATEINFO is still in the release.
Item14249	Foswiki::Net uses userinfo functions not available in older versions of LWP.
Item14250	Wait for images by default in jquery.masonry.
Item14251	Remove non-functional caching of dialogs loaded via ajax.
Item14253	WysiwygPlugin inserts extra spaces in front of square bracket links.
Item14256	Data loss of certain formfield names when moving content from 1.x to 2.x.
Item14258	EditRowPlugin will crash with empty column format.
Item14263	Mistype in Foswiki::Configure::Item
Item14265	NatEdit plugin leaves UI blocked after some save errors
Item14266	Error enabling internationalization and languages
Item14279	CLI tools/configure fails to encode Password when run in prompting mode
Item14281	Cookie related changes. Inconsistent use of the domain and secure flags.
Item14285	Don't try to action upon disabled toobar buttons
Item14286	PatternSkin*Navigation topics are broken, and difficult to tailor.
Item14287	Configure needs to encode reported configuration values.
Item14305	Eliminate sporadic alert() by TinyMCE.
Item14308	Configure extensions review crashes for some older extensions.
Item14309	Old SVN based extensions don't compare as older than new Decimal versioned extensions.
Item14312	Don't destroy dialogs on close.
Item14315	ASSERT in Meta.pm when viewing prior revisions of topics with attachments.
Item14317	Under some conditions, JEditableContrib attempts to load an .uncompressed.js source, which is not in the distribution.
Item14321	Some InterwikiPlugin links are out of date.

Enhancements

Item10918	Improve javascript api to address individual tabs.
Item13578	Configure guesses relative path names with .. in them.
Item13936	Need an altenate from address for wiki generated email.
Item14086	FCGI Service file is needed for systemd systems.
Item14092	attach.pattern.tmpl needs a hook for plugins to add properties.
Item14120	Remove outdated yuicompressor tool.
Item14121	Use svg in jquery.stars.
Item14122	Upgrade to fontawesome 4.7.0.
Item14123	foswiki.getPubUrlPath() fails with an uninitialized parameter.
Item14124	Make skin of a jquery.loader backend configurable.
Item14143	Configure should recommend setting SafeEnvPath for improved security.
Item14145	PatternSkin deprecation of beforetext/aftertext templates breaks compatibility with other skins.
Item14170	Improve slideshow navigation - increase size of buttons.
Item14180	Bootstrap enhancements and refactoring.
Item14181	Bootstrap detects incorrect hostname, and may mis-detect https when behind a proxy.
Item14201	Add Pending Registrations report.
Item14219	Add a contributed WebSideBar toggle cookbook.
Item14226	Performance improvements to $.i18n().
Item14228	Upgrade JQueryPlugin to blockui 2.70.
Item14229	Upgrade JQueryPlugin to jsrender 0.9.83.
Item14230	jquery.maskedinput initializer does not match documentation.

Foswiki Release 2.1.4 Details

Fixes

Item12090	Field name -with description- in Forms not working properly.
Item13246	Context header_text needs better documentation.
Item13339	Warning or errors icons in configure get stuck unless page is reloaded.
Item13766	EditRowPlugin columns widths are jumping to wider size when you hoover the mouse over the table.
Item13907	UpdatesPlugin Report of required update should list the backlevel extensions.
Item13954	Extensions with "pluggable" components cause errors: No such value {Store}{Implementation}.
Item14234	Clicking pencil for first row (erp_row=0) opens editor on entire table.
Item14324	Perl 5.25.10 reports unescaped left brace in regular expression errors.
Item14328	Foswiki::Net crashes with uninitialized value in pattern match when sending email for older CPAN modules.
Item14337	SCRIPTURL paths and inline scripts make javascript signing more difficult than needed.
Item14346	Systemd service file has issues, needs better documentation.
Item14347	Prune the cruft from the tools dir and improve tools script documentation.
Item14349	EditRowPlugin Edit Table button not functional on IE 11.
Item14350	OopsException documentation has incorrect example.
Item14351	Uninitialized value warning when changerows is used with EditRowPlugin.
Item14366	use CGI::Carp in bin scripts BEGIN block cannot be found via LocalLib.cfg override.
Item14368	Failure to handle edge cases leads to obscure bug in RCS.
Item14369	Document parameters for USERNAME, WIKINAME and WIKIUSERNAME macros.
Item14370	Foswiki::Func::removeUserFromGroup docmentation is incorrect.
Item14372	JQueryPlugin ui-draggable got dropped from Config.spec.
Item14377	Error message requires some encoding.
Item14381	mod_perl unexpectedly decodes the URI, and X-FoswikiURI header should be debug only.
Item14388	NatEditPlugin does not honor the ScriptSuffix setting, and doesn't accommodate short URLs.
Item14392	WebPreferences topics contain empty DENY rules that would be honored if {AccessControlACL}{EnableDeprecatedEmptyDeny} is enabled.
Item14396	Don't redirect to relative paths. 302 redirects should be absolute Locations.
Item14440	Configure settings leak into the global $Foswiki::cfg hash in fcgi environment.
Item14401	Foswiki crashes if PageCache is enabled with missing dependencies.
Item14402	Invalid default in FastCGIEngineContrib example foswiki.defaults file.
Item14404	NatEdit Save and Continue action fails on mod_perl systems.
Item14405	Redirect after validation with HTTPS proxy for HTTP site results in unsafe redirect.
Item14406	Configue LANGUAGES pluggable crashes in Locale::Code for unknown languages with Perl 5.26.

Foswiki Release 2.1.5 Details

Fixes

Item11491	FCGI has de facto file upload limit - add note in documentation for fix.
Item12495	In form fields of type "select", space after a value and before the delimiting comma makes the value selectable and it saves but will reset on next edit.
Item13350	Document why Mailnotify appears to skip notification of some changes.
Item13380	Remove the Web/Topic from the login URL to prevent flooding the browser password cache.
Item13835	Title Field in Natedit gone, even when used.
Item14395	InterwikiPlugin failure to check result from readTopic causes error.
Item14415	TopicUserMapping places non-ASCII users in wrong position in WikiUsersTopic.
Item14429	tools/configure generates invalid perl structure.
Item14431	Dependencies check for DBD and DBI::Pg are broken by unexpected VERSION strings.
Item14434	Translated text with reserved characters used in System.WebCreateNewTopicComponents will create wrong HTML.
Item14445	Excel fails to open a password protected link to Foswiki.
Item14446	Unwritable work_area results in mega-spam with mailnotify run.
Item14448	UpdatesPlugin plugin list is empty on page reload.
Item14455	Malformed System.AdminDocumentationCategory.
Item14460	Login/Logon actions should create session when guest sessions are disabled.
Item14461	Formfield select values containing entities will reset on next save.
Item14462	{AuthScripts} is hidden unless Template Login is in use.
Item14471	HistoryPlugin not properly rendering date tokens as stated in documentation.
Item14472	Use jquery.prop instead of attr to get/set properties.
Item14488	PatternSkin is missing "body" zone used by NatSkin and many extensions
Item14490	EditRowPlugin Edit button image not displaying correctly.
Item14492	HtPasswdUser implements bcrypt with a hard coded cost. {Htpasswd}{BCryptCost} is ignored.
Item14515	Foswiki 2.1.3 cannot run on Windows "Aux" is a reserved filename on windows.
Item14529	UpdatesPlugin should not use the cookie realm.
Item14536	Configure leaves "wait" cursor spinning while waiting for user action.
Item14544	SCRIPTURL breaks when X-FORWARDED-HOST has multiple values.
Item14549	Prevent User/WikiName cache pollution by faulty call of internal user api.
Item14550	Wrong initialization of {_options} hash reference in list formfields.
Item14554	Remove link to unused wikiring.com domain.
Item14556	Clean up page header area with PatternSkin.
Item14557	PerlDependencyReport crashes under some conditions.
Item14559	Regression via Item13898 - broken topic selectors.
Item14560	WikiWord changes don't trigger a change event on the target element.
Item14566	Don't cache a null result in foswiki.getPreference().
Item14573	Fix auto-height calculation of tabpane.
Item14574	HTML cellspacing attribute has no effect.
Item14584	jquery.wikiword changed interpretation of source parameter in a incompatible way.
Item14586	Blinking scrollbar in natedit caused by incorrect window height.
Item14588	mailnotify fills debug log with errors about "surprising mapping" and "missing mapping".
Item14589	Invalid help link when editing topic preferences.
Item14590	Missing closing tag in html diff of mailnotify.
Item14591	Store fails to read old revisions with RcsWrap store, if .txt file is modified.
Item14605	Unescaped brace in Regular Expression, Perl 5.27.8.

Enhancements

Item14518	JQueryPlugin should warn configure if an older version of jquery is selected.
Item14532	Allow process name override for FCGI task.
Item14565	Bundle jquery.validate js files into one.
Item14570	Add "use strict" to farbtastic's init and fix js errors.
Item14577	Add user contributed sartup script for FreeBSD.

Foswiki Release 2.1.6 Details

Fixes

Item14537	The EditRowPlugin makes tables "shaky".
Item14616	The generic tools/extension_installer no longer functions on perl 5.26+.
Item14622	UserRegistration validate.js is not compatible with CaptchaPlugin.
Item14626	Incorrect example in System.Macros / System.PreferenceSettings.
Item14629	Certain topics can be overridden without permission.
Item14630	Topic ACLs are lost when copying to a new topic.
Item14632	Topic autocompletion not functional anymore.
Item14633	wrong language in <html> tag.
Item14634	Use jquery.i18n for translations in jquery.natedit.
Item14636	jquery.wikiword not setting the regex options correctly.
Item14639	Operational topics in Main, Sandbox webs should be protected from editing non-admins.

Foswiki Release 2.1.7 Details

Security

Item14903	change password accepts "1" as an old password
Item14918	backport fix of CVE-2015-9251 and CVE-2019-11358
Item14936	eliminate use of 2-args open()
Item15024	QUERY macro does not check access rights
Item15033	update jquery.validate
Item15048	disable access to sessionid
Item15061	multiple cross-site scripting vulnerability in jQuery UI

Fixes

Item14687	SET macro documentation related to INCLUDE and topic scope is incorrect.
Item14688	Typos in InterwikiPlugin documentation.
Item14773	configure documentation refers to FastReport. Should be JsonReport
Item14809	System/InstallGuide Step 2: Ownership table lists wrong FreeBSD group
Item14902	Add new Ubuntu 20.04 required perl module to requirements
Item14660	missing tab id causes a javascript error
Item14662	comment type "return" not functional
Item14721	fix loading of language files for jquery.i18n
Item14722	add jquery.browser as a separate module being removed from newer jQuery
Item14725	wrong initial color of jquery.farbtastic dialog
Item14729	fix regular expression for headings trying to support ExplicitNumberingPlugin
Item14730	can't use path with a 0 (zero) in it
Item14731	illegal json returned by attachments rest handler
Item14741	EVAL(0) should return 0 not the empty string
Item14762	jquery.loader does not clear timeout properly for automated reloading
Item14873	rewrite and simplify UpdatesPlugin
Item14874	deprecate uglify-js and yuicompressor in favor of terser and csso
Item14890	breadcrumbs won't line-break on mobile devices
Item14910	Remove Taint::Runtime
Item14929	Single '0' (zero) not displayed in any table if plugin is activated for that topic
Item14931	Error moving file with [space]WikiWord[space] name.
Item14933	remove dependency on jquery.livequery module
Item14934	language file compression isn't experimental anymore
Item14935	leave absolute_urls context when an exception occured during registration
Item14937	error parsing dotted triplets ip addresses
Item14938	don't return compressed content when calling foswiki on the command line
Item14941	only load comment.js and comment.css on pages where it is required
Item14942	make sure isValueMapped is defined for any formfield
Item14943	document publicOnly parameter in %INCLUDE and make it a true boolean
Item14945	improve performance of template loader
Item14946	RCS storage tests fail with a one-off second difference sometimes
Item14990	remove explicit undef from return statement
Item14991	improve performance of isGroup() call
Item15000	fix button's behavior in disabled state
Item15004	use relative urls wherever possible
Item15007	extender.pl too loud on STDERR
Item15008	bring back support for "dontnotify" in natedit
Item15026	modernize default link protocol pattern
Item15027	add jquery-3.6.0
Item15029	Meta::getPreferences() sometimes fails when called too early
Item15030	encoding error including attachments
Item15031	be less restrictive checking compatible acl settings in editor
Item15032	tinymce cannot attach a file when strike one is disabled
Item15038	select2 formfields were not validated
Item15057	Add support for MariaDB
Item15058	script tags for javascrit i18n should not use src attribute
Item15066	rating formfield is not mergeable
Item15067	jquery-ui's dialogs maniplulate the z-index of the widget on every mouseclick
Item15069	improvements to radio, checkbox and label
Item15070	use of uninitialized variable when there is no text
Item15071	add some more useful entries to mime.types
Item14564	add jquery-3 and an appropriate migrate module
Item14685	permissions read from the wrong topic
Item14689	Email::Address is deprecated, Email::Address::XS is the preferred module.
Item14732	statistics script blocks all of foswiki
Item14739	regression: cannot control logged actions anymore
Item14766	deprecate all 1.x jquery, deprecate all 2.x except the latest
Item14819	lost content on specific editor interactions
Item14839	fix default value in textboxlist formfields
Item14840	fix tooltip position in draggable elements
Item14884	performance problem listing webs (hotfix available)
Item14906	OP_ref has to read data relative to the topic being queried
Item14908	cannot use zero as a formfield default
Item14944	cannot use zero in alttext of FORMFIELD
Item14970	INCLUDEing an url does not decode the retrieved content according to its charset
Item14992	always display date and time of revisions
Item14996	wrong url host if foswiki called via localhost
Item15006	missing cpan dependencies for core engine
Item15010	configure fails to accept newer rcs versions
Item15014	prevent password fields from being autofilled in configure
Item15022	Change notifications not send out under certain conditions
Item15023	Eliminate local cache in FORMFIELD macro
Item15025	FORMFIELD and QUERY don't read the correct topic object
Item15028	store password during registration
Item15041	global FOSWIKI_BROADCAST not initialized correctly
Item15045	getRevisionInfo of an attachment always returns the revision info of the first attachment on the topic
Item15047	Deep recursion if UserInterfaceInternationalisation is enabled yet no languages are enabled

Enhancements

Item14454	Bundle JsViews as an option with JsRender
Item14567	add keyboard navigation to jquery.stars
Item14568	add chili recipes for autolisp and ini
Item14569	deprecate jquery.placeholder
Item14571	add manual sorting mode to textboxlist
Item14572	upgrade jquery.livequery
Item14720	upgrade animate.css to latest release
Item14723	upgrade jquery.sprintf
Item14724	enhance Makefile system to support sass and babel
Item14726	better support for +values in textboxlist
Item14727	improve locale support of datepicker
Item14728	forward "open" event of ui-dialogs to jqUIDialogLink element
Item14735	use animate.css for jquery.loader effects instead of jQuery's own ones
Item14767	implement a proper icon service
Item14837	update animate.css to latest upstream version
Item14838	add "remember" feature to tabs
Item14875	various maintenance fixes
Item14897	rationalize edit template structure for better customization
Item14901	Add support for XML and CERT data types in configure pages
Item14963	add warmup parameter
Item14994	don't generate inline @import-ed css
Item15002	improve placement of content in jquery.loader
Item15003	improve freebsd init script for foswiki service
Item15005	too many log messages in fastcgi procmanager
Item15018	rework some old css code in jQuery
Item15019	give logos a proper dimension
Item15021	multiple enhancements to SlideshowPlugin
Item15040	add include cover
Item15043	unable to configure zero max requests
Item15044	improve free bsd startup scripts
Item15059	JQICONs create a stray html attribute
Item15060	add validation rule for foswikiMandatory css class
Item15065	add jsonRpc api to foswiki namespace in javascript
Item15068	don't bubble up jquery.loader events

Foswiki Release 2.1.8 Details

Security

Item15135	directories in working directory are created as world writable 777 permissions
Item15141	possible XSS attack in attachment comments
Item15158	update to jquery-ui 1.13.2
Item15163	Local file inclusion vulnerability in viewfile
Item15182	restricted allowed protocols to http and https
Item15190	potential XSS vulnerability in jQuery
Item15192	SpreadSheetPlugin's EVAL feature exposes infromation about paths and files on the server
Item15198	Default to a secure location for temporary files not vulnerable to symlink attacks
Item15200	possible XSS vulnerability in topic title field

Fixes

Item14380	Foswiki should have option to use X-Forwarded-For to determine Client IP in reverse proxy configuration.
Item14580	DIFF_TEXT rarely used ... and buggy
Item15074	remove hardcoded options from build.pl of some extensions
Item15075	deep recursion on innocent code
Item15076	RCS store does not properly encode topic information
Item15077	broken api to show/hide tabs in jquery tabpane
Item15078	body zone merged to script zone
Item15080	make {DefaultDateFormat} a text field
Item15081	handle hash changes of own tabpane only
Item15090	mailnotify script must run as admin user
Item15091	only notify people of topics that they have view access to
Item15113	jsonrpc doesn't set the web-topic context properly
Item15129	FORMFIELD rev parameter broken
Item15131	natedit doesn't validate mandatory formfields properly
Item15136	Foswiki::Meta::save() sets topic and web too late when copying a topic
Item15137	REVINFO doesn't return the top revision info with a zero rev parameter
Item15142	better default labels for twisty links
Item15145	add support for uploading multiple files in one request
Item15146	require packages during compile time, not during runtime
Item15160	Permissions editor can only auto-complete users and groups found in a topic of the users web
Item15162	perl error when parsing email address of an empty header
Item15173	add same-site policy to cookies
Item15174	jquery.stars in +values mode
Item15175	page with multiple jquery.loader mix their options
Item15176	mailer fails to load language preferences for users
Item15178	wrong set of permissions selecting "registered users" access in natedit
Item15179	always load a proper I18N class when internationalisation is enabled
Item15180	broken SCRIPTURL macro for json-rpc links
Item15183	Fix version number of EditRowPlugin
Item15184	don't translate < and > to their html entity counterparts
Item15185	email tests fail on newer Email::MIME
Item15186	random unit test failures in rcs store
Item15189	Redirectto parameter breaks preview function
Item15191	an uploaded html file is secured by appending txt multiple times
Item15201	fix detection of edge browser
Item15203	improve detection of module versions

Enhancements

Item15138	IconSearchPath can't be set to empty
Item15139	add optional t parameter to jquery.loader to prevent browser caching
Item15140	a natedit formfield cannot be checked for mandatoryness
Item15144	remove unused files from TwistyPlugin
Item15147	in spec files, all {Module} settings are expert level
Item15148	core's RELEASE and VERSION scheme should follow standards established in skins and extensions
Item15149	improve perl doc renderer
Item15153	report version numbers not release strings exploring installed extensions in configure
Item15154	keep images and links in rss and atom feeds
Item15155	add spaceOutWikiWord() to foswiki javascript API
Item15157	update to jquery.validate 1.19.5
Item15181	update to jquery-3.6.3, remove previous jquery-3.x packages
Item15187	remove stray quote from TML citations
Item15194	make edit toolbar more configurable
Item15199	add showcompleted and hidecompleted javascript events when the twisty opened/closed
Item9012	make TwistyPlugin's mode attributes more meaningful

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