Cross post from developer blog

DekiWiki is the community unsupported version of MindTouch’s wiki platform.
Announcing the pre-release of MindTouch DekiWiki: Hayes.

The Hayes release is shaping up to be the most significant release to date. There are a lot of very exciting new features and improvements. DekiWiki is now more than ever the most powerful platform for aggregating, creating, and sharing content and rich media. For the complete release notes download the TAR and view the README. Additional documentation can be found
at the developer community
release page.

We are very interested in your input and feedback. As you evaluate the beta you should be aware of a few key points. First, this is not a production release and it should not be used as such. That said we are especially interested in feedback on:

1. Updgrade script.
2. Installation guide and just general installation feedback. Did you have any significant problems with dependencies? Anything?
3. LDAP. See the release notes for documentation on this and as always you may or review/update/edit: http://doc.opengarden.org/DekiWiki/Integrating_with_LDAP .  Tell us if you have any problems with LDAP and if the documentation on this topic makes sense.

The control panel still has significant work left before we officially release Hayes; therefore, before making any recommendations on the control panel please first review http://doc.opengarden.org/DekiWiki/Specs/Control_Panel_Redesign . The services manager in the control panel is especially early in development; so, don't waste any time with this view.

There are some known issues and a security bug related to input validation with tagging and another known security bug with input validation when embedding RSS feeds.

What's New

• New redesigned navigation pane
• Tagging, chrono-tagging, tag definitions
  • Tagging. Organize and sort pages by user-defined tags.
  • Tag definitions are when a user may define a page as the parent of a tag. For example. If one were to tag a page "define:foo" all pages tagged with "foo" would be presented on said page.
  • Chrono-tagging is when a page may be tagged with a specific date. This can be achieved with prefixing "date:" to a date or time. For example, a user can tag a page with "date:May 31", "date:today", or "date:5/31/2007" and each tag will yield the same outcome.
• New image gallery
  • New controls for sorting attached images.
  • Lightbox for presenting attached images in page context.
  • Image slide show.
  • Improved user experience for image versions.
• Significant improvements to the editor.
• LDAP integration
• Please review http://doc.opengarden.org/DekiWiki/Integrating_with_LDAP .
• Easily extensible arch for authentication providers
  • Note: this is not complete in the beta release. The control panel's services manager allows admins to enlist in external authentication providers.
• Group-based permissioning
  • Groups provided by authentication providers.
• Complete rewrite of users, permissions, and grants
• New Page revisions comparison
  • This was a complete rewrite. In the past the tool that performed the comparison between two page version was easily confused and the presentation was not especially desirable. This has been dramatically improved
• Multiple templating support
  • Note: this is not complete in the beta release. Capabilities to add your own application layout templates. See http://doc.opengarden.org/DekiWiki/Technical_Docs/Skinning .
• Multiple skinning support
  • Note: this is not complete in the beta release. Capabilities to add multiple color schemes per application layout template. See http://doc.opengarden.org/DekiWiki/Technical_Docs/Skinning .
• New control panel user interface
  • Note: this is not complete in the beta release. Usability improvements. For example, better user management tools.
• Services manager
• Note: this is not complete in the beta release.
  • Print pages
• Dramatic improvements to the print pages dialog and print output.
• Bi-directional API
• Create, Read, Update and Delete operations.
  • Access the API with "URL"/@api/ . For more information see http://doc.opengarden.org/Deki_API/Reference/DekiWiki
  • File API. For more information  see http://doc.opengarden.org/Deki_API/Reference/DekiWiki/Files
  • RSS API.
  • Most of the pages API. For more information see http://doc.opengarden.org/Deki_API/Reference/DekiWiki/Pages
  • User permissions API. For more information see  http://doc.opengarden.org/Deki_API/Reference/DekiWiki/Users
  • Portions of site API. For more information  see http://doc.opengarden.org/Deki_API/Reference/DekiWiki/Site
• Complete rewrite of the page parser
  • In the Hayes release this is primarily manifested in the form of bug fixes.
• Rich media support.
• Multiple video types, flash, etc.
• HTML to PS
• More than a hundreds of bug-fixes and enhancements.

Tell us what you think and enjoy the bits!

categories: MindTouch