History
WackoWiki was forked from the famous WakkaWiki engine in 2003 when Hendrik Mans and Carlo Zottmann, the original developers, abandoned it.
Releases
- 2.0 -- 25.03.2003
- 3.0 -- 30.04.2003
- 3.5 -- 28.06.2003
- 4.0 -- 31.07.2004
- 4.2 -- 27.03.2005
- 4.3 -- 20.03.2011 (Project reboot: 2007)
- 5.0 -- 22.04.2012
- 5.1 -- 17.06.2012
- 5.4 -- 17.04.2014
- 5.5 -- 25.08.2017
- 6.0 - 15.12.2019
- 6.1 - 04.09.2021
Summary
| Version | Release Date | Significant changes |
|---|---|---|
| 2.0 | 2003-03-25 | adds link transliteration for Russian, page deletion, user bookmarks, page watching, print version handler, more powerful diff, include and tree action, enhanced Wakka formatter, English & Russian translations |
| 3.0 | 2003-04-20 | Typografica, multilingual installer, adds support for themes, WackoClusters, TableOfContents action |
| 3.5 | 2003-06-28 | implements page renaming, significant speed-up due caching of wacko-formatted text, In-page anchoring support |
| 4.0 | 2004-07-31 | adds JavaScript-Editor WikiEdit, integrates SafeHTML, new static content cache for unregistered users, implements PEAR Highlighters, adds multilingual support, adds upload feature |
| 4.2 | 2005-03-27 | RSS autodiscovery, PHP 5.0 compatibility, MySQL 4.1 compatibility |
| 4.3.rc | 2008-09-28 | First bugfix release from new WackoWiki team. |
| 4.3 | 2011-03-20 | adds MySQLi and PDO MySQL support, XML Sitemap, CAPTCHA (freeCap), WikiEdit AutoComplete, new installer, PHP 5.2 compatibility |
| 5.0 | 2012-04-22 | major code refactoring and cleanup, normalizes database, back ports features from openSpace fork, implements PHPMailer, new default theme, PHP 5.3 compatibility |
| 5.1 | 2012-06-17 | removes depreciated R4 legacy code |
| 5.4 | 2014-04-17 | Removes legacy MySQL extension support, PHP 5.4 - 5.5 compatibility |
| 5.5 | 2018-08-02 | Major refactoring of init system, new session handler, new URI router, new template engine, HTML5 support, new php-diff rendering methods, implements auth and form token, adds Bad Behaviour as extension, file link tracking, media link support, uses password_hash() and password_verify() API, PHP 7.0 - 7.4 compatibility |
| 6.0 | 2019-12-31 | Unicode support, UTF-8 migration tools, implements full support for relative path, accent and case-sensitive page tag, new chat, details and info formatter along with new wrapper options, PHP 8.0 compatibility |
| 6.1 | 2021-09-04 | Implements new PHP 8 functionality and responsive GUI with improved usability, uses IntlDateFormatter for setting timezone offset and DST, adds section edit support, thumbnail creation, PHP 8 compatibility |
For more details see /Dev/ChangeLog