Version History

4.2

• complete PHP 5.0 compatibility
• MySQL 4.1 compatibility (DB locale Latin-1 only)
• Dozen of XSS vulnerabilities fixed
• Import (accessible thru {{import}} action) & export (accessible from page`s properties)
• Lots of bugfixes & enhancements, including:
  • fixed bug on duplicated event email notification
  • fixed anchor issue in InterWiki syntax
  • HTML- & CSS-formatters now take care about Cyrillic characters
  • more pages become XHTML valid.
• SafeHTML updated to version 1.3.1
• Source code comments are completely in English from now
• RSS autodiscovery feature added
• Actions:
  • pageindex — Index action with paging support
  • backlinks fixed — empty links removed
  • usergroups lists contents of access groups
• Translations (language packs)
  • Estonian
  • Portuguese
  • Български
• Formatters
  • icq formatter: added History++ Miranda plug-in support
  • WackoFormatter^[link2]: added up-to-3-digit ordered lists & coloring syntax highlight
    
  • WackoFormatter: correct workaround of missed <table> closing tags
  • introduced wrappers (try %%(wacko wrapper=box))
  • introduced alignment in wrappers (like %%(wacko wrapper=box wrapper_align=right))
• And stuff.

4.0

• Fixed XSS in textsearch
• SafeHTML^[link3] integrated – now you can enable <# #> syntax safely. No XSS =)
• Text Formatting changes:
  1. Closing delimiter of header formatting (==header==) could contain any number of = (more than 2) — there is no more need to enter exact amount of them as in opening delimiter. Fuf.
  2. Email-like quotation formatting added (per-line > prefix)
  3. Double quotes, {{ and %% now could be escaped with tilda (~)
  4. URLs are displayed as links in ICQ- and Email-highlighted text.
• Moldavian and Polish translation updated.
• New action {{admincache}} for cache cleaning.
• When debug=1 Wacko reports, how much memory used for creating page.
• Now administrator can change ACL of any page.
• %%(box align=... width=...) text %%
• More XHTML compatibility
• Bugfixes

• Automagical smooth scrolling between the anchors in a page.
• We're close to be fully XHTML 1.0 Transitional compliant
• Brand new static content cache for unregistered users. Can be turned on by cache=1 config option.
• Now you can turn off comments for any particular page: {{nocomment}}
• Now you can change ACLs for whole cluster in two clicks (massacls handler).
• Option for disabling registration: allow_registration
• Hurrah! Preview is back.
• New config option owners_can_remove_comments – allow page's owner to delete comments
• Watches was broken for “locked” pages.
• New skin coffee by Konstantin Kolomeetz.
  
• New highlighter for css, diff, dtd, php, javascript, mysql, sql, python, xml.
• New highlighters: ini, html and css.
• Fixed a lot of bugs, including bug in ACLs.
• Fixed problem with Apache1 and lowercasing of page names
• Now we uses WikiEdit^[link4] 2.0, with that cool toolbar

• “Small” text syntax: ++small++
• “Definition” syntax: (?RTFM Read The Fucking Manual?)
• “Footnotes” syntax: text[[*]] more text[[*1]]
  [[#*]] Footnote star
  [[#1]] Footnote digit
  
• More usable upload
• Global acl for rename: rename_globalacl
• New config parameters outlook_workaround, disable_autosubscribe
• Bugs fixed

• Flexible Upload feature
• Four new language packs (it, fr, pl, nl).
• Javascript-editor WikiEdit^[link4], that allows using shortcuts for quick insertion of wiki-formatting
• Multilingual support in single installation (pages can be written in different languages and thereby using different encodings — within single installation)
• Formatting enhancements:
  • Wiki-formatter has now two passes. This feature keeps it from making mistakes.
  • Paragrafica formatter – now HTML contains <p> in addition to <br> (e.g., it allows paragraphs auto-numbering)
  • Formatters (highlighters) for SQL and Pascal or Delphi source code.
  • Formatter for emails
  • “Blockquote” syntax: <[ text ]>
  • New (additional) link syntax: Actions.NewManual
  • Support for \\LAN\Path and file:// protocol
• Email validation & confirming
• Password changing, “Forgot password?” function
• Essential amount of refactoring “action” features (take a look on /Doc/English/Actions^[link5] new syntax & capabilities). As a result, most of actions now works in a separate cluster of wikispace (for example, you could look on RecentChanges of a separate cluster)
• Individual “settings” for every page, where you can change language, META keywords and description
• New actions
  • flash, for inserting flash movies
  • hits, mostpopular – calculate and display the number of requests to pages
• User settings enhanced, in particular user can choose “theme” (design of wacko pages) from the list of preinstalled themes.
• IIS compatibility, preliminary.
• Millions of bugs fixed

3.5

• FIRST THINGS FIRST: some XSS-holes fixed, delete-by-GET-request fixed, Information Disclosure Vulnerability bug fixed.
• Comment deletion implemented.
• Page renaming implemented.
• Comments are mailed to users “watching” the commented page now.
• Simple diff supplied in email notifications on page changes (for users “watching” the page)
• new formatters “icq”, “icq_m” & “icq_l” (ICQ, Miranda (nConvers plug-in) & ICQLite in that order) — to paste icq-logs.
  Should be used as: %%(icq_m) ... %% ( ... — paste your log here)
  
• Users of “Admins” group (in wakka.config.php) can delete (but not view/edit) any page.
• Usergroups & interwiki-links became case-insensitive.
• New URL syntax — underscores & first letters capital. Comments on this are appreciated.
• Various sort modes in mypages action
• “Referrers” handler shows BackLinks also.
• New macros to inlining your WackoName and/or current date (use 4 colons or 31.07.2004 14:50 and KusoMendokusee^[link6] /31.07.2004 14:50/)
• Diff enhanced one more time.
• Significant speed-up due caching of wacko-formatted text wherever it is possible.
• Tilded links gone deprecated & unsupported. Tilde (~) itself is used only to prevent linking to a WikiLink (like this) now.
• In-page anchoring now supported due ((#Anchor_name)) syntax & {{anchor..}} action
• New syntax for semantic markup ??some text?? : some text
  
• Some actions look improved.
• LinksTree action is back & enhanced.
• meet new wakka.config.php options: url_underscrores, show_spaces and show_datetime.
• Time of last revision of the page is inserted in HTTP-header (search engines will feel better from now)
• Many-many errors fixed & unnecessary changes made. Backlinks which were broken in CVS for some time ago fixed too.

3.0

• Multilingual installer
• Case-insensitive and language-insensitive page names^[link7] (e.g. /Логин = /Login = /LoGin = /ЛогИн).
• Typografica^[link8] — a tool to enhance text according some rules: “pretty quotes”, ©2003, ™, ® & soon.
• Links are accompanied with icons: email, foreign site link, lock (forbidden page) & key (page with limited access).
• Separate handler for MSWord export (separate CSS & <div> instead of <br> in line-breaks).
• “Themes” support — different interface designs w/o changing php-code. There is already two themes included: “default” & “tabs”.
• WackoClusters — now you can create sub-pages & group pages in so-called clusters (hierarchically classification & some adjacent features)
• Numerous caching issues that lead to significant performance improvement
• Some new actions, such as TableOfContents & unified Search
• Severe XSS problem fixed (there was a possibility to insert any HTML into double-double-quotes. Now this possibility still exists in Raw HTML?, but it is limited and can be completely turned off)
• Some extensions to formatter, such as %%(noautolinks)...%% & ability to create WikiLinks with spaces inside using ((Page name== Text to place on page)).
• 100% correct work with mod_rewrite turned off.
• Numerous small improvements & bug fixes.

2.0

• image insertion by posting link into the page
• enhanced “code” & “php” formatters
• foreign links & links to forbidden pages have different CSS-styles
• WakkaAliases – admin can arrange users in groups using wakka.config.php “Aliases” option
• spaces in WikiNames
• separate “print version” handler
• UserBookmarks – personal menu that user can add page links to
• page watching
• i18n, English & Russian translations
• complete support of Russian language (yes, that was a very urgent need for us)
• forget about example.com/wiki/%D1%F2%E0%ED%E4%E0%F0%F2%FB%C2%E5%F0%F1%F2%EA%E8 — all links are converted into [a-z] range
• Wakka formatter greatly enhanced:
  • added table parsing
  • headers syntax now compatible with OpenWiki
  • bulleted/numbered list syntax now compatible with OpenWiki (old syntax still supported)
  • added strikeout & center
  • most of formatting features limited to one line
  • tons of slight enhancements
• page deletion added
• some actions added too:
  • Tree (LinksTree in R3 & greater)
  • Include
  • see Actions^[link5] for details
• Much more powerful diff added