R6.3

(2026–07–18) 7e860c1 -> Final (Change Log)

This is a major release. Version 6.3 focuses on two main improvements: modernizing WikiEdit and preparing the codebase for refactoring.

1. Notable in this release

1. WikiEdit modernization
2. Phiki implementation
3. Composer support
4. Dark mode

milestones

• beta 8 – 2026–07–10
• final – 2026–07–18

1.1. Caveats

2. Upgrade path

R6.1 → R6.3

• requires at least WackoWiki 6.1.29
  
• 6.1.29 → 6.3.x

Please read the upgrade notices carefully.

3. Download

wackowiki-6.3.0.zip

• File updated to change set 7e860c190bf06feb98f6207ea4d1b88365078669

wget https://downloads.sourceforge.net/wackowiki/wackowiki-6.3.0.zip		

3.1. Alternative: Installing from Source (Git)

If you prefer to install from Git:

git clone -b 6.3.0 https://github.com/WackoWiki/wackowiki.git
php composer.phar install --no-dev --optimize-autoloader		

Or if you have Composer installed globally:

composer install --no-dev --optimize-autoloader		

Clone repo (see Repository)

4. Installation

Installation guide

It is imperative to set the password for the installer in the config/lock_setup file.

4.1. Requirements

requires now

• PHP 8.3 – 8.5 (PHP 8.4 recommended)
• PHP Extensions
  • bcmath, ctype, gd, iconv, intl, json, mbstring, openssl, pcre, spl 
• Web server: Apache >= 2.4 / Caddy / Nginx / other
  • mod_rewrite (recommended)
• SQL database system, one of:
  • MariaDB >= 10.6
  • MySQL >= 8.0
  • SQLite >= 3.24

Step by step as Installer Screenshots.

Preparing the Database for Installation

4.2. File Permissions

Change the permissions on the following files and directories to be writable.

Example:

touch config/config.php
chmod 666 config/config.php config/lock config/lock_ap		

chmod 0755 _cache/config/ _cache/feed/ _cache/page/ _cache/query/ _cache/session/ _cache/template/ file/backup/ file/data/ file/global/ file/perpage/ file/thumb/ file/thumb_local/ xml/		

reset after installation / upgrade
chmod 644 config/config.php

4.3. Path for session values

Check if the provided path for CACHE_SESSION_DIR is correct. The default value is /tmp but may vary in your environment.
Furthermore, you can change this folder to a custom folder for the application (e.g. _cache/session).

constants.php:

const CACHE_SESSION_DIR				= '/tmp';		

4.4. New config settings

Please check the Change Log for more details.

4.5. SQLite

• Using SQLite
  • Install WackoWiki with SQLite
  • Convert your WackoWiki database from MySQL or MariaDB to SQLite

4.6. Admin panel

• To log in, first define recovery_password in config.php
  1. call the {{admin_recovery}} action as Admin and generate the password hash for your recovery_password
  2. add the password hash: 'recovery_password' => 'add hash here',
• Don't forget to delete the _cache/config/config.php afterwards.
  • e.g. via {{admincache}}
• you must be logged in as a member of the Admin group in the first place to access the admin panel
• call yourwiki/admin.php
• enter your recovery_password

If your Admin panel gets locked reset config/lock_ap from 1 to 0

5. Themes

If you want to keep your layout, use a program like Meld or WinMerge to merge your CSS and other theme files with the new files in the folder wacko/theme/default.

You can write or adapt your theme even without using the template engine.

-> Themes
-> Theme guide with example templates

6. Translations

WackoWiki has been translated by volunteers, and some translations might be incomplete. You can help us translate WackoWiki into your language by adding new translations or voting for existing ones.

Please join the translation project on Crowdin.

Improve the translation in your language. Proofread automatically translated strings by proofreading automatically translated strings and correcting capitalization, wording, mistranslations, and untranslated strings.

For more information, see Translations

7. Backwards Compatibility

We dropped compatibility code for older PHP and MySQL versions. R6.3 requires at least PHP 8.3 and MariaDB 10.6 or MySQL 8.0. To use WackoWiki with older PHP or MySQL versions, use the older branch of 6.2.x releases, which you can find on the download page.

8. Known Issues

All known issues are tracked in our Bug Tracker.

1. ngram Full-Text Parser, used to support Chinese, Japanese, Korean word segmentation is currently only available for MySQL.

9. Developers

9.1. Debug functions

1. Writes a parameter to the debug log 
   • Ut::dbg('debug_variable', $parameter);
2. Adds debug output to the DEBUG file and a popup window in the browser
   • Diag::dbg($parameter);
   • To color the debug output in the console, pass one of 'BLUE', 'GOLD', 'ORANGE', or 'RED' as the first argument.
     • e.g. Diag::dbg('GOLD', $parameter);

In both cases it writes the $parameter to the log in the main directory src/DEBUG when the config debug is enabled.
Be aware, the log isn't emptied automatically. Ensure that the file src/DEBUG can be created and is writable.

touch DEBUG
chmod 0664 DEBUG		

10. Documentation

• URL: https://wackowiki.org
• Repository: https://github.com/WackoWiki/wackowiki.git
• Documentation: https://wackowiki.org/doc/

11. What's Planned

WackoWiki is feature-complete for everyday use. There are of course a few peculiarities and bugs, some old ones and some new ones that are waiting to be fixed. Now the main task is to make the Wiki engine better and reduce bugs.

Apart from that, the following features are planned to be implemented:

1. extended ACLs
2. WackoFormatter rewrite
3. responsive device-agnostic theme
4. improve GUI usability
5. filter for lists
6. faceted search
7. archive table
8. guest settings

12. Contribute

If you'd like to follow development or contribute, check out the repository, join the discussions on the WackoWiki Development page, and submit patches. Policies and the current state of the project and plans are available in the Dev section of the wiki.

• Repositories
• Bug Tracker
• Forum
• Translations
• ToDo

13. Feedback

if something is not clear or you have further questions.

14. Credits

• Elar9000 — developer, translation, support
• EoNy — translation, documentation, screenshots, support
• VictorAlx — debugging