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Release focus: security, usability, bugfixes and updates
Changes:
- added SSL support
- added postfix MTA (bound to localhost) to allow sending of email from MediaWiki (e.g., password recovery). Also added webmin-postfix module for convenience.
- added many popular MediaWiki extensions:
- FCKeditor: WYSIWYG editor for wiki pages
- ParserFunctions: Enhances parser with logical functions
- StringFunctions: Additional set of parser functions that operate on strings
- CategoryTree: Provides a dynamic view of the category structure as a tree
- Renameuser: Special page allowing authorised users to rename user accounts
- Preloader: Populate new pages with template content depending on namespace
- CharInsert: JavaScript character insert boxes used on edit type pages
- ConfirmEdit: Math captcha (by default only if edit includes hyperlink)
- Gadgets: JS/CSS-based gadgets
- SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi: adds tag to present formatted source code
- Cite: Create footnotes
- UniversalEditButton: adds support for the UEB firefox extension
- regenerate MediaWiki secret key during installation (security)
- improvements to default MediaWiki configuration
- replaced deprecated wgProxyKey with wgSecretKey
- disable experimental charset support (#LP:310627)
- blanked out sitename (was TurnKeyLinux)
- ensure that the wiki outputs clean and compliant HTML ($wgUseTidy)
- mysql-related improvements
- include PhpMyAdmin (listening on port 12322 - uses SSL)
- set empty mysql root password in live/demo mode (for convenience)
- support configuring mysql root password during installation
Major component versions
kernel | 2.6.24-23.48 |
mediawiki | 1.13.3-1 |
mysql-server | 5.0.51a-3ubuntu5.4 |
apache2 | 2.2.8-1ubuntu0.3 |
php5 | 5.2.4-2ubuntu5.4 |
phpmyadmin | 2.11.8.1-5 |
Note: please refer to turnkey-core's changelog for changes common to all appliances. Here we only describe changes specific to this appliance.