| Installation & configuration | Contributor |
| Much simpler install and configuration | Crawford Currie, LynnwoodBrown, ArthurClemens |
mod_perl safe code for better performance | Crawford Currie |
| Security |
| Security sandbox blocking exploits for remote command execution on the server | Florian Weimer, Crawford Currie, Sven Dowideit |
| Reworked access permission model | Crawford Currie |
| Internationalization & localization |
| User Interface Internationalisation | AntonioTerceiro |
| Chinese translation | CheDong |
| Danish translation | SteffenPoulsen |
| Dutch translation | ArthurClemens |
| French translation | BenVoui |
| German translation | AndreUlrich |
| Italian translation | MassimoMancini |
| Polish translation | ZbigniewKulesza |
| Portuguese translation | AntonioTerceiro, CarlinhosCecconi |
| Spanish translation | WillNorris, MiguelABayona |
| Swedish translation | Erik Åman |
| New features for users |
| Edit conflict resolution with automatic merge | Crawford Currie |
| Fine grained change notification on page level and parent/child relationship | Crawford Currie |
| WYSIWYG editor | Crawford Currie, ColasNahaboo, DamienMandrioli, RomainRaugi |
| Integrated session support | GregAbbas, Crawford Currie |
| Webserver-independent login/logout | Crawford Currie |
| Registration process with e-mail confirmation | MartinCleaver |
| Tip of the Day box in TWiki Home | PaulineCheung, Peter Thoeny, AntonAylward |
| ATOM feeds | Peter Thoeny |
| "Force New Revision" check box for topic save | WillNorris |
| New features for TWiki administrators and wiki application developers |
| Improved preferences handling | ThomasWeigert, Crawford Currie |
| Named include sections | RafaelAlvarez |
| Create topic names with consecutive numbers | Sven Dowideit |
| Parameterized includes | Crawford Currie |
| Dynamic form option definitions of TWikiForms with FormattedSearch | MartinCleaver |
SEARCH enhancements with new parameters excludeweb, newline, noempty, nofinalnewline, nonoise, recurse, zeroresults | Crawford Currie, ArthurClemens, Peter Thoeny, ThomasWeigert |
FormattedSearch enhancements with $changes, $count, $formfield(name, 30, ...), $summary(expandvar), $summary(noheaders), $summary(showvarnames) | ColasNahaboo, Crawford Currie, Peter Thoeny, Sven Dowideit |
| New TWikiVariables ACTIVATEDPLUGINS, ALLVARIABLES, AUTHREALM, EMAILS, FAILEDPLUGINS, HTTP, HTTPS, ICONURL, ICONURLPATH, IF, LANGUAGES, LOCALSITEPREFS, LOGIN, LOGOUT, MAKETEXT, META, PLUGINDESCRIPTIONS, QUERYSTRING, STARTSECTION/ENDSECTION, SESSION_VARIABLE, SESSIONID, SESSIONVAR, SPACEOUT, USERLANGUAGE, WIKIHOMEURL | ArthurClemens, AntonioTerceiro, Crawford Currie, GregAbbas, Peter Thoeny, Sven Dowideit, WillNorris and many more |
| TWiki form with hidden type and other form enhancements | LynnwoodBrown, ThomasWeigert |
| Support topic-specific templates for TWiki applications | ThomasWeigert |
| Direct save feature for one-click template-based topic creation | LynnwoodBrown, Crawford Currie, ThomasWeigert |
| Automatic Attachments showing all files in the attachment directory | MartinCleaver |
| Rename, move or delete webs | PeterNixon |
| Hierarchical subwebs (beta) | PeterNixon |
| New features for Plugin developers |
| REST (representational state transfer) interface for Plugins | RafaelAlvarez, TWiki:Main.MartinCleaver, Sven Dowideit |
| New and improved Plugins APIs | Crawford Currie, ThomasWeigert |
| Improvements in the TWiki engine room |
| Major OO redesign and refactoring of codebase | Crawford Currie |
| Automatic build system | Crawford Currie |
| Extensive test suite, unit tests and testcases | Crawford Currie |
| TWiki:Codev.DevelopBranch , DEVELOP branch Bugs system | Sven Dowideit |
| Documentation, logo artwork, skins: |
| Documentation | Crawford Currie, LynnwoodBrown, Peter Thoeny, Sven Dowideit and others |
| Design of TWikiLogos with big "T" in a speech bubble | ArthurClemens, Peter Thoeny |
| Improved templates and PatternSkin | ArthurClemens |
| Details of New Features and Enhancements of 01-Sep-2004 Release | Developer, Sponsor |
| Install: Ship with an automatic upgrade script to facilitate TWiki upgrades. Details | TWiki:Main.MartinGregory TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit |
| Install: New testenv function to change the locks in the TWiki database to the web server user id (automates installation step). Details | TWiki:Main.MattWilkie TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit |
| Install: The shipped .htaccess.txt now needs to be edited before it is valid, to help reduce chances of error. Details | TWiki:Main.CrawfordCurrie TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit |
| Install: Configurable password file handling for different types of encryption. Details | TWiki:Main.PavelGoran TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit |
| Install: Remove office locations from registration. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
| Install: Changes to support shorter URLs with Apache Rewrite rules. Details | TWiki:Main.AntonioBellezza TWiki:Main.WalterMundt |
| Install: Remove the Know web from the distribution. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
| Internationalization: Support use of UTF-8 URLs for I18N characters in TWiki page and attachment names. Details | TWiki:Main.RichardDonkin |
| Authentication: Authenticate users when creating new topic in view restricted web. Details | TWiki:Main.JonathanGraehl TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit |
| Preferences: TWiki Preferences need to be secured properly. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
| Preferences: Use TWiki Forms to set user preferences. Details | TWiki:Main.JohnTalintyre |
| Skins: New pre-installed skins PatternSkin and DragonSkin. Details | TWiki:Main.ArthurClemens TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
| Skins: New skin browser to choose from installed skins. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
| Skins: Documented set of CSS classes that are used in standard skins. Details | TWiki:Main.ArthurClemens TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit |
| Skins: Added CSS class names to Diff output. Details | TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit |
| Skins: Templates can now be read from user topics, as well as from files in the templates diretcory. Details | TWiki:Main.CrawfordCurrie TWiki:Main.WalterMundt |
| Skins: Ensure that the default template gets overridden by a template passed in. Details | TWiki:Main.MartinCleaver TWiki:Main.WalterMundt |
| Skin: Convey an important broadcast message to all users, e.g. scheduled server downtime. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
| Skin: Balanced pastel colors for TWiki webs. Details | TWiki:Main.ArthurClemens |
| Rendering: Use exclamation point prefix to escape TWiki markup rendering. Details | TWiki:Main.ArthurClemens |
| Rendering: Ordered lists with uppercase & lowercase letters, uppercase & lowercase Roman numerals. Details | TWiki:Main.DanBoitnott TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
| Rendering: Allow custom styles for the "?" of uncreated topics. Details | TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit |
| Rendering: Render IRC and NNTP as a URL. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
| Rendering: Make acronym linking more strict by requiring a trailing boundary, e.g. excluding TLAfoobar. Details | TWiki:Main.CrawfordCurrie TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit |
| Rendering: TWiki Form with Label type. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
| Rendering: Web names can now be WikiWords. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
| Rendering: New syntax for definition list with dollar sign and colon. Details | TWiki:Main.AdamTheo TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
| Rendering: Table with multi-span rows, functionality provided by Table Plugin. Details | TWiki:Main.WalterMundt |
| Variables: New title parameter for TOC variable. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny TWiki:Main.ArthurClemens |
| Variables: New REVINFO variable in templates supports flexible display of revision information. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit |
| Variables: Set times to be displayed as gmtime or servertime. Details | TWiki:Main.SueBlake TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit |
| Variables: Properly encode parameters for form fields with ENCODE variable. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
| Variables: Expand USERNAME and WIKINAME in Template Topics. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
| Variables: Expand same variables in new user template as in template topics. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
| Variables: Optionally warn when included topic does not exist; with the option to create the included topic. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
| Variables: In topic text show file-types of attached files as icons. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
| Variables: New variable FORMFIELD returns the value of a field in the form attached to a topic.. Details | TWiki:Main.DavidSachitano TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit |
| Variables: Meta data rendering for form fields with META{"formfield"}. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
| Variables: New PLUGINVERSION variable. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
Variables: URLPARAM now has a default="..." argument, for when no value has been given. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
| Variables: URLPARAM variable with newline parameter. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
| Variables: URLPARAM variable with new multiple=on parameter. Details | TWiki:Main.PaulineCheung TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
| Search: New switch for search to perform an AND NOT search. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
| Search: Keyword search to search with implicit AND. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
| Search: Multiple searches in same topic with new multiple="on" paramter. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
| Search: Remove limitation on number of topics to search in a web. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
| Search: Exclude topics from search with an excludetopic parameter. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
| Search: Expand Variables on Formatted Search with expandvariables Flag. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
| Search: Formatted Search with Web Form variable to retrieve the name of the form attached to a topic. Details | TWiki:Main.FrankSmith TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
| Search: Formatted Search with Conditional Output. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
| Search: Formatted Search with $parent token to get the parent topic. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
| Search: New separator parameter to SEARCH supports better SEARCH embedding. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
| Search: Improved search performance when sorting result by topic name. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
Search: New scope=all search parameter to search in topic name and topic text at the same time. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
Search: New topic parameter for AND search on topic text and topic name. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
| Search modules uses Perl-style keyword parameters (code cleanup). Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
| Search: New $wikiname variable in format parameter of formatted search. Details | TWiki:Main.ArthurClemens |
| Search: Sort search by topic creation date. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
| Search: Topic creation date and user in Formatted Search. Details | TWiki:Main.CoreyFruitman TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit |
| Search: Increase levels of nested search from 2 to 16. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
| Plugins: New pre-installed Plugins CommentPlugin, EditTablePlugin, RenderListPlugin, SlideShowPlugin, SmiliesPlugin, SpreadSheetPlugin, TablePlugin. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
Plugins: New callback afterSaveHandler, called after a topic is saved. Details | TWiki:Main.WalterMundt |
Plugins: New callbacks beforeAttachmentSaveHandler and afterAttachmentSaveHandler, used to intervene on attachment save event. Details | TWiki:Main.MartinCleaver TWiki:Main.WalterMundt |
Plugins: New callbacks beforeCommonTagsHandler and afterCommonTagsHandler. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
Plugins: New callback renderFormFieldForEditHandler to render form field for edit. Details | TWiki:Main.JohnTalintyre |
Plugins: New callback renderWikiWordHandler to custom render links. Details | TWiki:Main.MartinCleaver TWiki:Main.WalterMundt |
Plugins: New function TWiki::Func::formatTime to format time into a string. Details | TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit |
Plugins: New function TWiki::Func::getRegularExpression to get predefined regular expressions. Details | TWiki:Main.RichardDonkin |
Plugins: New functions TWiki::Func::getPluginPreferences* to get Plugin preferences. Details | TWiki:Main.WalterMundt |
Plugins: New function TWiki::Func::extractParameters to extract all parameters from a variable string. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
Plugins: New function TWiki::Func::checkDependencies to check for module dependency. Details | TWiki:Main.CrawfordCurrie TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit |
| Plugins: A recommendation for where a Plugin can store its data. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
| UI: Show tool-tip topic info on WikiWord links. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
| UI: Save topic and continue edit feature. Details | TWiki:Main.ColasNahaboo |
| UI: Change topic with direct save (without edit/preview/save cycle) and checkpoint save. Details | TWiki:Main.MattWilkie TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit |
| UI: In attachment table, change 'action' to 'manage'. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny TWiki:Main.ArthurClemens |
| UI: Smaller usability enhancements on the file attachment table. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny TWiki:Main.ArthurClemens |
| UI: Removes anchor links from header content and places them before the text to fix 'header becomes link'. Details | TWiki:Main.ArthurClemens |
| UI: Improved functionality of the More screen. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny TWiki:Main.ArthurClemens |
| UI: Quick reference chart of most used markup is now listed on the edit screen. Details | TWiki:Main.ArthurClemens |
| UI: Flag for edit script to avoid overwrite of existing topic text and form data. Details | TWiki:Main.NielsKoldso TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
| UI: Disable Escape key in IE textarea to prevent it cancelling work. Details | TWiki:Main.CrawfordCurrie TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
| UI: Improved warning message on unsaved topic. Details | TWiki:Main.MartinGregory TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit |
| UI: Reverse order of words in page title for better multi-window/tab navigation. Details | TWiki:Main.ArthurClemens |
| UI: Provides a framework to create and modify a topic without going through edit->preview->save sequence. Details | TWiki:Main.AndreUlrich TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit |
| UI: Set the topic parent to none in More screen, e.g. remove the current topic parent. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
| UI: Use templates to define how file attachments are displayed. Was previously hard-coded. Details | TWiki:Main.CrawfordCurrie TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit |
| UI: Topic diff shows unified diff with unchanged context. Details | TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit |
| UI: Diff feature shows TWiki form changes in nice tables. Details | TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit |
| Code refactoring: The log entry for a save now has a dontNotify flag in the extra field if the user checked the minor changes flag. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
| Code refactoring: Server-side include of attachments accelerates INCLUDE. Details | TWiki:Main.CrawfordCurrie TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
| Code refactoring: Move functionality out of bin scripts and into included modules. Details | TWiki:Main.CrawfordCurrie TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit |
| Code refactoring: Move bin script functionality into TWiki::UI modules. Details | TWiki:Main.CrawfordCurrie TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
| Code refactoring: Optimize preferences handling for better performance. Details | TWiki:Main.PavelGoran TWiki:Main.WalterMundt |
| Code refactoring: Refactor variable expansion for edit and register. Details | TWiki:Main.CrawfordCurrie TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
| Code refactoring: Move savemulti script into TWiki::UI::Save. Details | TWiki:Main.MattWilkie TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit |
| Code refactoring: Topic search is done natively in Perl, it does not depend anymore on system calls with pipes. Details | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny |
| Code refactoring: Fix logical error in upload script which prevented MIME filename from being used. Details | TWiki:Main.WalterMundt |