Known Issues of Foswiki 1.0.X Production Releases

These are known issues of Foswiki-1.0.X. If you use the newer 1.1.X releases see KnownIssuesOfFoswiki01x01

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Release Foswiki-1.0.10

Major issues

Task Ref	Affects	Description	Fix
Item9699	Configuration	The configuration file is appended with each save instead of being updated. Changes are still applied because Foswiki reads the last item for duplicated entries, but obsolete information is left in the file and the file will grow with each save.	Available for testing. Replace lib/Foswiki/Configure/FoswikiCfg.pm and backup lib/LocalSite.cfg before testing. Fix prevents further duplication and removes duplicated items from LocalSite.cfg. Issue is fixed in 1.1.0.

Minor issues

Task Ref	Affects	Description	Fix
none

Release Foswiki-1.0.9

Major issues

Task Ref	Affects	Description	Fix
None

Minor issues

Task Ref	Affects	Description	Fix
none

Release Foswiki-1.0.8

Major issues

Task Ref	Affects	Description	Fix

Minor issues

Task Ref	Affects	Description	Fix
Tasks.Item2434	All	The browser window title shows a BASE in front of the web name	Replace the provided replacement templates/foswiki.tmpl or upgrade to 1.0.9

Release Foswiki-1.0.7

None

Release Foswiki-1.0.6

Major issues

Task Ref	Affects	Description	Fix
Tasks.Item1780	Windows Installations	Under native Windows using .htpassword type authentication the encoding used in SHA1. Unfortunately a small bug has sneaked into 1.0.6 so new users that register do not get a valid password stored in the .htpasswd file.	See Tasks.Item1780 for a quick easy fix. This has been fixed in 1.0.7

Minor issues

Task Ref	Affects	Description	Fix
Tasks.Item8178 Tasks.Item1783	NatSkin, NatEditPlugin	NatSkin and associated plugins are not compatible with the new security features introduced with 1.0.6. This causes problems with editing.	Upgrade NatSkin and NatSkinPlugin version > 3.90 (2009-07-02), as well as NatEditPlugin > 4.00 (2009-07-02)
Tasks.Item1822	%IF statement	IF broken for numerical comparisons against zero	This has been resolved in 1.0.7

Release Foswiki-1.0.5

Major issues

Task Ref	Affects	Description	Fix
None

Minor issues

Task Ref	Affects	Description	Fix
None

Release Foswiki-1.0.4

Major issues

Task Ref	Affects	Description	Fix
Tasks.Item1358	EditTablePlugin	If you have multiple tables in a topic combined with text below the table that contains a vertical bar, the EditTablePlugin goes into deep recursion. From the user this is seen as no reply from the server and other users may experience that the server slows down if several people try to view the affected topic.	Upgrade EditTablePlugin to version 4.21 (26 Mar 2009) from configure .. or better .. upgrade Foswiki to 1.0.5

Minor issues

Task Ref	Affects	Description	Fix
None

Release Foswiki-1.0.0

Major issues

Task Ref	Affects	Description	Fix
Tasks.Item597	Some extensions	Extensions with CPAN dependencies containing a number can't be installed from within configure. These extensions are: DirectedGraphPlugin, ExecuterContrib, HeadlinesPlugin, LatexModePlugin, LdapContrib, LdapNgPlugin and PublishPlugin. Installer will return an error. It is still possible to install these extensions manually. You can also apply the patch to fix the problem	Upgrade to 1.0.4
Tasks.Item815	Foswiki on Windows using the Windows Installer	Strawberry Perl on windows has No data read error when installing Plugins from configure	Upgrade to 1.0.4
Tasks.Item873	All installations	Expired session files in the working/tmp dir are not deleted. This will make Foswiki run slower and slower until the directory can no longer hold more files. You can download the patch provided or manually edit the one line that needs to be changed.	Upgrade to 1.0.4
Tasks.Item744	Installations under HTTPS=	When using foswiki under =HTTPS protocol to edit a topic and preview it, all the changes are lost if the user hits the back button in the browser. The problem was a malformed header related to expiration time.	Upgrade to 1.0.4

Minor issues

Task Ref	Affects	Description	Fix
Tasks.Item909	All installations	VIEW_TEMPLATE overrides preview template, leaving out all topic actions. Foswiki applications that use a custom view template will not show the preview page correctly.	Upgrade to 1.0.4