Known Issues of Foswiki 1.1.X Production Releases
These are known issues of Foswiki 1.1.X. If you are still using a 1.0.X version of Foswiki see
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Major issues
| Task Ref |
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Description |
Fix |
| Item12705 |
Wysiwyg Editor |
Verbatim blocks are corrupted on save by Wysiwyg editor if $Foswiki::cfg{Site}{Locale} = 'utf-8'; |
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Major issues
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Description |
Fix |
| Item12413 |
Foswiki |
Compile error - Use of deprecated syntax (defined @array) on perl 5.16.x. |
distro:47816304f164 |
| Item12414 |
Foswiki |
Error: 'tempfile' can't be called as a method at .../lib/Foswiki/Sandbox.pm line 506. failure with recent versions of CPAN:File::Temp |
distro:62399f9b345d |
| Item12471 |
Foswiki |
Error: configure.pl: print() on closed filehandle $fh at lib/Foswiki/Configure/Checker.pm line 374. Fails if critical directories are write protected and Foswiki detects it won't be able to run. |
distro:dc11c0604d18 |
Major issues
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Description |
Fix |
| Item12382 |
SSL Email |
Sending multiple messages over SSL, the 2nd message fails. |
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Major issues
Minor issues
| Task Ref |
Affects |
Description |
Fix |
| Item11900 |
Use of Foswiki behind proxies or load balancers. |
Foswiki needs to an option to force all URLs to be generated using the {DefaultUrlHost} |
Fixed in Foswiki 1.1.7. |
| Item12329 |
Registration approval |
The documented process for 3rd party review / approval of registration requests only has a lifetime of 6 hours before the pending registration expires. |
Fixed in Foswiki 1.1.7 |
Major issues
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Description |
Fix |
| Item11955 |
Installing & configuring Foswiki |
With new versions of the rcs tool (as shipped in newer Linux distros), attempts to access bin/configure results in an error message Argument "5.8.1" isn't numeric in numeric lt (<). This prevents access to configure. |
Fixed in Foswiki 1.1.6
Untested! If you can't wait for the 1.1.6 release, try replacing lib/Foswiki/Configure/Checker.pm which includes distro:a04add64a907 |
| Item12022 |
High-traffic installations at the end of the month |
At the end of the month, Foswiki uses inefficient code to rotate the event and error logs before servicing the HTTP request. If the log files are large, and the webserver timeout settings prevent the process from rotating the logs, then no Foswiki processes will be able to service requests. The site stops responding. |
Fixed in Foswiki 1.1.6
You can rotate the logs manually by firstly stopping apache, and then running a view request from the command-line, Eg.: cd /path/to/foswiki/bin; ./view
Untested! If you can't wait for the 1.1.6 release, try replacing lib/Foswiki/Logger/PlainFile.pm which includes distro:57d3d13c5c5a |
Minor issues
| Task Ref |
Affects |
Description |
Fix |
| Item11929 |
Deleting and renaming files |
Rename and delete performance on all 1.1.x releases has been very slow, especially on larger wikis |
Fixed in Foswiki 1.1.6
Untested! If you can't wait for the 1.1.6 release, try replacing lib/Foswiki/UI/Rename.pm which includes distro:380afb2abb47 |
Major issues
Minor issues
| Task Ref |
Affects |
Description |
Fix |
| Item11454 |
Performance |
Foswiki 1.1.4 is slower and shows info.author as 'UnknownUser' when Topic.txt is mauled by an external process without updating its .txt,v file |
Work-around mentioned in Item11454; the last-modified time of .txt,v files in the affected web need to be equal to or later than the modified .txt to prevent Foswiki from accessing RCS history. A complete fix is forthcoming in a future patch release. |
Major issues
| Task Ref |
Affects |
Description |
Fix |
| Tasks.Item10714 |
Date form fields |
Form fields of type date cannot be edited with pop-up calendar when using latest Internet Explorer versions |
Download fixed javascript file from Tasks.Item10714. Fix will be in 1.1.4. The fix also reactivates the browser alert when trying to save empty mandatory fields |
| Tasks.Item10874 |
Topics which have had DataForms added via the edit screen's "Add/change form" button, which were being QuerySearched on exact form.name values that were expected to only contain the topic name part of a DataForm 's location |
Using "Add/change form" button saves fully-qualified Web.Topic name even if WEBFORMS = Topic. This might might make some topics invisible to some of your existing QuerySearches. |
Replace your copy of lib/Foswiki/UI/ChangeForm.pm with this version or apply distro:81f9bed8cd3c. See Tasks.Item10874 for more information including suggestions for finding and fixing the erroneous form.name values |
| Tasks.Item11105 |
Attachment comments. |
When updating an existing attachment, the comment field is changed to a fixed string "save attachment" and any existing comment is lost. |
Apply the changes to lib/Foswiki/Meta.pm and lib/Foswiki/Store/VC/Store.pm in Foswikirev:12443.
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Minor issues
Major issues
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Minor issues
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Description |
Fix |
| Tasks.Item10022 |
Can only install one extension at a time in configure |
Configure has an error so if you selected multiple extensions for installation only the first was installed. |
Fixed in 1.1.3 |
Major issues
| Task Ref |
Affects |
Description |
Fix |
| Tasks.Item9904 |
Twisties will not close in Internet Explorer |
There is some javascript error that makes the TwistyPlugin calls to JQuery fail. |
TwistyPlugin version 1.6.8 fixes the problem. There is also a new version of JQueryPlugin 3.75 that you should upgrade to avoid JS errors in browser. Simply upgrade via configure or download and install the fixed versions. Fixed in Foswiki 1.1.2 |
| Tasks.Item9936 |
Cache feature lacks files in 1.1.1 |
When you enable page caching {Cache}{Enabled} in configure Foswiki errors out because of missing files |
The missing files will be added in 1.1.2. Meanwhile you can download the missing files from Tasks.Item9936 |
Minor issues
Major issues
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Description |
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Minor issues
| Task Ref |
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Description |
Fix |
| Tasks.Item9810 |
All |
It is not possible to add a group to a group with the new Groups API. Use the more topic actions link to edit the group preference settings directly. |
Fixed in 1.1.1 |
| Tasks.Item9815 |
1.1.0 Twisty content |
Twisty state (open/closed) is not remembered between page views |
To support loading via AJAX, anonymous twisties are given random IDs. Specify a fixed ID if you are setting remember="on". A new version of TwistyPlugin to fix remember state on anonymous twisties should be available before the next patch release (1.1.1). Monitor TwistyPlugin for updates. Fixed in 1.1.1 |
| Tasks.Item9819 |
Installing extensions |
Certain extensions, such as FullCalendarPlugin cannot be installed with the extensions installer or configure. |
An updated lib/Foswiki/Configure/Package.pm can be installed. Or manually install the extension by manually expanding the archive from the root of the Foswiki installation. Fixed in 1.1.1 |
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