Tiki 5

Major new features include:

performance improvements
shopping cart and group subscriptions
improved translation/multilingual support - i18n
advanced rating and scoring system,
perspectives: permission based dynamic content filtering
workspaces: for multiple private groups,
BigBlueButton web-conferencing integration
WebDAV access to file galleries
Spreadsheet now using jQuery
New themes (skins)

Release Date: 8th June 2010
Release Notes: ReleaseNotes5.0 Please read before installing.
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You can obtain the last daily build (development) version of Tiki 5.x (future 5.1) from http://dev.tiki.org/Daily+Build.

Note:

If you are planning to Upgrade to the latest Tiki 5.x from a version earlier than Tiki5.1, or you have never fixed the potential encoding issue in your database, please follow these 3 steps once:

http://doc.tiki.org/Upgrade#Fix_the_encoding_issue

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Tiki 5 Major new features include: performance improvements shopping cart and group subscriptions improved translation/multilingual support - i18n advanced rating and scoring system, perspectives : permission based dynamic content filtering workspaces : for multiple private groups, BigBlueButton web-conferencing integration WebDAV access to file galleries Spreadsheet now using jQuery New themes (skins) Release Date: 8th June 2010 Release Notes: ReleaseNotes5.0 Please read before installing. Download Tiki 5.x You can obtain the last daily build (development) version of Tiki 5.x (future 5.1) from http://dev.tiki.org/Daily+Build . Note : If you are planning to Upgrade to the latest Tiki 5.x from a version earlier than Tiki5.1, or you have never fixed the potential encoding issue in your database, please follow these 3 steps once: http://doc.tiki.org/Upgrade#Fix_the_encoding_issue

1.1. Authentication
CAS Authentication has become a native system in Tiki5, and other systems have been implemented, such as Web server and phpBB.

1.2. Calendar
Each event can be downloaded as an ical file and added in another calendar (eg. MS outlook). The admin can choose the days that will not be printed in the calendar (eg. for a professional calendar, you can hide Saturdays and Sundays).

1.3. Community
A few more options added to "Admin > Community" in order to allow users to see who viewed their activity and contributions in the user information page (Requires Action Log), controlling the number of days to consider, and if this information is public or private to each user on his/her own page only.

1.4. Content Delivery Network
In the Performance admin panel, you can pick a Content Delivery Network for static images and jQuery code. See CDN.

1.5. Content templates
Content templates can use wiki pages and localization through them

1.6. Database encodings
Since Tiki 5.1, there is an option to fix the double encoding issue with database upgrades. For more information, see Understanding Encoding.

1.7. Database replication
Database replication was added thanks to SUMO.

1.8.2. Move between db and file system
File Gallery allow to store files in the database and in the file system. Nowadays you can move the file in the database to the file system and the other way round, which is very helpful when migrating a tiki from one hosting to another one, for instance.

1.8.3. Admin panel
File Gallery allow to have a special view that displays all the files of all sub-galleries under the file galleries with specific columns allowing an admin to have a quick administrative view of the gallery. Possibility to filter on files not used since, not modified since, orphans

1.9. Group watch of categories
This will allow an admin to have a whole group informed of any change in a category. This is very useful for project management or a Document Workflow. See Group Watches

1.8. File Galleries improvements

1.11. Internationalization (i18n) & Localization (l10n)
See "Translation" below.

1.17. Module display for admins
Modules configured to be displayed only to anonymous users can now be displayed also to Admins, unless the "Hide anonymous-only modules from Admins" is enabled at "Admin > Module".

1.20. Performance Improvements
A few areas in Tiki have been improved to reduce the amount of memory they consume, number of database queries, etc. Features improved include trackers, forum lists, admin panels and other site-wide enhancements such as Minify CSS and Minify javascript. You can also set a Content delivery network.

1.22. Perspectives GUI
Part of Workspaces, permits to override any of 1000+ preferences on a workspace basis.

1.23.2. Plugin ArchiveBuilder
This plugin provides a zip file with pre-selected portions of information from the Tiki site. Once rendered, it displays a Download archive button to generate the archive on the fly. See PluginArchiveBuilder for more details.

1.27. Shopping cart
Tiki now has a basic shopping cart. Products or services can be maintained in wiki pages or Pretty Tracker and added to Module Cart through the PluginAddToCart and sent to payment.

1.28. Slideshow (JQS5)
A new JQuery Plugin "JQS5" to display slideshows. See JQS5

Anti-bot CAPTCHA
The anti-bot CAPTCHA image has been added to a few more places, including calendar items and newsletter subscriptions when anonymous users are allowed to perform such actions.

nofollow
In a effort to dissuade spammers, site-wide no follow option is available starting in Tiki5, and activated by default.

1.31. Searchable admin panels
So many features! So many options? Where was that? A new search in tiki-admin.php let's you find quickly!

1.38. Wiki edit zone
The wiki edit zones (also used in blog/newsletter/articles...) can be resized with draggable resize handles even in browsers not based on webkit like Firefox and derivatives, thanks to Jquery magic.