ikiwiki/ news/ ikiwiki version 2.0

Ikiwiki has reached version 2.0 and entered a new phase in its development cycle.

With the 2.0 release of ikiwiki, some major changes have been made to the default configuration:

- The `usedirs` setting is enabled by default. This will break all URLs to wikis that did not have `usedirs` turned on before, unless you follow the procedure described at switching to usedirs or edit your setup file to turn `usedirs` off: `usedirs => 0,`
- OpenID logins are now enabled by default, if the Net::OpenID::Consumer perl module is available. Password logins are also still enabled by default. If you like, you can turn either OpenID or password logins off via the `disable_plugins` setting.

An overview of changes in the year since the 1.0 release:

- New improved URLs to pages via `usedirs`.
- OpenID support, enabled by default.
- Plugin interface added, with some 60 plugins available, greatly expanding the capabilities of ikiwiki.
- Tags, atom feeds, and generally full-fledged blogging support.
- Fully working utf8.
- Optimisations, approximately 3.5 times as fast as version 1.0.
- Improved scalability to large numbers of pages.
- Improved scalable logo.
- Support for additional revision control systems besides svn: git, tla, mercurial.
- Some support for other markup languages than markdown: rst, textile.
- Unit test suite, with more than 300 tests.