DokuWiki is a free, device independent, flexible, low on resources, customizable, platform-independent and open source web-based application that has been designed from the ground up to be deployed as a Wiki software on top of an existing web server, running on GNU/Linux platforms. It’s major feature is that it doesn’t require a database, as it stores all the data in plain text files.
Features at a glance
Key features include a simple syntax, support for editing access keys and quick buttons, support for editing only small parts of a web page, automatic generation of TOC (Table of Contents), support for Interwiki links, page caching support, as well as complete UTF-8 support.
Additionally, the software supports read-only web pages, an unlimited of web page revisions, embedding of images, uploading of images, image caching, image resizing, custom text replacements, and syndication of the latest changes of the site via RSS feeds.
Among other important features, we can mention that DokuWiki offers easy navigation of web pages via breadcrumbs, allows users to customize the site with plugins and templates, support for multiple languages, support for doing colored side-by-side diffs, a blacklist that protects your website from spambots, locking support to avoid accidental conflicts, and ACL (Access Control List) support.
What can I use it for?
You can use the DokuWiki software for your personal use, as a private notebook or project workspace, for various institutions that want to deploy corporate knowledge bases, as well as a CMS (Content Management System) and software manual.
At the moment, the application is distributed as a source tarball, allowing the user to easily and quickly deploy it on a web server of his/her choice. It has been successfully tested with a wide range of GNU/Linux distributions and supports both 32-bit and 64-bit instruction set architectures.
What is new in this release:
- Introduction of Auth Plugins.
- If you used an authentication backend, you will need to adjust your authtype configuration.
- Upgraded to jQuery 1.9.0 and jQuery-UI 1.9.2.
- This release finalizes the jQuery migration, and the deprecated compatibility functions were removed.
- Various updates and fixes to the new template introduced in Adora Belle, especially to mobile mode.
- Refactored email subscriptions.
- A refactored tar file library.
- A security enhancement for fetch to reduce its susceptibility to DDOS attacks.
- Removal of ~~INFO:version~~
What is new in version 2014-09-29b:
- Introduction of Auth Plugins.
- If you used an authentication backend, you will need to adjust your authtype configuration.
- Upgraded to jQuery 1.9.0 and jQuery-UI 1.9.2.
- This release finalizes the jQuery migration, and the deprecated compatibility functions were removed.
- Various updates and fixes to the new template introduced in Adora Belle, especially to mobile mode.
- Refactored email subscriptions.
- A refactored tar file library.
- A security enhancement for fetch to reduce its susceptibility to DDOS attacks.
- Removal of ~~INFO:version~~
What is new in version 2012-10-13:
- Usage enhancements:
- A new default dokuwiki template is distributed with this release. This new template is HTML5 compliant and comes with sidebar and mobile support. The old template is still available with this release, but will be deprecated. :!: The new template is activated by default. Special thanks to Clarence Lee for the initial design.
- The TOC and the search results have been rewritten and improved. This impacts templates: :!: all templates need to be adjusted to work properly. See d5acc30d and 91b05b6b for details of the changes and what needs to be done in each template.
- Several fixes and enhancements have been made to the media manager
- RTL has been given some particular attention
- Several fixes of the subscription mechanism have been integrated
- Setup & Administration:
- Multiple LDAP servers is now available
- Wiki farms is in the core of DokuWiki: all the farm code is grouped in a farm.php file which can be included through the preload.php to activate farming
- ACL now support a %GROUP% wildcard. This works like the %USER% wildcard, but for groups. :!: %USER% and %GROUP% cannot be mixed on an ACL line
- Notification mail are now sent as HTML formatted mails. :!: This feature is enabled by default.
- Resending password has been reworked. :!: Now DokuWiki honors the autopasswd setting: passwords are resend if $conf['autopasswd'] is enabled. If $conf['autopasswd'] is disabled a token is send allowing password reset. Theses tokens are valid only during a limited time.
- XMLRPC settings in the config file are renamed: xmlrpc and xmlrpcuser become remote and remoteuser. :!: You *must* rename these settings in your local.php config file if you were using them.
- Added support for local style.inis
- Integration & Development:
- Several fixes when using Active Directory as backend
- DokuWiki now uses PHPUnit as its test framework
- Sidebar inclusion is now provided in the new default template. (The Release Candidate included a tpl_sidebar() which was removed again to avoid conflicts with many popular templates.)
- The DOKU_TPL* constants are deprecating: :!: template authors are encouraged to integrate that change.
- More details about changes related to programmers.
- And also:
- Over 20 language updates
- Over 60 issues were fixed
What is new in version 2012-01-25b:
- This is a hotfix release to fix an XSS vulnerability (SA49196).
What is new in version 2012-01-25:
- This version features version handling of media files, just like pages.
- Old versions are saved, and the change history is available in the "recent changes" list as well as in RSS.
- A new media manager with drag and drop support.
- The plugin and template developer can now also enjoy using the power of jQuery.
What is new in version 2011-11-10 RC:
- This version features version handling of media files, just like pages.
- Old versions are saved, and the change history is available in "recent changes" list as well as in RSS.
- A new media manager with drag and drop support.
- The plugin and template developer can now also enjoy using the power of jQuery.
What is new in version 2010-11-07:
- This version features many improvements, including an improved quick search algorithm, better email subscriptions, configurable filename encoding, and support for custom section editors (plugins) such as the table editor plugin.
What is new in version 2009-12-02 RC1:
- This release needs PHP5!
- many Editor improvements
- automatic list indention
- better headline system
- link wizard :!: template authors need to provide CSS
- compatibility fixes for IE8 and Chrome
- PHP 5.3 compatibility fixes
- row span support in tables
- downloadable code blocks
- fulltext search improvements
- added filename search in media manager
- new dformat function :!: plugin and template authors should replace strftime calls with this function
- one click revert button for managers :!: template authors need to add this button
- nicer admin screen :!: template authors need to provide CSS
- XMLRPC improvements
- many smaller feature enhancements
- more plugin events
- some performance optimizations
- minor security enhancements
- many, many bug fixes
What is new in version 2009-02-14:
- A new Flash uploader and CC license selector was added.
- A lot of smaller feature improvements, many bugfixes, and some smaller performance and security enhancements were made.
What is new in version 2009-02-06 RC:
- This release candidate fixes a redirect problem, a path setup problem on Windows, and media deletion.
- A few more languages were updated.
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