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+ikiwiki 1.9 released with these changes:
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+   * Improve display of parentlinks and page title of toplevel index page.
+   * Patch from Faidon to use svn --limit when possible for recentchanges,
+     speeds up recentchanges a lot for wikis with more history.
+   * Patch from Recai to fix utf8 issues in git backend.
+   * Add wikitext markup plugin, which supports ".wiki" pages written in the
+     original wiki syntax, CamelCase links and all.
+   * Support a w3mmode, which lets w3m run ikiwiki using its local CGI
+     support, to edit pages etc without a web server.
+   * Display CGI processing errors if present.
+   * Fix from Faidon for a XML parser issue that breaks utf-8 for
+     RecentChanges. Avoid using XML::SAX::PurePerl, which is buggy in this
+     area, and also way slow.
+   * Match 'web commit from' in SVN and git, these are web commits too.
+     (Faidon)
+   * Consolidated all decode\_utf8 in FormBuilder's fields to make the code more
+     readable and avoid future mistakes. The patch seems to work and for the
+     first time I have a UTF-8 username ;-) (Faidon)
+   * Use form->field consistently, not form->param.
+   * Patch from Recai to allow selection of page type when creating a new page.
+     Default page type is inherited from the link clicked on to create the new
+     page.
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