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This is the roadmap for ikiwiki development.
1.0

No severe [[security]] bugs.
All the basic [[features]] people would expect in a wiki.

Released 29 April 2006.
The 1.x series is no longer supported.

2.0

New improved URLs to pages via usedirs.
[[plugins/OpenID]] support, enabled by default.
Plugin [[interface|plugins/write]] added, with some 60 [[plugins]] available,
greatly expanding the capabilities of ikiwiki.
[[Tags]], atom feeds, and generally full-fledged blogging support.
Fully working [[todo/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.

Released 30 April 2007.
The 2.x series is now in maintenance mode. Only security fixes and fixes for
really bad bugs will be applied going forward.

3.0
Version 3.0 is an opportunity to make significant transitions.
Read [[tips/upgrade_to_3.0]] for the steps you will need to
follow when upgrading your wiki to this version.
The highlights of the changes in version 3.0 include:

Blog-style [[plugins/comments]] as an alternative to Discussion pages.
Support for uploading [[attachments|plugins/attachment]].
Can [[plugins/rename]] and [[plugins/remove]] pages and files via the web.
[[Web_based_setup|plugins/websetup]].
Many new plugins including [[plugins/htmlbalance]], [[plugins/format]],
[[plugins/progress]], [[plugins/color]], [[plugins/autoindex]],
[[plugins/cutpaste]], [[plugins/hnb]], [[plugins/creole]], [[plugins/txt]],
[[plugins/amazon_s3]], [[plugins/pinger]], [[plugins/pingee]],
[[plugins/edittemplate]]
The RecentChanges page is compiled statically, not generated from the CGI.
Support for additional revision control systems: [[rcs/bzr]],
[[rcs/monotone]]
Support for [[tips/trusted_git_push]].
A new version (3.00) of the plugin API, exporting additional
commonly used functions from IkiWiki.pm. Nearly everything in ikiwiki is
now a plugin, from WikiLinks to page editing, to RecentChanges.
Far too many bug fixes, features, and enhancements to list here.

Release is planned for fall^Wlate, 2008.
The 3.x series is expected to undergo continuing development for some time,
adding improvements and new features, but avoiding changes that break
backwards compatability.

future goals

Conversion support for existing other wikis.
(Being worked on for MoinMoin and TWiki by [[Josh_Triplett|JoshTriplett]]
and Jamey Sharp; support for other wikis should fit into the same
framework.)
[[TODO]], [[bugs]], ...