[pmwiki-announce] pmwiki-2.1.beta20 released

[Patrick R. Michaud]

I've just released 2.1.beta20, available from

    http://www.pmwiki.org/pub/pmwiki/pmwiki-2.1.beta20.tgz
    http://www.pmwiki.org/pub/pmwiki/pmwiki-2.1.beta20.zip
    svn://pmwiki.org/pmwiki/tags/latest

This release fixes a couple of pesky bugs in AuthUser (actually,
it redesigns and cleans up a fair amount of the authorization code),
and it introduces a new (:encrypt ...:) markup that can be used
to easily add/change passwords within the Site.AuthUser page.
Essentially, to set a password for an account one edits Site.AuthUser
and does:

    alice: (:encrypt alice_password:)

and PmWiki replaces the (:encrypt ...:) markup with the encrypted form
of "alice_password".

The release also makes a significant improvement to $EnableIMSCaching,
such that it can detect changes to config.php files as well as
the modification time of pages.  This means there's much less chance
for admins to get confused when making changes to config files
but the browser has an older copy of the page cached.  Note that
$EnableIMSCaching does not yet detect changes in skin files, so
it's probably a good idea to leave it disabled when designing or
customizing a skin.  Either that or be in the habit of doing a full
refresh (e.g., SHIFT+reload on many browsers) when making changes
to skin files.  :-)

Pm