See GitHub for detailed change history of this release

Major Changes

Improved Control Panel Plugins Tab

The Plugins tab of the control panel has been improved with the addition of documentation tabs that plugins can use to show documentation. There is also a larger draggable area for dragging tiddlers across to other wikis.

Configurable Button Toolbars

The page toolbar and the tiddler toolbars can now be configured with several new buttons - see the control panel under the Appearance and Toolbars tabs.

The sidebar tools tab now shows all the available page controls, allowing them to be invoked or checked to appear in the toolbar. The tiddler info area now includes a tools tab that includes buttons for all the tiddler actions.

Upgrade Mechanism

There are two components:

• A more flexible ImportMechanism that:
  • Presents incoming tiddlers as a pending import list that allows the user to inspect them and, if necessary, explicitly deselect them from the actual import
  • Provides UpgraderModules with an opportunity to process each incoming tiddler
    • The plugin upgrader module handles version checking of plugins and upgrading them from a special UpgradeLibrary plugin tiddler
    • The system upgrader module is responsible for suppressing the importing of certain system tiddlers (currently $:/StoryList and $:/HistoryList)
    • The themetweak upgrader module handles migrating theme tweaks from their pre-5.0.14-beta format (see below)
• An UpgradePlugin and associated edition that provides a custom, single-purpose user interface for upgrading standalone TiddlyWiki files - see https://tiddlywiki.com/upgrade.html

Improvements to CamelCase Recognition

TiddlyWiki now takes a much more conservative approach to recognising CamelCase terms that should be automatically linked. Previously, the dash and underscore were treated as lower case letters, leading to a number of false positives. See the GitHub bug #337 for details.

Automatic Permalinking Off by Default

With previous beta releases of TiddlyWiki the browser address bar is automatically updated so that it dynamically reflects the tiddlers that are currently open. This makes it easier to get a permalink for copying and pasting elsewhere, but it leads to much confusion for casual users who don't always understand why unexpected tiddlers are being displayed after they have refreshed the page in the browser.

For 5.0.14-beta, the setting has been changed. Visit control panel Advanced/Settings to switch the setting back to "Include the target tiddler and the current story sequence".

Usability Improvements

• Added previews to the icon dropdown in the tag manager
• Added an indication of unsaved changes by changing the colour of the save changes button
• Split the wikitext emphasis parsers into separate modules so that they can be independently controlled with the \rules pragma
• Refactored (and here) ReleaseHistory to place the releases into vertical tabs
• Stopped saving $:/HistoryList, thus avoiding it uncontrollably increasing in size
• Improved (and here) print stylesheet to remove page background
• Updated display of plugin tiddlers so that their constituent tiddlers are shown, rather than the raw JSON
• Moved the functionality of the fullscreen plugin into the core

Hackability Improvements

• Extended TiddlerWidget to add a CSS class corresponding to each tag present on displayed tiddlers
• Added support for hiding specified fields in the tiddler editor
• Added support for variable operands in filters (see Filter Parameter)
• Added support for widget messages tw-permalink and tw-permaview
• Added browser sniffing plugin so that tiddlywiki.com can present the correct browser-specific documentation
• Added a configuration option for specifying the default location for saving new tiddlers in the client-server configuration
• Added support for the InfoMechanism
• Extended CheckboxWidget to allow it to toggle fields as well as tags
• Refactored control panel theme tweaks to be stored in individual tiddlers
• Extend the tabs macro to allow tabs to be templated
• Added (and here) SystemTags support for inserting content above and below the story river
• Added support for transcluding plugin subtiddlers with the TranscludeWidget
• Added (and here) support for importing from *.htm and *.hta files as well as the existing support for *.html files
• Extended the "sticky titles" theme so that it works when tiddlers are in edit mode

Bug Fixes

• Fixed bug with execution order of BuildCommand targets
• Fixed bug with missing hover colours for external links
• Fixed problem with refreshing modal dialogues
• Fixed issue with cookies disabled on Firefox
• Relax the requirement for a newline immediately the closing \end of a macro definition

Contributors

@Jermolene would like to thank the contributors to this release who have generously given their time to help improve TiddlyWiki:

• @BramChen
• @pmario
• @ssokolow
• @xcazin