> Multipage copy/rename
I never tried this functionality but it sounds really powerful. I can
see how it has no place in the core, but I do hope it would stay
around. I remember I once wanted to do some major renaming in a
MediaWiki set up. Every page had to be done one-by-one, even when I
just wanted to change the hierarchy from /oldparent/pagename to /
newparent/pagename or /exemptparent/samepage/pagename to /samepage/
pagename.

> WikiWords (case sensitive page names)
I'm very glad you're not stuck up about WikiWords like some other
wikis are, but it is undeniably a useful feature just the same. I
think WikiWords is the sort of feature that could be made to 'light
up' a little in the plugins repository. I'm talking about the concept
that is being discussed with Wordpress right now, about 'Caonical
Plugins':
http://wordpress.org/development/2009/12/canonical-plugins/
I for one really like the term 'Classic plugin'.

> Full toolset replacements
What does this entail exactly?

On Jan 4, 9:37 pm, The Editor <[email protected]> wrote:
> Just released a new version of BoltWire that incorporates many fixes
> suggested by Danny in his wonderful Christmas "bomb". It also has some
> critically important security fixes. Contact me offlist if you have
> questions.  Here is a list of the things in this release:
>
> * Added two new options to the info function: find and inlist. The
> first returns the field based on the value, the second returns the key
> if a value is in its csv list.
> * Changed comm2func again from array_merge to + to preserve the
> numeric keys output by BOLTargs.
> * Minor fixes to source function, translation engine, info handling,
> the escape function, and other functions.
> * Repaired site.auth capabilities for commands & functions. Works more
> now as a banlist for specific pages.
> * Config option for codePages now used more consistently, and added a
> templatePages option.
> * Uppercase HTML entities are now allowed.
> * Removed auto login feature from core. Will make available as a
> plugin if desired.
> * Patched a serious security vulnerability.
> * Escapes do not now delete the next character.
> * Tidied up the action.join page.
> * Dropped auto login capabilities
> * Tightened security in saving multi-line data variables.
> * Fixed bug in blacklisting feature.
> * Fixed bug in comment regex pattern.
> * Fixed bug in html hypertext links.
>
> Note, I have not yet updated 3.3 or 3.2 with the security patch, but I
> plan to in the next day or two, if this release proves a successful
> patch.
>
> In the next release I want to strip out a few features from the core.
> Please let me know if doing so will be a major inconvenience to you.
> Otherwise they will likely be gone forever:
>
> * Multipage copy/rename
> * WikiWords (case sensitive page names)
> * Full toolset replacements
>
> Other changes likely to come up in the near future:
>
> * I'm seriously toying with the possibility of no longer escaping ANY
> markup in the page source (such as < => &lt;) as it is becoming
> increasingly complicated, and just rely instead on proper escaping
> when that code is put into the page output.
> * As noted before, coming soon all commands will be activated only as
> session inputs, and the commands will be automatically renumbered as
> needed.
> * Move code.skin/style to a default skin in the farm/skins directory.
>
> I'm starting to feel BoltWire is a little overcooked right at the
> moment. I plan to do a thorough assessment sometime before we hit 3.4,
> and see if there are not any features we can't simplify or strip out
> or move to plugins, to try and consolidate our code and improve
> performance. Even as important as flexibility is, it's sometimes just
> easier and cleaner to restrict an option here and there.
>
> Special thanks to Danny for the major impetus behind this release.
> Because there are so many changes, please upgrade with care and test
> thoroughly. There may be an unanticipated bug or two in this release.
> I'd consider it slightly experimental. But prior versions do have a
> pretty big newly discovered security hole. So those are the pro's /
> con's.
>
> Cheers
> Dan

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