foswiki / distro

Highlights of this maintenance release

• Contains 48 fixes relative to 2.1.4, 5 of which are enhancements.
• Corrects a major issue that prevented Foswiki from being hosted on a Windows server

See ReleaseNotes02x01 for complete release notes.

For users

• Corrects an issue where Excel is unable to open a Foswiki page that required authentication.
• Corrects an issue where some formfields would reset to default when special characters are in the selection.
• Corrects some display / layout issues in tables, and the NatEdit window.
• Corrects an urgent issue where history of a topic is unavailable if the underlying .txt file is edited.

For administrators:

• Several cosmetic configure issues resolved.
• UpdatesPlugin was failing to show the extensions needing update.
• Correct broken ScriptURL when the Forwarded header contains a list of proxies.
• Fix perl Regular Expression syntax that will fail in upcoming perl 5.28