Tiki 27.0 LTS: A Leap Forward for Collaborative Software.

The Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware community is excited to announce the release of Tiki 27.0 LTS. This Long-Term Support (LTS) version, which promises to be a game-changer for those anticipating the feature enhancements, will be supported until June 2029.

Tiki 27.0 LTS is not a typical LTS release, which usually focuses on refining features rather than introducing major changes. This time, the Tiki developers have implemented significant updates, including Smarty 5 and a new build system. These enhancements are steps in a continuum, with more major changes coming in Tiki 28. The effort from Tiki 24 LTS to Tiki 27 LTS represents, by far, the most development work (quantity, complexity, and repayment of technical debt)that has gone into Tiki between any two LTS releases, including thousands of code commits and the most challenging PHP upgrade in Tiki's 20+ year history. Thanks to EvoluData and all the Tiki developers who made this possible.

This version supports PHP 8.1, 8.2, and 8.3, along with MariaDB 10.5+ and MySQL 8+, ensuring compatibility with the latest server technologies.

Major enhancements

These are some of the features receiving major enhancements:

• Tiki's API functionality was expanded to support data and system management for Internet of Things (IoT) networks.
• Major changes were made in calendar event handling, recurring events, and the ability to specify periods of user availability when creating events and to specify appointment slots.
• And the Markdown editing experience was made more user-friendly while retaining compatibility with traditional Tiki syntax, via the TOAST UI editor.
• Webmail has also been enhanced as Cypht was upgraded from version 1.4x to 2.0x.

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Implementing Your GDPR Compliance: Kick-Start Your Change Program

To become part of everyday work, compliance must be top-down and federated across your organization.

For business organizations, the consequential impact of GDPR legislation – targeted toward upholding the data privacy rights of EU citizens – is a new pressure to implement and uphold robust policies to protect data.
Not only has GDPR, and other similar data privacy laws around the world, greatly increased the potential financial penalties of not appropriately protecting the personally identifiable information of citizens, it has been introduced at a time when the threat of data security breaches has never been higher.
Organizations must act to improve their data governance and data security provisioning or risk financial penalties and loss of earnings (and reputation) should a data breach occur.

The obligations placed on businesses include:

• Ensuring that role accountability is in place for data governance
• Having permission to use a citizen’s data for the purpose of use
• Implementing the right of citizens “to be forgotten”
• Reporting if data has been put at risk
• Knowing what PII exists and how it is protected (implicit)
• Keeping PII safe (implicit)
• Controlling who can access PII (implicit)

Implementing compliance with data privacy law

In response to the GDPR and other data privacy regulatory changes, organizations are sensibly revisiting the suitability of their existing policies, procedures and IT systems to satisfy the data governance.
While EvoluData is not a legal or cyber-security advisor, we do have expert knowledge in how to protect aspects of the office workplace, specifically how to capture and manage information to minimize risk of privacy data loss or misuse. The office workplace is where the majority of human interactions with data, documents, and systems occur. It’s known to be one of the most permeable areas for business data loss.


While most data loss prevention (DLP) remedies focus on the structured data that exists in ERP and other back-office systems, the harsh reality is that it’s generally simpler for others to access your personally identifiable data by printing it – because remarkably few organizations have taken steps to ensure that DLP extends to the use of documents.

The GDPR offers a timely opportunity to review the use and role of information in your business. That’s why there’s no better time to consider the contribution EvoluData can make to improve your data governance; to install safer document workflows and information management measures.


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A world of robots and machines will make humans more powerful. Don’t believe it?

Find out how…

★ A decade ago, who would’ve believed that we’d have drones flying deliveries to our door, packages we ordered just this morning. But that’s what is beginning to happen in some cities today.

★ The digital age changes things. It’s believed that more data has been created in the past two years than in the preceding history of the world. As an example of this, today, even at lower levels of autonomy, connected cars generate up to 25 gigabytes of data per hour.

A big contributor to data volumes is mobile always-on computing. New 5G networks are capable of up to 100 times the download speeds of 4G. Technology evolution opens up new opportunities for data processing and automation.

★ The pace of change in the computing industry is relentless. The latest Huawei smartphone has more processing power than NASA had at its disposal in the 1960s to take mankind to the moon.

Artificial Intelligence and robots are set to transform economies in the next decade. According to the latest research by McKinsey & Co., something like 42 percent of jobs people do can be performed by known technologies that exist today, and a recent research study by Dell concluded that, as the result of evolving technology, 80 percent of the job roles that will exist in 2030 haven’t even been envisioned yet.

★ Are the days numbered for human workers?

★ The answer is no. When the calculator was invented, it didn’t remove the need for accountants. And just because the pharmaceuticals industry invented more ways to produce drugs that could save lives, it didn’t remove the need for doctors and nurses.

Sure, the world is changing. It always does.

The new data processing instruments of a digital age create the greatest opportunity for humankind to become better, go further, innovate faster.

But there will always be a role for humans to think differently, manage relationships, reflect on the odd ideas that computers would never come up with. When Isaac Newton discovered gravity because of a fallen apple, he became the perfect example of how humans think outside the box.

A growing community of business leaders now believe that getting the most from teams of software robots will still require a human supervisor; effectively promoting each one of us to do more with our robot teams.

Robots won’t displace humans, they will enable them.

EvoluData will help your business to blend its people power with the latest generation of artificial intelligence-led robots, helping your business to leverage a different kind of workforce in a new kind of way.

To find out how to move your workforce forward, talk to the people with know-how, about know-how.

What do we believe?

We believe that businesses will need smaller workforces to do the same things in the future. But these headcount reductions might well lead to the start-ups of thousands of new businesses created to meet more needs.

When UK manufacturing collapsed in the 1980s and 1990s, it led to the UK becoming a leading light in clean energy, and services industries. Wealth that was originally in the hands of a small cluster of large corporations would in future be shared more evenly among thousands of new startups. Human ingenuity has a habit of re-writing the rulebook on how markets work.


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New Security Update Released for Tiki 21.x LTS and Upgrade is Strongly Recommended

A Security update is now available for Tiki 21.x LTS (Long-Term Support). Users of this version are strongly recommended to update their websites. Please get the latest version file here: Tiki 21.11.

Note that Tiki 21.x will enter end of life in March 2025 and after March it will no longer receive security fixes, so any site using this version should start making upgrade to Tiki 24.7 or Tiki 27.1.

Many thanks to Shimon Silberschlag and Aviv Vinograzki (as main reporter) from Israel National Cyber Directorate | Active Cyber Defense Center, Sheela Sarva and Mayank from QUALYS for vulnerabilities report.

If there is any question, please post it in the forums here or in the Tiki chat or on a Tiki mailing list. Support beyond what the Tiki community can provide through these channels is also available from EvoluData (https://evoludata.com/Tiki-Extended-Security-Maintenance), including support for any version, including outdated versions.


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Hosting with Tiki wiki CMS, an introduction to TikiHosting

Tiki is Free / Libre / Open Source software. Thus, you do not have to pay anything to anyone to Get Tiki, install and use Tiki on your computer or a server you own. However, if you want your website to be accessible online with a URL like http://example.com, you may need to use a web hosting service shared web hosting and a domain name. Web hosting is typically a paid service as companies offering this service have to pay for the computer hardware, electricity, bandwidth, personnel necessary to provide their services.

As Tiki is a mature application, it is widely tested in all kinds of configurations. The vast majority of web hosts meet the Tiki minimum Requirements.

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The following web hosts have reasonable prices, offer e-mail accounts and domain names and contribute a share of their hosting proceeds to the Tiki Software Community Association. So by subscribing while clicking through a link below, you are getting a good deal and indirectly helping Tiki financially. These hosts also coordinate with the Tiki community to help improve performance and security.

TikiHosting.com
Managed Tiki hosting from EvoluData.com, the largest community contributor to the Tiki project.

Please visit: TikiHosting.com


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