This is the release notes for XWiki Commons, XWiki Rendering and XWiki Platform. They share the same release notes as they are released together and have the same version.

One of the main focus of XWiki 10.7 was bug fixing thus this release starts by reducing the bug count by 30, in important areas such as as Notifications, Skin or the core. This version also contains the beginning of replacing the old XWiki Confirmation boxes with Bootstrap modals with a focus on the comments action box to start with.

New and Noteworthy (since XWiki 10.6.1)

Full list of issues fixed and Dashboard for 10.7.

For Users

Link Autocomplete in WYSIWYG Editor

 
You can now create links to existing wiki pages and attachments directly from the editing area using the link auto-complete feature. Just type [ (open square bracket) followed by at least 2 characters and you will get link suggestions based on the typed text. Checkout the CKEditor Integration documentation for more information.

Updated the comments modals

 
The comments pop-ups that are displayed for deleting a comment and for permalink are now bootstrap modals, having the same functionality as before.

Macro Content Prefill in WYSIWYG Editor

 
When inserting a macro, the macro content text area is prefilled with the text selected within the editing area. This means you can for instance transform a paragraph into an error message by selecting the paragraph text, click the Insert Macro button from the tool bar, select the Error Message macro and insert it. Checkout the CKEditor Integration documentation for more information.

Miscellaneous

• Removed misleading shortcut: Removed the META+V shortcut used in the jump dialog as it was preventing users from pasting.

For Admins

External URL generation improvements

 
It's now possible to set the port to use when generating an URL for a wiki in the each wiki descriptor. When the port is not set for a wiki, XWiki fallback on the main wiki descriptor.

Subwiki secure property (which indicate if HTTPS should be used instead of HTTP when generating a URL for the wiki) now inherit main wiki value if not explicitly set.

The first time XWiki is accessed the main wiki descriptor is generated using what can be found in the request's URL. For example if you access your wiki using https:mydomain:9898/xwiki/ you will end up with the following main wiki descriptor:

• alias: mydomain
• secure: true
• port: 9898

Also XWiki now supports the Forwarded (RFC7239) standard HTTP header when extracting information from the URL used by the client.

Miscellaneous

• Notifications Auto Watch is now disabled by default: An important bug has been discovered in the Notification Applications that prevents using the Auto Watch feature when the wiki contains a lot of pages. For this reason, the default behavior for the Auto Watch feature has been set to not automatically follow any page. Nevertheless, users and administrators can still decide to change their own settings.

• Checksum policy for Maven repositories: It's now possible to control in xwiki.properties file the behavior of each Maven repository handler regarding failing checksum validation. The default is warn.

For Developers

No changes!

Upgrades

The following runtime dependencies have been upgraded (they have a different release cycle than XWiki Commons, XWiki Rendering and XWiki Platform):

• CKEditor Integration 1.24
• CKEditor 4.10.0

Translations

Tested Browsers & Databases

Here is the list of browsers we support and how they have been tested for this release:

	Browser	Tests performed and results
	Google Chrome 68	Not Tested
	Mozilla Firefox 61	Jira Tickets Marked as Fixed in the Release Notes + New and Noteworthy Features
	Microsoft Edge 17	Smoke tests
	Internet Explorer 11	Smoke tests
	Safari 11.1	Not Tested

Here is the list of databases we support and how they have been tested for this release:

	Database	Tests performed and results
	HyperSQL 2.4.1	Not Tested
	MySQL 5.7	Smoke tests
	Oracle 11.2	Jira Tickets Marked as Fixed in the Release Notes + New and Noteworthy Features
	PostgreSQL 10	Smoke tests

Known issues

• Bugs we know about

Backward Compatibility and Migration Notes

General Notes

When upgrading make sure you compare your xwiki.cfg, xwiki.properties and web.xml files with the newest version since some configuration parameters may have been modified or added. Note that you should add xwiki.store.migration=1 so that XWiki will attempt to automatically migrate your current database to the new schema. Make sure you backup your Database before doing anything.

Issues specific to XWiki 10.7RC1

URL generation modifications

In most cases there is nothing to do but for some edge cases it's possible that you end up with external URL having a different port than the one you expect.

If that's the case the recommendation is to go to the main wiki descriptor and make sure it contains the port you want to see in those URLs (don't put anything if you just want to use the default port implied by the protocol) and to explicitly set the secure property. Since xwiki.url.protocol from xwiki.cfg configuration file is not really needed anymore tt's also recommended to stop using it only rely on the wiki descriptor(s) which are easier to control.

API Breakages

The following APIs were modified since XWiki 10.6.1:

• Not a breakage.
  • Violation type:
    java.annotation.attributeValueChanged
  • Code:
    ## Old:
    @interface org.xwiki.stability.Unstable
    
    ## New:
    @interface org.xwiki.stability.Unstable
    
• Not a breakage: class moved to a legacy module
  • Violation type:
    java.class.removed
  • Code:
    ## Old:
    class org.xwiki.velocity.introspection.AbstractChainableUberspector
• Not a breakage: class moved to a legacy module
  • Violation type:
    java.class.removed
  • Code:
    ## Old:
    interface org.xwiki.velocity.introspection.ChainableUberspector
• Not a breakage: class moved to a legacy module
  • Violation type:
    java.class.removed
  • Code:
    ## Old:
    class org.xwiki.velocity.introspection.ChainingUberspector
• Not a breakage: class moved to a legacy module
  • Violation type:
    java.class.removed
  • Code:
    ## Old:
    class org.xwiki.velocity.introspection.LinkingUberspector
• Adding a REST endpoint is actually not an API breakage.
  • Violation type:
    java.method.addedToInterface
  • Code:
    ## Old:
    null
    
    ## New:
    method java.lang.String org.xwiki.notifications.rest.NotificationsResource::getNotificationsRSS(java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String) throws java.lang.Exception
• Not a breake: the REST endpoint is the same.
  • Violation type:
    java.method.returnTypeChanged
  • Code:
    ## Old:
    method org.xwiki.notifications.rest.model.Notifications org.xwiki.notifications.rest.NotificationsResource::getNotifications(java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String) throws java.lang.Exception
    
    ## New:
    method javax.ws.rs.core.Response org.xwiki.notifications.rest.NotificationsResource::getNotifications(java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String) throws java.lang.Exception
• Young API
  • Violation type:
    java.method.addedToInterface
  • Code:
    ## Old:
    null
    
    ## New:
    method org.xwiki.notifications.filters.watch.AutomaticWatchMode org.xwiki.notifications.filters.watch.WatchedEntitiesConfiguration::getDefaultAutomaticWatchMode(org.xwiki.model.reference.WikiReference)

Credits

The following people have contributed code to this release (sorted alphabetically):

Adel Atallah
Alex Cotiugă
Andrei C
Clément Aubin
Constantin Listar
Ecaterina Moraru (Valica)
Guillaume Delhumeau
Marius Dumitru Florea
Oana-Lavinia Florean
Thomas Mortagne
Valdis Vitolins
Vincent Massol
吴国凯