This is the release notes for XWiki Commons, XWiki Rendering, XWiki Platform and XWiki Enterprise. They share the same release notes as they are released together and have the same version.
This release focused on fixing bugs on Notifications, Office Viewer and Solr Search. User preferences are now taken into account by the notifications toggles.
New and Noteworthy (since XWiki 9.8.1)
Full list of issues fixed and Dashboard for 9.9.
For Users
Watched Locations Enhanced
The notifications toggles now take into account the preferences that you have enabled. Events that have not been enabled first will not be displayed anymore, even if you watch a location where these events happen.
For Admins
No changes!
For Developers
The server is now able to check for its new versions
The server can now check if a new version of its distribution is available but this feature is not active by default and the information about new versions are not displayed anywhere yet. In the near future, we'll add a new notification visible to administrators when a new version is found.
The version check can be enabled through the parameter extension.versioncheck.environment.enabled in xwiki.properties.
Upgrades
The following runtime dependencies have been upgraded (they have a different release cycle than XWiki Commons, XWiki Rendering, XWiki Platform and XWiki Enterprise):
- CSS4J 0.37
- javax.annotation-api 1.3.1
- httpcore 4.4.7
- httpcore 4.4.8
- GSon 2.8.2
- JNA 4.5.0
- Jetty 9.4.7.v20170914
- JGroups 4.0.7
- Commons Configuration 2.2
- CKEditor Integration 1.18
- Syntax Highlighting 4.1
Translations
The following translations have been updated:
Tested Browsers & Databases
Here is the list of browsers we support and how they have been tested for this release:
Browser | Test Result | |
---|---|---|
![]() | Google Chrome 62 | Not Tested |
![]() | Mozilla Firefox 56 | Not Tested |
![]() | Internet Explorer 10 | Not Tested |
![]() | Internet Explorer 11 | Jira Tickets Marked as Fixed in the Release Notes + New and Noteworthy Features |
Here is the list of databases we support and how they have been tested for this release:
Database | Test Result | |
---|---|---|
![]() | HyperSQL | Jira Tickets Marked as Fixed in the Release Notes + New and Noteworthy Features |
![]() | MySQL 5.7 | Not Tested |
![]() | Oracle 11.2 | Not Tested |
![]() | PostgreSQL | Not Tested |
Performances tests compared to 8.4.5
Summary
The performance slipped quite a bit since 9.2, we'll need to work on it ASAP.
"similar": difference is lower than 10%
"slightly": difference is lower than 20%
Speed
Memory
Actions | Difference |
---|---|
Heap Memory after jetty startup | -4M |
Heap Memory after full SOLR index | +8M |
More details on performance comparison on single wiki between 9.9 and 8.4.5.
Known issues
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 9.9
- JSONTool#parse is now deprecated and JSONTool#fromString should be used instead. This means that Velocity code like $jsontool.parser($content) should be replaced by $jsontool.fromString($content)
API Breakages
The following APIs were modified since XWiki 9.8.1:
- Not a breakage. Unused code (and code that shouldn't have been public anyway).
- Violation type:java\.class\.removed
- Code:## Old:
.* org\.xwiki\.rendering\.wikimodel\.xml\..*
- Violation type:
- Young API
- Violation type:java.method.removed
- Code:## Old:
method boolean org.xwiki.notifications.filters.watch.WatchedEntitiesManager::isEntityDirectlyWatched(org.xwiki.notifications.filters.watch.WatchedEntityReference, org.xwiki.model.reference.DocumentReference) throws org.xwiki.notifications.NotificationException
- Violation type:
- Young API
- Violation type:java.method.removed
- Code:## Old:
method boolean org.xwiki.notifications.filters.watch.WatchedEntitiesManager::isEntityWatched(org.xwiki.notifications.filters.watch.WatchedEntityReference, org.xwiki.model.reference.DocumentReference) throws org.xwiki.notifications.NotificationException
- Violation type:
- Young API
- Violation type:java.method.addedToInterface
- Code:## Old:
null
## New:
method org.xwiki.notifications.filters.NotificationFilterPreference org.xwiki.notifications.filters.watch.WatchedEntityReference::createExclusiveFilterPreference()
- Violation type:
- Young API
- Violation type:java.method.removed
- Code:## Old:
method org.xwiki.notifications.filters.NotificationFilterPreference org.xwiki.notifications.filters.watch.WatchedEntityReference::createFilterPreference()
- Violation type:
- Young API
- Violation type:java.method.addedToInterface
- Code:## Old:
null
## New:
method org.xwiki.notifications.filters.NotificationFilterPreference org.xwiki.notifications.filters.watch.WatchedEntityReference::createInclusiveFilterPreference()
- Violation type:
- Young API
- Violation type:java.method.addedToInterface
- Code:## Old:
null
## New:
method boolean org.xwiki.notifications.filters.watch.WatchedEntityReference::isWatched(org.xwiki.model.reference.DocumentReference)
- Violation type:
- Young API
- Violation type:java.method.removed
- Code:## Old:
method boolean org.xwiki.notifications.filters.watch.WatchedEntityReference::match(org.xwiki.notifications.filters.NotificationFilterPreference)
- Violation type:
- Young API
- Violation type:java.method.numberOfParametersChanged
- Code:## Old:
method void org.xwiki.notifications.filters.watch.WatchedLocationReference::<init>(org.xwiki.model.reference.EntityReference, java.lang.String, org.xwiki.model.reference.EntityReferenceResolver<java.lang.String>)
## New:
method void org.xwiki.notifications.filters.watch.WatchedLocationReference::<init>(org.xwiki.model.reference.EntityReference, java.lang.String, org.xwiki.model.reference.EntityReferenceResolver<java.lang.String>, org.xwiki.notifications.filters.internal.scope.ScopeNotificationFilterLocationStateComputer)
- Violation type:
- Young API
- Violation type:java.method.visibilityReduced
- Code:## Old:
method org.xwiki.notifications.filters.NotificationFilterPreference org.xwiki.notifications.filters.watch.WatchedLocationReference::createFilterPreference()
## New:
method org.xwiki.notifications.filters.internal.DefaultNotificationFilterPreference org.xwiki.notifications.filters.watch.WatchedLocationReference::createFilterPreference()
- Violation type:
- Young API
- Violation type:java.method.removed
- Code:## Old:
method boolean org.xwiki.notifications.filters.watch.WatchedLocationReference::match(org.xwiki.notifications.filters.NotificationFilterPreference)
- Violation type:
- Young API
- Violation type:java.method.removed
- Code:## Old:
method org.xwiki.notifications.filters.NotificationFilterPreference org.xwiki.notifications.filters.watch.WatchedUserReference::createFilterPreference()
- Violation type:
- Young API
- Violation type:java.method.removed
- Code:## Old:
method boolean org.xwiki.notifications.filters.watch.WatchedUserReference::match(org.xwiki.notifications.filters.NotificationFilterPreference)
- Violation type:
- Young API
- Violation type:java.method.removed
- Code:## Old:
method boolean org.xwiki.notifications.filters.watch.script.NotificationWatchScriptService::isLocationDirectlyWatched(org.xwiki.model.reference.EntityReference) throws org.xwiki.notifications.NotificationException
- Violation type:
Credits
The following people have contributed code to this release (sorted alphabetically):
- Alexandru Cotiugă
- Clément Aubin
- Ecaterina Moraru (Valica)
- Eduard Moraru
- Guillaume Delhumeau
- Marius Dumitru Florea
- Matt Sullivan
- Ruslan Iagudin
- Thomas Mortagne
- Vincent Massol