Release Notes for XWiki Enterprise 4.4.1

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

New and Noteworthy (since XWiki 4.4)

Full Issue List

• XWIKI-8736 Some application pages have their translation flag wrongly set to 1
• XWIKI-8730 {{html}} visible when dragging the Content field if the current user sets the default editor to wiki
• XWIKI-8724 Liquibase checksum error while restarting a migration after failure
• XWIKI-8722 Add experimental warning on the SolrSearch page
• XWIKI-8721 PanelWizard not rendering any statistics panels content correctly
• XWIKI-8720 Translation document loaded several time at startup
• XWIKI-8719 Count filter doesn't work if the query statement starts with whitespace
• XWIKI-8718 Improve the message in the UI when the database is not up to date to properly report the exact cause of failure
• XWIKI-8714 Allow the customization of the xwiki.properties file with extra settings at build time
• XWIKI-8711 Failure to update the schema during migration doesn't fail the migration
• XWIKI-8705 Attachment on-disk file cache leaks open file descriptor
• XWIKI-8702 Success Message macro does not have translation keys
• XWIKI-8701 Display macro does not have translation keys
• XWIKI-8700 Comment macro does not have translation keys
• XWIKI-8699 Cache macro does not have translation keys
• XWIKI-8697 Notification widget should have a callback function that gets called when the notification hides
• XWIKI-8696 Search suggestions for the "User Name" field from the "Workspace Users" administration page don't appear correctly
• XWIKI-8695 Blog pages should not set template field
• XWIKI-8694 Hidden display mode doesn't work anymore for date, user and group fields
• XWIKI-8693 repair job does not return proper job status
• XWIKI-8690 Lucene leaks file descriptor
• XWIKI-8687 Allow the user to specify the previously installed UI when upgrading from very old versions
• XWIKI-8685 Chart macro should use current document as reference when resolving "document" parameter.
• XWIKI-8681 XWikiAttachmentContent on-disk file cache leak open file descriptors
• XWIKI-8677 Link to an anchor in a unknown page fails to redirect
• XWIKI-8675 Strange character in the french translation (admin page > Layout)
• XWIKI-8674 Impossible to save and use a wiki/global scope translation in the same request
• XWIKI-8673 On demand translation does not seems to work
• XWIKI-8668 Minor translation problems in the workspace application
• XWIKI-8663 Image attachments are not scaled any more when the image dimensions are specified on the download request
• XWIKI-8657 Markdown syntax not working anymore (Lucene Search is drawing ASM 3.1 instead of 4.x)
• XWIKI-8653 Statistics space main page broken due to missing inclusion
• XWIKI-8648 DateProperty#equals pretty much never works between a document loaded from the database and a document loaded from the XAR for example
• XWIKI-8641 GLOBAL scope does not work for translations
• XWIKI-8630 Failed to create wiki component(s) during default XAR import
• XWIKI-8627 It should not be possible to install the proposed extension on the whole farm in first step of the DW
• XWIKI-8599 Object Editor displays unrendered HTML as property value for objects that contain users/groups list field displayer
• XWIKI-8396 Users not available in the workspace owner selector (prevents owner change)
• XE-1271 Search suggestions for the Send Message gadget don't appear correctly when selecting "User" or "Group" from the Send Message drop-down list
• XCOMMONS-327 Request interface should not contain removeProperty method

Translations

The following translations have been updated: 

• French
• Korean
• Russian
• Swedish

Tested Browsers & Databases

Here's the list of browsers tested with this version (i.e. browsers that we've tested as working - Check the list of supported browsers):

Firefox

17

Here's the list of databases tested with this version (i.e. databases that we've tested as working - Check the list of supported databases):

HyperSQL

2.2.9

Known issues

• Bugs we know about

Backward Compatibility and Migration Notes

General Notes

You may also want to import the default wiki XAR in order to benefit from all the improvements listed above.

API Breakages

The following APIs were modified since XWiki 4.4:

•  Request was not supposed to contain this method in the first place:
  org.xwiki.job.Request: Method 'public java.lang.Object removeProperty(java.lang.String)' has been removed
• New method to allow building an UI for reporting migration issues (mainly for sub-wiki):
  com.xpn.xwiki.store.migration.DataMigrationManager: Method 'public com.xpn.xwiki.store.migration.DataMigrationStatus getDataMigrationStatus()' has been added to an interface