Release Notes for XWiki 4.4 RC 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.

This is a stabilization release and as such it mostly contains bug fixes.

New and Noteworthy (since XWiki 4.3.1)

Full list of issues fixed and Dashboard for 4.4.

Full list of issues fixed:

• XWIKI-8896 Lucene RSS search feed malforms output with <pre>
• XWIKI-8635 No vertical scrollbar visible in the Tree document index
• XWIKI-8632 Distribution Wizard propose a downgrade after importing the default XAR
• XWIKI-8628 Console error when installing/creating a workspace using workspaces installed with EM
• XWIKI-8620 XWiki.WatchListClass class is re-saved at each startup
• XWIKI-8612 More workspace template issues (pretty name and membership type)
• XWIKI-8597 Add solr.xml configuration file to support upgrading to solr 4.0
• XWIKI-8578 Upgrade solr to version 4.0.0
• XWIKI-8577 Move lucene plugin classes to an internal package
• XWIKI-8566 Limiting search to one space will actually return more results, many unrelated
• XWIKI-8565 Rendering cache does not work on JBOSS AS7
• XWIKI-8512 Make the "Hide suggestions" button of the Suggest widget more customizable
• XWIKI-8503 Reimplement form field hints (withTip behavior) based on the HTML5 "placeholder" attribute
• XWIKI-8496 After installing from scratch XE with DW the status in the next restarts will be seen as PARTIAL
• XWIKI-8490 JS error when importing a XAR and the server returns an error message
• XWIKI-8489 Make the autosave widget more configurable
• XWIKI-8487 Blog categories aren't added in the right place on IE9
• XWIKI-8464 Content dirty flag is spuriously set to true
• XWIKI-8447 Search RSS Feed downloads file on Firefox
• XWIKI-8432 Watchlist RSS Feed downloads file on IE and Chrome
• XWIKI-8404 Upgrade to lucene 4.0.0
• XWIKI-8192 Trying to search for documents only from one space might include results from other spaces with similar names
• XWIKI-8090 Including Main.WebHome in a dashboard gadget causes a crash.
• XWIKI-7990 Input fields overflow their palettes when editing a Color Theme
• XWIKI-7749 ImagePlugin caches image thumnail bytes, but new temporary files for each are recreated on each request
• XWIKI-7394 Error when searching for some text followed by ! char
• XWIKI-7056 Not empty modal when Version Mandatory Summary is enabled
• XWIKI-6230 If the query does not return any results display an appropiate message
• XWIKI-6225 Index date fields in objects formatted and untokenized
• XWIKI-5524 Adding a class property that already exists succeeds without errors, although the property wasn't really added
• XRENDERING-262 Stop shading the standalone JAR and instead dsitribute a zip containing all dependencies
• XRENDERING-257 Upgrade to Pegdown 1.2.0
• XEM-237 rome jar is duplicated in the XEM packages
• XEM-232 Remove override of the QuickLinks panel
• XCOMMONS-321 Don't draw Ant in HTML Cleaner module
• XCOMMONS-315 Make sure to do nothing in the logback module when logback is not present
• XCOMMONS-308 Component related events send Class based role instead of Type based
• XCOMMONS-302 Maven handler do more request than needed

For Developers

Upgrades

The following dependencies have been upgraded:

• Pegdown 1.2.0
• logback 1.0.9
• lucene 4.0.0
• Solr 4.0.0
• Apache commons-net 3.2
• JGroups 3.2.5

Miscellaneous

• We've replaced the Rendering Standalone JAR with a Rendering Standalone ZIP.
• Started experimenting with Mockito.
• New unit and integration testing best practices.

Translations

The following translations have been updated: 

• Italian
• Catalan
• Czech
• Danish
• German
• Spanish
• French
• Galician
• Hindi
• Croatian
• Italian
• Korean
• Latvian
• Dutch
• Norwegian
• Polish
• Portuguese (Brazil)
• Romanian
• Russian
• Slovak
• Swedish
• Ukrainian
• Vietnamese
• Simplified Chinese
• Traditional Chinese

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

17.0.1

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

• Regression: Image attachments are not scaled any more when the image dimensions are specified on the download request
• Bugs we know about

Test Report

No manual test were done for this version (see other past test reports if you're curious).

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.

Issues specific to XWiki 4.4 RC 1

• The Toucan skin has been removed from the platform and from the distribution packages. You can find the sources in the xwiki-contrib repository on github.
• The Lucene index specification has been changed to include a new field exactspace and three other fields have been altered to better support exact matches. It is recommended to rebuild the whole Lucene index.

API Breakages

The following APIs were modified since XWiki 4.3.1:

•  Moved to Lucene 4 + moved non API classes to the internal package:
  com.xpn.xwiki.plugin.lucene.LucenePlugin: Parameter 1 of 'public void init(com.xpn.xwiki.plugin.lucene.IndexUpdater, com.xpn.xwiki.XWikiContext)' has changed its type to com.xpn.xwiki.plugin.lucene.internal.IndexUpdater
  com.xpn.xwiki.plugin.lucene.LucenePlugin: Parameter 1 of 'public void init(com.xpn.xwiki.plugin.lucene.IndexUpdater, com.xpn.xwiki.plugin.lucene.IndexRebuilder, com.xpn.xwiki.XWikiContext)' has changed its type to com.xpn.xwiki.plugin.lucene.internal.IndexUpdater
  com.xpn.xwiki.plugin.lucene.LucenePlugin: Parameter 2 of 'public void init(com.xpn.xwiki.plugin.lucene.IndexUpdater, com.xpn.xwiki.plugin.lucene.IndexRebuilder, com.xpn.xwiki.XWikiContext)' has changed its type to com.xpn.xwiki.plugin.lucene.internal.IndexRebuilder