Release Notes for XWiki 4.5 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.

New and Noteworthy (since XWiki 4.5M1)

Full list of issues fixed and Dashboard for 4.5.

Distribution Wizard

If you're upgrading an old XEM instance, the Distribution Wizard is now suggesting the right UI extension id when selecting the previous version.

Full Issue List

• XWIKI-8781 Deleting the last version of a document revert the document, but the revisions are mixed
• XWIKI-8779 Importer does not match users like "XWiki Developer Team" on extensions.xwiki.org
• XWIKI-8778 Extension template has wrong parent in repository
• XWIKI-8774 No visual feedback when hovering or selecting a document in the "All pages" tab
• XWIKI-8770 Suggest the XEM UI extension id when upgrading from an old XEM version
• XWIKI-8767 Distribution Wizard fails to install the main UI due to Velocity error
• XWIKI-8756 The WYSIWYG editor doesn't work on IE8 and IE9
• XWIKI-8751 Solr indexing should not care about the current admin's hidden documents preference
• XWIKI-8746 Allow the discovery of search implementation UIs in the Search UI
• XWIKI-8734 The fields cannot be edited once you have dragged and dropped a "Content" or a "Title" field
• XWIKI-8586 The class editor doesn't save the default values for title and content fields in the template
• XWIKI-8394 Workspace owner and initial members not set as members (nor in admin group) when the workspace identifier contains an underscore
• XWIKI-8375 Failing to uninstall FAQ application installed with the Extension Manager
• XE-1284 XWiki.ClassSheet allows guests to bind in memory an XClass to an existing sheet
• XCOMMONS-337 Replace MockitoComponentMockingRule by replacing getMockedComponent() by the more correct getComponentUnderTest()
• XCOMMONS-336 ReflectionUtils.getAllFields should skip synthetic fields

For Developers

Extensible search UI implementations

It is now possible to provide your custom search UI implementation that will become available in the list of search engines under Administration > Applications > Search.

To achieve this, we have declared the org.xwiki.platform.search UI Extension point ID that accepts 3 parameters:

1. title - the text to display for your implementation in the search engine select
2. admin - a reference to the wiki page where you administrate your search implementation (ex: 'XWiki.SolrSearchAdmin')
3. search - a reference to the search page that should be used when your search implementation is active (ex: 'Main.SolrSearch')

Deprecated and Retired projects

No project was retired.

Upgrades

No library was upgraded.

Miscellaneous

• Renamed the lucene search module and modified the search-ui module. As part of the refactorings performed on the search application, the xwiki-platform-search-lucene module has now been renamed to xwiki-platform-search-lucene-api. Also, pages related to Lucene search that were previously inside xwiki-platform-search-ui have now been moved to the new xwiki-platform-search-lucene-ui module.

  If you were depending in your application on these modules/pages, please update your references accordingly. For more details on the new layout, lease see XWIKI-8766.

Translations

The following translations have been updated: 

• Portuguese (Brazil)

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

Firefox

18

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.

Issues specific to XWiki 4.5 RC 1

Existing custom search implementations

In case you were using a custom search implementation before this version which relied on previous naming and location conventions, you will need to make the necessary adjustments, meaning that you have to declare your implementation as an extension to the search application's extension point (see above).

API Breakages

The following APIs were modified since XWiki 4.4.1:

•  New method to access bundle:
  org.xwiki.localization.LocalizationManager: Method 'public org.xwiki.localization.TranslationBundle getTranslationBundle(java.lang.String, java.lang.String)' has been added to an interface
• Removed the workspaceName parameter to properly fix XWIKI-8394. The actual workspace name should be passed to the XWikiServer parameter instead:
  org.xwiki.workspace.WorkspaceManager: Parameter 1 of 'public com.xpn.xwiki.plugin.wikimanager.doc.XWikiServer createWorkspace(java.lang.String, com.xpn.xwiki.plugin.wikimanager.doc.XWikiServer)' has changed its type to com.xpn.xwiki.plugin.wikimanager.doc.XWikiServer
  org.xwiki.workspace.WorkspaceManager: Parameter 2 of 'public com.xpn.xwiki.plugin.wikimanager.doc.XWikiServer createWorkspace(java.lang.String, com.xpn.xwiki.plugin.wikimanager.doc.XWikiServer)' has changed its type to java.lang.String
  org.xwiki.workspace.WorkspaceManager: In method 'public com.xpn.xwiki.plugin.wikimanager.doc.XWikiServer createWorkspace(java.lang.String, com.xpn.xwiki.plugin.wikimanager.doc.XWikiServer, java.lang.String)' the number of arguments has changed)))