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.

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New and Noteworthy (since XWiki 5.2 Milestone 1)

Full list of issues fixed and Dashboard for 5.2.

Wiki Creation

XWiki Enterprise comes now with the ability for users to create their own wikis (a.k.a subwikis). This supersedes the notion of "workspace" and consist in the integration of the Workspace Application in the default XWiki distribution.

Wiki Creation Right

The wiki creation is now possible for users who have the "createwiki" right. This right is only available for the main wiki users, exactly like the Programming Right.

A new section is available in the administration of the main wiki to manage who has this right.

Active Installs Tracking

It' very important for the open source committers to understand how well or how badly they're faring when developing the XWiki open source project. So far we didn't know if the number of people using XWiki was increasing, decreasing or staying stable. This module allows us to know who's using XWiki.

It does the following:

• A client side JAR is bundled with XWiki and it sends a ping with data once per day
• A server side Application is installed on xwiki.org, allowing us to query the data sent and to display a counter of Active Installs of XWiki (i.e. installs for which we've received a ping in the last N days, for example at least one ping in the past month).

The data sent is anonymous and consists of the following:

• A unique id (UUID) representing the XWiki instance. Note that not even the IP is kept and there's no way to find who's having a give UUID (it's generated using Java's UUID implementation)
• The date of the ping
• The version of your XWiki distribution
• The technical ids and versions of extensions you have installed.

This will allow us to present the following data:

• Number of total installs of XWiki
• Number of Active Installs
• Most used extensions across versions of XWiki
• How frequently the XWiki user base upgrades to newer versions of XWiki

Reference documentation:

• Client side module.
• Server side module.

Miscellaneous

• The line chart type has two parameters, hideShapes and hideLines, to hide the shapes used to display the data points or to hide the interpolation lines that connect the data points.

  

• When creating or editing a template provider the template name field is now mandatory.

  

• New Instance Module used to compute a unique id for each XWiki instance (used by the Active Installs Client API

See the full list of JIRA issues fixed in this release.

For Developers

New WikiStream framework

Wiki Stream goal is to provide generic API to make easier for different representations of a wiki instance to communicate with each other.

It's still in a very early stage and the API might change during 5.x but it's already pretty complete and usable and the following streams modules are provided:

• XWiki instance input (send WikiStream events from various data of the XWiki instance like the documents in the database etc.)
• XAR instance output (write a XAR package from WikiStream events)

Forcing IE Compatibility mode

Now, we force the Compatibility mode for Internet Explorer (IE) browsers to use the latest rendering mode.
Before, the IE browser displayed all intranet sites in compatibility mode by default. This means that even if the user was using IE9, he saw the content rendered with IE7 standards. Since we don't support IE6/7 anymore this lead in displaying broken layout, scrollbars, etc. See XWIKI-8907.

Choosing which types of attachments can be displayed inline (Security)

In order to prevent XSS via FileUpload, a new feature has been added : you can now specify in xwiki.properties which types of attachment can be displayed inline.
In the "Attachment" section of xwiki.properties, you can either precise a whitelist of mimetypes that can be displayed inline, or precise a blacklist of mimetypes that shouldn't be displayed inline (if you use this configuration, it is strongly advised to blacklist at least "text/html" and "text/javascript" mimetypes for security reasons).
Note that attachments provided by users having Programming Rights won't be affected by these restrictions.  

Deprecated and Retired projects

<description of deprecated and retired projects>

Upgrades

The following dependencies have been upgraded:

• HSQLDB 2.3.0
• Groovy 2.1.7

Miscellaneous

• Added support for custom facets in Solr search API

Translations

The following translations have been updated: 

• Language
• Language

Tested Browsers & Databases

Here's the list of browsers we support and how they've been tested specifically for this release:

	Browser	Tested	Details
	Google Chrome 27	Partially	The first test (Attach Two Files) from this page
	Mozilla Firefox 23	Partially	The first 24 tests from this page
	Internet Explorer 8	Partially	These 81 tests
	Internet Explorer 9	Partially	The tests from here and here where the browser is Internet Explorer 9

Here's the list of databases we support and how they've been tested specifically for this release:

	Database	Tested	Details
	HyperSQL 2.3.0	Fully	The tests from these pages: first, second and third
	MySQL 5.6.10	Not Tested
	Oracle 11.2	Not Tested
	PostgreSQL 9.2.4	Not Tested

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 <version>

<issues specific to the project>

API Breakages

The following APIs were modified since <project> <version - 1>: