Release Notes for XWiki 8.0 Milestone 2

Version 10.1 by Thomas Mortagne on 2016/02/18

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.

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New and Noteworthy (since XWiki <version - 1>)

Full list of issues fixed and Dashboard for <version>.

<feature N>

<description of feature N>

Miscellaneous

  • The "Create Page" Panel now supports creating Nested Spaces (i.e. you can use references in the Space input field and you now need to escape special characters if you wish to have a space containing '.' or ':' characters for example).
  • The Active Installs Dashboard now displays the Java versions in an aggregated format, displaying only major + minor (e.g. "1.7", "1.8"). This makes it simpler to analyze the versions of Java used for XWiki.
  • When deleting a non-terminal page and the only child of that page is the 'WebPreferences' terminal page, the 'Affect children' checkbox will be checked by default. Normally, it would be unchecked, but in this case we`ve noticed that it`s very easy to forget about that document (since it's hidden and automatically created when going into 'Page Administration') and your deleted page might still show up in some places because of that leftover. You can still uncheck it if you know what you are doing.

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

For Developers

<developer feature N>

<description of developer feature N>

Deprecated and Retired projects

<description of deprecated and retired projects>

Upgrades

The following dependencies have been upgraded:

Miscellaneous

  • Added new binding in the WatchList email template: subscriberReference. For example, this can be used to create a URL to the subscriber (i.e. user receiving the message) profile, where the notifications can be disabled:
    $xwiki.getURL($subscriberReference, 'view', 'category=notification')

Translations

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Tested Browsers & Databases

The QA Tests are executed after the release has been done. Thus, they are being prepared now and will be published soon.

Performances tests compared to <last super stable version>

<a summary of the comparison with latest super stable version>

More details on <link to the test report>.

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 8.0 Milestone 2

  • If you wish to use '.' or ':' characters in the "Create Page" Panel you'll now need to escape them. For example: My\.Space\:name
  • If, in your application/custom code, you were using XWiki.EntityReferenceTree in the JavaScript API, you will need to update your code to the new structure of the children property of an XWiki.EntityReferenceTreeNode. Previously, the children property was a map of <nameString, XWiki.EntityReferenceTreeNode>. Now, it was changed to a map of <nameString, <XWiki.EntityType, XWiki.EntityReferenceTreeNode>> because, at each level, you can have both a XWiki.EntityType.DOCUMENT and a XWiki.EntityType.SPACE node with the same name (i.e. siblings) and the old implementation did not consider this case, thus creating a bug. Using the new structure, the bug is fixed, but old code had/has to be updated.

API Breakages

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

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