Release Notes for XWiki Enterprise 1.8 Release Candidate 2

Release Notes for XWiki Enterprise 1.8 Release Candidate 2

Second Release Candidate of the XWiki Enterprise 1.8 version (Roadmap).

Summary of changes since XWiki Enterprise 1.8 Release Candidate 1

Main changes:

• new "useravatar" macro for 2.0 syntax
• Improvements on 1.0->2.0 syntaxes convertion
• Add ability to configure xwiki to use the XWiki Syntax 2.0 as default when creating new pages
• Bugs fixed in XWiki 2.0 syntax rendering.
• Upgrade to groovy 1.6 final.
• Update french translations
• Update german translations
• Update spanish translation

Important bug fixes:

• XWIKI-3228 - Error while saving xwiki 2.0 documents containing anchor links
• XWIKI-3242 - Entering an empty link makes the rendering blow up
• XWIKI-3252 - Cannot view documents in other languages than the default when in multilingual mode and when using XWiki Syntax 2.0

Known issues

• Bugs we know about

Common Migration notes

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