XWiki Enterprise 2.4 Milestone 2
Second milestone of the XWiki Enterprise 2.4 version (Roadmap).
The highlights of this release are: object and classes edition improvements and especially the possibility the remove classes properties, template based page creation, invitations and more security improvements.
New and Noteworthy (since XWiki Enterprise 2.4 Milestone 1)
Objects and classes editor improvements
Object and class editor are now fully panel-less which amon other thing means that you have the full object/class editors UI even in an empty wiki without having to import needed XE xar.
Class editor also adds better refactoring capabilities:
- reorder class properties
- delete a class property
Many other small improvements to discover !
New Template-based page creation
Starting with this release users and applications can provide documents that can be used as template when creating new pages. The new document (content, objects and other metadata) will be replicated from the template.
- After you have created the template and the template provider you can then start creating pages from this template:
- "Wanted Links" also offers the choice to create the new document from the available templates ( "My Template" template in the image below):
Find more details about the template creation and administration on the documentation page.
New Invitation Manager application
The Invitation Manager application allows users to send emails, inviting friends and colleagues to join a wiki. You will be able to configure your wiki to send emails through an open mail relay on the server or through an email account of your choosing.
An invitation may allow users to register in a wiki where registration is forbidden. Invitees may choose to accept or decline an invitation. Spam prevention measures ensure that email recipients will have a button to report that message as abuse.
Internationalized and configurable email templates generate rich HTML email content from user input.
Learn how you can configure this application by visiting the application page.
New search application improvements
- Make possible to select wikis where to search in LuceneSearch page when in main wiki of a farm
WYSIWYG Improvements
- Added the ability to insert macros with a single click from the tool bar
- Added a 'paste with filtered styles' button on the tool bar
- Wysiwyg editor import from office feature now filter style by default
JMX Administration Console
- XWiki is now using JMX to provide runtime Monitoring information.
- The first usage implemented is about monitoring the JBoss cachad and the Velocity Macro caches, as shown below:
Watchlist improvements
- Allow to remove elements in the watchlist from the user profile
- Add in virtual mode, add a wikis section in "elements in your watchlist"
Script improvements
- Make the Query Manager use the Script Service to expose services to scripts. See Query Guide for more details.
- Make possible to directly return the Block based result of a script macro. It's supported for all JSR 223 macro which means all script macro script Velocity macro for now. See Script Macro for more details.
- Prevent nested script macros by default: it's now impossible to generate a script macro with another in another one for security reasons. You can force to enable it by setting rendering.macro.script.nestedscripts.enabled = true in xwiki.properties file. See Script Macro for more details.
Javascript improvements
- Start writing a Javascript mirror of the XWiki data model: Document.getURL
- New "suggestDocuments" behavior for input fields
Miscelaneous
- Allow to make document titles mandatory when editing
- Confluence syntax parser bugfixes
Dependencies upgrade
- Doxia 1.1.3
- JODConverter 3.0 beta3
- JBossCache 3.2.5.GA
- Groovy 1.7.3
- Script.aculo.us 1.8.3
- Jython 2.5.2b1
Translations
- All the translations have been updated
Known issues
Backward Compatibility and Migration Notes
General Notes
You may also want to import the default wiki XAR in order to benefit from the improvements listed above.
Migration Notes
- It's now impossible to generate a script macro with another in another one for security reasons. If you really need it, you can override the macro component.
API Breakages
The following APIs were modified since XWiki Enterprise 2.3:
