Changes Report

A new "table" category is now proposed in the Flamingo Theme Editor, where you can change the variables concerning the colors of the tables.

Gather distribution types

Features of distribution are now sent by active install. This allows to have statistics on the various types of packagings that are used (ZIP packaging, DEB packaging, EXE packaging, etc).

Environment extension

Each package (WAR, Debian, installers, etc.) now has its own "environment extension" descriptor. Among other things it means they don't send the same id through Active Installs and this allows to know what packaging users have used to install XWiki.

Extension index memory optimization

Most instances of stored ExtensionDependency, ExtensionAuthor, Version and VersionConstraint are now created through a factory to reduce duplicates in memory.

Editing a Flamingo Theme loads a bit faster now.

Extension Search Button

Added a search button on the Extension Manager pages in the Administration, to make it more user-friendly (users had to press the "return" key before).

The Dashboard Macro now only displays a Gadget if that gadget's content is not empty when rendered. This allows Gadgets to control whether they should be displayed or not. For example, if you wish to display a Gadget only if the user has some permissions such as Admin rights, you can do that with an if in the Gadget's content.

The Message Stream Application is now disabled by default and needs to be enabled to activate the feature. This was chosen in order to not clutter the UI by default, considering that not all users would need this feature. In the future, it should be moved as an optional extension to install.

Consistent Blog Icons

The icons used in the Blog Application are now displayed using the Icon Theme Application, hence they are now consistent with icons used everywhere else in XWiki.

An InstanceId converter has been added so that it's now possible to convert from String to InstanceId and vice versa (useful for Velocity scripts needing to call an API that accepts an InstanceId object for example).

Active Installs displays Distribution Graph

The Active Install application now displays a graph showing what packagings users have used to install XWiki (Debian, WAR, HSQLDB/Jetty, etc). You can see it live on xwiki.org.

Get all org.xwiki* distributions

The graphs now matches all org.xwiki* distributions (used to only match XWiki Enterprise). Before, we were filtering on the org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-web distribution id but since we now send the packaging used in the distribution id property, we needed to find a way to list all distributions done by the XWiki open source project.

Gathering of extensions features

Features of extensions are now sent by active install. These are the various extension ids under which a given extension is known. Usually used to relocate extensions under a new extension id.

The Active Installs pings are now sent over HTTP using a User Agent of XWikiActiveInstalls. This is important since some servers (such as CloudFlare) consider requests that don't have a User Agent set as being "spammy" request and blocks them. This makes the Active Installs ping module a better citizen.

New Namespace class

A new org.xwiki.component.namespace.Namespace has been introduced to help manipulate namespace in components and extensions world. It's mostly a helper for now but will probably be used more and more in APIs.

Close wrapped source/target Reader/Writer

DefaultReaderInputSource and DefaultWriterOutputTarget now support closing the wrapped Reader/Writer.

Localization script service specific locale

Localization Script service allow passing the Locale to search for (instead of current Locale).

WYSIWYG Editor Paste Filter

The WYSIWYG content editor has a more strict paste filter that removes non-semantic styles (e.g. font size, text color). This means that the content you paste into the editing area will inherit the styles of your wiki, leading to a more consistent look & feel. The PDF export also benefits from this change because some of the filtered styles were causing problems.

Breadcrumbs in the notifications email

The notification emails now display breadcrumbs for each page-related change, providing a better understanding of the locations of these pages in the wiki.

Notifications are loaded on demand

To speed up page rendering, we load the content of the notifications only when the user opens the notifications menu (lazy-loading).

During the load of the content, the user will see a spinning whee as on the following picture.

In addition, we now display 10 notifications instead of 5.