Changes Report

Refactored notifications module

For this release, we refactored the xwiki-platform-notifications modules by splitting it into multiple submodules. Some young APIs have been moved to sub packages.

See XWIKI-14575.

Active Installs now sends java specification version

The Active Installs now sends the java specification version in its pings to extension.xwiki.org.
See the documentation of the active installs for more informations.

Deprecated and Internal Macros Hidden by Default

When inserting a macro, the WYSIWYG Editor (CKEditor) is now hiding the deprecated and internal macros from the "All Macros" category that is selected by default. In order to insert a deprecated or internal macro you need to explicitly select the corresponding category from the list. The following macros have been moved to the Deprecated category: Spaces, SpacesIndex and Workspaces.

CKEditor Upgrade

The CKEditor has been upgraded from version 4.6.2 to 4.7.2. This brings a lot of bug fixes and some improvements:

• select and manipulate arbitrary rectangular table fragments (a few cells, a row or a column)
• paste from Microsoft Excel
• improved paste from Word
• new color picker

See the CKEditor release notes for more information.

Viewers in the more actions menu are no longer affected when customizing the docextra section

The viewers entries in the content menu now listen to the $displayShortcuts layout variable (as intended) and are no longer affected by the usage of the $docextras variable. For example, to remove all tabs and all shortcuts for the current page, you could write in a Velocity script in the page:

#set($displayDocExtra = false)
#set($displayShortcuts = false)

Live Table Database List Filter

Filtering the Live Table rows by a column that corresponds to a Database List property should be easier now with the new suggest filter.

Add some missing CSS class iD : for "children", "comments", "attachments", "history" and "information" menu entries of flamingo flavor like the others menu entries.

New Syntax#valueOf(String) API

SyntaxFactory is now deprecated and replaced by the static Syntax#valueOf(String).

REST Resource to Retrieve Property Values

A new REST resource is available to retrieve the list of values of an XWiki class property. It currently works only with Database List (DBList) properties but we plan to add support for List of Users properties soon. The main use case for this new resource is to provide suggestions when editing object properties. See the REST API documentation for more details.