Changes Report

Increased the size of the lightbox dropdown buttons (download, details, ...).

Updated the notification count color to match the color theme. This should on a light color theme make this red darker.

Added keyboard support for the quick search suggestions.

Added keyboard support for the like button.

New API to render a translation

There's now new LocalizationManager#getTranslation() and ContextualLocalizationManager#getTranslation() APIs to get a translation and render it for a target Syntax. For example:

@Inject
private LocalizationManager localizationManager;
...
try {
  String translation = this.localizationManager.getTranslation("key", locale, Syntax.HTML_5_0, parameters);
} catch (LocalizationException e) {
  // Error getting the HTML5 renderer
}

And

@Inject
private ContextualLocalizationManager localizationManager;
...
try {
  String translation = this.localizationManager.getTranslation("key", Syntax.HTML_5_0, parameters);
} catch (LocalizationException e) {
  // Error getting the HTML5 renderer
}

New Watch button state

The behaviour of watch buttons have changed to be more accurate regarding users' custom notification filters: if users have filters concerning some specific events only (e.g. a filter to watch mention on the whole wiki) the watch buttons will be displayed as "undecided". The idea is to expose to the users that "some events" are actually watched for that page, space or wiki.

Also using the watch buttons might disable some already existing custom filters, if those are concerning the exact same location and are contradictory. So for example, if a filter has been created to ignore mentions on a specific space, and the user decides to watch this space, then automatically the filter to ignore mention will be disabled. It can be enabled back manually by the user through the notification settings.

Added keyboard support for the "more page action" dropdown.

Security Vulnerabilities Reviews

The Security Vulnerabilities Application now takes into account vulnerabilities reviews maintained by the XWiki Development Team

Those reviews provide a more in-depth analysis of the security vulnerabilities found by the security scan. Known vulnerabilities that are analyzed as safe are displayed in a small font and will not raised the security notification.

Vulnerabilities with available reviews have a button next to them in the security listing Live Data, allowing to display the details of the reviews.

See the XWiki Security Policy for more details about our review process and to know where to reach us for questions.

Quick Image Insertion

You can now search for and insert images using the keyboard, by typing / (slash) and selecting the image Quick Action. This opens a drop down that lists latest images uploaded to the page and to the whole wiki. You can also upload new images directly from the drop down. Checkout the CKEditor Integration documentation for more information.

Quick Link to a new Attachment

You can now upload and link to an attachment using the keyboard, by typing / (slash) and selecting the Link Quick Action. This opens a drop-down that now supports uploading attachments.

Fine-grained control over how Chrome accesses XWiki

The "XWiki Host" PDF Export configuration parameter has been replaced by a new configuration parameter named "XWiki URI". While the old parameter was used to specify only the domain name or IP address of XWiki (required by the headless Chrome web browser to open the print preview page) the new parameter allows you to specify additionally the scheme (e.g. HTTP versus HTTPS) and the port number (e.g. 8080). This makes it easier to configure the remote Chrome so that it bypasses the proxy (e.g. SSO) in front of XWiki (e.g. by accessing directly the servlet engine that runs XWiki, such as Tomcat).

Note that the old "XWiki Host" configuration parameter is still taken into account (e.g. if it was set before upgrading to XWiki 15.7+) but the new "XWiki URI" parameter takes precedence (when set). We recommend updating your configuration to use the new parameter (in case you're using a remote Chrome and not the user's browser for PDF export). Migration is easy: just copy the value from the old parameter to the new one. This is possible because the scheme and port number are optional when specifying the "XWiki URI".

For more information checkout the PDF Export Application documentation.

Buttons appearance

We made some changes on the visual aspect of buttons:

• the gradient on the buttons background has been removed
• buttons are now borderless, except for the default buttons since they have the same background as the default background

PDF Export Metadata

The PDF export template has a new field named "Metadata" that you can use to display additional information about the exported wiki pages in the PDF header or footer. You need to follow three steps:

• Use the Metadata field to indicate the extra information you want to display. For instance, if you want to display the tags:

  {{velocity output="false"}}
  $metadata.putAll({
    'data-tags': $stringtool.join($doc.getTagList(), ', ')
  })
  {{/velocity}}

• Use the Header or Footer fields to indicate where to display the metadata:

  {{html clean="false"}}
  Tags: <span class="pdf-doc-tags"></span>
  {{/html}}

• Use the Style Sheet Extension object to inject the metadata in the PDF header or footer:

  h1[data-xwiki-document-reference] {
    string-set: doc-tags attr(data-tags);
  }
  .pdf-doc-tags:before {
    content: string(doc-tags);
  }

See the PDF Export Application documentation for more information.

Live Data in Batch Restore

The list of deleted pages that is displayed when restoring a batch of pages uses Live Data instead of Livetable.

Added keyboard support to the "Media type" Solr search facet.

Added keyboard navigation to the lightbox dropdown. The dropdown can now be opened from a keyboard and navigated with tabulator presses.

Automatic validation and encryption keys

The validation and encryption key configured in the xwiki.cfg file and used for cookies don't need to be set anymore. When not set (the default now) they are automatically generated and stored.

Default radius of UI elements

The default radius of UI elements of the Flamingo Skin are now larger (about 1.75 times larger) by default.

Headings appearance

In order to make headings easier to ready, they are now bolder. In addition, the size difference between two adjacent levels is larger.

Attachments Page from the Index now use a Live Data

The Attachments page displayed in the Index now use a Live Data instead of a Live Table for displaying the information.