Changes Report

Notifications can now be received by emails

It is now possible to receive notifications by email. The feature is still quite new and the displayed content will be polished in future versions, but you can already use it.

All you need is to select, on your user settings, the types of notifications you are interested in. The emails are sent periodically and according to you preferences: hourly, daily or weekly.

This feature will progressively replace the Watchlist application that has been available in XWiki for several years now.

Notification Filters

When configuring Notifications, it is now possible to control the locations you are interested in. This allows to limit the number of Notifications you receive or only receive specific ones. For example you can decide to receive Notifications when Comments are created but only on the Blog page and its children.

Disable notifications emails

You can disable the new notifications emails feature with the option notifications.emails.enabled on xwiki.properties.

Notifications Email Renderer

You can override the way notifications emails are generated for each individual event type. See Notifications API.

Image Attachment Preview

The attachments tab at the bottom of the page is now displaying a preview for image attachments.

Attachment Icons use the Icon Theme

The attachment icons displayed on the attachments tab at the bottom of the page is now using the configured Icon Theme.

Optional Standard Flavor dependencies

The following dependencies are now optional, which means that they can now be uninstalled easily (before, uninstalling them would uninstall the Flavor too!):

• xwiki-platform-logging-ui
• xwiki-platform-user-directory-ui
• xwiki-platform-scheduler-ui
• xwiki-platform-help-ui
• xwiki-platform-flamingo-theme-bootswatch
• xwiki-platform-search-solr-ui
• xwiki-platform-search-ui
• xwiki-platform-office-ui
• xwiki-platform-invitation-ui
• xwiki-platform-appwithinminutes-ui
• xwiki-platform-linkchecker-ui
• xwiki-platform-sandbox
• xwiki-platform-sharepage-ui
• xwiki-platform-distribution-flavor-tour
• application-templates-ui
• editor-tool-highlighting-ui
• xwiki-platform-wiki-ui-mainwiki
• xwiki-platform-wiki-ui-wiki
• xwiki-platform-menu-ui
• application-help-center

Recommended versions

It's now possible in the build or in the xwiki.properties file to indicate a set of extension for which you want to use a specific version when they are installed as dependencies. By default all commons/rendering/platform extension have a recommended version synchronized with the version of the distribution or XWiki you installed.

New XObject type for in-page event definition

Custom events can now be defined directly in wiki pages through XObjects ; more information about this feature can be found in the Event Stream Module documentation.

New RSS feed for Notifications

It is now possible to get the notifications occurring on a farm through a RSS feed. The user can access their RSS feeds through two links in the notifications center and in the notifications tray.

Notification templates override through XObjects

A wiki administrator can now create custom NotificationDisplayerClass XObjects in order to override default templates used in the notifications tray. For more informations, please refer to the Notifications API documentation.

The Event Stream can now send events

The Event Stream now sends EventStreamAddedEvent and EventStreamDeletedEvent events when an event is added or removed from the Event Stream. You can find more informations in the Event Stream documentation.

Generate TOC for another page

It's now possible to generate a table of contents for another page with the introduction of the reference parameter.

Live email notifications

A user can now receive live notifications when some events are triggered in the wiki.
Depending on the platform configuration, when an event that should trigger a live notification is sent, the platform will wait X minutes before sending the notification email. If during this period, new events of the same kind are sent, they will be grouped in the same email. You can get more informations in the Notifications Application documentation.

Grace time for Live notifications

The grace time of the live email notifications sent by the platform to the users can be configured in xwiki.properties. You can get more informations in the Notifications Application documentation.

Include and exclude Notification filters

A user can now define notification filters that are either inclusive or exclusive.

Notifications that come from a document that matches an exclusive filter will then be discarded.

New default notification filters

Default notification filters can now be created.
When a default notification filter is created, it appears as activated on every profile of every user. Each user can then choose to disable it (or re-enable it) by clicking on the "Advanced filtering options" link in its notification center.

In this version, only one default filter is provided (called "System Filter") and allows each user to hide (or not) notifications coming from the system user of XWiki.

Jobs REST API improvements

Fail job started with async=false now return an error code 500. A serialized error message with complete stack trace is also provided in the Job status.

Extension Manager improvements

Extensions installed as dependencies but which don't have any backward dependencies anymore are now taken into account by the upgrade job.

Notifications Preferences

It is now possible to enable or disable all the notifications sent by an application.