Changes Report
Configuration in /etc/xwiki
XWiki will now try to find xwiki.cfg and xwiki.properties in /etc/xwiki/ on file system before looking in the webapp resources.
Live Search in Administration
The administration menu now has a search input at the top that can be used to filter the administration categories and sections. At the moment the live search matches only the category/section name and description.
Help Center Application bundled by default
The Help Center Application has been bundled with the default XE flavor (on the main wiki only) in order to help new users get familiar with XWiki faster. It can be easily accessed from the Applications panel.
Grouping of similar Notifications
Similar notifications (for example a page has been updated by the same user several time in a row) are now grouped together and the details of all activities is displayed in the "details" section.
Menu Application bundled by default
The Menu Application has been bundled with the default XE flavor (on the main wiki only) in order to allow admins to easily setup and display a horizontal menu. It can be easily accessed from the Applications panel by admins (members of the XWiki.AdminGroup) only.
Content menu usability improvements
We've had various reports that people new to XWiki were struggling to find the content menu (edit, create, etc.) so after some discussions, we've decided to try to make it a bit clearer and user-friendly.
The main changes include:
- adding labels and backgrounds to each menu button to make it clearer that users could/should interact with them
- merging the 2 action menus into a single one ("More Actions") to address issues with understanding what is the difference between them and also the "fear of the cog" icon, which was confusing some users.
Standard version of the document in the history
It's now possible to see/compare/revert to the standard version of a document (the one coming from the installed extension) right from the document history view.
Simplified adding a logo to a Flamingo Theme
Adding a logo to a flamingo theme used to require you to first go into view mode on the theme page and attach the new logo image file before you would be able to see it in edit mode, as an option. Now, we have integrated the attachment selector so that you can upload and select a new logo image directly from edit mode, removing the extra steps. More details in the documentation.
Partial import of Extensions
By default only the extension file is proxied from external source. Since XWiki 9.5RC1 you can bump proxy level up and proxy also previous extension versions and their dependency information. After update of extensions this information will no longer be kept in document objects but, when requested, proxied from external source. This may be enabled by setting Proxy Level attribute of ExtensionProxy XObject to File and Previous Versions. The point of bumping up proxying level is to save space in XWiki database.
Date filter in Livetables
You can now filter by date in the livetable.
Recommended Templates when creating pages
Depending on the location, when creating a page, the page type could "promote" several Templates and the first one might be automatically selected. This promotion occurs for Templates that have a "creation restriction" matching the current location (or a parent of the current location).
Example: When going to the Blog home page or when on any Blog post, if you try to create a page, you will see that the Blog Post Template will be displayed first in the list and it will be pre-selected. The same thing will happen for applications created with App Within Minutes.
More details in the documentation.
New icons
We added new mappings for the menu, more-vertical, edit, copy, move, download, log-in, log-out, th icons. They can be used using the Icon Themes service and they have equivalent in both Silk and FontAwesome themes.
Also with the upgrade to Font Awesome 4.7.0 we improved the mapping for the basket, bell_delete, book_addresses, cake, calendar_add, calendar_delete, cart_add, chart_curve, cursor, emoticon_smile, hourglass, newspaper, note, paintbrush, shape_group, shape_ungroup, sitemap, television, thumb_down, thumb_up, tick, user_add, user_delete, weather_snow icons.
Menus use the Icon Theme
Before all Icon themes shared the same menu icons (coming from Bootstrap's Glyphicon). Now the Icon themes affect also the icons from the content menu and drawer.
New API for in-page component instantiation
The Wiki Component API offers a new interface called WikiObjectComponentBuilder that allows to instantiate new components using defined XObjects. For more informations, see the Wiki Component API documentation
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.
