Changes Report

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.

Syntax highlighting by default in the wiki editor

The Syntax Highlighting Application is now bundled and enabled by default.

Gadget Wizard Update

The Gadget Wizard used to insert and edit the gadgets from the Dashboard has been updated to use the new Macro Wizard from the CKEditor.

Extracted the $displayContentFooter layout variable from $displayDocExtra

A new $displayContentFooter layout variable is available to control the display of the section after the document content but before the docextra tabs; i.e. tags, creator and creation date.
Now, $displayDocExtra controls only the display of the docextra tabs, without affecting the content footer section, individualized above.

Office Import from CKEditor

We upgraded CKEditor Integration to its latest version which brings support for importing office files directly from the CKEditor. There's a dedicated button on the tool bar that opens a dialog where you can select the office file to import and you can choose to filter the styles or to use the Office Viewer macro. Checkout the CKEditor Integration documentation for more information.

Live Table User Filter

Filtering the Live Table rows by a column that display users should be easier now with the new suggest filter.

Easier Flamingo Skin customizations

We now provide a default less/custom.less file that can be overwritten for your custom Flamingo Skin. You don't longer need to manually overwrite less/style.less.vm in order to add your custom code. This will make the upgrade to a newer version of the skin much smoother.