Release Notes for XWiki 10.5-rc-1

Version 12.2 by Clément Aubin on 2018/06/11
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This is the release notes for XWiki Commons, XWiki Rendering and XWiki Platform. They share the same release notes as they are released together and have the same version.

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New and Noteworthy (since XWiki 10.4)

Full list of issues fixed and Dashboard for <version>.

For Users

Visible Save

 
The save buttons bar is now always visible which makes it simpler to see the buttons, even for long pages (some users used to not find the buttons).

Messages in Notifications

 
When the Message Stream Application is enabled (which is not the case by default), you can now see your messages in the notifications.

With this feature in place, the Notifications application is now able to fully replace the Activity Stream one (which will happen in the following versions of XWiki).

New Tip

 
New tip about x+x+x+a and x+x+x+h key combos.

For Admins

XAR entry types improvements

 
Starting XWiki 10.4 we started to introduce the concept of page "Types".

  • Several ways to protect extension pages are now provided and can be configured in xwiki.properties:

    #-# The possible choices are:
    #-# * none: no protection at all
    #-# * warning (the default): everyone get a warning when trying to edit a protected document
    #-# * deny = EDIT/DELETE right is denied for everyone except for admins who just get a warning
    #-# * forcedDeny = EDIT/DELETE right is denied for everyone, admins can't force edit/delete
    #-# * denySimple = EDIT/DELETE right is denied for simple users except for simple admins who just get a warning
    #-# * forcedDenySimple = EDIT/DELETE right is denied for all simple users, simple admins can't force edit/delete
    # extension.xar.protection=warning
  • Main.WebHome page entry type is now demo since the wiki home page is configurable so there is no reason to prevent its deletion
  • XWiki.XWikiAdminGroup page entry type is now configuration, was forgotten in previous version
  • the type home has been removed since it was designed for wiki home page use case which does not make much sense anymore

Improved Navigation Panel Administration

 
The Navigation Panel administration section has been improved with support for drag & drop. You can now drag pages from the navigation tree to exclude them and back to the tree to include them. See the Navigation Panel documentation for more information.

Miscellaneous

  • Filesystem store by default: Filesystem store is now the default location for attachments and deleted documents. See attachment storage documentation for more details.

For Developers

Date Script Services

 
A new script service called $services.date is now available. It currently implements the "time ago" displays (such as "12 minutes ago") and it support a lot of locales. See: Date Script Service.

Miscellaneous

  • The content of 'doc.location' in Livetables is automatically set to HTML: The content of the 'doc.location' column in livetables is now automatically set to HTML, there is no need to add 'doc.location':{'html':true} to the $columnProperties of the livetable anymore.

Moved Modules

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Upgrades

The following runtime dependencies have been upgraded (they have a different release cycle than XWiki Commons, XWiki Rendering and XWiki Platform):

Translations

The following translations have been updated: 

Known issues

Backward Compatibility and Migration Notes

General Notes

When upgrading make sure you compare your xwiki.cfg, xwiki.properties and web.xml files with the newest version since some configuration parameters may have been modified or added. Note that you should add xwiki.store.migration=1 so that XWiki will attempt to automatically migrate your current database to the new schema. Make sure you backup your Database before doing anything.

Issues specific to XWiki 10.5

Dropped Groovy modules

The bundled groovy-all JAR has been replaced by a discrete list of groovy JARs. We've dropped several JARs that we consider are not required by default in XWiki. We dropped the content of the following JARs: groovy-ant, groovy-bsf, groovy-cli-picocli, groovy-console, groovy-docgenerator, groovy-groovydoc, groovy-groovysh, groovy-swing, groovy-test, groovy-test-junit5, groovy-testng.

Filesystem storage by default for attachments and deleted documents

New attachments and deleted documents will now be stored in the filesystem by default. If you really don't want that you can go to xwiki.cfg and set hibernate value for all the properties in the section Stores with both "hibernate" and "file" support in XWiki Standard..

Note that existing attachments or deleted documents are not moved to filesystem but keep working since XWiki now supports mixed storage for those. So if you don't want to place any attachment on the filesystem store make sure to move the configuration to "hibernate" before executing the Distribution Wizard.

API Breakages

The following APIs were modified since XWiki 10.4:

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Credits

The following people have contributed code to this release (sorted alphabetically):

Adel Atallah
Alex Cotiugă
Anca Luca
Clément Aubin
Ecaterina Moraru (Valica)
Guillaume Delhumeau
Marius Dumitru Florea
Nam
Pierre Bondoerffer
shivahnshankar
Stéphane Laurière
sytkosa
Thomas Mortagne
Vincent Massol
xrichard

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