Release Notes for XWiki 11.10-rc-1

Version 2.1 by Vincent Massol on 2019/11/09

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 <version - 1>)

Full list of issues fixed and Dashboard for <full version here even for RC, e.g. 10.5>.

For Users

No changes!

For Admins

Partial Wiki XAR Export

 
You can now do a partial export of your wiki from the wiki administration by selecting the pages you wish to export from a tree.

Orphaned Dependencies Cleanup

 
A new step has been added to the Distribution Wizard right after the Flavor step. Its job is to make sure no orphaned dependency (extension installed as dependency but which don't have any backward dependency left) is left in the installed extensions. The step suggests to uninstall the invalid ones by default and make the others top level extensions (i.e. taken into account by the upgrade job). Among other things, it fixes long standing problems caused by deprecated extensions no longer included in the Standard Flavor, like the Watchlist UI.

Allow to disable authentication security mechanism

 
In order to avoid any problem in the future with the Authentication Security that we recently introduced, we created a dedicated UI to easily disable/enable this mechanism. Note that disabling the authentication security will also clear the information about login failures, which might unlock users in case of problems.

For Developers

  • An API has been added to get orphaned dependencies

  • An API has been added to get backward dependencies including optional dependencies

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 and merge the following XWiki configuration files since some parameters may have been modified, removed or added:
    • xwiki.cfg
    • xwiki.properties
    • web.xml
    • hibernate.cfg.xml
  • Add xwiki.store.migration=1 in xwiki.cfg so that XWiki will attempt to automatically migrate your current database to any new schema. Make sure you backup your Database before doing anything.

Issues specific to XWiki <version>

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API Breakages

The following APIs were modified since <project> <version - 1>:

Credits

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

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