Release Notes for XWiki 13.0-rc-1
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
Live Data Macro
A new Live Data rendering macro is available to display dynamic lists of data. You can see it as a replacement of the existing Live Table macro, but it's not limited to that. We plan to add support for:
- multiple layouts (table, cards, etc.)
- advanced filtering
- multi-sort
- selection and batch actions
- in-place data editing and creation (including support for editing the data structure)
- real-time synchronization
For Admins
Logging Administration uses Live Data Macro
The Logging Administration section is now using the new Live Data macro to list the available loggers, instead of the old live table.
Miscellaneous
Maven extension repositories can be configured with custom HTTP headers: It is now possible to define extra HTTP headers to be used when connecting to a maven extension repository. See the maven extension repository connector documentation to learn more.
For Developers
Administration sections executed with the right author
The content of the administration sections used to be inserted as is into the general administration code forcing it to disable programming right to avoid dangerous code injection. Configuration section content is now executed with the right of its author and with all the rights of its author so not longer require display macro based hacks to workaround the previous limitation.
Moved Modules
<description deprecated, retired and moved projects>
Upgrades
The following runtime dependencies have been upgraded (they have a different release cycle than XWiki Commons, XWiki Rendering and XWiki Platform):
- CSS4J 3.2.0
- CKEditor Integration 1.52
- Netty to 4.1.58
- Antlr 4.9.1
- Apache PDFBox 2.0.22
- Apache Xerces 2.12.1
- Bean Validation 2.0.2
- Bouncy Castle 1.68
- Byte Buddy 1.10.19
- Caffeine 2.8.8
- Checker Qual 3.9.1
- Closure Compiler v20210106
- Error Prone annotations 2.5.1
- Groovy 2.5.14
- Guava 30.1
- HTTP Core 4.4.14
- Hibernate 5.4.27
- Hibernate Validator 6.2.0
- Infinispan 11.0.8
- JFFI 1.3.1
- JNR Constants 0.10.1
- JNR FFI 2.2.1
- JNR POSIX 3.1.4
- JSqlParser 4.0
- Jackson 2.12.1
- Joda-Time 2.10.9
- MariaDB connector 2.7.1
- Protobuf Java 3.14.0
- Protostream 4.3.5
- Tika 1.25
- JAXB 2.3.3
- XStream 1.4.15
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 13.0RC1
No more Struts
XWiki used to use the highly outdated Struts 1.3.10 as entry point to the (deprecated) actions system. In pratice Struts was not used for much (basically just mapping an action name with an action class) already and the very last bit has finally been removed but it's breaking change for any custom action:
- actions are now XWiki components implementing the role com.xpn.xwiki.internal.web.LegacyAction
- no more struts-config.xml, the component now indicate its own name in the URL and the onlt way to disable an action is to remove uninstall it
That being said the old XWiki actions system has been deprecated for a long time now and the recommended way to make a custom action up to date is to convert it to an Entity Resource Reference handler.
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):
<code contributors>