Release Notes for XWiki 9.10-rc-1
This is the release notes for XWiki Commons, XWiki Rendering, XWiki Platform and XWiki Enterprise. They share the same release notes as they are released together and have the same version.
This is mostly a release focusing on improving the new Notifications feature, in order to make it as polished and usable as possible before the end of the year (i.e. before the end of the Cycle and before we elect a new LTS release). It also contains several bug fixes.
New and Noteworthy (since XWiki 9.9)
Full list of issues fixed and Dashboard for <version>.
For Users
Improved Notifications email layout
The email layout for notifications has been totally redesigned.
Improved Notifications UI
The notifications menu is more clear now, and a link to see what has changed is available in the details of each event, when you click on the date.
Filter users in notifications
You now have the ability to black list some users in the notifications you receive (by default you follow everyone).
For Admins
Filesystem attachment improvements: A few of the long standing issues in the filesystem attachments storage have been fixed:
- Deleted attachments are now available on the "Deleted Attachments" tab of the Page Index
- The attachment porter script is not needed anymore (XWiki supports mixed attachment storage which means database attachment will stay in the database and keep working after changing the default store)
- Various other bugfixes
For Developers
No changes!
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, XWiki Platform and XWiki Enterprise):
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 9.10-rc-1
- XWiki#getURLContent() and XWiki#getURLContentAsBytes() now require Programming Rights. If you had wiki pages using those API, make sure that they are saved with a user having Programming Rights.
API Breakages
The following APIs were modified since <project> <version - 1>:
Credits
The following people have contributed code to this release (sorted alphabetically):
<code contributors>