Release Notes for XWiki 4.5 Milestone 1

Version 16.1 by Marius Dumitru Florea on 2013/01/14
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This is the release notes for XWiki Platform, XWiki Enterprise and XWiki Enterprise Manager. 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 4.4)

Distribution Wizard improvements

When upgrading from an old version that didn't have the distribution wizard, the wizard doesn't know what user interface (XAR) was previously installed (imported). This information can help the Extension Manager merge automatically the wiki pages from your database with those from the new version of the user interface.

The distribution wizard will first ask you if you are performing an upgrade.

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Then you need to specify the id and version of the previously installed user interface.

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Finally you need to repair the specified user interface extension. This will mark the extension as installed (update the extension index without actually importing the wiki pages from the XAR).

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Next you can install the new version of the user interface.

Translatable AppWithinMinutes apps

The AppWithinMinutes wizard is now generating a document translation bundle for the application which allows you to translate class field pretty names, list values (for static list fields) and live table columns names. If you have an existing application that was created with AppWithinMinutes you just have to edit and save it to get the new translation bundle.

If your wiki is setup for multilingual support then on the application home page, in the application menu, you now have an entry to translate the application. The link takes you to the document translation bundle.

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When editing an application you now have the option to update the translation bundle. Note that for the moment the translation bundle (its default language) is regenerated so you may lose translation keys you added yourself. In the future we want to update the translation bundle preserving the custom keys.

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See the AppWithinMinutes documentation for more information.

Miscellaneous

  • The message sender is now using the new user/group picker.

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  • The create and manage workspace forms are now using the new user picker.

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  • We improved the way changes are displayed by emphasizing the in-line changes.

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  • Support for searching content in Java Class file attachments has been temporarily dropped.
  • Markdown syntax support has been completely rewritten, fixing several existing bugs.

See the full list of JIRA issues fixed in this release.

For Developers

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Deprecated and Retired projects

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Upgrades

The following dependencies have been upgraded:

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Miscellaneous

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Translations

The following translations have been updated: 

Tested Browsers & Databases

Here's the list of browsers tested with this version (i.e. browsers that we've tested as working - Check the list of supported browsers):

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Here's the list of databases tested with this version (i.e. databases that we've tested as working - Check the list of supported databases):

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Known issues

Test Report

You can check the manual test report to learn about what was tested and the results on various browsers.

Backward Compatibility and Migration Notes

General Notes

You may also want to import the default wiki XAR in order to benefit from all the improvements listed above.

Always make sure you compare your xwiki.cfg and xwiki.properties files with the newest version since some configuration parameters were 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 4.5M1

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API Breakages

The following APIs were modified since XWiki 4.4:

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