Release Notes for XWiki 5.3 Milestone 1
- New and Noteworthy (since XWiki 5.2)
- For Developers
- Translations
- Tested Browsers & Databases
- Known issues
- Backward Compatibility and Migration Notes
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.
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New and Noteworthy (since XWiki 5.2)
Full list of issues fixed and Dashboard for 5.3.
<feature N>
<description of feature N>
Miscellaneous
- Some XSS fixes.
- By default only results from XE instance pings and for non-snapshot versions are counted in Active Installs.
See the full list of JIRA issues fixed in this release.
For Developers
DocumentReference Locale now taken into account in XWiki#exists and XWiki#getDocument
You can now use XWiki#exist method to check for some translation existence too, before that the only way was to either load the XWikiDocument or write your own XWQL or HQL query.
XWiki#getDocument has been modified accordingly too to be consistent so you don't need to go through XWikiDocument#getTranslatedDocument anymore.
It also mean that you need to be careful of what Locale is in the DocumentReference with those APIs now.
New Extension Manager APIs
Extension sub script services
The extension service now expose an extension point for extension related script service so that it's used as entry point for all of them.
By default the following are provided:
- $services.extension.core (for core extensions APIs)
- $services.extension.local (for local extensions APIs)
- $services.extension.installed (for installed extensions APIs)
- $services.extension.xar (for XAR extension APIS)
Search for installed extension in a specific namespace
The following method has been added org.xwiki.extension.repository.InstalledExtensionRepository:
* Search installed extensions based of the provided pattern and only in the passed namespace.
* <p>
* The pattern is a simple character chain.
*
* @param pattern the pattern to search
* @param namespace the namespace where to search
* @param offset the offset from where to start returning search results
* @param nb the maximum number of search results to return
* @return the found extensions descriptors, empty list if nothing could be found
* @throws SearchException error when trying to search provided pattern
* @since 5.3M1
*/
IterableResult<Extension> searchInstalledExtensions(String pattern, String namespace, int offset, int nb) throws SearchException;
XWiki Enterprise Archetype
A new archetype is now available to easily create your own product based on XWiki Enterprise. To use:
-DarchetypeArtifactId=xwiki-enterprise-archetype \
-DarchetypeGroupId=org.xwiki.enterprise \
-DarchetypeVersion=5.3-milestone-1
XAR plugin improvements
The XAR plugin now provides the ability to change values in the XML pages. For example:
<groupId>org.xwiki.commons</groupId>
<artifactId>xwiki-commons-tool-xar-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<transformations>
<transformation>
<file>Blog/WebHome.xml</file>
<xpath>/xwikidoc/object/property/itemsPerPage</xpath>
<value>100</value>
</transformation>
<transformation>
<artifact>org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-administration-ui</artifact>
<file>XWiki/XWikiPreferences.xml</file>
<xpath>/xwikidoc/object/property/colorTheme</xpath>
<value>ColorThemes.Mint</value>
</transformation>
</transformations>
</configuration>
</plugin>
Fold Events
A new kind of event is now available. An event tagged as "Fold" can be sent by a task that generates some events during its execution. Then, these generated events can be seen as children of the main task. In addition, the Activity Stream will not record these child events.
More documentation available on the Observation Module page.
Miscellaneous
- Script Services implementations have been moved outside of the internal package in order for CLIRR to check them for backward incompatibilities and so that their API are made available in generated Javadoc.
Deprecated and Retired projects
<description of deprecated and retired projects>
Upgrades
The following dependencies have been upgraded:
Translations
The following translations have been updated:
Tested Browsers & Databases
Here is the list of browsers we support and how they have been tested for this release:
| Browser | Status | |
|---|---|---|
 | Google Chrome 30 | Jira Tickets Marked as Fixed in the Release Notes |
 | Mozilla Firefox 24 | Not Tested |
 | Internet Explorer 8 | Not Tested |
| Internet Explorer 9 | Not Tested |
Here is the list of databases we support and how they have been tested for this release:
| Database | Status | |
|---|---|---|
 | HyperSQL 2.3.0 | Jira Tickets Marked as Fixed in the Release Notes |
 | MySQL 5.6.10 | Not Tested |
 | Oracle 11.2 | Not Tested |
 | PostgreSQL 9.2.4 | Not Tested |
Known issues
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.
Issues specific to XWiki <version>
<issues specific to the project>
API Breakages
The following APIs were modified since <project> <version - 1>:
