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5	5	This is the release notes for [[XWiki Commons>>http://commons.xwiki.org]], [[XWiki Rendering>>http://rendering.xwiki.org]], [[XWiki Platform>>http://platform.xwiki.org]] and [[XWiki Enterprise>>http://enterprise.xwiki.org]]. They share the same release notes as they are released together and have the same version.
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7		-<insert description of release here>
	7	+The 6.4 release is the last major release of the 6.x development Cycle and as such was mainly dedicated to improvements and bugfixes on things introduced during 6.X.
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9		-= New and Noteworthy (since XWiki <version - 1>) =
	9	+This version introduces some developer oriented improvements: allow wiki based skins to overwrite macro.vm template, allow filesystem skins indicating explicitly the skin they are inheriting from, allow any component to be injected with its ComponentDescriptor, Panels and UI extensions are now executed with the right of their author so among other things they can use APIs requiring Programming rights.
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11		-[[Full list of issues fixed and Dashboard for <version>>>http://jira.xwiki.org/secure/Dashboard.jspa?selectPageId=<fill id here>]].
	11	+It also brings UI improvements in the Menu application, a new Mail application (and Mail-related improvements, such as the ability to send massive number of emails) and lots of Flamingo skin improvements (Mobile-friendliness to mention one), while offering developers the ability to write LESS in Skin Extensions, and a cool icon picker.
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	13	+Last but not least, this version provides the ability to rate Extensions inside the Extension Repository and visualise them inside the Extension Manager.
	14	+
	15	+= New and Noteworthy (since XWiki 6.3) =
	16	+
	17	+[[Full list of issues fixed and Dashboard for 6.4>>http://jira.xwiki.org/secure/Dashboard.jspa?selectPageId=12998]].
	18	+
13	13	== Menu Application ==
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15	15	Taking advantage of the ability to have LESS inside our [[StyleSheetExtensions>>extensions:Extension.Skin Extension Plugin||anchor="HUseLESS"]], we improved the [[Menu Application>>extensions:Extension.Menu Application]], on Flamingo based skins, making it responsive and also adapting its styling according to the active [[Flamingo Theme>>extensions:Extension.Flamingo Theme Application]].
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375	375	== API Breakages ==
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377		-The following APIs were modified since <project> <version - 1>:
	383	+The following APIs were modified since XWiki 6.3:
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	385	+* Needed to make sure transformations are executed with the right metadata(((
379	379	{{code language="none"}}
380		-<clirr output here>
	387	+org.xwiki.rendering.macro.MacroContentParser: Method 'public org.xwiki.rendering.block.XDOM parse(java.lang.String, org.xwiki.rendering.transformation.MacroTransformationContext, boolean, org.xwiki.rendering.listener.MetaData, boolean)' has been added to an interface
381	381	{{/code}}
	389	+)))
	390	+
	391	+* It's very unlikely that this class is implemented by anything else and it does not make much sense to not have this method, since this is not really a cache behind it but a Map that keep engines forever it may create a memory leak on a big farm running for a long time(((
	392	+{{code language="none"}}
	393	+org.xwiki.velocity.VelocityFactory: Method 'public org.xwiki.velocity.VelocityEngine removeVelocityEngine(java.lang.String)' has been added to an interface
	394	+{{/code}}
	395	+)))
	396	+
	397	+* This shouldn't be a backward incompatible change since it's a method addition on an Annotation.(((
	398	+{{code language="none"}}
	399	+org.xwiki.component.annotation.Component: Method 'public boolean staticRegistration()' has been added to an interface
	400	+{{/code}}
	401	+)))
	402	+
	403	+* Does not make much sense allowing to register a JMX bean and not to unregister it.(((
	404	+{{code language="none"}}
	405	+org.xwiki.management.JMXBeanRegistration: Method 'public void unregisterMBean(java.lang.String)' has been added to an interface
	406	+{{/code}}
	407	+)))
	408	+
	409	+* Young API, this method needs to be available for consistency with the getMainWikiDescriptor/Id pair of methods(((
	410	+{{code language="none"}}
	411	+org.xwiki.wiki.descriptor.WikiDescriptorManager: Method 'public org.xwiki.wiki.descriptor.WikiDescriptor getCurrentWikiDescriptor()' has been added to an interface
	412	+{{/code}}
	413	+)))
	414	+
	415	+* WYSIWYG's MacroService API was not previously considering a multiwiki environment.(((
	416	+{{code language="none"}}
	417	+org.xwiki.gwt.wysiwyg.client.plugin.macro.MacroService: Method 'public org.xwiki.gwt.wysiwyg.client.plugin.macro.MacroDescriptor getMacroDescriptor(java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String)' has been added to an interface
	418	+org.xwiki.gwt.wysiwyg.client.plugin.macro.MacroService: Method 'public java.util.List getMacroDescriptors(java.lang.String, java.lang.String)' has been added to an interface
	419	+org.xwiki.gwt.wysiwyg.client.plugin.macro.MacroServiceAsync: Method 'public void getMacroDescriptor(java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String, com.google.gwt.user.client.rpc.AsyncCallback)' has been added to an interface
	420	+org.xwiki.gwt.wysiwyg.client.plugin.macro.MacroServiceAsync: Method 'public void getMacroDescriptors(java.lang.String, java.lang.String, com.google.gwt.user.client.rpc.AsyncCallback)' has been added to an interface
	421	+{{/code}}
	422	+)))
	423	+
	424	+* Add new methods to the Icon Set Module(((
	425	+{{code language="none"}}
	426	+org.xwiki.icon.IconManager: Method 'public java.util.List getIconNames()' has been added to an interface
	427	+org.xwiki.icon.IconManager: Method 'public java.util.List getIconNames(java.lang.String)' has been added to an interface
	428	+org.xwiki.icon.IconSetManager: Method 'public java.util.List getIconSetNames()' has been added to an interface
	429	+{{/code}}
	430	+)))
	431	+
	432	+* LESS refactoring.(((
	433	+{{code language="none"}}
	434	+org.xwiki.lesscss.LessCompilerScriptService: Method 'public boolean clearCacheFromFileSystemSkin(java.lang.String)' has been removed
	435	+org.xwiki.lesscss.LessCompilerScriptService: Return type of method 'public org.xwiki.lesscss.ColorTheme getColorThemeFromSkinFile(java.lang.String)' has been changed to org.xwiki.lesscss.colortheme.ColorTheme
	436	+org.xwiki.lesscss.LessCompilerScriptService: Return type of method 'public org.xwiki.lesscss.ColorTheme getColorThemeFromSkinFile(java.lang.String, java.lang.String)' has been changed to org.xwiki.lesscss.colortheme.ColorTheme
	437	+org.xwiki.lesscss.ColorTheme: Class org.xwiki.lesscss.ColorTheme removed
	438	+org.xwiki.lesscss.ColorThemeCache: Class org.xwiki.lesscss.ColorThemeCache removed
	439	+org.xwiki.lesscss.LESSCache: Class org.xwiki.lesscss.LESSCache removed
	440	+org.xwiki.lesscss.LESSColorThemeConverter: Class org.xwiki.lesscss.LESSColorThemeConverter removed
	441	+org.xwiki.lesscss.LESSCompiler: Class org.xwiki.lesscss.LESSCompiler removed
	442	+org.xwiki.lesscss.LESSCompilerException: Class org.xwiki.lesscss.LESSCompilerException removed
	443	+org.xwiki.lesscss.LESSSkinFileCache: Class org.xwiki.lesscss.LESSSkinFileCache removed
	444	+org.xwiki.lesscss.LESSSkinFileCompiler: Class org.xwiki.lesscss.LESSSkinFileCompiler removed
	445	+{{/code}}
	446	+)))
	447	+
	448	+* Lots of refactoring on the new Mail module, which is a young API(((
	449	+{{code language="none"}}
	450	+org.xwiki.mail.MailResultListener: Class org.xwiki.mail.MailResultListener removed
	451	+org.xwiki.mail.MailSender: Method 'public void send(javax.mail.internet.MimeMessage, javax.mail.Session)' has been removed
	452	+org.xwiki.mail.MailSender: Parameter 1 of 'public void sendAsynchronously(javax.mail.internet.MimeMessage, javax.mail.Session, org.xwiki.mail.MailResultListener)' has changed its type to java.lang.Iterable
	453	+org.xwiki.mail.MailSender: Parameter 3 of 'public void sendAsynchronously(javax.mail.internet.MimeMessage, javax.mail.Session, org.xwiki.mail.MailResultListener)' has changed its type to org.xwiki.mail.MailListener
	454	+org.xwiki.mail.MailSender: Return type of method 'public void sendAsynchronously(javax.mail.internet.MimeMessage, javax.mail.Session, org.xwiki.mail.MailResultListener)' has been changed to org.xwiki.mail.MailResult
	455	+org.xwiki.mail.MailSender: Method 'public void waitTillSent(long)' has been removed
	456	+org.xwiki.mail.MailSenderConfiguration: Method 'public java.util.List getBCCAddresses()' has been added to an interface
	457	+org.xwiki.mail.MailSenderConfiguration: Method 'public java.lang.String getScriptServicePermissionCheckerHint()' has been added to an interface
	458	+org.xwiki.mail.MailSenderConfiguration: Method 'public long getSendWaitTime()' has been added to an interface
	459	+org.xwiki.mail.script.MimeMessageWrapper: In method 'public MimeMessageWrapper(org.xwiki.mail.internal.ExtendedMimeMessage, javax.mail.Session, org.xwiki.mail.MailSender, org.xwiki.context.Execution, org.xwiki.component.manager.ComponentManager)' the number of arguments has changed
	460	+org.xwiki.mail.script.MimeMessageWrapper: Accessibility of method 'public MimeMessageWrapper(org.xwiki.mail.internal.ExtendedMimeMessage, javax.mail.Session, org.xwiki.mail.MailSender, org.xwiki.context.Execution, org.xwiki.component.manager.ComponentManager)' has been decreased from public to package
	461	+org.xwiki.mail.script.MimeMessageWrapper: Method 'public java.util.concurrent.BlockingQueue getErrors()' has been removed
	462	+org.xwiki.mail.script.MimeMessageWrapper: Method 'public void send()' has been removed
	463	+org.xwiki.mail.script.MimeMessageWrapper: Method 'public void sendAsynchronously()' has been removed
	464	+org.xwiki.mail.script.MimeMessageWrapper: Method 'public void waitTillSent(long)' has been removed
	465	+{{/code}}
	466	+)))
	467	+
	468	+* Switched to the generics-aware commons-collections4.(((
	469	+{{code language="none"}}
	470	+com.xpn.xwiki.monitor.api.MonitorPlugin: Return type of method 'public org.apache.commons.collections.buffer.CircularFifoBuffer getLastTimerData()' has been changed to org.apache.commons.collections4.queue.CircularFifoQueue
	471	+com.xpn.xwiki.monitor.api.MonitorPlugin: Return type of method 'public org.apache.commons.collections.buffer.CircularFifoBuffer getLastUnfinishedTimerData()' has been changed to org.apache.commons.collections4.queue.CircularFifoQueue
	472	+{{/code}}
	473	+)))