Release Notes for XWiki 6.4-milestone-3

Version 18.1 by Thomas Mortagne on 2015/01/05

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 <version - 1>)

Full list of issues fixed and Dashboard for <version>.

New ratings module

Contrib ratings project as been moved to platform. Java APIs have been broken by the package renaming but script APIs have been kept retro-compatibles and the UI stays mostly the same.

See Ratings Application.

Ratings support for extensions

It's now possible to rate extensions in Extension Repository and any repository handler can expose extension rating that are displayed (read only for now) in Extension Manager.

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Wiki Configuration

A new "Configuration > Wiki" section is added in Administration where you can configure the current wiki, whether it is the main wiki or a subwiki.

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For more information, see the documentation.

Flamingo

Some improvements have been made on the responsive tables (including the livetables) and we have fixed the broken livetables for mobiles on some places:

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Solr server setup package

Everything needed to setup an XWiki index in a remote Solr server is now packaged in a standalone project (xwiki-platform-search-solr-server-data). A Debian package (xwiki-solr-data) has also been provided to make easier to keep it up to date.

Miscellaneous

  • Displaying the 'Stable versions' label in an extension's description in Extension Manager before and after the list of versions is retrieved.
    <insert misc user stuff and important bug fix descriptions here in a list, when they are too small to warrant a section by themselves - Change the version in the URL below!>

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

For Developers

Rendering

  • XWiki Rendering now provide an HTML5 Renderer.

Deprecated and Retired projects

<description of deprecated and retired projects>

Upgrades

The following dependencies have been upgraded:

Miscellaneous

<other dev stuff to add and link to JIRA for all issues fixed>

Translations

The following translations have been updated: 

Tested Browsers & Databases

Performances tests compared to <last super stable version>

<a summary of the comparison with latest super stable version>

More details on <link to the test report>.

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 <version>

<issues specific to the project>

API Breakages

The following APIs were modified since <project> <version - 1>:

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