ReleaseNotesXWikiEnterprise24M1
Version 6.2 by Silvia Macovei on 2010/05/27
Contents
First milestone of the XWiki Enterprise 2.4 version (Roadmap).
The highlights of this release are: Lucene by default and Lucene admin, rendering cache
New and Noteworthy (since XWiki Enterprise 2.3)
Search
Changed default search engine
Lucene Search is promoted as default search.
The Lucene search has several benefits over web search:
- It indexes attachments (such as PDFs or MS Word documents) searchable. It does not replace the search page itself but rather makes more content available for searching.
- It provides a scoring for the search results.
- It offers pagination when there are lots of results.
- It scales well when there are lots of documents in the wiki.
- It supports multi wikis.
- It supports a strong query syntax.
New search configuration UI
The Search Application now has a dedicated section in the wiki administration section from which you can:
- Choose the default engine (Lucene or Web).
- See the status for the Lucene Search: the number of indexed elements and the number of elements waiting in the queue.
- Control the Lucene index by indexing the whole farm, indexing the wiki or customizing the index to your specific preferences.
For more information check out the documentation page.
Rendering cache
Code macro new configuration
Chart macro improvements
REST new API
Translations
- Newly supported language: Vietnamese
- WYSIWYG newly supported language: Traditional Chinese
- All the translations have been updated
Known issues
Backward Compatibility and Migration Notes
General Notes
You may also want to import the default wiki XAR in order to benefit from the improvements listed above.
Migration Notes
- the main entry point for search UI is now the Main.Search page that will use the configured search engine (Lucene by default), if you explicitly want to refer to Lucene or Database search you can Main.LuceneSearch and Main.DatabaseSearch pages. Note that nothing is broken here (Main.WebSearch page is still there and include Main.DatabaseSearch page), it's just the new clean way of targeting the search page.
