Release Notes

Last modified by Vincent Massol on 2026/08/28 22:09

Explanation

The Release Notes Application is built entirely from wiki pages: a handful of XClasses, five wiki macros and one page per rendering layout, with no Java component to deploy.

That makes each of its parts replaceable from the wiki itself. Release Note Structure describes the pages and xobjects everything else works on. The getChanges and displayChanges macros query and render changes, so you can build views of your own, while releasenotechanges, releasenotecontributors and html5video are what a release note itself is made of. Create a Release Note Template changes what a new release note starts from, and Create a Change Displayer adds a layout of your own.

FAQ

Where is the source code?

In the xwiki-contrib/application-releasenotes repository on GitHub; the pages of the application are XAR resources under application-releasenotes-ui/src/main/resources.

Do I need to write Java to extend the application?

No. Templates, displayers and reports are wiki pages written in XWiki syntax and Velocity.

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