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Version 20.1 by Marius Dumitru Florea on 2018/11/20

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5 This is the release notes for [[XWiki Commons>>http://commons.xwiki.org]], [[XWiki Rendering>>http://rendering.xwiki.org]] and [[XWiki Platform>>http://platform.xwiki.org]]. They share the same release notes as they are released together and have the same version.
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Marius Dumitru Florea 12.1 7 Starting with this release the Activity Stream Application is fully replaced by the Notifications Application. The list of followed users is back in the user profile and the Page Index can be sorted by page title. The Users and Groups administrations sections have been improved and there's a new Page Picker Velocity macro that can be used by developers.
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Marius Dumitru Florea 17.1 10 Important bugs have been discovered since XWiki 10.9 has been released:
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Marius Dumitru Florea 15.1 12 * [[XWIKI-15781: Groups not displaying in Administration>>https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-15781]]
Marius Dumitru Florea 17.1 13 * [[XWIKI-15791: Improper behavior of the User Administration section>>https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-15791]]
14 * [[XWIKI-15793: Cannot Edit/Delete an user after editing another user's profile without page refresh>>https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-15793]]
Simon Urli 18.1 15 * [[XWIKI-15794: The default exported wiki XAR package name is 'XWiki.XWikiPreferences' instead of 'backup'>>https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-15794]]
Marius Dumitru Florea 19.1 16 * [[XWIKI-15835: Upgrading to XWiki 10.9 fails on Oracle>>https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-15835]]
Marius Dumitru Florea 20.1 17 * [[XWIKI-15879: Cannot accept or reject subwiki candidates>>https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-15879]]
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19 You can apply the fix indicated in the issue comments or wait for the next version of XWiki that will be released soon!
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Marius Dumitru Florea 2.1 22 = New and Noteworthy (since XWiki 10.8.1) =
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Marius Dumitru Florea 3.1 24 [[Full list of issues fixed and Dashboard for 10.9>>https://jira.xwiki.org/secure/Dashboard.jspa?selectPageId=14333]].
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28 === Upgrades ===
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30 The following runtime dependencies have been upgraded (they have a different release cycle than [[XWiki Commons>>http://commons.xwiki.org]], [[XWiki Rendering>>http://rendering.xwiki.org]] and [[XWiki Platform>>http://platform.xwiki.org]]):
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Marius Dumitru Florea 4.1 32 * [[Dom4j 2.1.0>>https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-1503]]. This is actually a downgrade from version 2.1.1 used in XWiki 10.8RC1 and 10.8 which has a [[regression>>https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-1503]].
Thomas Mortagne 8.1 33 * [[Apache PDFBox 2.0.12>>https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-15683]]
34 * [[Rome 1.11.1>>https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-15335]]
35 * [[JNR FFI 2.1.9>>https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-15678]]
36 * [[JNR Constants 0.9.11>>https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-15677]]
37 * [[JGroups 4.0.15>>https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-15679]]
38 * [[JSqlParser 1.3>>https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-15680]]
39 * [[Tika 1.19.1>>https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-15656]]
40 * [[Groovy 2.5.3>>https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-1508]]
41 * [[snakeyaml 1.23>>https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-1497]]
42 * [[Jackson 2.9.7>>https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-1489]]
43 * [[commons-lang3 3.8.1>>https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-1490]]
44 * [[commons-text 1.5>>https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-1499]]
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46 = Translations =
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Marius Dumitru Florea 4.1 48 The following translations have been updated:
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Marius Dumitru Florea 5.1 50 {{language codes="de,fr,hu,lv,pl,pt,ru,zh"/}}
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52 = Tested Browsers & Databases =
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Ilie Andriuta 16.1 54 {{include reference="TestReports.ManualTestReportSummaryXWiki109.WebHome"/}}
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57 TODO: uncomment and update with proper links when the report is ready.
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59 = Performances tests compared to <last super stable version> =
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61 <a summary of the comparison with latest super stable version>
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63 More details on <link to the test report>.
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66 = Known issues =
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68 * [[Bugs we know about>>https://jira.xwiki.org/issues/?jql=category%20%3D%2010000%20AND%20issuetype%20%3D%20Bug%20AND%20resolution%20%3D%20Unresolved%20ORDER%20BY%20updated%20DESC]]
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70 = Backward Compatibility and Migration Notes =
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72 == General Notes ==
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74 * When upgrading make sure you compare and merge the following XWiki configuration files since some parameters may have been modified, removed or added:
75 ** ##xwiki.cfg##
76 ** ##xwiki.properties##
77 ** ##web.xml##
78 ** ##hibernate.cfg.xml##
79 * Add ##xwiki.store.migration=1## in ##xwiki.cfg## so that XWiki will attempt to automatically migrate your current database to any new schema. Make sure you backup your Database before doing anything.
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Marius Dumitru Florea 2.1 81 == Issues specific to XWiki 10.9 ==
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Marius Dumitru Florea 4.1 83 === Cannot remove a property from an xobject ===
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Marius Dumitru Florea 4.1 85 It's not possible anymore to completely delete a property from an XObject if that property exists in the XClass. It will be automatically added back (with null value) when the document is saved.
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87 === Default is empty in the list property editor ===
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89 The List property select based editor now always make sure the default choice is empty value for non multi list. It's possible control that by indicate what is the default value in which case empty value won't be proposed anymore.
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Marius Dumitru Florea 1.1 91 == API Breakages ==
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Marius Dumitru Florea 2.1 93 The following APIs were modified since XWiki 10.8.1:
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Marius Dumitru Florea 7.1 95 {{backwardCompatiblityReport version="10.9"/}}
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97 = Credits =
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99 The following people have contributed code and translations to this release (sorted alphabetically):
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Marius Dumitru Florea 6.1 101 * Adel Atallah
102 * Arun Pattni
103 * Clemens Klein-Robbenhaar
104 * Ecaterina Moraru (Valica)
105 * Eduard Moraru
106 * Guillaume Delhumeau
107 * JSDennebouy
108 * Lavinia Florean
109 * Leif Erik Andersen
110 * Mario-Hofstaetter
111 * Marius Dumitru Florea
112 * Ryszard Jeziorski
113 * Simon Urli
114 * Thomas Mortagne
115 * Valdis Vitolins
116 * Vincent Massol
117 * xrichard
118 * 吴国凯

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