Wiki source code of Release Notes for XWiki 4.4 Milestone 1
Version 12.1 by Vincent Massol on 2012/12/13
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| 1 | {{box cssClass="floatinginfobox" title="**Contents**"}} | ||
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| 5 | This is the release notes for XWiki Platform, XWiki Enterprise and XWiki Enterprise Manager. They share the same release notes as they are released together and have the same version. | ||
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| 7 | This is a stabilization release and as such it mostly contains bug fixes. | ||
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| 9 | = New and Noteworthy (since XWiki 4.3) = | ||
| 10 | |||
| 11 | Full list of issues fixed: | ||
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| 13 | {{jira style="list" url="http://jira.xwiki.org" fields="type, status, key, summary" source="jql"}} | ||
| 14 | Project in ("XWiki Commons", "XWiki Rendering", "XWiki Platform", "XWiki Enterprise", "XWiki Enterprise Manager") and fixVersion in ("4.4-milestone-1") and resolution in ("Fixed") and component not in ("Build, Infrastructure and Tests") | ||
| 15 | {{/jira}} | ||
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| 17 | = For Developers = | ||
| 18 | |||
| 19 | == Upgrades == | ||
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| 21 | The following dependencies have been upgraded: | ||
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| 23 | * [[Pegdown 1.2.0>>http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XRENDERING-257]] | ||
| 24 | * [[logback 1.0.9>>http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-309]] | ||
| 25 | * [[lucene 4.0.0>>http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-8404]] | ||
| 26 | * [[Solr 4.0.0>>http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-8578]] | ||
| 27 | * [[Apache commons-net 3.2>>http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-322]] | ||
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| 29 | == Miscellaneous == | ||
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| 31 | * We've [[replaced the Rendering Standalone JAR with a Rendering Standalone ZIP>>rendering:Main.GettingStarted||anchor="HUsingtheXWikiRenderingStandaloneZIP"]]. | ||
| 32 | * Started experimenting with [[Mockito>>http://code.google.com/p/mockito/]]. | ||
| 33 | * [[New unit and integration testing best practices>>dev:Community.Testing]]. | ||
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| 35 | = Translations = | ||
| 36 | |||
| 37 | The following translations have been updated: | ||
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| 39 | {{language codes="code1, code2"/}} | ||
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| 41 | = Tested Browsers & Databases = | ||
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| 43 | Here's the list of browsers tested with this version (i.e. browsers that we've tested as working - Check the list of [[supported browsers>>dev:Community.BrowserSupportStrategy]]): | ||
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| 45 | {{velocity}} | ||
| 46 | ## name = iexplorer, firefox, chrome, safari, opera | ||
| 47 | {{/velocity}} | ||
| 48 | |||
| 49 | {{browser name="firefox" version="16.0.2"/}} | ||
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| 51 | Here's the list of databases tested with this version (i.e. databases that we've tested as working - Check the list of [[supported databases>>dev:Community.DatabaseSupportStrategy]]): | ||
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| 53 | {{velocity}} | ||
| 54 | ## name = hsqldb, mysql, postgresql, oracle, opera | ||
| 55 | {{/velocity}} | ||
| 56 | |||
| 57 | {{database name="hsqldb" version="2.2.9"/}} | ||
| 58 | |||
| 59 | = Known issues = | ||
| 60 | |||
| 61 | * [[Bugs we know about>>http://jira.xwiki.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&jqlQuery=category+%3D+%22Top+Level+Projects%22+AND+issuetype+%3D+Bug+AND+resolution+%3D+Unresolved+ORDER+BY+updated+DESC]] | ||
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| 63 | = Test Report = | ||
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| 65 | No manual test were done for this version (see [[other past test reports>>TestReports.WebHome]] if you're curious). | ||
| 66 | |||
| 67 | = Backward Compatibility and Migration Notes = | ||
| 68 | |||
| 69 | == General Notes == | ||
| 70 | |||
| 71 | You may also want to [[import the default wiki XAR>>Main.Download]] in order to benefit from all the improvements listed above. | ||
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| 73 | {{warning}} | ||
| 74 | Always make sure you compare your ##xwiki.cfg## and ##xwiki.properties## files with the newest version since some configuration parameters were 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. | ||
| 75 | {{/warning}} | ||
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| 77 | == Issues specific to XWiki 4.4 Milestone 1 == | ||
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| 79 | * The Lucene index specification has been changed to include a new field ##exactspace## and three other fields have been altered to better support exact matches. It is recommended to rebuild the whole Lucene index. | ||
| 80 | |||
| 81 | == API Breakages == | ||
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| 83 | The following APIs were modified since XWiki 4.3: | ||
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| 85 | {{code language="none"}} | ||
| 86 | <clirr output here> | ||
| 87 | {{/code}} |
