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Version 30.1 by Sorin Burjan on 2013/01/21
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5 {{warning}}
6 If you are migrating from an earlier version than 4.0, and your database contains statistics collected using a version earlier than 2.2, you will probably encounter an issue during our automated database migration. To avoid that issue, you will need to clean up your statistics by executing some SQL commands described in issue [[XWIKI-8129>>http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-8129]]. Be sure to apply these before attempting the migration. If your are in doubt, apply it, these could not hurt. If you don't, you will face duplicate IDs errors during the migration process, and it will fail, preventing you to run your wiki.
7 {{/warning}}
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9 {{warning}}
10 If you are upgrading to this version from an older version which uses Lucene 3.x, you have to manually delete the lucene directory in the xwiki data directory. For example, that could cause Lucene to loop endlessly while trying to index pages, among other things. This is caused by the Lucene migration to 4.0 (see [[XWIKI-8404>>http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-8404]]).
11 {{/warning}}
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13 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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15 <insert description of release here>
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17 = New and Noteworthy (since XWiki 4.4) =
18
19 == Distribution Wizard improvements ==
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21 When upgrading from an old version that didn't have the distribution wizard, the wizard doesn't know what user interface (XAR) was previously installed (imported). This information can help the Extension Manager merge automatically the wiki pages from your database with those from the new version of the user interface.
22
23 The distribution wizard will first ask you if you are performing an upgrade.
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25 {{image reference="DW-previousUiUpgradeQuestion.png"/}}
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27 Then you need to select the user interface version that was previously installed.
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29 {{image reference="DW-previousUiForm-01.png"/}}
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31 The distribution wizard determines the id of the previously imported XAR based on the selected version.
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33 {{image reference="DW-previousUiForm-02.png"/}}
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35 You can edit the suggested id if you know you had a different user interface previously installed.
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37 {{image reference="DW-previousUiForm-03.png"/}}
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39 Finally you need to repair the specified user interface extension. This will mark the extension as installed (update the extension index without actually importing the wiki pages from the XAR).
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41 {{image reference="DW-previousUiExtension.png"/}}
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43 {{image reference="DW-repairPreviousUiExtension.png"/}}
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45 Next you can install the new version of the user interface.
46
47 == Translatable AppWithinMinutes apps ==
48
49 The AppWithinMinutes wizard is now generating a document translation bundle for the application which allows you to translate class field pretty names, list values (for static list fields) and live table columns names. If you have an existing application that was created with AppWithinMinutes you just have to edit and save it to get the new translation bundle.
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51 If your wiki is setup for multilingual support then on the application home page, in the application menu, you now have an entry to translate the application. The link takes you to the document translation bundle.
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53 {{image reference="AWM-translateAppMenu.png"/}}
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55 When editing an application you now have the option to update the translation bundle. Note that for the moment the translation bundle (its default language) is regenerated so you may lose translation keys you added yourself. In the future we want to update the translation bundle preserving the custom keys.
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57 {{image reference="AWM-updateTranslationsOption.png"/}}
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59 See the [[AppWithinMinutes documentation>>extensions:Extension.App Within Minutes Application]] for more information.
60
61 == Miscellaneous ==
62
63 * The message sender is now using the new user/group picker.(((
64 {{image reference="messageSender-userPicker.png"/}}
65 )))
66 * The create and manage workspace forms are now using the new user picker.(((
67 {{image reference="createWorkspace-ownerAndMembers.png"/}}
68 )))
69 * You can now add or invite multiple users at once to an workspace, and the user name field uses the new user picker.(((
70 {{image reference="workspace-administration-users-add-invite.png"/}}
71 )))
72 * We improved the way changes are displayed by emphasizing the in-line changes.(((
73 {{image reference="unifiedDiff.png"/}}
74 )))
75 * Support for searching content in Java Class file attachments [[has been temporarily dropped>>http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-8656]].
76 * Markdown syntax support has been completely rewritten, fixing several existing bugs.
77 * The page Main.WebHome can now safely be edited by any user who has edit permission. (In earlier releases, the AJAX suggest feature for tags would unexpectedly break if non-programmers edited the page.)
78
79 See the [[full list of JIRA issues>>http://jira.xwiki.org/sr/jira.issueviews:searchrequest-printable/temp/SearchRequest.html?jqlQuery=project+in+%28XCOMMONS%2C+XRENDERING%2C+XWIKI%2C+XE%2C+XEM%29+and+status+%3D+Closed+and+resolution+%3D+Fixed+and+fixVersion+%3D+%224.5-milestone-1%22&tempMax=1000]] fixed in this release.
80
81 = For Developers =
82
83 == <developer feature N> ==
84
85 <description of developer feature N>
86
87 == Deprecated and Retired projects ==
88
89 <description of deprecated and retired projects>
90
91 == Upgrades ==
92
93 The following dependencies have been upgraded:
94
95 * <list libraries that have been upgraded>
96
97 == Miscellaneous ==
98
99 * It is now possible to delegate programming rights directly to a filesystem template to allow it to access the privileged API by adding the template name to the set defined in DefaultPrivilegedTemplateRenderer. Such a template cannot currently access the context document, but this restriction will most likely be removed in 5.0.
100
101 <other dev stuff to add and link to JIRA for all issues fixed>
102
103 = Translations =
104
105 The following translations have been updated:
106
107 {{language codes="none, none"/}}
108
109 = Tested Browsers & Databases =
110
111 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]]):
112
113 {{velocity}}
114 ## name = iexplorer, firefox, chrome, safari, opera
115 {{/velocity}}
116
117 {{browser name="none" version="x.x"/}}
118
119 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]]):
120
121 {{velocity}}
122 ## name = hsqldb, mysql, postgresql, oracle, opera
123 {{/velocity}}
124
125 {{database name="none" version="x.x"/}}
126
127 = Known issues =
128
129 * [[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]]
130
131 = Test Report =
132
133 You can check the [[manual test report>>TestReports.WebHome#<anchor to test report>]] to learn about what was tested and the results on various browsers.
134
135 = Backward Compatibility and Migration Notes =
136
137 == General Notes ==
138
139 {{warning}}
140 PLEASE, BACKUP YOUR DATABASE BEFORE STARTING YOUR WIKI.
141 AUTOMATED MIGRATION PROCEDURE TAKE PLACE AT STARTUP AND YOU MAY NEED TO START OVER IF YOU ENCOUNTER AN UNEXPECTED ISSUE.
142 {{/warning}}
143
144 You may also want to [[import the default wiki XAR>>Main.Download]] in order to benefit from all the improvements listed above.
145
146 {{warning}}
147 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.
148 {{/warning}}
149
150 {{warning}}
151 If you are migrating from an earlier version than 4.0, and your database contains statistics collected using a version earlier than 2.2, you will probably encounter an issue during our automated database migration. To avoid that issue, you will need to clean up your statistics by executing some SQL commands described in issue [[XWIKI-8129>>http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-8129]]. Be sure to apply these before attempting the migration. If your are in doubt, apply it, these could not hurt. If you don't, you will face duplicate IDs errors during the migration process, and it will fail, preventing you to run your wiki.
152 {{/warning}}
153
154 {{warning}}
155 If you have encountered an issue with the migration, you may need to start over from a backup. Be careful that during the migration, two new tables have been created (in each xwiki database for a farm) and should be dropped when you restore a backup of a database coming from a version earlier than 4.x. These two tables are DATABASECHANGELOG and DATABASECHANGELOGLOCK. These should only be removed if you restore a pre-4.x database schema. Mixing an old database with these two tables will surely cause issue during schema updates (liquibase checksum failure).
156 {{/warning}}
157
158 == Issues specific to XWiki 4.5M1 ==
159
160 <issues specific to the project>
161
162 == API Breakages ==
163
164 The following APIs were modified since XWiki 4.4:
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167 <clirr output here>
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