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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New and Noteworthy (since XWiki 4.5.3)

Full list of issues fixed and Dashboard for 5.0.

Extension Manager improvements

We added more information to the Description section and we added the ability to retrieve the list of stable versions that are available in the configured extension repositories.

We also grouped the action buttons (e.g. Install and Install of farm) as you can see in the image above. This allowed us to move the Apply button that you had to click to confirm an extension action like install from the bottom of the Progress section to the extension actions section. The Install and Install of farm buttons are still available in the drop down menu to allow you recompute the install plan if you want to.

See the Extension Manager Application documentation for more information.

Extension Updater

We added a new section to the Extension Manager administration UI that lists the available extension updates.

Distribution Wizard improvements

We fixed an important bug in Distribution Wizard () that was preventing you from properly upgrading the installed extensions in the last step. We now list extensions by the namespace (wiki) where they have been installed. For now you have to review and upgrade each extension individually. We hope to improve this soon by allowing you upgrade more extensions at once.

New wiki mode step

By default you can now get the same distribution wizard you used to have for main wiki only on subwikis too. When enabled it means that each wiki administrator is able to take care of his own wiki upgrade and farm administrator will only deal with main wiki.

There are two modes:

• ALL IN ONE: the former Distribution Wizard behavior where everything is done at main wiki level
• WIKI: on main wiki only the main wiki is upgraded and each wiki gets its own Distribution Wizard and its own status

A new step to setup the upgrade mode has been added.

WYSIWYG Editor improvements

Automatic Paste Cleaning

Starting with this version, whenever you paste some content into the rich text area of the WYSIWYG Editor that content is (by default) automatically cleaned before being inserted into the rest of the content.

You can disable the automatic cleaning from the WYSIWYG Editor administration section if you wish:

Office Import using the Office Macro

We added an option to the WYSIWYG Editor's Import Office Document dialog to allow you to import an office file using the Office Macro. This is useful if you don't plan to edit the content of the office file after the import or if you don't want to mix the content of the office file with the content of the wiki page.

The generated wiki syntax looks like this:

Of course, you need to have the Office server connected in order to use this feature.

Release Application

A new Release application is available to help you in releasing software projects.

New security authorization module replaces the old RightService

With this new module, we bring the following improvements:

• More efficient and performant authorization management thanks to a smart access rules and decision cache.
• More generic and consistant right policy based on declarative definition of rights.
• Extensible solution, allowing registration of new rights.
• Customizable thanks to pluggable authentication settlers using configuration.

Read the full documentation of this module for complete details.

Virtual mode is always enabled

Virtual mode and multiwiki is now part of XWiki's model and can no longer be disabled. What this means is that the difference between the 2 main products (XE and XEM) is getting smaller and smaller.

In the past, XEM differed from XE by the fact that it allowed the creation of multiple wikis (called subwikis) because it had the property xwiki.virtual=1 by default in xwiki.cfg, where as XE had xwiki.virtual=0 by default. Coupled with the Wiki Manager Application and the Workspace Application which were bundled by default, this allowed XEM to create and manage subwikis, while XE could not. This was causing confusion to users that had installed one product and later on, found out that they needed the other.

To avoid confusion and to simplify our development as well, we have defaulted to a virtual mode enabled by default, allowing you to create and manage subwikis/workspaces no matter what product you have downloaded. For instance, if you have downloaded XE, you now only have to install one or two extensions (Wiki Manager Application and/or Workspace Application) using the extension manager and you are all set. Most likely we will also switch to a single product scheme in the future.

Replace "xwiki.virtual.redirect" with an error template (or page)

This xwiki.cfg setting allowed the admin to redirect to a specified URL an user that tried to access an nonexistent wiki. However, it was enabled by default and the default value was http://127.0.0.1:9080/xwiki/bin/Main/ThisWikiDoesNotExist which was definitely wrong and was causing more problems than it solved. See for an example.

We have decided to drop this feature and replace it with an error template wikidoesnotexist.vm that can be overridden by a document in the main wiki named XWiki.WikiDoesNotExist, to be consistent with what we are doing for other XWiki entities (documents, attachments, etc).

However, to avoid hitting problems with accessing your main wiki, this feature is disabled by default and can be enabled by uncommenting xwiki.virtual.failOnWikiDoesNotExist in xwiki.cfg and setting its value to 1. Otherwise, by default, the user will always get server the content of the main wiki if the wiki he requested is not found.

For those that want to achieve the same behavior as before (by redirecting to a fixed URL every time), they have to enable xwiki.virtual.failOnWikiDoesNotExist in xwiki.cfg and then redirect to the desired URL either in wikidoesnotexist.vm or in the main wiki's XWiki.WikiDoesNotExist.

Miscellaneous

<insert misc user stuff and important bug fix descriptions here in a list, when they are too small to warrant a section by themselves - Change the version in the URL below!>

See the full list of JIRA issues fixed in this release.

For Developers

<developer feature N>

<description of developer feature N>

Deprecated and Retired projects

<description of deprecated and retired projects>

Upgrades

The following dependencies have been upgraded:

• <list libraries that have been upgraded>

Miscellaneous

<other dev stuff to add and link to JIRA for all issues fixed>

Translations

The following translations have been updated: 

• Language
• Language

Tested Browsers & Databases

Known issues

• Bugs we know about

Backward Compatibility and Migration Notes

General Notes

You may also want to import the default wiki XAR in order to benefit from all the improvements listed above.

Issues specific to XWiki <version>

<issues specific to the project>

API Breakages

The following APIs were modified since XWiki 4.5.3: