Wiki source code of Release Notes for XWiki 5.1
Version 11.1 by Marius Dumitru Florea on 2013/07/03
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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 | <insert description of release here> | ||
| 8 | |||
| 9 | = New and Noteworthy (since XWiki 5.0.3) = | ||
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| 11 | [[Full list of issues fixed and Dashboard for 5.1>>http://jira.xwiki.org/secure/Dashboard.jspa?selectPageId=11595]]. | ||
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| 13 | == Solr is the default search engine == | ||
| 14 | |||
| 15 | We have redesigned the Solr search page to include faceted search and we improved the display of the advanced search options and the search results. | ||
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| 17 | {{image reference="solr-search.png" width="400px"/}} | ||
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| 19 | The Solr search module now automatically indexes all modifications made to the wiki. A synchronization background job is started at each XWiki startup to make sure the solr index and the database are in sync (only updates what needs to be updated). The manual indexing in the administration UI should also be a lot more stable since all the actual reading of wiki documents and their indexing is now done in a safe background thread. | ||
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| 21 | {{image reference="solr-admin.png" width="400px"/}} | ||
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| 23 | Entities are now indexed with the list of supported locales (among the available locales). This means that if your current locale is "fr_FR" you will find all entities that you would have seen when the current locale is "fr_FR". For example if a document does not have any "fr_FR" explicit version you will still find the version you would have seen when going to that document (generally the default version of the document or the "fr" version of the document if any since the parent locale of "fr_FR" is "fr"). We call it locale inheritance. | ||
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| 25 | See the documentation for the [[Solr Search Application>>doc:extensions:Extension.Solr Search Application]] for more details. | ||
| 26 | |||
| 27 | == Menu Application == | ||
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| 29 | We have rewritten the [[Navigation Menu Wiki Macro>>doc:extensions:Extension.Navigation Menu Wiki Macro]] and the [[Navigation Menu Config Application>>doc:extensions:Extension.NavigationMenuConfig]] into a single application that can help you create navigation menus to be displayed either horizontally as a top bar after the page header or vertically in a side panel. See the documentation page of the new [[Menu Application>>doc:extensions:Extension.Menu Application]] for details. | ||
| 30 | |||
| 31 | {{image reference="ReleaseNotesXWiki51RC1@menuViewPage.png" width="400px"/}} | ||
| 32 | |||
| 33 | == Miscellaneous == | ||
| 34 | |||
| 35 | * When an user wants to change his password, he now has to enter his current password for more security. Live validation of his new password validity (length) has also been added. | ||
| 36 | {{image reference="ReleaseNotesXWiki51M1@ChangeOwnPassword .png" width="400px"/}} | ||
| 37 | * The attachment upload input now remains visible after uplading one or more files:((( | ||
| 38 | {{image reference="ReleaseNotesXWiki51M1@attachmentUpload.png" width="400px"/}} | ||
| 39 | ))) | ||
| 40 | * The "Send to" input from the [[Share page>>doc:platform:Features.DocumentLifecycle||anchor="HSharePagebyEmail"]] dialog displays a scope toggle when you are in a subwiki (or an workspace) that allows you to control whether the suggested users are local or global.((( | ||
| 41 | {{image reference="ReleaseNotesXWiki51M1@sharePage-scopeToggle.png" width="400px"/}} | ||
| 42 | ))) | ||
| 43 | * We changed the dashboard to display the gadget actions when hovering the gadget.((( | ||
| 44 | {{image reference="ReleaseNotesXWiki51RC1@gadgetActions.png" width="400px"/}} | ||
| 45 | ))) | ||
| 46 | * Moved the User Directory feature [[to an application on its own>>extensions:Extension.User Directory Application]]. | ||
| 47 | * Moved the XWiki Syntax Help feature [[to an application on its own>>extensions:Extension.Help Application]]. | ||
| 48 | * More documents marked as hidden by default: ##Blog.News, Blog.Other, Blog.Personal, Main.Activity, Main.MessageSenderMacro, Main.Tags, Sandbox.WebPreferences, XWiki.WebHome, XWiki.XWikiAdminGroup, XWiki.XWikiAllGroup, XWiki.SearchConfig## | ||
| 49 | * Added support for new Google Analytics "Universal" tracking method. | ||
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| 51 | 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+in+%28%225.1-milestone-1%22%2C+%225.1-milestone-2%22%2C+%225.1-rc-1%22%2C+%225.1%22%29&tempMax=1000]] fixed in this release. | ||
| 52 | |||
| 53 | == Full Issue List == | ||
| 54 | |||
| 55 | {{jira style="list" url="http://jira.xwiki.org" fields="type, status, key, summary" source="jql"}} | ||
| 56 | Project in ("XWiki Commons", "XWiki Rendering", "XWiki Platform", "XWiki Enterprise", "XWiki Enterprise Manager") and fixVersion in ("5.1") and resolution in ("Fixed") and component not in ("Build, Infrastructure and Tests") | ||
| 57 | {{/jira}} | ||
| 58 | |||
| 59 | = For Developers = | ||
| 60 | |||
| 61 | == <developer feature N> == | ||
| 62 | |||
| 63 | <description of developer feature N> | ||
| 64 | |||
| 65 | == Deprecated and Retired projects == | ||
| 66 | |||
| 67 | <description of deprecated and retired projects> | ||
| 68 | |||
| 69 | == Upgrades == | ||
| 70 | |||
| 71 | The following dependencies have been upgraded: | ||
| 72 | |||
| 73 | * <list libraries that have been upgraded> | ||
| 74 | |||
| 75 | == Miscellaneous == | ||
| 76 | |||
| 77 | <other dev stuff to add and link to JIRA for all issues fixed> | ||
| 78 | |||
| 79 | = Translations = | ||
| 80 | |||
| 81 | The following translations have been updated: | ||
| 82 | |||
| 83 | {{language codes="none, none"/}} | ||
| 84 | |||
| 85 | = Tested Browsers & Databases = | ||
| 86 | |||
| 87 | {{include reference="TestReports.ManualTestReportXWiki51Summary"/}} | ||
| 88 | |||
| 89 | = Known issues = | ||
| 90 | |||
| 91 | * [[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]] | ||
| 92 | |||
| 93 | = Backward Compatibility and Migration Notes = | ||
| 94 | |||
| 95 | == General Notes == | ||
| 96 | |||
| 97 | You may also want to [[import the default wiki XAR>>Main.Download]] in order to benefit from all the improvements listed above. | ||
| 98 | |||
| 99 | {{warning}} | ||
| 100 | 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. | ||
| 101 | {{/warning}} | ||
| 102 | |||
| 103 | == Issues specific to XWiki <version> == | ||
| 104 | |||
| 105 | <issues specific to the project> | ||
| 106 | |||
| 107 | == API Breakages == | ||
| 108 | |||
| 109 | The following APIs were modified since XWiki 5.0.3: | ||
| 110 | |||
| 111 | * Young API: New method to separate job setup from job start to put real jobs in queue.((( | ||
| 112 | {{code language="none"}} | ||
| 113 | org.xwiki.job.Job: Method 'public void initialize(org.xwiki.job.Request)' has been added to an interface | ||
| 114 | {{/code}} | ||
| 115 | ))) | ||
| 116 | * Young API: New method to add a custom Job to the queue.((( | ||
| 117 | {{code language="none"}} | ||
| 118 | org.xwiki.job.JobManager: Method 'public void addJob(org.xwiki.job.Job)' has been added to an interface | ||
| 119 | {{/code}} | ||
| 120 | ))) | ||
| 121 | * Needed to fix [[XWIKI-9251>>http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-9251]] and the IRC Bot API is still relatively new and not a mainstream API used by lots of people.((( | ||
| 122 | {{code language="none"}} | ||
| 123 | org.xwiki.ircbot.IRCBot: Method 'public java.lang.String getWikiId()' has been added to an interface | ||
| 124 | {{/code}} | ||
| 125 | ))) | ||
| 126 | * Young API: The URL module has never been finished and we started working on it again.((( | ||
| 127 | {{code language="none"}} | ||
| 128 | org.xwiki.url.InvalidURLException: Class org.xwiki.url.InvalidURLException removed | ||
| 129 | {{/code}} | ||
| 130 | ))) |
