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.

This is the first milestone for the 5.1 release. It brings an improved Solr search UI with faceted search and a couple of bug fixes and other small improvements.

New and Noteworthy (since XWiki 5.0)

Full list of issues fixed and Dashboard for 5.1.

Solr search UI overhaul

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. Solr search is still not enabled by default because you still have to manually trigger the index from the administration, but we're working on this and we are confident that 5.1 final will have automatic Solr indexing and Solr enabled by default. See the documentation for the Solr Search Application for more details.

Miscellaneous

• Moved the User Directory feature to an application on its own.
• Moved the XWiki Syntax Help feature to an application on its own.
• 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.
  
• The attachment upload input now remains visible after uplading one or more files:

  

• The "Send to" input from the Share page 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.

  

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

For Developers

Upgrades

The following dependencies have been upgraded:

• logback 1.0.13
• commons-compress 1.5
• commons-codec 1.8
• httpclient 4.2.5
• diffutils 1.3
• Doxia 1.4
• JGroups 3.3
• HTMLCleaner 2.5
• Lucene and Solr 4.3

Miscellaneous

• All REST responses now specify the version of XWiki running on the server in the XWiki-Version HTTP header, and the current user in the XWiki-User header.
• You can now provide a version summary (comment) when updating a page using REST. You can retrieve the version summary either by getting the page or by getting the page history, in which case you get the summary for each page revision.
• We added a new special CSS class name, useTitleAsTip, that, combined with withTip, will allow you to have a tip (place-holder) different than the initial value of the text input.
• A new URL parameter has been added to reference non aggregated JavaScript files: ?minify=false. See the Debugging Guide.
• Added API to easily create a DocumentReference from a LocalDocumentReference
  DocumentReference documentReference = new DocumentReference(localReference, wikiReference);

Translations

The following translations have been updated: 

• Danish
• German
• French
• Latvian
• Portuguese (Brazil)
• Russian
• Swedish

Tested Browsers & Databases

Here's the list of browsers we support and how they've been tested specifically for this release:

	Browser	Tested	Details
	Google Chrome 27	Partially	Manual Test Report for XWiki 5.1 Milestone 1
	Mozilla Firefox 21	Not Tested
	Internet Explorer 8	Not Tested
	Internet Explorer 9	Not Tested

Here's the list of databases we support and how they've been tested specifically for this release:

	Database	Tested	Details
	HyperSQL 2.2.9	Partially	Manual Test Report for XWiki 5.1 Milestone 1
	MySQL 5.6.10	Not Tested
	Oracle 11.2	Not Tested
	PostgreSQL 9.1.3	Not Tested

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 5.1 Milestone 1

• The data type of the 'email' property from the user profile has changed from String to Email, a specialized type introduced in 4.2. Unfortunately this change doesn't apply automatically when you upgrade from an older version so you have to do it your self:
  1. edit XWiki.XWikiUsers with the class editor
  2. delete the 'email' property
  3. add a new property of type Email named 'email' with 'e-Mail' as pretty name
  4. save
  The values of both String and Email data types are stored in the same database table so there souldn't be any migration issues for existing users.

API Breakages

The following APIs were modified since XWiki 5.0.2:

• Young API: New method to separate job setup from job start to put real jobs in queue.

• Young API: The URL module has never been finished and we started working on it again.