Release Notes for XWiki 5.1 Release Candidate 1
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 5.1 Milestone 2)
Full list of issues fixed and Dashboard for 5.1.
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<description of feature N>
Miscellaneous
- We changed the dashboard to display the gadget actions when hovering the gadget.
Full Issue List
For Developers
Merging WARs with Packager plugin
We added a contextPathMapping configuration parameter to the Packager Maven plugin to allow us to bind WAR artifact IDs to the context path where they should be extracted. Here's an example:
<groupId>org.xwiki.platform</groupId>
<artifactId>xwiki-platform-tool-packager-plugin</artifactId>
...
<configuration>
<contextPathMapping>
<!-- Merge the WYSIWYG editor WAR with the platform web WAR. -->
<xwiki-platform-wysiwyg-war>xwiki</xwiki-platform-wysiwyg-war>
</contextPathMapping>
</configuration>
</plugin>
The Packager plugin looks for WAR artifacts in the list of dependencies. If no WAR-type dependencies are found then the following WARs are used, with the corresponding default context path binding:
xwiki-platform-tool-rootwebapp: root
If more WARs share the same context path then they are merged. Of course, in this case the order in the list of dependencies is important because the last WAR can overwrite files from the previous ones. When no mapping is defined for a WAR, its artifact id is used instead as context path.
Deprecated and Retired projects
<description of deprecated and retired projects>
Upgrades
The following dependencies have been upgraded:
Miscellaneous
- Jobs don't share the same ExecutionContext anymore.
- The WYSIWYG editor administration section has been moved from the Administration Application to its own module under xwiki-platform-wysiwyg.
- A new Runnable wrapper to initialize and dispose ExecutionContext:Thread thread = new Thread(new ExecutionContextRunnable(runnable, componentManger));
thread.start(); - A new method to add a custom Job to the JobManager:Job myjob = new MyJob();
this.jobManager.addJob(myjob);
Translations
The following translations have been updated:
Tested Browsers & Databases
Known issues
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 <project> <version - 1>:
