Release Notes for XWiki 5.2
This is the release notes for XWiki Commons, XWiki Rendering, XWiki Platform and XWiki Enterprise. They share the same release notes as they are released together and have the same version.
<insert description of release here>
New and Noteworthy (since XWiki 5.1)
Full list of issues fixed and Dashboard for 5.2.
<feature N>
<description of feature N>
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:
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 XWiki 5.1:
- Moved to xwiki-commons-legacy-properties
org.xwiki.properties.converter.AbstractCollectionConverter: Class org.xwiki.properties.converter.AbstractCollectionConverter removed
- This method should never have existed
org.xwiki.rendering.listener.reference.ResourceType: Method 'public void setScheme(java.lang.String)' has been removed
- Moved from xwiki-rendering-api to xwiki-rendering-xml
org.xwiki.rendering.renderer.printer.XHTMLWikiPrinter: Class org.xwiki.rendering.renderer.printer.XHTMLWikiPrinter removed
org.xwiki.rendering.renderer.printer.XMLWikiPrinter: Class org.xwiki.rendering.renderer.printer.XMLWikiPrinter removed
- This field is not meant to be be modified, the final was just forgotten.
com.xpn.xwiki.XWikiContext: Field TYPE_PROVIDER is now final
- Not an API. This should be internal.
com.xpn.xwiki.store.XWikiHibernateBaseStore: Method 'protected java.lang.String[] addHibernateSequenceIfRequired(java.lang.String[], java.lang.String, org.hibernate.Session)' has been removed
- Has been moved to xwiki-platform-feed-api since it was the only module using it. We also dropped jTidy in favor of HTMLCleaner.
com.xpn.xwiki.util.TidyMessageLogger: Class com.xpn.xwiki.util.TidyMessageLogger removed
- Google API plugin has been retired
com.xpn.xwiki.plugin.google.GooglePlugin: Class com.xpn.xwiki.plugin.google.GooglePlugin removed
com.xpn.xwiki.plugin.google.GooglePluginApi: Class com.xpn.xwiki.plugin.google.GooglePluginApi removed
- Return the number of imported documents
com.xpn.xwiki.tool.backup.Importer: Return type of method 'public void importXAR(java.io.File, java.lang.String, com.xpn.xwiki.XWikiContext)' has been changed to int
- The JPQLParser generates source code (that should be internal but it is not) and the grammar has changed a bit.
org.xwiki.query.jpql.analysis.Analysis: Method 'public void caseAFuncnumComparableItem(org.xwiki.query.jpql.node.AFuncnumComparableItem)' has been added to an interface
org.xwiki.query.jpql.analysis.Analysis: Method 'public void caseAFuncstrComparableItem(org.xwiki.query.jpql.node.AFuncstrComparableItem)' has been added to an interface
org.xwiki.query.jpql.analysis.Analysis: Method 'public void caseAFunctimeComparableItem(org.xwiki.query.jpql.node.AFunctimeComparableItem)' has been added to an interface
org.xwiki.query.jpql.analysis.Analysis: Method 'public void caseAPathComparableItem(org.xwiki.query.jpql.node.APathComparableItem)' has been added to an interface
org.xwiki.query.jpql.node.AGroupbyItem: Parameter 1 of 'public AGroupbyItem(org.xwiki.query.jpql.node.PPath)' has changed its type to org.xwiki.query.jpql.node.PComparableItem
org.xwiki.query.jpql.node.AGroupbyItem: Method 'public org.xwiki.query.jpql.node.PPath getPath()' has been removed
org.xwiki.query.jpql.node.AGroupbyItem: Method 'public void setPath(org.xwiki.query.jpql.node.PPath)' has been removed
org.xwiki.query.jpql.node.AOrderbyItem: Parameter 1 of 'public AOrderbyItem(org.xwiki.query.jpql.node.PPath, org.xwiki.query.jpql.node.TOrderbySpec)' has changed its type to org.xwiki.query.jpql.node.PComparableItem
org.xwiki.query.jpql.node.AOrderbyItem: Method 'public org.xwiki.query.jpql.node.PPath getPath()' has been removed
org.xwiki.query.jpql.node.AOrderbyItem: Method 'public void setPath(org.xwiki.query.jpql.node.PPath)' has been removed