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.

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New and Noteworthy (since XWiki 5.2 Milestone 2)

Full list of issues fixed and Dashboard for 5.2.

New "Home" menu when there is more than one wiki

Compared to XWiki 5.2-milestone-2, we have removed the XWiki right menu and created a "Home" menu instead.

The "main wiki" (the first you have when you start a new instance) is now called "Home".

Distribution Wizard Step to Upgrade All Wikis

We added a new step to the Distribution Wizard to update the default set of wiki pages on each of the existing wikis. This step is triggered only if you choose to upgrade the entire farm in the "Upgrade Mode" step.

Markdown Syntax 1.1

We've added version 1.1 of the Rendering Syntax for Markdown, adding support for:

• Macros
• Superscript and subscript
• (X)HTML improvements

Export large wikis as XARs

It's possible to enable the use of new WikiStream framework in standard export action (use in the standard export UI for example). Among other things it allows exporting a wiki of pretty much any size.

WikiStream is too young to be enabled by default and will require heavy testing. In the meantime you can try it by uncommenting # xwiki.action.export.xar.usewikistream=1 at the end of xwiki.cfg file.

Miscellaneous

• Improved Active Installs Server side API to be able to pass any query to count installs.
• Active Installs Client now also send the Distribution id in addition to the Distribution version to identify the "product" sending the ping
• The checkboxes for the global rights settings are now displayed on the left of their labels.

  

• The live search (search suggest) now displays a message when there are no results.

  

• The blog application is now packaged by default in the Home wiki only (not in new wikis).

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

For Developers

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WikiStream improvements

Various improvements and bugfixes to fully support the use case of exporting a entire wiki into a XAR package.

Also added a XAR input module for WikiStream, the only thing left before covering XAR import use case in Instance output module.

Deprecated and Retired projects

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Upgrades

The following dependencies have been upgraded:

• Xerces2-Java 2.11.0

Miscellaneous

• Added DocumentReference and EntityReference property converters which makes possible to:
  • use them in rendering macros parameters beans (see How to write a macro)
  • in Velocity pass a String directly to a method requiring a DocumentReference or EntityReference
• Added new API to the JODA Time plugin to get an ISO8601 formatter.

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>

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API Breakages

The following APIs were modified since <project> <version - 1>: