Release Notes for XWiki 5.2 Release Candidate 1
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 <version>.
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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
Miscellaneous
- Improved Active Installs Server side API to be able to pass any query to count installs.
- The checkboxes for the global rights settings are now displayed on the left of their labels.
See the full list of JIRA issues fixed in this release.
For Developers
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<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
- 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:
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>:
