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 5.3 Milestone 1)

Full list of issues fixed and Dashboard for 5.3.

Solr Search Improvements

Search Facets

The display of some of the search facets has been improved. The Author and Creator facets now show the user full name, alias and avatar.

The wiki facet displays the wiki pretty name instead of the wiki identifier.

See the Solr Search Application documentation for details.

WikiStream improvements

Script service improvements

• added a WikiStreamType properties converter to make easier to manipulate it from Velocity
• made APIs asynchronous

Confluence XML input module for WikiStream

A new WikiStream input module has been added to parse Confluence backup packages.

New XHTML based Confluence syntax

Since 4.0 Confluence moved to a XHTML based syntax for pages content. So in order to import recent version of Confluences a parser for this syntax had to be written first.

Miscellaneous

• The URL Legacy JAR is now correctly bundled in the XE WAR. This is important since otherwise you'd need to set the URL configuration properties in your xwiki.properties file in addition to setting them in xwiki.cfg. For example url.standard.multiwiki.isPathBased in xwiki.properties and xwiki.virtual.usepath in xwiki.cfg).

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

For Developers

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Deprecated and Retired projects

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Upgrades

The following dependencies have been upgraded:

• Groovy 2.1.9

Miscellaneous

• new com.xpn.xwiki.doc.XWikiDocument#getDocumentReferenceWithLocale() method to get the real reference of the document to use in com.xpn.xwiki.XWiki#getDocument(DocumentReference, XWikiContext) for example

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 XWiki 5.2:

• Very young API. Never fully worked.

• Requesting a dependency without indicating the namespace does not really make sense. This interface is not really supposed to be implemented anyway.

• Needed to filter search by namespace. This interface is not really supposed to be implemented anyway.

• Young API.

• Young API that has been refactored to introduce the new Resource module.

• XWikiURL (now Resource) should only be in the Execution Context and not in the Request.