Release Notes for XWiki 5.3 Milestone 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 5.3 Milestone 1)
Full list of issues fixed and Dashboard for 5.3.
Confluence XML input module for WikiStream
New XHTML based Confluence syntax
Since 4.0 Confluence move 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
<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 5.2:
- Very young API. Never fully worked.
org.xwiki.xml.stax.SAXEventWriter: Removed org.xwiki.xml.stax.SAXEventConsumer from the list of superclasses
- 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.
org.xwiki.url.URLCreationException: Class org.xwiki.url.URLCreationException removed
org.xwiki.url.UnsupportedURLException: Class org.xwiki.url.UnsupportedURLException removed
org.xwiki.url.XWikiEntityURL: Class org.xwiki.url.XWikiEntityURL removed
org.xwiki.url.XWikiURL: Class org.xwiki.url.XWikiURL removed
org.xwiki.url.XWikiURLFactory: Class org.xwiki.url.XWikiURLFactory removed
org.xwiki.url.XWikiURLManager: Class org.xwiki.url.XWikiURLManager removed
org.xwiki.url.XWikiURLSerializer: Class org.xwiki.url.XWikiURLSerializer removed
org.xwiki.url.XWikiURLType: Class org.xwiki.url.XWikiURLType removed
- XWikiURL (now Resource) should only be in the Execution Context and not in the Request.
org.xwiki.container.servlet.ServletRequest: Method 'public void setXWikiURL(org.xwiki.url.XWikiURL)' has been removed
org.xwiki.container.portlet.PortletRequest: Method 'public org.xwiki.url.XWikiURL getURL()' has been removed
org.xwiki.container.portlet.PortletRequest: Method 'public void setXWikiURL(org.xwiki.url.XWikiURL)' has been removed
org.xwiki.container.Request: Field XWIKI_URL has been removed, but it was previously a constant
