Version 51.1 by Marius Dumitru Florea on 2013/11/18

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5 This is the release notes for [[XWiki Commons>>http://commons.xwiki.org]], [[XWiki Rendering>>http://rendering.xwiki.org]], [[XWiki Platform>>http://platform.xwiki.org]] and [[XWiki Enterprise>>http://enterprise.xwiki.org]]. They share the same release notes as they are released together and have the same version.
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9 = New and Noteworthy (since XWiki 5.3 Milestone 1) =
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11 [[Full list of issues fixed and Dashboard for 5.3>>http://jira.xwiki.org/secure/Dashboard.jspa?selectPageId=11698]].
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Marius Dumitru Florea 5.1 13 == Solr Search Improvements ==
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15 === Search Facets ===
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Marius Dumitru Florea 5.2 17 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.
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Thomas Mortagne 8.1 19 {{image reference="search-userFacet.png"/}}
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Marius Dumitru Florea 12.1 21 The wiki facet displays the wiki pretty name instead of the wiki identifier.
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23 {{image reference="search-wikiFacet.png"/}}
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Marius Dumitru Florea 21.1 25 The language facet displays the full language name and country (when applicable) in the current locale.
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Guillaume Delhumeau 32.1 27 {{image reference="search-languageFacet.png"/}}
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Marius Dumitru Florea 21.1 29 The number of displayed facet values is limited to 5 by default but you can see the rest of the values by clicking on the link following the facet values (each click will show 5 more values).
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Marius Dumitru Florea 25.1 31 The date facets (last modification date and creation date) have been improved to display a list of predefined date intervals, with the possibility to specify a custom date interval.
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Guillaume Delhumeau 32.1 33 {{image reference="search-dateFacet.png"/}}
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Marius Dumitru Florea 25.2 35 When selected, the date facet displays the end points of the date interval. If you specify only the start/end date then the interval will include all dates after/before the specified date.
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Guillaume Delhumeau 32.1 37 {{image reference="search-dateFacet-selected.png"/}}
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Marius Dumitru Florea 26.1 39 === RSS Feed ===
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41 We added a RSS feed for Solr search results. You can find the link on the default search page after the list of results. The feed provides the most recent results that match the current search query and filters. It contains the same type of information that was included in the Lucene search RSS feed.
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Marius Dumitru Florea 6.3 43 See the [[Solr Search Application documentation>>extensions:Extension.Solr Search Application]] for details.
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Thomas Mortagne 13.1 45 == WikiStream improvements ==
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Thomas Mortagne 13.1 47 === Script service improvements ===
Thomas Mortagne 10.1 48
Thomas Mortagne 15.1 49 * added a properties converter for ##WikiStreamType## to make easier to manipulate it from Velocity
Thomas Mortagne 14.1 50 * made APIs asynchronous
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52 === Confluence XML input module for WikiStream ===
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Thomas Mortagne 10.1 54 A new WikiStream input module has been added to parse [[Confluence backup packages>>https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Exporting+Confluence+Pages+and+Spaces+to+XML]].
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Thomas Mortagne 2.1 56 === New XHTML based Confluence syntax ===
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Marius Dumitru Florea 49.2 58 Since 4.0 Confluence moved to a XHTML based syntax for page content. So in order to import recent version of Confluences a parser for this syntax had to be written first.
Thomas Mortagne 2.1 59
Thomas Mortagne 29.1 60 == New Syntax Guide ==
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Thomas Mortagne 30.1 62 The Syntax Guide has been completely rewritten to better support growing number of syntaxes and make easier to add documentation for more others. For now it includes ##xwiki/1.0##, ##xwiki/2.0## and ##xwiki/2.1##.
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Marius Dumitru Florea 51.1 64 {{image reference="helpui221.png"/}}
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Guillaume Delhumeau 41.1 68 == Multi-Wiki ==
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70 * The "create wiki" wizard now offers the ability to create a new wiki template:(((
71 {{image reference="wizard-new-template.png"/}}
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73 * It is also possible to select the "user scope" of the new wiki. The user scope determines if local or global users are enabled, or both:(((
74 {{image reference="wizard-user-scope.png"/}}
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76 * When the user creates a wiki from a template, a new step is displayed in the wizard, while the system is provisioning the wiki:(((
77 {{image reference="wizard-provisioning.png"/}}
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Guillaume Delhumeau 41.1 79 * The "users" section in the administration of a (sub)wiki gives the opportunity to change the user scope setting, and the membership type too:(((
80 {{image reference="admin-wiki-users.png"/}}
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Guillaume Delhumeau 43.1 82 * In the "wikis" section of the administration of the main wiki, the created templates are displayed:(((
83 {{image reference="admin-wiki-template.png"/}}
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Guillaume Delhumeau 44.1 85 * It is also possible to edit wikis directly from the wiki index.
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Marius Dumitru Florea 1.1 87 == Miscellaneous ==
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Vincent Massol 48.1 89 * We're now officially not supporting saving Servlet Session in URL (a.k.a URL Rewriting). This means that if you want to remain logged on in XWiki you need to enable cookies (See why ##jsessionid## are considered harmful [[here>>https://randomcoder.org/articles/jsessionid-considered-harmful]] and [[here>>http://java.dzone.com/articles/java-jsessionid-harmful]]).
Vincent Massol 31.2 90 * The Statistics Application now has an entry point in the Applications Panel (only visible by Admins by default):(((
Vincent Massol 30.2 91 {{image reference="statsentry.png"/}}
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Vincent Massol 38.1 93 * The Scheduler Application now has an entry point in the Applications Panel (only visible by Admins by default):(((
94 {{image reference="schedulerentry.png"/}}
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Vincent Massol 7.1 96 * 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##).
Guillaume Delhumeau 32.1 97 * Deleted users do not appear anymore in the "Top Active Members" list in the wiki dashboard.
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Marius Dumitru Florea 49.2 99 See the [[full list of JIRA issues>>http://jira.xwiki.org/sr/jira.issueviews:searchrequest-printable/temp/SearchRequest.html?jqlQuery=project+in+%28XCOMMONS%2C+XRENDERING%2C+XWIKI%2C+XE%2C+XEM%29+and+status+%3D+Closed+and+resolution+%3D+Fixed+and+fixVersion+%3D+%225.3-milestone-2%22&tempMax=1000]] fixed in this release.
Marius Dumitru Florea 1.1 100
101 = For Developers =
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Guillaume Delhumeau 45.1 103 == Multi-Wiki ==
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Guillaume Delhumeau 46.1 105 * The modules {{code}}xwiki-platform-wiki-manager{{/code}} and {{code}}wiki-platform-workspaces{{/code}} are now replaced by the module {{code}}xwiki-platform-wiki{{/code}}, that now manages how (sub)wikis.
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107 == Deprecated and Retired projects ==
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Thomas Mortagne 47.1 109 * Workspace has been moved to https://github.com/xwiki-contrib/xwiki-platform-workspace
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111 == Upgrades ==
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113 The following dependencies have been upgraded:
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Vincent Massol 3.1 115 * [[Groovy 2.1.9>>http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-9603]]
Denis Gervalle 22.1 116 * [[Bouncy Castle Crypto package 1.49>>http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-9631]] (Warning: Not fully binary compatible)
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118 == Miscellaneous ==
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Vincent Massol 49.1 120 * New {{code language="none"}}com.xpn.xwiki.doc.XWikiDocument#getDocumentReferenceWithLocale(){{/code}} method to get the real reference of the document to use in {{code language="none"}}com.xpn.xwiki.XWiki#getDocument(DocumentReference, XWikiContext){{/code}} for example
121 * [[New Java API + a few new APIs in the Git module>>extensions:Extension.Git Module]]
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123 = Translations =
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125 The following translations have been updated:
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127 {{language codes="none, none"/}}
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129 = Tested Browsers & Databases =
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Manuel Smeria 15.2 131 {{include reference="TestReports.ManualTestReportXWiki53M2Summary"/}}
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133 = Known issues =
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135 * [[Bugs we know about>>http://jira.xwiki.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&jqlQuery=category+%3D+%22Top+Level+Projects%22+AND+issuetype+%3D+Bug+AND+resolution+%3D+Unresolved+ORDER+BY+updated+DESC]]
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137 = Backward Compatibility and Migration Notes =
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139 == General Notes ==
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Vincent Massol 25.3 141 == General Notes ==
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Vincent Massol 25.3 143 When upgrading make sure you compare your ##xwiki.cfg##, ##xwiki.properties## and ##web.xml## files with the newest version since some configuration parameters may have been modified or added. Note that you should add ##xwiki.store.migration=1## so that XWiki will attempt to automatically migrate your current database to the new schema. Make sure you backup your Database before doing anything.
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145 == API Breakages ==
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Marius Dumitru Florea 50.1 147 The following APIs were modified since XWiki 5.2.1:
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149 * Requesting a dependency without indicating the namespace does not really make sense. This interface is not really supposed to be implemented anyway.
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152 org.xwiki.extension.ExtensionManager: Method 'public org.xwiki.extension.Extension resolveExtension(org.xwiki.extension.ExtensionDependency, java.lang.String)' has been added to an interface
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155 * Needed to filter search by namespace. This interface is not really supposed to be implemented anyway.
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158 org.xwiki.extension.repository.InstalledExtensionRepository: Method 'public org.xwiki.extension.repository.result.IterableResult searchInstalledExtensions(java.lang.String, java.lang.String, int, int)' has been added to an interface
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161 * Young API.
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163 {{code language="none"}}
164 org.xwiki.filter.xml.serializer.XMLSerializerFactory: Method 'public java.lang.Object createSerializer(java.lang.Class[], javax.xml.transform.Result, org.xwiki.filter.xml.XMLConfiguration)' has been added to an interface
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167 * Young API that has been refactored to introduce the new Resource module.
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169 {{code language="none"}}
170 org.xwiki.url.AbstractXWikiURL: Class org.xwiki.url.AbstractXWikiURL removed
171 org.xwiki.url.URLCreationException: Class org.xwiki.url.URLCreationException removed
172 org.xwiki.url.UnsupportedURLException: Class org.xwiki.url.UnsupportedURLException removed
173 org.xwiki.url.XWikiEntityURL: Class org.xwiki.url.XWikiEntityURL removed
174 org.xwiki.url.XWikiURL: Class org.xwiki.url.XWikiURL removed
175 org.xwiki.url.XWikiURLFactory: Class org.xwiki.url.XWikiURLFactory removed
176 org.xwiki.url.XWikiURLManager: Class org.xwiki.url.XWikiURLManager removed
177 org.xwiki.url.XWikiURLSerializer: Class org.xwiki.url.XWikiURLSerializer removed
178 org.xwiki.url.XWikiURLType: Class org.xwiki.url.XWikiURLType removed
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181 * XWikiURL (now Resource) should only be in the Execution Context and not in the Request.
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183 {{code language="none"}}
184 org.xwiki.container.servlet.ServletRequest: Method 'public org.xwiki.url.XWikiURL getURL()' has been removed
185 org.xwiki.container.servlet.ServletRequest: Method 'public void setXWikiURL(org.xwiki.url.XWikiURL)' has been removed
186 org.xwiki.container.portlet.PortletRequest: Method 'public org.xwiki.url.XWikiURL getURL()' has been removed
187 org.xwiki.container.portlet.PortletRequest: Method 'public void setXWikiURL(org.xwiki.url.XWikiURL)' has been removed
188 org.xwiki.container.Request: Field XWIKI_URL has been removed, but it was previously a constant
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