Version 28.1 by Thomas Mortagne on 2014/01/09

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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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Thomas Mortagne 27.1 7 This is an improvement and stability release for things started during the 5.x cycle.
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9 = New and Noteworthy (since XWiki 5.3) =
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Thomas Mortagne 26.1 11 [[Full list of issues fixed and Dashboard for XWiki 5.4 Milestone 1>>http://jira.xwiki.org/secure/Dashboard.jspa?selectPageId=11990]].
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13 == WikiStream improvements ==
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Thomas Mortagne 3.1 15 * added support for ##file:<path>## syntax in ##source## and ##target## properties {{image reference="wikistream-target.png"/}}
Thomas Mortagne 5.1 16 * instance input module is now able to generate generic revision events
Thomas Mortagne 16.1 17 * Confluence input module pass page content as it is when target does not support rendering events (instead of nothing)
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Thomas Mortagne 28.1 19 == XWiki Repository updated ==
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21 A few changes that were applied on http://extensions.xwiki.org since a long time were not applied on git repository, this is now fixed.
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Thomas Mortagne 1.1 23 == Miscellaneous ==
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Vincent Massol 13.1 25 * Added support for creating and deleting wikis when using the [[H2 database>>http://www.h2database.com]].
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Manuel Smeria 17.4 27 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+%225.4-milestone-1%22&tempMax=1000]] fixed in this release.
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29 = For Developers =
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Vincent Massol 14.1 31 == Miscellaneous ==
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33 * Properties annotations (##@PropertyName##, ##@PropertyDescription##, etc.) are now now annotated with ##@Inherited## which make possible to define them in interfaces or abstracts for example
34 * It's now possible to use plugins installed as extension (only if installed or either main wiki or farm)
35 * It's now possible to specify a custom version for the distribution UI in the WAR pom.xml using ##xwiki.extension.distribution.ui.version## and ##xwiki.extension.distribution.wikiui.version##.
Vincent Massol 14.2 36 * New ##Document.getLocale()## API which should be used rather than the older ##Document.getLanguage()## which is now deprecated.
Vincent Massol 17.2 37 * It's now possible to organize the slf4j log as a tree, see [[Logging Module>>extensions:Extension.Logging Module||anchor="HLogtree"]].
Vincent Massol 27.3 38 * The ##XWiki.XWikiAdminGroup## and ##XWiki.XWikiAllGroup## pages have been moved from the ##xwiki-platform-administration-ui## module to the ##xwiki-enterprise-ui-admin-user## one.
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Thomas Mortagne 1.1 40 == Upgrades ==
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42 The following dependencies have been upgraded:
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Thomas Mortagne 6.1 44 * [[commons-compress 1.6>>http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-501]]
Thomas Mortagne 7.1 45 * [[commons-configuration 1.10>>http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-502]]
Sergiu Dumitriu 16.2 46 * [[commons-lang 3.2>>http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-509]]
Thomas Mortagne 8.1 47 * [[commons-net 3.3>>http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-503]]
Thomas Mortagne 9.1 48 * [[cssparser 0.9.11>>http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-504]]
Vincent Massol 12.1 49 * [[HSQLDB 2.3.1>>http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-9835]]
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51 = Translations =
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53 The following translations have been updated:
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Thomas Mortagne 20.1 55 {{language codes="de, es, fr, lv, nl, pt_BR, ru, sv"/}}
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57 = Tested Browsers & Databases =
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Manuel Smeria 17.3 59 {{include reference="TestReports.ManualTestReportXWiki54M1Summary"/}}
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61 = Known issues =
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63 * [[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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65 = Backward Compatibility and Migration Notes =
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67 == General Notes ==
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69 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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71 == API Breakages ==
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Thomas Mortagne 23.1 73 The following APIs were modified since 5.3:
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Thomas Mortagne 22.1 76 org.xwiki.wikistream.xar.input.XARInputProperties: Method 'public boolean isReferencesOnly()' has been removed
77 org.xwiki.wikistream.xar.input.XARInputProperties: Method 'public void setReferencesOnly(boolean)' has been removed
78 org.xwiki.wikistream.model.filter.WikiDocumentFilter: Field PARAMETER_REVISION has been removed, but it was previously a constant
79 org.xwiki.wikistream.model.filter.WikiObjectPropertyFilter: Parameter 2 of 'public void onWikiObjectProperty(java.lang.String, java.lang.String, org.xwiki.filter.FilterEventParameters)' has changed its type to java.lang.Object
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