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Version 6.2 by Thomas Mortagne on 2014/05/05

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Marius Dumitru Florea 1.1 1 {{box cssClass="floatinginfobox" title="**Contents**"}}
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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 6.1 7 First version of the 6.x cycle having for main theme performances. This version marks the move to Java 7 as minimum version and comes with among other things a new experimental Flamingo skin,
Marius Dumitru Florea 1.1 8
9 = New and Noteworthy (since XWiki 5.4.4) =
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Thomas Mortagne 6.1 11 [[Full list of issues fixed and Dashboard for 6.0>>http://jira.xwiki.org/secure/Dashboard.jspa?selectPageId=12193]].
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Thomas Mortagne 6.1 13 == Moved to Java 7 as minimum version ==
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15 The minimum required Java version to run XWiki is now Java 7. It's not just the minimum officially supported version, XWiki won't work anymore on Java 6.
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Guillaume Delhumeau 3.1 17 == New experimental Flamingo skin ==
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Guillaume Delhumeau 3.1 19 * [[AppWithinMinutes>>extensions:Extension.App Within Minutes Application]] is now compatible with Flamingo.
Marius Dumitru Florea 1.1 20
21 == Miscellaneous ==
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23 <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!>
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25 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+%22<version>%22&tempMax=1000]] fixed in this release.
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27 = For Developers =
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29 == <developer feature N> ==
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31 <description of developer feature N>
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33 == Deprecated and Retired projects ==
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35 <description of deprecated and retired projects>
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37 == Upgrades ==
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39 The following dependencies have been upgraded:
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Thomas Mortagne 6.2 41 * [[commons-codec 1.9>>http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-524]]
42 * [[JRuby 1.7.10>>http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-8680]]
43 * [[cssparser 0.9.13>>http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-526]]
44 * [[doxia 1.5>>http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XRENDERING-330]]
45 * [[Groovy 2.2.1>>http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-527]]
46 * [[HttpClient 4.3.2>>http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-528]]
47 * [[SLF4J 1.7.6>>http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-530]]
48 * [[Commons FileUpload 1.3.1>>http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-532]]
49 * [[Aether 0.9.0.M4>>http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-444]]
50 * [[GWT 2.6>>http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-10073]]
51 * [[SmartGWT 4.0>>http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-536]]
52 * [[Jest 0.1.0>>http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-10158]]
53 * [[Maven 3.2.1>>http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-546]]
54 * [[commons-beanutils 1.9.1>>http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-547]]
55 * [[commons-compress 1.8>>http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-525]]
56 * [[commons-lang3 3.3.1>>http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-548]]
57 * [[Guava 16.0.1>>http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-481]]
58 * [[HSQLDB 2.3.2>>http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XE-1377]]
59 * [[htmlcleaner 2.8>>http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-559]]
60 * [[HttpClient 4.3.3>>http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-560]]
61 * [[JFreechart 1.0.17>>http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-9968]]
62 * [[JGroups 3.4.3>>http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-10196]]
63 * [[Joda-Time 2.3>>http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-10197]]
64 * [[Logback 1.1.2>>http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-563]]
Marius Dumitru Florea 2.1 65 * [[Lucene and Solr 4.7.2>>http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-10256]]
Thomas Mortagne 5.1 66 * [[Jython 2.7-b2>>http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-10295]]
Marius Dumitru Florea 1.1 67
68 == Miscellaneous ==
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Marius Dumitru Florea 4.2 70 * You can bind a list or an array to a XWQL or HQL parameter:(((
Marius Dumitru Florea 4.1 71 {{code language="none"}}
72 {{velocity}}
Marius Dumitru Florea 4.2 73 #set ($query = $services.query.xwql('where doc.name in (:myList)'))
Marius Dumitru Florea 4.1 74 $query.bindValue('myList', ['Activity', 'BlogPostClass', 'Welcome']).execute()
75 {{/velocity}}
76 {{/code}}
77 )))
Marius Dumitru Florea 1.1 78
79 = Translations =
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81 The following translations have been updated:
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83 {{language codes="none, none"/}}
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85 = Tested Browsers & Databases =
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Manuel Smeria 3.2 87 {{include reference="TestReports.ManualTestReportXWiki60Summary"/}}
Marius Dumitru Florea 1.1 88
89 = Known issues =
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91 * [[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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93 = Backward Compatibility and Migration Notes =
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95 == General Notes ==
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97 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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99 == Issues specific to XWiki <version> ==
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101 <issues specific to the project>
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103 == API Breakages ==
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105 The following APIs were modified since <project> <version - 1>:
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107 {{code language="none"}}
108 <clirr output here>
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