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Release Notes for XWiki 6.0

Version 6.5 by Thomas Mortagne on 2014/05/05
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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.

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, 

New and Noteworthy (since XWiki 5.4.4)

Full list of issues fixed and Dashboard for 6.0.

Moved to Java 7 as minimum version

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.

New experimental Flamingo skin

Miscellaneous

  • A new macro {{watchlist/}} can be used to embed the watchlist of the current user on any page. This is especially useful for a dashboard:

    watchlist.png

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

For Developers

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WebJars Integration

The WebJars integration solves the issue of packaging JavaScript frameworks by bundling them as JARs. This allows XWiki Extensions to depend on JavaScript frameworks an be installable by the Extension Manager Application.

Action API

This Action API module is the entry point for all UIs and in charge of calling the correct backend code to display what the user has asked for (it's the Controller in MVC terminology).

Note that right now most Actions are still implemented the old way in the oldcore module without Components and using Struts. The goal is to progressively rewrite them using this new Action API.

LiveTable Query Filters

It's now possible to specify which Query filters to apply when retrieving LiveTable data.

For example if you want to show always hidden docs, then you would use:

...
  'queryFilters': 'currentLanguage',
...

And if you wish to show all docs for all languages and hidden docs you would use:

...
  'queryFilters': '',
...

Deprecated and Retired projects

Upgrades

The following dependencies have been upgraded:

Miscellaneous

  • The XAR plugins's format mojo now handles properly the defaultLanguage element: if a document has translation we assume it means the document is not a technical document and thus we set the default language to be English. This allows the XWiki SOLR Search to return results when the English language is selected in language facet.
  • The XAR plugin's verify mojo now also handles the defaultLanguage check accordingly.
  • The XAR plugin's verify mojo now checks for missing license headers (if the formatLicense configuration property is set to true).
  • The XAR plugin's format and verify mojos now support including/excluding files.
  • You can bind a list or an array to a XWQL or HQL parameter:
    {{velocity}}
    #set ($query = $services.query.xwql('where doc.name in (:myList)'))
    $query.bindValue('myList', ['Activity', 'BlogPostClass', 'Welcome']).execute()
    {{/velocity}}
  • Add new Locale based API to manipulate current Locale:

    {{code language="velocity}}
      $xcontext.locale
      $xcontext.interfaceLocale
    {{/code}}

  • $services.wiki.getAll() makes a better use of its internal cache, so the performances are better.
  • New API to test if logs of specific level exist in LogQueue.
  • Added support for several sets of properties for the same reference in org.xwiki.model.reference.EntityReferenceSet.

Translations

The following translations have been updated: 

Tested Browsers & Databases

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Here is the list of browsers we support and how they have been tested for this release:

BrowserStatus
Chrome30.pngGoogle Chrome 34Smoke Tests
Firefox30.pngMozilla Firefox 29 Jira Tickets Marked as Fixed in the Release Notes, Smoke Tests
IE30.pngInternet Explorer 8Not Tested
IE30.pngInternet Explorer 9Smoke tests

Here is the list of databases we support and how they have been tested for this release:

DatabaseStatus
hypersql.pngHyperSQL 2.3.2 Jira Tickets Marked as Fixed in the Release Notes, Smoke Tests
mysql.pngMySQL 5.6.17Not Tested
oracle.pngOracle 11.2Not Tested
postgresql.pngPostgreSQL 9.3.4Not Tested
Information

For the full list of tests see this page.

Known issues

Backward Compatibility and Migration Notes

General Notes

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.

Issues specific to XWiki <version>

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API Breakages

The following APIs were modified since <project> <version - 1>:

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