Wiki source code of Release Notes for XWiki 6.0 Milestone 1

Version 93.1 by Thomas Mortagne on 2014/03/25

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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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93.1	7	This release is the first release for the 6.x cycle. It introduces the move to Java 7 as minimum version, a new experimental skin and various improvements on existing features.
1.1	8
	9	= New and Noteworthy (since XWiki 5.4) =
	10
82.1	11	[[Full list of issues fixed and Dashboard for 6.0>>http://jira.xwiki.org/secure/Dashboard.jspa?selectPageId=12193]].
1.1	12
32.1	13	== Moved to Java 7 as minimum version ==
1.1	14
63.1	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.
1.1	16
19.1	17	== Wiki Application ==
	18
21.1	19	* In the Wiki Index, all the wikis that the user can not access [[are not displayed anymore>>extensions:Extension.Wiki Application\|\|anchor="HNewmenusandWikiIndex"]].
62.1	20	* Now, by default, guest users can see a subwiki depending if they can see the main one. But of course, it is still possible to manually give view right to guest users in the subwiki's administration.
19.1	21
35.1	22	== New Chart Renderers ==
	23
	24	The ##stackedbar## and ##stackedbar3D## plot renderers were added in the [[Chart Macro>>extensions:Extension.Chart Macro]]:
	25
	26	{{image reference="stackedbar.png"/}}
	27
	28	{{image reference="stackedbar3D.png"/}}
	29
55.1	30	== Panels Application Improvements ==
	31
	32	* The [[Panels Application>>extensions:Extension.Panels Application]] is now available from the Applications Panel:(((
	33	{{image reference="panels-application.png"/}}
	34	)))
	35	* The Panels Application's home page now uses a LiveTable to display the list of available Panels:(((
58.1	36	{{image reference="panels-home.png"/}}
55.1	37	)))
	38
66.1	39	== Standard XAR import scalability ==
	40
83.1	41	The standard XAR import (in administration) is now based on [[WikiStream>>extensions:Extension.WikiStream Module]] by default. This means that you should (at last) be able to import a XAR of any size (as long as you can attach it to the import page since that's how import UI is working right now).
66.1	42
	43	You can put back old system if any issue using ##xwiki.action.import.xar.usewikistream## property in ##xwiki.cfg## file.
	44
73.1	45	== Experimental Flamingo Skin ==
70.1	46
73.1	47	A new skin is now bundled in XWiki: Flamingo. The skin use the well-known [[Bootstrap framework>>http://getbootstrap.com/]] framework which gives us a modern look-and-feel and makes the UI responsive and thus working on mobile devices.
70.1	48
76.1	49	{{warning}}
92.1	50	The skin is currently an alpha version and should not be used in production. In addition, only the view and edit modes are currently implemented (no administration, might have problems with applications...).
76.1	51	{{/warning}}
70.1	52
73.1	53	{{image reference="flamingo.png" width="65%"/}}
70.1	54
92.1	55	{{image reference="flamingo-edit.png" width="65%"/}}
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73.1	57	To active the skin (for testing purpose only at the moment), edit ##XWiki.DefaultSkin## and put "##flamingo##" in the "base skin" field or add ##?skin=flamingo## to your URLs.
	58
1.1	59	== Miscellaneous ==
	60
13.1	61	* The document references are displayed as //wiki >> Space >> Page// path in the extension install log.(((
	62	{{image reference="docRefInExtensionLog.png"/}}
	63	)))
18.1	64	* The "membership type" options are more clear(((
47.1	65	{{image reference="membershipType.png"/}}
18.1	66	)))
45.1	67	* The date search facets have a new option 'Older than 30 days':(((
	68	{{image reference="dateFacet.png"/}}
	69	)))
42.1	70	* Added built in support for Apple's open directory groups in LDAP authenticator
	71	* Generate extension event in Wikistream XAR input module when the XAR contains extension informations
43.1	72	* Add new Locale based API to manipulate current Locale:(((
	73	~{~{code language="velocity}}
	74	$xcontext.locale
	75	$xcontext.interfaceLocale
	76	~{~{/code}}
	77	)))
61.2	78	* The [[Container Macro>>extensions:Extension.Container Macro]] is now responsive. So if there is not enough place to display several columns side by side, they are displayed instead one after the other in a vertical alignment.(((
60.1	79	[[{{image reference="responsive.png" width="35%"/}}>>attach:responsive.png]]
	80	)))
63.1	81	* The Windows Installer (EXE) now also work on Windows 8 and Windows 8.1.
68.1	82	* By default the Total Installs and Active Installs figures displayed by the [[Active Installs Application>>extensions:Extension.Active Installs Server Application]] now counts non-SNAPSHOT XWiki Enterprise instances (it used to count everything: SNAPSHOTs installs and even non-XE instances).
81.1	83	* Authenticators can be installed as extensions. Note that they still require to modify xwiki.cfg to indicate the selected authenticator.
85.1	84	* 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:(((
	85	{{image reference="watchlist.png"/}}
	86	)))
89.1	87	* Debian installer allow XWiki to create new wikis by default in MySQL
18.1	88
63.2	89	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+%226.0-milestone-1%22&tempMax=1000]] fixed in this release.
1.1	90
	91	= For Developers =
	92
51.1	93	== Solr ==
47.1	94
51.1	95	=== Advanced Search Suggest Sources ===
	96
48.2	97	The [[Search Suggest>>extensions:Extension.Search Application\|\|anchor="HSearchSuggest"]] feature retrieves live search results from various configurable sources. These sources specify the search engine to use and the search query. The search doesn't perform well, at least on Solr, if we use only the search query because each query is different (when the input text is different) so the cache is not used efficiently. Best is to rely on the filter cache but for this we need to be able to specify the filter query.
48.1	98
	99	Starting with this release you are able to specify more advanced search parameters in the search query and they will be passed directly to the search engine. This currently works with Solr. As an example, the following statement from the 'query' property of a Search Suggest Source
	100
	101	{{code language="none"}}
	102	type:DOCUMENT AND (title:(__INPUT__) OR name:(__INPUT__))
	103	{{/code}}
	104
	105	could be written as
	106
	107	{{code language="none"}}
	108	fq=type:DOCUMENT
	109	qf=title^2 name
	110	{{/code}}
	111
	112	Note that:
	113
	114	* you would use the filter query which is the same for all search requests to this Search Suggest Source so it will be cached by Solr
	115	* you would be able to specify the boost for each field you want to search in
	116	* the query statement used is '~_~_INPUT~_~_' by default, if not specified.
	117
	118	In order to preserve backward compatibility with existing Solr Search Suggest Sources, we use the following convention:
	119
	120	> A line that doesn't start with 'xxx=' specifies the query statement; in other words, existing Solr Search Suggest Sources are specifying only the query statement.
	121
	122	For example:
	123
	124	{{code language="none"}}
	125	foo __INPUT__* bar
	126	fq=type:DOCUMENT
	127	qf=title^2 name
	128	{{/code}}
	129
	130	means the query statement is 'foo ~_~_INPUT~_~_* bar'. Which is equivalent to:
	131
	132	{{code language="none"}}
	133	q=foo __INPUT__* bar
	134	fq=type:DOCUMENT
	135	qf=title^2 name
	136	{{/code}}
	137
48.3	138	See the [[Solr common query parameters>>http://wiki.apache.org/solr/CommonQueryParameters]] and the [[Extended DisMax query parser parameters>>http://wiki.apache.org/solr/ExtendedDisMax#Parameters]] documentation for details on what parameters you can pass to the search engine.
48.1	139
51.1	140	=== Search UI Configuration ===
49.1	141
52.1	142	Application developers can now easily create a dedicated search page for their application, tailored for the application data. You can take a look at the [[FAQ application>>extensions:Extension.FAQ Application]] for example:
49.1	143
50.1	144	{{code language="none"}}
	145	{{include reference="XWiki.SearchCode"/}}
	146
52.1	147	{{velocity output="false"}}
50.1	148	#if ($searchEngine == 'solr')
52.1	149	## Customize the Solr Search UI for the FAQ application.
	150	#set ($solrConfig = {
	151	'queryFields': 'title^3 property.FAQCode.FAQClass.answer',
	152	'facetFields': ['creator', 'creationdate', 'author', 'date', 'mimetype', 'attauthor', 'attdate', 'attsize'],
	153	'filterQuery': [
	154	'type:DOCUMENT',
	155	"wiki:$xcontext.database",
	156	"space_exact:$doc.space",
	157	'class:FAQCode.FAQClass'
	158	]
	159	})
50.1	160	#end
	161	{{/velocity}}
	162
	163	{{velocity}}
	164	{{include reference="$searchPage"/}}
	165	{{/velocity}}
	166	{{/code}}
	167
51.1	168	=== Faceting on Object Properties ===
	169
	170	In XWiki 5.3 we added support for [[faceting on object properties>>ReleaseNotesXWiki53\|\|anchor="HFacetingandSortingonObjectProperties"]] but the facets were not displayed nicely. We improved the facet display in this release so that the property type is taken into account: e.g. a facet on a date property will be displayed using the date facet (same as for the document creation date or the last modification date). Moreover, you can now configure the facet displayer to use and even create your own facet displayer. See the [[Solr Search Application>>extensions:Extension.Solr Search Application\|\|anchor="HFacetingonObjectProperties"]] for details.
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27.1	172	== Action API ==
1.1	173
27.1	174	This [[Action API module>>extensions:Extension.Action API]] 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).
1.1	175
27.1	176	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.
1.1	177
28.1	178	== WebJars Integration ==
	179
	180	The [[WebJars integration>>extensions:Extension.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.
	181
54.1	182	== LiveTable Query Filters ==
	183
	184	It's now possible to specify which [[Query filters to apply when retrieving LiveTable data>>extensions:Extension.Livetable Macro]].
	185
	186	For example if you want to show always hidden docs, then you would use:
	187
	188	{{code language="none"}}
	189	...
	190	'queryFilters': 'currentLanguage',
	191	...
	192	{{/code}}
	193
	194	And if you wish to show all docs for all languages and hidden docs you would use:
	195
	196	{{code language="none"}}
	197	...
	198	'queryFilters': '',
	199	...
	200	{{/code}}
	201
26.2	202	== Miscellaneous ==
	203
	204	* 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.
	205	* The XAR plugin's ##verify## mojo now also handles the ##defaultLanguage## check accordingly.
	206	* The XAR plugin's ##verify## mojo now checks for missing license headers (if the ##formatLicense## configuration property is set to ##true##).
34.1	207	* The XAR plugin's ##format## and ##verify## mojos now support including/excluding files.
30.1	208	* We changed a bit the behaviour of Solr search with respect to the current language. We stopped using the (dynamically computed) 'locales' filter by default. We now rely only on the 'locale' facet, which has the current language preselected. See [[XWIKI-9977>>http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-9977]] for the full story.
31.1	209	* ##$services.wiki.getAll()## makes a better use of its internal cache, so the performances are better.
64.1	210	* New API to test if logs of specific level exist in LogQueue.
65.1	211	* Added support for several sets of properties for the same reference in ##org.xwiki.model.reference.EntityReferenceSet##.
26.2	212
27.1	213	== Deprecated and Retired projects ==
	214
40.1	215	* ##xwiki-platorm-wiki-manager## has been removed from the platform. It is still available on the [[contrib repository>>https://github.com/xwiki-contrib/xwiki-platform-wiki-manager]] and via the extensions [[extensions:Extension.Wiki Manager Plugin]] and [[extensions:Extension.Wiki Manager Application]].
27.1	216
1.1	217	== Upgrades ==
	218
	219	The following dependencies have been upgraded:
	220
	221	* [[Logback 1.1.0>>http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-523]]
2.1	222	* [[commons-codec 1.9>>http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-524]]
4.1	223	* [[JRuby 1.7.10>>http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-8680]]
6.1	224	* [[cssparser 0.9.13>>http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-526]]
7.1	225	* [[doxia 1.5>>http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XRENDERING-330]]
9.1	226	* [[Groovy 2.2.1>>http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-527]]
	227	* [[HttpClient 4.3.2>>http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-528]]
11.1	228	* [[JGroups 3.4.2>>http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-9969]]
12.1	229	* [[XStream 1.4.6>>http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-529]]
22.1	230	* [[SLF4J 1.7.6>>http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-530]]
23.1	231	* [[Commons FileUpload 1.3.1>>http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-532]]
39.1	232	* [[Aether 0.9.0.M4>>http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-444]]
41.1	233	* [[GWT 2.6>>http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-10073]]
	234	* [[SmartGWT 4.0>>http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-536]]
74.1	235	* [[Jest 0.1.0>>http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-10158]]
76.1	236	* [[Maven 3.2.1>>http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-546]]
80.2	237	* [[commons-beanutils 1.9.1>>http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-547]]
78.1	238	* [[commons-compress 1.8>>http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-525]]
79.1	239	* [[commons-lang3 3.3.1>>http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-548]]
80.1	240	* [[Guava 16.0.1>>http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-481]]
86.1	241	* [[Apache Lucene and Solr 4.7.0>>http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-8911]]
1.1	242
	243	= Translations =
	244
	245	The following translations have been updated:
	246
88.1	247	{{language codes="de, fr, it, lv, sv, pt_BR, nl, es, tr"/}}
1.1	248
	249	= Tested Browsers & Databases =
	250
90.2	251	{{include reference="TestReports.ManualTestReportXWiki60M1Summary"/}}
1.1	252
	253	= Known issues =
	254
	255	* [[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]]
	256
	257	= Backward Compatibility and Migration Notes =
	258
	259	== General Notes ==
	260
	261	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.
	262
33.1	263	== Moved to Java 7 as minimum version ==
1.1	264
33.1	265	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 on Java 6.
1.1	266
53.1	267	== Crypto Modules moved to Commons ==
	268
	269	The crypto modules (except the script service) have been moved to xwiki-commons. Developers should be careful to update their dependencies.
	270
75.1	271	== Active Installs ==
	272
	273	The Active Installs feature now requires an ElasticSearch server version 1.0.0 or greater.
	274
1.1	275	== API Breakages ==
	276
	277	The following APIs were modified since <project> <version - 1>:
	278
	279	{{code language="none"}}
	280	<clirr output here>
	281	{{/code}}

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