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 and hopefully last release candidate before 6.0 final. This release contain mostly improvements on Distribution Wizard and new experimental Flamingo skin.

New and Noteworthy (since XWiki 6.0 Milestone 2)

Full list of issues fixed and Dashboard for 6.0.

Distribution Wizard improvements

The Extensions step now lets global administrators choose between:

• computing the upgrade plan for the entire farm
• computing the upgrade plan only for the main wiki + global namespace

The first option is suited when the farm is managed by a single entity while the second option is suited when each wiki in the farm is managed by a different entity. Obviously computing the upgrade plan for the entire farm takes longer (with the number of wikis) than computing the upgrade plan only for the main wiki.

Extensions are now sorted by their name (but still grouped by wiki) and paginated on the Extensions step.

We also paginated the Wikis step, which could have been pretty long if you had many wikis. See the Distribution Wizard documentation for more information.

Experimental Flamingo Skin

• The "page export" action is now handled via a modal popup:

  

• Create/rename/delete actions are now handled by Flamingo:

  

Miscellaneous

• We improved the way attachment file names are indexed by Solr so you should be able to find attachments more easily from now on.

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

For Developers

Upgrades

The following dependencies have been upgraded:

• Logback 1.1.2
• Lucene and Solr 4.7.1
• Jython 2.7-b1

Miscellaneous

• We added a new field "filename_exact" to the Solr Schema to store the attachment file names as verbatim (without being analysed) for exact and prefix matching. The existing filename field is analysed and thus cannot be used for exact/prefix matching.
• The Wiki module does not handle the application descriptors of the deprecated Application Manager anymore.

Translations

The following translations have been updated: 

• French
• German

Tested Browsers & Databases

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

	Browser	Status
	Google Chrome 34	Not Tested
	Mozilla Firefox 28	Jira Tickets Marked as Fixed in the Release Notes
	Internet Explorer 8	Not Tested
	Internet Explorer 9	Full manual test, Migration from 5.4.4
	Internet Explorer 10	Migration from 5.4.4
	Internet Explorer 11	Migration from 5.4.4

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

	Database	Status
	HyperSQL 2.3.2	Jira Tickets Marked as Fixed in the Release Notes, Full manual test, Migration from 5.4.4
	MySQL 5.6.17	Not Tested
	Oracle 11.2	Not Tested
	PostgreSQL 9.3.4	Not Tested

Known issues

• Bugs we know about

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.

Solr Search Index

API Breakages

The following APIs were modified since XWiki 5.4.4:

• Moved some method from EntityResource to Resource and changed EntityResource constructor:
  org.xwiki.resource.EntityResource: In method 'public EntityResource(org.xwiki.model.reference.EntityReference)' the number of arguments has changed
  org.xwiki.resource.EntityResource: Method 'public java.lang.String getAction()' has been removed
  org.xwiki.resource.EntityResource: Method 'public void setAction(java.lang.String)' has been removed
  org.xwiki.resource.Resource: Method 'public org.xwiki.resource.ActionId getActionId()' has been added to an interface

• This method is available on the standard JavaScript Window object:
  org.xwiki.gwt.dom.client.DOMUtils: Method 'public void stop(org.xwiki.gwt.dom.client.Window)' has been removed

• This method did not make any sense and was unusable:
  org.xwiki.model.reference.LocalDocumentReference: Method 'public org.xwiki.model.reference.WikiReference getWikiReference()' has been removed