Release Notes for XWiki 6.0 Release Candidate 1
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.
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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
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See the full list of JIRA issues fixed in this release.
For Developers
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Deprecated and Retired projects
- The Lucene module has been moved to https://github.com/xwiki-contrib/xwiki-platform-search-lucene/ and can be installed as extension using Extension Manager if really needed
Upgrades
The following dependencies have been upgraded:
Miscellaneous
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Translations
The following translations have been updated:
Tested Browsers & Databases
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 6.0 RC1
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API Breakages
The following APIs were modified since XWiki 5.4.3:
