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)

Full list of issues fixed and Dashboard for <version>.

Improved Active Installs

The Active Installs feature has been improved a lot and a new data format has been set up in order to be able to provide more information, namely:

• Graphing of Active Installs counter over time
• Display pie charts of XWiki versions, Java versions, Servlet Containers and Databases used for Active Installs

In addition it's now registered in the Applications Panel:

Improved Panels

• It is now possible to change the width of the panel columns:

• Inside a panel, you can know the current width with the $xwikiPanelWidth variable.

Miscellaneous

• Added ability to configure Pie Chart labels using the pie_label_format property. For example using pie_label_format:{0} - {2} would give:

  

• XWiki now support resolving a Maven extension with a parent from a different Maven repository
• More HTTP cache settings, configurable using xwiki.httpheaders.cache in xwiki.cfg or headers_nocache in XWiki.XWikiPreferences:
  • 0: no Cache-Control header sent, use the browser's defaults. RFC 2616 only specifies optional behavior in this case
  • 1 (default): no-cache; caches must not serve this response in a subsequent response, but the page is stored for the bf-cache
  • 2: no-store, no-cache and max-age=0; the response will never be reused, not even for bf-cache; note that unsaved changes may be lost
  • 3: private; the response will be cached by personal caches, such as a browser cache
  • 4: public; the response may be cached by both personal and shared caches
• To ensure the compatibility with Internet Explorer 8, the Flamingo skin uses Respond.js and HTML5Shiv. It enables CSS3 media queries and HTML5 tags.
• "Human" requests like view or edit# are not waiting XWiki initialization forever and display a waiting page with initialization progress instead

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

For Developers

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Deprecated and Retired projects

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Upgrades

The following dependencies have been upgraded:

• Apache Lucene and Solr 4.8.0
• Guava 17.0
• reflections 0.9.9-RC1
• Groovy 2.3.0
• Prototype.js 1.7.2

Miscellaneous

• XCOMMONS-582: $escapetool.json should be used instead of $escapetool.javascript for escaping manually constructed JSON; $jsontool.serialize should be used for generating JSON, though, since it is safer.
• Introduced job progress helper API, see Job Module for more details.

Translations

The following translations have been updated: 

• Language
• Language

Tested Browsers & Databases

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.

Issues specific to XWiki <version>

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API Breakages

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