Wiki source code of Release Notes for XWiki 6.1 Milestone 1
Version 40.1 by Marius Dumitru Florea on 2014/05/20
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| 1 | {{box cssClass="floatinginfobox" title="**Contents**"}} | ||
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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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| 7 | <insert description of release here> | ||
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| 9 | = New and Noteworthy (since XWiki 6.0) = | ||
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| 11 | [[Full list of issues fixed and Dashboard for 6.1>>http://jira.xwiki.org/secure/Dashboard.jspa?selectPageId=12290]]. | ||
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| 13 | == Improved Active Installs == | ||
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| 15 | The [[Active Installs feature>>extensions:Extension.Active Installs Server Application]] has been improved a lot and a new data format has been set up in order to be able to provide more information, namely: | ||
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| 17 | * Graphing of Active Installs counter over time | ||
| 18 | * Display pie charts of XWiki versions, Java versions, Servlet Containers and Databases used for Active Installs | ||
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| 20 | {{image reference="as-dashboard" width="650px"/}} | ||
| 21 | |||
| 22 | In addition it's now registered in the Applications Panel: | ||
| 23 | |||
| 24 | {{image reference="activeinstallsentry.png"/}} | ||
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| 26 | == Improved Panels == | ||
| 27 | |||
| 28 | * It is now possible to change the width of the panel columns: | ||
| 29 | |||
| 30 | {{image reference="panelWizard.png" width="65%"/}} | ||
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| 32 | * Inside a panel, you can know the current width with the ##$xwikiPanelWidth## variable. | ||
| 33 | |||
| 34 | == Miscellaneous == | ||
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| 36 | * The [[user directory>>extensions:Extension.User Directory Application]] is now displaying the user id (alias) instead of the full user document reference which is too technical:((( | ||
| 37 | {{image reference="userDirectory.png" width="400px"/}} | ||
| 38 | ))) | ||
| 39 | * Added [[ability to configure Pie Chart labels>>extensions:Extension.Chart Macro]] using the ##pie_label_format## property. For example using ##pie_label_format:{0} - {2}## would give:((( | ||
| 40 | {{image reference="pielabel.png"/}} | ||
| 41 | ))) | ||
| 42 | * XWiki now support resolving a Maven extension with a parent from a different Maven repository | ||
| 43 | * More HTTP cache settings, configurable using ##xwiki.httpheaders.cache## in ##xwiki.cfg## or ##headers_nocache## in ##XWiki.XWikiPreferences##: | ||
| 44 | ** ##0##: **no Cache-Control header** sent, use the browser's defaults. RFC 2616 only specifies optional behavior in this case | ||
| 45 | ** ##1## (default): **no-cache**; caches must not serve this response in a subsequent response, but the page is stored for the bf-cache | ||
| 46 | ** ##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 | ||
| 47 | ** ##3##: **private**; the response will be cached by personal caches, such as a browser cache | ||
| 48 | ** ##4##: **public**; the response may be cached by both personal and shared caches | ||
| 49 | * To ensure the compatibility with Internet Explorer 8, the Flamingo skin uses [[Respond.js>>https://github.com/scottjehl/Respond]] and [[HTML5Shiv>>https://github.com/aFarkas/html5shiv/]]. It enables CSS3 media queries and HTML5 tags. | ||
| 50 | * "Human" requests like ##view## or ##edit## are not waiting XWiki initialization forever and display a waiting page with initialization progress instead: {{image reference="init.png"/}} | ||
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| 52 | 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%29+and+status+%3D+Closed+and+resolution+%3D+Fixed+and+fixVersion+%3D+%226.1-milestone-1%22&tempMax=1000]] fixed in this release. | ||
| 53 | |||
| 54 | = For Developers = | ||
| 55 | |||
| 56 | == LESS integration == | ||
| 57 | |||
| 58 | * We are happy to propose the ability of using the [[LESS preprocessor>>http://lesscss.org/]] directly in XWiki. Right now, it is only able to compile some files located in the skin directory in the WAR. See [[extensions:Extension.LESS Module]]. | ||
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| 60 | == Upgrades == | ||
| 61 | |||
| 62 | The following dependencies have been upgraded: | ||
| 63 | |||
| 64 | * [[Apache Lucene and Solr 4.8.0>>http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-10305]] | ||
| 65 | * [[Guava 17.0>>http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-570]] | ||
| 66 | * [[reflections 0.9.9-RC1>>http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-204]] | ||
| 67 | * [[Groovy 2.3.1>>http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-579]] | ||
| 68 | * [[Upgrade to Jackson 2.3.3>>http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-593]] | ||
| 69 | * [[sisu guice 3.2.1>>http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-592]] | ||
| 70 | * [[commons-compress 1.8.1>>http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-591]] | ||
| 71 | * [[cssparser 0.9.14>>http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-590]] | ||
| 72 | * [[commons-lang 3.3.2>>http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-589]] | ||
| 73 | * [[JGroups 3.4.4>>http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-10354]] | ||
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| 75 | == Miscellaneous == | ||
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| 77 | * [[XCOMMONS-582>>http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/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. | ||
| 78 | * Introduced job progress helper API, see [[Job Module>>doc:extensions:Extension.Job Module||anchor="HNotifyaboutprogress"]] for more details. | ||
| 79 | * All component related API of ##com.xpn.xwiki.web.Utils## are now using the context ##ComponentManager## by default. | ||
| 80 | * We added a new method to the component script service to access the component manager corresponding to a specific namespace:((( | ||
| 81 | {{code language=""}} | ||
| 82 | {{groovy}} | ||
| 83 | def instanceForTestWiki = services.component.getComponentManager("wiki:test").getInstance(SomeRole.class) | ||
| 84 | {{/groovy}} | ||
| 85 | {{/code}} | ||
| 86 | ))) | ||
| 87 | |||
| 88 | = Translations = | ||
| 89 | |||
| 90 | The following translations have been updated: | ||
| 91 | |||
| 92 | {{language codes="none, none"/}} | ||
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| 94 | = Tested Browsers & Databases = | ||
| 95 | |||
| 96 | {{include reference="TestReports.ManualTestReportTemplateSummary"/}} | ||
| 97 | |||
| 98 | = Known issues = | ||
| 99 | |||
| 100 | * [[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]] | ||
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| 102 | = Backward Compatibility and Migration Notes = | ||
| 103 | |||
| 104 | == General Notes == | ||
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| 106 | 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. | ||
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| 108 | == API Breakages == | ||
| 109 | |||
| 110 | The following APIs were modified since XWiki 6.0: | ||
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| 112 | {{code language="none"}} | ||
| 113 | <clirr output here> | ||
| 114 | {{/code}} |
