ReleaseNotesXWiki63M1

Version 7.2 by Marius Dumitru Florea on 2014/09/16

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 6.2)

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

Extension Manager and Repository improvements

  • <scm> element from Maven pom.xml is now supported and has been added to the standard in the API
  • <issueManagement> element from Maven pom.xml is now supported and has been added to the standard in the API

Flamingo

  • The "Add" button has now a default action to create a new page. You can still create other kind of contents (Wiki, Space) by using the arrow, just like we do with the different "edit" actions.

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Miscellaneous

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

For Developers

Velocity macros to display users and groups

We extracted the code that displays in view mode a property of type 'List of Users' and 'List of Groups' from the corresponding custom displayers (found in displayer_users.vm and displayer_groups.vm) into two Velocity macros that can be used to display arbitrary users and groups, even when you don't have an object. Here's how you can use them:

{{velocity}}
{{html wiki="true"}}
= Users =
== Just one ==
#displayUser('XWiki.Admin')

== List of users ==
#displayUser(['Admin', 'XWiki.mflorea'])

== A reference of a user ==
#displayUser($xcontext.userReference)

== A list of references of users ==
#displayUser([$xcontext.userReference, $otherUserReference])

= Groups =
== Just one ==
#displayGroup('XWiki.XWikiAdminGroup')

== List of groups ==
#displayGroup(['XWikiAdminGroup','XWiki.HRGroup'])

== A reference of a group ==
#set($adminGroupRef = $services.model.resolveDocument('XWiki.XWikiAdminGroup'))
#set($allGroupRef = $services.model.resolveDocument('XWiki.XWikiAllGroup'))
#displayGroup($adminGroupRef)

== A list of references of groups ==
#displayGroup([$adminGroupRef, $allGroupRef])

{{/html}}
{{/velocity}}

Deprecated and Retired projects

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Upgrades

The following dependencies have been upgraded:

Miscellaneous

  • The wiki provisioning job has now the current user setted in the context.

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 <version>

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API Breakages

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

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