Release Notes for XWiki 6.4.5

Version 11.1 by Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) on 2015/09/02

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.

This is a stabilization release that fixes important bugs discovered in the 6.4.4 version.

Warning

This versions breaks a few Java APIs for the new Mail Sender API. This was necessary to fix some bugs.

Issues fixed since XWiki 6.4.4

Full list of issues fixed and Dashboard for 6.4.5.

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.

API Breakages

The following APIs were modified since XWiki 6.4.4:

  • Change of API to fix bug in waitForProcessin(). Scripting API has not been broken, only the Java API has
[ERROR] 7002: org.xwiki.mail.MailResult: Method 'public boolean isProcessed()' has been removed
[ERROR] 7002: org.xwiki.mail.MailResult: Method 'public void waitTillProcessed(long)' has been removed
[ERROR] 7012: org.xwiki.mail.MailStatusResult: Method 'public long getProcessedMailCount()' has been added to an interface
[ERROR] 7002: org.xwiki.mail.MailStatusResult: Method 'public long getSize()' has been removed
[ERROR] 7012: org.xwiki.mail.MailStatusResult: Method 'public long getTotalMailCount()' has been added to an interface
[ERROR] 7012: org.xwiki.mail.MailStatusResult: Method 'public boolean isProcessed()' has been added to an interface
[ERROR] 7012: org.xwiki.mail.MailStatusResult: Method 'public void waitTillProcessed(long)' has been added to an interface

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