Wiki source code of Release Notes for XWiki 6.4-milestone-1
Version 10.1 by Thomas Mortagne on 2014/11/11
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| 1 | {{box cssClass="floatinginfobox" title="**Contents**"}} | ||
| 2 | {{toc/}} | ||
| 3 | {{/box}} | ||
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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. | ||
| 6 | |||
| 7 | <insert description of release here> | ||
| 8 | |||
| 9 | = New and Noteworthy (since XWiki 6.3) = | ||
| 10 | |||
| 11 | [[Full list of issues fixed and Dashboard for <version>>>http://jira.xwiki.org/secure/Dashboard.jspa?selectPageId=<fill id here>]]. | ||
| 12 | |||
| 13 | == Velocity changes == | ||
| 14 | |||
| 15 | === Remove a Velocity Engine from the cache === | ||
| 16 | |||
| 17 | ##org.xwiki.velocity.VelocityFactory## now provide an API to remove a cached Velocity Engine. | ||
| 18 | |||
| 19 | === Cleanup unprotected namespaces === | ||
| 20 | |||
| 21 | VelocityEngine automatically get rid of the passed namespace at the end of execution unless it's protected. | ||
| 22 | |||
| 23 | In practice in means that the following: | ||
| 24 | |||
| 25 | {{code language="java"}} | ||
| 26 | engine.evaluate(new VelocityContext(), new StringWriter(), "namespace", "#macro(mymacro)toto#end") | ||
| 27 | |||
| 28 | Writer out = new StringWriter(); | ||
| 29 | engine.evaluate(new VelocityContext(), out, "namespace", "#mymacro()") | ||
| 30 | |||
| 31 | System.out.println(out.toString()) | ||
| 32 | {{/code}} | ||
| 33 | |||
| 34 | will now print | ||
| 35 | |||
| 36 | {{code language="none"}} | ||
| 37 | #mymacro() | ||
| 38 | {{/code}} | ||
| 39 | |||
| 40 | To get | ||
| 41 | |||
| 42 | {{code language="none"}} | ||
| 43 | toto | ||
| 44 | {{/code}} | ||
| 45 | |||
| 46 | you need the following | ||
| 47 | |||
| 48 | {{code language="java"}} | ||
| 49 | engine.startedUsingMacroNamespace("namespace") | ||
| 50 | |||
| 51 | try { | ||
| 52 | engine.evaluate(new VelocityContext(), new StringWriter(), "namespace", "#macro(mymacro)toto#end") | ||
| 53 | |||
| 54 | Writer out = new StringWriter(); | ||
| 55 | engine.evaluate(new VelocityContext(), out, "namespace", "#mymacro()") | ||
| 56 | |||
| 57 | System.out.println(out.toString()) | ||
| 58 | } finally { | ||
| 59 | engine.stoppedUsingMacroNamespace("namespace") | ||
| 60 | } | ||
| 61 | {{/code}} | ||
| 62 | |||
| 63 | == Miscellaneous == | ||
| 64 | |||
| 65 | <insert misc user stuff and important bug fix descriptions here in a list, when they are too small to warrant a section by themselves - Change the version in the URL below!> | ||
| 66 | |||
| 67 | 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+%22<version>%22&tempMax=1000]] fixed in this release. | ||
| 68 | |||
| 69 | = For Developers = | ||
| 70 | |||
| 71 | == <developer feature N> == | ||
| 72 | |||
| 73 | <description of developer feature N> | ||
| 74 | |||
| 75 | == Deprecated and Retired projects == | ||
| 76 | |||
| 77 | <description of deprecated and retired projects> | ||
| 78 | |||
| 79 | == Upgrades == | ||
| 80 | |||
| 81 | The following dependencies have been upgraded: | ||
| 82 | |||
| 83 | * [[httpclient 4.3.6>>http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-681]] | ||
| 84 | * [[commons-codec 1.10>>http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-684]] | ||
| 85 | |||
| 86 | == Miscellaneous == | ||
| 87 | |||
| 88 | * A new parameter has been added to the 'get' action and the 'plain' xpage: ##htmlHeaderAndFooter##, which add the HTML headers (##<html>##,##<head>##,##<body>##, etc...) and footers (##</body>##, ##</html>##, etc...). It could be usefull to create lite popups that displays only the document content without any UI. | ||
| 89 | |||
| 90 | = Translations = | ||
| 91 | |||
| 92 | The following translations have been updated: | ||
| 93 | |||
| 94 | {{language codes="none, none"/}} | ||
| 95 | |||
| 96 | = Tested Browsers & Databases = | ||
| 97 | |||
| 98 | {{include reference="TestReports.ManualTestReportTemplateSummary"/}} | ||
| 99 | |||
| 100 | = Performances tests compared to <last super stable version> = | ||
| 101 | |||
| 102 | <a summary of the comparison with latest super stable version> | ||
| 103 | |||
| 104 | More details on <link to the test report>. | ||
| 105 | |||
| 106 | = Known issues = | ||
| 107 | |||
| 108 | * [[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]] | ||
| 109 | |||
| 110 | = Backward Compatibility and Migration Notes = | ||
| 111 | |||
| 112 | == General Notes == | ||
| 113 | |||
| 114 | 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. | ||
| 115 | |||
| 116 | == Issues specific to XWiki 6.4-milestone-1 == | ||
| 117 | |||
| 118 | * VelocityEngine automatically get rid of the passed namespace at the end of execution unless it's protected. See [[Velocity section>>||anchor="HVelocitychanges"]]. | ||
| 119 | |||
| 120 | == API Breakages == | ||
| 121 | |||
| 122 | The following APIs were modified since <project> <version - 1>: | ||
| 123 | |||
| 124 | {{code language="none"}} | ||
| 125 | <clirr output here> | ||
| 126 | {{/code}} |
