Release Notes for XWiki 7.0 Release Candidate 1
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.
<insert description of release here>
New and Noteworthy (since XWiki 7.0 Milestone 2)
Full list of issues fixed and Dashboard for 7.0.
<feature N>
<description of feature N>
Miscellaneous
- XWiki now uses Less4j for the integration of the LESS language. It provides better performances than the previous implementation.
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See the full list of JIRA issues fixed in this release.
For Developers
Access Extension fields by name
Added a method in Extension to access a field (name, summary, version, etc.) value by name.
* Get an extension field (name, summary, id, etc.) by name. Fallback on properties.
*
* @param <T> type of the field value
* @param fieldName the field name;
* @return the field value or null if none could be found
* @since 7.0RC1
*/
@Unstable
<T> T get(String fieldName);
Skin Edition
- We have added a new Skin Application to easily edit a skin document.
- This application provides a new way to override a template. You do not need to edit the XWikiSkins class anymore.
- It also provides the ability to override a file stored in a subdirectory.
- It is now possible to override the LESS templates.
Extensions Repository improvements
- The new advanced extension search introduced in 7.0 Milestone 2 has been implemented on server side
- Source URL is now taken into account when importing an extension
- Search and advanced search are now implemented based on Solr which among other things make the search ordered by score by default and boost configuration has been associated to each extension element (high score for extension name and id, etc.)
Deprecated and Retired projects
<description of deprecated and retired projects>
Upgrades
The following dependencies have been upgraded:
- <list libraries that have been upgraded>
Miscellaneous
- XAR Mojos now also format and verify attachment authors.
- MandatoryDocumentInitializer components can now use a @Priority annotation to specify the order in which they should be executed. See XWIKI-11905.
- A new isMainWikiOnly() method is available in AbstractMandatoryDocumentInitializer for overriding to specify that the document should be initialized on the main wiki only.
- A new setDocumentFields() method is available in AbstractMandatoryDocumentInitializer to be called when initializing a regular document (which is not a class).
Translations
The following translations have been updated:
Tested Browsers & Databases
Performances tests compared to <last super stable version>
<a summary of the comparison with latest super stable version>
More details on <link to the test report>.
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>
<issues specific to the project>
API Breakages
The following APIs were modified since <project> <version - 1>:
