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)

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

<feature N>

<description of feature N>

Miscellaneous

• The Script Macro has been improved to return any type of value even no binding is used to output content.
• The default Java version triggered as dependency for the Debian packages is not Java 8
• In the Administration Application, when you change the space you are administrating, you don't lose the current section anymore (if the current section exists in that space).

    

• In edit mode, Password fields do not display the obfuscation placholder () anymore when the password value is empty. For example this removes the confusion when editing the Mail Admin UI and users were thinking that the SMTP Server password was set.

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

For Developers

<developer feature N>

<description of developer feature N>

Deprecated and Retired projects

<description of deprecated and retired projects>

Miscellaneous

• The XAR plugin's verify mojo has been improved to allow passing a list of regexes to identify content and technical pages. For example:
  <plugin>
   <groupId>org.xwiki.commons</groupId>
   <artifactId>xwiki-commons-tool-xar-plugin</artifactId>
  ...
   <configuration>
  ...
     <!-- Consider all pages named *Translations as content pages by default -->
     <contentPages>
       <contentPage>.*Translations\.xml</contentPage>
     </contentPages>
     <!-- The EditTranslations page is not a Translation page and thus not a content page! -->
     <technicalPages>
       <technicalPage>EditTranslations\.xml</technicalPage>
     </technicalPages>
   </configuration>
  </plugin>
• New $services.rendering.escape($content, $syntax) method to escape XWiki syntax. See the documentation.
• The HTML5 renderer is now bundled in XWiki Enterprise.
• Added a new objectPolicy=updateOrCreate parameter to the save action that allows editing and creating objects in one request. For more details, see the documentation.
• It is now possible to select the output syntax of a skin, in order to use the correct renderer.
• Ability to register a custom Resource Type.
• The WebJar integration now registers a webjar URL type using a Resource Handler (it was reusing the bin URL type before). The new WebJAR URL format is http://<server>/<context path>/webjars/<path/to/resource>[?version=<version>&evaluate=true|false]. Note that you should use the exposed Script Service method to compute a WebJAR URL.
• The mime type of uploaded attachment is now automatically stored in the database and won't be recalculated each time it's asked. Also a new API has been introduced in com.xpn.xwiki.doc.XWikiAttachment to change it if needed.
• The ConfigurableClass mechanism now supports adding field hints / descriptions. See the documentation.

Upgrades

The following dependencies have been upgraded:

• httpclient and httpcore 4.4.1
• Groovy 2.4.3
• logback 1.1.3
• cssparser 0.9.15
• JGroups 3.6.3
• slf4j 1.7.12
• Quartz 2.2.1
• commons-lang3 3.4
• Maven 3.3.1
• Bouncy Castle 1.52
• Tika 1.8
• Infinispan 7.1.1
• Jython 2.7-rc3
• Lucene and Solr 4.10.4

Translations

The following translations have been updated: 

• Language
• Language

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

• Bugs we know about

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>: