Release Notes for XWiki 7.2
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 7.1)
Full list of issues fixed and Dashboard for <version>.
<feature N>
<description of feature N>
Miscellaneous
<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!>
- The Orphaned Pages tab from the Document Index is now displayed only when the Parent-Child Hierarchy Mode is enabled (which is not the case by default).
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>
Upgrades
The following dependencies have been upgraded:
- <list libraries that have been upgraded>
Miscellaneous
<other dev stuff to add and link to JIRA for all issues fixed>
Translations
The following translations have been updated:
Tested Browsers & Databases
Performances tests compared to <last super stable version>
There hasn't really been much performance work on this version so we get mostly the same result than in 7.1 release note. The important point here was to check if nested spaces ha much impact on performances.
Summary
"similar": difference is lower than 10%
"slightly": difference is lower than 20%
Note hat most of the speed related values are an average of very moving results, a lot of things is happening during a HTTP request and it's far from stable duration (that's why 10% may sounds a lot for something called "similar" but the variable can go up and down around 5% sometimes so 10% average is really not that much of a clear win).
Speed
| Actions | Difference | |
|---|---|---|
| Jetty startup | similar | |
| First access | not existing page without UI | similar |
| not existing page with UI | similar | |
| Reload | not existing page without UI | similar |
| not existing page with UI | 20% faster | |
| Main.WebHome with UI | 20% faster | |
| Main.WebHome without UI | 30% faster | |
| SOLR | Full SOLR reindex | similar |
| SOLR sync when index is empty | similar | |
| SOLR sync when there is nothing to do | similar | |
| Result of search finding lots of results | 25% faster | |
| Result of search finding one result | 20% faster | |
| Rendering | Page with 1000 macros without UI | /34 |
| Page with 1000 html macros without UI | /6 | |
Memory
| Actions | Difference |
|---|---|
| Heap Memory after jetty startup | similar |
| Heap Memory after full SOLR index | +50MB |
More details on performance comparison on single wiki between 7.2 and 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.
Issues specific to XWiki 7.2
<issues specific to the project>
API Breakages
The following APIs were modified since XWiki 7.1:
