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!>

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

For Developers

New reference related APIs

Various new API around references has been introduced while adding support for nested spaces:

• Complete references Providers (for DocumentReference, SpaceReference and WikiReference) with default or current hints. They allow getting complete reference created from each default or current part of those references (for example in SpaceReference you end up with the space of the XWikiContext document and the XWikiContext wiki)
  @Inject
  Provider<DocumentReference> defaultDocumentReference;
  
  @Inject
  @Named("current")
  Provider<DocumentReference> currentDocumentReference;
• org.xwiki.model.reference.EntityReferenceProvider to replace org.xwiki.model.reference.EntityReferenceValueProvider which is essentially the same thing but with EntityReference instead of string which allow getting multiple spaces when you ask for the current EntityType.SPACE for example.
  @Inject
  EntityReferenceProvider provider;
• com.xpn.xwiki.XWiki#getDocument(EntityReference) and com.xpn.xwiki.api.XWiki#getDocument(EntityReference) support any kind of reference properly (e.g. a space reference will return the space home page, an object reference will return the object document reference, etc)

New readonly XWikiContext provider

You can inject a new "readonly" XWikiContext the following way:

The difference with default provider is that the readonly one won'ttry to create a new XWikiContext and will return null if it can't find any. It's been introduce for some low level components that were used during XWikiContext creation but in general it should be used by any component that only search for some XWikiContext property that might be null even in a valid XWikiContext.

Deprecated and Retired projects

<description of deprecated and retired projects>

Upgrades

The following dependencies have been upgraded:

• httpclient 4.5
• cssparser 0.9.16
• less4j 1.12.0
• Joda-Time 2.8.1

Miscellaneous

<other dev stuff to add and link to JIRA for all issues fixed>

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>: