Release Notes for XWiki 7.3 Milestone 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.
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New and Noteworthy (since XWiki 7.2)
Full list of issues fixed and Dashboard for <version>.
Office Importer
The Office Importer Application has been re-looked and now supports Nested Spaces:
Miscellaneous
- Added the Actions column for the FAQ Application:
See the full list of JIRA issues fixed in this release.
For Developers
Extension Manager improvements
Custom repositories
Extensions and dependencies can now provide custom repositories. For now only dependencies repositories are directly used when resolving it before trying registered repositories.
In practice it means that Maven custom repositories are now supported properly (at least to resolve artifacts dependencies). On Extension Manager side it means you get the same custom repositories duplicated in the Extension and in each ExtensionDependency.
Support also been added to Extension Repository API. What's left to do is adding support in XWiki based Extension Repository implementation (among other things to properly import a Maven extension with such custom repositories).
REST API improvements
It's now possible to get a page with everything but attachment content: for this you can enable various part of the document using the following URL parameters:
- objects: enable returning document objects
- class: enable returning document class properties
- attachments: enable returning document attachments
They are all disabled by default.
Page objects support has also been added to the Page PUT API.
See The XWiki RESTful API for more details.
Deprecated and Retired projects
- The XML-RPC Integration has been retired. It had been deprecated several years ago in favor of the REST API and it wasn't actively supported.
Upgrades
The following dependencies have been upgraded:
Miscellaneous
- new getReference() API public scripting Element (Object, Class, etc.) to get the EntityReference of the element
- new functional tests for the Office Importer Application have been added to xwiki-platform. To enable them, you need to enable the new profile office-tests.
- for testing purpose, an environment variable XWIKI_OFFICE_HOME can bet set to configure where the Office server is installed on the system.
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>:
