Release Notes for XWiki 7.3 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.
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New and Noteworthy (since XWiki 7.3M2)
Full list of issues fixed and Dashboard for 7.3.
Flamingo
- The delele UI now use the columns 'title' and 'location' to list the children that may be affected by the delete action:
Miscellaneous
- The breadcrumb tree navigation doesn't show the document translations any more when multilingual is disabled, because navigating to a document translation when multilingual is off doesn't have any effect: the default translation is displayed instead. You can still see the translations in the Page Index Tree though.
See the full list of JIRA issues fixed in this release.
For Developers
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Deprecated and Retired projects
- Old query plugin finally been moved to https://github.com/xwiki-contrib/xwiki-platform-queryplugin
Upgrades
The following dependencies have been upgraded:
- bootswatch 3.3.5+4
- less4j 1.15.2
- Joda-Time 2.9
- Tika 1.11
- cssparser 0.9.18
- ASM 5.0.4
- Bouncy Castle 1.53
- httpcore 4.4.4
- jQuery 1.11.3
- jQuery UI 1.11.4
Miscellaneous
- XAR plugin's Verify Mojo now verifies titles of WebPreferences pages.
Translations
The following translations have been updated:
Tested Browsers & Databases
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 7.3 Release Candidate 1
- Old query plugin is not provided by default anymore. See https://github.com/xwiki-contrib/xwiki-platform-queryplugin.
API Breakages
The following APIs were modified since XWiki 7.2: