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Version 7.1 by Marius Dumitru Florea on 2016/05/24

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5 This is the release notes for [[XWiki Commons>>http://commons.xwiki.org]], [[XWiki Rendering>>http://rendering.xwiki.org]], [[XWiki Platform>>http://platform.xwiki.org]] and [[XWiki Enterprise>>http://enterprise.xwiki.org]]. They share the same release notes as they are released together and have the same version.
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7 <insert description of release here>
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9 = New and Noteworthy (since XWiki 8.0) =
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11 [[Full list of issues fixed and Dashboard for 8.1>>http://jira.xwiki.org/secure/Dashboard.jspa?selectPageId=13603]].
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13 == Requires Java 8 ==
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15 {{include reference="ReleaseNotesXWiki81M1" section="HRequiresJava8"/}}
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17 {{include reference="ReleaseNotesXWiki81M1" section="HTipsPanel"/}}
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19 {{include reference="ReleaseNotesXWiki81M1" section="HSandboxRelocation"/}}
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21 {{include reference="ReleaseNotesXWiki81M1" section="HExtensionManagerimprovements"/}}
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23 {{include reference="ReleaseNotesXWiki81M1" section="HFlavorsimprovements"/}}
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25 {{include reference="ReleaseNotesXWiki81M1" section="HActiveInstalls"/}}
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27 == Miscellaneous ==
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29 * The Annotations Application's Administration section has been updated to present the exception spaces as "locations", using the ##documentTree## macro. The behavior has not been changed.(((
30 {{image reference="ReleaseNotesXWiki81M1@annotationsAdminSection.png" width="600px"/}}
31 )))
32 * Put a link to the product home page in the footer by default
33 * Template providers that are restricted to certain pages are now also available on the children of those pages.
34 * The ##xwiki.usedefaultweb## parameter from ##xwiki.cfg## has been removed. See below.
35 * Job module does not validate stored status at startup. This might improve a lot the startup time when there is a lot of status. Also there seems to still be use cases where XStream get lost in edge case when parsing, this was blocking the whole XWiki startup for a very long time.
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37 See the [[full list of JIRA issues>>http://jira.xwiki.org/issues/?filter=14308]] fixed in this release.
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39 = For Developers =
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41 == <developer feature N> ==
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43 <description of developer feature N>
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45 == Deprecated and Retired projects ==
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47 <description of deprecated and retired projects>
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49 == Upgrades ==
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51 The following dependencies have been upgraded:
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53 * <list libraries that have been upgraded>
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55 == Miscellaneous ==
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57 <other dev stuff to add and link to JIRA for all issues fixed>
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59 = Translations =
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61 The following translations have been updated:
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63 {{language codes="none, none"/}}
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65 = Tested Browsers & Databases =
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67 {{warning}}
68 The QA Tests are executed after the release has been done. Thus, they are being prepared now and will be published soon.
69 {{/warning}}
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71 {{comment}}
72 TODO: uncomment and update with proper link when the report is ready.
73 {{include reference="TestReports.ManualTestReportTemplateSummary"/}}
74 {{/comment}}
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76 = Performances tests compared to <last super stable version> =
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78 <a summary of the comparison with latest super stable version>
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80 More details on <link to the test report>.
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82 = Known issues =
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84 * [[Bugs we know about>>http://jira.xwiki.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&jqlQuery=category+%3D+%22Top+Level+Projects%22+AND+issuetype+%3D+Bug+AND+resolution+%3D+Unresolved+ORDER+BY+updated+DESC]]
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86 = Backward Compatibility and Migration Notes =
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88 == General Notes ==
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90 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.
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92 == Issues specific to XWiki <version> ==
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94 <issues specific to the project>
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96 == API Breakages ==
97
98 The following APIs were modified since XWiki 8.0:
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100 {{backwardCompatiblityReport version="8.1"/}}

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