Release Notes for XWiki 8.3 milestone 1

Version 14.1 by Guillaume Delhumeau on 2016/07/28

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 <version - 1>)

Full list of issues fixed and Dashboard for <version>.

Export a page with children

It's now possible, for HTML and XAR formats, to export selected children along with the current page:

  export.png

Miscellaneous

  • It's now possible, on a subwiki, to use a color theme coming from the main wiki (global themes):

      FlamingoThemePicker.png
     FlamingoThemesHome.png

  • The Blog Category Panel now has an entry for All blog posts with a RSS feed for all:

    BlogPanel.png

  • Added hints for User Profile Preferences:

    userProfileHints.png

  • Added suggestions for the "document not found" and "attachment not found" error screens. The suggestions address minor typos and misspelling (including lower case vs upper case), but also bad location requests:
    • Documents:
      docnotfound-suggestsions-mixed.png
    • Attachments:
      attachmentnotfound-suggestsions-mixed.png

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:

Miscellaneous

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

Translations

The following translations have been updated: 

Tested Browsers & Databases

Warning

The QA Tests are executed after the release has been done. Thus, they are being prepared now and will be published soon.

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>:

Credits

The following people have contributed code to this release (sorted alphabetically):

<code contributors>

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