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 8.2)

Full list of issues fixed and Dashboard for 8.3.

Export a page with children

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

Miscellaneous

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

    
   

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

  

• Added hints for User Profile Preferences:

  

• 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:
    
  • Attachments:
    

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

For Developers

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Cache module moved to XWiki Commons

This mostly means that you can now use it in commons and rendering modules. Nothing change in the classes or packages names, just need to update group id and artifact id in your build tool.

Deprecated and Retired projects

• Application Manager moved to https://github.com/xwiki-contrib/xwiki-platform-application-manager, it can still be installed as extension if required

Upgrades

The following dependencies have been upgraded:

• Jackson 2.8.1
• cssparser 0.9.20
• Infinispan 8.2.4
• JSON-Java 20160810

Miscellaneous

• 2 new generic extension points for the Document/Attachment Not Found views:
  • Document Does Not Exist
  • Attachment Does Not Exist
• 2 new specific extension points for providing recommendations in the Document/Attachment Not Found views:
  • Suggestions for Document Does Not Exist
  • Suggestions for Attachment Does Not Exist

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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 8.3 Milestone 1

LDAP Module moved to Contrib

The module containing among other things the standard LDAP authenticator has been moved to http://github.com/xwiki-contrib/ldap and is not embedded anymore in XE. Starting with 8.3M1 you need to install it if you want to use it. See http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/LDAP/#H8.3.x for more details on what between the XWiki Platform module and the new Contrib Extension.

Cache module moved to XWiki Commons

The only thing that changed is the id of the modules. If you have any dependency on those you just need to change org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-* to org.xwiki.commons:xwiki-commons-*

API Breakages

The following APIs were modified since <project> <version - 1>:

Credits

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

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