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2 *Contents*
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6 1 Release Notes for XWiki Enterprise 1.6
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8 The focus for the 1.6 release was on having beta versions of new rendering and new WYSIWYG editor, improving the stability and performance.
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10 1.1 Changes since XWiki Enterprise 1.5.x
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12 1.1.1 1. Beta version of new rendering and new WYSIWYG editor
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14 * New experimental support for other syntaxes (Confluence, JSPWiki, Creole, MediaWiki, TWiki and XHTML), including a new [XWiki Syntax v2.0>platform:Main.XWikiSyntax].#info("You'll find information on how to enter content using the new syntaxes in the [Page Editing Guide>platform:Features.PageEditing].")
15 {image:syntax.png}
16 * New experimental WYSIWYG editor (Work In Progress).#info("The look & feel is not the final one. Please look at the [new WYSIWYG Design page>dev:Design.NewWysiwygEditorInterface] to see what it'll look like (except for the colors which will be different). To start using the new editor, check out the [Page Editing Guide>platform:Features.PageEditing]. Again this is work in progress but we'd like *as much feedback as possible*. Please raise any issue you find in [JIRA>http://jira.xwiki.org].")
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19 1.1.1 2. Usability Improvements
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21 * Improved page footer displaying : comments, attachments, history, various information
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23 * New "Password Renewal and Forgot Username" feature
24 * Rights Management interface now support adding groups into groups
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26 1.1.1 3. Platform Improvements
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28 * Default account validation & confirmation emails provided in the wiki preferences
29 * Added .xml extensions to all exported wiki pages (XAR)
30 * The generated HTML for wiki titles now start at h1 instead of h2
31 * The name of the main database in virtual wiki mode is not hardcoded to 'xwiki' anymore, and in virtual mode all database names can be prefixed with a configurable value
32 * Improvement of Query Manager which was introduced in 1.6M1. The purpose of the Query Manager is to allow using multiple Query Languages and manage them (HQL is one such language). The changes are:
33 ** Ability to use positional parameters in Query (only named parameters supported earlier).
34 ** Ability to add a new Query Language easily simply by adding a JAR to the Classpath.
35 * New experimental XWiki Query Language called XWQL. #info("More about the language in [XWQL design page>dev:Design.XWikiQueryLanguage]. The Main syntax and a translator to HQL are implemented. It currently requires programming rights to use in scripts. The current XWQL syntax is not the final one. We'd like some feedback to improve it. The language will fully replace current <tt>$xwiki.search</tt> methods in XE 1.7. The XWQL language is accessible via the Query Manager. Example: <tt>$xwiki.xWiki.store.queryManager.createQuery('from doc.object(XWiki.XWikiUsers) as user', 'xwql').execute()</tt>.")
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37 1.1.1 4. Translations
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39 * New or improved translations:
40 ** german
41 ** french
42 ** czech
43 ** norwegian
44 ** ukrainian
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46 1.1.1 5. LDAP
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48 * Use of "." in LDAP logins fixed
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50 1.1.1 6. Important bugs fixed
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52 * Various fixes in the watchlist:
53 ** Watchlist now works with platform 1.5 and 1.6
54 ** Fixed rights checks in multiwiki mode
55 ** Fixed RSS feed generation in multiwiki
56 * In some context URLFactory generate URL with wrong server/domain
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58 1.1.1 7. Others
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60 * XWIKI-2623 - Update MSSQL hibernate mapping file and ship it with xwiki distributions
61 * XE-300 - The treeview should sort spaces by their name
62 * XWIKI-2573 - viewrev action fails with ugly stacktrace for documents with attachments when no revision number is requested
63 * XWIKI-2649 - xwiki.authentication.ldap.mode_group_sync is not "always" by default
64 * XE-244 - Upgrade IzPack installer to version 4.0.1
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66 1.1 Known issues
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68 * [Bugs we know about>http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&&type=1&pid=10010&resolution=-1&sorter/field=updated&sorter/order=DESC]
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70 1.1 Common Migration notes
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72 #warning("If you're running in a multiwiki setup you'll also need to define the property <tt>xwiki.store.migration.databases=all</tt> to your <tt>xwiki.cfg</tt> file or explicitely name all databases to be migrated as in <tt>xwiki.store.migration.databases=db1,db2,...</tt>.")
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74 You may also want to import the [default wiki XAR>Main.Download] in order to benefit from improvements listed above. Make sure you read the [XWiki upgrade guide>platform:AdminGuide.Installation#HUpgradinganXWikiInstallation] before importing the new XAR since it can cause an overwrite of changes you made to some pages.
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76 #warning("Always make sure you compare your <tt>xwiki.cfg</tt> file with the newest version since some configuration parameters were added. Of note, you should add <tt>xwiki.store.migration=1</tt> 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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