Release Notes for XWiki Enterprise 1.6 Milestone 1

First milestone of the XWiki Enterprise 1.6 version (Roadmap).

This version of XWiki Enterprise has two known regressions regarding LDAP management : LDAP logins containing dots can't be used and the group synchronization feature does not work.

Summary of changes since XWiki Enterprise 1.5

Main changes:

• New experimental support for other syntaxes (Confluence, JSPWiki, Creole, MediaWiki, TWiki and XHTML), including a new XWiki Syntax v2.0 (work in progress, see XWiki Syntax 2.0).To start entering page content using the new syntaxes, you must be logged with admin rights, go to the page you wish to edit and change the Syntax for the page to the one you wish to use. Note that all syntaxes except the XWiki 1.0 and XWiki 2.0 ones have important limitations (like links not working).
• New experimental WYSIWYG editor (Work In Progress)

  The look & feel is not the final one. Please look at the new WYSIWYG Design page to see what it'll look like (except for the colors which will be different). To activate the new editor you must be logged with admin rights, go to the page you wish to edit, change the Syntax of the page to * Improved page footer displaying : comments, attachments, history, various information

  • New "Password Renewal and Forgot Username" feature
  • Default account validation & confirmation emails provided in the wiki preferences
  • Added .xml extensions to all exported wiki pages (XAR)
  • The generated HTML for wiki titles now start at h1 instead of h2
  • New or improved translations: german, french, czech, norwegian, ukrainian
  • 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
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    Important bug fixes:
  • Use of "." in LDAP logins fixed 
  • Various fixes in the watchlist:
    • Watchlist now works with platform 1.5 and 1.6
    • Fixed rights checks in multiwiki mode
    • Fixed RSS feed generation in multiwiki
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Known issues

• Bugs we know about

Common Migration notes

You may also want to import the default wiki XAR in order to benefit from improvements listed above.