Release Notes for XWiki Enterprise 1.7 Milestone 3

Third milestone of the XWiki Enterprise 1.7 version (Roadmap).

Summary of changes since XWiki Enterprise 1.7 Milestone 2

Main changes:

• Webdav support

  XWiki now expose a webdav server interface. This means you can now access/edit/delete page sources and attachments from any webdav client.

• Groovy upgrade

  The groovy engine has been upgraded to the last 1.6 beta version. You can now use all the new features of groovy as well as speed improvements and bugfixes from groovy 1.0 to 1.6 beta 2. See http://groovy.codehaus.org/ for more.

• New script macro

  The new script macros add the ability to use any scripting language supporting JSR-223. For now the default XWiki distribution comes with only a groovy 1.6 support but it easy to add support for other language (like ruby, python, etc.) simply by adding the corresponding engine and implementation. See https://scripting.dev.java.net/.

  To use the new script macro:

or you can use the groovy shortcut:Important bug fixes:

• The old LDAP authenticator is still used by default in some cases

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.