ReleaseNotesXWikiEnterprise184

Last modified by Thomas Mortagne on 2017/03/24

Release Notes for XWiki Enterprise 1.8.4

This is a bug fix and enhancement release mainly around new WYSIWYG and new Rendering modules.

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Changes since XWiki Enterprise 1.8.3

New WYSIWYG and Syntax bug fixes and improvements

  • XWIKI-3795 - Reset the content of the rich text area using a command instead of setting the inner HTML directly
  • XWIKI-3794 - Make the editor work with the minimal configuration
  • XWIKI-3518 - When in an unordered list, the user shouldn't be able to select "Title" from the menu
  • XWIKI-3831 - Color picker is not displayed in FF when editing in full screen
  • XWIKI-3830 - Add ability to insert level 6 headings
  • XWIKI-3829 - Use Control/Meta+Up/Down arrow keys to navigate before/after a table
  • XWIKI-3827 - GWT wysiwyg editor has dark background with Albatross skin
  • XWIKI-3824 - Allow adding complex content inside list items
  • XWIKI-3811 - Delete / Backspace at the end / beginning of a list item inside another list item when there is text after / before the list causes error / moves content to the wrong place
  • XWIKI-3778 - Adding a link / image / macro in an empty list item in IE moves it to the beginning of the next item
  • XWIKI-3776 - Cannot add a link at the end of a list item in Internet Explorer
  • XWIKI-3773 - Adding and editing lists in table cells
  • XWIKI-3760 - When the caret is at the end of paragraph in IE style is applied to the next paragraph
  • XWIKI-3648 - Functions not working / active
  • XWIKI-3646 - Adding columns to the correct location
  • XWIKI-3488 - Use Delete key to merge two consecutive lists
  • XWIKI-3188 - Add support for marking text as monospace
  • XWIKI-2669 - New WYSIWYG editor doesn't work when special characters are entered by the user
  • XWIKI-3792 - XWiki.display* methods should put clean=false when generating {{html}} macro
  • XWIKI-3791 - HTML macros inside HTML macros should be forced clean=false
  • XWIKI-3774 - XWiki parser does not support begin macro or begin verbatim as first group element
  • XWIKI-3821 - XHTML parser does not support link inside link with metadata comments
  • XWIKI-3815 - Table cells are merged when they contain headings
  • XWIKI-3800 - Lists in embedded documents in list items don't preserve their list level on parsing from xhtml
  • XWIKI-3797 - Nested and repeated styles are not handled properly
  • XWIKI-3820 - Memory leaks in webdav module
  • XWIKI-3851 - Object.get() return value inside {{html}}{{/html}} macro in 2.0 syntax
  • XWIKI-3762 - Macro insertion issue in IE6 -> next paragraph style is lost
  • XWIKI-3760 - When the caret is at the end of paragraph in IE style is applied to the next paragraph
  • XWIKI-3404 - Empty paragraphs are lost after redo operation in IE6/7
  • XWIKI-3834 - Content gets wrongly converted when switching fastly back and forth between "WYSIWYG" and "Source" tabs

1.0 to 2.0 syntax converter bug fixes and improvements

  • XWIKI-3804 - Converter fail when the document contain an object with a non assigned text area field
  • XWIKI-3864 - Converter should generate clean=false html macros
  • XWIKI-3863 - Converter escape some characters that shouldn't be escaped in HTML
  • XWIKI-3862 - Converter fails to convert correctly an HTML DIV element with multi-valued attributes
  • XWIKI-3861 - Converter fail to convert HTML LI element with a class attribute
  • XWIKI-3856 - Converter error when there's a velocity else

PDF export bug fixes and improvements

  • XWIKI-3683 - Error thrown when exporting as PDF a document imported from Excel

Office Importer bug fixes and improvements

  • XWIKI-3524 - Add support for splitting document imports
  • XWIKI-3786 - Add support for connecting to an external (local) openoffice server process
  • XWIKI-3710 - Add support for automatically restarting OpenOffice server when XE is restarted
  • XWIKI-3818 - Special characters should not be filtered when splitting documents
  • XAOFFICE-17 - Add UI support (Admin interface) for connecting to an external (local) openoffice server process
  • XAOFFICE-16 - Add an option to name split wiki pages with main page name + heading name
  • XAOFFICE-12 - Add ui support for splitting office documents while importing
  • XAOFFICE-10 - ODS file import works in application but not in WYSIWYG

Other bug fixes and improvements

  • XWIKI-1674 - StringListProperty loading use wrong separator
  • XWIKI-3523 - Introduce the initial refactoring module
  • XPWATCHLIST-52 - WatchListJob should initialize ExecutingContext
  • XASCH-29 - It's not possible to call getRenderedContent() from the scheduler
  • XWIKI-3854 - XWikiContext.setDoc does not support null
  • XWIKI-3852 - FeedReader UpdateThread throws NPE in 1.8.1+
  • XWIKI-3860 - Execution context should be initialized in statistics module thread

Known issues

Migration notes

General Migration notes

The database structure hasn't been changed since XWiki Enterprise 1.5 so you shouldn't have to touch your Database to upgrade. Thus you can simply install this version and configure it to point to your existing database. 

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

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