ReleaseNotesXWikiEnterprise18 (XWiki.org)

* Syntax API to convert a document from one syntax to another + new converter from XWiki Syntax 1.0 to XWiki Syntax 2.0. #info("You can try it by changing the syntax identifier of a page.")

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1.1.1 2. Usability Improvements

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* *New Wiki Dashboard* on the home page:

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** Spaces: all the spaces within your wiki (technical spaces are hidden):

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*** Links to the list of pages within each spaces.

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*** Links to the administration of each space.

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*** Allows to create new spaces.

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** Tags: all the tags in the wiki under the form of a tag cloud.

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** Recent changes: all the recent modifications in the wiki, grouped by author and by date.\\\\#displayImg("dashboard.jpg")

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* *New way of displaying tags*, with 2 new features:

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** Tag rename.

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** Tag delete.\\\\#displayImg("tags.jpg")

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* *Page loading time reduced by 30%*. Statistics on Sandbox.WebHome, ~~without client-side file caching~~ (most of the downloaded files are cached on the client after the first request):\\{table}

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- | XE 1.8M1 | XE 1.8M2

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Requests number | 37 | 25

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Total size | 332Ko | 200Ko

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Download @ T1 (seconds) | 9.16 | 6.06

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* *Improved information section in document footer*, including document children:\\\\#displayImg("footer.jpg")

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* *[New Office Importer>code:Applications.OfficeImporterApplication]*

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* *New REST API*

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* *[New Blog application>code:Applications.BlogApplication]*

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1.1.1 3. Authentication

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* Improved authentication performance for LDAP. By default the authentication system now calls the authenticator only once by session, this means it does not call the LDAP authenticator and does not generate queries on the LDAP server for each request anymore. This can be changed using the <tt>xwiki.authentication.always</tt> configuration property in <tt>xwiki.cfg</tt>.

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1.1.1 4. Translations

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* New or improved translations:

** french

** german

** spanish

1.1.1 5. Important bugs fixed

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* Many bug fixes and improvements in the new GWT WYSIWYG editor

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* Many bug fixes and improvements in the new XWiki 2.0 syntax rendering

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* Many bug fixes and improvements in 1.0->2.0 syntaxes conversion

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* Erroneous rendering of links to page anchors

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* If a macro fail it breaks the whole rendering process

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## + lots of other changes, see [Platform details>http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?version=10696&styleName=Text&projectId=10010&Create=Create].

1.1 Known issues

* [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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1.1 Common Migration notes

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#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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You may also want to [import the default wiki XAR>Main.Download] in order to benefit from improvements listed above.

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#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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1.1.1 Applications migration

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XE 1.8M2 has introduced [conditional loading of JavaScript and StyleSheet files>http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWIKI-3177] in order for pages to load faster, sending to the browser only the files it needs to display the requested pages. This might break existing applications developed on top of XWiki that relied on such JavaScript and CSS files being present all the time. Concerned files and libraries are the following:

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* scriptaculous files

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* accordions files

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* chart wizard files

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* usersandgroups.js and usersandgroups.css

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* livetable.js and livetable.css

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* lightbox.js

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* tablefilterNsort.js and table.css

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* fullscreenEdit.js and fullscreenEdit.css

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If you have applications that relies on one or several of these libraries, you will need to explicitly make them request the desired files using the [Skin Extension plugin>code:Plugins.SkinExtensionsPlugin]. For example, if your application needs the live-table feature (the dynamic AJAX grid), add the following lines to the code page that requires it:

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{code}

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$xwiki.jsfx.use('js/xwiki/table/livetable.js') ## Inject livetable.js <script> tag in the header

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$xwiki.ssfx.use('js/xwiki/table/livetable.css') ## Inject livetable.css <link> tag in the header

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{code}