Release Notes for XWiki Enterprise 1.8 Milestone 2

Summary of changes since XWiki Enterprise 1.8 Milestone 1

Main changes

• New Wiki Dashboard on the home page:
  • Spaces: all the spaces within your wiki (technical spaces are hidden):
    • Links to the list of pages within each spaces.
    • Links to the administration of each space.
    • Allows to create new spaces.
  • Tags: all the tags in the wiki under the form of a tag cloud.
  • Recent changes: all the recent modifications in the wiki, grouped by author and by date.
    
    * New way of displaying tags, with 2 new features:
  • Tag rename.
  • Tag delete.
    
    * 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}

• | XE 1.8M1 | XE 1.8M2

  Requests number | 37 | 25 Total size | 332Ko | 200Ko Download @ T1 (seconds) | 9.16 | 6.06 {table}

• Improved information section in document footer, including document children:
  
  * Added wiki syntax for embedded documents
• 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

Important bug fixes

• Many bug fixes and improvements in the new GWT WYSIWYG editor
• Add support for Velocity and HTML as well as many bug fixes and improvements in the XWiki syntax converter to convert from 1.0 syntax to 2.0 syntax.

Known issues

• Bugs we know about

Migration Notes

Data migration

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

Applications migration

XE 1.8M2 has introduced conditional loading of JavaScript and StyleSheet files 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:

• scriptaculous files
• accordions files
• chart wizard files
• usersandgroups.js and usersandgroups.css
• livetable.js and livetable.css
• lightbox.js
• tablefilterNsort.js and table.css
• fullscreenEdit.js and fullscreenEdit.css

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. 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: