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3 = Release Notes for XWiki Enterprise 2.0
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5 == New and Noteworthy (since XWiki Enterprise 1.9.3)
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7 {{error}}TODO{{/error}}
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Thomas Mortagne 9.1 9 === Colibri skin
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Thomas Mortagne 12.1 11 See [[Colibri skin documentation>>code:Skins.ColibriSkin]] for more details.
Thomas Mortagne 11.1 12
Thomas Mortagne 9.1 13 XWiki 2.0 introduces a new, lightweight, easily customizable skin. The main goal of the Colibri skin is to provide the proper support for fast and easy modifications of the look and feel of the wiki. The Colibri skin colors and decorative images are defined in ColorTheme objects inside Wiki documents, that can be changed directly in the web interface.
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Thomas Mortagne 17.1 15 [[image:code:Skins.ColibriSkin@colibri1.png]]
Thomas Mortagne 9.1 16
17 Several predefined themes are bundled with XE:
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Thomas Mortagne 16.1 19 [[image:code:Skins.ColibriSkin@colibri2.png]]
Thomas Mortagne 9.1 20
21 === General UI
22
23 * Make section editing work for any section level. You can configure it using the new property ##xwiki.section.depth## in ##xwiki.cfg## file
24 * Change button order in preview mode
Thomas Mortagne 19.1 25 * Make all skins display the document title as the top level header and ensure there's no duplicate titles displayed. {{warning}}Not all the pages has been converted to new title handling. It will be fixed during the 2.0.x branch life (hopefully for 2.0.1){{/warning}}.
Thomas Mortagne 9.1 26 * Space Index, Document Index and Orphaned Page now use generic livetable tools
27 * Remove "History" from the edit modes
28 * TOC macro now starts at first level by default
29 * Several IE6/7 bugfixes
30 * Improve group creation form
31 * Reorganize editor button
32 * Diff UI improvement
33 * Improve the Rename form
34 * Nicer pagination of the document history
35 * Display a friendly message instead of an error when clicking on History after having created a new page
36 * The "Rights editor help" panels has been removed
37 * Improve Import administration section
38 * Improved document footer section
39 * Improved tag display and editing
40
41 === WYSIWYG
42
Thomas Mortagne 21.1 43 See [[WYSIWYG documentation>>platform:Features.WysiwygEditor]] for more details.
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Thomas Mortagne 9.1 45 * Upgrade to [[GWT 1.7.0>>http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/releases/release-notes-1.7.0.html#Release_Notes_Current]]
46 * Faster navigation for image and link insertion
47 * Add internationalization support
48 * Improve UX in wysiwyg dialogs / wizards: navigation, error reporting, forms, etc
49
50 ==== Double click to edit a macro
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52 User can now double click on a macro to edit it and double click in the list of macro to insert it.
53
54 ==== Nicer macro names in the list of macros
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56 WYSIWYG does not expose macro identifier anymore but human readable names provided by the different macros.
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58 ==== Macros categories
59
60 Each macro can now be added in a default category the macro author thinks appropriate. It's also possible to overwrite the macro category with configuration.
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62 The macros categories are mainly used in WYSIWYG to make it easier to find the macros to use.
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Thomas Mortagne 11.1 64 image:ReleaseNotesXWikiEnterprise20M4@macro-category.png
65 image:ReleaseNotesXWikiEnterprise20M4@macro-filter.png
Thomas Mortagne 9.1 66
67 === Rendering 2.0
68
69 * New Section editing
70 * Allow default document syntax to be specified in User profile configuration
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Thomas Mortagne 19.1 72 {{warning}}
73 Not all the pages has been converted to new xwiki/2.0 syntax. It will be fixed during the 2.0.x branch life (hopefully for 2.0.1).
Thomas Mortagne 20.1 74 {{/warning}}
Thomas Mortagne 19.1 75
Thomas Mortagne 9.1 76 ==== Output syntax parameter
77
78 It's now possible to decide which renderer to use to print the document content. For example if you want to generate dome JSON page you can use "?outputSyntax=plain&xpage=plain" to make sure only the content is printed and there is no html syntax printed, just a plain text of what exactly was generated by a velocity macro (without macro markers html comments etc.)
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80 See [[URL parsing documentation>>platform:AdminGuide.URL resolution#HoutputSyntaxandoutputSyntaxVersion]].
81
82 ==== New Wiki rendering 2.0 macros
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Thomas Mortagne 22.1 84 See [[Wiki macros documentation>>platform:DevGuide.WikiMacroTutorial]] for more details.
Thomas Mortagne 9.1 85
86 ==== New Tag Cloud Panel
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88 A panels containing the tag cloud is now provided by default and can be used like any other panel.
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90 image:ReleaseNotesXWikiEnterprise20M1@tagcloudpanel.png
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92 ==== New Search Interface
93
94 The default search page UI has been improved to be easier to understand and use.
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96 [[image:ReleaseNotesXWikiEnterprise20M1@newsearchui.png||width=600]]
97
98 ==== New info, warning and error macros
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Thomas Mortagne 11.1 100 See [[Message macro documentation>>code:Macros.MessageMacro]] for more details.
Thomas Mortagne 9.1 101
102 ==== New Chart macro for XWiki 2.0 syntax
103
104 See [[Chart macro documentation>>code:Macros.ChartMacro20]].
105
106 ==== Script macro improvements
Thomas Mortagne 10.1 107
Thomas Mortagne 9.1 108 See the [[Script Macro documentation>>code:Macros.ScriptMacro]] for more details.
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Thomas Mortagne 10.1 110 * It's now possible to add JARs attached to a page to the Script Macro class loader.
Thomas Mortagne 9.1 111 * All the script macros in the same rendering process (a document and it's included documents) share the same class loader. For example this makes possible to declare a groovy class in a document and use it in other documents which includes it.
Thomas Mortagne 10.1 112 * It's now possible to not parse velocity macro content for wiki syntax by using the wiki="false" parameter.
Thomas Mortagne 9.1 113
114 ==== New Python macro
115
116 See [[code:Macros.PythonMacro]] for more details.
117
118 ==== Footnote macro
119
Thomas Mortagne 15.1 120 See [[Footnote macro documentation>>code:Macros.Footnote20Macro]].
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Thomas Mortagne 18.1 122 [[image:code:Macros.Footnote20Macro@footnote1.png]]
Thomas Mortagne 9.1 123
124 ==== Formula macro
125
126 Ability to render Mathematical Formulas using the ~{{formula}} macro (see [[documentation page>>code:Macros.FormulaMacro]]).
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Thomas Mortagne 15.1 128 You can check for examples on the [[Wikipedia Math Markup page>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Math_markup]].
Thomas Mortagne 9.1 129
130 ==== Smaller XHTML output
131
132 We introduced a light XHTML renderer which avoid having all extra datas needed by the WYSIWYG. You will not get any weird XHTML comment anymore in the rendered page.
133
134 ==== Renderers are now real components
135
Thomas Mortagne 15.1 136 The same way it's possible to add any parser it's now possible to add any renderer for a specific output simply by registering it as a component.
Thomas Mortagne 9.1 137
Thomas Mortagne 15.1 138 See [[code:Modules.RenderingModule]] for more details.
Thomas Mortagne 9.1 139
140 ==== New plain text parser
141
142 Plain text parser make possible to put in a page some plain text to render it exactly as it. The syntax name of plain text renderer is ##plain/1.0##, you can enable it in xwiki.cfg.
143
144 === Scheduler improvements
145
146 * Allow to manually trigger a job (execute it once)
147 * Upgrade to Quartz 1.6.5
148
149 === Watchlist
150
151 * Add watch/unwatch wiki in the Watch menu
152 * Improve notification email readability by displaying icons for objects, classes and properties
153 * Watch List support registering for user activity
154 * Put document metadata modifications in diffs
155 * Make the watchlist work across multiple wikis
156 * Put links to pages in email notifications
157 * Use activitystream feed building feature to generate watchlist RSS feed
158 * In virtual mode allow each wiki to have its own watchlist email template document
Thomas Mortagne 22.1 159 * Big speed improvement by refactoring the watchlist based on activity stream plugin
160 * Add support for class and object diff in the mails
161 * Add support for full wiki watching
162 * Allow to create watchlist notifications for any interval of time
163 * Mails design improvement
Thomas Mortagne 9.1 164
165 === New Activity stream
166
167 * Provide a way to delete events after a configurable amount of time
168 * Allow to store all activity events in the main wiki in virtual mode
169
170 === New events for XWiki startup/shutdown
171
172 It's now possible for a component or a plugin to register to startup or shutdown events. It's very useful when some plugin need to start and stop an external service.
173
174 === Velocity tools and Velocity properties can be easily changed
175
176 See ##velocity.tools## and ##velocity.properties## parameters in xwiki.properties.
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Thomas Mortagne 23.1 178 === Component Manager improvements
Thomas Mortagne 9.1 179
Thomas Mortagne 23.1 180 * Added way to programmatically provide the component instance when register it
181 * Added way to programmatically unregister component
Thomas Mortagne 9.1 182
Thomas Mortagne 22.1 183 === New xwiki-properties module
Thomas Mortagne 9.1 184
Thomas Mortagne 22.1 185 See [Properties module documentation>code:Modules.PropertiesModule].
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Thomas Mortagne 9.1 187 * Java bean populating support
188 * Java type conversion support
189 * Java bean validation support
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191 Among other things this mean the following changes for the 2.0 macros:
Thomas Mortagne 22.1 192 * Any case is supported for macros parameters names
193 * Public fields are now supported (not only getters and setters)
194 * Java macro parameters bean is validated agains JSR 303 (See )
195 * Macro properties java bean can implements RawProperties to get custom non converted parameters
196 * You can add support for any type conversion by implementing Converter component
197 * Any Enum conversion is supported (no need to register each Enum subclass against ConvertUtils anymore)
198 * Support for Color conversion
Thomas Mortagne 9.1 199
Thomas Mortagne 22.1 200 === Remote Observation Manager and clustering
Thomas Mortagne 9.1 201
202 It's now possible to make different instances of XWiki or other programs shares events.
203
204 The main use cases for this are:
205 - clustering
206 - external monitoring of XWiki
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208 This release include documents events support for code using new Observation Manager and remote events support in document cache so that's it's possible to do basic clustering already. The old code using old notification system will be upgraded during the RC process before the final 2.0 version and support will be added for other types of events. Note that Remote Observation Manager already support any kind of fully Serializable events.
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Vincent Massol 1.1 210 == Known issues
211
212 * [[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]]
213
214 == Backward Compatibility and Migration Notes
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216 === General Notes
217
Thomas Mortagne 9.1 218 {{warning}}If you're running in a multiwiki setup you'll also need to define the property ##xwiki.store.migration.databases=all## to your ##xwiki.cfg## file or explicitly name all databases to be migrated as in ##xwiki.store.migration.databases=db1,db2,...##.
219 {{/warning}}
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Thomas Mortagne 9.1 221 You may also want to [[import the default wiki XAR>>Main.Download]] in order to benefit from improvements listed above.
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223 {{warning}}
224 Always make sure you compare your ##xwiki.cfg## file with the newest version since some configuration parameters were added. Of note, you should add ##xwiki.store.migration=1## so that XWiki will attempt to automatically migrate your current database to the new schema. Make sure you backup your Database before doing anything.
225 {{/warning}}
226
227 === API Breakages
228
229 The following APIs were modified since XWiki Enterprise 1.9:
230
231 * Rendering Module
232 ** ##>Block.replace()## has been replaced by ##Block.replaceChild()##>
233 ** ##ParseException## constructor and methods have been modified since they were unused
234 ** ##XWikiXHTMLImageRenderer## and ##XWikiXHTMLLinkRenderer## classes have been moved to a XWiki-specific module so that the main Rendering module can be used standalone
235 ** Merged ##SimpleXHTMLImageRenderer## and ##XWikiXHTMLImageRenderer## into ##DefaultXHTMLImageRenderer## which now handles the case where we're inside a wiki or not
236 ** Merged ##SimpleXHTMLLinkRenderer## and ##XWikiXHTMLLinkRenderer## into ##DefaultXHTMLLinkRenderer## which now handles the case where we're inside a wiki or not
237 ** ##AbstractBlock## constructors has been refactored to make easier to create new common macros. Main change is that the macro author does not have to provide the MacroDescriptor anymore.
238 ** Macro parameters bean are now supposed to use xwiki-properties annotations instead of ##org.xwiki.rendering.macro.descriptor.annotation.*## annotations. Simply change ##org.xwiki.rendering.macro.descriptor.annotation.Parameter*## by ##org.xwiki.properties.annotation.Property*## to upgrade you macro parameters bean.
239 ** Macro have to provide a human readable name in various AbstractMacro helpers constructors
240 ** Big refactor around renderers and the way to use them since they are real components now
241 ** Syntax, SyntaxFactory and SyntaxType classes moved to the proper package (org.xwiki.rendering.syntax)
242 ** Definition lists now take parameters
243 ** Details:
244 {{code language="none"}}
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246 {{code}}
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Vincent Massol 1.1 248 == Dependencies
249
250 This release includes the following modules in the specified versions since XWiki Enterprise 1.9.3 was released:
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Vincent Massol 2.1 252 === Core/Web
Vincent Massol 1.1 253
Vincent Massol 7.1 254 |=Group Id|=Artifact Id|=New Version|=Old Version|=JIRA URL
255 |##com.xpn.xwiki.platform##|##xwiki-*##|2.0|1.9.3|
256 |##org.xwiki.platform##|##xwiki-*##|2.0|1.9.3|
Vincent Massol 2.1 257
258 === Applications
259
Vincent Massol 4.1 260 |=Group Id|=Artifact Id|=New Version|=Old Version|=JIRA URL
Thomas Mortagne 8.1 261 |##com.xpn.xwiki.platform.applications##|##xwiki-application-administration##|1.17|1.12|[[jira>>http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XAADMINISTRATION]]
Vincent Massol 4.1 262 |##com.xpn.xwiki.platform.applications##|##xwiki-application-blog##|1.12|1.8|[[jira>>http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XABLOG]]
263 |##com.xpn.xwiki.platform.applications##|##xwiki-application-officeimporter##|1.11|1.9|[[jira>>http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XAOFFICE]]
264 |##com.xpn.xwiki.platform.applications##|##xwiki-application-panels##|1.24|1.20.1|[[jira>>http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XAPANELS]]
Thomas Mortagne 8.1 265 |##com.xpn.xwiki.platform.applications##|##xwiki-application-scheduler##|1.12|1.11|
Vincent Massol 4.1 266 |##com.xpn.xwiki.platform.applications##|##xwiki-application-statistics##|1.5|1.4|
267 |##com.xpn.xwiki.platform.applications##|##xwiki-application-tag##|1.7|1.7|
Thomas Mortagne 8.1 268 |##com.xpn.xwiki.platform.applications##|##xwiki-application-watchlist##|1.20|1.16|
Vincent Massol 4.1 269 |##com.xpn.xwiki.platform.applications##|##xwiki-application-webdav##|1.2|1.2|
270 |##com.xpn.xwiki.platform.applications##|##xwiki-application-wiki-macro-bridge##|1.2|N/A|
Vincent Massol 2.1 271
272 === Plugins
273
Vincent Massol 5.1 274 |=Group Id|=Artifact Id|=New Version|=Old Version|=JIRA URL
275 |##com.xpn.xwiki.platform.plugins##|##xwiki-plugin-activitystream##|1.4|N/A|
276 |##com.xpn.xwiki.platform.plugins##|##xwiki-plugin-jodatime##|1.3|1.3|
277 |##com.xpn.xwiki.platform.plugins##|##xwiki-plugin-lucene##|1.10|1.8|
Thomas Mortagne 8.1 278 |##com.xpn.xwiki.platform.plugins##|##xwiki-plugin-mailsender##|1.13|1.10|
279 |##com.xpn.xwiki.platform.plugins##|##xwiki-plugin-scheduler##|1.12|1.9|
Vincent Massol 5.1 280 |##com.xpn.xwiki.platform.plugins##|##xwiki-plugin-skinx##|1.10|1.9|
281 |##com.xpn.xwiki.platform.plugins##|##xwiki-plugin-tag##|1.7|1.6|
Thomas Mortagne 8.1 282 |##com.xpn.xwiki.platform.plugins##|##xwiki-plugin-watchlist##|1.20|1.16|
Vincent Massol 2.1 283
Vincent Massol 3.1 284 === Skins
285
Vincent Massol 6.1 286 |=Group Id|=Artifact Id|=New Version|=Old Version|=JIRA URL
Thomas Mortagne 8.1 287 |##com.xpn.xwiki.platform.skins##|##xwiki-skin-albatross##|1.24|1.21|
Vincent Massol 6.1 288 |##com.xpn.xwiki.platform.skins##|##xwiki-skin-colibri##|1.3|N/A|
289 |##com.xpn.xwiki.platform.skins##|##xwiki-skin-toucan##|1.28|1.22|
Vincent Massol 3.1 290
Vincent Massol 2.1 291 === Top Level POM
292
Vincent Massol 6.1 293 |=Group Id|=Artifact Id|=New Version|=Old Version|=JIRA URL
294 |##com.xpn.xwiki.platform##|##xwiki##|27|24|
Vincent Massol 2.1 295
296 === Tools
297
Vincent Massol 6.1 298 |=Group Id|=Artifact Id|=New Version|=Old Version|=JIRA URL
299 |##org.xwiki.platform.tools##|##xwiki-jetty-resources##|1.16|1.14|
300 |##org.xwiki.platform.tools##|##xwiki-rootwebapp##|1.2|1.1|
301 |##org.xwiki.platform.tools##|##xwiki-xar-handlers##|1.9|1.8|
302 |##org.xwiki.platform.tools##|##xwiki-xar-plugin##|1.13|1.12|
303 |##org.xwiki.platform.tools##|##xwiki-configuration-resources##|1.32|1.27|
304 |##org.xwiki.platform.tools##|##xwiki-packager-plugin##|1.13|1.12|
305 |##org.xwiki.platform.tools##|##xwiki-license-resources##|1.1|1.0|
306 |##org.xwiki.platform.tools##|##xwiki-verification-resources##|1.14|1.13|
Vincent Massol 2.1 307

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