Release Notes for XWiki Enterprise 2.0 Release Candidate 1

This is the first Release Candidate for the XWiki enterprise 2.0 version (Roadmap).

New and Noteworthy (since XWiki Enterprise 2.0 Milestone 4)

At a glance (see below for details):

• Many improvements and bug fixes in the new Colibri skin
• Many general UI improvements
• Many WYSIWYG improvements
• Many Rendering 2.0 improvements
  • Script macro improvements
  • Introduce Python macro
• Many Watchlist improvements
• Activity stream improvements
• Blog categories UI improvement
• Update translations:
  • fr: Thomas Mortagne, Vincent Massol, Guillaume Lerouge
  • de: Helmut Lehner
  • ro: Elena-Oana Tabaranu
  • sv: Andreas Jonsson

Colibri skin

See Colibri skin detailed release note for the complete list

• Make the color theme selectable from the Administration
• New "Create" menu

General UI improvements

• Remove "History" from the edit modes
• TOC macro now starts at first level by default
• Several IE6/7 bugfixes
• Improve group creation form
• Reorganize editor button
• Diff UI improvement
• Improve the Rename form
• Nicer pagination of the document history
• Display a friendly message instead of an error when clicking on History after having created a new page
• The "Rights editor help" panels has been removed
• Improve Import administration section

WYSIWYG

• Add internationalization support
• Improve UX in wysiwyg dialogs / wizards: navigation, error reporting, forms, etc
• [Bug] . key acts like the delete key at the end of the list items
• [Bug] "Enter" doesn't work in the Table Dialog
• [Bug] "Tab" doesn't work in the Table Dialog in FF 3.5.2
• [Bug] Add configuration support for the list of GWT-WYSIWYG plugins
• [Bug] The browser's Back button doesn't restore unsaved changes to the edited content

Rendering 2.0

• Several bugfixes in the xwiki/2.0 syntax renderer and parser
• Several bugfixes in the xhtml/1.0 syntax renderer and parser

Script macro

See the Script Macro documentation for more details.

• Ability to add JARs attached to a page to the Script Macro class loader.
• 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.

Python macro

See Python Macro for more details.

Watchlist

• Add watch/unwatch wiki in the Watch menu
• Improve notification email readability by displaying icons for objects, classes and properties
• Watch List support registering for user activity
• Put document metadata modifications in diffs
• Make the watchlist work across multiple wikis
• Put links to pages in email notifications
• Use activitystream feed building feature to generate watchlist RSS feed
• In virtual mode allow each wiki to have its own watchlist email template document

Activity stream

• Provide a way to delete events after a configurable amount of time
• Allow to store all activity events in the main wiki in virtual mode

Important bugs fixed

• XWIKI-4308: Panels in syntax xwiki/2.0 does not work when the current page is not xwiki/2.0
• XE-485: Activitystream mapping file is not referenced in the default hibernate configuration

Known issues

• Bugs we know about

Backward Compatibility and Migration Notes

General Notes