XWiki Enterprise 2.2 Milestone 1
Version 3.1 by Thomas Mortagne on 2010/01/15
Contents
First and last milestone of the XWiki Enterprise 2.2 version (Roadmap).
This release mainly introduce new Model and the possibility to register wiki macros for any user or wiki.
New and Noteworthy (since XWiki Enterprise 2.1.1)
- Contextual wikimacros
It's now possible for any user to register wiki macro anywhere and in any wiki.
For example if the user does not have proper right, only him will see the macro he registered, then an admin can re-save it to make it available for everyone if the macro is validated.
- new Model module with Reference implementation
The goal is to provide APIs to remove all String manipulations around documents and attachments names. It also introduce the concept of reference for any entity of the model and the parser/serializer associated. For now Wiki, Space, Document and attachment are supported, classes objects and properties should come in milestone 2.
- General UI improvements
- In the wiki source code viewer, allow to toggle line numbers faster from Javascript
- Enable full screen view when displaying the wiki source code (viewer=code)
- Internationalize macro descriptors
- Attachment trash
- Display the contents of the Document Recycle Bin in the document index
- ActionMenu: Add Profile submenu item to the "current user" menu
- Reorder the document actions in the "More actions" menu: copy, rename, delete
- Development improvements
- Added support for "xcontext" binding in 1.0 groovy macro
- Allow set to null in velocity
- Add an API method for creating a LinkedHashMap
- New APIs for accessing deleted attachments from the trash
- The class wizard should propose to add a SheetClass object to the class sheet
- Add support for 'on page' style extensions
- Office import improvements
- Added support for Office2007 document formats
- XAR Import improvements
- Blog improvement
- Add the Create a new post to category pages - when used by default select that category
- Always use UTF-8 for URL encoding
- Attachments should produce document modification events
- Upgraded to Groovy 1.7
- Lots of accessibility fixes
- Lots of bugs fixes
Known issues
Backward Compatibility and Migration Notes
General Notes
You may also want to import the default wiki XAR in order to benefit from improvements listed above.
Migration Notes
API Breakages
The following APIs were modified since XWiki Enterprise 2.0.3:
Rendering api
- properties (rendering macros api and xwiki-properties module) "name" field has been changed for "id" and "name" now mean display/pretty name
ERROR] org.xwiki.rendering.macro.descriptor.ParameterDescriptor: Method 'public java.lang.String getId()' has been added to an interface