XWiki Enterprise 2.4 Release Notes

New and Noteworthy

Search

Changed default search engine

Lucene Search is promoted as default search.

To read about the benefits of using Lucene search over Database search go to the search application page.

Starting with the 2.4 release you can select the wikis where to search in using the LuceneSearch page.

New search configuration UI

The Search Application now has a dedicated section in the wiki administration section from which you can:

• Choose the default engine (Lucene or Database).
• See the status for the Lucene Search: the number of indexed elements and the number of elements waiting in the queue.
• Control the Lucene index by indexing the whole farm, indexing the wiki or customizing the index to your specific preferences.

For more information check out the documentation page.

New Template-based page creation

Starting with XWiki Enterprise 2.4 users and applications can provide documents that can be used as template when creating new pages. The new document (content, objects and other metadata) will be replicated from the template.

• After you have created the template and the template provider you can then  start creating pages from this template:

• "Wanted Links" also offers the choice to create the new document from the available templates ( "My Template" template in the image below):

Find more details about the template creation and administration on the documentation page.

New Invitation Manager application

The Invitation Manager application allows users to send emails, inviting friends and colleagues to join a wiki. You will be able to configure your wiki to send emails through an open mail relay on the server or through an email account of your choosing. 

Read more about this application and learn how to configure it by visiting the application page.

WYSIWYG improvements

Insert external image

You can now insert an external image in the edited page while in WYSIWYG mode. The external image is specified by its location on the web, i.e. its URL. To do this go to Image > Insert Image... menu and select the "External" tab:

Insert macros

You may insert macros with a single click from the tool bar:

Paste with filtered styles

A 'paste with filtered styles' button has also been added to the tool bar:

The Wysiwyg editor import from office feature now filters style by default.

Objects and classes editor improvements

The object and class editor are now fully panel-less, which among other things means that you have the full object/class editors UI even in an empty wiki without having to import the needed XE xar.

The class editor also adds better refactoring capabilities:

• reorder class properties
• delete a class property

There are also many other small ergonomics improvements to discover !

JMX Administration Console

• XWiki is now using JMX to provide runtime Monitoring information.
• The first usage implemented is about monitoring the JBoss cachad and the Velocity Macro caches, as shown below:

Watchlist improvements

• Allow to remove elements in the watchlist from the user profile
• Add in virtual mode, add a wikis section in "elements in your watchlist"

Known issues

• Bugs we know about

Backward Compatibility and Migration Notes

Important non-compatible changes

General Notes

Migration Notes

• Standalone/inline Macro parsing has been fixed.
  Error

  There has been a bug that appeared when we released the new XWiki Syntax 2.0 several releases back and which we've finally fixed in this release. Basically if you had a macro followed by a new line and then another macro, both macros were considered as being standalone. This is now fixed and they are correctly considered by the parser as inline. More specifically if you were previously using a standalone macro (such as the TOC macro or the HTML macro) and your macro wasn't separated from a previous macro by at least 2 new lines, it'll now fail to render.

  In addition, several pages that are part of the XWiki Enterprise default XAR were not written correctly and didn't have these 2 new lines as mentioned above. We've fixed these pages too but you'll need to make sure you import them in your existing wiki (if you're upgrading) since otherwise these pages will fail to display correctly. These pages are:

  • XWiki.ClassSheet
  • XWiki.WebSearch
  • XWiki.LuceneSearch