Second milestone of the XWiki Enterprise 2.4 version (Roadmap).

The highlights of this release are: object and classes edition improvements and especially the possibility the remove classes properties, template based page creation, invitations and more security improvements.

New and Noteworthy (since XWiki Enterprise 2.4 Milestone 1)

Objects and classes editor improvements

New Template-based page creation

Starting with this release 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. 

An invitation may allow users to register in a wiki where registration is forbidden. Invitees may choose to accept or decline an invitation. Spam prevention measures ensure that email recipients will have a button to report that message as abuse.

Internationalized and configurable email templates generate rich HTML email content from user input.

Learn how you can configure this application by visiting the application page.

New search application improvements

• Make possible to select wikis where to search in LuceneSearch page when in main wiki of a farm

WYSIWYG Improvements

• Added the ability to insert macros with a single click from the tool bar
• Added a 'paste with filtered styles' button on the tool bar
• Wysiwyg editor import from office feature now filter style by default

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:

Script improvements

• Make the Query Manager use the Script Service to expose services to scripts. See Query Guide for more details.

Dependencies upgrade

• Doxia 1.1.3
• JODConverter 3.0 beta3
• JBossCache 3.2.5.GA
• Groovy 1.7.3
• Script.aculo.us 1.8.3

Translations

• All the translations have been updated

Known issues

• Bugs we know about

Backward Compatibility and Migration Notes

General Notes

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

Migration Notes

API Breakages

The following APIs were modified since XWiki Enterprise 2.3: