XWiki Enterprise 2.6 Release Candidate 2

Last modified by Thomas Mortagne on 2023/10/13

Second release candidate of the XWiki Enterprise 2.6 version (Roadmap).

New and Noteworthy (since XWiki Enterprise 2.6RC1)

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Currently doesn't work on IPv6 systems

Miscellaneous

Bug Fixes/Other improvements

  • [XE-743] - Apache proxy breaks icons on the Dashboard (again)
  • [XE-744] - Recent Activity fails to display on August, September, and any 8th and 9th of the month
  • [XE-747] - On importing/deleting/removing/copying a document, extra/wrong subentries are being displayed by the activity macro
  • [XE-749] - Minor versions should be taken in account in the activity macro, unless the event type is 'update' (=edit document)
  • [XWIKI-5105] - When several suggest are used on the same page, suggests results interfer from one field to another
  • [XWIKI-5654] - Feed plugin does write HTML tags in document titles
  • [XWIKI-5655] - Long activity titles in new Recent Activity stream on home page overlap with activity time
  • [XWIKI-5661] - Properties for user types are missing in ApplicationResources.properties
  • [XWIKI-5666] - stylesheets.vm and stylesheets2.vm are not synchronized
  • [XWIKI-5668] - Wiki macros fail to register correctly on the first import of a .xar
  • [XWIKI-5675] - Missing translations for WatchList RSS feed for the new add, update, delete for Comment, Attachment, Annotation events
  • [XWIKI-5679] - Expanded state is not preserved if panels are collapsed by default
  • [XWIKI-5683] - XWiki Explorer tree selects the current page instead of the specified page
  • [XWIKI-3655] - Clean the JS code of the ajax suggest
  • [XWIKI-5659] - Move fullscreenEdit.js script to uicomponents/ and rename it fullscreen.js
  • [XWIKI-5670] - Include detailed information about the selected element in the xwiki:suggest:selected event
  • [XWIKI-5682] - Option to remove a modalPopup from DOM when closing the dialog
  • [XWIKI-5649] - CSS classes to support automatic users and groups suggestions on field input
  • [XWIKI-5652] - Support search on space name in the REST API
  • [XWIKI-5657] - New behavioral CSS class to suggest spaces
  • [XWIKI-5660] - New behavioral CSS class to make any element "maximizable"
  • [XWIKI-5681] - New URLFactory that always generates external URLs
  • [XTROOT-5] - The Main WebHome page is rendered when viewing any page under Google Chrome
  • [XAADMINISTRATION-187] - Add user and group icons on suggests in edit group sheet
  • [XSCOLIBRI-247] - style.css imports stylesheets using paths relative to the current directory
  • [XSCOLIBRI-249] - Make colibri use the fullScreen scripts moved to uicomponents/widgets/
  • [XPLUCENE-65] - Lucene ignores language filters
  • [XPMAIL-25] - When parsing mails, a URLFactory that always generates external URLs should be used
  • [XAPANELS-136] - CSRF token not expanded in SyntaxConverter javascript
  • [XASCH-59] - Scheduler UI (table) displays/relies on declared status instead of real internal status
  • [XASCH-58] - Make "services" binding available to scheduler jobs
  • [XSKINX-43] - Compatibility mapping to support skin file extensions move/rename with backward compatibility

Backward Compatibility and Migration Notes

General Notes

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,....

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

Always make sure you compare your xwiki.cfg file with the newest version since some configuration parameters were added. 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.

Notes specific to XWiki Enterprise 2.6 RC2

  • The Main.RecentActivity page was renamed to Main.Activity

API Breakages

The following APIs were modified since XWiki Enterprise 2.5:

ERROR: 7006: org.xwiki.annotation.maintainer.AbstractAnnotationMaintainer: Return type of method 'protected void recomputeProperties(org.xwiki.annotation.Annotation, java.util.Collection, java.lang.String, org.xwiki.annotation.content.AlteredContent, java.lang.String)' has been changed to boolean
ERROR: 7012: org.xwiki.bridge.SkinAccessBridge: Method 'public java.lang.String getIconURL(java.lang.String)' has been added to an interface
ERROR: 8001: org.xwiki.component.manager.AbstractComponentDescriptorEvent: Class org.xwiki.component.manager.AbstractComponentDescriptorEvent removed
ERROR: 8001: org.xwiki.component.manager.ComponentDescriptorAddedEvent: Class org.xwiki.component.manager.ComponentDescriptorAddedEvent removed
ERROR: 8001: org.xwiki.component.manager.ComponentDescriptorEvent: Class org.xwiki.component.manager.ComponentDescriptorEvent removed
ERROR: 8001: org.xwiki.component.manager.ComponentDescriptorRemovedEvent: Class org.xwiki.component.manager.ComponentDescriptorRemovedEvent removed
ERROR: 8001: org.xwiki.component.manager.ComponentEventManager: Class org.xwiki.component.manager.ComponentEventManager removed
ERROR: 8001: org.xwiki.observation.event.ScriptEvaluationFinishedEvent: Class org.xwiki.observation.event.ScriptEvaluationFinishedEvent removed
ERROR: 8001: org.xwiki.observation.event.ScriptEvaluationStartsEvent: Class org.xwiki.observation.event.ScriptEvaluationStartsEvent removed
ERROR: 7012: org.xwiki.rendering.block.Block: Method 'public org.xwiki.rendering.block.Block getNextSibling()' has been added to an interface
ERROR: 7012: org.xwiki.rendering.block.Block: Method 'public org.xwiki.rendering.block.Block getPreviousSibling()' has been added to an interface
ERROR: 7012: org.xwiki.rendering.block.Block: Method 'public void removeBlock(org.xwiki.rendering.block.Block)' has been added to an interface
ERROR: 7012: org.xwiki.rendering.block.Block: Method 'public void setNextSiblingBlock(org.xwiki.rendering.block.Block)' has been added to an interface
ERROR: 7012: org.xwiki.rendering.block.Block: Method 'public void setPreviousSiblingBlock(org.xwiki.rendering.block.Block)' has been added to an interface
ERROR: 6001: org.xwiki.rendering.block.NewLineBlock: Removed field NEW_LINE_BLOCK
ERROR: 6001: org.xwiki.rendering.block.SpaceBlock: Removed field SPACE_BLOCK
ERROR: 7002: org.xwiki.rendering.configuration.RenderingConfiguration: Method 'public java.util.Properties getMacroCategories()' has been removed
ERROR: 7012: org.xwiki.rendering.configuration.RenderingConfiguration: Method 'public java.util.List getTransformations()' has been added to an interface
ERROR: 6001: org.xwiki.rendering.listener.reference.ResourceType: Removed field IMAGE
ERROR: 7002: org.xwiki.rendering.wiki.WikiModel: Method 'public java.lang.String getAttachmentURL(org.xwiki.rendering.listener.reference.ResourceReference)' has been removed
ERROR: 7012: org.xwiki.rendering.wiki.WikiModel: Method 'public java.lang.String getLinkURL(org.xwiki.rendering.listener.reference.ResourceReference)' has been added to an interface
ERROR: 7002: org.xwiki.rendering.scaffolding.MockWikiModel: Method 'public java.lang.String getAttachmentURL(org.xwiki.rendering.listener.reference.ResourceReference)' has been removed

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