ReleaseNotesXWikiEnterprise31M1
First milestone of the XWiki Enterprise 3.1 version (Roadmap).
New and Noteworthy (since XWiki Enterprise 3.0)
OpenOffice based document export
Export your wiki documents to any type of document supported by OpenOffice using the OpenOffice server as a back end.
Groovy 1.7.10
ColorTheme improvements
"Add" menu entry can now be customizable from the ColorTheme wizard and has it's own variable.
Also, info, success, warning and error message colors can now be changed through ColorThemes variables.
General UI improvements
Several XWiki forms have been modified in order to be consistent with our Vertical Layout Usage Form Standard
- Standardized vertical navigation menu layout, which will be used in M2 in administration, user profiles, and in the wiki index
- Colibri is now the default base skin instead of Albatross
- XWIKI-5859: Ability to have different panels in wiki and WYSIWYG edit modes
WYSIWYG content editor improvements
- Better support for Opera, Chrome and Safari
- Fixed several usability bugs
PDF export improvements
- XWIKI-5782: PDF export ordered lists are not numbered in the same way as the wiki lists
- XWIKI-5799: Underlined text has some additional white space before it when export to PDF
- XWIKI-5844: PDF export sometimes broken when copy/pasting content from MS Office
Miscellaneous new features
Success macro, you can access this by writing {{success}}text here{{/success}}
Miscellaneous
- Lucene search improvements
- Enable preview office feature for all formats supporting by OpenOffice (especially docx, xlsx, pdf, pptx, odf, ods, odp)
- Activity stream performance improvements and bug fixes
- XAR import improvements (XWIKI-5845, XWIKI-5846)
- XRENDERING-110: Success Macro
For developers
- XWIKI-2496: Specialized AppServerTrusted authenticator handling Kerberos principals
- XWIKI-5758: Remove logging to the xwiki.log file in the log4j default configuration
- XWIKI-5868: Add API for manipulating skin extensions as components
- XWIKI-5810: Allow skin customization based on the current space name
- XWIKI-5815: Add a Context macro
- XWIKI-5900: Generic macro for displaying vertical navigation menus
- XWIKI-5874: Add API to display document's titles in plain text without any markup
- XWIKI-5819: Now the limit for nested macro calls is 100 instead of the default 20
- XCOMMONS-4: Implement support for JSR 330 Annotations
- XWIKI-6103: Introduce APIs using References for context user
- Various upgrades: yuicompressor-2.4.2 Pygments-1.4 JRuby-1.6 GWT-2.2 GWT-Maven-Plugin-2.2 SmartGWT-2.4 commons-codec-1.5 Groovy-1.7.10
Translations
- The following translations have been updated: de fr sv
Known issues
- [[Bugs we know about
Test Report
You can check the manual test report to learn about what was tested and the results on various browsers.
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.
API Breakages
The following APIs were modified since XWiki Enterprise 2.7:
