This is the release notes for XWiki Commons, XWiki Rendering and XWiki Platform. They share the same release notes as they are released together and have the same version.
<insert description of release here>
New and Noteworthy (since XWiki <version - 1>)
Full list of issues fixed and Dashboard for <full version here even for RC, e.g. 10.5>.
For Users
Link Autocomplete in WYSIWYG Editor
You can now create links to existing wiki pages and attachments directly from the editing area using the link auto-complete feature. Just type [ (open square bracket) followed by at least 2 characters and you will get link suggestions based on the typed text. Checkout the CKEditor Integration documentation for more information.
Updated the comments modals
The comments pop-ups that are displayed for deleting a comment and for permalink are now bootstrap modals, having the same functionality as before.
Macro Content Prefill in WYSIWYG Editor
When inserting a macro, the macro content text area is prefilled with the text selected within the editing area. This means you can for instance transform a paragraph into an error message by selecting the paragraph text, click the Insert Macro button from the tool bar, select the Error Message macro and insert it. Checkout the CKEditor Integration documentation for more information.
Miscellaneous
Removed misleading shortcut: Removed the META+V shortcut used in the jump dialog as it was preventing users from pasting.
For Admins
External URL generation improvements
It's now possible to set the port to use when generating an URL for a wiki in the each wiki descriptor. When the port is not set for a wiki, XWiki fallback on the main wiki descriptor.
Subwiki secure property (which indicate if HTTPS should be used instead of HTTP when generating a URL for the wiki) now inherit main wiki value if not explicitly set.
The first time XWiki is accessed the main wiki descriptor is generated using what can be found in the request's URL. For example if you access your wiki using https:mydomain:9898/xwiki/ you will end up with the following main wiki descriptor:
- alias: mydomain
- secure: true
- port: 9898
Also XWiki now supports the Forwarded (RFC7239) standard HTTP header when extracting information from the URL used by the client.
Miscellaneous
Notifications Auto Watch is now disabled by default: An important bug has been discovered in the Notification Applications that prevents using the Auto Watch feature when the wiki contains a lot of pages. For this reason, the default behavior for the Auto Watch feature has been set to not automatically follow any page. Nevertheless, users and administrators can still decide to change their own settings.
Checksum policy for Maven repositories: It's now possible to control in xwiki.properties file the behavior of each Maven repository handler regarding failing checksum validation. The default is warn.
For Developers
No changes!
Moved Modules
<description deprecated, retired and moved projects>
Upgrades
The following runtime dependencies have been upgraded (they have a different release cycle than XWiki Commons, XWiki Rendering and XWiki Platform):
- <list libraries that have been upgraded>
Translations
The following translations have been updated:
Known issues
Backward Compatibility and Migration Notes
General Notes
When upgrading make sure you compare your xwiki.cfg, xwiki.properties and web.xml files with the newest version since some configuration parameters may have been modified or added. Note that 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.
Issues specific to XWiki 10.7RC1
URL generation modifications
In most cases there is nothing to do but for some edge cases it's possible that you end up with external URL having a different port than the one you expect.
If that's the case the recommendation is to go to the main wiki descriptor and make sure it contains the port you want to see in those URLs (don't put anything if you just want to use the default port implied by the protocol) and to explicitly set the secure property. Since xwiki.url.protocol from xwiki.cfg configuration file is not really needed anymore tt's also recommended to stop using it only rely on the wiki descriptor(s) which are easier to control.
API Breakages
The following APIs were modified since <project> <version - 1>:
Credits
The following people have contributed code to this release (sorted alphabetically):
<code contributors>
