Release Notes for XWiki 4.5 RC 1

Version 4.1 by Marius Dumitru Florea on 2013/01/31
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This is the release notes for XWiki Platform, XWiki Enterprise and XWiki Enterprise Manager. They share the same release notes as they are released together and have the same version.

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New and Noteworthy (since XWiki 4.5M1)

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Miscellaneous

  • If you're upgrading an old XEM instance, the Distribution Wizard is now suggesting the right UI extension id when selecting the previous version.

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See the full list of JIRA issues fixed in this release.

For Developers

Extensible search UI implementations

It is now possible to provide your custom search UI implementation that will become available in the list of search engines under Administration > Applications > Search.

To achieve this, we have declared the org.xwiki.platform.search UI Extension point ID that accepts 3 parameters:

  1. title - the text to display for your implementation in the search engine select
  2. admin - a reference to the wiki page where you administrate your search implementation (ex: 'XWiki.SolrSearchAdmin')
  3. search - a reference to the search page that should be used when your search implementation is active (ex: 'Main.SolrSearch')

Deprecated and Retired projects

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Upgrades

The following dependencies have been upgraded:

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Miscellaneous

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Translations

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Tested Browsers & Databases

Here's the list of browsers tested with this version (i.e. browsers that we've tested as working - Check the list of supported browsers):

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Here's the list of databases tested with this version (i.e. databases that we've tested as working - Check the list of supported databases):

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Known issues

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 all the improvements listed above.

Always make sure you compare your xwiki.cfg and xwiki.properties files with the newest version since some configuration parameters were 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 4.5 RC 1

Existing custom search implementations

In case you were using a custom search implementation before this version which relied on previous naming and location conventions, you will need to make the necessary adjustments, meaning that you have to declare your implementation as an extension to the search application's extension point (see above).

API Breakages

The following APIs were modified since XWiki 4.4.1:

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